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BEREA, MADISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1921 Ona Dollar and Fifty Cent Per Year
No. 12
500 PERISH IN
TEXAS FLOOD
Police Report Heavy Loss of
Life at San Antonio River
Overflows Banks.
24 CLOCKS UNDER WATER
uelneee District Inundated All the
Available Soldier From Fort tarn
Houston tent to City t
' Aid In Reecue Work.
Hun Antonio. Tex.. Sept. li With
estimate of (lie deed running as high
aa one thousand and prorty damage
believed to nmO $3,tlU0.UUO, this city
Is la the grip of the worst flood la It
history. Every building la the bust
none district stands In water ten feet
devp during the high water mark of
the raging water, while a vent section
of the residential section la auh
mergeri. The estimate of the dead
i was given out by Mayor O. It. Black.
Twenty-one bodies, moetly those of
women and children, have been recov
ered. Prom every (tart of the flooded
area reporta of additional dead bodle
are being brought In and aa rapidly
aa poaaihla they are being gathered
for Identification. The greatest loss
of Ufa wa In the Mexican settlement
In the western part of the city, where
the food watera engulfed hundreds of
home before their occupants had a
chance to make their way to safety.
The south section of the city was also
heavily hit by the swirling watera
Hundreds of home In this district
were swept from their foundation and
dnahed to destruction against each
other. Ked Cross worker were or
tiered to the city by Acting Eighth
Corps Area Commander Oen. John
Hlnes to assist In tho relief work.
Hao Antonio, Tea., Sept. 12.
Swollen by heavy rains of the Isat two
days, San Antonio river and Alasaa
creek overflowed into the dowulown
business district of Santa Antonio,
spreading over an area of about 24
block and Inundating ground floor
of many of the prominent building of
the city. The ioa of life waa rati-
V ATthVofllee of the Han Antnnlokx
prea the water reached Into the Brat
floor at 12:43 a. m. and a few hoar
later telephone and telegraph connec
tion waa severed.
The embankments protecting ML
Mary's street broke ahortly after mid
night and the water swept down ML
Mary's street through. Houston and Na
varre street Into the heart of the city.
Five ".sported Missing.
Klve iieraoiia were reported mistilng
Cliarle tJrnnt and wife and Mr.
Anna Klam'and two children.
Ity midnight scores of families liv
ing along the river in the northern
part of the city and along the banks
of Alazau creek had been taken from
their homes l)' ollce. tlremeu and vol
unteer rescue worker.
All avallulile soldiers from Fort Sam
Houston were sent Into the city to aid
In rescue work along Kiver avenue,
where the water is reported eight feel
di-ep.
Merchant were busy all night re
moving their stocks and good lute
placea of anfety when the water roite
Into the ground floors of the principal
downtown building. The tiiiutur hotel
ami oNW Imlldlng and the Kready
building were among those where the
water had reached the flrt floor by
one o'clock.
' Outside telephone communication
Willi- Hun Antonio wa cut oh curly
this niorulng uml the city was thrown
Into darkness when the wuler fliaaled
tlie Miwer pin lit..
Tornado Hit Austin.
The eastern business district, the
lowest part of the clly, wu covered
with water several feet deep.
At Austin, Tex., the heavy nilnatoriii
was preceded hy a tornado which
Mlruck South Austin and neurhy vil
luges, bringing Injury to a doxen per
aons and causing heavy proH-rty daqi
Hg. iltttcliil ut Austin were watching
closely the rle of .he Colorado river
on account of the Austin diuu.
liver ten Inches of ruin wu reported
at Austin, with the storm uniiliiited.
A rainfall at Sun Antonio wa re-
I mm-ted a seven Inches In the pust two
dny.
Houses Washed Away.
The ui en I est prorty ilinniige thus
far reorted In Still Anlonlo hu lieea
along Aliuim creek, where a iiiiuilier
t dwelling were washed from their
foundations.
Panama la Dissatisfied.
l'miam. Appointment of Prof
Juhu Hujford, of Northwestern
University, and Prof. Or Miner Le
laud, of Cornell I'ulveisliy. by Chlel
JustUe W. 11. Tuft, of the I'ulled
' State Supreme. Court, aa member ul
a commission, to lay out the bouudury
between Costa l.'ca and rauama. u
. oppoaad by the Pausman tioveruiueuL
UHiclala her have advised the Stat
lieisartmciit In Wahliigtou that Pan
ama refuse to recogulta to validity
of the uoiiiinutiotia.
MEADE MEMORIAL
THING OF BEAUTY
STATUE tOON TO BI PLACED IN
THE BOTANICAL GARDENS
IN WASHINGTON.
COMPARES WELL WITH ANY
Figure of the Battle f Gettysburg
Victor, Mad by Charts Qrealy, I
of Hereio tie, Surrounded by
Allegorical Figures.
By EDWARD . CLARK.
Washington. What I conceded, to
be on of tho handsomest works of
art of It kind aver erected In the
District of Columbia, Is the Meade
Memorial, which will be placed In posi
tion In the botanic gardens ahortly.
This tribute to MaJ. Oen. Ceorge (1.
Meade, who commanded the army of
the Potomac at the battle of Gettys
burg. Is In he In the form of a white
stone statue of hemic sIm and with
an elaborate base. It will serve aa a
companion piece to the Orsnt memo
rial In the botanic gardena.
Pol. Clarence O. Sherrlll. superin
tendent of public building and
grounds, la of the opinion that the
the Meade memorial "I" compare
favorably with any park statue any
where In the world. It la the work of
Charles Groaly of Olo -center. Ms.,
designer and sculptor, who has worked
for more than si year on the crea
tion of the statue. II already haa
started cutting the statue from stone,
following design submitted and ap
proved hy the line art commission,
and In the meantime the work of con
structing the base In the botanic gar
den Is nnder way.
Will Portray Virtus.
In describing the memorial. Colonel
Sherrlll said:
"The problem provoked by the
chosen alte for the Meade memorial
dictated a form which should he equal
In Interest and fullne of workman
ship from every vantage point. Work
ing upon thl basis, the artist con
ceived a circle of figure which Should
embody the qnilttle which aro essen
tial to the character of a great geo
rral Tt-rr Hi, Bnalltlrs MITIMTT
Cowraga. ' Rosary. Turn, Loyalty.
Chivalry and Progreaa while recog
nising their origin In tho spirit of
war, look toward Oen era! Meade a
the composite of their several vir
tue. "The figure of General Meade la
thna rendered the center of the artis
tic design, and the focal point In the
Imaginative conception. He stand,
his work acctanpllshed, ready to step
forth from the cloak of battle Into
the future era of progress. Chivalry
(at hi light) and Loyalty (at hi left).
hold hark the cloak, while loyalty also
raises aloft over Meade'a head a stand
ard of wreath and garland. In com
memoration of a great achievement.
Fame and Progress occupy the central
position (right and left) on either side
of the group.
Pregres Shewn Ideal.
"The figure of Progress, on tlie oth
er hand, I dynnmlc In the strength
of It own potentialities. It Is a fit!
lire which more nearly spproximate
the Ideal, and which will gather from
It own being the wings of action. To
Its left. Mllltnry CoiirnKe clings with
bulldog tenacity to the dominant fig
ure of the rcr group. War, from which
It take Its lielng To the left of War
the figure of F.hergy yielding to the
urge of r'linre. loosen hi grasp iin
the arm of War. aqulver for the great
er achievement )et to come. War. It
elf, occupying the central pimltioti In
the rear group, a massive architec
tural figure, tinrhnnglng and unchanged
lne war first ravaged the world,
holda In his grim clutch two memorial
tablet. Ill wing In long sweeping
curve, stretch toward the standard
which Loyalty hold above the head
of Meade. The aide groiipa are thus
outlined against the ominous ahadow
of the wlnics of War.
"Prom the grim determination of
Military Courage through the figure of
Knergy to the figure of Chivalry and
Loyalty, the urce Is onward and for
ward toward Progress snd Fame,
ivhlch, alone, of the group have th
Niw;er lo move with (ieneral Meade
nfo the accomplishment of the fu
ture. AIiIihiil'Ii hi dnrk wings may
ai ry hltn through other age and oth
r lands. War will ever remain the
.nine, iincliiiuglni!. Put the grest gen
ml will move forward, leaving Imlilnd
him the static, symbol I xeit In the flg.
re of wiir and of military courage.
The command I 'forward !' j
"Lost BattalldnTITFound.
A "lost battalion" of marine,
.ll officer and 274 men, ha bean
formally found hy th Navy de
liartnient. Since August, 11)17. tho
Sattallon ha been stationed at Ca
magiiey, Cuba, In th very heart of the
island, with no apparent reason for
it being kept on aiicn an assignment
Inca the day of the war.
The discovery of the "missing" ma
in was made hy .aslslanl Secretary
Hooaevelt, after dint of much search-
vf
I View oi Simla. It litis India, where aeriou disturbances nave broken oui. . t lrt pnotogrupli oi imil
Ktresnn In session debating fha Llaya Oeorge proposals. S Wreck of th Zlt-2 photugraphed Just after the
great airship fell Into the H amber river at Hull.
Ing of records and fnnulry among ma
rine! officer. The hunt wa started
i the result of the recent Incident In
( 'a maguey when marine kicked up
some excitement In the Cuban town
nfter Le Roy Foster, an American en
gineer and former navy officer had
tveen attacked and beaten hy Cuban.
"What are the marines doing In
CamagueyT' Mr. Roosevelt ssked him
self, after looking at the map of Cuba
And the question waa asked by other
eo,uslly curious. Nobody seemed to
know. Major Ueneral lejuene, com
niandaut of the corp said they war
there all right, but could vouchsafe no
additional information. The navy list
howed marine otttcer regularly as
signed to th Ca maguey post, but th
warrant for such duty seemed to bo
lacking.
Sent te Guard Sugar Properties,.
Finally red-taped psper were found
which showed that, heck In 1917,
ahortly after Cuba en'ered the war
on the heel of th L'nlted State, th
Cuban government had requested tho
State department to permit th sta
tion log ( American sjamrlna at Cama-
srtlsa there against pro-Uerman plots.
Th American government, anslou
to con servo th sugar supply, aent the
marine from the Uuaotanamo naval
base, and there they have been ever
Ince. ' Only diplomatic negotiation
probably caa remove them. Th Navy
department and the marine corps wilt
see that they are there until called
off by the President.
Nurwaw Training School.
Uncle Sara ha Just inaugurated a
training school for nurses. The
coursea will be for four year, and th
training will be under the direct u
liervlsion of the l'nlted State public
health service, with headquarter in
thl city. Among the Inducement to
youdg women to enroll I the govern
men!' guarantee to house, feed and
train them, besides the payment of 10
a month during the first three years,
and 140 month during th final year.
The students also will he presented
with diploma when they become pro
ficient, and will he given opportunities
to assist In caring for disabled mili
tary patient.
The first schools are at Port Mo
Henry, llaltlmore, and at Fog Hills,
Staten Island. Other schools wilt he
oMned loiter In the year, and they will
be conducted at certain hospital of
the public health service.
Inert is of Pallagra.
Despite the Indignant denial
of some of the sou f hern states,
It appears likely that there will be a
decided Increase In the extent of pel
lagra In the South this year. Surgeon
Ceneral dimming, head of the public
health service, recently sent to Presi
dent Harding a letter which, It I de
tiured, confirm this view.
The letter recount that the confer
ence of health official which met re
cently In Washington had objected
principally to the allegation that pel
lagra wu on the Increase, and that
the Increase wa caused by a "fam
ine." ' .
"In so fur as the use of the word
'famine' U concerned," IfcKlor Cum-
mlng wrote, "the puMIc health serv-1
Ire pointed out that It had used the!
term In a scientific, restricted sense,
referring to a diet vvh'i'h lacked some
essential element of nutrition."
I Met or Cumiiilng remarked 'hat the,
state health officers presen. a I the
conference hud voted against the fol
lowing chins in a resolution kuhioit
ted by ulie of their, im-iuhers : "We
do not regard the sliuuilon In Hiiy
sense as more serious thun In the
last severul years."
Marked Incrsa Shewn.
The letter said lliMt, with the excep
tion of Mississippi, no reliable mor
bidity statistics were available from
the South, but that Mississippi figures
showed ladlugra bad doubled In that
state In tho lirst alt month of IWJl.
A memorandum aa attuched lo the
White Houso. stutcujeijt tiubodylug (he
(Continued on Pago Eight)
lazes
ssMsii3M
IMMEDIATE RELIEF PROPOSED
FOR RAILROADS
President May Act Without Awaiting
Aproval of Congres
.Washington, Sept 14. It haa been
stated by high government official
that the administration ia consider
ing the possibility of providing finan
cial relief for tho railroad by begin
ning; tho funding; of railroad claim
without awaiting- congressional ac
tion. President Harding, it was explain
ed, has th authority to fund tho rail
road claim without further legisla
tion. The President, official declared,
may sell tho $380,000,000 worth of
car trust certificates held by the rail
road administration whenever mar
ket condition permit of their dis
posal at par.
I He could make the sales, official
aMt eagar- fn&fli, .either with or without th aa
sisunce oi in war finance iorpo
ration, which under pending legisla
tion, is th agency designed to handle
th funding operations.
The return from the sale of the
certificate, amounting in the neigh
borhood of $400,000,000, then would
be available for further railroad
financing.
Sale of the railroad securities, it
was indicated, would await satisfac
tory market conditions, but the ad
ministration was understood to be
lieve, an early return of the market
tp a 8 per cent basis was not far dis.
tant. t
It i believed by may that the im
mediate funding of the railroad
claim would go far toward reducing
unemployment, aa it is conservately
estimated that with the financial re
lief obtained it would mean the em
ployment of a million more men.
A considerable part of the existing
unemployment, it is said, is duo to
the position in which the railroads
find themseves short of funds anl
unable to make their normal pur
chase and do their normal repair
and equipment work.
POLISH CABINET RESIGNS
Ministry of Prtmiar Wito Walk Out
In Body Assumed Offic
July 24, 1920.
Warsaw, Sept. 12. The Polish cab
met, headed by Vincent Wltoa, re
signed. M. Wito assumed the pre
miership on July 24. 11KJO. In May he
tendered his resignation to 1'resJ.lcnt
I'ilHiidskl as a result of the Inahilliy
of the government to solve the t'piier
SUeslau pr lileih. The resignation whs
not accepted, however, the president
maniiglng to Induce M. Wltos to re
new his effort to reconstruct the ciili
Inet. GRECO-TURK FIGHTING STOPS
Both Armiss Resting After Many
Wk ef Arduous Hos
tilities. Oreek fieiieral Headquarter In Asia
Minor, Sept. 12. Hostilities between
the (frock and Turk nationalists
eased Tuesday for the first time after
nittliy week of warlike ota-ratlons.
I loth armies are taking a rest after
the arduous lighting thai lias taken
pluce since the beginning of the of
fensive. (Constantinople dlspatchea Indicated
the Creeks were withdrawing In Asia
Minor, but that the Turk would be
unable to follow them owing to their
exhaustion. It wa aald thai the
tirtek drive toward Augora had
failed.)
U. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
GETS LEGION'S CHALLENGE
Debate On Soldier Bona Measure
Proposed
Washington, Sept. 14. Officials of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce have been challenged by tho
American Legion to debate tho sol
diers' adjusted compensation issue
thruout the country.
In an open letter sent to tho
chamber by tho national legislative
committee of the legion, it is sug
gested that the chamber send offi
cials and representatives to meet tho
legion officials "in any city in the
country, or in every city in the coun
try where there ia a hall available
and an audience interested."
"You say that the adjusted com
pensation or bonus bill is not gener
ally understood," the legion chal
lenge says. "Th American Legion
is willing and anxious to do its share
in making if understood, and to abide
by the consequences. Is th Chamber
of Commerce of tho United States
like-minded or is it determined to
continue it pussy-foot campaign of
pamphleteering T"
In explaining why the legion is
asking- the chamber to take part in
a nation-wide joint debate on adjust
ed compensation for veterans of the
World War, John Thomas Taylor,
vice chairman of the national legis
lative committee of the legion, issued
a statement, in part, as follows:
"The Chamber of Commerce of tho
United States thru resolutions adopt
ed at its last annual convention at
Atlantic City, April 27-29, went on
record as in favor of such construc
tive messures as msy be distinctly
calculated to enable ex-service men
to cultivate the soil, build homes or
obtain vocational education, but as
opposed to a cash bonus." Since
that time its publicity bureau here
in Washington has been bombarding
the country with hand-outs and
pamphlets attacking the adjusted
compensation or bonus bill now pend
ing in Congress.
"Representing, or supposedly rep
resenting, big business, the chamber
has made itself spokesman for not
only the opposition to the cash pay
ment feature of the bill, but to all
other features of it, including even
those features which its national
convention expressly approved.
Both in and out of the legion,
among all ex-service men there is a
wide spread feeling that the chamb
er's statements should not be permit
ted to go unchallenged. Telegrams
and letters from ex-service men pour
ing in to legion headquarters sug
gests that officials of the chamber
be asked to meet ex-service men in
public debate. It is therefore for tho
purpose of carrying the issue to the
country as to which is right, tho ex
service men of the country, or the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States, that the American Legion, has
challenged officials of tho chamber in
a series of joint debate tbruout the
country.. Pittilesa instead of pitiful
publicity we ask th Chamber of
Commerce to throw on th issue."
ILL AT PARTY, ACTRESS DIES
Miss Virginia Repp. Motion Pictur
Player, I Stricken at Le
Angtl.
Sun Fraiiclscii, Sept. 1'.'. Stricken
while attending a party given hy ino
rlou picture people and others at a
hotel here, Miss Virginia ltape, I
Angeles motion picture a.lress, died
here. A post mortem examination per
formed waa said hy physicluna to have
Indicated that ah succumbed to Hr.
toultUi.
WorldNews
By. J. R. Robertson, Professor
History snd Political Science
Iterea College
The coming conference on disarm
ament i easily the foremost matter
of interest among the nation. Tho
scope of the conference is becoming
more clear from occasional otter
snres of our President. It is to aim
only at partial disarmament and that
for economic reasons rather than
humanitarian. The people are being
gradually led to Understand that
there is to be no attempt to establish
any "association of nations" but that
the U. S., a in the past, will be
content to act Independently, offering
its good services in the interest of
peace, when any specific occasion
srises. The League of Nations is
not even to be recognised as exist
ing at all.
Tho General Assembly of tho
League of Nations is in session at
Geneva. The foreign secretary of
Holland was chosen president. An
impending conflict between Chile and
Bolivia was averted for a time at
least by postponing their problem to
a later date. The matter of mandate
seems to be tho subject that demands
immediate attention, and the As
sembly is irritated that its commis
sion hss not made more progress. A
note from the American Secretary of
State was sent to each nation in tho
Leaa-ue. . defining the ris-hta of our
country in any territories assigned a
mandates. The apparently intentional
nubbins; of the Leasrue bv address
ing the members individually ia a
subject of comment
A good deal of interest haa been
expressed in regard to the contest for
the Davis cup for the world champion
ship in tennis. The competition waa
between Japanese players and Ameri
can. Tho U. S. won by three to
two. - Such contests are valuable fac
tors in th more serious internation
al relations. It waa not long ago
that th boxing . match between
a Frenchman and an American at
tracted world-wide interest. ' Tho
yacht races between England and the
U. S. have done much to create bet
ter feeling. Tho revival of tho Olym
pic games brings the athletes of
many nations into friendly competi
tion. A little more of the sporting
spirit in international affairs would
be a benefit to all.
An interesting and significant
event occurred during the week at
Blaine, Washington. This place is
located on the Pacific Highway that
runs up the coast and! crosses into
British Columbia at that point. Just
at the border of the American and
Canadian sections an architectural
portal or gateway was erected ss a
memorial of the peace that has ex
isted for over hundred years along
a border of approximately three
thousand miles. The occasion brot
together ten thousand people who
participated enthusiastically in the
dedication of the memorial.
The English cabinet have sent its
reply to the note of the Irish leaders
and the Dail Eireann. King George
is taking sn unusually active part in
this difficult problem and by this re
moves much of the criticism from
his prime minister, whoso enemies
would cause his downfall if possible.
The answer agrees to a conference,
but only on the basis of Irelsnd's
continuance in the Empire. Tho
English by this act agree to the Irish
demand for popular sovereignty as a
basis of settlement. It remains to
see how the two can be harmonized.
The tone of the notes on both sides
is growing better, and there is less
threat of force and more of a de
sire to rest on facts and reason.
The first renewal of diplomatic re
lations with the power recently at
war with the United States is with
Hungury. Count Paul Teleka. tho
new ambassador, is in this coun
try now and is serving in his of
ficial relation. He was one of tho
speakers at the Institute of Politics,
being held st Williams College,
and aroused some opposition by
his defense of Hungary's policy of
Magyarixing her population belong
ing to other races and nationalities.
Particular objection was mad to hi
comparison of hi country's policy
with that of tho U. S. toward her
foreign population.