THE 8EMI WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRA8KA.
JAPAN'S FOREMO
AMMUNITION FOR FRENCH MORTARS
BANKER EIESIGNS
M(S)ML M!
MWM&
Baron Shibusawa Will Devote Re
mainder of Life to Charity
Work.
HAD AN INTERESTING CAREER
Lived In Two Worlds, the World of
Feudalism and the Present World
of Banks and Limited
Companies.
Toklo. Baron Shlbusnwn, president
of the First National bank of Japan,
resigned his position nt tho annual
meeting of the bank arid retired lut
private life. He Is seventy-six years of
age. lie proposes to devote the re
maining years of his life to the pro
motion of charitable works and tin
betterment of Intcrnatlonul relations,
particularly between Japan and the
United States.
Tho baron Is well known In America
to which lie inada his last visit early
this year. When In Now l'orlc ho had
long consultatlons'WIth leading Ameri
can financiers, his object being lo In
terest them In tho propositions which
Japan Intends to exploit In China.
''Japan has tho brains, America hns
tho money," was In effect what ho said
In trying to pcrsuudo Wall street
moneyed men to tako an Interest In the
business. Tho proposal wus turned
down. New York business men thought
If they wero going to find tho money
An olllclul photograph lroni Hie British western trout showing tho moving
of mortur ammunition up to the trenches. A bridge bus been built over a trench
whero tho men had "dug In."
Inst resignation was In 1000 when ho
quit all his presidential chairs ex
cept that of tho bank.
Why He Resigned.
Interviewed as to his reasons for ro-
tlnomeirt'tho baron said: "Tho child
Is grown nnd able to walk by himself,"
meaning, that Japanese finance was
now so advanced that his Intluenco Is
no longer needed. But oven now It does
not seem qutto clear that tho veteran
Intends really to cut himself adrift
from tho world whero his long llfo hns
been spent, for ho added that ho would
still contribute to tho commercial nnd
Industrial Interests of tho nation be
side taking an active part in work for
a better understanding between Japan
nnd other countries. When tho ICokusnl
News agency was founded thrco years
ngo la order to disseminate tho 'true
truth" about Japnn by cables nnd news,
the baron becntno president of the com
pany, n post ho still holds. This com
pany owns tho Japan Times nnd Japan
Dally Mull, two newspapers printed In
English In Toklo, nnd controls the Kou-
tor cable service, both Inward and out
ward from Japan.
Ills retirement gives rlso to the ques
tion of who will he his successor ns
leader of tho financial world of Japan.
There Is no slnglo mnn In sight who. Is
big enough to fill his chair. The can
didates with tho best chance aro
thought to bo Mr. II. Nnknno, president
of tho Toklo chamber of commorco;
Mr. It. Fujuyamu, vlco president of
tho sumo body, nnd Mr. S. Ohnshi, who
was vlco president until last year.
BLOOD TESTS TO
AID EGG-LAYIN
Connecticut Agricultural College
Is Conducting Interesting
Experiments.
RHODE ISLANDS IN LEAD
COMES BACK AFTER 52 YEARS
aron Shibusawa.
they would proviso tho brains as well.
Tho suggestion wus n sort of socond
a edition of ono which Count Olcmna
made to England a yeur beforo whoa
ho throw out tho Idea that tho Anglo-
Japanese alliance should becomo nn
economic as well ns n military pact
lie made practically tho sumo proposi
tion "Japan has tha experience Eng
land has tho cash" hut tlto Britishers
came to tho conclusion without any
special delay that they had enough
bralus to exploit China with their own
money If they wanted,
y Lived In Two Worlds.
Llko overy old man In Japan, Iinrou
Shibusawa hns lived in two words
a world of feudalism and two-swordod
samurai and tho present world of,
nmong other things, banks and limited
compnmcs. llo entered tha govern
ment sorvlco under the old regime
whllo tlto emperor who died three yonrs
ago was still virtually u rcctUBu in
Kyoto nnd tho empire was ruled by tho
Tokugawa Shoguns. Shlhusawa's first
mission out of Japan was nn education
al trip to Europe Willi ono of the 8ho
gun's sons who did not dream that his
family's tonuro of tho sovereignty of
Jnpnn was over. This was in 1807-08
when Androw Johnson was president
of tho United States In tho Interval
between Lincoln's assnsslnatlou nnd
Grant's election, llo returned nnd went
into tho government after tho upset of
Shogunuto and was nn olllclul until
1878 when he resigned over a differ
enco with tho finance minister of the
day and navcr entered politics again.
Instead, ho founded tho First bank, so
called because it was tho first bunk in
Japnn on modern lines. That was 43
years ugo nnd in that long time Huron
Shibusawa moved oil from ono Uuan
clal success to another until In 1000
ho was president of 70 concerns. When
ho started the First bunk its capital
was a million and n quarter dollars
borrowed money now it is ten nnd
three-quarter million dollars, or if re-
servo .fund is counted in fifteen mil
Hon.
This is not tho first tlmo that tho
baroe has thought of retiring. In 1001
be was. Ill and not knowing whether
he would lire, made a will In which ho
aaiaed as Hccessor in tho presidency
oc uto lfim bank, Mr, Xunoshlnu Hn
Mkl, the manager who now nctually
eveceeds Mb old chief. Then in 1005
be was again ill and ho resigned from
away of Ids positions, but picked thn
all up again when ho recuperated. Ills
Ntdler Sees Spot on Site of Seattle
Whero Indians Once Chased
Him.
Spokane, Wash. After a lapse of
52 yenrs, Franz Nldler of Portland,
Ore., arrived fton to find tho spot from
which ho was chased by hosttlo Indians
ou his former visit now occupied by
a thriving modern city of 1120,000 peo
ple. Mr. Nldler, who is elghty-ono years
old, ennio to visit his daughters and to
register for tho Colvlllo land drawing.
ARRESTED AS "ENEMY ALIEN"
MAINTENANCE OF DIRT ROADS
Illinois State Highway Department
Makes Comments That Partly An
swer Oft-Repeated Question.
All through tho central states thero
seems to bo at present nn unexpected
Interest in earth roads, nnd thero is a
widespread deslro to have un author!'
tntlve opinion on tho field for which
such roads arc adapted. It Is n sub
ject on which muny experienced road
engineers aro not willing to malio any
statements for fear of being misun
derstood or misquoted, but the road
engineer of tho Illinois stato highway
department has recently made some
Tho Baroness von llutten, former
ly Miss Betsy Klddla of Philadelphia,
who was arrested in London un tho
churgo that sho was un "enemy
ullou."
In court the baroness declared that
eho was pot u German, hut American
born. Sho explained that she had
hcou divorced front her German hus
band eight years ago, had lived in
Knglnud since, nnd had believed slip
would regain all her rights of Ameri
rnn citizenship when sho returned to
America.
With 1,752 for 39 Weeks to Their
Credit, They Draw Away From
English Entries Plan Hen
nery Eugenics.
Storrls. Conn. Tho productlvo nnd
wealth-producing hen Is having her
blood tested at the experiment station
of tho state agricultural collego here.
This, with the idea of improving th6
breed of hens with tho hopes that
their progeny which escapes poaching,
scrambling and so on will bo , even
moro hcnlthy'und egg-frultful. In n
word, the experiments going on at Uie
agricultural collego will form tho basis
of hennery eugenics.
Hen scientists know that many
chicks luhorlt nn Intestinal dlseuse.
To determine tho proportion of hens
from which this dlsenso descends, tho
scientists of tho agricultural collego
offered to test, freo of churgo, tho
blood of all tho hens entered In tho
fourth International egg-laying con
test now going on nt the college, n
contest which is ncnrlng its course ot
n year.
What Testa Prove.
Tho test 1ms proved, so far, that 30
out of 100 of tho birds in tho contest
aro affected with tho disease. Tho
test known ns tho "ugglutlnaUon moth
od" Involves drawing from n hen's
wing vein a fow drops of blood. After
thnt chomlculs and tho microscope
como Into play.
Good Americans nnd lovers of
broiled chicken nnd omelets will ro-
jqlco to lenrn that tho industrious
Rhodo Islands nro steadily drawing
away from tho English pen, entered
In tho contest by Tom Bnrron, tho
'Toultry King" of Cntforth, Englnnd,
who lias won so muny prizes in pre
vious contests. Tho White Wyan
dottcs, entered by Ohcd G. Knight o
Urldgoton. It. I., hnvo a total of 1,702
eggs to their tally nt tho end of tho
thirty-ninth week, whllo tho English
birds enn show only n totnl of 1.095.
Another Eng'lsh pen, tho Whlto
Wynndottcs of Abel Lntham of Brier
field, England, have busily run up a
totnl scoro of 1,030 eggs.
' Near the Top. .
Other pens which stund near tha
top aro:
Plymouth Rocks Hock Roso Farm,
barred breed, Katonnh, N.. Y 1,500;
Albert. T. Lennon, whlto, North At
tlcboro, Mass., 1,474; Jules F. Fran
cois, barred, West Ilumpton Beach,
L. I. 1,455.
Rhodo Island Reds PIncrest Or-
chcrds. Groton, Mass., 1,408; A W.
Rumety. Danville, N, II., 1,474; Spring
dalo Poultry Farm Durham, Conn.,
1.428.
Whlto Leghorns Will Barron, Bar-
tie, near Preston, England, 1,073;
Francis F. Lincoln. Mount Cnrmcl,
Conn., 1,525; Frank R. Hancock, Jack
sonville, Vt., 1,403.
Miscellaneous Oregon Agricultural
college. Cornwnllls, Ore., 1,408; J.
Colllnson, black Leghorns, Barnacro,
Englnud, 1,400; A. Schwartz. Rhine-,
landers, Burllnghnme, Cnl., 1,880.
The liens tn tho contest altogether
laid 8.030 eggs during tho thirty-ninth
week, or 20 more than they produced
together during tho corresponding
week oMnst year's contest.
(lade from ofd wafen tiro
POSTAL vTvi novt thei
GUIDE rf-fW OUChTT
Putting Postal Guide Among the "Best Sellers"
WASHINGTON. As n book and magazine sener uie government nu not
always kept the prices of its wares down to a point where the pocket-
books of the rank and file of its citizens would not be strained by acquiring
them. As n result somo publications,
the wide dissemination of which would
be for 'tho public good, such us tho
Congrcsslonul Record and n number of
departmental reference books, havo
liad n relatively narrow circle of read
ers.
One of the latter is the. United
States Official Postal Guide, which 13
filled with information of great im
portance to individual ns well ns com
mercial users of tho mnlls. It has
sold for S3.50 and S3 a copy with.
monthly supplement's, nnd a very small percentage of postnl patrons have felt1
justified In buying it. Believing that greater use of the volume will muko for
greater efficiency in the utilization of the complicated mall facilities, tno
post ofilco department has taken steps to place the guide in the list of "best,
sellers" nmong government volumes by radically reducing the price. Instead
of $3.50, the maximum price for the best bound of the books with nil supple
ments will be 75 cents, while abridgments constituting n postnl handbook
sufficiently comprehensive for most users enn be obtained for as little ns 15
cents. '
Tho department is anxious to hnve its constructive step accomplish tho
desired purpose, and hopes that a copy of the heretofore little known guide will
soon bo found in the office of every concern engaged in domestic or foreign
business, overy school and Institution, nnd, in fact, in the hands of every person
who mnkes use of tho postnl service. Persons who use extensively the pnrcol
post will find the guide of special value, the department believes. The disj
bursing clerk of the post office department In Washington is the subscription
ugent for tho government's new low-cost guide book.
Last Sculptures Placed on the National Capitol
AT LAST tho pediment of tho enst portico of the house of representatives'
wing of the cnpltol has been adorned with its sculptured group. Tho figures
which Paul Wuylund Bnrtlett lias been engnged upon since 1900 have finally
been carved nnd settled in their final
THErf STATUTES"
LOOK PURJY COOD
Plvn for King -Road Drag.
comments that answer a part of this
oft-repeated question as follows: "The
earth road, cannot, by any system of
maintenance, be kept up throughout
the entire year to tho usual standard
of tho other types. Tho use of the road
in a wet aud softened condition Is
what cuuses the trouble. Under tho
conditions whero tho earth road is a
suitable type, Its total cost for con
struction and maintenance is less than
that of any other type. In dry weather
und when It Is not too dusty, tho prop
erly constructed and maintained enrtli
road is by far moro pleasant and more
satisfactory to trnvel upon than any
other road. With neglected mnln
tonunce, however, no other type of
road can go to pieces nnd become im
pnssablo so quickly as nn earth road.
Nor, on tho other hand, can any other
type bo brought to -a satisfactory con
dition for travel so quickly and so
cheaply after having been impassable.
From these peculiar features, it will
bo noted that practically the entiro
problem with earth roads is their
proper drninago and systematic main
tenance. Tho opportunity for better
ing our road conditions by properly
improving the earth roads is almost
beyond our imagination."
places.
It is gratifying in these days of
supremo patriotic Interest to know that
tho whole piece of work, from start to
finish, Is essentially American. Mr.
Bnrtlett is u native son, despite his
close association with France nnd
French art. The figures themselves
symbolize phases of American life
nnd their treatment emphasizes this
in their minor details, facts which are
singularly representative of this coun
try and its ideals. Lastly, the group has been cut from Georgia marble in
preference to the generally used Italian marble, nnd this is n completing touch to
the genernl keynote of Americanism.
Tho general themo of the group is tho democracy of tho United States as
expressed in types of her working people. This Is distinctively nn American
conception, and is in lino with Mr. Bartlett's desire to escape the banality of
much of tho modern sculpture which relies solely on classical types for expres
sions of American Ideals.
Tho entiro group may be divided for purposes of description into three
sections, though the general theme is so dominant throughout that all the parta
arc fused into n harmonious whole. Tho central group expresses tho Idea of
Peace protecting Genius, and tho irrmed figure of Pence, a majestic woman,
clad in n coat of mail and draped about-with a mantle, extends n protecting
right arm over tho winged nnd youthful figure of Genius, who nestles on tho
floor at her feet, holding aloft a flaming torch, the light of his power.
Sustaining this group on either side are the figures which represent, on tho
right, agricultural and pastoral life nnd.'on tho left, the industrial life oMha
shop and foundry.
What Good Roads Mean.
Wo ngreo with tho National
Illghwoys association that:
Good roads mean
Good schools Good living
Good churches
Good health
Good morals
Good times
Good towns
Good fun
Good homes
Good going
Good farms
Good country
Good crops
Good peoplo
Uncle Sam Will Seek Heirs to Many Millions
rHE United Stntes government is plnnnlng to aid in the task of finding mlss
ing heirs to the millions of dollars of unclaimed accounts which are lying
dormant in national banks throughout the country. Consideration Is being
given to the problem of discovering the
HOPE til
OffEf 0
THEM
HEIRS
DETERMINE SIZE OF A LOAD
Easy to Find Out How Grade Affects
Pull One Argument Against
Oolng Around Hill.
Tho grado In n road determines tho
slzo of load that can bo pulled over it
A good way to learn the effect of
grado is to rldo a blcycAo on tho level
and up different grades. It will very
quickly bo found out how grades affect
the pull. Ono argument agntnst going
uround n hill is thnt It makes tho dls
tnnco greater. This is not always tho
caso. The bail of a pall is no longer
when lying down than when standing
up. Ono bud grade In u road may
easily double tho cost of hauling. Tho
work of grading down a hill usually
costs moro than to buy tho land re
quired to go around It
Sparrows Leavo Oiled Street.
Lancaster, On. MnJ. James Burn
side says that oiling tho streets Is tho
ctiuso of tho disappearance of tho spar
rows. Thcso birds get oil on their feet
and then on their eggs. These will
not hatch then. Ho also says many
npnrrowB leavo town for tho country
as soon un tho oil is spread In order
to get their dust baths.
Must Do His Share.
Tho citizen who expects his commu
nity to go forward and build good
roads must do Ids share of tho boosting
Appreciate Good Roads.
Schoolchildren who must walk ono
or two miles find good roads especially
beneficial in their Important duties.
Something Attractive.
Why not plant parta of our main
highways with natlvo plants soine
tklBg that the tourist will notlcoT
rightful owners of unclaimed money
by tho treasury department, It is an
nounced, nnd as n result of the work
hundreds of poor peoplo may be en
riched in a mnnner which will give
inntcrlnl to fiction writers.
The comptroller of tho currency's
office has estimated that unclaimed
bank accounts to the extent of millions
of dollars aro lying in banks merely
because persons who hnvo a rightful
claim to the funds aro unaware of
their existence. The plan to restore this money will provide for n system of
advertising by bnnks of lists of accounts which have lain dormant for a period
of years to be determined upon. Fnlllng in this mnnner to find claimants who
can prove ownership, the money will escheat to either the sfnto or federal gov
ernment nnd probably bo used for philanthropic purposes. Officials recognlzo
the opportunity for fraud in the clnimlng of accounts, hut tho legislation
planned will throw safeguards around unclaimed funds which will requlro
presentation of evidence Indubitably establishing identity.
Officials stato that these unclnlmcd accounts arise largely through tho
deposit of money by men without their wives or heirs' knowledge. Sudden
death Intervenes and leaves no connecting link of information, so the account
goes unclaimed. Some American banks hnvo unclaimed accounts half a century
old und more, it is stated.
How Government Clerks Cut the Cost of Living
llC PECIALIZE, get your money in ndvnnco and cut the corners on handling,
J is the only way to conduct co-operative buying to n successful end," is tho
ndvlco of G, 1C. Weston, who buys certain products of the farm and stnplo
groceries for more than a thousand
government clerks, and thereby cuts
tho cost of living for ouch family from
$10 to $25 a month.
A snving of from $15,000 to $25,
000 n month on tho cost of living to n
thousand of. the eighteen hundred
members of a slnglo club sounds exag
gerated, nnd yet it is bclnr done by
that number of tho employee of Uncle
Sam.
Mr. Weston was employed by Sec
retary Lane, president, und other offi
cers of the Home club, made up of employees of tho department of tho interior,
to manugo the club. Ho has long been a student of social economy, nnd, com
ing in contact with largo bodies of government employees through being in tho
government himself, and then through his work for the club, set himself about
solving tho problem of tho Mgh cost of living, not by doing without necessities,
which is tho usual suggestion, but studying n way of spending a ccrtnln amount
f money to get the most good out of it.
Hla ono idea was to form a connection between tho nroducor nnd the con-
suraor at Just as llttlo cost as possible ; and It was with this Idea that co-operu-tlvo
buying was taken up an n special feature of tho Homo club.
Thero was considerable controversy over the advance cash Bystem when
It was first suggested to tho officers of tho club, even Secretary Lane putting
lit his protest But nt a meeting of the club directors Mr. Weston so nbly pre
sented his reasons for such an unheard-of proposition that lie cnrrled his point
Tho special plea for this puy-ln-ndvance proposition Is thut It saves much tlmel
and enables tho manager to accompany his order with cash. The valuo of tho
Utter Is Been at a glance and tho time saved is nlmost incalculable.