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tk*m ms .J-^V*3- ; '• :""V f ' /V •\Vh' ••/;•/J #.;•-••*••/*•••:•• McBDKHBY FLAINDBAXER, MeHBNBT, ILL. ***T -<'Vv Is Hundred Billions English * ,-i •MFinancier Fixes Real |s of the Europsp, Belligerent*. f* AMERICA WORLD'S CREDITOR Tt Only United Qtates and Japan Did the War Bring Prosperity, According to English Authority--Germany a Heavy Loser. London.--The actual cost of the irar to European belligerents was In excess of £20,000,000,000 ($100,000,- 000,000 normal value), represented by property destroyed, losses In investments abroad, depreciation of properties and by pensions, Edgar Crammond, English financier, told the Bankers' institute at a recent meeting here. He fixed the following as the real losses of the European belligerents: stormany ..... (*43.600,000,000 £"ranee The United Kingdom Italy Belgium £8,790,000,000 normal value.) *6,280,000,000 16.3W.000,000 ..... aplOO.000.OOtt 660,000.000 To only two belligerent countries-- the flnlted States and Japan--did the war bring prosperity, Crammond said, bat ^ Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Greece and Scandinavia also had grown wealthier. He believed the "liquid capital of the world, now distributed In centers which are unaccus- - tomed to the exercise of their new powers," would eventually again find Its chief outlet through London. America the Gainer. "The war has produced an extraordinary change In the economic relations of the United States with Europe," he said. "Whereas, In 1914 America owed Europe £2,000,000,000^ at present Europe owes America £2,- , 000,000,000 . ($10,000,000,000)." Assuming that the post-war purchasing power of the dollar was TO per cent of its pre-war value, Crammond said during the last five years there had been an actual Increase in % the national wealth of the United * States of approximately 30 per cent, and he estimated this wealth now la the neighborhood of £70,000,000,000 to £80,000,000,000. The national wealth of Japan, he estimated, had been doubled by the war. Germany Heavy Loser. On the basis of a post-war mark valued at 50 per cent of its pre-war value he estimated Germatfy has lost, apart from the indemnity, 26 per cent of her national wealth, the whole of her mercantile marine, all her colonial possessions, and practically the whole of her investments abroad. If the figures suggested at the Hythe conference, £6,250,000,000, were fixed as the German war indemnity, he declared the total losses of the German , people arising out of the war, would be equivalent to about £15,000,000,000, or one-half her national wealth. "So far as the world as a whole Is concerned, the principal loss is in the Speech Lost in War Recovered by Bowling Nlagara-on-the-Lake, Ont -- Dumb for three years as the result of being shell shocked In the war, Trooper W. Hart suddenly recovered his speech here in the excitement of a bowling game. He was playing with the Davisvllle Military Hospital team. fact that Europe la not yet 1a going concern,"* he continued, **bu| the underlying economic forces which made her the great center of the world's commercial activities are still at work and will rapidly transform the economic situation in Europe." He said the dominant characteristic of International trade in the next ten years will be a tremendous world demand for capital, and the internal financial policies of the nations should be framed with due regard to this condition. HUSBAND IN DUNGEON 17 YRS. "Widow," Married Again, Just Finds Out He Is' Alive in Petrograd Hospital. Tokyo.---A letter has been received from a man reported killed In the Russo-Japanese war in North Manchuria by his supposed widow, who has been married to a second husband ten years. A sergeant named Jlnklchi Onlshl has been missing since the battle of Liaeyang. The authorities and his family concluded he had been killed, and funeral ceremonies were observed. His "widow" married again, children being born by the second husband. Now, after 17 years, Onishi writes, reporting himself safe in a hospital In Petrograd, According to his letter, at the time of the Russo-Japanese war he was taken prisoner and has ever since been in a dungeon, which he was never allowed to leave until he became 11L X-V* C0TTQN CONSUMPTION MOWS Ajnouist Used Duiisg Jvim Miwm Big (Qtreaae Over Year Age Sty* Census Bureau. Washington.--Cotton consumed during June amounted to 655,521 bales of lint and 83,960 of lintera, the census bureau announced. During June a year ago 474330 bales of lint and 15,063 of llntem were consumed. Cotton on hand Jane 80 In consuming establishments was 1,554,923 bales of lint and 270,171 of linters, compared with 1,363,049 bales of lint and 263.804 of linters a year ago, and in public storages and compresses 2,804,- 639 bales of lint and 374,648 of linters compared with 2,765,771 of lint and 207,781 of linters a year ago. June Imports were 19,635 bales, compared with 17,269, in June, 1919, and exports were 241,450 bales, including 3.860 bales of Untera, compared with 090,169 of lint and 3,710 of Untera la June last year. Cotton spindles active during Jane numbered 34,503,754, compared with 88.950.358 in June a year ago. Keepa Old Violin. tfan Antonio, Tex.--An ancient Violin Is owned by A. L. Campbell, which Is kept with the records of the court In the safety vault The instrument has that mellowness of tone which only age gives the violin. The llneag* of this antique Is thus traced by Mr. Campbell: "I bought It about 15 yeals ago from an old Italian, who hfid played on it for 15 years. He In turn received It from a German boy In Galveston, In whose family It was an heirloom." In the Interior of the 1 instrument Is barely visible In old German type the following: "Josef Klotz, Mlltenwalde In anno 1706, Ge^ many." Cultivate a cheery disposition Cannibals Once Peopled? Texas Discovery Made That Prehistoric People Were Different From Indians. HAD REGULAR CAMP SITES Life History Read From Recorda They Left In Their Burned-Rock Mounds --Advanced to Stage of Paleolithic Culture. Austin, Tex.--Evidence that Texas was inhabited by a prehistoric people different from the Indian who roamed the plains when the first white man came has been unearthed by James E. Pearce, professor of anthropology of the University of Texas. The early inhabitants, he said, lived a nomadlike existence, roaming from one part of the wilderness to another and killing, with rude stone weapons, animals and even humans for food. In co-operation with the Smithsonian Institution bureau of ethonology. Prof. Pearce has been Investigating the mounds for more than a year, he reported. "The life history of these people has been read from the records they left In their burned-rock mounds or kitchen middens," the professor said. "These mounds are piles of broken and charred bits of limestone three or four feet high and sometimes as long as 100 feet. Had Regular Camp 8itee. "They are made up of the kitchen refuse of these prehistoric peoples, who had regular camp sites at frequent intervals along the Edwards plateau, extending from Austin westward to New Mexico. < "These people evidently were advanced to the stage of paleolithic culture, an earlier age than the period of heollthlc culture, to which most of the American Indians belonged. These early Texas Inhabitants had arrows and spears tipped with flint points, chipped but not polished. They did not polish their stone weapons, nor did they engage In any form of agriculture. They were, however, skillful skin dressers, for we have found scraping tools made of flint The kitchen middens which we discovered are the only thing of their kind In America, so far as I know, although they had been found In other parts of the world. At these sites, camps were located with a great fireplace In the center, over which huge slabs of limestone were placed as a sort of primitive stove, upon which to cook the meat the inhabitants killed. Cannibal lam Praqtioed. "We know these people were cannibals, for among the refuse heaps have been found human bones split apart in order to get at the marrow. "The soft limestone slabs, being exposed to the weather, broke from time to time, and were cast aside near-by, to be replaced by new ones. "In the course of our investigations we have completely examined some fifteen of these mounds and in them have found thousands of splendid specimens of chipped arrow and spear heads, as well as scraping tools and other implements. Bdnes of the deer, which were prevalent in this region, are found in profusion, Indicating that this was the prlndjpal&rticle of diet" Lloyd George in Strange Company Lloyd George, premier of England, photographed at Boulogne, France, during liih recent visit, with M. Millerand. the French premier. The two distinguished statesmen were received In guaint costume by the native flsherwlves. and were presented with huge bouquets of flowers. ^ BEEF IMPORTS GROW Figures Are Given Out by Bureau iljlnima) Industry. Canned and Cured Meats 8how Big Falling Off for the Period Cavered. \ ' There was very little In the quantity of fresh and refrigerated beef Imported into the United States In 1919 and 1920. The figures are taken from the meat Inspectors' reports, bureaif of animal Industry, United. States department of agriculture. In 10 months ended in April, 191®, 27,673,105 pounds of fresh and refrigerated beef were Imported. In the period ending at the corresponding time in 1920 the quantity of fresh and refrigerated beef arriving In the United States from foreign countries was 27,968.880 pounds, an increase of fbvot a gaartac ef a mlllloa pounds. Fresh and refrigerated meats of other kinds jumped to twice the quantity in the 10 months ending April, 1920, as for the same period in 1919. The figures show 7,933,377 pounds for 1919 and 14,979,663 pounds for 1920. But the canned and cured meats Imported during the same periods show a remarkable drop from 126,624,348 pounds in 1919 to less than 2,000,000 pounds In 1920. This Item accounts for the marked decrease in the total meat products imported. The total weight imported in the 1919 period was 168,602,911 pounds, but 1920 brought only 50,246,655 pounds. , . , had no idea where he had dropped It, and in time forgot all about it. He was turning over the soil again with a spade, and to his surpris« the long-lost ring came up on a spadeful of dirt A little washing and polishing restored it to Its original beauty. The ring Is valued at $200. Back Getting to American Visitors Find industrial ^ Conditions Steadily Improving in England. HIGH PRICK EVERYWHERE But Taxes Are Higher, Too, Than Elaewhere in the World--London Hotels Are Crowded--How It Looks to Visitors. Eondon.--Economic, financial industrial conditions are steadily Improving In England, but are still a very long way from being normal. Strikes are the bane of progress here in these days. Demands for more pay and shorter hours follow each other in quick succession from the various branches of organized labor. The trouble is that less efficiency seems to follow the granting of each demand. Immediately one of the big industrial companies settles with one section of Its employees by Increasing wages, trouble starts In another section of the workers till the change goes all around. Then It begins again. Railway fares have been increased 50 per cent In the last three years. Now Another 50 per cent is to be added «o meet the Increased cost of opera- Won. New rolling stock, however, has been constructed and service has been Improved considerably in the last year, and In spite of the high fares and dropping of excursion rates the trains are packed in every direction. Hotels Are Crowded. London still has an extra million population which drifted there during the war, and the hotels are so crowded that strangers who have not reserved rooms frequently have to drive about for hours seeking accommodation. Prices are high, especially for Americans, whom a part of the population seems to regard as traveling banks, always ready to hand out large sums when called upon. The hotel best known to Americans charges $10 a day for a room without a bath, and New Yorkers staying there assert that It costs them $24 a day for lodging, meals and tips. Women smoke practically everywhere since the war. Some of the more daring; now have special brands of cigars Imported from Cuba for their use, and smoke them publicly In theaters and restaurants. In the streets Englishmen have become quite accustomed to having women a air them for a light The emancipated Englishwoman has Invaded the men's territory to such an extent that on the golf links and In hotels you sometimes find notices have been posted which read: "This smoking room is reserved for gentlemen only."' One tobacconist asserted recently that women now purchase three times aa many cigarettes as men and some are taking to pipes. Since the new tax has come into force the quality of cigarette tobacco has deteriorated, as has that of cigars, except the very high priced ones. Most Heavily Taxed Nation. English people are probably more heavily taxed than any other nation in the world at the present time. They do not complain of this, but protests are heard against arbitrary methods adopted by the government in dealing with excess profits and against the waste which still goes on In many departments. Food Is very dear and there Is still a scarcity of butter and sugar. Many people have become so accustomed to going without the latter during the war that they now dispense with It altogether, which Is well from the point of view of economy, as sugar costs 80 cents a pound now and threatens to go higher On Jons 15 the bakers were instructed net to make any more white bread, and It Is considered possible that bread cards will again be issued before Christmas, the big supplies of grain from Russia, promised by the soviet government to Lloyd George having proved to be purely mythical. The housing problem In London, and in fact in all the large cities In England, is very serious and the suggestion that the authorities take over all empty houses, as they did in some towns daring the war. Is being agitated. Shoes, hats and wearing apparel generally are very dear. The Defense of the Realm Act -- called Dora for short--Is still In force In England, so It Is Impossible to buy candy, cigars, tobacco, matches, books and a great many other things after 8 p. m. Public houses (saloons) are permitted to sell Intoxicating liquors between 12 and 2:30 p. m., and between 6 and 10 p. m., which Is two hours after the closing time for selling chocolate. These hours are strictly observed, yet those engaged In the retail liquor trade are making more money than they ever did before account of the high prices and the short drinking hours. Khaki uniforms have disappeared from the streets and maimed ex-soldiers can no longer be seen on crutches. Most of these have been furnished with artificial arms and legs and provided with Jobs In government offices and banks. The women have left their war Jobs on the motor buses and street cars, but there are still a few In the booking offices of the railways. England gradually la beginning to look normal. Clears Up Exemption Treasury Department dtves Explanation of Tax Problem. Total Possible Exemptions Prom Federal Income Surtaxes and Puis Taxes Is $1«M»0. " Washington.--'The treasury department has explained the tax exemption limits on 4 and 4% per cent Liberty bonds. The total possible exemptions from federhl Income surtaxes and profits taxes is $160,000. The following summary of tax exemptions limits was given : Five thousand dollars in th» Crippled Children at Play gate of first and second 4s and 4^4s, third and fourth 4^4s, treasury and war savings certificates. Thirty thousand dollars of first and second 4^4s, and fourth 4 >48 until two years after expiration of war as fixed by presidential proclamation. Thirty thousand dollars In aggregate of first and second 4%s, third and fourth 4%s, as to interest received after Jan. 1, 1819, until five years after termination of war. Forty-five thousand dollars In aggregate of first and second 4s and 4% s and third 4% 8, as to Interest received after Jan. 1. 1918, until two years after termination of war this exemption conditional upon original subscription to and holding on date of tax return of two-thirds as many bonds of the fourth Liberty loan. Twenty thousand dollars In aggregate of first and second 4s and 4^8, and third and fourth 4^4s, as to interest received after Jan. 1, 1919, conditional upon original subscription to and holding at date of tax return of one-third as many bonds of Victory loan. All Liberty bonds and Victory notes are exempt in hands of foreign holders. Liberty 3%s and Victory 3\s are exempt from federal, state and local luxation except estate or Inheritance taxes, and 4 and 4 >4 per cent Vlctorys are exempt from state, local and normal federal Income tax. Several hundred crippled kiddles are being taught at the St Charles Hone for Crippled Children at Port Jefferson, New York, and how to become useful citizens In spite of their handicaps. The picture shows crippled boys playing on the carousel. Playful Mule Devours His Master's Pay Check Hazleton, Pa.--John Yudatls, a mule driver in the Oneida mines of the Lehigb Valley Coal company, demanded that headquarters issue to him a new pay check for $32.38. He said his steed made a playful effort to bite him and caught the side of his coat taking pocket, pay check and all In Its teeth and swallowing the mouthful. Finds Ring Lest Years Afd Chester, Pa.--John Hunter the other day excavated from the soil in the rear of his Holland street home near EGdystone a diamond ring, which be had lost there more than 12 years ago. It was while spading that Hunter lost the ring from A kola la his peckaL Ha Chum Is Now Her Stepmother. New Albany, Ind.--Estella Kelsall and May Deitzman were chums and Estella Introduced May to her father, a widower. Now she'll never have to part from her chum, as "dad" has married her. Dr. Oliver Kelsall surprised his daughter when he telegraphed that he and May ware on their honeymoon. Needle Is Halted Greensburg, Ind.--While lying oq. a davenport at he/ home Mrs. Nwl Anderson felt a needle enter her shoulder. A physician was called and it was discovered that the needle was fast traveling toward the lungs. She was rushed to a hospital, where an operation was perforaad. ARMY TO ENUST ILLITERATES Will Educate Them aa Well aa Allena In New Order leaued by retary of War. Washington.--On and after July 20 Illiterates And non-English speaking citizens and allenB who declare their intention to become citizens will be permitted to enlist In the United States army for terms of three years. Instructions to this effect were Issued by Secretary of War Baker. These illiterates and non-English speaking recruits will be distributed to recruit educational centers, and in iny case where enlistment is for special assignment, the recruit as soon as enlisted will be sent to that recruit educational center nearest to the organization for which he enlisted. Transfers * will be made promptly upon the completion of the course at the educational center.. To carry out this policy recruit educational centers will be organized at Camps Jackson, Pike, Grant, Travis and Lewis, modeled after that at Oamp Upton, New York. TEACH U. S. HISTORY Oxford University to Have Chair With American Professor. Viscount Rothermere Makes $100,000 Endowment in Memory of His Dead Son. London.--Viscount Rothermere has given the University of Oxford £20,000 for the establishment and endowment of a professorship of history of the United States of America, which will be known as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth professorship of American history, in memory of his son, Capt. Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth of the Irish guards, formerly a commoner of Christ Church, who was killed in the war. Under the conditions of the endowment the holder of the professorship must at the time of his election be s citizen of the United States. He shall hold the professorship for ten years and shall be eligible for appointment for another, ten years. The appointment shall be made by an electoral board consisting of the American ambassador at the time of the election, who shall have a casting vote; the chancellor of the university, an elector nominated by the university and Lord Rothermere, and each succeeding holder of the viscounty. Lord Rothermere has endowed two other professorships at English universities. In 1910 he gave £20,000 to Cambridge university for the foundation of the King Edward VII. chair of English literature, and in 1918 he gave a similar sum to Cambridge as an endowment fund for the Vere Harmsworth professorship of naval history, in memory of his second son, who was killed in the battle of the Ancre. BG CROPS issue 1 ItSIEBI CUM Need of Farm Labor Urgently Required for Harvest Rdhis of the past week which h&ve been general throughout all portions of Western Canada, covering MANITOBA, SASKATCHEWAN, and ALBERTA, have placed beyond all manner of doubt the certainty of vaft grain crops throughout the entire district. Reports from all points Indicate marvelous and rapid growth. The conditions of a week or so back, which were decidedly less promising and led many to think that there might be a partial failure, have disappeared at together and now there Is a wave of optimism circulating throughout the entire country. In 1915 there were enormous yields reported from all parts, isod it would appear now as If In many places the yields of 1915 would be equaled if not beaten. What might appear to be a drawback, is the apparent shortage of farm help. The Province of Manltobu through its Employment Bureau in Winnipeg, Is asking for 10,000 harvest hands and over, offering from $5 to $6 per day. The Province of Saskatchewan Is asking for 15.000 extra hands to take care of the Immense harvest that is certain to be reaped In that Province. In Alberta the crop area is somewhat less, the labor conditions somewhat better, and Is mak- . ing a request for 5,000 extra farm. * hands. Interviewing the officials of the different Governments, they are Inclined to the opinion that as the crops in Kansts, Nebraska, South Dakota, Illinois and other Central States are harvested there will be a movement northward that will materially help to take care of the labor situation. With the low railroad rates that may be secured on implication to the Employment Offices at Winnipeg and at boundary points, or which may be secured through the Canadian Government Offices at Chicago, III.; Detroit Mich.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Kansas City, Ma; Omaha, Neb.; Dee Moines, la.; Watertown, S. D.; St Paul, Minn., and Grand Forks, N. D., will give to those seeking employment the opportunity to reach the harvest fields at a low est Advertisement , Concentration Wha, „ The weakest living creature, by cencentratlng his powers on a single object can accomplish something; the strongest by dispersing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. • --Carlyle. |*r "DIAMOND DYES*' c streak or ruin your material ta a poor dye. Insist on "Ditaosd Dyes.** Jtasy directions in package. Uft Right Off Without Pain pm HJJ' Doesn't hurt a bit I Drop a little "Freezone" on an aching corn. Instantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift It right off with fingers. Truly! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of "Freezone" for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the calluses, Without soreness or Irritation. « Whaling in the PaeMe. South Georgia and the South Shetland Islands in the South Pacific are the centers of a great whaling industry which can be increased to much larger dimensions. The elephant seal also abounds, though the (m J* : almost extinct A watchmaker's apprentice at play discovered the principle of the telescope. Farm Labor to Army, Claim Complaint From Rural Districts Cause Action By Secretary Baker to Halt Recruiting. Washington.--Following complaints that recruiting activities of the army and navy were tending to still further increase the existing shortage of farm labor. Secretary Baker announced, that steps had been taken to reduce to a minimum recruiting work in rural communities. Enlistments will be sought largely In cities and urban districts hereafter, the secretary said. The matter was brought officially to May 8oon Know as Much as Kids. Lexington, Ky.--A mother, two sons and two daughters are students at the aame school, Mrs. E. P. Gray, wife of a Chautauqua entertainer, brought her four children from Barbourville to attend school. Having nothing else to do, she decided to take a course1 In acbeot herssIL *'- the attention of the department by N. E. Shaw, secretary of agriculture for Ohio, who said the labor situation in that state was very serious and required Immediate attention. Charles S. Barrett, chairman of the national board of farm organizations, also submitted complaints to Mr. Baker. " A Farmerette in Real Life. Cteeensburg, Ind.--Beulah Boring, aged ten, has helped her father solve the labor problem. Every morning she dons overalls and straw hat and goes Into the fields. She's not a farmerette in a picture but one in work. She holds the record of rolling 21 acres of corn in one day, which local farmers say Is a good day's work fbr a man. Japanese children are rarely permitted to keep pets; and there Is a pretty custom which teaches them that the gods have a tender care of the lower ardan creation Train Passes Over Baby; He is Unhurt Paasauken, N. J.--Commuters fcasped in amazement when tbey saw two-year-old Robert Old, almost unhurt, crawl .across the rail after a train passed over him at the Union avenue crossing near the Pennsylvania station here. The train bad struck an automobile In which the child's mother, Mrs. Eva Olt and brother, Frederick Olt. 13 years old, were riding with Mm. Mrs. Olt who was driving, saw those on the platform signaling wildly when she was near'y on the track and put on all speed to pass before the train. The three were thrown in" to the air, and the baby landed between the rails, directly In front of the locomotive. Mrs. Olt fell Into a ditch and suffered fractures of both arms. I After Ten Years-- Eatonic Proves the Best "I say, God bless eatonic,** writes Mrs. Delia M. Doyen. "I can truthfully say, after suffering with stomach trouble for ten long years, that I have never had anything do me so much good as this one box of eatonic." We print these grateful words from this dear lady, so that sufferers everywhere may have hope and a little faith--Just enough to give eatonic a trial. Why, folks, last year over half a million people used eatonic an£ found relief. This is the secret: Satanic ateply takes up the excess acids, potaons and gases, and carries them right oat of the body. Of course, when the cause is removed, the sufferer gets well. Stomach trouble causes about seventy non-organic diseases, so, 11 you are suffering any kind of misery, not feeling well, go right to your druggist today and obtain a big box ol eatonic; cost is a trifle. Use It and find quick, sure relief. Make this test--you will sea, and then, if you are not satisfied, youi druggist will hand your money back. He does not want one peao^, W-leei eatonic pleases you. Adv. His One Chance.- - - 1 believe," said the impatient maa as he put aside the telephone "that 1*11 go fishing." "Didn't know , you care for fishing." "I don't ordinarily. But It's the only chance 1 have of finding myself at the end of a line that Isn't busy."--BayaT Life. :3m The Lord loveth a cheerful fiver, and so does every man, woman ail cMU an eartk • '• A , j. - . \ <K- yv/V. ; •' Jy - V:v '-VriSi M ode