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Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-15
ALL LEPERS IN
 PHILIPPINES TO
 GET TREATMENT
, Former American Dough boys Among Thousands of
 Victims of Dread Disease

VANILLA. P. l. Dec. 14.-The eX-
 ension of the ethyl-osteT treatment to all lepers in the Philippine Islands .c the chiei problem engaging the at tention of Dr. Victor G. Heiser, chief of the Far Eastern section of tine Rockefeller Foundation, WIG is nlak- ing an investi ation of health condi- tions Tn the &rchipelago for that or ganizarion.
 Dr. Heiser as cldeavored to as certain the exact quantity of chGul- moogra oil in the Philippine Islands and is also looking into the possibility of obtaining . sufficient sCpp,y 10 treat all the 5000 persons suffering rom lcprosy on GuliOl I5lard, where he lepers of the Philippine group are confined.
 UII oupPIy Io Limi1eu
 General Leonard Wood, who be- came governor general of the Phil lpLines last week, has made up his mind that all of the icpers at the colony shall receive the treatment, if it is possible" said Dr. Heiser. He made this announcement in a public address recently. l am IoCMng ID the available supply of oil for this work, not only from the local stand point but from a worldwide aspect. t is possible that tie raw material 'Cr the oil can Ee founG lm ;.e P;lll- ppines, and ii that should prove to je the case, the island will have an- other industry and might even supply he world.
 There are at presen: more than ,00O GOO leDers in the world India lone has more than 300,000 and Ja- an about 50,U00. Some of the Sou;h AneriC&n countries also have large numbers. The L. eatment requires J0 tiers Of oil per 1000 patients nonth, so that the posaILlnJIes ot he chaulinoogra oil industry are ap- parent.
 Calcutta Sends Shipment The oil is extracted from hat rowing Oh the hydnocarpus tree, 'ariety of which is found ol the 1s- and of Minlanao. We do not know -oweI CT, whether tho Philippine tree | fields the kind Of Oil that has the Iroper medical properties for. the | successful treatment of leprosy. Tha will have to be determined by a thorough analrsis which only a high | ;lass chemist can perfcrm. A shipment of some ,>y pounds CT | bout 300 liters of chaulmoCSra oil, | left Calcutta for Manila a few days | ago, Cablograms also have been sent | Q various parts of the world ln. un ! ltteuI to CDtGin a sufficient suppl. | tor giving treatment to all tke lepers 1t Cullen. Among the lepers confined
 at Culion are five former American
 soldiers. They have not been h
 2luned in the 800 or 400 who gre ro
 'eivinG the chaulmoCgra oil treatment
 out With the meger pension which
 one of the eX-soldiers draws rom
 he United States government, the
 Eve are able to buy small amount
 off medicine and thus obtain inf e
 luent. treatment.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-15
OLD JAPANESE MATRIMONIAL CUSTOMS ABANDONED; MARRIAGE
 FOR LOVE BECOMING POPULAR

TOXIC, Dec. IA. - (By Mail) A series of articles on love and mar riage is appearing in Japanese news papers and magazines, as a sign or the modern tendencies of the new Japanese mentality. Professors ,n psychology, school teachers and writ CTS of note are prominent in this dis cussion of the reforming of the old matrimonial system, a- advocating more freedom for personal choice.
 According to the old custom, the parents chose bride and bridegroom and. the marriage was pcTIormed with out the interested parties having known each other. Marriage was con sidered ? duty towar-s country and family, the religion CT ancestor wor- ship being it's principle. The young couples lived with the parents and the bride owed compete obedience to her mother-inlaw.
 The custom is now prevalent for the young people to meet long before the marriage takes place so that they may know each other, and to live apart from the family is no longer considered undutiful. Yet, of late, the tendency appeared to marry for
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irg data cn the origin of the Polyne- sian race, habits and customs of the natives, and their ethnology and an thropology.
 Fifty years ago the Marquesus islanders probably numbered between 50, ,OOO and 100000, "Dr. Handy said. Today there are only aDout 1900 natives, with scattering of Europeans, Smallpox decimated tae population in the northern portion of the group, and pokoko, a particularly swift and virulent form of tuberculosis, played havoc in the south.
 He expressed the belief, however, that the Marquesans would never dis appear but that the fittest and stron- est, a small remainder, will be able to resist disease. SGmtime whole families had been taken off with pokoko within brief period, he said.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-15
ARMY BANDS ID r FORSAKE JAZZ
 FOR CLASSICS
Pershing Orders Establish ment of National School
 of Music in Capital

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-Army music will soon compare with that or the best orchestras and bands in the country. Popular music will be sup plemented by the classical master pieces and a superband and orchestra will be created from army musicians General Persbins already has or dered the establishment here of the Army Music School and Walter Dam rCsch, conductor of the New York Syn. ny Orchestra, has pledged his asst 4--co ia work of organization. Beth ~e determined through the school tC elevate music in the, army. The object of the school, as out lined in orders issued by General Pershing, lis to give courses of in struction il music, both practical and theoretical, elementary and advanced, to studelt-band3men to aovancea instrumeatalsts (solists), and tC student-band,. leaders, to s;andarize and perfect music, and to suppl! t:ained personnel therein to meet, as fully as possible the needs of the service"
 The first move to better army music was mado by General Pershins soon after he took over the office ot Chief of Staff. One of his first actionJ was to trarser tie schCoI from Fort Jay, New York, to Wash ngton and direct th2t i; ue reOrganl zed as a "super-band,r comparable Crly to the splendid band which was organized in France"
 CamrosCh Lends Aid
 n VI otfu n of would be the only place suitat!e fer it's organization"
 These statements were cOnta1nct ;n an exchange ot cOI eSpOndence be tween the General iand Damrosch The latter was at first opposed to the removal Of the school from New York believing students would have better advantages to hear good music and study it in New York than in Wash ington. He later reconsidered anI offered his assiStance in making the s,rool all thatl the General proposed It was Damrosch who organized the famous "PershIng's Own" at Chai mont, headquarters Of the American EXpeditiCnary For -es, which wor great distinction among the militar bands of ire Allied Armies and later was sent to tour the United State during enc of theLiberty Loan cam paiSnS.
 Plan is successful
 The movement to improve music 1T the Army has as its OoJectNe tht ultimate graduation from the schoJ of enough men to give each regimen highly trained musical organization ale to compete with the best band and orchestGas in concerts, for tn public's entertainment as well as tAa oi the Army. Thus, General Pershin hopes to find another tie between the army ard ti.e reople of the cour try, to give each a better and nor intimate understanding of the othe and to blot any impression tha the military an the citizenry mus move in different circles.
 first evidences of success of tn school were exhibited recently whe the students were used to welcOm the various arm mancnt conference tie egations. The school band was calle dpon 60 furnish music for tEe recel tions at the Uni,u Station and a tIacted attention .l every Instance b the perfection with which it played.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-15
DISEASES AND MODERN CUSTOMS DEPOPULATE
 EsgAROUESAS ISLANDS

HONOLULU, T. H., Nov. H. (By Mail D-Tremendous decrease in the native population of the Marquesas islands, two thousand miles south by east of the Hawaiian archipelago, have resulted front he ravages Of disease and the adoption of many modern customs recently, according to Dr. G. s. Handy, etlnoIogist of the Bishop Museum here, who spent nineteen months on the island gathr-
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-15
EVEN IRELAND LOOKS
 DOWN ON HOME BREW

BELFAST, Ireland, Dec. IA. Home stills are regarded with much distaV- or by the members or the Irlsn Re publican army wh% have been max ing an extensive sweep of them, in North Donegal. Altogether 40 of them have been seized and one which escaped on initial search was later discovered hidden down 6O0-foot precipice.
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nored command to move back into his cell. Mrs. Conway had the bunch of big keys in her hand and with one blow rendered the prisoner Un- conscious and forced the others back into their cells.
 Mrs. Conway has been a resident of San Angelo since the days of old Fort Concho. Her husband. Pat Con way, janitor at the Tom Green cCr-- ty court house, was a soldier at Fort Concho when it was a frontier post
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-15

loves sake and out Of personal choice This new and romantic ideal is so strong that ali means are tried to obtain it, entailing elopemcnts, sui cides, notorious family dissensions. Hence the discussion for greater lib erty and more social life which are quite opposed to the old social sys- tenn Of COnfucius, that men and wo- men should keep apart and marry for duty's sake and not for love.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-15
SEES COAL WALK OFF

MANILA, P. l. Dec. 1f.-J. N. Or binson had given up his raincoat Gs lost, when he boarded street car and noticed his coat moving away. The coat was thrown over the head of the man who had walked off with 1t.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-15
RUSSIAN NOVELS READ

RENAL, Lativia, Dec. 1i.--M. Rem golf, the Russian author, who has just fled from the famine area, re- ports the young Russian writers read their works to select audiences. They have been unable to get any of their writings printed.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-15
GERMAN UNEMPLOYED
 STEADILY DECREASING

COLOGNE, Dec. 14. - uerInany at the present time has Iewer UnemPlOy- ed than any period within the last II years, according to labor officials In the mining industry, the building trade and the cheimcaI industry the number of vacancies exceeds that Of the unemployed. The total number of persons unemployed on Octo5er l was 1S9,407.
 Germany's export business is boom ing for the present, due partly to the low rate of exchange of the marx. and in many parts or the country factories are said to be working over time.
 Women of Mongolia have been pro
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-15
GRAPE CROP DEPLETED

PARIS, Dec. 14.-Ownins to ray ages of wasps, grapes from the his toric Fontainebleau vines have brought only S24vv this year. The average in normal times is $3200.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-15

Women of Mongolia have been pro hibited from wearing yeils.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-05-17
The Port of Missing Girls.

1t was brought sharply to the attention
| of delegates to the national congress OF
Mothers and Parent Teachers Association
convention held at Washington few days
ago that many thousands of young girls are
lost in this country every year What be-
comes of them no one knows. They disappear
from their homes, and no more IS heard OF
or from them. Sixty-hve thousand OF such
cases were recorded for the year l9zO.
The announcement that 65,OOO girls were
lost last year in the United States is start
| ling, Of course. Everyone is interested be-
cause it is easily seen that such condition
lis hurtful; but what to do about 1t seems
TO be puzzle that social workers have not
vet solved to their satisfaction. Finding the
girls is so difficult that it could not be under
taken with any hope OF success. They are
scattered throughout the country, IN little
towns. in small cities and also in the bigger
centers of population, where their identity
is lost save to themselves and tiny circle
of acquaintance in each individual case.
Some of the girls would not wish to be found
and returned to the environment from which
they escaped. Others, no doubt, would not
return to their homes if they could because
of hurting consciences.
Whv do girls leave home? That question
would be asked very naturally. 1t is suppos-
ed that the causes are various, as they have
to be, to fit so many cases as reported tor
last year. Home environment is certain to
be a big factor in keeping a girl with her
family or drawing her out into the world
Beauty and attractiveness, to use the vernac-
ular, play no favorites. There are pretty,
sweet girls in the poor homes just as there
are in the rich ones. Playwright and au-
thor have shown how they covet pretty
things to wear pleasant surroundings, ease
and comfort They also aspire to social po-
stion as is natural for attractive young wo-
men, They read, they see motion pictures
they go to the theaters and they get in
dozen different ways glimpses of the higher
life 1t appeals to them, and they want
taste of it. Then they try their wings too
soon, and many of them fall in their flights
If reformers would get at the human side OF
this big question and learn it from its sordid
beginnings to its many tragic ends they
would find enough for their minds and hands
to do.
The port of missing girls is one in which
many frail and delicate barks have become
wreckage. Along its saddened shores there
is folsom and jetsam of humanity that in
many cases, if found could be reclaimed. 1t
were better to prevent the losses OF the fu-
ture than to try the impossible task OF re-
covering those of the past
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-05-17
Quite Different From Georgia.

The total appropriations OF the Minnesota
legislature at its recent session amounted to
$34,812,027 but of this sum it will be neces-
sary to raise only $5005027 by direct taxa
ton This will require a tax levy OF ~
mills for the year ending July 81, 1922, and
of mill for the year ending July ST. 1928,
the lowest levy in the history of the state.
The state of Minnesota derives large in
come from corporation and other taxes, its
net income from these sources during the
next two years being estimated at $26268OOO.
1t also has surplus in the state treasury
amounting to $3,5390O0
Not many states are so fortunately situated
as to derive the greater part of their income
from other sources than direct taxation. In
Georgia the tax levy is not only up to the
constitutional limit but state officials and
county boards have been created to prize
up assessments on property, and every sum-
mer the legislature makes strenuous search
for something else upon which a tax Of some
kind can be placed. It's a merry chase for
the tax-bearing animal
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-05-17
Lobbies and LOBBYISTS.

The National Republican, published in
Washington, D. c., says it is true that there
are Hobbies and lobbyists in the capital city
more of them probably than at any other
time in American history. The most power
full lobby, it asserts, is that maintained by
the American Federation of Labor, headed
by Samuel Gompers. Other 1obbies are the
Plum Plan League, various farmers organ
izations, the Anti-Saloon League, the Philip
pine independence Bureau, the organization
promoting the cause of Irish independence
and others of similar nature Various COM
mercial organizations also maintain Hobbies
in Washington. Nothing in law equity
prevents the maintenance of these Hobbies.
1t is the Washington papers view that a
lobby maintained in the open is not of it.
self menacing to the public welfare, and that
public men cannot be harmed by listening
to the representations of any organization in
behalf of any special interest so long as they
do not yield to the threats or persuasion Of
particular interests having an objective mar
rover than the general good. "Lobbes," it
adds 'are not dangerous to honest, inteli-
gent, fearless public men" Indeed, to men
Of that type Hobbies may be of assistance in
disclosing 10 tneln valuable lHIOIIldllOu Vi
in revealing to them the course OF action that
should not be taken But the trouble is that
all public men are not honest, intelligent and
fearless. Some of them are honest without
being intelligent; some of them are honest
and intelligent without being fearless some
of them are neither honest nor intelligent;
all sorts of men get into public Office. The
menace of lobbies comes from men of this
type; it is these men who yield to the per-
suasion and the threats of lobbyists. When
independently what is to the best interest Of
the people it is dangerous to the peoples
interest to have some shrewd, bold lobbyist
make up his mind for him. 1t is not safe to
allow public men to listen to the representa-
tons of the special interests or to expose
them to the threats or even the persuasion OF
lobbyists If members of Legislative bodies
could be depended upon to hold themselves
answerable to what they believe to be the best
interest of all the people all the time the pub
lie would have no reason to be uneasy be-
cause of the lobbyists who besege congress,
but all of them have not yet reached that
state OF perfection.
What is to be done about it is not clear.
1t is problem OF long standing. The best
measure of defense against lobbies probably
lies in the election of only honest, intelligent
and fearless men to public Office. Such men
can be trusted to take care of themselves
as we'll as OF the public interest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-05-17
The Presidents Middle Name.

Gamalie, the middle name of President
Harding, is not common, but it had an hon
orable ancestry. The original Gamaliel was a
Bible character. He lived in the fifteenth
century B. c.. and was one of the takers OF
the first census of the people of Israel. He
was the son of Pedahzur, and prince of the
children of Manasseh the son of Hezeklah,
whose father, Anon, was king OF Judah.
When the Lord commanded Moses to
number the children of Israel from 20 years
up that were able to go to war Gamaliel
was among those named to assist in the cen
sus. He was in the list of those of whom the
Bible says, These were the renowned of the
congregation, princes Of the tribes OF their
fathers, heads of thousands in Israel
On the eighth day OF the dedication of the
tabernacle Gamaliel's offering consisted of
one silver charger weighing 1870 sheckels, one
silver bowl of 20 shekels, after the shekel OF
the sanctuary, both filed with fine -four
mingled with oil for meat offering; one
golden spoon of ten shekels of incense; one
young bullock one ram, one lamb OF the
first year for burnt offering; one kid of
the goats for a sin offering; two oxen, five
he-goats, and five lambs OF the first year for
sacrifice or peace offering.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-05-17
The Farmer at Work.

None of the discouragements suffered by
the farmer, nor the sum total of them have
been sufficient to cause him to LAY down
in the traces"
While lot of US are grumbling about con-
ditions and a good many of us are doing
nothing the farmer is in the fields blowing
and planting. He is working as hard as ever
He has work to- do, and is doing it. This OBJ
:servation can be confirmed any day by a trip
into the country. Riding in comfortable rail
way trains or traversing the highways in
motor cars one sees on every hand the farm
ers in the fields, hard at work 1t is hard
work, too, and much of it is disagreeable. In
much Of the work of the farm there is not
much poetry-not nearly so much as some
of the city writers make out. The farmer
has to contend with cold and heat, wind and
dust long hours of labor, and other condi-
tons that extract the poetry from his exist
ence Considering his present discourage
ments he is to be commended for the courage
with which he continues to labor, and for
the hopefuneSS with which he prepares for
another harvest. He is not allowing any
grievances that he may have to dissuade him
from working. He is not undertaking to cur
wise. He is trying to do the best he can. His
example is one that some of the rest of us
might wisely emulate. If every one would
resolve to quit fussing and go to work. seek
ing to make the best of existing conditions,
and doing the best possible under present
circumstances many of the problems that are
vexing us would disappear and everyone
would be better off 1t is time for the whin-
ers to quit whining; and it is time for every
idler to take the best job available and apply
himself to it with diligence. 1t is time for
people to quit plying themselves The farm
ers have ceased to do that if they ever were
disposed to do it, and are finding happiness
and contentment in their labor. The world
will only be restored to normal by industry,
and we can all profit by the example of indus
try that the farmer is giving US. He is show
ing himself a good loser Shall the rest OF
us be poorer sportsmen than he?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-05-17
A Live Georgia Town.
From the Madisonian.

Judge town by the advertising columns
OF its newspaper. If it is packed with virile,
active up-to-date copy the town is up and
doing. If it is slinly occupied by perfume
tory cards the town is a slow, sleepy place.
The newspaper best mirrors the spirit of
its community.-Dawson News.
That's why the world knows Madison is
a live town. Just look at the columns of the
Madisonian today-two half-page drug store
ads that are contracted for at a good price
for the year-think of it-52 weeks con-
tract. Then there's a quarter page drug ad
that runs for a year Then there's half
page hardware ad that runs the year round.
Then there's dry goods ad Of a half page
that hasn't missed an issue in four years,
often using a whole page and sometimes a
double page. Then there's other half page ads
that run almost every week, and many small
er ads and some excellent foreign contracts.
Yes, sir, Madison is live town because her
cessfui business men l And Morgan @ is lust
as good county as Madison is a town.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-05-17
Artificial Stimulant Fails.

Cotton growers who participated in the hold
your cotton movement of last year have not
pro6ted thereby. The plan of the movement
was to hold cotton until the price had been
forced up to 40 cents pound. Now however,
cotton so held is being marketed at the cur
rent price, which is around 10 cents pound.
Wheat and corn growers who held their
corn and wheat last year with expectancy
of higher prices had similar experience.
1t is difficult to overcome the natural law
of supply and demand. Though the cotton
and grain were not on the market they were
known to be in existence and available, and
for that reason prices would not respond to
. any artificial stimulant