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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-24
STATE PRIMARIES UPSET
COMMITTEES IN HOUSE
Craftsmanship of Several Vacant
and Prominent Members
Will Be Absent.

Some of the most important COM
mittees Of the House have been shot
to pieces in the primaries and by the
voluntary withdrawal of members.
Not only is the craftsmanship of sew
eral of these committees vacated, but
seven and eight of the most prom
inent members will be absent when
the new Congress meets.
Seven members of the interstate
and foreign commerce committee will
not return to the Sixty-seventh Con-
gress, including the ranking members
from both the republican and demo-
cratic parties. With the passing of
Chairman Esch and Representative
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-24

Representative S. Wallace Dempsey Of
New York will probably be chairman
under the seniority rule. The republic
cans to go are: Chairman Kennedy,
Idaho: Costello. Pennsylvania: Emer-
son, Ohio, and JUL. Illinois. The dem
ocrats who will not be in the next
Congress are: Former Chairman Small.
North Carolina; Booher, Missouri; Gal
lagher, Illinois Gin whose contest a re-
count is being made), and Scully of
New Jersey. who voluntarily retired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-24
WHITE AWAITS CREDIT
FOR DROP IN PRICES
Wonders Whether Senator Harding
and Orators VIII Ac-
knowledge It.

| NEW YORK. september-s4.-George
! White, chairman of the democratic
national committee, in a statement is
sued here today declared he awaited
acknowledgment from Senator Hard
| ing, republican presidential nominee.
deserved credit for the cut in COM
modify prices throughout the coun-
try.
1.-The morning newspapers of all
shades of political opinion carried the
news that prices are coming down."
said Mr.. White, II wonder whether
Senator Harding and republican ora
| tors will give the democratic adminis-
| tratien credit for it,
"They are unanimous in the charge
that the administration was respon-
sible for the high cost of living and
| for falling to check its advance. Ely
| the same reasoning since that admin
| istration still is in power since the
republican Congress did nothing eff
feetiVe in this direction and since the
government departments have been
sible for the drop;
| I'VE await with becoming naodesty
acknowledgment from Senator Hard
| ing and his supporters either that
| their original charges were unjusti-
| fed, or that we have corrected the
condition of which they complained.
Fairness requires it; honesty COM
| pels it,"
Will If. Hays, chairman of the re-
publican national committee, declined
| to discuss the drop in prices reported
in the newspapers, saying that the
question was economic and net po-
IliticaL'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-24
WEST V|RG|N|ANS
HONOR HARDING
Three Delegations Motor to
Pay Visit to Republican
Candidate.

MARION, Ohio, September "a (by the
Associated Press) This was West Viz
ginia day at Senator Hardings front
porch, three delegations from that state
Joining in pilgrimage to bring their
[ pledges of support to the republican
nominee. and to hear an address by him
= Wheeling, Huntington and Parkers-
burg each sent contingent to repre-
sent the state at the meeting. Most of
the visitors made the trip by motor.
Yesterdays Callers.
| Among his callers yesterday were
Otto H. Kahn, the New York financier;
Representative James w. Good OF
Iowa, chairman of the House appropria-
tons committee; Representative c.
! Bascom Slemp Of Virginia and James
NJ. Beck of New York. former as
sistant attorney general and student
of International affairs.
| After his talk with the nominee Mr..
Kahn issued a statement declaring he
was greatly pleased at the senator's
calm Judgment" on national policies.
and adding that any one ev VINO INNS
patter, man in sympathy with reac-
tionary views, will make great mistake
| in voting for him."
Statesmen to See Harding.
| NEW YORK. September 24.-Three
Thousand travelling statesmen from
eastern cities planned to leave here
| late today on special train nor
| Marion. Ohio, to Join the pilgrimage
of the Harding-Coolidge Travelling
Mems League to be addressed tomor-
row by Senator Harding. the repub-
lican candidate for President. 1t ts
estimated 10000 knights of the grip"
| from every state will hear the address.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-24

Japan expects to harvest more than
2s,000,000 bushels of wheat, more than
36.600,000 bushels of barley and more
than 4O.55O,000 bushels of rye this
year.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01

OLD cLockMAkER BUILT WELL
Remarkable Timepiece In English CO,
thedraI Said to Have Been Made
About Year 1922.

Glastonbury, a town planned In the
form of a o and situated In the
very center of Somerset, England, is
full of ancient associations dating
back, in legend and otherwise, to the
early years Of the Christian era. Early
writer's mention that Ynyswytryn, the
ancient name of Glastonbury, was the
place where the first church was built
in which the gospel was preached. st.
Philip, so the tradition is, sent Joseph
of Arimathea in the year 60 with II
disciples to Britain to preach the Cos
pei. Averagus, the Roman viceroy, re-
marking that they had journeyed far
and were of modest demeanor., gave
each a hide of land, which was the
origin of the Twelve Hides of Glaston-
bury.
\ One of the most interesting connec-
lions with Glastonbury is the ancient
clock, which was at one time in the
famous Glastonbury abbey, but is now
In the north transept of Wells cathe-
dral, Somerset. a few miles away. 1t
Is said to have been made by a monk
named Peter Lightfoot about the year
1882. The dial plate is six feet six
inches in diameter, and is contained
in a square frame. The outer circle
is divided into "a parts intended to
represent the "a hours of the day. The
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
Pansies for Spring BEDDING.

Pansy seed started in the conserva-
tory or greenhouse now will make
good plants for bedding out in the
spring.
Sow the seeds In seed pans or boxes
and grow the plants In the shall
low boxes used by florists for this
purpose.
Cold frames should be ready and
kept covered all winter, to take the
plants in March.
The plants can be potted and grown
in the pots. The object Of putting
the plants In the cold frames is to say.
room in the greenhouse and also to
harden the plants off so they can be
set out early in beds. The sashes
must be taken off the cold frames
early or the plants will become tall
and spindly or drawn" a 8 the gar
deners call them.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01

the cash box. He asked that his wife
be left in ignorance. But the manager
thought it better to tell her.
He did better than that. He ad.
vanced her funds enough to go to her
sisters home in Missouri and take the
daughter and the adopted son. Bel
mont eel to the depot with them
just before Detectives Thomas Slattery
and Dan Gilbert led him to the de
tectiye bureau.
And that was the hardest thine
of ALL" the prisoner said, that part
ing. MY wife kissed me and cried
My daughter kissed me and laughed
and I hoisted her up the steps,"
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01

Attempt to Pay Doctors Bills
Cause of Mans Down
tall.
IT'S THE OLD. OLD STORY
Tries Stock Market to Cover To Hia
Thefts and Gets in Deeper-Part
ina With Wife and Child
Hardest.

Chicago.-Six months ago Frank w
Belmont was one of the most content
ed men In Chicago. He was living
with his wife and his daughter Ruth
and his adopted baby son. Frank. Jr.
He was getting $50 a week as Head
b~ookkeeper. putting something by. and
teaching the baby to say daddy
Belmont, In jail. full of misery. told
his story.
"a man named Peter Rush of DAN
vile. Ill.," Belmont said. "came to my
home one day and said he heard we
wanted to adopt a baby. His sister.
Julia, was in a hospital in Chicago. he
said. and her son was just a month old
Wife Becomes III.
"We took him gladly, and then one
day we were told that the boys mother
had committed suicide by poison. The
child was ours beyond dispute. And
we were very happy.
It was shortly after this that Mrs.
Belmont became i'll. The doctor bills,
Belmont said, wiped out the balance in
the bank-and then 1t was necessary
that an operation be performed to save
his wife's life.
Il had to save her." Belmont said.
II had to pay for that operation. l
had to have Il nurse to mind tina new
son and Ruth, my eight-year-old daugh-
ter, while my wife was in the hospital.
Il took the company's money. Oh. I
know now that it was criminal, but l
intended to put 1t back. But | couldn't.
1t seemed that all the bills in the world
were coming to me, and l had to pay
them. / took more money.
"Then l thought I could get money
on the stock market-enough to cover
up what l had taken. Altogether l
took $1,000. l lost it-and l was the
most wretcbed man in the world. Well.
I'm here in this cell in the detective
bureau. I'm taking my medicine"
Finds BeImont's Note.
Belmont confessed when a note for
$24O signed by Belmont was found in
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01

numbers are in old English characters
and mark hours from II noon to mid
night. and thence to IL midday. A
large gilt star points to the hour. An
inner circle shows the minutes, and a
small star noves around the circle
every hour. A third circle gives the
age Of the moon, and on a plate in this
circle the phases Of the moon are
shown. There is also a smaller circle
in which is a female figure, having
around it the motto, "Sic peragrat
Phoebe"
Above the dial plate is a paneled
tower, around which knights on horse
back revolve in opposite directions
every hour on the striking Of the
clock, which revolution is meant to
represent a tournament, a popular
amusement in the middle ages. A fig
ure, called Jack Blandivr, which is
seated some distance from the clock,
at a higher elevation, strikes with It's
heels every quarter of an hour against
bells-two strokes at the first quarter,
four strokes at the half hour, six al
the third quarter, and eight strokes
at the hour. It can also be made tC
strike with a hammer on a bell the
number of the hour. Connected witt
the works Of the clock, on the outside
of the cathedral, two knights in armol
strike with battle axes the quarters
on bells. The works Of the clock have
been renewed; the original works are
now in the patent office of the Soutl
Kensington museum fitted up and KEEP
in motion.-Christian Science Monitor
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01

March Is. This zone includes the
southern portion of South Carolina,
he southern half of Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi, almost the whole of
Louisiana and all southeastern Texas.
Several of the more hardy garden
crops, including those mentioned above,
will Withstand considerable frost and
may be planted at least a month be-
fore the average date for the last frost.
Irish potatoes are easily injured by
freezing, but they require about a
month to come up and may bs planted
at about the same time al lettuce and
radishes. It pays to take a chance on
the early planting Of certain of the
more hardy garden vegetables IL they
are killed or severely injured they may
De replanted. a good method IS to
make about three paintings Mt inter
walls of three weeks, and il the first
planting is killed the later ones take
Its place.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
Probably Not.

After she had come home from the
party in the four-wheeled cab, little
Ethel was telling her mother all hei
adventures.
"And did you enjoy the ride home
dear?' asked mother.
ooh, it was very thrilling" ex
claimed the child. "Down at Masor
street the horse suddenly stopped ane
backed right on to the pavement, ant
the cabman had to get down and draf
it back on to the road"
Eyes, DEAR" said Mother wisely; ii
must have been what they call a jib
bling horse"
THAT wasn't what the cabman callet
IT. replied Ethel, thoughtfully.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
Pavs to Attract Tourists.

Money in the average town circu-
lates. It moves in q circle from in
dustry to employees, from employees
to store, from stores to bank, and back
to industry again. Additions from out
side sources, therefore, are real gains,
real profits to the community. Money
left in town by tourists Is such a
profit.
Therefore the town that repels au-
tomobilists by poo roads, lack of signs
and petty traffic restrictions is losing
money. The community that goes out
of Its way to attract motoring travel
is doing some real good for itself.
To draw the stranger and treat him
well is more than merely advertising
the town. It is making money.-Ohio
M0torist.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
HONE ~
TOWN -
START YOUR GARDEN EARLY
Department Of Agriculture Puts Forth
Plea for the Raising Of More
Food Products.

Gardens are going to be just as I'M
portant the coming year as during the
war period, United States department
of agriculture specialists declare. High
food costs, they say, are likely to Ne
main until more to eat is grown and
distributed. Farm gardens, village gar
dens and city backyard gardens all
will help. Food produced in the gar
den not only helps balance the family
budget but releases that grown on
farms for the use Of people who are
entirely dependent upon others.
With the frightening of the days 1t
will no be long until land can be
worked, and such hardy crops as peas,
onions, lettuce, radishes and beets
planted, especially throughout the low
er Gulf coast region. The average
date Of the last killing frost of the
winter in this section is not later than
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
Aviator SLAVES and
latherS an OnlOOker

San FranciscO.-Carrying out
a bet with a fellow aviator, Ivan
Gates, San Francisco premier
"police traffic officer of the air."
shaved himself 5000 feet up in
the air recently.
But for the fact that when he
landed again on the Marina, his
razor slipped and cut him on
the ear, that his shaving water
upset and %splashed over the by
ISLANDERS, and that his brush, all
covered with lather, fell on the
upturned face of one of the on
lockers, the shave was a big sue
cess.
Gates had made his bet with
Pilot L. de Arce.
On landing, De Arce person
ally inspected Gates chin to e
whether he had made a good job
of it. He declared himself quite
satisfied, saying that nc expert
barber could have done better.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
WILL you HELP7

Newspaper reporters find it increas-
ingly difficult to u down the news
happenings of a community. The COM
ings and goings of people are not SO
to get as they once were. Once
the reporter haunted the railway sta
ton and picked up much Of his new
matter there. But the station no long
er yields up the personal mention i
once did. More people travel by autt
than by train and so personal event
the gonigs and comings, escape til
eyes of the news gatherer.
That makes it all the more import.
ant that readers turn in their new.
TENS at the newspaper Office. Tha
is the only way to insure that q men,
ton Of something interesting which
has happened in or to your household
is duly chroneled.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
KILLED IN FIGHT OVER GIRLS
Two Cousins Shot to Death by Broth.
ers in Battle Staged in
Parlor.

Allendale, S. C.-In a gun battle in
the parlor of the home of E. P. Phillips,
q farmer living near here, Allie Cone,
twenty years old, int his first cousin,
Orbie Cone, seventeen, were instantly
killed, and John Brent, twenty-five
years old, is slightly wounded.
The shooting occurred In the pres
ence of two of Mr.. Phillips daughters,
upon whom the men involved were
calling. John Brent and his brother,
Earl, seventeen years old. are under
arrest charged with the killing.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
STILL Use lash
FOR OFFENDERS
Delaware Only State in Union
Where Whipping Is
Permitted.
CLAIM II GETS RESULTS
Law Oesi0nates the Number Of Strokes
for the Various Felonies-Nn
tinction Made Between Petty
and Grand Larceny.

Wilmington. Del.-The whipping
post has been abolished in Delaware.
but whipping still remains.
Instead of strapping offenders to
a post. they are forced to stand
against a wall, with their hands out
stretched on either side.
= Delaware is the only state in which
this form OF punishment still is per-
mitted. In other states it was abol-
ished long ago.
In Delaware even the pillory was
abandoned only recently.
What Law Provides.
Here are the various elonies pun
ishable by whipping, and the number
of strokes that the law provides for
each:
Horse-stealing-Twenty lashes.
Larceny-not more than twenty
lashes.
Arson in Second Degree-Not more
han twenty lashes.
Burning a Courthouse Where Of
fetal Records Are kept-SiXty lashes.
MISUNDERSTANDING lashes.
Highway Robbery-Twenty lashes.
Wife-beating-Not more than thirty
lashes.
Attempt to RaviSh-Thirty lasheS.
In addition to the whipping, the Of
lenses are also punishable by impris-
onment.
The most of the statutes merely
provide penalties for the various Of
lenses with no provision that they
shall not be inflicted upon women,
public opinion in Delaware will no
longer permit the flashing of women.
A majority of the offenders TO be
punished in that n are negroes,
but white men suffer it as well. The
whippings usually take place at the
end Of each court term or, if the
terms last more thar n week, the
~whippings occur at the end of each
week. They are administered by the
warden of the jail.
A curious feature of the law of
Delaware is that it makes no distinc-
ton between grand and petty larceny;
the theft of a loaf of bread by IL hun
cry nan is technically as serious Il
crime as the stealing of $1,000 by a
hardened criminal.
There is nothing In the law to pre-
vent a judge from sentencing the for
mer to be lashed on the bare back
with a cat-o'-nine-tails, made of leath-
er thongs.
See Nothing Brutal.
II do not see anything brutal about
our form of punishment" former
Judge J. Frank Ball, counsel for and
a member of the County Workh0ase
commission, said to me. 9Th men
are not beaten severely. for the strokes
do not draw blood. No man VINO caua.s
to see one of the whippings, and who
was unprejudiced could find anything
to object to in them.
81 do not know of any movement
to abolish whipping, and l do not
know any citizens Who would favor
such q thing. We feel that we know
what we are doing, and we don't want
outsiders to dictate to u.s."
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
PENSIONED BY ITALY
Number Eligible to Receive Govern
ment Aid Is Expected to
Reach 1,0OO,0 0O.

Rome.-TwO hundred and fifty thou
sand pensions already have been APP
proved by the ministry of pensions for
men injured in the var
It is estimated that 100000 per-
sons, including 100000 affected by tu-
berculosis and malaria, are eligible for
pensions. 1t is difficult as yet to OBJ
tain a definite idea as to the total bur-
den these pensions will place upon the
country, as the cost of this service will
he included in appropriations made for
he upkeep of the normal military and
AVA service.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01

Greenwood like all wideawake
progressive cities has her hous-
ing problem handicap . But ev-
entually this question will be sol
we'd. As soon as normal condi.
tons have been restored there
will be plenty of houses built tc
accommodate everybody - and
the date is not very distant wher
this condition will arrive.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
cHANcERY SUMMONS.

The State of Mississippi.
% b. r. Purnell and J.. N. Paschal,
Lebanon, Tennessee.
You are commanded to appear be-
ore the Chancery Court of Leflore
sounty, Mississippi, at Rule Day OF
aid Court, in vacation, on the Sec
ond Monday in April, 1920, to defend
he suit IN said Court Of Robert 81
siIespie, wherein you : Defendants
This the 10th day Of March, 1920.
6SoAl. A. 4. BEW, Clerk.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
Examination For
FOurth-C Class p. M,

Civil Service Examination will be
held in Greenwood on April 10, 1920,
to fill a contemplated vacancy in the
position of fourth-class postmaster at
Money, Miss. The compensation of
the postmaster at that office was $425
for the last fiscal year. For further
particulars apply to T F. Prophet, To-
cal Secretary, at the Greenwood post
office.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
Take the Daily Commonwealth
Taken Up.

One small dark brown Mare Mule,
about Is years old; slightly deaf.
Owner win come forward, prove pro-
perty, pay charges and get same, or
it will be disposed as the law provides.
j. H. HUTCHENS,
Greenwood, Miss.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
SOME TALES HARD TO DOWN
Particularly True Of the Story Of the
Grizzly Bear That Climbs
Up a Tree.

The hunter who m nome with q
tale of how he too refuge from a griz-
ely in a tree, and how the bear
climbed after him, is a nature fakir.
pure and simple. as Enos A.. Mills re-
minds hunters in the story of the "Ad-
ventures of a Nature Guide" Yet this
curious misrepresentation Of the climb
ing abilities of he greatest of the
Ursidae persists in many quarters and
Is not always accounted for by men,
dacity. 1t seems to be q reasonable
explanation that when a grizzly sets
out in pursuit of q more or less mex
perienced sportsman. the latter is not
always In the attitude Of a calm In
vestfgator. Things are not precisely
what they seem when the normal po-
sitions of hunter and hunted are re-
versed.
1t is the task of more than one
generation to put end to nature fax
ing. Colonel Roosevelt, If he were
! alive gould take delight in indorsing
the works of Mr.. Mills. who has re-
Gently become famous as a national
park guide, who revealed the delight
ful possibilities Of guiding In the VIII
derness as a profession Tor ambitious
young men. The wilderness, says Mr..
Mills, is really the safest place In the
world for d~efenseless human beings.
Not wen the catamount OF puma Is
dangerous. Colonel Roosevelt had al
ready assured Us on this point, but
the statement will pear repetition
Portland O~regonian.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
Economical Advancement.

Hub-Do you think it saves you any
thing to have a running account at thu
department store?
Wife, know it does. You can
imagine the amount Of time it save:
me. Why, I never have to stop ant
ask the price of anything I want tt
purchase.-Boston Transcript.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
Homes Great Essential.

A well kept and well planted lawn
is essential for every home. Most
any n can erect a shelter Of boards
or cement but some thought must be
put into making that shelter a home.
Comfort, convenience, and beauty
ought to be found there. They are
all needed II young people are going
to stay long In the home.-Le Roy
Cady, associate hOrticulturist, Mime
sofa College OF Agriculture.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-01
Uses Train TO Run brands.

Berlin.-As instancing the laxity
with which the Prussian state railways
are now administered the Tageblatt
cites the case of q Bremen engineer
who took an idle engine and rode to a
point near by to buy yeast for his wife
and to visit his aunt.
Then be returned the engine to the
Bremen rOundhonse.