C.. H. CRONIN, Publisher. Judging by their patronage, the »•• cent and G-$«nt meals put up by the Chicago board of education are mak ing an enormous success. The city's “penny lunch" business runs from 40, 000 to SO,000 customers a day. Sales, measured in pennies and nickles, amount daily between $4,000 and $6, 000. "For S (tetlts,” the menu runs something like this: Soup, bread, milk or cocoa, fruit or pudding. The bill of fare at 3 cents drops the milk. A youngster can spend only a penny if be wants to, buying any one of these articles for It. Or for * cents he can purchase a meat ball, beans, spagettl, or rice. Japan is going to try to block the conoessious of territory in northern Siberia by the soviet government to a group of Pacific coast capitalists rep resented by Washington D. Vander llp. It will contend that the United States can not protect the Vanderlip «joneessions since it has not recog nized the right of the soviet govern ment to grant concessions; and that the grant conflicts with a treaty be tween Japan and the old Russian government The Scots Charitable society set a new fashion in Boston a few days ago, when they drank the health of Governor Coolidge, their guest in a pinch of snuff. Soon afterwards Prof. Charlton Black of Boston university related an anecdote directed to de spondent victims of the Eighteenth amendment it was the warning of an old Scotchman to his son against too liberal use of snuff, with the statement that ‘Tve been drunker on sneezum than I ever was on whus ky,” For the first time in the history of the United States a special flag of the secretary of state will be seen on the high seas with Secretary Col flag, which Js dark blua with the arms of the department of state In white and flanked on either side by a gold star, was designed especially for Secretary Colby. Tho secrotary of stato la the only executive offi cer who has never had a flag of his own. On a hillside overlooking the Mon ongahela river In the heart of the coal fields near Pittsburgh, two lights Il luminating the honor roll of miners of that district who participated in the world war, are burning, every night, and have been burning since the tablet wu erected more than a [ year ago. The roll bears the names of I 150 miners and has six gold stars. An Interesting advertisement in the London Times reads: Sporty boy wanted, preferably Etonian or Wyke hamist, ago 18-23. Should he resident | pa! of two robust boys age 7 and 6; enunlry bouse, 17 miles from London; I father, a benevolent autocrat; mother, fat and good tempered: good wne-s ! trough and wash. 1870 Claret some- I tlmrs. Canada’s principal objection to Ar- ! tide X of tho League of Nations Is . that she does not wish to Involve I herself in the preservation of tcrrl- j torlal integrity and existing political , Independence'of all the members of J the League of Nations, says Sir Rob- i ert Borden in a memorandum made '■ public today. A recent decision of the Amalga- ' mated Clothing Workers' union not to work in an open shop or on piece j work may tie up the spring clothing Industry, says a New York dispatch, I The workers insist on abolition of tho piece work system, which action, the manufacturers say, In effect de liberately retards production and forces up prices. wheat, grain, wodl, hides, and other similar farm commodities." and the ] enactment of federal legislation to j “put an end for all lime to the gain- | bling in grain futures" Is advocated by the directors of She Missouri j Farmers' association Fifteen million men, women and children of all social und economic classifications, representing every nationality in Europe,,arc lighting for passage to the United Slates, accord ing to reports submitted recently by 17 trans-Atlantic steamship company representatives. its city leads the, whole world In the manufacture of machinery. Its shovels built the canal, they construct the largest mine holsrs in the world, not to mention the locomotives It builds, • the saw mills it equips and tho water powtr and Ice making machinery it makes. A member of the national commit »wv v* me a • a*i. v . nmi jusl re turned to New York, says: “The Cali fornia Japanese agitation Is merely a trick of the Japanese niiltarists to di vert America's attention from a etcady program of expansion in Asia, which is Japan's real purpose." ▲ November grand Jury In New York city recommends legislation by congress that will prohibit the immi gration Into this country of “all who cannot read and write English and who do not possess an Intelligent un derstanding of the fundamental Ideas ef human liberty.” The king of Siam, the first of his race to renounce his right to a harem, has chosen his queen. She is 27 years old and is at present attending a pri vate school in Boston. She is a first cousin to the king, who is 39 years old. A Milwaukee psychologist has made the dire discovery that "any person whoee head is flat at the back is incapable or love!" To make a test, place a coin at the crown of the heed and. If It slides down the neck there is no hope. The police of Budapest have Just ar rested a clerk of one of the govern ment departments, who had a doctor's degree, for masquerading as a beggar every evening on a crowded street corner. When searched 30,000 crowns were found on him, the proceed ■< of three days' solicitations. The onlv cir cumstance which he ouet d to He defense was: "I am cursed -th u extraordinary good dig."-‘ on ' a. i my government sa'cry . --0 email for my big app , p. 1 Used to tu' r to a o:.-re , , pp!y to pres ent conditions. ATTEMPT MADE TO WRECK U. P. TRAIN Beatrice, Neb., Jan. >. An attempt to wreck the Union Papin- passenger train running bet-.ve i Manhattan, Kan., and L.ineotn Neb. was partially successful Saturday ti ght when an obstruction on the track a mile and a half south of Beatrice derailed the engine. A 30-foot r: it had been placed squarely across the track at a place difficult of obs'nation. The engineer saw the obstruction in tir* ■ to partly check the. speed of his train, but the force of the impact threw the locomotive from the track. it re mained upright, however, and aside from a shaking up no one was In jured. Authorities here have begun Bandit and iho Auto. From the Springfield Republican. On the frontier, in a former time, ban dits used fast horses for their "get away.’ The steeds wore so important as a means of rapid transportation all through the pioneer period in ttie making of America that the punishment of a horse stealer was hanging on tlie near est tree. The comparison between the horse and the automobile, the horse back bandit and the automobile bandit, need not be made so suggestive that capital punishment for the new school of highwaymen would bo seriously con sidered, yet the frontier way of handling ♦ he "bad man" whos* crimes are fa cilitated by the use of tlie motor car may here and there disfigure our na tional landscape if t.ie nob spirit finds opportunities to wreak its anger and vengeance on any of these villians and desperadoes For this reason state legislatures may soon find justification In penalizing with special severity crimes of violence Which depend for their succession the automobile whether stolen or not stolen, although it is difficult U> see that there is any difference in moral turpitude be tween a footpad and the robber with a high-powered car. RHALLIS PLANS SOON TO QUIT AS PRIME MINISTER Athena. Jan. 3 (United Press)._ King Constantine shortly will be giv en an opportunity to appoint a prime minister of his ov.n choice, It become known today when it was announced Premier George Rhakfs will r< .1 because of ill health. The king hin. »!f Was e - me I to .he palace today y. :.h a tile-*,. tPir'\ f bronchitis. J RETRACTS CHARGES “ AFFECTING UNCLE Crab Orchard, Neb., Girl Who Ran Away From Home is Wedded to Young Farmer. Tecumseh, Neb., Dec. 30 (Spec clal).—Gladys Smith, of Crab Or chard, Neb., a high school girl who disappeared October 26 and was re cently found at Omaha, has been married to Lester M. Reid, young Gage county farmer. Benjamin H. Smith, uncle of the girl, who was brought from Denver to answer charges of alleged Inti macy with Miss Smith, Is still held in Jail, but probably will be released. The girl has retracted the charges she at first made against Smith. RANCHER MUST PAY FOR AIRPLANE TRIP Omaha, Neb., Dec. 30 (Special).— Charles S. Hoyt, Whitman, Neb., ranchman, is liable to a local man for $500, the full fare for an airplane trip from Omaha to Whitman, even though he got out of the machine after a forced landing at Abbott, about half the distance home, and took a train the rest of the way. Municipal Judge Baldwin so held in passing on the first airplane-taxi suit of its kind in Nebraska. CHRISTMAS AIR GUN INFLICTS BAD WOUND Plattsmouth, Neb., Dec. 30 (Spe cial).—Alice Todd Is suffering a painful, perhaps serious, injury, the result of being shbt under the right eye by an air rifle—a Christmas gift—in the hands of her 10-year old brother Nelson. 10.000 DRAFT DODGERS TO PRISON IN YEAR This Represents About Half of Actual Evaders Brought to Trial. Washington, Dec. 28.—(United Press).—Evidence obtained by the department of Justice has landed 10.000 draft dodgers behind prison bars within the past year. This rep resents approximately one-half of the actual draft evaders brought to trial, anotheer 10,000 having been found not guilty of willful evasion. The sen tences imposed raifged from thirty days to one year. * At the conclusion of the world war there were 337,649 names on the war department’s list of deserters. Careful investigation brought out the fact that many of those men had not evaded the draft. Some had actually enlisted and saw service in France. All told, 9-1,000 men have been ap prehended and detained for dispo sition since the armistice. Most of these trials were conducted under military law. Revelsed figures show that there are now less than 176,000 men in America who are subject to civil pun ishment for failure to answer the summons to war. The department of j justice believes that the end of the I yeear 1921 will see the last case of tiiis kind tried and decided. WILL HARNESS'THE TIDES (^ATLANTIC By Fletcher Allen. j London.—England lias only a small ■ proportion of the world's reserve of coal. Her superiority in coal produc ! tion may pass from her in a few years. But government experts and engin eers have now d. vised a scheme which) v- ill harness the Atlantic tides and provide sufficient power to run prac ' ticall.v all the industrial centers of i the couth of JSngianu at a phenome ; nally email cost. It. is to he done by throwing a clam or barrage across the great estuary of the Severn, about 100 miles distant fri in London and 70 miles from Bir | mingka.ni, and making the tides per foirn some useful industrial office. Such a scheme, when it is in full working order will, it is estimated, save England about 4,000,000 tons of coal per annum, and provide electric power at the rate of less than 1 cent per unit. me main mature of the plans of the ministry o’’ transport are: A concrete dam across the Severn estuary containing turbines driven by impounded tidal water, and designated to provide 500,000 horsepower in a 10 hour day. A salt water lake at a high eleva tion to which water would be forced through a tunnel -10 feet in diameter cut through a solid mile of rock. This kike would he filled by pumps worked from tin' estuary dam during the high tides when there was a reserve of power, so that when tides were not so high, or the dam turbines not working, the fall of water from the | reservoir would work subsidiary tur bines and keep the power supply con I slant. A level road across the Severn which will save transport a 50-mile detour for all traffic eastwards of ! Bristol and Newport. ' Facilities for the quadruplication of railway lines between South Wales and the West of lllngland. A locked basin of 27 square miles for shipping purposes on the upper Severn, accommodating the largest ships. DELAY SOuThDAKOTA FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS Tpbinc Washington Bureau. Wssuington, Dee. 29. — Senator rllr.g said t.dav he did not ex ! met any nutting of the South Da rn it delegation on federal patronage • • ! r-fer the new administration « >. d. Mo ucoisiens will at ■' ed ,i ■) Sen tor-elect" Norbeck .1’ :'e-»e«!0!tative-elect Wiiliamston trnvl the ry.w ccnjtitsr. MARYLAND’S NEW SENATOR HELPED IMPROVE ROADS Picture of Oviagton E. Weller taken a few days ago, the first one taven since his election. Ovington E. Weller, Republican senator-elect from Maryland, is given cri dit for the great improve ment in Maryland’s highways dur ing the time he serv.'l as chairman of the state roads commission. He is a graduate of the U. S. naval academy. INTERSTATE BOYCOTT IS HELD NOT LEGAL Ruling- Over Action at Duplex Printing Press Company Is Blow at Labor. Washington, Jan, 3 (United Press). —The supreme court today held that the International Association of Ma chinists in calling a strike at the plant of the Duplex Printing Press company, Battle Creek, Mich., and re fusing to set up its presses in-all parts of the country, was In a conspiracy in restraint of interstate commerce in violation of anti-trust laws. The company claimed the actions of tlie union were similar to those in the noted Danbury hatters case, when the court held a big walkout in restraint of interstate commerce, while the machinists claimed this view was set aside by the Clayton amend ment to the Sherman law, exempting labor unions and farmers’ organiza tions from such prosecution. The courUJ^’ld that the Clayton act did not legwme a boycott such as the machinists were alleged to have car. ried on. GIBBONS MUCH BETTER; RETURNS TO HIS HOME Baltimore, Md„ Jan. 3 (Associated Press).—Cardinal Gibbons wants to come home and his physicians, believ ing the change will have a favorable effect upon their patient, will try to remove him to Baltimore early this week if no setback occurs or seems impending. This was decided upon yesterday at a consultation of the doctors at the isnnvt'l xiuxxx*: til i iixuu .*11110, wutrio the cardinal has been staying for the last four weeks. The news cheered tlie cardinal. The cardinal passed a comfortable night and his condition was virtually unchanged this morning, reports from his bedside said. SOLICITOR GENERAL HITS SHIP OASES y ~ ^huwgp,*s William L. Frierson. William L. Frierson, acting at torney general, has hit the sale of ]i~uor on ocean vessels by ruling that the three-mile limit does not apply to prohibition and that ships can be prohibited from selling liquor wherever the ships may be if they are Americar vessels. His decision has been criticized by steamship men. RICE, WOOdVaMINE ON. Amoy, China, Jan. 3 (Associated Press).—Considerable distress has been caused here by a shortage of rice and wood, attributed to_ tuxes imposed upon exports of these products from Chang Chow-Fu and the interior which have been levied by Li IIou Chi. military governor of Fill;: Vigorous protests have been trade t, Hie people, shops have b n closed nr business has been our.fend d t. parts of the city ——----——---~ How Canadians View Trade Situation. -----l J By W. G. Cates, Canadian Correspondent, in Commerce and Finance. °J t,he, United States trade with Canada and the attitude or ' f owar s it is a subject of much interest to Canadians at the pres- * *re not apprehensive over the situation, but they ar*- M wondering what will happen. A fellow who buys about 40 per cent, more % th,ane,the latt*r bays from him, which is the position of Johnny — * , ,cle Sam, is usually not much alarmed over the treatment ho between'the t#“coiSntnriefhb0r: and SUCh iS the leeling of Canada on trade . *Jhe "!f,d lncrease in imports from the United States into Canada is one „**! ”?0!rt mtsrestlng phenomena in the trade of the dominion. The rapid __ j._*s a^most unexampled; indeed, to secure a parallel, one In 1310’ the imP°rts from the United States amounted, to ?Z17 S#2,M0. At the end of March of this year they stood at $301,632,000. i*eit ala* remembered that from 1910 to last May a war tax of 7.5 per cent, had been levied on these imports. Chwtog the last eight months there has been another bound forward, due moat of a11’ to the rePeal of the 7.5 per cent, customs war tax, which seems in a fair way to result in an increase of more than $209,0*0,000 in imparts this year. This means that during the present fiscal year the United States will probably sell to this country $»50,*9«,000 of commodities. And while this has been going on these imports have been working against the influence of a rate of exchange averaging 10 per cent., and also against a strong made in Canada movement. Perhaps Americans will the better realise what this means when It is said that at this rate there will be brought into Canada from the United States this year commodities to the value of $110 for every man, woman and child in this country. Seventy cents out of every dollar paid for imported goods by Canada this year will go to the United States. The question now arises, how will these huge imports, which this year will exceed exports to the United States by $360,0*0,080, be paid for? This question presents itself in a manner unknown before the outbreak of war. In pre-war days the balance against Canada on the trade between the two countries used to run all the way from $40,000,080 to $280,000,000; but one sided though this was, it presented no problem in the matter of settlements. At that tines Canada paid the United States, either through the excess of her exports to the United Kingdom or through borrowing in the latter country, the sales of Canadian bond issues in the kingdom in 1S13 having totaled $277,888,09*, in which year, it may be observed, the balance of trade against Canada in favor of the United States was $219,#*#,800. But this year Cana da’s favorable balance against the United Kingdom will not amount to more than $1*8,8*0,000. As for borrowing over there to pay the United Slates, the rate of exchange makes this impossible; for Britain is today a seller rathe* than a buyer of Canadian securities. So it comes down to a matter of the United States and Canada squaring accounts between themselves, and there will be a difference of about $350,000,000 in favor of the republic to be taken care of on this year's trade. This is but another way of saying that if Canada is to continue to buy as heavily from the United States as she has done thiB year, it can be done only threugh increased experts (from Canada to the United States). It is with satisfaction that Canadians observe that exports to the United States I will probably be increased by $75,088,*00 or $30,088,8*0 over last year. The truth is that just now they would sooner sell in the American market than in any other, because by so doing they secure the premium on American dol lars. From now on Canada s trade will be even more valuable to the United States than it has been in the past, for the rate of exchange and the come back that industry is making in Europe will render it more difficult to sell American products over there, and also in many other markets where the competition of European products is met. This means that the United Slates will undoubtedly be thrown more on the market of the two Americas. And, in the main, this reasoning will apply equally well to Canada; for, if she ■ cannot sell in Europe to the same extent as she has done, she must sell more in this hemisphere and in the orient. Moreover, as Canada becomes a more important field for the American investor, and she is rapidly becoming such, the larger will be the annual return that Canada must make to the United States. This must be made in the form of products, which means larger exports. Indeed, It is quite probable that the return on these investments now amounts to $100,000,000 a year. And us long as sterling remains at considerable discount so long will Canada’s capital requirements be met in the United States. From present indications, the financing done on Canadian account in the republic during the next five years will be very large, so that an annual payment of $140,000,000 by 1926 is quite within prospect. So Canadians are not lying awake at night thinking of what may hap pen to their export trade with the United States. They reason that the feliow who has the most to lose through the placing of trade barriers between the two countries is the one who is selling most to and investing in Canada, namely, Uncle Sam. * Italy’s Honor in Question. From the New York World. Doubted from the first, the Italian gov ernment in its attitude t ?ward the Adriatic dispute is now dangerously near an open confession of bad faith. When d'Annunzio entered upon his spec tacular adventure at Fiume the failure of Italy to act was explained and ex cused by conditions at home. Today no such plea can be made. The ministry is well supported, and it has recently con cluded a treaty with Jugo-Slavia which puts an end to one of the most fantastic usurpations in history. The treaty of Itapallo is highly favor able to Italy. When that country en tered into the Adriatic covenant it agreed to make Fiume a free city and solemnly bound itself to dispose of d'An nunzio and his freebooters. In spite of this obligation, there lias been no change in the situation. The rebellious poet is still defiant, and armed torves of the kingdom sent to dislodge him either re fuse to atack or desort boldly to his standard. Italy is no longer dealing with in subordinates or patriotic visionaries alone. The question presented is one of national honor. It did not make the contract at Rnpalln (abject to d'Annun zio's approval. It acted as a free agent, responsible alike for its own engage ments and the obedience of all its sub jects. A* it is inconceivable that a mili tary power so formidable is incapable of coercing a few thousand poorly equipped insurgents, there must be a suspicion that it is conniving with the poot in a perfidy that is nothing loon than shame ruler of Italy, the treaty with Jugo fitl. if the upstart of Fiume is the actual Slavia should have been negotiated by him. Greatness of America. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. It is doubtful whether people generally realize the physical magnitude of the natiton known to tlie world as the United Ptates of America, We all know something of its majestic distances, its tremenduou3 mountain ehaine, its lakes and rivers, its forests and prairies. But few of us have full knowledge of the facts. The United States Geological Survey publishes interesting facts with reference to the size of the country pre sumably not generally known: The gross area of the country Is 3,0£6,7I>9 square miles, of which 2,973,774 square miles comprise land area. The water area, ex clusive of tlie Great Bakes, the Atlantic and Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico, with in tlie 3-mile limit. Is U.«U square miles. From the easternmost potnt, due west to (lie Pacific ocean, the distance i« 2, F07 miles. The shortest diztance from the Atlantic to the Pacific is 2.133 miles. The boundary which difidee us from our great neighbor on the north la 3,893 miles long. The Mexican bandary is 1741 miles long. The Atlantic coast Pne is CiMQ miles king, tho Pneiflc, 2,wo; the Gulf «f Mexico cadet line, 3,610. With hi those botmdarles or let all that Is greatest in agriculture, Industry and the art* ef peace. An Appeal to 1 donor. From the PhHadel*hdt Pnbtie Badger. The Untowity of njtesds 1« eeHTng applet on the honor system. Tdn stu dent takes an nprle a»d 'Voyn a niaso l in a box. An averzgn ef ■ bnereis a week are sdld*nd the nntoeeeity hasn’t lost a cmt. whieb id net ,at al m prlslng. Boys and men are lutddally nonest. But put a ban on the apples ai ! dare the students to take them, a ad -ee how quickly they’d disappear. Boys .nd niei: are naiurfflly mischievous and ■ ve to do the forbidden thing. Tho Ally faculty simply took the Joy cut of octf larceny. Extra-Hazardous Route. From the New York Times. The Anglo-Russian trade agreement! has hung fire week after week. The latest report is that the terms arranged in London by Krassin have been repu diated in Moscow by Lenin. Whether this be well founded or not, the Russian dictator has made it plain that he will not live up to any trade agreement or concession longer than it suits his con venience. Defending himself for having — made concessions to foreign capitalists, Lenin is said to have declared synically to the protesting soviets that, when tho time came to make universal war on property owners, he would cancel the concessions and confiscate all the capital invested in Russia. This is only one of many clear indi cations that trading with Russia is bound to be extra-hazardous. The Ger mans are considering the risk. Know ing Russia better than Mr. Lloyd George and some amiable persons in the United States, they are aware that the bolshe vists have really little to trade with. But, urges the Berlin correspondent or the Frankfurter-Zeitung, German ex porters could take a lien on the receipt* of the Russian railways, after they were got going again by German materials. This leads the Temps to ask if the claims of those who lent the money t » build the railways originally ought not to have priority. That any merchant who ventures t » trade with the soviet government wi l run the risk of losing more than he ca r possibly make is indicated by the action of a number of English firms which fo: - merly did business with Russia. Tin v have filed a formal notice with the Bri. - ish foreign office that they .have vaiuf claims against the soviet government f<*r property destroyed and funds confr - onted. From this it is plainly to be in ferred that if any money or goods fron* Russia arrive within the jurisdiction of an English court they will be ataclied. The same thing might happen»in this country—even to the imports of our great billion-thinking concessionaire, M. Washington Vanderlip. No wonder that the state department has warned Ameri can exporters that they can trade witft Russia only at their own risk. It is more than a risk. It is a gambling oper» alion. Royal Sports. From the Los Angeles Times. The king of Spain is off on a hunting trip and the dispatches report his killi ig 2.500 “pieces of game" in one day. jia must have hit a bee hive. Of what do + a "piece of game" consist when rove by is hunting? l)o they count grasshop pers? Does a leg count as one piece or two? Is the gizzard measured as r piece? Article X. From American Legion Weekly. Little Sarah, daughter of s. launch re publicans, was being sent to hod early because of naughtiness, and was de termined to retaliate upon her aunt "Oh, Lord,” she prayed fervently,, "please bless mamma and daddy am* Uncle Henry.” Then she ad led. "Amf Aunt Mary—with reservations." The Coat Tail Doomed? From the New York Herald. * The war is blamed or praised for the greater informality in the dress o^ men. which i3 noticeable In this day. An ob server need only attend the opera-to see „ that evening garb is by no meafls as uncompromisingly formal as It was a. short time ago. The same impression is gained from observation uf social gatherings. Men who a. few : ears' ag-> would have considered themselves inap--8-1 rrnprlately clad without an evening eoaw8f|fi do net hesiitate now to appear m what has come to be called a ainucr ,j-ka.