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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-09-13

Marion. - The Japanese question.
railway. labor. naturalization OF aliens.
and constitutionalism head the list
OF subjects to be discussed by Senator
Harding in front speeches during
this week.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-09-13
BIC TIMES PL AIMED FOR
Second ANNUAL REUNION
. N|NET|ETH D|V|S|O \ At
OKLA CITY SEPT 25-27

What Is promised to be the largest
gathering of former members of the
famous 90th division, since that or
ganization was demobilized, will be
the second annual reunion to be held
in Oklahoma. City, September %, 26,
and 27.
Special rates of one and one-third
round trip fare have been granted
by all railroads from all points in
Oklahoma and Texas. the date Of
sale OF tickets will be from September
90 to % inclusive with return limit
to September 80.
Identification certificates can be Sc
cured from Arthur J. Reinhart, sec
retary Of the Goth Division Associa-
tion, Dallas. Texas. Any one who
served at any time with the Goth
Division is entitled to take advantage
Of this reduced rate and should write
at once to the secretary for certifi-
cate.
Special Trains win BE Run
Special trains will be run from
points In Texas and Oklahoma to ar
rive in Oklahoma City Sunday morn
ing September 90.
II Is expected that Major General
Martin. Brigadier Generals McAlexan-
der and Patsy o'Neil will be present,
Major General Henry T. Allen who
organized the division at Camp Trav-
Is and commanded It throughout Its
fighting Is still In command OF the
American army Of occupation In Ger
many and will not be able to attend,
Members OF the division. the Am
erican Legion post. city and county
officials and all civic organizations in
Oklahoma City have combined to
make the reunion memorable event,
and have announced that nothing will
he left undonc to make the occasion a
success.
This announcement Is OF special
interest TO many former members OF
the Goth Division. who reside In Ard
more and Carter county,
Among the first to be reported kill
ed In action from the Goth Division
were from this county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
DOUG FAIRBANKS
 STAR AT COLONIAL
Reggie Mixes In' Is WhirI- wind Comedy With Plenty
 of Laughs

Reggie was the sort of chap one would expect to find with a name like his, but there was hope for him, and that hope was justified before the end of Reggie Mixes h." the comedy in which Douglas Fairbanks will be the star at the Colonial theater the first half of aramountArtaraft week, be- ginning Labor Day
 There is no need to tell anyone what Doug can do with a character like Reg gie. On the face of it, Reggie is mollycoddle, and movie fans know what the famous comedian can do with a role like that. But he gets over being one, when the occasion demands. It is a typical Fairbanks role. There is pep and action in it from start to finish, with the famous smile working over time. The cast supporting the star is an excellent one, including many prominent players who have been seen in other productions with him.
 Appearances are often deceiving and it is so in the case of Reggie. He was never credited with any brains and so far as physical exertion was concerned Reggie was total loss. At least. av eryone thought so until he started something. And when he did he proved that he didn't start anything he couldn't finish.
 How he finishes what he starts m Reggie Mixes h." brings the story of pleasing conclusion. The picture will be shown through Wednesday only.
 Bryant Washburn will be the star from Thursday through Saturday in What Happened to Jones'" This is a play the eighteenth amendment made possible and Mir, Washburn proves that dry humor is highly entertaining.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
Big Productions WiU Mark
 National Paramount Week

Famous Players -Lasky Corporation producers of Paramount-Artcraft Pic lures, are celebrating their third ina tional Paramount week. period dur ing which they offer special induce ments to theatres to clear up their un- played pictures of the season and get ready for the new show year.
 The Paramount Company seems to take a great deal of pride in their productions of the past season, empha- sizing especially such plans as The Miracle Man" Male and Female"
 Why Change Your Wife" The Prince Chap, Ethel Clayton in several pie lures said to be especially pleasing, chief of which were "The Thirteenth Commandment" and More Deadly Than the Male" "On With the Dance" Fitzmaurice play; "Huckleberry Finn" Treasure Island" a number of Reid pictures which are said to have been very popular; The Toll Gate" from William $. Hart, and several comedies that are said to have made Doris May and Douglas Mclean among the most popular of the stars
 No less imposing than the plays of the past are the pictures promised for the coming year. Cecil E. DeMille will have, at least two productions. The first will be Something to Think About" with a cast that will include
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
Mixed Justice in Shanghai

From Mixed Justice in Shanghai by
 Nathaniel Peffer in Asia.
 Shanghai is an international city the only international city in the world It is controlled and governed by the treaty powers. which include all the principal powers that have established treaty relations with China, except France, which has it's own territory or concession adjoining the international settlement. In such a community unique solutions have had to be found for unique solutions have had to be found problems, and no problem has been more difficult than that of the administration of justice.
 For the foreign resident it is a simple matter. He is subject only to the laws of his own country, because of the privileges of extra -territoriality which China conceded to foreign powers some seventy years ago when she was forced to concede so much else. including parts of her territory. Thus for the Amer ican, there is an American court with an American judge and an American district attorney to administer Amer ican law just as in New York, Chicago San Francisco or Joplin. As for the British Russian. Japanese or Italian, even if no special court has been es- tablished for him. there is at least a consular court. \The result is. of course that your neighbor can do things with impunity that would net you $25 and costs. or vice versa. Yet one cheerfully accepts these interna tional fines as part of the flavor that makes up the fascination of life in Shanghai.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
County GoUernr11ent and
 ItS Methods Of Taxation

all claims against the county. have charge and control of all the property, and raise the money for the operating expenses of the county by levying the county taxes for county purposes on the property of the citizens of tho county. As the power of taxation is the chief source of revenue of the state county and city, it may be well to explain the method of taxation of each of these agencies of government and the rate of each.
 The constitution of Alabama of 1901 prohibited the legislature from author izing counties to levy more than 50 cents on the hundred dollars for gem eral county purposes. The same con- stitution prohibited the legislature from authorizing municipalities to levy more than 30 cents on the hundred dol lars for general city purposes.
 However the constitution authorized the legislature to permit counties to levy p cents on the S100 for payment of certain debts and obliga tions and it authorized the legislature to permit the city of Birmingham to levy an addi- tional 50 cents on the s1OO for payment of certain debts and obligations.
 The legislature of 1915 authorized the submission to vote of a constitutional amendment for the city of Birmingham IS d result of which the city is now authorized to levy $1 on the s100 for general municipal purposes and 50 cents for payment of debts So for county purposes and debts, the county government is authorized to. levy 75 cents on the $100. and the city for municipal purposes and payment Of debts is authorized to levy $1.5o on the S100.
 By other constitutional provisions and amendments counties were au- thorized to levy as much as 40 cents additional for public schools, which goes directly into the treasury of the county board of educat tion. and with which the county treasury, as such is not concerned, and with which the board of revenue has nothing to do except to make the levy, but as it Is a county purpose, should be taken ac- count of as such, The city also was permitted to levy for schools. inside the city, 30 cents on the s100 additional
 Thus the total authorized county levy for all purposes is:
 For general county purposes on
 Slu0 ................. ........S 50 For general payment of debts, etc,
 on S1o0 ,.............. 25 For public schools on s10O ... 40
 Total for all county purposes. .$1,t5 TEe total authorized levy for all city purposes is:
 For general municipal purposes on
 the %IVo '..'.. ......#.#.......,. s1.00 For payment of debts on the $100 50 For city schools on the $10O 30i Total for all municipal purposes s1 50
 So the total authorized tax lew is: For county government st For city government . 1S0 For state government 65
 I--
 Total authorized state, county
 and city tax " s3so
 B.- as the city hss not found it nee essary to levy but 20 cents of the 50 cents authorized for payment of debts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter and Kathryn Williams, and Forbidden Fruit" with about the same players. "Humoresque, which has set a new Broadway record with fifteen consecu- tive weeks run, vii be an early fall release, as well Thomas Meighan's sec ond starring vehicle Civilian Clothes"
 Fatty Arbuckle has deserted slap stick for longer and more serious things, and will be offered on the Para mount programme in The Round Up,p The Life of the Party" by-Irvin Cobb. and The Travelling Salesman" by James Ffrbes.
 George Fitzmaurice whose sole con tribution to the Paramount programme last season was On With the Dance" has completed two productions The Right to Love" and Idols of Clay" in both of which Mae Murray will be seen. George Melford. producer of "Everywoman," will offer several pro. auctions under his own name, the first of which will be Behold Thy Wife"
 There will be complete series of plays with Ethel Clayton. Wallace Reid, Dorothy Dalton. Enid Bennett, Billie Burke. William S. Hart and Douglas Mclean, together with num-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

Peg O My Heart Peter Pan" "TRt Cinderella Kiss" and other of Barrie't plays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
Tabled Status of Old Japan
From Master Wood-Carvers of O.
 Ianan hN Etlgie E, Wnil in Asia

Japan by Elsie F. Veil in Asia.
 Unkei, the son of a fisherman, and in his youth humble fisherman him. self, was responsible for one of the most remarkable epochs in the history of Japanese wood sculpture. His name is a household world to the Japanese The story is told by those who are supposed to know that the king of the underworld was very much irritate that Unkei had~never done him justice, although the sculptor had attempted to scarVe his image many times. So when he died. the king of dead Bud dhist souls sent Unkei back to earth that, after having seen the god, he might make faithful portrait. The result may be seen today in the temple Enno-j at Kamakura, where Unkei's statue of Emma, cruel and savage in its strength. strikes terror into the hearts of all who fear to meet the Judge of Hell. There are many de- lightful legends about old statues of the gods. Tn the Hase temple at Kama kura, high on the crest of a hill over looking the bay, is great gilded Kwannon of camphor wood-an eleven faced image of the Goddes of Mercy which for centuries had hearkened to the prayers of the fishermen. A long time ago. in that dim past when urdSoHs were aprodu III the lana ana gods condescended to play with men some fishermen saw a great light Shin- ing out at sea. They found the image at Kwannon floating on the water They dedicated a temple to the image and ever since have worshpped at her shrine. At the same time, a similar image of Kwannon, also amed of camphor wood. floated in at Yamato and was placed in the Hase-no- Kwan- non, temple that was the favorite resort of courtiers in the Nara period. It is still today a popular temple for pilgrims. who come in the spring, when the cherries are in full blossom and all the lanterns are lighted, to trans port themselves back to the days when the gods were young
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

Total authorized state, county
 iu oi'y tdA '..''.......',... .6C B~- as the city hes not found it nee essary to levy but 20 cents of the 5C cents authorized for payment of dobts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

it's levy for the present tax year is only $1.50 on the hundred dollars, thus making the total levy in the city of Birmingham for the present tax year for state county and city purposes S3.30 on the $100 of taxable values. By taxa ble value of the county is meant the value of all property in the county for taxation, and is sixty per cent iof the real value of all property in the coun- ty. The total levy in the county out side of municipalities is $1.S0 for state and county purposes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
LARGE OTSCRFTION
RIGHT NOW IS THE RIGHT TINE TO CHOOSE YOUR HAYWOOD L0T--.,

It is prudent to make this thoughtful provision for the certain eventuality that shadows the lives of all.
 To have your dear ones peacefully repose in this sacred, secluded and pro- tected spot shows excel lent judgment, for our perpetual maintenance fund will forever guard their last, resting place rom all encroachments and the blights of Time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
Joy-Riding in Wall Street

From the w Oflu w Ofk.l
 The word "pool' scents to have a magic power to attract the public in to those particular stocks which the newspapers from time to time casually mention as "poor stocks. Instead of being word of warning it is but an- ther note in the siren song that draws the public into the market. The sight of one of these stocks climbing upward at rapid rate leads many outsiders to believe that they can get aboard that particular car and get out when it reaches the top of the hill. Everybody wants to ride with these fast drivers. and all contribute gasolene to keep the car going. They don't stop to think that from the back of the car they cannot see ahead, nor do they realize that somewhere near the top of the hill those doing the steering and those manipulating~-the brakes are going to quietly drop off and leave the packed conveyance to descend the hill or land in the ditch, with no one to guide or restrain it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
MAE PARK COMING HERE NEXT WEEK
Popular Little Actress to Ap- pear in Peg O My Heart"
 at the Majestic

Miss Mae Park, well known to the thousands of friends of the Maddocks- Park Players at the Majestic, will again make her appearance in Peg O My Heart which opens a tthe Majestic, Monday September 13, the third week of the present season.
 This announcement will come as glad news to many who have been making sympathetic inquiries, in view of the fact that Miss Park has just recovered from quite serious illness. But when it is taken into considera- tion that little Mae Park played a sea- son of thirty-seven long weeks last season at the Majestic, never missing a single performance, it is not surpris- ing that she became too exhausted and close to the verge of nervous prostra- ton.
 The mana cement now announces that Miss Park has fully recovered from her severe illness and that for her first appearance this season they have selected a bill that will suit her per sonality and give her a vehicle in which she will appear at her best.
 In speaking to an Age-Herald rep resentative of her illness and express ing her happiness over the fact that she would soon again have the pleasure of meeting the patrons and friends of the Maddocks-Park Players, Miss Park also said: T wish to express my ap- preciation for the many kind inquiries regarding my health and the many of fers of sympathy and expressions of good will l have received during my illness, and when l see my friends again at the performance of Peg O My Heart, l will try to express in my acting the appreciation and thanks feel for all of them and their loyalty l will be more than pleased to well come all"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

County government is the agency by which the state administers govern ment within the territory embraced within county boundaries.
 The agency is for most purposes executed ty courts called boards of revenue or county commissioners. As such boards are merely state agencies they have only such powers as are granted to them by the legislature.
 The legislature may grant to such boards any authority it deems proper. except as prohibited by the constitu- tion of the state. The acts of the leg fsiature therefore constitute the DOW CT Jurisdiction and authority of these boards. This does not mean that they have to point to a specific act of the legislature for each and everything they do, but they must be able to show either that there is such an act or the thing they do must be a necessary in- cident to the power granted by some act or authorized by some act of the legislature.
 LARGE DISCRETION
 Such boards, within the Jurisdiction conferred on them by the legislature. have a large discretion, and exercise a three functions of government. leg lslatlVe, judicial and executive They lWsely administer the business affairs Of the county. They audit and allow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

Der of so-called specials, including The Restless Sex" Caleb West" "The Heart of Youth" Held by the Enemy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

It is contended that Swedish wages are three times high as German wages. and that owing to the high cost of coal and dyestuffs, stagnation threatens the Swedish wooden industry. unless the government comes to its relief
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-17
EXPECT CHEAP
 MONEY PARTY TO
 BE ORGANIZED

Berkeley Cal, ec. 16 A cheap money party is expected to spring up. according to c. c. Plehn, professor of finance on the Flood Foundation of the University of California, in speak ing of the problems of financial re- organizations that confront the new administration.
 When Congress and the new presi- dent begin their work in March they will find that the public debt needs strengthening out he said. Portions whole mass of Outstanding securities can be implied. When that is done Liberty bonds and Victory bonds should go at par, where they would be today but for existing confusion.
 While taxation cannot wisely be reduced in amount, the unjust and inequitable taxes must be revised. War taxes are not good peace time taxes. The excess profits tax is es- peciaIly obnoxious and very injurious to the restoration of sound business and to increased production. The ex- cesSively high SurtaXeS must come off. as they discourage capital. Every association of business men with singular unanimity, agree that the taxes of the Federal government need a board of experts to administer them.
 ''while the Federal reserve system has demonstrated its ability to ward off panic during the recent fall in prices, there is every indication of the rise of cheap money party. The clamor fer cheap and abundant credit is loud. We need once more to sound the slogan: There is no sound money that is not gold.'"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-17

The inha bitants of China are counted every year in a curious man ner. The oldest master of every ten houses has to count the families and make lIs1, which is. sent to the inn peria1 tax-house.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-17
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-17
Women Soon To Appear In Lovely
 Coat of Varnish

London, Dec. 16 = Women may soon with perfect composure and propriety, dress themselves entirely in varntsh, from the crown of the hat to the sole of the shoe. The varnish is opaque. but it is varnish none the less, and as clear as glass if rolled into a thin film.
 In it's liquid days this dress material was called dope and was used to protect aeroplane wings from fire and water. Now it is being spun and woven for ladies' dresses.
 The only difference between a film of dope, a sheet of cellulose and a skein of silk" is that the first is laid on with brush, the second pressed out on a plate and the third forced through tin hole.
 Among hundreds f other things it can be made into hats, blouses. skirts, boots and ever possible article of fe- male attire.
 Moreover, the articles so made re- fuse to be spoiled b water. and are so Greproof that the wearer, if we'll masked, could stroll through a bon fire unharmed.
 Dyes of all shades are readily ab- sorbed and retained, and the material is as washable as linen.
 One property of this dope-si1k un- shared by any other fabric is its inn munity from the ra.vageS of salt water If a cambric Or silk hand kerchief is immersed in sea water for a few days it disappears but a cellu- lose handkerchief would survive sev- eraI months immersion.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-17
PANAMA GIRL PROMINENT IN
 POLITICAL WORK

Women have played an important part in the background of the worlds history and there have been some historic women of the stages past who have been credited with ruling the great empires of the world.
 this day of suffrage and in this period when woman is taking her place in the sphere of politics and commerce, it is not surprising to find that a woman is popularly believed to be the power behind the govern ment of Latin-American repu1o- lie.
 A beautiful young woman, of twen- ty-six is said to be the most power ful factor in the political life of the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-17

Much publicity was given the re- port that MT. Harding and President Alvaro Obregon, of Mexico, would meet while MT. Harding was in Tex as, but it was understood that there was little basis for the report and General Obregon acted with great caution in the matter.
 Despite the burden of bushes be- cause of his approaching inaugura- ton, it is said President Obregon would have hastened to meet MT. Harding had the invitation been ex- going to the border for a meeting until a dispatch stated that MT. Hard ing had said that the report sent out from Brownsville had particular he could not go from the capital to the border.