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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-25
USE FAKE WHISKY
LABELS FOR M00NSHINE

DETROIT. Sept. IS. CBy International
News Service. Hundreds Of thousands
q counterfeit Canadian inland revenue
stafnps have been manufactured within
the past three months by two rival
gangs OF rnoonshiners operating In the
Canadian border cities, according to
information turned over 10 Canadian
government authorities by tho United
states agents
a communication sent 10 Ottawa
states that Detroit and Windsor, Walk,
erVille, Ford and Sandwich, Ontario, are
hooded with poisonous moonshine whis-
KY N bottles bearing the counterfeit ca
MADAM revenue stamps and fake I'm
pertal. Canadian Club" "Seagrlm'S"
and Hiram Walker" labels
Efforts on the part Of United States
agents 10 round up members Of the
rival gangs have proven fruitless. II is
said, because the men do not cross to
the American side Of the river.
scores Of complaints from the distill.
ing companies manufacturing tho
brands OF whisky named in the com
municatton have been received BY Io-
seph A. Palma, chief OF the Michigan
district, United States secret service
Mr.. Palma asserts that hundreds OF
counterfeit labels and Canadian revc-
nue. stamps have been taken 10 his or.
flee for inspection.
in a recent seizure by federal agents
were 4S quarts OF whisky. One lot con.
tanned ~ quarts OF GIN while the 9th.
er contained a like number in BOTTLES
bearing Imperial" whisky labels when
analysed by a chemist both lots were
found TO be moonshinc.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-25
GET ACQUAINTED WITH
YOUR CARS CONTROLS

A friend Of ours recently acquired
new ear. Everything went well until
one day he complained that II wasnt
running as II should, He told us that
j. had lost all its pep" and, whereas.
1t had been very lively when he first
started TO drive II, there was no longer
any life In II, II was sluggish TO the
throttle, choked and seemed to have
very little acceleration. The gears had
10 be shifted on the slightest hill, the
motor developed the habit of knock
Ing.
Finally, after several disgusting trips
with this depressing kind OF operation,
our friend took the car back to the
service station and told them his trou-
bles. He told them, too. that he guessed
he'd sell II, since II didn't seem to have
much power. The service men looked
mystified and peeked under the hood
then glanced at the dash, How long
you been running 1t with this choker
out2' asked one OF them. our friend
looked sheepishly at the knob, and said
that he didn't know he had been run
ming with II out.
SO they showed the knob down into
It's socket and with some mumbled
words about people driving cars with
out knowing much about them, went
back to their work on another car.
Then thc head service man, whose bust
ness- it was to keep everybody happy
explained that this choker had a series
Of catches to hold It out in several po-
sitions. our friend had pulled II all
the way out when he started his car
one morning, and thinking 1t would
automatically go back to it's normal po-
sition, he had let go OF II and forgot
ten all about II. The consequence was
that he had been running the engine
with choked carburetor for several
days without realizing Il,
The moral Of this Is 10 Away be
sure you are thoroughly familiar with
all the controls. Motor Life,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-25
TIRE VALVE CORE /
KEEPS BACK AIR

Motorists are often puzzled to know
what keeps the air In the tire. A
SENSITIVE little mechanism commonly
called the plunger and strong enough
10 mold back air pressures as high as
~ 70 Ia pounds to the square inch,
functions here, This little valve which
consists OF piunger about an inch
long, "A bit Of spring and rubber. is
responsible for the well being OF the
u is located inside the valve stem
20 d seats against a trcRded metal core
" should never be removed unless alb
solutely necessary When IL is takhn
out IL should not be replaced unless
all the parts are In perfect working
order according to Miller tire men
When initiating a tire. the motorist
sometimes accidentally bends the wire
plunser, throwing the valve working
parts out Of line Sometimes It BE-
comes Corroded, sometimes dirty or
misplaced. When thus Handicapped, II
can not perform properly its duties of
keeping the air in the tire.
At the top Of the valve stem is a small
cap which assists the valve by protect
ing Il against the dust. which would
ordinarily collect there. This can offers
also additional protection against air
for 1t Is fitted with a rubber
washer which forms an air tight seal
over the stem.
But there is a third device which
assists In keeping air In tire. 4 lock
washer fits under the dust cap. down
over the valve. and seats on the part
Of the wheel TO which the spokes are
anchored. This hexagonal nut acts as
: seal 10 prevent dirt, water and other
torelgn substances from creeping past
70 ruin the inner tube and valve base.
Contrary 10 the usual suppositinn. il
1oes not prevent the rim or tire from
Slipping on the wheel,
These three parts are inexpensive,
and II they are found TO be worn out
nr out OF order, theyH-can easily be
replaced at trifling expense Almost
any dealer or garage man will he able
10 furnish them Failure Ia have them
,HAmined may cost the motorist many
dollars IN tire underinflation in rim
cutting, In bruises, aud In blowouts.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-25
Dominion OF Canada
To Export IO,OOO,OW
Barrels OF Flour

WINNIPEG. Man. Sept. IS, tBy In
tsrnatieHal News Service, 1--Mere than
10000. 600 barrels of flour viii be sent
to foreign countries by Canada this
year. according to estimates by agri-
cultural and milling experts.
The total capacity OF Canada's 100
floHr mills is 1869 barrels a day.
Back in 1875, when the Hudsen's Bay
company, which Is closing out its re-
manning lands to ceionists, erected
mill so feet high with a capacity OF
1850 pounds day, 1t was the naryei
OF the Western agricultural world. To-
day even the smallest OF the mills have
q I00-barfel q day capacity
1t Is estimated that each person IN
Canada consumes about a barrel and
a half of flour, or six and halt bush
els of wheat year, Therefore to SUP
ply Canadian demands the mills must
produce at least 0. 10000 barrels OF
fleur, Last year Canada Jmilled s2za;-
600 barrels of flour from S2,0l2,Do0
bushels OF wheat, making 1t possible
to send to foreign countries 9,500,0OO
barrels of flour. The big grain crop
this year, 1t is said, win result In much
greater expectation of flour.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-25
A WICK WILL CLEAN
THOSE GREASY HANDS

Thai old round wick from the oil stove
mat your wife usually throws away
wheh II burns too short, If slit In half
Der for the motorist to use In working
inc grease and CRIME out Of his hands.
II kept soaking Ia the cupboard in a
Tin with enough kerosene to keep il
always moist, the wick scruhber Is
available whenever needed II soon
cleans dirty hands. The old wick will
stand the hardest usage without wear
ing out and saves the wife's dainty
towels. Motor Life.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-25
KAR KIDDIEs.

Robby'a dog was iimplng along on
three feet
Look, daddy Tiges not hitting on
!, why Teddy! How did you catch
him tiu his IS gas give out,S N s
Small Helen aSlectad to having her
throat sprayed: II wouldn't mind so
much II YOU would let me henk 1t in
rnyself" She loved 10 preside at the
horn.
Tommy, can you spellyH
"Surel ! can even spell the words
Of four cyllnders!'
MY goodness. Cartel" said Tommy,
after rough, and tumble romp. u
guess we'd better stop and Jet you cool
off your motor"
lLook, mother" failed Ned, pointing
to a hole In his stocking; i've had a
blow outp--MotoF Life,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-25

loosen the careful adjustment. render
ing the bearing loose, noisy and less ei-
ficient.
There are thousands Of other ways in
which ball behring's may be infused
In storage. mounting, and, later, lack
OF proper maintenance-but IL one will
use the average amount Of care and
good plain common senses he will find
that he VIII be rewarded many times
over for what little pains have been
taken,--Motor Life.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-25
LOVE SONG.
I'd steal the Kohinoor, love,

Ia steal the Kohinoor, love,
To bind your necklace rare;
I'd steal the sunsets gold. love.
And twine it in your hair;
TO grace your queenly brow, love.
ia fitch the morning star;
But darned II IN agree, love,
To let you, drive my car!
Richard B. Bennett, in Motor III
Magazine. 0''i ~
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-25

The state OF Masss chusetts has APP
proprlated SIS, 900 to carry on an edu-
cational campaign TO reduce the mum
Der Of auto accidents, The money will
be spent for Advertisements IN news
papers and magazines, erection OF road
signs and the distribltion Of printed
matter giving the principles Of safe
operation OF motor vehicles and tho
maintenance OF highways. --Goodrlch,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-25

A, novice bought a motor car,
The latest model made
The sassiest and classiest
The catalog displayed.
The first trip out the man imblbed
A raisiniferous drink
And now both car and owner are
Completely on the blink.
Motor Life.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-25
MOROCCO FAST
DEVELOPS INTO
MODERN NATION

PARIS. Sept. 25. ((By international
News Service.) 1.-TWO American Red
Cross offlcers-Capt. Robert s. DOMAIN.
Of Bay City Mich, and Merl Lavoy, Of
Seattle, wash.--wbo have returned to
Paris after an official tour Of Northern
Africa, give some interesting flrgures
70 indicate that Morocco Is rapidly gain
ing In economic Importance. From a
wild expanse OF unpFoductive country,
peopled largely by Arab tribes, in 1912,
Morocco has developed in the past
seven years into what promises to be-
come a modern commercial and indus
trial nation, doing business on a large
scale In all the markets of the world.
In 1912, when tho French protectorate
was set up in the North African prin-
elpality, there were but seven miles
Of practicable roads In the entire doun-
try. At that time her total commerce
amounted to less than 200, 900, 900 francs
yearly, and her exports attained only
Q little over 60,00o,000 francs, Only
100000 acres OF land were under cult
walton, and the live stock industry was
so inconsiderable that no figures on its
extent are available. Morocco's only
practicable port, Casablanca, offered no
modern shipping facilities and handled
only 100000 tons of traffic in 1912.
Today Morocco has nearly 1000 miles
of good roads, Her total commerce for
the fiscal year or 1913 attained 574,0OO,
GOO francs Exports reached So7, S SSS, o ooo
acres under cultivation in 1912, $780,
900 acres were plowed and planted this
spring. Five million sheep and 1900
900 head Of cattle, representing a ma
tional asset of over a billion francs,
now Craze on the Moroccan pasture
lands.
Casabanca, from somnulent Afri-
can seacoast town, has become bust
ling port, where trading and passenger
vessels from all over the world ride Sc
curely at their anchors behind modern
jetties 1900 yards long, recently con-
structed by French engineers, The port
now offers large shipping facilities and
handles nearly $50, 900 tons of traffic
francs worth Of business is done in the
city every day of the year Three thou
sand persons, tourists and traders, LAND
at Casablanaa monthly.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-25

News that a Los Angeles garageman
has gold mine under the floor OF his
garage Is to us, threadbare unnovelty.
To our mind there is no safer place
for the gasoline reservoir. Motor Life.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-25

Pennsylvania Is engaged upon the
gteatest road building program ever UNI
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-08-04
Combat Death Rate
of American Filters

The Home Sector: Revised figures
of the war department show that Sc
per cent of the casualties of the AM
erican flying forces at the front con-
sisted of deaths in combat, while II
per cent occurred at airdromes in the
zone of advance and were not due to
the activities of the enemy. Classifi
cation of the personal who suffered
casualties shows that 81 per cent were
pursuit pilots, 26 per cent observers,
10 per cent observation pilots, 8 per
cent bombing pilots and per cent
balloon flyers. Eighty-four per cent
of the casualties were flyers serving
in the A. E. F., II per cent were fly
ers serving with the British armies,
per cent those serving with the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-08-04

prone to totter. / made five gallons
of the truck to show | could do it;
| drank quarts and ran amuck, and
here am beshrew it! My head is out
of shape on top, my brow is swelled
and hiliy, for the outraged village cop
assailed me with his billy. When /
get out, some five years hence this
fact / put some stress on,) I'll try to
brew no Old Stone Fence will have
learned my lesson. 1t does not pay to
fool the law, in measure small or
greater, for punishment is all you
draw-it gets you soon or later. A
lot of laws give me pain, Pm tempt
ed to defy them; but in the hours
when / am sane guide my footsteps
by them. We can not pick and choose
the laws that we'll observe and cher
ish; we can't approve one with our
jaws, and say the next must perish.
We have to take them as they come
and not behave like cutters, and if
we find that some are bum, we bravely
take our bitters The laws against
all forms of booze, and when my
stretch is ended, / will compound no
home made brews of yeast and raisins
blended.-Walt Mason.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-08-04

just as it is proud of the many other
nurses who went out In sometime
frail bark on waters that were thick
with missiles of a living hell and
whose shores were strewn with the
glorious dead of this and other lands.
The nurses honored by the Red
Cross were Helen Scott Ray of Wash
ington, D. c., who served from 1914 to
the end of the contest; Florence Mer-
Ram Johnson of New Jork city, direc-
tor of the department of nursing at
the Atlantic division of the American
Red Gross; Martha NJ. Russell, Boul-
der, Colo, in France from 1917 to the
end; Linda K. Meirs, Boston, who
served with the army nurse corps at
the front; Alma E. Forester, Chicago
who first went to Russia in 1914 and
Europe; Mary E. Gladwin, New York
later went through the campaign in
city, who sailed in 1914 on a relief
up for Serbia and remained on dut!
there for five years.
The names of these noble women
beloag on the honor roll of the world,
along with the names of thousands of
other nurses who did their full duty,
yet were not cited for a Florence
Nightingale medal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-08-04
A Distinguished Honor.

Omaha World-Herald: In recogni-
ton of the splendid work they did dur
ing the world war ferty-one Red Cross
nurses have been decorated with Flor
ence Nightingale medals, the highest
award to which nurses aspire They
were selected from various nations, six
being from America. This is the first
award of medals since its authorize
ton at the Red Gross congress in
Washington in 1912. Each nation is
permitted to nominate but one nurse
for this high honor annually, so the
six American women who have just
been decorated are officially recog-
nized as the nurses from the United
States who most distinguished them
selves in active service throughout
the entire period of the war.
America is proud of these women,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-08-04
WHY DO WE
MAKE MISTAKES?

Bill Irwin, the famous newspaper
CORES pondent, was once asked why
newspapers made so many mistakes.
Bill answered that the wonder to him
was that they ever got anything
straight. He said, go out on the
street and write down every account
of the latest accident you are able
to gather Compare the accounts j:
no two will be alike. Get some of
your informers to repeat the story
and see how it has been magnified
We would like to add that you try
running down a rumor or to find a
man who could really give you first
hand information.
Try your hand at writing two col
umns a day of news or near news
That means writing more than 1000
words. Try it. Then change your
mind about the easy graft of running
a country newspaper.
Do you know how you can help to
make it easier for us. just step to
the telephone, when you hear a news
story, and repeat it to US. You may
he sure that we will thank you and
bless you for the assistance. We are
interested in all of your lodge, social
and community affairs. We want to
print all the news in the country and
we take this occasion to thank you
for the assistance you are going to
give us, now that we have called some
of our problems to your attention.
Herald Dispatch
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-08-04
A Comment.

Senator Harding's first compaign
utterance rings clear and true. It's
keynote is Americanism, than which
there can be none higher or purer
But it is not a selfish, narrow, an
isolated Americanism. He takes
pride in the past achievements of AM
erica for humanity's sake. He ex-
poets her hereafter to do her duty to
her neighbors, ungrudgingly and gen
erously. But-and here is the radical
distinction between his lofty concep-
tons and the pettifogging devices & t
President Wilson-he has faith to be
ieve that America can be trusted to
do her duty without alien compulsion.
The President, having said and having
tried to persuade the nation at the be-
ginning that the war was no business
Of ours and that we were not even
interested to know what it was all
about, now seems to think we are pos
sessed of that spirit which he then
tried to inculcate, to such degree
that we must be put under bonds to
do our duty toward our neighbors.
Senator Harding, with loftier vision,
declares that he has confidence in our
America, that she. requires no council
of foreign Powers to point the way of
American duty. So he proposes
To safeguard America first;
10 stabilize America first;
To prosper America first;
To think of America first;
To exalt America first;
To live for and revere America first.
That of course does not imply in the
least that we shall not think of other
and seek to safeguard and sta
Billie and prosper them. On the con-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-08-04

trary, it suggests that we shall be able
to render such services to them more
effectively when we have first render
ed them to ourselves. Does anyone
deny the wisdom of such course
Then he stands rebuked by an ancient
authority whom even Mr.. Wilson will
scarcely venture to decry: Thou hyp-
ocrite, first Castillo beam of thine own
eye; and then shalt thou see clearly
to cast the mote out of thy brothers
eye" Senator Harding holds to that
Injunction, and holds, too, that the or
der of procedure which is enjoined up
on the individual is equally fitting
for and incumbent upon the State.
Precisely the same thought is ex-
pressed by Governor Coolidge in the
first words of his first compaign
speech:
The first duty of Government is to
be true to itself.
If anyone questions its truth, let
him test it by considering the reverse
Is anyone prepared to support the
proposition that the first duty of a
Government is not to be true to itself,
or to be true to something else? Will
anybody seriously contend that it is
Americas duty to safeguard, stabilize
and prosper other nations while she is
still herself in an unsafe, unstable and
unprosperous condition? Doubtless
some will try to break the force of
Messrs. Harding's and Coolidges
words by saying that they were tru-
isms. But they are truisms which the
President has been trying to persuade
us to ignore. 1t is also truism that
two and two make four; and it would
be disastrous for an accountant to ig-
more it.-Harvey's Weekly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-08-04
French armies and 1 per cent those
with the Italian armies.

While these flying men were fight
ing the Germans they were also Civ
ing to history new chivalry of the
skies, supplying touch of sublimity
to warfare that was not found by the
mortals who fought on the ground.
But the knighthood of the air did not
take itself too seriously. It's armorial
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-08-04

bearings, worn on the fusilage of
plane instead of on the shield as
heroes of Ivanhoe wore them, VIZ
mostly whimsical. When they W.
jousting through the skies, their h
aldry was made up largely of BIZ
cats, winged bombs, grotesque ski
and skeletons and fancifuI Indians, 4
even included such undignified mot
as crapshOoting.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-08-04
Learned His Lesson.

Here is what Walt Mason, the ia
NOUS Kansas jingle writer, has to say
about the "home brew" stuff:
II made keg. of home brewed ale,
with raisins, yeast and water, and now
Pm in the county Jail, where reasons
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-08-04

A baby knows more than some men,
You can't fool baby by making it
think water is milk, but you can fool
lots of men by making them think
blue-sky stock is good security.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-06-11
Walter Thomas Mills to Lecture
at Peoples Theater Monday Night

Walter Thomas Mills, one of the
most noted lecturers in the United
States, a profound student of eco
nomical and political matters affect
ing the working man and the farmer,
will be in Butte next Monday and
on that evening will speak at the
Peoples theater
The presence here of Professor
Mills was secured by the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor assembly through
the good offices of the state head
quarters of the Montana Labor
league and the Nonpartisan league,
and his address will mark the open
ing gun in The battle against in
trenched privilege which will be
waged by organized labor and the
farmers Of the county from now
until the last vote is counted in the
fall elections.
In announcing the securing of the
Peoples theater for the Mills lee
ture, at the Labor league meeting
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-06-11
Local Branch of Montana Labor
League Begins Active Services
Continued on Page Tive.)

Determination on the part Of the
working class people of Butte and
Silver Bow county to sweep the
political hirelings of the copper
trust and allied corporations out OF
power and to sweep into office only
men and women who can be counted
on to give the people generally a
square deal in matters of govern
ment, was expressed by various
speakers at the organization meeting
of the Silver Bow branch of the
Montana Labor league, at Schilling's s
hall last night.
The organization, the nucleus of
which was formed last Sunday
morning, perfected it's main organ
ization at last nights meeting, with
the selection of Glen Burkhart of
the Electricians union as perma-
ncnt chairman, and John Green of
the Typographical union, permanent
secretary. In addition the meeting
selected a permanent membership
committee which will act on appli-
cants for membership.
The aims and objects of the
Montana Labor league were dis
cussed by members Of the commit
tee selected by the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor council to organ