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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1919)
D, H. CRONiN. Publisher. O’NEILL.NEBRASKA The following gives tha number of Imral trants from the United States to Canada luring August. 1919, with the states In which they formerly resided: Alabama, (: Alaska, 13; Arizona, 1; Arkansas, 8; Jallfornla. 69; Colorado, 19; Connecticut, »; Delaware, 3: District of Columbia, 7; Florida, 14; Georgia, 10; Idaho, 117; Illinois, 178; Indiana, 66; Iowa, 119; Kansas, 67; Kentucky, 11; Louisiana, 3; Maine, 1S8; Maryland,15 : Massachusetts, 358; Michi gan, 664; Minnesota, 439; Mississippi, *1 Missouri, 43; Montana, 547; Nebraska, 63; Nevada, 7; New Hampshire, 110; New Jer sey, 71; New Mexico, 2; New York. 458; North Carolina. 18; North Dakota, 160; Ohio, 146; Oklahoma, 36; Oregon 104; Pennsylvania, 136; Rhode Island, 25; South Carolina, 3; South Dakota, 36; Tennessee, 13; Texas, 17: Utah, 25; Vermonth, 59; Virginia, 39; Washington, 228; West Vir ginia, 11; Wisconsin, 121; Wyoming, 45; states not given, 143. Total, 5,143. The president of 160 life insurance com panies in the United States, will be called to New York, December 4. to etart the as sociation for life Insurance presidents' war against the high cost of living. The con gress will consider bousing, food produc tion and allied pro ms in the unprece dented demand fc; >fe Insurance this year. Leaders la I world of finance, commerce, transpoi tat on, legislation and Insurance will contribute expert opinion. The British government will announce soon a new scheme of Irish government, according to a strongly supported report In parliamentary circles yesterday. Under the plant there would be a grant of home rule with power for counties to vote them selves out and form a governing body for the areas which might be thus excluded from the general scheme. A supreme body, however, presided over by the lord lieutenant would have authority over all the other bodies. _ nans to bring to this country 160,000 Jewish orphans provided the state depart ment sanctions the Immigration, were made today by the Jewish relief commit tee. The children will be adopted by Jew ish families or cared for by Jewish or ganizations. If the immigration Is not per mitted It Is planned to send ships to Eur ope loaded with food. Credit banks in the capitals of European countries through which money for destitute Jews may be transmitted without charge. Is appiovcd. Ex-King Constantine, of Greece, who now occupies an entire floor In the Hotel National in Lucerne, Switzerland, l as ex pressed a wish to visit America. Reports says that hts eyes are on the 1,000,00} Greeks in this country whom lie thinks lie could win to his cause. It scerns that his wife Sophia is yet a recluse, ami has not, recovered from the shock of the abdl cation of her brother, the ex kaiser. The government of tho province of On tario passed Into the hands of tho farmer coalition cabinet headed by Premier Ern est Charles Drury. The premier and his colleagues were Bworn into office shortly before noon. Only one member of the new cabinet Beniath Bowman, minister of landc, forests and mine*—was a member of the last legislature an:' none of the others has ever had a seat in the Ontario house. “Japanese agents, with the concent and authorization of the Japanese minister of war, are attempting to recruit Swiss offi cers and suboffleers for the Japanese em peror's army,” says tho Neoe Zurlchor Zeltung. High salaries are offered, pass ages and bonuses paid. Enlistments are for five years for any war the Japaoose nation enters except against their native country. An Increase of 13,571,000,00} <n resources of the national banks since August, 1918, the greatest In any year since the Inaugu ration of tbe national banking system, was reported by Comptroller William.*. The assets of national banks alone are greater today than the combined ro •ources of all banks and trust companies In tho United Statos 10 years ago, the comptroller stated. Senora Carranza, wi‘‘e of tho president of Mexico, was burled at Gueretaro, yes terday. All government offices wore closed and receptions and banquets postponed. This will minimize the public ceiebratlona of Armistice day. Ih-esldent Carranza will return to Mexico city and resume ills duties soon. New York banking circles nave the opin ion that money will show little If any re laxation until the turn of the year. Divers? features of tire international fi nancial situation were presentud by fur ther weakness In foreign exchange and the successful flotation of tire British and French municipal loans. A tree 573 years old was discovered in tho spruce forests of California, says tire American Forestry magazine The tree was felled to moke the military camps safe after a limb bad fallen and menaced the roof of the officer's quarters. Tho •tump was 11.6 feet from the ground level. The tree was 2 Inches in diameter when Columbus discovered America. "A woman is at her best at 40," .ays s prominent English artist. “The ideal age for a woman from the viewpoint of the man and artist, is 40 years. She then lias perfected her beauty and attained a settled mentality, and Is an ideal companion, pleasantly matured, tolerant and under standing.'' Rumania, it Is reported, Is making de mands upon tho Turkish government, for tho return of materials alleged to have been taken from the Rumanian factories by Turks during their occupation of the country. A portion hqs already been re turned through tlio efforts of a commis sion appointed by Turkey. “Until you know what ir. going to hap pen in Russia, you will not know who has won the war,” declared Aylmer Maude, write on Russian affairs, in :i re cent address at King's college. "It Is quite possible," he proceeded, “that Germany is going to gain a very great deal more la the east than she has lost In the west." Jamaica ginger cannot be sold at whole sale in the state of Massachusetts to stores for the use of beverage. Judge Henry C. Lumnus announced. The Judge pointed out that the statement bud no healing on war time prohibition, but was based on the state law of ISSi) ile Imposed 32,‘jOi fines upon members of tbs Charles Cromp ton & .Sons, Inc. Charges of deliberate delay in the de portation proceedings against Kmma Gold man, were made by Byron H. L'hl. assist ant commissioner of immigration. lie wrote Harry H. Weinberger, her lawyer, -giving him one week to submit the cas*. For the first time since the declaration of the world war, Pope Benedict oiTIciallj received in private audience a < vpi esenta live cf the central powers, Baron Johann von Gebsattel, secretary of the Bavarian, legation . ........—...» «-—. The New York College of Foiesfry sayt that the resident of New Yorh .burn up, yearly, the equivalent oi 1,000 <OJ pou.ids oi fertilizer, in roadside fires to get rid ol fallen leaves. Lieut. Col. Charles W. Y/hlttk >ev, com mander of the “lost botrci.on has ic eeived from King Nicholas, of Mo. teuecro. a citation certificate leaking l.im com mander of the order of Trine* Dar.Mo I. Many places of Flnnirh ««. afters have been taken by the women of Finland, while* the men resi onded to the cull against the bolshevists. They substitute tor U;u cWlic a: stewards on many shT-* RATIFICATION Id III SUPREME COURT Attorneys Representing “Wets” ind "Drys” In Nebraska Make Their Last Effort. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 22—Whether the resolution passed by the Nebraska legislature ratifying the national pro hibitory amendment is subject to re view by the people, through the appli cation of the referendum, was argued for three hours in supreme court Thursday afternoon. The wets filed a referendum peti tion last July, but the secretary of state refused to receive It. A Lancaster county district Judge held he was wrong in his contention, held that the resolution was referable, and ordered him to place it on the ballat next year. From this the secretary appealed. Five attorneys took part in the argu ment. On behalf of the state It was argued that an act Is a law, whereas a resolution of ratification does not pre scribe a rule of conduct for the people of Nebraska alone, and that if 36 other states ratified and it did not the amend ment would be binding upon them. It was further asserted that the resolu tion was passed by virtue of the na tional constitution and not by any au thority of that of the state. The point was also made that the word "legisla ture” means the legislative body ex isting at the time the federal constitu tion was adopted, which was before the referendum was invented. Other points were that the federal consti tution can be amended only by those who made it and in the manner it pre scribes; that the legislature, in the act of ratification, acted for the people of the nation in the only way they can be represented; that it was wholly a na tional function, and deriving its power from the national constitution it exer cised no other powers. Attorneys for the wets said that the referendum simply made the people oral constitution makers thtraht ahar a part of the legislature; that it did not change the representative char acter of the government, but enlarged the legislative powers; that as a mat ter of fact when the national consti tution was made none of the lawmak ing bodies were known by the title of legislature ,and that as used by the federal constitution makers it meant the legislative authority of a state in whatever form the people chose to make it; and that the making of an amendment to the federal constitution by states without whose consent it could not be made is in real and prac tical sense the making of a law of controlling force in Nebraska. —^— NEW POINT IN “DRY” LAW BEFORE HIGH COURT Lincoln, Neb., Nev. 22.—Tho Ne braska supreme court was asked by Harry Fischer, an Omaha attorney, to take judicial notice of the fact that liquor was not scarce in Omaha in 1917 as in 1919. Fisher appeared for the lessees of the IJes oMines hotel, a workingman's boarding house, in the cellur of which, in a pile of cases that had once contained liquor, the police found a half pint of whisky. Mr. Fischer's contention was that it was one overlooked when the pile of wooden cases had been confined to the engine room for fuel purposes, and not hidden away there, as might be sur mised to be true at the present time, for future sale or consumption. Judge Leslie had fined Julius Triet schke, one of the lessees'^500 and had ordered the other, Emil Leaf, sent up for four months for contempt of a court order previously issued when proceedings had been under the pro hibitory law to close up a purt of it for selling liquor. They contended that the man who was running the ho telhad sold liquor against their or ders, and that the evidence did not justify the court sentence: This is the first time tho contempt clause in the state prohibitory law has been be fore tiie supreme court. HAIL INSURANCE NETS STATE HANDSOME PROFIT Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 22.— A compila tion made by the insurance depart ment shows that the state’s experi ment in operating a state hail insur ance company was a profitable one the last year. The losses will not ex ceed S9 per cent ot the premiums paid in. The largest losses were claimed in Thayer county, where $104,000 more was paid out than was taken in. The state is divided into districts, the di vision being based on previous hail experience, the rates increasing to wards the west. Thirteen counties in the eastern third puid $31,000 and tied no losses, while in four, losses ex eeeded premiums. In No. 2 the bal ance to the good was $92,000. the big losses being in Dawson, Custer, Buf falo and Gosper. The most destruc tive stprms were in the 27 counties in the west end. where premiums were $207,000 and losses $307,000. In the eastern third Dixon farmers paid In no premiums and suffered no losses. Grant county reported none at all. false"colors. San Francisco.—Thieves stole a can arium strombus luceatus from the Aca demy of Science building. "1 reckon we can replace it," suid the janitor. "It was just a clam.” ~wrong“cbottle. Los Angeles.—James Gordon wal loper Nouh Berry over the head with a bottle, cutting his head wide-open. Gordon grabbed the bottle instead of a rubber one, during the filming of "Sea Wolf.” LUNDEENTsASklNG PUNISHMENT OF “MOB” St. Paul. Minn., Nov. 21.—Ernest Lundeen, former congressman, who was seized and locked in a freight car at Ortonville, Minn., when he at tempted to speak against the League of Nations, in a letter to Governor Burnquist today demanded action against the "mob." "Mob law and hoodum officers will not be tolerated by the people of Min nesota. Lundeen wrote, "and if ytur " • < • ’ wi* 1 ”.iiV COUNTY ATTORNEY’S Two Convicted Men Learn to Their Sorrow Judge Not Bound By Such Agreements. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 21.—Claiming that they did not know that a district judge is not compelled to carry out the bargain any county attorney may make with regard to sentences for accused persons, Roy Sandlovich and Jop Berk lowitz have asked the supreme court to give them new trials on the charge of receiving stolen autos. They say they made on agreement with the Lan caster county attorney by which they were to come through with information he badly needed about thievery, one to get a fine only and the other a light sentence with an immediate pa role. When they pleaded guilty the judge gave them two years, and re fused to allow them to withdraw their pleas of guilty and plead innocence, HIGH FINANCING GETS BODY BLOW IN NEBRASKA Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 21—With the object in view of preventing future high financing of the order that has been pulled off in the state in the past, the state department of trade and commerce has adopted a set of rules and regulations that have all the force and effect of laws. Hereafter newly formed insurance companies must make their applications to sell stock to the department. They must also submit all plans, contracts and sale schemes and no business can be transacted without the approval of the commission to the business plans, se cured in advance. This step has been taken largely to prevent the repetition of deals where an insfde ring of pro moters have sold stock to themselves at a price agreed upon between them selves and then gave their notes there for, cleaning up big money by selling their stock holdings at or above par. All existing insurance companies will be subject to the new regulations and rules. All advertising matter must be submitted in advance of publica tion; no shares may be sold for more than 135 per cent of par value without special permission; organization and promotion expenses must not exceed 10 per cent of the par value of stock; books must be subject to examination by the state; commissions must be limited to 10 per cent; no commission will be paid for establishing a com pany in businses; no bonus or watered stock or security may be issue; pay ment for stock must be in cash; no portion of the surplus may be used either directly or indirectely for any purpose other than establishing the company in business. FRAMING PROGRAM FOR CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 21.—Five candi dates for president of the state con stitutional convention, which meets in Lincoln within the next two weeks, have tossed their hats in the ring. The latest one is former Speaker Jackson, of Nuckolls county. The other entries are former Senator Selleck an</%C. C. Flansburg, of Lancaster, Arthur J. Weaver, of Richardson, and former Senator John Heasty, of Jefferson. The plans tentatively made indicate that the convention will be run much on the plan of the legislature. Mem bers will introduce amendments to sec tions of the existing constitution, these will be printed, referred to committees and from them reported out for action, first in committee of the whole and then for final action. There is no bar on any member introducing an entirely or rewritten constitution, but the gen eral opinion is that a new constitu tion, no matter how good it might be and how satisfactory to the majority of the membership, could never weather an election, for the reason that every man who objected to one or more sec tions would have to vote against it entirely in order to make his protest effective. If each section is submitted separately this fate would not over take all. Two plans are suggested for pre serving the debates. One is to have two experts to take the proceedipgs and use the dictaphone as a method by which other stenographers would do the actual transcribing. The other is for a relay of stenographers, so that the printer may get his copy in a regular flow and have the mutter in print for members to revise the next day. REV. MACKAY RESIGNS FROM OMAHA CHURCH Omaha, Neb., Nov. 21.—Rev. T. J. Mackay has tendered his resignation as rector of All Saints Episcopal church. His reason for resigning .s that his health has been poor for several months. Recently he has had several periods of illness with a digestive ail ment. He forwarded his request to be relieved from further duties at the church to C. S. Montgomery, senior warden of the church. Rev. Mr. Mackay took charge of Aii Saints church and parish 27 years ago and has been its rector continually during that time. OMAHA MAY HAVE TWO LEGION POSTS Omaha, Neb.. Nov. 21.—Advisability of splitting Douglas county post of the American Legion, now numbering 4,000 members, into several smaller posts will be argued at the annual meeting to be held December 2, at the audi torium. The question was brought up at the executive meeting Monday but no recommendation was made. KRUG, PIONEER OMAHA BREWER, IS DEAD V ______ Omaha, Neb.. Nov. 21.—Fred Krug, Omaha pioneer, died Tuesday evening at his home at the age of 86 years. He had been seriously ill for three weeks. Mr. Krug was born in Germany on December 22. 1833. and came to Amer ica when 10 years of age. Ho went from New York directly to St. Louis, where he secured work in brewery. There he married Miss Anna Wllfig who now survives him. NEBRASKA LRW IS FBUNBEFFECTIVE Discovered Statute on Syndical. ism Broad Enough to Cope With Activities of the I. W. W. Fremont, Neb., Nov. 20.—After two alleged members of the I. W. W. had been sentenced to 90 days for vagran cy, Fremont attorneys dug up a copy of the Nebraska statute ojj syndical ism which provides, among other things, that a person found guilty of holding membership in any organiza tion designing to spread or teach syn dicalism, may, upon conviction, be sent to the penitentiary for a period of 1 to 10 years. At the courthouse the dis covery of this statute caused quite a little sensation. Lawyers and judges alike agreed that they had not known that it was on the statute books. They agreed, further, that it would serve to deal effectively with the I. W. W. and kindred societies. "WETS” MOVE IN COURT TO ISSUE REFERENDUM Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 20.—Briefs were filed today in supreme court by legal representatives of the “wets” in sup port of the decision in district court that the ratification resolution of the legislature last winter on national pro hibition is subject to the referendum. They make the point that the secretary of state is not properly in court be cause his appeal was filed after 10 days had expired. The claim is made that the provision of the referendum statute is mandatory in that respect. The position taken by the "wets” is that the governor had no right to send to Washington the ratification reso lution until after the time for a refer endum had expired, and that the sec retary of state at the national capitol could not, by proclamation, deprive the people of Nebraska of voting on the action of their legislature. They in sist that if the legislatures of the va rious states have the power, without consent of the voters in referendum states, to adopt an amendment to the national constitution favoring prohi bition, they could ratify one to the contrary or an amendment to the ef fect that the people should not have the right of referendum at ill. FAMILY LUCKY STONE IS VALUABLE RUBY Omaha, Neb., Nov. 20.-—A luck stone which John Mihok, a laborer, brought with him from Hungary when he came to America in 1903 has turned out to be a pigeonblood ruby without a flaw and when cut and polished weighed 23.9 carats. Its value is incalculable. The ruby, which is said to be the larg est flawless stone of its kind in this country, if not in the world, came back to Omaha after having been polished at Chicago. Edmund H. McCarthy, an Omaha lawyer, sat by the cutter and kept his eyes on the ruby every min ute of the time the stone was being cut. Hihok is an Austro-Hungarian. His father picked up the stone near Moson Tareas, state of Nagyar Graag. eastern Russia. When the family emi grated to America they brought the lucky stone along with them. Since then it has been knocking around the house. - ♦— . CHARGED WITH FRAUD IN BANK STOCK SALE Beatrice, Neb., Nov. 20.—Frank E. Lefferdink, who recently disposed of his stock in the Farmers’ and Merchants’ bank of Wymore to W. B. Rogers, was arrested at Spencer, la., by Sheriff Schiek and brought here for trial. The complaint against Lefferdink was filed by Mr. Rogers, who charges him with fraudulently misrepresenting the con dition of the Wymore bank when he sold the stock. Mr . Rogers charges that soon after he purchased an in terest in the bank he found about $18, 000 in loans to the Evans Auto com pany, which went into the hands of a receiver here recently. Lefferdink, is a brother of W. L. Lefferdink, who with others, is alleged to have been implicated in the failure of the State bank at Salina, Kan., some time ago. ALLEGED AUTO THIEF ARRESTED AT LYONS, NEB. Lyons, Neb.. Nov. 20.—City Marshal Peter Heintzelman arrested Joseph L. McAllister at the Northwestern depot Sunday afternoon. He was charged with stealing a $2,400 Hudson super six at Macy, the car belonging to George Maryott. Marshall Heintzelman saw the man drive through Lyons, Sunday morning going west. Later he was seen going east of Lyons, and when he reached Elm Creek the car broke down and he caught a ride back to Lyons with George Redding, and was intending to board the Northwestern train when arrested by Marshall Heintzelman. Deputy Sheriff James Hogan came down and took him back to Thurston county. —f— OMAHA’S MAYOR WANTS SHERIFF’S FORCE INVESTIGATED Omaha. Neb., Nov. 20.—Mayor Smith of Omaha, has written Governor Me Kelvie, expressing the belief that a thorough investigation of the riot oi September 2$ is necessary and desir able. He thinks that the investigation however, should not be confined to the police department, but that it should include the sheriff and his office force as it was from them that the negro was taken and lynched. OMAHA BOOKKEEPER FALLS 75 FEET TO HIS DEATH Omaha. Neb., Nov. 20.—R. \V. Hoge bookkeeper at the First National bank, plunged 7C> feet to his death from the balcony of the bank to the first landing of the main stairway leading to the foyer. He died a half hour later in Lord Lister hospital. Bank officials say the bookkeeper committed suicide while temporarily insane. Mr. Hope’s wife and two brothers declare it was an accident owing to the fact that he had suf fered frequently with f.i:r'» spoils j The Luxuries of Common Men. j t. 1 Abe Martin, whose editorial scintillations illuminate The Tribune every day can do more than write one little paragraph. In Wallace’s Winner he descants upon the high cost of living in this fashion: . Hon. Ex-Editur Cale Fluhart made a long, impassioned appeal t’ th’ people, t day, t’ curtail ther expenses an’ return t’ th’ simple modes o’ livin’. He spoke on th’ public square an’ declared that th’ only way t’ combat th’ high cost o livin wuz t’ cut out th’ necessities an’ go barefooted.' Follerin’ are some o th’ high spots In Mr. Fluhart's address: Fortunately th’ high tide o' prices has hit us at a season o’ th’ year pecu liarly favorable t’ light diet an' bare feet. We used t’ shine our own shoes whereas we now pay 11,359.676 annually 101? th’ cofiers o’ th’ Greek. Women used t’ wash ther own hair, but t’day there's a half dozen beauty parlors in ever’ buildin’ In town an’ no peceptible increase in beauties. We used t’ slick up on Saturday night, but now were dolled up all th* ume. tionWC USCd *' Write pustal cards, but now we wire on th’ slightest provoca- * We used t’ be content with Niagary Falls once a year, but now we’re aU^J on th go. Farmers didn’ used t’know any better, but now ther educated an* discontented. We used t’ run three blocks t’ see a dude, an’ now we’re all dudes. iou kin buy a pair o’ socks or a fairly decent lookin’ steak for what It costs t' have your nails manicured. Calico is no longer worn ’cept In th’ reformatories. You kin keep a cow ter what it costs t’ wear silk stockin’s. Years ago th’ doctors occasionally operated on somebuddy o’ great consequence, but t’day ever'buddy you meet is jest out from under th’ knife, or 'll be ripped open t’morrow. Years ago th’ president o’ th’ Peoples bank kept a hoes an’ phaeton. T’day you can’t cross th’ street ter autos. T day a feller don’t think no more o’ gittin’ a auto overhauled than he used t’ think o’ buyin’ a new main spring. Th’ fillin’ stations take in twice as much as th' ole time saloon an’ set no freo lunch. A feller now spends as much on his wife’s feet as he used to spend on. his home. We used t’ keep th’ butter in th’ cister, but now we buy 45-cent ice. We used t’ make a pitcher o’ lemonade occasionally, but now we take th’ whole family t’ th’ sody fountain ever’ evenin’. We used t' have chicken dinners at home, but now we buy ’em at $2 a plate, not includ’ gasoline an' wear on tires. We used t’ carry a umbreller, but now we wear a $35 rain coat. A feller used t' have a wild, reckless Saturday night on 50 cents, includin' i# shave an' Floridy water, but t’day you don’t git as much change back from $1: as you used t’ git back from a dime. We used t’ live at home, but t'day we only git our mail there. A Glorious Word. From the Dearborn Independent. Chaulmoogra is a word dropped into the English dictionary years ago, and then left unnoticed by the hurrying throng. No one ever expected such a looking word to be treated with distinction. No one ever expected such a word to act friendly. But now comes news from Hawaii, indicating that Chaulmoogra is likely to be one of the most popular words in civilized society, especially in the orient. Chaulmoogra was first the name given by some east Indians to some quer trees. They were not good for food nor meant for fire. But they bore strange seeds. And long ago, in recorded time, some one learned that the heart of these seeds secreted an oil-which relieved leprosy. As we would say, the oil was a deadly specific to destroy the life of the leprosy bacillus. Down the ages leprosy had eaten its way, multiplying in every land its devouring infection. Down the ages had also come the seeds of 'he Chaulmoogra, with their Chaulmoogra oil. But the knowledge was imperfect, and many years were passed in idle regret that “leprosy is incurable.” Then suddenly the idleness of the years was broken. The knowledge of the centuries was focused in a single great human achievement. Twenty lepers were paroled as cured the other day from an Hawaiian leper colony. Their blood had been examined by analysis and by microscope. Their frames showed scars of the plague’s, ravages, but their blood flowed pure as the blood of children. What had done it? Chaulmoogra oil. Dr. A. L. Deen, president of the University of Hawaii, has invented a refining process which brings out the oil from the seed in its pure state, prepared to blight the leprosy bacilli out of a body, but to leave the body. The two great foes, long isolated though known, have been brought together for the common safety of man. The result is that an enemy to man which has dogged his steps from India to the Arctic, has met its first defeat. It is to be prayerfully desired that the reverse may be con tinued uutil leprosy is driven from the earth. And if this is done, it will be the work of Chaulmoogra. Wou derful word! Beautiful name of a beautiful work! Word charged with the vitalizing glory of sunshine over tropical forests, with the power of the irresistible light of noon on the dark festering jungle of life! Chaulmoogra! Obscure specific, humble tree, known but not honored, how typical it is of other specifics which must exist to cure the social and the moral ills of life, but specifics which are not yet concentrated and made potent to destroy the evils among us. Every evil, every wrong, has its Chaulmoogra! j 4444444444T444444444 4 ♦ 4 MIND YOUR BUSINESS. 4 4 ♦ 4 Elihu Root. 4 4 The true basis of peaceful, pros- 4 4 perous, progressive development of 4 4 civilization Is friendship, which 4 4 rests on the doctrine that each man 4 4 should mind his own business. That 4 4 is the true conception of liberty for 4 4 others and for ourselves as well. 4 4 Insisting that others shall do what 4 4 you think is best for them leads to 4 4 insufferable condescension. The 4 4 great lesson of the war is that pros- 4 4 perity, wealth and national advan- 4 4 tage are not to be gained by con- 4 4 quest or robbery. 4 4 \ ♦ 4 4 4 4 44444 4-4 44444 4 4 4 4 A Bad Business Practice. From System. It would seem that in many American offices the most stupid person readily ob tainable is used to great and announce visitors. A not unusual layout is a tele phone switchboard near the door. Around its corner peeks a hoj or a girl with a ‘‘Whoiloyou wantta see?” When you have tried to make your purpose elear the operator telephones, first making sure that she sufficiently mispronounces your name, something like; "A Mr. So and So is out here; do you want to see him?” Abroad the, practice is exactly to the contrary. A most intelligent persons, who does not deem it quite extraordinary that you should want to see someone, will greet you courteously, usually get your name correctly In the first instance, and try to make you feel you have not com mitted a social blander by entering that particular orfiee, nor will he take the other extreme, which Is not infrequent here, tiiat you have entered the place with the thought of assassination, or at least of robbery. In the same manner telephone operators in the private exchanges, particularly in England, are not amazed by the fact that yon hsve telephoned, and if the man you happen to want is not in. the operator will often volunteer the information when lie wit! be in and will a-k if there is rol some one else whom you may talk to—frequently they will apologize for the fact that the man is not in. One never gets a mere response of "No. lie ain’t.” wrtth an im mediate disconnection, as here. Keeps Care in Parlors. Front the New York Sun. Motor ear buyers in Guatemala are not so much eon.-'erned about engine perform arro. ! o’, I’h.iGi and mto the gallon when t.. , hi. i a ' a: they are about the over all dimensions. When they lookJp at a machine on the salesroom floor first question they want answered is, "How many cubic feet cf air does it dis place?” At least tlfht is the information con veyed in a letter from a car importer in Central America to the general manager of a motor company in Ohio. They not only keep the car in the parlor, but they demand that their cars fit the Central American drawing room or nc sale. A portion of the letter, which was in Span ish, follows: Among the complete details it is import ant to know the dimensions of the cars. These must be particularly as follows: The total length from end to end, the total width from side to side, and the heights of the car. The importance of this question is due to the fact that private persons here do not use garages, but put their cars into the halls of their houses. Therefore it is necessary to know the sizes of the cars to find out whether they could easily enter into these halls. Spain’s King Not Neutral. From the New York Times. The king of Spa n, wanted to come to the aid of France with his army at the outbreak of the war, according to a ment by the Spanish ambassador, J. Qui nones De Leon. The ambassador said that the king called the French ambassador to the palace-on the first day of the mobiliza tion and said to h!m: j ‘ You may send to your eastern frontier I the 18th corps that guards the frontier of the Pyrennees. 1 will answer for our frontier.” The 18th corps, which on King Alfonso’s assurance, was then released from the Pyrenees, is said to have captured Thann, in Alsace-Lorraine, under command of 4 Central l>jas-Latterne. Later, during the dark days of August, Jjj§ ilie ambassador declares Alfanso again- Mm took up the question with the cabinet, ^Efl saying: M fi “I want, astride my horse, to go to the Kwf aid of France with all my cavalry.” f I Senor de Leon asserts that the cabinet j|| I made it clear to the king that the Spain of ■ IV Charles Y. had become a constitutional monarchy. % The Crying Need. Js From the Los Angeles Times. There’s an inconsistency about it some-* where. We want the orientals and a lot of other foreigners kept out of the coun try while the Americans fool themselvtn too classy l‘» take the jobs they hava BgK been filling or do the rams amount of ip . work. Will somebody please invent a Ki { machine built like a man that < an h« M wound up at 0 o’clock in the morning jfii tv and i un all day on two drops of -»il. ^|L ’.’rets w i:i vor come down otherwise.