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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24

New YOrk-Four persons overcome
by gas and smoke were taken from a
burning building by firemen here.
Eleven other occupants of the building
after dashing through Railways filled
with smoke and flame. crawled across
roofs of adjoining buildings to safety.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24

lean Legion flour
ishes and cele-
b ra L e $ % e "a e q.
West Point is the
home Of the Stew
art Whiting Hoo
yer post, which is
under command
Of one of earth's
glorious species
ii hig h-ranking
nOn-cOm.
Andrew Rheu-
de, a sergeant,
was chosen from
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Car Strikes Auto: Six Dead.

Detroit.-Edward H. Ives, assistant
superintendent of the Detroit United
Lines of Detroit, his wife, three chill
dren and girl guest, We're killed when
their automobile skidded into the path
of a Detroit United Railway interur-
ban car near Rochester, Mich, 80 miles
north of here
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
s1s5o,ooo Fire At Meridian.

Meridian, Miss.-Fire destroyed the
Meridian Chair & Furniture company,
buildings and contents, while a fall
ing wall crushed the James Peden
auto repair shop and water and smoke
materially damaged the large stock of
goods of the Meridian Wholesale COM
pany, adjoining buildings, the total
loss being estimated at $4,000. The
loss is said to be practically covered.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
WARNS AGAINST
BIG COTTON CROP
RAISING OF OVER 10000, 900 BALES
WOULD BRING FINANCIAL
DISTRESS TO ALL
BANKERS SOUND WARNING
Cotton Market Today Is Stagnant-Re
ports Show That Worlds Spin
dies Are Not Consuming the
Amount Months Ago.

! Memphis.-A cotton crop of over TO-.
100000 bales this year will bring finan-
cial distress to the south and its farm
ers.
This is the warning sent broadcast
throughout the cotton belt by southern
banking interests, the cotton acreage
reduction committee and commercial
organizations.
The 1O-year average consumption of
American cotton, including linters, has
been about 100000 bales. The con-
sumption last year was 10,500,0O0
bales, according to authentic reports.
A new crop of 100000 bales will
give the world a supply of 15,884,000
bales, officers of the reduction com
mittee estimate. The indicated carry
over on July 81 this year will be about
5.S84,0OO bales. American cotton car
ried over August 1, 1921, including
linters, was 9,194,O0O bales.
The supply of American cotton avail
able August l, 1921, TO July 81, 1922,
is 17,8S4OOO bales, the committee esti-
mates. The maximum probably con
sumption this year is 100000 bales.
The greatest consumption of Ameri-
can cotton. including linters ever
known in any one year was 100000
bales. Reports from world spindIes
show that today they are not consum-
ing the amount of cotton of a few |
years ago.
The cotton market is now stagnant, |
but if it becomes known that the farm
ers are preparing to plant heavily, !
many fear prices will take a heavy |
slump. The supply of cotton today is
heavier than the demand.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Government Grants Loan TO r. r,

Washington.-A government loan of
$3,500.000 has been granted the Mis-
souri, and North Arkansas Railroad Co.
by the interstate commerce commits
sion.- The amount will be used to
meet maturing obligations and to pro-
vide additions and betterments.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Pleads Freeing of Political Prisoners

WashingtOn.-In the face of appar-
ent and OutspOken opposition, law
yers and representative of various
liberal organizations pleaded with the
House judiciary committee to report
a resolution asking the president to
give careful consideration" to the
propriety of granting immediate am
nesty to 113 political prisoners. serv-
ing long terms for violation of the
espionage act
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Asks Bid For Tornado Sufferers.

Corinth, Miss.-Outside assistance
in relieving the distress OF the 200
families left homeless by the recent
cyclone has been invited by the
Chamber of Commerce of Corinth
after survey of reports of the in
vestigating committees had been read
and the full extent of the damage
seen
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
candhi Gets six Years.

Ahmedarab. British India.-Mohan-
das Gahndi the Indian non-coopera-
zionist leader, who was arrested re-
Gently on charges of sedition. was SEN
fenced to six years Imprisonment
without hard labor.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Road Tax Held Invalid

Fort Smith, Ark.-The 81 road tax
law applying to the northern half of
Sebastian county has been declared
unconstitutional and void here by
Chancellor J. V. Bourland in chancery
court, and Tax Collector Blake Harper
was enjoined from collecting it.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Turns Guns on African Mob.

London.-A Central News dispatch
from NairObi, British East Africa, says
that a mob of nearly 1000 natives
with bludgeOns attacked the police
station, demanding release of Khutu,
a prominent agitator. They refused to
dispense when ordered and the mill
tary fired a volley into the mob, killing
20, wounding 80 and scattering the
rest.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Predicts Record Strawberry Year.

Memphis.-The largest strawberry
crop in the history of the south is ex-
pected this year by state agricultural
agents Reports received by the farm
bureau indicate that Tennessee's crop
will be double that of last year Off
Gals of the I. c. railroad reports that
Louisiana farms viii produce a heavy
acreage of berries this year.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Wants State Courts to Lead.

st. Augustine, Fla.-Responsibilit
for prosecution of liquor law violations
will be turned over to state officers
and courts wherever possible, Attor
ney General Daugherty declared on re
joining President Harding's vacation
party here. In such states where the
work can not or will not be done by
the state, the federal government viii
do it, Daugherty stated.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Declines Exposition Post.

Washington. = Declaring President
Harding had strongly expressed the
wish" that he remain in the cabinet
Secretary Hoover has informed Mayor
More of Philadelphia he will not ac-
cept the director-generalship of the
Sesqui centennial exposition to be held
in Philadelphia in 1926.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Post Saves Adjutant's Home.

While American Legion men in KeI-
logg, Mimi. were busy formulating
membership plans for 1922. word came
With army precision they swung into
formation, double-timed TO the scene
Of the blaze. and saved the house.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Police Seek Diamond Bandits.

New Orleans.-Police are seeking
a clew to the two robbers who en-
tered the hotel Grunewald, bound and
gagged Victor NJ. Catok and Milton NJ
Epstein, two New York jewelry sales
men, and escaped with diamonds and
jewelry said to be worth $4,000.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24

Augusta, Ga.-Two persons were
burned to death when fire Quilted the
grand opera theater building here,
causing a property loss estimated at
$4,000.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Lessee Home For Veterans

Neutrality-suspicious. of the Chick
Springs Sanitariums near Greenville,
S. c., for use as a training center for
nervous patients among former SER
vice men has been announced by the
veterans bureau
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Promises Aid to Coal Miners.

Washington.-Bitu coal mi
ners who have voted TO cease work
April 1, will have the support of the
American labor movement in their
struggle. President Gompers. of the
American Federation of Labor has
announced.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Asks For Death Penalty

Chicago.-Getting down on his
knees before Judge Sullivan in Grim
inal court, Patrick Paul Tierney
pleaded that he be hanged for the
murder of his wife and three-year-
old son, whom he hacked to death
with a Ratchet several months ago.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Cant Sell Railroad

Chattanooga. Tenn-The Tennessee.
Alabama & Georgia railroad has been
offered for sale at public outcry here
for the sixth time. No bids were re
ceived and the sale goes over to April
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Farm Loan Bill 70 presider+

ington.-Congress has compile
ted action on and sent to the presi-
dent the bill appropriating S1,5O0,0OO
for government loans to farmers for
the purchase of seed grains.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Would peport eootIeqoers.

New Orleans.-Deportati of all
alien bootleggers who have been con-
victed on two or more occasions will
be asked by John D. Appleby, chief of
the prohibition forces in Louisiana, he
has announced.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24

thing 7 can
You write
ask me-. So
Bazaar OF
chester. g.
who had Doth
hands blown be-
during tina
waited until
senator bea.e
the President
and then asked
him to help him
set a Job
ding SusrerE
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Spanish ReformIst Assassinated.

Murcia, Spain.-Julian Perez La
zone, leader of the Spanish provinced
reformist party, was assisinated when
surrounded by a group of his politi-
cal adherents. Seven bullets pierced
his body.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
pixie FLYER Jumps Track.

Chicago.-A broken axle on a coach
caused the Dixie Flyer on the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois railroad to jump the
track at Danton, Ill, II miles south of
Chicago, while speeding south. No
one was injured.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Asks Permission TO Reduce Wac

Asks Permission to Reduce Wages.
Chicago.-The Gulf & Ship Island
and New Orleans & Great Northern
railroads, hit by business depressions
which caused them to operate at
a deficit, have brought pleas to the
Railroad Labor Board for permission
to reduce wages and lower their oper-
alton expenses.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Would Cut Navy To Save Taxes.

WashingtOn.-The house subcommit-
tee on naval appropriations has re-
ported that it has decided upon reduc-
lions in the navy which will save the
taxpayers at least $175.OOO,OO0 in the
next fiscal year
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Youth PAYS Death Penalty.

Washington-John McHenry, "A. has
paid the death penalty on the gallows
here for the murder of a storekeeper
and a detective. The trap snapped at
1910 and McHenry was pronounced
dead at 1885.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Begins Counting Income Tax Money

Washington.-The internal revenue
bureau has began its task of counting
$3.50, 100000, which it is estimated,
was received as the first installment
OF 1921 income taxes. No direct infor-
nation as to the exact amount will
he obtained for some time.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Take watterson,s godv to OH

Jacksonville, Fla.-FuneraI service
for Colonel Henry Watterson, veteran
journalist who died here December
%, will be held at Louisville, KY, April
4, with interment at Cave Hill GENE
terry, Immediately afterward. The body
of Colonel Watterson has rested in
vault here since his death in Deem
ber
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
More Trouble In Belfast.

London.-A Belfast dispatch reports
that woman of 81 and girl of %
were bombed and shot while in bed.
The girl died and the woman Wis Sc
riously wounded.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
TechnieaIity.

He-Can I kiss you?
She-NO. that's wrong.
He-Hanged if I see why.
She-You should say, May I77-
merican Legion Weekly.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24

To save the farmers of the county
considerable money in purchase of
cotton seed for planting and CONNER
cial fertilizer, B. E. Grant, county farm
agent in Benton, is preparing to order
a number of car loads of these com
modities for his territory. giving these
necessities to the farmers at whole
sale prices.
A recent inspection by sanitary in
spectors was conducted of the city of
Laurel recently. AS a result Of the
inspection eight arrests were made for
violation of the state sanitary law.
A meeting of the Marvin E. Stanton
Post of the American Legion has been
called at Laurel for the purpose of or
ganizing a legion band.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
LEGION POST AT WEST POINT
Andrew Rheude. a Sergeant. Heads
Organization in the Cou1trgE
Greatest School for War.

In the heart of the countrr's Era1t-
est school for war, a post of the Amer
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
DELEGATES to Genoa Conference.

London.-It is reported that Great
Britain's delegates to the Genoa con-
ference will include Lloyd George and
Lord Curzon, foreign minister.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-24
Che.
American
.. Legion
copy Tor This Deuartuenr Supplied
the American LEGION views Service
He LOST BOTH HANDS m WAR
Paul Bazaar, Rochester tiJ. Nd Le-1-
Man, Given special Consideration
BY Pres dent Harding.

"3Iy boy" said Senator Ha-zfrz -
October. f91S, II there IS ever any
, 1922-02-22
A DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

II the Demonstrating bill is passed by congress
the United States win have a department OF educa-
ton with a secretary in the cabinet. One of the first
tasks such a department must undertake is the re
v.cw and classification of textbooks. The necessity
for national information on books which teach ma
tional affairs is constantly being brought before the
uublic, the most recent case being in the national capl-
taL. where a certain textbook of history Is under hre
from citizens associations as being historically mac
ccrate and socialistic in its tendencies.
Whether the book is good or bad is hardly a mat
ter for determination by citizens associations, no mat
ter how patriotic. Only authority should be permitted
to say what is, and what is not, i'll a good school book.
The trouble with the average school book selection au-
tbcrity is that it is biased by location and environ
.ment, without a national viewpoint.
A federal department of education would not be
biased, aud would either have a national viewpoint or
be a complete failure. A list of adequate school books
which had been carefully reviewed and classified by
the national government would go far toward secur-
ing that uniformity in education and accuracy in the
teaching of history which are in themselves n national
hond and would be eagerly welcomed by local school
boards everywhere.
Obviously no such list of books would be issued as
anything else than suggestions. When the department
Of agriculture tells farmers of a good fertilizer it does
not require them to use it-only their brains and free
choice! So it would be with the list of books, and, in
deed, all the acts of the department of education
they would be advisory only, and valuable in proper
ton to their educational, not their mandatory, pro
bouncements.
, 1922-02-22
Vision

As far as I can see Red SANDS.
dun, glowing Red Sands
glowing like coaiz.
IKE the Goals OF a campfire burned
when he ashes are stirred by the
wind
miles and miles OF Red Sands.
beautiful Red Sands.
entcing. Turing. eoaxing.
Red SANDS OF Death.
.
Blue Skies. fiery blue skies.
a wavcring blue flame.
wayering as a candle flame before an
open door.
a blazing blu flame,
blazing out to the horizon
to the horizon. and beyond
Turing. enticing. coaxins
Blue Flame of Death.
Across the distant spaces
A city looms.
a city OF steeples and DIVERS
on the rim OF a lake:
a lake whose waters tumble and rush
md rush and tumble In white crested
waves
"a $40 .A1AtH
a shore III bends and curves
and curves and bends in graceful lines
Inder the shadows Of green trees
The Air is Sweet with the perfume
OF Flowers
.
My Can.een Is Empty
My Lips arc parched and Dry
My Tongue is Swollen
Unjust Hurry
I will Drink Ny FIJI,
codi
There is No city,
There is No Perfume OF Flowers.
There are No Green Treesl
There is No Lake,
Nv canteen Is Empty
Cod
10 .
Glowing Red Sands.
Fiery Blue Skies.
8loodshot Eyes.
Black Swollen Tongue.
IL
| Wandering.
| circling,
| staggering.
falling.
crawling.
~motionlessi
.
Black Wings in the Fire Shot Skies
Bleaching Yellow Boncsi
Drifting Red sandsi
God! e. RICHARD SHIP
, 1922-02-22
O

'The first pension act of the United States was
passed in 1892" notes the New York Tribune. "but
it's benefits were confined strictly to the crippled, the
sick and the INDECENT. The maximum allowance to
claimants was So a month.
"In 1918 the principle of service pensions was in
troduced-all those who had served at least nine
months in the War of Independence were given re-
lief, but only if needy. But the law was so loosely
worded that there was fraud, and in 1920 the law was
amended so as TO require all applicants to file a state
ment of property in proof of their alleged indulgence.
Our forefathers did not think any one capable of taxi
ing care of himself should be a public charge. Under
tho law of 1920 one-third of the names on the PEN
sion roll were stricken from it.
SIN 1886 the practice of giving pensions TO widows
was introduced, but at first only to those who had mar
ried before the close of the war. But bombardment
of the marriage. The practice Of young women mar
rying old veterans became almost an industry, and al
iuost to our day Revolutionary widows were in re-
ceipt of regular relief.
But not until after the Civil war were the pension
~hoodgates fully opened. The first allowance was mere
ly to the disabled, to actual dependents and to minors.
Not much change occurred until, over the opposition
of President Hayes, the pensions were dated back to
the date of the beginning of the alleged disability.
Then payments quadrupled. Finally, in 1890, came n
law under which incapacity TO perform manual labor,
no matter from what cause arising, was basis for a
pension. In the year 1918, nearly fifty years after
Appomattox, the payments reached the maximum OF
Sl74.000,0Q0.
'The story strongly suggests, If there is bonus legis-
lation, that it should be a part of the contract that
further payments be not made. Otherwise we are GER
tain to have a pension lobby at Washington for half
= century, corruptlv working to enlarge its fees, bring
ing all former soldiers under suspicion and constant
ly muddving the stream of politics. The. country is a
unit in favor of generous care of the disabled, the
crippled and legitimate dependents, and a majority. If
there is a fair distribution of the taxation burden,
would equalize compensation, but are we to have with
Us again in more aggravated form the abuses that
make the word pension one Of i'll repute?"
, 1922-02-22
SIMPLY TOO LATE.

Along about January 2s The Tribune called the at
tentiou of the American Book Company to the omls-
sion. on a school calendar sent broadcast over the
country, of all mention Of Casper as a school CENTER
when in fact Casper district has the largest list oil en-
rolled pupils of any district in the state, has a greater
number Of teachers employed, more school puhoihss'
spends more money for school purposes than the cues
Of Cheyenne, Rock Springs, Laramie and Sherldan
combined, the only cities in Wyoming honored py the
calendar publishers with mention in the pubheauon-
In addition to this we did not fail to show the as
sessed valuation of property in the Casper district to
be 1862, s17,420, and to remark that 1t was some as
trict as school districts go.
We then put it up to the book company to say why
the unjust discrimination was directed toward Casper
and the prize district of Wyoming. The book company
las dome so. They prove through their western agent,
Mr.. A. N. Chamberlain of Denver, and a mass OF cor
respondence and data that they are in no sense 20
blame for the seeming discourtesy to Casper and had
Casper secured no representation in the pubhcahon
was a common one, and one that occurs all TOO OFTEN
in other affairs than calendar publishing. Time, ude
and calendar printers wait on no man. The casper
data was mailed, but it was received a week after the
work had been sent to the printer and it was then TOO
late: Nothing can be done, of course, for ls22, put
for 1928 we will be squared with the world at large
ard have the details of our school district duly set
forth. This much Mr.. Chamberlain assures the peo-
pie of Casper.
So if we said anything mean about the American
Pook Compauy while whooping her up for the casper
school district, or used any supplementary language
in connection herewith, we move that the same De eN-
nunped from the record, and that we all pursue our
several courses-the Casper district continue to be the
most wonderful district in Wyoming, the American
Book Company the largest book publishing concern IN
The United States of America, and The Tribune the
greatest newspaper on earth. That ought TO De sasls-
factory to all Of US.
, 1922-02-22
Now in the Attic

How mems fashions come and goi
Full boards, goatees, sideburns. Dun
drearies, the mustache. he mustache
cup. the stock rilled shirt, ready made
up sneckties. the diamond scarf pin
silk hat for all day wear. frock coat
in office hours. tight trousers. loose
trousers. custom made boots, blue
coats with velvet collar and brass but
tons, the gold headed cane, the Malac-
ca walking stick. the buffalo robe. the
colored and knitted Afghan. sleigh
bells. the Albany cutter. the shaving
mug %garianded with pink roses and
Inscribed From Ma to Pa" the quill
pen, sand shaker for a blotter, tin
candle stick shutters. coal oil lamp. a
turkeys wing for a dust brush and a
stick with long strips of tissue paper
as a fly brush.
And black walnut bedsteads, a rick
ETY. washstand. rag carpet. patch
luilt. boster. a ''lambriquin.' pillow
shams to keep the pillows from being
seen, crochetted tides pinned with
bows of ribbon to the ack of a mo
hair chair. n woEsted motto on the
wall. "God Bless Our Home fire
tongs fire dogs. n fender hearth. n
powder horn or power flask, boxes of
percussion caps. boxes of ''wads' cray
on portraits of grandpa with long
whiskers and grandma In a lac cap.
And kissing games. the polka, schot-
tische, lancers and redowa, blind mans
buff. puss want a corner. old maid.
NE~verlasting" and casino. verses in an
autograph album. the family photo.
graph album. wax flowers under glass
, 1922-02-22

rey General Short, sentenced the defendants to life
imprisonment.
why? Were states attorneys fearful Of establish
ing or reviving the precedent Of executing l~ynch-mur-
derers, as well as perpetrators Of murder in other
forms? Is it not the proved fact Of murder that mat
tiers? Is. not the unlawful killing with malice afore-
thought the thing to be reekcned with above all other
things?
Oklahoma City and every other city needs just
such quick judicial procedure. and capital punishment,
in murder cases, whether murder by mob or by in
dividuaL
"cklahoma's governor and judges, and every other
states governor and judges, need to determine rigidly
that convicted murderers, whether mobsmen or soil
taries. are the worst possible subjects for the slightest
degree of mercy Such mercy does not temper JUS
tice-it throttles justice.
Fewer escapes from the gallowAless murder"