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Dispenser < cheer-des the day's 'Good to th DEC. U.S. I bM British Naval Experts Argue For Greater Aerial Strength London, '-.uk- id.- -"The nuvy of the future ini .>t take to the air; otherwise it v. ill be at a hooeless disad vantage,' sai<l Captain Viscount Curzon in the House of Commons when the naval estimates came up for discussion. He pointed out that according to the latest figures the navy had only nine fighting airplanes, in contrast with the 86 possessed by the United States navy. To offset the allegation of Captain Curzon, the Air Ministry has issued a statement declaring the British navy to be better equipped with airplanes than that of any other power and claiming no fewer than 98 fighting air machines in commission, with a large number of reserves. George Lambert, a former Civil Lord of the Admiralty, expressed the opinion that l he British navy was very inadequately equipped with air craft. "Can the navy say that from the defensive point of view the money of the taxpayer is being spent to the best advantage?" he asked. "You arc going to spend ?16,000,000 on two iictv L?iin ivMiqis, UUV 11 is useless 10 spend money on capital ships unless you have sufficient aircraft for the ships you already possess." l ieutenant Commander Kenworthy emphasized the great , need of strengthening the air fleet. "We are exposed to two great dangers from the air," he said, "massed attacks by Heels of airplanes flying by night, and scattering poison and disease germs on our cities, and having our food supplies cut off by attacks on the trade routes. The two capital ships would be of little use warding j off such raiders." Mr. Aniery, Financial Secretary of the Admiralty, answered some questions about recent experimental attacks by airplanes on warships in the Channel. According to published sensational reports, he said, the attacks were completely successful, and if fhttde in feal warfarfe -"ouW do'm'pietely Wiped out a considerable portion of the British navy. The manoeuvers were not of a 'wholly novel character,' but part of a series of valuable and constructive ov erciscs which have been carried out' for some time. It is not true that the airplanes threw out smoke, screens. The torpedo-carrying air- j planes were sighted 15 minutes before firing their torpedoes. They were under dummy gun-fire. "There is a great difference be-1 tween the effect of dummy gun-fire and real gun-lire on Ihe morale and the steadiness of a flyer when at a low altitude at the moment of dis-i charging torpedoes," the speaker continued. "They were attacked by gunfire in dummy from light cruisers and destroyers. The attack developed under favorable conditions. We could not use real counter-nieasuses. The attack thus developed its ful of-: fensive effect, and a number of hits: were recorded under the most favor- j able conditions. I do not know the exact number of hits, but I am informed that from the Admiralty Staff point of view it was not considered to be at all large, or in any way beyono wnat was expected. Baltic Rum-Running , Shows Large Profits ______ Stockholm, Aug1. 13.?Legislation j in Sweden against drunkenness an.l j consequent heavy taxation on liquor j and beer has resulted in very high prices for alcohol of every kind. So much that smuggling of drink into Sweden has developed all along the coast, and it is asserted that about r>,000 gallons from the Baltic are landed and sold in Sweden every day Recently a German ship was said to be anchored outside territorial waters with a cargo of spirits for sale. In order to establish the truth of this alleged rum-running, the correspondent of The Associated Press decided upon a personal investigation. With a fiiend he embarked 011 a six ton cutter for this German boat, which was expected off Sandhamn, and after a pleasant sail in the moonlight came up with the vessel which was riding at anchor with the usual lights showing. On hailing the vessel we were requested to go aboard and were received cordially ly '1. c:.. ' ;n. ' Just waiting for somebody else," he said, "but you are very welcome anyhow." Asked down to the cabin, the visitors explained they were neither buyers of alcohol nor in the service of the customs, but only wanted to learn something first hand about selling spirits on the high seas. The captain was a young German, about .10 yeais old. " Vou take mo for a smuggler," h'e said, "or bootlegger out for business beyond the law, but you are quite mistaken. My rf breakfast troyor of fatigue. 9 last drop' 'AT. Orr. a ESSBSSSSLmm ii name is Ludwig Wolff, formerly of the German nuvy. I do no business which cannot bear examination, and would not for anything in the world infringe on the privileges of Sweden. I am in international waters, and am entitled to trade here as much a. I wish with anybody who wants to do business with n.e. 1 can offei you the purest and best whiskies, English and American at about $1.25 a ounrf T !.?? n?=- - -A . MTW VI1V UCdt 1 'illllS'1 schnaps for 3 krone a bottle, and Many thousand bottles of Qerman brandy." Wolff, referring to himself, explained that he had been paid off from the navy when the armistice was declared, and on hearing of the liquor trade with Norway, he decided to join in. "I am not dealing for my own account," he said; "this business is organised in Hamburg by big capitalists. Liquor in Germany is very heap and . Scandinavian currency .ery high, so although we sell much cheaper than do registered dealers ashore, the prolit for us is nearly 300 percent." He added he expected to get rid of his present cargo within a week and return for more. Tie made ten trips last year to Norway, and with the same number to Sweden this year he expects to clean up enough for a five years' rest. Saving for a Rainy Day By Beatrice Fairfax. We live in an age of frightful extravagance. The price of tlr: gs is high- -and the desire for things is great. So with a demand for gewgaws constantly on (he in?rn..?i.. m. price <;f them sears. We spend our earnings lavishly and insanely on all the glittering things which catch our eyes. Silk sto< kings and chiffon dresses for the girl whose salary must be stretched to its last cent to pay for her expenditures. iVlotors for the inun who can't afford the gasoline to run them. And as we go up and down the social scale, everyone is spending a little more than he can afford for this things lie desires. But what of the future? Who saves today? Who puts part of his salary away with the future 111 view? Above all?who conserves himself? We of today are in a feverish condition. We play too hard. We spend too much. We waste ourselves emotionally. ArJ as we push ourselves to th limit of endurance, it never occurs to us that what wo fling away with wanton recklessness today might mean health, happiness, safety?and even youth conserved in a far-away tomorrow. We lay too much stress on the moment and the enjoyment thereof. We wear ourselves to what is called a frazzle in our efforts to have a little fun. And when the fun comes we're so worn and weary that we don't know whether its flavor is bitter 01 sweet. We don't think about tomorrow. Wo over-decorate our bodies, we over-furnish our homos, we over-entertain ourselves. We have neither ourselves nor our earnings. We just dance along heedlessly in the procession of spend ir.gr. /\nd the youth and energry wo waste ean not be retrained. If there is one message I wish nil hoys and girls could receive in early youth it is this: "What you waste today you may long for tomorrow. Even the capacity for enjoyment you overstrain with hectic pleasures and frantic hours will fail you when you most long for it. The weary and bitter man of 50 might be a sturdy citizen if he hud not spent himself too lavishly in youth. The haggard woman of 40 might be young and vital in looks and in feelings if she hadn't rushed wildly into an orgy of gayety when she was young." "You're only young once!" cries Youth. True, as far as years and the first surge of vital feelings is concerned. But long years stretch ahead. .And if youth spend itself madly, middle-age may come at .'$0 and somelhing near senility at 50. But the spark of life may linger on for 'JO years after all that makes life worth living is gone. Moderation bring leisure for true enjoyment. And it does not steal from the years whoch stretch ahead, nor mortgage youth and vitality for a worthless house built on the fickle sand.4 of pleasure. A new machine for reducing oil from shale rock is at work near Denver. The invention is a series of revolving retorts, heated by oil burners. The shale rock is lumped in the hopper and conies out at the rear of the machine as black dust made up of hydrocarbons of high commercial, values. According to the president of the Colorado School of Mines, the invention will revolutionize the oil industry. Woman Living in Greenville ia Now Paat The Century Mark Bevo" Whitmtre, in CffjuilviUe New?. Totally blind, almost penniless, ind 107 yrars 014, but true heroine >f tv. ? wars, M>*. Casaie Cooper, the vifc of George W. Cooper, who was ! hero duvinc the Indian war and who rdisted with the Confederate boy^ at t ho beginning of the Civil war and who was killed in n'-'.i. in Mobile. Alabama, rt:il lives, st ii talks i;d b *=till able to gM about slowly. Mr.'. C< opcv now livre wi.h her "baby" laugh' cr, Miss Lou Co??ik , who b (.'2 year's od, unman iej, alio who h.rs spent' mo*'. of her 1:1- working to "jppovt her bereft mother. The two rert n port tuff of the- house of William Taylor, jtwt off the Emt-Ann Cooper, who i3 now $2 yearo of the Salvation Army hospital. Mrs. Coop, er is abo the mother of two ld<>r Bootleggers Hear Bad News ^ Some bad news for Cocilvag county bootleg,;t. both th ?e who have been convicted unci those who have "gotten out of it" through technicalities, wiil . scon be spread through the treasury departnient us soon as a chuck of the 1 country records have been completed. * i? was announced yesterday. Government officials, who have beeri 1 checking the records of all cases! ' docketed and disposed of in Cochisi i ' county for the past several years, an-' ' nouiue that no little amount of il!5ric liquor vendors are going to be qui. surprised when they find they .r.vc U- e'e Sam a i :-o little ali.ee in taxes, under the Willis-Campbell act th.j w. : ou booze sale3 is still in effci ' Rt J any man convicted on which the 1 pr< per showing can be made received] a certain amount of liquor sales,! whether illicit or not, will receive a tax bill from the government. One case of recent date is said to total up several thousand dollars in federal lav, while ithers range from a few dollars up to hundreds. Just what otfeet the movement to collect the tax will have on the illicit liquor vendors, remains to be seen, ac ording to the government officials, but Uncle Sam will collect in the long run, they say is beyond a doubt if precedent counts for anything.? IUsboe (Ariz.) Review. Respect for Law It is ticklish business for any citizen to claim the right to violate a law of which he dees not approve. That rule, carried to its logical conclusion, would make all laws a farce and wo should then have a condition of ociety similar to what prevails now in Russia. Every man has his equity in a stnhlc and effective government, for it. means Uiat his property and the lives of himself and family and their lights are safe-guarcied and protected. When respect for law is broken I down, all rights are put in jeopardy. If you and 1 break (hi- laws we don't like, another man will claim the right > fol'ow our example and will vallate other laws, the enforcement ?>P which are vital to soeu ty. A campaign tor the repeal of an objectionable taw is a sound exemplification of pood Americanism; but a tainpaign to liu credit, by its violation, a law which the majority have enacted and which ii.e minority can not repeal, is as dan- i gerous as to lead a mob or start a fire in a dry forest on a windy day. So no citizen who love.-, his state, and no ewspapcr which seeks public canii- 1 c'enci' and patronage should counsel tile \iolation of any law, no matter low unpopular and how unjust he may ti.ink it to be. A bad example is mora contagious than the bubonic plague.? Editorial, Sioux City Argus-Loader. i Pardoned 332 in a Year From Reynold's 'Reconstruction in South Carolina," page 13fi: , "One cause of trouble?one obstacle to the administration of the laws ?was reckless use of the pardon power. In his first year Governor Svotc issued 332 pardons. For the first 18 months of his term (1374-1870) Governor Chamberlain issued 73." If the records of pardons issued by Hampton, Simpson, Jeter, Hagood, Thompson, Sheppavd, Richardson Tinman, Evans, Ellorbe, McSweoney, Heywaid, Ansel, Smith, Manning Cooper and Harvey be examined it \ ill be found that the average was lower than that even of Chamberlain. Nothing is easier than to discover by figures, by averages, what is a just and rational employment of the par doning power. The people need not be fooled about Ibis matter unless they want to be. Between January, 1011, and January, 101f>, 1,708 convicts were pardoned and some authorities have placed I he number higher. The minimum, 1,708, will not be disputed.?The State. American Railroad Experts Finish Work in Poland Warsaw, Aug. 13.?The American Technical Commission to Poland, working under the direction of Col. A. II. Barber, will bring its activities to a close this summer. This Commission was formed in 1919 to advise the Polish government on transportation problems. Now that the Polish railroads are practically restored, the work of the commission is at an end. The help of Colonel Barber has been fully appreciated. In proof of this he was the tirst American to receive the order of ''Polonia ltestitutn " established by the Polish government as a mark of honor to those who have served with distinction in the reconstruction of the new republic. British Miners Will Not Affiliate With Russian Reds; I London, Auk. ! ?.?The British Miners Federation has decided to have no alliance with the Russian Red International, or the Russian Communists or Bolsheviki. A motion calliiiK for affiliation with the Russian element was defeated at a recent meeting: of the federation by 88.H votes to 118. "If we want to save British trade unionism," said i Frank Hedges, general secretary of i the federation, "we must wash our i hands of the Red International." < The cabrogoya, a huge lizard at- | taining a length of four and one-half feet, is found in Ceylon. It is beautifully marked and its skin when tanned affords a fine leather of excellent ' wearing quality and waterproof. Tt < is used for making women's shoes. j daughter.:. The oldest is Mary Ann Cooper, who is now 82 years of ape and is employed in ,)ud9on mill. Tho middle daughter, Miss Liza Cooper, 66 years of age, is now living in Oco110 county. Some ten years ago Mrs. Cooper's eyes cave out and she was left totally helpl ess, but up to this time she was ir excellent health. When her husband was killed in Mobile and she with her three littlo girls were left alone she, in her desperation, took up picking eotton for a living and up until she was stricken blind could average picking 100 pounds of cotton every day. She was born, according to the family records still preserved by youngest daughter, in Oconee county on tho waters of the Toogaloo river on May 5), 1815, and was married when she was 22 years of age. Until ten years ago when she last her sight, she had not been sick n day in her life and. enjoyed perfect health even past her 90th year. Although Mrs. Cooper is the real hero of the two wars in which her husband fought, she has never asked for the pension money and has, e\en in th0 hardest times, worked and kepi Ihe wolf away from her three daughters until they were able to help her She is now, however, on the last lap end the family is in pitiful lack of funds lor sustenance. She has never seen a cotton mill, although she was a champion cotton picker, nor even a railroad. Since she l.as been blind she has ridden on a train and also been in a eotton mid but ne 1 r has her optic nerve recorded the sight of the train or mill. Th e younger daughter, Ix>u, does not remember her father. He was killed about 60 years ago while she was yet in tho cradle. At the time of his death the other daughter was six years old and the oldest was 18. At this time the mother was 40 years of age but sbfc -a--living for her three daughters by picking the liber of the South from sun up to sun down. While Mrs. Cooper is still able to talk she is almost deaf and yesterday refrained from talking in detail about the conditions of the country during her youth. She said, at length, that she remembered many of the English people when they were immigrating to this country when tiavel was done solely by covered wagons, even before the stage coach was inaugurated here. With the coming of the stage she said that the people thought that the course of travel had been revolutionized and bad lynched perfection. On May 9, next year, Mrs. Cooper will have reached the 108th mile post in her life. She said that she was lookin : forward to her 108th birthday party. As far as can be learned she is the oldest woman in the South. II there is a woman that is older The News would appreciate any information that can be found in regard to her. No, you're wrong?she did not. enroll so as to bf. abe to cast her ballot on August 29. Enforcement in 'Frisco Bootlegging is being driven lower end lower in the rank? of criminality. The closing, one after another of the 'French restaurants" in San Francisco, is a symptom. These institutions were never able to live on the food they sold. If they cannot supplement their avenues with liquet sales now, it means that bootlegging has fled to more secluded place.-, and is conducted by more outright criminal characters. Which is a long step forward toward law enforcement, ev<_ n in San Francisco, where notoriously P is weaker fhan anywhere else. Winn bootlegging is conducted only in places where other crimes are barbored and only by people who also commit other crimes, it is approaching extinction. It becomes too expensive for the poor nian and too dangerous for the rich man to patronize. This is the only crime which can not flourish without the connivance of the "respectable'' classes. When bootleggeis get too disreputable for reputable men to patronize, they will go into some other business. Then prohibition will prohibit. It is on its way, even in San Francisco. Francisco.?Editorial, San Francisco Bulletin. Fires in the peat bogs of Minnesota continue the year around. Buried under the snow in winter, the fires smoulder, and in spring their presence is made known by the smoke which sifts through crevices in the baked soil. A New York specialist on mental and moral disease, declares that "smoking for a woman is a sign of degeneration. It is a brand of moral instability." I i $ I t II > t X X X t T X X X X Y mm T i A f t i I n J t j | PLEASE NOTICE V | CONTRACT WHICH ST I ARE TO BfilNG RED | NOT GREEN TOMATO! | MATOES MUST BE SO | UP TO YOUR CONTRi 1 LIVE UP TO (HIPS, I SQUARE DEAL WE Pi | A SQUARE DEM, i:| X | Union Conning < | LEWIS III ilii T f y ? I*f t ?T? f i X f T f T T T t T | 0 ? M V ^ *T? "fE CLAUSE IN YOUR | OTIES THAT YOU | PIPE TOMATOES, | ES. 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