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Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Greeks have recaptured the
town of Ismid, on the Sea of Marmora,
from the Turks. Greek warships bonn
barded day and night the retreating
Ottoman forces. The town suffered
some damage.
With thousands of vacant apart
ments in Chicago, ILL.,, renting agents
and landlords are confronted with a
situation they have not had to meet in
years. They have to go out and look
for tenants and offer them induce
ments, instead of having the tenants
pay bonuses for finding them homes.
Gladys Marie Deacon of Boston,
Mass, became the Duchess of Marl-
borough, the second American girl to
assume the title. The civil ceremony,
which lasted three minutes, took place
in the British consulate, at Paris,
France, Friday, and was performed by
H. G. McKaie, the British consul.
The burning of virtually the entire
village of Knockrogery, near Roseom-
mon, Ireland, by armed men, was re-
ported Thursday. The village contain
ed about so houses. only three Of which
we're left standing.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.


The Kansas Wheat crop this year is
estimated at 112,914,0OO bushels, in the
monthly crop report issued Friday by
]. C. Mohler, secretary of the state
board of agriculture.
Reports from towns near Houston,
Tex, indicate great damage to crops
and some damage to buildings; within
radius of 100 miles was caused by the
tropical storm which swept the gulf
coast from Brownsville to Galveston,
Texas, Tuesday and Wednesday. More
than 400 oil we'll derricks were blown
down by the storm.
Reaffirming its stand for govern
ment ownership with democratic op-
Grafton of the railroads, the conven-
ton of the American Federation of La
Dor Wednesday, at Denver, Colo, di-
rected its executive council to draw
up proposed legislation designed to
give the workers, through government
regulation, equal rights and privileges
with capital in organized enterprises.
Efforts of the government to reclaim
lands in Louisiana on which oil has
been found were dealt a severe blow
when the United States circuit court
of appeals threw out its claim to a
total of approximately eighty acres in
Caddo Parish in a decision at New
Orleans Thursday.
Women gained equal rights with
men in Wisconsin, when the state SEN
ate Thursday accepted a committee
bill removing all legal restrictions gov
erning the sex. The measure is now
ready for Governor Blaine to sign.
The Pullman Company lost it's open
shop fight before the United States
railroad labor board this week at Chi
cago, ILL.,, when the board upheld the
contention of union labor that the
company had not obeyed the letter
and spirit" of the transportation act
when it conferred with it's employees
in mass meeting.
The total rice crop of the United
States for 1919 amounted to S6,787, SOB
bushels, according to figures just COM
piled by Edward M. Johnston, agricul-
tural statistician for the United
States department of agriculture, bu-
reau of crop estimates.
Atlanta, Ca, was awarded the ma
tional convention of the American
Farm Bureau federation in November
by the executive committee Thursday
at Chicago, Ill. The convention dates
were set for November 1926.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
CUSTOMS FIFTY YEARS AGO

Who among US would say to-day, ~
never use a Dentifrice, / never have tor
Yet Fifty years ago, odd as it may SEEM
not one person in 1000 used Dentltrlee-
or even a tooth brush.
So to-day, after more than 80 years OF.
persistent publicity of Aliens Foot Ease,
the Antiseptic Powder for the Feet, not
many well-turned-out people care to con-
fess, "You know l never have to use a.
Powder for the Feet!" =
More than One Million five hundred
thousand pounds of Powder for the. Feet
were used by our Army and Navy during
the war.
The reason is this: Incasing and combining
the feet in Leather or Canvas Shoes is
bound to create friction, more or less.
Aliens Foot=Ease removes the friction
from the shoes, and freshens the feet. II
is this friction which causes smarting, cal.
louses, corns and bunions. You know what
friction does to your motor-car axle. Why
not remove it from your footwear by Shak-
ing into your Shoes today, Aliens Foot
Ease, the clearly, wholesome, healing, An.
tiseptic powder! Get the habit, as millions
now have it.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
snan in International Law.

A peculiar question Of international
law may affect employees Of the Grand
Trunk railroad in the matter Of abiding
BY the decision Of the United States fed
eral wage board in announcing a II
per cent average wage reduction Of
employees of railroads In the United
States. This concerns about 1,5OO
Grand Trunk employees working in
Battle Greek, Mich, or from the Bat
tie Greek terminal point.
The employees Of the Grand Trunk
were granted wage increases averag-
ing % per cent when the government
took over the railroads in the United
States during the war. Subsequently
the government relinquished its d.
rectorship. Then the Canadian gov
eminent took over the Grand Trunk.
Now comes the question whether
the Canadian government would be
obliged to accept mandate issued by
the United States or whether 1t would
feel that it would prefer to make its
own decisions in the matter of wages.
About 5000 Grand Trunk employees
in Michigan are interested.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
THE WORLD OVER
Interesting Items Of Present
Important Happenings.
EVERY ITEM A NEWS ITEM
Relating to the Latest Happen
ings of Interest Just Now
Throughout the World.
EVERY ITEM A NEWS ITEM
WASHINGTON NEWS.

A total of 1926, 4S6, S91.S4 has been
disbursed by the government in settle
ment of compensation for disabled sol
diers, as a result of wounds, injury or
disease and of claims of dependents of
war veterans, who were killed or died.
Director Forbes of the war risk insur-
ance bureau, announced Saturday. Dis
bursements for disability have aggre-
gated S192,677, 5S9.48, and those for
deaths S33,SO9, 3O1.86.
Complete agreement was reached
Thursday by senate and house con-
ferees on the naval appropriation bill
The measure as agreed on will carry
approximately $417,000,O00.
Unrestricted authority for the secre-
tary of the treasury in refunding the
approximately $4,000, 100000 owed by
the allied nations to this country was
asked by President Harding Thursday
in the first administration bill sent to
congress.
Sale at auction Of 10000 acres of
Usage Indian reservation lands near
Tulsa, Okla, for $4,5OO,OOO, plus bon
US of one-sixth of the oil produced
from the land was approved Friday
by the interior department. The land
went to oil operators and approximate
ly 1000 members of the Usage tribe
participate in the. proceeds of the sale.
1t was estimated each would receive an
annual income of $4,000 and the Os-
age Indians become the richest people
in the world per capita.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
Labor Temple Delayed.

The Central Labor union of Kansas
City, Kan, issued the following state
ment in regard to the proposed labor
temple which it has had under consid-
Grafton:
1.-THE labor temple building commit
tee Of the Central Labor union of Kan
sas City, Kan, decided that owing to
the great number of unemployed men
and the uncertainty of when they will
be working again, that it is unwise to
attempt to collect the necessary money
for labor temple at this time.
"When conditions have become nor
NAL the building of a labor temple
viii be taken up and vigorously car
ried to completion"
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
Blame PLACED
ON EMPLOYERS
Committee on Elimination Of
Waste in Industry Makes
Public Statement.
MANAGEMENT NOT EFFICIENT
Responsibility for More Than so Per
Cent Of Annual Losses Aserlbed to
EmpIoyers-Method Of Regulating
Employment Urged.

Responsibility for more than so per
cent Of the waste in industrial
processes. which is causing enormous
annual losses to the nation, can be
placed at the door Of the management,
and less than 25 per cent at the door
of labor, declares a report Of the
American engineering councils COM
mitee on elimination of waste in in
dustry made public at a meeting Of
the councils executive board, held at
st. Louis. The committee was appoint
ed by Herbert Hoover, secretary of
commerce, when he was head Of the
council.
The report showed that the margin
Of unemployment amounts to more
than 100000 men; that billions Of
dollars are tied up in idle equipment;
that high labor turnover is a rough
index of one of the commonest wastes,
and that waste of time and energy
and money through Implications and
estimates and bids In building trades
run into millions annually.
Both employers and employees re-
strict output 1t is said. Both capital
and labor are blamed for existing
abuses, but the annual losses through
waste by conflicts between them is
much less than popularity supposed.
From four to five million workers
were idle during January and Feb
ruary of this year. In 1921 half a
billion dollars viii be lost in wages
in the building trades, it is said.
Nationwide machinery to obtain
continuous information concerning un-
employment conditions throughout the
country is declared necessary by the
report. Means for regulating en-
plOyment in the principal industries
are urged and a nationwide plan OF
cooperation between the government
the public, trade associations, the in
dustries, labor, bankers and engineers
is outlined.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
HOW BRICK OWENS GOT
HIS PECULIAR M0NICKER

Few of the thousands Of fans
in baseball who have seen or
heard of Brick" Owens, Amer
lean league umpire, know that
he acquired his mOnicker when
he was nineteen years old.
Neither do they know how he
acquired it, although many of
them may guess right.
1t all happened back in indie
pendence, Kan, when Owens
was umpiring in the old West
ern association. "Brick" has
umpired since he was about able
to tOddle, and he made his de-
cisiOns as fearlessly against his
home town team as he makes
decisions now.
In one of those tough decis-
ions Independence got the worst
end of the deal and an angered
fan hurled a piece Of red mas
Onry, which struck Owens in the
head. Owens, unfazed, went on
running the game, but the man
who hurled the brick also
hurled at him cognomen
which has had its lasting i'm
print on the world of baseball.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
SWAMP-ROOT FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS

There is only one medicine that really
stands out pre-eminent as a medicine for
durable ailments of the kidneys, liver and
bladder.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root stands the
highest for the reason that it has proven
to be just the remedy needed in thousands
upon thousands of distressing cases.
Swamp Root makes friends quickly be.
cause its mild and immediate effect is soon
realized in most cases. 1t is a GENTLE
healing vegetable compound.
Start treatment at once. Sold at alb
drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medi-
um and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
FAIR TO INDUSTRIAL WORKERS
Minnesota's Compensation Law Con.
tains Provisions That Establish
an Important Precedent

Minnesota's law providing cOmpensa-
ton for industrial workers was passed
by the legislature without contest, fol
lowing the report of the joint interim
committee. There are in the new act
several features distinctive both to
Minnesota and to the country at large.
In place of the specific compensation
schedule generally in vogue, this act
introduces for permanent partial in
jury a healing period not to exceed
% weeks and re-education period,
also not to exceed % weeks, during
which time the worker is to be paid
on the basis Of 602-3 per cent Of his
salary and is to be given full medical
care.
For total permanent injury, by WHIP
ing out the time limit entirely, the
provision practically amounts to care
for life, the sum total to be paid to
the injured not to exceed $4,000. In
cases of fatal accidents dependent Wild
ows and children are taken care of
during dependency, the limit Of indi-
vidual payment to be $500
Very important in the provisions Of
the compensation measures is the in
clusiOn of occupatiOnal diseases in the
list Of ills to be provided for. Farm
ers are given the right to come un-
der the provisions of the act by affirm
alive election. Each employee must,
by the new law, either take out en-
plOyees' insurance or carry his own
Chicago Daily News.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
(3ASC BALL
STORIES

The Pirates were the first National
league club to get 300 hits this sea-
son.
It's easy to be successful pitcher
If you go about it right, says Pol Per-
rift.
The Yanks and Pirates have better
luck as tourists than as hometown
folks.
University of Pennsylvania baseball
team has been invited to tour Japan
next spring.
Grover Alexander's ailment is ex-
planned by Bonesetter Reese as merely
q weakness.
Phil Todt, after recovering from
flock of boils, is appearing in the
Tulsa lineup again.
The "crime wave" continues almost
without interruption wherever the
Pittsburgh Pirates go.
One bright and shining light on the
Fort Worth pitching staff this season
is Augustus Lefty Johns.
Charley Grimm, star first baseman
Of the Pittsburgh club, is leading the
National league in three-base hits.
England may have little the advan-
tage in golf, but a great baseball COM
petition would tell different story.
Jack Wilkinson, veteran player, man.
ager and umpire, has been added to
the umpire staff of the Western assO-
citation.
The Tigers and the Indians were
the first teams to score 200 runs this
season. Both clubs reached this
mark on May 90
Sacramento has been giving a trial
to a young pitcher hailing from Stock
ton named Shea, who wears glasses
when he pitches.
About all the Giants need to keep
Pittsburgh from winning the National
league pennant is pitching. That usu-
ally holds true in baseball.
-
The Joplin club has turned Pitcher
Otis Lambeth back to the Kansas City
club. The once clever underhander
seems to have lost his arm.
The only difference between Ameri-
can and National league balls is that
one is stitched with red and black
thread, the other with red and blue.
Cliff Rest, pitcher sent to Pittsfeld
by the Boston Red Sox, is living up to
his name, for he is about the best bet
on the Pittsfeld staff. He can hit
too.
George Murray, college, pitcher, sup
posed to join the New York Yankees
when his school closed, is pitching for
an independent team in North Caro-
lima.
-
Frank Shellenback and Paul Flttery
are pitching such high-class ball that
the critics are predicting they wiil ad-
vance to the big show again after this
season.
Oscar Stanage is working with
Nick Dumovich, the young southpaw
Of the Los Angeles team. and says he
win have Nick ready for the big show
~ the end Of the wear.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
CLAIMS SINGLE MEN
ARE MORE RELIABLE.

Married men employed in in
dustriaI establishments are less
dependable than single men, DR..
r. S. Quigby of Newton told the
American Association of Indus
trial Physicians and Surgeons,
at Boston. He supports his
views by statistics. A study of
employment records at one plant
showed, he said, that unmarried
employees were absent from
work much less than those with
families. The causes for the
absence of married persons
ranged from sickness to helping
with the family wash, other
speakers said.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
Less Demand for Women W0rkers.

Less Demand for Women Workers.
Disorganization of women's work by
abnormal demands Of war is held re-
sponsible by officials Of the employ
ment bureau of the New York state
Industrial commission for the alarm
ing increase in unemployment of
women in the state Based on statis-
tics covering the last week Of May
and the first of June, 1920, as COM
pared with 1921, increase in unem-
ployment during the year, as shown
in the bureau records, appears to be
about 80 1-3 per cent,
This estimate covers only office and
clerical workers, and is based upon
the number of applications for work
this year as compared with those Of
twelve months ago. Salaries, accord
ing to the records, have been reduced
between 80 and 33 1-3 per cent.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
hi AeIp out suspended EmpIOyeea.

Rent free on all the company's
dwellings at mines and mills operated
by employees who have been forced
out Of work by the suspension Of OPP
erations has been offered by the Utah
Copper company. Electric light win
also be furnished free of charge. Hun
dreds Of men with families, thrown
out Of employment by the shutdown,
were confronted with having their rev.
enues cut of and finding dwellings
requiring the smallest possible rent in
q locality where the housing problem
was acute, when the company came to
their aid.
Oficials Of the company are con-
sidering plans for promoting a com
munity farm.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
ERA OF IMMENSE STADIUMS
Within Another Decade Every Large
City in Country Win Possess
Large Amphitheater.

1t is predicted that within another
decade every large city in the United
States will possess a mammoth sta
dunn, where football games and other
athletic contests may be witnessed by
crowds Of from $4,000 to $4,000 Per.
sons.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
Head of Textile Workers Dead.

John Golden, for many years presi'
dent of the United Textile Workers
of America, died at his home in Brook
Iyn after an illness Of several weeks.
He was taken Ill when attending a
convention of textile workers in New
York, and a general breakdown in
health followed. His associates de
clared he was a victim Of devotion to
his work.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
arItIsh women worker, Demand.

British Women Workers' Demands.
The national conference Of Labor
Women recently held at London, was
the largest gathering Of working wOm-
en- ever held IN Great Britain. More
than 200 labor and cooperative WON
ems organizations were represented.
Equal pay for equal work was de-
nsanded. and the government was
called Oh 10 grant pensions to WON
en with dependent children.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
Some Frame-Up.

Some Frame-Up.
Felix-Are the pictures in the
rogues' gallery framed?
Eyebad-Yes, in guilt l'-LOuis-
vile COurier-JOurnal.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
Love-,

"She ought to be happy" "WhyTI
"Her husband seems as fond of her as
he is of his golf"
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07
BUCK HERzOG AT COLUMBUS
Former Big League Star Still Pos
sesses Enough Ability to Be
Tower of Strength.

A tower of strength was added to
the Columbus infield when Buck"
Herzog was secured. Herzog has
watched many seasons come and 60
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07

as a big league star, and he still pos
sesses enough natural ability, coupled
with his aggressiveness and readiness,
to make him go over big in the asso-
citation.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07

Jockey Thompson who rode Behave Yourself to victory in the Ken
Thompson
having
ordinary riders.
recommended to E. R. Bradley the latter purchased his CON
His
which
was revelat o TURTLES.
Last wear Thompson accepted 800 sevenytwo
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07

Oscar Stanage is working with
Nick DumOvich, the young southpaw
Of the Los Angeles team, and says he
win have Nick ready for the big show
by the end Of the year.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07

Frank Shellenback and Paul FIttery
are pitching such high-class ball that
the critics are predicting they wiil adj
vance to the big show again after this
season.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-05-20
ASPIRIN
Name "Bayer" on Genuine

Take Aspirin only as toid in each
Package Of genuine Bayer Tablets OF
Aspirin. Then you viii be following
the directions and dosage worked out
by physicians during Il years. and
proved safe by millions. Take no
chances with substitutes, If you see
the Bayer Cross on tablets. you can
take them without fear for Colds.
Headache. Neuralgia. Rheumatism.
Iarache, Toothache, Lumbago and
for Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve
tablets eos few cents. Druggists also
sell larger packages. Aspirin iss the
trade mark Of Rayer Manufacture Of
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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-05-20
THREE Year OLD
WASHED ASHORE
Mrs. Dingman Tells of Adventure
of Childhood When Fathers
Ship Was Wrecked.
RELATES LATER EXPERIENCE
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