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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-24
OKLAHOMA IS SECOND
IN LEGION RACE
States Veterans Jump 70 High
Place in First Two Days
Of the Great Nation
Wide Drive

IndAsraaosia May g. Inc0mpletz
returns into national headquarters
here Indicate shat approximately So r
es-s ns~ members were obtained in
;sa first te~ days ~ vhe American y
I.egsoz nation vide czn1pzien for IN
creased meDbership
COnn@cs scst has 5unged into she
lead Win z.s@9 new mssgnbers fof
''as two days, Oklahoma w1th r
sf2. Is sen0nd.
The American Legion n1ernbership
drive started OF fire this nornin :.
Jack Doyie. who = n charge of the
csmr&Ggr- SAID today
We have a booth az fhA w. &
A. and cns at fn@ B1sierruEEk Har
ar6 e1p@ct TO enroH large NUN
fe- of raer1h,eFs sor Joe Carson gost.
csrSng the three DAYS &C the drive =
Joe Cz-soa Pos Is one Of fae :. -
posts wh5eh fhe Legion has already
essaalisked o. total rRern5erssl Z ?
~ l.ssss 800 Okiahorsz posss have
1a1%s rrprpAers The object " tne
e~7ve whkch rs being carried CO
throughout tie state an well as hn@
w@a0l~ Tnst96 States. dur1px ihsE
we~k. - 80 e-isst IN The Lssgsoa every
ers cs she - ~ ex-s<wvbce men
who sens from Oslshnria
IL addition 20 the soca&g feesSrsS
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she rsfiaEsI orxsnizattcn has tss@n
fnwrsnenssE In Obtaining sr increase
IN the base nay for disabled soldiers
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zt.crt chxnses il the pszn Tor vccz-
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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-24
LEoIon TO MEET

The American Legion Will meet to-
morrow night a. O'clock al .ho
Chamber OF Commerce.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-24
ANGRY M06 DISPERSED
BY CAVALRY TROOP
Negro Escapes Death at Hands
Of Infuriated Crowd OF Wash
ington Citizens BY Skin
OF His Teeth.

Washington. May 70 A detauh-
nient of cavalry from Fort Myer was
called out last night 10 dlsgefss q moo
OF more than a thousand persons,
~'swaa'et~sasHasaa-sa.s
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-24
THE WEATHER

View Orsesns. 3fsr zl--TcDsght End
Zssxssy party csouty 70 clc1cy.
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To Confer On Home
 Demonstration Work

Miss Bonslager, state home dem onstration agent, will be in Mari anna on next Monday at one o'clock in the afternoon and will hold a conference with a number of ladies of Marianna and Lee county on the home demonstration work in Lee county next year. The recent quo rum court made an appropriation for this work, but Judge Hummer is not going to confirm the appoint ment of home demonstration agent until he is assured the county will have a capable agent and one who will stick to the job. He requested number of ladies to meet Miss Bonslager Monday and go over the situation with her in order that a definite program might be outlined. 1t is Judge Runners intention to appoint a permanent committee of business men and farmers to su- pervise the work of the colored farm demonstrator, and enlarging upon this idea Judge Hummer said he thought it a good idea to have one or more representative men and women, white and colored, in each township to advise with the farm and demonstration agents with ref
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FINE MEETING
 OF LIONS CLUB
DR. o. L. WILLIAMSON AND P. R. TURNER MAKE INTEREST ING TALKS ON BUSINESS CON- OPTIONS.

At the regular meeting of the Lions Club on Wednesday afternoon of this week, Dr. o. l.. Williamson and P. R. Turner spoke on present business conditions and the outlook for the future. It was originally planned to have four addresses on this subject, the other two mem bers on the program being M H. Ford and c. k. Daggett, but on ac- count of the limited time at the disposal of the club the speeches by Messrs. Ford and Daggett were post poned until the next meeting of the club two weeks hence.
 pr. Williamson went rather ex- haustively into the subject, reciting the various causes people give for the present crisis. Some claim it is due to the action of the federal reserve board in tightening the lines on the finances of the country. Others contend it has been brought about by the money power of Wall street, and still others claim it is due to the exhausted condition of the European countries. However, Dr. Williamson contended that so far as conditions in the south are concerned they are due primarily to our extravaganza and our failure to produce the feed and food crops that make abundant yields on our soils. He said he had been inform ed by reliable sources that fully S5 per cent of the money spent by the farmers in Lee county goes for corn, hay, oats, meat, lard, molasses and other commodities that can be rais- ed here at home. He condemned in unmeasured terms the foolish sys- tenn we practice and stated there is not farmer in Lee county who raises his own corn, hay, oats, meat and molasses but who is prosperous. He told of a negro who recently came to his office to get a prescrip- tion, and to pay his bill. He was rather surprised that the negro vol untarily came to pay his bill. He questioned him about his finances. The negro said he raised fourteen bales of cotton this year, that he had picked, ginned and sold it all, that seven bales paid him out of debt; the other seven he has as profit. In addition to his cotton the negro said he raised his own corn, hay and meat. He faces the | future without fear because he is well fixed for next year. Dr. Will | Hanson called attention to the fact that the outbreak of the war caus-
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ELAINE RIOTERS
 GET NEW TRIAL
SUPREME COURT HOLDS TRIAL. COURT ERRED IN EXCLUDING CERTAIN TESTIMONY OFFER ED BY DEFENDANTS.

Little Rock, Dec. 7.-The su- preme court yesterday reversed and remanded for new trial the cases of Ed Ware, Will Wordlow, Albert Giles, John Fox, John Martin and Alfred Banks, Elaine negroes twice sentenced to, death for wholesale murder in connection with the Phillips county race riots.
 The reversal order of the court yesterday was on the ground that the lower court had refused to hear testimony offered to show that dis crimination had been used in select, ing the jury in trial court, in that no negroes were on the panel. Mo tion to dismiss the cases on this ground was made in the lower court. by attorneys for the defense, but was overruled without hearing.
 The courts comment on the case yesterday said in part, that under the decision of the supreme court of the United States the discrimina- tion of the jury commissioners against the. colored race in the selection of the petit. jury, by which the negroes were excluded from jury service solely on account of their. color rendered the selection illegal to the appellants. The sort of dis crimination in the selection of both grand and petit jurfes is in contra vention to the constitution of the United States and to the civil rights act of March l.. 1875"
 Neither time the eases have been before the court, have the facts of the matter .been in issue. The first reversal made last March, was be- cause the trail jury in finding the negroes guilty and fixing their pun ishment at death, did not write in- to the verdict the words "as found in the indictment" as required in finding of guilt. In the new trial in lower court following the reversal and remanding order of the supreme court, the negroes were again found guilty and sentenced to execution. Before the jury was empaneled att torneys for the defense filed ex- ception to the entire panel and nov ed that it be dismissed for the req son that it contained no negroes, and that in the exclusion of mem bers of their race the defendants had been discriminated against The supreme court held that the lower court should have heard the testi- mony offered by the defense on this point.
 In it's ruling yesterday the court followed precedents set by both the United States and the Arkansas su- preme courts, which are to the gen eral effect that the exclusion of negroes by the jury commissioners from the panels called to try cases involving negroes R discriminatory against the defendants and, there fore, illegal. The courts opinion does not mean that negroes must be on juries trying negroes, but that discrimination must not be used against them on ground of race, in up the jury panels. Where negroes can qualify as jurors, ac- cording to members of the supreme court, they cannot be excluded from juries on negro cases because of their color.
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ed the southern farmers and mer- chants to practice economy and live at home. But with a bumper cot ton crop in 1915 and with high prices we forgot that lesson and now we have to start all over. He said it is little less than crime that we do not practice sane, rational, and safe system of conducting our business-whethe farming, mer- chandising or engaged in other ac- tivities. He said the question of the reduction of other cotton acreage was not the all-important thing to consider now. He doubted the wis dom of fifty per cent cut in the acreage, and thought a twenty-five per reduction would be sufficient. But the absolutely essential thing for the farmers to do is to raise on their own land the food and feed crops adapted to our soil and let the cotton crop be the surplus or money crop.
 Mir. Turner discussed the same topic, but in a rather humorous and highly entertaining way. He gave some inside information about the drug business, the cost of his daily operations, how much 1t costs to wait on each customer who comes into the store and the small margin of profit the druggist receives on his merchandise. MT. Turner em- phasized the necessity for creating spirit of optimism. He did not believe in getting down in the mouth," and looking long faced. He advocated the practice of economy, the wise expenditure of our limited resources, the cultivation of spirit of cooperation and mutual help fulness and he believed within 8 year the situation would right itself. He thought that the worst thing that could happen was for business men and the leaders in community work to talk in a pessimistic vein and throw pail of gloom over those who associate with them. MT. Turn CT illustrated his talk with several apt and humorous experiences he has had recently. He was spicy and snappy in his address and evoked much laughter and applause.
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Sees SiLUer Lining
 To Dark Clouds

A prominent attorney of Marian na, whose chief asset is his well known ability and conservatism and whose secondary asset is his mod esty, and for which latter reason we are not. at liberty to, use his name in connection with this story, spent the first of the week in St. Louis. He admitted he had no par ticular business in the Missouri me- tropolis other than to get a close up view of the financial situation not that he is personally embarrass- ed, but because he represents many clients who would be be tickled to know that there is silver lining somewhere in the clements as a decoration to the. dark clouds now enveloping this section. The editor of the Courier-Index held running conversation with the barrister and while traversing the distance from the Marianna Motor Company's place of business to the entrance of the Lesser building we learned from him that the situation, so far as money matters are concerned, looks most promising. He was told by big business men in St. Louis that there is now an appreciable loosening up in finances and that after the first of the year legiti- mate business enterprises and farm ing interests will no doubt be able to secure funds with which to con tinue their operations. The period of depression that has cast pail of gloom over the country during the past three or four months is rapid ly disappearing. The men who con- trol the finances of the nation real ize it is absolutely essential that business institutions and the work on the farms must be. kept going There is no actual shrinkage in the wealth of the country, but merely a cessation of buying upon the part of the millions of people who under normal conditions would be making heavy purchases of this season of the year There is now revival in many lines of industry. The economies forced upon the public recently have taught the people a reasonable lesson Rational living, sane and sensible management of affairs, the practice of thrift and the conservation of resources, to- gether with the well-emplanted and much-emphasized idea of living at home are going to be the factors that will revolutionize conditions during 1921.
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Banquet Is GiUen
 By Tue Hi-Y BOYs

The Marianna Hi-Y boys, an or ganlzation composed of students in the High School, gave a most ex- cellent banquet on Friday night of last week in the basement of the Elks Home. The Hi-Y club is an organization very similar to the Y. M. c. A., but it's activities are con- fined to students in the high schools or those in the lower grades who are over fifteen years of age. They meet regularly once a week, have good programs on religious topics and other subjects calculated to improve the morals of the members. At the banquet Friday night the members of the club as well as a number of high school students who are not yet affiliated with the or ganization had as their guests their fathers. Boys whose fathers were absent from the city or whose fath- CTS have died, had the privilege of inviting men to act in the capacity of fathers at the banquet. Oppo- site each boy at the table sat his father. The arrangement was one calculated to inspire a fine feeling of comradship between father and son, and the toasts that followed the sumptuous feast, prepared by the ladies of the Episcopal church and served by the young lady mem bers of the Senior class were splen- did. William Lawson presided as toastmaster. The full program fol- lows:
 Invocation-Rev. R. V. Saylor.
 Purpose of the Hi-Y," Robin Benthall.
 "To Our Dads," Chas. Harp.
 "To Our Boys," M. E. Newborn.
 Do Boys Forget" Hal Nixon.
 Do Fathers Forget" J. E. Strain.
 Experiences of Naughty School Boy," Chas. Mckee.
 "If Were a Man." John Daggett.
 eff I Were a Boy" C. K. Daggett.
 Football Team for 1921," Ed ward Goodwin.
 Address by Earl L. Wilmington, secretary Y. M. c. A. at Helena.
 Those who attended the banquet were:
 Boys:
 Charles Hopkins, Robin Benthall, w llIlam Lawson, EuWafu ways, war ter Johnston, Ava Rives, Edward Goodwin, Marvin Newborn, Bennett Bray, Ira Keasler, Hal Nixon, Frank lin Deaderick, Kim Jones, Charles Harp, John Daggett, Herbert Jack son, James Maynard, Sidney Gill berg Addison Wall, Hamlet Strain, Frank Jones, Frank Kershaw.
 Fathers
 W. o. Hopkins, T. D. Benthall, A. B. Lawson, R. V. Saylor, P. R. Turner, Ben Rives, A. E. Goodwin, M. E. Newborn, Billy Shorten, Chas. Mckee, R. L. Nixon, Hugh Nixon, E. L. Wilmington, Dr. Mac McLen- don, c. E. Daggett, H. M. Jackson, D. s. Clark, H. Gilberg, W. A. Wall, J. E. Strain, Nathan Yoffie, Harold Derrick, F. L. MacChesney.
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SOLEMN SERVICE
 ELKS MEMORIAL
SPLENDID ADDRESS DELIVERED NDAY AFTERNOON BY RABBI JEROME MARKS OF HELENA.

The Lodge of Sorrow, held on the first Sunday in each December by the Elks, is always a solemn and impressive service but on no occa- sion of this kind has the program been more fitting to the sentiment embodied in the memorial idea than were the services at the Presbyter- ian church on last Sunday after noon. The address delivered by Rabbi Jerome Marks of Helena, was one of the best ever heard in Mari anna. His subject was immortal ity," and most beautifully did he demonstrate that there is life be- yond this existence. Couched in the choicest language, ornamented with lofty sentiments, delivered with rare fervor and earnestness, the Rabbls address made profound impression upon the Elks and the audience that assembled to witness the ceremonies.
 The musical numbers rendered by Miss Barnes, Mrs. w. F.. Nelson, c. c. Kitchener and Hugh Nixon, are deserving of special mention. The ouartette numbers and the duet by Miss Barnes and MT. Kitchener, with MfS. Caln I1dffIiiSbOl piSSiNAlS o0 the pipe organ, were particularly ap- propriate and were rendered fault lessly. o
 The ritualistic work, by the oftl- cers of the lodge, was an impressive feature of the service. As the name of each departed member was called the Esquire, W. E. McClintock, placed a large white carantion in vase.
 The departed members for whom the memorial service was held were
 Henry J. 0enning, died October 1911; John R. Jarratt, died Jan uary, 1912; S. F. Merrill, died Jan nary, 1914; A. A. McClendon. July, 1915; H. c. Maynard, April, 1916 E. J. Beazley, October, 1916; H, EC. McAnulty, March, 1917; w. S. Atkins, November, 1917; w. Wooten December, 1917; H. H. Markley October. 1918; Julius Benham, Oc- tober, 1918; R. G. Apple, October 1920.
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Important Meeting
 Is On For Tonight

The Marianna Commercial Club has sent out circulars advertising a big mass meeting for tonight at the Elks Home. At conference at tended by nearly a hundred citi- zens on Thursday night of last week large delegation from Lee county was appointed to attend the cotton convention held in Memphis on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. At that meeting it was agreed another meeting should be held following the convention in Memphis so the plans adopted there could be put into effect in Lee county. The meeting tonight has been called for that purpose. It is highly important that every man who is interested in the sane and sensible solution of the problems Continued on last page.)
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erence to the needs of their re- spective committees.
 Miss Sallie May Hudson, form erly of Sparta, Tenn, has been cho- sen as the home demonstration agent for Lee county. She will ar rive here today and will attend the conference Monday.
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Governor Allen of Kansas is pleas ed because two southern states have gone Republican. After all the jabs he has given the south we didn't suppose he would allow any south erners to enter the grand old party.
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iusaa Brooklyn Eagle says it re- rnnS;I Io believe that Greece has EbvS her great Venezelos. just .s The American people did are n"t aS uhgrateful thing and they
 "0' inferior to the Greeks.
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The only thing certain about an investigation is the expense.
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is tbe DOW legs more prevalent or lhe v wor,s new style letting men in on
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his p p,. Harding may again change yn EF,ac.lcai Fsn1cai mind, says the Brook g wisgg igle sarcastically. The facili- the na 0n which it can be changed is
 "Vse practical thing about it.
Evening journal., 1920-09-20
CHORUS
ON OUTING TONIGHT

Many tickets have been sold for the
moonlight and sing OF the Barnhart
Community Chorus this evening. The
trim will De made on the sieamar Bran
dywlne, which will leavc Fourth street
wharf at 7i5 O'Clock STANDARD timc.)
An orchestra will be In attendance.
Harry Barnhart. director OF the Choir
us. and Frederick Watson, pianist
will be present
An members OF the chorus are ask
ed 90 bring their brown singing books.
Mr.. Watson viii he relieved or his
duties at the piano FOR part time by
Miss lone NJ. Schilling and Mrs. kath-
leen ireland Hampton.
The committee that has arranged
this evenings OUTING Is composed OF
Mrs NJ s. McNcy. chairman OF ioe
cream and candy; Mrs. II. r. Rich
ards chairman Of cakes, Mrs Mar
garpl owens Mrs II s. Grant. Mrs. p.
e. SlOopes. Mrs. Greenfield, Mrs. HUI
/ Kill. Mrs Massey. Mrs. Farra, Mrs,
James T. Gray and Mrs. ]. Edward
/ Gray.
Elaborate plans are being made BY
/ the chorus FOR the outdoor sing thai
will be- given tomorrow night. In FROM
Of the Public Buildings. There VIII
he present approximately ninety mem
hers of the various Wilmington lre
companies Fifty members of the p0-
lice department VIII also attend.
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MOTOR Thief
He Drives Williamson Car
From Garage After Chat
ting With Watchman
POLICE THINK THEY
ARE ON HIS TRAIL

A nervy thief visited the Whining
ton Automobile Garage, So2 French
street. about $50 o'clock this morn
Ing and stole a 5-passengcr Buick car
belonging TO II. C. Williamson. COS
Shipley street.
The thief walked into the garage.
chatted for a few minutes with ne
Waterman on guard about the
weather, and then crankmg up Mir
Willlamsons car jumped In and left
As ne ran the car out the door he
waved MS had In adlou DO the watch.
man al The same time rcmarking mai
unless the weather became warm
frost was In sight
-, owing 20 The boldness OF the thief
the Watchman did not suspect nm,
ming until Mr. Williamson came FOR
his car.
The matter was reported ia The
police station and efforts are bemg
made 10 capture The thief Word IVA.
received at the police station ar n 30
o CLOCK mat an attempt had hcon
made io sell a Buick car his morn.
lns and a watch is being kept FOR tho
car when an attempt Is mado 10 de-.
liver 10 ihis afternoon.
Evening journal., 1920-09-20
400 WOMEN
REGISTER in NEWARK
Special to Tho Evening Journal

Special 90 Tho Evening Journal
NEWARK. Sept 2O-political lead
ers OF both parties were agrecably
surprised on Saturday by the large
turn out OF women voters 90 register
FOR the FIRST time. The regislrat on Of
ilcers In both OF the Newark districts
OF White Clay Creek hundred were
kept busy from the time they opened
In the morning until closing tim at ,
o'clock Saturday evening There are
several hundred more women, how
ever, who will likely register on ihe
last day, October i6.
In the first district registration
place, Deer Park Hotel there were
2l6 voters registered previous 20 sat
urday. on Saturday 23i more voters
qualified making the total In that dis
irict 5Ol 90 date. or these registered
Saturday more than 200 were women
and only about - men. Of 'he women
registered In this district, as were
Negro women
In the second district. Washington
House, 32S had registered before sat
urday Saturday POI more were reg
lsiered, making a total Of J22 90 date
There were i29 women 10 register
Saturday.
In the third district, registration
place Chrlstlana, il9 had registered
before Saturday and qS were placed on
Tie books Saturday, making a total Of
2I. W those registered Saturday ~
were women ald about half OF those
Negro women.
Two years ago there were nearly iO'
votes cast In each The FIRST and see
Ond districts and ihe indications are
that the registration will exceed zoo
IN each district this year. To election
officers and politicians the great prob
lem now Is 10 get an these votes In on
election day. 10 will mean the V0iing
of about 30 every hour the polls are
open or a fraction more than one a
minute. TWO years ago it was nearly
4 o'clock the next morning before the
vote was counted and this year ne
count % Is thought may not be COM
plcted before noon the day following
election.