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Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02
FaheSS Kills
 31,OOO Yearly

:. Fat is fatal to health and personality. It IS estimated that over 31,0OO persons have died each year in the past decade long before their allotted span of life, through the effects of excessive fatness. Any overstout man or woman is carrying unhealthy adiposity that is pressing against and and injuring vital organs of the body. The heart, that delicate human apparatus, becomes congested. In numer- ous cases there are dangerous gatherings of packed-in fat around the throat, stomach, liver and other delicate parts.
 Through overstoutness the afflicted per son while apparently well is liable to nervousness, neurasthenia, physical or mental collapse. and other disorders, for failure, apoplexy, sunstroke, etc., are ire quent causes of premature death. Fat persons are particularly victims of aGci- dents and are more liable than healthy, pneumonia and other severe ailments.
 If you are oTerstout you should know it is truly good many years before natural old age. simply because you do not emancipate yourself from the nc9 ssSad Ss SpS,ea 1 by slender; also your appearance should become fully successful method of weight reduction known
 rsson5 sGsn I,S sysse I e0pAiss % M Sf % some simple @et6od i, so peSss. SecSSs. S @ 0 i. Contains ms thyroid or other such drastic ingredients,
 Sy ess s S6a nee Se SOi1 1nds 'Ga gu S1stSnteed it IS perfectly harmless: recommended oy physiclans. A reliable self-treatment.
 By reducing now you may expect greater contentment, happiness, increased mental 8 longer life. Be fair to yourself and those who are dear to youl Surprise everybody with your renewed vigor, vi- vaeity and surprisingly superior person. ality. Get oil of kerei1 (the easy korein system is in each pkge.) at tho drug stors without delay; or if more convenient, send sI.oo cash. stamps or money order to Rorein G.. EA.6S, Station E, New
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02
Legion Meeting to
 See Boxing Contest

The American Legion will hold It's regular meeting next Thursday night at o'clock An attractive program of entertainment has been arranged and refreshments will be served. Frank Loughrey will appear in a four round bout with an opponent to be announced later. Ray Lindsey will give several spoken selections and dancing acts. The Legion or chestra will be on hand to fill up any gaps that may occur in an eve ming of feature events.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02
coLFeRs PLAY ROUNDS

Tn the one club match at the Coun- try club Sunday the scores in Class A were: J. Chapman, 4S-3-4 and J. r. Williamson, 45-S-37.
 In the blind medal handicap T. Cowap scored 96-16.S0 and H. F. Hol- lis, 115-35-S0.
 The team match with Douglas will be played next Sunday on the local links. Qualifying rounds for the club championship will be played Saturday and Sunday.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02
REDS LAKE TOWn

born fighting the Bolsheviki Sunday occupied the town of Stavaropol. cap itol of the government of Stavaropol, in the northern Caucasus, according to a Bolsheviki communication re- ceived here
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02
SOCCER TEAMS TIE

The Queen Stars and the Shattuck soccer football teams played a hard and fast game Sunday which ended in a tie of one goal for each team. Next Sunday the soccer sport fans are promised the fastest game of the season as it is going to be played for the 1920 championship of the Warren District. The teams are playing for a silver loving cup which is now on display at French's cigar store on Main Street.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02
GIRL GIVES BAIL

OAL1AKND, Calif., March l. - Miss Anita Whitney, social worker, con victed of criminal syndicalism and sentenced to one to IA years, was ad- mitted to bail today in the sum of $1O,00o, following the report of three physicians to the effect that Miss Whitney's health would be impaired by her continued incarceration in the county fail.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02
NOTICE

The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the United States Oil and Refining company of Bisbee, Ari- zona, will be held in the office of l.. J. Overlook on Brewery Gulch, in the city of Bisbee, at 2 o'clock p. m. on Satur- day, the 20th day Of March, 1920.
 J. L. POWELL, Secretary.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02

The New York Chop House will open this morning in Sid Harris sa- loon It will be open day and night The propFietors have had a great deal of experience and will do a good business.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02
COTTON

COTTON NEW YORK, March 1.-Cotton clos ed very steady, at net advance of j to 2S points.
 MINERALS NEW YORK, March Lead and zinc unchanged. Bar silver s131H. Copper unchanged.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02

According to data of the Bureau of Crop Estimates, horses in this coun- try reached their maximum number in 1918, and since then have been gradually decreasing.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02
ELowERs ID srARr

Cannas, dahlias and gladiolus should be started in pots not later than early March. Seeds of hardy annuals should be sown, and sweet peos started in pots.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02

Review Want Ads Bring Results
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02
NOTICE K. OF p.

NOTICE K. OF P. All members and visiting brothers requested to attend regular session to. night, work in 1st Rank.
 F. D. JASON, c. c.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02
LIBERTY BoNDs

NEW YORK, March 1.-Liberty 312's made perceptible recovery, but others of that group were weaker, quotations being as follows:
 31s's 94.SO; 1st As 90.20; 2nd As S9.5O; 1st 4A's 9O.9O; 2nd 41z's S9.9O; 3rd 414's 92.30; 4th 4A's 90.O4; Victory 3%'s 97.26; Victory A 97.32.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-02

O'DoWD STOPS MccARRON
 PHILDADELPHIA, March Mike O'Dowd, middleweight champion, stopped Jack McCarron, Allentown, in the second round of a scheduled six round bout here tonight
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09
LOWER FARES.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: F. D. Under
wood, president Of the Erie railroad.
is advocating reduction of passen.
ger, fares. He does not pose as a
philanthropist or as a reformer of
any kind. 1t is with him business
proposition pure and simple.
There have been all sorts Of re.
ports and estimates as to the cost Of
carrying passenger a mile or a
hundred miles. And one is tempted
to believe, after comparing some Of
these statements, that the Iowa
farmer is not the only man in the
land who needs to be better inform
ed as to the cost Of production and
as to his manner of doing business
There was gifted Californian who
argued for low passenger rates,
claiming that it really cost com.
pany less to transport a human being
than to transport a hog. Consequent
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09
OUR REGENT.

Chicago Tribune: When the Trib-
une was suggesting that the nation
needed regent for the period of Mr..
Wilson's disablement it was asking
for something we had. Sorry-our
mistake-but it Is only becoming re-
vealed. There is Madame Regent.
Washington reports that John Bar
ton Payne was invited to the white
house few weeks ago. Mrs. Wilson
received him, gave him tea, and told
him that the president wished to
appoint him secretary of the interior.
A few days later Admiral Benson
was invited for tea and told by Mrs.
Wilson that he was to be made chair
man of the shipping board.
These, we. believe. are excellent ap-
pointments. From all we know Of
Admiral Benson he is a good man for
the place. Payne ought to make an
excellent secretary of the interior.
Mrs. wilson's choices are good, and
If the president does not interfere too
much she, will strengthen the gov
eminent.
This is Americas first experience
with regent and we think Mrs.
Wilson is going to make us like it.
Madame Regent, we'll bet, could set.
tie more difficulties over tea than
the president could handle in a
month. We are waiting for the day
when Senator Hitchcock is invited to
understand that the Lodge reserva.
lions are the securities Of American
sovereignty. He'll understand at the
second cup.
If the next president has to be a
democrat, we're for Mrs. President
Wilson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09
Exploiting Pacific Islands,

Columbus Despatch: With Europe
a seething mass of unrest aud dis-
content and uncertainty, your Brit.
Usher is looking to the islands of the
South Pacific, already owned by the
empire, as the next place to go-and
to exploit, to use the expression Of a
lot Of people who do not know the
meaning of the word. Already cor
,porations are being formed to colonize
the islands, and beautiful word pic.
lures of the advantages of a residence
upon them are being painted.
The truth is, for some years the
white man has been gradually get.
ting a foothold in the region. The
delightful pictures which one sees Of
Would Benefit Any Community.
Grizzly Bear: Because of the storm
in Oregon, the Los Angeles dailies,
which get their supply from mills in
that state, ran short of newsprint
paper and had to cut down the size of
several days issues. The storm in
Oregon, to that extent, was of benefit
to California.
If the Chemically Pure City,,
papers would eliminate the mushy
sob-sister rot they delight in featuring.
and the filthy divorce, girl-ravishing.
murder, etc, stories to which they de.
vote unlimited quantities of space,
they could cut down the size of every
days papers by many pages and the
community would be greatly bene-
fitted.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09
lily he would have had the human
being pay less transportation than a

lily he would have had the human
being pay less transportation than a
hog.
There is another point to be con.
sidered. The auto has come into
the land, and it has come to stay.
And it will soon be within the reach
of practically all. The railroads must
meet this competition and the only
way to reduce it is by reducing rail-
road fares. They can sti1l maintain
their "de luxe" trains with the fancy
prices for those who are able to pay
them. No other people in the world
are so fond of "going somewhere" as
are the Americans. If they are en-
couraged in this. by reduction in
fares they will all travel. They may
imagine that they cannot afford it
now. But let the railroads announce
reduced fares, and everybody will
find that he or she can afford it, and
will hasten to take advantage OF the
opportunity.
1t might not have occurred to the
government official, but Mr. Under
wood is evidently a railroad man who
knows the business, and his sugges.
ton will undoubtedly mean increased
revenues without the proportionate
expenses for the companies-and
that is probably what is desired.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09
Sioux City Journal: Secretary
Era nk1in X Lane. who has lust

SIOUX City JOURNAL. SECRETARY
Franklin X. Lane, who has just
retired from the presidents cabi-t
net, left the nation something be-
sides his services as one Of the
able men of the administration.
He set out the reasons why the
government is expensive to oper-
ate and inefficient in service.
There are too many mediocre and
below mediocre men connected
with it, and too few really COM
petent administrators. Secretary
Lane is not the first business
man to point out this defect.
John Wanamaker. after admins
tering the postoffice department
during the Harrison administra-
tion, offered to lease the depart.
ment from the government, re-
duce postage to l cent and pay
the government a large revenue
as rent. He proposed to make
the saving by applying business
methods, organization and eff
cheney to the administration of
the department. Secretary Lane
merely enlarges the view of Mr..
Wanamaker to include the whole
government.
1t is notorious that men who
are unable to make good either
for themselves or as employees of
private enterprises have no
trouble in securing and holding
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09

giving the federal government power
over such matters All powers not
delegated to the United States by
the constitution nor prohibited by it
to the states, are reserved to the
states respectively, or to the people.
1t is true that July and December
% are legal holidays in all the states,
but they We're made holidays by sepa.
rate enactment in and by each state.
The president Of the United States
does proclaim the last Thursday in
November to be day Of thanksgiy.
ing. 1t Is not his proclamation, how
ever. which makes the day a legal
holiday, but that of the governor in
each state. This is only one of many
ways in which the powers of state
government are superior to those of
the national government. The pow.
ers of the latter are strictly limited
by the constitution, the tenth amend.
ment of which expressly reserves all
other powers to the states.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09
EVIL, OF EXCESS PROFITS LAW.

Any man or corporation who has anything 10
sell lumber, coal, ore, cattle-is penalzed by
the excess profits tax in case he puts it on the
market in quantity great enough to be OF much
effect in bringing prices down. His interest hes
in holding his stock and doing it out IN drlo-
let's, on which he pays reasonable tax; where
as if he increased his output sufficiently the
government would get as much as half the
amount of his total gross sales.
Manifestly this is an important factor IN
keeping raw materials scarce and thereby keep
ing up the prices of the myriad commodltles
made thereof With flat rate OF taxation,
which is the equitable and defensive system, the
production and output of things the people need
would rapidly reach it's peak and the cost OF
living would come down. The theory and OBJ
icct Of the excess profits tax law was to mulc'
the rich and make them pay more in proportion
than men Of lesser means. As applied to net IN
comes this is not unfair; but as applied to
profits it works disastrously not only to busl
ness, but to the consuming public. injustice
cannot be done to any class Of citizens without
its reacting unfavorably on all.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09
SECRETARY LANES REQUEST

positions ,at Washington. The
class Of men who turn to the
government service as means
OF support cannot be as accur-
ately judged from the west as
it can from the east, from which
section most of them come. There
is standing joke that the fellow
who is unable to make good else
where can get government posi-
ton. "He ought to get a place
at Washington" Is a common re-
mark about the fellow who is
worthless or a failure.
No business institution could
survive three months were 1t con-
Quoted as extravagantly as the
government is. Politics permit
placing men at the head Of de-
partments where expert know
ledge is essential, but in which
the appointee is wholly lacking.
He administers, not according to
his Judgment, for he can have
only an imperfect one If any at
all, but according to the judg-
ment Of an inferior in rank who
by long experience or special
training is an expert. No pro-
prietor of a boiler factory would
employ a barber as superinten-
dent. Yet that is the policy the
government follows. That is one
of the deficiencies Secretary
Lane would remedy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09

conditions of peace. It's use has ordinarily
been forced on reluctant or Indifferent peoples
and as the years pass the tendency grows to
break away from it. Germany adopted it be-
cause she had no system of her own, and she al
ways would have been glad if other commercial
nations could have been persuaded to handicap
themselves by scrapping time-tried systems
German influence has passed. And it may De
hoped that the restless doctrinaires who have
long been Fostering congress for compulsory
metric legislation will now subside.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09
EnaIana,s New Worry.

The New York Times: AS we all
know, ever since the war began Eng
land has been passing through q zone
OF acute spiritualisn. Captained by
Sir Oliver Lodge and DR.. Doyle, with
petty officers among other prominent
personalities-Kipling not even hav-
ing escaped-the believers in COM
munication with the beyond have
waged a war against those who ire
fused to believe" or declined to ad-
nit" until any man felt sheepishly
self-conscious who could not plead
guilty to having communed with a
willing spirit on the other side of the
grave.
At first those who believed were
ing, even by means Of raps, with the
ghosts of the good, but lately there
has grown up a horrible suspicion
which some declare to be certainty.
that all is not good that is spiritual.
So now when we get into commune
cation with disembodied essence
we have no more assurance that we
are connected up with good soul
than we have of guessing the color
of the girls hair who says hello to
us over the telephone wire.
In other words, the spiritualists
themselves are growing alarmed over
the odd contradictions that appear to
arrive, via the medium route, from
over yonder, and are suspecting that
the time-honored belief in dark as
well as light spirits, in devils as well
as angels, may have had foundation
in fact. There no longer seems to
be any positive reason why, il a
pleasant and well-meaning soul can
rap three times in the darkness and
then whisper sweet nothing by means
of gagged and bound medium, the
spirit of an unreconstructed, evil
minded, pestiferous personality may
not take advantage OF the same me
diumistic communication to cause
trouble and carry on its evil work
which was left incompleted on the
intervention Of death.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09

Sometimes it has the opposite en.1
as witnesseth the case OF
Moores. The little housewife n
sat in the darkened theatre Pei
her calous-palmed young husband y
gazed upon Mary on the screen =
perhaps envied her charm \
beauty and wealth, should revise
viewpoint. There is something. ,ss
ing in Mary's life that her miil
of domestically happy admirers
sess. Perhaps Mary would u'
places with them.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09
lie in your own judgment you can not be an
honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without
being lawyer.-Abraham Lincoln.
THE METRIC MENACE.

Refreshing evidence that the country has
walked up to the menace Of having the metric
system imposed upon it is afforded by the pub
LEGATION of ''The Metric Fallacy,'' prepared by
Secretary Frederick A. Halsey, of the Amerl-
can Institute of Weights and Measures, under
whose authority it is issued.
The book is welcomed as calculated to dam
the flood of propaganda which the press and
public has suffered from for years, in behalf OF
securing legislation from congress to make the
metric system compulsory The campaign has
been particularly threatening because OF the
participation in it of certain scientists and
..experts'' in the government service
A question so vital to the material interests
of a nation as that of changing its customary
system of weights and measures should never
be left to theorists to decide. Such system IS
an essential part of the very structure OF a ma
ton which, like America, teens with industry.
There could be no reasonable objection to a
fair presentation of the case for the metric sys-
tenn, but the propaganda has been carried on
with an audacious disregard for facts and es
sential truth.
Mr. Halseys book reduces the alluring met
rio literature to waste paper by establishing the
facts and exposing the sophistry Of arguments
erected on misleading allegations. Those en-,
gagged in American industry, whether manufac-
nv "SSA-
deluded by the claims set up. But great many
other persons, doubtless, have been attracted
by these claims, and there has been little In the
way of printed matter on the other side avail
able to the general reader. Promoters OF revo-
utionary movements usually have that advant-
age. An established condition is often lett to
speak for itself, until the necessity that some
body shall speak for it becomes urgent. A few
wears ago, for another example, it was difficult
te find in public libraries many books dealing
with public ownership, except those written by
advocates of it.
The movement to force the metric system on
the American people has been we'll organized.
II it were to 60 on unchallenged congress would
naturally be influenced by it. The check has
come fortunately, just at time when the metre
advocates were anticipating sweeping cam
paen due to the interest of congress and the
country in the new opportunity for great de-
velopment of our foreign commerce. One OF
their leading arguments is that our export
trade is obstructed by the use OF the existing
system of weights and measures-a claim by
the way, that may be disproved more easily
than any other that has been advanced.
If Germany had won the war she might have
forced the metric system on us as one of the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09
Mary .Wept Copiouslx.

Burlington Gazette: Mary Pick.
ford, favorite movie star of thou.
sands and the highest salaried
woman artist in this popular pastime,
was granted divorce from her .hus-
band, Owen Moore, who did not de
fend the charge of desertion brought
in the complaint by his wife. 1t is
reported Mary wept freely at the per
functory hearing OF the case.
All OF which goes to prove that
money and fame and public adulation
cannot always bring happiness.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
THE SEA: iN-sHoRE

There vision of the day
When first make acquaintance with the sea
Rolling and rushing up the beach to me,
Then tumbling back giant in his play:
So with arched neck again in foam and spray
Hoarse DICED, ne leaps!-recoils as specify
Leaving toy-sheils, his shining legacy
Spars, pebbles, coralweeds of brightest IA!
Anon the many-mooded thing would sleep
In lanlb-liko stiffness, all summer noon,
While sun-stars quivered on hollow deep;
Then wake refreshed from slumber; and how soon,
With wet and windy names, toss siver-orght
wilderness of motion and Of light.
E II. Brodie
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09
Too Much Reliance in Law.

..,-ae1
Anamosa Eureka: Just at -
we are surfeited with laws. anu N N
ing in common, ordinary sense
present trend is to correct an M
provide for the needs of home anu
ford the luxuries and comforts o.
through enactment of law. , ~
cure for every existing inu is,e
moral or financial evil, the puD msa
some part of 1t turns to tne .,otu1
house, to congress, or the lesls s.sd
Some way, somehow, 1t is expeo, IN
a part of the people that the "a 81
will be met, their families lru 3
disciplined by some unknoN s,rinl
heard of manipulation OF tne ,a s
Of politics and the naughty po snres
mentoes of high officers OF ~
Gratis.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09
No National HOLIDAYS

indianapolis News: There are no
national holidays. The making Of
legal holidays is matter which rests
with the different states. There is
nothing in the constitution clearly
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09

The greatness of nation cannot be in trumphs
Of the intellect and art enlarge the
sphere its Influence they may adorn it; but they are
their but accessories The true grandeur OF
humanity in moral elevation. The surest tok-
ems Of this grandeur state that christian oene-
cencc which the greatest happiness among the
greatest number that passionless, Godke justice,
which controls the state to other states
and to all people committed to its charse-charles
Sumner.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09

The old songs may be the os EFF
it's not because they're ola ~ IN
cause there's something apous
that keeps them new.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-09

Statistics Of our foreign commerce show that
we exported ten times as much confectionery
last year as in the year preceding And the
worst of it was there was sugar in the candy.