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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16

Decrease in the number of tritiing
offenses is accompanied by an almost
unbelievable and alarming increase
in the number of serious offenses.
Prohibition itself is enforced with
such difficulty as to give rise to great
numbers of new cases.
The pressure for augmented facili-
ties in the courts dealing with import
ant cases becomes more urgent, not
less urgent. Two of the amendments
defeated in the late election con-
templated additional Judges on both
the Appeals and the Supreme Court
and the need for them is generally
conceded. And now the first Legis-
Iature to meet since prohibition,
Federal and State, became operative
must consider, not the decrease that
might be expected, but an increase of
1000 in the police strength of this city.
That will mean an added burden of
$1,000, 600 which previously was un-
known in the administration of justice
in st. Louis.
And we must not forget the in
creased burden in Federal costs due
to prohibition, which is already heavy
and is mounting. Every Federal
court in the country has a docket
hopelessly congested with Volstead
cases and the extra judicial costs
caused by these cases are not includ-
ed in the millions appropriated for
the salaries and expenses of Volstead
agents,
A curious phepomenon is that when
huge new items are made necessary
in the Federal budget by reason of the
extension of the Federal jurisdiction
to such offenses as those defined in
the Mann act, the act relating to
thefts from freight cars and myriad
of other acts, there is never any cor
responding decrease in State or local
budgets. Such extensions invariably
mean double taxation for the same
purpose, with no visible decrease in
crime.
The effects of reformatory innova-
tions are supposed to be unerringly
reflected in both the demands made
on, and the cost of, the system of
law enforcement. Is the prohibitory
innovation an exception or must we
wait until later time for more typical
examples of its workings, for the
statistics that cheer rather than those
that depress?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16
American Legion Posts To Meet At Bis
marck Dec. 9th.

A meeting of all American Legion
Posts in the 18th Congressional Dis
trict will be held at Bismarck on
December 9th, beginning at one
o'clock P. NJ. Each and every Post in
this district is urgently requested to
send the largest possible number of
its members to attend this meeting.
Matters of vital Importance to the
future work of the Legion will be
planned and arrangements will be
made to organize new Posts through
out the district and to greatly increase
the membership of all Posts already
organized.
The 18th Congressional District at
this time has sixteen organized Posts.
At the Bismarck meeting a District
Commander and other district officers
will be elected to promote interest in
the American Legion aud to double
the number of organized Posts within
the next few months. service
men throughout the district are look
ing forward with great deal of
pleasure to the Bismarck meeting,
where they will meet with many of
their old buddies and re new acquaint-
ances made while, in the service.
The year 1921 will bring about many
matters of important legislation for
ex-service men and whatever laws
are enacted will depend largely upon
the desires of these men as expressed
through their own organization, the
American Legion. The Importance
of an effective district organization
cannot be doubted.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16
Dry Law and 1000 More Police.
lSt. Louis Post -Dispatch.l

(St. Louis Post -Dfspatch.)
The next Legislature will be asked
to Authorize an incrt ase of 1000 men
in the st. Louis police force. The de-
partment now has a personnel of
about 1900. The additional men ac-
cordingly would mean an increase of
nearly 65 per cent.
But none of the inestimable bless
ings of prohibition was less open to
argument, was more certain, accord
ing to it's advocates, than its effect in
reducing the burden of law enforce
ment. That was the crushing reply
to all hints of embarrassment due to
prohibition's impairment of public
revenue.
Since the eighteenth amendment
took effect every record showing de-
crease in total number of arrests,
every sign of decrease in the frivolous
cases handled by the inferior courts,
has had triumphant publicity as show
ing the workings Of the beneficent in
novation in whose tremendous ad-
vantages, financial and other, all
America is now made sharer.
When is this relief to taxpayers
through a reduced and less costly
machinery of justice to be afforded?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16
IRONTON, MO. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1920

circumstances. He, himself, framed
the conditions for the crime or the
charge of crime.
We submit the bare, unvarnished
statement of the Staunton police to
the public as an example of what Is
done in the name of law ostepsibly
designed by its sponsors and adopted
by the representatives. of the people
to promote righteousness.
If the crime charged against Young
was committed, it was only the
criminal climax of brutal and in
tolerable outrage, staged to fit the
crime-an outrage the parallel of
which we snail have to seek in the
annals of darkness and despotism.
If this be law and legal process, God
protect us from both.
If Americans submit to this sort of
thing, they are unworthy of the name.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16

We have clients for farms In tho
Belleview Valley. If you want to sell,
call and see us, Iron County Realty
& Abstract Co.,, Ironton, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16
Big Six Team League Next Season.
piedmont Banner.)

piedmont Banner.l
There is a we'll devolved scheme to
form a six team baseball league COM
posed of teams at Piedmont, Green
vile, Williamsville, Leeper, Des Arc,
and either Annapolis or Ellington.
The schedule will embrace twenty
five games or a series of five games
for each team.
Leading local fans, in the vanguard
of whom is to be found II. G. Harri-
son, leader of last seasons champions
the Harrison Hitters, have already
decided to call meeting for organiza-
tion here about the fifteenth of the
month when contracts and other de-
tails will be handled.
Perplexing details are being
eliminated by applying the rule of rea-
son and the promoters are sure moth
ing can come into the way that will
keep an air. tight organization from
successful season this coming sum-
mer.
Local fans will watch with much
interest the outcome of the move
ment and it is predicted that the fell
lows who made such rapid strides
locally as "phenoms" last year will
finish next season under the critical
eye of scouts for the big leagues and
that Wayne county will be represent
ed in the following years by men in
the big league circles who had their
training On local lots.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16
Plans for Constitutional Convention.

The new constitution Association of
Missouri, having been successful in its
campaign to obtain adoption of the
amendment providing for the first
step toward a constitutional conven-
tion will meet next month to plan a
new campaign for the special election
next August to decide whether con-
stitutional convention shall be called.
The Missouri State Bar Association is
expected to lend its aid in the new
campaign.
The constitutional amendment
adopted at the November election
makes the calling of special election
on the first Tuesday in August, 1921,
mandatory on state officials. John
M. Atkinson, chairman OF the State
Bar Association Commit tee on a new
constitution, and one oil the leaders
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16
Pictures of Distinguished Citizens Wanted

The Teachers College at Cape Grar-
deau is trying to secure picture of
every man who has served on the
Board of Regents of the College. A
special room in Academic Hall has
been set aside as the Regents Room.
Pictures of the Regents are framed
and hung on the walls of this room.
The first board was appointed in 1873
and since that time many men promln-
ent in Southeast Missouri have serv-
ed on the Board. Pictures have al
ready been secured of many of them
and the Board Room is interesting to
visitors because of them. Among
them are pictures T. J. o. Morrison of
New Madrid, author of the law Great
ing the Third District Normal School
at Cape Girardeau and member of the
first board. Charles Q. Roster, also
member of the first board; DR.. w. b.
Wilson, j. H. Burrough, L. j. Albert
and Moses Whybark of Cape Girar-
deau; E. P. Caruthers, Thomas j.
Baird and T. r. R. Ely of Kennett;
e. A. Rozier, DR.. j. L. Haw and
Kossuth Webber of Pennington; G.
III Rife of Fairdealing; DR.. G. W.
Farrar of Ironton; DR. J.R. Mckinney
of Belleview; DR.. g. T. Bartlett of
Poplar Bluff; Louis W. Danforth of
Charleston; T. P. Burford of Freder-
icktown; John H. Raney of Green
Vile; Fl. @. Schult of Charlottesville;
Y. D. Mathews of Sikeston; F. N.
Norman of Dexter; DR.. J. P. CLARK of
Perryville; j. R. Wright of Doniphan;
and G. l.. Grant of Jackson. In ad-
dition to these appointed members OF
the board the State Superintendent of
Public instruction is ex. officio a
member of the board. Those whose
pictures are at hand are John Monteith,
R. D. Shannon, w. E. Coleman, John
R. Kirk, L. E. Wolfe, w. T. CARING
ton, H. A. Gass, W. P. Evans, Uel W.
Lamkin, and Sam A. Baker.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16

THE following statement concern
ing recent outrage by agents of
Prohibition enforcement, published
in the editorial columns of the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, ought to be
given place in every newspaper whose
management is not lost to the sense
of liberty and justice. In addition to
the statements therein given, it is not
a matter of little moment that when
the official named was indicted for
murder by the grand jury of the
county-so we are told in the daily
press-the case was taken out of
the hands of the local authorities and
transferred to the Federal Court in
Chicago! We are indeed free self
governing people and the "moral
reformer" is in the saddle Read,
and think little:
S. Glenn Young, an East st. Louis
prohibition enforcement officer, in
dicted for the murder of Luka Vuko-
vich in liquor raid, is now charged
with criminal assault upon the daugh-
ter of Joseph Bombardier, a miner
living near Stanton, Ill.
Whether Young is guilty of the
charge of assault is question for the
courts to decide. We shall not dis
cuss it. But, wholly apart from the
charge, we submit the statement OF
Chief of Police Anton Safko of Stanton
with regard to the raid upon the home
of Joseph Bombardier.
Safko says that he and Young went
to the home of Bombardier, which is
on a farm three miles from Staunton.
Bombardier, whom they were seek
ing on suspicion of violating the Vol
stead act, was absent In the home
were Mrs. Bombardier, with three
children-one 16-year- girl and
two younher girls-and Mrs. Kate
Telfio. They searched the house and
found, he alleges, parts of still and
a pint of whisky. They arrested Mrs.
Bombardier and Mrs. Telfio and took
them to Staunton, where they put
them in prison, leaving the three girls
alone in the Bombardier home.
Subsequently. Young, with Con-
stable William Berry and friend,
John Talbot Jr., returned to the Bonn
bardier home inNthe evening and stay
ed all night, Young says in order to
catch Bombardier when he returned.
Only the young girls of the family
were in the house. 1t was during the
night, it is charged, that the crime on
the 16-year-o girl was committed.
Mrs. Bombardier, the mother of the
girls, and her companion, Mrs. TelfiO,
were held in prison all night, but, no
charge having been lodged againet
them, they were released the next
day.
" have, according to this state.
ment of Chief Salfko, the raidmg OF
home on suspicion that the head of
the house had violated the Volstead
act; the arrest OF the mother of three
young girls, with the only other ma
ture person in the house; their de-
tention in prison for night without
charge of offense, and the consequent
separation OF, the mother from her
children; the occupancy of the un-
guarded house for,the night with the
unprotected girls by the prohibition
officer, Constable and a friend.
Young is quoted as saying that he
took the friend as precaution again5t
any charge OF wrongdoing-an ex-
traordinary precaution on the part of
an officer Of the law, in view Of the
q Il 4 y & *
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16

of the New Constitution Association,
said today his committee would sub
NIT its report and recommend ations
on the new campaign next month.
Headquarters of the association in
the Federal Reserve Bank Building
will be maintained with W. M. Led
better, az permanent secretary, At
kinsoL said.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16

IT would be we'll for those good
Americans who are patriotically in
sistent upon war with our neighbor-
ing Republic of Mexico to turn their
mental eyes backward to the time
when we had our own family trouble.
The "good gray poet" Walt Whit
man, in 1864, wrote:
The happening to our America,
abroad as we'll as at home, these
years, is indeed most strange. The
democratic republic has paid her to-
day the terrible and resplendent COM
pliment of the united wish of all the
nations of the world that her union
should be broken, her future cut off,
and that she should be compelled to
descend to the level of kingdoms and
empires ordinarily great. There is
certainly not one government in Eu-
rope but is now watching the war
in this country, with the ardent pray
er that the United States may be
effentually split, crippled, and dis
member'd by it. There is not one
but would help toward that dismem-
berment, if it dared. I say such is
the ardent wish today of England and
of France, as governments, and of all
the nations of Europe, as govern
ments. l think indeed it is today the
real, heartfelt wish of all the nations
of the world, with the single excep-
tion of Mexico-Mexico, the only one
to whom we have ever really done
wrong, and now the only one who
prays for US and for our triumph,
with genuine prayer. Is it not in
deed strange?
Ought not little gratitude and
kindliness be mixed with our fault
finding with our Mexican neighbor?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16
AGAIN call nnon NV GOOD Christ

AGAIN I call upon my good Christ
ian neighbor to point me out where
the Man he worships ever gave
warrant for the Prohibition which
now overrides this ''land of the. free
and the brave" There is not word
in the Bible to sustain it, and the
Master, neither by precept nor ex-
ample, ever set his seal of approval
upon it-Wm. Jennings Bryan and
his flub-dub dissertation upon "grape-
juice" to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16
NOTICE..

have installed Stove Pipe Gutter
nd Crimper and will cut and crimp
your pipe for very nominal price.
Our stock of Stove Pipes, Elbows,
Reducers, Collars, Etc, is the most
complete in town.
l.. E. WENTWORTH.
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OFFICIAL STATEMENT
-oF THE-
FINANCIAL CONDITION
Or THE
Bank of Annapolis
>(No. 2173)
AT ANNAPOLIS, STATE OF MISSOURI,
At the Close of Business on the 7th
Day of December, 1920.

Published in the IRON COUNTY REGISTER,
a newspaper printed and published at
Ironton, State of Missouri, on the 10th
day of December, 1920
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
Or THE
FINANCIAL CONDITION
Iron County Bank
(No. 965)
At IRONTON, STATE OF MISSOURI,
At the Close of Business on the 7th
Day of December, 1920.

Published in the IRON COUNTY REGISTER,
newspaper printed and published at
Ironton, State of Missouri, on the 10th
day of December, 1920.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16

NEWS ITEM in the st. Louis papers
Friday morning.: mo hold'up last
night"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-12-16

COUNTY OF IRON
We, VIM. R. Edgar, as President, and
Mann Ringo, as Cashier of said bank,
each of us, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of our
knowledge and belief.
VIM. R. EDGAR, President.
MANN RINGO, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
nth day of December, A. D. nineteen hun
dred and twenty.
WITNESS my hand and notarial seal on
the date last aforesaid. Commissioned and
qualified for term expiring June 9TH,
1923
(sRALl VIM. R. EDGAR, JR.,
Correct-Attest Notary Public.
ELI D. AXE,
VIM. H. WENTWORTH,
l. G. WENTWORTH,
Directors.
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lie that this was going to be anoth-
er very short crop, the sixth in sue
cession. There will never be another
crop as large as those we had prior
to 1914.
"The association recommended
that rs per cent of the best grades
of the 1920 cotton crop be put aside
and withheld from market for about
year. Also we recommend that
one-third of the cotton land planted
in 1920 in cotton be sowed in grain
and planted in food crops
"a committee was appointed to
look mot the advisabiity of organi-
zing an export corporation that they
might be able to get some of these
low grades of cotton into the mar
kets of the world, as needed.
"It was urged to market this crop
very slowly. According to the law of
supply and demand, by the with
holding of this crop from the mar
ket we are bound in very short
time to see cotton very much higher.
"The spinners of the world have
very short stocks and are obliged to
have cotton. We are going to make
them deliver the goods. Even if cot
ton should 60 to so cents, cotton
goods could sell off from present
prices and yet leave handsome
profit for the mills. The farmers
are not profiteers. They do not
wish to extort from the public, but
they do resent having the world told
that the high price of cotton causes
the high price of fabrics, when this
lis absolutely untrue"
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MAIL PLANES BEGIN
JOURNEY TO MINEOLi.

Dawson, N. Y, Sept. 1.-THE
airplane expedition returning to
Mineola, N. Y, from it's flight to
Nome, Alaska, left the Whitehouse
today for Clenora on the Stikine
river but encountering bad weather
on Nakina summit three of the
planes returned late. this afternoon.
The fourth plane had not been
heard from early tonight. 1t is be-
leved the plane went on to Wran-
CELL or to the landing field at Gle
nora which is ten miles from wire
communication.
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$4,000 NEW YORK COPS
ASK BIG WAGE INCREASE

New York. Sept. 11-Fourteen
thousand New York firemen and po.
licemen today asked for salaries OF
$4,000 year, beginning January 1.
They now receive from s1,450 to
$1,000 a year.
A petition filed with the board OF
estimate read:
1--WE do not believe it necessary ta
present any facts or figures on thu
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COTTON OUTLOOK
PEEASES HARRIS
Thinks Crop Will Be Below Eleven
Millions--Raw Material Famine.

Commissioner Harris is very much
encouraged over the outlook for the
sale of cotton. He attended the
Montgomery conference and thinks
that things were set in motion there
that will help the South. He ad-
vances several reasons therefor.
The crop has a beautiful appear
ance in some sections, he says, but
it is all weed, and the insects seem
more ravenous than ever. There Is
no hope for a larger crop than last
years, even with perfect weather
conditions. No matter how nigh cot
ton will go, there will be from 5oO,-
600 to 100000 bales left in he
fields, for the high price Of ginning
and the low price of low grades will
make it unprofitable to pick the
humble bee and dogtail. In state
ment Commissioner Harris says:
"a little less than year ago DR..
John A Todd and other English eX-
perts attending the worlds cotton
conference in New Orleans, insisted
that the world needed a 100000
bale American crop in 1920. That
statement was repeated over and
over again when they went back to
England. They said that there was a
world cotton famine already in
sight.
Fifteen Million Needed
"They begged the South to raise
100000 bales this year. A few
weeks ago DR.. Todd made the dolof-
Gus statement in Manchester pa
per that the South had failed this
year and would not for many years
raise a crop of 100000.
"My estimate is that the crop this
year will be 4,25O,oOO short of the
100000 that would be needed.
"Just 80 days ago cotton sold for
~ cents. Today the same cotton is
quoted at around 29 cents. 1t is a
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fact that the world realizes that we
have famine in the raw material,
and the world realizes that the con-
sumption of cotton will be greater
next year than this year. We know
that cotton goods have not decreas-
ed in selling price. Cotton shirts
that once sold for $3.50 are now
bringing $3.50 to $500 each, and
the amount of cotton In them by
weight is worth about ten cents
more than formerly.
What is Wrong?
$50 there is something radically
wrong? What is it? There is no
cause for it in the world but the
drastic deflation processes of the
federal reserve board. This has
made it possible for the cotton buy
ers in Europe and in this country.
The bear gamblers are using the op-
portunity thus created and are
driving cotton prices down below
the cost of production.
"There is no doubt that the action
of the federal reserve board is re-
sponsible for theg reat slump in cot
ton. This has been pointed out very
clearly by the editor of The Manu-
facturers Record and by Senator
Owen of Oklahoma who was one of
the, authors of the law creating the
board.
"The spectators have planned
well ahead and are expecting the
farmers to do the same thing they
have been doing for the last 40
iyears-to rush at least three
:fourths of the cotton on the market
inth first three or four months
when prices have been forced to a
low level by the eagerness of the
in thief rist three or four months
farmers to cash in and
get rid of their debts. Then, after
the farmers have liquidated at
prices below the cost of production
he bear gamblers who then have
the cotton in their possession, ad-
ance the prices and require mar
elous profit at the expense of the
man who has worked several months
the year to make the raw pro-
duct.
"But, with the intelligence and
the information that the farmers
now have, I do not believe they will
fall into the trap and do the same
old thing. For this is the most over
estimated crop that I have known in
40 years conservation.
i Condition OF Present Crop
! SIN my article on cotton last
week, I stated that 65.5 would be
nearer right for the condition, and
/ am now prepared to believe that
the September report, if anyways
near correct, will be or should be 55
per cent. Never in my life have I
seen crop deterioate in the entire
belt as this one has, and I predicted
it 60 days ago. We hear lot about
big Texas crop. There is no truth
in that state. 1 inquired, particular
| ly of the Texas delegation as to crop
conditions. They said too much
rain, weevils and worms
81 am just in receipt of letter
from my son in Denton, Texas, and
L
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cost of living or comparative wage
scales" d.

State and central labor organiza-
tions of twelve Southern States have
been invited to name women dele
gates to a Southern woman labor
conference to be held in Washington
in November, under the auspices OF
the National Women's Trade Union
League.
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