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of Chinese Aided in Get
ting Food.

washington, May ]2.-As the re-
suult of the recent appropriation oy
the American Red Cross of a second
$500. 900 for famine relief in China
still more highways are to be con-
structed in the famine area. IL IS oy
inroivding employment in this road
building that the Red Cross IS en-
ab,ins tens Of thousands OF Chlnese
to obtain food for themselves while
the roads will also have permanent
value in reducing the inadequacy
of TRANSPORTATION means that plays
a large part in bringing about fam
inc conditions in China.
{ An offer has been made through
! the United International Famlne he-
lief Committee to extend the hlgn-
wav through the province Of Chlnh.
provided the authorities will furnish
tba land without expense to the Am
erican Red Cross. 4 limited amount
Of construction work will also pc
made in the province Of Shans1. Inc
latter will reach at Fenchofu an I'M
nortant commercial center and the
largest of thc interior American mis-
SON stations. Already a thousand
men have been collected for this work
but gang after gang have reported
that as many as ten per cent could
not reach the scene OF work because
of weakness from hunger.
because Of the fact that they ara
too far removed from the centraE
sources Of grain supply these op-
eratious will differ somewhat from
those in the Shantung province. in-
stead Of being paid in food rations
workmen will be peid on piece
work basis and will buy their grain
delivered by the Yellow River from
the far westren interior.
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Sad Things.

4 Ioost wind signing in Woed.
A wistful soul misunderstood
4 friend that never comes again.
A puppy whimpering in the raln'
A rose half bloomed torn from us
stalk,
A child that never learned to walk.
A house forsaken and foriorh,
A tree by storm wind overborne,
A wreck wave beaten on the shore.
A song forgot and sung no more.
Two hearts estranged by broken
plight,
wanderer homeless in the night,
nest wind blown and reft OF song.
\ grave bed scarcely three feet long.
a garden ravaged by the hail,
Fair shops that never home"ard
sail,
Oh. sad are these, but sadder yet
Remorse that never can forget!
Emma a. E. Lente, New 1ork
Herald.
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Tornado Hits Horny
One Man and Child Reported
Killed

Mullins. May 13.-Eews reached
Mullins this afternoon of a disas-
trous tornado that swept through. the
Wannamaker section Of Horny coun-
ty about noon today. The report was
brought in By Shep Floyd, who
drives soft drng truck. Mr.
Floyd stated that he Travelled the
public road through the storm or
just afterward and five houses on
Dunk Mears' farm were blown down
one white man and one child about
five years old were killed and sew
eral others were more or less in
jured. to what extent Mr.. Floyd was
unable to say, as he was in hurry
to get home.
A farmer by the name Of Olan
Blanton. who was driving a Ford
touring car, was caught in the path
of the storm 1t is claimed that the
car was picked up and carried dis
tance Of $50 yards and the car was
still running when it alighted.
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League of Women Voters.

Among the matters of natlonai
importance presented to the league
by Judge Purdy last night of speclai
interest to the women were the ef-
forts to provide a fund for national
aid of education to wipe out litter
acy and to America:,ize the foreign
element in our country, the Shepard
Towner bill for the protection or
women and children and the estao-
!ishmert of public welfare to edu-
cate the nation in hea!th and hygiene.
Other problems discussed were tar
if. immigration, the japanese ques-
ton and divorce. These matters
were presented in pleasing manner
and enjoyed by those present.
The following officers were unanl-
mously elected to take the place OF
the chairman and secretary ana
treasurer elected at tine organization
Of the league six months ago:
President-Mrs. c. L. Stupos.
Secretary-Mrs. r. B. Furman.
Treasurer-Nirs. Ferd Levi
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Naval Bill Blocked
Borah Resolution Advocates DC
cupy Floor-Harding Stand
is Aired

Washington. May 13.-President
Harding's attitude toward the propos-
al Of Senator Borah, Republican, Of
Idaho, for a naval disarmament con-
terence between Great Britain. Japan
into question in the senate today dur
ing debate on the s5O0,O0O naval ap-
preparation bill.
Senator Borah said the president
had not indicated any opposition dur
ing a recent conference On the sub
ject while Senator Hale. Republican.
Maine, who also discussed the Borah
amendment with Mr.. Harding few
days ago, declared that the president
thought action by congress unneces-
sary.
Because of the presidents state
ments to him, Senator 3orah said he
had paid little attention"to a pub
.ished statement Of Senator Poindex-
ter. Republican, Washington in
charge of the naval bill, that the
president opposed the disarmament
suggestion.
or Hale replied that he had
accompanied Senator Poindexter to
the White House few days ago.
I'VE talked over the question of dis
armament" he said. land ] gathered
from what was said there that the
president thought it was not neces-
sary for congress TO go ahead in this
way with the resolution
Senator Borah replied that he
would be glad to have statemeno
from Senator PoindeXter who, how
ever, was not in the chamber at the
time. and then he could and would
relate in detail what the president
had told him on the subject. That
the matter would be aired further
during debate. possibly tomorrow,
was intinated that President Harding
might give formal expression of his
views on the subject.
The appropriation bill was at a
complete standstill all day, while
broadsides were fred by advocates Of
the Borah proposal. Addresses in IA
vor Of the disarmament amendment
were made by Senators Borah. Nor
ris, Republican, Nebraska; Kenyon.
Republican, Iowa; King, Democrat,
Utah, and Helm, Democrat, Alabama.
Senator Overnan, Democrat. North
Carolina. also spoke briefly in favor
Of the disarmament conference plan.
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TROOPS ORDERED
TO TUG RIVER
Secretary of War Takes Steps to
Restore Order in Coal Region

Washington May 1.-THE com
mander of the fifth corps area at
Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana was
instructed today by Secretary Of War
Weeks to send federal troops to Min
go county. West Virginia. as their
presence is deemed necessary to quell
the disturbance in the West Virginia
Kentucky border. The number OF
troops to be sent is left to the discre-
ton Of General Read but secretary
Weeks instructed that all the soldiers
necessary to restore order be moved.
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Communism Not Popular in London

Communism Not Popular in London
London. May 12.-The temper OF
the people toward the Communists
who are permitted to preach their
doctrines here unllindered, was shown
by an incident in Trafalgar Square the
other day
After the strains of the Red Flag
had been started at Communists
meeting. a former officer. wounded
so badly he could scarcely stand. stood
up in front Of the crowd numbering
several thousand, and called for cheers
for the King.
The response to his appeal was ear
splitting. This so enraged one Of the
| women members of the Communis;
crowd that she rushed upon the Off
Ger and cuffed him roundly. There
upon he called for three cheers for the
Queen. the Prince Of Wales and final
" for law and order.
This broke up the meeting.
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DUTCH HAVE
NO PREJUDICE
They Make No Distinction Be-
tween Home and Foreign Cap
ital in Oil Fields

Washington. May 12.-Netherlands
legislation does not draw any dis
tinction between Dutch and foreign
capital in the exploitation Of Oil
fields and that government desires
to See American capital take part in
such exploitation, says the reply OF
the Netherlands government to the
note recently presented at The Hague
by William Phillips. the American
minister, concerning concessions in
the Djambi oil fields in the Dutch
East Indies.
A summary Of tho reply was made
public in a statement by the state
department tonight which in addition
to outlining the poins made by the
Dutch foreign Office reviewed nego-
tiations which had led to the formal
exchange Of notes. a further COM
munication on the subject is expected
to be despatched soon by Secretary
Hughes to The Hague.
Concerning the recent passage IN
the second chamber Of the Neither
lands parliament Of an oil bill grant
ing a concession to the Batavia COM
rany in the Djambi fields to the exclu-
sion Of Americans the Netherlands re-
ply says that when last January. MIR.
Phillips requested that American
companies be permitted to participate
in the Djambi concessions, the law
had already been drafted and the
question, pending the approval OF
parliament, had been settled. AS for
American capital participating in the
batavia company it says that such a
question must be subject to the ap-
proyal of the Dutch government.
The reply adds, however. that there
are rich Oil fields in both Sumatra
and Borneo and the minister of colo
nies would be glad to make contracts
with other companies for their ex-
ploitation similar to that already
made with the Batavia company.
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The Problem OF Rate Making.

Cincinnati, O., May 1o.-Lega]
problems are becoming constantly
more numerous and more important
because of the tendency of leslsla-
tive tribunals towards an extension OF
the regulation Of business, a tendency
stimulated by a loose construction
of constitutional guarantees, Edgar
Watkins of Atlanta, Ga. told the
Southern Wholesale Grocers in con-
vention here today. He said in part:
This tendency is dangerous one
and one you should combat The
governments, State and National,
readily listen to any considerable
number of people. who seek statutes
to remedy supposed ills. All kinds
of quacks are demanding that their
claimed-to-be panaceas shall be
tried. For every economic i'll they
propose a statute, and they unhesita-
tingiy offer to repeal economic and
physical laws. Except in restraining
others, men should be left in the
language of Jefferson Free to regu-
late these own pursuits Of industry
and improvement
THE halIucination that economic
laws can be repealed by Statutes
caused the Congress in the Food Con-
troll Act to try to fix prices of neceS-
saries. That Section of the law was
unconstitutional. Had the govern
ment quit meddling in business when
the war ended the public and business
would have suffered less. For fear
that some one MAJ say that am talk
ing politics. let me say that a Repub-
lican Committee recommended and
a Republican Congress passed the
Food Control Act and a Democratic
president approved and a Democratic
department Of Justice sporadically
tried to enforce it; SO in condemnlng
the law and it's enforcement l am free
from partisanship.
"A subsequent decision Of the Su-
premc Court holding constitutional
regulation of rents shows that a valid
law could be passed. That a law can
be framed that will meet the approval
Of the majority of the Supr eme
Court as now constituted, makes It
necessary for all who believe in free
government, such as our fathers con-
templated. to be vigilant to protect
the liberties sought to be guaranteed
in our fundamental law.
Substantial relief in freight rate
can come only from radical changes
in the Transportation Act. 1920. The
hampering provisions for a disguised
guarantee Of income must be repeal
ed and the enormous increases in
operating expenses. caused chiefly by
and resulting from Federal Control
must be greatly reduced. The Inter
state commerce commission is told
by law to make rates a percentage Of
the value Of property. This it attemp-
ted to do with the result that opera"
ting revenues are 1eSsened because
some rates are higher than the traf-
fic will bear. Greater and possible
economics of operation will do some
good. fairer wage adjustment is
necessary but fundamentally there
must be a return to the principle OF
rate making. which considers the value
as we'll as the cost Of the service.
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Japa1 :, Business Move to Curtail
Military Expenditures.

Toxic. May 12.-Discussing the
movement of japanese business men
to curtail military expenditures. the
Yorodzu, Toxic daily, with a large
popular circulation. emphasizes how
little the civil officials have to do with
naval and army appropriations IN
this country.
The newspaper records the conten-
ton of the business elements that
about 1873 per cent Of the budget Is
devoted to armaments, but points out
that this is not unprecedented. because
in 1897, subsequent to the Japan
China war, the PERCENTAGE was 4s,4
per cent. However. the amount IN
1e21-1e22 shows seven-fold in
crease compared with 1897.
The Journal continues:
Apart from the question Of the ex-
cessive nature or otherwise of the
military expenditure, however. it must
be pointed out that owing to the fact
that the administration Of the army
and navy is in the hands OF n. Try
and naval men respectively. no civil
official-much less outsfders-are
allowed to know the particulars OF
tho military expenditures. Sometimes
a satisfactory explanation is denied
even in the Diet.
''It is for this reason that naval
and military men are allowed free
dom in the expenditures of public
funds, unfettered by outside inter-
ference.
1T will be a mistake if this sort
of thing is allowed to go on. while
not wishing to overburden the coun-
try with more investigation commit
tees. it surely is necessary in this in
stance that a committee be appointed
so that careful investigation may be
made into the items of naval and
military expenditures before they are
approved. by the Diet
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Wild Cat in a Tomb.

While experimenting the city force
at The cemetery one afternoon last
week. Mr. w D. Whitaker found
where an old mother wild cat had
made her nest in one of the old tombs
in the southwestern part of the ceme-
terry near the edge Of the swamp and
had left two little kittens there. One
Of the kittens was killed and 9TH
er was captured and is now in pos
session of Mr.. Cole. the driver Of the
fire truck. and he has it in a cage at
the fire department headquarters.
Several years ago mother fox
made her nest in a tomb near the
same spot and two little cub foxes
were found there.-Camden Chron-
ic1e
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'BERGDOLL WAS
STAR PRISONER
Notorious Draft Dodger Was
Accorded Extraordinary
Privileges

, Washington, May lin giving {
first hand account Of the escape q
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. the Phil.
O'Hare, who was in command Of the
escort which started out with Ber".
doll from Governors Island for the
mountains Of Maryland. told the
house investigating commit" today
he had never heard word about the
buried pot Of gold until long afte,
the prisoner had fled.
O'Hare was positive in the asser.
ton that when he started out for tn
mountains the only instructions IL
received from Col. John E. Hunt, his
superior officer, was to proceed with
the prisoner to Hagerstown. Md. gel
some money from bank, take it tc
another bank at Philadelphia and re-
turn to the barracks.
There were no written orders ex-
cept to stop off at North Phiiadei-
pl1ia, meet the late D. Clarence Glib
honey, Bergdors lawyer, and there
after be guided by what Gibboney
said, the witness declared. with some
emphasis in relating his part in the
whole affair. O'Hare declared he
wanted to handcuff his prisoner but
that Hunt refused.
It was by Gibboney's orders, he
said. that the party halted at Phil
adelphia. went for q long automobile
ride, with Bergdoll at the wheel, Wis
tied a burlesque show and stopped at
the Bergdoll home, from which the
prisoner escaped.
The sergeant told how Bergdoll.
who had evaded the draft for a couple
Of years. was sent from the island IN
the full uniform of an enlisted man,
with a hat cord indicating that he
belonged to the infantry branch of
the service: how he had sat in the
train from New York to Philadelphi.,
without .uttering a word and chew
ing tobacco all the while.
Step by step he tod Of various
moves, up to the moment when Berg
doll walked into bath room 20 an
swer the telephone. He was never
seen after that and to this day. the
sergeant said, he does not know how
he got out. Except for that single
moment he declared the prisoner was
never out Of his sight.
No amount OF cross-e2amina1ion
could bulge the witness from has
statement that he was in entire ig-
norance of any plan 20 80 out and
dig up the buried gold. the object for
which the prisoner was released IN
custody oi O'Hare and York, another
sergeant.
Mrs. Emma C. Bergdo1l, mother of
the draft evader, and James Rornig,
the man who was sent to Washington
to get sfO5. 900 in gold from the treas
ury, were around the BergdoH home
all the time the party was there.
O'Hare said. When not shooting pool
or recfting shakspere, Grover. he said,
was walking about perfectly at ease
and as cool as a little white stone
in q brook where trout might play.
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Grandma's Old Song.

Tell me the tales that to me were so
dear,
Long, long ago, long ago;
Sing me the songs delighted to aear'
Long, long ago, long ago.
Now you are come all my grief is re-
moved,
Let me forget that so long you have
roved,
Let me believe that you love as you
loved
Long, long ago, long ago.
Do you remember the past where We
met
Long, long ago. long ago.
All, yes, you told me you ne'er would
forget,
Long long ago. long ago.
Then to al. others my smile you pre-
ferred.
Love. when you spoke. gave a cbarm
TO each word,
Still n1y heart treasn es the praises l
heard,
Long long ago, loag ago.
Though by your kindness my fond
hopes were raised.
Long. long ago. long ago.
You by more eloquent lips have been
praised,
Long, long ago. long ago.
Though by long absence your truth
has been tried.
Still to your accents I listen with
pride,
Blest as was "hen I sat by your
side
Long. long ago. long ago.
Thomas Haynes Bailey. Kansas City
Star
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Euraerdinary American Newspaper

k<oscA 0N4S<o1kS S-1SXSI2S<So aNCnSONk%k
Atshison, Kan, May 1o-The At
Gibson Globe is -all stuck up" BE-
cause 1T has bean selected as one of
the seven most extra ordinary Amer
lean. newspapers by the Editor and
Publisher, newspaper magazine. It is
given first place for its personal
news
out in Atchison. Kan, says the
awarding committee in its report to
the Editor and Publisher. 1.-The
Globe has set the standard in the
compilation Of personal items, told
with a fine sense of the news involv-
edsein the small common places Of
street and town.
The Globe was founded Ia 1877 by
Edgar Watson Howe who is well
known as the Sage Of Potato Hill. His
country town sayings and other writ
ings have been published widely in
magazine and book form. He retired
from active. editorship of The Globe
in 1911 and was succeeded by his son,
Eugene A Hove.
The .Atchison newspaper is the only
sniail daily listed. The other papers
selected, for their superiority in diff
ferent. fields were; The New York
World. public, service; The New York
Tines, news: The Springfield Re-
publican. editorials: The Ohio State
journal, editorial paragraphs; The
New York Sun. feature stories: The
New York Tribune, typographical dis
play; The st. Louis Post-Dispatch,
use OF arts; The Christian Science
Monitor, ethics: Boston Transcript
dramatics and literary criticism; The
Chicago Tribune. merckc ndising and
ADVERTISING
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Chattanooga, May 13.-Total cash
collections for the causes fostered by
the s75.OG0.OO0 campaign since the
launching of that movement have
reached the sum of SIS, ,0S6.324. ac-
cording to the report of the conser-
vation commission, through DR.. l.. 4.
Scarborough. chairman, to the b6th
annual session of the Southern Bap-
tist convention here today.
Of this sum s12.9O7.S43 has been
collected during the past convention
year, the remainder having been re-
ported lear ago.
Regarding the future interests OF
the campaign, Chairman Scarborough
recommended that during the sum-
mer and early fall months all the
forces of Southern Baptists so aflelo
for winning souls for Christ: that as
speedily as possible all the local
churches be brought to a system Of
regular and systematic giving to the
causes of the campaign. rather than
depending upon special roundups and
that either through the continuation
of the conservation commission or
some other medilm the convention
promote unified program for con-
serving the interests of the campaign
and a vigorous program Of publicity.
The first of1icia, act of President
r. Y. Mullins was the appointment
OF the committee on committees,
which is charged with the duty of
naming all the special committees
that will serve at this session Of the
convention. The committee includes
the four newly elected vice presi-
dents. along with DR.. Livingston
Johnston OF Raleigh. n. c., DR.. J. w.
Gillon of Mayfield, Ky, the Rev. B.
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Kitty Mc('al1o1l. Who Nas Killed BY
Irish Republicans

Belfast, May 1o.-Kitty McCarron.
killed by masked men who attached
a card to her body inscribed "spies
and informerS beware, tried, convict
ed and executed by the Irish Republi-
can army. was the sole support of
her aged parents and a mentally de-
fective brother. The police say they
know OF no reason for killing her,
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Alaska Invited to Make Exhibit

Juneau, Alaska. April 5--Recon-
mendation that Alaska send an exhibit
Of territorial mineral. agricultural
and other products to the National
Mining Exposition TO be held in Chi
cago by the American Mining Con-
gress October 1922 was made to the
Legislature here recently by Governor
Thomas Riggs, Jr.
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Pikeville, KY. May 1:.-Four per-
sons have been killed and one
wounded in fighting along the Ken
tucky and West Virginia borders dur
ing the last twenty-four hours. ac-
cording to reports here. The prin-
cipa, firing toward Kentucky came
from Sprigg, w. Virginia.
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Paris. May 1.-THE entry Of Ger
man troops in Upper Silesia would
provoke intervention by regular Po-
lisi troops which would mean war,
and in such war France could not
remain neutral. according to express
sions in official circles here today.
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Mexico City, May 13.-Mexico cam
not and will not sign formal pro-
tocol as q condition to recognition
by the United States. President Obre-
gon stated today
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Preludc.
Preludc.
Words. words.
Ye are like birds,

Preludc.
Words. words,
Ye are like birdsi
Would l might fold you
In my hands and hold you
Till ye were warm and your feather
a-flutter;
Till. in your throats.
TrerulouS notes
Foretold the songs ''e would utter.
Words. words 3
Ye are all bird.'E
Would ye might Efger
Here on my finger.
TIL 1 kissed each. and then sent you
a-winging
Wild, perfect flight,
Through morn to night,
Singing. singing, and singing!
Josephine Preston Pee body.
in The Indianapolis News
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st. Louis. May 13.-The internat-
ional fur exchange announced de-
flct Of more than nine million dol
lars in o circular to stockholders,
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The chances are the doom OF Jazz
music will be sounded when it be-
comes known that English factories
are using it to speed ap their work
ers,-yorfolk lNeb.) News