The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 92, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 4, 1920 Page: 3 of 52
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7 ell:?ley College' Officials
.TtytoHeadOff Untrue!
V ' 'Age&cy Stories 0
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VU'leeoelated Fire'M Import"
1 WEtLESLET afaee. July lWeuea-
Iaj rollejft antnantiea er. tryuif to
tea off tie actlrklee ei aiTienloun
' newi peddler who makfna hia iieadquar-
' ten is Uoitott haa. lent to newepapera
all over the eoontry compUmentar but
V taneolleaa official aay untrue ttortea
cnneernln nuu wemfli 12 the -atu4rnt
bodixntl memhera jt the faculty. Hie
method u to. query a newtpaper aa 4
) r wneuer ll wiun a awry ain am-wTdent-er
faculty member UVlaa Jn the city
v-'ar (Own wherr-the paper ia published ia
Via Bent ta anywhere from 60 to 100 pa-
I era h'ia alleged with different nam
a tcl ctw foe the heroine f the?
atory. These namei are takes from tne
colieit eataiofae. - i
i.' Bef ardinf ope of theae jtoriee the col-
f DukllntT department Bare:
'Oa April 23 there ' went . out from
4 Boeton to newapaoera all over the .United
it. State and Canada aet of telegram like
. the following except for name- and ad-
idrtia. ' -
- Ualn atreet to repreaent coUVtre iwwp-
t f JfOKOrnment economic investigation.'
'" ?The atorv aent to thoae paoera which
twlred acceptance waa that the local atu-
nent in eome towne wnoae upiuj
atudente at Welleeley waa limited a
member of the faculty had been 'elected
the faculty as one of the 50 members of
X a Weueeley economic investigation cow-
rttalttaa which was it appeared 'to ron-
duct v'eyetematie economic survey of
In the United States in an endeavor to M-
rare a basis for a plan to reduce the coat
i or living.
-'i The irritation of the victims of who
T there are at least 100 and of their fam-
' til.. .jL.m.'.ii A n.MMi
MHBi vai'T7- ikii ui. uiun wrnioc u.'u
tal bride had accented the tale aa not un
likely.' has naturally been considerable
; jit la made greater tor many ot tne nc-
. mna iiMauiut tma ia ar leant tne aecann
'Joeeisloi that they have thus received
'VanAM laaarAWaw1 nnlv K f-ttia n n-at
I as earuer instance waa in .januarj
WUOU LUC aBClltl muK m BIVIJ Ul
.Hn "unprecedented ceremony" the time
vrni Which was left indefinite whea (Jen'
ieral rerahingsa helmet and staff flag
jana aisa-tfie imperial natqa pennoaoi
IthaOerman emperor" were bestowed
twos the college bv the Agora society
' iTaaatory aaid a "touching eloquent and
pan of tne college by a g)ri whose name
Twaa different in each caae.
Aa-.n mater' of fact the publicity de-
Inartment aava: .
"Abont the onlv facts were the names
and addresses gained from tbe college
irtetory though it was true as published
in ue Associated
(October: that
Preaa dispatch
General Pershing s
last
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OIL AMD MINES
. MAY BE FUTURE '
CAUSE OF WARS
Making Minerals Safe for
America Britain and :
France Is New Cry
PLATINUM IS YERY
USEFUL. AS WELL
AS VERY VALUABLE
Royaf Metal Absolutely
Necessary in Mkhy
Industries
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met ana flag are in the possession of
an organization at .WeUesley."
" The dena'rtment savs that it has been
! learned that similar stories have been
aent out by tbe aaedev concerning1 smith
.'College students and adds:
. "A regular set of rules seerns to have
been established by the agency. In the
first place the story must not be true.
ana must at tne same time not he action-
i abler should In fact ne supposedly flat-
; tering. It should have no Hie timely
note. . In using the college directory the
. agency .takes only one name to a town
and evep to a city."
The eollert- has sent deninls of the
'stories -to as many as possible of the
papers which printed them. It lias also
sent an explanation of the circumstances
to each of the "victims" with the sug
gestion that- thoy turn it over to their
tome town papers for their information.
ODD AND INTERESTING.
A 'tiger with one blow of his paw
can reduce a human skull to palp.
Eighty-seven per cent of all the farm-
' era in Nebraska own automobiles.
... The arteries of the human body have
. walla constating of three thicknesses.
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. ART uaj ui me inaurt 1 riius is t:n-
timated by some scientists to be equal
t 223 of our days.
1 All -clouds ar' wit Din six and a naif
vaauf jdi me cane auove mil oeigac
they do not exist
- A mechanical aian and hand made in
1500 and Is till in working order is pre-
aerved at Nuremberg
t The great dam across the Nile at As-
raaa mane and a quarter miles in length
' nd'-ias:180 sluice-gates.
. i xna-jTrencn minister or marine nas
'oecpea lliht all vessels with a minimum
:raw of- HO shall be nrovided with a
".otioifplctare;outfit.
:lhecoaf f the "colors worn by the
prof esaional jockey the satin cap and
-Jacket has. Increased durimr the 'oaet
b lew-years to something like $50.
:j iron onei iwo uousana nvuars a
"week ia paid bv some of the fashionable
hotels and restanrants in New York for
. .AMhAatraa fnp thtt Mlminniiir nf tkalp
1 gnests.
water drawn -trom tne gulf stream
in some parts or its course has been
' found to be of a temperature aoDroach-
lng close to the boiling point.
(. it nas oeen estimated ana it is proD-
awv an underestimate by tens of mil
lions that the treasure of tost vessels
Which strews the route from England
to inaia amounts to sduu.uuu.two.
riea coin of the realm is shaped Jike a
L horseshoe one and a half to three inch-
ea across navmg no trousers pockets
the local magnates carry their wealth
- aronnd their wrists like bangles. '.
Originally the Chinese believed that
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l wrj were me cenirai people ot me worm
all other natiops on their border. To
tMt dVe in the.d&ilr epeech of the Chi-
. Ttataa katlw Aiiaa lm alwa.. A
t aa v.a vvwaaaw aaa ai wsaj s irifirru
; to at "Chung kwo meaning "The Mid-
V avian Van-M "
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Nat the' least expensive Item in the
coat of maintaining a circus is the" ele-
phant's bath. . From a hundred to a hun-
dred and twentv noUndi of aoah ia fa.
quired to give one of tbe huge aninAla
t good wasn not to mention many sheets
of aandpaper which are used to give the
i Entire bony a smooth surface and many
f .quarts of oil with which the akin ia
! ' .therougthly massaged. -.
Shopkeepers High Prices.
srU Ketused by vucen Mary
' i ' Associated Press Report
BUCHAREST July 1. Queen Mary
served notice on all Rumanian merchants
; today that she wai not a war profiteer
and would refuse to pay the prevailing
. prices for food and clothing. The queen
' mada known her attitude when she re-
i turned ta a local establishment an after
noon dress which she had selected and
for which they demanded the equivalent
aT Wrltine the " atora nroDrletor h ttrW
: . 1 test la her own hand aha declared aha
waa not one of those whom the war
' i had enriched and ahe desired alt ltu
- manlan shopkeepers to know that aha
would refuse to pay the present extrava-
gant prices." Tbq shopkeeper then tf-
fetid -cnt the prlee In half but the
! nueeif .'declined to accept . the dreea ft 1
Goy Hickok in the Brooklyn Ragle.
PARI tt The almost warlike declara-
tions between America and Britian over
the exploitation of Mesopotamia oil
fields forecast a revival of what one
peace conference expert called -"international
geological relations."
Nation comprising millions pi peoples
are within speaking distance of war by
a deposit of mineral Oil created millions
Uf yeata before the first man made a
fire of Sticks in a cave. For millions of
years these oil deposits hare rested be
neath the surface oi an mouierent
world.
Within the last 50 years of history
the invention and development of the
oil burning enxine and tlie t gasoline
motor have suddenly created a ravenous
demand for greet supplies of oil.1 Every
one of the great nations is shouting at
tbe top of its voice.
. Without Oil Second Class.
"The nation with an assured future is
the nation tliau controla tbe world's oil
uppl;t Nations without oil will become
second class powers."
Presto! The oil burning engine and
the gasoline aiotor figuratively speak-
Ming. throw the nations into a cockpit to
ugnc lor weir uvea.
How ta Barn.
The iroov of it is that after millions
ot us have died to ecu re the oil lands
for this or that nation someone will
discover how to Imrn water and the
fuel crisis will be ever.
This ia not the first time during the
last fewyears that the destinies of
hundreds of thousands Of men have
seemed under the control of inanimate
geological deposita.
A great steel and iron Industrial cen
ter at Breily. northeast of Verdun was
within range of Frerfch- artillery for
many months during the war.
Hashed Ua Scandla.
The Germans were making at top
speed guna and ammunition with which
to kill Frenchman at Breily. Yet for
some reason Breily waa not fired upon.
The Germans were permitted to work
the mines and mills full blast taming
out death for Frenchmen and the
French artillery within easy range held
its fire. Someone in France waa power-
ful enough to keep Breiley intact. The
French parliament nearly started a scan-
dal about it after the armistice but it
was "hushed up." "
In the meantime no one known how
many Frenchmen died needlessly that
these mills and mines might be saved.
Later during the peace conference
the power of insensate coal and iron
and potash became so strong that one
felt the treaty was really not being
made by men at all that men jwere
dictated by some spirit' from the bowels
of the earth.
Hainani Coant for Llttl.
Human belnga counted so 'little; coal
mines potash mines iron minee counted
so much. Boundaries were easy to make
so long aa they separated only persons.'
But when a boundary line came near a
mine it waa as if powerful magnets be-
gan to operate.
Tne nounaanee aeatnea unaoie to aa-
cide which side of the mine they
should go. '.
Self-determination racial and lin
guistic entity were all very well until
they ran into geology. Then they did
not count.
In some instances a boundary which
had run along reasonably enough in a
general direction wavered for a while
and suqaeniy made a ridiculous little
detour to embrace a mine..
Chanies Boundary Use.
fh many cases the boundary line
stopped became a dotted line for a dis
tance and became a real line again on
tbe other aide of tne mine 'ine area
of the dotted line waa left undetermined
for 'Some later date; the forces repre
sented were too strong to ne aeait witn
at once.
Iron and potash in Lorraine coal In
the Saar Valley at Teschen. in Uffper
siliesoa: oil in Ktimania tne uaucasua
Mesopotamia not to mention Mexico
and other minerals irr Siberia these are
July. This conference has met at In-
tervals of about 10 years since 1OT.
when Archbishop Longley first invited sit
the bishops In communion with tbe
Church of England o '. aAconference at
Lambeth. t- V
The American bishops' have already
taken a prominent part in preparing for
the conference- but; for some reason
which is not Very clear says the Times
they have not. appointed tbe four repre-
sentatives to which they are entitled oh
tbe central consultative body.t It is ex-
pected that about 270 bishops will attend
thii year's deliberations 100 tof them
fronr the British isles 107 from'overeas
and 72 from America. representative
group of American olsnops is preparing
a number of papera on Christian unity.
the thinga war is being fought for now
and1 for which it will be fought in the
next decade. -
Nobody bears about "ending war;7
"making the world safe" or any of the
geod. old sentimental slogans now.
lilng minerals safe for Britain
ffance and America are the cries ot the
new "diplomacy end will be tha cries of
the 6W wars
'.Originally the banana was a native ot
the' Eastern tropics but new it is eultl
valid Jn Ml tropical and subtropical coun-
From-the San: Francisco Chronicle.
Platinum though known to the world
Uor leas than 2t)d years bus become t-o
Wrinorraut'a. taiMwl Miat the shuttinc off
oa the Russian iUpplie j ha boosted tbe
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ltrlte until now it ia Wortu on tne mar-
ket eight ' timet s much as gold. Plati-
num quotations 'have rer.tly been a
high as 1175 a fine ounce.
: fhouga a royal metal and indispu-
tably a precious one; platinum has
reached this high price level not be-
cause it is in demand for jewelry but
because of its-value for practical uses.
Ot all the precioua metal it ia by far
the most important in industry. It has
qualities that make it superior to any
other metal for many uses and abso-
lutely indispensable for many others.
For example it is the only known metal
that exoands and contracts at the same
rate as glass and therefore it is the I
only satisfactory conductor that can be ;
sealed into in electrl ciignt bulb to
carry the current to the incaudesctnt
wires. Any other metal would by rea-
son of a different coefficient of expan-
sion inevitably crack the glass of the
bulb.
Platinum is so useful a metal that it
ia a pity the world has been given such
scanty supplies. Like gold It is per-
manent in the air and is affected by no
acid but aqua regis. It ia harder than
copper and yet so ductile that it has
been drawn into wires only one
twelve-hundredth of sn inch in thick-
ness. . It can be made still harder by
allaying with iridium a similar metal
which is slmost always found associated
with platinum and it is ordinarily so
aUoyed in platinum jewelry. However
tha nearer of a nlatinum aet diamond
need not feel that he has been cheated
when he learns that his ring is about
25 per cent iridium for the latter metal
is at present quoted at nearly double the
price of platinum.
1 lie chemical-resisting qualities of
platinum give it great value in the chein-
ical industry where wherever the cost i
is warranted it is used for utensils and
vessels in the manufacture of the eager j
acids. Its high melting point plati-
num resists heat up to 3182 degrees Fah-
renheit makes it almost irreplaceable
for tbe sparking points of electrical ap-
paratus. Another quality of immense
value is the power platinum possesses
as a catalyzer; that is it can cause by
its mere presence chemical combina-
tionaftbat are otherwise very difficult
to carry out. For example the new
German process for taking nitrogen out
of the atmosphere and combining it with
oxygen into a usable forin depeuds on
tbe catalysing power of platinum.
With all these important uses the
known supply of platinum in the world
is very small. Before the war Russia
produced from the Ural mines more
thnn 90 p'er cent of the total annual
output or 300000 ounces a year. The
war both cut off the Russian supply
and immensely increased the demand
becaus of military reliance on elec-
trical apparatus and chemical products.
The price which had been about ?40 an
ounce jumped to ?100 and bad reached
$105 in 1917 when The ttaited States
stepped 'in and fixed that price for the
product of this country. With the
armistice and tbe cesnatjou of price-
fixing platinum went higher and higher
until it topped 1175. Just now it has
fallen back a little and ia quoted at
aronnd $160
- California has long been a steady
though not large producer of platinum.
The metal almost always alloyed with
its associates iridium osmium palla-
dium and others of the class occurs in
most of the gold placers of the State
from Siskiyou county down to Stanis
laus. Because ot the small quantities
recovered there is no mining for plati-
num aloae; all that produced is won
In the course of placer gold mining.
Certain quantities are also recovered
from the smelting of ores from some ot
the California copper mines. The total
? reduction of platinum in California for
010 was 610 ounces. In the previous
year the total was 671 ounces and for
1017 it was 010 ounces aa last year. Tbe
greater part comes from the' placers of
Sacramento. Butte and Yuba countiea
nuggets weighing several ounces apiece
have been taken from the stream beds
ot 'mnity county.
Sauerkraut haa been found of 'great use
on board ships as a preservative from
scurvy during long voyages.
Closed All Day Tomorrow
July 5th
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T6DAY IS THE FOURTH It falls this-year on Sunday
and in order: that each and every employe of the W. C.
Miuln Company may celebrate the usual day's holiday
as Best pleases his or her desires this store will remain
vclosed all day tomorrow July 5th.
See Monday Afternoon and
Tuesday Morning Papers
For detailed announcements of many most interesting
fmidsummer clothing offerings things that are needed
right now and at such prices as will please the most par-
ticular. ... V
Store Open as Usual at 8
' o'Clock Tuesday Morning
W.C.MUNN COMPANY
"THE STORK THAT CROWS AND KEEPS GROWING"
BIG SPECIAL
45-Pound All Cotton Felt
NIATTRESS
Roll Edge Worth $30.00.
SPECIAL.
It has alway been a part of Deutser's policy
tp recognize and appreciate the. close rela-
tionship that must exist between the buyer
and seller if the greatest measure of success
is to be enjoyed by both or either.
Almost every one who responds to our ad
is amazed at the magnitude of our stock the
newness and brightness of the goods as
weH as the low prices at which they are
being sold. That's because there are always
two costs to an article the cost to buy and
the cost to use.
85c
Down
$1.00
per Week
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BisKom to Attend
LambetK Conference
Associated. Press Report.
TX)NOOX.Many bishops of - the
Angncau cnurrn incinauig.12 irom Amor-
let are- already on t -- k
tant dlocesealo attend tha Lambeth con- j
feeenee Wch wulbeg. vf cr
85c
Down
$1.00 per
Week
Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed:
We are here to help you fur-
nish your new "nest in cozy
comfort and good taste. "Rugs
play a very important part in
the decorative scheme of every
home.
Therefore this invitation to
all newly married coujles to
visit our Rug Section. Come
in and inspect the beautiful
Orienfal Wilton Axminster
Grass and Fiber Rugs.
Cash or Credit
Headquarters For the Famous Monogram Oil Stove With the Twin L ift Cash or Credit
TUESDAY SPECIALS
4-plece Living Room Sttfte consisting of Settee Library Table Arm
Chair add Rocker upholstered in De Luxe Spanish (MQ OC
Leather i4 86 down; $1.00 per week pI5M)
Golden Oak Chifforoha. $3.75 down; $1.00 per week frQC 7P
Special 00.10
Couch Hammock equipped with Link Fabric Spring. M Q QC
Special 1J70
8-plece Dining Room Suite consisting of 6 chairs upholstered in
De Luxe Spanish Leather.jExtenslpn Table and Buffette.
$9.85 down; $1 .SO per week. Special
$79.85
3-PIECE LIVING ROOM SUITE
$98.85
$69.85
$49.85
In mahogany upholstered in tapestry; $'A8;
.down. Special
Snow white Randall Refrigerator ; $4.85 down
Special '
Torrington Electric Vacuum Sweeper;
$.S5 down ..'
xl China Matting Rug
8x10 Crass Rug
....$9.35
.$8.35
Store closed Monday on account of july fourth
B. DEUTSER FURNITURE CO.
808 Prairie Avenue'
Wholesale and Retail.
Houston and Beaumont
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