The North Mississippi herald., June 11, 1920, Page 2, Image 2

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Magnolia Slate
Happenings
Brief News Notes
Gathered from All
Sections of the State
Meridian.—It is currently rumored
in railroad shop circles that the de
partments will be greatly increased
in the near future. The report says
that not only the men cut o:f recently
when the railroads went back to pri
vate owneship will he re-employed,
but that many other men are needed
to take care of the heavy work pi.ing
tap in the shops.
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Columbus.—The imperious H. C- L.
has been dealt almost a death blow
this year by Secretary H. E. King of
the Mississippi State College for t\ om
en. By close and rigid economy and
Judicious buying in all of the markets
of the country Mr. King has kept the
cost of living at the big institution at
a remarkably low figure.
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Tupelo.—L. A. Higgins, veteran ex
tension dairyman for Mississippi, was
in Lee county the past week and had
much to'way of the progress of dairy
work. He says that, the five coope
rative bull associations have as finely
bred bulls as there are in the state
and congratulates the workers on the
organization of two moru.
Sardis—The opening of the new
Sardis creamery was an event in the
history of this community, and a most
gratifying one to the promoters of the
Industry, to the people of the town
and to the farmers of the surrounding
section, who will undoubtedly be the
greatest beneficiaries.
*****
Jack.-on.—Under the auspices of
Henry Graves Post Xo. 1 ef the Amer
ican Legion in Mississippi appropriate
memorial services were held in Smith
Park. Jackson. Sunday afternoon, in
honor of their noble "buddies” who
sleep beneath the poppies and lilies
across the AtLantic.
*****
Blue Mountain.—Tippah has just or
ganized a special health unit follow
ing a stirring address on sanitation
delivered by Mrs. Lizzie George Hen
derson of Greenwood, Miss., who is
malting such speeches over the state
under the direction of the Mississippi
State board of Health.
*****
Summit.—The three days’ short
comsv for e.ltib' girls at -the v*ike Coun
ty Agricultural High School came to
n close. Fifty girls registered in the
dormitory and the number of visitors
■who came daily brought the total at
tendance up to eighty.
*****
Blue Mountain.—Tip?ah county farm
ers have made good use of the week
of fair weather which has prevailed
throughout the county, and has seed
ed much of their upland with corn, and
cotton.
Scooba—The land slide on the plan
tation of M. W. Langham in West
Kemper continues to cause no little
excitement, as the land with the trees
etill on it can be seen moving steadily.
*****
Yazoo City.—Prof. Louis White, of
Beaumont. Texas, has been chosen by
the board of directors of the Anding
Consolidated School to head that
school during the coming term.
Blue Mountain.—The Tippah County
Binging Convention, presided over by
prof. B M. Gullett, was held Saturday
end Sunday at Clemmer schoolhouse,
in the upper end of the county.
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Starkville.—The people of Starkville
end the county have been contributing
liberally toward the fund being raised
for the erection of a new consolidated
school building at Self Creek.
Hattiesburg.—The Mississippi Nor
mal College closed for the term with
e magnificent baccalaureate address
by Gov. C. H. Brough.
Kosciusko.—Attala co'tnty has en
joyed a spell of pretty weather and
the crops are showing great improve
ment.
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Clarksdale.—Clarksdale is soon to
fcave golf links, it was stated by O. G.
Johnston, president of the Country
Club.
Charleston. — The church-to-church
campaign, Tallahatchie county, in the
Charleston district, will begin June 2S.
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Jackson.—The Hinds County Agri
cultural High School has closed the
most successful year in its history.
Tutwiler.—The Crawley Ice Com
pany has completed its building and
has begun the manufacture of ice.
Fernwood.—The faculty was elected
for the Fernwood High School for the
ensuing session.
Jackson.—One hundred and twenty
moonshine stills were raided and de
stroyed in 14 of the S2 counties in Mis
sissippi from Feb. 1 to May 26, accord
ing to a report issued at the office of
Maj. W. Calvin Wells, federal prohibi
tion director.
• • • • •
Jackson.—Plans are being formed
hy Jackson business people whereby
they hope to acquire permanently the
Mississippi' Chautauqua property at
Crystal Springs, which has been aban
doned as a summer outing and recre
ation resort.
tl MIJLI11 IIII ■ 1,1-- - .
Ya-OO L..L-.— Id (il:Ci..mg Widen cd
the great drainage and lioed preven
tion plans, one of winch sci’.i.s sure
to become a reality within 'he r.e-.t
few years, is the belt-for the lower
delta section, residents of this anl
neighboring counties are to hear me
new Coldwater-Horn Lake project dis
cussed in this city cm Tuesday. June
S, by residents of the upper delta who
are most interested in the project and
by their engineers.
Columbus.—At the annual meeting
of the Alumnae Association of the
Mississippi State College for Women
held here officers for the ensuing y< ar
were elected and plans were formu
lated to launch a campaign against the
proposed referendum movement, in op
position to the bond issue for vital
repairs and improvements at the vari
our state educational institutions.
Biloxi.—In an effort to either have
the shipyard employes special train
restored between Biloxi and Pasca
goula or to have the schedule of an
other train changed so that they can
travel to and from the two citk s daily.
Mayor Kennedy and Secretary Breaux
of the Biloxi Chamber of Commerce
have taken the matter up with ofii
cials of the L. & N. railroad.
Blue Mountain.—The mid-summer
term of Tippah Circuit Court will have
as its presiding officer at its forth
coming sitting J. W. T. Falkner, Jr.,
of Oxford, recently appointed to fill
out the tenure of Judge Charles Lee
Crum, who tendered his resignation to
Governor Russell to become a candi
date for congress to succeed H. D.
Stevens of this district.
Byhalia.—In the special election
held in the Byhalia and Watson pre
cincts to determine whether bonds
should be issued in the sum of $35,000
for the purpose of building a nei.v
school house for the Byhalia Consoli
dated School District, the vote of the
district was 03 to 23, the issue carry
ing.
Yazoo City—Sheep owners iu this
section of the state, including the boys
and girls of Yazoo County Lamb clubs,
are expected to place on cooperative
sale in Yazoo City Friday and Satur
day, June 11 and 12, approximately 10.
000 pounds of good wool, according to
County Agent J. S. McKewen.
*****
Yazoo City,—Yazoo City celebrated
the anniversary of its big tire which,
in 1904, wiped out two-thirds of the
assessed valuation of real and per
sonal property in the city, destroying
324 buildings, which, with their con
tents, were conservatively estimated
to be worth $2,250,000.
*****
Meridian.—Quite a numer of refrig
erator f'J.rs ftrsJtei.nj^ifcfijl, here^aaSL
sent out on the Alabama ’& Vicksburg
to Newton and other nearby points,
to be loaded with cabbage and beaus,
the cars moving back through this
city, being consigned to eastern points.
*****
Byhalia.—After having been cut off
from Memphis and other points west
from this place for over two months
by the absence of a bridge across the
Coldwater river, the people here have
raised the money and are preparing to
bridge the stream.
*****
Jackson.—After six days of fair,
warm and semi-damp weather, the
fields in the Jackson territory are
showing up wonderfully improved.
The laggard cotton is taking on a de
cided spurt.
Agricultural Col’ege.—The 13-year
old locust or periodical cicada now ap
pearing in many parts of Mississippi
cannot poison blackberries or other
fruit, says State Entomologist R. W.
Harned.
Blue Mountain.—Samples of soft
coal, said to exist in large quantities
just west of Falkner, this county, in
the eastern edge of Benton, have been
brought to Blue Mountain.
University. — Commencement exer
cises began Sunday morning with tho
delivery of the annual commencement
sermon by Dr. James I. Vance oi
Nashville. Tenn.
Jackson.—A new departure of ven
ture in educational work in Jackson,
is the establishment of a special vaca
tion course of evening classes in home
economics.
Hernando.—Owing to the improved
weather conditions of the pas: 10 days
crop conditions throughout this part
of the country have been greatly im
proved.
Crystal Springs.—At a recent meet
ing of the stockholders of the Crystal
Springs Canning Company it was
voted to increase the capital stock to
$4,000.
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Waynesboro.—Owing to several days
of continued fjir weather over this
district, the farmers have made con
siderable progress with their crops.
* * * • *
Crystal Springs.—There will be
plenty of iced cars to take care of fu
ture shipments of vegetables, ship
: pers are informed.
• • • * *
Jackson.—As officially stated, those
who have been selected to teach phys
ical education in the summer schools
are required by the State Department
of Education to attend the short in
tensive course in this work which is
being given at the Jackson Y. M. C. A.
under experts.
Meridian.—The teachers of the Me
ridian city schools presented Dr. C.
D. Hull, who has tendered his resigna
tion as superintendent of the schools
after many years of service, with a
1 chp.st of silver.
The End of a Perfect Day
RUG OF CDUR
FAVORSJUFFRf
FEDERAL AMENDMENTS ARE
SUBJECT TO REFERENDU
IN STATES.
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OHIO PLAN iS DEFE/
Decision of the Court Unanimous
More State Needed to Ratify Suf
frage—Victory Also For
Prohibition. •
I
Washington.—The supreme co
in an unanimous opinion, held t
federal constitutional amendments
not be submitted to popular vote
ratification by states having refei
dum provisions in their constitute
The method of ratifying am<
ments, the court held, is a natic
power specifically granted by the
eral constitution, and the states ha'e
no authority to provide otherwise^ in
so holding, the court declared indur
ative provisions of the Ohio state con
stitution authorizing submission of
federal amendments to a referent on
for ratification, and overturned stte
decrees dismissing injunction
ins brought by Qeorge S.
suit to enjoin submission of the pro
hibition and woman’s suffrage anend
m^nts to a referendum vote.
*Xext to the cases involving tie va
lidity of the prohibition amenlment
and the enforcement act, the Olio ref
erendum cases were considered the
most important before the stpreme
court. Had the court ruled otherwise,
the decision would have most likely
resulted, according to court officials,
in the reopening of the suffrage ques
tion in approximately a dozen states
and the filing of petitions for a refer
endum vote. With 35 states, one less
than the constitutional three-fourths,
having already ratified the suffrage
amendment, an opposite decision
would undoubtedly have banished all
hopes of ratification prior to the No
vember elections.
The decision, however, does not af
fect the pending prohibition cases, as
rone involved that question, except in
directly. in view of the fact that 45
of tli" 4S states have already ratiiied
! the liquor amendment, attorneys in re
i cer.tly arguing those cases before he
| supreme court conceded that ever if
1 ;lie court held that the prohibition
amendment could be submitted to he
1 voters, enough states without re’er
i end urn provisions in their const tu
I tions would remain to provide the re
quired three-fourths.
The court's opinion, however, puts
an end to any controversy as to
whether Ohio has ratified both amend
, ments, and puts both definitely in the
list of approving each of the amend
i meat
i'ower to ratify a federal amend
ment, according to the court's opinion.
: which was rendered bv Associate Jus
tice Day. is derived from the federal
! constitution, and a sta.te h.p no au
! thority to designate the rivejms of rat,
' ification. The language of the, v-mfeti
tution, the opinion said, is plain rela
tive to ratification and "admits of no
doubt in its interpretation.'’
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Bryan For Labor Committee. J
Washington.—W. J. Bryan, appear
ing before the Senate labor committee,
urged creation of a permanent tribu
nal of investigation for the adjustment
of labor controversies, without autiior
; ity of enforcement.
Asks Armenian Mandatory.
Washington.—Authority to accept
.'or the United State; a mandate ctjver
Armenia was asked of congress j by
President Wilson.
Bold Raid in Dublin.
Dublin.—Twelve soldiers, compris
ing the guard of a public building
here, were surprised by a party! of
armed men, wdto took away their arms
and ammunition and two machine
guns.
20-Day Armistice.
Dondon.—Turkish nationalist forces
and the superior command of French
troops occupying Cilicia, Asia Miaor,
have concluded a twenty-day armis
tice. i
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AN INCREASE FOR
I POSTAL lilt!
J Chi NT CONGRESSIONAL COMMIS
SION FAVORS INCREASE FOR
ALL EMPLOYES
WILL AFFECT POSTMASTERS
Clerks Divided Into Classes—Rural
Carriers Would Receive Added
Compensation for Covering
Longer Routes.
Washington.—A joint congressional
commission recommended salary in
creases for postal employes for July 1
The advances would amount to ap
proximately $33,000,000 the first year
T;ie report provides increases front
$150 to $250 annually for postal clerk*
and letter carriers, with S4o0 for su
pervisory officers. Postmasters of the
first class receiving above $o,00l
would not be granted increases.
For rural delivery carriers the com
mission recommended $1,S00 for a 24
mile, route and an additional $30 for
each milejin excess of that distance.
Motor route carriers covering 50 miles
or more not receive in excess
^d$2J>0th^^^^^ayo£vi 1 lage deliv
'$1,200. Should the recommendations
of 'he commission, based on hearings
held in various parts of the country,
be adopted, clerks at first and second
class postoffices as well as city car
riers would be divided into five
classes, with those in the first class
receiving $1,400 annually and $100
added for each class. Substitutes and
temporary clerks would receive 60
cents an hour, while special clerks
would he paid from $1,900 to $2.00
annually. Watchmen, messengers and
laborers would be divided into twc
grades, the first to receive $1,350 and
the second $1,450.
Clerks in the postal mail service
would be divided into six classes with
those in the first class receiving
$1,600, those in the sxth class $2,300
and the others graduated between.
Service for all clerks, the commis
sion’s report recommended, would be
on an average of eight hours per day,
306 days per year. Division superin
tendents would receive $4,2l0 an
nually, assistant superintendents $3,
200, chief clerks $3,000, and assistant
chief clerks $2,500.
Pay of post office inspectors would
range from $2,300 to $4,200, with an
allowance of not more than $5 a day
for expense while traveling. Clerks
at division headquarters of the post
office inspection service would receive
from $1,600 to $2,600.
A graduated increase was proposed
by the commission for first class post
masters receiving less than $5,000 an
nually. ranging from $200 to $400 fcr
postmasters now receiving $3,000, to
$3,700 annually, $400 to $500 for those
now getting between $3,7'>0 and $3,800
and $500 to $600 for those whose pay
now is between $3,900 and $4,000.
Second class postmasters whose
presferit salary ranges from $2,300 to
$5,000 would receive an. totVfease from
$100 to $300.
HUERTA ISSUES PLATFORM
Mexico City.—Guarantees to all po
litical candidates, efforts to improve
conditions of the workers and to aid
capitalists in developing the national
resources and an intention to strength
en Mexico's relations ‘with all the
free peoples of earth.” were pledged
by Adolfo de la Huerta, the provis
ional president, in a statement given
the Associated Press. Senor de la
Huerta made his statement lying on a
sick bed.
Buys Hamilton Home.
I Irvington, N. Y.—The famous Alex
ander Hamilton estate. Nevis, on the
Ijjank of the Hudson River, has been
Purchased by James W. Gerard, the
farmer ambassador to Germany, for a
Client
Freeze Hunting Pole.
Copenhagen—Two members of Capt
RAald Amundsen’s North Pole expedi
tic >n, Knusden and Tessen, are re
po :ted to have frozen to death duirug
th< i winter of 1919-20.
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RESERVE BOARD
GHESITS VIEWS
THE PUBLIC IS WARNED AGAINST
EXPECTING CONTINUED
LOW PRICES.
WAGES DO NOT KEEP PACE
Business Has Suffered From Failure
of the Railroads to Meet Traffic
Demands—There Is Still
Much Unrest.
Washington.—Despite recent reduc
tions in prices, little relief from the
general reign of high prices is seen
by the federal reserve board, in its
analysis of May business conditions.
The board expressed the view that
there has been no change in the un
derlying conditions responsible for
the high cost of living.
Asserting that while “store sales"
and a tendency to lower prices bears
witness to the presence of “disturbing
factors," which suggest the advent of
wide alternation in price levels, the
hoard declares it cannot accept the
situation as a whole for its face
value. The explanation is added that
there has been only a slight increase
in production, and that there is no
greater disposition on the part of the
general public to economize and in
vest than had ruled heretofore.
“The changes that have taken place,
therefore," the board’s analysis says,
"cannot be looked upon as indicating
a modification of underlying condi
tions. They may, however, afford a
basis for changes in business rela
tionships that may broaden into more
far-reaching alteration of the essen
tial price structure.”
Business in every section of the
country has suffered considerably
from the freight jam, which has pre
vented normal movement of products
to markets. Effects of the tleup are
noticed in the agricultural districts as
much as the industrial areas, and that
farmers are not the smallest class
which has sought more hank help in
the way of credit as a result.
Results of the board's action in the
direction of restricted loans already
has- begun to be evident, according to
| reports of the various reserve banks.
1 In addition to a general reduction in
; the value as well as volume of securi
i ties traded in the financial centers,
I there has been a general revision of
i interest rates affecting both eommer
^ialjrager and call money, it is stated.
'‘‘PheTabbr's'rtuatl.cn ctAdnglhe month
has been one of the outstanding ele
ments of ‘‘doubt and difficulty,” and is
one of the larger problems with which
the country is expected to have to
deal the rest of the summer. In addi
tion to intense shortage of labor on
farms and at other points of primary
production, sporadic strikes have oc
curred in many lines of manufactur
ing. notably the textile industry, indi
cating in the board's view continued
unrest.
"Wages apparently have fallen be
hind in prices and the cost, of living,"
the statement continues. “The move
ment of labor from farm to city is
continuing. Various demands for
higher wages have been taken under
advisement for the purpose of bring
ing about compromise adjustments.
General complaint of low efficiency or
small output per unit of labor is prev
alent, and the difficulty of getting
skilled labor in some of the more
highly developed lines of manufacture
is now very considerable.”
SENATE REFUSES MANDATE
Only Twenty-Three Democrats Stand
By President in His Plea
For Armenia.
Washington. — President Wilson’s
plea for an American mandate over
Armenia was rejected in the Senate
by a vote of more than two to one.
Thirteen Democrats cast their votes
with the united Republican member
ship on the final roll call, and the
resduticn “respectfully declining" to
grant congressional authority for the
mandate was adopted, 52 to 23, In the
form dratted by the Republican lead
ers.
Diaz to Private Life.
Mexico City.—Gen. Felix Diaz, who
has been carrying on a revolutionary
movement in the state of Vera Cruz
for some time, is willing to return to
private life, now that the overthrow
of the C arranza regime has been ac
complished.
Loan to BolQians.
New York.—A new loan to Belgium,
the proceeds of which will be used to
liquidate $50,000 accepted credit ma
turing in June, was announced here
by J. P. Morgan <fc Company and the
Guaranty Trust Company of New
Y crk.
Still Held in Siberia. .
Stockholm.—Two hundred thousand
prisoners of war still remain in Si
beria, it is estimated by the Swiss
Red Cross, according to Dr. Fridtjob
Nansen, in an interview which is pub
lished here.
French Whip Turks.
Don don.—A French column fought
its way into Aintab, Syria, and after
heavy fighting succeeded in relieving
the town, it was officially announced
t The Turks suffered heavy casualties.
LIFT OFF CORNS!
Doesn’t hurt a bit! Sore corn*
lift right off with fingers.
Magic!
Costs few cents! Prop a little
Freezone on that touchy corn, Instant
ly that corn stops hurting, then you
lift It right out with the fingers.
Why wait? Your druggist sells a
tiny bottle of Freezone for a few cents,
sufficient to rid your feet of every hard
corn, soft corn, or corn between the
toes, and calluses, without soreness or
irritation. Freezone is the much
talked of discovery of the Cincinnati
genius.—Adv.__
Phone Not an Improvement.
Oscar—Why did you have the tele
phone taken out of your cilice?
Jim—Po you consider anything a
modern improvement which gives your
wife a chance to ask for money dur
ing business hours, after going through
your pockets the night before?—Hous
ton Post.
feelinTblue
ALL THE TIME
—
Before Taking Cardui, This Geor
gia Lady Suffered Until She
Would Have to Sit Down to
Do Housework.—Was
Dizzy and Weak.
Dalton, Ga.—Mrs. V. A. Burnett, of
Route G, says: '“I got dowfi-ffun my
back and sides, not able to do my
work. I suffered a great deal. I had
a depressed, blue feeling all the time.
“I couldn't rest at night. I was
nervous. I would be dizzy and just
no-account at all.
“I would have to sit down while
trying to do the housework. It seemed
I couldn’t get my breath. I was afraid
I would get past going altogether.
“I heard of Cardui and began using
It. I could see after a half bottle
It was helping me, so I kept it up . . .
and soon I was like a new person.
“I knew Cardui did the work, for no
other medicine I took ever helped me
as it did. I certainly can recommend
. . . Cardui.”
This well-known medicine, which
Mrs. Burnett says helped her, is a
mild, medicinal, purely vegetable tonic,
for over 40 years used by thousands of
women, with similar results to those
which this Georgia lady obtained.
Cardui should help you, too. Try It.
—Adv.
Impossible.
“The doctor advised me to take
something every day to whet my ap
petite."
“How did lie expect you to do that
without a prescription?"
99 OUT OF 100
Of the little ills and hurts, such as
Toothache, nervous Headache, or sore
i ness anywhere may be quickly relieved
by applying Vaeher-Balm, which is
harmless. Keep it handy, and avoid
imitations.
If you cannot buy vncher-Bnlm lo
cally, send 30c in stamps for a tube,
to E. W. Vacher. Inc.. New Orleans,
I La.—Agents wanted.—Adv.
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Musical Criticism.
“How do you like the new singer,
Jones?”
“Oil. very well, except when she’s
singing.”—Boston Transcript.
Freshen a Heavy Skin
With the antiseptic, fascinating Cntl
curu 'Calcutn Powder, an exquisitely
scented convenient, economical face,
skin, oaby and dusting powder and
perfume. Renders other perfumes su
perfluous. One of the Cuticura Toilet
Trio (Soap. Ointment, Talcum).—Adv.
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Got His Measure.
Ferdie — Don't you think travel
broadens one?
Miss Bright—Yes, you should take a
trip around the world.
Sore Eyes, Blood-Shot Eyos, Watery Eyes,
Sticky Eyes, all healed promptly with night
ly applications of Homan Eye Balsam—Adv.
I Some men are too lazy to kick when
I they get the short end of it.