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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.
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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,-|
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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.
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OLDEST MAN IN THE
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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