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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22

Tom Purdom, street commission.
er of Olathe, kas., was killed at the
city rock quarry Thursday morning
while inspecting dynamite ftse
which workmen thought was defect
i've. Purdom was hurled 80 feet by
the explosion of the dynamite. AS
he fell to the ground his body was
pierced by an upright drill He was
killed instantly.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22

Alexander Howat's visiting day
was cut rather short in the Columbus
Jail Thursday. 1t is asserted seven
visitors were admitted for the 10
minute visiting period, Howat had
talked with three Of them when sud-
denly the line was drawn. The 9TH
crs were asked to leave and the
doors were closed for the day.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22

Fire which broke out at $50
o'clock Thursday morning in the
dormtory of the Kentucky military
institute, at Lyndon, KY, quickly
swept through the main building de-
stroying the structures on the cam
pus, with loss estimated at $780,
900. All of the students escaped un-
injured
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22

Coal miners of America won a
sweeping victory in the United States
circuit court OF appeals at Chicago
Thursday when the court upheld
their claim to the right OF operating
the check-off system OF collectin,,
union dues.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22

Since Great Britain has given OF
agreed to give, ireland freedom
Scotland has started campaign to
British yoke. If Canada. Australia
India and a few other British posses
sions follow suit Johnny Bull will
have need of a larger instead of a
smaller navy to hold them in line.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22

The administrative committee OF
the American Bankers Association at
a meeting at Washington last weehl,
rcaffirmed the opposition to the SOL
dicrs' bonus bill voiced at the annual
Convention of the association last
October in Los Angeles.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22

The last II women who have shot
and killed men in Chicago have been
freed by juries but last week wom-
an of that city was sentenced to a
year in Jail and fined $1,000 for threat
ening to shoot man. 1t seems to be
cheaper to shoot in that town.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22

The march of the amazon army"
Of miners wives. daughters and
sweethearts on the Kansas coal fields
10 . spectacle to be depiored by the
vomsnhood of the nation" Miss
Alice Robertson. Oklahoma. the only
woman in congress. declared Thurs
day.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22
Thursday. December 22. 1921

Paroled prisoners of the Kansas
penitentiary who have joined the
reds" in the coal mine district will
be sent back to prison to complete
their unexpired terms. Charles Stew
art, q paroled prisoner, was picked up
Thursday. He was one of the How
at strikers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
Al Millionaire Machinist

uTOm the NAtlOnS s BuSlneSS.
 On hot day some months ago an ex-
 press train between Philadelphia and
 New York came to Joltins hall The pas
 sengers first joked, then grumbled thsn
 grew impatient. A big man, white
 haired, but youthful in motion, climbed down from a chair car and marched up to the engine, which was the center of a ring of passengers. What's wrong?" he asked. In effect the engineer said that the engine had qrit and he didn't know what the several things was the matter with it.
 The big man peeled off his coat and waistcoat and rolled up his shirt sleeves Then he sort of disappeared in the tn- terior of the unwilling engine and the ring of watching passengers grew. 1 Half an hour later he emerged with a smudged face and grimy hands and said i She's all right now" put coat and ] waistcoat over his arm and walked back 1 to his chair car, wiping his hands on q handful of waste he'd picked up in the | cab.
 | She was all right and the man whi
 made her all right was Samuel Matthews vauclain, president of the Baldwin Lo comotive works, and real boss of theil 10000 workmen.
 | It was like Mir Vauclain to take ho!t ! of that engine and make her all right Work with his hands is no new thing tf
 him. Equally like him was to look of
 what he had done as casual inciden | in days work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
Oil Engine Igniter

recently developed heavy oil-burning engine of only medium-high compression, that is. semi-Diesel type, Is adapted to uses in oil fields and other localities where the water contains large quantities of gritty substances. making it unsafe to inject into the cylinders, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. The Diesel design is adhered to m the new type with the exception that the excessively high com. pression pressures of 100 to 800 pounds per square inch are not used. To start the engine, the mercury is brought 10 a high heat with blow torch. After starting. the heat of the compression and combustion maintains the temperature. Mercury is used for the reason that it is a fairly good heat insulator and Keeps the bottom of the chamber hot. and that. thonugh it boils there is no loss. as tne vanor condenses on the inside wall of tho water jacketed top of the igniter ana returns to the bottom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
Give Teacher Place He Deserves

From "The Crisis in Education,' py Lee
 Russell. in scribner's.
 Many remedies have been proposed for raising teaching from it's present low estate The result of the most obvious far been satisfactory. The peeuniary ap- peal is brought to the front. but com-. pared to the rise in the cost of living and the advance in wages paid to in- dustrial workers, any increases so far made. or likely to be made, are meager. It is said that what we lack in educa- tion is leadership of men. men of orig inality and enthusiasm, capable of att
 tracting to the profession recruits Of ideals and character. This is no doubt true. but how are you going to interest such leaders in the first place? Very
 few men of any sort are now attracted to teaching what inducement can you
 hold out to them for the future? It is
 proposed to give the rank and file
 larger share in the shaping of educa-
 tional policy and practice. This would make teachers themselves interested in
 working out the plans which they had
 helped to form and would put upon them
 part of the responsibility for success. It might lead to greater professional
 pride, but if that spirit were not fos- tered by public interest and approval We should be worse off than we are now. Much emphasis is placed upon profess sional study by teachers, and most cities make such study factor in the pro- motion of their staffs. Saturday classes. conventions. and summer schools are widely established, and are attended by
 large numbers of teachers, with good results. They are. however, heavy ex- pense at this time. and often use up the
 energy which would be better employed in the schoolroom itself.
 The true remedy lies much deeper than anything which has yet been proposed. It lies in such genuine appreciation of the importance of the work to the state
 as will lead to it's being placed on q higher plane of honor and dignity than it has ever held. The time is ripe for just such a revolution. It must be an orr derly but a fundamental change.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
How British Entered War

w. R. Inge, In Yale Review.
 My first inkling of what was coming was on July 2S. 1914. when a naval of ficer told me that European war came we should not be able to keep out of it. From that day the sky began te darken. I went to Canterbury for the annual cricket-week. and assisted at the miserable attempts to, carry through the customary socialities of that pleasant county gathering till the storm broke and the holiday crowds melted away. At that time the feeling in England was that we had backed a bill for Belgium which we never expected to see pre- scented, but which we were bound in honor to acknowledge. It was a horrible and utterly unforeseen misfortune; but we would show the Germans that as we had gone to war on the point of honor, we would fight them like chiv- alrous gentlemen and then shake hands.
 M Chevrilon. whose brilliant little book, "L'Angleterre ct la Guerre.' is an even truer picture of English psychology at that time than MT Fl. G. Wells MT.
 Britling Sees It Through says that it took us some time to realize that war
 with Germany was not a rather rough game of football. But the Germans made
 haste to undeceive us. The burning of Wise, the first Belgian town entered by the 1nVauerS, WAS a SHOCK, the iiidSSsi- cres at Termonde and elsewhere were
 hardly credited at first; the destruction of Louvain and Of Rheims cathedral
 finally opened our eyes. But it was moi until the bombardment of the undefend. ed Yorkshire watering places, Whltby and Scarborough, the illegal use oi poison gas (which infuriated the soldiers more than the outrages upon non-com | batants), and above all the Lusitanis crime. that the whole nation blazed ou 1 into fierce anger, the like sof which only | few old men could remember when 1T
 1857 news came of the massacre at Cawn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
Washington News
By Associated Press

Washington February 17.-Investi- gation of fertilizer prices was ordered at the closing session today of q meeting here of the National Board of Farm organizations. The board said it had received cttnplaints from farmers about prices charged. Dr. HI. E. Stockbridge of the Farmers Ma tional Congress was made chairman of an investigating committee.
 Ordinary expenditures by the gov ernment during January decreased by more than $16,000,o0o as compared with December while public debt pay ments fell off by more than $1,000,- 0O0 according to the monthly state- ment issued tonight by the treasury. During January ordinary expenditures amounted to 38S,179.272 as against s404,575,O91 in December. Payments of the public debt for January totalled s5s0, 100.657. compared with $1, 600, IS, S56 during the previous month.
 communication from the Nor wegian foreign office urging adjust ment or arbitration of Norway's $14,- 900, 900 claim in connection with war time communicating by the govern ment of merchant crafA building here on Norwegian orderN was before ship ping board officials today, the state department having referred it to the board on presentation by Minister Byrn. Pending decision by the board as to the Norwegian valuation, only formal acknowledgement of receipt of the note will be made to Christiana.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
Diary of a Fuiiwara Beauty

From A. Court Lady of old Japan by
 L. Adams Beck, In Asia.
 The Lady Sci shonagon was maid of honor to the Empress of Japan about a thousand years ago. and she amused herself and others by keeping a sort CT diary or record which has become a. classic It is known as The Pillow Sketch book from it's having been written on the sheets of white paper that cover a wooden sleeplng-pillow in Japan very human document it is. light-hearted diurnal of the happening of many days in the sunshine of the Emperor tre- mendous presence and under the protec- Kyoto. Tn the elegant brush characters of China she wrote her impressions of the life round her-of the magnificent diam yo whose notice was distinction. as they stalked by in trailing trousers and stiff winged sleeves, and of the court ladies who were her friends and rivals. The Lady Sci has a charming way of classifying the things chat please or dis 1 please her fastidiousness. Here is a little | list in which she tabulates things hate 1 ful:"
 | Bad writing on pink-tinted paper. 1 "A quite ordinary person talking in q boastful way.
 ! "A dog who barks in recognition oi | claudestine visit. I And rats running about are also Very hateful"
 | Here are a few of the things tha' l make your heart beat They do so still When your lover takes out lettei
 and hands it to you."
 I s"Watchng horse races"
 And among things that do not lool
 promising figures, "A flighty and fickl' husband who takes to staying out al
 night" That figure is evidently ancien
 as well as modern.
 She has a very human list of things | enviable."
 People who overtake you withou out trouble, while you have to repea the same passage over and over again and still forget it.
 "ePople who overtake you withou effort while you are panting uphill to [ shrine.
 Everyone who knows the ascent to th'
 Temple of Mii-dera, near Kyoto, vii sympathize with this remark 1t wa. evidently, then as now, point of re lgion to set the shrines where the pill grim's legs should take fullest part 1T his devotions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18

clients if carefully followed would jus tify the selection by Mr.. Harding of man with distinguished career who is not a banker. Sometimes it has been said since MT. Mellons name has been prominently associated with the Treas ury department that if he does become Secretary of the Treasury his appoint mcnt will be that of the first great barker to be named for that office since 1861.
 Yet when this remark is made there is reference to Cleveland's appointment of Daniel Manting as Secretary of the Treasury, and also of Mckuley's selec- | ton of Lyman J. Gage for the treasury and again the choice made by Theodore Roosevelt of Governor Shaw of Iowa. 1 II is true that Manning, Gage and Shaw were bankers, but they were selected not | for that reason, but on account of special | and peculiar considerations. Cleveland owed much of his early successes and i in fact his nomination for President to
 Mir Manning. Strong personal attach
 ment was maintained between them.
 Mckinley was anxious to bring into his 1 cabinet democrat who had been con | spicuous as an opponent of the silver
 policy advocated by Bryan in 1896. For that reason when the suggestion was
 made to him by his intimate friend, Her
 man H. Kohlsaat, that he make choice ' i spicuous as a democrat who repudated 1 Bryan's policy and supported Mckinley | upon the gold issue alone, Mckinley was l so favorably impressed with the sugges- ton that after some preliminary or ten tative negotiations he at last made offer l of the treasury department to MT. Gage It was not therefore as banker but as gold democrat that Mir. Gage was
 called into McKinleys cabinet.
 | Mr ratira6 from the traaS- ury department, President Roosevelt was of the common understanding at thai time to be disposed to ask Henry c. Prick to accept the treasury port folio. That offer may have been made but if it was, it was declined.' Then President Roosevelt was advised by DO litical friends that Governor Shaw o1 Iowa had very strong personal and DO litical following in Iowa, Nebraska anc Minnesota, and that this might be utii Iized in such way as to bring Governor Shaw into prominence as a candidate foi
 the presidency in 1904 Roosevelt nevel
 lacked political acumen. He invited Gov iernor Shaw to become Secretary of thu
 Treasury, and the political consequences
 of this invitation were speedily appar
 ent It was not as bankers therefore
 that Manning, Gage and Shaw became
 secretaries of the treasury, but the Sc lection of them was made for other req sons From this point of view MT. Mel lon. if he becomes Secretary of the Treas lury. will really be the first since Lin coln's day chosen to that office who na Ibeen prominently all his active life iden tified with banking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
.ETOWAH PLANTERS TO
 HOLD WEEKLY SESSION

oiadsden. February 17-(Special. )-~It has been decided by the officers thae there will be meeting of the farmers of the county every Saturday at o'clock in the courthouse in Gadsden-
 All farmers are invited and the meet ing will be held under the auspices ot the Etowah County Farm Bureau asso- citation. All matters pertaining to the as- sociation and any aid that can be given in crop matters will be given at this time.
 It will be sort of weekly clearing house for all farmers. and 1t is expected that the farmers will take advantage or the meetings and patronize them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
kENNEMER-RAINEY
 CONTEST WILL OPEN
 IN ETOWAH SATURDAY

Gadsden, February F.-(special)-An important conference will take place in this city Saturday, when Congressman IL. B. Rainey and all of his managers in the counties of the Seventh district will meet to discuss plans for continuing the gathering of testimony in the Rainey- Kennemer contest case.
 Many of Captain Rainey's friends ana advisors are of the opinion that inas- much as the republicans failed to reveal anything of a tangible nature to suo-
 stantiate their cry of fraud, the matter could we'll be dropped where it IS. the
 contest closed and the democrats let their case rest on the testimony produced by the republicans.
 On the other hand there are some who desire to push the matter to conclu- sion and show, what they claim to pc fraud, on the part of the republicans The Kennemer commissioner has closed his court. his 40 days being up Tuesday If the Rainey forces decide to continue the active field work, there will be near. ings in all the counties affected during fine next 90 days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
THREE DWELLINGS
 DESTROYED BY FIRE

Three houses occupied by negro fam flies on Seventh avenue between Twenty ninth and Thlrtieth streets were com pletely destroyed by fire about 1:l5 o'clock this morning. Four other houses in the same block were damaged by the fire to the extent of about sSc0' each
 High winds aided the flames to gain considerable headwav before the fire men arrived sparks from the first house to catch flew to the other houses and at one time six houses were on fire at the sanre time,
 Negroes with buckets of water and wet rags aided the firemen in putting out the sparks and the fire was declared under control at 1:i0 o'clock. Approximately $9, ,ooO damage was caused by the fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
WIFE DIES SUDDENLY
Boaz Mans Journey Halted By Death
 Message

Gadsden February 17.-( Special )-T. M. Ayers of Boaz left home yesterday morn ing with the intention of visiting Gads- den. He reached Attall, where he found word had preceded him informing him of the death of his wife. It appears that Mrs. Ayers dropped dead soon after her husband left the house, and the first place where he could be reached was At talla. He immediately turned about and started back to Boaz.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
WOMAN KILLS NEGRO

Emma Johnson, negro, 1908 Eighteenth street, north, shot and almost instant ly killed Leo Rowland. a negro, who, 1t is alleged, was attempting to break into the negro womans house.
 Officer Carl Brown answered the alarm and lodged the negro woman In the city jail on charge of murder. She ad- mtted killing Rowland, saying that she shot him because she believed that he was a burglar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
Too Much Overhead
By Assecieted Pree1

Washington, February l7-The ship ping board must practically wipe ou. It's overhead expenses before the American merchant marine can suc- ping interests. Chairman Benson de- clared tonight before the House com mittee Investigating the boards ac- tivitiea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
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Gadsden February 17--tSpecial) = Charles Bradley, resident of Mar shall county, was brought to the Rails infirmary yesterday suffering from q severe gunshot wound. His right leg was badly injured when his shotgun was accidentally discharged whi!s hunting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
Car Surplus Reported
Ee eh-,,

By Aee0clato0 fteeo
 Washington. February MA freight car surplus is piiing up at the rate of 25,00O a week, the American Raii- way association said today. Already s5s,06s cars. including 122.000 coal cal . riers are reported idle. as against ! shortage of 150.000 freight cars No- vember 1. last. the announcement said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18

MackaySmh socially prominent Washington Pha delpa and other cities recently married
 daughter of the late Bishop Alexander the domaist back to 1912 about the time she made her bachelor dpiomau attachment which endured the rgo of in whic countries involved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
HOUSE

By passing the Qualifications appro- priation bill today, the House cstab- lished a record for recent years in rapid disposition of the 13 annual sup ply measures. Representative MondeM republican leader, declared that at no session in the past 20 years had the House acted with such dispatch on appropriation measures. Only one of the bills as amended in tke Senate,
 however. has been finally approved by the House. The Qualifications bill as passed by the House. carried ap- proximately sS,000,O00. and was ap- lproved virtually as reported by the Appropriation committees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18

Infirmities of age and increasing Seafness has caused Dowager Queen Alexandra of Great Britain to forsake society.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
DAY IN CONGRESS
sENATt

By Associafta H,e.s
 Washington, FebrN0 l'.- AZ gree ment to vote tomorrVN on posai to authorize s10O, ,O00.0eu addition. for federal cooperation in road corstruc- ton was reached today e he senate. The legislation which passed tht1 House recently was offered by Senator swanson. democrat, Virginia, as rider to the annual postoffice appropriation bill.
 Creation of a separate bureau Of aeronautics in the navy department to control all aviation matters is pro- posed in an amendment to the naval appropriations bill offered today Ly Senator Reyes. republican New Hamp- shire.
 Sweeping and drastic regulation Of the coal fndustey at this time Is in- justified, Senator Gay. democrat, Louisiana said in a minority report | filed today, and based on the Calder committees investigation of that in- dustry The majority members of the committee brought forward the pend ling coal regulation measure. l The Senate today adopted the reso- luton of Senator Smith, democrat, South Carolina. providing for an in- vestigation of the Senate agriculture committee of the amounts of cotton and wheat now on hand in this 'roun lfry. left over from recent crops. Sen ator Smith contended, in offering the resolution, that conflicting and uncer- tain market reports have been made. i Senate republican leaders today lagreed again to expedite disposal of the Immigration exclusion Legislation by giving the bill priority rights as l"unfinished business" Leaders be- llieved an agreement for final vote lwould be reached later.
 The conference report on the bill fol igovernment regulation of cold storage was adopted today by the Senate with fout discussion on roll call. It now tgoes to the House for final approval.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18

Because the achievements of secretar- ies of the treasury which have become traditional which were smade during and since the time of the Civil war were the work of men who were not bankers,
 therefore it has been presumed that the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18

The conference report on the bill for government regulation of cold storage was adopted today by the Senate with out discussion on a roll call. It now
 goes to the House for final approval