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Arizona republican., 1921-03-06
WORLDS GREATEST BUG ON BUGS
 TELLS YOU HOW TO FIGHT THEN
BY LORA KELLY

WASHINGTON - Were you ever bothered with bugs?
 Maybe if you are a housewife, you've felt proud of your neat clean pantry shelves, only to discover that an army of red ants had established camping headquarters therein. You have littie sympathy with the poet who wrote
 "The bugs are in the butter,
 The flies are in the jam,
 But we are out a-camping
 And we do not care a bit If you are farmer. you know the damage that insects can do to crops and plants.
 If you are a lumber merchant, you know what destruction can be wrought in wood products by these pests, amounting to thousands of dollars.
 If you've been a soldier in France. you will doubtless recall that open-air pastime known in A. r.. F. lingo as reading your shirt.
 If you escape any of the above classi fications, at least you've been pestered with common houseflies. for they light on the just and unjust with care-free | impartiality.
 Folks used to write pretty poems about flies. too. There was one, some thing to this effect:
 Baby bye. heres a fly,
 Let us watch him, you and l.
 There he goes on his toes,
 Tickling baby's nose" 1 And while the family watched the spectacle admiringly, MT. Ely was probably giving baby a deadly disease. 1 The world greatest bug on bugs, and friend of the bug-ridden is Dr. Leland Ossian Howard, chief of thesbureau of entomology and scientist of interna- tional fame. His discoveries of meth lods of fighting insects have been worth countless wealth to Americans espe- cially farmers.
 pr. Howard holds flies one of the worst insect enemies of mankind. Flies are an indication of unclean- l liness, insanitary conditions and inn proper disposal of substances in which they breed,'' says Dr. Howard. "They are at all times a menace to health for they carry germs of intestinal diseases such as typhoid and cholera"
 Some of these household pests are natural enemies of each other. l Bedbugs, for instance, are in extreme dsfavor with red ants, and cock reaches. But who wants to keep flock l of ants around, just to be free from bedbugs?
 "The silverfish, or tslicker' is se- rious pest in libraries says Dr. How ard. .Its taste in pure reading matter runs to gold letters and binding paste. 1 But if your household isn't literary, the 1 slickers' will accept starched clothing,
Arizona republican., 1921-03-06

the Automobile club of Southern Cali fornia; Judge Meals, member of the SUI preme court of Ohio and member of the Cleveland Auto club; David Van Schaack. past president of the National Safety Council; MT Maltbie of Mary land, chief counsel for the electric rail ways of Maryland and food administra- tor for the state of Maryland during the war: E. W. Braun, managing secretary of the Elgin Association of Commerce.
 The law as drafted by these men was presented to the executive committee which met at Cleveland, Ohio, on De- cember 6 and was taken up and voted on section by section. only four traffic mittee.
 The law presented to the legislature is a copy of the above law except for few changes as regards penalties and license fees.
Arizona republican., 1921-03-06
Consecration of Trinity
 Cathedral to Be Event of Significance April IA

TWO events of interest ana sienif;- canoe in the history of the Episcopal hurch In Arizona will be celebrated in 1 .ne annual convocation of the Arizona olocese here April 1, 2. 3 and 1. They gre the consecration of Trinity cathe- urai and the celebration of the tenth 1, .ss .assnniversary of the election of the Rt Hev. Julius w. Atwood as bishop.
 The cathedral will be consecrated rr,uay morning, April 1, at 1o:3o ociock by Bishop Atwood, assisted by vlsnlng bishops and other clergymen.
 rhe Rt Rev. Joseph H. Johnson, D. D., ~plsnop of Los Angeles and we'll known m the church as the rector of the inn portant parish of Christ church. De- \ troit, and later as bishop of the diocese or Los Angeles, will preach.
 A vision of many years win come into realization with the consecration yof the church. It is to be the final step
Arizona republican., 1921-03-06

of benzine or gasoline to beds. Cure for bites: Peroxide of hy- drogen.
 Red Ants
 Remedy: Destroy colonies in yards, if possible. Leave no food around to attract them. Sprinkle powdered borax on shelves where they gather.
 Buffalo Moth Remedy: Thorough housecleaning. Kerosene poured into cracks will help. Tarred roofing paper, if placed on floor before relaying carpet. will help. Fumi- gation also good.
 Cockroaches z. Remedy: Poisonous bait, fumiga and trapping. Sulphur dusted about where the reaches abound is effective Creased in pans make good traps
Arizona republican., 1921-03-06

linens or faces, as substitute diet. Plenty of air and sunlight helps keep him away"
 pr. Howard says the way to get rid of household pests is to wipe them out at their breeding places. He offers the following advice on combating mans most common insect enemies:
 Mosquitoes Breed in swamps, ponds and even old tin cans with water in them Disease carriers, especially dangerous in trop- ics
 Remedy: Drainage.
 Cures for bites: Wet soap rubbed on bite Household ammonia, glycerin, oil of peppermint, oil of citronella.
 Bedbugs
 Remedy. E,11r1igafiOD or apD1icatiOO
Arizona republican., 1921-03-06

4 nature club for poys Tn Ontario encourages its members to take the names of native animals or birds, using the Indian version of the name where possible. Each troop of scouts is di- vided into patrols. each with a distin- gushing name of a natural object. preferably some animal or bird.
Arizona republican., 1921-03-06

district will be present throughout the meetings of the convocation and that every parish and mission will be repre- sented by lay delegates and delegates of the Women's auxiliary and Girls Friendly society. All delegates and visitors will be entertained. The names and number of those planning to at tend should be sent to Dean William Scarlett at Phoenix.
Arizona republican., 1921-03-06

The ancient Babylonian women nainted their cheeks and penciled their eyebrows. according to scientists who investigated the ruins of the ancient dwellings of that period and found vases showing women in the act of painting.
Arizona republican., 1921-03-06

tomb is to be hollowed out. following the idea of Chateaubriend, who sleeps beneath a reef pounded by the waves that wash the shores of Saint Malo.- From La France (New York).
Arizona republican., 1921-03-06

In northern Siberia mosr Of the food cold in shops is frozen Meat is hacked with axes and milk is sold in lcos sticks. The cold is so intense at timesy that no children are to be seen in the streets
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-28
SEVERAL FACTORS !. INFLUENCE WEEKS
 COTTON TRADING
Belief Prevails That Turn for Better In European Affairs Will Lead to More Brisk
 Trading
By Assooiatsd press

New Orleans, March 27.-Trading in cotton last week was influenced to great degree by a much more favorable opinion concerning world trade condi- tions, belief among many traders being taking place in European affairs that would lead to more brisk trading in for eign cotton goods markets and to greater demand upon the south for raw cotton. Operations were curtailed by the usual Easter holidays, the market clos ing Thursday evening for the week. At the highest the more active months showed gains over the close of the pfe- cedng week of S5 to 116 points and the close was at net advances of 63 to 7l points. May traded up to 12.4oc and closed at 11.95c. In the spot department middling closed at He, a net gain of 50 points
 A feature of the week that made for increased activity in the earlier sessions was the undergoing of very extensive straddle interest between Liverpool and the American markets, the short end ot which rested on this side The buying of covers for these shorts furnished demand of importance and. in addition, it was plain that American shorts, were covering in a large way. Speculative buying for long account increased follow ing signs of the intention of Russia 10 develop a commercial policy and reports from Manchester of much better de- mand in that market for both goods ana yarns, some of the demands for goods apparently coming from India, which country has been out of the market TOT some time. Bullish sentiment also was stimulated by returns from American wholesale cotton goods markets teillns of a much better demand for print cloths land. claiming that gingham mills had nearly sold up CT lines for summer and fall delivery.
 New crop news hardly received the attention the new crop usually attracts at this time of the year, but this week it is apparent that the trade will nave to take more interest in what Is goine on in the belt, for Good Friday marAs the beginning of the planting seasoil over a large part of the southern hail of the belt and. unless planting opera tions are hastened, the evidence will all be that claims of an extremely great de- crease in the acreage are well founded.
 Outside of Texas, planting has not yee extended over any considerable area, put from now on the seed should go into the ground as fast as climatic conuitionS will allow Prolonged rains or low tenn peratures would be construed as hlghis nnfayorable for farm work and Wouiu increase the demand for the new crop months and possibly for the old crops. Favorable weather on the other nahu might work for an easier feeling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-28
Daily Financial Gossip
By HOLLAND

New York March N.-(SpeclaL)-o. Davies Warfeld of. Baltimore, who rep
 resents the great body of stockholders in American railroads, Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa, an authority without superior upon the railroad situation in the United States, and Vice President William w. Atterbury of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad company, conspicuously represent the emergencies and serious difficulties which characterize American railroads today. Acting independently and yet in full sympathy one with an- other, they are laboring to bring forth order out of something like chaos. They feel as many others do that the ques- tion of immediate and vital importance at this time necessarily to be speedily an- svered if commerce and industry are abundantly aided arises from the Amer ican railroad situation.
 There is, it is true, one reassuring fea- ture in the railroad situation. That was the enacting into law of the so-called Winslow- Townsend bill, which became a law in the last week of President Will sons administration. This bill made available to the railroads $370000,0O0 which was due them by the government. OiAe~(NiAf~fAS this law the situation would have been still more embarrassing, and it is suf- fcently embarrassing now.
 For it is a fact that the financial con- ditions of the railroads are very dis trrbing. This is in part due to the heritage of the railroads following the return of them to private ownership. War emergencies with which the gov ernment direction of the railroads came face to face made it necessary to put
 n practice many methods which in nor nal times would have inevitably brought the railroads or many of them face to face with the possibility of bankruptcy. For instance the railroad offices and the railroad operating forces were over loaded, so to speak, with employees. Per haps they were then necessary but II was speedily discovered after the roads were returned to private management, that many of them were unnecessary, and for that reason were draining the rail road treasuries without giving anything in return. One example may be sufficient to illustrate this point. The offices Of one of the railroads whose terminals are upon the water front of New York dis covered in one department 60 workers upon the pay roll whoshad no more Work | to do than would have occupied only three efficient clerks. Inevitably almost | all of these unnecessary employees were laid off. Action of this kind undoubt- i edly explains why so many railroad ein'
 ployes have been laid off since the roads
 were returned to private ownership.
 WHY CONDITIONS
 ARE DISTRESSING 1 A few statistics will explain Why tn'
 railroad conditions are now so disturbing
 In January the traffic measured by car
 loadings was the smallest of any montf
 since February of 1919. This falling or
 in traffic continued until the first wect
 of March. Then apparently due to It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-28
HILLSIDE HOLES
 ONLY HOMES FOR
 POLISH REFUGEES Thousands of Families Com peIIed to BurroW Like Rab-
 bits-Pitiful Scarcity of Food
By Associated Prcss

Philidelphia, March N. = (SpecA~A' Dugouts in the sides of hills or in, em- bankments along the roads compose the onlv homes of thousands of refugees In Poland, say agents of the American Friends service committee, who are distributing American and other aid Tn that war-devastated country.
 In the Tarnopol district. in Galician Poland, over which territory the hur- ricane of war swept dozen times, 2Soo families are living in such dugouts' writes Harry Stevens an English Friend, who is working in Poland. j. He describes the land as scanned with trenches and disfigured by vast quan- titles of barbed wire. Hundreds or people are reported to be dying rom starvation. cold and disease. Ihey nave neither live stock nor farming imple- ments. Their land was oyerrun by { Russians, Austrians, Prussians, Turks and Bulgarians in the World war, and -afterward by the Ukrainians and boi- sheyiki Horses, cattle. poultry, farm 4tools-everything was taken. The tim- her was cut down, their houses burned and even school buildings destroyed.
 CONDITION PITIFUL
 z Describing the mlSerdple CohuitAohS of thousands of refugees from Russia some of whom have walked thousands of miles to reach their homes in what Is now Poland, MT. Stevens wrote
 Their clothing was pitiful to behold; {; scarcecrows can boast of better. They x wore home made boots of plaited straw and an outer garment too thin ana ragged to be patched. We asked them what they would do this winter and the answer was a shake of the head and q hopeless T don't know
 Mfr Stevens found the refugees living in dugouts. Six persons with their stoves and household goods were crowded into hole in the ground measuring Il by feet. man and his wife were digging into hill be- side a road. They intended to build their home with a lean-to of heavy Sbasketwork and clay. While the dig kin9 was in progress they slept in the open despite the keen frost.
 MUST HAVE AID
 x one family of six was living under Z a canvas cover that had been the top |1of their cart. Another family of IS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-28
SUPREME COURT SETS HEARING OF SHERIFF
 NOW FACING CUSTER

Montgomery. March 26.-(Special)- Sheriff John Strength of Fillmore county was ordered by the supreme court to- day to appear May and answer articles of impeachment charging willful neglect of duty, corruption in office and the use of intoxcants to such an extent as, in view of the dignity of the office and i'm. portance of the duties, to unfit him for the performance of the duties in the fu- ture.
 The allegations were made by the state irs- artcles of impeachment filed Friday by Attorney General Harwell G. Davis and Judge Horace c. Wilkinson. special counsel for the state. It is expected pre- l'minary issues will be disposed of March and that If the defense does not win on preliminary points the court will set another date for the hearing of evidence Among xhe charges against Sheriff Strength are: Instructing deputies not to enforce the prohibition laws. permitting
 males and females to be confined in the same cells, and obtaining money from prisoners under an agreement to dismiss their cases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-28
ORGANIZED BANDS
 LAUNDERING SHIPS;
 MILLIONS ARE LOST
Owners Believe Thieving Is Done by EmpIoyes-Higher Wages Fail to Reduce
 Total of Losses
By Associated Press

London, March 27.--A great outcry has arisen in the shipping world over the heavy losses that are incurred through whom, it is suspected, are in the em- ployment of the companies that are the victims.
 Lord Askwith states it has been esti- mated that in transport through the port of London alone, through pilfering in va rious forms, there is loss of f3,5oo.ooo a year. One shipping company says that whereas, before the war its losses on cargo attributable to thefts amounted to l shilling and pence per ton, it now amounts to 26 shillings and 9 pence per ton.
 Increases in wages, it is asserted, af- ford no guarantee of greater trustworthi- ness. Rather the contrary. The aver age wages of stewards are said to Do four times their pay before the war, but it is in those departments on passenger liners with which stewards are most con cerned that depredations, it is declared, are most noticeable.
 The manager of one line running to Australia said that recently he had to expend well over G2,000 in replacing the linen stolen on one round voyage alone. On this same round trip the stewards charges for overtime amounted to 92,532
 Even the captains boy charged f.S for overtime on the voyage, said the manager If the captain rang for the boy to bring him drink, the boy charged one hours overtime for fetching it, pro vided he had already done his eight hours"
 Much plundering undoubtedly takes place before the goods are slowed on shipboard, steamship men declare. Cases of machinery have been found to be full of stable manure and those supposed to contain gold and silver goods to be filled [ with shavings.
 The thieving that is going on at sea and in docks is beyond anything in his tory" writes Lord Inchcape, chairman of
 the Peninsular and Oriental company
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-28

"A man recently removed the clocks from the smoking and music rooms or one of our steamers. while the passen- gers were embarlSing at Tilbury dock and they have never been traced Within the last few days piano was removed from one of the steamers in dock ana carried off to cottage, where, how ever, it was recovered.
 Stewards, through their union ofticiais, strongly resent Lord Inchcape's charge that much of the stealing that goes on M steamers is done by them. One or the officials declares that the fondness O. the passengers for collecting what tiley call 'souvenirs" is sresponsiole TOT . l,s, more missing" articles than are the stewards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-28
BUSINESS MAN DIES
Egbert Jones, Prominent in Eufauia'
 Buried Saturday

Eufaula, March -tSpecial)-Eg
 ert Jones, aged 45, died at i o'clock yesterday at Britts infirmary after less than a weeks illness. He was the son of the late Mir. and Mrs. E. ii. Jones of Eufaula and leaves i've brothers, James of Albany, Ga, Ed ward of Americus, Ga. Cranie of Bif- mingham, w H., F. H. and Earl Jones of Eufaula; two sisters, Mrs. Maggie Chilson of Montgomery and Mrs. Leta Speight of Eufaula, also survive hlm Funeral services were held Saturday from the uuIne of ms brother, w. II. Jones, the service being conducted py the Rev. w H. Few, pastor of the First Baptist church. Interment was made in Fairview. cemetery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-28
Job for Ex-Presidents

New York-American Presidents have left the White House to face poverty resulting from their devotion to public affairs. Congress has had to give sev- eral financial aid.
 The Mentor Magazine calls attention to the question that arises every in- augural year; what shall we do with our ex-Presidents? It reviews the ac- tivities of our ex-Presidents and shows that valuable national asset is being neglected when the nation forces its former leaders to devote themselves to earning living after leaving of flee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-28
Nature Spooks

.-- A a
 New York.--Naturo spooks nsve both helped and harmed humahity. says writer in an article on rases in the Mentor Magazine.
 Capt. Robert Scott, the Antarctic ex- plorer, discovered land that ne otner- wise would not have seen had Y not been for a mirage.
 Robert E. Peary discovered what ne thought was new land In the Arc!ic' but McMillan, on special trip o1 IT. vestigation. proved that Peary nao been tricked by nature.
 Napoleon'S soldiers, campaigning fsi torrid Egypt, pressed on toward great pool surrounded by green treess and found only hot sand.
 Mirages have been arttficialiy pro- duced at Johns Hopkins university' Baltimore. the writer says, and shows how 1t is done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-28

tie renewed activity in business, tra11lc was slightly increased. But there are now about 100000 idle freight cars. ln- creases of something like 34 per cent Tn freight rates and approximately 9 per cent in passenger rates which were made effective in the summer of last year have failed to accomplish what was ex- pected. These increases have not enabled the railroads to secure funds sufficient to pay their expenses. The government was in control of the railroads a little over two years. But the government was not able to prevent deficit. The aggregate in two years was $500, 900. To make that good it was necessary to take funds out of the federal treasury. Then, too, there was government guarantee, and this brought the total deficit up to nearly $l, 500, 100000
 WHAT IS PAID IN WAGES
 Salaries and wages now take about 70 per cent of all the income. This item was increased after 1917, due to wage in CT eases and additions to the working force by about 100 per cent, so that the annual pay roll had reached in 1920 sS,- GOO, ,O00, 900. The. average annual earnings Of each employe was increased about eo rer cent.
 There appears to be no doubt that it is necessary still further to lay off many who have heretofore been employed on the railroads, although already some Soo,- OOe have been laid off since the late sum mer of last year. The railway lapor heard may aid in restoring the railroaos by allowing a reduction in the basic wage rate, so that instead of the peril of bankruptcy, they will be able to earn enough to meet their operating expenses and to return to their owners reason able amount in the form of dividends not more than or 6 per cent.
 HOW THE COUNTRY
 IS EFFECTED
 This situation is all the more interest ing and important because the peak or the business crisis was passed after Con- gress enacted into law the bill which per mitted common carriers to charge rates which other things being equal, would guarantee them at least per cent on their securities. The allies owe the United States approximately s10,O0O, 900 for Dor rowe ed money. But the railroads of the United States are debtors to the people by as much as $13,Oo0, 00000, for investors of the country hold bonds to that amount. Five billions are or were held by savings banks and life insurance companies. Ap- proximately one-half of the people ol the United States are directly or indirect Iy owners of railroad bonds. If the value of these bonds be greatly impaired Il would follow that so many small inves' tors would be crippled that the industry and business of the nation would be pa ralyzed.
 1 All the railway authorities and states men of whom Senator Cummins IS type are hopeful that this emergency Will o' overcome but it is evident that all ar' persuaded that in order to restore tn' l railroads considerable deflation Tn sal
 aries and wages must be made, ana tna there must be a further reduction in th' number of employees.