T HE O'NEILL FRONTIER
o. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
O'NEILL.NEBRASKA
mayor of Bridgeton, New Jersey,
has b#-en keeping phenomenal order
am* . k the juveniles of that city for
several years through the agency of a
mysterious 'snanking machine." the de
tails in the operation of which it has
been impossible for outsiders to learn.
It has been noted, however, that but
one boy has ever been spanked twice,
and that becoming and reasonable hu
mility has resulted from its services,
parents have frequently petitioned for
Us application and no boy or girl-for
It has treated a few girls— has received
Us administrations without their par
ents’ consent. It has this week been
discovered that the mysterious "spank
ing machine" was a choice collection of
barrel staves, from which a suitable
curve could always be found for any
particular anatomy. One end of the
staves was shaped for a handle, and
the policemen did the operating.
The commissioner of public charities,
commenting on the effects of prohibi
tion In New York City, says that "the
alcoholic wards in Belleview and al
*ied hospitals are doing practically
nothing. We are dosing most of the
doors of the municipal lodging houses;
for the past few weeks we have had
more employes than patrons. In fact
those coming to us lately are vagrants,
and properly workhouse cases. Private
aooietles or organizations seeking sub
tier !p lions on the ground that conditions
among the poor today are worse than
heretofore, are simply obtaining money
under false pretenses."
Medical historians, seeking traces of
Influenza epidemics back through the
centuries, have gone back to 412 B. C.t
when th« re was an epidemic described
by Hippocrates. The next authentic
record is dated 1173 A. D. In that year
the illness spread over England, Ger
many and Italy. Nothing more, than
mild epidemics followed that until 1239
when another severe epidemic occurred,
and then in 1510, when a pandemic
spread all over Europe. The first men
tion of It in America is made in 1557. In
1780 there was another pandemic. In
the 17th century the disease acquired its
present name, from the Italian word
meaning "Influence," A curious fact in
its history is that it has always been
recorded as occurring at sea or on ships
that had had no recent communication
with land.
A New York judge sentenced two men
to 52 years hard labor for burglary', last
week. They had beaten the man they
robbed so severely he was unconscious
for several days, and tied and gagged
his wife. "First degree robbery should
be made punishable by death," declared
the judge.
Four thousands pamphlets containing;
the manifesto program and constitution
the communist party of America were
seized by the New York police at the
party's headquarters last week. The
janitor of the building found the pam
phlets stuffed between the celling of tho
top floor and the-,roof.
* The Central Federated Union, of New
York city, has "served notice" on the
national industrial and agricultural com
mltee. of Chicago, that "no Chinese
labor would be imported into this coun
try and that organised and unorganised
labor will resist any attempt to carry
out this latest plan of a reactionary big
business class."
Dr. Ditmer, of the Bronx zoo. New
t irk city, who has been experimenting
m recording monkey talk on a phono
graph. is convinced that animals em
ploy speech. Tho monkey, after talking
Into the phonograph, shows plainly that
it understands the sounds upon hearing
them again, but evidently does not rec
ognize tho voice as its own.
The Esch-Cummlns railroad bill Is the
■ dost constructive piece of legislation
{hat congress has enacted In many
years, declares Richard S. Hawes, presi
dent of the American Bankers’ Associa
tion.
Men arrested with women charged
with immoral acts are equally guilty
and should be herd for trial with their
ooinpanloBS, was the decision filed by a
New York Judge of general sessions last
week.
A 2-rent a loaf increase in bread prices
Is announced by tho master bakers of
Manhattan, New York. The price in
crease is due to the demand of bakers
and their helpers for a raise in pay of
SI a day.
""The Salvation Array in the British
Isles, working in cooperation with the
government, is promoting emigration of
the approximately 1,250,000 women In ex
cess of the male, population there. The
army has dispatched several shiploads
of emigrants to Canada already.
The owner of a private stock of
liquors who has a town bouse and a
country house may move his supply
from the town house to the country
house, by selling his town house.
After playing Jazz time and smoking
a package of cigarets in the show room,
burglars stole a perfectly good baby
grand piano from the Standard Phono
graph Company, In New York last week.
. Kiingft*. bn mails m industrial
Inecca by the TSSsntlJ established court
of industrial relations is the belief of
Gov. Henry £. Allen. Workers soon will
be the court's staunchest defenders,
ways.
By an overwhelming majority, the
Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council
has rejected tire "One Big Union" pro
posal for a general strike as a protest
against the sentence on the strike
leader, Russell.
Sir Ian Hamilton, the British general
who commanded during the Dardanelles
campaign, says that General von Sand
ies, "was a clean fighter and never
shelled our hospitals,” and therefore
recommend* that ho be not tried before
she allied courts marshal.
Expulsion of William O. Jenkins, for
mer American consullar officer at
Puebla, by the Mexican government as
en undesirable alien, probably will be
followed by seizure of his factory at
Puebla and other property, recent re
ports from Mexloo City have Indicated.
Tho great bulk of chln&ware pro
duced in Japan is made by the old
mcihods of manufacture and to a very
considerable .degree 1b a household or
community Industry.
Discrimination against American bu«C
ness men in China by tbe British gov
ernment Is charged in advices to the
state department from Edwin S. Cun
ningham, American consul general at
Shanghai, China.
A bill designed to prevent all American
Imports into Denmark unless sanctioned
by the financial council has been Intro
duced tn the Kolkethlng by the minister
»f commerce.
The first German prisoner captured
Nv American troops was Leon Hayde
Hoffman, and his captora,wcrc Adam
Viazikowukl and John Wchanskl, of
Ironwood, Mioh,
The League of Herman Officers has
sued Vice Premier Brxberger for libel in
eaying that German office’s refused to
jwoort tho framer kalserir. (p bn* Uus
, "e in IMl'ltl#
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Mill'S HOBBY
COSTJJfTf ST*TE
Referendum on Civil Adminis
tration Measure to Cost
State of Nebraska
$260,000.
Lincoln, Neb., March 15.—The re
mit of the overthrow of the civil
code admlnlsration bill by the Ne
braska supreme court will make it
a live issue In the campaign. It must
be submitted at the next general
election for popular indorsement o"
rejection.
There are various legal devices by
which the departments might be kept
Intact until after the election, but
the auditor has control of the purse
strings and the employes who draw
pay from the code departments
would not be likely to stand so long
a strain. Attorneys for Fred C. Ayres
and A. D. Scott, who brought the suit
to mandamus the secretary of state
to accept the referendum petition, say
they will enjoin any further use of
the instrumentalities of government
fn the form of the code departments.
The state has however, 40 days in
which to file a motion for a rehearing
but 00 days of life would be about
all that the code measure could con
fidently Ibok forward to.
Governor McKelvle says that the
printing with the postage thereon,
will cost <200,000, for which there is
no appropriation. Other familiar
with such expenses say that the state
will be fortunate if it can get 300,000
of the pamphlets printed, bound and
delivered for <250,000, not to
include the postage bill. Not
later than the first Monday of
the third month before the election
the secretary of state must print a
copy of the law the code bill will
contain 461 pages of printed matter
together wih all the other referen
dums and arguments for and against
them that authorized persons may
present, and send a copy to each
voter. This means over 300,000 at the
present time, not counting the
women.
EIGHT POUNDS LESS
MEAT FOR EACH ONE
Per Capita Consumption Cut
That Much In 1919—High
Prices Were Cause.
Washington, March 16—High retail
prices in 1919 reduced the per capita
consumption of beef In America al
most eight pounds, and caused the
consumer to turn to veal and mutton,
according to a statement today by the
department of agriculture. Slightly
less pork was eaten. Exports of pork
and lard were greater than ever
shown In the records of the depart
ment. The total meat consumption
was less than In 1918, the per capita
for 1918 being 150.8 and that in 1919,
141.98.
Beef exports were shown to have
fallen off 66.8 per cent, but the ship
ments of pork and lard to foreign
ports showed a great Increase. The
exports were equivalent to 18,000.000
hogs weighing 200 pounds each. The
number of hogs slaughtered was a
million more than in 1918.
FOUR MEN ARE LOST
WHEN SUB GOES DOWN
Commander and Three Sea
men Fail to Reach Shore—
Ship May Be Saved.
San Diego, Cal., March 15.—Lieut.
Com. James R. Webb, anil threo
members of his crew, were lost when
the United States submarine H-l
went aground at the entrance to
Magdalena Bay, Lower California,
according to a radio dispatch received
here last night.
Besides Lieutenant Commander
Webb, those listed as dead were H.
M. Gilles, machinist mate; M. S. Del
amarine and Joseph Kaufman, sea
men. Their bodies were reported to
have been buried by the survivors in
the sandy beach at Santa Margarita
island in the mouth of Magdalena
hay, about 650 miles south of San
Di&go.
It is believed the H-l can be saved.
EDITOR OF CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE PAPER QUITS
Boston, March 15.—The resignation
of William H. McKenzie as editor of
the Christian Science Sentinel, a
weekly publication and the Christian
Science Journal, a monthly, is an
nounced last night, together with
those of Mrs. Klla W. Hoag, asso
ciate editor, and Elisha B. Sealey, as
sistant editor.
Mr. McKenzie said that the resig
nations were due to the fact “that
the trustees had insisted up<v> the
publication in these two papers of
matters which the editors did not
think suitable and which they feared
would cause disturbance among the
subscribers.'
ROOSEVELT CANT MAKE
TOUR OF SOUTH DAKOTA
Mitchell, S. D., March 15 —Col. The
odore Roosevelt has wired managers
of the Wood campaign in South Da
kota that his legislative duties In
New York will prevent him making
a tour of Sbuth Dakota as he had
planned doing.
TEACHERS ASSERT THEY
HAVE HIGH BOARD RATES
Sioux Center, la., March 15.—The
teachers of Center township who are
demanding higher wages take ex
ceptions to the statement they are
paying low rates for board. They say
that $7 a week, with livery bills con
tracted to get them to their homes in
town on Friday night and back to
the schools on Monday, is not low.
They also complain they are forced
to supply much of the eflBfpment in
the schools.
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Court In Passing Judgment
Said It Was Unusual Casa
—Another Begged to
Go to State Pen.
firiind [stand, Neb., March 13.—Six
young men appeared with the sheriff
and his deputies to plead guilty to
charges ranging from burglary to
forgery and larceny. The oldest
prisoner was 25 and the youngest 17.
When court adjourned sentences with
a total minimum of four years and a
total maximum of 34 years in the
state penitentiary, un indeterminate
sentence to the state industrial school
at Kearney, and a short sentence in
the. county jail had been meted out.
The prisoners seemed pleased at
the prospect of a trip to Lincoln to
gether. One prisoner denied is guilt
but begged to be sent to the state
‘ prison. He did not gain his wisli un
til he admitted his guilt without
qualification and then only after lie
had repeatedly urged the court to
sentence him rather than remand him
for trial.
Perhaps none of the party was
more upset than was one youth of 17
who, because of his age, had to go to
the reform school. Despite his youth
be was married and-tlie court said It
was the first time he recalled when
h«# had sent a married man to Kear
ney. The boy pleaded for a chance to
go to Lincoln but it was denied him.
A
HITCHCOCK ADMIRERS HOLD
CONFERENCE IN OMAHA
Omaha, Neb., March 3 3.—More
than 400 democrats rrom all parts
of the state, gathered here last
night at a dinner in the interest of
the candidacy of Senator Gilbert AL
Hitchcock, for president. The speak
cre were Senator Joseph T. Robinson,
of Arkansas, former United States
Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, of Illi
nois, Mrs. Elizabeth Bass, head cf
the women’s section of the democrat
ic national oommittee.
WISCONSIN MAN FOUND
DEAD IN NEBRASKA
Blair, Neb., March 13.—A man ap
parently about 30 years of age and
carrying a registration card bearing
the name of "Henry Eugene McNal
ly, Kenosha, Wis,,” was found at the
railroad station here in a dying con
dition. He died 20 minutes after hav
ing been removed to a hospital. It
was thought death was caused by
poisoning.
When the man came to Blair or
how long he had been at the station
Is not known.
FINNAN BROTHERS WANTED
IN BOTH OMAHA AND CHICAGO
St. Paul, Minn., March 13.—Mi**c
and Thomas Finnan, arrested here
recently in connection with an
Omaha suburban bank robbery have
been arrested by police again and
held for Chicago authorities. They
are charged with robbery. The gov
ernor recently refused to grant an ex
tradition to take the men to Omaha.
THIRD DISTRICT DEMOS
IN CONFERBNCE AT NORFOLK
Norfolk, Neb., March 13.—Demo
cratic leaders of the Third congres
sional district held an Informal
meeting here Wednesday evening.
The names of J. W. Rice, of Norfolk
and J. D. O'Grady, of Hartington.
were mentioned as congressional
candidates.
OUTRAGES CONTINUE IN
ALL PARTS OF IRELAND
Dublin, March 12.—A number of
additional outrages are reported to
have taken place in various parts of
Ireland last night. Police Sergeant
Nazer was shot dead and Constable
Doyle was wounded at Rathkeale, 17
miles southwest of Limerick. In the
Cork district, Inspector MeDonagh
was dangerously wounded in the
head by a bullet from a revolver
while exchanging shots with crowds
which attacked him and another of
ficer. One civilian was badly
wounded.
In Limerick, Constable Murphy
was ambushed and shot and danger
ously wounded.
MRS. SARAH GROUT DEAD:
RESIDED HERE 20 YEARS
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Grout, G2
years old, a resident of Sioux City for
10 years, died at her home, 1012 Ne
braska street, early this morning iff
a complication of diseases. Sh^ had
been a eemi-iinvalld for 10 years.
Mrs. Grout was born in Indiana in
1857. With her parents she moved
to Mankato, Minn., several years later
where she lived until coming to Sioux
City in 1900.
Mrs. Grout is survived by one son,
Robert D. Grout, of Ireton, Minn.,
and one daughter. Hattie May Grout,
of Sioux City. _
PRESIDENT WILL TRY
TO RECONCILE REPORTS
Washington, March 12.—-An effort
to compose the differences between
the majority and minority of the bit
uminous coal strike commission will
be made by President Wilson, It was
said today at the White House.
i. w. wTcaseIjkely
m REACH JURY TODAY
jad can ue -•
hiulrtdS&cEPWash., uMrch 12.—Al
though further delay was experienced
In the Centralia murder trial today
when Judge Wilson announced that
his Instructions for the jury would
not he ready until afternoon, at
torneys still believe that the case will
be made in the hands of the Jury be
fore adjournment tonight. A night
session may bo hold.
BJJPTIC5
Pardon Issued to an Omaha
Man Had Approval of Court
Officials—U sually
Relied On,
Lincoln, Neb., March 13.—"Douglas
•vunty will have to take care of her
own hell hereafter," declared Gover
nor McKelvie, while talking to the
newspaper reporters who were inter
viewing him on the cnarge made by
County Attorney Sho'twell of Omaha
that he bad pardoned a bad man
without consulting the county attor
ney.
"The pardon," said the governor,
"was issued to James C. Donaghue,
on the recommendation of the adult
probation officer of Douglifs county,
M. Andreasen. Mr. Shotwell says
that the man was the center of a sen
sational three days’ trial on the
charge of attempting a criminal as
sault on a girl he was taking home
from a dance. The recorl before me,
the recommendation of the probation
officer, is that the man was convicted
In police court of assault and battery,
had been given 80 days and had
served 30 of them.
"We must either rely on court offi
cers like Andreason or refuse to hear
any of these requests for clemency.
Many of them come to us and being
minor matters and a part of court ad
ministration we take the word of
court officers and do not investigate
for ourselves. The probation officer Is
an attache of the court, the same as
the county attorney, and the respon
sibility for what he does is upon the
officials that appoint him."
It appears, from further investiga
tion, that the jury that tried Don
oghue on the statutory charge, found
him guilty only of assault and bat
tery.
MOREHEAD DECIDES HE
WILL NOT ENTER RACE
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Lincoln, Neb., March 13.—Fortner
Gov. John H. Morehead will not en
ter the democratic primary again as
a candidate, according to close per
sonal friends. The governor had
consented some time ago to make the
race, party leaders suggesting that
he could make certain party victory
where defeat doubtless awaited with
any other candidates talked of. Some
10 days ago he lost his only daughter,
a young woman who had but recently
graduated from the state university,
and he Is reported as entirely disin
clined to re-enter politics. He did
not accept any of the filings in his
interest, and these have all lapsed.
George Jackson, former speaker of
the house, member of the legislature
for four years and at present serving
as a member of the state constitu
tional convention, has announced his
Intention of accepting the entry of
himself into the democratic guberna
torial primary, made by democrats of
his home county, Nuckolls. Mr. Jack
son is a man of considerable strength,
and has taken no part in any of the
factional fights. G. L. Shumway, of
Scottsbluff, former land commission
er, is the only other entry at the pres
ent time, but It is expected that when
the Morehead decision is finally an
nounced as Indicated, others will be
brought forward.
_A_
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
HAS WORK NEARLY DONE
Lincoln, Neb., March 13.—The state
-constitutional convention changed its
mind about electing members of the
railway commission by districts, and
when the proposal came up on second
reading it lacked seven votes of a
majority. In order, however, to save
the other good feature* In it, enough
members voted to give the commit
tee a chance to cut out the redistrict
ing proviso and preserve the others.
The convention passed on second
reading: No. 327, being a revision of
the sections of the present constitu
tion relating to the executive depart
ment; No. 328, permitting co-operat
ive associations to limit the number
of shares of stock and holders of
stock to one vote each; No. 333, creat
ing an industrial court, and No. 277,
forbidding public utilities to unite
without permission of the railway
commission. These must pass through
the fiery furnace of third reading, but
there was little opposition to them.
The convention expects to conclude
its labors next week, but the experts
are guessing it will be two more be
fore it finishes.
LOVE FOR MOV*ES SENDS
HIM TO REFORM SCHOOL
Alliance, Neb., March 13.—Bruce
Terry. 8 years old, son of Mr. and
Mrs. B. J. Perry, will be sent to tho
detention home at Lincoln as a re
sult of his longing to see movie
shows. The boy in juvenile court ad
mitted on several occasions he had
bought cookies and other sweets at
local stores and charged them to Dr.
Hand, city physician. He then ped
dled out the cookies to his cronies
on a strictly cash proposition. He
invested the proceeds in theater tick
ets. The boy’s father, who is a rail
road man, said that he was away
from homo so much of the time that
he could not watch over the boy. His
step-mother also confessed herself
unable to curb his wayward tenden
According to a Kansas City news
paper, sweet clover that grows to a
height of from five to eight feet in
from four to five months after plant
ing, has been discovered at the Iowa
agricultural experiment station.
ORDER PLANS FOR NEW
BUILOING AT NORFOLK
Norfolk, Neb., March 13.—The
board of control has named Ellery
Davis, of Lincoln, as architect to
draw plans for the $100,000 new
building to be added to equipment at
the Norfolk hospital for the insane,
and is preparing to let a contract
for a new kitchen and dining room at
the institute for feeble minded at
Beatrice, to cost $07,500, with $7,500
added for vqmpraenL
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[National Crop Improvement Service.]
Tax exemption is un-American be
cause it relieves one class at the ex-'
pense of another. Until recent years
tax exemption of Federal and Mu
nicipal bonds was a fairly harmless
fiscal expedient, but with the impor
tant changes that have taken place
in economic conditions, especially in
thp methods of taxation, it can no
longer be Justified. In fact, It is a
flagrant evil of which the majority
of taxpayers are blissfully uncon
scious.
The original argument for the ex
emption of Federal Farm Loan
bonds was that it would reduce ma
terially the cost of borrowing on
farm mortgage security, thereby re
-v ducing the farmer’s rate, which was
a consummation very much to be de
sired but on the other hand in mak
ing the Federal Farm Loan bonds
exempt, it creaied a very desirable
investment for those of large Income
who were willing to pay enough pre
mium for them to take them out of
the reach of the ordinary small In
vestor and in consequence the great
bulk of them have gravitated into
the coffers of the very wealthy.
This puts the burden of taxation
on wage earners, upon production,
raw material, transportation and im
ports, all of which have to be more
heavily taxed to pay the five billions
now being annually assessed.
Twenty million Americans own
Liberty bonds which are now quoted
at 92 to 95. They are taxable. The
rich man prefers to buy the farm
loan bonds; they are not taxable.
They are usually quoted above par
and some have brought as much as
*1 .08, something which the framers I
of the bill did not expect.
About one farmer in sixty-five lias
•Uf'
>
taken advantage of the Federal
Farm Loan Act and is getting hi*
money at 5% per cent but he has
placed an added burden upon the
other sixty-four farmers who are not.
enjoying revenue from the loan.
Our public policy has been badly
at fault either In the matter of tax
ation exemption or in the applica
tion of progressive rates to Incomes.
The two policies are antagonistic
and inconsistent. One or the other
sould be speedily abandoned. We
cannot and ought not fo abandon
progressive taxation. That institu
tion is now firmly established in all
the Important European nations. It
is universally recognized as the only
means whereby the tax burden may
be made to conform proportionately
to the individual’s ability to pay.
The tax system must be made
equitable if the ideals of democratic
government are to be maintained
and it is time to call a halt to the
present policy of tax exemption.
The weakest stronghold of that
policy lies in the tax exemption
clause of the Federal Farm Loan
Act and it Is here that the public
should declare Itself and demand a
square deal in taxation.
Tax exemption Is a “get-rich
quick” device that promises some
thing for nothing but which In real
ity has been shown to cost the pub
lic treasury as much as seven time*
what it gives to the barrower even
under our present tax rates.
A low rate of loans for farm Im
provement which will include the
struggling tenant and the poorer
class of farmers, Is very desirable
but it should not be brought about
at the expense of our tax bearing
citizens and for the benefit of our
few millionaires.
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if- WHERE DO WE LIVE?
4 ' 4
4 Prom Leslie’s Weekly. 4
4 One of the most curious the- 4
4 orles which has been advanced of 4
4 late years is that the earth is a 4
4 hollow shell, and that we live on 4
4 the inside! The sun. moon, stars 4
4- and various other planets are said 4
4 to float about in space inside this 4
4 hollow sphere. The physical 4
4 world, according to this theory, is 4
4 a shell composed of seven metal- 4
4 lie* five mineral and gve geologic 4
4 strata, with an Inner habitable 4
4 surface, land and water. This i:i- 4
4 ner surface is concave. The seven 4
4 metallic layers are the seven no- 4
4 ble metals—gold constituting the 4
4 outermost rind of the shell. This 4
4 shell or crust is several miles in 4
4 thickness; beyond it is nothing. 4
4 a vacuum. Such is (he theory 4
4 propounded by Cyrus R. Teed- 4
4 better known as Koresh—and this 4
4 theory constituted the basis of the 4
4 so-called “Cellular Cosmogony.'’ 4
4 The various astronomical facts. 4
4 and the various optical phe- 4
4 nomena which we know—such as 4
4 a ship disappearing when it sails 4
4 out to sea—are ingeniously twist- 4
4 ©d hy the Koreshian philosophy 4
4 to fit the theory. The earth, they 4
4 believe, is about 25,000 miles in cir- 4
4 cumference but instead of eurv- 4
4 ing outward, it curves inward— 4
4 that is, it is concave instead of 4
4 convex. 4
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Build Up
— From the Los Angeles Times.
This is what Lincoln said with respect
to the value of property gained through
labor and thrift; ^
Property is the fruit of labor; property
Is desirable; it Is a positive good in the
world. That some should be rich shows
that others may become rich, and hence
Is just encouragement to industry and
enterprise. Let not him who is houseless
pull down the house of another, but let
him work diligently and build one for
himself, thus by example assuring that
his own shall be safe from violence when
built.
The wisdom of this counsel may not
occur to the mind fevered by unrest and
poisoned by the false doctrine that
preaches the substitution of idleness for
thrift and destructive force for honest
enterprise. But the soundness of Lin
coln's words proved unassailable in his
day, just as their golden truth and fit
ness will prove an inspiration now to all
who put them to honest use.
Truth in Fabric.
From the Christian Science Monitor.
Now that food laws, both federal and
state, in the United States require the
marking of exact weights and ingredi
ents on many kinds of products, such a
bill as that introduced by Senator Cap
per. of Kansas, for the proper marking
of fabrics, deserves careful considera
tion. No product of any sort should pre
tend to be what it is not. Hence, even
though it is legitimate to use shoddy in
some kinds of goods, such fabrics should
not be marked or allowed to pass as
• all wool," if by that phrase the public
generally understands virgin wool; or
that which has not been used before.
Instead of what has been reclaimed. The
biil will naturally receive the support of
woolgrowers and of those manufacturers
who are accustomed to using only the
virgin wool. It should be Intelligently
understood and welcomed also by those
who wish to make use of shoddy or even
cotton, in their products.
Sir Krnest Shackleton records in his
new book, "South," that when some suit
cases, marked "solid leather," came to
be cut up In the antarctic regions to be
fashioned Into boots, it was found that
they contained a large percentage of
cardboard. All such dishonesty of mark
ing and of advertising, whether in con
nection with . leather goods, woolen
goods, or anything else, should not be
condoned for an instant by any manu
facturers or dealers. Whatever anything
is designated as beinj, that it should
actually be. The foreseen difficulties in
the way of the proper marking of food
products have been met with a consider
able degTee of success. There is no rea*
sou why apparent difficulties i ■ the w ay
i of this further reform should loom aa
large as to prevent the passing of an
intelligently framed bill. There is sura
to be no loss, but a gain, to all con
cerned, through complete and open hon
esty, for the public appreciates, and can
be further educated to appreciate, know
ing just what it is getting.
What Boosts "Gasoline?
From the Detroit News.
When (he professors get together to
fix over the school geographies, they
should tinker up the textbooks on eco
nomics. That "Old stuff" about supply ,
and demand needs cutting out or to be—^
supplied with the appropriate reserva
tions and amendments.
Gasoline used to be 11 cents a gallon
in Detroit. Then we had a war. War
uses a lot of gasoline; everybody knows
that. Boats and tanks and motor cars
and airplanes all burn gasoline in large
quantities every day. So naturally dur
ing tlie war the price of gasoline ad
vanced. ICve rylhing advance, gasoline
had a better excuse than most other
things.
But the war ended. And after the war
was over the- price of gasoline advanc-d
some more. And it keeps on advancing.
Now this is the problem the makers
of school hooks explaining economic
problems must contend with. The war
ships no longer fight, the thousands of
patrol boats no longer run, the tanks do
not rumble over battle fields, the war
planes are in the hangars for a long
rest, the war trucks have stopped, and
the generals’ motor cars take only short
drives around the military reservations.
All the extraordinary demands of war
which were a sufficient excuse for war
time advances in gasoline prices have
ceased. And there is more gasoline. The
1919 report just out shows that we pro
duced 21,000,000 barrels more the last
year than the previous year. More
gasoline, decreased demand, higher
prices—how can these things be?
Helgoland's Teeth Pulled.
From the New York Times.
Helgoland—two years ago Germany's
most impregnable barrier against allied
sea power—is today a dismantled hulk
of no military importance. The black,
imperious bulk of the island iself, sur
mounted by tons of masonry and in
geniously constructed gun emplace
ments, is all that remains. Germans
concerned in the construction of the for
tress declare another seven years' work
will be necessary to complete Helgo
land's "demobilization.” Work has been
in progress for over a year. All the guns
have been dismantled, but the destruc
tion of the harbor works and other for
tifications on the Island is proceeding.
The stronghold was built at a cost of
more than ?175,000,090, but its mighty
guns fired but once throughout the war.
The British warship Shannon waa the
target. The island played a negative
part In the defense of the German coast,
probably because allied experts agree
that it would have been impossible to
silence its batteries.
Will Bryan Bolt?
From the Springfield Republican
Nothing could tempt Mr. Bryan into
another (the fourth) presidential candi
dacy like a serious attack on federal
prohibition. The more the ISth amend
ment is fired at by democratic politicians
In the east, the tighter the Bryan jaw
will sc: and the grimmer will be the
aspect of the Bryan countenance. Bryan
will holt the democratic party more
easily than Roosevelt bolted the repub
lican party in 1912. in case profane hands
are laid upon prohibition at San Fran
cisco in June. And if he shotildlrun for
president independently, the whole pow
er of the national antisaioon league
would be back of him. It might be (hat
the historic democratic party would ex
pire at last, if it were thus used to cham
pion tlie lost cause of cocktail freedom "
Bryan, however, would not be elected
pi esident.
“The postal examinations headquar
ters have three duties.” official circles
further anonuoced. “These arjr to hin
der the flight of capital, to see whether
the orders of the imperial commissary
for export and import have been fol
lowed. and to stop vlte exchange trade
with the "red and green stamped L.O-A
fdfiik uaUiS.