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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-04
Renaissance Music Circle.

The meeting of the Renaissance Music
circle, which was to have been held
on Wednesday morning, did not take
place on account of the influenza stu
alton.
The open meeting which was planned
Tor Feb. II In the home Of Mrs, Brink
ley Snowden, has also been indefinitely
postponed
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-04
Young Ladies' Institute

The regular meeting Of the Young
Ladies institute. which was to have
been held on Thursday, has been m
definitely postponed The date win be
announced as soon as the Influenza stu
alton improves Reservation made for
Thursday will be good when the date
Is set
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-04
Ashfield Circle.

The Ashfield Memorial circle Of the
Kings Daughters, which was to have
met on Thursday afternoon, has post
poned the meeting until Thursday OF
naxt Napk
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-04
DANCE POSTPONED eT
COL ONIAL COUNTRY CLUB

on account Of the prevalence OF ~
ment committee Of the Colonial Country
club. by whom invitations had bee. lS-
sued for dancing party at the Nine
teenth Century club on Feb b. n'te
postponed the affair until The tN,i.ts
Of Monday. Feb %. with this aiiai''
which wil he iu the nature OF u WASH
vii resum, its social activities this
being the first OF a series of deheh5tuI
events planned on this occasion me
members viii have the pleasure OF view
ing for the first time the plans Tor ne ne
ntN club building which VIII S'
erected in the place Of the CORNER Duly a..
ing. which was recently des""E'" ''
fire
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-04
Whatsoever Circle.

The Whatsoever circle OF the King s
Daughters will meet on Thursday after
noon at o'clock with Mrs Wharton $,
Jones, T29 Vance avenue,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-04
The U. S. Fuel Administration

says: Metal Memberships on win
dows and doors are 100 per cent fuel
conservation" Ask for estimates,
Chears Floor and Screen Co. Main
1899 adv.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-04
MISSIONARY UNION

WILL NOT MEET
The meeting OF the Baptist Woman 9
Missionary union. which was to have
been held Thursday morning, has been
indefinitely POSTPONED
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-22
80 PER CENT HELD.
People Take Kindly to Treasury Saw.
ings Certificates and Offer Few
For Redemption.

The most recent figures compiled by
the Treasury Department at Washing
! ton tends to correct an erroneous be-
lief that was prevalent during the
closing months Of last year.
In some sections so many War Saw
ings Stamps and Treasury Savings
Certificates were being offered for re-
demptiOn that the belief became
somewhat general that the government
was not realizing much from the sales
of these securities. The official fg-
ures show that on January I there
were considerably more than one bill
lion dollars worth of these securities
outstanding, and that of all that have
been issued since the first War Saw
ings Stamps was on the market, there
is but fraction over IL per cent Of
fered for redemption.
Financiers say this record Is re-
markable. The people are holding on
to these securities much better than
they did on their purchases of Liberty
Bonds, and they are holding them
much better than the ordinary indus
trial bonds
There is a reason. These securities
draw AIT per cent per annum if held
until maturity, and so liberal are the
terms that they are practically 10
day note of the United States govern
ment. They may be offered for re-
demption at any time on 10 days.
notice and for the period they are
held. If less than maturity. they draw
3 per cent.
Give me another cup of lockwood,
please" That's the common talk at
most OF the homes In this good old
town. lockwood is . better coffee.
ASK y. .. Mckinney & co. 292-6r
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-22
WHEELDARROW VERSUS
FINANCIAL MACHINERY
The Foreman's Old Joke About the
One Wheeler Teaches Valued
Lesson.

The old story about the foreman
who yelled at the new hand: "Get
away from that wheelbarrow! What
do you know about machinery" has
gotten many laugh. But it is not
such bad advice at that. Many wage
Garner would have saved his money
if some one had shouted similar adj
vice at him, when he started to load
his savings into the wheelbarrow of
Blue Sky" stock speculation and
dump them on the pile of a crooked
promoter.
The first ''blue sky" law was framed
by the state of Kansas in 1911 to
check the activities of promoters who
had nothing but the blue sky on which
to base their operations. Some of the
chances you take in monkeying with
unknown machinery may be estimated
from the fact that less than 100 of the
$500 companies that applied for
| licenses in that state the first year the
law was in operation were able to
meet the requirements.
The wild cat stock wheelbarrow Is
easy and simple to operate-if you
hear the promoter tell it. All you
need is a strong back and a weak
head. He will tell you that all you
have to do is to pile in your savings,
your Liberty Bonds and War Savings
Stamps, asd to wheel them over to him
in order to turn your money over at
thousand per cent profit. E
But if you listen to experienced
men, you will find that it is wise to
investigate who the promoters of the
company are, what their title to the
property they are exploiting is based
upon, what commission they get and
whether your money is to be used to
develop the property or to buy limou-
sines for the promoters.
Carrying your savings in govern
ment securities, War Savings Stamps,
Treasury Savings Certificates and Lib
erty Bonds. may not seem as easy and
quick as wheeling them in the wheel
barrow of stock speculation, but it is
lot safer. They will not break down
on you and all you need to know about
their machinery is that both you and
Uncle Sam are behind them.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-22
TRUTH ABOUT HIGH PRICES
Commercial Agency Makes Diagnosis
That Gets to Bottom of
Affairs.

Bradstreet's index number shows
that on December 1 prices were 1S1
per cent above the pre-war Ievel-the
highest since the Civil War at least.
The cost of living advanced 13 per
cent during last November, according
to prices of So staple commodities.
Why? Proiteering? No. w
Prices of the necessities of. life are
high because there are not enough of
those necessities to meet the demand.
Why?
Because capital which ought to be
used to produce the essentials of life
is being used to produce non-essentials
or luxuries.
Why?
Because there Is a tremendous de-
mand for luxuries at any price. The
people are on spending jag. They
are spending $165. 100000 a day in the
United States for Christmas presents
alone. Christmas presents are lux
uries.
The United States Government
properly sees in this a serious menace
1t may entail more suffering than the
war held for the nations. 1t is there
fore asking every thoughtful, intelli-
gent American to make this a Thrift
Christmas by giving securities of the
such as War Savings
Stamps and Treasury Savings Certif-
Gates as presents and to begin saving
regularly New Years day.
We will do well to answer the gov
ernment's CALL
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-22
AMERICAN LEGION
n ENDORSES THRIFT

sResolved, That the American
Legion pledges its members TO sup
port the Government Thrift Saw
ings and Investment Campaign and
urges its local Posts to provide a
Government Savings Committee to
promote savings among members,
and directs the national officers of
the American Legion to take such
action as is necessary to promote
Government savings throughout the
organization and,
Resolved Further, That the
American Legion calls upon the
American people to support the
after-war financial program of the
government as unanimously and
effectively as they did the war
loans, which proved TO the, world
the financial power OF organized
democracy"
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-22

Experience is dear school master.
Take heed from the down-and-outer
who has paid dearly for his experience,
and resolve you won't go to the same
school. War Savings Stamps viii make
you an up-and-getter.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-22

There is no proverb in the whole
| catalog of them more true than a PEN
ny saved is a penny got.-Georgei
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-05
PRUSSIA GIVING KAISER
$12,500, 900 ANNUALLY
But It Doesn't cove Him a Red
Cent" Says Reichstag Member;
Used It for Propaganda.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
sian government seems to have de-
cided to set an example in generosity
in settlement Of the kaiser claims
such as is not recorded in history"
said Herr Heilmann in a speech be-
fore the reichstag. He was support
ing the social democratic bill to trans
fer all the money and property be-
longing to tho Hohenzollerns to the
republic of Prussia without indemni-
flying them.
Does he deserve it?" continued the
speaker: his speeches and his Willy
Nicky' letters all bespeak too eIo-
quently his incompetency during the
twenty-nine years of his rule as Ger
man kaiser. From legal as well as
political standpoint We do not owe
the Hohenzollerns a red cent. We
will see that the Hohenzollerns do not
surer from hunger. but we also will
see that no more OF the money we
give them is used for monarchistic
propaganda. as has been the case in
| the past
AT present" added Herr Heilmann.
prussia is paying the members of
the HohenZollern family nearly So
100000 marks (s12.5oo. 000) annually,
aitnouSH no members OF the family.
with the exception of the kaiser and
crown prince. have formally abdicat-
ed. On the contrary. they have as
sumed the role of pretenders to the
crown and have engaged actively in
, anti-government propaganda. No SEN
sible person can expect a repubIican
| state to- grant these unreasonable
claims of the Hohenzollerns and to
continue paying them at this rate,
We shall be generous, but not fool
| ish."
CopyYiRht 1901
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-05
NOBLE FAMILIES REFUSE
TO LET LAND PRODUCE
Spanish Peasants Forced to Emil
CRATE to Secure Tracts for
Cultivation.

SEvILLA, Spain. December 4.-'Let
US have land" is the constant cry of
the Andalusian peasant, repeated
often as he. sees his sons forced to
emigrate because they are unable to
procure possession of piece of
ground to call their own. This con-
dition. arising from the fact that
enormous tracts of land are in the
hands of noble families who refuse to
allow them to be made productive, is
the cause of the frequent agitation
among the peasant class.
Pascua1 Carrion, a leading agricul-
tural engineer. in calling attention to
the misery among the peasants. says
no effort has been made by the gov
erning classes to remedy their condi-
ton. He declares so to 100 inhab-
itants could live on and supply their
needs from every square kilometer of
land in Andalusia- Official figures
show that in the province of Sevilla
there are only 40 persons per kilo-
meter; in Cordoba, 81; in Jaen, 80;
while Malaga and Cadiz are 70 per
kilometer.
The resson given for this meager
population is that in the province of
Sevilla 1000 persons own more than
half of the 1.750,OOO acres, while in
the province of Cordoba 60 per cent of
its acreage, amounting to 100000
acres, is owned by only 900 persons.
Most of these owners are absentees,
who rarely visit their properties.
Senior CaErion calls for some such
measure as was taken by England in
similar circumstances in Ireland,
where the English government ad-
vanced f200.000,000 during the years
from 1912 to 1918 to allow tenant
farmers to acquire lands from the
big proprietors. s-......ss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-05
BRITISH CONSIDER RADIO
TO REPLACE CABLE LINES
u. S. Interests Said to Have Ac-
quired Control Of Majority of
Wires to Europe.

ST. JOHNS, N. F.. December A.
Gable authorities here see in the re-
cent announcement by the British
government Of its purchase from the
shareholders of the stock of the Dr.
rect United States Cable Company an
attempt by that government to break
IN American control Of most of the
Transatlantic cables, which, il is
claimed, has existed for the past eight
years.
1t is pointed out here that. although
nearly every cable under the Atlantic
ocean was made in Great Britain and
laid by British workers. United States
interests in the past few years have
acquired control OF the majority of
these lines. excepting, of course, the
German cables taken over by the al
lies during the war. and the French
lines from Brest to st. Pierre and New
York.
1t is regarded here as by no means
unlikely that wireless telegraphy may
be also developed by an imperial
scheme, controlled by the British gov
eminent. parliamentary committee,
headed by Sir Henry Norman, recent
ly made an extensive report in favor
Of a policy of empire-owned wireless
stations encircIing the whole world.
Among the several units which might
compose such a wireless system is
the big wireless station at st. Johns,
erected during the war for naval pur-
poses and still operated by the British
admiralty. BY this means the New
foundland papers now receive daily
lengthy dispatches from Great Britain
as part Of the propaganda plan adopt
ed for empire purposes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-05
JAPANESE IMMIGRATION
INTO BRAZIL DISCUSSED
Rio De Janeiro Press Points Out
Advantages and Drawbacks
of Plan.

RIO DE JANEIRO. December A.
Concession by the Minas Geraes state
government of certain favors to a
japanese company which proposes to
settle 200 or more Japanese families
on 100000 acres of land and employ
them in silk making has again raised
a discussion in the press of this city
as to the advantages and disadvan-
tages of Japanese immigration into
Brazil
On one hand it is urged that the
country is short of labor and must take
what it can get. that in any case pre-
cautions could be taken by which the
inflow of immigrants could be stopped
if. at the end of a few years, 1t was
proving dangerous. On the other hand,
there is an objection to Japanese i'm
migration on the ground of its lower
standard of living. it's different stand
ard Of morals and it's inability to
cpalesce with other strains.
DR.. Miguel Calmon, a former minis
ter of ways and communications and
now vice president of the Society of
Agriculture, in recent interview is
quoted as strongly opposed to encour-
aging further Japanese immigration.
He said the mixture of blood would
be prejudicial to Brazilian physique,
which had already suffered from the
multiplicity of races coming into the
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-05
SEES WAR ON ALLIES
FOLLOWING RED WAVE
Polish Delegate Believes German
Extreme Right Is Working
to That End.

Cros-Atlanhe Cable Service to The Star.
grist that comes 10 the mill Of the Ger
man extremist nationalists, even the
victory If the German communists at
Hklle over the right wing of the inde-
pendent socialist party. The praise
which the German minister Of foreign
affairs bestowed on the Russian bolshe-
visits in the reichstag is proof of this.
The reinforcement of the German COM
munist party indeed is most opportune
for the men of the extreme right, like
Helferich. Stresemann and Lettau Won
Vorbecls, whose aim is Russo German
military alliance against England and
France.
In the opinion OF these men. as Won
Vorbeck not long ago openly declared.
German soviets would never become
anything but imitators of their Russian
brethren. and thus a red wave sweeping
over Germany would really be a blessing
in disguise. The masses would begin
10y being strongly militaristic. as
was bolshevism in Russia at the start,
only within a very short time to create
the most rigid militaristic system Ger
many has ever known; and under the
training of good Prussian officers these
red German troops would become ideal
soldiers in the next war against the en-
tente.
II is interesting to remember that the
Polish delegate to the. league of ma
tons, Simon Askenary, has already ex-
pressed the conviction that the extreme
right in Germany is invoking a red wave
10 immerse Germany and the rest of
Europe, to sweep before it the last rem
Nants of the peace treaty OF Versailles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-05
BRITAIN TO AID IDLE.
Road Making and Repairing to
Furnish Jobs to Many.

Cross Atlantic Cable Service to The Star.
LONDON, December 4.-Despite the
forecasts of labor depression in the
British Isles for the coming winter,
opinion in we'll informed circles now
is that the unemployment problem
will be considerably less than IN
many pre-war winters There have
been ugly demonstrations of the I'M
employed in London and other indus
trial centers recently. but, though I'M
employment presents many serious
difficulties, comprehensive and rather
successful attempts are being made
to solve it. The government policy
now is to create a sponge to absorb
all unemployed labor.
AS labor may be spilled from its
tank container and government road
making and repairing. and other
schemes initiated by the ministry of
transportation in conjunction. with
local authorities to absorb surplus
labor, fails to mop up all available
surplus men other activities will be
awaiting to absorb them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-05
FIGHT ON RAGPICKERs.
Opposes Reform by
"Hygienic Cranks."

Cross Atlantic Cable Service to The Star
PARIS. December 4.-"Hygienic
cranks," who are agitating for the sup
preston Of the profession. of rag-pick-
ing. or more accurately, garbage picking,
are threatening the livelihoods of $4,000
people, according to the secretary-gen-
eral of the Ragpickers' Syndicate,
which is fighting the proposed reform.
The ragpickers make a living, a very
good one, by searching the garbage
cans which are placed by householders
in the Paris streets, and extracting such
articles, scraps and refuse as their pro-
fessional experience dictates. 1t is i'm
possible to name any of this material
unless one has had experience as rag
picker; to the uninitiated the ragpicker's
choicest finds are mere garbage, dirty
crumpled nothings. nondescript scraps
of cardboard leather or fur. but all have
a definite money value to the ragpicker.
Some gagpickea's are wealthy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-05
THIRD INTERNATIONAL CALLED
IDENTICAL TO RUSSIAN SOVIET
Other Nations Only Slightly Represented,
and It Is Impossible to Name Countries
to Which Some Belong.

socialists in the west Zinovieff,
president of the third international,
said once in private conversation:
1--WE need the 1aborers of the western
the socialists of the entire world,
headed by their leaders. should come
to join our ranks. we should be in the
most absurd position of being forced
to shut the door in their faces. We
must kill the heads of the labor move
ment in the west. Only then will we
be able to lead the western laborers
to the point where we want Them
The explanation is very simple.
Should the socialist parties of the
west, which are accustomed to regu-
lar elections and proportional repre-
sentation, accept the third interna-
tional. they would deprive the Rus
r.The bolsheviki. therefore, are afraid
Of the highly developed labor or
CARNATIONS of the west. They con-
denim the educated laborers Of the
west as being bourgeois and appeal
to the darkest masses of the west
the unorganized. unskilled 1aborers
and the labor youth, who does not
understand anything about politics.
They, are endeavoring to create an
iron division" among the people,
which could terrorize the great mass
es at the given moment. The bolshe-
VIII HdTuly even nope 10 De able TO
draw the western laborers into their
party. and for this reason the bolsile-
vik movement in the west has all the
character Of a conspiracy
interest Displeases Russians.
The interest displayed by several
prominent western socialists toward
Russia is very disagreeable to the
Russian bolsheviki. While their prop
agandists in western Europe have de-
scribed Russia as a real republic Of
the laboring people, great disappoint-
ment has arisen among those western
laborers who have visited this para.
disc. At a secret sitting of the soviet,
where this question was being dis
cussed, the following measures pro-
posed by Commissar of Labor
Schmidt, were accepted: -
% To grant special privileges to
the laborers arriving from the west,
and equipment as received by the
commissars.
~ To isolate them as far as pos
sible from Russian laborers
CD To use them as far as possible
as foreign couriers, agitators and in
structors.
% 1t is desirable to accept indi-
laborers, but not to admit large
groups.
A new ruling was also introduced
in connection with the Jewish ques-
ton. It was at first proposed that
bolshevik agitators should fight all
anti-Jewish movements. However,
after experience had resulted in
effect to that desired. instructions
were issued to bolshevik agitators in
foreign countries not to NEEDLE with
the Jewish question at all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-05
X-RAYS TO CURE BRAINS.
English Doctor Sees New Era for
Wounded Soldiers.

Cross-Atlantic Gable Service to The Star.
LONDON, December Am X-ray
installation for the investigation and
treatment of mental cases has been
opened at the Bethlehem Royal Hospf-
tai. London. The installation, one of the
most modern in London, is the gift of
Sir Charles Wakefield.
DR.. p. Beeton of the Bethlehem Royal
Hospital said: 'Tn mental diseases
there are certain growths inside the
skull which make the bone thinner In
certain places or widen certain aper-
lures. By means Of the X-ray you
can detect these changes. To great
numbers of shell-shocked soldiers the
apparatus will be OF inestimable value
in discovering pieces of iron and shrap-
mel in the brain--also the presence of
foreign bodies in other parts of the
human body which may be affecting
the nervous system. They might
never be discovered by other means"