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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-03
41ouston Is Guest to Conuention
 Confederate Veterans This Week.

Adress on Cotton Tax and Pensions Gen. Geo. Hillyer, Atlanta, Ga. Music by Band.
 Report of Committee on Creden- .ials. Report of Committee on Battle Alb oey. Report of Committee on History. Report on Rutherford Committee. Miscellaneous Business.
 The Convention will suspend busi- ness promptly at 12 o'clock noon, and take part in the Memorial Eyer- cises" under the auspices of the United Confederate Veterans" the "Confederated Southern Memorial As sociatoin" and the "Sons of Confed- crate Veterans" The following is the order of the exercises for this service.
 Assembly Call.
 Song-How Firm A Foundation Vcstal Choir of Cathedral.
 Invocation--Rev. Randolph Clark Stephensville, Texas. Reading Honor Roll of Confederate Veterans A. B. Booth, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, U. c. V
 Reading Honor Roll of Confederat. ed Southern Memorial Association Miss Daisy M. L. Hodgson, Recording Secretary General, c. s. M. A. Reading Honor Roll of Sons of Con federate Veterans, Carl Hinton, Ad jutant General and Chief of Staff.
 Song--Lead Kindly Light-Vestee Choir.
 Address-"The Immortals J w. Bachman, Chaplain General, U. c V.
 Address, "The Woman of the c. s M. Az" Miss Kate Daffan, Houston Texas.
 Address-"Our Glorious Inherit ance"-Rev. Henry w. Battle, Chap lain in Chief, s. c. V.
 Hymn-God Be With You Till w. Meet Again."
 Benediction.
 Taps.
 Afternoon Session, 2 D. m.
 Music by Band.
 J.. lain Dick Bowling Camp, U. c. V.
 Report of Committee on Davi Home Farm.
 Report of Committee on Resolu tions.
 Report of Committee on Monu ments.
 Music by Band.
 Report of Committee on Jefferson Davis Home Association.
 Election of officers.
 Selection of Place of Next Meet ing.
 Adjournment.
 8:30 to 12 p. m.
 Grand Ball to the United Confeder ate Veterans, Memorial Association Sons of Confederate Veterans, ant their official women and distinguish ed guests. The entire floor will b reserved exclusively for the Veteran and their ladies for Grand March which will start promptly at s:45. The floor will also be cleared iron time to time to permit the Veteran to dance the Virginia Reel, Quadrille etc.
 Third Day-Friday, Oct. 8
 Parade of Veterans, Memorial Asso citation, Sons of Confederate Veteran Official Women and Military Com panies, at 10 a. m.
 9:OO p. m.-Grand Ball in homo Sens of Confederate Veterans, Unite Confederate Veterans, Confederate Southern Memorial Association an all Official Women.
 All sessions of the United Confed crate Veterans will be held at tn City Auditorium.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-03

Houston, rexas, Oct. 2.--Houston next week is host to the Confectionery
 Tickets go on sale tonight at mid night all over the South for visitors to the great reunion, at Houston |
 october 8 to 8, of the United Con- federate Veterans, the Sons of Con- federate Veterans and the Confeder l sted Southern Memorial Association. With rates of cent mile grant cd by '125 railroads in the South |s Houston is completing preparations E for crowd of 75,000 to 100000 per
 sons. Stop overs are granted. Tick cts are good, returning, until October pe 31.
 Ft The triple reunion begins when the xr eConfederated Southern Memorial As "a | sociation is called to order at I NoE oclock Tuesday afternoon in the city Eaauditorium for the opening session of Hits 21st annual convention. "a The Sons of Confederate Veterans \ holds it's first session at 8 o'clocl gaxthat night in the city auditorium {pppening the 18th annual reunion.
 The United Confederate Veteran:
 vii! open it's 3Oth annual reunion \ s Al ednesday morning at 10 o'clock 1T sssfhe city auditorium.
 " All three will then hold morning and afternoon sessions in differen
 uditoriums each day through Friday
 when the reunion ends.
 To Have Grand Ball
 A grand ball for the Veterans and
 mother for the Sons of Veterans, will
 Ae held in the city auditorium, on
 hursday night and Friday night. EG Hhe annual parade of Veterans and E lhcd organizations starts Friday E Aosning at 10 o'clock. It is expected 4e seven miles long and will take f lee hours to pass.
 Neterans will not live in camp this EeaE The war department refused to
 cots and blankets. Mattresses been bought and the 5000 tc Veterans expected to attend be "bi1leted" in schools and town buildings. Each must 15a his own blankets. Mess will wed at central dining center. official program follows: H Day, Wednesday,, October 6
 Fifty Auditorium, 10 a. m. 3 21ert-Southern Airs-Band. : ntion called to order by Gen ,k Fitzpatrick, Commander of the ivision, U. c. ", Mckinney h Ion Rev. J. w. Bachman all. N General, U. c. V. is zorEs9 Nfrvices under direction of ashe Bachman, Chaplain Gen. 2 II . ton, Hon. A. E. Amerman, ss hat en aston.
 " weEederate Choir. ld, ntHf Welcome in Behalf of Q. Pro- nrans-Judge Norman G VI lin Behalf of the State of eA R,Fernor w. P. Hobby, aks dep to Official Ladies U. c. V sE gle Daffan, Past Sponsor for ?. ENl on turned over to General Zandt, Commander in chief enj pn osForth, Texas. ]. W s.1 i'd.
 ! da Ier Addresses of Welcome af es m1inkins, New Orleans, ||||||'::::: :::':::. >. ;. ;: ..::. :::
 Session 3 p. m. ---- xa. Dxas.
 F. \ "A sxSr Hon. Fritz G. Lan- lssI Texas. rl2S rI.s Moderate Choir. ';slss nt of Committee on Gre .s t of Committee on Res
 \ sA 6rsday. Oct.
 Henry w. Battle
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
Strong Caps of Paper.

Astonishing stropg paper caps, capa-
BILE of withstanding powerful blows,
though extremely light in weight, have
been invented by Il shipyard employee.
and are intended to he worn by Wort.
men whose duties expose them 70 dam
ger from falling objects, says Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
The process by which the novel head
gear is produced has not been divulgcd,
but 1t is known that chemicals are en-
ployed to harden the material, without
adding to its weight. Several styles
have been made, the lightest weighing
about seven ounces, and others slightly
more. In recent test, n 1-pound bolt
was dropped on one Of them from a
height of forty feet, with the result
that barely perceptible dent was
made in the paper. The novel hcac
coverings are proof against water and
acids, and are nonconductors Of cleo
tricity.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
Why Automobile Is kino

America makes nine-tenths of all
the automobiles In the world today.
1t Is only few years since the best
cars were made In Europe, but now
we send our cars to 1873 different coun-
tries, including Iceland. 1t is no won
der that you can scarcely cross a
street or road in the country with
out lodging an automobile, for last
year nearly 100000 cars were turned
out In the United States. which makes
about 100000 cars regularly regis
tered In the country. In few years
1t Is believed there will be nearly
twice as many. There are more cars
to the population in Nebraska and
Iowa than any other place I'm the
world, or one for every six and half
Life.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
AS TO INFANT AUTHORSHIP
Many Who Afterward Achieved Great
ness May Properly Be CIassed
as Youthful Prodigies.

Pope, who ''lisped in numbers" had
the moral courage to burn all his child
ish and boyish verses, including the
epic, Alexander" He took no chance
of posthumous publication, says the
Youths Companion.
When little Tom Macaulay was
seven years old he wrote "Compen-
dunn of Universal History" beginning
with the creation, and when he was
eight heroic poem on "Olaus the
Great" Il was natural that his moth
er should have cherished those proofs
Of early talent and have shown them
occasionally to friends; but, as his
nephew Mr.. Trevelyan, neatly OBJ
serves, "If the affection of one gen.
Grafton has preserved them intact the
piety of another generation refrains
from submitting them to the public"
distinguished book collector has
had printed for his own pleasure and
Tor the pleasure of his friends the
History Of Noses" composed by Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson when he was six
years old and dictated to his mother.
The tiny volume is embellished with a
facsimile of Mrs. Stevenson's manu-
script and with delightful illustra-
ton in water colors from the hand of
the little prodigy. 1t represents the
Israelites hilariously leaving Egypt
They smoke long pipes and carry UNI
brellas and bundles. One of them
pauses long enough to beat a protest.
Ing Egyptian over the head. The mar
rative is both comprehensive and con-
else. 1t won a prize from a generous
uncle in 1856, and it is today as good
an example Of infant authorship as
we are likely to read.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
HONOR PAID ST.
IN England Especially Is His Day OBJ.
served for Prescribed cere-
nonlaIs and Feastinq.

There are fragmentary customs
bound up with Michaelmas which
have to do with birds and winged
things. for no particular reason that
anybody knows. Perhaps 1t Is chance
that 1t is so. But everywhere IN Eng
land where Michaelmas is kept a goose
Is sacrificed for dinner on that day,
and for years and years in Lincolnshire
and Yorkshire handful of the farm
er's each sort Of grain was scattered
In the court or farmyard for the birds,
so that luck would come to that home
stead. Queen Elizabeth was eating,
you may remember, her Michaelmas
goose when the defeat Of the Spanish
armada was announced to her. Per-
haps Michael's wings were lowering
over the sea that day of the defeat
and that those sizzling geese all over
England were a sacrifice not made In
vain. And perhaps, after all, these
customs of cooking geese and throwing
grain to birds are only just because
Michaelmas comes in the harvest time.
But IL Is nice to think that everything
with wings Is In some way akin to this
especial saint.-San Francisco Argo-
naut.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
YEAR ONCE BEGAN IN MARCH
Change in Style May Be Said to Date
From 1752-Great Militant
Events in Month

Few people know, or, IL they do,
have forgotten, that March, AMI not
January, at one time was the first
month of the year, remarks the Chi
cago Journal. For commencing the
year with March there seems to he
sufficient reason in the fact that it is
the first season after the dead year"
in which decided symptoms of growth
take place.
The name is derived from the Ro-
mans. among whom it was ut an early
period the first month of the year, and
continued to be in several countries to
q comparatively late period, tie legal
year beginning, even in England, on
March 26, until the change OF style in
1852. For the Romans, to dedicate
their first month to Mars and call it
Martius seems equally natural, con-
sidering the Importance they attached
to war and the use they made of it.
In the history of our own country
April appears to carry off the palm
for the month in which great militant
events occurred, yet in the world war
number of epoch-making incidents
took place in March for instance, the
revolution in Russia in 1917, when
Car Nicholas abdicated on March 10.
The big drive on the 50-mlle front
from Arras to La Ecu began on the
Dist, and Paris was in that month bonn
barded by big Bertha"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
Heat for Alaska.

The Pacific has its own "Culf
stream" which is called the Japan
current, and It is formed in the same
way.
The trade winds, blowing from the
tropics, bank up the warmed ocean
waters in the Yellow sen Correspond
ing to our Gulf of Mexico), and thence
they pour out between Japan and For
mosa, the stream thus formed passing
south of the Aleutian chain, along the
southern coast of Alaska, and down
the west coast Of North America.
Hence 1t comes about that the whole
southern coast Of Alaska has tenn
perate climate. 1t Is warmed by the
Japan current.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
Why Berlin Barred Iona Hat Pins

No hat pins figured as weapons in
the latest disturbances in Berlin if
an order issued by the chief of police
a few days before the reactionary
coup Of March IL was needed by the
wearers Of feminine headgear. 1t ap-
pears. according to an account in the
Berliner Tageblatt. that an old police
order dating TO pre-war days was re-
vived, I'm view of the danger to limo
cent bystanders engendered by the
wearing Of enormous hat pins in SUBJ
way and street. car crowds, and the
Berlin women were warned that each
such orense would cost fine of 90
marks and the proper" term of i'm
prisonment. Furthermore, the order
pointed out that any person injured
by one Of these pins could recover
damages up to 5000 marks, and the
culprit might also be sent to Jail for
two years and fined 900 marks.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
What Really Keeps Time.

AS measurer Of time the pendu-
lum ranks today as the most perfect
of our instruments, says the Scientific
American. 1t is the part Of a clock
that keeps time. All the rest of the
mechanism is simply for the purpose
of keeping up its vibration or to point
on dial the number Of vibrations 1t
has made. 1t swings back and forth
in a complete arc 30 times each min
ute, but allows the escape-wheel to
move a cog at each vibration, thus
checking of on the dial. by means Of
the second hand, 30 seconds Of time.
In similar way, minutes and hours
are recorded. and by like process a
watch is guided.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
SURVIVAL OF A PAST AGE
Why the Picturesque Corner Store
and Postoffice in New England
Will Soon Have Gone.

The community house and the COM
munity council are replacing the cor
ner store and pOstoffice in New Eng
land. The rural free delivery takes
the mail-order trade to the farmers
own door. And the mems clubs take
the place Of the circle around the
stove. where once the village life con.
gregated.
Yet the old corner store and post
office still is factor in New England
social life. The storekeeper Is the
presiding genius of these places and
an important man in the village hier-
archy. He will last as long as the
old guard survives, but his methods
are ANTICIPATED and he Is doomed. One
such old fellow, whose store, at the
junction Of four roads In a distant
Maine farming section, was the rem
devious OF the scattered community,
would grumble that he could never
have q moments peace.
Don't no more than git my hands
into the dough to mix my bread, but
some'n has to come and ask for some
thing. Amt got my corn hoed yit,
count Of having to sort all them let
tiers and packages. I've a good mind
to quit storekeeping; it's too darn
wearing on man."
And he absolutely refused to keep
red calico as part of his stock, be-
cause, he said, 81 don't no sooner git
lot in than it's all sold out and have
to git me some more."-Hildegard
Hawthorne, in World Outlook.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
How Embarao Act Worked.

The embargo act of December 81,
1907, was termed the "O-Grab-Me act"
This embargo, laid by the United
States on all Its own ports and YES
sells In retaliation for certain DEGREES
OF England. sorely restricting the
rights Of neutral vessels. bore par
ticuIarly hard on New England, which
had been increasing Its shipping very
rnpidIy. Inverting the word "em-
bargo." the malcontents called II the
"O-Grab-Me act" referring to the fact
that It operated to the advantage OF
one part OF the country mt the expense
Of the shipping interests Ia another.
|rhe act was repealed 10 February.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18

In time of reaction from the
ideals which swept US into war. it is
Atting that Chautauqua should place
among its attractions this summer q
lecture on American Ideals"
Such a lecture will be given by DR..
David d. Vaughan OF Boston. His
experiences with the workers Of that
great city enable him to speak not
only with emphasis, but with an ap-
probation OF the human qualities un-
DERIVING our complex and changing
national life.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18

There Ia one form of entertainment
which never fails to create excited in
tsrest among American audiences.
Magicians have come and gone with
tho passing of decades. and still the
interest in their art grows.
Each generation Of magicians has
contributed to the succeeding genera
tons. so that those appearing on the
American stage today are the rich in
heritors of the past as well as the pos
SCISSORS of individual talent.
Davis, the magician, who is appear
ing on the Chautauqua program this
summer, is one of the recognized
leaders in his craft
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
WHY
AGE and Youth Are Not
Matters of Years

Seventy years Is not really such an
advanced age. declares DIR. William S.
WEIGH. long and highly eminent as
pathologtst at Johns Hopkins and still
very active In directing the School OF
Hygiene and Public Health. AS Dr.
Welch has Just rounded out the allot-
ted three score and ten, he speaks
from experience as well as knowledge,
but even he probably would admit that
he Is not as young as he was thirty
or forty years ago.
or course, old age does have Its
compensations. when good health goes
with It but the compensations are
all Of q negative character, and the
best a them are not enviable by those
In possession Of youth, the most pre-
cious OF ell treasures In spite Of its
numerous troubles and dangers.
Being wise. DR.. WEIGH does not eulo-
gizs old age; he merely declares that
It can DO endured with calmness by
philosophers, and an analysis of what
he says brings out that in his own
case he finds his seventy years bur-
den eastly carried because he retains
some Of the bodily and all of the men,
tai activities that are the common pos
session Of ambitious and fortunate
youth. In other words, he doesn't
much mind being old, because he 10
still young.
AS matter of fact. age and youth
are not matters Of years. Senescence
may begin at any time and it may be
long delayed. What is called-ever
so vaguely !-"constitution" seems
largely to determine the arrival of the
dreaded hour when powers begin to
fail, and constitution" is a legacy,
not an achievement.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18

DR.. George r. Wells, who will be
heard on the Chautauqua program
this summer in a discussion Of do
the Dead Speak?" has spent his life in
a theoretical and practical study of
psychological subjects.
He has been professor of psychol-
ogy at Ohio Wesleyan university, Del
aware, O., and has been conducting
research work for the United States
army during the war.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
NOTICE

Beginning May 20, 1920, all in
voices against the City of Owosso
must be accompanied by a city pur-
chase order and in order to be passed
upon by the City Commissioner on
Monday night must be presented at
the City Clerks office not later than
3 p. m. on the preceding Friday.
Signed
B. X. LUCAS.
City Clerk.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
PERCIVAL VIVIAN.

Percival Vivian. organizer and d.
rector of the Percival Vivian Players,
who will present James Montgomery
Nothing But the Truth on the Chaur
tanQua platform this summer. is ono
of Broadway's youngest and most tai
eAted producers.
From an early start with the Ben
lrssk Players he has rapidly ad
raAcsd to an enviahlo position In ths
stage world
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
FiEcHTEl.'S ALPINE SINGERS.

Ffechtel's Alpine Singers and 70
dlers will be heard here on the open
ing day of Chautauqua. Their concert
will give Chautauquans a glimpse into
the heart of the Alps.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18

SEA WORM SAMOAN DELlCACY
its infrequent Arrival Always Made
the Occasion for the Holding Of
a Great Festival.

Paiolo. the most priced of oil gusta-
tory delicacies In Samoa, declared by
Americans who have tried II to be SUI
perior to the lobster. Is a marine
worm, being rather mysterious In that
1t Is never seen save on two or three
nights In the entire year. Its appear
ance seems to be regulated by the
moon.
The palolo chooses the time for its
first appearance on the night when
the October moon changes. When the
moon rises the sea Is seen to be alive
with wriggling green and brown
worms, some Of them a yard or more
in length. The natives make q festival
of the occasion. going out with dip
nets among the reefs and scooping ny
the worms by the Lushel. They pad
die around In every available boat
with lighted torches waiting for the
moon. and then the scene becomes one
of great and joyous excitement.
The palolo comes once again when
the November moon quarters, and is
not seen again until the following year.
1t is said to live in crannies Of the
coral reefs, coming to the surface to
spawn at these lunar periods. Some of
the worms are eaten as they wiggle,
for big feast on the following day,
when they are wrapped In banana
leaves and baked
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-18
Tranquility oxerdons.

$50 you slept for twen'y yesIs!'
EYES," replied Rip Van Wrinkle;
sand I'm compelled to admit that when
man tries 10 conquer unrest there
is danger Of bis going too faa."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19

as well as in. most other grains.
the proportions arp practically re-
versed. Under normal conditions the
prices Of these two commodities
usually are such us to somewhere
nearly equalize the two from the
standpoint of food cost.
Recently, however, potatoes have
sold from 81 to $3.50 per peck, which
means about Z to 10 cents pound.
whereas rice has retaiIed at Is to II
cents a pound. So long as the prizes
of the two foods is substantially in
this relationship, it Is obvious from a
comparison ofstl1eir food content that
q given sum of money can be spent
much more economically for rice
than for potatoes.
The estimated production Of rice in
this country for the past year was
100000 bushels, an increase of
nearly 100000 over 1918. While
some export business in rice has be-
gun to develop, the supplies for do
mestic consumption are considered
sufficient to meet a growing demand.
The department is not so much
concerned with the development of
any sudden increase in demand as ii
is having an Increasing number OF
people learn the value Of this product
not ony as a dessert but as an item
ranking with other cereals and with
vegetables in the menu,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19
Refused 4Be.. Sellers"

& sz+sSEslsss tN0s SoSSA 49,
The literary beginner is apt to be
downhearted when his pet production
is returned with a cold printed init
nation that It Is not acceptable to
an editor or publisher. sBnt he is In
good company. y
East Lynne" as novel and play,
has been more profitable than a gold
mine, yetiit was detected by George
Meredith when publishers reader for
Chapman d Hall.
A young man sent home rev
stories from India, with letter
which made the publisher imagine
the writer. thought too much of him
self, 90 he rejected the stories He
regretted 1t to the day Of his death,
because the young mansn'as Rudyard
Kipling. sfzls
Rider Haggard sair that Dawn
was sent back to him at least six
times before It found publisher.
w. w. Jacobs had a sililar ex-
perience with MANY Cargoes." He
tried 1t all around London, until
another hurnorist, jerome, took pity
on it and ran the stories in Today.
J. ]. Bell actually had to publish
Wee Macgreegor' himself. He got
John Haskell to draw the famous
cover and became his own publis her
with excellent results to himself, and
the public.
One publishing house has the
record Of having declined Stevenson,
Barrie. Kpling and Crockett! Ger
tain it is that r. L. S. did not find it
easy to sell Treasure Island. STRAY
Stories.