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New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
American Products
More Popular Thar,
British i'm London
MADE in u. S. A." Is Stamp
of Approval on All Com
modities From Tooth
Paste TO Motor Cars
From The Trtbune's Eropean Bursa4

LONDON, Feb. Cone way to dis
cover Americasis to visit Lond9n. For
England, looking overseas, has decided
that in some things the United States
ieads the world, and has adopted those
features and phases OF American life.
The New Yorker coming here wifi find
evidences of his home iands on every
side. In fact, the word american" is
the stamp of approval on ali manner of
everyday commodities that range from
tooth paste to elevators and motor cars.
Perhaps the most obvious adoption
i. American ""jazz." Both the music
and the dances of Broadway have
found favor everywhere. The milkman
comes up the stairs in the morning
whistling "Tell Me, Little Gypsy" and
a the latest airs from the Winter
Garden. All the dance clubs, supper
orchestras, and all play the latest
music few weeks after it has been in
troduced in New York. A company Of
soldiers carrying the cork sun-helmets
that mark them as having served in
Egypt or Mesopotamia swing down the
street, singing "Sewanee." The bus
conductor huns "Cuban Moon" as you
go down the Strand. It's. long, long
way to Tin Pan Alley, but the Broad
way music is right here.
"The Southern Syncopated Orches-
ira" a dpsky group of Alabama jazz
band experts, has had most success
full run in London vaudeville and still
draws large crowds. "The Palais de
Danse," at Hammersmith, is an Ameri-
can owned dance hall, where two jazz
bands from Dixie play alternately. 1t
has been SO successful that similar
hall is being opened at Manchester.
American Films Lead
In motion picture theaters the Amer
lean film predoA1inates, Mary Pickford
and Constance Falmadge are the favor
ties, although every American movie
artist has his or her following. 1t is
pleasant to leave the London fog a
moment and find, inside a cinema the
ater, the old familiar California hills
and the old familiar comedy pies. Many
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
Another Revolt
Seems Certain
Soon Inn Mexico
Small Bands 5 Springing
Up Constantly i'm Every
Section of the Country
Portend War for Ohregon
L. S. Attitude a Factor
Failure of Washington 80
Recognize Present Regime
Considered Big Drawback
By George E. HYDE

MEXICo CITY, Feb. s.-To those
who have watched developments in
Mexico during the last ten years it
seems inevitable that President Obre-
gon must face another revolution in
the near future. Throughout the coun-
try Small bands are springing up in
opposition TO the government,
Many of these are nothing more than
groups of highwaymen, whose purpose
seems only TO steal or simply to keep
out Of the hands of the law. Others,
however, claim to have political mo-
tives, although it is not evident just
what these motives are. Probably they
are nothing more than the desire to
put those in power out and to take
their places.
Revolt Without Plan
In this respect the present move
ment, if it can be called movement,
offers from others OF the last decade.
Madero, Huerta, Garranza, Villa, Diaz
and Obregon all had some real or mag
mary political issue for which they
we're outwardly lighting. Those now
in the field apparently have none.
There have been none of the famboy-
ant proclamations. A revolution with
out a plan" is something new in Mex
leo. There doubtless viii be one be-
fore long
Something more than tacit neutrality
on the part of the United States is nee
essary if General Obregon is to deal
successfully with the military situa-
ton which is slowly developing. The
failure of Washington to extend its
official recognition already is being in
terpreted by the enemies of the gov
ornment as an indication that it does
not count with the moral support of
the American people and that they may
possibly be more fortunate. This lack
of recognition also has left the Obre-
gon government in doubt as to Just
what the stand of the United States is
likely TO be.
The necessity of the support of the
United States to any party which is to
remain in power in Mexico is not
obvious, unless one realizes that with
out it the Mexican government can
get neither money nor munitions of
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13

fiini houses bave large agencies here,
and, some produce pictures in England.
The American product has made q
firm place for itself in everyday COM
modities. Englishmen buy American
candy in preference TO English sweets.
The Fuller tea shops, g large chain, are
American owned, and are noted for
their candy Well known American
brands are sold here.
American soda fountains, introduced
by Fuller, are spreading rapidly. The
lee cream and soda combination was
hitherto unknown here, but. Is now
popular. One can buy few Of the
American makes Of cigarettes, although
the sale is not wide.
Toilet articles from the United
States, shaving cream, soap, tooth
paste and tales are popular. Safety
razors and razor blades have q tremen
doas sale, and largely dominate this
market. American motor cars are pop
ular, the fayorite being five -passen-
ger touring machine. This car. sold in
America for about $1,000, is large, Rc-
cording to English standards. The
English cars are either high priced or
American grocery store does "a large
business selling canned goods and we'll
known package products.
An American dentist is supposed TO
be leader in his pro esslon, while
American typewriters, fling systems
and efficiency devices are used in the
modern Offices.
The Bush Terminal Sales Company
is now erecting large office building,
to be known as BUSH House, on the
American plan.
American elevators are used every
where, the subway and underground
services being equipped with large ele-
vators.
One anachronism is the American
bar, in the Strand. 1t is built on the
best approved Forty-second Street pat
tern, and daily American visitors meet
there to consume Bronx and Manhattan
cocktails and think sad thoughts about
the homeland.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13

nerves are naturally on edge, end yet
some curious paradoxes are apparent.
There is an English Journalist whs
strolls about Dublin with a monocle
affixed pin his eye, and who is never
molested (although he remarked thar
il was "beastly annoying" when but-
let intended for some one else whizzed
within yard or two Of his head). Yet
another perfectly innocent man who
carries heavy pipe in his overcoat
pocket may find himself the object oF
Lcstile glanees along any Dublin street.
The lrishman wao mas any connection
at all with politics may be fairly cer-
tain that very few movements OF his
go unrecorded, and likewise the for
eigner whose business may take him
into contact with partlsan spheres.
The truly amazing thiagy however. is
that Sim Fem seems to be In perfect
touch with the governments plans and
activities. It has a great advantage in
the geographical situation: Sim Fein
is Irish. knowing Irish people and Irish
customs and Irish byways. The gov
ernment must work in the dark to this
extent: 1t must consider every man IN
civilian clothes potential enemy.
With the British government in mill
tary occupation of Ireland; with its
curfews and its prohibition Of assem-
blages in certain, parts tke physical
difficulties in the way of Sim Fein's
maintaining an efficient secret machine
and especially in utilizing lie 'nforma-
tion it CLEANS, seem terrific. Yet
maintain it, it does, and the apprehen-
sion of activist after activist seems to
do it little serious damage.
It would, of course, be unfair 70 at
tempt to judge between the efficiency
of the two services. Carried to its
logical conclusion the policy of armed
repression would by sheer force of
numbers sooner or later reduce the
menace of Sim Fein to the occupying
forces to minimum. And there is no
doubt but that some very good secret
work has been done by the British in
ireland.
However not only in official quar-
ters, but in Belfast they will admit to
you that "the Sinners have wonder
full intelligence service" and when
Belfast admits anything concerning an
accomplishment Of the South one may
take that as absolute confirmation.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
Titled Women in Expedition
Three Join Party Bound for
African Jungle

LONDON, Jan. 81 (By MaiN.-An
expedition TO darkest Africa which has
just been organized will include athree
titled women. The party consists Of
the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland.
Viscount and Viscountess Titchfela,
Viseount and Viscountess Maidstone
and Captain and Mrs. Gerard Leigh.
sit is planned to shoot big game, but
an attempt will probably be made TO
penetrate further into the African jun,
gle on the banks of the Blue Nile and
its tributaries than any whate womaa
has even been known to go before.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13

woman used wine bottle fer a.
tive effect, and another, who b,S qsg1is "a
near the white mans civilizstie-5e aFe
an empty cigarette TIM '''i' use
According TO Lord Dewar. ws,
spoke at the meeting, the ny n as
wives has gone uo among sbe as. :
african tribes. who use spearbesfs fso5' 7,
money. 81 'iea4s Il
y found that while a'eood .,
outstanding wife former)y ~, ct.s sstf.E.
spearhesds, the price has now 81 ~. ies
eight" he said. " tf'ea .
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13

more beautiful they arc considered" )"
he said in recent lecture "The ma
tives all live on milk, and man with
only 100 cows would consider himself
poor. Sueh man couldn't marry He
would adopt the native custom of join
ing with three or four others and when
enough COWS had been obtained to sup
port a wife they would combine and
marry one wife between than.
ain East Africa the wsmen pierce
their ears and insert any form of
decoration in the distended lobe. One
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
Georgia Has Giant Apple Tree

GREENSBORO, Ga, Feb. 12.-Geor-
gia believes it has probably the largest
apple tree in the United States. 1t
measures eight feet in circumference
at its base and has spread of limbs
measuring forty eight feet. w. j.
Bryan who 6rbday I0Gn VIII aared eelsbrate rat his
fiftfy-two years ago in Greene County.
and it is still bearing a crop of luscious
apples annually.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13

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New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
Fatter The Wife the More
Beautiful---irn Africa
From. The Erioune's European Bureaa

LONDON, Feb. 6.--"The first prin-
cess / ever met was woman so fat
she could not get through the door
way to see me-" says the Rev. John
Roscoe, ethhologist and East African
explorer, in telling of his adventures
with tribes who never before had seen
q white man.
"All the women of East Africa are
fat, and the broader they grow the
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-30
"EVEN' If DADDY ISN'T THERE"
Little Girl Remembered 10 Offer w
Prayer for Protection to tho
Firemen.

There came to the kindergarten a
little new girl, who was as shy as
she was pretty. Demurely she fol.
lowed the other children around the
room and when they began building
with blocks she sat and watched
without saying a word. The teacher
was wondering whether or not she
could coax her to talk, when the fire
bell rang. Instantly the tot was on
her feet.
There's the fire bell, teacher" she
said, ezcitedIy. Count the rings,
won't your
And, to please her, teacher counted
and reported the call. With a look
OF happiness on her face the little
girl sat down.
THAT isn't my daddy's firehouse
number" she said softly, but I'll have
10 pray Il minute so none of the 9th.
er flremen get hurt"
For a few seconds her little head
was bowed and her lips moved. When
she came back to her blocks she ex.
planned to the teacher:
Mother and I always pray for
them, even If daddy isn't therein.
dianapolis News.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-30
Game Preserves In Africa.

The growing scarcity Of specimens
IN every department Of zoology has led
to the setting apart Of large game pre-.
serves In the wilds Of Africa and put.
ting them in charge Of experts. There
seems to be no animal that cannot be
partly tanned II given a feeding ground
and water In plenty. Attendants ven.
ture into the Enclosures and stroll
among the animals to accustom them
TO the sight Of human beings. Gradu.
ally the beasts are herded into small
paddocks, where any peculiarities thew
may have are observed. In that way
the geological gardens are assured Of
healthy specimens.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-30
LUMBER COMPANIES
PREVENT FIRES
FEDERAL EXPERT COMPLIMENTS
STATE.

New Orleans, La.-Rapid improve
ment in spark-arresting equipment on
dummy and other logging engines op
Grated by lumber, gravel and con.
struction companies in louisiana
piney woods is shown by reports sub.
mitted to M. L. Alexander, State Com
missioner Of Conservation. "Syste-
matte inspections covering a period OF
about eighteen MONTHS" says Mr.. AL.
exander, indicate a most satisfactory
increase IN the number Of tramroads
which are heartily complying with our
fire prevention regulations. In that
time Conservation Agent W. o. Nc.
Curdy has reported the condition Of
649 locomotives, skidders and leaders,
an average of three times. The last
inspection shows only 20 per cent of
the operators not yet substantially in
line with our regulations. After July
IL we shall adopt a policy Of filing
charges against all dellnquents in this
matter. Many companies have always
used proper devices to prevent fires,
and now four out OF five use them.
We are going to make this five out
Of five. A government expert study
Ing this subject was here last week
and told us Louisiana has done more
In tramload fire prevention than any
state he had visited"
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-30
B, ..-' az iSn ~
ARCADIA, la.
SALVAGE WORK WORTH WHILE
Nothing In the World OF More Impor.
lance Than Stopping the Vast
age Of Humanity.

II waste could be stopped the world
would soon grow rich. The worst
waste of all is the waste Of humanity.
The saving of human beings is not
only spiritually but economically the
biggest job Of salvage there Is.
The Salvation army has fine
WatchwOrd for the defeated and the
downcast, remarks the New York
Herald.
you may be down, but you're new
er out 10 convince a man Of its
truth Is to start him anew on the up
ward path of self-Support. The Diff
fculty IS to get it into his head,
whether by mere persuasion or by the
convincing argument Of the helping
hand. When this can be accom-
plished 1t Is victory over evil, a tri-
umph over the forces Of gloom.
10 do this admirable thing, to kin
die the spark Of hope in the atmos-
phere Of hopelessness, to shock the
fellow who is down and out, Or thinks
ne Is, out Of his dull acquiescence in
misfortune, President Harding told en-
audience in Washington was his ia
vorite hobby.
III there Is somewhere in the
world. he said, "a human touch that
aWakens disappointment Into hope,
that Is the finest hobby in the world"
The saying is one Of the finest of say
lngs--humane, upward looking, insplr-
Ing, In the best spirit Of broad re-
ligion and the mellowest attitude Of
natural sympathy.
TO reach out the helping hand Is a
possibility that comes again and again
to everyone. To make fad, a hobby,
OF help Is so easy, so beautiful, that
1t need only be suggested to become
popular. And II the reason for the
existence of hobby Is to give pleas
ure to the one who practices it, what
other Is there that will yield a richer
return than this?
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-30
DEMAND "ST0RY" IN POETRY
6o.CaIIed "Human Appeal" Necessary
to American Readers, Is tho
Opinion Of Amy Lowell.

II have been noting the course Of
poetry for many years." writes Amy
Lowell In the Literary Review, land
I am convinced that In this country
(and more so here than in any other,
I believe) even the genuine poetry
readers have but slight love and
knowledge of the poetry in poem
the so-called human appeal the
story element, Is the dellghtlng thing.
We are not, in America, very luxurlant
thinkers, we are considerably afraid
Of exuberance of imagination; 1t not
only does not attract, 1t causes a def.
mite movement of reCOll. Those DO
cts addicted to richness Of cOloring
and wealth Of imagery suffer from the
very gloriousness of their imaginaticns.
We can stand a great deal of ba.
nality or badness Of poetic feeling il
only the subject be firmly enough
planted on the ground; but we are
thrown into a convulslon Of distaste If
the poet, seeing lovely earth and
telling us how he sees it, forgets to
reduce this seeing to the mere back.
ground of love tale, or a death tale,
or something equally familiar and re-
assuring. All of which is merely to
repeat tie old truism that the Amer.
lean public is inexperienced.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-30
STUDIOS ON WALLS OF ROME
Practical Plan to Provide Housing for
Artists in the Confines Of
tho Eternal City.

An attempt is being made by the
commune Of Rome to remedy the
studio shortage-Which Is only one
phase of the general housing crisis
by the original plan Of allotting some
of the more habitable towers and tur.
rets In the ancient city walls to vari-
0us artists.
Many of these old towers can be
made perfectly habtable, and when
fitted with electric light and comfort
able furniture will provide large and
picturesque studios for a number of
painters. The master Of the walls"
Signor Francesca Randone, has insti-
tuted a school Of educ0tiye art for
children In the tower Of Bellsarius.
The new artist tenants of the tur-
rets and towers will have to assume
the nominal duty Of keepers or Gus
todians in addition to their RESPONSE
btIity as tenants, but this duty will
be only a formal one. Some Of the
new studios, though they have the dis.
advantage of being a little distant
from the center Of the city, will have
fine views over the Campagna and will
form extremely picturesque abodes.
A kind of summer house in the Villa
Borghese (the Hyde park of Romeo
has heen offered to a widely known
arnst without a studio.-Living Age
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-30
Long.Dlstance "Consultatlon,"

Recent signaling development is be.
lleved to make it possible for a ply.
sician on shore to listen to the heart.
beats OF his patient in mld.ocean. The
special apparatus evolved at the sig.
nal corps laboratory in Washington
takes up the faint sounds by a heart
transmitter," ampllfles them thou.
sands Of times, and makes them au.
dible over long distance. The trans.
mitter, resting over the heart by its
own weight, reproduces In an air.
chamber the various vibrations set up
by the blood as 1t passes through the
different valves Of the heart. From
this the vibrations are transmitted
over the wire to an simplifying appara.
tus OF standard signal corps vacuum
tubes such as are used In wireless
telephony and telegraphy, and the
sounds are projected by a special re-
ceiver from large horn. The diff
Guilty Of transmitting sounds 50 feeble
IS overcome by using a high-frequency
carrier wave or line radio. This car
rief wave Is an electric current, which
is deformed or broken up by the heart
sounds, and the changes taken along
the telephone wire to the receiver re-
produce accurately the original
sounds.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-30
Old Flowers ComIno Back.

Inc world Is being frightened BY
Movers that We're held In high esteem
century, or centuries ago but which
lost caste, or lost vogue With garden
makers, and florists, and suffered a
long period Of neglect. But they are
coming back! You hear of and see
such old-fashioned things as bachelors
buttons, fuehsias, geranIums, phlo1,
sweet Williams, pansles, hollyhocks,
hoheysuekle, syringa, lllacs, pinks
snowballs, bridal wreath, sweet shrubs
seroena' heliotrope, ageratum or ps int
ers brush, marigold and calendula,
danodils' larkspur and mignonette.
These have kept themselves alive
Tor generations by blooming in the
back yards and even the front wards
Of uhpretentious people and they have
ied a more or Tess humdrum life In
the gardens Of houses that set far
back In the country. But they are
comihg now into the fiossieSt of gar
aens III the cities and are lending their
Oeautlful bloom to those big-style
country homes which are called ..vi,.
las and estates"
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-30
WELCOME The new RADIANCE
EskImos Rejoice Over the Advent Of
the Electric Light In Land Of
Midnight Sun.

The midnight sun has outllved its
usefulness, Up In the dark cold re-
gions Of the northland, where the
natives formerly were content to grope
around in the darkness, twenty to
twenty-five hours daily during the
months of November, December and
January, today the aurora borealis is
not whit more wonderful to the
Eskimos and their youngsters than the
welcome radiance Of electric light. It
VIII be many year before the public
utility companies invade the realm Of
the totem pole, the glacier and the
igloo; but in the meantime, the farm
plant, that contrivance Of storage bat
terles and the like, which has been
supplying the farmers of the rural
West and Canada with power and light
during recent years, has begun to
Nuke us appearance.
One of the pioneer lighting outfits Of
the arctic area was installed recently
at the Kodiak Baptist mission on Ko-
diak island, Just to the south of Cook
Inlet, Alaska. The apparatus is now
giving twenty-four hours Of real light
each day to the hundreds Of Aleutlan
children who are taught and cared for
at the home and industrial school Of
the Women's American Baptist Home
Mission society.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-30
Sun Spots.

Sun spots are now thought TO De 4
sign of the commencing debility OF the
dWarfod and shrunken star when we
call the sum- If this idea be correct
they will become more frequent and
larger as ages pass, until at length our
uuch-admired orb Of day Is darkened
and ceases to be worthwhile source
of heat.
Astronomers and mete0rologlsts are
much interested in sun spots, and
keen a constant watch on them. Dur
inc the last few months they have
been remarkably few and small.
1t seems to have been proved that
spotted areas Of the sun have a lower
temperature than the bright spots.
Hence it IS inferred that quite possibly
the recent relative absence of sun
spots may be accountable for the re-
markably warm winter We have been
enjoying. -EXchanse.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-30
White Ribbon Band In 1895.

Vets and drys have been at each
others Threats in Wisconsin for eighty.
six years. And strangely enough, a tenn.
perance society antedated the first
Milwaukee brewery, while the first
brew was not taken by German, but
by Welshman.
When Green Bay was called the me-
tropolls Of the territory the other SET
Elements, Prairie du Chen and Nil.
waukee still were regarded as trading
posts; when Capt. Winfield Scott com.
maDded at Fort Howard, across from
1.-THE Bay having in his command a
company Of young soldiers who drilled,
chased Indians on the fee, danced at
the fort, and perhaps took a glass Of
Scotch now and then, fifteen women at
Green Bay with the assistance of two
young men, Thomas and Nelson DIN,
formed the first temperance society in
Wisconsin territory. That was IN
June, 1885. The first brewery in tho
state was established In 184O.-Mn.
waukee Journal
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-30
Mustard Gas Quickly ldentlhad

According to Lord Haldane, mus.
tard gas was not known In Europe
before the war, yet 48 hours after II
was first used by the Germans, Brit.
ish chemists had run It to earth. It
was not discovered by the Germans
during the war, as has 50 often been
enormously stated. When Lord Hal.
dane was a student at Gottingen, he
often walked round the walls Of the
university town and noted the chem.
lcal laboratory just outside. PROBES.
sor Meier was in charge, and came
across the gas many years ago. He
recorded the discovery officially, and
two British men Of science remem.
bered the paper he had written and
Identified the gas, says the English
Mechanic.