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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25
A MERCILESS JUDGE
One Who Shows No Favor.

A mericless Judge is Father Time.
Before him the weak and the wanting
80 to the wall. Only the truth can
stand. For years the following state
ment from Maysville resident has
withstood this sternest Of all tests.
Mrs. M. Holiday, 221 East Second
street, Maysville, says: 81 have been
greatly benefited by Doan's Kidney
Pills and have reason to recommend
them. At times my back has become
lame and ached Just over my kidneys.
My kidneys were irregular in action
and ] was dizzy. When ever / have
used Doan's Kidney Pills ! always get
relief from these complaints. l GER
tainly think them a good reliable rem
edy. ! always get Doan's at Wood &
Sons Drug Store"
The above statement was given No.
vember 16, 1916, and on November %,
1920, Mrs. Holiday said: II am glad
to say my kidneys have given me no
trouble since using Doan's Kidney
Pills four years ago. My general
health has been good. / gladly renew
the statement / gave recommending
Doan's at that time"
Price go cents, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills - the same that
Mrs. Holiday had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
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Washington. - There was no more
pungent sentence in President Hard
ing's inaugural address than his dec
laratiLN that NO civilization can sur
vive reputation declared we'll
known financial writer in Washington
recently. "In making that statement
the President not only served notice
on the world that America cannot con-
sent to the contribution of $11,000,-
100000 more to the cost Of the late
war, but, in way little comprehend
ed. he furthered the friendly relations
between nations and upon the main
tenance of which future peace de-
ponds.
Reputation of another sort was
| one of the prime causes of the World
War. 1t was the reputation by Ger
many of her written agreement not to
violate the neutrality of Belgium that
brought Great Britain into the war;
and 1t was her reputation Of her I'M
dertakings to respect international
law upon the high seas that compelled
the United States to resort to arms
Those were written contracts, and the
certificates of indebtedness now re-
posing in our Treasury as evidence of
foreign obligations are written con-
tracts. Reputation Of the one is no
more to be condemned as matter of
principle than reputation of the
other.
During the war and since, the
world heard much Of scraps Of paper
and nations that looked upon their
written obligations as so much paper
to be discarded at will were beyond
the pale of civilization. The war was
waged against militarism, but quite
as much also to compel Respect for in
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25
Friday at Opera House, Saturday at Gem

ternational law, which Germany had
ruthlessly violated in her contempt
for her solemn international obliga-
lions. Had Germany and the princi-
pies that inspired her triumphed,
there Is not a man o fthe allied ma
tons but will admit that civilization
would have died. As Mr.. Harding says,
civilization could not have survived
the victory Of reputation.
Cancellation OF the allied indebted
ness to each other and to the United
States would simply mean that never
again would international indebted
ness be created in time Of war. The
practical effect would be a tremendous
stimulation to ornaments, the direct
antithesis Of the object that all the
allied nations profess to seek. With
out the prospect Of resort to foreign
credits in the event of future wars,
nations would redouble their present
cash spendings for defense.
"Had the doctrine of reputation of
debts been suggested before the World
War, credits would have been denied
not only by the United States but by
European nations to each other. There
is not shadow Of doubt that but
for those credits Germany would have
won the war-but for the faith Of one
nation in the financial honor of an
other, the war would have been lost
to the allies. The diversion created
nthe Russian front for over two
years was made possible by british
loans to Russia. Great Britain, France
and Italy were enabled to keep up
their pressure against the Germans
through the supplies from America
paid for by money borrowed from the
American treasury. The vital need
for the money has passed, but the ex-
tremities in which the allied found
themselves when it was asked should
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25
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New York. - They mix art and poll
tics better in the lands of the Slave
than we do here. At least they mix
them more. First there was Pader-
ewsh; and now Ivan Uarodyy, Rus
sian dancer who has been teaching
here In New York, has received an ap-
peal to go Immediately to Kronstadt
% take charge Of the anti-Bolshevist
rebellion there. A messenger who left
Revel two weeks ago, has just arrived
with the appeal. Mr.. Narodny, it
seems, is as experienced a rebellion
leader as he is a dancer. He was
prominent in the rebellion against the
Gear in 1905 and issued the first proc
lamation Of the United States Of Rus
sia in 1906.
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There isn't such great deal Of diff
ference In the activities Of boys the
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25

There is great difference in wives
reactions, Charles Klein has discov-
cred, by his experience as bigamist.
His first wife had him arrested, his
second bailed him out; and his third
was just about to arrest him again.
But he decided that life was too un-
certain and he disappeared.
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not be forgotten.

not be forgotten.
"The prompt refunding of the loans
into longtime obligations with fair
rate Of interest would go far toward
ending the talk of cancellation. Once
the schedule OF payments assured,
allied nations can adults themselves
to the financial program and talk OF
reputation will quickly subside.
There Is reason TO believe that the
Harding administration will bring
about that consummation at an early
date, and put the loans in a status
that will assure their future payment
and discourage further talk of concel-
alton"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25

Among those who left our shores
recently to make a name for them
selves In South America is on "Lanky
Bob" kangaroo. Tom Collins a mid
dle-aged Snowman, who was once a
leading pugilist in England, sailed for
Brazil and the Argentine, taking
Lanky Bob with him, to display his
prowess as a boxer. He said that he
ha dsent challenges on ahead and has
offered prizes for any man who can
defeat his long-armed pet.
LUCY JEANNE PRICE.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25

Eight hundred and twenty-four
banks In this country are now men,
Ders OF the Federal Reserve system.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25
VERA GORDON GREATEST Love
The Mother Of HuTl0reSQue

story which has Just been porduced as
a film play, is good evidence of the
possibilities for motion picture pro-
ducers which await them in the clas-
sizes. This particular one has been
subjected to a good many changes, but
II has retained It's values and its
human.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25

New York is true gold port these
days. Gold is flowing into this coun-
try from all points of the compass and
It enters by New York Harbor. From
Australia, England Holland, Sweden,
and India, have come shipments with
in gthe past few days; great boxes of
bar gold. In two days, New York
banking houses received $5,325,OOO in
gold from Europe and Asia.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25
KENTUCK|AN TELLS
OF WORST famine
The Rev. William Stout Blames
China's Catastrophe to De-
shuction Of Forests
WILL SPEAK OVER STATE

Destruction Of North China's great
forests during the centuries that have
passed; this deforestation which now
leaves an area Of 100000 square miles
denuded Of trees, is the direct cause
OF the worst famine in history. This
Is the declaration of missionaries re-
turning from the famine area and
voiced by the Rev. William Stout who
has returned to his home In George
town, KY, after five years in China
The Rev. Mr.. Stout will start a
speaking tour Of the state next week
In the interest OF the China Famine
Fund Of which Joseph Burge, Board
Of Trade Building, Louisville, is chair
man.
Through the China Famine Fund.
every relief organization in China Is
supplied with funds; these organiza-
tions, including the Red Cross, the Sal
walton Army, Christian missions, re-
ligious organizations and American
units.
Differentiation Is Blamed.
This great catastrophe which
threatens to wipe out the lives Of 49,
100000 persons within the next sixty
days, he said, Is due to drouths, the
natural result of the denudation of
forests which has gone on for centu-
rles in North China. With few trees
on the land to hold the moisture the
natural consequence Is that rainfall is
small and uncertain. Even in years
when the rainfall Is sufficient the Vel
low River and other rivers break over
their banks, unprotected by trees,
washing away the soil and deluglng
the crops.
ut is prevalent idea that rice Is
the main food of all the Chinese peo-
pie. This Is true in South China where
travellers get their impression and is
strengthened by the fact that nearly
all the Chinese in America came from
South China. In the fall, wheat is
sown in North China and after being
harvested in the early summer, millet
and sorghum are sown.
Roots Always Eaten.
"All these crops are harvested by
being pulled up by the roots as these
with the stalks and straw of the grain
are the main dependence for fuel. In
The years when crops are short it does
hot mean only that some little luxuries
will have to be given up, but it means
TIL. there will be less Of the coarse
mlllet meal bread. 1t means that when
the pG tatoes are gone the vines will be
eaten it means that instead Of two or
three meals a day there will be only
one.
When crop failure is fifty per
cent, as 1t often is, 1t means that many
starve to death. The last five crops
have been only about ten per cent OF
normal.
practically all of North China is
village after village. often only sepa
rated by few yards Of ground. In
parts Of North China the population
Is twenty times denser than in Jeffer
son County. The Chinaman may live
and carry on business in a port re
mote from his ancestral village, but he
expects to go there and spend his last
days and be buried BY the side Of his
Ancestors"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25

world over. Even in a crowded city,
they manage to find some spare cram
MES for the expression of their nat
ural tastes. A great smoother rock in
the north end of Manhattan is testi-
mony to that. A deep groove runs over
the rocky formation, as smooth as a
mahogany table top. An old paper
picker in the park says that it has
been used by boys for sliding purposes
ever since he could remember any
thing and probably before. He him
self used 1t as body and that was in
President Grants time. "It's taken
thousands Of pairs of pants to wear
that rock down as smooth as it is,' he
reflected.
1t has been quite all right to be flip
pant about ears during these past
months. No one minded how much EN-
joyment the cartoonists gathered from
their being tucked safely out of sight;
Just so long as out o fsight they
WE'RE. But now they've become a
serious matter. Somebody-known as
Fashion--has said, Fart out" and out
they are coming Drawn up and away
are those kindly concealing waves OF
hair. And in all their queer lines, ears
are beheld once more. TIL hairdressers
having done their worst, the millin-
ers will have to rush to the front and
save what they can Of beauty from the
catastrophe. jewelers. windows on
the avenue already show results Of
their efforts to help by dolling up the
protruding features in new sorts Of
earrings. Peggy Hoyt, who creates
hats as her big part in the serious
work of making women beautiful. (ol
still more serious, making them looi
beautiful when they just can't even be
made SOL discloses that her whole
early spring days have been givsr
over to the work of visioning and ma
terializing hats which would make
even ears seem attractive. zone can
not Just pull hat completely ovei
them" Miss Hoyt explains. THAT is
too evasive a solution, and now ap'
poaling, anyway. So the new hats
must, with their own lines, make
what does show of the ears really lool
pretty. 1t Is difficult, but OF course We
will do It. We CAN'T let mere earl
kill a woman's possibilities"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25
NERVOUS, IRRITABLE,
A|u|NG WOMEN
Mrs. BtHan Tells How She Was Restored To Health After
Suffering for More Than A yea.
Another Triumph for Lydia E. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound

Dimondale, Mich.-'I had
inflammation and q displace-
ment and weakness, and it
had been neglected 80 long
that it caused great pain, and
this affected my mind and
nerves SO that ! was very
irritable. / had severe pains
every month, SO that | was
often obliged to lie in bed for
two days at a time. l suf-
fered for more than Q year
before my friends said why
don't you try Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound?'
So / purchased one bottle
after another until / had
taken ten bottles, then Lydia
E. Pinkham's SanativeW Wash.
| received so much benefit
from this treatment that /
am now able to do my own
work. Mrs. W. D. BRITTEN,
R. No. 2, Dimondale, Mich.
Another Michigan Woman says:
al was bothered for a long
time with female troubles and
was so nervous l felt almost
afraid at times. l also had a
pain in my right side and
was certainly in a bad way.
lydia T. Pinkham'sVepetable
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25

"a Connecticut Yankee in the Court
of King Arthur" the Mark Twain
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-06-09
"The Morning After"

II
We all had to speed up during the
war. It didn't matter how much it
cost to get thing done, just SO it was
done fast. Hence it frequently was
considered all right to pour money
down the sewer, just so it produced
speed.
"We've got to get that idea out Of
our heads" says the general mana
ger of big corporation. "Mark You,
I don't mean that We can slow down.
We've all got to buckle in and work
harder than ever-to make business
good again and to pay off our enor-
nous national debt.
"During the war my Office went on
telegraph and long distance phone
basis. I'm having an awful time get
ting that idea out Of their heads.
When they want pencil their first
thought still is to wire for it.
aWe've got to get rid Of the idea
-and get back to the old-time way OF
doing things on an economical busis,
back to postage stamp instead Of a
telegram schedule. Expenses have
got to be pared to the core. The III.
dividnal and business that economize
are the only ones that can survive
The war time spending drunk is oyer
This 10 the cold gray dawn OF tht
morning after
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-06-09
IRONTON MO-. THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1921.

ated the covenant and Mr.. Harding
himself has officially declared that the
United States will haye nothing to do
with these means.
1t is said that the President still in
clines toward an association that is
based on the principle of the Hague
Tribunal. All the machinery of The
Hague was in existence the day that
the ultimatum was sent to Serbia. 1t
remained in existence throughout the
war, idle and useless. Every Hague
convention that the nations had ever
signed was shot to pieces before the
conflict ended.
Everything that Mr.. Harding de-
sires to do in the way Of averting war
is provided for in the covenant of the
League of Nations that he has reject
ed, nor can the method that he sug-
gests be carried into effect through
an international organization similar
to that he is trying to destroy. Ex-
perience has proved that "the men in
authority"will not face each other in
times of crisis unless there is tribu-
nal which has power to summon them
and which is backed by the opinion
of the world. 1t must also be tribu-
nal whose summons cannot lightly be
denied.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-06-09
Offered Job to Fight Referendum.
fMissouri State Journal.l

missouri State Journal)
The charge that A. L. McCawley is
endeavoring to get Democrats to OPP
pose the circulation of referendum
petitions to permit the people of the
state to have vote on the admin
stration measures of Governor Hyde
under promises of a job, has been
made by DR.. E. L. Farmhouse, Pure
Food and Drug Com missioner.
DR.. Farmhouse declared that Mo
Cawley, a Democratic lawyer who
acted as attorney for Governor Hyde
in the preparation of the consolida-
tion measures, approached him with
the proposal that if he would "lay
Off on the referendum he would see
that Farmhouse twas taken care Of"
"Mr. McCawley first approached
me in Kansas City, said DR.. Barn
house. "He later came to me in JEFF
ferson City and brought up the mat.
ter for a second time, and I told him
there would be nothing doing with
men
DIR. Farmhouse quotes McCawley as
coming to him on the matter and say
ing sIf you will fight the referen-
dunn I'll see that you are taken care
of on the Tax Commission as mi
nority member'.n
Other Democrats make the charge
that McCawley has approached them
to secure support for the Hyde ad-
ministration program from time to
time saying sit would be best to be
near the throne.n
There have been many intimations
of McCawley's activity along the line
stated by DR.. Farmhouse, but until
this time none have been direct.
1t is also reported that Mr.. McCaw-
ley has visited a number of places in
the state and made like offers or sug-
gestions to leading Democrats with a
view to having them oppose the ac-
tion taken by the Democratic State
Committee.
McOawley is chairman of the DEM
ocratic County Committee in Jasper
county and was able to keep the COM
mittee from going on record in favor
Of the referendum by reason of the
fact that he secured large number
OF proxies by his own efforts or those
or his friends.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-06-09
Taxpayers Win Have to Pay.
Monroe city News.l

Governor Hyde has grudgingly ad-
mitted that in addition to the 10 cent
state levy the taxpayers of the state
will have charged against them the
capital bonds and state school tax Of
8 cents and the two cents tax for the
blind. In face of this he acknowl-
edges that taxes will be increased an
average of 16 per cent. But what he
does not talk about is the fact that all
taxes must be counted in on the in
creased valuation, and when this is
done the people OF Missouri are going
to find an average increase of over
80 per cent. It isn't question Of
what the Governor would like to ad-
init, it is question of what the tax
payers will have to pay in dollars and
cents.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-06-09

ID T. :.
There has been meeting going on
here since Saturday. One convert,
Vernon Parker, son of L. Parker.
May he be steadfast.
Mrs. Nettie Johnson of Silver Mines
has been visiting her father, Martin
Allen.
Three car loads Of people from An
napolis attended church here Sunday.
Among them were II. Collins and fam
ily, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Sims and Mr..
Cruger.
A wedding In the near future. We
all wish Uncle J.. A." happy and
prosperous life.
The men Of this vicinity are work
ling the roads. They need il, too, but
will be hard on the Ford drivers
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-06-09
Marble Creek Notes.

A very enjoyable day was spent at
Hopewell Church Sunday. We had
with us our pastor and three other
ministers. Dinner was served on the
grounds.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. r. Willett have
been visiting homefolk the past two
weeks.
Mrs. Fern Henry OF ST. Louis is vis-
iting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Parker.
Misses Maude Mccoy and Laverta
Willet spent Tuesday with their girl
friend, Mae Ivester.
Proctor ShuIar and Miss Wiss Willie
visited home folk at Fredericktown
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Miller and Miss
Edith Smith went to st. Louis Mon
day. 5l
Proctor Shular has returned from q
"trip to st. Louis.
There is q farmers meeting at the
Red School House Thureday nightt
before the first ana third Sundays
! The attendance Il fair.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-06-09
Railroad Labor Board Makes Report.

Chicago, June IAN estimated
$400, ,000, 900 will be slsshed from the
nations railway wage bill when an or
der cutting wages an average of %
per cent, to be handed down today by
the United States Railway Board, be-
comes effective July 1st. The order
affects members of 80 labor organi-
cations employed on 1O4 railroads.
The order grants reductions vary
ing from to 13 cents an hour, or
from s to IS per cent, and in the case
of section laborers wipes out the in
crease granted that class Of employees
by the $500, ,00O, 900 wage award of July
20, 1920. For section men the reduc-
tion is approximately IS per cent.
Switch men and shop crafts are given
nine per cent reduction, while the
train service men are cut approxi-
mately seven per cent; car .repairers
about 10 per cent.
Common labor pay, over which the
railroads have made their hardest
fight, is to be ereduced six to S1.2 cents
sn hour, cutting freight truckers av-
erage monthly wages to $s7.10 and
track laborers to $77.11. The new
schedule gives section men an aver
age daily wage of $3.02 for an eight
hour day, although considerable tes-
timony offered by the roads, particu-
larly in the south, showed common
labor wages as low as $3.50 for ten
hour day. Shop crafts and train and
engine service men, except those in
passenger service, are reduced eight
cents an hour. Construction and Sec
tion foremen are reduced 10 cents an
hour.
Passenger and freight Iengineers,
who we're given increases of 10 and 13
cents an hour by the 1920 award, are
to be cut six and eight cents an hour,
respectively. Passenger and freight
conductors, who received increases of
IL 1-2 and 13 cents in 1920 are cut IL
and eight cents respectively by the
new schedules.
Train dispatchers and :yardmasters,
whese monthly earnings at present
average $3.50 and $27O, are cut eight
cents an hour.
The smallest reduction will apply to
Office boys and other employees under
1S, who will receive five cents an hour
less after July l.
Clerks are re-classified, SO that en-
tering clerks, usually young men and
women of 1s to 20 years OF age, will
receive monthly salary Of $67 so for
the first six months and $77.5O for the
second six months of service. Clerks
with less than one years experience
now receive $120 a month.