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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-10
Widow Loses in
 Long Fight With
 DrOuth in Dakota

Sioux Falls, s. D., Feb. 9.-The widow of Hiram E Perigo, a pioneer homesteader and rancher of western North Dakota believes few women have had harder fight against drouth than that which has just caused her to give up her farm. Tn a period of few years she lost two hus sbands, baby, and because of drouth. was forced from the family homestead to seek employment
 Mrs. Perigo first took up her res ;dence in eastern North Dakota 1r 1906. She and her husband were get, ting along nicely when the husband died. The widow remained en the homestead and later married Perigo' who resided on a homestead nearby All went we'll with them until 1916 when the first of the years of droutf came. :,
 Then it was story of repeate'd crop failures, though just enougih was raised to keep the livestock about them and to encourage them to stay. .l
 Last wear, when it was seen tha' another crop was to fail Perigo de cided to go where crops were moro abundant and seek work. He came, to southeastern South Dakota ana worked from place to place. At flrs' he kept his wife on the lonely Mort ? Dakota homestead informed of his whereabouts. Meantime baby wv was ' born. but it lived only short time. The husband in his travels became ill and entered hospital: where an operation was performed, but ne died. .. ,., ,
 where he was and Perigo had told no one of his wife's whereabouts naI. However, papers found in his pock- ats at length were forwarded to Mrs, Periro. Meantime she had disposed of the livestock on the homestead and had sought employment. Her farm is for sale.
 One of here experiences last sum. mer was pulling six-acre field or millet bv hand. The millet was too shert because of the drouth for the mower to cut.
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nothing is said as to his guilt or 4l,-c-x 4ia.al

nothing is said as to his guilt or the political situation"
 Paragraps 4 of the bill declares the royal house will give Gin the in- terest' of the general welfare" cer- tain possessions, such as real estate, works of art, and valuable articles, but provides the former emperor must be paid 1O0,0OO,OOO marks i'll compensation.
 ' Rob Kaiser to Pay Wilhelm.
 "This sum has an eccentricity," the editorial continues, Gin that it not only will be paid to the erst- while kaiser's fortune but will be devoted to paying taxes on that for tune. This, translated into simple German, means the Hohenzollerns are freed from emergency loans and that this expense will be taken over by Prussia"
 Especially bitter is the newspa- per's comment as ia recounts the castles and real estate the royal house does not give to the state. It says the Hohenzollerns will re- tain eighty-three villas and real es- tate plots, houses in Berlin, Potsdam, Kiel and Ploen and castles and for ests throughout the country. Added to these estates the royal fortune comprises properties in trust and strong box funds.
 Emperor Summed Own Bonds. This list, the newspaper asserts, totals 175,000O00 marks and includes good industrial mortgages and obli- gations "and very few war bonds."
 Grown insignia (which are not val uable," it is declared, are given to the state, but the jewels will remain the property of Count Hohenzollern
 Paragraph two of the bill gives the state certain private royal es- tates. but" says the article, "they consist of half dozen ruins, one having two rooms and kitchen and another merely a rundown shooting lodge.
 "These have been exchanged prof itably for the Orangerit at Potsdam, which are granted by the bill to the rolay house during the lives of the former emperor and empress and those of the former crown prince and princess.
 Many Roof for Rainy Days.
 'In addition, the Hohenzollern' will keep Castle Park at Hamburg. the new garden, marble palace and mausoleum at Potsdam, and the Ho- henzollern museum at Monbijou cas- tic.
 "Paragraps seven says the royal theaters in Berlin, Hanover, Cassel and Wiesbaden will go to the state, including all that belongs to them; Since the crown can not get rid of the theaters the former emperor sup ported, he gives them to the state, which has the privilege of laying out 100000 marks for their up keep.
 "Opposed to such cunning loyalty of service, stand, suffering horribly millions and millions of people lf there is such thing as earthly just ice, then the Hohenzollern private interests weigh but featherweight against the hundredweight of guilt"
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c. of P. Repudiates-
 Attack on Hoover

Washington, Feb. 9.-The Repubii- o.n National Committee has repudl' ated st absolutely the attack on Her !, hert c. Hoover issued by the Repu1. 1;can % Publicity Committee of which fnrmor % Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr. ;s the head. The organization is not aff;,;ated with the National Commit tee as National Chairman Will Il Mevs tIs, has freouently had to point out ''H Ronrne in his attack called Hoover carnet- bagger and said that car pet t-baggers have no place III
 can campaigns. +o d, with this,' said an oiiiciai oi .nr ns National Committee. we .,s are ,n nt. ii. way responsible for MT. boufhe Y terances on any subject.
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or.n RESIDENT GIVEN UP BY
 PHYSICIANS.

aGiyen up by five doctors, my y9r on, ,v hone an operation. l rebeiieo m or cutting me open, as l am 7s .,n.rs vm nld' A neighboring advised Srv;,,r Mayr's Wonderful Remedy foI % %stcmsch trouble. I got relief right sway. had not eaten for 10 days and was as yellow as gold piece
 f.c f conld have lived only few days hut 'for@this medicine" It is sim I ris harmless preparatio nthat re move n sthe catarrhal mucus from the intestinal M tract and allays the m fIammation which causes practicai.y aiI stomach, liver. and intestinal all ments. including appendicitis. Ons dose will convince or money re1uno
 ed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-10
hlord is Sued 1 Charge he Kept l Flat too Warm

York, Feb. 9.-Hyman Plotkin
 suit for $5O,O00 damages in ronx supreme court against
 and Louise Singer as a re-
 the Singers, his landlords, Ing too much heat in his lent.
 |complaint states that Novem- 1918, a valve of the radiator Diff on account of too much in the pipes. but his right index finger over live. It was so badly burned blood poisoning developed and git was amputated.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-10
here Me U. s. Army Serves

American troops are serving in Panama, Hawaii, the Philippines. Alaska, China, Germany, Siberia and here in the us. A. The Re- cruiting Sergeant will gladly give you als ths details.
 Like every one else in the Ar,zlmfrcfn General to Buck Pri- rate. yaa'ro under orders and # OUT outfit moves and you're eeaed elsewhere your duty Is -c qn
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|t Wealth of
 Former Emperor
 Guarded in Bill

lin, Feb 7-Efforts to keep in- he fortune of former Emperor lm are condemned in a long ed
 in Vorwaerts this afternoon. newspaper says this movement behalf of "a man who ruined any"
 e bill now before the Prussian Represents a masterpiece of old ian efficiency" the editorial
 "for the financial status of
 Hohenzollern is placed on the of his right to property, while
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-10
kLABOR'S NEW |LITICAL DRIVE ENACE TO NATION
|r's Plans Attacked and
 |Defended in the House

ngton, Feb. 9.-The first re-
 N congress to plans of or
 labor for intervention in the
 bolitical campaign came today
 house. Attacking the 1abo, |ement as "a pronounciamento
 congress" Representative
 democrat, Texas, said ii he greatest menace ever
 in this country"
 tentative Nolan, republican 'ornia, defended labor's pro hd charged that Blanton, in kus extension of remarks in |eressional Record, had "stol-
 thief in the night" MT | cut the defense short by ob- |ko MT. Nolan's remarks.
 Texas member declared "the 1 of Samuel Gompers' hand is } wake up the people of this hever Samuel Gompers puts i on a representative and says fm' the people will keep that home," said he. "For once kly agree with Gompers and bciate leaders when they say bnal crisis is threatening the Ions of the country" Blan- tinued. l, an organized minority of In five per cent of the people bntrol legislation and now b to elect a congress of serfs Indeed a national crisis, hing the institutions of the |"
 ring that MT. Gompers wanted congress "pledged to car his orders," MT. Blanton said oved "all Americans who love buntry to find out the names candidates Gompers is trying ], and elect the other men, in of all the people,"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-10

the men behind the tire that's what determines good the tire will be. A of the most successful tire in Akron got together and le up their minds to build re as good as first-class ferlals; tried and proven mods and skillful hands d make it.
 ARsss$I+ss;TIBS the result. They are not dentally good-t they are e good, always! The ma ai IS in them, the worklnan-
 is there. all to secure . that will give you wonder elleage and easy riding.
 S!AR on your car will why we are safe inrecom- pPdlng Star Tires. Made in n cord and fabric,
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But, today the Army like every other great university points with pride to its grad uateS.

every parent III AI11cI1Ca, every c11l- ployer, every teacher knows that they are better, abler men for their experience
 They stand straight upon their feet, symbol of physical fitness.
 They have learned how to exc cute orders, and how to give them. THERE is, in their characters, a
 ] maturity beyond their years, a vision and self confidence that are of success.
 The months that they gave to the Army were not lost months; the records of the future will show more rapid progress for them because of the qualities which those months developed.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-04

"Prejudices,g by H. l.. Mencken (Alfred
 Knopf.)
 N0 ONDERING excessively. can lH think of notfrfpg that would be = more untrue than this( the state ment that the new poetSy is inherently American and democratic). The fact is that the new poetry is neither American nor democratic. Practically every one of it's practitioners is under some strong foreign influence, and most of them are no more Anglo-Saxon than samovar or toccata. The deliberate strangeness of Pound, his almost fanatical anti-Ameri- canism is a more accentuation of what is in every other member of the fra ternity
 Many of them, like Frost, Fletcher, H. D., and Pound. have exiled themselves from the republic. Others, such as Op- penheim, Eandburg, Giovannitti. Benet and Untermeyer are palpably Continental Europeans of ten with Levantine traces Yet others such as Miss Lowell and Masters, are little more, at their bests than translators and adapters-from the French, from the Japanese, from the Greek. Even Lindsay, superficially the most national of thefn all, has also his excite smear There is no more "in- herent Americanism" in the new poetry than there is in the new American
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-04
LIKE MeLUKE SAYS

Some things are too good to keep. But that isn't the reason why a woman wants to get rid of her husband.
 A husband is the last one to want to go home when he is out with some other woman and the first one to want to go home when he is out with his wife. The man who is waiting to marry a woman who is easily pleased is going to die an old bachelor. When a woman is wearing wrapper that covers everything she is .'undressed But when she is wearing gown that leaves her torso naked, she is dressed. The only reason why a girl is giaa that she isn't man is because II sne we're man she would be fooled ps |sorae other girl. If man by chance happens 10 seau enc paragraph of the constitution ne ieeis that it iq up to him to argue apoue the whole dycument
 'rsJwas time when every tune you saw a red-headed girl. you would see whit. horse But nowadays every lime vou see ed-headed girl you see nine flivverss
 ona nice thing about kissing girl in ,bs dark is that YOU do not have to take careful aim. She won't let you miss the tarket
 A woman can sit down and worry over a lot of worries she might have had and didn't.
 There would not be many divorces II man was as thoughtful of his wne as ne is of his wife's husband.
 You can tell strong-minded woman bv the way it makes her look and act like man.
 A woman would rather hire servants ana he slave than do her own house work and be her own boss N
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-04
THE NEW POETRY

painting and music. It lies, in fact.
 quite outside the main strem of Amei- can culture. Nor is it democratic, in
 any intelligible sense.
 The poetry of Whittier and Longfellow was democratic. It voiced the elemental emotions of the masses of the people; it
 was full of their simple rubber stamp kideas; they comprehended it and cher ! ished it. And so with the poetry of
 James Whitcomb Riley, and with that of l'Walt Mason and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 1 But the new poetry, grounded firmly upon novelty of form and boldness of idea, is quite beyond their understanding. It seems to them to be idiotic, just as tfe poetry of Whitman seemed to them to be idiotic, and if they could summon
 up enough interest in it to examine it at length, they would undoubtedly clamor
 for laws making the confection of it a felony.
 Well, what is the net produce of the whole uproar? How much actual poetry
 have all these trucuIent rebels against Stedman's Anthology and McGuffey's
 sixth reader manufactured? I suppose
 have read nearly all of it--a gteat deal
 of it. as magazine editor, in manu-
 script--and yet, as I look back, my memory is lighted up by the very few flashes of any lasting briliance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Defeats Its own Purpose.


 ''In adopting a resolution looking to the preservation of the health of the people, the city commissioners unaues- tionably intended to do good" said Fred NJ. Jackson. However, the i'm praeticability of the regulation clos ing offices at D. m. and fixing the opening hour at a. m. was apparent to all thoughtful observers Monday night and Tuesday morning when hun dreds of people stood in the rain, un- able to get street car transportation. As far as the prevention of influenza is concerned, in my opinion, this meas ure did more harm tha n good.
 No doubt the object of the early closing is to allow workers to go to their homes earlier, thus taking load off the street ears and enabling them to handle later workers without con gestion. However. it is very probable that most employees. thus receiving d holiday of an hour or so. will find it more pleasant to go to picture shows and otherwise seek amusement until their regular hour of going home. Hence the regulation results in conges- tion in the picture theatres and other places, and increases the burden on the street cars at the peak hours, making it Increasingly difficult for the cara to operate under the restricted to seat ing capacity rule. In this manner, it seems to me, the health resolution de- feats it's own purpose"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-04
What Happens to Auto Trucks On Alabama's Dirt Roads.
.-.-Ha inlet.

7Ta HE need of good roads in Ala
 4 bama was strikingly illustra- ted when automobile men took twenty-five trucks from Birmingham to Tuscaloosa. As a Birmingham dealer says, that one trip would have been enough to convert every doubt ful voter in Alabama to the neces- sity of the good roads bond issue, could they have shared the hardships experienced by the party.
 Only four of the twenty-two en- tries, which represented the leading makes of auto trucks in America, succeeded in reaching Tuscaloosa without assistance. In two places it is said the mud was so deep the trucks sank down until the chassis was imbedded. Axes were used to clear apassage in another place, ac- cording to the Birmingham citizen quoted above. The uncovered ties of a railroad were utilized and it was frequently necessary to jump" ditches.
 For many years Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, comparatively short distance apart, have been conn ,cted by highway" This road is often used in good weather by autom obil- ists. Of course, the trucks were heavy and met with more difficulties than would have fallen to the lot of smaller and lighter cars, but it is evident that the "ship-by truck" movement will get nowhere until hard-surfaced roads are built to car ry this traffic.
 In many parts of the country where there are permanent roads, capable of sustaining heavy traffic all the year around, auto trucks have been found superior to trains for shipping freight, particularly goods of perishable nature To take a heavily loaded truck out on most of the roads in Alabama as they are at present is simply foolish. To travel a considerable distance in lad weather is out of the question.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-04
Virginia's Proposal to
 Operate State Distillery

A BILL pending in the Virginia GA legislature providing for es- tablishing state distillery has strong support. The chairman of the temperance committee says he has heard of no opposition to the meas ure and he believes there will be none.
 If the bill is enacted into law, whisky will be sold in pint packages to be used only for health purposes
 When Virginia voted for prohibi- tion several years ago, each person was allowed to purchase from a dealer outside of the state one quart every two weeks, to be consumed as a beverage. Old tipplers complained that the allowance was much too small. The law was considered pain- fully drastic.
 But under the nationwide amend ment, Virginia, like all the other states, became bone-dry, and by comparison pint every ten days that and the medicinal clause are to be the only restrictions seem most generous.
 Men of bibulous tendency will he often sick. The doctor will not be requested to make diagnosis of a patients malady. A cold or cough or a case of indigestion would be ex- cuse enough.
 While not every virginian would abuse the privilege, the number of ailing folks would doubtless increase rapidly.
 If whisky is prescribed for influ- enza, it is said by many to be good preventive. Richmond is ahaviHg an epidemic and it has been difficult for physicians to procure enough spirits to go round. A state distillery would supply the need and solve the per- picking problem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-04
Trouble Filling Orders.

Our greatest trouble now Is in nak ing the goods to fill orders already on our books" remarked Jack Asbury, sales representative of roofing com pany, with headquarters in Birming- him. We have over s60G00o worth of orders on our books, and it is almost impossible to get raw materials to make the products. Last fall begged our customers to put in their orders then for spring delivey, but the ma jority of them preferred to wait and take chances later.
 Now we are so far behind that we cannot promise deliveries with any de- gree of certainty during the spring. New construction work is going up all over the south. In every city scores and hundreds of new buildings are go- ing up and still the cry Is for more. Birmingham is not alone in the house shortage about which so much has been heard the last few months"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-04
Effect of the Weather.

It is funny to watch the express sions on the faces of people on rainy days as compared to bright. snnshiny days" said Jack Rogers. 'On going down the street--auring the past few days I have noticed that some people were smiling, but the majority of them looked as if they were disgusted or had grouch. It is queer just how the weather affects fellows feelings for gloomy weather makes the major ty of us feel gloomy, while brighr weather seems to give us new life. A few people will stay indoors when the sun shines. but as soon as it begins to rain they go downtown. as they like to be out in that kind of weather"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-04

From the Christian Science Monitor. .@lE need not be musician to real II U ise that the danger in harping too
 W long upon a single string is that the string may break And yet it is to be hoped that the string of teachers sal arcs win stand the strain for a while longer There are tunes still waiting to be played upon it. One of the most urgent, for instance, has to do with con- ditions in the rural districts. Lack of proper salaries has meant a startling re- duction in teachers. and lack of teachers has lad the effect of closing schools wholesale.
 1t is no good to think of tAs stoppage merely as an inconvenience. It is far more than that. It is a menace of dis asfer. Unless some method of correction is discovered and applied speedily. what this condition in the rural districts will lead to. as school expert has trulytsa is dry rot in the country communities. The country communities do not go on when deprived of schools. Families that have growing boys and girls move away. They sacriice other family interests for the sake of giving their boys and girls the common schooling that boys and girls require. When such families go out, Che country district loses it's handspring. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-04
Demand For Bungalows.

There is a great demand for bunga- lows in Birmingham,f stated NJ. P, Messer yesterday, ''and while there are number of large business. deals be- ing put across regularly, still there are number of people looking for res idences. The bungalow style of home is appealing to large number. and where Sis kind of property is not available for sale. in some cases the parties are buying the lots and arrang IiEg to build these attractive living places"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-04
COUNTRY TOWNS MENACED

village is like clock without it's works.
 Farms that should be peopled and oper
 ative lie desolate, abandoned. The simple social life that keeps a country com
 munity healthy fades out There is 'noth- ing going on." The district is without it's natural stimulus. There is nothing to keep the public library facilities ac- tive, nothing to reinforce the churches nothing to make storekeeping worth while After a while the storekeeper quits. Perhaps even the minister moves to another charge. The community, as
 a community, becomes degenerate
 This is the sort of thing that is talk ing place in the country districts of the United States today. It is an outstand- ing present phase of that educational sys- tenn that has been the pride and joy of typical Americans for generations past. Yet when the status was made public the other day, incidental to the meeting in New York of school superintendents anu commissioners of education from the New
 England and middle states, outside the meeting itself.
 Something will have to be done about
 it. Salaries will help, but no mere dump ing of money into the laps of teachers is the whole story now. The health of
 the American public school system is be-
 ing undermined. If there are still any
 friends of this system in the country they
 must unite for it's salvation or 1t will be
 stricken down, perhaps never to rise
 again in it's old simplicity and power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-04
pnhIicitx From cen.us

T have just been to Nashville to at tend meeting of the Southern Baptist College Association" said pr. Clayton D. Crossland, graduate of Howard College, and the second man from Ala bama to win Rhodes scholarship who is now the president of Averett College at Danville, Va, an institution for young women. The meeting was a most harmonious one. and large things were planned for the future of our de- nominational schools. It so happens that the college which I have served is named after Dr. Samuel Averett, for years the head of the Judson. It is always pleasure to visit this great and growing city, in which I spent amy youth and young manhood. I hope it is going to make a fine showing in the census, as it got a great amount of publicity through it's phenomenal gains in the 1910 enumeration"