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cent Of the assets Of American hfo insur-
ance companies; that railroad securities
came second, bcing 28l per cent Of tho
asssts, and that the companies owned
nearly 81 ,25O, 900 900 Of federal, State,
county and municipal bonds--ncnrly 20
per cent Of their total asseta.
Mortgage loans have generally form
cd the largest percentage Of life insurance
investments, continued Mr.. Fiske. Here
is need which just at present attracts the
most public attention. Criticism has been
insistent that the companies havo not
done their duty. Thny have been blamed
because Of the shortage of housing. II is
unthinking criticism. II has even been
claimed that mortgage should be, II not
almost tho sole, yet the very greatly pre-
dominating form Of investment.
This criticism overlooks several facts.
First, investments must bc TO somc extent
liquid. One company was called upon to
pay 21,0O0,OO0 in year on influenza
claims over and above its normal NOR
tality-about so per cent. Second, If all
the companies undertook mortgage loans
almost exclusively the rate of interest
would fall to point very detrimental to
the interest of polioyho1dcrs. Third, if
such role were established by statute
the supply would exceed the demand and
there would be n large amount of un-
invested assets.
'Can anybody say that the life in
Hurance companies should be the only
lenders on bond and mortgage? IL is not
their fault that the tax laws have cut
out of the market the privnte investor
and the managers of estates Safety NJ
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-09
LEND $23O,OOO,OOO ON
CITY AND FARM REALTY
Life Insurance Companies During
First Ten Months Respond to
Cry for Funds.
ny Associated Press TO Every Evening


New York, Dco. o.-In response to
the nationwide cry for shelter and re-
duced living costs, the lifo insurance com
panies Of this country for the first ten
months Of the present year have loaned
more than $230,000, 900 on city and farm
real estate mortgages, according TO original
statistics submitted by Haley Fiske, OF
New York, president OF the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company, nt the convrn-
tion Of the Association OF Life Insurance
Presidents here today
Of this amount, he said, s151 ,34S, ,9O2
was loaned on farms, SIS, $40, $50 in
cities and the remainder not separated in
the figures furnished by the 80 life in
surance companies.
MIR. Fiske said that today the COM
panies "have tho enormous sum Of 81, ,0S2,-
900, 900 invested on bond and mortgage
throughout the country, almost equally
divided between farms and cities and have
made commitments for many millions
more-one company alone having prom
ised nearly $50, ,0Oo. 900 in loans not yet
closed"
MIR. Fiske stated that real estate mort
gage loans now formed moro than 30 per
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-09
Important to All Women
Readers Of This Paper

Thousands upon thousAnds Of women
hive kidney or bladder trouble and never
suspect IL.
Womcn's complaints oftsn Wovc to b.
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result Of hdrey or bladder dircase.
If the kidneys arc rot In = healthy oon-
dition, they may cause the other organs
TO become diseased.
You may suffer pain in the bsok, head
ache and loss of ambition.
Poor health makcs you nervous, irritn-
BILE and may bc despondent; Il makes
any one so.
But hundreds Of women claim that DIR.
Kilmers Swamp Root, by restoring health
to tho Kidneys, proved 70 be juet the
remedy needed TO overcome such con-
ditions.
Many send for sample bottle 70 sce
what Swamp-Root, the grcat kidney,
liver and blndder medicine will do for
them. BY enclosing ten ccnts 10 Dr.. Xii
mer Il Co, Binghamton, N. Y, you may
receive sample size bottle by Parcel Post.
You can purchase medium and large sire
bottles ,at all drug stores.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-09
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ends Indigestion, Gases.
Sourness, Acidity

You don't want slow remedy when
your stomach is bad-or an uncertain
one-or harmful one your stomach
Is too valuable: you mustn't injure il
with drastic drugs
When your meals dont fl and you
feel uncomfortable, when you beloh
gases. acids, or raise SOUR, undigestnd
food. When YOU feel humps of indipes-
tion pain, heartburn or headache. from
soidity, just ate a tablet Of Pape's Dia--
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Millions Of people know the magic Of
Pape's Diapepnn as an antacid. They
know that indigestion and dirordcred
stomach are so needless. The relief comes
quickly, no disappointment and they
cost 80 little too
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-09

Hyde was granted cn~todv ~ the t~s
minor children.
Mr. Hyde, a nieos n Col. Swor~,
teadfss'ly supported bw husband Or.
Hyd. was convicted A. the hrvt txsal, bss
the State Supreme Court r~vvvpsd tbs d.
,IsIon. There wrre two mis-.r ais AID then
pte csss vas continued and finally drop
heJ
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-09
SET FIRE 10 - SCHOOLS.

C>unnelhville, Pm, Dec- "a concerted
plan H ACTON agxinst fzebugs who have
sst fire 10 thirteen school buildings 10
thls ropou h the last Gx weeks win be
adopted Tuseday at amectlng m Union
town, Pa, Of school authorities OF Perry
revnship, Fayette County; =,
Members oi the School Board said
today that the State would be urged
20 cooperate with other authorities IL
an effort TO apprehend the inoendiarses.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-09

investAl--15 per cent of their nsscts;
although in this field they have 70 sub
nit TO the composition Of the Fedmal
government, which excmpts mortgages
made under itA system from TAXATION"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-09

III the funds Of life insurance com-
panies would seem to call for diverrity OF
investments within tho limits of existmg
laws.
'"rhe life companies are called upon for
farm loans and have over 81 ,000, ! 600 900 10
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-09
DIVORCES DR.. b. G. HYDE.
Wife Supported Him Durfaa His Three
Trials for Murder.

KansaS City, Mo-, De-. 9>-Mn.
FrAnocs 3. Hyde Monday was granted
an absolute decrce of divorcs from Dr. Is.
Clark Hyde, who was tried thr~e times for
the murder Of Col. Thomas Swope, Mrs
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-09

Shop and stay homo these cold days.
Rad classified ads and phone your orders.
Classified ads tell everybody Cali 1900.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-09

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wish that you could hear him tell OF his
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The Adair County news., 1920-03-31

midsummer, but Senator Poin-
dexter's manager announced a
few days ago that the Senator
would spend three weeks in
May in Oregon trying to keep
the Republican voters of his
neighbor State from voting for
Leonard Wood in the President
ial primaries.
Senator Harding is another
Republican Presidential candi-
date who has not been bashful
in answering speaking calls from
far and near, and now he is en-,
gagged in ten days junket in
the West and Southwest. in
quest of votes at Chicago.
We are not inclined to object
to these eminent Republicans
running for President like it
was Constable if that is their
idea of the manner in which the
highest honor in the land should
be bestowed, but as long as they
are Senators, they should recall
at odd moments at least, that
the United States Senate meets
in the Capitol at Washington,
and that it is now in session.
The Adair County news., 1920-03-31
Reflections Of a Bachelor girl.

After a few months of Prohi-
bition and seif-boredom, it will
be so easy for girl to marry
the average bachelor, that it will
seem almost "a shame to take
the certificate"
Of course you have the right
to propose" to a man in leap
year Geraldine; but you have al
SO the fright of way" in front
of a speeding automobile at busy
street crossing-if you care to
take the consequences.
Isn't optimism wonderful!
Where is that man of sublime
faith, who used to buy the hair
restorers and the Wlte-decelV-
ing death tablets? Why dearie.
he's buying raisins and yeast
cakes and things to drop them
in, noWi
There are only two times In 9
mans life when he sheds tears,
or contemplates suicide, over {
woman; when he can't get her
and when he can't get away
from her. Standardized raj
ment" for women is being en-
Enthusiastically advocated by tn
lecturers. Good heavensl Jus
as if we were all tagged out, al
ready, trying to live up to tn
show girls standard!
Most husbands and wives ar
like Home" delightful to ge
The Adair County news., 1920-03-31

More and more..the desirability
of having employees become
stockholders is being impressed
upon industrial concerns in this
country. The United States Cor
poration has the largest number
tockholders, but the
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Com
pany is pressing hard for pre-
mier honors. Although in the
last sale of preferred stock, II,
400 or 60 percent of the Good.
yearties subscribed, the company
will start a drive to have every
worker own stock by the end of
1920. Three more sales will bt
held in March, June and Decem.
Der on the plan of paying for the
stock by pay deductions. so that
complete payment will be made
within a period of two years.
Officials are sanguine that nearly
all the company's employees will
own stock within the next Il
months.
The Adair County news., 1920-03-31

Weather doesn't mean any,
thing to ]. E. Merz, indianapolis
motorcycle dealer, because when
his home city is mantled in snow,
he just puts his family in his
side.car and travels where the
weather suits him. He has just
returned from a delightful trip
to Jacksonville during which he
had many interesting EXPERIENCES
with mud, sand and southern
hotels. One strip of deep sand
for 70 miles, from Waycross to
jacksonville, termed "The
Oasis" was reported to be the
terror of the south. Mr.. Merz
was warned not to attempt to
negotiate it. While he admits it
was tough going and that he
does not care to attempt it again,
his Goodyear tires gave such
traction that he came through
with flying colors. He met three
automobiles that were in diff
Guilty and says the driver looked
at him in amazement for hi!
! apparent hardihood.
The Adair County news., 1920-03-31
Absentee Craftsmanship.

There is nothing about their
duties in the United States Sen
ate that seems sufficiently i'm
portant to command the presence
of its Republican members who
are active candidates for the
nomination for the Presidency.
Reservations to the Peace
Treaty are being voted on daily,
and the final vote on the Treaty
is approaching; pressing domes-
tic problems are being consider
ed on the floor and in Senate
Committees, but mere trifes like
these do not affect the ambitious
gentlemen who are so eager to
be President that they seem to
have forgotten they are Sena-
tors.
Nobody has prated more about
his ''Americanism" than Hiram
Johnson, of California, but
when the United States Senate
is passing on reservations which
Senator Lodge insists are vital
to "Americanize" the Treaty,
Hiram Johnson is on the hust-
ings in South Dakota trying to
win that States paltry three
delegates to the next Republican
National Convention.
Senator Poindexter is another
who affects to save this country
from the perils of the Peace
Treaty and the League of Ma
tons but there is no business in
Washington so important to Sen
ator Poindexter just now as max
ing speeches abusing the Presi-
dent whenever he can secure an
invitation, whether it be in
Maine or California. Congress
is certain to be in session until
The Adair County news., 1920-03-31

Some political agitators can
never open their mouths without
railing against big business. T"
They do not stop TO consider
that the greatness of this coun-
try is the result of this same big
business. What we need in re-
atty is a strong curb for the
corporations-not determination
and protection from democrat
izing onsla1ghts of radicalism.
Corporate interests should be
adequately protected and ever.
Iastingly curbed. They should
be permitted the right to a fair
profit and prevented by rigid
The Adair County news., 1920-03-31

away from occasionally; but not
unless you are sure that you have
a latch-key and a return ticket
in your pocket.
In these days of the H. C. L.,
a girls most dazzling castle in
the air resolves itself into four
rooms and kitchenette, three
flights up-with the right man
in it, and the rent paid
When man starts out with
the determination to be a .cynic
on the sabject of women, he is
suddenly bitterly embarrassed to
discover how many lovables ones
there are.
A mans love for a woman is
all that which slops over from
the exuberant self love, with
which she manages to inspire
him.
The Adair County news., 1920-03-31

The Lodge substitute to the
Lodge reservation of Article x
was adopted by the Senate by a
vote of so to 26. Twelve Demo-
Gratis voted for it.
The Adair County news., 1920-03-31

government supervision from ex-
tortion and profiteering. The
same can be said of organized
labor, of agriculture, and of ev-
cry other legitimate interest.
Then, and only then, will ideal
conditions prevail in this coun-
try.
The Adair County news., 1920-03-31

New Jersey hasIbeen granted
permission by the Supreme
Court to institute proceedings to
test the coustitutioDalIy of the
prohibition amendment.
The Adair County news., 1920-03-31

Former United States Senator
Henry Blair, of New Hampshire,
died in Washington.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-02-25
MUST MELT BELL IN TOWER
Only Way Ii Can Be Removed From
ST. Louis City Hall Is in
BucketfuIs.

st. Louis.-The two-tOn bell which
hangs in the tower Of the city hall has
made the tower unsafe, but the bell
is so large it would be dangerous to
try to take it down, so it is to be melt
ed right where it is with acetylene
blow torches, such as are commonly
seen in use by wOrkmen, repairing car
tracks.
Building Commissioner McKelvey
pronounced the tower unsafe as long
as the bell remains, because the steel
supports have become corroded. More
over, he said, an attempt to lower the
bell would be very dangerous, there
fore the decision to take it down
bucketful at q time.
The only time in recent years that
the bell has been rung was the day
Of the armistice celebration. 1t was
rung when the building was construct
ed in 1904 The bell cost about 81
600. The expense Of removing 1t will
be about $500. It is six feet high
and four feet n diameter at the base
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-02-25
Cane Valley.

Mrs. Annie Hutchinson is visit
ing her two soIs. Ira and JIM
mic Vaughan, in Campbellsville.
F P. Rice and wife, of Camp
bellsvilIe, spent the day with us
last Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs. Rice
spent the winter in Florida, and
they can tell some great fish
stories.
7. A. Furkin made a business
trip to Lebanon Junction last
week.
Lewis Prindle and his sister,
Mrs. Mary Smith, died in Louis
vile, last Wednesday, and
brought here and were buried
Thursday evening in one grave.
They were children of Mrs. Sal
lie Prindle, and lived on Alex
Cox's farm, near the Cheatham
Bridge five years ago.
Louard Smith, one of our best
business men, has been seriously
sick with flu for the past two
weeks.
w. E. Hancock, Esq, A. H.
Judd, S. G. Banks, w. N. Smith,
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-02-25
RUM LIES IN CORNERSTONE
Ohio Congregation Entombed Liquor
Considered Then "as Respect
able as Water"

Cincinnati, Jan. 15.-Long after the
last cellar has gone dry and the last
drop of whisky consumed there will
remain a bottle of liquor that, accord
ing to tradition, is entOmbed in the
corner stone of the Universalist church
at Montgomery, Ohio. None other than
William Swain, aged seventy-twO, vii
lage historian and former schOolmas'
ter of Montgomery, is authority for
the tradition that a quart Of liquor
is concealed in the foundation of the
church, which was built in 1887.
"In those days liquor was as re-
spectacle as water" says Swain
preachers drank it just like other
folks did. 1t was customary to place
liquor in a cornerstone for the same
reason that folks drink each others
health in liquor"
Swain recalled that in the good
old days" whisky sold for three cents
a drink.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-02-25
SparkSville.

Tobacco bed burning and To-
bacco selling is the topic of the
day in this part.
The letter in the last issue
from Prof. Ebert Wooten, was
certainly appreciated by the
people of this place.
The mail boy has been well
loaded, for the past several days
with parcel post.
1t is the cry from everybody,
"bad roads" "bad roads," But
no one wants to pay for good
roads. The people of the coun-
ty voted down the road tax last
June. Said that we were pay
ing too much taxes now. How
are we going to get good roads
if we don't pay for them? They
will not grow, neither will they
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-02-25

The way to all things at Chilling lies
the moon door on the way to wisdom
pass and repass, every day, the 70
Chinese maidens of the "gung-gwan. -
The moon door at Chilling is round
as the full moon, whence it has its
name. And the Chinese maiden, as
she steps over it's high sill, may spread
wide her arms and still not touch its
rim with the tips of her fingers
Sometimes across the court yard is
another moon door, and beyond it, like
a smaller concentric circle, still an
other, leading on through that Chinese
puzzle of house, the 'gung- gwan" OF
official residence at Marking, China
which is now the home of Ginling Col
lege for Chinese girls-one of the
three women's colleges in all China
The moon door is but a single fea
ture of the old place. Once inside the
high stone walls that enclose it one is
lost in maze of courts and galleries
and covered passages and isolated
rooms.
The whole is China, old China and
new. The moon doors and the archi
lecture as a whole lend the dignity
and the greatness of old China. But
the laboratories and dormitories, libra
ries and studies made, from the old
rooms of state and ceremony are mod
ern; just as the force of America is
behind it all, represented by the five
American missionary organizations
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-02-25

talk. Make them. For as the
old adage is, talk is cheap but it
takes money to build a pike. If
the people of Columbia and
Burkesville want good roads and
a pike they had better talk it
while the mud is with US, or we
always will have dust pike in
summer and a mud pike in win
ter. If we can't get a whole
pie less take a small piece and
save it and put it in a good place
and will get larger piece and
by and by, after awhile, we will
have the whole pie and no one
hurt. Vote the small road tax
wheu it is offered to you again,
and rid the mud"
Leslie James, who moved from
this place to near Dirigo, will
leave for Texas. He and his
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-02-25

and the American Smith College
which maintain Chilling, is modern.
One pushes ajar the halves of a
moon door, latticed over paper in
plum blossom and honeycomb design
and enters a chemical laboratory sci
up in a room with 20 windows. each
framed in dragon tracery. And from
the fagstones of the laboratory floor
often is scraped fungi and mould fol
use under the microscope.
These are typical contrasts of Gin
ling College, revealed through the
survey of the Chinese field now being
made by the Interchurch World
Movement, which seeks to promote the
closer cooperation of Protestant
Churches of America in attaining their
world aims.
Chilling College, the survey shows
is at the heart of five Chinese prov.
inces, with total population of no.
900, 000-and is the only woman's col
lege in that great area
Ginling owns 81 acres of land on
the hills beside the Yangtze river. In
the Interchurch World Movement sur
vey of China, there is a budget item
of 100000. 1t is there to show the
churches of America how they can
place upon that land on the hill the
library, administration building, reel
tation buildings, chapel-all that are
needed for a modern college.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-02-25

are all in a low state of health at
this writing.
]. C. Bault & Sons finished
their tobacco prizing last week
At the prices they will not try
to buy any more.
Ernest, 10 years of age, son of
Mr.. John and Bette Henson, of
DuIworth, died of pneumonia, in
Wadsworth, Ohio, last Wednes-
day. The remains were shipped to
his home and placed in the Mt,
Carmel cemetery Friday.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-02-25

family and also Mr.. Herschel
James and family.
Singing at the different neigh
boris houses, for the last few
days, in the Toria vicinity, large
crowds and good order.
Rev. ]. P. Embry and A. W.
Rowe will begin a meeting at
Nelson Ridge in a short while.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-02-25
Chesterfield

Have you ever known a Re-
publican to sccceed a Republican
as the Mayor of Louisville? Has
any Republican candidate for
Governor of this State succeeded
a Republican Governor?
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-02-25
RattIeSnakeS Prove
Menace to Stock

Portsmouth. Tex. - Rattle
snakes in large numbers recent
Iy have been seen swimming in
the Gulf of Mexico near the Half
Moon lighthouse, seven miles
from the mainland and four
miles from the peninsula to the
south, according to the two men
who keep the light. It is said
three rattIers were killed on the
lighthouse platform by the keep
ers. Tenants on property which
formerly constituted the Rancho
Grande here report a pestilence
of rattlesnakes, which, they say,
are a menace to live stock. How
ever, it is reported by a number
of farmers that fat cattle, bitten
by rattlers, do not die, the poi
son from the bite of one snake
being insufficient to kill them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-11
CLEAN BILL FOR GOLD

Washington, Oct. THE recent
shipment of Russian gold, receipt of
which was reported by the federal
reserve board last week, was i'm
ported for "an entirely proper COM
mercial purpose" according to the
department of justice, which made
public tonight the results of its in
vestigation. The shipment was sent
from Reval, Esthonia and consigned
to a commercial agent of the Es-
thomas government, was stated.
Officials said the gold had come
into the United States with the
knowledge and consent of the
proper American officials. The ship
ment aggregated s339,6s6 and, was
the first shipment from Russia in
Europe since 1915.