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Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
WAS REAL MOVIE STUNT
(AssOcfafoH Prees)

Bayonne, N. j., Jan. 1S.-Two
persons were killed and more than
ten injured in an explosion and fire
in the plant Of the Bellows Film
Company today. Two charred bod
les, one woman, apparently blown
through a window Of the plant, were
found near the. factory. Fire was
caused by the ignition Of the films.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
SUE CITY OF cHANUTE
Four Persons Injured When Car Hit
House
(Associated d Press)

Chanute, Jan. 1S.-Four persons
who were injured when their auto
mobile crashed into a house which
was occupying a street while being
moved, have brought suits against
the city of Chanute for sums ag-
gregating 100000. The accident
occurred Halloween. The plaintiffs
are Mr.. and Mrs. J. Il. Vaugn and
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Shaw Of Petro-
liza. They charge that there were
no danger signals on the house and
the street lights were not burning.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
SEEKS WIFE SIXTY YEARS
Confederate Veteran Has New Clew
to Bride He Left Behind

Chattanooga, Tenn, jain. 1S.-E
ID. (Ned) Poor of Humphrey, Ark,
who lost track Of his wife in 1862,
when he entered the Confederate
army and who has never ceased his
search for her in nearly sixty years,
has applied to w. L. Baker, chief OF
police here, for assistance, having
received information that she was In
this city.
The message received by the chief
was most pathetic, and was accom-
panied by a letter addressed to the
missing woman asking her to write
to Poor.
Poor was married in Claiborne
county, Tennessee, in 1861 and went
to war in the following year, ac-
cording to the letter. His whe's
maiden name was Mary Frances
Morris. II alive she would be nearly
80 years old. Poor suggested to ths
chief that she may have beeQ mar
ried since.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
cURTAIL LOGGING OPERATION
Slump in Lumber Prices Results in
Curtailment
(Associated Press)

Houghton, Mich, Jan. 1S.-There
has been drastic curtailment OF
logging operations in the upper pen
insula. according to lumber company
officials in this part of the state,
due to the slump in the market for
lumber.
Although lumbermen throughout
the northern peninsula look for a
good, steady market for the pro-
duct later in the year, there Is said
to be little or no demand for lum-
Der at this time, despite a reduction
of from 35 to 40 per cent in prices.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
TO CHEMICAL CONGRESS
Surgeons From All Over Country tG
Attend Convention
(Associated Press)

Omaha, Neb., Jan. 1S.-PrOminent
surgeons from practically every state
in the union and a number from
abroad are expected to attend a clin-
ical congress here March 3 and 4 un-
der auspices of the Nebraska divis-
ion Of the American College Of Sur
gerry.
Among those expected to attend
are VIII and Charles Mayo Of Roch-
ester, Mimi, Sir Berkeley Monyhan
Of Leeds, England; Sir Arthur
Mayo Robson of London, and How
ard Kelly and John M. Fnney OF
John Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
PROSPEROUS YEAR ON LAKES
(Associated Press)

Cleveland, O., Jan. 18.-With
tonnage in good demand throughout
the season for the ore movement OF
5S,527,226 tens and freight rates
at about 80 per cent over the prev.
ious season, the year just closed was
a prosperous one for Great Lake ore
carriers.
Great delays that ore carriers
were subjected to at Lake Erie ports,
due to lack Of equipment AID a
strike Of railroad skitchmen, was
the only drawback during the sea-
son Just closed.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
HOMAGE TO BRAZILIAN RULER
Body of Ex-Emperor Returned to
Country From Lisbon
ASSOCIATED Press)

Rio De Janeire, Jan. 1S.-Dr. Ruy
Barbosa, sole survivor Of the promi-
nent men who in 1899 caused the
bloodless overthrow Of the Empire
Of Brazil, set up a republic ana
banished the imperial family, will
play a part, as representative of the
League Of National Defense, In pay
ing homage to the former Emperor
Dom Pedro II and his wife when the
Brazilian battlship Sac Paulo
brings their bodies back from LIS
bon. The bodies are expected to ar.
rive here within few weeks.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
HAVE COMMUNITY CLUBS
Twenty.three Towns in Association
Maintain Them
#fAna0CiAted prAaa1

Liberal, Jan. 18.-Thirty- Ave
towns in the area comprising tue ter
STORY Of the Great Southwest ass0-
citation now have community clubs
organized by the association workers.
OFFICIALS Of the organization say that
this number will be considerably in
creased before the annual meeting
of the association called for January
25 here. Forty-si towns already
have signified their intentions OF be-
ing represented. They are scattered
throughout twenty five counties In
the contiguous corners Of Kansas,
Oklahoma and Colorado, including
fourteen Kansas counties.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
NEED 100000 HOUSES
Fort Rent Sign in London Draws q
Crowd
(Associated Press)

London, Jan. 1S.-It Is estimated
that London Is short of 100000
houses and Premier Lloyd George,
speaking in the house Of commons,
has placed the total house shortage
for the whole of the United King
dom at roughly 100000. A house
for rent notice board In London
quickly attracts crowd.
Housing is department Of the
ministry of health, and, by legisla-
tive act, local authorities are requir-
ed to submit housing schemes. Thou
sands of schemes have been sub
mitted, but progress has been very
slow.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
CORN YIELDS
PROMISE TEN
PER CENT MORE
Discovery of Cure for
Disease Announced
by Meredith
fAssoc,ated Press)

Des Moines, Jan. 1S.-Discovery
by chemists Of the federal depart
ment Of agriculture Of an unfailing
cause Of destruction Of corn by the
disease OF "root 1bt" will enable
corn producing states to increase
their crops probably ten per cent,
Secretary Meredith said today In
telling Of the discovery.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
BACKBONE OF TRADE
Jefferson Highway is So Described
to Boosters
(Associated Press)

St Joseph, Mo-, Jan. 1S.-The
Jefferson highway, with Winnipeg
and New Orleans as its north and
south terminals, was declared to pe
"the backbone of an essential sys'
TEN Of travel and trade" and an I'M
portant factor in the development OF
a new economic era in the Missis'
sippi Valley" by Walter Parker
president Of the Jefferson Highway
association in his annual address
here today to the directors and
members Of the association.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
SCOTLAND NO DESERT
Country Has Decided to Remain
Wet
ASSOCIATED Press) }

Edinburgh, Jan. 1S.-Scotland
has definitely decided to remain
.ainly wet. Voting on prohibition
under the Scottish temperance act
has been concluded with this result !:
Polls were taken in 572 areas,
with the result that 496 voted for no
change in the present regulations,
Al for abolition Of saloons and 30
for Limitation of drink licenses. AS
a consequence, out of total In
Scotland of 9,371 licenses, 447 will
be withdrawn.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
KANSAS WHEAT is MOVING


Concordia. Jan. 1S.-Higher
prices offered by dealers along the
Northern Kansas branch Of the
Missouri Pacific have caused unuch
wheat to move in the last ten days.
Farmers say, they have given up the
idea Of holding their wheat for So
per bashslsS The highest paid hare
recently was S1.65, and II the price
goes TO e1.76 there win be general
unloading, grain dealers say.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
CHILDREN STARVE IN RUSSIA
Quaker Relief Workers Tell of Their
Plight
(Associated PressI

Philadelphia, Jan. 1S.-Frederick
J. Libby, commissioner of the
American Friends Service Commit
tee (Quakers) who recently return
ed from Reval, brought back infor-
nation that many children are starv-
ing In Russia. Mr.. Libby obtained
his information from Arthur ].
Watts, an English friend, who has
been engaged in relief work in Rus
sia. Mr.. Watts gave Mr.. Libby a
translation Of the reports Of Russian
comissars from various Russian cit
les. It is upon these Mr.. Libby
bases his Information. .t
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
but They Will
NOT Be MISSED
French Troops Cleaned
Out Cossacks
(Associated Press)

Constantinople, jain. 1S.-French
black troops turned machine guns on
mutinous Cossacks Of general Wran-
gels former army encamped al
Tchatalja near Constantin0ple Sat
urday night after the Cossacks dis
armed their officers. The Russians
returned the fre, killing ten Senga-
les and wounding two Others and
two French officers. The French
finally got tthe mutineers under con-
troll.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
DIRECT ROADS BY WIRELESS
Railway Companies Installing Wire
less Outfits
<A.snclatA DrAaaN

Louisville, KY, Jan. 1S.-Trans-
action Of railroad business by wire-
less soon will be a reality in the
south, according to announcement
here by Telegraph Superintendent
r. r. Hobbs Of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad. The company
has purchased wireless outfits and
will install them at Louisville, New
Orleans, Pensacola and Mobile fc'
the general message service Of thu
company.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
UNCOVER SLAVE PLOT
Armenian Rancher and Seven Girls
Arrested in California

Fresno, CAL, Jan. 1s.-The ar
rest Of seven Armenian girls and a
prominent Armenian rancher Of Lone
Star, near here, revealed yesterday,
ahnordsng OF George w. Moore, I'm
tied States immigration commission
er, a plot by which Armenian girls
are brought into the United States
and sold to the highest bidder.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
DIsMANTLE FERRIS WHEEL
And Passenger Carriages Are Used
For Houses
Associated Press)

Paris, Jan. 18.-The carriages
for passengers are being taken from
the big ferris wheel here and sent
to devastated regions Of France
where they will be used as bunga-
lows to provide homes for home
less. They are just big enough to
make a diminutive home containing
one living room and kitchen. The
ferris wheel is being dismantled
after having been one Of the sights
of Paris for years.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
ANOTHER WANTS HOME RULE
West Africa Sends Delegation to
London
(Associated Press)

London, Jan. 1S.-West Africa Ii
the latest country to seek home rule
A mission, representative of the edu.
Gated opinion in British West Africa
has arrived here to urge upon the
colonial office a number Of reforms
in the internal administration OF
the four West African colonies and
protectorates, Sierra Leone, the
Gold Coast, Nigeria and the Gam
bia.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
CLOSE GRAND OPERA SEASON
Tenth Season in Chicago Will End
January II
(Assocaated Press)

Chicago, H., Jan. 1S.-Chicago's
tenth season of grand opera will
close here on January % and ac-
cording to critics will be long remem-
bered.
Executive Director Edward NJ.
johnson of the Chicago Opera asso-
citation has prepared the following
program for the final week. 1t be-
gan yesterday afternoon with a
special performance of "Otello,'
when Charles Marshall, who made
his American premier in this opera
earlier In the season again was
heard. Mary Garden will be heard
this evening In "Faust." .
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
EXPECTS LOWER COSTS

Oklahoma Governor Acts According,
Iy md Reduces State Budget
Oklahoma City, Okla, Jan -
Stating that he does not antidP pate
as high prices for commodities and
labor for the next bienniur a TOT
the one Just passed, Gov. A.
Robertson yesterday, In recoh4 nd<
ing a budget for the state's exr hses
me next two. years, teennst kla-
homa legislature, set the total at,
SIT 800, 900. The amoFnt asked w9f
approximately ss5,$9S,s12. ~
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
BunDgNo DIXIE HIGHWAY
VIII Extend From Great Lakes "a
Florida
(Associated a Prsss,


(Associated Pressl
Jasper, Tenn, Jan. 1S.--Comple-
ton OF the Dixie highway which Will
provide a hard road from the Great
Lakes to the extreme end Of Florida
Is assured by the recent vote to issue
$250,00 in bonds by Marion coun-
ty, and the headway on projects
along the highway planned by the
Georgia highway department.
The Marion county portion has
been the lire between the north and
the south which prevented tourists
from travelling in comfort over the
noted thoroughfare. Tennessee ana
the federal government will match
the amount of Marion county with
$3.50, 900, making total Of $1,000
900 to be used on the highway In
the county this year. The section
is across the Cumberland mountains
through a sparsely settled country.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
BRAZIL FOR BIGGER NAVY
(Aasociated Press)

Rio De Janeiro, Jan. 1S.-The
committee on naval and military af-
fairs Of the Brazilian chamber Of de-
puties wants bigger navy. 1t has
called upon the President to present
to the next session Of congress a pro-
gram Of naval construction drawn up
by the general stan Of the admiralty
and to be carried out for a term OF
years. d.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20

H. d. Miller of Salina and Stella
Mae Wright, English teacher in the
Salina high school, were married by
Rev. DR.. Blayney and left for Cali
fOrnia trip.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
ASK WILSON TO EXPLAIN
House Would Find Out Abou,
Crowder Trip to Cuba

Washington, Jan. 1S.-A resolu-
tion requesting President Wilson tO
inform congress why and by what
authority he sent Major General
Crowder to Cuba to investigate con-
ditions there was introduced today
by Representative Emerson, Republi-
can, Ohio. The resolution said the
president had ordered an investiga.
tion Of subjects unknown to con.
gress and the people Of the United
States.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
PRODUCE RAISED. $ll.6s4
Women's Industrial Farm Helps Pay
For Itself

For Itoodt
(Associated Press)
Leavenworth, Jan. 1S.-The Wo-
mems Industrial e., Farm here, the
states chief penal institution for wo-
men, raised $11,654 worth Of farm
produce during the last biennium'
says a report prepared for the legis'
lature by Superintendent Julia b.
Perry. As there are only about Tor
ty acres in the farm, especially at
tention is devoted to truck garden
ing and stock raising.
"Many Of the things raised are
stored for winter use and Will ma.
terially reduce our per capita COST
as well as furnish us produce fresh
and well kept" says Mrs. Perry's
report.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
sEMLIED g BY ExRLosIoN

Copenhagen, Jan. is--Sixty- eight
passengers on q R1ssian railway
train were burned to death southeast
of Petrograd today uhen q quantity
Of benzine exploded and wrecked the
train.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20

Trade with your home merchants,
build up Abilene. the town that b
your home
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20

Clean, old papers. DO q bundle It
this office. sf
Abilene weekly reflector., 1921-01-20
ITALY URGES EMIGRATION
Professor Estimates 100000 MUS
Leave In Two Years
(AaaOciated PreaS) WV.

Rome, Jan. 1S.-Professor 'Ogo
Ancona, former under-secretary OF
transportation, estimates that at
least 100000 emigrants must
leave Italy within the next two
years IL the nation is to prosper. He
suggests that the government aid
emigration by Transforming cargo
vessels into emigrants ships, be-
cause the great present obstacle to
emigration is the lack Of transpor-
fation facilities.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
Navy look Them Over and the Navy Brought Them Back

on the entry of America iato the war.
|. The U-boat campaign is the
last card A very serious decision!
But IL the military authorities regard
The U-boat campaign as necessary I
am not in position to oppose them"
Feared No Neutral
| Field Marshal Hindenburg replied
oracuisrIy:
| "We are in a position to meet all
eventualities, against America, Dem
mark, Holland and even Switzerland"
! The Chancellor then volunteered the
! prediction: "On Americas eventual
entry into the war her help will con-
sist in the delivery of food to England,
| financial assistance, the supply of aero
| planes and force of volunteers"
| The Field Marshal remarked jauntily.
"We are already prepared TO deal witn
that. The chances of the submarine
operations are more favorable than
| they are ever likely to be again. We
can and must begin them"
The Chancellor completed his back
down. 'Yes," he said. I'VE must aet
if victory beckons."
But victory didn't beckon. The Pless
gathering was fatuously making victory
impossible.
LudendorfF never forgave America
for exposing his monumental miscalcu-
lations. To the end, except in rare mo-
ments, he deprecated our military
effort. On the eve of his downfall,
October II, 1918, he told war council
in Berlin: "We must not overrats ths
Americans. They are certainly smart.
But we have beaten them hitherto %,
even when we were very inferior in
numbers. Our men are not anxious
about the Americans; they are about
the English"
AS far as he would go in his ssner
professional mood was TO say: "But
the army of the United States was
none the less able to deprive US Of
victory and made possible that of the
Entente after the strength of our army
WAS broken by the revoiution.n
Lacked Political Foresight
Ludendorf even tries to prove that ts
wasn't the renewal of unrestricted sub
! marine operations which dragged the
United States into the war. He says:
"If the submarine campaign had really
been the direct cause of the particip&-
ton of the United States in the war
she must have declared war at the be-
! cyinnino of EahrrYarHr
April would have been unworthy OF
great nation. She did not enter the war
until the military situation of the En-
tente had become worse" What could
be more characteristically Teutonic
than this ingenious argument,
Ludendorff was a competent soldier
But he lacked political insight and was
incapable of the broader conceptions
of policy required in World War.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
Ludendorf Sets Forth I lis Alibi
The General Staff and It's Problems Is Full of
Excuses

face-about with evident misgivings He
didn't want to break with the United
States. But he felt that the Kaiser
would Inevitably bow to the prestige
Of Hindenburg and LudendorT. He re-
piled on December "a: "As regards
the question of unrestricted submarine
operations, I have hitherto adopted
the standpoint that it can only be con-
sidered when our military situstion
offers Us the guaranty that European
neutrals can be restrained from max
ing an attack upon us. Your excel
iency believes that that time will have
come by the end OF January. On that
assumption, and so for as I can bring
myself to your eSeeuenoy's conviction
that the odvnntGSes of soAolescte and
r"thtese submarine campaign oHtweigh
the Disadvantages Of the entry of Amer
sea smto the ranks of our enemies, /
sban be prepared to consider even the
unrestricted U-boat vGrfGre."
Demanded Instant Action
Ludendorff resented this tone and
also the Chancellor's suggestion that
there must first be negotiations with
America He wrote tartly on Decem-
beg 26: 81 must adhere to that view
the view expressed on December 231
in no uncertain manner, and therefore
repeat my request that submarine op-
erations against armed merchantmen
should be begun at once without pre-
liminary negotiations and that con-
ferences on this intensified campaign
should be held at once. 1t goes
| without saying that I myself shall
never cease to insist with all my might,
and in the fullest sense Of response
| bility for the victorious outcome OF
| the war, that everything of a military
nature shall be done which regard as
necessary"
The voice was the voice Of linden
burg, the popular demigod, but the
words were Ludendorff's. The Chan
cellor was cowed. He arranged a con-
ference at Pless on January 1, 1917
at which Germany's fate was sealed.
1t is astonishing to discover from
Ludendorff's notes of the Pless meet
ing how lightheartedIy the fatal de
cision to drag the United States into
the war was taken. The conference
lasted only few minutes, as Luden
dorff noted in his earlier book. The
Kaiser's New Years presents were
there on the table. There was no rea
discussion. Bethmann-Hollweg wa'
still skeptical, but inclined to be sub
servient. He said: ave must reckor
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13

"snow," is that of the reaches of our
coast and the spans of our winter
fields, although the appeal achieved is
to the heart of the world. No poem
Of the year surpasses in primitive
loveliness Sara Teasdsles "Song," with
its two closing lines:
"As flower, as a FIRE, as a hushed
football
In long forgotten snow"
This element imbued with the aroma
Of our hills, fields and rivers, creeps
into William Rose Benet's "Her Way"
Winifred Welies's Second Growth, ~
Jacob Auslander's 81 Come Singing"
Leonora speyer's Spring Cowardice"
and Lew Sarett's "The Loon," net. to
mention other poems. 1t dominates
Raymond Holden's "Sugaring" and
Walter Adolphe Roberts's "Tiger Lily"
1t saturates every line of Aloysius
Coils washington" Carl Sandburg's
"Tangibles," Edgar Lee Masters's "a
Republic" Harry Kemp's "You Talk of
This and That" Kathryn White Ryan's
"Deported," the three intensely local
Kentucky ballads by Ann Cobb and the
poems in this collection selected from
the years output of Robert Frost,
Edwin Ford Piper, Vine McCasland and
Phoebe Hoffman.
We have appropriated space in Civ
ing the above resume because there
is a happy portent in the gladness of
our poets in hymning their country
as predicated in Its visible physical
beauty and the racial individuality of
its people. In these days, when many
Of England's poets are prone to find
themes in the psychological vagaries
and dubieties Of self, it is something
to be proud of, this stanch, clean de-
termination of our singers to create
body Of verse worthy the splendid
thing that may be called the personal
ity Of America.
We owe Mr.. Braithwaite 8 debt. He
has revealed to US, in a singularly
graphic way, the independence and the
decided worth of modern American
poet y.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
How the League Works
TIE LEAGUE or NAr1oNs ~ woR

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AT WORK
BY Arthur Sweetser. Published by the
Macmillan Company.
T'HE essential facts about the func-
tioning of the League of Nations
up to the present time are here set
forth. Mr.. Sweetser, who is avowedly
a friend of the league and advocate
of American participation in its coun-
ellis, emphasizes its constructive
achievements. He gives it credit for
creating permanent international ex-
ecutive staff, accepting the task of
protecting various racial minorities and
devising farreaching plans for dsarm-
aMent and worldwide health protec-
ton. He represents the league as
neither a panacea for all world ills nor
superstate, but "a new link in the
chain Of human relationships made i'm
peratively necessary by the annihila-
ton of distance as o barrier between
states"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
U-Boats Were Cautious
Preferred Attacking Defence1ess Merchant
Vessels to American Convoys
Reviewed by Quarterback

.rnsy OF THE TRANSPORT SER
4 HE Isv Vfce.Adnttral Gteaves. Pub
VIZ WA hy the George II. Doran Company.
ny HERE is little risk of hyper
10 bole in vepturing the opinion
u that the raising, transporting
i supplying overseas of our army Of
million men will be finally ranked
:, .ne Of the greatest achievements in
4. annals of history"
1As story of the transportation part
!, dis stupendous undertaking is told
!. Admiral Gleaves in an attractive
,,sns which is frightened by 127 IL
,..trations, diagrams and charts.
srSe transportation of the army to
s,,ons was a joint army and navy
@ ..,rasition, and IT could not have been
...slsd satisfactorily had it not been
!, tbe unity with which the services
s.-s,d together. The War Department
represented at Hoboken, N. j.,
.s;,b vas the principal home terminal,
= Major General D. c, Shanks, U. S.
, and at Newport News by Major
r,n.ral Grote Hutcheson, both men
:, large views and hroad-gauge ideas.
p,,r Admiral H. P. Jones, u. S. N,
.,oscer of rare judgment and ability,
.,rmanded the Newport News division
u me cruiser and transport force"
A Joint Undertaking
Tins the army collected and trained
.ts troops and brought them with their
.m,.dimenta to the docks. The navy