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The Washington times., 1920-04-20
Senate Expected TO Pass So
Minimum Wage BIZ Within
Three Weeks.

Passage by the Senate within the
next three weeks Of the johnson.
Nolan IS minimum wage bill for Fed
erai employees was forecast today In
a statement by Senator Kenyon. chair
man OF the Senate Committee on Ed
ucation and Labor. issued through the
National Federation OF Federal En-
ployes.
Senator Hiram johnson, OF Cali
fornia. Senate author OF the Johnson
Nolan bill, will return to Washington
next Monday for q conference with
Senator Kenyon and other Senate
leaders as to the best time to bring
the bill up In the Senate.
within two weeks from next
Monday said Senator Kenyon today,
II believe the Johnson-Nolan mini
mum wage bill can be passed. 1t IL
one or the bills which do not believe
the Senate will adjourn without pass
ing Among the others are the bill
TO regulate the packing industry, the
woman's bureau bill. and legislation
to prevent profiteering. Senator
Johnson will arrange while here next
Monday to be on hand personally to
take charge OF the Johnson-Nolan
bill when the Senate takes II up"
The Johnson-Nolan bill passed the
House last July and has now to pass
the Senate and receive the signature
Of the President In order to become
law. 1t provides q minimum wage
OF 50 a day. or 81 $50 a year. for all
Government employees throughout the
United States, and Is regarded by the
National Federation OF Federal EN-
ployes as the most important piece of
legislation now before Congress in
the interests Of Government workers.
The Washington times., 1920-04-20
CREDIT MEN WANT MORE
INFORMATION OF BANKS

A desire for closer cooperation be.
tween banks and mercantile houses
in the securing of credit informa.
ton was expressed by members OF
the credit bureau of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association at a
meeting last night at the Raleigh Ho'
tel.
Charles Keefer, chairman OF q spe-
cial committee to revise the appli-
cation for credit blanks,- submitted a
report which was Endorsed by the
members present
Stephen II. Takes, manager OF the
credit bureau, presided.
The Washington times., 1920-04-20
COLORED MAN ATTACKS
WOMAN IN CEMETERY
Mrs. Harry Perkins Screams At
tract Help and Assailant Is
Frightened Away.

Mrs. Harry Perkins, of 1121 L street
northeast, was attacked yesterday af-
ternoon, by young colored man
while she was picking flowers In old
Graceland Cemetery. Fifteenth and
II streets northeast. According "a
the police, the colored man made In.
sulting remarks TO Mrs. Perkins and
then seized her around the waist.
Attracted by Mrs. Perkins screams
a laborer In a nearby stone yard
hurried to the scene and the assail.
ant fled. Police were furnished with
a description of the negro and i'm
med ately instituted search for him.
The Washington times., 1920-04-20
KERBY WILL RESUME
LECTURES TONIGHT

DR.. william ]. Kerby, OF Catholic
University. 10 to open a series OF lee
lures on "The Sociological Aspects OF
Morality" In Carroll Hall, s24 q
street northwest, at 7:30 o'clock this
evening. During the Lenten season
DR.. Kerby was forced to discontinue
his lecturing. Tonight he will resume
where he left of.
The lectures are under the auspices
OF tho Knights OF Columbus Evening
School.
The Washington times., 1920-04-20
POCKETBOOK WITH$l35
Is LOST OR STOLEN

william Sullender. OF 926 Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast, reported to
the police OF the First precinct that
he lost or had stolen from hts pocket
while In a downtown theater last
night, a pocketbook containing S135
In bills.
Several articles OF tewelry valued
at 335 were stolen from the home OF
Mrs. William G. Price, 749 Newton
street northwest, last night. accord
ing to q report to the police.
The Washington times., 1920-04-20
LADIES' IRISH RELIEF
FUND STARTED HERE

The Ladies' Irish Relief Fund has
been established by friends of the
freedom for ireland movement. Head
quarters for collections OF funds TO
further the cause of Irish Liberty.
through support In the United States.
10 at the Exchange Bank OF Washing
ton, Twentieth street and Pennsyl.
vania avenue northwest. Contribu-
tions to the fund, which now has
resehsd . total OF ttsS.so. will be re-
ceived by the bank
The Washington times., 1920-04-20

CENAT0R N. B. DIAL OF S0UTH UAkOLINA Neft)
- and CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM D. UPSHAW
(ight) were asked by "overall clubs" back home TO
indoss the movement They held that they should prac
tce what they preach, SO here they are.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
FORGERY A CAPITAL 0FFENSE
Under English Law 1t Was Punishable
by Death Until Comparatively
Recent Years.

Forgeries are not modern crimes.
In 1852, the fifth year of Elizabeth's
reign, the British parliament passed
a special act against forgery "tO
amend the small, mild and easy pun
ishment" then in force. By this act
any person found guilty of forgery
was sentenced to pay double costs and
damages, was to be set in the pillory
in some open market town, and there
publicly to have both ears cut off, his
nOstrils slit and cut, and scared with
a hot iron. $50 as they remain for a
perpetual mark of his falsehOOd," the
unhappy fOrger to finally lose all his
possessions and he imprisoned for
life.
In 1884, according to Edward II.
Smith, in the Saturday Evening Post,
forgery was made a capital Offense
without benefit of clergy" which meant
that a man might not escape the glib
bet on account of high birth In case
he were convicted as a fOrger. This
monstrOus law remained in effect I'M
til 80 years ago, when many types of
forgery were taken off the lists of
capital crimes, along with such IA
miliar OffenseS as burglary, brigand-
age picking pockets and stealing
bread.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
Happiness Not Found in Crowds.

Contact with great crowds is no
guarantee of happiness. Almost every
man at some time or another gets the
fever for the great city. If he could
only mingle with the crowds that
throng the streets and rub shoulders
with multitudes striving for success
or Unlimited pleasures he would be
sure to revel in happiness. How rude
the awakening must be when he tries
it. The great city doesn't know you
have entered it, You may be the
oracle of your own town, but you may
stand on the street of the city and
watch the passers-by for hours at a
time and no one will say a word to
you. There is no more lonesome feel
ing in the world than that of feeling
yourself alone in the midst of people.
It's as bad as being thirsty in the mid
die of the ocean. Crowds do not give
happineSs.-EXchang
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
DEER PROFITABLE TO RAISE
Said to Require Little Care and Thrive
on Diet of Weeds and
Leaves.

Many years ago over most Of the
United States the deer rOamed free
and happy; but he has been hunted
and driven back to give place to the
towns and cities, until, like the In
dian, he is a rare sight. In the last
few years, however, deer are growing
in favor as an easy and profitable kind
of stock to raise.
Deer can thrive where a goat would
starve to death. They do not eat
green grass until there is nothing else
to eat They will reach up six feet
to get leaves from bushes and trees
No shelter is required in winter, as
for other stock, as the deer prefer to
stay out in the open.
Deer have their young in June, usu-
ally twins, except the first year. They
are by far the healthiest animals there
are. A deer is a great hOmebOdy. He
likes to drink at his own drinking
place.
Deer are very cOntented to Craze
with the cows, keeping the weeds down
in the pasture.-Thrift Magazine.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
MOB'S ACTION SELDOM JUST
Henry Watterson Wrote FeeIingIy on
the Brute Nature of Mankind,
When Herded in Groups.

The people en- masse constitute what
we call the mObs. Mobs have rarely
been right-never except when capa-
bly, led It was the mob in
Paris that made the Reign of Terror.
Mobs have seldom been tempted, even
though they had small chance to go
wrong, that they have not gone wrong.
The people" is a fetish. 1t was
the people, misled, who precipitated
the South into the madness of seces-
sion and the ruin Of a hOpelessly IN
equal war Of sections.
This is merely to note the mortal
fallibility Of man, most fallible when
herded in groups and prone to do In
the aggregate what he would hesitate
to do when left to himself and his
individual accountability.
Under a wise dispensatiOn of pow
er, despOtism, we are told, embOdies
the best of all government. The trou-
BILE is that despOtism is seldom, if
ever, wise. 1t is it's nature to be incon-
siderate, being essentially selfish,
grasping and tyrannOus. AS a rule,
therefore, revolution--usually of force
has been required to change or re-
form it. Perfectibility was not de-
signed for mortal man. Henry
WatterSOn in "'M2rSe Henry an Au-
photography"
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
All Sorts.

Don't try to cram a mans
knowledge in mans head.
Profiteering? Pifle! How Can
such a thing be when "vvery-
body sdoing it" now?
Some people wait until they
are done to turn, and then turn
over to be done again.
A secret remains a secret un-
till woman can find some one
in whom to confde.
Prophets insist that clothing
and food are coming down.
As far as the clouds probably.
Life is sweet and it is good to
be an earth but not all on earth
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
Street Nomenclature.

The practice of giving numbers and
letters instead of names to the streets
aRd avenues Of our cities is so familiar
to US that 1t excites no thought, ex-
cept Of its convenience. But it is a
practice often remarked upon by for
eigners as peculiar to the United
States and as evidence of the matter
of fact, unimaginative character of our
people.
Historical dates have been called
picturesque names for streets. The
French set the fashion in this respect.
Paris has its Rue du % Juliet and its
Rue du Septembre. This fad has
spread even to South America. Bue-
nos Aires has it's Parque 3 du Feb
rero, its July Promenade, its 18th Of
November square and also its 25th of
May street.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
Great Secret of Success.

The secret of success is in oneself,
not in pulls" outside influence. capt.
tai. This is one of the reasons that
the poor young man and young woman
who find themselves utterly dependent
upon their own effort are largely the
ones who win out in life, because their
very lacks drive them into themselves
as their only chance.
The history makers are those who
have been forced TO make their own
way In the world, compelled to "sink
or SWIM" on their own initiative.
They are Che ones who have pushed
civilization up.-OrisOn SWEET Marden,
in Chicago Daily News.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
Men ALWAYS Lovers Of Color

Mems love of color can be traced
to the dawn Of history. Perhaps the
rainbow offered itself as a color caro-
to the BabylOnians, Egyptians and
the Chinese, for history reveals the
fact tbs centuries before the Chris
tian era color played an important
part in their art and architecture. In
Egypt, water cOlors made of powdered
pigments, mixed with gums and water,
were used in the temples and on the
monuments of the ancient dynasties.
Specimens of Egyptian art color work
are exhibited in the University OF
Pennsylvania Museum Of Art; the ear
Hest date back about 1900 years.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
Shakespeare as Poacher.

In the description of the amenities
of the Shakespeare hotel, Stratford-
On-Av6n, which was recently put up at
auction, the story is revived that
Shakespeare came before Sir Thomas
Lucy on a charge of stealing deer
from Charlotte park. The charge is
open to the comment that in the time
of Elizabeth there was no deer park
at Charlotte. To this it is retorted that
deer were to be found in many parks
not described as deer parks. AS to all
which IT may be suggested that
Shakespeare 10y have been brought
before Lucy for stealing any deer
within his Jurisdiction.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
For a Traveller,

When a traveller returneth home, let
him not leave the countries where he
hath travelled altogether behind him !;
but maintain a correspondence by let
tiers with those OF his acquaintance
which are of most worth. And let his
travel appear rather in his discourse
than in his apparel or gesture; and in
his discourse let him be rather advised
in his answers, than forward to tell
stories; and let 1t appear that he doth
not change his country manners for
those of foreign parts; but only prick
in some flowers of that he hath learned
abroad into tbs. customs Of his own
county, .-Lord Bacon.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
Tomb a Tramp's Home.

A tramp who had solved the pres
ent-day problem of where to live by
taking up his abode in one of the old
Roman tombs at Aries, on the RhOne,
gave two Dutch tourists the fright of
their lives.
They had gone out to see the re-
mains by moonlight, when suddenly
out of a tomb emerged a human form
which the moon caused to appear ex-
ceedingly ghostlike. The tourists fled
at top speed for the town, declaring
that they had seen a resurrection. The
''ghost" was Intercepted by the police
and will be prosecuted for the French
equivalent of wandering without visi-
BILE means Of subsistence.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
LOTUS" PLANT A MYSTERY
Scientists in Dispute as to What Kind
of Food Had Such Remark
able Effects.

What was the plant the "lotus eat
ers" ate, which so destroyed their
pep" strangers who visited their
land and partook of the remarkable
vegetable losing all desire to return to
home and friends?
There has been no end of dispute
on the subject. One thing is certain,
however, is that it could not have
been the Egyptian lotus, which within
recent years has begun to be widely
grown in water gardens. This plant
develops tubers, deep in the mud,
which are about the size of hens eggs
and good to eat, but the eating of
them has no such deleterious effect as
that above described.
The Egyptian lotus is a kind of
water lily, whose superb flowers look
like huge pink tulips. Once upon a
time it grew wild along the banks of
the Nile, and the SurmiSe is that orig
1nally it was fetched from India,
where it is native. 1t was regarded
anciently as the emblem of the Nile,
and the symbol of the creation of the
world from the waters. To the Egyp-
tianS it was a sacred plant. They
cultivated it in ponds and tanks,
wreathing their heads with the bios,
SONS on festive occasions.
The lotus has had a wonderful infiu-
ence upon architecture. It's leaves and
buds appear in the capitals of classic
columns and in every sort of antique
decorative carving it is the motif most
frequently chosen. The art work of
Japan Unto which country it was i'm
ported is inspired by it to a greater
extent than by anything else in ma
ture
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
Melon Grown in Africa Placed on
Sale in Kansas.

A melon, weighing about three
pounds, which was raised in
South Africa, arrived in Ell
Dorado last week consigned to
a local grocery company. The
melon was sent to the local store
by a produce deaIe in Chicago,
who received a large shipment.
Of the melons the first of the
week from a gro Her of the dark
continent. The melon shows nc
marks of its long travel and is
being offered for sale for 81.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23

Out in Wyoming the experiment
of having two municipal tickets
in the town of Iaxon. one COM
posed of women nominees and
the other of men, has given the
men something tc ponder about.
With all che women victorious,
even to the one who ran against
her husband, there was opportu-
nifty to demonstrate just what
can be done by the wives and
daughters who have hitherto
looed on while the civic house
keeping was more or less neg
lected.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
Letting George Do 1t.

In the opinion of the average
foreign country America is one
vast hive of agricultural indus
try.
They seem to think that all
they have to do is to ask and we
will hand over the food.
America has been generous in
the past in dividing its food
supply with Europe, even when
we had to deny ourselves to do
it. But the war is over and
war conditions and necessities
no longer exist.
The American farmer is very
short of help and crop outlooks
are not of the best, according
published reports.
Experts predict a shortage of
foodstuffs next winter, with the
possibility of bread and soup
lines in the cities of our own
country.
If this should happen Europe
cannot expect us to meekly hand
over the food we need to sustain
life among our own people.
Exporting profiteers would of
course take advantage of the sit
uation and send food to Europe
at enormous gains to themselves.
But the public will not have il
so. If such is attempted the
roar of the protest will be long
and deep and will engulf any
person who attempts to starve
American women and children
for the sake of selling to Europe
at great personal profit.
America neither asks aims
nor favors from any country.
We are ready to relieve dis
tress across the water when
conditions and humanity permit,
but we are not willing to send
our own people to bed hungry
in order to do it.
Europe can work and produces
if it will. 1t should quit piddI,
ing and squabbIing and cult
vate that will.
Letting George do it.
doesn't appeal strongly to US
especially when we are expected
to make ourselves a universe
and perpetual George.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
What She Wanted to Say

A small girl in a street car was try
ing to say something which her moth
er appeared to be greatly trying to
suppress. Several times the little one
started. and each time the mother
leaned over to her and enjoined
silence. When the mother thought her
child had been effectuaIly sque!ched
the yOungster bIurted out; Il don't
care. 9!ri lady over these says aint'
and Il goes gsn't'"
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23
are either good or sweet

In reading many of the point
ed paragraphs of the day we
find them all but the point.
Sure the world is safe for de.
mocracy, but democracy appears
any thing but safe sor itself.
Faddists who don overalls
have reason to be elated. They
at least have the appearance of
working.
When every man takes up the
study of poll tical economy we
will have more economy and
and less politics.
At the present cost of
sugar some of our dainty maid
ems should bring a high price
in the market of osculatory
sweets.
A New York woman claims to
receive telegraphic messages
from her son who has been
dead for two yea rs. Next!
The king and queen of Bel
GUM are becoming pIebian in
their habits. They travel from
Brussels to England by aero
plane.
And advertisement conveys
the startling information that
silk stockings are coming down
Shocking, shocking-but where?
Something radically wrong
south of US. This mornings pa
per failed to record the new Mex
leo president for the day.
During the war in many cities
people cultivated their back
var DIS to be patriotic or graddish
Now they are glad to do it as an
aid to three eats a day.
Ofcourse we Americans have
to admit that we are just a little
bad, but there's consolation in
the thought that we learned our
naughtiness from others.
1t is interesting to note the re-
markabIe decrease in number of
keyhoIes since the country went
dry. Or perhaps the eyesight of
humanity improving.
Every ton of sea water is said
to contain one grain of gold
At this ratio the seas contain
about ninety billion tons of the
yellow metal. Help yourself
Even cupid is feeling the eff
fects of the high cost of living.
His darts are ia ling by the
waysides, the armor Of house
hold expenses being no hard for
them to penetrate.
There is a measure of com.
mendations due dhe person who
serenely hopes for the best,
but there's a deal more coming
to the one who goes out and rus
ties for it
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23

A Federal fudge IN PhiIadel-
phia has held unconstitutional
portion of the Lever Act, which
permits prosecutions for excess
i've prCfts on foodstuffs.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23

Itching diseases can be controlled
and cause removed by applying Bal,
lard's Snow Liniment. The relief is
prompt and permanent. Three
sizes, 3Oc, soc and 81 20 per bottle.
Sold by PAUL Drug Co
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-06-23

If you have reason to think you
child is suffering from worms, take
the safe course-use Whites Cream
Vermifuge Worms can not resist
its eXpelling influence. Prl &c, 35c
Sold by PAUL Drug Co.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1920-09-02
FAR "A
ANIMAL, s
SIMPLE FORM or ORGANIZING
No Capita Is Required, Farmers of
Community Meeting and Sc
Letting Officers.

The simple form of organization
that suflices for cooperative livestock
shipping associations is one of their
leading features. In the first place,
practically no capital is required,
since payment is not made to mem.
bers for stock shipped until the re.
turns are received from the market.
To organize, it is necessary only that
the farmers of community meet to-
gether, adopt simple constitution
and bylaws, and elect officers and a
board of directors, who in turn appoint
manager.
Although in order to transact husi-
ness it is not necessary for an asSOcia-
ton of this nature to incorporate I'M
der the state laws, it is advisable to
do so as a protection to the members.
If not incorporated, the organization.
as such, can not sue or be sued, and
| in case of the loss Of stock from rail
road wrecks or other cause the man
ager could not enforce claims for the
association, but each shipper would be
/ compelled to present claims for his
own losses. The cost of incorporating
is comparatively small-usually not
more than SO.
The United States department OF
agriculture will furnish on request
the essentials of a model constitution
and bylaws.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1920-09-02
FORAGE SUPERIOR FOR HOGS
Extremely High Prices Make IL rr0'''
able to Substitute Grass
Crops for Grain.

With the present extremely me-"
nrices of grain it is profitable 10 SUI"
st,tute. as far as possible ior"S.
crops for grain fees. y SaV'"S W
Is to Is per cent of the total "''''nn'
of grain and supplements NAV Nv
nected through the rs" of 'nr''G'' ''>
ture crops. when combined win sral'
feeds, will produce the cheapes. ra
tions for both breeding ana ia''eiills
hogs and the cost of gains Will range
from one-sixth to onerfourth cheaper
than when the grain is fed III '''
lot. ,o oases
with an abundance of good .or" ta,,
n obtain fairly satisfactory gaHH 10
a time on such forage alone pu' ln5
Greatest returns have been obtained =.
whom grain was fed in adullioi, "
tho forage at the rate OF TWO 70 'hl ee
NOR cent of the weight OF the hoss
per day.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1920-09-02
Felt Tagged Out
South Carolina Man Says Ziron Helped Make Him
Feel Stronger "A Good Builder

pure, soluble iron salts, with other tonic
ingredients, forming valuable, build
ing medicine for pale, weak people.
Ziron helps to enrich the blood with
iron and tone up the general system.
Many people have been benefited by
taking Ziron. Why not try it and see
what 1t will do for you? 1t may help
YOU. If it doesn't, take the empty bot
tie back to the druggists, where you
bought the Ziron, and get your money
back. This offer applies to the frst
bottle of Ziron that you take, and Is
good at any drug store.
Insist on Ziron. Accept no substitute.