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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15
THE SOLDIERS
BONUS BILL
ACTION TO SHELVE THE MEAS.
URE WILL BE TAKEN To-
DAY.

Washington, July 15.-Final ac-
tion on the motion to shelve the sol
diers bonus bill will be taken late
today in the senate. That the mo-
tion to send the bill to committee
will prevail, republican leaders de-
clare is a foregone conclusion, but
likely instructions to the senate fl
nance committee concerning future
action on the bill will be adopted
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15

London, July 15.-Speculation was
general in official and diplomatic
quarters regarding the meeting of
the League of Nations disarmament
committee in Paris tomorrow in view
Harding's Washington conference.
The rench delegation had proposed
to move immediate adjournment un-
til after Harding's meeting but the
belief was growing this would meet
some opposition.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15
Potato Exchange
Does Good Work

Huron, July, 15.-The South Da-
kota Potato Growers Cooperative
exchange has already saved more
money for it's members than the av-
erage initial membership fee on bulk
purchases Of paris green. More than
three carloads of the potato buk poi
son were supplied to members at a
saving of about 20 cents a pound.
The average member grower used
rs pounds.
The South Dakota Farm Bureau
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15

New York, July 15.-The COVER
nors of sixteen states representing
more than twenty million persons en-
dorsed Harding's disarmament con-
ference in messages to the United
Press. These executives declared for
armament limitation following
grounds of preventing of wars. Relief
from taxation burdens and improve
ment of general world economic sit
uation
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15
Neck Broken When
Horse Steps Into Hole

Kadoka, July 15.--John James a
II year old Kadoka youth, was in
stantly killed at Philip when the
horse which he was riding stepped
in a hole and threw him off, causing
instant death.
The James boy was with the Mid
West Amusement company, putting
on the big celebration at Philip for
the fourth and fifth of July and 1t
was while running in bunch of
horses that the accident occurred,
which caused the death of the rider,
his neck being broken in the fall.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15
Revolution Breaks
Out In Mexico

Mexico City, July 1.5-A revolu-
tion under General Daniel Herrera.
is reported to have broken out in the
Hausteca district southeast of Tam
pico. Herrera was second in COM
mand of the Mexican army and was
acting commander of the military
district including Of Tampico oil
fields.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15
JAPAN PLAYING
FOR TIME
REPLY TO DISARMAMENT PRO.
POsAL Is VAGUELY WORDED.

Washington, July 15.-Playing
for time was the explanation put for
ward in authoritative quarters for
the vagueness of Japan's reply to the
American proposal for a conference
discuss disarmament and far eastern
affairs. Other nations accepted flat
ly but portions of Japan's answer
are confusing.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15

Washington, July 15.-Tax col
lection of the federal government
showed an increase of two billion
dollars daily for the first half of July
compared with the same month last
year, treasury statement said. This
indicates the nation is now making
real progress working out economic
depression.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15

Toxic, July 15.-"Japan will
spare no effort to help towards the
success of Harding's disarmament
conference" Premier Hara told the
United Press in executive statement.
Japan welcomes the opportunity to
vindlcate her position before the
whole world and show once more
how thoroughly she is in sympathy
within ew world spirit" premier said
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15

Washington, July 15.-Congres-
sional leaders have refused authority
sought by executive departments to
lend further money to foreign pow
ers, was disclosed when Senator Pen
rose told the finance committee he
had in his possession a bill granting
such authority which he had not in
troduced.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15
Earth Disturbances
In Virginia a

Bristol, Tenn, July 15.-Severe
earth disturbances at Mendoza, Va.
are reported here. Reports declare
several acres of ground heaved up
in some places and sunk in others.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15
The X aber
Murder Trial

Cleveland, July 15.-The fate Of
Mrs. Kaber, on trial for the murder
of her wealthy husband, Daniel Ka-
ber, probably will be in the hands of
the jury before night.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15

washington, July 15.-Japan has
asked the United States for amplifi-
cation of the proposed discussion of
Pacifis problems in the forthcoming
disarmament conference in Washing
ton, it was learned authoritativelv.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15

soldier bonus bill. We will also have
the spectacle, if the party follows
the white house direction, of giving
not one cent to the soldiers, but mil
lions to the railroads."
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15
Sioux City Live Stock.

The bulk of the hog sales ranged
from $3.50 to $3.50. Best pigs sell
ing around $8.25. while governments
boars and throwouts are going on
down to $500.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-07-15
Add awhs

Add awhs
Washington, July 15.-As a means
of damming government revenue
leaks further issuance of tax free
securities in the United States would
be prohibited under the constitution
is an amendment to be introduced
by Senator Smoot
The mirror., 1921-08-11

Newspapers in China are sold two
and three times over. Papers of the
previous days issue are redistributed
among the lower class population.
They are then distributed again by
being sent out to the villages and
country districts where they are
sold at fraction of the original
cost.-Es.
The mirror., 1921-08-11
GREECE AND THE GREEKS
Selected

n REECE, in carrying on in Asia
III Minor, against the Turkish
Nationalist, what may be
called the only major war now in
progress, attracts attention anew to
the prolonged presence of the Greeks
on the world stage.
There are few parallels to the strik-
ing racial phenomenon of Hellenic
continuity throughout the vicissitudes
of 1900 years. Modern research
has penetrated the dark byways of
medieval Greek history, and we now
know that the Greeks, whatever their
temporary fate, have preserved un-
broken the thread of their national
existence.
The frmest bond which unites the
Greek of today with his illustrious
forebears of the golden age is the
Greek language, the essential elements
of which remain as they were in the
days when the tongue served as the
medium of the noblest poetry and the
sublimest philosophy which the race
has yet produced. This tongue traces
its unbroken lineage back through
medieval and New Testament Greek
to the classic speech of Plato and of
his contemporaries.
And yet, with all this continuity
of language, there exists now in
Greece a linguistic condition of af-
fairs around which centers a contro-
versy at once comic or tragic; for
there are in Greece two languages,
or, rather, the one language in two
forms-one written by the newspa-
pers, spoken by the educated classes,
and used in parliamentary debates
and in public documents, including the
Scriptures, the circulation of which
is regulated by law; and the other a
vernacular used by the masses of the
people, containing many words of
foreign origin, especially Turkish and
Italian, arising from those periods of
foreign occupation, with much sim
plifed grammar rarely reduced to
writing, except for private communi-
cations. The former is the cultured
tongue; the latter the popular idiom;
and between the two there RACES a
merciless warfare, in which fanatical
students of the university have lost
their lives, ministers their portfolios,
and a Metropolitan of Athens his
inter.
Greece of today looks back only
three generations, if one places its orr
gin in the war for independence,
which was concluded by the protocol
of London in 1880; and, witnessing
the progress which in that brief span
has been made in a land of such
sparce resources, one cannot see how
praise can be withheld from a people
who have accomplished so much.
When the city of Athens passed
from Turkish control and was desig-
mated as the capital of the new free
kingdom of Greece, it was a mere
handful of wretched huts clustered
about the Acropolis. Today it is a
thoroughly modern city, with splen-
did streets, magnificent public build
ings, handsome residences, attractive
The mirror., 1921-08-11
INDUSTRY 5000 YEARS OLD
Selected
Selected

4
~ teen-year-old Chinese Empress
named Sizing Chi observed
little worm busily spinning fibre on
the leaves of white mulberry tree.
After she had watched this fascina-
ting process until her curiosity was
satisfied, she began to exercise her in
genuity by trying to gather up and
reel the fibre.
Soon she made demonstration to
the ladies of her court and interested
them in this new and absorbing
amusement. Together the Empress
and her court ladies busted themselves
with the task of weaving this fibre
into fabrics and embroidering with it.
The results delighted them.
So far the Emperor looked upon
this absorbing hobby of his little con-
sort with tolerant amusement. To
him and to the wise men of his court
it was only pretty game for foolish
women. But one day he was startled
out of his indifference when Sizing
Chi presented him with a beautiful
ceremonial garment made from the
worms fibre. A garment of such
dazzling sheen had never before been
seen at the court of China, and from
then on if became the fashion for all
members of the court to wear clothes
made of this wonderful new fabric.
In this way the wearing of silk be-
came the fashion throughout all
China. The culture of silk became a
national industry. China grew rich
through the export of silken fabrics
to India, Persia, Arabia and other
parts of Asia. So valuable was this
industry to China that it preserved
the secret of silk culture with jealous
care and death was the penalty
decreed for anybody found taking or
sending out of China the silkworm,
its eggs or the seed of the white null
berry tree. And for centuries neigh
boring countries sought vainly to OBJ
tain from China the secret of silk.
But about $50 B. c., however,
there came into China Prince OF
India who won the love of Chinese
Princess. Together they eloped into
India, and the Princess, in order that
she might be able to enjoy her fa-
miliar occupation in her new home,
carried with her some silkworm eggs
and seeds of the white mulberry tree.
She smuggled them through by con-
cealing them in her sandals. Not
long afterward she disappeared mys-
teriously from her husbands palace
and was never heard of again, but the
secret she brought with her remained
in India, and soon the courts of the
Rajahs were alive with vari-colored
Silken costumes.
The mirror., 1921-08-11
Saltwater, Minnesota Thursday, August H. 1921.

With only a slight shock one will
learn that the man who gives him his
morning coffee bears the tremendous
name of Themistocles. And yet it is
difficult to visualize the modern
Athenian with those who once walked
his streets.
1t is only in the islands or deep in
the country, where the Albanian
flood which swept across the Attic
plain has never reached, that one finds
the facial lineaments and the bodily
grace which the ancient sculptor has
taught the modern world as being
common to all Greeks of classic time.
Greece is essentially land of agri-
culture, pre-eminently intended to be
such; but, owing to the tremendous
drain by emigration from the rural
districts, the progress of agriculture
has been painfully deficient. In many
places the land is titled only by
women and girls. Many of the men
have gone off to America.
Many find the Athenian climate
agreeable. Cold winds there are, to
be sure, in winter, blowing down
from the snow-capped hills above the
to-, or blowing up from the sea at
Phaeron; but there are no frosts sthe
roses bloom during every month of
the year; oranges ripen in the open
air, one may pick his breakfast fruit
from the trees outside his win iow.
The summer heat is easily endufable,
the absence of rain removing the hu-
midity which makes American mid
summer so intolerable. One cannot
truthfully say that midsummer nights
in Athens are really cool, but there
is sensible difference from the heat
of the day and freshness which al
ways makes sleep possible.
At the beginning of the hot season,
there is usually an exodus of the
court, the diplomats and the wealthy
from Athens. To take their places
there flock to Athens and to the sea-
side hotels at Phaleron and to villas
and resorts at Kephisia-in-the-hills
numbers of rich Greeks from Asia
Minor and from Egypt; and the
whole city reverses the order of its
winter life, turning night into day
and spending most of the hours be-
tween sunset and sunrise out of doors.
Everywhere about the town, on the
roofs of clubs or hotels, in the gar
dens or on the terraces of restaurants,
beneath the pepper trees of the parks.
and even in the streets, tables are
spread, and probably as many as lO0,-
900 people dine in the open air each
night of an Athenian summer.
Throughout Greece-and indeed
throughout the entire Balkan region
is much heard, because of
the great numbers of Greeks who
have returned home from America;
and few travellers in the Peloponnesus
will fail to recall at almost every rail-
road station the eager face thrust in
at the carriage window and quivering
with the demand, "You fellers from
American"
The mirror., 1921-08-11

parks, and most of the modern i'm
provements of which western cities
boast. The building of this city alone
in land of such scanty resources is
fairly comparable to the development
of our own rich West, and as meri-
torious when all the circumstances are
considered. Indeed, had the Greek
of today nothing to his credit save
the building of the attractive capital
of his nation, that alone would be
sufficient to rank him among the con-
structive agencies of the modern
world.
In this city of old memories and
new hopes, Greek life centers now as
in its classic days, and here ancient
and modern Greece are inextricably
mingled in a curious medley of mo-
dernity and antiquity, which colors
the most ordinary of everyday affairs.
On every hand arise the shattered
monuments of its splendid past, and
even the tiniest fragments which
serve to link the life of the present
with the days that are gone are most
carefully preserved.
The Greek government is keenly
alive to it's responsibility for the safe
guarding of its antiquities, and tl .-.e- 12-
partment of archaeology, under the
charge of the ministry of education
and religion, is painstakingly organ
lied and prudently administered. The
mus, inns at Athens are handsomely
housed, conveniently arranged, ac-
curately catalogued, and open to in
spection and study without fee, this
latter being point of great pride
with Athenians. In addition there
are now, at various points in the king
dom where research is going on,
smaller museums devoted to the pre-
servation of the treasures of the To-
cality.
Growing the city of Athens stands
the sheer and mighty rock of the
Acropolis, dominated by the Parthe-
non, matchless even in its ruins,
which projects the changeless purity
of its lines against the background of
the changing centuries, which have
made of it in turn the shrine of the
vestal, the church of the Christian,
the mosque of the Moslem, and now
and ever the ideal of all lovers of the
beautiful.
Near at hand cluster the chief
remnants of the glory that was
Greece; on the one side the tiny gem
of the Temple of the Wingless Vic
tory, so chaste and delicate in its pro-
portions and outline, and on the other
the Erechtheum, with its unique porch
of the Caryatides.
Hard by the stairs of the imposing
Propylaea rises the sturdy rock of the
Hill of Mars, whence St. Paul de-
clared the unknown God and Incl
dentally took the Athenian measure
for all intervening time. At little
distance stands the rough-hewn Bema,
where Demosthenes and Ctesiphon
strove in matchless phrase, while just
below rise the ivory-tinted columns of
the Temple of Theseus, best pre-
served if all the classic remains.
Against such a background it is
easy to project the ties of sentiment
which bind the life of the Greek of
today to that of the classic worthless
from whom he claims direct descent.
The mirror., 1921-08-11

Circulating Libraries were first es-
tablished in London in 1850, and in
Birmingham in 1851. They increased
so rapidly that some men proposed to
tax them.-Ex.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-07-22
SENATOR BRIGHT'S DAUcuTDn
RETURNS

Mrs. Charles Grey Little. WIFI
Lieut.. Charles Little, returned 70 ~, u
country from England on the trou S
port "Somme," which locked az ny
boken on Wednesday, July 9Th. f,."'
Little is n of the pilots of the :"
nous R-3S, To- called the ZR-2
Mrs. Little will stay with her faith.
Senator William H. Bright. bero !
Wildwood until the ZR-2 lands in ~, ~
country. There are five pilots ~ ~
big dirigible, among whom is Lieutss
ant Little. Two of these five will !.
chosen to make the flight from r.
land to this country by Captain Mo-
field, the commander. Last week NJ.
Little went to Lakehurst to see the a.
rangements being made to receive ~.
big airship. A landing tower is boins
built, and the ZR-2 will not sail MN
it is completed. When a similar lava
ing tower has been Constructed :.
Cape May the ZR-2 will probably h.
transferred to that point. A big han
gar similar to the one in Cane ma,
has been built at Lakehurst. Ahor.
ten of the crew who are being sent
over here to receive the airship wo,s
on the same boat with Mrs. Little
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-07-22
OTTENS HARBOR

The Nautilus" under the command
of CAPTAIN Shivers, went out last
Tuesday and brought in the biggest
catch of founders made so far this
season. The party brought three or
four bushel baskets Of fish to the
harbor wharf.
The John L." which has until re-
Gently been making fishing trips only
on the inside" will hereafter hsh
either inside or outside, as the parties
hiring it wish. DR.. W. F. Bogges, OF
ego Francis Building, Louisville, KY
chartered the John L." Thursday for
his family to go fishing and grabbing
at Cape May.
The FLORENCE w." owned by Mrs.
CAPTAIN Winters, has been undergoing
repairs of a broken shaft recently.
Sherlockand Mum, who have leased
the Harbor pavilion from Mr.. Ottens,
report that it is doing more business
than their three boardwalk stores COM
bined. Last Friday they sold $50
quarts of ice cream. Mr.. Ottens is
building an open air ice cream parlor
right next to the pavilion on the dock
looking out over the water. When 1t
is completed it will also be leased to
Sherlock and Mum. 1t will be con-
structed of green lattice work and will
be 20 100 feet in size. The carpentry
and decorations are being done by the
Mulberry Brothers.
On August 18th an aquatic meet,
and other water sports, will be held
in the Harbor. Swimming, diving,
rowing and tug-of-war events will be
held. Music for dancing will be fur
nished by the Philadelphia Country
Club Orchestra now playing in the
Harbor pavilion. There will be medals
for each event donated by Mr.. Ottens.
Miss Gertrude Palmer, the well-known
a~quaplanist, who has performed here
before, will go through her various
stunts for the delight of the crowd.
H. H. Ottens spent Monday and
Tuesday in Philadelphia looking after
his business affairs in that city.
The fish business in the HarDor mas
increased about 80 per cent in the last
two weeks. Many barrels are shipped
daily to New York and Philadelphia
markets.
Marie Estlow, the child swimmer,
entertains large crowds daily with her
swimming and diving stunts.
Thomas Holt, a we'll known Phila-
delpia concrete contractor and builder,
is having one of Otten's bungalows
built on Davis avenue. When it is
completed he will make Wildwood his
summer home.
The residents of the Harbor district
are very anxious for the county to fix
up Park boulevard. Loads of gravel
were dumped in the middle of that
thoroughfare sometime ago and are
still there.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-07-22
GAVE BAIL FOR COURT

On Tuesday, upon affidavit of his
housekeeper, Sue Coffroad, Bert B.
Stull, of 1900 Pacific avenue, was ar
rested by Constable Matt. S~chellenger,
upon a warrant issued by Magistrate
John T. Byrne, charging assault and
battery. Mr.. Stull conducts a restaur-
ant at the number given, directly OPP
posite the Wildwood High School
building. He was given a hearing in
the matter at s o'clock on "wednesday
night. The complainant alleged that
the defendant struck her, threw her
down and dragged her across the kit
chen floor. She claimed also that she
had witnesses to the assault. Magis-
trate Byrne demanded bail in the sum
of $500 for the defendants appearance
before the Grand Jury the second week
in September. John Taylor went on
his bond. B. B. Stull was appointed
a special police officer last summer
by ex-Mayor Hendee, in which capac-
ity he served for several months. Mr..
Stull had been drinking, it is said, at
the time of the assault. When sober
he is a pretty good sort of a chap.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-07-22
STRUCK CRIPPLED BOY

Lawrence Weiss, of 1880 German
town avenue, Philadelphia, and 141
East Montgomery avenue, Wildwood,
was brought before Justice of the
Peace John T. Byrne at five o'clock
Tuesday afternoon in the city clerks
Office at the city hall, charged with
assault and battery upon Charles
Pfersich, twelve years old, and Grip
pied.
The fair took place in the Beach
Ball Park during Tuesdays game.
Weiss, who is short and heavily built,
struck Pfersich in the face with his
fist. A crowd gathered and Weiss was
pretty roughly handled for a few min
utes, until Messrs. Ingersoll and Max
well interviewed. He was taken to
city hall and Mr.. Byrne was sent for.
The hearing was held at once before
quite a crowd of people.
Mr.. Ingersoll came forward and
said that he hadn't seen the attack
take place, but was willing to make
the complaint. Pfersich was carried
in. One leg was in a frame, and he
had to .use crutches. His right eye
was closed, and blood from his nose
had Redeemed his handkerchief and
stained his shirt. He cried all during
the trial and several sympathetic peo-
pie famed him and did their utmost
to make him comfortable. He lives
at 116 North 4th street, Philadelphia,
in the winter and at GIG Rio Grande
avenue, Wildwood, in the summer.
Pfersich said he knew the nature of
an oath. In fact he said he swore
every day. He was sworn in as the
complaining witness. He said he was
watching the ball game with a lot of
boys. They yelled at Weiss because he
was roofing for the other team against
Wildwood. Weiss, he said, got up and
said, I'm going to sit near you" Then
he CPfersich) replied: 81 wouldn't sit
next you; you're no good" and moved
away, whereupon Weiss struck him.
Jacob Rigor was called. He is thir-
teen years old and lives at Davis and
Pacific avenues, in Wildwood, and 1926
North 31st street, Philadelphia. Rigor
corroborated Pfersich's story and
added. that Weiss fist was only
clenched loosely.
Mr.. Ingersoll made a few cutting
remarks about "a big stiff who would
hit a kid-crippled or not crippled"
Lawrence Weiss spoke in his own
defense. He admitted hitting the boy
in the mouth, but couldn't account for
the nose bleed and the pulled eye.
Bail was set at $500 by Mr.. Byrne,
and Louis Senekoff put it up.