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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-11
El Ife. .Aa8
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hon PICTURE
That, WILL STRIKE HOME

III hA l. WILL . EIhk HUME
notion picture that will strike
fo many young American mar
ST Eouples is Dangerous Curve
npal7, a Go1dwyh Teature, written
Rupert Hughes, which comes 20
Hylander theater tomorrow,
Ilene Chadwick, called the 'most
/ 4 sagraphed girl in America" mas
Il principal role.
fhe story of the play concerns the
S|$ married life Of a small-tOWn
who was the belle of her COM
SI5ity before her marriage to an
|g going domesticalIy inclined nus
IA. Inwardly chatting under the
,shaints imposed by The cares of
e home, and the rearing of two
l:Tdrcn, she seizes the first oppor-
lMity to tas.e again Of the butterfly
de in society, while her husband is
Say on business.
how she avoids the Dangerous
hive, and is brought to her senses
y the illness of her little child, Gag
ay resrming the yoke of domestic
Il, is dramatically portrayed.
BThe picture is well acted and splen-
ply photographed, several innova-
Dns being resorted to that alone lift
lc film from the commonplace. Miss
hadwick does the best work of her
lreer in the picture, and she is ably
lpported by Richard Dix, Lefty"
lynn, Of Yale athletic fame, James
ell, Edythe Chapman and Kate
ester.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-11

replaced speech by music, and the
old-fashioned stage action and seen
cry by the pictorialized action of
thousands of players in the great out
of-doors. In brief, he staged the
great battles, struggles and critical
events of 1861-70 under natural con-
d3itions- as nearly as possible similar
to the original.
The result of Mr. Griffith's efforts
is new and stupendous art for
which no adequate name has yet been
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-11

found. "The Birth of "a Nation
combines spectacle, romance, domes-
tic drama, comedy, tragedy, music,
and mechanical effects into a har-
monious ensemble that captivates
equally the eye and the ear In a
presentation lasting 2 hours and As
minutes, it epitomizes the life Of a
nation. This is something the old art
could never do. The obsolete social
cd stage unities" are thrown to the
winds, and Griffith carries the meg
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-11

close a small card bearing the phrase.
You will. in giving a small dinner,
write informal notes on your note
paper to those whom you wish to in
yite. This form of invitation is quite
as correct as the engraved card.
You will, in inviting last-mom-
ent guest to fill the place of one UNI
able to attend, inform the guest IN
\ cordial note of the circumstances
instead of making a bad matter
worse by attempting concealment OF
the situation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-11

nificent story from the introduction
of African slavery right down
through Civil War and Reconstruc-
ton days to the final real union
of South and North in the bonds of
love and peace.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-11
IF YOU ARE WELL BRED

You will, in sending invitations for
the formal dinner which you are Civ
ing to introduce friends, put on the
invitation the phrase, ITO meet Mrs.
." 1t is equally correct to en-
Arizona republican., 1921-11-05

In the tombs near Thebes were found painted representations of white men with tatoOed bodies, and in his com mentaries Caesar writes of Britons being tatooed.
 O. Has the Congressional Library ever been burned?-E. L. C.
 A. The building which now houses the Library of Congress has never been destroyed by fire. Until 1887 when this building was completed. the library remained in the capitol. There, it was destroyed in 1874 when the capitol was burned. and again in 1851, a fire reduced it to 20.000 vol umes. It now contains nearly 3.o00.- 900 books, charts, maps, pieces of music. ct cetera.
 O. Of what material are most of the buildings in London made7-P. L. L.
 A. All parts of London are alike in the fact that most of the buildings are made of brick. There are no quarries nearby. so the stone for the finer buildings must be brought from distance. The smoke-la laden London fog blackens the entire city although the West End suffers least in this respect.
 O. Are cray fish akin to Iobsters7 -C. c. s.
 A Shrimps, prawns and cray fish are allied to the lobster, the cray fish often being called fresh water lobster.
Arizona republican., 1921-11-05

Harvey stated, until those outrages became unoear- able and that we perceived in the event of German success national peril that we decided to enter the
 But why should that be recounted by the ann bassador and retaed to English audience already aware of the facts? Moreover there were many Americans who were concerned in the war not merely as a seIf-servng war; who actually regarded it as war for democracy, for humanity, and who had long urged that we get into it. This element. though in the minority was rnisrepresented by MT. Harvey in the Pilgrim Day speech. Perhaps we should more accurately say this element ignored by Mr. Harvey in that address.
 The question he revived there was not vital one and should have been raised again. We suspect that only of the ambassador was to give the lie to the idealism of MT. Wilson, who had dweIt much on the holiness of the war
 If Mir. Wilson was in the wrong, he has been repudiated. The and it no longer mat tered why we had become involved in it. It re- mafned only historian to describe the causes it the motives that acuated the participants
Arizona republican., 1921-11-05

word of his appointment as a dele gate from Arizona to attend the con- vention of the United States Farm Bureau at Chicago, November 12. MT. Bates was chosen by President How ard of the national farm bureau, as one of 15 men in different parts of the country upon whom has been con- ferred the honor of representing their sections at this conference.-Journa Miner.
 Tractor Turtles; Driver Hurt
 YUMA - George Robertson. em- ployed by the Yuma county highway department, is lying at the Yuma hospital in a serious condition as the result of an accident Tuesday after noon when q tractor which he was driving overturned, pinning him be- meath 1t.
 Driving the tractor, Robertson was towing a wagon about the county corral on Eighth street when the machine reared and toppled over backwards. Robertson was caught beneath 1t and had to be extricated by other workmen.
 He was hurried to the Yuma hos pital where it was found that he was suffering from severe bruises and contusions about the chest and ab- domen.-Sun.
 Consider Milk Problem
 PRESCOTT-In an effort to devise some means of cutting down impor- tations of milk into Prescott from outside the county. a number of Yavapai dariymen met with Profes- sor w. s. Cunningham of the Uni versity of Arizona this afternoon and discussed plans for a cooperative system of milk distribution.
 It was pointed out during the con- ference, held at the office of County Agricultural Agent C. U. Pickerin that under present conditions an un- reasonable amount of milk has to be shipped into this city to supply the demand on local dairies. Aside from the large number of gallons shipped in for consumption in the city itself the commissary at Whipple Barracks has to import 300 gallons a day. mak- ing a total daily importation of be- tween 500 and 500 gallons of milk, Courier.
Arizona republican., 1921-11-05

path of the floods. and that we have not given them protection. Rail- roads have followed the bottoms Of valleys because the easiest grade is there, and the eIti s have been built down by the ra;.= pads instead of up on tho hIlls, where more primitive .nch generally butt their homes and cities.
 Our valley cities are sure to be destroyed at regular intervals until all of them have been properly pro- tected against floods. This is the fact which must pe driven home. Floods. are one form of history which may be confidently relied upon to prove it. Any dweller in an unpro- tected city or town in one of our i great valleys can study a chart of the floods that have occurred in the past and predict with accuracy when he will next need rowboat or a life preserver. At least. he may predict how often he will need it in a given period of years. Scientists have even made formulas for predicting floods. It may be calculated that floods O. the greatest size on a given river will occur. over a considerable stretch of time, once in every 25 years on an average. Those of the
 
 often on an average. and so on down. In the diagrams which have been prepared, it is remarkable how reg ularly the high-water marks occur.
 There is no space in this article for an adequate discussion of the methods of flood prevention. There are two chief methods-dikes or levees and retaining basins. We have one of the greatest examples Of the former in the jettes of the lower Mississippi. These have shown the limitations of such works. They af- ford local protection. but often serve to back the waters up in other places. causing floods where otherwise there would be none.
 An excellent example of retaining basins is seen in those on the head of the Mississippi river. which were i built primarily as aids to navigation, but have had a most important use in preventing floods. There are no retaining basins in this country built primarily for flood control. but numerous basins created for irriga- ton purposes, or to produce water power, have shown the great possi- bilities of this method of control. Ia Europe retaining basins have been used for flood control for long time.
 The best engineering opinion seems to be that what the United States needs is a great unified system of flood ccNtrol. especially for the Mis- sissippi drainage. Most persons do not realize what a large part of the United States this embraces. Waters rising to the surface as far west as Montana and New Mexico and as far east as Pennsylvania and West Nir- | ginia ultimately reach the Missis- | sippi. It is in this great system of rivers that most of our floods occur. | The Pueblo flood was q Mississippi | basin flood.
 Obviously flood control in this great area must be handled as one 1 problem. The methods adopted in ] each locality must be suited to It's | individual needs, but must also take | into account it's effect on the whole | system. It is probable that re- | taining basins. many of which will also serve other purposes, such as ! irrigation or power production, will | be the solution of the problem.
Arizona republican., 1921-11-05
YOUTH LEAVES FRENCH FARMS

Today the middle aged peasant women of France are still the peasant of 17S9 They have the same lack education and initiative, same will ingness slave for their masters. But change has come the men. They have suddenly awakened to the fact that the town live without the country, though country does not need the town for its existence.
 The peasant is in the peculiar position of being completely independent of every other class The railroads other utilities might to function and still he would continue to exist usual There fore result of the has been growing antag- onism between the town and the country The peas has made the gesture of going strike against the
 The people of this class having suffered terribly in the realizing their power. The war weighed heavily upon them because of it being possible for their places to be filled by old men and children. They never had to be called back from the front as industrial workers were. When the arnis- tce few peasants willing to return per- manently their farm work except those who had large families, whereas 50 per Of the factory workers went back to their old jobs.
 The complaint is made sides now that if is difficult to get help the land The young men and going into factories and SO causing great shortage labor in rural districts farm, while the daughters come into town, leaving the old people to work alone
 All this notwithstanding the fact that the farming classes much the richest, and although the cani- talist and industrial classes are heavily taxed inc farmers almost nothing.-Ars. Borden Harri,nan n in the New York World
Arizona republican., 1921-11-05
THE FLOOD PROBLEM

increase for some years past, and that this increase is due to defor- forestation of the land and to the methods of cultivating it. Hence it Is generally believed that reforestation and proper agricultural methods are the real methods of flood preven- ton.
 As a matter of fact, studies of the floods made by scientific men both in this country and in Europe, seem to prove exclusively that neither the size nor the frequency of floods hase generally increased with de- forestation and the cultivation of the lands; that our flood disasters are due to the fact that we built our cities on food plains without ade- quate protection, and that the only solution of the problem is to protest these cities by adequate engineering works for flood prevention.
 It seems clear that forest conserva- tionistS have contributed a great deal to the popular misunderstanding. The sincerity is not to be challenged. Neither is the importance of con serving the forests we have and Of planting others to be questioned. But the condition of the forests does nov have the decisive effect on floods which the public has been led to be- lieve. This seems to be established by all the scientific studies that have been made of the matter.
 Fairly complete flood records for the Mississippi river at St. Louis have been studied from 1880 to 1910. with some earlier records. During all the period the whole Mississippi river basin was being deforested. Yet the greatest floods occurred in 1S44 and 17S5, and a diagram shows that the great floods have occurred at regu- lar intervals since the beginning ot the observations. with no general in crease or decrease in either size or frequency Thf same thing has been found true for the Ohio, Missouri and Connecticut rivers. A study of the floods on the Merrimac river has shown that a deforestation of 9 per cent had no effect on them. Studies of floods on the Seine and the Dan- abe in Europe for much longer pc riods corroborate these conclusions.
 The Real Cause of Floods
 The real cause of our flood dis asters ls that civilization has draw the cities ana homes down into tn
Arizona republican., 1921-11-05
Edward Rok,s Americanization

The study of human nature is the most fascinat- ing offered in the curriculum of life In the people with whom we associate we have constant chang ing kaleidoscope of tastes and dispositions mental and moral traits Often only way to become familiar with the great and the neargreat is through their biographies autobiographies.
 Edward Box, the who created the Ladies Home Journal, which has chased the gloom from millions of housewives hearts, has written his own biography, under the title of "The Americanization of Edward Bok" in original fashion, for he has used the third person.
 MT. Box tells how the for autograph col lecting hit him and how with the which he inherited from his Dutch ancestors through it he into contact with all the great men and of his time, which might be called the wan ing generation"
 He also tells how, guided by that same deter imitation keen and clever brain, he raised him. from office boy editor of the largest women's magazine in the country. and then gives pie ture of the inside workings magazine and it's development It is fascinating tale.
Arizona republican., 1921-11-05
The Speeches of MT. Harvey

Ambassador Harvey is either the freest volun- alker the state department has sent abroad or else he has been entrusted with greater powers than any other representative of the nation.
 Ambassadors and ministers their public ad- dresses have usually adopted Tallyrand's definition of language. MT. Harvey has used it home or abroad to conceal his thoughts.
 In two important speeches, one of which has subjected him to considerable home criticism, and the other more recent, which have doubt, will be severely criticised, we cannot say that the bassador misrepresented overwhelming public sentiment in America. But since it unnecessary, it was undiplonatc to express that sentiment
 Undoubtedly Americans opposed to any alli- snce with any European nation to the taking part in any entente. That pretty well demon strated a year ago. We do think European statesmen are any longer indulgng delusions to that It was therefore unnecessary for MT. Harvey o aude to the subject since it improbable that we would invited into an alliance If so, 1t would ,e s matter which could be quietly handled by the state department.
 The public statement of MT. Harvey cannot be .earrsed as a contribution to more harmonious ,sla.ion between the people of Western Europe and America
 T, was likewise unnecessary however accurate
 - have been for the ambassador last spring n deny that America entered the war in the interest
 ,+, Ii is true that he had the facts on
 we had permitted humanity to be menaeed
 .,.. ,ons years We had witnessed in that time ''' = .,,,rsqes upon humanity and we had suf- ,-.., -s,ne outrages ourselves. It was not as MT
Arizona republican., 1921-11-05

Some historians take the beginning of the sixteenth century-about the time of the discovery of America; some others use the date I64S A. D.. making the middle ages include the time between the establishment of the first barbarian kingdom in Italy and the general pacification of Eu- rope. at the close of the Thirty Years war.
 o. What is a wayz goose?-C. J. s.
 A. This is one name given to an annual outing and dinner of work men in England. It is either given the workmen. Another name applied to this holiday making is a bean feast.
 c. Why does the United States government put war tax on glasses when they are not a luxury but a neceSsity?-H. E.
 A. Eye glasses are taxable if mounted in gold or silver. When they are mounted in anything else they are not taxable. The new law which has not yet passed congress specifically exempts eye glasses and spectacles.
 c. Are the arguments at the hear ings before the railroad labor board and the orders issued by the board printed for public distribution? 1. N. T.
 A The orders are printed and can be secured from the secretary of the United States railway labor board Chicago. The arguments are not printed by the board, but copies can usually be secured from those pre- senting them.
 O. What is the legend about the forming of the diamond? c. R. A. Diamond was the name of 8 handsome youth of the Island of Crete who was one of the attendants of the infant Jupiter in his cradle It was decreed that Diamond should not be subjected 10 the ills that flesh is heiI to, so he was transformed into the hardest and most brilliant substance in nature.
 c. When, where and by whom WAS the first bank in the United States organized? H. w. J. States was the Bank of North Amer ica in Philadelphia It was chartered by the Continental congress on De cember 31. 1TS1. As originally es- abolished, it was the idea of Robert Morris. This bank is still in exist ence and is located at 307 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. o. What variety of strawberry was first grown for commercial use in the United States? D. S. N. A. The Large Early Scarlet was the leading variety of strawberry grown from the beginning of com mercial strawberry growing, about 1900 until about 1860. As this va riety was too soft to ship to distant markets. other varieties suitable to ! various climatic conditions have dis | placed it.
 c. How much is metric ton? | V. T. | A. A metric ton is 1000 Kilograms which equals 2.2046 pounds. c. Why are certain cabs called ! herdics? [. P.
 A. This style of cab was named i for it's inventor. Peter Herdic. c. How long has tatooing bee'
 prscticed? E. Y. o.
 A. It is impossible to say whel
 and where the custom of tatooing be
 gan. but it is of very ancient origin
Arizona republican., 1921-11-05
ABOUT fTExE STATE
Arrest Suspects

Arrest Suspects
 NOGALES-Wit the arrest Of Manuel Morales. Arturo Lugo and Manuel Lopez at 6:30 o'clock this morning, Nogales police believe they have apprehended three men respon- sible for several robberies in this city during the past week.
 An attempt to break into the home of former Collector of Customs Charles E. Hardy's residence, 513 Crawford street, at daylight this morning, started developments that brought about the capture of the bur glars.-Herald.
 Deport Mexicans
 TUCSON-F'arewell to the United States and its many charms and va rious and sundry blue and near blue laws was bid by a party of five Mex ican aliens who Monday departed for the southern republic by way of No- gales under the chaperonage of In spector Walter F. Miller of the local immigration service. The trip was taken at the request of the govern nent, and the government always likes to have things done right. Hence the special party with Miller as an escort.-Citizen.
 inVestig atinu Swedish Aliens.
 UCSON-Believed to be deserters from a Swedish steamship, Gustaf Erhard Johanson and David Ostling, Swedish aliens were taken into the custody of the immigration service from Southern Pacific train at Bowie Monday and were brought to Tucson by Inspector Percy K. Mullen, who arrested the pair at Bowie. Johonson and Ostling were lodged in the detention quarters of the local mmigration station for examination and action by the department. Both men carried Swedish Identification papers showing legal entry into the United States. Their cases will be thoroughly investigated by Robert A. Scott, inspector in charge of the local station.-Citizen.
 Bates Appointed Delegate
 PRESCOTT-L. l.. Bates, president of the Yavapai County Farm Bureau and a well known rancher and or chardist of this county, yesterday received from c. s. Brown, president of the Arizona State Farm Bureau,
Arizona republican., 1921-11-05
By Erederic ]. Haskin

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. A. Repeatedly during the past summer the front plges of the papers have been filled with the news of flood dis asters. Hundred of lives have been lost and millions of dollars worth of property destroyed. Two good sized American cities have seen floods tear the hearts out of their business dis tricts, many smaller places have been damaged and countless farms have been floodswept.
 Any one can see that a great engi- neering problem faces the country. Leaving out the question of human life needlessly destroyed, the loss of property is enormous. The floods of 1913 are estimated to have done dam- age to the amOul of s163 546,793. In Dayton alone the damage done has amounted to S73,249,040. Between 1900 and 1908 the damage done by floods in the United States, as esti- mated by the geological survey, va ried from a minimum of about $45,- 900, 900 to a maximum of about S257,- 000,0 Plainly enough such losses are intolerable, and large eXpeditures for flood prevention would be an economy
 The facts O. tl.is large loss and or the neeu TOT QOliS SOlnCtAiAAlS about it are ger erally recognized. Wide publicity has been given to both. The house of representatives has recently created a special com mittee on flood control, which may be taken as reliable evidence of the popular demand for some action in the matter. Millions of Americans have had the flood menace i'm pressed upon them, not only by pub licity, but by actual experience. The number of American cities that have been floodswept at one time or an- other is surprising.
 Adequent action is of course de- pendent upon this public recognition of the need for it. The trouble seems to be that a great deal of misinfor- nation has been disseminated as to the cause of floods and the means of preventing them, with the result that there has been no public de- mand for d eally sound method o1 flood control.
 A Public Illusion
 Briefly. the public has been led C believe that floods have been on tho