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Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
PALMER IN LEAD
GEORGIA PRIMARY
Three Cornered Race Was Held Fol
States Choice As Democratic NOM
inee For President.
Associated Press

ATLANTA, Ga, April 21-Attor-
ney General Palmer continued to lead
today in returns from yesterdays
three cornered race for the States
choice as Democratic nominee for
president. Returns from 14O of the
155 counties in the State, compiled
by the Constitution, gave Gen. Palmer
48 counties with 14O votes in Demo-
cratic State Convention; Thomas E.
Watson, so counties with 12O votes
Hoke Smith AZ counties with a hun
dred votes.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21

to the Treasury Department; the Bur-
Of Labor; the Bureau of Indian At
fairs and the Board of Indian Com
missioners to the Department Of La
Dor; Government Hospital for the
insane and the Freedman's Hospital,
both in Washington, to the Public
Health Service, and the Columbian In
stitution for the Deaf and Howard
University, also of this city, to the
Bureau of Education, Department of
Labor.
The Moore bill after describing a
program of study by a reorganization
commission suggests particularly the
advisability of: (a) Removing from
the War and Navy Departments all
services and the performance of all
activities which are not of a direct
military or naval character; (b) the
removal from the Treasury Depart
ment of all services and activities not
pertaining directly to the administra-
tion of the financial affairs of the
country; (c) creation of department
of Public Works (as quoted above);
(d) creation of a department or Bur-
eau of Education and Science to take
over services now scattered among
the several existing departments; (e)
the creation of department or bur-
eau of Public Health, to take over such
related activities as the enforcement
of the pure-food law and meat inspec-
ton; (f) creation Of a department or
bureau of Marine Affairs.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
GRAIN MARKET CRASHES
Associated Press

CHICAGO, April 21-Prices crash
ed heavily on the grain market dur
ing the last few minutes of trading
today. Corn fell as much as 3-4
cents per bushel. The liquidation was
due to the weakness of the stock mar
ket The chief apparent reason that
oats fell five cents was that pork
dropped to $1.25 barrel in some cases
SPECULATIVE ISSUES DROP
NEW YORK, April 21-Speculat-
i've issues subject to severe Gquida-
tion on the market today, declining
five to forty five points.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21

the negroes to drive to the hotel in
his wife and afterward he wanted
them to take him to the crap game.
He said when they drove through the
town, he thought he was being taken
to the Hotel. When the negro COM
menced to drive faster he declared
that he and his wife both called him
to halt without avail. He declared
that Sam Mays turned and grabbed
him by the hand. He said the negro
held his pistol and that Mrs. McGraw
fired while he was struggling in the
grasp of the negro and only after she
had repeatedly called to the driver to
stop.
'Sam Mays rolled out Of the car
like ball. said McGraw, "after the
shots were fired and escaped" Nc
Graw stated they were not familiar
with negroes and said they escaped
across the fields, fearing that they
might be lynched by the blacks. He
told how he had witnessed lynchine
in Omaha, where white man was
dragged through the streets, and the
mob was composed mostly of negroes
Prosecuting Attorney Means John
son asked McGraw why he went to 8
negro cabin to spend the night, if he
was afraid of the black race. Nc
Graw replied that he thought he coult
handle one or two of them but he die
not want to mix up with crowd.
McGraw stated his wife was from
Caney, Kan. and that he was from
Omaha, Neb. He said they had beer
married eighteen months.
Mrs. McGraw was not placed on tn
witness stand, and Judge Hicks pro
Inounced the verdict Of not guilty ol
the testimony Of the other witnessed
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21

He intends to push it for passage, but
does not expect to get it through in
the present session.
The bill of Representative Reavis in
the House has been sent to the COM
mittee on expenditures in the Interior
Department, which has not sufficient
jurisdiction to handle a proposition of
this magnitude. Mr.. Reavis now has
the matter up with the Republican le-
gislative steering committee urging
upon it the desirability Of appointing
a special committee to handle all legis-
lation designed to recognize the fed
eral service. He expects later to ap-
pear before the House rules commit
tee on this question.
Meanwhile the resolution of Rep
resentative Moore has been sent to
the rules committee, and it may prove
a working basis for general reorgan-
ization of the federal service. One
paragraph Of Representative Moore's
resolution provides for a Department
of Public Works ''to take over all ser
vices having for their primary pur-
pose the construction and operation
of works of an engineering and con-
struction character and to act as a
contracting agency for the perfor-
nance of such works for other SER
vices where called upon by such SER
vices to do So"
The proposed Department of Pub
lie Works was first suggested by the
Engineering Council, which has mem
bership in the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States. Now the Cham
Der of Commerce of the United States
is sending out a QUESTIONABLE to its
1905 member organizations to get the
sentiment of the real business men of
the country upon this matter which
is so vital to the business of the gov
ernment.
In the Jones-Reavis bill for reor-
ganization of the Interior Department
it is proposed to unite the following
instrumentalities The supervising ar
chitect's office, now in the Treasury
Department; the construction division
Of the U. S. Army, River and Harbo1
improvements, the Mississippi River
Commission, the California Debris
Commission, now subordinate to the
War Department; the Coast and Geo
detic Survey end the Bureau Of Stan
dards, now subordinate to the Depart
ment of Commerce; the Bureau OF
Standards, now subordinate to the De
partment of Commerce; the Bureau o.
Public Roads and the Forest Service
now subordinate to the Department OF
Agriculture.
Redistribution Of other activities
under the Jones' Reavis bill would be
The Patent Office to the Department
81 Commerce; the Bureau of Pensions
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
BUSINESS TALKS
PROVE HELPFUL
Series OF Addresses Given By Citizens
At Quinn Drug Co. This Week
Mr.. King Speaks.

The fifteen minute talks which are
being delivered each evening this week
at the J. w. Quinn Drug Co., by the
business men of the city, are proving
to be thoroughly interesting and in
structive. The business men are dis
cussing live issues, wsaen are CON
fronting the people to1Ay. fas-'
The first meeting Of the week was
held Monday and Mr.. R. C. King de-
livered an able address on "The Value
of A Dollar Saved" Mr.. King stat
ed that it was most proper that the
business men should meet in their own
community to discuss the fundamen-
tails upon which the personal, busi-
ness, social and eternal structures are
based.
"It is proper for us to consider
those things that may stimulate us to
adopt habits of thrift and saving with
a view of using the saved dollar for
the betterment of the individuals as
we'll as for the public" said Mr.. King.
"We can hardly think Of saving
without also thinking of spend
ing. We cannot save successfully
without dealing intensely with the
problem of spending. With given
income, the more successful we are in
saving, the more successful we must
be in regulating our spending. So
Ia %rx-D n q
must go together. The problem of
every individual is how to save, how
to accumulate capital fund, without
depriving himself of the enjoyments
and convenience of life
Mr. King summed up the test of an
individual in the following statement:
"The real test Of personal capacity
is shown by the ability of an indiv-
idual, who is capable of saving work
ing capital for the future and at the
same time so provide for the home
that he may bear full part in the
activities and the enjoyments of the
present"
Mr.. King closed his address by Civ
ing three divisions of the human race;
those who retrograde; those who re-
main stationary and those who prog
ress. mo one wants to class with
those who retrograde," he said. "Per-
haps no one wants to be in the class
who remain stationary. No doubt ev-
ery one has a latent ambition. Our
chances for being in the class that
progresses would be greatly enhanced
if we begin today by providing for the
rainy day. Let US resolve here and
now that we will begin to save our
dollars"
= JUDGE HAMMER SPEAKS.
Judge w. M. Hammer spoke yester-
day afternoon on, Preparing Your
self"
Mr.. Hammers address was replete
with good thoughts, ably expressed
He spoke along the line of the proper
preparation for successful business
career and was heard with the closest
attention.
This afternoon, Mr.. j. S. Love will
speak on the subject, "To Serve 9th
ers."
The movement of getting the bust
ness men together to discuss various
problems was inaugurated by J. W
Quinn Of the Quinn Drug Go. Mr.
Quinn arranged the series Of talk:
and meetings which are proving Sc
much to the business men of the city
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
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: WASHINGTON
: NEWS LETTER
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X By The Washington Star i
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UNCLE SANS WORKSHOP


WASHINGTON, April 2o-The big
gest industry in the world, Uncle
Sans workshop, is going to be reor-
ganized, systematized and coordinated
with inefficient duplication and over
saprzng of work chopped out, and re-
lated lines of federal activity group
ed together. This will all take a long
time to readjust. The preliminary
steps, however, are now being taken
by Congress.
For years the original federal de-
partments have been branching out
with new bureaus which have ambit-
iously expanded into territory at least
partially occupied by other bureaus.
A number of commissions and other
independent organizations have from
time to time been created as the oc-
casion arose.
Then came the war and again there
was a multiplication of governmental
activities and new boards and bureaus.
Now that Congress is planning the
SuI CdllHlCi1C VI wal oSClFlClCS anu IlG1S
legislation in the works for abolish
ing the wartime boards and commits
sions, and when world conditions have
changed as by an earthquake, the time
seems appropriate for a complete
overhauling Of Uncle Sans great
plant, SO that all departments and
branches and bureaus may work in
helpful harmony and not waste their
efforts and funds on duplicated work,
or in jealous squabbling over juris-
diction.
Secretary Lane when quitting office
as executive of the Department of the
Interior, which did most of the be-
hind d-the-scenes work of supplying
materials to meet war demands, sur
prised official life and Congress by
plain speech on the need for govern
mental reorganization to meet the new
conditions. Congress had been think
ing along the same line and has pref
ty we'll made up its mind that the
government industrial organization
has been growing too large, haphaz-
ard, and that it is Nighttime to get
this great workshop systematized.
Last June Senator Wesley L. Jones
Of Washington, chairman of the COM
merce committee, and Representative
C. Frank Reavis of Nebraska, who is
a member of the select committee for
investigation of war expenditures, in
troduced identical bills for the crea-
ton of a Department of Public Works
by taking the present Interior Depart
ment and transferring some of it's
activities to other departments where
they are more closely related and TAX
ing over from other departments some
of the activities that more properly
come under engineering works come
within the scope of Public works"
Then, on February 18 of this year,
Representative R. Walton Moore of
Virginia, introduced joint resolution
to constitute a select joint committee
on the organization activities and
methods of business of the admins
trative branch of the government.
The bill of Senator Jones went tc
the committee on public lands Of the
Senate, where hearings have been held
upon it. Senator. Jones has been re-
ceiving strong Endorsements from the
people upon this measure and several
important business organizations have
declared their strong support Of it
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
French Relieve The
Situation In Asia

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 21-
French troops which entered Aintab,
Asia Minor on April 14th, are reliev-
ing the situation there, according to a
statement made public by the French
Embassy here. Messages from Ain
tab on April 18th, asked immediate
aid for American workers there
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
Cotton Broke Five
Dollars Per Bale
Associated Press

NEW YORK, April Election
broke more than five dollars a bale
on the market here today, owing to
the prospects of better weather and
failure of bullish crop advices to sti-
mulate buying.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
Ambassador Johnson
To Attend Conference
Associated Press

WASHINGTON, April 21-Ambas-
sador Johnson at Rome, was instruct
ed today by the State Department to
attend the Allied Conference at San
Reno as an official observer for the
American government He will not
participate in discussions or delibera-
tions
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
Alabama and Tennessee
Also Hit By The
Tornado
166 LIVESLOST
IN THE TORNADO
Meridian Suffered The
Heaviest With "a
Dead
Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 2l-A
death list of 1872, with scores injured
a crop and property damage of sew
eral million dollars was the estimated
toll today of the tornado which yes
terday swept a score of towns in Eas-
tern Mississippi and Northeastern
Alabama and Southern Tennessee.
Meridian, Miss. suffered the heav-
lest with known death list of "a
Aberdeen reported sixteen dead there
and in the surrounding country. Other
mississippi towns reporting fatalities
are Ingomar, Egypt, Baker, and Bay
Springs. Twelve were killed in lum-
ber camp near Philadelphia, Miss.
In Alabama the rural districts ar
ound Sheffield, Gurley, Little Cove
and Waco, felt the full force of the
storm. In Tennessee Williamson and
Maury county were struck by lorna
do. One was killed in Williamson
county, two in Maury. Red cross re-
lief parties are en- route to the strick-
en- section aboard special trains this
morning.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
Agreement Is Reached
With The Railroad
Brotherhootls
TO RESUME THEIR
POSITIONS AT ONCE
| Chicago Strikers Refuse
| To Vote About Return
ing To Work.
Associated Press

WASHINGTON, April 21-EdwarG
|McHugh, spokesman for the strikers
announced here today that an agree
ment had been reached with the Rail
road Brotherhoods, under which the
striking railroad workers in the New
York Metropolitan District, would re-
turn to work Immediately.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
REFUSE TO VOTE.

CHICAGO, April Striking rail
road men in the Chicago District re-
fused to vote today on the question
Of returning to work.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
THE WEATHER

= y = = = y = = =
MISSISSIPPI-Fair Wednesday and
probably Thursday.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., 80 de-
grees; lowest, 20 degrees; precipita-
ton O. O.; river guage 1876; rise in "a
hours o..
Local Observations.
Miss Annie Long Stephen
Local Observer
Let production be your slogan
and the high cost of living will
soon be q matter Of history.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
16 KILLED ABERDEEN.

). ABERDEEN, Miss, April 21-The
death of Earnest Brewer, who died
early today aboard the train en- route
to a hospital at Memphis, increased
and vicinity, due yesterday to the tor
nado to 16, with $50 injured and a
property damage estimated at half a
million.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
COTTON MARKETS

Closed 100 to 1876 down.
New York Spots 41.75-1O0 down.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
KILLED AT BAY SPRINGS.

VICKSBURG, April 21-Seven were
killed and from sixty to seventy in
Springs, Jasper County yesterday.
Five white persons and several ne
groes were killed in the town Of Tur-
nerSyille
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
IA DEAD MERIDIAN.

MERIDIAN, Miss, April 21-A re-
vised list Of casualties in this section
as result of yesterdays storm,
shows Ia dead and 65 injured. The
property damage is estimated at
100000.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21

Taxi The Daily Conponwealth
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
ONE KILLED TENNESSEE.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 20-On-
ly one person, Captain Thomas Null
10y was killed in the Tennessee storm
which yesterday caused extensive pro-
perty damage in Williamson, Maury
and Lewis counties.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21
REVISED FIGURES OF STORM.

BIRMINGHAM, April 21-Revised
figures today placed the number kill
ed in the tornado which swept Alaba-
ma, Mississippi and Tennessee vest
erday at 166. In Mississippi the storm
took a toll of life and property dam
age in Lauderdale, Neshoba, Alcorn,
Monroe, Jasper, Union, Chickasaw,
Winston, Clay, Oktibbeha counties and
in Alabama, Marion, Colbert, Maids
on and Franklin counties and in Ten
nessee, Williamson county.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-04-21

Closed 81 to 1T down.
New Orleans Spots 41.5O-25 down.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-08
Heart and Beauty Problems

money besides, SO there is no use for
him to be like that I do not mind
work if I had some way to enjoy my
self. He also talked about me to ruin
my name.
have five sisters married, and they
all married young on account of home.
would not like to marry young, but
can't possibly stand this. If I leave
home he says he will make me come
back to a home like this?
NELLY.
1t seems to me your mothers idea
of duty Is wrong. 1t is her duty to
give her daughter a chance in life and
not to become a slave to selfish,
beast-like man. With the money you
and your mother earn, you could live
comfortably somewhere, with furniture
and enough to eat.
Your father would have hard time
making you return if you left. The
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-08

Dear Mrs. Thompson: l am a girl
Is years old and my home is not fit to
live in. We have no furniture to speak
of, just beds, few chairs and table
and some old stoves. am not allowed
to have any music whatsoever, and
am not allowed to have any girl
friends to come over. All we have to
eat is bread and potatoes and coffee.
had to leave school when l was eleven
and 60 to work
Father is very mean to mother and
me and he makes my mother go to
work with hardly anything to eat. He
does nothing but crab" from morning
until night.
He is dirty, spits all over the floor
and would just as soon spit on me as
not. He can hardly bear me around.
Mother says she cannot stand it, but
she will never leave him because she
does not believe in separation.
quit work last fall because there is
no use to work. He was never salts
fed. He does not want me to sing.
read. crochet, or to go to any shows.
He does not believe in any amuse-
ments at all.
He owns three houses and has
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-08


Jack proposed last night; no. this
morning. For after all, the dear boy
mas only been gone two hours and it
was way after midnight when he told
me the sweetest things that a girl
can near. and here have been dream
Ing in this little room of mine since
he kissed me and went away. l wish
that the world could have seen his
face, when he left-it was so radiant.
SO triumphant,
Here in this room, and in this diary
OF mine, / can dare to tell the truth,
fortunately, for my own souls sake.
Consequently ! can confess to having
treated Jack bit shabbily all this
winter. Maybe that's why l decided
to do the decent thing and accept
when he proposed to me. But oh,
dear me; he is so good! That's what
provokes me to death with, him at
times. honor bright. And the world
is forever harping on the fact that
pure and noble women fall in love
with good men. If that is the case,
why did I, of all people, fall SO desper-
ately in love with "Brixy" Martin last
year? And why do turn hot and cold
even now, when l pass him on the
street, and he looks me through, to
the back of my soul, with those wicked
brown, eyes of his? Oh, dear me,
what's the use of trying to understand
ones self after all? I never can un-
derstand myself. Brixy must be a
closed incident in my young life from
now on, now that I am the fiancee Of
Jack Edmonds, and the sooner he and
] realize that fact, the better for all
concerned. Dear, dear. The truth Of
the matter is that just feel like flirt-
ing forever with every man l know.
Horrors! If the world could hear that
truth!
Dear little Lindsey" says mother.
TO her most conventional friends -
shes so timid about trying her wings,
the sweet child, and yet somehow or
other I'm just as pleased that she
should be this way. Girls nowadays
get into SO many mix-ups through
their lack of discretion and expert
ence. We are just as glad that our
Lindsey has the cool, sure head on her
shoulders that she has"
If she only knew of some of the I'M
sure things that / have been guilty
Of. Still, they always have been real
ly harmless, though the casual out
slider perhaps has thought otherwise.
People just don't know how a girl
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-08
The Diary of an ENGAGED Girl
BY PHYLLIS PHILLIPS

feels about things sometimes. Inever
could see the harm in going to the
studios of Derry and Jean. We were
all at school together. And just be-
cause they are artists and dare to
live their own lives in their own stu
dos without a lot of strings binding
their hands, legs, minds and amb1
tions, why most of their friends, and
even mother, seem to think that they
are going to perdition!
Dear old Derry, what a girl. What
a pal. And Jack has no more use for
her than the rest of the Philistines.
Well, poor boy, he has some cause, l
know. BriXy did meet me at her place
very often. But then. what's the
harm? was free until two and a
half hours ago And Jean. Well, she
has been engaged on and off so many
times that l, too, have given up keep
ing count. But that's her business.
and nothing to snub her for. Well.
when I'm married woman I'm going
to show the world what 1 think ot
Freedom. I'm going to spell 1t with 4
capital "F'
It's wonderful to be engaged, to
know that one has really made up
ones mind, and to feel that The Man
has happened into ones life-at last.
What on earth should l have done If
things hadn't turned out the way they
have? What on earth would mother
have done, and Aunt Cecilia, and Mary
Jane, and Mrs. Colman, and the minis
ter, and Alice Seaman, mothers mani
curist, if had not made up my mind.
if THE MAN had not happened in my
life after their million predictions!
wait, Lindsey, till THE MAN
comes along; the right man. You'll