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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-11
SOUTH WILL BE
FIRST TO REBOUND
FROM THE DEPRESSION
Manufacturers Record Says South
Will Soon Be Entirely Re.
covered From Reelection
Depression.

Baltimore. The south, with its
wide variety of resources and develop
ment, will probably be the first sec
ton of the country to rebound from
the present business depression, and
it seems likely that more and larger
industrial activities tAifsaverr before
will be under way here in advance OF
any other part of the country. This is
the conclusion reached after survey
of conditions made by the Manufacture
ers Record. At this time there Is ac-
tivity in the various states in improve
ments and additions to refineries and
oil-plant facilities to take care of the
increasing quantities of crude oil COM
ing from new wells that are being
brought in, in old as well as new
fields. improvements of this nature
have ben made in the vicinity of Hum
BILE and Port Neches, Texas; Louis
vile, KY; Baton Rouge, La, and Bal
timore, while in many other cities
rapid strides are being made in plant
extensions and improvements to pipe
lines and handling equipment. Paper
manufacture bids fair to become an
important, If not leading, Southern
industry. More than dozen large
mills are under construction now or
have Just recently ben completed IN
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, North and South Carolina, Ten
nesee, Texas, Virginia and West Vir-
ginia. In addition to wood-pulp mills,
number of plants have recently been
started to make paper from sugar
cane bagasse, cotton linters, okra
stalks, etc., materials that have here
tofore been practically discarded as
waste.
While lumber manufacturing has
been greatly curtailed, there has been
small but steady buying for consump-
tive demand. Stocks are therefore be-
ing reduced, particularly in high
grades of wood, and manufacturers |
feel that within short time |
domestic and foreign buying will be
resumed in volume. While shipbuild-
ing slackened following the armistice
most of. the steel-ship plants establish
ed In the South are busy. Many have
added dry docks, floating docks or
marine railways to their equipment,
making 1t possible to handle repair
work of all kinds, and this Is keeping
many men busy and large part OF
the plant facilities in use. The de-
mand for oil tankers being construct
ed now is large, and 1t is a significant
fact that the demand is far from sat
isffed. Steel cargo carriers are being
into tankers, and many
wooden ships are being converted into
tow barges for us as oil-tank ships. A
large steel-car plant in the Birming-
ham district will shortly be completed
and placed in operation in conjunction
with a steel ship and steel fabricating
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-11
LOCAL PASTOR TO
HOLD REVIVAL.

Rev w. S. Peters. pastor of the
Third Street NJ. +. church. left this
morning for Newport where he will
assist the Rev. Il. h. Oyerley in a
series of evangelistic services at the
Grace NJ. Il. church that city.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-11

plant.
In line with this big Industrial ex-
pansion, municipal, state and county
projects are extensive. The Legisla-
lures Of several states will be called
upon In January to act upon shate-
wide highway bills, which when car
red into operation will give emplo-
ment to thousands of persons and re-
suit in the expenditure of scores Of
millions of dollars.
Barbour county West Virginia)
coal fields will be extensively devel-
opel, preliminary work having started
on tract of 5000 acres by a large
steel, corporation. Pottery manufac-
turing plants in the state and nearby
territory are operating at capacity,
and many Of them are adding to their
plants and equipment because of the
increasin gdemand for their products.
Wages remain firm. and prices for
their products steady. At Dunbar, w.
Va, one of the best equipped sheet
glass plants in the country is being
rushed to completion.
AT Monroe. La, more than 100 car
bOn-burning houses and large gaso-
line absorption plant have recently
been completed and placed in opera
ton
One of the largest flour mills in the
South has just ben completed at Ar
arillo, Texas, and the manufacture #
motors, trucks and tractors will he
undertaken at San Antonio.
From various sections of the South
come reports that plans in large num-
Der are being prepared for industrial
plants, houses, banks and Office build
ings and churches, to be started next
spring. Thus. the indications are that
within the next few months develop
ment in many lines will be well under
way increasing in volume as the year
advances.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-11

There will be lonely lot Of gallery
gods about New York now the
crowds who went regularly and early
to the Lockwood committee hearings.
Never did manager pack 'em in" as
did that committee, The same faces,
too, at every session and never trick
did they miss They were an ideal
audience. They never laughed at the
wrong place, and ALWAYS at the
right one. They never yawned and
they never walked out. 81 wouldn't
have dreamed" one girl said that
bricks and cement an dlabor unions
could be so interesting and so FUN
NY! What WILL we do now that it's
through WITH"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-11

Where a pail of smoke hangs over
an industrial city, it diminishes the
amount of sunlight by at least twenty
per cent.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-11

London schoolboys are being bribed
by bookmakers, it is said. to act as
agents in taking bets from their
schoOlmates.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-11

Ann Morris. of Coney Island, asked
for a warrant of arrest for Albert, her
husband, because he gave her dead
snake in a box for Christmas. 1t was
shock to her sensibilities as well as
to her affection, she explained.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-11
iNg!wdrk
Letter
'ALucyJaa,uaePice

New York.-Among the New Years
Eve revelers-if one NAL still speak Of
1t in that way=were Prince Mahidal,
brother Of the King of Siam, and his
bride. The Prince is studying at
Harvard and he and his wife are liv-
ing in Boston. But they seemed to
think they would have to come to
Manhattan to see real New Years
Eve. And then everyone spent the en-
tire evening explaining to them that
they couldn't Judge anything by this
year-that they fought to have known
us when"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-11

A London parrot recently laid its
first egg at the age Of thirty-siX.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-11

England has bought the years SUI
gar crop in Mauritius, amounting to
over 100000 tons for $90,OOO,OOO.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-11

There are still half a million pris-
oners of war in Germany and Russia.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-11

Will the romantic interest in Dor
othy Gish and Constance Talmadge
fall off any now that they are married
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-11

The commuters who live along the
Hudson are praying for return OF
the snow that came Christmas week
and lasted one day. No small boy with
a nc wsled Is more eager for a storm.
For on that one day, they cut three
minutes. from their committing time,
due to the bright idea of one sled-own-
ing youth. The commuters all live on
the hill that rises from the river; and
this boy organized a bobsled service
from the crest of it down to the sta
ton and persuaded one bold passen-
ger to patronize it. After that every
body did For three cents head, the
boys slid some o fthe most impressive
business men of New York City safely
to their trains.
Big freight engines packed in huge
boxes steam through Debrosses street
now. The boxes are camouflage; to
deceive the horses. There used to be
lot faccidents down there where the
shuttle engines puced back and forth,
because of frightened truck horses
So they have put the big boxes over
the locomotives and the ylook like
ordinary box cars. The horses walk
right up to them without shying and
everything is serene.
The passing Show of 1921" has
registered big success. There is a
whole series of burlesques on popular
plays of the season. "The Bat" Span
ish Love" "Lightnin' and "One." with
Harry Watson, Marie Dresler, and
Eugene and Willie Howard as the
chief funmakers. OF course there Is
chorus, of exceeding pulchritude II
not always remarkable singing voice
ANYTHING can happen in New
York; that's one of the Oldest slogans
of the New Yorld. And this is true
story. A bright, intelligent-apperang
girl at a toy department was waiting
on a man who seemed to be buying for
children galore. He finally took one
dozen Noah's Arks with all the fix
ings. "They ARE NICE said the girl
as she counted the animals to be sure
none was missing. "But wonder why
they call them by that name" why
said the, man, because of the ark
which Noah built" "Oh," she COM
mented uncertainty. Then, her desire
for information overcoming her dis
like Of admitting that she needed any
she said, 81 don't believe I ever heard
Of Noah. Would you mind telling me
who he was?'
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-17
MkAEN2N

half.heartedly accepted by historians.
The upper signature is given by DR..
II. M. Dexter in "Congregationalism
as Seen in Its Literature" (18SO) as
from book in the British museum,
believed by the experts Of that insti.
tuition to have belonged to him. This
book is a pamphlet, "a Persuasion to
the English Recusants," by John Dove,
D. D.. printed in 1902. 1t is presum-
ably by the same hand as the lower
signature, which is upon the title
page of Sir, Edwin Sandys' Relation
of the State of Religion" (LondOn,
16N5,) which belonged to the late
Charles Deane of Cambridge. 1t was
supposed that John Robinson once
owned the treatise OF the new au-
thentic signature the London Graphic
says:
1.-THE Leyden deed signed by John
Robinson. of whose autograph DR..
Eekhof is assured, refers to a debt
acknowledged by Robinson, Thomas
Brewer, and William Jepson--the lat
ter being also well-known members Of
the Pilgrim community. Brewer pos
SesSed money and position, and, jointly
with another, set up a printing press
in Leyden. Jepson is described as a
carpenter and merchant. They cove
nanted to pay seven hundred and forty
four guilders by a certain date. A
later ENTRY confirms the fact that the
debt was discharged before the period
mentioned. In the second document,
dated week before the Pilgrim
fathers left Holland in the Speedwell,
William Bradford authorized two of
his friends who remained behind to
collect one hundred carolus guiders
which were owing to him as mort
gage by Leyden citizen.
'Dr. Eekhof's discovery also dis.
closed the will of John Robinson's
widow. This was drawn up eighteen
years after the Pilgrim fathers
pastor had passed away. She re.
manned In the city. and at the time
of her death had four children, to
whom she devised her belongings, To
each and all she bestowed something
of value. Her son Isaac had gone out
to New England with the Pilgrims,
had married and settled there. To
his wife his mother bequeathed the
long cloak and skirt Of black cloth Of
appearer.' To the son, who was a
doctor in England, was given his
fathers Rhemish Testament.
"Dr. Plooij, Of Leyden, and DR..
Rendel Harris, Ryland's library, Man
chester. have also collabcrated in
other researches. They have issued a
facsimile edition Of those portions Of
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-17
ASK INSPECTION
ON ALL PRODUCE
Anyone Concerned in Interstate
Shipment May Request Fed
era| Certificate.
INSPECTOR IS Trained Man
MANY Causes of Disputes, Costly Law
suits and Lasting Dissatisfaction
Are Removed-Buyer and
Seller Satisfied.

prepared by the United States Department
Of Agricuture.)
There are few shippers Of produce
who have not suffered at some time
the discontinue Of receiving word
from the other end of the line that
their carload arrived in bad condition,
due to poor grading, careless packing,
frost damage, overripeness, rot, break
age, mold, disease or any one OF half
a dozen other kinds of injury.
Every instance of this sort means
money loss and the shipper wonders
sometimes whether the produce really
arrived in bad order or whether some
INSCRIPTIONS dealer possibly seized up
on a trihing excuse to reject the ship
ment because it was received on a
falling market, or sought preteXt TO
depreSS its value or to gloss over a
sale made at what seemed unduly low
prices.
Condition Determined on Arrival.
If really damaged, the shipper wants
to know to what amount. Was the
whole load affected? What was tbe
actual condition on arrival? Was the
loss due to bad handling and packing
or to delay or neglect by the trans
p0rtati0n company or by the receiver?
Was the cause a disease which may
develop also in the rest of the crop?
Some of these questions interest the
receiver and the railways, as well as
the shipper or producer. No one cares
to assume blame and incur loss for
what happened to the produce while
it was in the hands of others. How
can all these questions be settled with.
out undue expense or delay?
Since the establishment of the fed
eral inspection service three years ago
by the bureau of markets and crop
estimates Of the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture, the answer is
comparatively simple. Telegraph to
the federal inspector in the nearest
large city, asking him to report on the
shipment" He is a trained man, with
considerable experience in handling
produce, a competent and certified
judge of grades and condition.
The inspectors verdict is commonly
accepted by dealers and shippers and
by courts, railways and express com.
panies. With the shipment officially
inspected, all parties concerned have
learned all that it is practicable to
know about its exact condition and
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-17
AL71zz1U2T NE1yazu7F|
NEY RQRLJlY 3

the official Betrothal Book at Leyden
which relate to the Pilgrim fathers.
These are Of real historic value. he
cause they supply legal particulars re-
specting the betrothals and marriages.
First there is the date Of the betrothal
and later of the marriage itself and
the names Of the officiating magis.
trates." ... 3 ...
A document relating to William
Bradford was also found by the Ley
den professor, and these three created
sensation among those who had
gathered at Leyden this summer to
pay their tributes to the founders. In
the Boston Transcript, George H. Sar-
gent presents translations Of these
documents made by A. J. F. Van Laer,
state archivist of New York, and aul-
thority on Dutch notarial documents.
The task Of translation was not easy,
as it is said:
"The document which bears the
Robinson signature is an acknowleg-
ment of Indebtedness, given by Brewer,
Robinson, and Jepson in behalf Of
Seigneur lehan de Lalaing for the sum
of seven hundred and forty-four gull
ders, thirteen stiverS, and three pence
on account of several years accumu-
lated interest, the last due on May
day. 1921. The three subscribers
promise to pay this on May day. 1921,
without. further delay. this agreement
being drawn up by the notary and
signed on January 2, 1921, at his office
on The Breestraat, in the presence of
the notary's clerk, Jan Jacobsz. van
Tethrode and Willem COrnelsz. Ket,
a farm-or 'buryman' Of the manor of
Riiinsburch. :"
The late George Frtsbie HOar,
United States Senator from Massa.
chusettS and a descendant of Roger
Sherman, a signer Of the Declaration
of Independence. tells in his Auto.
biography of Seventy Years" (19O3)
how he recovered the history by vii.
liam Bradford. the second governor,
containing the Mayfower Compact.
Just how it got to England nobody
knows, but for more than century
it had reposed in the library of the
bishop of London at Fulham palace.
Senator Hoar armed himself with let.
tiers of Introduction in 1896 and made
a respectful demand on DR.. Temple,
then bishop Of London.
DR.. Temple agreed that the precious
manuscript ought to be restored to
American custody, but suggested that
the request should be referred to the
Archbishop of Canterbury and Queen
Victoria. So Senator Hoar returned to
America and inspired the drafting Of
formal request for the return of the
manuscript in the name Of the
antiquarian and historical societies.
Dr. Temple had in the meantime be.
come Archbishop Of Canterbury and
gave his assistance, with the result
that the precious manuscript now re.
poses IN the library Of the state house
Of Massachusetts.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-17
AToNEmENT?

When William Butler Yeats was q
boy, his family moved from Dublin to
Bedford Park, as he relates In the
DIAL Yeats says, incidentally, that he
was not much Of a churchgoer, but
that he must have gone few times
because he remembers very clearly q
wooden sign which hung in the church
porch: THE congregation are re-
quested to kneel during prayers; the
kneelers are afterwards to be hung
upon pegD provided for the purpooa.s
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-17
Inspector Determining the Condition
Of Shipment of Potatoes.

grade, and many causes of trouble
some disputes, costly lawsuits and last
ing dissatisfaction are removed. The
Inspectors certificate removes fully
half Of the sources of worry and un-
certainty and narrows the market
question down chiefly to a matter Of
craftsmanship.
Anyone financially concerned in the
shipment may ask for inspection. II
there is trouble over the produce, or
If there is merely the wish to avoid
possible difficulty later on, the appli.
cant writes or telegraphs to the United
States food products inspection sery-
Ice, bureau Of markets and crop est.
mates, in the city where the car is to
be received.
Certificate az Evidence.
The idea Of official inspection Is to
provide a reliable, disinterested report
as a basis for settling disputes regard.
Ing quantity, quality, grade or condi-
ton. No matter who asks for It or
who pays the bill, whether producer
dealer or railway, the other party may
have a copy Of the report. If the
shipper and dealer can not agree or
If there is damage claim against a
transportation company which results
In a suit, the certificate Is prima facie
evidence In the federal courts on the
points which It covers.
The request for inspection should
tell where the car may be found and
the number, and should give also the
main facts about the contents, calling
attention to any special point as to
grade, quality or condition.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-17
COAL STILL SUPREME.

Even II It were possible to develop
and utilize at once every possible
economic waterpower resource in
America, the total energy thus made
available would replace only a small
part Of the horsepower now derived
every year from coal. While develop
ment Of water power Is important, ex-
perts point out that coal will remain
the principal source to which the
country must look for development
e power fadliueA
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-17

on the backs Of camels from the shores
OF Syria to the Indus banks. Those
ships must have been smaller craft
IMAM now compete at Henley regatta,
and the fleets Of both monarchs could
have been comfortably stored in the
hold OF one Of Great Britain's present.
DAY 'eviathan cargo boats But the
little rude ships Of those far.otr ages
must not be despised. They were the
seeds OF an industry destined to be one
OF the greatest factors In the prog.
ress Of civilization. Whitehall Ga.
Zette.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-17
IN ADVANCE OF THEIR AGE

There are many tragic stories Of
men who made great discoveries be-
fore their time. Their inventions
perished, only to be rediscovered and
used In later ages. Archimedes, who
lived more than two thousand years
ago, designed and made a steam
engine which really worked. His idea
did not catch on, and the world had
to wait twenty centuries until steam,
raising the lid Of a kettle, led James
Watt to redisc0ver an old invention.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-17


this thin film Of rust and becomes
rrsf black and then red. In the 1000
years since man discovered how to
undo Iron rust and get the metal out
OF It ne has accomplished more than
IN the millions Of years before. To
save q pound Of iron from corrosion
today Is as much benefit to the world
as to produce another pound from the
one; In fact, a greater benefit, since
It takes four pounds Of coal to pro.
duce one pound Of steel, and 80 coal
beds will be exhausted before the beds
q Iron on
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-17
Worlds Greatest Tunnel

In the Simplon tunnel under the
Alps, which Is by far the greatest tun.
mel in the world, the Quantity Of water
flowing out Of the southern end, from
the many veins encountered in the
heart Of the mountain. amounted to
$4,000 gallons a minute, and fur.
ntshed sufficient power to compress
the air by which the drills were
worked. and to refrigerate the tunnel.
The necessity for refrigeration may
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-17
Semiramls' "FIeet,"

We learn that Semiramis, Assyria's
lmperious queen, 1865 B. c.. had a feet
OF 5000 ships, with which she con.
quered the fleet Of Staurobates. 1900
strong, at the mouth Of the Indus. But
our wonder Is abated when We learn
that the fleet Of Semiramis was carried
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-17
FEEDING TESTS !
Mixture Of Bran,
Scrap and Corn
for Produels

AS a result Of eist
tests at the United
Of Agriculture poult!
vile, Nd, a mash hs
pounded which give
egg production. This
been tested for thr0
Of 4 per cent bran
dlings, 20 per cent
e6 per cent cornmea |
ments the hens were
their own mash insN
the proportion Of thM
which they ate O
Several pens Of 80 -
Leghorns and Of Rhs
have averaged from
apiece while this mas
the mash seems to be 4
ed for Leghons, II
good results with
and Plymouth ROCKS
get too fat on the ran
somewhat lower IN II
given better results w
Both the WyandollS
Rocks at Beltsyille are
sized fowls. The tenot
overfat on this ma@ !
not be found in q
Plymouth Rocks @ '.'|
found on commeFc'''
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-17
Gravel Floors.

Don't worry because you don't have
q cement floor IN your poultry house.
Gravel or good grade Of dry earth
makes a perfectly satisfactory floor,
providing 1t is filled in to be a foot or
more higher than the surrounding sur.
face and dry at all times of year.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-17
Iron White at First.

It is a good thing for our sense Of
sight that iron rust is red, not white.
like zinc md aluminium. metals much
like Iron in chemical properties. Other.
wise leaves and flowers would all be
white and men and women like walk.
Ing corpses. Yet iron In its pure state
Is soft, ductile and white like silver.
Few Of US have ever seen It so, be.
cause as soon a. It comes IN contact
With the air It shyly wells itself with