Nebraska Newspapers

    THE O’NEILL FRONTIER
3. H. CRONIN, Publisher.
NEBRASKA
An increasing number of lunerai
pr-occssions going across the Swiss
border into Germany, recently
aroused the suspicions of customs of
ficials, who halted one of them. It
proved to be a smuggler's parade. The
casket was a false bottomed affair
and a figure in the coffin was stuffed
with gold, silver and other contra
band.
Capt, W. W. Nutting, of New York
city, has just completed a round trip
across the Atlantic and back in his
45-foot ketch, Typhoon. He left the
United States on July 17 and at
tended the yacht races at Cowes, Eng.
He was 10 days behind schedule oa
his return, owing to ripping off a sal]
In a storm and running short of sup
plies.
Investigation of the naturalization
papers of Otto H. Kahn, well known
financier, proves that he has been
legally admitted to citizenship, It is
reported by District Attorney Koss,
at Brooklyn. Charges that Kahn Is
not a legal citizen were made during
the recent presidential campaign,
when his right to vote was chal
lenged.
Girls are said to have taken a
prominent part In the Sinn Fein raids
tn Dublin Sunday. One girl wus ar
rested driving a motor car In which
wan found a quantity of ammunition
and several rifles and pistols. Other
girls are said to have guided “murder
parties-' to the homes of intended vic
tims.
England nas started inquiry into
the concessions of land In the form of
a lease secured by Washington D.
VanderMp, In Kussla, It is officially
announced from London. Under Sec
retary of State Davis has announced
the department Is "convinced of the
soundness of the American position
on Kussla.1'
Four thousand laborers have been
thrown out of work by the closing of
the dominion steel corporation works
at Sidney, N. S. W. An ultimatum
of 125 railroad employes for a settle
ment of wago disputes before a cer
tain hour was met by the company
with orders to suspend ah work and
bank the blast furnaces.
“Slight reductions in food prices
have had little effect in reducing the
cost of living to the average wage
earner/' says Ethelbert Stewart, com
missioner of labor statistics. "The
■decline In prices has been largely on
articles not entering largely Into their
living costs.”
Washington considers that soviet
Russia lias gained a diplomatic vic
tory tA negotiating a trade agreement"
With Great Britain. The view of many
41plomals is that the soviets have ob
tained an opening wedge for their
long sought recognition by other gov
ernments of the world.
Despite official disoouragement by
the United States government, Ameri
can trade with soviet Russia is in
progress. The volume exceeded, up
to a recent date, the amount which
Great Britain and all her dominions
were doing in the same territory, says
Via Milwaukee Journal.
Scores of counterfeit Polish pass
ports have been Issued In the last
Xew weeks to persons going to th«.
\Jnltcd States, according to the Paris
police, who say they were sold for
from 500 to 1,000 francs to persons to
whom the authorized Polish consu
late refused to give vises.
Americans in Cuba have Joined
Cuban bankers and business men in
making fresh complaint of the worn
out paper money in circulatltn here.
Except sliver, the only currency in
use, is American. It lias been chang
ing hands gp often that it is tat
tered almost beyond the point of rec
ognition.
Re 'y one-balf or the disburse
ment. at tlie shipping board emer
gency %ci .corporation over a period
of 17 months, totaling over $2,000,000,
000 were unsupported by proper
vouchers, according to the audit of
the corporation's accounts,
Kansas wheat is moving to market
very siowly u report of the state de
partment of agriculture for the past
week says. Corn is said to bo selling
as low as 35 cents a bushel in the
central part of the state.
All records tor cattle receipts it the !
Chicsgo stockyards were broken last
week when lll.yfiS head wore received
and sold, with 16,281 cr.ivcs. Alto
gether 40i.yoo animals were received
and sales totaled $15,031,000.
Massachusetts food prices declined
4 per cent, in October as compared
With September, it is reported l*y the
commission on necessities of life for
_ the slate. Cost of all necessities de
creased 2*4 per cent, in tile same time,
the report say.'i.
Saskatchewan, which celebrated its
fifteenth birthday as a s> If-yovern
ln« pi'.'vincc on fteptomber 1, lias bad
an increase in population in the last
decade and a half of 439 per cent. It
•has 8J3,()00 inhabitants.
Many n army oflicers of Germany
are in her prevent army of unem
ployed. not a few of them working at
hard labor. They must work ha'f a
day' for the price of a pound oi meat
•nil all day for a pound of butter.
Winter weather In Holland. Ger
many and Denmark has been judged
too severe for commercial aviation.
*i t e daily aerial mail service between
Holland aud England, and GMiami
and Germany will be dis • ‘ nued
until next spring.
People o? North Dakota an being
urged to sed their farm products and
come lo the rescue of the b a1-.-:, sev
eral of which are already d arid
•tiiers are said to be in distress.
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Complete returns inditate the state
constitutional prohibition enforcement
of Missouri—which includes St. Jkouis
'—carried by a majority of more than
*0.000.
A new record for supreme court
P ceeduro w'as set a few days ago
*yh. n a petition was received, con
* i red and acted on in loss tlian IB
minutes.
Turkey is to cost from BO to 52
cents a pound wholesale in Chicago
this Thanksgiving time, and scares
•t that. Cheaper birds arc in pru»'
♦eel for Christmas, it is claimed.
Head of Nebraska Welfare
Association Says 20 Per
Cent Atendance Increase
Due to Lack of Work.
bmnha, N'eb., Dec. 13 (United
Frees).- Hard times Is filling Ne
braska churches, according to Itev.
John H. (Jarretson, of the Nebraska
Welfare association, who has Just
completed a visit to all churches In
'.he state. Ho attributed a 20 per
i cot. increase in attendance to lack
of employment and the financial de
pression.
When a fellow gets on his uppers,
be gets down on his knees,” sold the
minister. “As long as he Is prosper
ous he passes up the church, but
when in trouble, moral or financial, he
ceks refuge there.”
JUST JAIL SENTENCE
FOR SHOOTING INTO HOUSE
Kearney, Neb., Dec. 13.—Frank
Schwab, charged with shooting with
intent to kill, was found guilty by a
district Jury of assault, carrying with
it only a light fine or Jail sentence of
30 days. Schwab In September ap
pro rod at the home of Mrs. Christina
Jacobson of Hlverdale and fired sev
eral : hols from a rifle Into hor house.
He had previously severed all phone
communication with the premises.
Hrs. Jacobson fled through a rear
door and sought safety among neigh
bors. Villagers were bitter In their
feeling over the shooting and posses
scoured the country for Schwab wlth
■ vail.
All evidence submitted in the case,
however, Indicated that Schwab
meant no bodly harm, and only used
11 Is means of frightening Mrs. Ja
cob on, following a misunderstand
ing with her over some work he had
don
Great Pianist and Great Man.
T. P. O’Connor, in London Tfmes.
f.o Paderewski is to play no more. This
is the tragic news I find in the news
papers. 1 will refuse to accept it as
long as 1 can; it would mean too great
a lofcH to the world. I wonder how many
people outside his own countrymen—
know tiie real Paderewski? I knew
nothing about his inner personality till
an accident brought him and me to
u* tlier.
lining in America on a mission, 1 found
mvsclf coining iri contact with him con
stantly whei business brought bo*h him
and me to Washington; and I began to
foim quite a different impression of him
when, brought face to face, wo discussed
political “problems. But the real occa
sion on which 1 was to get to under
stand him thoroughly came when 1 at
tended a great Polish meeting in Chi
cago. It was a most impressive gather
ing.’ There were 20.000 Poles present.
I had heard him for an hour. I could
not understand him. of cour e, for the
speech was in Polish, but l could see the
effect on the audience; and I realized
that this slight, almost fragile looking
man. could rnvay the emotions of these
people as completely and as promptly as
the breezes sway the fields of growing
wheat.
It was my first surprise. A greater
came when later in the ntght 1 accepted
his invitation to dine with him. For
four hours on end I listened to him as
lie spoke on everything and a few other
things. It was one of the most fascinat
ing experiences. Melancholy! lie was
the greatest talker I lmd heard for years.
Story followed story; all light hearted.
And he spoke in several languages—
mainly in English—and with such ease
and perfection that it w*fiM hard to real
ize tY t he was not a native of each of
the countries whose language lie spoke.
Then 1 realized that Paderewski was
not merely u great pianist, but a big
Get Together.
Prom Los Angeles Times (republican.) ^
The democratic and r -publi^an plat- *
form* Wei v' f o nearly alike that there I
was hardly a flr;ht between them, even
in the day? qf *6ft-pedal buttlia^ The j
m.r.-.ocraU were in and the repumk ar.s
were out. That was the main differ*
ti.ee. outside of that, by switching a
few commas and juggling words the
party declarations could be construed
• .-uln lantiully the .same.
Democrat" who opposed the League of
Nation voted for Harding in order to
get aw ay Lorn Wilson. Democrats who
U' voj’cd the League of Nation ? voted for
tlardiag because they thought an agree
ment wouhl be reached quicker through 1
a president and Senate who were In ac
cord. Some republicans who were for
the League of Nations voted for Cox be
cause they thought he represented the
Wilson ideals. A few republicans against
the league may have supported Cox bo
cair-o they thought he wouhl kill it if
he could or knew that he would be un
able to accomplish anything, anyliow.
l-abor unions talked about Cox and
Vi t d for Harding.
Take it by and large there was about
as much difference between the two
parties’ professions as between a couple j
of cocoa nuts on the beach. One of them
may be slightly decayed in the center
or its mill; may have soured, but so fat*
as the eye goes they are dead ringers
for one another.
So with the republicans and the demo
crats. There is no reason why they
< ouUln’t amalgamate. Some of these
Napoleons ought to promote a demo-,
republican merger. The democrats
haven’t s-o very much left to merge and
should be perfectly willing.
A man and his wife will dwell in the
cune room, though one bow in prayer
whilst the other doesn’t even believe in
Santa Claus. They may divide and dif
fer on everything from psychology to
plain cooking. Yet somehow or other
they lodge under the same quilt.
A blend of the democrats with the re
publicans ought to be easy. They
wouldn't have to give up anything but
their false teeth.
The Canadian Manufactures’ nsso
ciation are advocating a protective
tariff, and the theory that reciprocity
would be a bad bargain for Canada.
ANOTHER STUNT FOR RADIUM.
From the Indianapolis News,
it is possible to change the color of
precious and semi-precious stones by
exposing them to the action of radi
um. A Frenchman who has devoted
b.mself to this study lias obtained
remarkable tesults. He bought
sapphires of different kinds and put
them in a box w-ith a small quantity
of radium. At the end of a month
tile transformations w-ere as follows:
White sapphires had become yellow ;
blue, green: violet, blue; w ine colored
stones, red. and dark blue, violet.
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10 BEAPPEALED
Finding of District Court in
Suit Against Two Counties
Is to Be Given Test—
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 11 (Special).—
Rephesentativea of the estate of
Frank E. Brienzo, a former resident
of South Sioux City, have appealed to
the supreme court from a Judgment
of the district court finding that the
counties of Cedar and Dixon were
not responsible for his death. Brienzo
had business in Wynot and employed
his brother to drive him there in an
automobile. They took with them a
young woman from Sioux City named
Mace.
After they left Newcastle the driver
lost his way and finally took a by
road that led directly into the Mis
souri river. It was night and the
lights of the car were not working
well. Frank Brienzo and the girl
were drowned. The road was or the
county line between Dixon and Ce
dar, and it was claimed that they
were impressed with the duty of plac
ing proper harriers across the road.
The Judgment went against the
plaintiff because It was shown that
the road was not a public highway,
that it was grass-grown and brier
strewn and that the defendants con
tributed to the fatality by their neg
ligence. It is claimed by appellants
that the negligence of the driver can
not be imputed to his passenger or
guest and anyway it was error to al
low the attorneys to question the sur
viving Brienzo about an arrest in
South Dakota on a charge of drug
ging girls.
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PLEADS GUILTY TO
SLAYING HIS FATHER
Grand Island, Neb., Dec. 11 (Associ
ated Press).—Mike Curtin, alleged
slayer on .June 2 last Of his own
father, lias pleaded guilty to murder
in the second degree and was today
sentenced by Judge Bayard Payne to
imprisonment for life. The ease had
been set for trial by jury on December
13, but an agreement was reached be
tween the defense and the prosecu-.
tion to offer and accept such a plea in
open court and the court to fix the
degree of the crime and impose sen
tence upon hearing the main evi
dence,
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FURLOUGHED PRRISONER
BACK TO THE PEN
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 11 (United
Press).—Aacting Governor P. A. Bar
rows lias ordered the return of Frank
St. Claire, furloughed prisoner, to
Nebraska penitentiary. St. Claire
was sentenced following his convic
tion of automobile theft in Buffalo
county and was furloughed In May,
191!'. lo attend his farm near Council
Bluffs, la. Information to Lieut. Gov.
Barrows that St. Claire was “impli
cated" in the Council Bluffs mail rob
bery was the reason given for his re
turn.
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BIG MOTOR CONCERN
ADJUDGED BANKRUPT
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 11 (Special).—
The Hebb Motors Company and the
Patriot Motors Company were ad
judged bankrupt in federal court to
day thus putting a practical end to
the hopes of Nebraska investors,
many of them farmers, who had
placed over a million and a quarter
in 111" piv.nt. Tlie court found that
the companies had committed acts of
bankruptcy in preferring creditors.
J. E. Uostnftld, receiver named a
week or 10 days ago, said that he
found the concern was owing $930,000
find that he placed a value on the
asset.: Of $4(1(1.000, Another witness
thought the present value of the prop
el ty to be half a million, and that as
a going concern it would be worth a
million. A. G. Hebb, the man who
promoted it, said it was worth $1,
600,000 as a going concern. He added
$700,000 as good will acquired in ex
pensive advertising campaigns.
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CHARGED WITH USING
MAILS TO DEFRAUD
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 11 (Associated
Press).- Two men whose names were
given as It. .!. Grant and I. F. Biglow,
who are alleged to have-advertised
for students desiring to qualify as
motion picture actors are under bond
to appear before a United States com
missioner here late today on a charge
of u.-ing the mails to defraud. Com
plaint was tiled by United States Dis
trict Atorney Frank A: Peterson, who
said they were not equipped for their
business. The accused are residents
of Omaha according to their counsel.
Attorney Edward Bradley, who de
clared “there was nothing to the
case.”
Collar Line at College.
All Harvard students are now re
quired to take some active part in
athletics. There Is no longer any line
drawn between the students who go
in for development above the collar
and those who favor development be
low the collar.
A girl arrested In her expensive
apartment on a charge of having stol
en money from the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of Chicago, admit
ted taking it, but insisted: "What else
Is a girl with a college education go
ing to do when she can only get $8
a week working?"
Stunt to Cure Hiccoughs.
A Spanish physician claims to have
been very successful in curing stub
born cases of hiccoughs by this treat
ment: The patient lies down and
draws up his knees until his thighs
are pressed tightly to his abdomen,
the lower part of the legs being
pressed against the thighs by bend
ing the knees. The position Is held
for several minutes. The effect of
h s is to press the abdominal organs
no against the diaphragm and to sus
tain the pressure until the diaphragm
•■;'.S'?s its spasmodic contraction.
SENSATION SHOWN
IN COURT FILING
Omaha People Said to Have
Attempted the Old Time
“Badger Game.”
Fremont, Neb, Dec. 10.—An inter,
vention petition filed in a mortgage
dispute by Ogden Milligan of Scrib
ner alleges sensational conspiracies
in the case of T. P. Curran, of
Omaha against John Milligan. Plain
tiff holds mortgage on property for
merly owned by defendant's son, Jos
eph. Curran attempted to secure a
loan on the property when parents of
the boy interfered and the case was
taken to court to quiet title.
Ogden Milligan comes forward and
asks for an intervention and that the
deed be held null. A conspiracy is al
leged in the petition that Jack and
Zelma Short, both of Omaha, sought
to entrap Joseph Milligan, setting
forth that he is mentally Incompetent
and a victim of fear and that ho has
disappeared on account of this case.
It is further alleged that Short pre
tended to be the husband of Zelma
Short and that they inveigled Milli
gan into a love affair by which they
proposed to threaten him with a suit
for alienation and white slavery if he
failed to sign an agreement to pay
Short $10,000, to be paid by deed
ing certain property over to Curran.
The case was adjourned until Wed
nesday.
WOMAN WANTS PART
OF JOHN NEAL ESTATE
Lincoln, Neb, Dec. 10.—Attorney
General Clarence A. Davis had hardly
announced his intention of trying to
obtain for the state a $1,000,000 es
tate of John Neal, deceased South
Carolina tobacco king, when he re
ceived an application from Mrs. Dor
othy B. Stuart, 506 East Twenty
first street, University Place, for
enough of the money to buy her a
comfortable home. In reply the at
torney general’s assistants have dip
lomatically said that unfortunately
there is no method by which state
funds, actual or prospective, can bo
distributed to needy citizens, no mat
ter how worthy they are.
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CITY MANAGER PLAN
FOR NORFOLK, NEB.
Norfolk, Neb, Dec. 10.—The Norfolk
city council called a special election
for January 22 for a vote on the city
manager plan of government.
STRINGENCY HITS
COLLEGE STUDENT
Many Young Men and Women
Working Ways Through
School No Longer Able
to Land Jobs.
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Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 10 (Special).—
University authorities say that there
is every reason to believe a consider
able number of young men who have
been working their way through the
state university will be compelled to
quit and go back home, because there
are no jobs for them and they can
not borrow any more from the friends
who have helped finance them. It is
also believed that with the second
semester a number of farmers’ sons
will have to drop out because of the
tightness of the money market and
the low prices for farm produce;
which will force the withdrawal of
jnany young women, as well.
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DAKOTA COUNTY PIONEER
_ IS DEAD AT HOMER
Homer, Neb., Dec. 10 (Special).—
Mary A. Meyers, the wiie of the late
John B. Meyers, was buried here
Tuesday. She was a continuous resi
dent of Dakota county since 1857.
The funeral was held from the Catho
lic church. Rev. Father O'Toole, of
Sioux City, was in charge of the serv
ices. Mrs. Meyers came to Dakota
county with the Tracey colony, from
Dubuque, la., 83 years ago and set
tled at St. Johns, two miles north of
Jackson, which was a little later
moved to Jackson and consolidated
with that place. She was one of the
first school teachers in Dakota coun
ty. C. J. O'Connor, president of the
Homer State Bank, T. J. O'Connor, a
wealthy stock raiser, Louis N. Smith,
a wealthy retired miller, all of Homer,
and Mrs. Helena Green, of Sioux City,
being among the pioneers who attend
ed her school south of Homer. She
was married in 1867 and was past 81
years old at the time of her death.
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MEAT PRICES BEING
CUT BY NORFOLK DEALERS
Norfolk, Neb., Dec. .10 (Special!.—
A meat war is believed to be on in
Norfolk. The independent dealers in
dressed beef and pork are said to
be the objective of those waging the
war. Dressed hogs started at 18
cents, delivered. Then they dropped
to 17 to cents, and later to 1C to cents.
"Beginning the last part of this
week we will be delivering to Nor
folk homes dressed hogs for 16 cents
a pound,” one retailer says. "The
packers are doing it. I don't even
have to worry about the delivery
part of it,” he said. "We are going
to sell United States inspected hogs,
dressed, for that price. We are going
to tell the people they won’t have to
take any chances of buying diseased
hogs." _ _ _
ORD—Terribly burned so that the
flesh dropped off in several places, the
3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Brickner is expected to recover from in
juries received when she sat down in
a pail of scalding water.
AUBURN—Schoolma'ams in Auburn
must refrain from dancing according to
a resolution recently passed by the board
of education. Teachers are said to be
I indignant, but are complying with the
rule,
I.EXINU.TON—Landing on i: head
! rfter a to foot fall from a wuu’miU. Al
t .Nn.gari. Tu a farmer, u. . .
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A Word for the Farmers
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From the Investment News.
Kansas, Iowa and Texas farmers demand and deserve a square deal
In the marketing of their grain. Their agitation for a better price for
their crops and proper credit C® finance them may be a passing incident In
the world’s industrial readjustment, but it bears an Important relation to
'.he deep, quiet, evolutionary and orderly transition which Is going on in the
great American farming flldustry is a result of the war.
In withholding their grain fvjrn market In a probably fatal attempt
to force the price of wheat up to $3 a bushel, when there is an oversupply ^
of wheat, farmers of the wheat growing states are not pursuing a Simon
pure economic course. But they are demonstrating that the plow, the har
row and the seed drill are no longer the simple poetic symbols of a mythi
cal pastoral bliss and abundance, but the practical working tools of an In
dustry which has unlimited power to enforce its rights and has determined
to exercise that power in a way that will bring results. America has never
seen a farmers’ strike and probably never will. But the farmer can ask
some pertinent questions about recent goings on in the general industrial
field that would be hard for anybody to answer, and he can rake up enough
past history to Justify him in going to any length at this late day to get his
share.
To the undoubted fact that there is too much wheat In the world for It
to sell at $3 a bushel the farmer will reply that he answered the call for
increased production, paid excessive wages and excessive supply prices to
raise a crop which he cannot now market without a loss. If the farmer is
to be asked to dump his wheat at $2 or less when it was produced on a
higher cost basis he will demand that every other producer, wage worker
and distributor sell his goods or services correspondingly down so the
farmer may buy more labor, supplies, fertilizer and machinery for his
smaller profit on $2 or lower wheat
The farmer has been accused of holding out on hungry humanity be
cause he did not dispose of all his previous crop as soon as it was har
vested. He has stood false charges that would have shamed the worst
profiteer. But seldom has he been commended for using good business
judgment, exactly as it is exercised in the best managed industries, when
he has practiced or tried to practice very sound principles in spreading
out the sale of his wheat to stabilize the market and prevent spasmodic
price declines which give big interests, foreign and domestic, the oppor
tunity at crop making to gather in great yields of wheat At low prices to
be passed on to the consumer later at prices as high as if the market never
had seen a recession.
It would require more than an expert hair splitter to define the differ
ence between carrying on credit for gradual distribution 1,000,000 or 10,
000,0d0 tons of raw materials used in industry to pre.vent a too rapid break
in prices, and carrying on credit a part of the wheat crop on the farms to
prevent a collapse of prices. The wheat crop will be carried over any
how, for the world will not buy more than it needs; hut it will be carried
over in such manner as to, put the profit from prices stabilized to the con
sumer Into the pockets of somebody besides the farmer.
Farming is naturally a speculative undertaking, the farmer a natural ■
speculator, for his fortune rides on the fickle wind and his profits may dis
appear with an early frost. Even with all the uncertainties of weather
and other conditions beyond his control the farmer knows that under tha
jfree law of averages he can make out. But he has learned that he never
can make out if he is hoodwinked by a shell game which shows him $3 for
a bushel of wheat when he is producing it in June and only $2 a bushel
when ho is marketing it in October. Unless the country is prepared to
have the farmer curtail his crops in the future and thwart the very doc
trine of increased production preached from every housetop as the only
way back to abundance and comfort, an attentive and sympathetic ear
must be turned toward the tiller of the soil and sincere minds must devise
• remedies for the conditions which give rise to his complaints. Give agri
culture the credit it needs and provide a fair market for its crops, or the
day will come when It will make the market on its own terms.
Down on the Ol’ Bar-G.
The boss he took a trip to France
Down on the ol’ Bar-G.
He left his gal to run the ranch,
Down on the ol’ Bar-G.
She wouldn’t let us chew nor cuss,
Had to keep slicked up like a city bus.
So round-up time was u-nan-i-muss
Down on the ol' Bar-G.
Our round-up cook, he soon go th’u,
Down on the ol’Bar-G.
Found his clay pipe right in the stew,
Down on tho ol’ Bjir-G.
But when we let that feller go
We married grief an' we married woe,
For the gal opined she’d hake the dough,
Down on the ol Bar-G.
Wi-sht you'd seen her opnin' meal
Down on the ol’ Bar-G.
We all blinked twict—seemed plum un
real,
Down on the ol’ Bar-G.
We had figs an’ fudge an’ whipped up
pru'in,
Down on the oT Bar-G.
An’ angel cahe all dipped In goo’in,
“My Gawd!” said Tex, "my stomlck’s
rulnt”—
Down on the ol’ Bar-G.
We quit that job an’ cook ladee
Down on the ol’ Bar-G.
An’ pulled our freight for the lone
prair-ee,
Down on the ol’ Bar-G.
For out on the range we could chew an’
cuss
An' git real mean an’ bois-ter-uss,
Whar apron strings they couldn’t rope us
Down on the ol’ Bar-G.
—Phil Lenoir, in Poetry.
Taft and the League.
From the Indianapolis News.
In a recent article In tho Philadelphia
Public Ledger, former President Taft,
speaking for a large number of repub
licans, argues that it would be much
better for us to seek for a revision of
the present league covenant than to at
tempt to form a new association. He
shows that the changes could very easily
bo made and that they would meet, pre
sumably, the objections of Senator Hard
ing. By consenting to the covenant thus
amended we should, as the former pres
ident points out, in ratifying that also
ratify tho Versailles treaty. And that
he rightly regards as a matter of the
greatest importance. He says:
The United States, by ratifying the
treaty with this new league. In it. would
make formal peace with Germany and
secure the benefits which the treaty ac
cords to us as a signatory, and thus
every obstacle to the resumption of
trade with Germany on the old basis
would be removed. By the treaty heavy
burdens are Imposed on Germany. She
deserves as heavy punishment as she can
stand for what she did, but she must not
be broken down. She must, in the in
terest of the world, have the opportunity
to reconstruct herself. France and Eng
land particularly the former, are not
•lear visioned In this matter. leniency
will probably have to be shown Germany
.in the interest of all. She and the world
need the United States as a disinterested
participant at the council table, and In
the league* to deal reasonably with the
subject and to restrain France and Eng
land to what Is practicable.
The Influence of the United States Is
greatly needed, for many reasons, and
would he most helpful. We must,
whether we will or not, be partners with
other nations in the ordering of world
affaire. We could be much more useful,
and greatly more Influential, if we
joined directly with them In tho work
and assumed our fair share of the bur
den and responsibllitT
Victory an<J After.
The editorial that follows was written
by a republican who gave his whole time
to the campaign and worked as hard
is anyone for victory. Here are tiis
nresent sentiments. Does any one dU
igree. asks Collier's Weekly:
Anyone who speaks from republican
leanings may he Inclined to regret the
vember 2. Again, those who think from
a viewpoint that Is democratic may re
gret It and believe It Is time for the
democrats to return to democracy.
Now, in the cool of the evening of a
presidential year, when the marching
clubs have disbanded, and the back
platform speech is still, and there is
nothing left to do but underwrite the
campaign deficits, the republican parcy
may be in grave danger from that ad
versity of adversities—distended victory.
All the old bluffs in the party will
regard the victory as a stamp of ap
proval given by the people to every re
actionary folly that ever railed around
In their fat heads. They have lain on
their backs in the current of antl-Wil
sonism, and drifted over the finish line,
and are now screaming out: "We won
the race." It is difficult to forsee how
much that kind of republican reaction
ary will attempt to keep Harding and
congress from progress. If they try it
and succeed, there wJl) be another wash
out whenever the people find their way
to the ballot box again.
From the republican point of view the
victory, for another reason, is much too
sweeping. The people have given the
republican party the whole set of tools.
They have said: "Now build something
and fix the leaks and put up some trellis
for good measure, and do it quick. We
love you?” The republican party is a
good deal like the girl who has to plead
with her suitor: “Dont make an idol of
me. So help me, I’m only human?”
Again, there is a vast danger in over
whelming congressional majorities; they
invite splits. Do you see a path of roses
for the republioan party? To many re
publicans it looks more like a furrow
where there are rocks enough to jerk ^
the plowhandles right out of a man's ■
hand. Belief in the cheeks of a two- ^
party system, where strength is nearly
balanced, is a reason for pointing all
these facts out to democrats. The dem
ocratic party has been led away from
every principle it ever tacked over its
mantel.
Let us all hope there are enough real
democrats left to pull the party away
from French Lick, where the ’practical”
bosses hold their meetings, without
snapping the party back again into the
laps of the wholly Impractical bosses
who have dandled democracy until
Thomas Jefferson would have to use
the thumb-print method to identify it.
Our Arch of Welcome.
Our arch of welcome simply had to go—
The arch we walked beneath when w*
came back;
Remember how it spanned Main street
below
The poslofflce? There surely was no lack
Of brilliancy—It lit tho street like day
With “Welcome, Heroes,” in Immense
design;
The trouble was—It wasn’t built to stay;
The framework warped and squee-geed
out of line;
It served us mighty well more than a
year—
We got our money’s worth, seems like
to me.
For when the Elks held stats convention
here,
We changed the ’’Heroes” to "B. P. O.
E.”
The firemen’s tournament changed it
once more,
Likewise the Guernsey breeders’ annual
fair;
Before the arch became the town's eye
sore,
At welcoming it did more than its share.
We stood and Watched 'em tear it down
today;
It didn’t take long—came down easily;;
Bill Burns, beside me. snickered, “You
might say,
That arch wore out its welcome, seems
to me.”
—Charles Npholls Webb, in American
Legion Weekly (Copyright, 1920.)
“Cancellation Horror.”
Richard Spillanc, in the Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
This cancellation practice is a holy
horror. It is one of the most disgracef ;
features of business today. Some re
tailers justify it on the score that in* u
facturers took advantage of them when
there was an alleged scarcity of goods
and when the people had a buying
mania. They declare that manufacturers
and Jobbers held the goods “in suspen
sion/’ took orders and didn’t t il them
but rebooked them at higher p ices and
then found no difficulty In furnishing
the goods.
There is some truth in this. It was one
of the foul evidences of profiteering.
Rut the number of manufacturers who
resorted to this form of gouging was not
large proportionately and two wrongs
never made a right.
The retailer who canoels an or ler, who
refuses goods because of a c. inge in
conditions, is dishonest.
Everyone who is acquainted with the
trade sttuation today appreciates that
this cancellation evil is the sore? t spot in
the whole field of merchandi mg. If
correction does' not come qui< y, the
results may not be pleasant O thing
certain is that those who default their
contracts will not be forgotten, .woody
loves a welclier.