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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-31
BIG BANKERS ARE
OPTIMISTIC ABOUT
OUTLOOK FOR 1921
continued from first page)

call of duty and opportunity, service
and profit. which the situation offers
there will follow constantly expand
ing powers OF service which, should
mark the goal of every progressive
people"
Depression World Wide.
"The first thing TO understand
about this depression" said George
L. Roberts, vice president of the Ma
tional City bank, lis that II Is not
confined to the United States or to
the products of this country. 1t is
world wide and is an effect of dis
ruption of industry and trade by the
war. We have a country of wonder
full resources and are in a better po-
sition to stand 1t than most other
countries.
"Other people can not buy of us
until they are producing goods they
can trade to us. And just as the
world is interdependent in trade, so
are we at home interdependent in
our various occupations. The farmer
has been hard hit by the decline in
prices Of HIS products and his loss OF
purchasing power affects all the in
dustries. The department of agri-
culture etimated the value of our
farm products for 1919 at nearly
| $25, 000, 000, 0Q0--about a third of all
| the wealth that was produced in
| this country that year. The value OF
1920 farm products probably was less
by one fourth or one-third
Must Stabilize.
Industry, like world trade, can
not prosper unless 1t is in balance
! The various classes of producers
must receive compensation upon ap-
proximately stable and uniform
basis, for there can not be free cir
culation and exchange OF products
If farm products are TO stay doWE'
prices and wages in the other IN
dustries will have to come down also,
or there viii be a great amount OF
Unemployment The industries can
not run full time unless the goods
can be sold. Therefore employers,
wage earners and merchants should
strive to reduce the prices OF other
goods to correspond with the fall in
farm products. If all wages and
prices come down together nobody
will be worse off. This is the secret
\ OF getting industry started again.
we nave CbullNis VA
resources and there is plenty of work
to be done and it win go ahead as
soon as the natural balance between
the industries is restored"
The business year, 1921, can be
faced with confidence, according to
L. G. Kaufman, president of the
| Chatham and Phoenix National
bank, which has sS6,OOO,00O accounts
of firms doing business thrSNghout
the country because American firms
have had the foresight to debate.
Coming Back.
Manufacturers, wholesalers and
| tobbers are past the peak of liquida-
tion," he said. Their speed in get
ting back to a prewar basis has been
amazing. But | am not so sure all
the retailers have BEEN so prompt to
give the buying public the ad-
vantages of manufacturers and
| wholesalers cuts
Mr. Kaufman said he believed
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-31
PNEUMONIA FATAL.

Mrs Evelyn Waddy Montague. wife
Of Raymond Montague. machiniat for
the frisco railroad, died at the rest
dence t233 Phillips place wednesday
evening at O'Clock Mrs MoutaRfe
had been III for three months. but WsS
thought 10 be recovering until pnruno
MIA developed. Funeral arraHgcments
were to have been made some time
Friday Mcdowell Montdverdr
Will BE- IN charge A priest from 81
Tfmmas will oftciate Burial win be
Il. Forest Hin Mrs Montague his sur
yived by her husband Raymond Mon
taguo her mother Mrs " 4 Holdings
worth, three brothers, Walter JHe and
VIII Waddy, an aunt, Mrs, Georgia
cash, and two cousins Hattie and
GhnSes Cash. She was rs years VI age.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-31
CETzOn Sends Note
Telling Of Trouble
Past And Present

LONDON, nec 81 In = New Year .
M, ssage 10 the Primrose league. Of
which he is the grand master, Earl
CufEun. ng kedleston. secretary for
foreign affairS. declares that the past
year has been one 81 trouble and un-
ret AZ home and abroad, and expresses
ths belief that Il viii be long time
before we find ourselves SAILING again
In quiet seas
In the coming winter we likely VIII
h faced BY serious growing unemploy-
mtnt, the result 81 economic factors.
from which there Is no swift or easy
cs ape the message continues NO
ore can regard either Nhe present pos
ton or the future outlook without
anxiety and no government that ~
called upon 10 deal with Il should hops
a. do ~ by waving an enchantcrs
wand
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-31

call of duty and opportunity, service
and profit, which the situation offers
there will follow constantly expand
ing powers OF service which should
mark the goal of every progressive
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-31
A Plain Statement

Do you want better telephone SERVICE or are
you satisfied with the present telephone service?
If you have not telephone, do you want the
City of Memphis to help you obtain one?
The City has filed petition before the Utili-
ties Commission at Nashville seeking to obtain bet
ter telephone service for the citizens of Memphis
and to obtain facilities for those who have been
unable to get telephones installed. The City has
employed telephone engineer and is defraying all
of the expenses of this proceeding. But in order
for the City to be successful the Of telephones
must furnish information as to the character of
service, and those who have been unable to obtain
any telephone service must make the fact known.
Blanks are available at my office for this purpose
and will be furnished upon request without charge.
If you have no telephone and want one or if you
want to help obtain better telephone service for
the city, get of these blanks and fill it cut AL
though these blanks have been on hand for several
weeks, very few citizens have obtained them, and
we have been unable to obtain much information as
to the character of the service 1t will undoubtedly
be argued by the "telephone company that the fail
ure of any large number of citizens to furnish this
information means that they are satisfied with the
present telephone service Are you satisfied, or do
you want better service? It's up to you
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-31
POSTPONE CONFERENCE

PARIS, Dec. 31.-The proposed meet
ing of the French. British and Italian
prime ministers at Nice or Cannes will
not be held it was announced but it
was said that an early meeting of the
prepliers would be brought about
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-31
GRATEFUL; GIVES COIN

10y international News service.)
ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. Sl--In gratitude
for kindness when he was an inmate,
j. Cooper Harris, deceased. left the
Boys orphanage at Bethesda, in Chat
ham county, $4,000 by his will. juA
probated.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Birds Of the Argentine
Varied Traits Of Feathered Species Vivid,y De
picted by w. II. Hudson

had discovered it themselves, repeat
ing II incessantly noticed this curl
Gus habit # the bird many times, and
on one occasion ! found that for three
entire days all the birds in a small
thicAet | used to visit every day did
nothing but repeat necessarily two or
three singular notes they had bor-
rowed from one % their number"
South America is unouestionably
richer In bird life than any other re-
eion Of equal extent, and the Plata
district has more than its share of
feathered inhabitants. Mr.. Hudson
explores this rich and promising field
with conspicuous success. The habits
and external appearance of approx
nately two hundred birds are describe, d,
IN minute detail The author show
his Usual ability to make natural mis-
tory the most fascinating subject in
the world. The volumes are further
enriched by twenty two excellen, col
ored illustrations by H. Gronvold.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
The British Commonwealth
First Volume of Exhaustive Study Of Republic
Of ENGLAND

welter of contrarieties, a unit Of fed
GRAFTON.
With the year 1885 we witness the
spectacle Of an England growing toward
sentient unity, with will to defend
herself and d purpose to conquer the
sea The unyeling Of the outer world
through discovery and exploration
brought her, now a m~ritime na.,on.
into immediate conflict with ContineAta
powers, and the ensuing struggles had
healthful reactions in soidlfyng the
British State Coincident with the zeal
for world power came the wsr for self
government eliminating In the Puritan
Republic.
From tire years OF Cromwell on to
those that represent the closing chap
ters of this book, there was marked
and steady ascension to supremacy
along two roSds. that of the strength
cning of 4Stral political authority
and that of Nn%grasping and holding of
vast lands overseas. The book ends
with England established in North
America and India. 1t gives a picture
Ct "a fellowship or partnership Of free
communities, the Ike Of which history
had not yet seen"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Limited Suffrage
Restricted Franchise Seen
as Panacea
POPULAR MiSGOVERNM IN Tvgl
UNITED STATES. By Alfred B Cruik-
shank. Published bs Mo1st Yard q CO.

POPULAR MisGOvERNMENT IN rEn
UNITED STATES By Alfred 3. Cruik-
shank Published bs Morst. Yard CO.
II HERE is never suy lack Of peopo o
with pet schemes for reforming
all our mortal Ills and abuses a.
one stroke. Nj Cruikshank Is firmly
convinced that Americas only salvation
lies II abolishing universal sufraro
and substituting limited franchiSe
based upon the property qualification.
In support Of this thesis he adduces
many facts about municipal misgovern-
ment and corruption, and points TO the
failure OF negro suffrage in the South.
He also comes to the conclusion thu
the menace OF Bolshevism can be
checked only by drastic restrictions
upon the right TO vote.
Now, Americans have never taken
kindly to the cid Federallst doctrine
that power should De vested in tie
hands Of ''ths good. the wise and tho
rich" The municipal maladministra-
tion TO which Mr.. Cruikshsnk alludes
ma. ae -scribed to the bad behavior OF
certain weai.hy interests fully as muck
as to the ignorance and venalty Of IN.
propertied voters The career Of Theo-
dore Roosevelt shows that q reformer
may achieve the highest political sue
cess. provided he possesses the person
ality and the ability 70 present his
ideals effectively TO the people.
When MIR. Cruikshank uses the ex-
clusion of negroes from the franchise
IN the South as an argum ment against
universal suffrage he laye himself open
to refutation on several counts. The
discrimination between voters prac-
ticed in the Southern states is based
upon color, not upon property q
thrifty negro Is denied the right which
is granted to a shiftless white mar.
Moreover. it does not appear that the
South, despite its restricted franchise
is better governed than any other part
Of the Union.
However, Mr.. Cluikshank Is so nearly
alone in the advocacy Of his suggestion
that its chances of pdoption may bo
considered quite negligible
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Double Identities

PENGARD AWAKE BY Ralph Strausa
publ!shed by Appleton & CO.
4 MNESiA and double identity, each
Of these has served it's turn as
the subject Of romance. In Pengard
Awake Ralph Strauss e.rects d comb
nation of the two with fair effect. Two
utterly alien personalities struggle for
ascendancy in the mind Of a man while
his own consciousness s in q state Of
suspension. How the intruders arc
banshed and the evil exercised will
interest those whose Imagination Ia
aroused by problems Of psychic phe-
nomena
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Irish Labor
nc Economic Background
of Sim Tein

TIE IRISH LABOR MOVEMENT. py "
P Ryan. Published by &. W Hnebsch
ME labor ard nationalist move.
ments in ireland have Away.
be"n closely intert vined Ma.
tionalists have emphasized the eco
romlc disadvantages OF English rule
Labor leaders have shown them slves
good Irish patriots. eager to partic!-
pate in the revival q the Gaelic Ian
&nage and in all the other -nanifesta-
lions OF racial Consciousness. This
syntheois is admirably exemplifed in
Mr. Ryan himself "A Socialist in HIS
political philosophy. he includos a
Gaelic preface Ia his ok, a1d insists
over and over again ire a. rlsh peo-
pie. by temperament an1 e.Aracter, are
predisposed to collectivism and CO.
operation.
The student OF economic history VIII
find some interesting information
about Irish labor unions in the nine
teenth century. Even in the days when
trade unions were officially outla wed
the workers succeeded under some pre-
text in organizing themselves TO de-
mand higher wages and better condi-
tions
Coming down to modern times. the
author describes various phases Of the
Irish labor movement He lays Tpecial
stress upon the personalities of two
leaders. James Connolly and Jane
Larkin. Connolly was shot after tn
Easter rebellion and Larkin is now
serving a prison term in this state
having been convicted under the crm-
raj anarchy law. Mr. Ryan shows how
the suslon between IRISH aationalsm
and Irish labor was sealed in blood in
me Easter uprising, when Connolly 3
proletarian Citizen Army" fought side
by side with Pea es Volunteers.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26

from Turkish to Bulgarian rule. He
IS convinced that such coup would
nave won over the Bulgarian people
and prevented Ferdinand from casting
IN his lot with the Central Powers.
AS Ambassador to Sweden NJ. Nek'u.
dotf was confronted with an efficiently
organized and carefully prepared am
paign Of German intrigue Before the
war, he tells us, he was inclined to
admire the German people for thei-
instincts of order and discipline, hut
he soon came to loathe the whole ma.
tion cn account of the foul barbara
ties pe4petrated in the war He con-
ciudes a familiar list of Teutonic war
crimes with the following obvious ref
erence to the peace of Brest-Litovsk:
"Alasl could not foresee that the
list was not complete. That three
years later royal highnesses, minis
ters, exalted d.gnitares and the heads
Of German and Austrian armies would
slt round the green table with anar-
chist Jews and criminal sailors in
order to dismember my miserable
country after their agents had stran-
gled hey-all that was too horrible to
have been even maginedi"
u Nekludoff enjoyed ths honor Of
several interviews with the late Rus
sian Gar, and speaks Enthusiastically ly
OF his courtesy and amiabilitv. The
author ascribes the March revolution
to certain dijsreputable influences
about the court, personifed in the dis
soluto monk, Rasputin, who acquired
such strange psychic hold upon the
nervous and hysterical personality of
the Czarna.
ASIDE from It's distinct historical
value the work is attractive on ac-
count Of It's numerous spirited anec-
dotos and character sketches NJ Mex
ludof is inclined to speak his mind
without reservations about tho men
and women with whom he comes iato
contact, and some OF his impressions
make very interesting reading.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
A Psychopathic Novel
Influence of Dostoievsky Visible in Work Of
Austrian Author

By Harcourt. Brace & Howe under che
title The European Library. he an
nounced purpose Of the Library. whicn
is edited by J. z. Spingsrn. Is to intro
duce American -eaders to contemporary
Continental literature. This is q most
desirable object, We are kept in Gloss
contact with good English books. and
with some that ar not so good But
our knowledge of living European writ
ers is hspharard and imperfect in the
extreme. 4 first class European wrirsr
is likely TO be practically unknown tn
America. unless he wins the Nobel
Prize, or dies. The European Library
IS a practical means of filing an Or
vious gap in our culture, snd il de-
serves all possible success.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
ds0n Combines the Gifts of the Scientist and Poet
Police Systems
Causes of InefhcieAcy
Studied
AMERICAN POLICE SYSTEMS gy Ray
mond Fosdi"k. Published by The
Ceniu-> Company

AMERICAN roLlcE rI. s%YsTEMs % gy Ray
Ceniu-> Company.
TEW WORKERS who arc living In
u constant expectation of being
robbed, assaulted or murdered
will readily accept Mr. Fosdick's con-
cusion that American police systems
are Tar inferior TO European in point
of efficiency This conclusion is backed
up with formidabl array OF stats
ties. In 1915 New YORK had six times
more homictdes than London and ex-
ceedeI the total homicdes Of Engla nd
and Wales By sixty-seven. In 1919 the
nunlter Of murders in Chicago was
almost exactly siy times the number
committed in London. Liverpool and
st. Louis are approximately the same
sizei in 1915 ST. Louis had eleven
times the number Of homicides that
lrerpool had. and in 1916 six times
the number. Substantially the same
figures hold good for other forms Of
crime.
These concerting comparisons.
which might be multiplied indeh 1itely,
cast some doubt upon the validity Of
the familiar boast tina. we are a law
abiding peonle. Mr.. Fosdick Is not
content merely to call attention TO T.
distressing sltuation-he points out
causes and remedies. He shows that
oil the blame cannot be laid at the
door of police Proficiency The netero-
geneons foreign population Of our
large cities include many criminals
wha are peculiarly hard to detect and
capture. In some cases an abAormally
large proportion Of crimes are COM
mitted by negroes. Our lax meth DDS
of judicial procedure, coupled with the
popular tendency to show maudlin
sympathy for the picturesque law
breaker, ccn-titute serious obstacles In
the way Of vigorous, efficient admin
s+~ation OF justice.
The Autho. also devotes some asten-
tion TO that familiar curse Of Ameri
can municipal life the corruntion and
misuse Of The police In political
squahbles. Mr.. Fosdick feels that our
police systems have measurabl; In
proved du ing tie last generation. bu.
he is convinced tnas much woYk re-
mains 70 be done before we can claim.
to have successfully solved This i'm
portrait administrative problem.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Nonsense Novels
Stephen Leacock Gets Bacl.
to Ills Ola Form

sENsE NovEls NiS b. rs stephen o LEI feaseeE SoH-
Published by John Lane.
- TEPHEN LEACOCK'S facile gle.
for burleslue has created n 70
racious public which he has bee
hard put to to keen appeased Having ~
TOSS il q novel every few months or 50,
the strain has occasionally told on Mt
Leacock. There have been fine lines Of
worry around she edges OF some of hi'
later nonsense novels. ftful nauses aod
occasional stridencies. But in this
latest volume, Winsome Winnie and
Other Nonsense Novels, Mr. Leacock
seems co nave recsptu-ed CLEANS Of
his first freshness "W;nsone Winnie;
or. Trial and Temptation,' the frs,
piece, burlesques the novels OF our
mothers day the '7os. As these IN
themselves appea- now sufficiently uu-
roarions. Mr.. Leacock has been content
with an artful retouchng
Mr.. Leacock reproduces shrewdly sew
cral standard tyres Of novel in their
ehe murder nyste~v yarn the romance
OF South Sea island castaways. The sen-
timental war storv, the good old
fashioned type Of ghos: story and the
diplomatic novel By far the best o.
all is this last "The S!lit n the Cah,-
ne-; or The Fate C En~lard," varie-
son on the familiar N~s WsTtl diplo-
m nacy-and- III gh life theme. The gov
about to split on the Wazuchistan
boundary dispute. The ragging 'Oppo-
stion Is rabid FOR war on Wazuchistan
which renders imminent Of discovery
the alarming fact that the Foreign Of
fee does not know where Wazuchistan u
is. II thought the Colonial Office knew.
The Colonial Secretary had state3 that
he aao been there Later ou II turned
cu. that he meant Saskatchewan. Of
course. they thought we knew And We
both thought that the ExcheQuer must
know We understood that they hs
collected hut tax Tor ten years"
Ard hadn't they"
"Not a penny. The WaEoos live in
tents"
"But. surely" pleaded Lady Elrhins-
poor. you could find out. Had you no
maps?'
Sir John shook his read.
Eve thought of that at once, my
dear. We've looked al through the
british Museum Cnce W. thought ne
rad succeeded. But it turned out to be
" sconsiH."
"But the map IN The Times? Every
body saw H."
Again the baronet shook his head
Lord Sou,hcliT had it made in The OF
fee" he said. at appears that he NJ
ways does. Otherwise the physical fen
lures might not suit him"
And so on to the uproarious conclu-
zion, the discovery Of the Wazoos ana
the majestic victory OF the party In
power.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26

THE TERRlni.H ISLAND. By Heatrico
C;rimsnaw. Published oy the Macmillan
Company. sl7o
Nv 18th the passing Of the pirates
w who used TO cruise about tho
Spanish Main the South Ssa
is!ands seem to provide the ccst sc,~
ting for q story of adventure. Far
ramoved from civilization, urinhpbited,
Or pcoped by wild tribes, they appear
70 offer opportunities fer excitement
which are denied to more prosaic and
settled communities
There is plentiful y. .easure Of mys-
terry and adventure in Miss Grim
shaw's novel At the very beginning
a beautiful girl is cast up from the
sea, unable TO recall either her name
or her life history Inspired by eome
chanc. phrases which she utters. a
party Of eager treasure seekers set
out for Kuku's Island, the reputeH
storct ouse Of barbarian cnieftain' s
hidden treasure. Immediately after
they land Oh The islard the ship which
brought them there 10 destro. ed In ID
storm Worse than that. they find out
tha. Some bloodthirsty Grecks. well
armed with knyes and rcvolvers, are
already !astallcd In Kuku's former
stronghold.
The warfare between the Greeks and
the trcasure seekers is as thrilling
as the struggle between the mutineers
ard the loyal men in stcvenaon's
treasure island. The contest would
havc been very unoqual II the Greeks
had not been fortunately afflicted VIII
partial or total blindness. Conse-
ouently although charmed, the three
men and txo women who make up the
party are able TO outw't tho roihana
and finally destroy thsm.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Fires of Passion
Story of Washington and
Rome Teens With Life
PAGAN FIRE BY Norva. Richardson
Charles Scribners Soma. New York

pAoAN FIRE BY Norva. Richardson
Charles scribner's Soma New York
ssDERRAPs it's the pagan in me-
for al this is so much the
residue Of paganism-its pag-
eantry, its appeal to the senses. its
channel TO the mind through the BODY
that touches responsive chords II
me-" SO says Anne Rennen, In Norva.
Richardson's Pagan Fire (scribners)
novel that, starting with scenes ~
the life CT Senator Franklin Rennen
and his wife in Washington, shifts tt
Roma, where Rennell lives as Anbas
sador from the United States. AIMS
had In her, unaroused. sleeping. q pas
slonate love for the mystery Of beau
tiSul antiquity. When this sadness and
charm Of anc ent splendors comes
upon her suddenly In the form o.
Prince Cimini, whom she likens to q
centaur, being with the head and the
mind of demi-god and the body Of a
magnificent animal, Anne is thrilled to
3 dangerous, responsive sympathy.
Cimini is "the living emb odiment o.
the place. Its history. It's beauty, It's
soul lived in him agar"
This is an arresting novel. for it Is
assertive, dynamic with forces that az
pnleashsd ere the close OF the book
and loyal to the requirements Of a
stern situation evolved through sa-
ries Of situatiors that grow in slgnif-
canoe rs tney crystalnze in the tide o.
narrative. There are moments in Paga
Fire that, while not minetc, s.ill ar.
endowed with faint men ories OF Ma
zion Crawford and OF Ouida at her bes.
moments. The Rome OF tho former
dominates this novel. The poetic ant
rnalism Of the latter Is almost reached
Its incidental periods Of sensual
erotion. Ciminl suggests certain
phases o. the man Of Merikowski's
Death of the Gods. Julian the Apostate
There are number Of passages
Pagan Fire that seem 70 bear tn
stamp Of 9 fct'onal lineage that gs,,
prominent figures to the world a fe
decades ago A novel not easily for
gotten.