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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
MASS MATERIAL
BEING GATHERED
On German Raw Materials, PrOduc'
tivity, Labor, Wages And Coun-
try's Financial Status.

BERLIN, Nov. 23.---A vast mass
Of material on German raw materials,
productivity, labor, wages and the
country's financial status is being ga
tehered by the members Of the Guar
antics Commission, the subcommittee
Of the Reparations Commission now
in Berlin.
Almost daily consultations are be-
ling held with various government
officials as we'll as financial and in
dustrial leaders as to the prospects
of Germany meeting her $100,000,0OO
gold installment to the Allied pow
ers on January Is and in some Of
these conferences, Roland W. Boyden
and Col. James A. Logan, the unoffi-
cial American representatives, are
having part. The second Of four
installments, another $100,000,00O is
due next April.
The commissioners are expected to
remain here until December ] when
they will 90 back to Paris to report
to the full Reparations Commission.
One of the most important phases OF
their investigation has been currency
initiation and the decline Of the mark.
II is interesting to note that since the
reparations payments began last May
the outstanding paper money circu-
lation in Germany jumped from 65,-
724. .4O3, 900 marks to 9l,347, 7,l0l, ,UUu
marks for the week ending October
81.
A comparison with pre-war issues
shows even more pronouncedly the
extent Of initiation. For instance, in
the week ending July 25, 1912, the
paper money issue aggregated only
/ .O04 ,26o, 900 marks. The same week
Of 1918 it was 1926, $780, 900 marks
and in 1914 it was 1880, ,893, 900. The
week of November 6, 1916 1t had
Jumped to 7,246,260,000. The same
week year later it was 10,4O3, ,740,-
o00 marks and two years later it had
gone to 16,959, 100000. The week q
Nav "a. 1919 it was 27,286, ,48O, ,o00
and the same week in 1920 It reached
49. .127, $4,000 marks.
4 recent statement by DR.. Fried
r;ch Rosen. former Foreign Minister,
that the amount of German properly
sonuestrated In various countries -
sufficient to meet her reparations OBJ
iigations has been the subject Of dis,
cussions. The United States at one
time possessed $150,0o0,000 worth Of
property belonging to the German
government.
Representations by Df. 5erll.laru ..,s Y
Dernburg that only ian indetermln-
ate moratorium can save Germany
from ruin are also being looked iiito
a well as the recent negotiations
here between Baron Anthony koths-
child Of London and German bankers
regarding a proposed loan of $0ov,-
000. 900. In three per cent 35-year
bonds with amortization provisions.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
Program Of County
Teachers Association

Mr.. r. H. Hester, president Of the
Leflore County Teachers Association
has issued the following program foi
the meeting of the association which
will be held in Greenwood on Decem'
ber 3rd.
minimum Professional Require
ments," by Mr.. G. M. Anderson.
Extra Curricula Work." by Mr.. W.
M. Keithley.
"Plan for the work for the Leflore
County Teachers Association" by Mr.
R. H. Hester.
On the program there will also be
three minute talks by the principals
Of each school on the needs OF his
school.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
ANTI BEER BILL
SIGNED TODAY
Under New Bill No More Beer Can
Be Prescribed As Medicine by
Physicians.
Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-The anti
medical beer bill was signed today by
the president. The signature on the
bill on which congressional actions
We're completed last Friday automat-
ieally closed the gap In the nations
prohibition laws which was revealed
last March by Attorney General Pal
mer in the opinion that there was
in the Volstead act TO pre-
clude prescription beer as medicine.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
Political Prisoners
Fight The Wardens
Associated Press

GALWAY, Ireland, Nov. 23.--For-
ty political prisoners confined to pri-
son here rushed the wardens today
while fire Of uncertain origin was
in progress, seized the keys and bar
ricaded themselves with six other
wardens in another part Of pris-
on. Five policemen and five pri-
soners were injured in the ensuing
fight after the fire was brought nm
der control.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
EXTRA SESSION
MAY END TODAY
House Is Marking Time Waiting The
Senate To Declare Business
Finished.
Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Nov 49, Sine die
adjournment of Congress Is expected
to be taken tonight bringing to an
eud the extra session called on April
18th. The Senate had agreed TO vote
late today on the tax bill and with
this out Of the way, is prepared to
adjourn. The House is marking time
awaiting the Senate to declare the
business finished. The regular ses-
sion will be convened in December.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
Thanksgiving Service
Presbyterian Church

Union Thanksgiving services of the
Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and
Christian churches will be held at the
Presbyterian church tomorrow morn
ing at 10 o'clock. DR.. j. w. Storer,
pastor Of the First Baptist church,
will deliver the Thanksgiving SER
mon.
Special music will be rendered by
members Of the choirs of these
churches and everyone is cordially
invited to attend this service.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
Caucasus In Deep
Need Quantity Bread

BAKU, Nov. 23.~-The Caucasus is
as badly off for bread as greater
Russia, despite the wheat from Turk
estan and the rice shipments from
Persia but il still has plenty of tea
and wine. The tea comes from the
imperial plantations near Batum, on
the Black Sea and the wine from the
vineyards of upper Georgia and these
near here. The Tartars Of this vicin-
ity are forbidden wine by their reli-
gion but they make fine mead from
honey and unfermented grape wine.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
Sentenced And Fined
Violating Trust Law


NEW YORK, Nov. 23,--F. H.
Noble, Arthur shilstone and Albert
Schaile, members Of the Tile, Crate
and Manufacturers and Dealers As
sociation, who were among those who
pleaded guilty Of violating the Sher-
man Antitrust law last week, were
sentenced today to four months in
Jail and fined 100000 each. Her
man Petri, another member Of the
association, was sentenced to two
months in Jail and fined $S500,00.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
Tomorrow Last Chance
To Enroll I'm Red Cross

Tomorrow will be your last chance
to enroll in the Red Cross this year.
If you have not joined, see some one
Of the committee and do SO tomorrow.
you surely want to get in line with
the rest.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
Ford Touring Car Is
Stolen Last Night

A Ford Touring Car, license No.
24,996 and Motor No. 3420705, belong
ing to e. X. Myriek was taken from
in front Of Myrick's garage some
time last night. 1t was second hand
car. Up until noon today no trace
had been found Of the car.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
Churches win Support
Limitation Armament
Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-DecIar-
ing "lions still in the way" the Fed
eral council Of the Churches Of Christ
in America issued a call to its mem
bers to call its member churches to-
day TO continue their efforts to con-
solidate public opinion in the sup
port of the limitation Of armament.
Steps have been taken it is said to
secure active cooperation Of the
church leaders Of other countries
in the campaign.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
| Guard Fires On Men
| AT Door Of Mail Car
Associated Press

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 23.-Private
Wesserman, of the United States Ma
rine Corps, guarding the Baltimore &
Ohio mail train en- route to PITTS
burgh early today, fired on two men
discovered at the door of the mail
car. One escaped and the other was
captured.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
Charles Moran viii
Coach Centre College


BOSTON, Nov. 23.--Word receiv-
ed from the Centre College Athletic
Association today stated that Charles
Moran had signed contract as foot
ball coach for another season.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23

Greenwood is the best merchandise
market in the Delta. The stocks car
ried BY our merchants are the most
complete TO be found anywhere ana
The prices are right These induce
ments should be convincing to q sane
'uying public.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
Forecast For Tomorrow
Unsettled Weather
Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.---Unset-
tied weather with a strong probabil-
ity for rain over the eastern half Of
the country, Is the forecast by the
weather bureau for Thanksgiving
day.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
To Settle Senatorial
Contest I'm January
Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. = The
Senate agreed today to dispose Of
the Ford -Newberry senatorial cleo
ton contest early in January.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23

As cotton market, Greenwood has
no superior. Our buyers know their
business, and you can rely on getting
fair treatment at all times.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
LOCAL OBSERVATIONS

LUIAL UB6Eh n EIUIN5
For the period ending 8 pm yes
terday.
TEMPERATURE: maximum 50 de-
grees; minimum AT degrees; rainfall
600; river gauge III, rise 0.3.
Frank Abbstt, Local Observer.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1921-11-23
THE WEATHER

X X X X X 4 X X Il X II X X u:
FOR MISSISSIPPI - Cloudy to-
night and Thursday, probably rain;
near the coast fresh northeast winds.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1921-01-12
eruesome Paving.

Tombstones have been employed In
Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincoln
shire and Lancashire, England,
for purposes of paving, and some years
ago the inhabitants of the Vale of Bel
voir raised vehement protest against
such stones being used as pathway
leading to the parish church. The To-
cal authorities, however, sought to JUS
tify the measure on the ground that
there were plenty of old gravestones
on hand, which, If used, might result
in a saving Of taxes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1921-01-12
Barrel RacinG,

Barrel racing is a favorite amuse.
ment among the workmen in suburb
Of London. Some forty cellar men,
coopers and others competed in one
race of this description. Then follow
ed a double-barreled race, the men en-
gagged being obliged to push before
them two empty barrels instead of one
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1921-01-12
Puritans Used No Wedding RIno

The Puritans Of the seventeenth
century used no ring at the wedding
ceremony, as they considered it "a
pagan symbol and superstitious con-
trivance" All they required was that
the man and woman should join
hands when stating their purpose to
live together In wedlock.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1921-01-12
STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF
SECURITY STATE BANK

located Manchester in the County OF De
Of of December, A. d. 1871
RESOURCES. a.,
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
70 Raise Rate of Interest.

TO kaISG RARE OF BHGCFSSSs
North Carolina is headed for an
eight per. cent interest rate if the
sentiment of the banking and cur
rency committee of the house, after
hearing the bankers is any indication
of what the legislative body will do
with the WOltz contract bill.
Bankers and some farmers, owners
of bank stock, declared to the COM
mittee that the business life of the
state demands the law. More than
one hundred millions of money has
gone out Of the state recently because
it will earn more than the legal six
per cent in North Carolina Fifty
millions of this went from Tar Heel
banks, according to the February re-
port of Bank Examiner Mitchell.
Insurance companies which have
heretofore been liberal lenders in the
state have been forced to withdraw
for a higher rate, the committee was
Informed.
Among the resolutions adopted
here few days ago by the farmers
union was one calling on the general
assembly not to disturb the present
six per cent law.
There is much sentiment behind
tho Hill Hcr-~--~~
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
some interesting Legislation.


Among the measures introduced III
the assembly, the Monroe bill proVlo'>
ing for the state registration or mar
riage and divorces, in the same man
ner as it now registers births ana
deaths, was perhaps the most inter
esting. Registers of Deeds still nave
the business Of issuing the actual IL
cense. but the license, together with
the certification of marriage must De
filed with the Bureau of Vital Sta
tistics. The measure is sponsored
bv the State Board of Health
An echo of the story of Sarah Wye
kofr. who served ~ years in the state
prison for murder that another con-
fessed on his deathbed, led to the IN
PRODUCTION of the Leach bill providing
for the reimbursement of any person
imprisoned who is later able to dem
.onstrate his innocence. The law is to
be administered by a board, OF when
the Governor is head. Reimburse
ment is to be made, after 1ndubltaple
proof of innocence is adduced, upon a
basis of his earnings at the time he
was imprisoned.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Worn Down, out CT Heart
Georgia Lady, Wor-Out and 1Ued, Tells How She
Was Helped BY ZiT0n Iron Tonic.

1--WE heard of Ziron, and from what
I read, | was sure it wouldn't hurt me,
if it didn't help me. But after taking
it, I found it really helped me, and l
sent back for more. I ate better, felt
much stronger. I am sure Ziron is
a splendid tonic"
Many people, who are worn down and
disheartened, due to stomach disorders
and nervous ills, find relief by toning
I'D their blood with Ziron Iron Tonic.
Tell your druggist you want to try
Ziron on our money-back guarantee,
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24

~HE personal experience OF Mrs.
Mamie Phillips, Of Powder
Springs, Ca, is printed below in
her own words:
"I was in a WORKOUT condition. My
stomach was out of order. didn't
sleep we'll. I was tired all the time.
I couldn't half eat, and didn't rest
well at night. g
''I would get out Of heart and blue.
! would feel like I was going to be
down in bed. Yet / kept dragging
around.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Pritchard Much Indisposed.

Friends of Judge J. c. Pritchard
will regret to know that his condition
is such as to cause considerable ap-
prehension. Judge Pritchard return
ed to his home a few days since, af-
ter spending several weeks at the
Mission hospital For a time it ap-
peared that his health had materially
improved. For the past two or three
days, however, he has suffered great
ly and he is confined to his bed.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Current Consumers Preparing.

Current CONSUMERS Preparing.
Consumers of Southern Powers
current are preparing themselves for
any jolt or shock that the corporation
commission may give by hearkening
to the petition of that corporation to
raise it's hydro-electr1crates.
The consumers have prepared bill
which has not been introduced and it
is designed to protect consumers
pending final settlement of an appeal
from the commissions ruling. The
corpora tim commission has not yet
taken the Southern Powers case I'M
der advisement.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Hydraulic Laboratory Needed.

Hydraulic Laboratory Needed. 800
Predicting the day when the South
will no longer find it necessary to
send her potential hydraulic engineers
to eastern universities for fir
1shed education, Major Warren F.
Hall, in charge of the Asheville office
of the United States Geological sur
vey, announced plains on foot to
create at the University of North Car
DINA the only hydraulic laboratory SO
far contemplated in the South.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24

this city, was chairman of the COM
nnittee. -
Rev. William Freas, of New York,
secretary of the Inner Mission board
of the United Lutheran church of
America, was present at the confer
ence.
The inner mission is Christian social
service, it was explained.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Opposed to Prison Removals

Governor Morrison and his cabinet,
in conference practically decided to
oppose the removal of the Central
prison to the newly purchased prop
erty situate where Camp Polk was
located during the war.
The governor entertains grave fears
that if the Central prison were re-
moved and the strong walls surround
ing the penitentiary torn down the
state would have no way to protect
it's prisoners from mob violence. The
Central prison is safe.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
North Carolina Ranks Seventh.

North Carolina Ranks Seventh.
North Carolina ranks seventh of the
cotton states, and Robson county
ranks first in this. state. Of the H.
$4,000 bales produced in the United
States 839,94O or 6.5 per cent was pro-
duced in North Carolina. Robson
county produced 6O,314 bales, or 10
per cent of the states crop. Johnston
ranks second (38,538) and Sampson
third (33,341) according to the sta
tistics just released by the coopera-
tive crop reporting service.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Time of Lawmakers Flying.

More than one third of the consti-
tutional sixty days for the work of
the legislature have passed with the
major portion of the work of the ses-
sion ahead of the lawmakers. 1t ap-
pears inevitable now for both branch
es to stay here overtime.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Would Exempt County Bonds.

Senator Woodson has introduced a
bill giving the State Board of Educa-
ton the right to establish, upon petit
ton, school districts with boundaries
coincident with the boundaries of
cities, towns, or townships. Senator
Carpenter offered a bill making the
bonds and notes of counties exempt
from taxation.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Inner-MissiOn Men
Meet in Gate City

A meeting of the Inner Mission
committee of the North > Carolina
Lutheran church was held in Greens.
boro Friday. Rev. P. D. Brown OF
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

come or would have been carted away by soms
conscientious municipal employee and hurled
onto some municipal trash heap. But that
didn't happen. The late H. Van Wort Steers,
an inspector Of the Police Department, WHO'S
ancestors fought in the Revolution, saw the
stone lying in the dirt He had the proper
respect for old age and ordered the stone
hauled to the West 152nd Street police station.
where it was dumped into cobwebby base
nent. Police Inspector Steers and everybody
else then forgot about it for exactly five years.
Mrs. Holland, the only living daughter Of
the police Inspector, moved to the section in
which she now lives forty-ive years ago. The
section was then known as Carmansville. At
one time the old Carman farm had been 10.
Gated somewhere in the vicinity of Mrs. Hol-
lands present home. The Carmans were in
dustrious, thrifty folk and the "ville" with
which they were afterward honored was in
recognition of such industry and thrift. Car.
Evansville, to be exact, lay between 135th
and 160th streets, or between Manhattanville
and Fort Washington. Mrs. Holland remem-
bers passing the old milestone at its original
site when she travelled up and down the Bos-
ton Post Road by stage.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

folded lengthwlse, and this strip folded again
into four so that only the denomination of the
bill shows, it is almost impossible to tell
whether the figure is two or a fve-par-
ticularly in the confusion of a crowd and the
dim light of torch. The operator keeps q
81 bill folded in this manner concealed in his
palm. A SIS bill is given him to change.
He holds it in his hand, absentmindedly
folding it as the So bill is folded.
'I'm sorry, brother" he says. an have
to go and get change for that. Hold the bill!
while I'm gone" And he hands back the
So BILL and goes off. In moment he is back.
"Here you are" says he, giving you dollar
bill and your change-the correct change for
q So BILL
THAT was ive" you protest.
"No-S2 bill-you've got it in your hand
look at it," In this case he will probably
not hold out any of your change.
However, unless he is bored and in search
of excitement the high-pitch man considers
such tricks as these beneath his dignity. He
prides himself on being a super r-salesman. All
the experts IN crowd psychology do not occupy
professors chairs. Many man would have
been called from his selling on the streets into
a classroom but for the fear that he would
be unable to resist the temptation to sell his
class the blackboard chalk for shoe cleaner
at 10 cents per half piece. A good high
pitch man could do it! You never buy what
those men sell. What you buy is the sales
talk!
Ii you really want to learn how to get a
prospects attention, how to appeal to mans
cupidity, to make him desire a bargain that
is 20 bargain, how to gloss over the weak
points in your merchandise and concentrate
the buyers attention on the strong ones, elbow
into the crowd that surrounds the next streey
merchant you pass. The lesson may cost
quarter, but you will see the naked bones OF
all sales principles stripped clean of all unes-
sentials, and demonstrated in a liveer fashion
than any textbook can initiate. If you are too
dignified to do this, Bailey let slip the great
secret when | confded to him that | was
tempted, some time in the future, to try my
hand at a high pitch layout.
"Humph!' said he, taking another dollar.
Better start while you're young and have
the pep"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

asks. AS if one could ever forget it. This
firm made me take it off,
The high-pitch mans language, he told me,
was invented by three-card monte men to ex-
change confidential comments in a crowd.
"Atchwa ANNA eftla!' Sounds like part of
the CATER, doesn't it? But it means, "Watch
the man at the left" Each word is made up
by transposng the first letter or two to the
end, and adding GA 1t is seldom spoken
now that street gambling is all but extinct and
crowds more sophisticated. 1t is like the
gentle art of short changing and other "gyp-
artist" tactics The modern high-pitch man
knows them, but does not practice them He
is too good salesman to need to take the
risk.
Even so, it is as well to be on guard against
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

| charged him with profiteeYing. He was not
~ the least abashed.
Amt my spiel worth 40 cents?" said he.
Considered as vaudeville, l think it was.
Besides, she had seen his scarf pin. He con-
ilded to me once he had had it made for a
belt buckle. At least, it was an initial an
inch wide and fully an inch and half high,
set with eighteen large diamonds. 1t would
be seen hundred yards off in any weather
and heard above the noise of traffic When
Bailey had his shoes shned the colored bows
used to WELD the brush reverently and wor
ship. That pin spelled success He was a
king among high pitch men. Poor fellow. he',
selling oil stock now and getting rich, but he
speaks regretfully of the old days, the crowd.
and, do you remember my stick pin?" he