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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
Tells Italians to
Tighten Belts"

prices In Italy causes deep anxiety TO
those responsible for the country's
good order. Recent strikes and civil
strife were almost wholly due to
discomfort caused by the still In
creasing cost Of llfe's prime neces-
stiles and more trouble is yet to come
unless the upward trend Is curbed.
Sample Increases.
Cotton goods cost 200 per cent
more than they did In 1916, wooden
goods $50 per cent hats and shoes
200 per cent, shoddy clothes $50 per
cent, glass goods $50 per cent. Home
grown produce has increased more
than foods imported from America.
For Instance, eggs are now 50 per
cent dearer than three years ago. po-
tatoes $50 per cent dearer. beans 426
per cent, fresh pork $40 per cent,
Italian lard 2s6 per cent, beef 81
per cent, butter 270 per cent, cheese
$50 per cent, milk 800 per cent, wine
525 per cent. The food control office
reports that wine growers made such
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
TOWN LONG WITHOUT BANK
Colorado Community, in Existence
More Than a Century, Is Now
to Have Institution.

The little Spanish town Of San
Luis. the county seat Of Costilla cOun-
ty, Colo, in the lower end Of the val
ley, will welcome it's first bank when
the State Bank of San Luis opens its
doors for business. This little town
is more than one hundred years old,
and was one of the furthest outposts
of Spanish settlement that followed
the n0rthward push of the Spanish
residents of Santa Fe and vicinity.
For nearly fifty years before the
first contingent of Americans, under
command of Gen. Frank Baldwin, now
a resident Of Denver, arrived over La
Veta pass and established the military
post of Fort Garland, San Luis had
been a flourishing little settlement
surrounded by highly developed farms.
In the last few years the progress
and development of the town and
community has been more rapid until
now the town is considered to be large
enough to need a bank. The ma
jority of the residents of the vicinity
are Spanish-speaking people of the old
school, polished, courteous, energetic
and prosperous. Some of the wealth
lest men of the valley are to be found
in the town and it's close environs.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
No Hope Of Better Food Situa-
ton Seen by Food Con-
tr0Iler at Rome.
STILL EATING WAR BREAD
Strikes and Riots Are Bred by Stead
lily Increasing Cost Of Everything
Causing Deep Anxiety to
Government,

Rome.-Italy's food situation is
worse now than II has been since the
Armlstice and almost rs bad as IL
was during the dark days of the war.
The feeling that all Is not we'll has
weighed upon housekeepers for weeks.
when llfe's prime necessities grew
rarer and dearer. But now the coun.
try has been told the bitter truth by
Food Controller Muriuldi In a speech
before the chamber of deputies.
This years harvest of grain has
yielded 200000000 hundredweight
less than last year; the government
must import 2J00OO,000 hundred
weight for bread, which is sold at 20
cents for a two-pound loaf. and means
$40O,0O0000 on hard grain alone; on
soft grain the loss equals another
$40O,0Oo000; on olive oil the state
loses several hundred million dollars.
Italy is the only allied country
whose inhabitants must still eat war
bread Its price, the government says.
must shortly be raised or 10 cents
for twO-pound loaf, because the
budget cannot stand the loss of $780,
100000 a year on grain alone. The
public must bear part of the burden
in dearer bread.
Rice is scarce, too this years har-
vest shows a shortage of half a mil
lion hundredwelght; the oil harvest
Is so poor the public has less than
One.third the quantity doled out last
year. There is less than half the
quantity of cheese, lard, butter and
milk of last year; there is serious
sugar shortage too.
No Prospect of Relief.
And the food controller has no
remedy to suggest. The public blames
him and his food ministry. He
blames the food ministry too, say
Ing that such chaos reigned when he
took 1t over last summer that he has
been unable to straighten things out
and will resign as soon as possible.
He told an astonished chamber that
he found his ministry buying cheese
Mt so cents a pound, to resell to
Wholesale dealers. who doled it out
to the public at $3.50 pound. He
added that one great trouble is the
lack of food experts to advise the
government in buying foods es-
pecjaIy perlshable kinds. And he
said he saw no hope for better food
situation in the near future unless
people eat less and pull their belts
tighter over empty stomachs.
The perpetual upward flight of food
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
Ruse That Kept Germans Guess
ing on Eve of Argonne
Disclosed.
STAGE ONE-NIGHT STANDS
Their Bluff Attacks Divert Two Ger
man Divisions-U. S. Army Gets
First Two of improved Type
of Battle Tank.

Washlngton.-Th story of five little
American tanks and the part they
played in the great Argonne offensive
Is told as follows in q statement is
sued by the war department:
Gen. Pershing with the first Ameri-
can army had just finished awakening
the German high command to healthy
fear of the American soldier by re-
ducing the st. Mihiel salient, and the
plans for the Meuse-ArgOnne offensive
were about to be carried into eXecu-
ton. In these days of the airplane
and wireless telegraphy, it seems i'm.
possible to deliver surprise assault
Nevertheless no pains are spared to
deceive the enemy as to the exact
point of attack AS means of cover
ing the true point Of attack, the chief
of tank corps presented scheme
which received the approval of the
high command.
Cut Up Like an Army of Tanks.
accordingly, after the withdrawal
Of the tanks from the st. Mihiel sec
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
The Wound Stripe.

Representative Frear of Wisconsin
was talking about army supplies.
'NTost of our army supplies" he
said, "were good-costly but good
Now and then, however, the suppl!
department struck a snag.
81 said to a doughboy joker one
day:
"'Why, George, is that woun(
stripe you've got on your arm?
eyes, sir, it is, Sir said George.
"'How did you get it, said I.
"'Shavin' myself, sir said George
with an army razor"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
PUT CREAM IN NOSE
AND STOP CATARRH
Tells How to Open CIogged NostriIs
and End Head Colds.

You feel fine in a few moments.
Your cold in head or catarrh will be
gone Your clogged nostrils will open.
The air passages of your head will
elear and you can breathe freely. No
more dullness, headache; no hawking,
SnufIling, mucous discharges or dry
ness; no struggling for breath at
might.
Tell your druggist you want small
Bottle of Ely'S Cream Balm. Apply a
little of this fragrant, antiseptic
cream in your nostrils, let it penetrate
through every air passage of the head !;
Soothe and heal the swollen, inlamed
mucous membrane, and relief comes
instantly.
1t is Just what every cold and ca
aarrh sufferer needs, Don't stay
stuffed-up and mserable.-Adv.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28

mig profits this last year that they
paid for the land their wines are
grown on from the one years gain
alone.
The ever.growlng cost OF living IN
Italy, once the cheapest country In
Europe, the paradise of the poor man.
seems TO be In vicious circle.
Dear food and discomfort 60 hand-in'
hand, breeding strikes, riots blood
shed. They again react on local pro-
ductlon and cause prices to rise
higher than before. Then follow
fresh strikes and disorders; the screw
Is turned yet again and the vicious
circle must be rounded once more.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
PICKING the Bones.

Tie Place was clean and the food
was good but sparing-one chop was
served apiece. Across from me sat
the Notwithstanding man / had ever
seen. His face looked so hungry and
emaclated that | couldn't bear to look
nt him, The man next to him left his
seat, With the words, Il guess there
Is little more picking on that" he
reached over to the deserted plate
picked up The discarded chop and
greedily munched the bone.-EX'
change.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
TRIBE IS HIT HEAVY

up great quantities of fish during the
summer and fall seasons.
In celebration of their good for
tune they invited other tribes to at
tend "kuvgagyagagg," featured by a
play. a white mans dance" and the
giving away of food. When it was
all over the guests were mfllionaires
in the currency of the section, while
the hosts were paupers.
1t will be years, Mr.. Kilbuck de-
clared, before the QuigiIlingoks recover
from the effects of their generosity.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
Enemy Ratified
by Five Tanks

tor, Lieut.. Higgins with his platoon or
the Three Hundred and Thirty-fourth
battalion tank corps, was directed to
proceed from this point in a north
westerly direction along the lines via
narrow gauge railway. He was to stop
each night and make reconnaissance
in front of our positions with his
tanks and immediately load up and
repeat the operation the following
night further down the line.
"On Sept. 10. the five tanks and
their crews were loaded and the eX-
petition started. That evening they
stopped in the rear of q little wood,
many kilometers west of st. Mihiel.
OFF the little narrow guage fiat cars
tumbled the the tanks and nosed into
the woods for concealment. About IL
o'clock all was ready and the NINA
ture army started forward on its mis-
sion. Everything went off as sched-
uled. The tanks rolled through our
positions md into No Mans Land.
"They were operated back and forth
for half an hour. After this they
were quietly withdrawn. crawled back
on their little narrow gauges and
started merrily on their way. They
timed their work perfectly. and as
they pulled out a terrific barrage hit
the wood they had left.
"The following evening the proceed
ure was repeated. Again the bar
rage descended too late to hurt the
iaunty band. For six successive
nights the troupe staged their one
night stands, and the reports all along
the sector showed that the Hun was
up in the air. All day long the sky
was full of planes searching for the
army of tanks which the enemy was
sure was concentrating on this front.
All suspicious looking places were
bOmbarded with the usual Hun thor
oughness and intensity. All night
long the darkness was dispelled by
hundreds of flares and rockets. and
all indications showed that Heinie was
not going to be caught mapping.
Diverted Two Divisions.
"Best of all, just as the little band
was preparing to entrain to get into
the big show in the Argonne there
came message from the intelligence
section stating two German divisions
withdrawn from Argonne front. En-
training for your sector.'"
The tank corps has just received
at Camp Meade, Md, from the Rock
Island arsenal two Mark VIII. tanks.
This type, the largest yet placed in
quantity production, was especially de-
signed for use against the linden
burg line and similar defenses. Not
so fast nor so easily handled as the
lighter types, 1t possesses the ability
to cross much larger bitches, crush
more formidable obstacles, and car
ries much heavier armament.
The great difficulty with the large
British tanks was that they were I'M
derpowered and, on account of the ar
rangement Of the machinery within,
did not afford the proper room for the
crews. A commission of British and
American experts has corrected faults
largely through the adoption of the
American Liberty motor.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
Almost Wiped Out by Dance and
Feast.
Famine Follows Fste Among Alaskan
lndians-Forty-Two Are
Dead

Cordova, Alaska.-A play, dance
and a feast, winding up a season of
plenty was responsible for the near
extinction of the Quigillingok tribe of
natives last winter and spring, &C.
cording to John FL. Kilbuck, superin-
tendcnt of schools for the Kuskokwim
river district.
The famine following the feast, Mr..
Kilbuck said in his annual report to
the bureau of education, caused the
deaths of at least AZ of the natives,
and would have wiped out the entire
clan had not missionaries come to the
rescue with a supply of food.
The tribe, Mr.. Kilbuck said, stored
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
BRITAIN HAS BIG NEW SHELL
ProiectiIe Is Said to Pierce the
Heaviest Armor Without
SCATTERING.

London.-The British navy may soon
be given new and unsurpassed
weapon In a large caliber shell which
will pierce the heaviest arlnor without
SCATTERING, said Sir Robert Hadheld,
chairman and managing director OF
Hadfields, Ltd, steel manufacturers
recently. He indicated that possession
of such a shell during the great war
would have been of inestimable value
TO the British feet.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
Company Takes Back
Man Who Stole $235, 900

c. Il. Woodward of st. Louis,
is again a citizen of the United
States after release from a two
wear term in the penitentiary.
Citizenship was restored by the
governor. In addition, the Fed
eral Lead company, for the en-
bezzlement of about $235,000 Of
whose funds he went TO prison.
has agreed to put him on its
pay roll again and give him
fresh start in South America as
its agent.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
Fewer Horses. More Cows

Washington.-Farm animals of the
United States were valued at $S,561,-
$4,000 on January l, compared with
$S,S27, $4,000 a year ago, the depart
ment of agriculture announced. Horses
numbered 21,100.000, a decrease of IL
per cent. Mules numbered 100000, a
decrease of IL per cent, 5u; milk
COWS were 23,747,000, an Increase Of
0.5 per cent.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
on, Dear!

She was going down in the elevator
FIer voice had touch of sadness that
almost approached emotion,
Hardly a bit of use for me TO go
out to lunch" she said to her girl
friend. Everything like | can't
sat--turnips or sauerkraut-well,
Amt so crazy about boiled cabbage,
out 1t does taste kind o good. Oh
Aear!'
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
Austrian Children to Italy.

Vie1na.-Ten thousand Austrian
children are now going TO Italy as
quests OF various municipalities. They
will remain for the winter. Many thou
sands more are in Switzerland. Ger
many, Holland and the Scandinavian
Countries.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
TIMELY ADVICE

Everyone needs VACHER- BALM
shis time of year as preventive, or
relief for Colds and Flu. 1t is I'M
aoubtedly the best thing to use.
soc in jars or tubes. Carry Il tube
sn your pocket.
If you cannot get it locally send soc
stamps for a tube to Il. w. VACHER'
Inc, New Orleans, La.
Avoid imitationS,-Adv.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
THREE YEARS WITHOUT HOPE
e a, Sickness and Suffering With Final Return to Health
S' II NDl do you good to read II

No matter how long nor how much you nay nave
suffered, do not give up hope. 10 no. Ie'i wn
there Is no help for you. There Is, MAKE up
vour mind to get WE'LL You can. There Is
Temedv in which you may place full reliance
as did Mrs. Rozalia KAMA Of 80 Silver Street
New Britain, Conn, This is what she says;
1T had cramps for three years aud thought
would never be any better I could not eat
without distress. Slept with my mouth open
and could hardly breathe. NO medicine Helpe1
me had catarrh of the stomach. Now
have no cramps and am feeling well ana
healthy. wish every suffering person wouid
take PE-RU-NA." g.
) Catarrh effects the mucous membranes IN
ON - -..-l rLn DINA hv repnlatinE
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
The Poor Married Hick.

'Beforc marriage my husband was
50 susceptible TO tlattery,"
"Yes?"
"And now he is susceptible To moth
sng hut fresh Florida Times
Union.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
Sign.

81 understand the old lady yonder
is under suspicion.'
"Why so?"
Don't you see she is wearing cork
screw curlS2"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28


elimination sends rcn pure supply OK blood
ana nonhment to the inamed membranes and health
returns.
PERNA recommended are SICK 90 NOT wait ana nner
The sooner YOU begin using Hartmans we-known PEU-NA.
the be well and strong and IN ruiz possession
of your bottle of PEUNA the nnest emergency ready
fe remedy to fourteen ounces OF pre-
yenion and protection.
Sold everywhere In tablet or liquid form,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28
CANE NEAR DYING
Finally I'D DOan's and Was Restored
to Health. has Been Strong
and Well Since.

Malaria fever weakened my kidneys
when | was 4 young man., says l.. w.
Garrison, ~ + St., Anderson, ). Z.
Finally, ten years ago, ] was IN such
bad shape that | expected to die.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-02-28

No woman can tell whether her hat
rs becoming to her until she ascertains
She price
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-09-25
EXPLORERS FIND LOST
RACE OF AFRICAN PYG-
mics.

New York. Sept. ga Photographic
record of nine Central African tribes.
including homogeneous pvgmies of the
Kalo Forests. decidedly apelike in
posture and shape of skull, has been
brought to New York by DR.. John
Leonard Vandenberg. anthropologist,
and former Roman Catholic mission
ary on $4,000 feet of motion picture
films. F
DR.. Vandenberg and his party, in
Guiding DR.. George Burband Shat
tuck, formerly of Vassar College and
Johns Hopkins University left New
York in September, 1919. and return
ed last week on the steamer Roma.
The pygmies are the Hambuti tribe
living in the eastern part of the
Belgian Congo. Dr. Vandenberg said
that he was the. first white man to
visit them. Their adults average 4
feet in height and individuals are as
small as feet inches.
Existence of the race was known
to the outside world years ago, but
as they retreated further and fur
ther into the forests to get away from
their enemies, men of larger stature,
they virtually had been forgotten, so
that white men of the region told the
been wiped out. Sir Harry John
son saw some of them twenty years
ago, but was unable to trail them to
their habitat.
I'm some ways they are hardly
civilized" Dr. Vandenberg said,
"Other pygny tribes are polygamous
but the male of the Hambuti has only
that if she dies he never takes anoth-
er, The Hambutis are extremely hon
est Unlike other Africans they never
ytal or lie"
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-09-25
SILK MILL EMPLOYERS
FIND NEGRO LABOR BET
TER.

Fayetteville, N. c., Sept. 30-The
grooming lullaby of the cotton picEers
down in Dixie has found a new chord
in the Fayetteville silk mill. The cot
ton fields have new competition for
the many deXterous fingers in this en-
terprise. which employs Colored help
exclusively in the delicate process of
silk weaving. Like the texture of the
silk. the texture of the Colored work
strands from Japan glide through
their smooth, fingers with minimum
friction. silk experts say.
the raw silk stamp with its eob
webby fineness and inability to with
stand friction, would lose much of
it's strength and gloss in the hands
of white person. II is said. on ac-
count of the coarse formation OF the
epidermis of the white persons hands.
Colored hands have fewer ridges and
the texture of the skin is finer II is
said.
Nearly $50 Colored girls and women
are employed in the Fayetteville mill
DR. John Q. Myers, directing ply
sician at Tranquil Park Sanatarium.
said Wednesday, that medical books
erferences in texture of the skin. as
involved in the manufacturers claims.
DR.. Myers said there was no ply
siological difference in the texture
Of the skin of Caucasian or African,
but that the difference most likely
was in the brain The Negro poases-
ses something that the white man does
not posses, he thinks that enables him
to handle silk skelns and fibre with
more certainty and precision than the
white mill operator possesses.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-09-25

fairs of the government than the
French had in the government of
Germany.
In the Solid South states. exclusive
OF Tennessee, which has reasonably
fair election laws because the cas-
tern part of that state would rise in
armed rebellion If denied them, the
registration and election machinery
is placed exclusively in the hands
of Democratic designation. Take the
case of Virginia, the state OF George
Washington and Patrick Henry, up
in whose hills President Wilson may
look from his study. window as he
writes his soulful periods about self
determination of peoples." A few years
ago the Democratic state convention
declared for a constitutional conven-
ton promising the people that Wnen
formulated, it would be submitted to
the people for ratification or REJECT
ion. Carter Glass, Secretary of the
Treasury under President Wilson, now
"A senator from Virginia was promi-
nent in the deliberations of this con-
vention, which provided what was
thought to Nbe a system Of elections
that would be a sure preventative Of
Republican success, no matter what
the state Of public opinion. When
this constitution had been framed,
the pledge to submit it TO the people
vote on it, They therefore had ii put
into effect by proclamation of the gov
ernor, about the same system they
wanted used in proclaiming the cove
nant of the Wilson League Of nations.
This law puts the full control of
election and registration machinery
In the hands of the dominant Demo
cratic political machine. There isn't
n Republican state in the Union
where so infamous a thing as this
would be thought of, but it is CON
sistent with other provisions of Vir-
ginia law. While a majority of the
white people of Virginia would now
vote the Republican ticket if thoy
had a chance. Republicans are denied
all representation on the charitable,
state. Even the educational system
is partisan; county superintendents
of schools are chosen from Richmond
by the Democratic oligarchy. The
oligarchy; no matter how large the
Republican majority in judicial dis
trict the Judge must be a deserving
Democrat selected by the Democrats
-pemorcatic state machine, and he is
always a Democrat. This is con-
venient method OF seeing to II that.
there can be no appeal for the pro-
of the partisan election and registra-
ton boards chosen by these courts.
The laws are so written that a reg
istration board can use its own dis
cretion about permitting a voter to
qualify 1t can and does permit the
Registration of the most unlettered
creature of the Democratic machine.
and prevent, as it has actually done.
the registration of Republican grad
ate from one Of the great European
universities. The law provides that
no man can vote until he has paid
his poll tax of SO for three conse-
cutive years No effort is made to
collect the poll tax. This helps ac-
count for the impoverished condition
of the Virginia rural schools. to sup
Continued on page ~.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-09-25
Many Witness Corner Stone
Laying at BOley.
(By A. n. p.D

BoleS Okla. Sept 2s.-- Boley. The
largest Ngro town in the United
States--perhaps in the world--held re-
Gently the largest celebration ever
held by this metropolis of OkfuslSee
County
The occasion was the laying Of tn.
corneE stone Of the $4,000 tubercu-
losis 1anatoriunl that is being built
by the state to care for the Negro
tubercular sick. Friday September 3
was the day set apart for the event
and the celebration lasted through
out the day.
The arrival OF Governor Robertson
was the signal TO start the days
festivities. He, with party of state
officials and prominent speakers on
the program arrived from shawnee
When the automobiles reached the
edge of the town they We're met by
the Mayor and reception committee.
The streets and downtown stores
We're decorated with bunting and the
whole town was in gala attire In
honor OF the visitors.
Corner stone laying ceremonies were
held at the Site one- half mile south
OF Boley. Music by a choral club or
forty voices was one of the features
Of the program. The welcome address
was dslivered by d. j. Turner Mayor
of Boley.