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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-12-09

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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-12-04
FOR WAR OR PEACE

Charles NJ. Schwab, who is at the
head of the concern now making more
munitions Of war than any other in
the world, says that he much prefers
that his steel be used to build bridges
instead Of battleships. He would be
glad to junk all the machinery and
equipment used in war preparation
and hopes to be able to do SO as a
result Of the Washington conference,
The makers Of munitions have been
charged with keeping the war spirit
alive, but almost to a man they de-
clare they would choose to nanufac-
ture the implements of peace rather
than the weapons of strife. 1t is TO
be hoped that full opportunity will be
furnished them to demonstrate their
sincerity. Instead Of making bronze
dogs of war let them make doves Of
peace.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-12-04
THE CONTENTS

A lady who was shopping in a
Market street dry goods store, yes
terday, forgot her shopping bag and
vent away and left it on the counter.
The clerks looked in it to see if they
could discover the name Of the owner,
or any Identification marks. They
found none. But they did find hand
Serchief, a comb, three papers of
pins, a pair of gloves, three adver-
tisements clipped from the Dispatch,
4 book of recipes, small bottle Of
perfume, three hairpins, a Sunday
School quarterly, a copy of Wednes-
lays Dispatch, and red apple. Be-
yond these few things the shopping
bag was empty.
Noticing a bulge" on one side of
our eighty-year-old boy, few days
ago, we made an investigation to
satisfy our curiosity as to what a
small boys pocket would hold. In
The one pocket we found quantity
Of nails, few pebbles, a dozen mar
bles, two sticks of crayon, a lead
pencil, an old paddock, magnet, a
glass, and a little dead
bird wrapped up in piece of paper.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-12-04
LADYLIKE BURGLARS

1t has recently been disclosed that
some of the burglars that have af-
fronted the peace and safety Of Mem
phis carry powder rags, lip sticks,
eyebrow pencils and manicure scis-
sors. Instead of gunpowder they are
using talcum. When a
burglar will pause to powder his nose
before cracking a safe there is hope
for him. He is not as deadly as the
practice of his profession would seem
to indicate. Glycerine and rose water
are better than nitroglycerine, Cold
cream is much nicer than coldlead
It may turn out, however, that the
Memphis burglars are, in fact, leadies
in disguise 1t is quite possible to
imagine that a girl burglar might pre-
fer a powder puff to jimmy as a
constant companion and that mani
cure set might substitute for bunch
of skeleton keys. If these Memphis
burglars keep up their gait they may
yet bring up in the Old Ladies Home.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-12-04
WEAK; RUNDOWN
Carolina Lady Got So She Could
Just Drag. "Cardui Built Me
Up" She Declares.

Kernersville, N. Gin an interest
ing statement regarding Cardui, the
Woman's Tonic, Mrs. Wesley Mabe, OF
near here, recently said: Il have
known Cardui for years, but never
knew its worth until year or SO ago.
was in a weakened, rundown con-
dition. became draggy-didn't eat or
sleep to do any good; couldn't do any
thing without a great effort. / tried
different remedies and medicines, yet
continued to drag.
II decided to give Cardui a trial,
and found 1t was Just what / really
needed. 1t made me feel much strong
er soon after ! began to use 1t. j be-
gan to eat more, and the nervous,
weak feeling began to leave. Soon /
was sleeping good.
"Cardui built me up as no other
tonic ever did.
II used Cardui with one daughter
who was puny, felt bad and tired out
all the time. II brought her right out,
and soon she was as we'll as a girl
could be. We think there Is nothing
like Cardui."
DO not allow yourself to become
weak and rundown from womanly
troubles. Take Cardui. You may find
II Just what you. really need. For
more than 40 years it has been used BY
thousands and thousands, and found
Just as Mrs. Mabe describes.
At your druggists. NC-14a
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-12-04

666 is prescription for Colds,
Fever and LaGrippe. It's the
most speedy remedy we know.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-12-04
NOT GROWING UP.

highly civilized European nations
there is probably larger percentage
Of real adults, as indicated by the
much larger proportionate number Of
persons who show a mature taste in
literature, drama, art and music, and
have a mature outlook on life.
What then is the cause of our fail
ure to bring ourselves to real ma
turity? Mr.. Edison has the support
of most of the experts when he lays
the chief blame on education. Our
education teaches the child a lot Of
rigid beliefs, instead of teaching him
to think. But above all it bores him.
Literature, science, history the
things which help any individual to
understand and appreciate life - are
dull for the youngster.
"The moment school is not play, it
is an injury" says Mr. Edison. 81
don't know quite the age at which a
child's mind atrophies, but it is some
where between the ages. of IL and
ID"
Here Mr.. Edison bears out the
psychoanalysts to perfection. The
child's intellectual development is ar
rested by boredom somewhere be-
tween IL and ID, and along some
lines it never advances thereafter. A
little later the child becomes inter
ested in making money, and that re-
mains the individuals most vital in
terest all his life. His character and
personality mature after a fashion,
but these can never reach a full
maturity without an all-round mental
development. Hence the fact that the
grown man so often has the tastes,
the viewpoint and the amusements of
a high school boy.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-12-04

Mann and their children made NUN
erous friends in this city who regret
their removal.
Mr.. J. D. Flournoy, whose home il
Mt Crawford, Miss, but who is al
home very little on account Of doing
relief work for railroads, is holding
down the local ticket agency Of the
G. & G. and Southern in this city
Mr.. Flournoy is thorough railroad
man and has every attribute of a
perfect gentleman.
Superindent J. B. Murphy, of the
NJ. & o. and c. & G.'telegraphy, was
over the rails Of the Montgomery Dis
trict during the past week.
Mr.. Glen Atkins, a C. & G. en-
ployee, is back from Rochester, Mimi,
where he went for an operation. Mr..
Atkins returns shortly for a second
operation under thesurgeons at this
famous institution.
Conductor George Fallaw, one of
the M. & 0. Railroads best men, is
in the city in charge of the fowl''
run and the night switching service
maintained by the railroad company.
Engineer d. I. Baber, Fireman Wal
Ter, Flagman Henderson and Dave
Parsons compose the personal Of the
"owl' crew
Mrs. Owen Fant's friends will re-
greet to learn that she was quite i'll
during the past week but is greatly
Trainman Walter Enochs has ar
rived in Columbus for duty with the
M. G. 0. Railroad
Colonel Robert Dent, a M. & 0. eng
ineer, is back on a north local after a
few days recreation spent in his
home town, Tuscaloosa.
All dolled up in a new suit of over
alls, with G. & G. time card in his
cab close to hand, experiencing the
thrills of an engineer, is the exper-
fence of Milard McWilliams during
the past week. He was passed by
Tom Pullen, the master mechanic,
and Trainmaster w. H. Forelines as
a full-fedged engineer. The young
engineer left Columbus on local train
No. n and met every emergency
presented by the schedule.
Conductor B. A. Collier, who rec
emily shifted to baggage run over
the Montgomery District, is back on
north local with a Columbus lay-over.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-12-04
AN OLD STORY

Representatives Of the Congress of
Mothers call attention to the fact that
the biographies furnished by some
states to the pupils of the public
schools are fourteen years old. A IA
year-old geography is something like
map of the world in the time of
Ptolemy. There has been lot of
making-over geography in the last
decade and the student has to be wide
between the ears in order to remem-
bere it all
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-12-04

Read the Dispatch wsnt-sds
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-12-04
A SINGER SILENCED
he went forth singing.

Blithely he went forth singing.
Il was a warm summers day and
he sang of the woods and the trees
Of the fields and the air and the
marshes. And Of people-human be-
ings with life, and all things good.
The evening wore on. Having slept
the greater part Of the day, he now
aroused himself for the pleasant task
before him. So he entered the con-
cert hall, humming happily to him.
self.
The concert was just about to start.
All was quiet.
Looking around him appraisingly
at the motley audience he burst forth
into song-a slow, drOning song in
the same key for full three minutes.
Then he stopped, apparently waiting
for applause. And 1t came. Smack
And so the mosquito died. We
should have told YOU at the start that
he was a full-grown mosQuito'
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-12-04
GREAT FEAT OF BALANCING

A certain mayor in the north, whose
period Of Office had come TO an end,
was surveying the work Of the year.
1T has been my endeavor," he said,
with an air Of conscious rectitude, TO
administer Justice without swerving to
partially on the one hand or iinparti-
atty on the other"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-01-13
MISSISSIPPI RIVER SEEKS NEW OUTLET
By III. II. Dunn in POPULAR Mechanics

40 miles from the mainland. This
bit of semisolid marsh, which is being
slowly built up into delta land, is
about 10 miles wide.
Through the delta, which has been
solidifed into the mainland of lower
Louisiana, flow many rivers, bayous,
and small streams, all running south
ward from sources in the central or
northern part of the state. One of
these is the Atchafalaya, which, rising
slightly north of the point at which
the Red river makes its mouth into
the Mississippi, flows almost parallel
with the Father of Waters, southwark
through several bayous almost wide
enough to be called lakes, and thence
to the Gulf through Atchafalaya Bay.
This stream has fall of 2 feet to
the mile, against Il feet in the Mis-
sissippi river. The distance from the
mouth of the Red river (the bayou
called "Old River") to the Gulf by
the Mississippi is 800 miles; from the
same point, by the Atchafalaya, it is
about 100 miles. Thus the reason
for the vast volume of waters of the
Mississippi seeking a shorter cut to
the Gulf is plain, especially when it is
remembered that the Mississippi, dur
ing the season of flood, is nearly twice
its normal, or mean-water, size.
But the most serious part of the
whole matter is the fact that the
Father of Waters, moving his char
mel 100 miles westward, calmly
ignores city of nearly 100000 in
habitants, the main port of the Mis-
sissippi Valley, which sits on his banks,
10 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.
There is, it is true, another city on
the Atchafalaya, just where the new
course the Mississippi is seeking runs
into Atchafalya Bay, but the city of
New Orleans has no intention Of
yielding to Morgan City, and allow
ing the commerce of the Mississippi
Valley to flow down a new channel,
past new port, making useless more
than $l5O,OOO,OOO worth of public
utilities, port improvements, harbor
facilities, and private industries, just
because little thing like river, half
a mile wide and 100 feet deep, has
decided to change its channel for
shorter one.
Immediately following the call of
the Captains Cooley and other river
steamboat owners and operators, as
we'll as of river engineers for both
state and Federal governments, the
people of eight Louisiana parishes
Catahoula, Franklin, Concordia, Ten
sas, LaSalle, Rapides, Ouachita, and
AvoyelIes-met at Jonesville, and
formed the Louisiana Flood Control
Association, electing Judge John Dale
of Vidalia president, and subscribing
$4,000 for preliminary surveys and
drawing up of plans to separate per-
manently the Red and Atchafalaya
rivers from the Mississippi. They
also agreed to subscribe further funds
to the work when the Federal govern
ment had been interested. Aside from
keeping the Mississippi in its regular
channel, and saving New Orleans as
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-01-13
HE Mississippi river is seeking
new channel to the sea, nearly
100 miles west of its present

IUU miles west OF Its present
course. Apparently tired of being
confined between high walls of earth,
made to run deep, and work hard
through the semitropic miles from
Cairo to the, Gulf, the Father of
Waters is slowly but surely cutting
his way through the Red and the
Atchafalaya rivers down to the Gulf
of Mexico, and, to help himself in
finding this new channel, he is just
as slowly and surely filling his present
channel with river-made dam of
silt, bit below the mouth of the Red
river.
From a stream barely IS feet wide
in 1910, the Atchafalaya has gorged
on the waters of the Mississippi until
it is now nearly 1,700 feet wide, 40
feet deep, and possessed of current
some IS per cent faster than that of
the Mississippi river at the same dis
tance from the Gulf. According to
measurements of competent engi-
neers, more than one-sixth of the flood
waters of the Mississippi went out
this year by way of the Red into the
Atchafalaya river and thence to the
sea. Both the Red and the Atchafal-
ava are nearly three times their size
of 10 years ago, according to records
kept by Capt. L. V. Cooley. who.
with his brother, Capt. G. B. Cooley,
of Monroe, La, has been operating
steamboats, and barges on the river
for 40 years, and has kept accurate
records of the rise and fall of the
stream every year of that time. In
fact, it was Capt. L. V. Cooley who
first called the attention of the Mis-
sissippi River Commission, the Board
of Commissioners of the Port of New
Orleans, and the various Federal and
state engineers along the river, to the
speed with which the Mississippi is
trying to change its course this year.
A chart, compiled by several engi-
neers familiar with the river and its
vagaries, shows that the Mississippi
this year lost $4,000 square feet in
low-water area, and $4,000 square
feet in high-water area, while the
whole area-all figures for cross Sec
tions, of course-of the Red River in
1911, nine years ago, did not exceed
1000 square feet, or approximately
the present low-water, cross-section
area of the Mississippi river. They
also found that the cross-section area
of the Mississippi below the outlet in
to the Red and Atchafalaya rivers has
been reduced nearly two-thirds in
nine years, or from 95, ,594 square feet
in 1911 to 27,955 square feet this
season.
To understand this situation one
must appreciate that the Mississippi
has built for itself fiat, alluvial plain,
most of which is little more than a
foot above sea level, extending from
Pearl river, on the east, to an irregu-
lar north and south line some l25 to
$50 miles west of New Orleans, and
north to the prehistoric sea, near
Baton Rouge, approximately 80 miles
north of New Orleans. At the point
where the Mississippi empties into the
Gulf of Mexico, this delta projects,
like a wrist and three-fngered hand,
into salt water for distance of 80 or
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-01-13

the principal port of the Mississippi
Valley, all the people of these parishes
seek to reclaim nearly 5000 square
miles of land which is inundated at
food season every year by the waters
of the Mississippi that the Red and
Old rivers are unable to carry into
the Atchafalaya.
Following this meeting, an appeal
for aid was taken to Governor John
NJ. Parker, who, appreciating the
grave danger to New Orleans, called
a conference of the Mississippi River
Commission, the several levee boards,
the Board of Port Commissioners of
New Orleans, the Louisiana Flood
Control Association, Federal and
state engineers, and all others inter-
ested, tat New Orleans, November
18th and 10th. Joseph E. Ransdell,
senior senator from Louisiana; Sena-
tors ]. Y. Sanders and Edwin S.
Broussard, and Representative Riley
]. Wilson, Immediately took hold of
the project and have carried to Wash
ington an appeal for Federal aid as
the only way to save the lower Mis-
sissippi from becoming land-locked
lake, and to reclaim the flooded lands
already mentioned. -
Capt. L. v. Cooley, dean of the
river-steamboat owners and operators
on the lower river in his warning of
the danger to New Orleans, said:
"New Orleans will be an inland
city inside of Is years, and the Mis-
sissippi kver will be flowing into the
Gulf of Mexico 100 miles west of
the present mouth, leaving New Or
leans on a shallow lake, and making
the 3OO-mile channel from the mouth
of the Red river, to the $12,OOO,OOO
jetties useless, if the sitting of the
main channel below the mouth of the
Red river is allowed to continue at
the rate it has been filling in for the
past 10 years. Approximately 1000
square miles of arabic land was
flooded and under water for more
than 40 days this season. All the cot
ton crop in that flooded section has
been destroyed, entailing loss of
millions of dollars, besides making
many farmers homeless and penniless.
"All this has been done without
the breaking of single levee along
the Mississippi river, solely by the
food waters of that river escaping
through the Red river and seeking a
pew outlet through the Atchafalaya
into Atchafalaya Bay, just east of
Cote Blanche Bay, and thence to the
Gulf of Mexico. This year, by care
full measurement of the engineers,
more than one-sixth of the food wa
tiers of the Mississippi went out this
way. This has been a source of mis-
placed rejoicing to New Orleans, be-
cause, through this seeming relief, no
damage has been done to levees or to
property on the lower river by flood
waters, but it emphasizes the more SER
ious problem of change of 100 miles
in the course of the Mississippi river,
leaving a city of 100000 inhabitants
high and dry on a shallow lake, once
the bed of the lower Mississippi.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-01-13


of the waters of the Mississippi out
through the Old river into the Atcha-
falaya seems to lie with the Father
of Waters himself, through the silt
ing up of the channel, and thereby
the formation of a natural dam just
below the mouth of the Red river.
Capt. L. V. Cooley gives lucid ex-
planation of this in the following
words:
There is also an appreciable loss
in the force of the current in the
Mississippi river below the mouth of
the Red. have just returned from
trip in my steamboat into these wa
tiers, and the current below the out
let, l estimate, is about one-half the
strength it was 10 years ago. / have
been operating steamboats, through
this current every month of the year
for the past 40 to IS years. At low
water, within the past five years, a
dry sand bar has appeared in the mid
die of the Mississippi about mile be-
low the mouth of the Red, river out
let. This year, in high water, the
deepest channel we could find across
this bar was nine feet; in the same
month, in 1911, nine years ago, there
were S. feet of water in the same
place. This shows clearly the filling
up of the channel at the rate of about
five feet a year. This is the shall
lowest spet in the channel south of
Vicksburg, and this year it was bare
ly deep enough toilet through my
steamer America, and our tows of
barges.
"All these factors lead me to the
conclusion-and l may say that every
other river captain and engineer with
whom / have talked is of the same
opinion-that if the Mississippi river
is allowed to continue to silt up below
the mouth of the Red river, as it has
in the past, and the mouth of the Red
river is allowed to continue cutting
through to the Atchafalaya, New Or
leans future will be that of a port
without water connection with the
other towns of the Mississippi Valley
and without deep-water connection
with the Gulf of Mexico. The Mis-
sissippi below the mouth of the Red
river will become just large, shall
low lake, and new city will rise on
the banks of the Atchafalaya, 100
miles west of the present city of New
Orleans. That is to say, the mouth
of the Mississippi will be at Morgan
CITY instead of at Port Eads, as at
present.
"The remedy, in my opinion, is to
close the mouth of the Red river,
compelling it to flow to the sea down
the course of the Atchafalaya, and
completely separate both the Red and
the Atchafalaya from the Mississippi
river. To do this, however, it must
be understood that the Red and At
chafalaya rivers ard the Bayou Ter
rebonne were once mouths of the Mis-
sissippi, and that the closing of these
streams will force tremendously
greater volume of water than now
down through the levees of the main
channel of the Mississippi past New
Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico. IT
these streams are divorced from the
Mississippi, commerce into them still
can be served from the fPass e. 0o' 81
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-07-09
LA CENTRAL PUERTO REAL
EN- MANOS DE "RECEIVERS".

Continuation de la pag. Ia. }
demandados, en- virtud de 10 cual ell
active de estos Sc vera dilapidado y
mermado, entablandose una lucha en-
tire los acreedores, con el fin de yer
ouien cobra sus deudas con preferen
Gin: que ceso de venderse todls las
acciones, derechos y propiedades de
los demandados en- las condiciones &C
tuales no producirian su verdadero
valor, v con toda probSbilidld una
cantidad insufciente para pagar
los acreedores reconocidos Y aque-
Hos no presentsdos, mientras que 81
el active Y propiedades de los deman
dados son administrators por ese Tri
bunal hssta que la cosecha del p sea
molida los demandados pueden pa
gar todas sus deudas y seguir lue-
90 .administrando sus bienes.
La demanda alega asimismo que 81
no Sc nombrln "receivers" para ad-
ministrar esas propiedldes seran
estas envueltas en- muchos pleitos'
los cuales las mermlrian; que los
demandantes son screetores de los
demandldos en- la suma de
St19,4O7.19, que ahora Sc deben en-
cuentas corrientes n "Hijos de j.
Bird Leon" Y a la Central "Puer-
TO Real", estando todl esa deud& sin
garantizar, pero que los demlndados
admiten la misma, Ia cual han deja-
do de pagar por has condolences finan
cieras antes expuestas.
Alegln los demandantes que cuai-
ouier intento por parte de ellos para
hlcer efectiva su reclamation preci-
nitaria una scci6n analogl por par
70 de otros acreedores, causando es-
to una gran incertidumbre, todo io
cual puede evitarse medilnte la in
tervenci6n de l. Corte Federal, que
conceda el remedio solicitado.
Y termina la demanda estableclen
do que esa reclamation IN sido pre-
sentada a nombre de los acreedores de
mandantes Y otros que puedan preser
tarse.
La Corte Federal nombro "recei'
vers" de las expresldas propiedade'
a don Jorge Bird Arias y don Enr'
one Bird, dandoles dias de terminC
para que gestionen sus fianzas dc
| 100000.