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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-04-20
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL STORM
Much Damage Done by Storm Which
Passed Over County Monday
Morning. Rich Hill Hard
Hit.

What was perhaps the worst hail
storm i'll years passed over the coun-
II ty Monday morning about 2:oc
| o'clock. The hail stones, which were
| driven by a high wind, we're of extra
ordinary size, many the size of wal
nuts being picked up the next morn
ing. Rich Hill and the territory 1y-
ing between there and Butler expert
enced the full force of the storm,
some farm houses having every west
| window broken and contents badly
damaged by the rain being driven
through the openings. In many cases
tie weatherboarding being broken by
the force OF the hail.
A dispatch from Rich Hill says
The most destructive storm in years
struck this city and vicinity Monday
morning at ? o'clock. Most OF the
damage in the city resulted from ter
rifle hail storm and virtually every
window glass with west exposure
was broken. Hailstoncs as large as
WalnutS were picked UP over town
Monday morning. several hours alter
the storm.
During the storm irregular slabs of
ice fell, some being one to one and
|on,half inches thick, three inches
wide and five to SIX inches lonng.
Sixth street, the principal business
street running north and south, was
Eriddied, virtually every window light
was gone.
The following were sufferers
Nagner's garage. Anderson 5 produce
house, F. and, NJ. bank. Commercial
State bank Home Produce building
Montgomery garage, Peoples Ele-
va;or building, the American Legion
hall, Talmage hotel, Park Avenue
Methodist church, Christian church,
Baptist church, high school building,
Franklin school. South school, Cath
.olc church and Advent church.
\ Missouri Pacific train on the
tracks here lost almost all window
fights. Business buildings and resi-
.dcnees, having tin and rubberoid
roofs were damaged, hailstoses
pounding through them. The resi-
dcnce section OF town looks like a
city after battle in which a barrage
had been laid down
Insurance offices We're being over
run Monday by loss sufferers to as
ce: tain whether their policies cover
losses and at 9 o'clock dealers i'll Will
dow glass reported everything sold
out and not 10 per cent of the losses
filled. Telephone orders to city glass
houses were being placed.
No correct estimate could be given
on the loss, However, it will likely
rur to $4,000 in this city alone. "
Sunday afternoon tornado swept
over the country near Montrose, do
ing considerable damage. The home
Of John Bauer was destroyed and
PATTY demolished the home of Henry
5. Waters. All members OF the Wat
efs family were injured, one severely.
Members of the Bauer family escaped
having sought safety in
heir basement.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-04-20

Amoskeag Dress Gingham, 32
inches wide, assorted plaids,
stripes and checks, asc.
Ladies and Misses Strap
Pumps, Brown and Black Kid,
low and Cuban Heels, sizes 2
Ia to 8, $500 to $3.50.
Mallinson's Klimax Satin and
Dew Kist, 40 inches wide, Navy,
Black and Brown, $500 value,
SAYS.
Children's Hose, fine ribbed
Hose, Black, Brown and White,
all sizes. 35c
r. & G. Girdelette, closed
back, the newest Corset for
Misses and Small Women, Spe-
cial, $I.oo.
Children's Gingham Dresses.
Good Quality Gingham and
good styles, sizes s to rs, $a.so
value. $I.3s.
lot Ladies, Misses and Chill
dren's Spring Coats, values up
to $Is.oo. special $500.
Ladies and Misses Brown Ok.
fords, patent strap Pumps, low
and Cuban heels. $3.50 to $3.50.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-04-20
$as Reward by Lodge No. 30 c. p. A.

A reward of SIS will be paid for the
capture and conviction of the thief
who stole one Goodyear. Diamond
tread Ford tire from the car at the
residence of Otis Andrews, On or
about April 4, 1922. An additional re-
ward of $1,000 will be paid for the re-
turn Of the tire.
w. G. Dillon, Pres,
J. r. Baum, Sec, Lodge No. 80 c. p.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-04-20
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The New York herald., 1922-07-04
Away We Slip to the Pole.

Professor ScHNAUDER, the cele-
brated German astronomer of Pots
dam University. has chilling news
for those conservative mortals averse
to Grating their household goods and
going far afield in search Of fairer
opportunity and easier lives.
The temperate zones, Professor
ScHNAUpER gives warning, are slip
ping faster than ever out Of the sun
line and nearer to the polar position.
In seventeen years the earth's axis
has moved five yards on this path
toward a second glacial age which is
surely coming. 1t is steadily hitting
up the pace.
Meanwhile, at this particular period,
as away the ground under our feet
slips toward the pole, the cheerful in
habitants of this part of the temper
ate zone fringed by the North Allan
tic, toasted by the tropic currents
from the south and wilted, soaked
and melted in the vapors Of humid
ity. can't worry one little bit about
freezing to death.
The New York herald., 1922-07-04
Man Failure.

II II turns out that towerman at
winslow Junction, New Jersey, on the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
was actually responsible for misplac-
ing a switch Sunday night and thus
sending the Midnight Flyer to wreck,
with the lamentable loss of nine lives
and the injury of seventy-two per-
sons, the question Immediately arises,
why did not the engineer Of the train
see the changed signal and act ac-
cordingly? The investigation of the
accident cannot end with acceptance
of the theory that the towerman is
exclusively responsible for the acct
dent. There are numerous details
which It does not cover.
There are accidents which are due
to no fault Of equipment, accidents
which arc assignable to no willfuf act
of men. They are caused by man
The New York herald., 1922-07-04
Painting the Melon.
Mexicans Used a Red Col0ring Mat.
ter Too Potent for Some.

10 THE NEW YORK HERALD Refer
ring to an article you printed recently;
Painting the Melon Red" that sort of
artistic effort Is not new to those who
have travelled south of the Rio Grande.
The horrible red Of these watermelons
at once attracts the notice Of an Amer
lean. and when you mention 1t you
hear the story.
Their melons are white. Having seen
those from the North, a wild idea Of
improving nature seized some Of them
and knowledge Of the trick spread. They
a red liquid that colors the whole in
terror and Is of such a nature that it
affects the stomach so that there have
been deaths from eating these melons. 1t
is absolutely forbidden to do this. but
they still continue the practice.
An Indian woman at Escuintla was
passing some around, and the vividness
OF the red was most unattractive. 1t
looked like raw meat. When she
reached my window In the train told
her "she had wasted her colors :, she
had put In enough for Dozen She
looked at me for moment stupefed.
then passed quickly away.
The Mexicans used to use the coch-
meal bug. but as it became scarce and
more expensive they took to the poison.
ELIZABETH TOWNSEND DARR.
GLADSTONE, ". j., July 3.
The New York herald., 1922-07-04
Stopping the Oil Nuisance.

Representative T. FRANK APPLEBY
Of the Third New Jersey district is
pressing two measures to abate the
oil waste nuisance on our coastal
waters. One is national, the other
international.
Although refuse from oil burning
vessels is injuring our fishing and
oyster industries, is bringing death
in peculiarly cruel form to many of
our migratory waterfowl and is be-
fouling our beaches to the impair
ment of public health and the de-
probation in the value of water front
properties. nevertheless, the United
States alone cannot put stop to the
evil.
The reason is that great deal of
the oil, oil sludge and oil waste dump
ing is done without the three mile
limit. The only way this practice
can be suppressed is by international
agreement. and Representative AP-
PLEBY's joint resolution providing for
conference of maritime nations for
the purpose of reaching such an
agreement has. passed the House and
the Senate and Is now awaiting the
Presidents action.
1t is a step in the right direction,
but the attainment of the desired
end by this process necessarily in
wolves long delay. 1t takes time for
such a conference to assemble and to
formulate a plan Of action and more
time is required to provide for the
enforcement of the rules which may
be adopted. Meanwhile the situation
is already acute in some quarters and
in others is rapidly becoming so.
The masters of oil burning vessels
are at full liberty to turn loose ruin
Gus floods OF oil refuse. There is
nothing to prevent the spreading of
acres of this pollution over the seas
surface and its floating in upon our
shores The only hope for present
relief lies in an appeal to shipowners
and ship masters. There is ground
to believe that from this may come
some abatement of the nuisance.
Within our own territorial waters
the situation is different. Offenders
may be reached and severe penalties
imposed Mr.. APpLEBY's bill, intro
duced on March Is and now pending,
is legislation to that end. Under its
provisions discharging oil. or any of
its waste derivatives, upon the navi-
gable waters of the United States,
save under clearly defined conditions.
carries the penalty of fine of $4,000
The New York herald., 1922-07-04
A Red Letter Day.

At early morn when awake
And tumble out of bed
I see against the azure sky
gleam of brilliant red
(And also white and starry blue).
Where on the summer breeze
Old Glory filings It's colors gay
And ripples DER the trees.
Red flashes leap TO view and die.
Red paper strews the street
Where crackers burst their Jackets red
The racket to complete,
And when the sunset redly flares
And fades above the hill
Req rockets to the zenith soar
And ruby jewels spill.
Red pinvheels whirl in dazzling showers
OF twinkling gold-red sparks.
Red fires light up the velvet lawns
or bungalows and parks.
And red balloons like vagrant stars
Go slowly sailing north
To seek the red auroral lights
Behold II Is the Fourth.
sfrNNA iKvine
The New York herald., 1922-07-04
The Coal Strike Proceedings.

If it is fact, as reported, that the
Government has a suggestion Of an
arbitration committee, made up of
eight operators and eight miners, to
try to reach terms for settling the
coal strike. the first thing TO be said
OF 1t is that such committee would
be too big. Even without the dis
interested person or persons that
might have to be added to the COM
Eaittee to break a tie vote, it would
be too big.
Town meetings are for talk. not for
action that gets down to concrete
business, and an arbitration COM
mittee of sixteen or more members
would take on the character of a
town meeting.
The second thing to be said of such
a committee is that in all prcba-
bility q definite, specific plan of
temporary compromise as to wage
scales and working conditions. if put
forward by a spokesman for the
States Government, would be
accepted by the operators and the
miners before a topheavy arbitration
committee could settle itself to worth
while work.
And the third thing to be said OF
such committee to settle the strike
is that if the proposal did not include
plan for the reorganization of the
whole bituminous coal industry 1T
could not fail to prove bitterly dis
appointing makeshift.
Unless this imperatively needed re-
organization is provided for and set
ic motion before much more waterhas
run over the dam any strike settle
ment that only covers wages and
working conditions and that, still
leaves the crucial issue adrift is only
postponing the heavy consequences
of the present evil day in the soft
coal business to the heavier conse-
quences of far more evil day.
The New York herald., 1922-07-04
What Solomon Missed.
Some Modern Trimmings, but He
Managed to Be Happy.

To THE New York HERALD: Since
the world began mankind has been en-
deavoring to improve conditions to his
liking. Solomon in all his wisdom was
wrong. There are "a few new things
under the sun.
Solomon had no automobile rides, no
telephone or radio, saw no airplanes
cavorting about in the sky. saw no
movies, received no daily paper. but was
probably relieved from listening to jazz
music. Solomon missed-with some ex-
ceptions and compensations--a lot, and
was therefore evidently not very happy
toward the close of his most remarka-
BILE career. ~
Still. King Solomon was wise in little
things also; when the Queen of Sheba
visited him she brought natural flowers
and many artificial flowers to test the
wisdom OF Solomon. They were beauti-
fully made and delicately scented. She
asked Solomon to select the natural
flowers from the artificial. This wise
man bade his servants to open the win
dows. and the honey bees flew at once
to the natural flowers and not to the
artificial ones.
Solomon found out that the world
was not a bit different to him than to
the myriads gone before him. And even
to-day 1t Is the same old world after
all. and it Is folly to worry II 1t is toe
hot or cold and things in general dc
not go right We cannot change IT a
particle. This old world could be a lot
worse. and we must give it credit for
being whatever we make It our very
selves GEORGE WILSON JENNINGS.
BROOKLYN, July 8.
The New York herald., 1922-07-04

failure; by unaccountable obscuration
of the human faculties in individuals
experienced in their callings and de-
voted to their duty. Commanders of
soldiers. navigators of ships, engi-
neers and towermen on railroads
have been thus afflicted. and the con-
sequences Cf their impulsive acts or
their neglect to act have been dis.
astrous. Against man failure it is
i,ow impossible to make perfect pro-
vicion. Doubling watches does not
do it; automatic equipment does
Lot do it. ..s
Perhaps the inquiries now under
way may prove that the Midnight
Flyer went to destruction because
some practicable protective agency
was not installed; perhaps they may
end in the decision that the Winslow
Junction derailment was due to man
failure.
The New York herald., 1922-07-04
"Sick and Tired. !"
Minority Terrorism on the Railroads
Has Worn the Public Out.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Chair
man Hooper of the United States Rail-
road Labor Board knows his public
when he says. THE people of the United
States are sick and tired of having
railway transportation and traffic peri
odically interrupted by controversy be-
tween railway managements and en-
ployees."v
Sick and tired Of minority of 400.-
900 or even total Of 100000 railroad
employees threatening the transporta-
tion property Of the people. for the rail-
roads are the property as well as the
transportation agency of the people.
This statement is susceptible of very
real substantiation in the official num-
ber OF stock and bondholders of our
roads, the stocks and bonds held by saw
ings.' State and other banks, by trust
and banking institutions and by insur-
ance. companies and other institutions
Of a fiduciary character and by educa-
tional and charitable institutions.
The railroad stock and bond holdings
of these institutions form part of the
investment credit Of these institutions,
and through them 50.0o0.O00 of our 11o.-
900, 900 population are directly inter-
ested--the investments Of the savings
and other banks and the investments to
support the policies of the insurance
companies being largely dependent on
the success of our railroads.
This public ownership is far superior
to municipal. governmental or political
control Of public utilities. We must
hold fast to it.
All there is to the subject Is: The
American people own their railroads, the
Interstate Commerce Commission act
and the railroad labor board act, sup
plemented by the Clayton act--three
acts established by Congress. the repre-
sentatives of the people-teH the people
what they may or may not do with
their properties. the railroads. The four
railroad labor brotherhoods and asso-
ciated railroad crafts and clerical unions
have another voice which is more or
less controlled by the railroad labor
board. E. g. r.
NEW York, July 3.
The New York herald., 1922-07-04
JAPAN DENIES EVADING
WASHINGTON TREATY
Port Arthur No Longer Nauol
Port-PoUerful Neu Cruisers

TOXIC July (Associated Press).-
The admiralty to-day issued formal
statement fatty denying recent reports
that Japan was evading the Washing
ton Naval Treaty by increasing con-
struction Of auxiliary vessels. 1t also
announced that Port Arthur. taken
from the Russians in the Russo-Japa-
nese war. would be abandoned as a
naval port.
The statement says that Japan's
auxiliary naval program, while still un-
completed. probably, will consist Of
cruisers. of 10000 tons each and OF
1000 tons each "a f1rst-class destroyers
with an aggregate tonnage Of $4,000; "a
submarines with an aggregate. tonnage
Of 2S,166. This, says the official state
ment represents a reduction of 1895
gross tonnage. The new plans involve
a greater total cost than the old pro-
gram. owing to increased expenses In
material and labor 1t is pointed out.
but a saving will be effected by con-
verting the port OF Maidmura from a
naval base to naval port and abolish
ing the naval port of Port Arthur as
soon as ratification of the Washington
treaties Is a fact. The reduction In
tonnage will necessitate dropping 10. 900
officers and non-commissioned officers
from the naval rolls
Dispatches from the Far East re.
Gently published in the London Times
said the new Japanese 10000 ton light
cruisers would be superior to any ves-
sells in the world of their class in speed,
gun fire and fleet efficiency.
The New York herald., 1922-07-04
Vegetable Dinners.

What was a dietary rarity only a
short time ago has apparently be-
come a fixture in all restaurants of
the family class. having even in
vaded that type styling itself patis-
serie. This is the vegetable dinner,
which on a hot evening makes an
appeal to both the eye and the pal
ate through the rich greens Of its
reas, spinach and string beans. the
yellowish tints OF it's caulifower, the
whites of its floury potato and the
rounded poachei egg.
This appel .ling and nourishing
dish is symbol of three things, two
Of which at least are probably older
ttan some OF the vegetables entering
into II. One Of these is economics
and another is the matter Of diet,
while the third is tho long continued
campaign conducted in this country
byFwriters on domestic economy who
have advocated the plan Of eating
less meat and more vegetables and
-aIads at meals in the summertime
The economical aspect of this vege-
table dinner is result of the high
cost OF food in recent years; but its
present popularity is not little due
to belief in its healthfuIness.
Doctors in recent years have been
regulating diet more and more as a
curative measure. To order meal
The New York herald., 1922-07-04
U. S. Cuts Debt 81, ,O14,00O, 900 in Year
Surplus of Receipts Over Expenditures,
Instead Of Deficit Predicted in December.

WASHINGTON, July S.---A reduction oi
s1.o14. 600. 900 in the public debt during
the fiscal year ended June 80 and a re-
duction of s175.ooo.ooo in the debt in
June was announced to-day by the
Treasury.
At the same time the Treasury an
'nounced that the final figures of Gov
ernment receipts and expenditures FOR
the last fiscal year revealed surplus
Of $4,000. 900.
The total ordinary receipts Of the Gov
ernment for the fiscal year 1922
amounted to s4.10s. 100000 compared
with $5.625.oOo.o 900 the previous year
while the total expenditures chargeabls
against ordinary receipts amounted tc
ss.795. 900. 900. as against s5.53S.o 90. .ood
during 1921.
When the budget was sumitted last
December. the treasury stated. the es-
innate indicated a deficit for 1922
amounting to s24.46s.7O3. and the better
showing which has been made results
from a combination Of several factors.
Aggregate receipts for the year were
about $140.0oo.o0o greater than origi-
nally estimated
Customs receipts proved to be larger
than for any previous fiscal year in the
history Of the Government. and
amounted to $356.443.3S71S, as COM
pared with the estimate of $27S,000. 000.
Internal revenue, receipts amounted to
$3,213.253, ,256.79. or almost exactly the
estimated 3.21t,500,000.
Miscellaneous revenues, including
Panama Canal tolls, amounted to $780,
407,20697. as compared with an esti-
mated $47S,953,6 ,663, the difference being
due chiefly to increased realization on
property and securities and the sale of
about $44.000,000 Of Federal Land Bank
bonds owned by the Government. Total
expenditures on the other hand were al
most $200,000.000 less than the estimates
given last December in the budget, due
largely to decreased expenditures on ac-
count Of railroads and to unexpectedly
The New York herald., 1922-07-04
Two Mighty Mountains.

BY measuring Mount LIE Conte
in Tennessee and ascertaining its
height to be $3.50 feet the Geodetic
Survey has put an official end to a
dispute which has been carried on
vigorously between the citizens Of
Tennessee and those of North Caro-
lima. The old North State pos
sesses as one Of its distinctions
Mount Mitchell, 6,711 feet in alti-
tide, the highest mountain east Of
the Rockies. Tennessee has asserted
that Mount LIE Conte topped Mount
Mitchell and has backed it's conten-
tion with enthusiasm. Now the Gov
ernment has awarded the palm to
Mount Mitchell and North Carolina
is happy.
The two mountains bear historic
names. The North Carolina emf
nence was named in honor Of the
Rev. ELISHA MITCHELL, a native OF
Washington, Connecticut, who was
graduated from Yale in 1913 and or
Gained a minister of the Presbyterian
Church in 1921. From 1925 until his
death in 1857 he held the professor
snip Of chemistry, mineralogy and
geology in the University Of North
Carolina. and he was also State Sur
veyor for many years. In perform
ing the duties Of that Office he visited
the principal mountains of the State.
In this survey he established the
fact. now confirmed by the Geodetic
Survey, that Black Dome. after
ward named in his honor Mitchells s
High Peak, or Mount Mitchell, was
the highest mountain east of the
Rockies. While trying to learn its
exact altitude DR.. MITCHELL. was
overtaken by storm and, falling
over a precipice into pool, was
drowned. He was buried on the
highest point of the mountain, which
remains an appropriate monument
to great scholar.
JOSEPH LIE CoNTE, Georgian by
oirth, after receiving degrees at the
University of Georgia, the College Of
Physicians and Surgeons, New York
city, and the Lawrence Scientific
School of Harvard. accompanied
Louis AGAssIz in 1851 on a scientific
expedition to Florida. He served as
professor of various branches of sci.
ence in several institutions and In
1869 was appointed to the chair OF
geology in the University of Califor.
mia, remaining there until his death
in 1901. Professor LIE. CoNTE die
much to popularize the study Of geol.
ogy. His scientific achievements
/ justify the honor bestowed on him
ty giving his name to the great
Tennessee mountain.
| 1t is to be hoped that the men oil
Tennessee will not resent the subor.
dination of their favorite peak Il
Mount Mitchell. lie Conte remains q
mountain worth having. despite the
fact that elsewhere there are higher
mountains.
The New York herald., 1922-07-04
A Woman's Song.

The Lord God painted the sunset and
hung 1t against the sky,
The Lord God tore UP the great ribbed
rocks and flung them mountain
high:
And have rufi1ed the thin white lawn
to curtain the window pane,
And I have rnended the broken wall
une1'tain against the rain.
The Lord God measured the great green
sea, and counted its heart in
hours,
Ile sent his forked fire from Heaven to
bring Him chart Of the flowers
And I have made rainbow thing for a
quilt on the worn old bed
And l have drawn magic ring where
gentle words are said.
God made the world while lightninge
played below the purple dome:
And under low roof I have made the
Miracle of Home.
MARY CARMAcK McDouoAL.