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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-03
TWO-yEAR LEASE
ON CONGRESS WON
BY REPUBLICANS
G. 0. P. Maiorities in Senate
and House Increased in
General National Landslide
for Party.


NEW YORK. Nby. s.--Republican
control of congress for another two
years with ah increased house ma
jority and prospective increase in
the senate was major part of the
election sweep.
A net gain of 20 votes in The house
was shown with complete returns
from only II states, but with most
of the Democratic strongholds re-
porting.
4, Eight Of the Is Republican sena-
torial candidates had come in win
ners today. the seven others had sub
stantial leads, while in ten other
states, all of the Republican entrants
were reported In the van.
For the 19 Democratic senate seats
nine of the minority party had been
returned wlnners-all from Southern
states-while iii the border and West
ern states the others were fighting
al uphill battle.
That the general Republican land
slide would seat several more Re
publican senators was predicted con-
fidently by Republican kampaign
managers whose claims Included a
majority Of eight TO ten in the next
senate. Both the Republican presi-
Dental and senatorial tickets were
reported early today as aheaY in Cali
fornia, Nevada, Missouri, Colorado
South Dakota, idaho, ohio and Wash
ington. In Ohio, former Gov. Frank
b. Willis. who nominated Senator
Harding at the Chicago convention,
was reported in The lead,
or the Democrats, Senator Under
| wood OF Alabama. minority leader
was reelected and Representative
Hcflin chosen e. succeed the late
| Senator Bank head. y new face in
| the senate On the Democratic side
! will be Representative caraway, OF
Arkansas. who defeated Senator
| Kirby in the primaries and was elect
! ed yesterday. Among the Republican
! leaders reelected were Senators
| Brandegee, WadsWorth. Dillingham;
| Watson and Penrose,
In the house, most Of the yeter-
ans both Republicans and Democrats
were re- elected. including Speaker
Gulett. now holding the record fol
| ,ontinuous service and elected for his
! laih term.
Former Speaker Cannon, who has
| served - terms. bot not continuous
/ ly. also was reelected. az were Rep
gcsentatiNe Mann Of Illinois, former
! Republican leader, Chairman Good OF
! the appropriate committee, and
| other prominent G, Wmltrc clair
| men.
! CumrarutiveA lDW changes IN conI-
! ri1tcr Chairmau@hip- are expected Il
result in either ~"U"tc or house, bu'
( increase Of RepuuNcau membership
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-03
Cox TeLegr0phs
= Congratulations

DAYTON, o., Nov. S.--Gov.
Cox, the defeated presidential
candidate, today wired his con-
gratulations to Senator Harding,
the president nt-elect, pledging sup
port "as citizen to the eXecu-
tive authority in whatever emer-
gency might arise"
His message the first act of
the. defeated candidate today,
fead:
In the. spirit of America, ac-
cept the decision of the majority
and tender, as the defeated cam
didate, my congratulations, and
pledge as a citizen my support TO
the executive. authority, IN what !
ever eraaergency rifght arise,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-03
WORLEY- -COPENHAVER
RACE is IN DOUBT

BRISTOL, Tenn, Nov. 3,-For
state senate the race between ).
parks Woriey, Democrat, and M. II
Copenhaver, Republican,, appears
somewhat in doubt. as no definite
reports have been received here as
vet from Hawkins county Republican
leaders. .- -
Worley claims that he will have a
ma aiority of about 375 in the district
1Iauk, Democrat, leads McNlel' he-
publican, by about 700, with Two
missing precincts.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-03
JOURNAL AND TRIBUNE
CLAIMS STATE G. 0. ?,

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Nov. S..-Re- :
turns from 65 of the 80 counties OF
Tennessee compiled by the Journal
and Tribune at 1880 this mornlns
eve Eve Harding 1922 plurality over
Cox, and Taylor, Republican, for goN-
ernor 29142 majority over Koperts'
democratic incumbent. These 1ig-
1res include all but four countles
Of the heavily Republican mountain
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-03
Berger Admits Hill
Defeat By Stafford

MILWAUKEE, Wis. Nov. 9,-Vic-
tor l.. Berger, unseated Socialist
congressman from the Fifth district
of Wisconsin, at noon today con-
ceded his defeat by VIM. II. Stafford,
Republican.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-03
SENTENCE REVEB:

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov, 3Ta of
tho trial court nN WhichlA vi
lams Was given a 81 War prison
sentence for the murder oC Hal St.
clair, in Falls county, was reversed
today by the court Of criminal APP
poals ON the grounds that confess
sions introduced as evidence had
been obtained by coercion.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-03
BERGER SEEMS BEATEN.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Nov, S.--W
II. Stafford, Republican candidate
for congress in the Fifth district. at
I O'Clock, led Victor l.. berger So
Cialist, by more than LOO, with re-
turns from 81 OF the - precincts in
the district reported.
The vote was; Stafford 25,93S
Berger 24,207.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-03
HULL IN DOUBT; o
CLOUSE is LEADING

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. 8
Hon Cordell Hulls seat In congress
from the Fourth district, appears II, II
doubt, with odds favorins w.
CIouse, his Republican opponent
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-03

sun sets today J:04 pm. Rises to-
morrow 6:24 am. Moon rises 122l
am. tonight. Precipitation, none.
g., Tennessee--l'air; wagner.
Mississippi--Fair; warmer,
Arknnsas-Fair warmer.
Alabama-Fair; warmer
KentuCky-Fair; warmer.
Louisiana--Fair; warmer.
Oklahoma--Fair; warmer.
North and South Carolina, Geor-
gia and tlorida-Fair; cooler.
East and West Fexas--Cloudy.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-03
- - = Sslss;a@-
EaEat!E w =! IE:RE ::

Twenty four hours to noon Nov 3:
Temp
IInur Dry Bulb. Wet Bulb. Hum.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-03
SCHOOL BOARD RACE

incomplete Returns win Two Precincts MlssIng)
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-03
DEFEATS ROBERTS BY 5000
Weather Forecast

Fair skies with ris-
ing temperature prob
able.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-03

Total, 5al, necessary to elect, 2s6.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER

CEyERAL hundred thousand men and
~ women of this city may, if they choose,
register at their respective polling places
today and thus qualify for the November
election.
(. Voting is called duty. It is not how
. ever, compulsory, nor is there any law
compelling the indifferent or the obstinate to
register. The statutes, however, do provide
for the fixing of dates in the autumn on
which enrolment may be made by electors
! duly assessed.
4 Neglect Of these opportunities is penalized
: IN two ways. Either the unregistered per-
\ SON must lose his vote in November or he is
put to the bother of applying for redress on
special days of grace at the City Hall. That
comparatively few electors ever profit by this
eleventh hour reprieye machinery is evidence
of the nuisance it entails and of the finality
IN a general sense of the last regular regis
tration day.
The stated series ends today. Assessed
electors with q spark of civic conscious
ness, excepting. of course, those who arc i'll,
have simple duty to perform II they al
lowed the two previous chances to slip by.
For presidential year. the enrolment has
. been exceedingly slim. Unless the district
registration places are crowded today be-
tween the hours of Il. m. and / p. m.
and between p. m. and 10 p. m. the con-
. clusion that political pride here is at a low
. ebb will be unavoidable. The appeal, re-
iterated by the politicians, by the press, by
I. public spirited citizens, organized or indi-
vidually, is "All out for a banner registra-
Hon!' The excuse of insufficient warning
IL absolutely invalid
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

l. BUN" Is an OLD Scotch word for tail.
Bunny. diminutive of bun, applied to
rabbit. means the animal with a
little tail
.. Attic salt means elegant and delicate wit
SAL Latin for salt. was the common
term for wit Attic refers to the Greek
province of Attica, Of which the chief
city was Athens, whose inhabitants
were noted for their wit.
g. Even worthy Homer sometimes mods" Ia
a translation from the "Ars Poetica"
OF the Latin poet Horace.
l. Dog watches are from to Q and from
to In tile evening
S. Dog watches We're introduced on ship
board to dodge the routine or to pre-
vent the same men from always keep
ing watch At the same time. Dog watch
Is a corruption of dodge watch.
g. A fiddley Is an iron framework around
the opening of u stokehold.
Z. The party bringing an appeal In a law
case Is called the appellant
s. Sir Walter Scott wrote the novel The
Heart of Midlothian"
9. Uncial letters were kind of capital let
ters used in manuscripts of the fourth
to eighth centuries A. D., Inclusive.
They were about an inch high The
name is derived from the Latin
'uncia," inch
10. In travelling around the world n day Is
lost or gained at longitude 1870.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

cent Senate session is repeating itself In the
national campaign.
Mr. Borah and Mr.. johnson were a Sen
ate minority Of two when the tremendous
question of our future international policy
was under discussion. Their minds did not
go with the Presidents. They did not go
with tho minds of Mr.. Taft or Mr., Hoover
or Mr.. Lodge or Mr.. Wickersham or with
the mind of any one else in either party
who insisted on meeting realities In realis-
tic way. Against every plan to avert the
unthnkable catastrophes of future wars or
even to assure for the United States a place
Of relative safety in days that may see sud
den and unexpected alignments OF Old World
powers the two senator's were violently an
tagonistic. They offered no alternatives.
They were the apostles of Drift.
1t happen' now that the men who are
running for the presidency have to formu
late schemes of action. They have TO define
and describe the courses which they hope to
follow. They have to be definite. Mr..
Borah is definite only in his objection to
every definite plan for future peace and
safety advanced with the support of en-
lightened opinion in the two political par.
ties. SO it is altogether natural that he
should retire to the sdelines as he retired
in the Senate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
A TENDERLOIN TO GO

THE so-callcd municipality owned tender
= loin, bounded by Lombard. Rodman,
Tenth and Eleventh streets. will in few
days cease to be a reproach to it's landlord
Mayor Moore has already ordered the Blu
reau of City Property to notify the tenants
to vacate these ramshackle buildings. The
next step will be demolition, to make way
for city playground on the site.
The wisdom of this program is manifest
While it is true that housing needs and the
razing of dwellings are in principle contra
\dictory factors in an acute situation, the
general theory is hardly applicable in this
special case. 1t is no secret that the ten
: i,rloin block was a nest Of vice aud squalor
dwellings, the buildings are said to be
Ste irrecaimable.
The loss Of seventy nine houses in any
American city at the present time is, Of
course. not to be justified unless exceptional
circumstances prevail. But they do exist
here.
The city will be entitled TO pride in its new
playground in n section in which more
breathing spaces are wholly desirable. Not
= Awithou: regret could the municipality az
knowledge the unsavory conditions as they
were.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
RIGA PROSPECTS

TIME meager news from the Polish Rus
l. sian conference at Riga gives little as
surancc that moderation by victors has
ceased to be rare. The Poles are winning
the Soviet offensive has failed to materializc
and the Russiap winter is approaching
With these facts in mind, the delegates
from Warsaw are said to have proposed an
eastern frontier line running far east of the
provisional boundary drafted by the Entente
council at Paris. That the Soviet Govern
ment may none the less accept 1t Is sug-
gested by the one encouraging fact of the
continuance of the parley.
The establishment of absolute justice in
terms of frontiers is perhaps impossible. II
would be heartening, of course, IL the Poles
gave evidence that they were seeking to ap-
proximate that ideal But in default of such
testimony 1t may be said, brutal as the truth
seems, that the world would prefer even O
defective decision in this case to none at all
In the Polish Russian situation the chief
offense to civilization is the war itself. II
that can be ended through negotiation
subsequent adjustment of grievances Is not
altogether inconceivable. Peace Is the fun
damental necessity.
When that Is attained the League of Ma
tions may start to function. Otherwise II
is merely an attractive machine based on &
theory and waiting for its motive power.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
THIS GIDDY WORLD

.nTORE than $4,000 people in New York
AVA city were ordered to move yesterday
More than 10. 900 vans were available to do
the moving. Only about 500 people left their
houses and flats. All the rest seem deter!
dmined to sit tight under the shelter of laws
rushed through at special session of the
Legislature to protect tenants from hard
hearted landlords. You cannot live In a
van, so the trucks that paraded grandly up
the avenues yesterday paraded grandly back
TO the stables after a proitless day.
!, There Is moral in all this for people
who believe that all evils can be cured by
law. At the next session OF the New York
Legislature bills will be whooped through to
protect landlords from hard hearted tenants.
= Life moves swiftly in it's appointed
cycles nowadays that one becomes giddy
watching it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
DIRTY STREET ANTiDoTES

noCToR FURBUSH quite correctly sees
~ in cooperation the remedy for street
conditions menacing the health of the com
munity. Laxity on the city's part is, Of
course, inexcusable, but the responsibility
Of the individual citizen cannot be refused
without placing unwarranted burdens on the
administration.
Among the elementary duties Of the tenant
or property holder too frequently dsrcga rdcd
II the placing of rubbish and garbage in
proper receptacles. Similar breaches Of good
citizenship In so many American cities is the
littering the streets with trash merely be-
cause the offenders are too careless to de-
posit Il In the proper containers.
+ The American army in Havana taught the
Cunans some memorable and remembered
lessons on this subject. with the result that
the greatest city Of the Antilles is now by
far the cleanest.
II Philadelphia unofficially does its duty
q will not be easy for the Department of
(. Public Works to defend any wrgglins out
! ef its own official obligations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ

QUIZ
J. What Is the capital OF Czecho-Siovakia?
2 Where Is the Monte Cristo of which
Dumass hero. Edmond Dantes. claim
ed TO be count?
D. What percentage OF the whole Is the
urban population of the United States?
D. After whom is Rhodesia named?
b. In what play by Shakespeare does the
character of the sprite Ariel appear?
6. In what year did the British under Corn
wallis surrender at Yorktown?
I. Who was the first American President
with a middle name?
s. In what month of 1918 was the great
German drive on the western front
started?
.. Who said Surely In vain the net Is spread
In the sight of any bird?
10. Who wrote the music of "The Merry
Widow?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

the tendency TO en- increase in urban popu-
lation This tendency is not confined to the
United States, but Is operating IN every
civilized country. 1t is one Of the incidents
of the development Of civilization and the
multiplying of the wants Of the people. But
people can be kept on the farms by an in
telligent exposition Of the opportunities
awaiting the wideawake and enterprising
producer Of food. There Is no manufactured
product for which the demand Is so steady.
People must cat. The fashions in food do
not change with the seasons. They are not
fixed in Paris or London. Meat is meat,
whether raised in China or Colorado. Po-
tatoes arc potatoes and wheat is wheat, and
have been from the beginning of their use as
food. IL an urban manufacturer could be
assured of q steady demand for the product
of his factory he would not leave 1t to en-
gage In some other business. The country
food producer is unique among the manufac-
turing classes. He knows that some one
must buy what he produces.
What we need Just now is careful study
of the arts of marketing the product of the
farms. The manufacturer has his ware
rooms in the ccnters frequented by the pur-
chasers. He sends his agents about the
country to sell his product in advance of
manufacture But the American farmer as
a rule trusts to luck. The farmers of Den
mark are leaving nothing to chance. They
have organized co operative selling agencies
which work so successfully that their butter
Is sold all over Europe, and the other day IL
was reported that they were about to send
butter to America. An intelligent system of
co operative marketing will remove nine
tenths of the uncertainty which now worries
the American farmer, and when that uncer-
tainty disappears there will be no industry
under the sun in which the returns are so
sure, the profits so generous and the life so
independent. Then the country boy who
goes to the city will go because there is no
room for him on the farm.
We need not worry overmuch about the
growth of urban population. 1t would be
as useless to worry about the growth of a
child from youth to maturity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Phladelphians Subjects They
Knotu Best

spirit exists among the employees than here"
tofore.
Nevertheless, the retail buyer finds very
little reduction as yet in the price of com
modities.. Let patience do its perfect work
and in due course of time the prices of the
necessaries of life will be substantially re-
duced just as certainly as the ebbing of the
tide that flows. Thrift and economy will
again hold sway and the country will be all
the better for simple living and abstinence
from unnecessary luxuries 'and from the
elimination of waste in everyday life
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
Rashness of an ancient

OBELISK so tall and grand
- Reared on the Egyptian sand,
Did some ancient Royal Boss
Carve upon you to his loss?
DO your hieroglyphics dim
Show the goods are caught on him?
Did he make his blunders known
On imperishable stone?
Did he say that he was for
The unrighteous in the war?
Did he chisel thus his creed
For posterity to read?
Down the centuries you came
Telling how he played the, game;
Paper only five years old
Makes candidate turn cold
Tall and stately obeisk,
some one ran an awful risk
Me i-andburgh Wilson. In the New Yorl
Sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

A Camden boy. accidentally shot, lost
his life from loss of blood because a hard
hearted motorist refused to carry him to a
hospital. as he feared the blood might spoil
his wife's dress. One wonders what manner
OF woman was in that car that she would let
selfish fool play so heartless and brutal
trick.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
rIIiJSDEiPIiIA

Things on which the people expect the new
Standardization 10 concentrate It's attention;
The DeIapure rivcr bridge.
A drpdock biz enough 10 accommodate the
z largest ships,
Development OF the rapid transit system.
a convention huI.
4 bnitdino Jor the Free Librorp.
An Art Museum,
Enlargement Of the trnter supply.
Homes to accommodate the population.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

A dispatch from Huclva.. Spain. sets
forth that 900 striking miners in the Rio
TintO district have decided to emigrate 10
the United States. In view of the fact that
We have enough striking miners OF our own.
there Is justification for the thought that
perhaps the letters have been transposcd 10
the name Of the town and that II Is, as y
were, Heluya dispatch = ~. n
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
Household Gods

From the New York Tribune.
Accumulating junk is the favorite pastime
of n family, and the junk's presence never
is more obviously felt than at moving time.
Our new handmaiden, gazing at our furni-
ture and modest trappings contcmptuously,
said yesterday, "You rent this place fur
nished, don't you?"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

Evidences Of rapid deHation of currency,
with accompanying prostration of business,
seem to indicate that an elastic currency,
designed to give and take. may. in the
hands of the iniudicious, sting the business
it aims to help.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

Resolutions passed by civic patriotic,
industrial. commercial and religious bodies
are excellent as barometers, but the world
has reason for thankfulness. in perhaps a
majority of cases, that they are not cxecu-
tive cdicts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
Mr.. RoRAh RETIRES

TT WOULD have been amazing if Mr..
a Borah had got through the campaign
without a row of some sort with the party
managers. And II should surprise no one IL
gsnster johnson follows the example Of his
frisnl from Idaho. The history of the re-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

While the strike of street cleaners
drivers is on, citizens may ward off the
menace of disease by providing receptacles
for garbage and seeing to it that their side
walks are kept free from filth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
Cruelty to Tenants

From the New York Mail
Some of the apartment house superintend-
ents are getting rather particular, it seems
to us. Our superintendent won't allow any
of the tenants to park their Fords in the
lobby.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

The moving van is an important figure
in life's checkered career. You're lucky II
1t isn't your move.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

Edison Is said to be at work on an in.
strumont designed to effect communication
with the dead. Case of putting Ouija's nose
out of joint.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

The carry your lunch movement func-
ti6ns on the hypothesis that restaurant keep.
ers will have to see deficit before they see
a light.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

If councilmen would remember that they
are business men rather than politicians
why, how nice it would be!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

A Chicago dispatch tells Of the mad
doings on the public streets of "a mule with
nothing on his mind" Sounds like de.
scription of the Democratic party.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

The New York milk drivers who are
demanding $40 day evidently have not yet
been Informed that the peak of prices has
been reached
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

One of the little things that will even.
tually help to solve the housing problem will
be the return to the farms of the people who
iocked to the cities during the war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

If all that is said about the Rodman,
Lombard, Tenth and Eleventh streets block
is true, how would you describe what the
city is going to razc?