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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1920)
ToCureaCold I in One Day I Take Grove's Laxative Bromo I Quinine H tablets 1 Be sure its Bromo CUrts 1 The genuine bears this signature I 30c. ALL HE HAD IN HIS HAND Pat Certainly Held No Weapon of Offense, but It Was Deadly for His Case. In tlie courthouse an Irishman stood charged with stealing a watch from a follow citizen. He stoutly denied the accusation, and brought a counter charge against the accuser for assault and battery committed with a frying pan. The judge was inclined to ta'.te a common-sense view of the matter and, regarding the prisoner, said: “Why did you allow the prosecutor, who is a much smaller man than your self, to assault you without resist ance? Hud you nothing in your hand to defend yourself?” “Bedad, yer honor,” said Pat, “I had his watch, but what was that against his frying pan?”—London Ideas. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine Those who are in a "run down" condi tion will notice that Catarrh bother! them much more than when they are It good health. 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CO., NO. 1-192 r r.1 „ — — —-. „ m-m-m „ -r-m [L 1L _ s III -u 1 > I > M , ,, I m ■ ■ - - — i Greater Production Needs Outlet ■ -^■mmmmmT-T--|-p- ~r- - Stephen Bell, in Commerce and Finano*. "What is the matter with tho production theory of wages? On Novem ber 13, 1918, we printed an article, “Concerning Wages,” In which we showed that wages are drawn from tho current production of labor and not from accumulated capital. We drew from this the lesson that wages cannot be too high provided the product of labor Is commensurate with them. We deduced that the country where the comforts and necessities of ^ife were plentiful and cheap was rich, and one where they were scarce and dear was poor no matter what its bank clearings and trade balances might be. We closed by stating that the problem of labor, since the voracious maw of war was filled, was to make abundant the things that all needed, since it was impossible to raise tho rate of real wages—what our money will buy— by any of the restrictions on economic freedom which organized labor so dearly loves. With others we have ridiculed the *‘ca’ canny” system of work, assert ing that it was based on the erroneous theory that the amount of work to be done was limited and therefore should be spread out lest the toilers “work themselves out of a job.” Judging from the celerity with which prices have been falling in the past few months, labor must have taken the tip so unanimously chorused by the employers. Instead of everything being lovely, however, there come from all over the country—and the world, too, for that matter—stories of factories closing or curtailing operations, rail roads reducing forces, wage reductions and large talk of "open shops” for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of labor. The closing of mills or running them on part time is said to be neces sary because of accumulations of stocks which cannot be sold and to pre vent their growing larger. Was it the speeding up of labor that brought about this result? Or were we mistaken in deriding the notion that the amount of work to be done is limited? To those thrown out of work it doubtless seems limited enough as they trudge from place to place looking for employ meal. Frank Mt,n Ison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, is quite justified in declaring that the present state of industry is an indictment of those industrial managers who called for more produc tion as the solution of the wage question. It merits the most careful at tention of our industrial leaders. We are assured that the production theory of wages is correct. We are equally assured that limiting output in order to “make work last longer” results in loss to both labor and capi tal. Real wages consist of what money wages will buy, no more can be bought than is produced, and producing less necessarily lessens real wages. What, then, has thwarted the working of this law and brought about ex isting conditions? There are more factors in tho economic problem of the production and distribution of wealth than are dreamed of by the casual worker, employer or even many economists. An all but universal method of thought vitiated at the start by some kind of an idea that money is of more value than money's worth gives nearly all of ua a false view of these factors. We know that the cheapness that follows the use of Improved machinery or methods has really displaced n*> labor, but on the contrary has opened larger fields of employment to bovh labor and capital, yet we refuse to follow this beneficent principle to the extent of availing ourselves of the cheap ness that would result from utilizing the advantages in various lines of production possessed by other nations. By placing obstacles in the way of imports of cheap foreign goods we have choked the sale of our own goods abroad. The foreign exchanges are so lopsided with our exports during the war and the enormous sales since the armistice that Europe, despite her need for more, is practically at the end of her tether to command means of payment. Despite the enormous jump in our exports in October, they were but a fraction of what Europe needs, though unable just now to pay or command credit. She is trans ferring her purchases to South America, where she can pay with exports, and where the exchange rates are not so ruinous. Those who regard only a single industry or group of industries find it easy to believe in the protective philosophy- Reasoning from the particu lar to the general, they naturally think what is good for one is good for alf. As well say that because one man is enriched by having his salary doubled everybody could be enriched in the same way. The protective tariffs and other restrictions in which the nations have tangled their foreign trade have come to act like so many partial embargoes and blockades on exports and imports, and the natural result is what we see in all highly developed industrial lands—factories closing, labor idle, capital wasting, because there is no market, or a very restricted market for what is produced. INTERNATIONAL GRAIN AND HAY EXPOSITION. [National Crop Improvement Service ] A THOUSAND ten-ear samples of corn will form a part of the big hay and grain show at Chicago in connection with the International Livestock Exposition from November 27th to December 4th, 1020, at which prizes totaling $10,000 will be awurded by the Chi cago Board of Trade to encourage general crop improvement. Prof. Christie, who is the direc tor of the show, announces that the samples will be ten ears tnis year instead of twenty, as last year. A class has also been provided for single ears. The millers will offer a trophy for the best sample of milling wheat and the oats miller'J a trophy for the best sample of oats, and there will be competition also for field peas, soy beans, cow peas, clover, alfalfa, timothy, alsike, etc. It Is generally conceded that this will be the best hay and grain show ever held Hog Island—1920. No more the stretching incandescent blaze, Burning a silver arc across the night; Tall derricks idle through unchanging days, With naught but memories of the splendid fight. One fancies if these idle ways could dream, They’d, yearn for eager artisans who swirled About the shaping hulls, a toiling stream Who flung their answer half across the world. Today their ships are on the misty lanes. Off the dim Orkneys and at Singapore; Steaming to Rio through the tropic rains, Or slipping past some Australasian shore. Across the lonely flats the tall ways loom. Dull timbers etched against the sun set skies; A steamer’s siren cuts the deepening gloom. While through the roadside weeds the night wind sighs. —Thomas J. Murray, in New York Times. Maine's Gold Mines, From the Lowell Courier-Citizen. Gold has been found In a granite quarry at Skowhegan, Me. Don’t, how ever, Join the crowd of the get-rich quickers who may start thither as to some Yukon field. There have often been reports of gold discoveries In north ern New England but they usually turn out to be a case in which some visitor has dropped out the filling of a tooth. The presence of gold in Nova Scotia has given a certain plausibility to the ex pectation that where Maine passes Into the sub-boreal terrain auriferous depos its may be found. Yet even the Nova Scotian field, one understands, has re ceived about as much gold in stock sub scriptions as it has ever emitted In bullion. 444444444444444444^ 4 BREAKS RECORD? W ♦ - ♦ ■f Kingsley, Ia„ Dec. 18.—At C. -f + Cunningham’s recreation par- ♦ 4 lors Thursday night Earl Cun- 4 4 nlngham, playing with Ora ♦ 4 Ross, of Sioux City, made a ♦ high run of 146 balls at pocket ♦ 4 billiards. It is said that this is 4 4 a new high mark In the middle + 4 west. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Jl** ♦♦***♦♦ Language of the Gutter. From the Outlook. Americans have made progress in city government; but just now they have no reason for boasting. Their two largest cities have recently given occasion for Americans of self-respect to feel and express shame. The Thompson regime in Chicago and the Hylan regime in New York, the one republican and the other democratic, provide ample evidence that Americans are culpably careless in se lecting administrators of their city gov ernments. A legislative committee has been In vestigating the alleged building graft in New York City. In the course of the In vestigation a letter of Mayor Hylan's was produced, and In consequence the mayor was called as a witness. The de tails of the subject are not of national Interest; but it Is of some concern to all Americans that their largest city has a mayor who can answer questions In lan guage like this: "If you’ve got anything, prove It and shut up. • • * You are not going to put me In a hole for politics or political pur poses. • * • You’re not going to put any thing over on me. If you’ve got any thing, produce, produce. The quicker the better.' Just Talk. From the New York World. The manner in which congress econo mizes is clearly revealed in President Wilson’s message, which shows that “over $1,000,000,000 of expenditures were authorized by the last congress in addi tion to the amounts shown In the usual compiled statements of appropriations.” Yet scores of representatives and sena tors were on the stump during the re cent campaign, all engaged in telling the country how they had saved money and reduced taxes, although they had done neither. Ths spirit in which congress listens to any suggestion of economy Is accurately expressed by Representative Mondell’s sneer at the president's appeal, Mr. Mondell being the republican leader of the House. Our "Crusades” Don’t Suit. Sioux City Is a great place for ‘‘crusades.” The latest is against shoplifters. One arrested this week was released on a $15 cash bond. What professional wouldn't give $15 for a chance to try it again? Give ’em the limit with a Jail sentence. When Sioux City starts a real cru sade against the worst offenders— auto speeders—and gives every one the law's limit, then they will have {lone something.—-a:ovlito Mail. i 44 444444444444444*4 4 THE DECISIVE MOMENT. 4 4 - 4 4 Thomas Nelson Page, ii the Lon- 4 4 don Times. 4 4 In view of the discussion going 4 4 on in tho French pr*«a as to 4 4 whom was chiefly du« the de- 4 4 cision in the spring of 1918 to 4 4 place all the armies of the allies 4 4 In France under one supreme 4 4 ' command, it might tend to clarify 4 4 the records to ascertain the pre- 4 4 else date of tho following inci- 4 4 dent. On an occasion when a 4 4 conference or war council was he- 4 4 ing held Gen. John J. Pershing, 4 4 the commander of the A. E. F. in 4 4 France, after considerable appar- 4 4 ently futile discussion had gone 4 4 on, rose, and with soldierly frank- 4 4 ness expressed his view that the 4 4 only way to prevent inevitable 4 4 disaster and win the war was to 4 4 place all the allied armies in 4 4 France under one coflimander- 4 4 in-chief. And , added General 4 4 Pershing, for his part, lie consid- 4 4 ered General Foch as the man 4 4 best fitted for the position, and 4 4 he himself was ready to place 4 4 himself and all his foices unre- 4 4 servediy under command of Gen- 4 4 oral Foch. On this Mr. Lloyd, 4 4 reaching across tho table, shook 4 4 hands with him, sayttig, “I am 4 4 with you." 4 4 It wTould seem that this was the 4 4 decisive moment of the war. ^ Northcliffe to Daniels. (Copyright, 1920, by UnUed News.) "Tlie big and little ship controversy which originated,” said Lord Norlh eliffe, "Is an attempt to pet from the test naval minds the knowledge of what arc the best measures tar tho future d< fense of Great Britain and her asso ciated nations of Australia, New Zea land and the others. r/l>e late Lord Fisher had an uncanny faculty of being right. He was usually years ahead of his time. He invented the now defunct dreadnaught and the fast, heavily ar moured cruiser. Ho waff the persistent advocate of oil and turbine. He be lieved in the submarine at a time when it was regarded as a dangerous toy. Ba*k in 1915 he told me that the day of the big battleship was gone. He Is now supported by Sir Percy Rcntt. I call to mind and refer back to a con 'troversy in which Sir Percy Scott en gaged early in 1913, just before the war, when he pretty accurately guessed what would happen to the big ships and to tha growing power of tho little ships. “I have no views myself on tho sub ject and do not professe to know any thing about it. But at a time when wo are being asked to commit Great Biltaln to the building of a large num ber of ships which are to cast $50,000,000 each, I think we ought carefully to Inquire whether we are building use less monsters for other people's sub marines to lock up In harbors. "As for rivalry between tho fleets of the United States and the fleets of Great Britain: Our fleets are wanted for an entirely different purposo from yours. Ours is a fleet for defense and mainly commerce defense. If ray friend, Sec retary Daniels, ever did suggest that the United States had to arm itself to com pete against any combination of powers against the United States, I would very much like to know what combination he suggests. There is no possible com bination. Is it suggested that Britain should combine, for example, with the Japanese or the Chineso against the United States? I can Imagine the Howl that would come from Australia, British Columbia and other of tho British over sea dominions If any such Impossible situation were suggested. Perhaps some Washington correspondent will give my love to Mr. Daniels and ask him to make his combination.” Hunter Impersonates Squirrel. From West's Docket. A case of a hunter being hunted, in which tho hunted hunter received, in ad dition to a charge of shot in the face and chest, damages for the resulting injuries, is that of White vs. Lcvarn, 10S Atlantic Reporter, 664. The parties to the action, answering the call of the wild, armed themselves with shotguns, and bent on the destruction of tile chattering squir rel and the drumming partridge, hied themselves to the woods one Sunday in ) October, 1913. Towards the close of tho I afternoon they separated—one going ! through tho woods near a stone wall which divided the woods from a small clearing, and the other, at the same time, starting in the same direction on the other side of the wall. After going a short distance the later sat down on the wall, and while so occupied was shot by ilia companion, who mistook him for a gray squirrel because lie was wearing a cap made of gray material. Had the cap been a gray squirrel it would probably have escaped, as no damages wero sought for injuries to tho cap, and the Injuries sustained showed that the shot went low A majority of the court rendered judgment for the defendant, tho presid ing judge dissenting, and the case wem to the Vermont supreme court on plain tiff’s exceptions. Chief Justice Watson wrote an opinion wherein it was held that, since hunting on Sunday was pro hibited by statute, defendant was liable whether or not the shooting was tho re sult of carelessness or accident, and, as consent to an assault was no Justifica tion, contributory negligence of Ihe in jured hunter was no defense. The judg ment was reversed, and the cause re manded for the assessment of damages. State Ponce. From the Indianapolis News. According to reports from Chicago, the slate of Illinois Is likely within the next few years to adopt the state police plan for the protection of rural com munities against criminals who da-sh out from cities In fast automobiles and prey upon sparsely settled district which cannot afford to maintain peace offi cers equipped to cope with experienced criminals. Such a force is also useful in running down other classes of crim- ! inals who seek refuge In the country. \ In the state where a state police force Is . maintained, automobile thieves are much more easily caught then else- I where. Objection to a state police force Is raised by those who say that It Is too | expensive and those who say that the primary business of a state constabu lary Is to be ready on short notice to stop labor disputes that reach the vio lent stage. The expense Is a matter for public opinion to sottle. It is suffi cient to say that the 11 states which have state forces are satisfied that they are of greater value to the state than they coat, and none of these states has a burdened the state police idea after giving It a fair trial. A Flea Hound. From Louisville Courier-Journal, j "That dorg. yer honor, wouldn't hurt a flea." "No, 1 can see that he is dwelling In perfect amity with fleas. He Is charged however, with biting a man.” Hie Little Joke. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. The had boy threw a snowball at the optimist and knocked the optimist's hat Into the street. "Oh. well," smiled the optimist, as he brushed the snow off his hat. "Youth will have its neither Opium,Morphine n«( Mineral. notNabcotiA JMIm jT flWfr’Vit wikihIWBI | Exact Copy of Wrapper. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Thirty Years Not Safe. A young doctor was visiting Mary Ellen's single aunt. lie mnde much over the young woman, but she was singularly aloof. Finally tho young man asked the little girl to kiss him, but she refused with dignity. Then ■ auntie came to the rescue. “Don’t you like Doctor U—— she asked. “Why won’t you kiss him, dear?” Mary Ellen raised her head proudly. “My brother Bob told me never to kiss a doctor,” she answered. “He said If I did I might get my throat full of germs.” Watch Cuticura Improve Your Skin. On rising and retiring gently smear t lie face with Cuticura Ointment. Wash off Ointment In five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water. It Is wonderful sometimes whut Cuticura will do for poor complexions, dandruff, Itching and red rough hands.—Adv. Far From It. "You farmers have many compensa tions,” remarked the city dweller. “Nr me Just one,” snld Mr. Cobbles. “Well, you are Independent.” “Umph! Did you ever have any dealings with a hired man?” “No.” "Then you don’t know what yon are talking about."—Birmingham Age-Her nld. r1 ■1"" " * A Silenced Song. "Nobody gels out and sings, ‘V Won’t Go Home Till Morning,' at more." "That’s true,” rejoined Unde H Bottletop. “Most of those old set_ naders are now sticking close at home day nnd night, keeping tab on the yeast cakes.” He Was Right. The Sunday school teacher 'was testing the children’s knowledge of the Scriptures. The answers were generally satisfactory until he put Hie question: “Where does the word! ‘holy’ first occur In the Bible?” “Please, sir,” piped one littfel-1 low, “on the cover.”—Boston Tran-! script. Kill That Cold With \ CASCARA D QUININE FOR AND Colds, Coughs La Grippe Neglected Gilds are Dangerous Take no chances. Keep this standard remedy handy for the first sneeze. Breaks up a cold In 24 hours — Relieves - Grippe in 3 days—Excellent for Headache Quinine In this form does not affect the head—Cascara fa best Tonic Laxative—No Opiate in Hill’s. 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