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The courier-index., 1920-04-09
AS THE EDITOR SEES IT

Much bad feeling has been creat- ed between the vets and the drys over the method of enforcing the federal prohibition law. It seems that in many cases prohibition agents have been forcibly entering homes and seizing such liquor as they could find. Now the courts in some cases are ruling that no agent can enter mans home with out due process of law, and much liquor illegally siezed has been re- turned to it's owners. Regardless of the merits of the wet and dry issue, a mans home is his castle and should be held sacred from in vasion at the whim of any person on suspicion. There is a due pro- cess of law provided for the search inc of a suspected house, and that law should be respected. To sane ton otherwise would be to subject every home in the land to invasion by any thief or thug who saw fit to pin a bogus star to his vest.
 When you see the wind blowing a dirty piece of paper along the street, do a little thinking. Many people are careless every day, or the rubbish of various kinds would not be littering our streets and our alleys and our byways from day to day. .Cktlessness breeds filth filth breeds disease-disease leads tc sickness and death If every per son would use more precaution in the matter of community sanitation we would have less sickness, longer life, and greater happiness. None of us may ever hope to be perfect, but we are all open to improvement in one way or another.
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FOR Registered Holstein bull, years old, or will sell one year old Holstein bull subject to reg istration. I want to keep one and will sell one-you can take your choice. A. H. Lollar, Route 2, Mar veil, Ark. may ID
The courier-index., 1920-04-09
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT

The Courier-Index is authorized to announce that J. s. Coleman is candidate for the democratic nom. ination for surveyor of Lee eoun. ty, subject to the will of the voters in the primary to be held in Au. gust.
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FOR SALE-Pure bred Duroc Jersey males, all ages and sizes. Finest strain known. Extra good individual specimens. Get one of these males to head your herd. It will pay you. Henry James, Route No, 2. 'tf
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Carpenter says that if he wins the championship he will go to the country and raise chickens. How different from the average. When he wins a championship he stays in the city and chases 'em.-Columbus Citizen.
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The French hope a revision of their dictionary begun in 1878, will be finished by 2O20. If French be anything like English, lot of the completed work of that dictoinary is already obsolete. Slang of yes terday is good English today and archaic tomorrow.
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Governor Sproul, of Pennsylvania declines to have a military staff. Such a sensible decision by govern ors of Kentucky and Georgia would almost create a riot in those states so famed for their colonels.
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Published on Friday of each week st Marianna, Lee county, Arkansas, By the Press Publishing Company, and entered in the postoffice in Ma rianna as second-class mail matter rnder permit from the postoffice department. Subscription price $2.00 per year, invariably in advance. H. M. Jackson, Editor Manager.
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If you initials spell word, you'll be rich,'' says a successful lumber dealer. Funny, but when we tried that out on names we re- membered, the first combinations we got were "R. A. G." "B. E. G." "H. A. D." 70. w. E." and ID. A. M." and then we quit.
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towel on which you wipe your hands would have cost you about 25 cents. In the old days you could wash yourself or brush your shoes with that towel without counting the cost. But now every time you use towel you run up against the cost of living, for experts estimate that the old 25 cent towel of few years ago is the $1.25 towel of to- day. Fortunately however, the price of water has not advanced.
 Have you a desire to live to a ripe old age? It is possible to pro- long your life by eating chunk of garlic every day. That is, pro- vided your friends do not take the law of life into their own hands and bury you without waiting for the slight formality of death.
 Yes, there are bright lights in the city by which you may guide your steps. And there are bright minds in the country which need no lights to guide them.
 when the auLOmODlleS came lHlo general use it was freely predicted that the horse would in time become practically extinct. This prediction will hardly come true, as there will always be urgent need of horses on the farm. But it may be diff ferent with the street car. In Rockford, H., the citizens have tired of their poor street car serv- ice and decline to renew the fran chise. Instead they are petitioning the state utilities commission for permission to operate motor bus lines in lieu of street cars. The commission has been vacillating, and bus lines have sprung into exist ence and use without state sanction. They are said to be very satisfac- tory. In time it is possible the motor bus may drive the old street ear out of business entirely. Buss- es are an excellent means of trans portation especially in the smaller communities. The day may not be far away when we will see them operating in our own midst.
 The mother who encourages her daughter to expose the charms et her neck. arms and back in order
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As proof that we have perma- nently downed militarism in Ger many it isproposed that we spend much more each year on our army that the cost used to be of that German army that was considered menace to the peace of the world.
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Want to sell your farm? Write me full particulars. I will do the rest if price is right William Crump, SIT U. 6 P. Bank, Mem phis, Tenn. *30p
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One occupational disease of which you do not hear these days is house maids knee. The reason? Well, when have you seen housemaid down on her knees scrubbing the floor?
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Relief ship sent to Russia will carry undesirable aliens, thus af. fording relief coming and going Columbus Citizen.
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FOR SALE-Three big bone Po- land China male hogs, subject to registration. These males are from a sire that sold for S5,000. They will be fine to head your herd. See L. M. Osborne. *tf
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The Brahman day is divided into sixty hours of 24 minutes each. This is the sort of an eight hour day which would be popular here. -Johnstown Democrat
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LOST-Silver fork at Cemetery dinner at city hall Tuesday. Re ward for return to Mrs. H. M. Jackson. *dh
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NOTHING ON US

Europe wonders what we are gO- ing to do in international politics. So do we, for that matter.
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FOR SALE-Four room cottage at 408 Walnut street, electric lights, city water, lot 70 210, good gard en spot. See J. E. Griffin. ..17p
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In 1896 it was free silver. In 1920 it is Wood money.-Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
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A New York shoe salesman has been fined S25 for kissing a wo- man customer. He was probably trying to get her mind off the price of the shoes.-Roanoke Times.
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If we stay out of the league, will Europe sue us for breach of prom ise?
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If the Democratic and Republican parties are what each say the other is and the Socialists are what both the old parties say they are, how will this country be saved?
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The world is old in wisdom and in wickedness, but a little goodness creeps in occasionally.
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permitted to see, but invariably he1 will turn to the girl of modesty and common sense when he seeks wife. He doesn't care to share those charms with the public at large.
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The mother who encourages her daughter to expose the charms ef her neck, arms and back in order to catch husband should think again-and more seriously. The average man will look at all he is
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FOR SALE-Four or five nice lit tie upland farms. J. M. BUSH. *tf
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CHURCHES
ST. ANDREWS CHURCH The Rev. C. C. Burke, Rector

SUNDAYS
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-17
ON THE BACK TRACK

K S THERE some broad psychological to account swing the pendulum Following closely election striking points resemblance the result Of the voting Greek people, well the American, experiment with "nornqaley."
 In what observers thought pc very close election the party overwhelmingly defeated and the Royalist party turning power deposed pro-G German King Con- stantine,
 Practically of the Venizelos candidates were elected anywhere in the country his only 1sS Deputies against As in various elements of discontent bined with the pro-German element suc- of the reactionary ticket tiens held Sunday surprised at the showing their candidates
 election is liable to have large consequences outside Greece Paris are frankly alarmed at the apparent demand Greek people a to throne. What is of much however. moment is fact that place just when the Bolsheviki have linked up Turkish Nationasts. These two facts coupled together have created extremely dangerous in Near md
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-17

down as to reduce taxes
 DF. Montgomery referred to the present taxation system as cumber- some and complex. This is ;substan- italy the substance of the indictment drawn up against it by Presiden. Wilson when he asked the last Con gress to revise the tax laws .and the inference was drawn from Dr. Mont can leaders may, in the next session, reeede from their obstinate positio of opposition to any reform in tax legislation which they have clung pointed out as particularly unfair to- wards smaller concerns the amount of capital held up as result of dis
 putes over back taxes.
 Continuing. he said:
 f@The excess profits tax and the surfaces on incomes do not rest fairly. The excess profits tax doesn't stay where it is put. The manufac- tuFer pays an excess profits tax and adds enough to cover and a margin of safety to his price to the whole. saler or jobber, and so on down the 1 line to the retailer, sometimes as 1 many as four transactions. The con
 sumner pays not one excess profits 1 tax but four.
 Another annoying complication is | the taX-eKempt bonds. A man fnd- 1 ing he will have to pay Il per cent. l of his income to the government will tax-exempt ponds and get rid of his 1 indus stria1s.
 "In the last three or four years I the comparative value of labor and l of farms has gone up in contrast with intereSt-beaflng investments which | have gone down and one of the req sons is that the lawmakers have laid their hands on the interest bearing s Investments and have not on these 1 other sources of wealth of the coun- | try.
 They tell us we can't reduce taxa i tien. We can enact a sales tax,
 which might be immediately unpop-
 uJar. but it has the redeeming feature l that it taxes a man what he | spends and not on what he saves. It l is simple and doesn't involve a hos I tile attitude towarsd thrift It will
 stay put because it is tax on the
 last transaction I am not here te | plead especially for the sales tax | but think it over. The most inn | portant thing is an entirely different | attitude towards the result of thrift Of cutting down government ex- penditures."
 | Before Dr. Montgomery's address | William V. Dee chairman of the en, l tertainment committee, awarded | prizes won in the recent Hallowe'e CT made by the recipients. E. L. Larson
 accepted the first prize on behalf O 1 the Locomobile Company, ant George M. Flames acted for the Sin ger Mfg. Go. in accepting the second l prize for floats. Hoyt Catlin accept ed on behalf of the Bryant Electri' Company the second prize for march
 ing floats. Each speaker gave tn l credit to the employees for winnin, the prize. A vote of thanks was ten
 dered the Chamber of Commerce ant Board of Recreation for initiating tn l Halloween Frivols.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-17
COLLYER IS NEW HEAD DOF
 MANUFACTURERS ASSN.

important that when a conference IS being held such as is now being heid at Geneva that on some basis which shall retain the integrity or the United States there shall be Amer1- can participation in such conIer- ence, so that the decisions that are taken shall have in view our inter ests as we'll as the interests Of other nations of the world"
 Dr. Montgomery told of meeting he attended at New York on Armis- tice day. attended by Henry Morgen- thau, Oscar Strauss, Hamilton Holt, Nicholas Murray Butler and many others representing all shades or opinion, from administration sup porters to Republican stalwarts. and, said Dr. Montgomery:
 'tThere we were all looking forward on Armistice Day to some plan for an | association or agreement so that the United States should take its place among the nations of the world to safeguard it's own interests and 70 take its part in the responsibilities | of the war;
 Returning to his formal address Dr. Montgomery said:
 "The subject of the fiscal policy of l the United ates is of interest par ticularly to manufacturers. more | than it ought to. I am hoping that | we shall be able to work the govern
 ment into a position where its fiscal
 
 mediately effect the profits and earn ings of the industries of the coun- try Before we can consider the matter of taxation, there. is something fundamental that we must adjust and that is the attitude this coun-
 try has taken towards money saved
 up. I will avoid the word capital
 what I speak of is thrift money that
 has been saved up. The property oi
 a country depends on the amount ii
 is able to save up, the reservoirs o1
 social energy it is able to establish
 In order to encourage people to save there must be some adequate reward 'It is useless to build for thrif unless you are going to give a re ward for thriftiness. The public at titude is one of hostility towards tn, result of thrift, so the legislators gt out and seize it as the easiest mean for them to obtain funds to spend The class who pay the highest in come tax with the surtaxes added pa, 71.s per cent of their income int. 8 the Federal government aside iron @ other taxes They still have enougI 9 so they won't suffer for necessities y but ttaf isn't the point The poin
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-17

here in Bridgeport is thought by the Secret Service nlen to have been Miranda whose headquarters-was the Moonlight Cafe mentioned above. No liquor was ever in evidence here it being merely a place in which to re- ceiVe orders for whiskey in whole sale amounts. Miranda was known to have had a big Peerless car in which he made frequent trips to New
 York and could easily have brought back quantities of liquor.
 The group of Italians with which he did business are considered by the Se- cret Service men to be of the worst type. Miranda was known to have carried an automatic and displayed i
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-17
LET THEM BE JOINED

>HrFE IS . NO good reason why rhan4ssisns day
 .E Armisce day should be made into one holiday that November Il. he Arnistice is date, about which there can be doubt. Thanksgiving celebrates event which is precisely fixed will just appropriate ly November II other cranper- ries turkey is prime condition crops have harvested November By all means let change mo especially because it is desired by many service service men connected with the Lake Torpedo be cena- industry they in seeking the marriage of these contiguous festivals.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-17
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER IT, 1920
MAKING THE EVIL WORSE

TNHE NEW HAVEN Journal-courier finds inn U possible o Haven city government with clear idea of the com munity problem which been created by the trolley situation"
 our contemporary means by this, no doubt, hat withhods approval Fitzgerald, who does sign ordinance passed by the New Haven Council. This measure like similar meas Bridgeport, purpose strange by law of transportation which is cheaper. faster and comfortable furnished by trolley 
 'The problem moment" is to in yestment that protect competition, methods that cannot be tolerated by any other field of industry Surely, contemporary this merely for its euphony; O facts industry.
 chief unfairness charged to the jitney that of them would just ahead and the other just behind, trolley that the people who wish ed to be carried taken from the trolley
 This is the ordinary of competition. Two drug stores on store, markets grocery stores place themselves just either side of established salesman of manufacturing poration in the and the competi- will be regarded wholesome for the community.
 The Connecticut Company a spoiled is unlikely the general assembly will furnish real cure The lessons of the past strongly teach the prob assembly will not only furnish cure, a bad matter The general assembly legsated inteiigeptly for the pub with the corporations 0 this state.
 In a very the general assembly has been these corporations. It has permitted they please to do. It has been doting -taren., children brought without dis cippe injured broken because of parental indulgence unreasonable affection.
 trolley business of Connecticut before it can serve the people properly, must begin over again.
 ought to perform the duties which were 70 Sell these properties to the highest bidder. nd in they perhaps compete with other forms of The maintain them by legislatng superior forms of morally economically wrong will bring its train than those it cessfully attempts
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-17
FEDERAL AGENTS
 ARREST MIRANDA

(Continued From Page One.)
 One was the large number of discov- cries and arrests made by the reve- nue officers and a second and perhaps more potent reason was that so much of the liquor produced was bad and caused such serious effects to the drinkers that most of them were afraid to buy and drink it.
 This opened the way for another form of illegal traffic: the sale of liquor in bottles which were claimed have been bottled in bond and on which the revenue taxes had been still had genuine labels of such brands as "Old Crow,' Taylor" etc. From these the labels were steamed and put on bottles contain ing fake liquor or at best liquor of a very poor quality.
 people more thirsty than wise, bought freely which produced an ex- eeptionally good & market paying bonded liquor taken out of bond by means of genuine permits would have brought.
 supply of labels and stamps secured from old bottles and the next step was the manufacture of commercials, | which brought into existence two who were making fake stamps, and
 labels and men who were making and selling fake liquor. The two | were enabled to carry on their work | independently by means of a third gang who ran 9. sort of clearing l house or whiskey exchange on Grand | street, in New York, almost under | theeaves of the Police Headquarters. l Orders for whiskey and labels came
 to them and they passed them on to | the proper persons and then in a few l days attended to the delivery of the l order on a cash basis. In this way very few of the men knew more than l one or two of the others involved | which reduced the risk of capture. | As showing how profitable the l manufacture of the stamps was it is
 said that the regular, price was eleven | dollars for dozen sets, set con- 1 sistinS of two labels and one stamp, | and that the manufacturers would not | accept an order for less than a, hun | dred sets It is known that there
 are in existence four distinct types of | these counterfeit stamps.
 The liquor was usually brought out
 of New York in a big touring car by l some man who did not know per sonally any one except the party | from whom he got the liquor which
 in most cases was one of these go- betweens or brokers. A legal pro- lection fund was provided and if one
 of these men was caught he was fur
 nished with bonds, a lawyer, and
 paid for his confiscated car.
 The prime mover in the traffic
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-17

frequently to intimidate the men whom he employed to deliver the smaller amounts of wh.skey. service which he paid one dollar case for
 The fact that the operatives of the United States Secret Service have been active in this matter is due to the fact that it makes no difference in he eyes of the Federal law whether man commercials a bill or a revenue stamp he is equally guilty and it was impossible to work up the counter feiting case without at the same time carrying along the liquor end of it.
 The Secret Service men say thai eight of ten saloons in this city are stocked with this fake liquor with
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-17

is we must encourage thrift, and be willing to insure large returns to those who are able to embark on great enterprises and enter into great risks The whole attitude is such that men of enterprise feel like sit ting back and saying, What's the use?' There isn't any certainty for them. If they could feel there was sympathy on the part of the public, then they would feel differently about risking their money. Who will en deavor to build any new railroads af- ter the treatment those who have built them have received?
 There must be no animus towards money laid by. There must be the greatest care in the expenditure of public funds. Experts tell us there won't be much chance of diminishinG the amount of revenue the United s ates government will require fo1 the next two or three years The drst thing will not be so much to cut
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-17

Whether George Flames of the Singer Manufacturing Co. would have succumbed to the temptation to grab the remainder of his succulcnt DOT lcn of chicken from his plate and finish it catch catch can style at inc annual dinner of f,he Manufa actur CTS Association at the Stratheld last night will always remain mystery, for just as George was debating on whether or not to abandon his knife and fork, Toastmaster c. F. Bilton in 1ervened and called for all present to sing America, There were many others in the same predicament as MT. Flames, but they manfully stood and sang and by the time they re- turned to the attack on the chicken tho temptation had evaporated.
 The dinner followed the election of officers, which resulted in the destin- ies of the association for the coming $ term being entrusted to John A Col lyer, manager of the Crane Co.,, as president; w. R. Bassick, first vice president; T. R. Davis. manager oi inc Eastern Malleable Iron Co.,, sec ond vice-president; R. G. Farrell secretary of the Bridgeport Screw Co., treasurer, and Fred Hill, secre- tary.
 "BilP' Steinke led all present in ia rniliar songs, all present including the orchestra, as "Bill' was able to es- tablish an entente cordiale with tho . tions. "I'll lead, you follow me-
 The speechmaking program pre- sented the novel features of humor ous speeches from two members ot the ministry pr. Willard Scott O. Brookline, and pr. A. F. Campbell O; this city, and an address on "Th, Fiscal Policy of the United States, by a newspaper man, Dr. George R Montgomery of the Evening Reg ister.
 Fresh from visits to New York ant Washington, where he would hav have had an opportunity to consul with men influential in the incomin administration, Dr. Montgomery address was interpreted by many a an inkling of what may be expecte from the new Congress in tax legis lation. Dr. Montgomery precede his formal address by a plea for en trance of the United States into tn League of Nations from the stand point of national expediency, saying
 s.This whole matter of America position among the nations of tn world Is something of interest t every manufactures. It is extkemel