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The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-29
By Paul Bloedhorn


 The fourth grade is still ahead in the spelling contest.
 By Georgia WiIes We have two new pupils in the fourth grade. They are Guy and Ray. mond Monthly from Eska.
 By Valdez Greeniq We are going to have a Halloween party Monday afternoon.
 By Virginia Van Dyk We have a new fire gong but we can't hear it in room five
 By Anton Johansen Wednesday some of the pupils got their Esquire" buttons for ,hc health crusade.
 By Berry Higainson We have just finished our ball game in arithmetic Now the firth grade is going to play the fourth
 By Clinton Pinkus The fourth and fifth grades are pre- pairing for Halloween.
 By Patsy ScheffIer We have a new fire gong Room five would like to hear it
 By Lewis Johanson We have some nice plants in our room. One of them is in bloom.
 By Jeanette Corser We have a wise old owl sitting in the back of our room on a quarter Of the moon.
 By Phillip O'Nei The pupils in room five have been bringing notes on Alaska. Friday the fifth grade will classify them under products and industries.
 By Karl Rosswog Room five is going to have Hal. lowe'en party Monday afternoon. We are going to have good things to eat We have a witch on our window When we push the window it looks as if she is flying on her broomstick.
 By Gussie BohaII Our room has pretty border on the blackboard It has stars and moons with witches flying across on broom sticks.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-29
ROOM TWO

The first spelling match this week was won by Betty Ziegler In the second match the boys spelled against the girls. and the girls won. Marion Foster spelling the last word.
 In written spelling during the last period the girls averaged eleven points ahead of the boys on each les son. This week the boys have done better work but the girls are still ahead, averaging seven points above them on each lesson Come on. boys!
 Betty Schcffler and Mike O'Neill brought us some gerauiums this week. We are very glad to have the plants.
 We are doing Halloween work in drawing periods this week.
 In the third grade we are trying to add columns of figures without counting up" This is slow at first but we expect to work faster later on. We hope all the children will soon
The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-29
School Notes

know their addition combinations, so they can give the answers instantly. Then we can take some harder work.
 Second graders should now know all the addition combinations to eleven.
 In this class we had little game in arithmetic; a pupil taking one step for each answer he could give quickly Grace Dooley was able to walk farthest in the game.
 Grace Dooley Richard Davis, Eu- gene Mellison. Mike O'NeilI and Rob ert Pratt did the best work in read ing this month.
 Visitors to our room this month were; MT. and Mrs Lester Tender son, who were here several times. Mrs. sellen Mrs. Ziegler, Mrs. Laurie, Mrs. Holt, Mrs. Day and Mrs. schef. fer.
 Our teacher is reading aloud to us from The Little Colonel" We Ike the way the little girl talks to her dog, and all the funnuy things she does.
 Two of the boys were absent a few days this week on account of illness. Catherine Corser has brought sev- eral of her bubble books" SO the children will be able to enjoy the lit tie records Friday afternoon.
 The first perfect English paper this week was handed in by Jack Erus- sard
The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-29
HIGH SCHOOL

The list of library books, which will be loaned to the public is in the post office If you desire to borrow any of them phone or see Mrs. J. II. Sellen president of the P. T. A.
 The Seward high school has two crack basket ball teams, let's get busy and then we shall challenge them. We will soon add a hot house to the school building if MT. Goodman adds many more plants to the already nourishins colony. We are at present the proud pos sessors of a Wandering Jew, Miss Lily and Mra. Geranium and family and a number of foreigners.
 A little girl after going to Sunday school was asked by her mother. what she had learned. She said the minis ter said not to afraid and he would send them a bed quilt The mother felt quite put out and { was going to spank the child for lying, SO the next time she saw the minister she asked him what his sermon had been about.
 He said it was Fear not for I shall send you another comforter"
 The algebra III students have found that the chief factor in factoring" is work
 We wonder why Matt, would rather be Nero than any other Roman. Re member he is dead Nett You wouldn't want to be a dead ono. The Literary Digest has this in the Spice of Life column:
 Helpful-.English is to be the off cial language at the Washington dis armament conference, but interpret CTS will be provided for those who can only speak American.
 The school census is being taken this week. We wish to thank the par ents for their co operation
 Nov. G-12 is the Better Speech Week. Let us have the help of the parents in this We hope that slang may be dropped altogether
 Lost Somewhere in high schoo th" quart r of day holiday during 'hn month of October No reward. for it is gone forever No competition in Latin IT. clas but just the same he is making good prog, ress.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-29
ROOM ONE

Mrs. Scheffler, Mrs Holt, Mrs. Day, Mrs. Sellen and Mrs Czerwenka were visitors in the first grade room this past week. Jane Sellen. Jackie Ellis, Frances Scheffler. and Irma Louise Czerwenka were among our smaller visitors this week
 The first grade have decided to have their Halloween fun in some way other than that which will cause older ones work. And especially have they decided against soaping windows.
 We are memorizing new poem about Jack Frost.
 Our new quotation: The secret of being lovely, is being unselfish
 The girls in the first grade had 100 per cent in attendance this last week.
 would greatly appreciate it if the mothers or older brothers or sisters would write name or make some mark inside of rubbers and raiucoats So many of the same size and color are hung together that sometimes things are worn off which seem al most impossible to locate later. It may be fine if you are left a better garment than your own, but someone is bound to have something to say later. Much confusion is avoided by a small bit of trouble
The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-29
DISARMAMENT NEXT

Dirigibles for honeymooners now the latest scream in France. War or no war, something always turns up to decrease the French population American plan now cogwebbed like beer bottle opener. French bride and groom likely to fall out before they've been married twenty four hours.
 Parisians now forced to have meat for dinner every day. Honeymoon CTS will drop in on 'em any time. So the honcymooning hliHpcrs Had the saddest life of all; Hubby welded her in summer And
 He
 Her
 In
 The
The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-29
The
 Fall

The King of Sweden has been we'd ded longest of any European crowned head.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-29
By Georaia WiIes

The fourth grade is still ahead in the spelling contest.
Evening star., 1921-04-17
BY MIRIAM TEICHNER.

NOTE-This is the first of
series of intimate articles on pres
ent conditions in Germany, by Miss
Teichner.
HAMBURG. April IA kranken-
haus. or hospital. is not such a bad
place from which to get ones first
! broke my left arm on the ship COM
ing over. and thought at first that
would turn right around and come
home on the same boat. But what's
A broken arm, once one comes to
know it? Nicely bound up. 1t is rot
painful. and of small Inconvenience
One can go with it whittier one
pleases. with the hospital as head
quarters.
about two hours from Hamburg
A small. ite-bearded old man
slung the suit cases cf two of us over
his shoulders. and We went to the
station waiting room to war Cor the
special train that was - take the
steamship passengers to Hamburg.
The man who was helping me with
all of my ditficulties-l had ina agined
myself. with a broken arm. sitting in
the midst of the wreck of my belong
ings. unable to repack after the Gus
toms officials had finished with me.
steamer about it--was a zinc mine
owner from Carthage. Mo-. COM
ing to visit his daughter, who had
married in Germany eight years ago.
Heart and Soul German.
This girl, the mother of four chill
dren. had come on the steamer to find
her father, and had been plunged into
Evening star., 1921-04-17
DROP IN CANNING SEEN.
Maryland's Supremacy in Tomato
Industry Seriously Menaced.
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. April Is. - Maryland's 8
supremacy in one Of it's leading in
dustries-tomato canning-is serious
ly menaced by several states Many
tomato growers, packers and whole
salers OF the state admit that several
western states, particularly Califor-
MIA. are threatening Maryland's lead
ership, and quote statistics which
prove their assertions. In 1913, they
say. California packed less than
100000 cases of tomatoes. Maryland
packed more than three times that
have remained almost stationary,
while Maryland packs have been de-
creasing.
The cause for the reduction of
Maryland yield. according to those
familiar with the situation, Is that
farmers in California. Utah, Colo
rado and other western states oulti-
vate their soil more scientifically.
Western crops, statistics show. aver
age between seven tons and nine
tons to the acre. Maryland farms
yield only about three and one half
tons an acre.
Figures show that the cost OF can
ming and distributing. not including
cost Of raw tomatoes, is higher than
the market price of. canned tomatoes.
to pay a price which would Justify
the grower in planting. Neither can
he get a price which would justi-
fy him in canning. This condition
everybody agrees. however. Is only
temporary. II can only last until
stocks ons hard are deplcted--prob-
ably uTt1F nest season.
Evening star., 1921-04-17

an ill-concealed air of triumph. Look
what wonder we have brought your
they seem to say as they uncover a
dish, and behold, There lies the white
and gold magnificence of an esg.
Sister Thea and the others are. how
ever. proud. l exclaimed in astonish-
ment over the heartiness of midday
meal. and Sister Mathilde. who is thin
and anaemic and a little bit pimply,
and at first sight utterly uninterest- l.
ing. gave a toss to her capped head.
Here in Germany, she answered
me. "one does not StarNe.
And II was several days before
learned the contrast between her
meals and mine. To be sure. even my
own are nothing remarkable My col :
fee. il coffee it is. is sickly ana un-
convincing brew. and my morning
meal is two slices Of dark bread and one
still darker, some margerine and some
marmalade.
bought Pair of High shoes.
Sister Mathilde. be it known. is the
possessor of a pair of new shoes. They
cost her 175 marks. and she saved four
months to buy them. She brought
them and showed them to me with
great pride. They are not OF paper;
mind you. they are of real leather
the war, of course. everything you
bought was paper-Ersatz.
Mathilde was taken unaware once
mad bought rert chenise. even with
lace upon it. When she laundered II
she had left the lace and a handful of
pulp. which was pity. for she had
bought herself nothing in three years.
and really needed the chemise.
Mathilde talks as she bustles about
making the bed with it's brilliant red
mattress. it's brilliant red bolster
one sleeps veritably uphill in Ger
many-and it's bouffant feather tick
which may or may not decide to stay
all night unon the bed. If it decides
no. it floats coyly off. and the bell
must he rung for the night "wach-
term" 1t is only laid upon the bed in
the most trusting manner in the
world Unless one coaxes it with the
greatest of tact it leaves ones feet
quite exposed. But Sister Mathilde
and sister Thea exclaim in horror at
the cold-catchirg possibilities of my
short -sleeved robe de mutt,
Small Minna is not nurse. she is
a. maid She looks twelve. is seven
teen. has a stupid. adenoid face and
earns 40 marns a month. She appears
to sweep industriously as late as ID
o'clock at night, when she may be
seen with broom and dustpan haunt
ing the halls, but she shook her
scared head ra thcr hotly when l was
tactlcss enough to imply that 40
Evening star., 1921-04-17
YANKEE GIRL FINDS GERMANS
RIGHT AFTER AMERICAN DOLLAR
Miriam Teichner Reveals After-War Facts
by Personal Stud y of National
Conditions.

the bitterest disappointment because
sweet potatoes. which were on the
luncheon menu, had not been forth
coming. She hadn't had any in eight
years. She is heart and soul a Ger
man. She married into wealthy
family. and her husbands people own
factories near Dusseldorf. She has
Guartered with her now a Belgian Of
ficer whom she disllkes. but without
venom. All Of her hatred is for the
French. and especially the officers.
She says they strike Germans about
more provocation than not making
way on the sidewalks with sufficiently
pleasing promptness.
This American girl. who married a
German husband. tells of months dur
ing the war when she could find moth
ing to feed her children save a weird
concoction. by courtesy called a pam
cake. made of the wartime f1our-'the
authorities do not now dare tell the
people everything that was in it, she
sayS-and water.
But if you. woman with wealth
and influence. could find nothing but
such food for your babies. what did
the poor women do" | asked She
shrugged Their babies died" she
said.
Stricken With MeIancholia.
Families such as that into which she
married have not come unscathed out
of the war. although their factories
are running again.. and there is plenty
of money. For more than year. her
husband, stricken with melancho!ia,
has spoken scarcely a word. There
is hardly family in Germany" she
says. that has not a similar case
some son or daughter. father or
mother who has gone queer in the
head since the war" In spite of
which she is very gay.
Being a special train, of course. it
Evening star., 1921-04-17

marks was not big pay. She receives
room and board. she reminded me.
and with that the 40 marks is good
pay.
marks to go by taxi from the center
Of the town to the clinic it does not
appear to me that 40 marks a month
is good pay. When Minna rides in
street cars. however. it costs her
about a mark now for every 10 pfen-
nigs she spent before the war.
Eppendorf rrosperous.
Eppendorf. where my clinic is. is a
prosperous and lovely suburb. The
learn from Jefferson avenue. nor
North Woodward, nor Riverside drive
in New York. 4 woman whose small
Doris was born just few days
ago in the clinic paid 1000 marks for
her small daughters outfit: to say
charges. A baby cab that used to cost
80 marks is now another 1000.
Things are a little better. it appears.
than during the winter. Eggs. which
were three marks. are now only one.
This keeps them. however. still strict
fy in the luxury class.
That 3S-mark taxi ride takes me to
the Jungfernstieg, one OF the show
streets in Hamburg. with the wide
sweep of the River Alster on its one
side.
4 banker who was the member OF
luncheon party to which I went
yesterday. says he has estimated from
statistics that the average German
income at the present time approx
mates Is cents a day. on whic a
German. workman must feed. clothe
and house his family. He also said
that 90 per cent of the German peo-
pie. though many OF them seem de-
Gently enough dressed so far as outer
clothing is concerned, are without
undershrts
you will see them in beer halls"
he said. and in cinemas. and you
will say that it seems as though they
had plenty of money for nonsense.
And YOU will be right when you say
It. with shoes and clothing at the
price they are. a new suit or a new
overcoat is as far beyond the present
ambition OF a German workinEman
as the shining robe of an angel.
'lt takes a workman Of more thrift
more ambition. more singleness OF
purpose than the German workman
has now to lay aside here a mark
there another, with the far-off. al
most impossible achievement of a
2.000-mark suit in mind. So he spends
his marks on his beer, and his suit is
turned. and turned again, and his
stockings are darned and patched un-
Evening star., 1921-04-17

accomplished what purports to be a
two-hour ride between Cuxh4ven and
Hamburg IN a little more than four
hours. Regular trains, it Is said. run
promptly on schedule. but a special.
that's something else again, There
were plenty of open carriages to be
had at the station. but only one auto
taxi. l saw no "ersatZ" tires that
night. and have seen none since. There
are few automobiles. but those that
appear so properly clad as to tires.
Luxury for Money Folk.
The Hotel Esplanade was being re-
decorated. The work is expensive, but
it is being done. For the 'herrscha ffte''
the people with money-there is luxury
in plenty
They charged me s15-American
money-to have my arm N-rayed the
next morning. The bill was made out
in dollars. not marks, and when
asked why. the girl in charge said
that they supposed I would not have
marks. The cost of that Roentgen
photograph in marks. therefore. was
900-a perfectly stupendous sum.
Other than the desire. however to ex-
tract dollars from Americans. friendli-
ness is unmistakable. They like
Americans. much as they dislike the
English and French.
Once the white-robed N-ray expert
had me nat on the table. with his
RocntEen apparatus fast over my
arm. he asked me sternly: Are You
English or American" This of
course. in German. l felt horribly in
his power. l thought he mi ght do
something disaGreeab bic to my broken
arm il I gave the wrong answer
There was. however. only one an
crsw to give and I gave it. Then
since you are an American said the
Rocntgen expert in perfect English
Il will talk English to you. If you
were English. l would not"
American Money Values
At the present writing an American
can buy siNty-plus marks for a dollar
and spends them though they han
about the value of postage stamps
OF these postage stamp marks. Sister
Thea. a nurse, and her fellows re-
ceive ID every thirty days. They have,
Of course. their lodgings, and meals. OF
a sort.
Sister Thea and her companions
have a brunette-complexi xioncd bread
with ersatZ coffee and erSatz marma-
Ixde for breakfast. For dinner at
noon they have potatoes and maybe
a vegetable, and in the evening they
have more dark bread and tea.
They bring my meals to me with
Evening star., 1921-02-18
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BISMARCK, N. D.. February IL
Cash reserves of many banks in North
Dakota are below the amount re-
quired by law. NJ. W. Thatcher, pub
lie accountant, testified before the
state senate committee investigating
the audit of state industries.
From reports of more than 700 state
banks, made to o. E. Lotus, state
bank examiner, as on December %.
1920, Thatcher testified that the total
cash reserve of all the banks COM
bined was 59.4 per cent short of what
the present law requires.
He said that cash on hand in all
state banks December 81 totaled 81
$4,000. as against the $7,035,000 re-
quired by law. Bills payable in 1920
Increased $14,000,O0O, he said, and
bills due from reserve banks de-
creased S9,360,0O0. The total reserves.
including cash, decreased s11,300,00O.
Ed Sinkler, attorney for the senate
committee, said the law was too strict
and had never been enforced. He cited
figures to show that similar condi-
tions existed in 1919 as to the re-
serves.
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Medical Convention Closes.

SPARTANBURG, S. C.-Selecting
Norfolk as the next meeting place and
electing officers for the ensuing year,
the Tri-State Medical Association con-
cluded its twenty-fifth annual conven-
ton here. The officers elected were:
DIR. w. w. Fennell of Rockhill. s. c.,
N. c., vice president. for North Caro-
lima; DR.. H. R. Black, Spartanhurg. S.
c., vice president, for South Carolina /;
DR.. X. S. Blackwell. Richmond, Va,
vice president. for Virginia, and DR..
James X. Hall. Richmond, Va, secre-
tary and treasurer
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Head. Agriculture Workers.

LEXINGTON, Ky.-Thomas p. Coop
er. dean Of the College of Agriculture.
University of Kentucky. was elected
president of the Association of South
ern Agriculture Workers at the an
nual convention here. Other officers
chosen were: First vice president. c.
A. Mooers. University of Tennessee.
Knoxville; second vice president, D.
c. Hull, Mississippi Agricultural and
Mechanical College, College Station,
Miss; secretary, ]. n. Harper, At
lanta. Ga
Evening star., 1921-02-18
"Smilinr Bi,l, kennel Dead.

NEW 1ORk.-7Police Lieut.. William
Kennel, who has been guard to every
mayor of New York city since the ad-
ministration of Mayor William l..
Strong in 1895, is dead here. He was
kept in that position because of his
commanding physique and tact, and
was known to thousands of callers at
city hall as Smiling Bill"
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Easy to Gas New York City.

NEW YORK--One enemy warshi D
riding the waves beyond 81 ght of the
highest skyscraper in New York
could hurl sixty tons of poison gas
into Manhattan within an hour. and,
unless there were airplanes to locate
the vessel, the metropolis would be
at its mercy, declared Rear Admiral
H. P. Huse. commander Of the third
naval district. He was addressing the
city commissioners, requesting the
ceding Of ninety-four acres of park
land at Rockaway Point to the Navy
for q permanent air station.
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Two Killed on r.. r.. Crossing.

SUFFOLK. Va.-Miss Mary Pierce.
eighteen-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John T. Pierce of Myrtle. Va, and
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Herman Pierce
of Portsmouth. Va, a bride of one
month. We're struck by westbound
Norfolk and Western train at Myrtle
and both instantly killed. Ralph Pierce,
their sixteen -year-old brother, who was
driving the roadster in which the three
were riding, had his head crushed and
all four limbs broken.
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Detective killed; Two Wounded.

NEW YORK.-Detective Joseph Brid-
getts, attached to the Brooklyn de-
tective bureau. was shot and killed
and Edward J. McGlone, another de-
tective, and George Horan, adjuster
for an insurance company, received
bullet wounds yesterday. when they
called at the Brooklyn offices of sur
gical instrument company to look into
an insurance claim. Charles T. Davis,
one of the owners of the company, is
being held by the police. McGlone and
Horan were not seriously injured
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Turfman Commits Suicide.

MEMPHIS, Tenn.-T. A. Davis, sixty
seven. widely known racehorse man of
Toronto, Canada, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head in his
berth on a Pullman car while on his
way from Hot Springs to Memphis De-
spondency over ill health was given by
his wife as the cause.
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Insurance Men Take Appeal.

JACKSON, Miss. - Fire Insurance
companies involved in the antitrust
litigation started by the state revenue
agent have taken an appeal from a
recent decision Of Chancellor Stricken
appointing three receivers to take
over all money belonging to the insur-
ance companies in the hands Of insur-
apce agents in this state.
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Oppose Added Tax on Sugar.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Kentucky
State Bottlers' Association, in annual
convention here, adopted resolutions
against additional tariff on sugar.
branding as unjust" the per cent in
crease carried in the Fordney emer-
gency tariff bill, as passed by the Sem
ate. ut is unjust" the resolutions say,
ito tax more than one hundred million
persons, who are now under heavy
burdens, for the purpose of satisfying
the few in the cane and beet sugar
districts"
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Schooner Sink. After Collision.

BOSTON.-fhe Boston four masted
schooner Horace f. Munroe. bound
from Lisbon. Portugal, to Jackson
vile. Fla. was abandoned at sea in
sinking condition last Tuesday
Capt. John o. Hall and the vessels
crew of thirteen men were rescued
and landed safely at Gibraltar by the
British steamer Palma. which had
been in collision with her.
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Plays 255-Year-Old Violin.

ANNISTON, Ala.-R. r. Simpson Of
Blue Mountain. one of those taking part
in the fiddlers' contest here. played a
violin made in Italy in 1866. the 255-
year-old instrument attracting much at
tention.
Evening star., 1921-02-18
Hoop Mills to Reopen.

SHARON, Pa.-The Sharon Steel
Hoop Company has announced that four
of it's finishing mills. which have been
shut down for some time, will resume
operations next Monday.