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TRADE WiTH GERMANY SHOWS IMPROVEMENT | MONTH BY MONTH Exports Last Month Were $35,061,-. 009?How Trade With Other Countries is Progressing Washington, Jan. 1.?American firade with Germany continues to improve the monthly statement of the Department of Commerce today! jhowing exports last month of, $35,061,009 as compared with $23,- j 044,142 in the same month a year' ago and imports from Germany of $7,577,686 as compared with $3, 212,831 in November, 1919. Both exports and imports general-: Jy showed a falling off last month as compared with those of the cor- j responding month a year ago, but | there were increases in exports to | South and Central America, Mexi-, co, Cuba, Spain and The Nether- [ lands. . Exports to Japan dropped from 134,439,900 in November 1919; to $9,203,003, last month, while im-i ports from Japan fell from $51, 573,133 last month. V. Exports To France Exports to France last month were $59,009,746 as against $72, 479,499 in November, 1919. Im ports dropped from $19,511,465 a year ago to $11, 716,546 last . No vember. Italy took only $26,996,773 of I American goods last month as com-' pared with $37,199,851 a year ago J t while imports from that country; fell from $10,926,827 to $&,3zu,-| I 452* The Netherlands bought goods; Wrined at $3,845,602 while a year ago the total was $10,828,554. Im ports from the Netherlands last i / Booth were $6,791,337, and a! year ago they were $6,701,386. American exports to Great Bri-j tain dropped nearly $115,000,000! the total in November, 1919, being $220,146261 while last month it j was only $125,060,872. Imports from Great Britain also fell from j $46,306,863 to $26,823,574. J OLDEST MAN IN THE uz/vDin hi cno jtipct I TTVIVUA/ IUU a v*\ * ?*w * Constantinople, Jan. 1.?For the first time in his life of 146 years Zora Mehmed, who is said to be the oldest man iij the world is ill. He is suffering from indigestion, for which he blames a set of false teeth. All his working life Zora has keen a carrier of heavy weights, ranging from 200 to 1,000 pounds. During the Napoleonic wars he bad a bet that he could lift 500 pounds with his teeth, and he ruin ed them in making the attempt. He got along for some time without any teeth, and then he obtained a set which wore out. 1 About twenty years ago he got another set, which, he says have al ways given him indigestion and have finally made him go to the hospital for treatment of the complaint. Zora was born in Turkish Ar menia, as the birth record in the iosque there shows, in 1774. He has a son aged ninety and a young- daughter of fifty. In appear . ace he is only about seventy. A new rubber flaying ball has ' Keen patented which can be inflated nd deflated at will. PEOPLE.OF OUR TOWN IBte Liberal Adviser Is dispensing Free Advice from his Windy Cave of Wisdom and Experience but it falls on Deaf Ears, for Advice is quoted at ' J?% These Days, with No Takers. He teHs the Farmers how to Farm, the Banker how to Bank and the Editor low to Edit, hence these few Protest-1 tp Lines. L ' MOB LAW PUT FEWER TO DEATH IN 1920 Tuskegee, Ala., Jan. 1.?Lynching* were less numerous during 1920 than in 1919, records compiled at Tuske gec- institute show. Sixty-one persons including eight white men, were put to death by mobs this year, as com pared with 83 last year and G4 in 1918. The report shows 56 instances in which officers of the law prevented lynchings during 1920, and that 46 of these instances were in southern states. Armed force was used to re pel wouia-oe lyncnei's on is occa sions and in four of these the mobs were fired upon and seven of the at tackers were killed and a number wounded. In 42 cases prisoners were removed or the guards were augment ed or other precautions taken. Of the 61 persons lynched, the re port says, 52 were in the south and nine in the north and west. One of those put to death was a negro woman. Eighteen of those lynched were charged with attacks or at tempted attacks on women; three were burned to death, one of whom was charged with attacking and mur dering a woman and two for killing landlords during disputes, the report says. The offenses charged against the white men were: Murder, 5; insulting women, 1; "no charge except being a foreigner,' 1; killing officer of the law, 1. Charges Against Negroes. Offenses charged against the ne groes lynched the report lists as fol lows: Murder, 5; attempted murder, 4; killing officers of the law, 5; killing landlord during dispute, 6; attack upon women, 15; attempted attack 3, assisting fugitive to escape, 3; wound ing another, 2; insulting woman, 2; knocking down guard, "escaping from cnaingang ana men returning auu surrendering," 2; and one each of the following: Jumping labor contract, threaten ing to kill man, cutting man in fight "for receiving stay of death sentence because another confessed, crime," peeping through window at woman; "insisting on voting:." The lynchings by states were: Texas, 10;; Georgia, 9; Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, 7 each; Min nesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma and California, 3 each; Arkansas, Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, one each. CLOSE OF THE YEAR FINDS WALL STREET IN CHEERFUL MOOD New York. Jan. 1.?The final dav of the year found , the financial community in a more cheerful frame of mind than at any time in the last four weeks. There were no braces of the recent severe liquida tion and the low price levels seem to attract considerable public interest. This was reflected in an active and strong stock market, many issues at midday showing gains at 2 to 5 points from yesterday's closing and from to almost 20 points over re lent low records. The bond market also was active, suggesting the revival of invest ment buying in anticipation of the release of heavy January interest and dividend payments. The money market was easy de spite the shifting of funds inciden tal to this period of the year. SAVANNAH MAY LOSE SHRINE CONVENTION Savannah, Ga. Jan. 1?Refusal of the Pullman Palace Car Company to permit the parking of its cars here during the proposed imperial conven tion of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine next summer, may lose .Savannah this convention. The city had presumed that sever al thousand visitors could be accom modated in parked sleeping cars and unless they can be obtained it is not likely Savannah would be able to care for the visitors. Advices received by prominent Shriners are to the ef fect that the Pullman Company, be cause of a shortage of cars, would not consent to the parking of any number of them here during the time of the convention. If this decision is adhered to it probably means the abandonment of the idea of holding the meeting at Savannah,, It required the use of 110,000, 000,000 cards to record the popula lation of the United States in mak ing the last census. j TALK OF NITRATE AS YEAR CLOSES j Flood of Debate on Muscle Shoals? Republicans Determined Not to Yield Although Cry of Sec tionalism is Heard. I Washington, Jan. 1?The old year closed in the house last night with a flood of talk on the ups and downs of Muscle Shoals. Working through to the eve of the new year discussing a $10,000,000 appropriation for completion of the Wilson dam, part of the government's big wartime nitrate project, the house adjourned with lines sharply rJmwn fnr a frpsh fie^ht Mondav and , a determination on the part of Re publicans opposing further aid not to yield, even in the face of a cry of sectionalism. All day long the dam project was bitterly attacked and warmly de fended. It remained, however, for Chairman Graham of the investigat ing committee, which went over the ground, to turn loose the guns upon the little Alabama settlement into which, he declared, there had been dumped with reckless disregard for the future enough money to erect half of the public buildings in Wash ington. . The other side of the picture was I presented by Representative Gar- 1 rett, Democrat, Tennessee, himself a member of the investigating body, ' who pleaded for funds with which to 1 eo ahead with construction of the : dam named for the president, and 1 which he insisted would be a vital cog in the American machinery of war. The charge by Mr. Garrett that the people of the South could see in the opposition to the measure no ground except sectionalism was vigorously denied by Chairman Graham, who said a dam like that now being con jstructed in the Tennessee river never had been built in the history of the i world, and probably never would. From the proposal advanced by ! Southern representatives that the < i ?i. j.~ il~ j? u:n 1 nuuse put uitu tiie suuuiy uivn uui j the $10,000,000 stricken out by the 1 committee, the debate jumped from J the dam itself to nitrate plants two < miles away, involving, the policy of the government in selecting. Muscle i Shoals as a site and building there a 1 project costing upward of $100,000,- ' 000. 1 Mr. Garrett declared that to stop < work now on the undertaking, 30 per < cent, complete and for which $17,- i 000,000 had been expended, not only i would bring great loss to the gov ernment, but would be "the height ' of folly," when nitrate establishments ranked as the most vital assets in time of war. Mr. Graham, on the other hand, contended that congress 1 "should not jjo deeper into the hole" j < until it had decided on a different, ( policy as to disposal of the plant. s There was decided opposition from j some quarters to a bill now pending ; which would convert the Alabama ! plant into fertilizer factories, mem- t bers professing to see the spectre of government ownership. Representative Bankhead, Demo- 1 crat, Alabama, declared experts had . stated that Muscle Shoals could be s successfully operated as a commer- ( cial plant. Completion of the dam, t he argued, was necessary as part of ( the nitrate plant machinery, big j enough to serve American farmers j trying for cheaper preducts needed for the yield of bountiful crops. ( Washington, Dec. 1?Charges that the farmers of the United States have been "robbed by the Chilean nitrate trust,' which, he declared, was op posing the development of the gov ernment nitrate plant at Muscle Cknnlo A la uropo maflu tnHav in thp kuivaio* house by Representative Almon, Democrat, in whose district the plant is located. The representative during debate on the sundry civil bills, asserted that American farmers because of their ' inability to obtain nitrates for fer j tilizer in sufficient quantities, had ! been obliged to pay the Chilean gov { ernment since 1879 a total of $123, 000,000 as export duty on nitrates SPRAWLING MANNERS (Constance Duchess of Westminster in the Continental Edition of the London Mail.) Never in any period of our social history has the young girl of every class enjoyed so great a measure of liberty, as she does today. She comes and goes without restraint, she en tertains her friends of her own se lection, she has her latchkey and pocket money, which is entirely un der her own control. The latter is, I am convinced an excellent training for her, much bet ter than the old method of allowing a girl to grow ud in entire ignorance of money values with the consequ ence that when she came to control large amounts she expended the mo ney foolishly. We are suffering from an invasion of strange manners hitherto un known in good society. Young girls come home alone from dances with a I masculine friend, they go about en tirely unchaperoned, and with friend probably unknown to their guardians, or parents. All this leads to an ap-j palling laxity perhaps not-of conduct' ?since girls and men come safely [ through experiences: which would I have been calamitous to their Vic-] torian prototypes?but of manners. :, So far as young men are concerned bad manners are not a new complaint They were already bad before the war, and we women used to be told by men who had learned their polite ness- in a finer school that we were to blame for the increasing rudeness of youths, because we put up with it without protest. No wottian -should have to protest, but some of us occa sionally are moved to administer a rebuke when, for example, a young man wrndinc cnrnwlincr in Viic: rliflir without rising when' a lady enters" the room, and other things which, are uncourteous and show either laz iness or lack of chivalry. Nowadays when girls, too, exhibit surprisingly bad manners, we are be ;oming more tolerant of this modern phase which makes young people, treat one another casually and with an entire lack of deference, hostess-! I es little consideration.' At one time, to leave an invitation unaswered was a social crime, and! to bring along a party of uninvited; strangers to a friend's" house was un known, yet nowadays these rudeness-1 ?s seem to be quite as frequent as the j iesertion of an engagement is some | imusment more entertaining turns i -ip. t"utic DDinr ta dr icct irn i inu DI\IUL- 1 U-DC. OWN MARRIAGE LICENSE Bartlesville, Okla., Jan. 1.?Miss J Victoria Fournier, deputy county j :lerk, issued her own marriage li-j :ense yesterday. The party of the second part is Warren Milligan, a lewspaper reporter. When the blank vas filed she directed Milligan to aise his right hand and swear to the ruth of the statements. He obeyed. It is not always the one who speaks ongest that says the most. ihipped to the United States from Uhile. If the manufacture of fer ;ilizers in this country had been en :ouraged, Mr. Salmon continued, im-, jortations could have been curtailed ind payment of the tax avoided. r,t a r nnc Ljy a v^uuo NOTICE! After January 1 we will sell for CASH ONLY AT A SMALL PROFIT D1 J_ ? _ _1_ r lease c;iu not cask us iu ciicuge anything, as it will save embarass ment for both of us \ ' E. F. ARNOLD I Increase oe Yield of Farm Crops Corn, cotton, truck, barley, wheat, oats?these, and all other croDS will pay well if a little attention is given to the proper fertilizer for your soil. Planters Fertilizers are especially suited to the needs of Southern soils. You cannot raise a 100 % crop unless you have a 100 soil. Fertility is largely a matter of balanced conditions of the eoiL Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia, and Potash must be present in the proper proportions if bumper crops are to be raised. 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