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i UHlOU/V 1 , AUUUUi l/, 1V?V, POSTAL COMPANY ; REDUCES RATES s r New York, July 31.?When con- c trol of the telegraph systems of the i country is formally relinquished by i the government at midnight, a re- v duction of 20 per cent, in rates will c be made immediately on the lines of the Postal Company, but the West- ^ ern Union will retain the schedule put into effect after Postmaster! General Burleson took control April j ? I Clarence H. Mackay, president of j ( the Postal, announced in a statement: c late today that the rates would be't made in accordance with its promise! i to the public. He qualified the an- t nouncement, however, by saying; r that if expenses continue to mount ( charges might have to go with them, c Newcomb Carlton, president of t the Western Union, who also has i been in charge of the cable systems \ controlled by hte government since v last December, declared on other! hand: "We can not see our way ( clear to do better than we are doing s at this time." j t Neither would discuss the possi-j ( bility of long continued "rate war." | \ In his announcement Mr. Mackay; t explained that the 20 per cent, re-j j duction represented the increase,s which Postmaster General Burleson; c put into effect, including leased wirejt rates, and that the rates would be;' restored to what they were before' 1 the government took over the lines, i i Present rates on nignt letters, uc . said, would not be disturbed, but f probably would be reduced later. The' v head of the Postal Company said the j t return of the wires to their owners c marked the end of "a powerful ef- t fort by the postmaster general and Bell Telephone-Western Union Com- t panies to eliminate the competition i of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Com- t J WA1 Hold jany." ' < Mr. Carlton of the Western Union i aid his company was maintaining 1 nore than 20,000 offices in small 1 ommunities that were unprofitable < n order to serve the public and that i ; was "striving to pay its employees I vae-es commensurate with the high 1 :ost of living." ; i I :UMMINGS LAUGHS AT REPUBLICANS ' Washington, July 31.?Homer S. ' Dummings, chairman of the Demo- ' iratic national committee, called by 1 he house subcommittee investigatng aircraft expenditures to testify jnder oath tonight why he had pernitted the publicity bureau of his ' >rgasization to brand a proposed j :ommittee trip to the Pacific coast j is a "junket." took full responsibility | Ui (/lie Ol/Awvmwuu Mtiu wvv?t? WW vas not a circumstance to what vould come later. From the moment he entered the :ommittee room and introduced him- j ;elf to the members demanding the ixamination until he went away Mr. j Cummings continually was smiling vhile Chairman Frear pounded the ;able with great heat and stopped the ; >roceedings to have certain replies itricken from the record. With moCk i :ourtesy Mr. Cummings turning to he chairman and addressing him yas i 'My good fellow" said that he knew )efore he arrived that he would be i mable to satisfy the Republicans, rhere were one or two sharp retorts 'rom- Chairman Frear, to one of vhich the witness lighting one cigar ;rom another and still smiling, de:lared "My, wasn't that a delicate hrust." At the outset Mr. Cummings told he committee that while he had not < -?J 4-U^. -nAW-iytiOoii fn "rxrVnp'h i CctU tUC panivumi ai wvtv w ?* ?> > . he Republicans took offense he'! ?i aiiiNHiiniiiiii nz-Mt T rwif IU1 It mattk i ? * YourOi 3uite approved it, except that it was ( lot vigorous enough. It was during a this questioning that Chairman Frear n told the stenographer not to permii f certain statements to remain in the J record to which the witness replied d 1 * 1 - ? ! ? vtr/MlM O unat in a couri 01 justice uc numu ~ liave more rights. What the chair- c nan wanted to know, specially was d the basis for the charge that the sub- t committee was a "smelling commit- u tee" and that it soon was to start on a i "junket." Finally, after a sharp n wrangle, Mr. Cummings said that as he understood it, the committee contemplated a Western trip to look into spruce conditions relating to aviation when all of this had been gone over by Charles E. Hughes. s o PAY OF ENLISTED MEN t TO REMAIN UNCHANGED V t P According to information received ^ from the adjutant general of the war r denartment the tiav of enlisted men a will not revert after present emer-js gency to pre-war scale. The follow- 0 ing telegram has been received at the. a southeastern department addressed t to the commanding general: r "Newspaper reports that pay of en- b listed men will revert after present emergency to pre-war scale are in- 1 correct. Appropriation bill for fiscal j h year 1920, provided that provisions a of act approved May 18, 1917, in so far as it increases the pay of enlist- t ed men of the army, are continued in b force and in effect from and after e the date of approval of this appro- b priation act of 1920. You will give t wide publicity to these facts." c p Boll Weevil Taking Heavy Toll. s 8e heaviest "first crop" infestation d of cotton boll weevils on record is t now genera in all the counties' of o Mississippi south of Tupelo and s US SP1 HARRIS? fWtfT IC.W rders Un 31arksdale, according to the fielc igent of the United States Departlent of Agriculture. The leather avors still further propagation, rtany farmers, because of the proluction of the past two years, foelievd that they could henceforth grow otton without fear of this pest. The epartment has of course, continued o advocate the growing of cotton nder precautons against weevils nd is now pushing such control leasures as are available. THAT REPTILE MYTH. (By John Breck in The State.) One of the indubitable signs of pring is the dear, sentimental tale f the mother snake whose young ake refuge in her capacious maw /hen danger lowers. But the advanage of living a long time in one lace is in that eventually you may iave picked a heated argument with learly all the likely observers. I have ntagonized most of the golfers by etting my conviction that the vigorus secretions of a snake's digestive pparatus would make it an unhealhy nursery against what they kno^ eally did happen in the swale down >y the fifth hole. At last I received a summons, .'hey "had the goods on me." They ad killed a copperhead in the very ct. Well, it really looked as though hey had. There was the snake, a rown, splotched one, with the halfngulfed youngster pinned "in situ" iy a well aimed cleek. And she cerainly was a reptilian nursery. Cirumstantial evidence was fairly complete on the side of the prosecution. Then the defense got to work. The nake was colored all right, dark sadlle bands on a light ground, but hey were not the hour glass shape f the copperhead. Neither were they ufficiently distinct. Its jaw bulged BlIMIllllllllllMllllllillllBillilBllllffilllllilllllllMWil ? I ) ^CE F( N & HILL CA] til Thes I venomously from its neck yet itsj head had not the triangular look of ^ the elegant Ancistrodon. It was too! . long snouted and irregular. Also, thel venemous creature is seldom Diesseai with many offsprings, five or six at the most, while this matron was densely populated. We counted .18 snakelings and it was aibout as accurate as inventorying worms in a bait can. They showed singularly feeble signs of life for young things which had made their formal debut into the world, and they were not in the proper location for creatures which . had been swallowed. That, however, was no argument the golfers would I Pure Ice i| k Manufactured Under t SOFT DRINKS Soft CIGARETTES tobaccos r^nn 1 CANDIES V^OIl FRUITS. Wear. CIGARS the most , licit your Abbeville Cai ?I I rChpru j I I I i I DR AD. I R e Cars A consider. They were not particular about the inner geography of the creature. A snake in the mouth ^vas all the evidence they craved. At last I ventured to point out that the aforesaid snake was not onI" nnoc inciHp it". ly migci (fuaii viiv unvu - was a different kind. It was as dif- s ? ferent from the young as from its theoretic mother. It was one familiar serpent, which nobody could possibly mistake?a gartersnake. And the mother was merely a large brown watersnake, which, after the fashion of her kind carries her eggs until they hatch, instead of laying them as land snakes do. She had been interrupted in a cannibal meal. \ I Cream? ' /' " Sanitary Conditions >;:vr Drinks and ' ; ?>* ' ' * '< ' -vl fections . ' ' ; j| s prepared to lerre you in courteoua manner and so ~v, ? r ' patronage. idy Kitchen ' mmmmmmmmmgi < IV ' 1 -if I " ' * \ "/ ' ' ! 2 W rrive g I m r |