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The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
DEVELOPMENT
 OF NAT.PARKS
 TO BE PUSHED

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 30 (by Associated Press).-Congress will be asked for an appropriation of not less than $2,50O,OOO for the development and advertising of the national parks. A resolution asking for that amount was adopted by the convention of the Am erican Travel Development Associa- tion which is in session here. The resolution was introduced by Albert Cuthbert, of Seattle, Washington.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 30 (by Asso- ciated Press) General Alvaro Obre- gon who is to be inaugurated to- morrow as president of Mexico, has prefaced his induction into office with promises of the immediate in- stitution of program of social and civil reform that was said to be the basis for the revolution last sum- mer which ultimately swept him into power
 He has stated not only to the press but in several joint confer ences with congress that Mexico must open it's doors to foreigners of good intent, must protect foreign capital must settle it's international obligations-in other words must get in tune with the world.
 As the fundamental basis for this adjustment, he has asserted that Mexico must return to a normal mode of living in which petty ambi- tions of individuals must be sub- merged and vital policies of social reform put into practice.
 He recognized education of the masses as the real first need and, if his plans are carried out, schools long neglected will be opened and school teachers, long underpaid and in many cases not paid at all, will be given employment.
 The new president was born in 1880 in the state of Sonora. From early childhood he was forced to work for a living but he has become one of the country's biggest indus trial men. He is said to possess considerable wealth.
 Revolutions in Mexico within the past few years made him first a military power in the north, then a staunch adherent of Carranza whose succession to the presidency is said to have been largely due to the mili- tary genius and energy of Obregon. It was General Obregon who at Ce- lava inflicted what is said to be the only decisive military defeat Fran ciso Villa, the bandit, ever suffered. With Carranza in power, General Obregon was entrusted with many difficult tasks of reconstruction, oc- cupying numerous official posts, in cluding that of minister of war.
 When, in the fall of 1919, Presi, dent Carranza announced definitely that he would retire from office at the expiration of his term on Dec 1, 1920, and that elections would be held in a regular and legal manner General Obregon was the first to announce his candidacy. From his hacienda home in Sonora early this year he issued a manifeso which pro claimed him the leader of the liberal constitutionalist party and an nounced a platform of reform upor which he purposed to make his cam paign. He immediately began a toul of the republic.
 Meanwhile politics was fermentine in the national capital. Genera Pablo Gonzales, at first reputed tc hold the official favor of President Carranza as his successor, began al | active campaign and within a few weeks Ignacio Bonillas, at that time 1 Mexican ambassador to the United l States, announced his candidacy ~'
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
WHO
 KILLED WIVES
 ARE ARRESTED

RALEIGH, N. C., Nov. 30 (by As sociated Press) Charter Davis and Samuel Shadrick, Wake county farm CTS, were arrested here today in con- nection with the killing of their wives Davis and Shadrick live ten miles apart but their wives were killed almost simultaneously, it is charged
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
VISITORS ARE BARRED FROM HOUSE OF COMMONS
Suspect Tells Hiding Place of Ota1pa Mionaire Money
DRAFT EVADERS WHO
 ESCAPED DURING WAR
 ARE NOW IN CALABOOSE

SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 30 (by Asso- ciated Press) Tom Caplis, father and brother Joe, are in jail hero for conspiring to violate the draft laws after more than four years of wander ing in South America to escape mil itary service. They formerly lived in Shreveport, Louisiana and are re- puted to be wealthy.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
SOCIALIST CONGRESSMAN WILL ASK FOR PEACE
 WITH SOVIET RUSSIA

CHICAGO, Nov, 30 (by Associated Press). Meyer London, Socialist con- gressman from New York, expects to introduce q resolution at the next ses- sion of congress demanding immed- fate peace with Russia and recogni- tion of the soviet. The announcement was made from the national head quarters of the Socialist party.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
BIC CUTS ARE MADE IN
 RETAIL MEAT PRICES

CLEVELAND, Nov. 30 (by Associa ted Press Cuts in the retail prices of meats were made here today aver aging from three to eleven cents per pound. These prices, it is declared, are now nearer normal than at any time in months.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
SAFE AND CONTENTS IS
 STOLEN BY THIEVES

BELLINGHAM, Nov. 30 (by Associ- ated Press) A steel safe containing one thousand dollars in cash and other valuables was stolen from the Sun rise cafe in this city last night The safe was hauled away in an auto mobile, declare the police.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
MURDERERS OF WEALTHY
 MAN NOW ON TRIAL

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30 (by Asso- ciated Press).-The trial of Mrs. May belle Roe, who with three others is charged with the murder of McCul- lough Graydon at Venice, California, two months ago, was started in the superior QOurt today.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
VIOLATORS OF MANN ACT ARE
 GO PRISON

PORTLAND, Nov. 30 (by Associa- ted Press) George Bandon, convict ed last week for violation of the Mann act and who, according to jail attendants, tried to commit suicide by taking a disinfectant, was sen fenced to seven years in the peniten- tiary by the federal court here to- day.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
COMMONS CLOSE DOORS

LONDON, Nov. 30 (by Associated ss).-Public galleries in the house of commons were again closed to the public today and all approaches to the house of parliament is closely guarded as the result of new disclo- sures in alleged Sim Feinn plots.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
OFFICERS RECEIVE THREATS

DORRY, Ireland, Nov 30 (by Asso- ciated Press). Military officers re- ceived threatening letters saying that fate similar to that of the British officers in Dublin will be dealt them unless they immediately leave Ire land
The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-30
LONDON POLICE ROUNDING UP
 ALL SUSPECTS

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 30 (by Associat- ed Press) Police are rounding up men suspected of complicity in Sat urday's incendiarism conspiracy which has been charged against the Sim Feinners. Damage to property in London as a result of Saturdays ex- plosion will total over 100000 pounds
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24

hysteria has begun in Washington. Mr..
Palmer, plainly frightened, took to cover
and even refused TO appear in support of
gag bill that he viewed a few days ago
as the only thing that could save the
country. The pressure of public opinion
was necessary TO restore sanity to the
attorney general and the members of
congressional committees. The average
American had more faith, more under
standing, more knowledge of the Amer
ican spirit and more good sense than his
representatives in Washington.
Some good has been accomplished if
Mr.. Palmer and the merbers of the
judiciary committees have been forced to
a reading of the Declaration and the first
inaugural Their minds will be i'm
proved. And they can do nothing better
now than order the three outrageous
sedition bills out to the ash can, where
Mr.. Palmer's presidential boom already
has found resting place.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24
Member of the Associated Press
PhiladrIphia, Saturday. January %. 1920
Mr.. KANE'S RESIGNATION

NOTHING has become the administra-
= tion Of United States District
Attorney Francis Fisher Kane so much
as the reasons which he has given for re-
signing.
He is out of sympathy with the anti
free-speech policies of Attorney General
Palmer and refuses further to assist in
their execution. He is actuated by con-
scientious motives. Indeed, his whole ad-
ministration has been marked by con-
science, not always by stern and vigor-
GUS conscience. and too often by vacil-
lation which interfered with the adequate
prosecution of offenders and sometimes
defeated the ends of justice.
In the present instance his course COM
mends itself to all those who believe that
man out of sympathy with his superiors
should make way for some one else. He
writes to Attorney General Palmer that
he is Strongly opposed to the wholesale
raiding of aliens which is being carried on
throughout the country with view to
putting them through deportation" He
protests against the action directed
against the rank and file of a political
party while the offending leaders escape
punishment and he feels that unless
halt is called the Department of Justice
will become a Department of Injustice.
He is opposed to appealing to the state
officials to punish offenders under local
anti-sedtion laws when Congress has not
made crime of the acts of which they
are accused. He does not believe in such
course as will compel agitators to work
in secret where they would become
dangerous instead of harmless when they
are allowed to talk in the open.
Mr.. Kane confesses to belief in many
of the reforms" advocated by the very
men whom Attorney General Palmer IS
attacking and by implication asks why
he should go scot-free while the aliens
holding the same views are deported He
~~en only expect bitter denunciation from
-dr. Palmer for daring thus to rebuke his
course. The attorney generals recon-
mendation that his resignation De ac-
cepted is, therefore, not surprising.
Few well-balanced men will follow Mr.
Kane completely in his social views re-
garding the naturalization of various in
dustries, but when he protests against the
un-American policies of Attorney Cen
eral Palmer and refuses further to be
connected with their enforcement, he
deserves the commentator due a cour-
ageous act.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24
OUR oUTWoRN CITY HALL

SOONER or later in the general plan
~ of rebuilding and replanning, the City
Hall will have to come down. The ter
rible pile may go within few years or it
may remain for twenty. When the Park
way is finished, the Hall will give the
discerning great deal more pain than it
does now and the cry against it will grow
louder and more insistent.
The plan suggested yesterday by Ralph
Il. White, the architect, who would raze
the Hall, use the site for four green
public squares and establish new NUM-
cipal buildings at the east end of the
Parkway, is reminiscent of other schemes
of a similar sort previously proposed. No
such improvement can be carried out
while the municipal finances are in their
present shape. The Hall has sheltered
the system that makes it necessary. 1t
las cost more than twenty-seven millions
nd was only recently finished after more
nan quarter century of work.
Political education is expensive. It has
.ost US twenty-seven millions to learn
that city officials of the past knew even
less about architecture than they knew
about the science of municipal govern
ment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24
JOBS FOR NoNREsIoENTS

! A PPOlNTMENT to office in this city is
"A no longer confined to residents. The
Civil Service Commission has ruled that
nonresidents may qualify by passing the
necessary examinations.
The old rule thus rescnded was
conceived in parochia spirit and was in
tended, not to produce efficiency in the
public service, but to enable the local
politicians to distribute patronage among
men whose votes they could control
In other words, efficiency of service
was sacrificed to the solidity of political
machine. The plan worked, too, in spite
of the theory that a civil service COM
mission eligible list was made without
any reference to the political affiliations
of the men whose names were on it. The
politicians beat the law continually.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24
Northumberland, commanded by Admiral
Cockburn.

Northumberland, commanded by Admiral
Cockburn.
Meanwhile the Tory ministry of Lord
Liverpool received word from the govern
ments Of Russia, Prussia and Austria
that England had the right to fix the
place of detention. Commissioners were
dispatched to confer on the subject, but
their functions were nominal.
St. Helena, in the remote South At
lantic, was borrowed from the East India
Company and instructions were given to
prepare habitation there for Napoleon.
The strict logic that the former en-
peror was the common prisoner of all the
allies was disregarded. So was virtually
all historical ruling in the sentence i'm
posed. The remedies were quite as
abnormal as the case. The French argued
for a century over the alleged principles
involved. English rebuttals have en-
phasized the word necessity"
Parallels with the plight of the kaiser
can be drawn only by the. sophist. A
formal treaty of peace, now in operation,
provides for the arraignment and trial of
William Hohenzollern.
Article XVII applies directly to the
reluctance of the Netherlands "In the
event of dispute between a member Of
the league" runs the text, land a state
which is not member, the state or states
not members of the league shall be in
vited to accept the obligations of men,
bership in the league for the purpose of
such dispute, upon such conditions as the
council may deem just"
The present members of that council
are Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan,
Spain, Belgium, Greece and Brazil.
Neither Napoleon the First, who in
victory and defeat provoked breaking
of most of the rules, nor Napoleon the
Third, whom Germany had no desire to
hold, nor Themistocles, who was an honor
to Persia, nor Francis the First of
France, whom Charles the Fifth was
eager to release upon the attainment of
concessions, nor Garibaldi in San Marino,
nor Kossuth in America can legitimately
be cited as precedent material by either
the Allies or Holland.
Irregularities, vain and lethal, char
acterized the course of William Hohen-
zollern. Regularity if novel, has come
at last. 1t is to be found in the ap-
paratus formally installed by the treaty
of Versailles.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24

To tell the truth, we are rather proud of
the organization of experts that we have
built up for this department. In addition to
our poetical contributors, who are busy day
and night unraveling their tapestries of in :
tellect for the pleasure of our clients, we
beg to announce'the following official cabinet
Maritime Afairs-WiIliant McFee.
Bibliography-James Shields.
Psychoses and Dream Sym bolsm-4lber
MorGeH.
City Topography-Roy HeIton.
Oysters-Grit Alexander.
Chaplain-Rep. Robert Norpood
Ludlop Street Business Mems Association
Philip Warner.
Legal Adpiser-Fred W. Breitinger.
Medical Adpiser--Dr. Clarence p. Frank
lin.
Spaghetti, etc.--M. Hauley McLandhan.
Automotiue GoSsip-Guy Wheeler.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24
BACK FROM HYSTERIA

A DISPASSlONATE legal analysis
a proved to Congress that Abraham
Lincoln's first inaugural address and the
Declaration of independence could be
barred from the mails under so-called
sedition bills approved by committees Of
both houses. Uhtil this information was
conveyed GO them, solemn committees of
Representatives and senators supported
doctrine of suppression that sffrouted
and enraged all right-thinking people in
America.
A general collapse of this newer Prus-
cianism and a swift abatement Of political
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24
Answers to Yesterdays ouIz

Answers 10 resteroay's luIL
/. An archimandrite is the superior OF
monastery or convent in the Greek
Church.
2. The treaty of London does not accord
Fiuine to Italy.
8. A weather flag divided into equal sec
tions of blue and white indicates
local rain or snow.
4. Sixteen and half feet make rod.
5. The highest mountain in the Caucasus
is Mount El Bruz, the summit Oh
which is more than $4,000 feet above
sea level.
6. Philip of Macedon was the father Oh
Alexander the Great.
Z. The battle of Antietam occurred IN
September, 1852.
s. Don Quixote should be pronounced WIN
, the 20" in Don long, as in the wol.
own. Quixote should be SOUNDED q, =,
though it were spelled "keyho',sy,
with the accent on the second syiiav,,o ,;,,o
and the "h" cultural, something hA'
the German ''ch."
o. Edgar Wilson Nye was the real name u
Bill Nye.
10. Nine states had to ratify the teos,a
constitution before Il could Oe'0'''
operative.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24
Rheims Cathedral In Ruins

WHAT man creates, later age destroys ;
w The soaring choir, the stalwart but
tresses,
The ancient gories of the painted pane
All shattered to strange semblance of them
selves.
The sculptured images of deathless saints,
Half buried, hide beneath the cannon's s
waste,
And ChriSt's worn frame is torn with new
rent wounds
Another age than ours perchance will gaze
Unmoved upon these piers with ivy grown;
Another age may yearn for our great days
When all the world is girt with hero flame,
Seeing in these SCARED fragments of the past
Wreathed symbols of glorious hope to
come
We are too near the cross to see the crown:
Theirs is tomorrow with its rising walls.
j. NJ. BEATTY.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24
Cobsmoking

(By Our Kansas City Correspondent
THE chairs are moved back; you see the
i hosts hand slowly, cautiously disappear
into the right-hand pocket and emerge with
a nice brown Missouri meerschaum-that' S
citifed for plain Boonville cob There are a
few quiet chuckles and quips about just the
right mixture as the male diners emerge on
the shady porch (verandas grow only in
cities), the splutter of matches here and
there, a few spirited puffs to get the fire
full lighted tamping down with a brown,
wrinklcd index finger and them
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24
/ Love the Friendly Faces
of Old Sorrotus

T LOVE the friendly faces of old sorrows; ;
L have no secrets that they do not know.
They are SO old, think they have forgotten
What bitter words were spoken, long ago.
l hate the cold, stern faces of new sorrows
VINO stand ana watch, and catch me all
alone.
l should be braver if could remember
How different the older ones have grown
Karle Wilson Baker in Contemporary Verse.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24

Hollands in dutch again
Trouble she'll touch again!
Back to her hutch again -
Due for a crutch!
Won't give the kaiser up!
Hope vainly prizes her up. -
That's why we size her up:
Hollands in dutch.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24
THE CHAFFIlNG DISH

of the wagon, the dusk begins to fall,
faint twinkle of the first star in the eve
ming sky is caught and we turn to "chore'
time and find, to our inmost satisfaction, our
cob in our teeth and a match in our finger
PURD b. WRIGHT.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24
We Doubt II

Dear Socrates-Today / heard an irate
citizen on trolley car, discussing transit
conditions remark thus: EVERY other city
has modern faculties
-PSEU D'ONYM.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24

Having partaken of some spaghetti that
our friend and benefactor, Mr. NJ. Hawley
McLanahan, prepared with his own hands,
we have appointed him special astronomical
expert to this department
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24

Congratulations to United States Attor.
ney Kane. He has done something dis
tinctly worth while.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24
What Else Is There?

1t always seems to us little ironical when
we see those delivery wagons that supply the
Office drinking fountains going about with
the sign, Drink More Water.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24
WHAT follows isn't to be chronicled. 1t

WHAT follows isn't to be chronicled. 1t
w just can't be- From the trivalities of
the day talk wigges from weather to mar
kets, from markets to politics, local and
world wide with now and then a straight
from the heart understanding expression on
the big questions of the day-a bit of wisdom
it would be fine if the big ones could hear
and bit better if they would heed. There is
an occasional tap of the cob on the heel or the
edge of the porch, the crackle of a parlor
match Gin the hands. of the youngest smoker)
or the slow fare of the old time sulphur
fame following the refilling process; and the
talk veers to high bred cattle and hogs, and
who's going to Big John S sale, or who is to kill
hogs with Little Mike, or team up with Black
Jack on butchering a heifer; and then, as
though the name had suddenly started every
mind off on an entirely different angle, they
all knew what and who was meant when
Lucky Tom was asked about the Missouri
general whom he had seen at the sword pre-
sentin, home coming day in Kansas City.
"Sure some man; just common, everyday
Missouri. Looks like a fighter when he
stands up-square cheek bones, real pro-
truding chin that don't seem to protrude,
with a pair of eyes I'd hate to look into If
was calm without a winniI' hand. And
then you bat your eyes, and when you look
again the fights all gone, and there's a smile
on his mouth and long dimple in bis right
cheek that I'd hate like durnation if they be-
longed to a fellow who was lookn' at the
same girl was hopin' was lookin' at me.
Politics? What do l care whether he has
any? ] was thinkin' that and wishin' had
a youngster TO name Jack Pershing, when
he stood up to say word, an forgot where
was and cut loose in a rebel yell that the
city people won't forget in a long time-and
he was lookin' me right in the eye with that
smle-and / love him"
THEN the kiddies come, soon followed BY
l. mothers. Some time later there is
general scraping of chairs, the teams are
brought round families loaded and, almost
as a last rite, votive offering to we'll
spent day, we glimpse a sputtering match
here and there, a faint trail of smoke from
the near" side of the drivers seat. and
we know peace and content dwell with the
old cob pipe and its owner. We hear the
gate close with click as the last wagon
goes through to the big road there's the
echo of childish laugh far away; and.
as we strain our ears to get the last creak
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24
This Is a Penal offense

Dear Socrates-Quoting Carlyle { p to my
old friend, Vincent Brecht, of the Northeast
High School, said: History is the story
of mems misdeeds." Struggling to make
himself heard above a crescendo of sneezes
(or sternutdtions, see Quizeditor), he came
back: Rather story of the Missus-
deeds" Quite neat for Vincent
I have been reading the Dish for the occa
sional light you shed athwart the "patina"
of Guy Wheeler's leonine bean. Patina, Irv
Cobb says is the antique lustre on old ma
hogany. Young doctors acquire it on the
recumbent aspect of their clothing due to
watchful waiting.
w. BURRILL ODENATT.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24

Mayor Delivers Tart Warning to Lane
and Martin. ."--IieadiIre.
sad change in confectionery to those
accustomed to pie.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24

Among those who addressed the Boys
Brigade at its dinner last night was that
rising young orator, E. J. Cattell.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-24

The president of the
Like All Other Things New York Giants, an
nouncing that the cost
of baseball is going up, suggests the enduring
consistency of all factors responsible for the
skyward fight of prices. The quality of
baseball itself has been going steadily down.