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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-02

The National League of Women Voters answers these questions in the affirm mative. At it's recent conYen- ton in Cleveland a resolution was adopted urging gupon the Presid ent and Congress. that they do their ut most to secure cooperation with other governments for the reduction of ornaments at the earliest possible time"
 Miss Mabel Washburn. president of the Connecticut League of Women Voters, has received letter from Miss Katharine Ludington, regional director for the New England States. and a member of the national execu- tive board. which tells of the recent
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-02

the guests Of the board at lunch and will take part in the discussions of legislation and citizenship. The or ganizations so represented are the following. Jewish Council of Wom- en, Mrs. Milton Simon, Hartford; 1;
 Council of Catholic Women, Miss Vic toria A. Larmour, Bridgeport; w, c. T. U-. Mrs Mary B. Wilson, Hart ford; Congress of Mothers, Mrs. I'M. Builard. New Haven't Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Mrs. Mary T. Seymour, Hartford: Association of Collegiate Alumnae, Dean Irene Nye
 New London; Connecticut League of Girls Clubs. Hartford. The meeting
 est Wells. Hartford The meeting
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-02
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF STATE
 FOR DISARMAMENT

.EIs it possible at this time to bring about reduction Of armaments throughout the world2 Can the Uni. ted States take the initiative in thu matter? Can the women Of the country help to bring this about7
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-02

The Kiwanis club will entertain
 members of the G. A. R. at a lunch con at The StratfeId today. Follow ing the luncheon the entertainerse and their guests will motor to the Fitch Home for Soldiers at Noroton, where the Kiwanfans will put on an entertainment for the 300 inmates as a feature of the annual G. A. R. day.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-02

will be held at the Business and Pro. fessfonaI Women's club in New Ha- ven.
The Washington times., 1921-05-15
AERO MAIL DEATHS /
. SHOW BIG INCREASE
More Fatalities During Past
Year Than in First ~
Months of Service.

There were more fatalities in the
air mail service during the past year
than in 49, first two years of the serv-
ice. 1t 3 announced by the Post
office 4 .artment yesterday. Thir-
teen pilots, fve mechanic and one Of
fcial were killed during the past
twelve months.
Seven of the fatalities were due to
detective mechanism OF the type OF
airplanes formerly employed. but which
have recently been discarded. The
establishment of the tai
route greatly Increased the hazards
of the service. and was responsible
for several DEATHS the department
stated.
COST sl.e1 PER MILE.
During the past year the air mail
service covered 1,313,379 miles with
mail. 1t carried I.O16.O53 pounds of
mail, which amounted to 40, 0O2. / 30
letterA The pilots completed rs per
cont Of their trips. The average cost
this year has been $1.02 a mile.
The loss Of lives. says the re-
Fort. is q distressing feature of the
development OF aerial navigation.
Every effort is being made by the
air mail authorities to develop de-
vices and airplane mocha nism which
will prevent as far as possible these
unfortunate accidents. Every great
advance in science more or less pays
it's toll of human life"
AVERAGE Is GOOD.
The air mail service will be three
years old tomorrow. According TO the
report, 1t has a general average OF 90
FER cent of the trips completed dur
ing April. 1921. when the worst
weather of the year prevailed. vio-
lent snowstorms and dense fogs were
encountered in the mountain regions.
The New YorkWashington route
has completed eight consecut tive
weeks without mishap.
The Washington times., 1921-05-15
BAPT|STS
SHOW l73,395GAIN
Total Contributions for Church
Work During Year Amount
To $34,081 ,032.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, May H.
Bap sisms in the local churches AZ
niiated with the Southern Bsptis.
convention during the past year, OF
173,3sS brought the total msmbership
Of those churches to SIN, 0oS, accord
ing to q report to the annual con-
vention today. There are 20, 40 sun
day Schools In these churches Wit
1,see. 80 pupils, and the total con-
tributious OF the churches to local
and general causes amounted to 434,.
sS1 .032.
Doubling In value Of the hospital
PROPERTY owned by Southern Bapusts
during the past year was reported
BY the hospital committee, part of
this increase being due to the erec-
ton of four new hospitals but the
larger portion to improvements At In
situations already in operation, South
ern Baptists now own and operate
seventeen hospitals. IL was report ed.
while sites have been secured and
appropriations made for seven 9TH
ors that will cost more than $4,000, 900.
Birmingham was given the new
Of the Baptist women's
Missionary Union late Friday after q
spectacular race with Nashville.
The Washington times., 1921-05-15
KEEP PARKSCLEAN,
BOARD ASKSPEOP[E
Don't Deface Trees or Bushes or
Set Fires, Trade Board
ApOeal Saws.

The committee on national parks
and reservations. of the Board of
Trade, has appealed to the people to
aid In maintaining the beauty and en-
joyment OF the park system.
c. s. Bundy. chairman Of the com
mittee, has sent the following recon-
mendations to Col. c. o. Sheriff., su-
perintendent Of public buildings and
grounds:
"First, to exercise the most extreme
care in avoiding setting fires In any
part of the park.
Second, in appealing to and eau
tioning boys who frequent the park
against hacking or in the slightest
degree defacing any growing tree or
bush or underground and immediate
ly reporting instances discovered OF
such injury or DETACHMENT, and that
the Boy Scout organization be espe-
cially requested to instruct every
scoutmaster to caution his troop
against this form of depreciation.
Third, that an appeal be made to
the public in general that in visit
ing and enjoying the parks care be
exercised to avoid leaving papers or
debris of any character lying on the
ground, and to deposit all such art
icles in receptacles provided therefor
at various designated points"
The Washington times., 1921-05-15

iisvsd that this 10 the nrst time that
= tree has ever been formally planted
In America ~ . memorial to . poet.
Alan seeser was born In New York
city on June 70. 1855. In 1913 he
y ent TO France to live and immedi-
,ately after the war broke out enlisted
In the French Foreign Legion. 1t
vas duriag . charge his battalion
made At Beiloy n-Santsrre on July
4, 1915 during the battle of he
Scmme, that, Alan Seegcr fell MORALLY
wounded. Alan Sesgsr was the au-
thor Of "Poems.' published In 1918.
and Letters and Diary lin 1917. His
best known poems are II Have A
Rendezvous With Death" "Ode In
The Washington times., 1921-05-15
FAILS TO HIDE
DOOR OF CORN LIQUOR

Danville, Va, May 14--John Flood,
negro. was fined $25 for camou-
tagging liquor as coffee and passing
1t into the Jail where his brother,
Wise. Flood. is serving a term for
violating the Mann act. The jailer
examining the basket containing
food and drink was struck 10y the
odor OF coffee" and had little diff
Guilty in determining that It was
pint of corn lightly tinged with
coffee.
The Washington times., 1921-05-15
WRITERS TO PLANT TREE
FOR MARTYRD WAR POET

=. NEW YORK. May 1l.-on next
1'ussday the writers Club will plant
. : memorial tree in Washington
Square Park In honor OF the late Alan
Sesger, the young American poet.
who was killed in action while serv-
Ing with the foreign legion during
tie world war.
sesgsr was. the hrst American man
The Washington times., 1921-05-15
10000 Sail for Europe.

NEW YORK. May i4.--Ths record
number Of this years spring tourists
sailing for European. South, ana Cen
trail American ports was brougnt up
10 more than $4,000 today. when 1900
passengers sailed on fourteen IineIs;
The total II the greatest recorue0
since the pre-war days.
The Washington times., 1921-05-15
Will Leaves Ice for Poor.

HARRISBURG, May 1.-THE will
Of the late William Russ provided an
Ice fund for the poor of Harrisburg.
Russ was a produce merchant for
many years until he retired. The
revenue from several properties Is
set sStds for the funA
The Washington times., 1921-05-15

written to ne that Ansriea - v~l1
Disposed toward rssumption Of re-
lations," said the President. "uex-
Ico 70 'csrtatiniy dsslrous Of having
these relations re-establtshed ~
soon A. possible"
The Washington times., 1921-05-15
OREGON HOPES FOR
U. 5. COCNTT1ON SOON

MEXICO CITY. May 14.--President
Obregon declared in an interview
with Mexican nswspaper men 10
tion BY the United States At an early
date.
Friends in the United states have
The Washington times., 1921-05-15
Would Bar Negroes in Army.

A bill prohibiting enlistment Of
negroes In the army and navy, and
providing for the discharge of all
now in the service was introduced
in the Senate yesterday by Senator
Caraway, Democrat, of Arkansas.
The Washington times., 1921-05-15

Memory Of the American Volunteers
Fallen for France "Champagne,"
and . number OF exceptionally beau
tiful sonents.
The Washington times., 1921-05-15
Anew Concrete Facts
ofInterestto the Housewife
1000 Others Just as Good

DeSI creamery DulteT brand, per b. .,.~... 1JC
Sugar in bulk, per lb. -. 7c
Sugar in Cartons, per lb. 71c
Fancy Wisconsin Cheese, per ID. 23c
Pride Of Illinois Corn c c:.. ess., Pr, can l0c
Eggs in cartons f fs.i.n s:: d ssy Bic
Milk, pints $50. -. &c
Milk, quarts -. lZc
Bread, large loaf -. 49,. -. l5c
Bread, small loaf -. &c
Crisco, | lb. -. -. l8c
Rice, per lb. ..... Sc
Navy Beans, per ID. -. SIC
Welch's Apple Butter :. -. Csc
Lbby's Corned Beef, lib. can /. Zoe
Cicquot GingerAle, per bottle on @f bs :s5t l6c
Red Jacket Lobster, Alb. can +. l5c
Franklin Golden Syrup, lib. can lie
Campbelps Pork and Beans, per can lOc
Campbelps Soups, per can -. l0c
Underwoods Deviled Ham, large can Bic
Underwoods Deviled Ham, small can Zoe
All tall cans Evaporated Milk, per can l21zc
Bee Brand Mayonnaise -. Soc
Export Borax Soap, per cake >. Sc
Grandma White Naptha, per cake Sc
American Beauty Ginger Snaps and
Lemon Snaps, per Dbl. ~. 29c
This is OF regular price
2l5d527 IyI7l3d92
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-22

the Pacific. industrial May they supply one another in peace! To q really free Pacific ocean. to a really open door in China! To the open door between China and Russia guaranteed in this treaty."
 The very next day. was lucky enough to hear the same sentiments expressed with interesting informality. When tho motor car sent to convey the head of tho Chinese delegation to tho military review given in his honor called for me by mis- take, the distinguished oriental, with humble and half humorous ar, started on foot for the parade ground, and, when discovered the error and gave up the vehicle. he insisted on placing me beside him and discussed with eloQuence all the way the Russo o-Chinese-American d. liaEce he saw in the future
 I read the Russo-C Chinese treaty just after it was signed. It provides for neither an offensive nor a defeneave mili- tary alliance; it returns to China, with out compensation, those goods and priv ileges wrung from her by the cxars: The Chinese Eastern railway. built by Chi- nese labor and owned in czarist Russia; Russia's share in the Boxer indemnity: the privilege of extraterritoriality pos sessed by the Czar's subjects resident in China whereby they remained outside the Jurisdiction of Chinese courts It is not an instrument drawn up in the interest of imperialsts; 1t is destined to- be popu- lar, should say, in both countries con cerned
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-22
NoT COUNrEREEIr
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 An enterprising New Jersey citizen offered Newark shopkeeper a $10o Confederate bill in payment for small purchase and walked off with pocket full of Al American currency in change. He was apprehended on a charge of passing counterfeit money, arraigned, tried, and acquitted.
 The Judgment of the court is interest ing. Money issued by the Confederate states is not counterfeit. It is real American money, issued in good faith. Anyone who so desires is at liberty to accept 1t at face value. The only trou- ble is that it is not legal t<nder. Who ever accepts Confederate mdney at face value probably will be unable to pass it on at any value at all. This. how ever, Is the concern of the person who is stuck" It Is not, according to the Newark jurist. the concern of the courts. The money Is not counterfeit. whatever else 1t may be.
 There are probably other statutes under which the New Jersey gentleman may be more successfully prosecuted, but the dispatches do not indicate that they are tv be applied At present he retains his liberty. and his pocket full of change, while the shopkeeper has the Jeff Davis bill as an interesting sou venir.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-22
LINCOLN IN WAR TIME nm the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 The gentleman with the duster in the Mirrors of Downing Street" says that Mir. Asquith during the war was greatly given to attending dances. carrying on conversations. with young people and playing cards.till the early hours of the morning when he should have been asleep or thinking.
 An American who attended dinner in the great London house in the dark days of 1915 says that MT. Asquith with Mir. Balfour and two ladies of high rank, started to play bridge after dinner. The game started about 80 the morning, 80 that 1t must have been o'clock before he retired.
 In contrast was the story told by an editor of western newspaper who died some few years ago
 1T went" he said. Ito Washington in 1863. small boy of 12. We arrived in Washington at night and went to a hotel could scarcely sleep, thinking of what was going to see next day. I awoke about 5so next morning and. as my father was still asleep I quietly dressed, went downstairs and asked a sleepy bellboy how to get to the White House.
 "As stood looking through the iron fence that surrounds the historic Presi- dents home l saw tall figure conn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-22
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

What has come of the o. f. man who used to have to act as dummy while his wife fitted her dresses on him? Some men are such buffers that if they kept four hens and hog in back lot they would refer to themselves as ranchmen.
 A 70-year- old man married his third wife the other day There is no sich animal as the age of discretion.
 We know that it Is your business when you eat onions. But it Is every bodys business when you breathe.
 You may have noticed that while the hats the dear things are wearing are smaller, the prices are just as big.
 When a woman is always wishing that she had been born a man, you can bet that her husband shares the wish.
 Our idea of an unconscious hypecrite IS the small boy in Sunday school who is singing: T Want to Be an Angel"
 It is very unlucky to depend on the kind of man who depends entirely on luck.
 Some friendships are founded not on the fact that both friends like the same things. but on the fact that both hate the same people.
 Copyright. lss1.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-22

From the New York Tribune.
 NTO that new excitement about our
 past Qargely born of MT. H. G. S Wells latest and most absorbing novel that he cleverly disguised un- der the title, "An Outline of History.") John Daniel of the Congo and Madison Square Garden, came at an opportune moment. This almost a man" was the center of circus thrill in his life. And, as if some sense of drama re- posed behind that fiat and receding forehead, he chose to die, with the nostalgia and pneumonia. like any temperamental, conventional human.
 The almost" in John Daniels case is truly little enough if we are meas uring man by the littleness of his life in relation to the millions of1years of other life upon the earth preceding him. Only some 500,000 years ago a human being stood erect upon the earth for the first time; it is millions of years back to the first jelly fish perhaps a hundred millions is as good a guess as any. The gorilla missed be- ing man only the day before yester- day, speaking in terms of evolution.
 But the separation between man and the highest type of simian is as deep as any abyss of time, however, nar- row. The most imaginative of the haeologists-and why should we not prefer the where science is still so largely a matter of ingenious guess! !!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-22
ALMOST A MAN

picture striking scene fni the De- riod just before the dawn of man. Somewhere in the Iranian plateau, south of the Caspian sea and west of Afghanistan, they place the cradle of mankind; and there in this crucial hour common ancestors of John Daniel and ourselves may have dwelt
 Perhaps they were all tree apes and the ancestors of man gradually descended and became ground apes thereby demonstrating their hardihood and superiority over their chattering brothers of the bandarlog. At any rate, some cleavage came. One theory shows the weaker, lazier members of the race drifting southward into Africa, there to become gorillas and chimpanzees and so remain. And man went on, thrust back by the great descents of the ice, warred upon by great animals, warning with himself. tribe against tribe, nation against nation, but always resuming the up- ward climb that began--we had best leave it to the theologians to say when. s'
 John Daniel was a good-natured, af- fectionate being, as are most gorillas and chimpanzees in captivity. It was certainly a decisive and irrevocable step that his ancestors took there on the Iranian plateau. But in this large, long universe, wherein man and gorilla o1i + 1,xf So to speak, let neither look too patronizingly on the other!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-22
CHINA AND RUSSIA

From ''Side-Lights on Soviet Moscow
 by Washington V. vanderlip. in Asia
 Magazine for May.
 N MILLIONAIRE sugar reiner's res
 N\ idence. adorned with Gobelin tap S = estries and Corots and Daubignys, carefully ticketed, at the time of my visit, and awaiting transfer to a public gallery, is now utilized for the enter tainment of visitors from abroad, and in this foreign guest house. as it Is called, had my one feast in Moscow. Although it was brought by train from who negotiated, in October, the new treaty between Russia and China, 1t smacked only faintly of the Russian ban quet of old days. Vodka was missing; for soviet Russia is dry in fact as well as in theory. I sat among the Russians. wondering what the private thoughts of the Chinese dignitaries were China had been imposed on so often by czarist Rus sia! Were they to believe that soviet Russia was really friendly I had never seen a group of oriental officials so pug zled and so alert. Over cigars after the formal dinner. the Chinese general gave me a toast as an American business man. think he was trying to reach through me the collective mind of American bus mess men. "To America and Russia and China together!' he said. ITO the 90O.- ooo, 900 people in the three greatest repub- lies in the world-the two on this side Of the Pacific, agricultural, the one across
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-22
Federal Road Aid Not
Expense, But Investn

Expense, Dut investment :6HHE United States Good Roads as- :; U sociation has asked Congress for $100,000,00O for five years to help states build highways. There is a big sound to the total amount in- .volved, but it is small weighed in the balance with other federal expendi- lures that are for things not as inn iportant nor as permanent.
 Expenditures for roads are in a class by themselves. They count for development anu for permanency. They benefit mere people than any other factor in the life of the nation. No matter where the road is built it belongs to all the people of the en- tire country.
 A stretch of federal aid highway in Alabama performs the same service for New Yorker en route to Mo bile, Florida or New Orleans as it does to the man residing alongside the road. A road in New York be- longs as much to the southern tourist seeking the cool of the summer Adj rondacks and Lake Chautauqua as it does to the citizens of Gotham.
 Federal aid money IS not largess. nor bonus. It is help extended to those helping themselves. Those un- deserving of being helped anl who 10 not perform t.slr part of the bar gain do not receive federal aid. Wherever it is extended the road is as much the property of one citizen of the United States as that of an- other
 Statesmen should not hesitate to think of big figures when it comes to federal aid for state roads, for nigh ways are of paramount importance and necessity and are impossible of being made less than national in the service which they render.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-22
KERRY DANCE

By Malloy.
 Oh the days of the Kerry daneing! Oh the ring of the piper's tuna! Oh for one of those hours of gladness Gone, alas! like our youth too toon: When the boys began to gather In the glen of a summer night. And the Kerry piper's tuning Made us long with wild delioAG Oh. to think of it! Oh, to dreams of IL! Fills my heart with tears. Time goes on, and the happy y&ars are
 dead And one by one the merry hearts are fled, Es silent now is the wild and lonoly glen. Where the bright glad laugh will echo
 neer again. Only dreaming of days gone by In: my heart hear Loving voice of old companions Stealing out of the past once more. And the sound of the dear old music. Soft and sweet as In days of yore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-22

out of the door, and from his pictures I at once recognized Abraham Linco He crossed the lawn to the gate lead ing to the war office across the street. ran around to be near the gate when he came out. s President Lincoln had on his feet a pair of carpet slippers his hands were ciaspeed behind his back As he came out of the gate he turned and look ed at me with the saddest eyes I ever saw in human being and said:
 Good morning. Bub.'" Then he passed on to the war office across the street to get the latest news from the front. k$
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-22
ADAMS ADVANTAGE.

Whatever troubles Adam missed, This must have made him sore, When he and Mother Eve fell out He couldn't slam the door.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Whatever troubles Adam had, And he had some, I spose He never sat behind a hat At moving picture shows.
 Houston Post. Whatever troubles Adam had, He always had chance, For sure he never had to fear That Eve would wear the pants.
 New Orleans Item. Whatever troubles Adam had, q do not know the facts) He never had to fill out blanks And pay an income tax.
 The Houghton IAne. Whatever troubles Adam had And he had some to spare. His in-laws didn't visit him The whole week of the fair.
 Macon Telegraph.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-22
Farmer Most Preyed on
 Where Least Organized

1f7HE National Farmers union has U asked congressional investiga. tion to determine what is wrong with agriculture" and to "correct the dis. covered and enacted evils.'
 A commission will discover only that farm products were hit hardest because the farmers are the least or ganized. It will discover no more conspiracy to defraud the farmer than there is to rob the merchant and the manufacturer. It will be able to re- port only that the farmers shared the price recessions common to the civilized world, being struck a heavier blow because less prepared for or ganized resistance.
 The farmers have been preyed upon. They are preyed upon today whenever opportunity is presented. Every defenseless man is preyed upon by him who is armed and better pre- pared for conflict. The western grain growers got nothing for their wheat until they took it's marketing into their own hands.
 It is true that the price paid for farm products by the consumer in the cities is five to six times that paid the farmer for the same stuff. What is that evidence of but poor mar keting Cf farm prcdu.t In some cities there are real farmers mar kets comparatively conducted that re- suit in lower prices for the consumer and higher ones for the farmer.
 The government can help us to help ourselves, but each industry must pri- marily work out it's own problem and build it's own walls of defense.