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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05
Sugar Hoarder Given zyear jail
Sentence.

New York, July 3o.-A.s Lessen,
proprietor of small grocery store,
today faced sentence Of two years
in the Penitentiary at Atlanta. Ga,
having been found guilty of violation
of the section of the Lever act pros
viding against boarding foodstuffs,
Federal Judge Harlan &. Howe,stu
imposing sentence, said he might
have chosen the alternative of lining
Lessen 5000, but he did riot want to to
put the dollar mark on tins judg-
ment." -
Evidence was produced IN this trial
to show that Lessen had boarded
more than 5000 pounds of sugar.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05
being all that "At of the South
west quarter of the Southwest

.
west quarter of the Southwest
quarter lying north and east of
the public road running diagof-
a ally across said forty acre tract,
. all in section Thirteen (I3)
!, Township Thirty-nine 500 of
Range Thirty f3o), containing
AOhe Hundred Ninety acres,
Ind for partition and division of the
sproceeds of such sale between plain
StjHs and defendants above named in
accordance with their rights and in
terests therein as may be found by the
court, plaintiffs alleging that each II
the parties hereto have a one-ninth
interest in the premises and net pro-
ceeds of the sale after deducting the
homestead interest of the defendants
and that unless the said Caroline
Margaret Kaufman be and appear at
this Court at the next term thereof, to
be begun and holden at the court
house IN the City Of Butter, IN said
county, on the Ist Monday of Octo-
ber, 1920. and on or before the first
day of said term, answer or plead to
the petition in said cause, the same
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05
WantAds
WANTED. E0R-sALE, ETC
How Would You Like to Have the
Most Desirable Job IN Kan
sas City?

Good positions are hard to find, es-
pecially if one does not know just
where to hunt.
But the Kansas City Railways
Company is always on the lookout
for bright, intelligent, willing work.
ers-men who want to advance.
We can always find a place for the
right man in our transportation de-
partment., Wages are high and the
work is pleasant. Our last wage in
crease became effective just over .
month ago. The present rate is as
follows: first 3 months SOC; second
9 months sac: and year s3c; 3rd year
and over s5c; one-man cars 5sc to Coo
Minimum guarantee, $Iio per month.
If you are the right man we. welcome
you in our happy family of over 2dbo
motormen and conductors. Write Us
w. w. Stevens
|s;s SGpt. of Employment,
Kansas City Railways Company,
4 and floor, 18th and Grand,
43t3 Kansas City No.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

in the Circuit Court 81. the Covnty of
Bates, in the State Of MISSOURI, af-
fccting the title to the following de-
scribed lands and tenements, to-wit:
The West half Of the Northeast
quarter of the Southwest quarter
and the Southwest quarter of the
Southeast quarter of the South
west quarter all in Section TWEEN
/ ty-six Coy, Township Thirty
7 nine (3o), of Range Twenty-nine
l2Ql. Bates County, Missouri,
which said action is returnabte on
the first day Of the next term of said
court to be held at the courthouse
in the city Of Butlerfsin the county
and state aforesaid; on the 4th day OF
October. 1920, when and Swhere you
may appear and answer or otherwise
defend such action; otherwise plain
tiff's petition will be taken as con-
tcssed and judgment rendered accord.
in0lv.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05
Not Merely Ordinary Hunger.

Ny aunt, who is noted for her skill
1T baking cakes and cookies. Is very
popular with the younger members Of
our family. One day while my small
brother. aged 4. was visiting her he
mentioned that he was hungry. Upon
being presented with piece Of bread
and butter. he said, "Oh. thank you;
Use not that kind Of hungry. Use only
cake hungry."-Exchange.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

will be taken as confessed and judg-
ment will be rendered accordingly.
And it is Further Ordered, that a
COPY hereof be published according to
law in The Butler Weekly Times.
c. c. SWARENS,
Attest: Clerk.
A true copy of the record.
(Seal)~ c. c. SWARENS,
43-4t Circuit Clerk.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

A 3-million dollar cargo Of South
African gold, consigned to. the bank
ing firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., is
aboard the steamer Mauritania,
which locked in New York. The
metal was purchased in the London
open market last week. In banking
circles it was stated that further gold
shipments were expected here within
the next two weeks.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

Frank Vale, 60 years old, of Ell
Centric, Cal, a native of Mexico, be-
came father for the thirty-fifth time
when his second wife, whom he mar
ried in 1900, gave birth to her seven
teenth child. an eleven,pound boy.
Sixteen of Valle's children are liv-
ing.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

VIM. Marion Reety, welt known St
Louis editor and writer. died
"Wednesday of last week at San
Francisco, where he went to repof!
she rational democratic convention
and where he was attacked by sick
mess which finally proved !d:ai.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05
Democratic County Committee.

The members elect of the Demo-
cratic County Committee of Bates
County are hereby called to meet IN
the Court House in Butler, Missouri,
at 2:3o o'clock p. m, on Tuesday.
August 10, 1920, for the purpose Of
perfecting the organization of said
Committee as provided by law and
for the transaction of such other busi-
ness as may properly come before
the Committee. w. G. Dillon, y
Chairman Bates County Democratic
County Committee. .
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

All coal in the St. Louis yards or
in transit was seized bv the St. Louis
emergency fuel committee last week.
The committee turned the coal over
TO the city institutions and to the in
xlustrial concerns engaged in the
manufacture of necessities.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

The Bank of MAYHEM was en-
tered Thursday night through rear
window. and safety deposit boxes
rifled of Liberty bonds and other val
niables. No attempt was made to rob
the banks safe. The extent OF the
loss has not been determined.4s 80
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

After a 10 years trial Appleton City
has decided that a municipality owned
light plant is failure and has retited
from the light business. A contract
for the sale of the plant to private
parties has been entered into and APP
Rietonians are hoping for better SER
Wice in the near future.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Or
vile Allison were found on their
farm near Columbia Thursday by
Heighbors. Jimson weed seeds were
found in a coffee pot and Coroner
Baker expressed the belief that the
couple apparently had drunk some Of
xhe coffee. The coroner said Allison
and his wife had been dead about ten
<iays. Each was 6o years old.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

Gov. Gardner has stated to friends
that at the expiration of his term as
governor he will in all probability buy
a small chicken farm near Jefferson
City to which he will retire, says the
Jefferson City Democrat-Tribune.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

o. T. Jennings, Springfield labor
header, has began serving a six
months sentence imposed on him in
April, 1917, for violation of a federal
injunction issued by Judge Arba Van
Valkenburgh, during "a street car
strike in Springfield
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

At a meeting of the superintend-
ents of Missouri held in Jefferson
City last week the coal shortage WAS
discussed and it was thought by
chose in attendance that if conditions
became more acute the state would
be compelled to mine It's owr coal.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05
MISSOURI NOTES

1900 participated IN a negro Knights
~of Pythian parade IN Kansas City
eone day last week.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

Eight girls from the Plattsburg
telephone office have been married
since last October, announces the
Leader. An office with that record
should have no trouble in getting
help.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

Rev. H. f. Carpenter, for many
years pastor Of the Christian church
at Appleton City has resigned his
pastorate and will leave in the near
future for California, where he ha:
accepted call.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05
Order of Publication
". L. Mechanism, Plaintiff.

w. L. Mechanism, Plaintiff.
VS.. sa44s So
IT, unknown consorts, heirs, devil
sees, donees, alienees, immediate,
mesnc or remote. voluntary or in
voluntary grantees, assignees OF
trustees of Herman Hungerford,
John D. Myers. trustee, and Ed
win Mason, each deceased, Defend
ants. -.
The State of Missouri to the above
named or described defendants,
Greetings:
You are hereby notified that an ac-
ton has been commenced against ,you
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-08-05

Want several girls to operate tele-
phone switchboard. !.
Butler-Rich Hill Telephone Co
43-tf Butler, Mo.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-22

ing the victims of German savagery
to some measure of the prosperity
they once enjoyed. The promised
reparation has not been made. at
is two years since the armistice,"
this English woman says. "Are the
French people In the devastated
areas to wait forever?" The Ger
mans destroyed their coal fields. and
they are forced actually to buy coal
from Germany. Is it surprising
that France resents the indifferent
attitude of her partners in the war
to her own just claims, or insists that
the guarantees of the treaty shall be
carried out? 1t is easy for those
who have suffered nothing to prate
about forgiving the authors of this
suffering. But in truth it is treach-
cry to the humanity" of which the
pro-German gang processes to be the
special guardian.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-22

Some weeks ago NO made the stupid
comment that Edith Whsrton's The
Age OF Innocence was dull, though finely
done. Now we have gone further and
are beginning to grasp the slS humor Of
the book. It Is successful in creating
an altogether convir cling snd authentic
picture Of period th.t is past. And
yet We are by no means certain that
New York of 1870 or thereabouts Is as
fascinating as the late Mesozoic Age,
recreated by Fl. G. Wells In his
The Outlines Of History. No re-
cent character in fiction has seemed
to US half 80 impressive as the
tyrannosaurus as he appears in the
cut on page AZ Of the Wells book. The
six-foot man drawn to the same scale
in the picture comes hardly above his
ankle. This tyrannosaurus could, we
suppose, simply sneeze at Tim Callahan
and blow him over the goal posts. Per-
haps, if he put his mind on it, he could
blow both the Galatians over, but there
is no record that he was in any respect
an intelligent animal and probably he
devoted his energies to no such useful
business as going about the country
crippling rival football stars before the
Harvard game.
The story Of life, as Mr.. Wells tells
it, is the record of constant climb up
from the ooze. The rocks say, and Mr.
Wells confirms their assertion, that in
the Proterozoic Age and in the early
Fal@ozoic we lived under water like
wiggly things in ditch. If Mr.. Wells
werc not so altogether impressive in
his new book one might suggest that
l-fe, from some points Of view, is not
an upward climb, but that rather like
the Emperor Jones of Eugene O'Neill's
play we cut and tear our way through
the jungle only to come out at the same
we came and back to water with certain
exceptions, we have gone
But as matter Of fact we find it
difficult to read The Outline of History
without becoming awed. To hear that
geological time must be at least 25,0OO,-
LOO years old and may have been l.
S00,000,000 staggers US. To be sure it
las been going on for so long that we
should have heard about it. Our only
excuse is that we have been pretty busy
for the last few months and didn't no
tice what was going on. Nor can we
receive entirely calmly the informa-
tion that "There will be a time when
the day will be as long as q year is
now" Probably, it will be just our
luck about that time to receive one of
those can't -be-refused invitations from
New-York tribune., 1920-11-22
Wild Young People of 1890

The world is, of course, going to
the dogs. Every expert in the obser-
walton and rebuke of such matters as
clothes and manners is agreed upon
this point. But is there hope of re-
bound some time? Is it possible that,
despite all the gloomy predictions Of
our Cassandras who write for The
Atlantic Monthly, morals may, years
hence, begin to mend and the world
once more become a place to which
grandmothers may point with pride?
We were much cheered recently to
find source of possible hope in a
broadside published in the year of
sin 1880 and entitled "The Dame of
Honor" The ballad was included
among others reprinted in that in
teresting London publication The
Chapbook. The Dame of Honor who
speaks the verses was plainly the
Katherine Fullerton Gerould of
Will OQt dlJOM dltCO IOI
the difference in customs between
Princeton, 1920, and even an elderly
lady of 1880. She boasts of the man
ners of "Queen Bess's golden days"
and the cahdor of that generous era
would unquestionably shock the
debutantes Of to-day. But so far as
her attitude toward the young things
about her goes, she is as shocked as
any elderly critic of the present. The
first stanza shows that, exactly as
to-day, not only clothes and morals
but everything is accused of de-
cadence:
"since all the Worlds turn'd upfide
down,
And all things chang'd in Nature,
AS if Doubt was newly grown,
We had the fame Creator;
OF ancient Modes and former Ways,
III teach you, Sirs, the Manner,
In good Queen Befs's golden DAYS.
When I was q Dame of Honor"
Even the servants were not what
they used to be, this lady AYERS. They
were satisfied with "homespun hon.
est grey in the old days, "Nor ne'er
complain'd for Wages" AS for pelt-
ing parties such as the modern debu-
tante is reputed to enjoy, this care
full Dame of Honor permitted not so
much as a single kiss:
"My Fan to guard my Lips I kept,
From Cupid's lewd DER runner.
And many Roman Nofe clapt,
When I was a Dame of Honor
She never bought her "curling
Locks" nor sglowed with painted
Pride" Altogether she was evidently
In essentials model of propriety
New-York tribune., 1920-11-22

if they go down he loses. The Board
of Trade finds machinery for the
assumption of this risk by spe-
cialized group. A -four manufac-
turer who wishes to confine himself
strictly to manufacturing is able to
sell short" while his grain is con-
verted. Then, whichever way prices
go, he is protected. The speculator
thus performs a social serv;ce-his
business Is no more culpable than
any other kind Of insurance.
What is needed, then, is not an
absolute prohibition of so-called fc-
titious transactions but the elimina-
tion of abuses. Seldom is the prob
lem attacked from this standpoint.
The effort Is constantly to secure a
fiat prohibition, and the other set of
extremists deny the need Of any reg
ulation at all. So nothing is done.
What is required is limitation and
safeguarding Of future selling,
rather than its complete elimina-
tion. In this as in other matters the
call is for discrimination. Senator
Capper may we'll be urged to devise
a remedy which, while it protects
the grain raiser, also permits those
who want to sell for what they
bought to use the services of those
whose business Is the one of risk
carrying.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-22
What the French Still Suffer

"The things that impressed me
most are the patience, industry and
cheerfulness of the French folk in
these parts" Such is the testimony
of an English woman who has re-
Gently returned from the devastated
area in France. The tribute is the
more impressive by reason Of the
picture drawn Of the scenes of DESC
lation she has witnessed. Stories Of
the sort have been told before, but
they can hardly be told too often in
these days when loud-lunged pacifsts
and liberals" are emptying their
wrath upon France and pitying poor
Germany.
The French government does what
it can for these poor people, but it
cannot do everything. The grants
available for rebuilding are Of ne
cessity insufficient; nor are the funds
provided for buying furniture, cat
tie and other necessaries equal to
the demands. The peasants live
partly in huts, partly in half-ruined
houses.
But all their energy cannot make
these really hahitable. In most cases
even the single room where a whole
family has to live is kept scrupulous-
ly clean. The visitor tells Of "a
plucky old woman of eighty, working
busily, and very cheerful" who had
only an open-air kitchen and a bed
room with leaky roof, through
which the rain poured in winter.
What praise could be too high for
the courage of people who endure
such miseries as these and are not
cast down or destroyed?
But the point to remember is that
the failure of Germany to fulfill the
terms of the treaty is in large part
responsible for the delay in restor-
New-York tribune., 1920-11-22
Naval Warfare

lhe discussion OF this subject in
The Tribune's columns has been
most interesting. The writer's, pro
and con, have expressed themselves
courteously. This is commendable.
The subject is vital. There is no
place for asperity.
The subject has been covered so we'll
that "Quarterdeck," it would seem,
need say little more himself, except
that he might remark that some
critics have not apparently read his
original article very carefully and
have misconstrued his arguments.
For instance, he did not advocate
the immediate scrapping of our
dreadnoughts, but that we should
consider future weapons before
building more dreadnoughts. Adj
miral Goodrich and Admiral Fiske
have cleared up this point.
Mr.. Earle Farwell quotes liber-
. ally from Chief Constructor Tay-
lor's article in the Franklin Insti-
tute; but he failed surprisingly to
note the concluding paragraph of
this article, which reads as follows:
although we must conclude that
the present tendency is toward in
creased size and cost, one cannot over
look the fact that this very ten
dency, under the present financial,
economic and political conditions in
the world, may actually result in the
long run in the disappearance from
fatture building programs Of these
se1y types, and the substitution for
them of smaller and cheaper units
made possible by new developments in
science and engineering.
"To meet this condition there never
was more need than at the present
time Of vision and imagination on the
part of the fighting forces afioat and
the naval designers ashore, for that
Notiom achich can dcvelop qoeapons
arhich apiU render obsolete the present
great ships and can substitute for
them smaller and cheaper unit
capable Of defeating them 1uiN qcir II,
the me,o era the command Of the seas,
achich this tcar has shoaOn is so int-
portant to ultimate uicto'y."
From this it is plain that our
Chief Constructor sees the hand
writing on the wall. He expresses
himself cautiously, which is natural
for an officer in his position. He is
liberal and wise. His summing up
is a virtual Endorsement of "Quarter-
decks" main argument. 1t is COM
mended to the attention of Mr.. Far
we'll and The Tribune's readers. Let
us hear from both sides.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-22

even If little outspoken by our cur
rent standards--we have omitted o
few references not Of an Atlantic
Monthly propriety. This difference
in point of view, after all, seems to
us detail. What is to be stressed
is the fact that, despite the gloomy
forebodings Of this Dame of Honor
who would SO shock the most can
did Of to-day, and who was equally
shocked by the carryings-on of
George the Seconds gay days--Eng-
land survived to become not merely
proper but prim and prudish only a
century later.
No doubt the inference is not all
embracing. Other ages and peoples
have gone to the dogs and stayed
there. But at least here is a per-
missible ray Of optimism shot down
upon our gloom. Not only have
there existed deeper depths of
crime as yet unpenetrated by our
debutantes, but the world has actu-
ally recovered from them.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-22
Bonds and Ships

All classes who supported the war
and put their lives, hearts and pos
sessions into it are painfully inter-
ested in the Shipping Board revela-
tions. Mr.. Gillen, board official,
has figured out loss of $4,000, O,OOO,-
600 on the Administrations ship
ping venture. Some of this was due
to unavoidable depreciation, the rest
to incompetence, carelessness and
downright waste. The board threw
out of the window hundreds of mil
lions of dollars, most of it going into
the hands Of gougers, profteers and
war leeches of many species.
The Treasury sold billions of bonds.
1t described these securities as the
best in the world. It's representa-
tives urged the public to buy until it
hurt--to borrow money with which
to subscribe. The inducement was
held out that the banks would make
advances at the same rate of inter
est as that carried by the bonds. 1t
left investors under the impression
that these prime government issues
could never be a burden on those
who bought them.
But the banks gradually ceased to
charge the same interest on bond
loans as the bonds produced. All
the Liberties fell below par. Those
who were forced to sell had to sell at
loss. The Treasury has bought back
hundreds Of millions of it's own is
sues at discount.
The Administration drove a hard
bargain with these creditors. Some
times it plumes itself on that fact;
and many bond purchasers have
pocketed their losses without a pro-
test because they didn't seek an in
vestment primarily, but had made a
free offering to the spirit of patriot
ism. Yet all classes of bond buyers,
of taxpayers and patriotic givers
must turn away with loathing from
the shipping accounting. To those
who were trying to make money out
Of the war many Administration
agencies were the soul Of compla-
ceney and open-handedness. The peo-
pie wanted the government to con-
duct the war as great public trust,
making all classes serve equally. In
stead it poured out the proceeds of
loans and taxes into the laps of the
greedy, the dishonest, the unpatri-
otto and the unworthy.
We used to hear that the Adminis-
tration fought the war with unexam-
pied intelligence and efficiency. We
are now discovering more and more
that it operated blindly and reck-
lessly. 1t boasted from the house
tops of its competency. What it
really gave US is now coming back
to it in the blackest humiliation.