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Evening star., 1921-02-18
Interped Germans start Home.

NOGALES, Ariz.-Forty-five German
sailors, interned in German ships
anchored in the Gulf of California and
west coast of Mexico ports during the
war. arrived at Nogales, en- route to
Ellis Island. on their way to Germany
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Cotton Freirht Rate. Cut.

MEMPHIS. Tenn. - Ocean freight
rates on cotton from gulf ports to
United Kingdom ports We're reduced 20
cents per hundred pounds, according
to kilograms received by the American
Overseas Forwarding Company.
Evening star., 1921-02-18
s4OO 900 in Cotton Burns.

ENNIS, Tex-Six thousand bales of
cotton were burned in fire which de-
stroyed three warehouses. The loss
is estimated at 100000. officers are
working on a theory of incendiarism.
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Weevils Served to Prisoners,

HUNTSVILLE, Tex.-J. J. Fowler
steward of the state prison here, told
a legislative investigating committee
that weevil-infested peas were served
convicts twice day for nearly a
year. 1.-THE peas and weeviIs were
cooked together" Fowler said. Gus
Harris, warden, said 400 prisoners
Evening star., 1921-02-18
n. & w. to Close Shops.

ROANOKE, Va-Coincident with the
posting of notices in the local East
ern railway that operations in those
shops will be suspended from next
Saturday noon until March /. officials
announced that notices will be posted
in the West End shops notifying 22O
men of an indefinite suspension, ef-
fective February 22
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Raid Famous Gambling House.

CHICAGO. - Battering down steel
doors with sledge hammers, the po-
lice raided Jim O'Leary's gambling
house, which had been famous in Chi
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Record Blast of Dynamite.

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.-Perhaps the
largest blast of dynamite ever set off
in the south was that near the plant
of the Dixie Portland cement plant at
Richard City. when a bluff of rock
1000 feet long, 125 feet high and
25 feet wide was torn down
Evening star., 1921-02-18

GRAND FORKS, N. D.-The Peoples
State Bank here closed it's doors yes
terday. due, it was said. to depleted
reserve. 1t is the thirty-sixth North
Dakota state bank to close within
three months. OF this number two
have reopened
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Reserve Of 700 State Banks
OfN d. Held 594Per Cent Short

cago for years. Thirty persons were ar.
rested and several thousand dollars
worth Of gambling paraphernalia was
confiScated.
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Admits Numbering Man sixty-Five.

BANGOR. Me. Nelson Eugene
knights of Dexter has confessed that
he had killed Alfred Corson, sixty-five
years old, and that he had taken the
body in a trunk to the house, of his
mother-in-law. in Canaan, where it
was hidden in a barn, according to
Sheriff Fernandez of Penobscot county.
The body was found there.
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Fire Destroy. business section.

PAGOSA SPRINGS, Cola large
section of the busines quarter here
was destroyed by fire at loss of
s250,00O. Twelve buildings were de-
stroyed.
Evening star., 1921-02-18

escaped last year. and frankly ad- |
mitted the penitentiary system was |
weak. The walls of the prison, built
in 1850, We're about to fall, he said.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-06
Nathan L. Miller

of the State and related subjects, be-
cause I wish at the outset to concen-
trate the attention of the Legislature
upon what appear to me to be the
most vital problems with which you
will have to deal l have undertaken
to indicate the general lines on which
we should proceed, and have specified
some of the major things which /
think may be done to secure a more
efficient and economical administra-
ton of the public business. l have not
by any means exhausted or attempted
to exhaust the list. The whole budget
must be critically examined, as it has
been impossible in the time at my dis
posal to examine it. We must be fear
less and resolute in cutting out every
useless place, every department and
every activity which cannot be justi-
fed. Wherever it appears that eff
cheney or economy may be promoted
by consolidating or reorganizing de-
partments, that should be done.
"The financial condition Of many
municipalities is even more serious
than that of the state, and the causes
are largely the same, accumulation of
debt and growth of municipal activities.
There is not only duplication of service
among state activities. but like dupli-
cation as between state and municipal
activities. A careful survey should be
made with the view of eliminating such
duplication. Things that can best be
done by the localities should be left
exclusively to them, and the localities
should be entirely relieved Of the
things that can best and most appro-
priately be done by the state. l am
persuaded that the effort should be
toward decentralization instead of con-
tralization of power and authority.
With respect to local administration,
the Legislature should be extremely
careful in passing legislation imposing
expense upon the local governments
do not say that an inf1exible rule can
be adopted on this subject, but GER
tainly plain case of public necessity
should be established to warrant the
exercise of such legislative power.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-06
Coolidge Prepares
TO Be Just Citizen
For Two Months
Welcomes Chance to Enjoy
Home Cooking and Re-
new Acquaintance With
His Boys Before March 4
specta! Dispatch to The Tribune


BOSTON, Jan. 5. - Governor Calvin
Coolidge in swearing in the members
of the 1921 Legislature to-day vlrtu-
ally closed his service as Governor Of
Massachusetts,. Tomorrow afternoon
at the inauguration Of Governor-ecct
Charming Cox, Governor Coolidge
passes out of public office for the first
time in eleven years. For the next two
months-that is, until March 4, when
he becomes ice-President-h will be
plain Calvin Coolidge, Northampton
first citizen.
Governor Coolidge to-day said he
mad made no particular plans for the
next two months. He said he was
going back to his home in Northamp-
ton for good, long rest, which he
laughingy said he thought he was en-
titled to. He admitted that the res.
included having good time with his
boys, whose companionship ne has
sorely missed while being tied down
by duties of state. He expressed
satisfaction over the prospect of two
months home life With its three
square meals a day or home cooking.
of freedom from political discussion
and with nothing to do but enjoy ones
self and take life easy. He was non
committal when it came to discussing
the prospect of securing living quar-
ters in Washington If he has any
doubts on that score he does not reveal
them.
The Governor is considerably more
concerned as to how Mrs. Coolidge and
their children will take to their new
surroundings. He wants his boys to
grow up as part and parcel of the plain
people, as he himself has done, and he
fully realizes that will be considerably
more Of a problem in such city as
Washington than it has been in North
ampton. In this desire he is earnestly
seconded by Mrs. Coolidge Both re
alizc that the task will be hers, rather
than his, as he is bound to be kept so
busy with duties of Office that he is
likely to have even less time to give to
the boys than was the case as Gov
ernor.
Both. however. ere inclined to take a
leaf out Of the book of the late Presi-
dent Roosevelt and see to it that the
boys continue as the sons Of plain Cal
vim Coolidge, rather than as the Vice
Presidents children. even as Roosevelt
ever insisted his children should al
ways be as democratic as they were be-
fore political honors came his way.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-06
Would Put All State Institutions
Except Prisons Under One Control

cial notices total s1,oe5 900, including
a deficiency of $775,000 for the current
year.
"That sharply presents the question
whether that expense should be con-
tinued. In my judgment it serves no
useful public purpose, and. like all
things done for an ulterior purpose, is
subject to grave abuses. l recommend
that the practice be discontinued.
II invite attention to the question
whether the time has not arrived for
the State really to conserve some of
its natural resources. Valuable timber
is annually going to waste in the For
est Preserve. 1t seems to me that q
plan ought to be devised to utilize such
timber in way. to protect and improve
the Forest Preserve and at the same
time produce a substantial revenue and
prevent waste Of valuable timber,
which is greatly needed. Of course
that will require constitutional
amendment. recommend the subject
TO your careful consideration.
General Observations
on Financial Conditions
II have undertaken in this message
to deal only with the financial affairs
New-York tribune., 1921-01-06
lcentlnusd srsm preceding page

no,nted by the Council Of Farms and
Tarkets and | recommend that those
harOss be made. | also recommend
sbat changes be made in the law SO as
~ safeeuard the payment of compen-
sation for the Killing Of deceased ami
mails.
.. xss. that the time has now arrived
so- making p survey of their results
and methods OF operation
I'm the Department of Education the
rbvsical training work last year in
roiyed al expenditure for salaries and
travelling expenses, allowance to teach
ers for attending conferences and
Quotas for physical training teachers
ef more than 100000, and we may be
sure that there were collateral ex-
nenses running into many thousands Of
dollars.
"There was also appropriated for
;tems that are capable of segregation,
over $3.50 900, to say nothing Of the
collateral expenses included in other
TENS. Increases have been asked this
wear of s4.46O in salaries for physical
training and 500 100 for the admins
tration of the Americanization law.
am informed, however, by the Depart
ment OF Education that substantial re-
auctions may properly be made.
~ do not minimize the Importance of
Americanization or physical training,
and in dealing With such subjects
would not err on the side of economy.
But our necessities require US to be
practical about these matters, and l
doubt that much of the work SO far
done has been practical. I believe we
have started with too large an over
burden at the wrong end. Such work
can only be done with effectiveness To-
cally, and then only in harmony with
local circumstance and conditions. 1t
cannot be forced upon people. and be-
lieve that there has been too much
Capitalization Of administration in the
state, which has added to the burdens
Of both state and local government
The elementary schools do not have
the facilities for physical training such
as exist in the secondary schools, and
such work In incompetent hands pro-
duces more harm than good.
1.-The first duty of the state is to
provide an elementary education for all
our boys and girls. and nothing should
be permitted to interfere with the full
discharge OF that duty. A proper ele-
mentary education given the children
OF the foreign born will do more than
any other one thing to advance the
work of Americanization, and I have
a very strong feeling that compulsory
physical training should not be al.
lowed to interfere with the essential
New-York tribune., 1921-01-06
Governor Miller's MESSAGE
Economy and Efficiency
Demanded 10y Governor

work of elementary schools and that
Approximation work outside of the
schools can best be done THROUGH
voluntary local effort and industries
Whosc selfish interest properly aroused
should stimulate such work. | invite
careful study OF this subject. | do not
wish to be dogmatic and | realize that
these who have become imbued with
theoretical and prospective accomplish
ment feel that it will be a step back
ward for the state to curtail any of its
present activities
Il recommend that substantial
amendments be made to the physical
training law. at least in respect Of its
compulsory features. 1t appears to me
that the rural schools should be re-
lieved Of the burden placed upon them
and that the cities and villages main
tanning secondary scnoois should have
the responsibility placed upon them Of
giving such physical training as cir
cumstances and conditions may war
rant. BY all means let the lementary
health and physical wellbeing of their
pupils. And let the Department Of
Education continue in practical way
to advance the cause Of education, both
mental and physical. Of course, you
will hear what those charged with the
administration of these laws have to
say. l recommend that the items of
appropriations hereinbefore referred to
be eliminated or that they be reduced
to their very lowest terms. A re-
duction of at least 100000 in these
items alone should be made.
From what has already been said
it must be apparent that l am of the
opinion that the Military Training
Commission is one of the departments
that can be eliminated. It's appropria
ton last year was 1923. 3.185 1t is re-
questing this year SCOT ,480.
Work Up to Date Has
Not Warranted Cost
II think all agree that, up to date,
its work has not warranted it's cost. l
do not minimize the value of such
work properly directed, and I believe
the commission is now under practical
and competent direction. But we are
compelled to eliminate the least essen
tial, and it would be difficult to set up
any standards except purely theoreti-
cal ones, which would exclude the
Military Training Commission from
that class. Here, again, I think we
must rely for the practical results,
which the commission hopes to secure,
| upon voluntary work through organiza-
tions like the Boy Scouts.
"Our necessities constrain me to
recommend the repeal Of the law and
the abolition Of the commission. effect
ing q reduction in the budget Of $607,-
480.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-06

"The same observation applies to the
practice which, if INDUCED in, always
grows, of passing Legislation involving
additional expense to the state without
any reference to the states revenues.
The practice seems to have been first
to pass the law committing the state
to some new activity, then to pass the
appropriation, and last to find the
money. | earnestly recommend that
that practice be reversed, and l sug-
gest that any bills which may commit
the state to additional expense should
be passed on by the finance committees
before they are brought up for final
passage.
Wants Power to Investigate
Local Administrations
"The financial condition of some of
the municipalities Of the state, notably
the City of New York, raises the query
whether there are not grave defects Of
local organization and administration.
The grave increase in crimes, especial
ly crimes of violence, and the large
proportion of cases of failure to dis
cover and apprehend the perpetrators,
also suggests the query whether there
are similar grave defects in the admin
istration of the criminal law and the
ellOiceuleHI OIL Ia" Dy peace O1nCerS.
The Executive of the state has a re-
sponsibility in these matters which he
cannot escape, and | think he should
be clothed with power to investigate
without the necessity of having
charges preferred.
81 recommend that Section of the
executive law be amended so as to ex-
tend the power OF examination and in.
vestigation which the Governor nov
possesses of state departments, boards
bureaus and commissions to all county
and municipal officers and departments
"T shall deal with other subjects re
quiring particular attention in subsc
Quent messages.
IL invite the same spirit of co6pera
ton which intend to accord, and l an
confident that, working together in tha
spirit, We shall accomplish our task.
"NATfiAN l.. MILLER"
New-York tribune., 1921-01-06

jured the negroes in the South" Its
actions have made for racial clashes" !"
he said.
Mr.. Clark appeared to present further
documentary evidence in reply to charges
of the association that negroes in Flor
ida were Disseminated against III the
November election. He declared that
Florida was giving the negro every right
under the law, and that the Florida
election laws were as fair and as fairly
administered as those Of any state in the
Union.
"But we arc not going to have negro
domination in Florida" he added.
In one OF the documents presented, the
supervisor of Orange County stated that
the negro alleged to have started TIE
Election Day riot at Ocoee was not 2
qualified voter
New-York tribune., 1921-01-06
Congressman Denounces
Negro Leagues Leaders
Merely Fuss and Meddle to Keep
Selves in Good Positions,
SOutherner Asserts

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-The Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Colored
People was denounced before the House
Census Committee to-day by Congress-
man Clark, of Florida, as an organiza-
ton composed of "meddling, fussing"
persons working on the ignorant ne
groes of the South in order to keep
themselves in good positions"
The association, Mr.. Clark asserted
has never done thing "that has not in
New-York tribune., 1921-01-06
Official Coat.Cetter Named

PORT CHESTER, N. y, Jan. An
Official goat-getter has been appointed
by the Board of Trustees of Port
Chester to conduct perpetual crusade
against the herds of these animals
owned by some residents Of this town,
who permit them to browse at Will.
The selection OF a town official to
this newly created Office was brought
about by complaint lodged with the
board by Nicola Carlucci, who said the
New-York tribune., 1921-01-06

hungry animals wandered over his
premises and nibbled at shrubs and
trees SO that they died-the trees, not
the goats
There is no compensation in the JOB
Tor Street Commissioner Rocco Faya,
the new master of the goat pound. His
position is honorary. He plans to be-
gin the roundup by taking a census
OF goat owners and holding them re-
sponsible for the vandalism of their
animals. In this way he hopes to re-
duce the damage materially.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1921-06-03

five SPACE editions, the others all
being 10 and IL pages each.
Last weeks Enterprise was IL
pages. These IL pages carried the
entire county news, and among the
important items printed that no
other paper mentioned We note: The
great convention at Ralston, the big
gcst religious gathering in the coun-
ty for the year; the visit of night
riders to the Mcconnell home at
Boydsville; the painful injury of
young Vowel at Martin; the location
by the sheriff and deputies of vast
store of stolen goods; the Ryan ha-
beas corpus case, these parties re-
siding at Martin; autos in head-on
collision, near Martin; mention of
Mud creek drainage meeting, besides
dozens Of other items of general in
terest.
Believing that the brother will
stand for correction, the Enterprise
does SO and not for the purpose of
argument, which this paper positive
ly will not engage in with contem-
porary. 4a4 +
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1921-06-03
THE FRYING PAN

Some dietician is in Kansas City
making war on the frying pan. Fools
Of this character have to be tolerat-
ed, since the law makes no provision
for their execution. This republics
greatness is founded deep in frying
pans, skillets and spider traditions
The pioneer with his frying pan and
rifle blazed the trail into the wilder
ness and carried white civilization
from ocean to ocean. He was the
hardy product of simple food, simp-
ly cooked, in simple utensil. He
had teeth and CUTS, Drawn and brain,
clear conscience and courageous
soul, a keen eye and trigger-fin-
ger that functioned 100 per cent
efficient. He was nation-builder,
torch-bearer of civilization, tow
ering figure that scorned danger and
never faltered in the presence of
duty. He was no shriveled dyspep-
tic, no neurotic weakling, no slave
of pampered palate. If our fragile
creatures who feast on omelet souf-
flies, creamed mushrooms, chicken a
la king and roasted snails, had been
entrusted with the tremendous task
of the frying-pan giant who laid the
foundations of the mightiest struct-
ure of human civilization of all his
tory, America would have still been
a wilderness. Nobody objects to the
spindle-shanked numbskulls who
think they know something about
real vittles and how to cook, timer
ating around in their effort to make
an easy living, but they must off our
frying pan, the noblest cooking uten-
sill of all, judged by it's achievements.
Indeed, so we'll has it performed it's
great mission that if the day should
ever come when men assembled to
design flag for the federation of
the world, surely this honored en-
blem upon its sacred folds would be
a noble symbol of liberty, progress,
brotherhood and democracy.-George
Bailey in the Houston Post.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1921-06-03

Missouri Melon Growers Associa-
| ton, which sells the farmers prod
ucts comparatively. Returns to the
farmers in many cases have been in
creased to four or five times the
amount received under the old
method of selling to chance buyers.
The annual report Of the Federal
Bureau of Markets credits co-opera-
tive organizations with increasing
the farmers returns in one year
$2,08O,O0O in Michigan, and 1,5OO,-
900 in Mississippi. A state market
director of California is authority
for the statement that cooperative
associations handled $250,000,00O
worth of farm products in that state
in one year.
There are now at least fifteen
thousand cooperative organizations
in this country. So rapidly is the
number increasing that even the
government cannot give exact fig
ures.
Agricultural colleges formerly
considered that their duties stopped
with production, but gradually they
are going in for selling. They know
the difficulty many cooperative en-
terprises experience in getting COM
petent managers; so courses in mar
keting and rural advertising have
been offered for some time. In Ne
braska, where farmers do over a
hundred million dollars worth of CO.
operative business each year, the
agricultural college is starting
course in cooperation, ITO help sup
ply trained men and further the CO.
operative movement among prOdu-
GERS" It will include training in
marketing, accounting and grain
grading. Colleges in other states
plan similar courses.
For years we have been told that
farmers would not cooperate. Nor
did they want to, for they were full
ly occupied with production and had
little time for selling. But driven
to it by economic pressure they are
meeting the situation successfully.
It is no longer a question whether
farmers can cooperate. They are
cooperating. The only question is
how far they will be driven to CO.
operate by our fool distribution sys-
TEN.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1921-06-03
coMMENDABLE RECORD

The record Sheriff Bullock is
making is most commendable, indeed
and the friends CT the young mar
are gratified to note that he is ex'
erting every energy to bring law
breakers to justice.
In fact, Bullock is making himself
a terror to violators of the law
Evils, that have existed here are be-
ing broken up by him and the guilty
are being brought to face the courts.
Night after night he has spent in
search Of parties accused of differ
ent attractions upon the law, and
just recently he has bagged some
pretty big game, too. He has corps
Of deputies who are just as vigilent
as himself and their team work is
bearing fruit. All law-abiding citi-
zens ought to extend Sheriff Bullock
the right hand Of fellowship. He is
clean, moral, heightened young
man.. He knows nothing of the lit
tie, questionable methods that SO Of
ten enter into official life a straight
line, and that hewed to, is his mot
to, and his friend, the Enterprise
is right glad to pay him this deserved
tribute,
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1921-06-03
WANTED A PUSHER

The conditions existing in thous-
ands of rural neighborhoods is illus
trated by the following item in the
country correspondence of an ex-
change: Wanted, an energetic man
to start the moviesand literary So
ciety and some entertainments, to
attract and hold young people to
their native village. There are plen-
ty Of young and old people to have
literary socials each week, but the
people scatter about in search of
entertainment until our neighbors
are strangers to u.s."
How accurately that describes con-
ditions in many rural neighborhoods
in Henry county. Frequently one
live-wire, one man or woman with
the spirit of hustle, could just trans
form conditions and create a social
rallying point that would turn a
dead community into live one
Paris Post-Intelligencer.
The Enterprise preached this sub
ject some weeks ago in an editorial,