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Federal Officer * - Continued to Fool Reds After Arrest “'k-97 ’ Advised by Foster to Keep Under Cover Un til After Trial, He Testifies. n» the A,wm-inlet! Tree!. St. Joseph, March 21.—"K 97,” the government agent who attended the communist convention last summer as delegate, continued to fool com munist leaders even after he had been arrested with them in the raid on the convention and then released, ac cording to evidence introduced in the trial of William Z. Foster, charged with criminal syndicalism. "K-97,” whose real name is Francis Morrow, identified a letter he receiv ed from Foster more than a month af ter the raid in which Foster made an appointment to meet Morrow in Philadelphia last October. Morrow said he kept the appoint ment and that after discussing the laid, Foster advised him “to keep un der cover until after the trial,” when he could resume communist work. State and defense dashed when the prosecution endeavored to read to the jury a document which Morrow testified was the report of "Comrade Borden” who, he said, was Foster, be- , fore the convention. JTdge Charles White excluded the ! 9 document. Morrow ticn produced long-j nand notes which lie said he made ' while Foster was speaking and with them to refresh his memory gave what he said was the gist of Foster's speech. According to Morrow's version of the report, Foster told the conven tion delegates how he had formed the Trade Union Educational league, of which be is head, and concealed the fact that it was a communist branch. He said. Morrow testified, that he had recently returned from Moscow with other communist leaders and brought back front Russia a revolutionary pro gram. Foster also stated, the witness said, that the Trade Union Educa t ional league would adopt a revolu t ionary program, recognize the Rus sian soviet government and endorse ihe dictotorship of the proletariat. Superior of Franciscan Sisterhood Dies in Indiana Columbus, March 21.—Venerable Sister M. Josepha, provincial superior of the Franciscan sisterhood of the United States and for 18 years con nected with St. Francis academy In j I'olumbus, died at St. Elizabeth j hospital in Lafayette, Ind., today, ac- j cording to wrord received here. Sister M. Josepha, who was 74 ■ »ars old. was superior of the local j academy from 1882 until 1900, when 1 she was called to the mother house in ! Lafayette. It is said that she could I call by name all of the 1,100 mem bers of the Franciscan sisterhood | in the United States. To be protected from each other, j >-• hunters In Canada are required to, wear clothing of white material. Cuticura Soap -Imparts; The Velvet Touch AMp.OiQtmeot.TdewB 26e.wwrywhcr* Fornsopiw xVItmi: Cittwu Ubir«t<rtM.I>iiyt I, Freedom ! Wr*. N#11!« MflOinn. Etit l$«th St., New York City, writes; 'For the apt year I bad suffered greatly from Kidney and Bladder trouble, distress* ins pain in the back and hips, witls rheumatic twinges and frequent se vere headache, accompanied by nerv ousness. chills, and fever; also a fre quent desire to urinate, x smarting, burning sensation, with pain in the region of the bladder. I would fre qently have to arise at night, my sleep being disturbed by the pressure pnd inflammation In bladder. Begin ning the use of Balmwort Tablets. I noticed almost Instant relief, an* continuing te use them I am now totally well and relieved of all pain and distress from which I suffered, r am glad to recommend Balmwort Tablets aa a reliable, beneficial medicine. The foregoing letter describes In derail the distressing symptom* whteh are overcome by \TAB\2^P LET (he toothing, healing, mild and good medicine. Tour case 1* probably just bp simple, so go to druggist for Balmwort tablets now. 10c and $1.25. Free Medical Nook and Sample Medicines to anyone Bonding 10 cents n stamps to the Blackburn Product# Co.. Dept. B. Dayton. Ohio. ADYERTIBKMKNT. Heed the Warning If You Cough | Start Taking Fithtr John's Medicine it Once Coughs are Hanger signals. Don’t neglect them. They won’t get well unless you treat them rightly. You must heal the lining of the breathing passages. For this purpose Father Johns; Medicine has proven of special value. Its soothing, healing elements relieve the irritation of the breath ing passages. Its atrength-giving elements are so prepared that they are easily ^ taken up by a weakened system which ia thus enabled to get rid of | the trouble. You ran gain atrength and health by taking Father John s Medicine, t# relieve your cough and build »*w flcrh. Self-Expression Is Aim of American Individualism Greater Production, Better Distribution Spur to Prog ress, Says Secretary Hoover, Who Denies End of Individualism Is to Acquire Private Property for Selfish Uses. By HERBERT HOOVER. Secretary of Coninierce. (Editor's Note: This i« thr fourth In stallment of n series of sir hr Mr. Hooser on "American Individuulisni" op rearing daily in The Oomlin Morning Bee. The following artieio deals with Economic Phases of Individualism.) That high and increasing standards of living and comfort should be the first of considerations in public mind and in government needs no apology. We have long since realized that the basis of an advancing civilization must be a high and growing standard of living for all the people, not for a single class; that education, food, clothing, housing and spreading use of what we so often term nonessen tiale, are the real fertilizers of the soil from which spring the finer flow era of life. The economic develop ment of the past 50 years has lifted the general standard of comfort far beyond the dreams of our forefathers The only road to further advance in the standard of living is by greater invention, greater production and bet ter distribution of commodities and service, for by increasing their ratio to our numbers and dividing them justly we each will have more of them. Old Luxuries Now N'ecesisties. The superlative value of individual ism through its impulse to produc tlon, its siimulatioic to inventon, has. so far as I know, never been denied. Criticism of it has lain in its wastes but mote importantly in its failures of equitable sharing of the product, in our country these contentions arc mainly over the division to each of his share of the comforts and luxuries, for none of us is either hungry or cold or without a place to lay his head—and we have much besides. In less than four decades we have added electric lights, plumbing, telephones gramophones, automobiles and what not in wide diffusion to our standards of living. Each in turn began as a luxury, each in turn has become so commonplace that 70 or 80 per cent or our people participate in them. To at practical souls there is little use in quarreling over the share of each of us unfit we have something to divide. So long as we maintain our individualism we will have in creasing quantities to share and we shall have time and leisure and taxes with which to fight our proper shar ing of the ‘surplus.” The income tax returns show that this surplus Is a minor part of our total production after taxes are paid. Some of this "surplus’ must be set aside for re wards to saving for stimulation of proper effort to skill, to leadership and invention—therefore the dispute is in reality over much less than the totiil of such "surplus.” While there should be no minimizing of a certain fringe of injustices in sharing the re suits of production or in the wasteful use made by some of their share, j et there is vastly wider field for gains to all of us through cheapening the costs of production and distribution through the eliminating of their wastes, from increasing the volume of product by each and every one doing his utmost, than will ever come to us even if we can think out a method of abstract Justice in sharing which did not stifle production of the total product. Soviet Russia titeo. It is a certainty w« are confronted with a population in such numbers as can only exist by production attuned to a pitch In which the slightest re duction of the impulse to produce will at once create misery and want, 1 we throttle the fundamental impulses of man our production will decay. The world in this hour is witnessing the most overshadowing tragedy of 10 centuries in the heartbreaking life and-death struggle with starvation by a nation with 150,000,000 of people. In Russia under the new tyranny a croup. In pursuit of social theories, have destroyed the primary self inter cat Impulse of the individual to pro duction. Although socialism In a nation wide application has now proved itself with rivers of blood and inconceivable mis ery to be an economic and spiritual fallacy and has wrecked Itself finally upon the rocks of destroyed produc tion and moral degeneracy. I believe it to have been necessary for the world to have had this demonstration. Great theoretic and economical ideas have arisen before in the world s history and have In more than mere material bankruptcy deluged the world with fearful losses of life. A purely philo sophical view might he that in the long run humanity has to try every way. even precipices, in finding the road to betterment. Rut those are utterly wrong who say that individualism has aa its only end the acquisition and preservation of private property—the selfish snatch ing and hoarding of the common prod uct. Our American individualism, In deed, is only in part an economic i reed. It'alms to provide opportunity for self expression. lint merely eco nomically, but spiritually as well. Pri vate property is not a fetich In Amel ina. The crushing of the liquor trade without a cent of compensation, with scarcely even n discussion of it docs not hear out the notion that vvr give property rights any headway over human rights. I'riqM-rt> Rights Stimulus. Our development of individualism shows an increasing tendency to re gard right of property not ns an oh jert Itself, hut in the light of a u"< ful and necessary Instrument in stimulation of Initiative to the Indivl dual; not only stimulation to him that he may gain personal comfort, *e curlty in life, protection lo his fam ily, but nlso because Individual nccu mulatlon and ownership is a basis of selection to leadership In adminletra lion of the tools of industry and com merce. It is where dominant private property is assembled In the hands of the groups who control the state that the individual begins to feel capital ns an oppressor. Our American de Health! 'Opel impurities unth Dr. KINGS PILLS A -for constipation i mand for equality of opportunity is a constant militant check upon capi tal becoming a thing to he feared. | Out of fear we sometimes even go too far and stifle the reproductive use of capital by crushing the initia ■ the that makes for its creation. Some disseussion of the legal limita tions we have placed upon economic domination is given later on. but it is desirable to mention liere certain po tent forces in our economic life that are themselves providing their own correction to domination. The domination by arbitrary individ ual ownership is disappearing because the works of today are steadily grow ing more and more beyond the re sources of any one individual, and steadily taxation will reduce relative j ly excessive individual accumula tions. The number of persons in part nership through division of owner ship among many stockholders 1s steadily increasing—thus 100,000 to 200,000 partners in a single concern are not uncommon. The overwhelm ingly largest portion of our mobile capital is that of our banks, insurance companies, building and loan associa tions, and the vast majority of all this is the aggregated small savings of our people. Thus large capital is steadily becoming more and more a [ mobilization of the savings of the small holder—the actual people them selves—and its administration be comes. at once more sensitive to the moral opinions of the people in order to attract their support. The directors and managers of large concerns, them selves employes of these great groups of Individual stockholders, or policy holders, reflect a spirit of community responsibility. Capital Responsible to People. T-arge masses of capital can only find their market for service or pro duction to great numbers of the same kind of people that they employ and they must, therefore, maintain confi , donee in their public responsibilities in order to retain their customers. In times when the products of manufac ture were mostly luxuries to the aver age of the people, the condition of their employes was of no such inter est to their customers ns when they cater to their employes In general. Of this latter, no greater proofs need ex ist than the efforts of many large con cerns directly dependent upon public good will to restrain prices in scarcity —and the very general desire to yield a measure of service with the goods sold. Another phase of this same de velopment in administration of capital is the growtli of a sort of institutional sense in many large business enter prises. The encouragement of solidar ity in all grades of their employes in the common service and common sue cess, the sense of mutuality with the prosperity of the community are both Vital developments in Individualism. There has been in the last 30 years an extraordinary growth of organi zations for advancement of !d»as in the community for mutual co-opera tion and economic objectives — the chamber of commerce, trade associa tions, labor unions, bankers, farmers, propaganda associations, and what not. These are indeed valuable mix ' ttires of altruism and self Interest. Nevertheless In these groups the in dividual finds an opportunity for , self-expression and participation In the molding of Ideas, a field for train , ing and the stepping stones for leader I ship. Influence Is Strong. The number of leaders in local and national life whose opportunity to service and leadership came through these associations has become now of more importance than those through the direct lines of political and rell gious organization. At times these groups come Into sharp conflict and often enough charge each other with crimes against public interest. They do contain faults; if MEASLES Ifl may b* followed by tori on • I I cold trouble*, uto nightly*— VJCKS Over / 7 Million Jon UtoJ Ytoriy ADVERTISE VENT. fr~~ Take a Little Salt* if Your Back Hurts or Bladder Is Troubling You. No man or woman can make a mix lake by flushing the kidneys occasion ally, says n well known authority. Katin? too much rich food creates acids, which excite the kidneys. They become o * rworked from the strain, K‘t sluggish and fail to filter the waste ami poison from the blood. Then we get sic!;. Rheumatism, headaches, liver trouble, nervotinnCMM, dizziness, sleeplessness and urinary disorders often tome from sKiggi h 1;jdnrys. The moment yon feel a dull n* lie In the kidneys or \ our back hin ts, or if the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, ii regular of passage or at tended by a sensation of s* aiding, begin thinking a cjuart of water e.uh day, also get about four ounces of .Ind Halts from any pharma* ; take a taldespoonful in a glass «*f water be for« breakfast, and in a few days your kidneys may act fine. This famous salts is made from the at id of grapes hnd lemon juice, mm blned with llthla, and lias been used f‘»r years to flu di and stimulate the kidneys; also to help neutralise tin* acids in the system, so they no longer cause irritation, thus often relieving bladder weakness. •lad Halts is inexpensive makes a delightful effervescent llthla wut r drink which everyone should tskr now and then to help keep the kldnecf • lean and a* five and the blood pure, then by often nwudlng serious kidney complb-ntlon*. I., all in onus have ; your pin .* an r.amino >our kidnevs it Irast twice a par they develop into warring interests, if they dominate legislators and intim idate public officials, It they are to be a new setting of tyranny, then they will destroy the foundation of Individ ualism. Our government will then drift into the bands of timorous medi ocrities dominated by groups until we shall become a syndicalist nation on a gigantic scale. On the other hand, each group is a realization of greater mutuality of interest, each contains some element of public service and each is a school of public responsibili ty. In the main, the same forces that permeate the nation at. large eventual ly permeate these groups. The sense of service, a growing sense of responsi bility. and the sense of constructive opposition to domination, constantly recall in them their responsibilities as well as their privileges. In the end no group can dominate the nation and a few successes in imposing the will of any group is its sure death warrant. < o-Operative Move Grows. Today business organization is mov ing strongly toward co-operation. There are in the co-operative great hopes that we can even gain in Indi viduality, equality of opportunity, and an enlarged field for initiative, and at the same time reduce many of the great wastes of over-reckless com petition in production and distribution. 1 Those who either congratulate them selves or those who fear that co-opera tion is an advance toward socialism need neither rejoice nor worry. Co-; operation in its current economic sense represents the Initiative of self interest blended with a sense of serv ice, for nobody belongs to a co-opera tive who is not striving to sell his products or services for more or striv lng to buy from others for less or, striving to make his income more se cure, Their members are furnish- ! ing the capital for extension of their activities Just as effectively as if they did it In corporate form and they are I simply transferring the profit prlncl-1 pie from Joint return to Individual re turn. Their only success lies where they eliminate waste either In produc tion or distribution—and they can do , neither if they destroy Individual Ini tiative. Indeed this phase of develop ment of our Individualism promises to become the dominant note of Its twen tieth century expansion. But It will thrive only In so far as It can con struct leadership and a sense of serv ice, and so long as It preserves the Initiative and safeguards the individ uality of its members. The economic svatem which Is the result of our Individualism Is not a frozen organism. It moves rapidly In its form of organization under the Im pulse of Initiative of our citizens, of growing science, of larger production, and of constantly cheapening distribu- , tion. Opposite Forces Formed. A great test of the soundness of e social system must be Its ability to j evolve within Itself those orderly shifts In its administration that en able It to apply the new tools of social, economic and intellectual prog ress, and to eliminate the malign i forces that may grow in the applica-I tion of these tools When v o were al most wholly an agricultural people, our form of organization and admin istration, both In the governmental and economic fields, could be simple. ‘ With the enormous shift in growth to industry and commerce we have erected organism that each generation hrfs denounced as Frankenstein*, yet the succeeding generation proves them , to be controllable and useful. The growth of corporate organizations, of our banking systems, of our railways, of our electrical power, of our farm co-operatives, of our trade union*, of our trade associations, and of a hun-, died others indeed develops both hem - ficent and malign force*. The timid become frightened. But our basic so cial ideas inarch through for the de struction of one or another of these organizations as the only solution for their defect*, yet progress require* only a guardianship of the vital prill * iples of our individualism with its safeguard of true equality of oppor tunity in them. (To be Continued.) (Coprlght. 1923, by Douhleday. Pag* K c'o. Pub], dipil by arrangement \\;th Western Newspaper Union.> Bryan Plan Killed; Speaker Mathers Wins (Continued From Face On. ) powers given the governor, that M Kelvie built up a political machine,'’ Mathers said. "Neither is there any I doubt, nor is it denied that the pres ent governor in his key bill demand- I ed even greater appointive power In an attempt to build a machine." Mathers again explained his plan of grouping activities under officers responsible to the people, and, at the same time protecting the governor fiom any obstreperous state officer, who refused to carry out directions, by giving him power at anytime, without cause, to remove activities from such an officer and appoint someone to handle the work. There was a brief argument carried on with Osterrnan of Merrick leading the democratic forces. Seeing defeat staring them In the face by test votes taken during the debate, the demo crats began making an attack orf state officers, who would be in charge of activities. Sons on Payroll. "Why the eon of State Auditor i Marsh, the son of Land Commissioner Swanson and the son of Clyde Bar nard, secretary of the senate, are all on the state payroll in the department of public works." Jacoby of Laneas ter said. Jacoby did not charge that these young men were Incompetent and did not give value received to the state for their services. Before th" house referred all bills back to committee, tt passed House I Roll 35S, which combines the agricul tural, public welfare and labor ac tivities undeV one head, eliminates the radio, certain of the statistical and bureau of market activities and places other activities now carried { on by these departments In the col- I lege of agriculture and university ex- | tension department. This, it was ex- ( plained, t^as to dovetail with the Mathers bill, which calls for placing I all of these combined activities which include all inspectors outside of bank and insurance inspectors, under ("has i W. Pool, secretary of state. The vote follows: for Mathers' plan: Allan Amsj ker, Bailey, Baldrige, Barbour. Bold ing. Burke, Colman, l)avi*| of Cass, Densmore, Donnelly, Dyball, Dysart, Kjerger, Kssam. Garber. Gilmore, Gould. Green, Hall, Hansen, Hardin, Har rington, lluefile, Hughes, Johnston. Keifor. Kendall. Lamb, Lundy, Mc Cain, Mearrf. Miner, North, Parkin son, Peterson, Pollard, Reece, Rey nold*. Smiley, Smith. Slaats, Stibal, Strehlow, Thatcher, Timme, Vance. Ward. Wilson of Dawes. Wilson of Ham-aster. Wingett, Wise, Wood, Speaker Mather**. Against: Auxter, Axtell, Auten, Beushau.sen. Pork, Broome, Brown. Coll ns, G. B. Collins. G. »S . Davis *>f At Brodetjaard’s Diamond Solitaire $60 An example of the excel lent values in diamonds of quality to be found at Brodepaard's is this soli taire in a beautifully modeled 18-karat white sold mountinjr at SBO. A Genuine Special Others at S75, $100 and up bo not fail to see this week end extraordinary special diamond harsrain. Brodegaard Bros. Co. Jfifflrn f«r 37 Tfan lfifh and Oontrln*. Fillmore, Dennis, Dircher, Elsasser, Ernst, <iallagiier, Gordon, Haycock,' Heffernan, Hyde, Jacoby Johnson, KautsUy, Kee k, Kemper. Keyes, . Mitchell, Mooore, Morgan, Neff, Nel eon, O'Gara, O Malley. Orr, Oaberman. Ottoman, Quinn, Raaach. Regan. Rourke, Svoboda, Thomnaen, Welle. Tochum of Otoe, Yoohum of Saonder*. Absent and not voting: Whitehead. Important! The fire last Sunday morning has caused a suspension of sales for only a few days. Patrons May Pay On Accounts at the Pay Bill Desk As Usual MAIN FLOOR Watch Papers for Date of the Re-opening of the Store for Sales BEDDEO 1417 Douglas Street Pay Your Grocer First HE invests all of his money in merchandise and accounts which represent cash outlay. HE buys from wholesalers on stated terms. They employ experts to get their money when due—he can not afford to pay them with promises. HE cannot afford collection expenses. HE is courteous enough to extend credit. Why 1 not show him equal courtesy by paying him promptly without making him extra expense. HE has no security. What you buy of him is soon consumed and he cannot get it back. He trusts you on your honor alone—who else does as much? HE asks no favors, but is entitled to a square deal. HE supplies you with the most necessary thing in life—FOOD. 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