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New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
Congress Plans
Strict Economy
All Along Line
Warming Given Big Stick
Will Be Ont for Amy De-
s.. ss partment That Seeks a
~ Deficiency Appropriation
Madden's Plain Speech
Calls Shipping Board s'Rot-
tenest Thing and Adds
Navy is B dly Managed

Fvcsr The Tribune's Washington 5ureau
y WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.--Economy
In expenditures all along the line is
much talked of in Congressional circles
as one Of the chief features of the
Legislative program of the regular scs-
sion which will begin a week from
Monday.
Leaders not only are saying that
athcy do not purpose to allow reduc4
tions in army and navy expenditures TO
be made the excuse for raids on .he
Af1reasury in other directions, but are
threatening to get out big stick
for officials of the departments who
seek large deficiency appropriations.
The manner in which Chairman Mad
den of the House Appropriations
Committee Manded on" Admiral Robert
IS. aCoontz, chief of naval operations,
,,recently when he requested deficiency
appropriations of $27,00o,ooo for the
current fiscal year, was cited about
s,she, Capitol to-day as symptomatic of
what was coming in the regular ses
sion when the estimates for expendi-
xa4eS are scanned.
Chairman Madden bluntly told
) admiral Coontz that the law against
incurring deficiencies ought to be OBJ
SERVED the same as any other law and
that the navy "did not pay any atten-
tion'" to it last year.
ut must be respected by other pec-
ple,ns said Chairman Madden, "and do
not see why you are superior to every
body eise'
Mr.. Madden wound up by declaring
that officials who violated this law
were subject to removal from Office,
to fine and Imprisonment and that if no
one else invoked the law he intended
do so. He said to Admiral Coontz:
THE Shipping Board is the rottenest
thing ever heard off, and added it
seemed to him the Navy Department
twas Just as badly managed as that"
The result was that the request for
the appropriation was not pressed.
While it is not seriously expected
that. any official will be ousted and
fined and imprisoned for incurring de-
fitiencies or asking for deficiency ap-
preparations, comment both in Senate
and House circles is that If the appro-
priations are to be held down and the
budget system made to justify itself
deiciepcy appropriations must be dis
tice in Washington for officials who
failedlto get what they wanted in the,
annual appropriation bills to run up
deficiencies and then in the next ses-
sion go to Congress and ask that these
deficiencies be met.
Just before adjournment Of the extra
session the House passed a deficiency
appropriation bill carrying about $780,
100000. This was only about half the
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
Imports, Not Issue With
British, Cut Franc Down
Spectators Only Ones to Profit
Through Controversy; Big
Purchase of Cotton
spccio, cable to The Trihuse

Special Gable to The Trihuhe
Copyright. 1871, New York Tribune Inc.
PARIS, Nov. 26.---With Paris banks
paying 14.a5 francs to the dollar, In
comparison with an exchange rate OF
1876 francs to the dollar q month ago,
and the rates on the Bourse even
higher, an investigation as to whether
Franco British differences on disarma-
ment are responsible has developed the
fact that the greatest cause of the
weakness of the franc is heavy French
purchases Of raw materials, especially
cotton, from the United States for the
textile industry. In the last two
months France has imported materials
valued at 2,400, 100000 francs.
Experts explain that spectators
have profited somewhat through the
controversy between France and Eng
land, together with fear that Germany
may fail to make the next indemnity
payment, but that purchases of raw
materials are the principal cause of
the slump because Of their cutting
down of the export balance over i'm
ports. This is regarded as an encour-
aging indication for the future.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
Millions i'm Christmas Club
Disbursements This Season Es-
timated Mt Sl5O.OOO. 600

Santa Claus, in the FORM OF Christ
mas Club checks, will visit approxi-
mately 100000 persons during the
coming week. His disbursements in
this fashion will total $1b0,00O000. He
will have for his agents more than
1000 banks in various states. New
York State will receive $24,872,987.
The Christmas Club plan was in
augurated about twelve years sgo and
has grown to tremendous proportions
1t provides for accumulation Of funds
for the holidays in varying amounts by
small weekly payments to banks oper-
ating this system. The term Of pay
ment covers fifty weeks. 1t begins just.
after Christmas and natures two
weeks before the following holiday
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
Held on Finger
s Print Proof, Man
Insists on Alibi
Prisoner Declares He Knows
Nothing of Murder of
Aged Woman; Experts
to Continue Examination

Nassau County authorities in charge
Of Theodore Gotridge, who is locked
up at Mineola, accused of the murder
Of Mrs. Elizabeth Maier, eigh.y-two
years old, who was killed last week
In her home in Hicksville, are con-
fronted with problem
Fingerprints found in Mrs. Maier's
home, the clearcst Of them upon g milk
Jar, have been pronounced by Charles
w. Hanson, fingerprint expert for the
county, to be identical with those TAX
en- from the prisoners fingers.
Gotridge steadfastiy denies any COM
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
Drug Addicts at Sing Sing
Isolated Against Dipl1tler

OSSTNING, Nov. ga second ca,1
Of diphtheria developed to-day at Sin
Sing prison and eighteen prisoner
most of them drug addicts, who AL
thought to have been exposed to tb.1
digease, have been placed in the isolsl
ton ward Of the hospital, and are be]
ing inoculated against diphtheris.
Clarence Davis ls the second prisons
to be stricken. His nurse is Jeremisa
Sullivan, a prisoner who volunteere1
for the duty. The first case was tha.
o. James Fleming who has been II
several days.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
Standard Oil Co. Indicates Cur
In Wages Of Tanker Crewl

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Nov. 2e.--Thsl
Standard Oil Company, by a provisis,s
in the shipping articles that wer,
signed by q crew on one of its south
bound tsnkers to-day, indicated that n
would follow the lead Of the Texs1
Company and reduce wages Of seamssI
on December /.
The Texas Company contemplates ]
reduction in the monthly pay of abld
seamen from $3.50 to $50, with corrs1
spondinge cats ut for. for all other depart
Standard OIL Company indicates
sirn;lar rAdrcfi
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27

scriptions found in these tomDs has
given the HaryardA Boston archaolo-
gists d full chronological list OF the
kings Of Ethiopia during this period,
and a knowledge Of the condition and
development Of the remarkable arts
and crafts Of the time,
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27

sum asked in deficiency estimates. The
Senate has not vet acted on the bill
and will take it up as soon as the regu-
lar session meets, when there is ex-
pected to be some plain speaking on
the question of large deficiency re-
quests from tho departments.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13
HOW OLD is JAZZ7

Way back there, In or about the year
Ss2. p. o., the first complaint against
Jazz was heard.
Tho complaint was Aristotle. the
Greek philosopher, After denouncing
certain bad actors of tragedy whose
gestures were far too violent, he con-
Guided with this reproach:
They arc like bad flute-players
who whirl themselves around as IL
they would initiate the motion of
the discus.
Though this was written more than
200 years ago, It has 1921 flavor.
Hand Aristotle's whirlIag flute-player
q saNophone and you have an up-to-
date jozz-player whose contortions az
ford delight to some while giving many
others a pain.
There is no rev thing under the
SUM-" says Ecc!eslastes in Holy Writ.
rs there anything whereof II may be
said, Sec. this is new? It has been
already of Old time. which was before
u.s.
Aristotie's cry against tho whirling
flute players of 32e II. c.. is echoed IN
1921 by Or. Henry Van Dyke scoring
Jazz as "thc torment OF imbeciles.p
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13
PRESS COMMENT

Advantages of the National Guard
In an Illuminating article by Cant.
Robert N. Ward. commander of Com
pany B, Florida National Guard. which
will be found in this issue of The
Herald, the advantages offered to the
young men of Miami who desire to
join the National Guard, are fully
set forth.
Military training is fine thing for
q youth, not primarily with the idea
OF making him a soldier, but to in
still into him the qualities which SO
to the making OF a soldier and a gem
tleman. The national Guard is a
peace organization; to it is entrust-
ed the duty of assisting the city an
thorities in the preservation of order
and the enforcement law.
The duties OF a member OF the Ma
tionaI Guard arc not severe, only one
night 6 week being devoted to ne
purposes of drill, and even this o1cas-
ion affords opportunities for sHcial
intercourse rs well as military train
ing. Besides, every member is paid
not less than 81 for each drill of ONLY
one and a half hour while he attends.
1t is not the purpose of the Nation
81 Guard TO create Il spirit of militar-
ism. hut TO build up the youth of the
land by physical training and fitting
him TO respond TO any possible call
of his country.-Miami Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13
A WISE MAN IN THIS TOWN.

There is a man in this town and he
is wondrous wise. He knows just how
far a dollar will go and how to make
it go there. For the most part he sees
10 it that none of his goes very far
from home and that none ever returns
without bringing another back with it..
This accumulation of dollars has be-
come large and he seems to be a hap
by man. He never married and lives
alone with his money, asking no other
friendship and repaying friendship by
never spending one of them needlessly.
Clothes cost him little. he eats SPAR
ingly and amuses himself by contem-
plating his income.
In the course of year this wise
man buys of our merchants about the
same amount of goods as a certain
other citizen whose portrait you will
not recognize so readily, since there are
a great many like him.
The second citizen can hardly be
called wise. For every dollar he earns
at his trade. he spends between 80 and
100 cents. OF course. he has q wife
I and more foolish still-four children.
He. too, is careful buyer, but that is
because he has to be.
You know how eXtraVagant a wife
and quartet of kids can be-with shoes,
clothing, spring hat every other Eas-
ter, movies once a week, street car
fares to the park, school books, food
every day, ice cream on Sundays.
year of this extravaganza eats up
the second citizens $4,000 income;
doesn't leave an unpicked bone of it,
The wise man described ahove NAV
likewise spend $4,000 in a year but his
friends doubt it. However, he could
do it and still have $45,6O0 left, if his
income is $4,000. as estimated.
Congress is considering the substitu-
tion of a tax on sales for the present
excess profits and income surplus
taxes, which now produce about $780,
100000 Of the nations annual revenue.
II the substitution is made the wise
mans wisdom will be proved once
again. He viii be relieved of his OK
cess profits tax and part OF his income
surtaN, while he will pay no more or
The safes tax than his foolish fellow
towrsman.
Wise men, of the kind projected on
this screen, all favor the sales tex.
The foolish folks, those with small
incomes and wives and children, might
we'll be thinking about it. Il they de-
eide they DO nos desire 20 take this
$500, 100000 off the shoulders now car
rying it, they can drown wi a roar
Of protest tho potent whispers now be-
ing poured in thc ears of congress- by
the wise men Of this and other towns.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13
If NOT PLAGUE. THEN FAMINE

Dispatches from China tell of the
torcible cutting off of the queus of
Chinese as a measure of sanitation in
the fight against typhus. which is
propagated through the bites of lice.
But the orthodox Chinese believes
that if he dies without his queue his
soul will be lost. As between living
in China with the fear of eternal per-
dition, and dying now of typhus, good
Christians can see that there is much
to be said for the Chinaman who pre-
fers queue, death and salvation.
There is still another argument
against the stamping out of typhus
which appeals to certain Chinese
minds. Years ago an American scient-
st travelling in the interior Of the
FloWery Kingdom found city in
which bubonic plague was raging. He
called on the mandarin who governed
the place and explained to him the
cause of the spread of this disease
through the bites of fIeas infesting
rats.
The mandarin had never heard of
this, but was an intelligent man. and
was keenly interested. Eyes" said he.
after all his questions had been an
swered, Il can see that what you say
is true. It agrees with the facts"
"Give me the men and the author
ity, and 1 will stamp out this dread
full plague" said the American.
The mandarin suddenly lost interest.
why should we go to all that trou-
BILE and eXpense?" he inquired. There
are too many people,"
And there are too many people in
China. They press against subsistence
always. There are some areas of land
in China which could be reclaimed
and made to grow food but the birth
rate would fill them almost before they
could be reclaimed.
What China needs is a lower birth
rate. Until she has it something will
always Kill off the population until it
can live off the country. If not typhus
or plague, then starvation
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

$3.50 per cent. The average yield of
corn was 11.2 bushels per acre il 1919
and 11.6 bushels in 1909.
In 1919, 1856 acres were in hay
and forage, including 42,S11 acres in
corn cut for forage. The total acre
age in 1909 (not including corn cut for
forage) was 54763
There were 1885 acres in pota-
toes in il. 1919, as compared with $500
acres in 1909, representing an increase
of 1860 per cent; and 26,436 acres IN
sweet potatoes in 1919, as against 21,-
995 acres in 1909. There were 60,93S
acres in other vegetables raised for
sale, including 1909 acres in toma-
toes, 1892 acres in celery, 1854 acres
in lettuce, 4,501 acres in cabbage, and
1922 acres in green beans.
Tobacco had an acreage of 4,291 in
1919 as compared with 1887 acres in
1909. The production was 4.473.696
pounds in 1919, as against 3,505,S01
pounds in 1909, an increase of 27.6 per
cent.
The acreage of cotton was 110,562 in
1919, as compared with 263.454 acres
in 1909, a decrease of $50 per cent. In
1919, 1883 bales of cotton and 2,029
tons of cotton seed were produced in
1902 65,056 bales OF cotton and 2,52S
tons of cotton seed.
From 2O,413 acres in sugar cane,
1858 tons were produced in 1919. as
compared with 1887 tons from IL, 1928
acres in 1909.
The production of oranges was D.
930.422 boxes in 1919. as compared with
4,852,967 boxes in 1909; and that of
grape fruit was 3,15S.431 boxes in 1919.
as against 1.061,537 boxes in 1909.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13
REVELATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY ADELE GARRISON,
What Happened When Dicky Broke
Some Amazinfi News to

BY ADELE (

/ stared at Dicky in Mortified amaze
ment when he told me that he thought
Mrs. Allis was planning to drug me.
"Oh, I can't believe that of her,
Diclly," protested, although even as I
spoke the conviction came to me that
Dicky's accusat ton would prove a true
one.
IT'S as simple as falling off a log"
Diclly went on, stiff muffling his voice
so that there should be no danger of
being overheard by Mrs. Allis in the
room opposite. That's the reason for
her asking you to come in and drink
tea with her each night of this week
before going 10 bed. She figures on
your getting so used to the tea drink
ing and to her that when the time
comes for her and her gang to pull off
that picture theft it will be an easy
thing for her to slip enough dope into
your tea to keep you quite for the
night"
What an awful woman!" I ejacu-
lated.
Yes, pleasant party. isn't she?''
Dichy returned: then. thoughtfully:
Lucky you told her the last trump
wouldn't wake me. She'll not bother
about me. and I'll he able to watch
out for her and spoil her little scheme
when the time comes.
Let's see. it was the end of the
week she and that chap spoke of in
the woods-that is the time they had
fixed on, wasn't ito Dicky went on.
Yes. the end of the week. I replied.
We'll. then. you1l be safe in going
to her room a night or two more. Shed
not take any chances of making you
suspicious by putting anything over
before the time. But mind. now lit
tie Miss Sherlock, when I say stop go
ing TO her room. you quit. I'm not
going to have you run any risks, do
you hear?"
I snuggled happily against him. \
little thrill of contentment went
through me at the tender command of
Dicly's tone. Stvoag-minded and self
reliant. as / was pleased 10 think my
self. yet there was i distinct satisfac-
rion 20 nc in this tender, rough. DOM
nance OF Dicky's.
AN right" said. as meeIlly as any
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13
FLORIDA FARMING.

That Florida is rapidly gaining in
actual riches is evidenced most clearly
Is the report of the director Of the
census that the value of crops harvest
81 in 1919 IN this state wa s 142.7 times
that % 1909. The figures of the cen
sus bureau, are in themselves, as
strong an editorial as couldt be writ
ten and Indicate that Florida is COM
Ing TO the front as one of the eadinG
agricultural states OF the union. This
state is the potential leader Of the new
frontier. The tide OF traffic is turn
ing north and south instead OF east
and west and the great increase in
farm values in the last 10 years is
eviden. of this fact.
The value of all crops harvested III
Florida in 1919 was $50, 500. Corn
was valued at S14,129,774, peanuts al
S3.314,4O4, and hay and forage at ST.
.51O.772. The value of potatoes was So
S0I,58S: of sweet potatoes, S3,445, 221;
and of other vegetables raised for sale
$13.G95.255, including tomatoes valued
at S4,l03,929 ard celery at $2,321, %.
The value OF tobacco was $2,371,061; of
cotton and cotton seed, $4,01S,449; of
sugar cane. Si,134,45S; of oranges, $15,-
715, 6lS; and of grape fruit $6,15S, 491.
AS compared with 1909, the total value
OF crops for 1919 shows an increase
of 1927 per cent; corn, 14T.5 per cent:
peanuts. 55.S per cent; potatoes, 1914
per cent; sweet potatoes, 1913 per
cent; tobacco, 1872 per cent; and
sugar cane, 279.4 per cent.
Tho acreage of corn in 1919 was
790,4s7 representing an increase of
sos per cent as compared with 605,771
acres in 1909. The acreage Of pea
nuts was 77,416 in 1919, as against
1876 $50 acres in 1909, a decrease OF
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

women continue to buy more
clothes than men," Georges Plateau
declares. but men continue to wear
more clothes than women"
%
THANK God the house shortage has
had no effect upon the visabie supply
of cottage pudding" Is Blythe Sher-
woods grateful observation.
I'D
one advantage of being an Einstein
Is that nobody cana argue with you.
Mystery of Elwell, bridge whist eN-
pert, seems about as hard to fathom
as the game he wrote about.
Railroad problem absorbs cabinet"
says headline. II has nearly absorbed
the treasury, too.
Beer drinking in Germany dropped
off more than 750OO0.000 gallons a
year But America beat that.
Cleveland mystery man can't under
stand any language known to linguists.
work is his only word. Can it be
that he has asked for it so much that
he's forgotten how to say anything
else?
An honest heart and a, bottle of
hooteh are oft concealed beneath a
ragged vest.
4 king in the grave is worth two
in Switzerland.
AS matter Of self respect, the first
thing we ought to do with Bergdoll
when we get him back is ,amputate
his first two names.
Railroad workers make an average
of S1S0G year, says government re-
port. That's a better showing than the
whole railroading industry makes.
q
General perst,ns certainly had
enough experience being the army's
chief STAFF IN France to make good
as chief Of staff in peace.
%.
supreme courts mineral land" de-
c.sion rc-arfirms the law that whea
you give you give,r 1t also suggests
That a state ought g know what it is
giving 5eforc It gives.
q
II you ever paid Ter a cablegram, you
don't wonder that so many countries
want 70 own the lines.
@
Maybe tho people Of zap would pre-
frr not belonging TO either side, but
rather 10 themselves.
d
Tobacco man says Julius Caesar
smoked weeks. This proves chat che
world never changes.
T.
Venetian womon, of the sixteenth
century wore shoes on blocks as high
as two feet.
d
In the sixteenth century squirting at
n person was considered mark of
friendship.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13
Sale of West Florida

The sale of certain counties in West
FLORIDA to the state of Alabama is
not a new question. but has been agi-
tated for thirty years. Probably AID
bama could do more for them than
Florida. and probably the nine coun-
ties affected by the proposed sale
could be of more service to Alabama
than Florida. Away down here in
Central and South, Florida the deal
does not arouse much excitement ex-
cept from those persons who desire to
see a state united in its entirety and
all sections working for the interest
of the whole. Prbably more than the
nine counties in West Florida could
be taken away over night and folks
down in South Florida would not be
greatly disturbed, owing to the Fact
that there is diversification hnd
strain of relations and interests.--Or-
lando Sentinel.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

The largest room without columns is
said to be in "a mosque at Lucknow
India.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

Clothing designs for pet dogs are
made up by Partisan tailors.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

Each spring the Incas Of Peru. used
to celebrate the festival of the sun.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

London has a squad of motorcycle
policewomen.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

Roads paved with huge blocks of
stone were recently excavatcd in Mex
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

Toledo. Ohio, has ! union depot for
motor trucks.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

THANK God the house shortage has
had no effect upon the visable supply
OF cottage pudding" Is Blythe Sher-
woods grateful observation.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

Some of the purest silk cloth in the
world is produced al HoIyoke. Mass.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

Greater London has an average pop
ulasion Of mere than II 600 to the
square mile. .-.....
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

Women continue to buy more
clothes than men," Georges Plateau
declares. but men continue to wear
more clothes than women"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

one advantage of being an Einstein
Is that nobody can argue with you.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

Mystery of Elwell, bridge whist eN-
pert. seems about as hard to fathom
az the game he wrote about.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

Here arr three birds
guessing the name of it.
you will have the names
TnsTCer to yesterdays
Y-CUN-KEY-RE-P=
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

Railroad problem absorbs cabinet
says headline. II has nearly absorbed
the treasury, too
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

Beer drinking in Germany dropped
Off more than 1000 600 gallons a
year. But America beat that.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-13

Cleveland mystery man can't under
stand any language known TO linguists.
Work is his only word. Can it be
that he has asked for it so much that
he's forgotten how to say anything
else?