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The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-02-13
"ABSURD" is FOCH'S REPLY
In Commenting on SummeralPs
Charges Regarding American
Losses at Scissors.

Paris.-"Marshal Foch does not
wish to enter the controversy that has
been started by America regarding OPP
erations at scissors, but he declares
to be absurd the charge made by Cen
eral Summerall that American losses
there were the fault of the French
command" General Weygandt, Chief
of Staff of the Allied Armies, said
This statement was made in reply to an
inquiry regarding Foch's opinion Of the
assertion of General Summerall, for
merly commander of the American
First Army, that chaotic conditions ex-
listed before and during the battle OF
scissors, due to lack of proper pre-
parations by the French, and that the
victory was due either to accident
or Divine Intervention rather than
10 any military plan of action.
"FOchs viewpoint" General Wey-
gandt added, sis that General Sum-
merall's knowledge of military science
is dubious and that possibly the allied
plan of battle was too complicated for
him to understand. If unnecessary
losses occurred they must have been
due to the American commanders er-
roneOus Interpretation of the orders of
the High Command.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-02-13
SEEKS CUT IN SHIP PRICES
Costs on Ships Built During the
War Too High To Allow
Competition.

Washington.-Sh Shipping board prices
on vessels built during and since the
World War are too high to allow Amer
lean operators to compete with foreign
craft, Frank G. MunsOn, head of he
Munson line, said before the Senate
Commerce Committee, considering
mercantile marine legislation. Prices
should be cut from 5000 to 1925 a ton
to 500 flat, be said, in order to permit
the 100 American ship operators to
get established. Great Britain is sell
ing Government ships at $125 a ton,
Mr.. Munson said, and the resulting diff
ference in capital costs would make it
100000 a year cheaper to operate a
British boat than an American boa;
in the same trade.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-02-13

FUNDS TO FINANCE REDS
Martens BaIks When Story Is Half
ToId-"Envoy" Seeks "Dipto-
matlc immunity"

Wash!ngton.-How couriers OF So
Wet Russia, carrying funds to finance
it's propaganda in America ran the
gantlet of death and Imprisonment In
surrounding states OF Europe was
story begun, but abandoned when half
told by Ludwig @. A. X. Martens, So
Wet "envoy" to the United States, be-
fore the Senate Foreign Relations
Subcommittee investigating Russian
propaganda. Martens fatty declined
to answer further questions asked by
the committee on the subject of the
courlers. He left it to consider wheth-
err or not his plea Of diplomatic I'M
munity" from further examination
should be allowed, while he went on
to recount his personal activities IN
endeavoring to have his Government
recognized by the State Department,
and in placing provisional contracts
for $25,00O0OO worth of food, clothing
and machinery with American business
houses.
The latter effort, he said, had re-
suited in placing two or three letters
before President Wilson urging recOg-
milton, though the State department
had remained firm in Its refusal to
recognize him In any way. Out OF ~
Of the mysterious messengers who
started during the last year from Mos
COW with funds and letters to him,
Martens said, seven had penetrated
the barriers Of armies and lnterna'
tional frontiers. A number had been
shot summarily in Finland-"three
that l know about" Martens said
casually. OF 10 who attempted to 60
through Germany nine were caught
and jailed. The first man to- reach
him, however. he said, carried $4,000
and his credentials as Soviet Ambas'
sador to the United States The cour-
iers carried money in the form Of Fin
nish marks or Scandinavian currency,
Martens said, and had various varie-
ties of passports.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-02-13
MAY TALK WITH MARS
Inventor Expects To Shoot Mes
sages "as Rifle Shoots
Shells"

London.-In a small room at the I'm
perial College of Technology, South
Kensington, Prof. A. c. Rankine is per-
fecting an instrument which shoots
messages "as rifle shoots shells" A
person talking into trumpet attached
to a minute mirror, rejecting strong
light, can send a message to any dis
lance reached by the light without fear
of the words being intercepted, it is
said. The words spoken can be heard
distinctly half mile away and are
transmitted through projectors to al
electric battery attached to a piece of
selenium fitted to an ordinary tele-
phone receiver. The larger the receiv-
ing battery the greater distance .can
the message be sent.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-02-13
SUSPEND POLICE CAPTAIN
Action Follows Crusade Against
Gambling in Louisville,
Kentucky.

Louisville Police Captain Suspended.
Louisville.-A crusade against gam
bling in Louisville resulted in grand
jury indictment against Police Captain
Sucker, who was charged with having
protected" alleged gamblers. He was
suspended from duty at his own re-
quest by the Board of Public Safety.
Nine other citizens previously were in
tlicted Oh charges of having maintain
ed gambling establishments. Reports
from New Albany, Ind, opposite Lou
isville, on the Ohio river. where hand
books and poker and dice games on Il
large scale also were said to have
1lourished, were to the effect that the
lid had been put on tighter than in
months.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-02-13
REPOSITORIES
TO SUFFER CUT
GREAT REDUCTION IN NATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS TO BE LESS
THAN 400.
Practically Half the Banks To Be De-
prlved of Government Balances Have
Been EIimlnated-Present Special
system To Remain Undisturbed.

Washington.-Drastic reduction in
the number of national banks designat-
ed as Government repositories is being
made by the Treasury Department,
with the result that less than 400 Of
the 1881 such institutions holding
Federal funds on June 80, 1919, are
expected to survive the pruning knife.
Changes In the Governments finan-
cial situation, brought about by wars
fiscal operations. 1t was said officially,
have made 1t necessary to abolish hun
dreds of the repositories and revise
the plan for distribution Of Govern
ment moneys among banks employed
since prior to 1912.
While the Treasury Is cutting off
inactive accounts, 1t also Is reducing
balances carried by many other banks
i'm all, in fact, where Government
transactions do not require the use of
large sums.
Scientific apportlonment," it is said,
will be basis in the future for disposi-
ton Of surplus funds.
OHclalS explained the new pollcy
as to how repositories would operate
so that each bank would be able to
realize equal returns on a basis OF
business done for the Government.
Included in the list of national banks
already struck off are 566 banks which
had accounts of only $1,000, and which
were designated as Government depos-
tories during the administration OF
Franklin McVeagh as Secretary of the
Treasury for President William H
Taft.
Practically half of the banks to be
deprived of Government balances al
ready have been eliminated from the
rolls, and outstanding balances thus
have been reduced from 100000 tC
$27, 100000.
Other banks will be taken eff the
official list Of repositories and Other
accounts will be reduced until by the
end of the calendar year it is expect
ed the new policy will be completed
fully.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-02-13
BRITISH LOAN
REPORT FALSE
ENGLAND DOES NOT SEEK FUR
TIER LOAN IN THE UNITED
STATES.
The Statement Also Denies Emphat-
icaIIy Repeated Allegations In the
Press that the British Government
Desires to Borrow Large Sums In
the United States.

Washington. - Positive assurance
that the British Government does nor
plan to seek further loans In the
United States, but, on the contrary, is
DESTROYS of reducing the obligations
it already has incurred here, Is In
Guided in statement from London
transmitted to Secretary Carter GLASS
through r. G. Lindsay, British Charge
d'Affaires, and made public. The state"
ment also denies emphatlcally re
peated allegations In the press that
the British Government desires to bor-
row large sums in the United States.
Secretary Glass, In a letter TO Mr..
Lindsay, in connection with the state
ment, directs attention to the substan-
tial agreement between tho two Gov
ernments with respect to finance, and
points out also that Great Britain
contemplates relief measures Similar
TO these which he recently proposed to
the House Ways and Means Commit
tee The British statement follows:
I'm view Of repeated allegations IL
the press that the British Govern
ment desires to borrow large sums In
the United States, His Majesty's Gov
eminent states that as 1t has been eX-
planned more than once in the British
Parliament, it is entirely contrary to
the policy of the British Treasury to
incur a fresh Indebtedness in the Uni
ted States.
"Since June, 1919, the whole ex-
penditure of the British Government
in the United States was financed
without fresh borrowing, and the first
step has been taken to reduce out
standing Indebtedness. The loan is
sued in he market on Nov. l, 1919,
by the British Government, was issued
solely for the purpose of meeting ma
turing Indebtedness. Confusion seems
TO have arisen out of the fact an
nounced in the press, both in Great
| Britain and the United States, that the
British Government has invited the
! cO-Operation of the Governments OF
other countries, and in particular the
| United States, with them in joint &C
| ton for further measures of relief and
reconstruction in the suffering parts OF
Europe. Any such measures, if finally
agreed upon, obviously must involve
no further borrowing by the United
Kingdom from the United States, but
| further advances by the United King
dom as we'll as by the United States
and such other countries as take par'
in the joint action contemplated, tc
the countries requiring assistance"
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-02-13
Steamship Calls For Aid.

New York.-1he United States Ship
ming Board steamer The Lambs is
aground on Cumberland Island, off Sit
vannah, Ga, and is in need of aid, ac.
cording To Il wireless message. There
were no vessels standing by it was
said. The Lambs is vessel of 1927
tons net, and was last reported in
coastwiSe traffic between Charleston
and Savannah
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-02-13
Bodies Washed Ashore.

Brunswick, Ga.-Finding of the bod
les of five men on the beach, near
Jekyl Island, led to efforts to ascertain
the identity of a vessel believed to
have been wrecked off the island.
Wreckage which floated up with the
bodies includes a life preserver bear
ing the name Fortune" but no vessel
of that name is known in marine cir
c,es here. 1t was at first thought that
the bodies were from the Spanish
schooner SAINT FOSt.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-02-13
HUN RADICALS AT
WORK IN RUSSIA.
TRAVELLING BETWEEN BERLIN
AND SOVIET RUSSIA WITH
FALSE CREDENTIALS.

World Revolution Is Sought, 1t is
Claimed-Couriers Captured Were
Falsely Operating as American Red
Cross DeIegates-Seeking Support
From Lenine.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-02-13
Three Killed BY Car.

Dunkirk, N. Wrapped on the
tracks by high walls of snow which
had been piled up on either side by
snow plows, three persons were killed
by Buffalo and Lake Erie interurban
car near Lamberton. A curve in the
track prevented the motorman seeing
the party.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-02-13
Sentence Is COMMITTED.

Washington.-President Wilson has
committed to expire Immediately the
sentence which Nathaniel HOskinsr OF
Calvin, KY, is serving in Atlanta Pen
itentiarly. HOskins was convicted on
a charge of having used food products
in the manufacture of spirits
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-02-13
Fewer Cases,

Chicago.-New cases of influenza
and pneumonia and deaths from the
diseases in the last "a hours showed
a sharp decline and Health Depart
ment officials announced that the out
look was encouraging.
The Nevada County picayune., 1920-07-15
AS SCIENTIST SEES FUTU1E
Advances of 500 Years Will Make the Year 1920 Seem Like Pre-
 historic Age.

Those unimaginative people who be- lieve the high pitch of inventive genius
 was reached with the advent of cleo tricity, talking machines, airplanes and the X-ray will be interested to know that civilization on this planet has really just begun. Dr. A. M. Low, London engineer with many inventions to his credit, says five hundred years hence our descendants will look back upon conditions in 1920 with just such feelings of amused pity as we show for the state of the savages of pre- historic times.
 The scientist predicts among other things that in 2420 A. D. all public thoroughfares and parks will be un- derground, vehicles will be run by wireless. telephones will carry an at tachment enabling the speakers to see each other, and all roads will be as smooth as billiard balls.
 Dr. Low, who invented a motor scooter and has produced an apparat- us for seeing simple objects by wire. in a recent interview in London said in part:
 "When a man sets out for business he will not proceed. as he does now. by tramway car or train he will pass along delightful avenues underneath the surface of the earth. Parks and all other places of public resort and beauty will be roofed in
 "Motor cars and all motor vehicles will proceed by wireless power and not by the crude method of using petrol. They will be fitted up like luxuriOusly appointed drawing rooms and will be driven at rate of one hundred miles an hour. Wireless telephones will be installed in the cars. as well as every kind of appointment making for luxury and comfort. Many people will own these cars.
 "People will live in condition Of splendid physical isolation. Televis- ion-that is, the ability to see your absent friend over q distance of many miles-and wireless telephony will leao to this condition.
 "This vision is not extravagant or wild set of theories. It Is the direction in which scientific discoveries and ex- periments tend. Many scientific men have come face to face with discover ies and inventions which are only sep arated from actual realization by a simple little difficulty, which will cer- tainly he overcome in time"
The Nevada County picayune., 1920-07-15
Unique Style of Greeting.

Sir Auckland Geddes, who is evi. dently expected to do great deal of entertaining when he goes to the United States, Is a notable athlete, but it may he doubtful whether his physi- cal endurance will be equal to the handshaking which will be involved unless he reforms his methods. re- marks the Manchester Guardian. It is most interesting if rather exhaust ing, 10 watch him receive a number of guests as he did recently at Olympia, for he has an athletic style all his own. AS each guest comes in sight Sir Auck- land advances one foot, plants 1t firmly and balances himself as if for trial of strength. Then his long arm shoots out to full length, he smiles the guest straight in the eye like a boxer, seizes his hand and draws him de- terminedly around in semicircle to greet the hostess.
 lie will need to develop less ex. pensive muscular action for the so- cial tasks before him in America.
The Nevada County picayune., 1920-07-15
Giving Up Fairy Stories.

Do you remember when you had to give up reading fairy stories? or course you didn't have to give 'em up if you didn't want to. bu: teacher and father and mother and all the rest of the grown folks said you must read grown-up books and so the fair ies were cast aside and
 Oh. well, the same tragedy of youth is going on every day even now at the public library, say the attendants in the chilGren's room.
 One of the many duties of these at- tendants is to lead the children grad ually away from fairy stories to real life stories. It is no easy job because the children struggle against giving up their fairies.
 Never, 1t is said. has there been such a run on the fairy tale shelf in the chidren's room as there has been recently.
 Tn time. however, the fairies make way for Treasure Island," the Pears of Blue River" "Tom Sawyer" or Lit tie Women" and then the spell of fairyland is more or less broken.
 Tt would be so much easier to help the little folks" lamented one of the attendants, If we only had more of the hooks that children so quickly learn to love after they leave their fairies. s."-Exehange.
The Nevada County picayune., 1920-07-15
Weayino MlIIs of BieIefeld.

In a review of the Bielefeld flax and linen market the Rheinisch-Westfa! isch Zeitung says that the weaving mills cannot undertake operation on a large scale for lack of cotton and lin en yarns. Cotton in particular Is al most wholly lacking, as 1t has to be imported and revival of the Bfele- field industry Is impossible without cot. ton. It Is impossible to compete in the world markets with cloth of paper yarn. which was manufactured during the latter years of the war. although its quality has been improved consid. erably.
The Nevada County picayune., 1920-07-15
4 Little Variety.

You seem very much interested in the coming campaign"
 .l am" said the musician. "Ill be glad to hear the bands playing some thing that keeps people marching straight ahead for awhile instead ot dancing"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-10-15
EDITORS PAY VISIT
TO MARION STAR AND
FIND A REAL PAPER

"If President Harding is as big a
success as Editor Harding he will go
down in history in the Hall Of Fame, y
writes j. Gabbert of Riverside, Cal,
I'm an article just published on his re-
turn from Marion. where he visited
Hardlng's paper.
ave found just the sort o. paper
future President might be expected
to edit" says Mr. Gabbert, "and the
visit. to us came nearer to being an
editorial conference than a political
crusade.
1--WE found men working for Editor
Harding who had been with him for
periods varying from 20 to So years.
we found that Editor Harding follows
closely every detail incident to the
publication Of his paper. He knows
what pay the helpers on the floor get.
inst as he knows the amount he pays
his manager. He can handle type Ike
the rest OF us, and it would keep my
foreman busy to beat him on setting
up stick of S-point type. He knows
how TO make up a paper like veteran
and he is lust as much at home in the
business office looking over the adrer-
Using accounts"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-10-15

OF Nations. President Wilson's autoc
racy and the wastefulness of those he
gathered about him as his official fami
ly was to be expected. II has been 8
Democratic trait for years"
Grandpa" Vogel takes a daily con
stitutionaI over streets near his home
in Jeanette. Occasionally he breaches
a sermon from one of the Western
Pennsylvania churches with old time
vigor. He started life as an assistant
lampliShter in the Capitol grounds al
Washington when he was fifteen years
old He often r-n errands for mem
bers of Congress AMI can wildly re
call the eloquence Of Henry Clay and
Daniel Webster and other famous
statesmen of that period. He saw An
drew Jackson -inaugurated in 1882.
Later he became 8 Methodist minister
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-10-15
kept OUT or WAR,
NOW SERVES COX
Publishers Son Escaped Military
Service Through Democratic
Nominees Influence.

Young. able-bodied. rich. a strappins
+ big fellow. who possessed all the phys
lcal equipment Of an American soldier,
save, evidently, heart, Robert P.
Scripps was kept out Of the war
through Administration influences.
He was exempted.
The local draft board + Butler Coua-
t.. O., rejected his plea and held that
there was no valid claim for his ex-
emptlon and that he should surely don
a Uniform and shoulder arms, but Sec
rotary Of War Bakers law partner,
Tom Sidlo, was employed to save the
Youthful Stacker. Governor Cox took
a hand in the case, and finally, by
White House decree, he went scot free
His multi-millionaire father, E W.
Scripps. controlling owner Of the
Scrlpps League of Newspapers and the
Newspaper Enterprise Associat ton, a
powerful combination. threatened to
overthrow the Administration rather
than permit either OF his sons to an
Administration Exsmpts Stacker.
Having helped to reflect Woodrow
Wilson President en- the issue, He
kept Us out Of war" the elder Scripps
demanded that his sons be kept out Of
war And the Administration kept
them out
Young Robert Scripps, who had new [
er done any real newspaper work, was
given the title Of Assistant TO the Pub
Usher OF the Scripps League Of News
papers TO create an excuse for his ex-
emption. Finally he was ordered home
from Camp Sherman by Governor Cox.
after he had been 10 uniform for ten
days
All these facts and more OF an equal
~ astounding and discreditable cLarac-
ter were brought out by the Kenyon
Senatorial Committee. which subpOe-
naed young Scripps to Washington to
explain his activities IL the present
Now Supporting Cox.
de is today editor 10 chief Of the
Scripps League Of Newspapers and the
Newspaper Enterprise Association ana
$ putting out daily pink propaganda
sheets Of lurid aud sensational char
lcter In support OF the candidacy Of
Governor Cox
Samples OF these sheets were sub
litted TO the committee. and Senator
iced. Democrat. frankly denounced the
as rot" and manifested
impatience and disgust with
be yonug mans loose talk about a
Senate ollgarchy" aud criticism OF the
upreme Court.
Young Scripps, although he did not 1
ght for his country in 19I7-1S insist
/ that he was doing Il all through love
country and In the public interest
ithout any pay from the Democratic
,mmittee or thought OF obligation for 4
aeping him out OF war.
The draft-dodglng aspects Of the A
Use. as brought out at Washington. v
g not unlike these Of young Bergdon A
Philadelphia, which resulted in a !!
sderal prosecution for conspiracy TO
ade the draft. Al
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-10-15

Fifth Cousin Roosevelt devoted his
speech at Providence, R. L. to de-
Tense Of eight years Of Democratic ad-
ministration. Six weeks is a very short
time for doing mucl along that line.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-10-15

The Cox slogan seems TO be "Mlsrep-
Without Relaxation"
New-York tribune., 1920-04-11

engaged in carving such portraits on
wood and ivory.
No end of costly knick-knacks
have been prepared for the decora-
ton of the boudoir. There are oddly
shaped perfume bottles of bright
colored crystal with jolly looking
shoppers. One is of bright yellow
crystal, with the neck Of white glass
in the form of a ruff surrounding
Pierrot's head.
Lamp shades for the bedroom. are
Of beautifully tinted muslins, one
color placed above the other. A par
ticularly pretty one has pale yellow
yelling bright fame color. Between
the two are japanese stencils, which
show only when the lamp Is lighted.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-11
A Vanity Case of
Raspberry Red Seal

JUST below this purse is distinct
" new vanity case Of carved
IVORY. The plaques forming the
body Of the case are Of ivory mount
ed in gold frame and the bellows
are Of gray doeskin. The monogram
Is OF Japanese character carved and
picked out In black.
A fascinating little vanity case
10 made Of raspberry red seal in
oblong design with slightly rounding
corners. The handle consists of four
straps ending in a silver medallion
inserted with Italian mosaic. On
the outside Of the case is handker-
chief pocket. Cases of this sort
should carry the initials Of the own