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The Holbrook news., 1920-11-19
IS PETROLEUM BEING CORNERED

Alf the world knows that this is the day of petroleum, but what is the time O day! Does the clock mark fore noon, high noon or after noon?"
 Thus an engineering firm expresses it's cryptic fore bodings concerning petro- leum. Within a few years coal and wood as fuel have found a powerful competitor in the oil fields. Our oil burning war ships and mer- chant fleets have joined the procession led by the auto- mobile industry in trying to burn up the oil that men are bringing out of the ooWelS of the earth. Of course, it is natural that there are many questions concerning the reasons for the constant ly rising prices in the com modity;. but strange enough the answers are far from satisfying.
 The engineering report re- ferred to above says that after every effort has been exhausted to secure petro- Ieum, that the results are that there is scarcely more than enough to relieve the current stringency. "What remains underground" con- tinues the report, is mot a reserve, but in defiance of the widest extravaganza of effort to get it out"
 The truth of this state ment can hardly be ques- tioned, but in this day of regulating public utilities, and safeguarding the public interests against unfair methods in distribution, prices, and the like, it reads queer that a statement hav- ing all the earmarks of hav- ing been prepared by oil pro- ducers, should declare that the oil concerns have actual ly begun to select their GUS toners, for we are told in the report that one, at least, of the great refinery inter- ests which some months back withdrew gas oil from the market, has now arranged to discontinue the sale of fuel oil entirely.
 In view of this admission it will be interesting to fol- low the processes of organi- zations like the Federal Trade Commission, which is interesting itself very vigor- ously in the coal situation. For coal, like oil, is fuel;and any coal mining district that would refuse to supply al specified industry would soon be called. to account.
 The .igreat oil interests have apparently made their own methods for handling the public in the past; and it remains to be seen whether they can continue this pol icy, especially when they discriminate against manu- featuring interests that re- quire fuel oil.
The Holbrook news., 1920-11-19

HOUSE FOR SALE Furnished, modern four room and bath. In best residence district of Holbrook. Could not be built for price asked. See or write F. c. Purcell. Heber, Ariz.
The Holbrook news., 1920-11-19
LINERS

FOR SALE-Electric washing ma chine for sale in good repair, cheap. Telephone 1855 IF
The Holbrook news., 1920-11-19

FOR SALE-Six months old thor oughbred Rhode Island Reds and Ply mouth Rock roosters. See H. G. Stiles.
The Holbrook news., 1920-11-19

A. F. McAlister & S. E. Ross Horse and Mule Co.,, wholesale and commits sion dealers in horses and mules. Ship us your stock and we can get them
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-23
CUBA HAS BABE RUTH BUT HE'S
 DARK SKINNED

New York, Jan. 23-Down ir Cuba John McGraw recently got a peek at Christopher Torriente, whom the Gu ban fans have nicknaned "the Black Babe Ruth" The slugger of the AL mendares Club certainly can whale them out. Facing such pitchers as Pfeffer and Cadore of the Dodgers, and Ponder and Carlson of the Pi- rates recently at A1mendares ball park, Torriente compiled 8 batting average of .377 in 10 games.
 Batting against Jack Quinn, Mule Watson and Bob Geary, Torrtente hit for .4OS in six games. So far this season he has manufactured a slug ging percentage of .450 in Havana. Torriente is no stranger in the United States. He has made five American trips with the Cuban stars. He also has played here with the American Giants of Chicago and the A11-Nation- al of Kansas City. He was seen in several games here last season.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-23
YANKEES NEED
 GOOD BACkST0p
 FOR THIS YEAR

New York, Jan. 2a--An exper- fenced catcher is quite as essential to Yankee success as new outfelder. The Tanks must be fortified behind the plate to match in all round finish their most formidable contenders. A catcher like Waffle Schang of the Boston Red Sox, or Steve O'Neill, not to mention Ray Schallz, would help tremendously.
 The catcher Is the most importart player on a ball club next to the pitcher. In many cases he directs the defensive play of the team. He not only gives signals to the pitcher and in a way supervises the inf1eld, but he directs the outfeld as well. Nat urally 1t requires a big baseball men tality to get the best results behind the plate.
 The Tanks are poor as Jobs ce1e- brated turkey in catchers. The youth ful Muddy Ruel is promising. to be sure. Another campaign in the ma jors may give him just the finish he requires. But today Ruel lacks sev- era1 vital ingredients that only long experience can give.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-23
BRAVES EXPECT TO MAKE DEALS
 BEFORE SPRING

Boston, Jan. 22.-Owner Grant of the Braves was in this city yesterday to discuss plans for next season.
 Grant had nothing new to report in the way of deals. Contracts will be sent to players under reservation within the next 10 days, and matters will then be allowed to simmer until the joint meeting of the two leagues in Chicago, Feb. II. He believes quite a number of deals will be put through at this meeting and rather expects to make a few himself.
 If the present plan of mak sg a recall Of waivers impossible is not in- terfered with. 1t is thought that some promising young players may be se- cured by clubs in need of them, through 8 refusal to waive them out of the leagues.
 It looks as if clubs would have to be strengthened sby an infusion of young blood, rather than by the pur- chase of stars. Those which now own the stars are clinging to them, unless some one was willing to hand over s125,000 in exchange, and instances of this kind are very rare. Grant does not pretend to be able to afford to do any shopping of this kind, and will, for the present at least, rely i upon building up with young players of promise. He Is, he says, willing to put some money into such pros- | poets, or to acquire them in exchange l for some players he already has. 1 Pres. Grant has quite a bunch ot youngsters already and proposes tc take 30 players in the Spring train 1 ing camp, starting the latter part ot | February. Among these prospects are | ,l,@ r;& | Rochester; Walling, who was dug ou
 in Kansas, and White, who played in 1 dependent ball in the coal fields O. Pennsylvania.
 1 Two pitchers. John Paul Jones last year with ;. Toronto, and Hugl Brown, a 1eft-hander of Atlanta; twt
 inf1elders in Ford, the Tufts shortstop
 and Bradshaw, a second baseman who was for a time with Conni
 Mack before entering the service ant
 who played independent ball after re
 cetving his discharge last year, an
 three outfle1ders, Christenbury an
 Carroll, purchased from Memphis
 and John L. Sullivan, bought iron
 the New Orleans club.
 II Pres. Grant intimated that some c
 the older players on the club wou1
 be used as trading material if an or ] 1 portunity to make such use of ther presented itself at the Chicago meet ing. The work of some of them, thought, would improve with change of location.
 As to who would succeed Carr 3 Hermann as chairman of the Ne 3 tiona1 League, MT. Grant would nc 5 venture an opinion. He said that ; would be difficult to find a man wh 4 would bring to the position greate ' ability, fairer sense of justice or
 better appreciation of what is neede
 in baseball than MT. Hermann hs
 shown in the past 16 years.
 \ l. That is the way he felt when tf
 matter of reorganization of the con
 mission was brought up a year az
 but being newcomer in the leagu he did not feel like pressing his view ! in opposition to the majority in h own organization.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-23
PING EDDIE IS
 AFRAID HE IS
 GOING TO MOVE

New York, Jan. 23.-Ping Bodie, long distance hitter and erratic out fielder, the most good-natured as well as the most tossed about player in the American League, is back here in New York packing up furniture and belongings and getting ready to hit the trail again, for Ping has seen the handwriting upon the wall and in the recent acquisition of Babe Ruth by the Yankees he read the warning of his passing on.
 Ping has certainly had a chance to view all kinds of scenery since he first broke into professional baseball. He made his debut on the coast where he earned a reputation as a fence buster. This earned him quite an extensive tryout with the Chicago White Sox before he was sent back to the Pacific Coast with the label of 'unripe fruit" But there he resumed his old trick of knocking the fences down and finally he was resurrected by Connie Mack who gave him the opportunity to drop many a horse hide into the left field bleachers at Shibe Park.
 Eventually he was sold to the New York Yankees, where he has played with more or less success for the past two seasons. A dangerous hitter al- ways, a fairly dependable fielder and a satisfactory thrower, Pings useful ness has always been impaired be- cause of his tendency to take on weight while trying to figure out tie right play at the right tir
 Lacking in speed, both
 physical, he was ultimat,
 as unsatisfactory by Mill and so far as last June il i derstood he held his job Yankees simply because the
 agement could not procure a U 1 right-handed hitter. Now with bat tering Babe added to the string and outfie1d already complete the Yankees have no further use for Ping. Ever since the last season closed Ping fhas been working industrious ! 1y as 8 welder at the Hoboken ship | yards, for, with all his faults there is nothing lazy about Ping. The inter
 national or the American Associa-
 tion is pretty sure to grab Bodie, who i has good many seasons of useful | ness left to him still.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-23
Toronto Manager Is . Hopeful of Banner
 Season in Minors

New York, Jan. 23.-Accept it from. Hughey Duffy, new manager of the Toronto Club of the International League, the minor circuits of the country are going to have an unpre- cedented boom next season. The In- ternational League especially antici- ,pates record breaking campaign. Everywhere there is optimism in
 baseball circles.
 We're going to have a great sea-
 son in the International" declared
 Hughey when encountered on base
 ball alley yesterday afternoon. "Irs in the air everywhere you go. Every body is talking baseball. The majors | areSgoing to have a bang up season and the minors, too, are going to at tract thousands to the games. Even l in the South interest has been revived l to extraordinary proportions"
 | Duffy oarne to New York to see
 Miller Huggins, from whom he ex- poets to get a pitcher or two and an l outfelder. Huggins had not arrived
 yesterday so Hughey dropped 1nto l Yankee headquarters to have a chat | with Colonel Til Huston, who is hold l ing down the eanctum in the absence | of Huggins and Harry Sparrow.
 J-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-23

BELIEVE SHAMROCK WILL WIN.
 New York, Jan. 22 = Sir Charles A1lom, a leading English yachtsman, who arrived in New York yesterday on the Cedric, said today that Sir
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-23
NINETEEN

metre boat, Sis Charles said.
 He expressed the confidence that old British yachtsmen believe in the ability ot Shamrock " to- lift the America Cup
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-23

Thomas Lipton will send a 23-metre Shamrock te America this spring to
 meet the cup challenger, Shamrock ", in a series of trial races. Alfred Draper will be the skipper aa the 2s-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-23

Some tender hearted folks feel the government should wait until mobs control the cities, before the anarchy i1iciters are interfered with.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-23

Some people who always need aI- cohoa for their weak backs, have a supply sufficient to rub down a nun,- Der of regiments.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-23

tTinnAa Ads Rrinr Res11ltsl
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11
Man Made Citizen.

Oakland, Cal, Oct. IL Para
lived and lying on what may prove
his deathbed, John Robert Taylor,
Englishman, G. A. r. veteran, who
for years believed himself to be an
American because of his service in
the Union army, was given his fl
nal citizenship by Judge James G..
Quinn, who transferred his court
to the aged mans home in order to
fulfill his great ambition.
Oakland members of the G. A. r.
secured special dispensation from
the naturalization department in
order to make Taylor an Ameri-
can.
Taylor came to America when a
young man, fought through the
Civil war, and was told that he was
citizen because of his service in
the American army. During the
war he contracted the disease
which left him paralyzed, Because
of his frequent absences from this
country and the consequent failure
to establish sufficient length of
residence, he had never voted. On
ly recently did he discover that he
was not an American. Determin-
ed to rectify his error some time
ago, he was driven to the office of
the county clerk in an automobile,
carried into the office on a stretch
er and there made his formal ap-
plication for citizenship.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11

That was hard question to an
swer. And Chirpy Cricket was SO
afraid of angry Mr.. Crow that he
promptly hid himself among the
roots of clump of grass.
Now, the fact that Mr., Frog had
been away from his shop the
night before, set Mr.. Crow to Wor-
rying.
That slippery tailor has been
up to some mischief" Mr.. Crow de-
clared. And if he has played a
trick on me I'll never hear the last
of it,
The old gentleman was so dis
turbed that he quite lost his ap-
petite during the rest of the day.
An dhe moped and groaned about
hoping for the best, but fearing the
worst. One thing that made MN
especially uneasy was the fact that
when he called on Mr. Frog he
sound the tailor in q gayer moou
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11

And as they drew near Farmer
Green's place they could hear Kid
dies shrill music, even while they
were still quarter of mile away.
"He plays better than ever" said
Freddie FREELY. II wish Mr.. Crow
could hear him." And they hur-
ried on. believing that everything
was going to turn out all right, in
the end. ,
Mr.. Grow will be sorry, tomor-
row, that he soolded U.S." said
Chirpy Cricket.
But the committee met with a
sad disappointment. When they
invited Kiddie Katydid to join the
Pleasant Valley orchestra he told
them that he couldn't.
"Why not?" Freddie FREELY ask
ed.
"I've promised somebody that RI
wouldn't" Kiddie said.
And though they pressed him
for an explanation, he wouldn't
give them any. He wouldn't say
another word.
1t was a downcast company that
left Farmer Green's front yard.
And they quarreled among them
selves, too, before they parted. For
there wasn't one Of them that was
willing to tell Mr.. Grow that Kid
die had declined his invitation.
But they finally hit upon plan
that suited everybody. They agreed
to get Mr.. Crows cousin, Jasper
Jay, to break the news gently to
the old gentleman.
1t turned out that Jasper was
delighted to undertake the task.
He hoped that Mr.. Grow would fly
into a passion when he heard the /
sad tale. And Jasper was not dis
For old Mr.. Grow was
furious.
Its the work of that sly rascal,
Mr.. Frog!" he squalled. "He must
have called on kiddie Katydid and
hoodwinked him somehow. I
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11
A B c. of the League
of Nations
Kills the League Working Novs
BY WIN Irwin.

of the undertakings enumerated
above as part of its work, Thus:
CD The council of the league
has appointed a commission to
work out plan of universal dis
armament.
CD Another commission is
studying the machinery of the
blockade to be employed against
violators of the covenant.
(3) The secretariat of the league
has begun work ON the registration
and publication of treaties between
nations.
(4) An international financial
conference under the auspices of
the league met at Brussels on Sep
tember 25 TO discuss the entire
financial situation arising out of
the war.
t5) The organization of a court
of International justice, provided for
in the covenant, has been begun.
In this work, though we are not
q member of the league, leading
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11


part has been played by Elihu
Root.
go The organization of an in
ternational health office, a bureau
ton of opium and other drugs, and
a division to suppress the interna-
tional trade in women and girls.
CD The appointment of a perm
anent mandates commission to su-
perivse the administration of the
territories and peoples freed from
German and Turkish rule.
@. What is a colonial mandate
A. A new and more equable
method of governing colonies of
civilized powers among primitive
peoples.
G. When was this method first
applied?
A. In 1919, after the allied ma
tions signed the covenant of the
league.
@. In what does this method
consist and what is it's value?
A. Before 1919, powerful civil
lied nations were restrained from
seizing and holding for exploitation
the territory of a primitive people
only by the selfish jealousy Of
some other civilized nation. After
a nation had seized such territory,
it was responsible to no one but
itself for its methods of govern
ment and of exploitation. So arose
terrible injustices, especially in
Africa. Shortly before the great
war, Germany in one of her Afri-
can possessions put to death 10000
natives to avenge tn emurder sof
one German. The atrocities in the
Belgian Congo, which was held,
not by the Belgian nation, but as
private property by it's king, are
notorious. Savage peoples so op-
pressed had no recourse.
BY the covenant of he league of
nations all the barbarous. semi-ci-
vilized or temporarily backward
peoples rescued by the war from
German or Turkish domination, are
i nthe future to be placed under
supervision of the league. The ac-
tual work of administration is to
be assigned to some nation as man
datory. This nation must make a
yearly report to the council of the
league.
@. What territories are now gov
erened, under the mandate system,
by the league?
A, The former possessions of
Germany in Africa and in the Pa
oific; Syria, Mesopotamia, Pales-
tine.
@. What nations now hold man,
dates under the league?
A. Great Britain and her colon
les; France, Belgium and Japan.
Copyright, 1920, by N. Y. Evening
Post, Inc.)
Tomorrow's A B c of the League
of Nations will answer the ques-
tion: Could mandates be forced on
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11

G. Is the league at present work
ing at all?
A. Considering the uncertainty
caused by our American attitude
II is working very we'll 1t is fight
ing the typhus epidemic in Poland
and Central Europe with funds
provided by its members. 1t is
undertaking to repatriate the hah
million prisoners OF war-Rus-
slams. Germans, Poles, Hungarians,
Rumanians, etc, who, owing to
lack of funds and transit facilities,
are still retained in enemy couu-
tries. Notably. ii is administering
the Saar valley, the free city of
Danzig, and the mandates over the
old German colonies in Africa,
These are benevolent functions for
which there was no machinery
whatever before 1919.
Q, What is the Saar valley situ-
alton?
A. During the great war. Ger
many wantonly and needlessly de-
stroyed or rendered unproductive
for many years coal mines furnish
ing half of the French domestic
supply. AS part of the reparation
due TO France, the Treaty of Ver-I
sailles gave her the coal mines of
the Saar valley, located in Ger
many, on the border of Alsaee. Un-
der the old European situation
there would have been no way to
execute this condition except to let
France occupy this territory whose !
are German in blood, |
anguage. and sentiment. The in
labitants Of the Saar valley would |
nave been ruled during fifteen
ears by a hereditary enemy; this !
would have intensified that racial /.
bitterness which is a primary cause
4 war. France would have been
inder constant temptation to hold
this rich and useful
errltory. The league Of nations.
Trough lis commissioners. is now
overnlns the Saar valley with sue
ess and without friction. The
,ague Is bound by solemn pledge /
) offer the inhabitants their choice
{ French and German sovereignty
the end of fifteen years
Q. What other functions Is the
ague now performing 4
4 II has begun work on many
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11
Just Folks r.-., p s' Cues,

big day
He came to bat with the score a
tie
An the pitcher slipped him one
shoulders high,
An he walloped it over the fence
for fair
An won that ball game right ther
an there!
An my Pa knows that it's true, COZ
he
Wuz up in the grandstand where
he cold see.
once in a football game he played,
An the winnin' touchdown alone
he made
Ny Paw says whenever he got the
ball,
He could run 50 fast that he'd beat
'em all,
He says that the feller who'll just
play fair
Is fit for heaven or anywhere,
An fun's all right if your hands
are clean
An you never cheat an you don't
get mean.
He says that he never has under
stood
why feller can't play an still be
good,
An my Paw says that he's just the
kind
OF a minister that he likes to
find
So I'm always tickled as | can be
Whenever our minister comes for
tea.
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han he had ever known him to be

han he had ever known hlm TO pc
in.
Mr.. Frog bounded about his
shop like a rubber ball. And the
worst of it was, he would sing, al
though Mr.. Crow begged him, with
tears in his eyes, to stop.
whats the matter?" Mr.. Frog
asked him. Don't you like my
voice? Or is it the songs L sing?
I've a new one that I'd like to
sing for you. It's about one OF
the Katydid family; and I'm sure
you'll enjoy hearing it,
But Mr.. Grow wouldn't stay
there any longer. With LOUD
sauawk of rage he scurried away.
He was sure, then, that Mr.. Frog
had tricked him.
That night Mr.. Crows commit
tee called on Kiddie Katyd1d. 1t
was a fine, warm, moonlight nlght'
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11
Monday, Octol.. !,

Va 4
would 'n!la like to know -.
III But Mr.. Grow new, ss's !
out. So Kiddie Ks. 'st
other secret, which =
~ to himself and n.
,oa And Mr.. Frog wouIss,
body, because ~
tease Mr.. Grow.
~, And Middle Katya,a
tell anybody, beca,,ss $
rets' So when peopls
into the affair, he ir
wings tightly over ~ r.
said nothing. l'
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11
Why Are Skin Diseases
So Difficult to Overcome

When your skin breaks out with
itching eruptions, letter, rash, &C.
zema, psoryasis, or other terrifying
disorders, temporary relief will do
you but little good, for soon all the
itching and irritation breaks out
afresh with renewed fury. and you
soon realize that local remedies
such as ointments. salves and SINH
lar treatment will never rid you of
your trouble.
These troubles originate in the
blood, and II you expect real sub
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11


stantial relief you must t,,a|
through the blood.
The best remedy for this \
is S.S.S., the fine old Blood 4
that purifies the blood Of b
germs, and thus restores ~
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Begin taking S.S.S. tod,,]
write a complete history 4
case, and our medical direar|
give yeu expert advice n
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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11
Kiddie Keeps His Promise.

NINItffN nv I'7 EHf' II '7'''1F7e'
Old Mr.. Grow flew into a terrible
rage when he found, the next morn
ing, that his committee had not
called on Riddle Katydid during
the night. And when Chirpy Crick-
ct told him that the weather was
too cold for anybody to stay out
late, Mr.. Grow said Nonsense,
What about Mr.. Frog?"
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11
Salem Mans Auto
Stolen On Sunday

his automobile, which he D
eo IN front of Shipley's store on
LAberty street was stolen Sunday
night, Chester C. Star told nolice
Portland officers were notified.
and local police are searching for
the machine.