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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-01
OFFICIALS TO
CHECK SPREAD
OF EPIDEMICS
Public Health officer Tells of
Unsanitary Conditions
in Various Towns.
VACCINATE TRAVELLERS
Doctors Stationed at All Rail.
way Terminals TO Perform
These Duties.

6F AESocl4IeQ Press
RIGA, July 81 The task 81 fght.
ing the present serious cholera cpl
demic in soviet Russia is maguifed
in it's difficulties by the terrible san
itary state existing virtually through
out the country. says DR.. y. semash-
ko. commissar Of puzzle health OF
the soviet government, writing in the
Moscow IzvesGa
Dirt il the towns is such that
even in dry weather persons who
are fortunate enough TO have over
shoes walk in the streets with them.
Sewage and water supply are in
terrible disrepair." DR.. Semashko
writes. Added 20 this. says the doc
tor, is the mass migration. as n it
had been malciously planned dis
tribUting the Infection from one
place 70 another for thousands and
tens Of thousands Of versts.. The
starving population Of Volga IS nov
ing 10 the south as an avalanche.
sowing on it's way infection and
death.
Big Epidemic
THE cholera has already develop
ed into a big epidemic in the Ros-
toff Volga, Voronesh ana Orel gov
ernments. Scattered outbreaks have
been discovered in the most wide
| spread localities OF the republic.
I'm the Nolga appears already TIE
j spectre Of the cholera and famine
years of 1912 Those who have
lived through those years, not 10
speak Of those VINO participated in
the fighting against the epIdenics.
feel their blood grow ice cold in their
veins at the memory OF e. At pres
ent every one begins TO cross him.
self.
Principal Task.
DR.. Semashko says one Of the
principal difficulties facing the cam
! pafgners against cholera IS the IN
controlled horde Of travellers riding
/ everywhere, inside and outside. on
the roofs. under the platforms and
Iclinging to every inch of the trains
Throughout Russia. He advocates
! stationing armed vaccination
squads" at every railwoy station 70
vaccinate every traveller and permit
none 10 go onward without a GER
tifcate that he has undergone This
( process.
AS far back as In February" he
writes. I'VE predicted this epidemic
and mapped out a plan of preventa-
/ tive means. IN the spring we pro-
claimed a water supply week. and
! cleaning week. giving detailed in
/ structions for carrying out the work.
And what have we now2 Where are
the local responsible authorities az
that time? OF course. better late
than never General compulsory
vaccination. quarantine of infected
districts and immediate mobilization
: Of sanitary personnel have been or
dered. Repairs on sewage systems
are being rushed and workmen have
/ been appealed 10 consider the 'chol-
era front" an actual war front.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-01
SIS IN Prizes and
Easy to Win Them

The News-Times through fits al
ways interesting Weekly Market
Basket Department Will again
distribute SIS in cash prizes to
lucky people this week, as fol-
lows.
\ cash prize of FIVE dollars for
the best food recipe submitted 10
the Market Basket Department,
with prizes OF So each for the
next five best.
Get the habit OF reading these
market pages. They're always
interesting. Every Friday after
noon and Saturday morning ex-
clusively In
The News Times
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29
ADMINISTRATION IN
THE ROLE OF SOLOMON
TO TAKE UP TARIFF AND REV
ENUE SIMULTANEOUSLY.
LEGISLATIVE ILLUSION.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Follow-
ing the news that administration lead
ers in congress had decided to put up
to President Harding the question
whether revenue legislation or tariff
legislation should be taken up first at
the coming session, the suggestion IS
heard in these same congressional cir
cles that the puzzle may be beautiful
ly solved by having both subjects ia
ken up simultaneously.
How, simultaneously?
Well, the idea which is being con-
sidered, according to inside gossip, is
that while the house is working on
the tariff bill the senate finance COM
mittee shall be holding hearings on the
revenue question. Thus, the two mat
ters will be in the Legislative and pub
lice eye and thought at the same time
Harding Harmonization."
This proposed legislative judgment
of Solomon has very much the appear
ance of having emanated from the
harmonizing political mind of Postmas-
ter General Hays or President Hard
ing. 1t apparently avoids decision as
to priority between two schools OF
thought, each with powerful backing.
The Judgment if it shall be adopted,
has some resemblance to that of Solo
mon in the celebrated baby case, but
differs in detail. Solomon had to solve
the question of the claim of two moth
ers to the possession of one infant.
The Harding administration is CON
fronted with the problemsof one moth
er (conpress) which intends to have
two legislative children, and decides to
know which shall take precedence OF
birth, the tariff or the revenue. The
administration, in the role of Solomon,
seems to have had the information
that the best answer would be to make
the children twins.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29
S. S. CONVENTION
IN WEBSTER COUNTY
WILL BE HELD AT MACEDO-
MIA CHURCH APRIL BIRD.
WILL AWARD BANNERS.

ESTON, Ga.-The Webster
County Sunday School Association
will hold its annual convention at
Macedonia church on Sunday, April
3rd and the Sunday schools of all de-
nominations are invited to send dele
gates.
A strong program dealing with all
departments of modern Sunday school
work has been prepared. Miss Daisy
Magee, superintendent of the chill
dren's division of the Georgia Sunday
School Association, who will attend
the convention.
During the convention an attractive
banner will be publicly awarded to
the Sunday school having the largest
number of delegates in proportion to
the distance travelled. Under this plan
ten delegates coming ten miles each
to the convention count the same as
twenty delegates travelling only FIVE
miles each, thus making it fair for all,
both near and lar.
The banner becomes the property
of the Sunday school winning it, and
may be taken home for permanent dis
play in the Sunday school room.
In order that no Sunday school
worker may be deprived of the priv
ilege of attending the convention no
limit will be set on the number of
delegates who may attend from any
Sunday school All will be welcome.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29
LACK OF FUNDS DELAYS
PAYMENT OF PENSIONS
LONG PAST DUE, 1T is STILL
UNCERTAIN WHEN VETER-
ANS WILL GET MONEY.

The lack OF funds in the state treas
ury is causing considerable anxiety as
to the payment of confederate pensions
for the present year, to say nothing
of the balance left over from 1920, or
rather the additional pensions author
lied last year and now due.
The 1921 pension list amounts to
approximately $l,5O0,000, exclusive OF
100000 in new pensions and increases
granted by constitutional amendment
and Legislative enactment last year.
This brings the total pension pay
ments due this year to approximately
$1,S00,000.
1t has been customary to divide pen
sion payments into two parts, one IN,
stallnent being paid i'll February and
the second in April. The law says that
pensions must be paid not. later than
Nav 1st. but this year it is expected
that the time limit will not be obsery-
ed on account of the fact that funds
are not available.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29
Sick Are Likely to Perish of Thirst
Before Beer Ruling Is Promulgated
Previous Demonstration of Poneous Workings of the Dry Depart
ments Red Tape Machinery Holds Little Promise Of Early Action

While the book beer season rapidly
approaches-if, indeed, it is not already
here considered by the calendars of
the good old days-the prohibition en-
forcement Of &c delays the promulga-
ton of reg, 0ros putting into effect
the Palmer ru, q b. 1t beer might be
prescribed for me- Up uses.
No information is HE as to
when the public may ~ new
regulations under which a &
cent, in accordance with the ta.
ruling, may be restored to health W.T.
the aid of a case or so of better than
us per cent. Treasury department Of
ficials say they do not know exactly
when the regulations will be out; that
it takes some time to prepare such
documents, and so on.
Kramer in No Hurry.
Sick and thirsty patients, pining for
their beer, are becoming convinced
that the summer may be we'll on its
way before the beer regulations are is
sued. Commissioner Kramer appears
to be in no hurry about promulga-
tions. Attorney General Palmer decid-
ed on March 3 that physicians might
prescribe beer in any quantity needed
for a particular illness, but it is said
that not even rough draft of the new
regulations has been prepared by Com
report is that Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue William M. Williams will
not attempt to get out the regulations
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29
CARLOAD OF EASTER
FINERY FOR MILADY
BONNETS AND OTHER THINGS
FOR ANNUAL SPRING PAR
ABE IN GREAT DEMAND.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Uncle Sam has
his troubles Easter week just the same
as at Christmas time and other inter
walls throughout the year. The last
few days of the past week the parcel
post dispatch at the main postoftlce
and the central branch in the Peach
tree arcade increased probably 100 per
cent. :,
A solid car load of parcel post mail
was sent out of Atlanta Thursday. &C
cording to local postoffice authorities,
One large wholesale house handling
ladies' hats mailed over a hundred OF
'milady's" Easter bonnets by the par
eel post route. They were packed IN
large corrugated boxes, and it is need
less to say that they were extra large,
as the styles this year demand that
the hats be of varied sizes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29
MAY KILL THE TAX
ON SOFT DRINKS
TRANSPORTATION TAX MAY
ALSO BE CUT, AND TOLL ON
LUXURIES REDUCED.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-In revis-
ing the revenue laws congress is GER
tain to eliminate miscellaneous taxes
which have proved troublesome both
to tax payers and government officials.
Taxes of this class against which
there has been the most widespread
objection are the soda fountain tax
the luxury tax and the tax upon me-
dicinal articles.
The treasury department has recon-
mended the repeal of these three taxes
on the ground that they are ill-dehned
and uncertain, vexatious and expen-
sive to the. dealers, and that they are
widely evaded, and their evasion can
not be stopped without the employ
ment of large number of agents and
measures which the Importance of the
taxes does not justify. All three taxes
together yielded in the aggregate less
than $50,00000 in the fiscal year
1920, and their elimination will not
materially add to the problem of franz
ing new tax law.
Want Transportation Taxes Cut.
Another miscellaneous tax against
which the public has revolted in recent
months is the tax on transportation.
This tax, unlike the tax on fountain
drinks, is both highly successful from
the administration viewpoint and high
ly productive. The yield from 8 per
cent on passenger transportation, and
seats, berths and staterooms and 3
per cent on freight in the last fiscal
year amounted to $289,000,000.
The wartime justification for the
transportation tax was that freight
and passenger rates were not high
enough to bear the full cost OF trans
portation, and that during federal con-
troll of the railroads the government
was paying the deficit The tax IN
reality yielded much less than the rail
roads were costing the government.
High, freight rates have proved espe-
cially burdensome to the farmers be-
cause they have to pay the freight on
products shipped to market and are
unable to pass it along to the consum-
er. The farmer also complains that he
has to pay the freight on the products
which he buys from manufacturers
This feeling will be reflected in move
to tighten the transportation burden
by the elimination OF the tax.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29
10000 CATFISH FOR
FEAST OF FARMERS
WATSON AND HARDWICK TO
BE PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS AT
4TH JULY CELEBRATION.

UNION CITY, Ex-senator Thos.
E. Watson and Governor Thomas w.
Hardwick will be the principal speak
ers at Union City on the Fourth OF
July, at the biggest fish fry and chick
en- feast ever given in Georgia, accord
ing to plans OF the Campbell County
Farmers Union and other citizens OF
the county. Both distinguished Geor-
gians have accepted an invitation to
deliver addresses.
A huge tank has been built at I'm
ion City in which 10000 river catfish
will be fattencd for the feast, and the
farmers are raising more than thous-
and chickens to be fried for the occa-
sion.
Charles S. Barrett, president OF the
National Farmers Union, and other
men of national prominence, will be
among the honored guests. The hosts
extend an invitation to the state at
large to be their guests on this occa-
sion
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29

GENEVA.-A case of mans heart
ceasing to beat for fourteen hours and
then resuming work is reported from
Berne. where a pastor Of that city, the
Reverend Mr.. Baudenbacher, after be-
ing officially declared dead, suddenly
awoke.
The Reverend Mr.. Baudenbacher,
aged 50 and suffering from heart trou-
bic of long standing, fell senseless Fri
day. His physicians issued death Ger
tifcate, arrangements were made Tor
the funeral and Saturdays newspa-
pers published eulogies of him. The
pastor awoke after "A hours SURPRISED
TO find his bedroom filled with flow
ers. wreaths, disconsolate relations
and friends.
He said weakly: Ny call has not
yet come.
The funeral has been postponed in
definitely, as the doctor said the Rev
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29

before he leaves office and no success
or to Mr.. Williams has been selected
as yet.
1t will be recalled that when the
supreme court decided that the owner
of a private stock OF liquors was en-
titled to withdraw it from CONNER
cial warehouse it required about two
months for the prohibition Office to is
sue these simple regulations for with
drawals. If a similar 1eisurely policy
is followed regarding the Palmer beer
uling, with its ranihcations, cold
weather may be here before a sick
person gets a bottle right off the ice.
Drys Getting Exercised.
Meanwhile, the "drys" in and out of
congress are becoming more and more
exercised over the Palmer decision.
Prohibition leaders in congress are
preparing to try to amend the law so
there will be no medical beer If the
law permits the use of beer for medi-
cine, they say, then the law must be
changed, for congress never intended
that
While the Volstead law limits the
quantity of whisky that may be pre-
scribed there is no provision dealing
directly with beer. Prohibition leaders
in congress say that if it is necessary
to fix that by statute it will be prompt
ly done, and the allowance will be
quite small, if, in fact, the law is not
so amended as to declare specifically
that beer is not and cannot be medi-
cine.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29
SUN GIVES OFF SURFACE
HEAT OF 5000 DEGREES
Says Age of Orbit Is Not Less Than
Hundred Million Years.

Hundred Million Years.
LONDON, Eng-There is little
cause to fear that the sun is rapidly
cooling, according to Professor H. N.
Russell, OF London, who in a recent
lecture here said that the sun gives
off surface heat of 5000 degrees.
Lord Kelvin has given the age of
the sun as less than 100,000000 years,
and as this is relatively young in the
celestial scheme of things it will be
millions OF years longer before even
a slight change is perceptible.
In illustrating the vast distances of
the sky Professor Russell said that if
we supposed the sun to be ball half
an inch in diameter and placed it in
the strand the earth would be repre-
sented by speck of dust l-20th OF an
inch in size at a distance of four and
one-half feet away.
The nearest star would be ball
similar in size to the sun, but placed
at Newcastle, 268 miles away. This
was measuring the distances at ratio
of one foot to 100000 miles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29
FIVE PASSENGERS DIE
IN PULLMAN GAR FIRE
TRAGIC ACCIDENT ON DEN
YER AND RIO GRANDE WHEN
FLAMES BREAK AT NIGHT.
TRAIN RAN FOR MILES ABLAZE
Crew Unaware of Fire in Rear Sleep
er While Train Is Travelling at
Fast Clip. But One Man Escapes
Horrible Death.

WALSENBURG, Colo.-At least
five bodies burned beyond recognition,
buried in the charred debris OF sleep
ing coach ten miles north of Walsen-
burg tonight present the mute evil
dence OF one of the most unusual
tragedies in the history of railroading.
The sleeper, last coach on train No.
lis, due in Walsenburg at so o'clock
this morning, caught on fire just be-
fore it reached Lasker, fifteen miles
from here, while the train was run
ming at high speed, behind schedule:
The night agent at Lasker noticed
the flames, but was powerless to eX-
tend help and the train rushed on tor
five miles before the flames, which by
this time had converted the sleeping
car into an inferno, were discovered
bv the crew and the train stopped. q.
NJ. Hood, of Trinidad, a postotfice in
spector, was the only one of the SIX
or seven passengers who escaped. lie
had arisen preparatory to leaving the
train at Walsenburg and jumped from
a window.
Body Found in Doorway.
The body OF man was found in the
doorway OF the coach, where he had
fallen unconscious almost within reach
of rescuers. The hot flames drove a
brakeman and a newsboy back as they
sought to aid.
The debris was searched as soon as
possible, but the condition OF the
bodies made it impossible to tell for a
certainty how many had met death.
There was not stitch of clothing, not
a trinket by which the bodies could
be identified. The coach and the occu-
pants had been consumed almost en-
tirely.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29
MEN AND WOMEN OF
NOBILITY in DIRE NEED
TAKE MOST MENTAL TASKS IN
ORDER TO GET FOOD. EVEN
SELL DECORATIONS.

CONSTANTINOPLE. - Russians
of noble blood and high rank are
fighting the wolf from the doorstep
in the uniforms OF porters and mes
sengers in Constantinople, center OF
the crumbled empires refugees. Some
are small shopkeepers and many who
knew court life in Petrograd are wait
ers and mattresses.
Generals and admirals have sold
their decorations at little daily auc-
ton in the court yard OF the Mosque
Aghadjam in Stamboul, where women
Of court circles dispose of furs, Jewels
and their last bits of finery.
Admiral Dickert, decorated with the
grand cross of the Legion or Honor.
was glad to get a pace as hall porter
in the French hospital Prince Goub1t-
sen, once rich and powerful in the
government Of Orel, is selling saul
sages in a store in the Pera quarter
Gen. Miolashevsky, formerly COM
mander of the czarina's Lancers, is
parcel carrier. A son of former Pre-
mier Sturmer is a bootblack
Four Russian generals are making
their living by catching and selling
fish. Dozens of aviators and officers
are walters.
One Russian officer is chauffeur for
the American military attache here.
Others are dock laborers and stable
men.
Many titled Russian women are sell
ing flowers and newspapers. Princess
Galitsin, Princess Shahofskoi and doz-
ems of others are mattresses. Countess
Vera Tolstoy is teaching English.
Their former greatness does not
seem to count when there are thous-
ands in the same plight and they are
starting life over again, earning their
own living
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29
FIGURES SHOW WE
ARE BIG SPENDERS
u BILLION YEARLY USED ON
LUXURIES. CIGARET BILL
IS ONE BILLION.

Observation-Disclosures was
characterized as the worst spendthrift
nation the world has ever seen by
William Mathew Lewis, director OF
the savings department of the United
States treasury, at a dinner of the Phi
Delta Theta Alumni club here
I'VE spend $4,000, OOO,ooo yearly
for luxuries," he said, and if this stu
pendous sum was split in two ways
we would have enough money to solve
the worlds capitalization problem"
Mr.. Lewis said billion year is
spent by Americans on cigarets alone,
while women hand out $750,000,000 a
year for cosmetics.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29
EVERYBODY WOULD
HAVE A BUFFALO IF
SUPPLY WAS LARGE

The forestry service asked re-
Gently if anybody wanted buffalo,
having a score on hand to dispose
OF. Apparently the answer was
everybody does" for the service
has been deluged with requests.
One little girl sent a two-cent
stamp, expecting baby buffalo by
return mail for her back yard zoo.
A farmer with 100 acres and FIVE
children wanted family play fell
low. Stock men wanted to try
cross-breeding. Wild west shows
rushed in applications by mail and
telegraph and the supply was quick
ly exhausted despite the warning
that a lusty bull buffalo eats two
tons of hay year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29

erend Mr. Baudenbacher might live
many years.
Lives 26 Hours With Heart Exposed.
New Orleans, La.-Physicians at a
local hospital today decided to furnish
a complete record for medical journals
of the case of Ben Hoelzel, so, who
died Saturday after living twenty-six
hours with his heart exposed to the
eyes of the hospital surgeons.
While working in a local coffee
grinding plant Friday Hoelzel's left
sleeve was caught in a machine. His
arm was mangled and a piece of flesh
the size of mans head was torn from
his breast leaving his heart exposed,
the ribs directly over that organ also
being torn away.
The fact that the injured man lived
Ftwenty-six hours after the accident is
said by physicians observing the case
to be one of he most remarkable ever
recorded in local practice.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-29
HARDING PROMISES AID
FOR SOUTH'S COTTON
PRESIDENT TELLS ALABAMA
CONGRESSMAN HE WILL IN
OUIRE DIRECT OF EUROPE.

WASHINGTON, D. C,-President
Harding today transformed conven-
tional expressions OF sympathy for
the plight of the cotton producers OF
the south into a promise to secure,
in his own name, the requirements OF
European markets, just what quantity
of the staple they would purchase II
granted longtime credits.
AS a result there will be no longer
speculation as to what relief Europe
could offer were it in position to- buy.
This agreement of the president indi-
Gates not only his interest III the south
and the financial condition, but is, III
the opinion of southerners i'll congress,
the most significant development in
the recent calamitous history OF agri-
culture.
The statement of the president prov
ed the climax and conclusion OF a
highly intelligent investigation into the
entire cotton situation conducted by
Representative w. B. Oliver, of Ala
bama. After interviewing Secretaries
Hoover, Davis and Mellon, w. p. G.
Harding, governor OF the federal re-
serve board; Senator Mclean, chair
man of the committee on banking and
currency; D. H. Lippitt, international
" known exporter OF cotton, and varl
our representatives of the producers
Mr.. Oliver found it necessary to de-
velop the truth in the general under
standing that if Europe could buy it
would transform existing cotton from
a prohtless commodity into staple OF
infinite value.
President Deeply Interested.
He called on the resources of the
president.
Il informed Mr.. Harding" said Mr..
Oliver. that it was necessary that it
be made known whether or not Eu
ropean markets were actually demand
ing cotton. and whether or not they
would buy in great quantities were
they given ample credit | found the
executive deeply interested and SYM
pathetic. He declared that the plight
OF the cotton producer had already
received the attention of his cabinet.
When | indicated that by no other
means could the real facts be develop
ed so quickly as by direct inquiry
in his own name the president agreed
to act Immediately.
Mr.. Oliver quotes President Hard
ing. officers of the war finance corpo-
ration and Chairman Mclean OF the
senate committee on banking and cur
rency as determined that the statute
under which the corporation functions
shall be materially liberalized.