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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1921)
O’NEILL FRONTIER o. H. CRONIN_’ CrNEU-L, NEBRASKA In official documents sent to oon Cress, Secretary Hughes this week rec ommends rigid restriction of Immlgra tlen. The report nays 606.292 passport vises were granted by American con suls in Europe for 1920. "The director general of police of Human la," the re port adds, Tuu issued an order ex cusing Jews from nfiiitary service and permitting their discharge from the army if they desire to emigrate to America." (n Rumania 1,600 persons are awaiting an opportunity to come to the United Stales; there are 25.0M awaiting accommodations in Poland. In the Russian Caucasus it may tie ac cepted as nearly literally true that every Armenian family which lias **ough money will endeavor to emi grate to America. The great bulk of emigrants to the United States from this district arc highly undesirable, says Mr. Hughes. Scandinavian countries are disapprov ing the steps being taken by the en tente nations to compel Germany to pay the war reparations, lest they, as a re sult. be swamped by German manufac tures to the detriment of their own. Says a prominent Hollander: "Tills Is then the triple curse of the present European situation: Germany will not pay and cannot pay. as much as Wanes must insist upon to escape her own eco nomical destruction. Tho entente Is Justified In demanding indemnity, but cannet for interior reasons accept Ger man goods, the only real means of re payment." Seventy Salvation Army delegates from 16 central states In Chicago last week reported that there was "Plenty of work tor women, but no Jobs for men." “The situation seems to be the remit of changed industrial conditions," saM Oommandcr Peart. "During tits war period thousands of women en tered the industrial field for the first time. Many of them stayed and appar ently are giving such satisfaction that their employers are glad, not only to retain them, but to employe more/' A publicity campaign in Georgia to acquaint the people of the state with alleged peonage conditions Is urged by Governor Doney. The governor pro* vented suggestions designed to Improve relations between the races In Georgia. Among them were compulsory educa tion for both races, formation of two state committees, one white, the other negro, to hold conferences on racial matters; assessment of a fine on each scanty in which there Is a lynching, and laws providing for the governor to re move oounty officials held to have per mitted lynchlngs by negligence. rrootUHy the most Important question to tho world today Is whether man la capable of directing Intelligently the civilisation he has created and organ ised, said Dr. Stewart Faton before the American Philosophical society last week. He also remarked that "bolshe vism, radicalism, and the tendency to thmk In terms of olass distinction are rearttens of Inadequate* afraid of feeing their own personal problems," A blind and deaf girl In Janesville. Wis., called "The Helen Keller of Wis consin." Is able to carry on a conversa tion and to distinguish colors. She tones part In conversation by placing her hand on any part of the head of the person talking. She distinguishes colors by the sense of smell. She has been totally blind loss titan two years, and totally deaf only about seven months. Dutch paper* are Insisting upon the punishment of the man who ruined the photgraphla negatives of the Hohen sollermi taken during tlio ceremony In cident to the removal of the body of the former (unpress. Many people of Dorn suspect Che former emperor’s de tective as the guilty party. Paper Is so soaroe in Russia that a special soviet government institution bos been created to deal with the short age. Thousands of women have bees employed by the government to search In old archives and record officos for clean dieeh uf paper, or piper used only on one side, whioh may be util ised for soviet office correspondence. Work en the largest dirigible ever designed continues at the Philadelphia navy yard, but baa been retarded through lack of appropriations, and those In charge of tho construction of the great craft of the clouds say it probably will be a year before she la completed. Paris restaurant men, who have been holding prices as high as possible In expectation of a rush or American tour ists this summer, have been warned to prepare for trouble If reductions are aot made. Several persons arrested in Budapest recently for whistling, singing or hum ming the "Internationale," were saved from punishment by a psychological ex pert who testified it was done eub-con eelously. Investments and loans of American citisens' exporters, business men, farm ers and of tho United States govern ment In foreign countries now total more than tU.OOO.MO.OOO, official re ports show. mw reuway carnage m wmcn tne German rciireHcata.lt*!:* signed the armistice la. with Marshal Foch'e con sent. to be given a place of boner on the terrace of the Involutes, beside the trophies of the Crimean war. A Massachusetts man by the name ef M'Menhnea Is wearing a new hat, which he won from President Harding on a bet that Mr. Hording would be nominated by the Chicago convention for the prenMency. Disabled ex-service men are avail ing themselves of provisions of the re habilitation taw in greater numbers than was anticipated, the federal board for vocational education has Informed congress. Two native witch doctors have Just been sentenced to prison for 18 months each after they pleaded guilty to a charge ot akealing the body of a Euro pean woman from a grave to make charms, Bays a Johanesberg dispatch. "Carrying coals to Newcastle.” hith erto held as about the most futile thing on earth, has actually been accom plished by a firm of French exporters, because of the miners’ strike. There are *»# more new companies registered in the United Kingdom In 1IW than In 1919. and 1,636 more than Is 1913. Transport and transit com panies exceed all others as a class. A University of Wisconsin lecturer says It was the shape of the German bead that amused the war. The British Museum Is the largest li brary in the world, with J.7B0.009 vol umes and 69,600 manuscripts (1912 fig ure*). New York has noted a decided slump in marriages, beginning with April, which it attributes to economic condi tions. Vancouver firm has received a rush order for brand led chocolates, following the ruling of a Seattle judge that candy havered wtth liquor doe* sot come un der ~VN progtel-*. <tf the Volstead taw. Bloomfield, Neb., Residents Flan New Rxchange if Company Insists on In creased Rates. Bloomfield, Neb., May 2 (Special). —At a mass meeting of the "strik ing*’ patrons of the Union Telephone Co., held here Friday night, it was voted to give the company 30 days to put the rates back to where they were before the 23 per cent, raise was put Into effect The motion also de manded that Bloomfield be given free telephone service to Center and that the company shall make no charge for re-connecting the phones. In event the company fails to change the rates back, steps will be taken to install a locally owned exchange. •I. E. Baggstrom, general manager of the company and T. A. Anthony, its president, were both present and addressed the meeting. Over 400 pa trons attended the meeting. Officials of the company agreed to make an appearance before the railway commission and endeavor to get the commission to rescind its ac tion. granting the company the right to raise its rates. FORMER OFFICIAL MAKES GOOD ALLEGED SHORTAGE Bridgeport, Neb., May 3 (Special). —Glen Brown, recently brought back here from The Dalles, Ore., where he fled after forfeiting his bond In dis trict court, has squared his accounts here with the county attorney and county treasurer by paying into the treasury the amount he was short. This was in the matter of taxes col lected by him while he was acting as deputy sheriff. O’NEIIJ*—Farmers, ranchmen and sportsmen of Holt county are extermi nating the crows within the county’s confines. Concerted action Is being tak en against the crows during the nest ing season, and each Sunday those in terested In the extermination of the pests shoulder their guns, meet at some ranch or farm house in crow-infested territory and proceed to kill off the crows and destroy the nests. KENESAW—Seven hundred and fifty acres of corn planting on his ranch Is the task Elmer Miller has set for him self. He will be assisted by two men, three double row listers and 18 horses. The husking will be done by 10,000 sheep. RETAIL PRICES CAUSING SLOWNESS IN DEFLATION Washington, May 2.—Retail prices appear to bo the "sticking point" in the country’s readjustment process, the federal reserve board said last night In Its April review. Other fac tors retarding readjustment were said to be high transportation charges, wages, and coal and steel prices. Increasing approach of the nature of the readjustment process in busi ness circles and the community, how ever, the board said, is forcing at tention on the factors delaying busi ness recovery and Is promoting dis cussion with a view to removing ob stacles. Complete business recovery, the board continued, has been slow* er than was predicted. ORIENfROADTomilSH ITS LINE INTO MEXICO Bl Paso, Tex,, May 2.—A. DeBer nardi, vlco president and general manager of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railway company, who re turned Sunday from a two-weeks* In spection trip over the Oriont lines in Mexico, said the company is contem plating the expenditure of $20,000,000 to $35,000,000 to complete the line from Kansas City to the Gulf of Cali fornia. The proposed expenditure, Mr. De Bernardl said, Is eonditloned on the continuation of the present peaceful conditions In Mexico. The Orient Is now In operation from Wichita, Kan* sas to Alpine, Tex. CAPTAIN KILPATRICK IN SOLITARY PRISON ruga, L.eivia, May a.—captain hJm met Kilpatrick, American Red Cross worker, held by the Russian bolshev ists, was transferred last week from a comparatively comfortable war pris oners' camp at Moscow to the Tcheka prison by order of the extraordinary committee, according to Mme. Scala, head of tho Czccho-SloVak Red Cross in Moscow, who arrived today. The transfer to this prison, which is a solitary celled lockup where "third degree” methods are used to wring confessions from Inmates, was due, according to the belief expressed here to the escape from another pris on camp of Captain Merlon Cooper, an American. SLEEPING SICKNESS GE?MJLIS0LATED Milwaukee, Wis., May 3.—What is claimed by experts to be the llrst iso lation of the sleeping sickness germ was announced today by Dr. William Thalhlmer, of Milwaukee, who, in con junction with several physicians, con ducted a clinic of a year's duration. Results of the clinic were an nounced in a statement last night. In which It was stated that a minute organism was responsible for the dis ease, and that the physicians had been able to isolate and propagate the microbe. COAL CA8E8 UP TUESDAY. Indianapolis, Ind., May 2.—Begin ning of a long legal battle In the soft coal conspiracy case in the federal court here against 22« operators, min ers and corporations In six states is expected to develop Tuesday, the day set for the arraignment of the defen. dants. MARY WOODWORTH WE08. London. May 2.—Mary Maud, daughter of the late Colonel Wood worth, of New York, was married at Windsor Saturday to Robert Serena. ' BANKER WENTZ IS SENT TO PRISON Found Guilty of Embezzling Funds of Aurora, Neb., In stitution. York, Neb., April 30.—Judge George P. Corcoran ovrruled a motion for a new trial of the case of Charles W. Wentz, charged with embezzling funds from the Farmers State bank of Aurora, and sentenced Wentz to an indeterminate term of from one to 10 years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. Counsel for the defense will carry the case to supreme court. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS TO HAVE BIG CLASS Alliunce, Neb., April 30.—Elaborate preparations are being made for the entertainment of several hundred members of the Knights of Colum bus here on May 30, when the fourth degree will be exemplified, with a class of at least 100 candidates. Ap plications have already been received from candidates in more than a dozen towns in the western part of the state. This will be the first time that the fourth degree has been put on in Ne braska outside of Omaha and Lin coln. Prominent members from other states are also expected, including J. H. Kedden, of Denver, supreme master of the fourth degree, and Fed eral Judge Wade, of Iowa City, Is SENATOR NORRIS TO VOTE FOR KINSLER Washington, April 30. — Senator Norris says he does not believe the protest of the anti-saloon league against J. C. Kinsler of Omaha for district attorney of Nebraska is well founded. When Kinsler is appointed Senator Norris will vote for ids con firmation. HAL BILLIG PROVES TO BE SHREWD ONE Stokes' Attorney Unable to Get Him to Say He Was In timate with Helen, BY WINIFRED VAN DUZER, Universal Service Correspondent. New York, April 29.—The extraor dinary beauty of Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes was drawn Into the divorce case she is defending here Friday, and, by implication, held forth as a factor militant to her Interests. Herbert Smyth, attorney for W. E. IX Stokes, seeking through cross ex amination to force Hal P. Billig, the last of three co-respondents, into ad missions of intimacy with Mrs. Stokes, who is his cousin, inquired: “Didn’t you take more notice of her when you were 21 than when you were 18?" "You are insinuating that I took Borne notice of her. To me she was just like her mother or little sister or any other member of the family." "But didn’t you notice that she was a specially pretty member of the family?” Billig looked toward the auburn haired defendant, colorful as a flame against the dull courtroom back ground. He replied: "Oh, you haven’t seen them all.” A sound like applause went around. Judge Finch smiled and nodded. Under direct examination of Mar tin W. Littleton, and later through out the harrying of Smyth, Billig told the same straight forward somewhat colorless story of proper relationship with the woman in whose mother’s home he was like a son. Finally Smyth shot this question: “If you had been Intimate with your cousin, Mrs. Stokes, would you admit it?" Billig replied, smiling: “If any such occasion ever arose I’d make up my mind then." LONDON’S IDLE THRONG LIBRARIES TO READ ADS By Reciprocal News Service* London—One of the effects of the present wave of unemployment in England is the run on the libraries. The unemployed seem to spend their time between alms collecting processions through the streets and "queueing up” at the libraries. The reading rooms ore full daily, of men and women who spend the early morning looking at the "situations vacant" columns of the newspapers and then depart on the dally hunt foi work, which in the majority of cases Is unsuccessful, so the applicants re turn to the shelter and warmth of the library, and sit at unfortunate leisure reading bard and long. Tastes vary. Many read serious literature, economics, history and biography, but the great majority find solace in the popular favorites, Ethel M. Dell, Gertrude Page, Arnold Ben nett and the rest of the "best seller” producers are finding a much enlarged public. Ouch! From Life. "Was your leading lady Injured wher she bumped her head on the door?" "No. but It threw her into a fit ol Jealousy." "A fit of Jealousy?” “Yes, she saw so many other stars.' Once Is Enough. From the London Mail. ltom&ntic Maiden—I suppose peopli disappointed in love, hurl thomselvei over these cliffs quite often? Prosaic Longshoreman — I neve' knowed any of 'em do it twice! EXPRESS THEFT GANG IS SENTENCED IN GEORGIA Macon, Ga., April 30.~Thirteen o the men convicted in federal cour here for participation in the conspl racy to rob the American Railway Express Company of goods value* at more than $1,000,000 were sen tenced to penitentiary terms toda: by federal Judge Evans. In the casei of tbe other 28 men, fines rangiiu from $800 to $3,000 were assessed GE MANY IS TO TRY 900 OF WAR GUILD Hearings on Cases of Those Accused by Allies to Start At Leipsic on May 23. Berlin, April 28.—Nine hundred Germans, whose punishment has been demanded by the entente for war crimes, will face trial at Leipsic, beginning May 28. Seven Judges will sit as the court and will first hear witnesses against minor offenders. The trials of Non-comniossloned Officer Heine, charged with abusing prisoners: Captain Mueller, comman der at the prison camp at Flavy-Le Marte), and Private Neuman, alleged to have maltreated prisoners at the prison camp at Pommerneorf. will be first to be tried. Forty-seven wit nesses have been called from Eng land to testify in the first three cases. The minister of justice yesterday declared: "Only men charged with the com mission of specific crimes will be tried at first. We have made every possi ble effort to insure fair and impar tial hearings. The British, French and Belgian governments will have representatives at the trials but Ger many will conduct the prosecution and the defense. I am able to declare positively that political, or other un desirable interests will not be al lowed to influence the proceedings.” | Who’ll Win? J This is tho ninth of n series of opin ions of prominent persons on the win ner of the Dempsey-Carpentler light.— Editor’s Note. Oakland, Cal., April 28.—Fred Win sor, discoverer and first manager of champion Dempsey: “Dempsey will win in four rounds. Carpentier cannot withstand the at tack of the champion. Dempsey is a cruel punisher. He doesn't have to inflict his damage at long range. He’ll start Carpentier on ids way in the clinches with short punishment deal ing blows. Carpentier will be ready " to fall when t lie referee separates them. Four rounds will bo enough for the Frenchman—maybe less," stateTs toTake up CASE DROPPED BY U. S. Portland Ore., April 28.—Announce ment that his office Intended to prose cute Henry Albers, wealthy Pacific coast mlllercl, further for alleged vio lation of the espionage act was made last night by L. W. Humphreys, United States attorney for Oregon. The announcement followed receipt of word that the supreme court of the United States today had reversed a conviction of Albers based on alleged pro-German utterances during the war. • Mr. Humphreys declared the su preme court’s action "meroly remands it to the lower court on error,” he as serted: “The case is by no means finished." BRITAIN DEMANOSCOAL TERMS BE PERMANENT T^ondon, April 28.—Negotiation of the differences between the miners and mine owners which continued ail day Wednesday encountered a hitch when the government insisted that no temporary subsidy would be granted unless a permanent settle ment was effected. Tho miners had previously agreed to accept a tem porary reduction in wages. It is expected the definite proposals will be submitted to the striking nyn ers in a referendum by districts over the week end. Meantime, the shortage of coal is increasing throughout Great Britain. Tram and sub-way service will be sharply curtailed beginning Thurs day and further restrictions will be placed on train schedules on Mon day. BRITISH IN ORIENT BET ON JAP-U. S. WAR San Francisco, April 29.—British subjects in the Orient are laying wagers with odds at 3 to 1 that Japan and America will be at war within six months, while in many cities in China the British citizens are taunting the Americans because the United States has taken the many Japanese affronts without declaring war. This is the information brought hero today by several prominent pas sengers who arrived from the far east. Charles Edward Bussell, prom inent writer and former member ot the special Root mission to Russia in 1917, one of the arrivals, told of the betting by British residents in Japan, although he declared that in his opin ion the mass of Japanese people do not want war with America. PEGGY’S EX-HUSBAND SAYS DIVORCE WAS 0. K. Chicago, April 29.—Sherburne Hop kins came to the defense of ' Peggy' Joyce, his former wife, today, in her tight against the marriage annulment suit brought by her present husband "The charges made by Joyce that the divorce of myself and former wife was not. valid and fraudulent, are without foundation," attorneys for Peggy quoted Hopkins as saying in a telegram. Joyce asked the court to annul his marriage on the grounds that “Peggy" was still the legal wife of Hopkins when he married her. Politics First. From the Indianapolis News. Brlg-Gcn. Omar Bundy was dropped off the promotion list, but the next time be get* within reach of the goal, the ; secretary of war may have discharged bis more pressing political obligations Giving Him a Lift. From the American I/Cgton Weekly 1 "MufUune.” pleaded Dusty Dan. "can you assist me along the road a littleT” ' "Personally I cannot," replied the 1 j lady regretKilly. "1 am on!y e frail • j woman But I am sore Rover wi.-l tie I glad to do so when 1 unchain lUir..’ JNatlanat Crop Improvement Service.] Regardless of the price of grain, the man who hag the greatest number of bnsbeis for •ale, will not only make the most mon-1 ey bpt be will be of the greatest ben efit to mankind. It is, however, not always good busi ness to see how large an acreage a man can put in but it is always good busi ness to take every precaution before the crop, with his seed and his soil to insure os large a yield as possible upon the acreage sown. Seed corn, seed oats, seed wheat and •11 other grain should be tested for ger mination and it is such a simple process that any child can do it. How to Do It Take a piece of ordinary cotton cloth, the back of a 25 lb. flour sack will be •uf&cient; 50 lb. sack will make two. Mark numbered (squares in the middle •f the cloth and number the ears ac cordingly with a bit of paper, stuck in the butt of the ear with a nail. Place the kernels carefully so they will not touch and fold the cloth over from the bottom and from the top covering the kernels; then roll carefully from one end and just before completing the roll, tear a strip of cotton cloth about 10 or 12 inches long, rolling it in the test like a wick hanging out; looking some - _ _ *_ thing like a firecracker. Wet the whole teat and make as many of these as yon need. Roll them all together in a larger piece of cloth (a wet towel will doK in such a manner that the wioks will all hang in a bow] of water. Do not let them dry out or freeze. If for any reason any time it seems to be dry, souse it in. a bucket of water and place as before. In five or six days you can. carefully unroll and count the test. You can easily tell the strong from the weak by the shoot and the root ays tern. You will often find certain ears affected by mold. They should be thrown out. In nearly every field there are enough'1 missing hills to eat up all the profit in the field. • Other field seeds can be tested te» damp blotting papers in a similar way. Tha marketing expense on the grain exchanges does not increase with the number of bushels. It is all figured on a one per cent basis and a little cars In seed preparation will more than pay for all marketing expense. The Chicago Board of Trade handles about 400,000,000 bushels of cash grain annually, which makes It possible for a continuous future market to be maintained every day in the year. The man who plants seed which is dead, is already defeated. He oanuot make a profit. Cross Currents in India. -T-T-rT--rTH«-TTTT-r-r»»! I London reported Saturday that rebels had attacked the special train of viceroy Lord Chelmsford, near Allah bad, India, forcing the viceregal party to abandon efforts to reach Calcutta. Lothrop Stoddard, writing In the Cen tury Magazine, declares that momentous changes are at hand In India, tfc* outcome of which may be world wide In their effects. He says: The problem of India rose before the war. A full decade before 1914 it had drawn worldwide scrutiny, but the war Intensified an already acute «rtt uation. In the first place, we should remember one thing: India Ib not a ‘‘country" or a "people” in the ordinary sense of the terms. India la nothing short of a miniature world. Sundered from the rest of Asia by the stupen dous barrier of the Himalayas, and washed on its other two fronts by the ocean, this huge triangular sub-continent, as large as all Europe except Rus sia, is inhabited by all sorts and conditions of men. Its teeming population of more than 313,000,006 wools (more than one sixth of all the human beings on earth) is made up of several distineO races, speaking a multitude of dif ferent languages, holding to many faiths, and occupying widely different stages of civilization. The traditional motivator of Indian life Is Brahman ism, more than two-thirds of the whole population professing the Hindu faith, albiet sundered among themselves by the rigid walls of caste. Never theless, Islam has been powerfully modifying Indian life for more than 1,000 -■*». years by conquest and conversion, so that today there are more than 66,000, 000 Mohammedans, or one-sixth of the population. This Hindu-Mohomme dean division runs like a great chasm athwart India. Only in recent years has Indian “nationalism” succeeded in bridging the gulf, and the strength Of this bridge remains to be seen. It is more than 160 years since the English made themselves masters of India. The British government of India has been, if tyrannical, still, on the whole, beneficlent. Kipling has given us the tradition In his pictures of the Englishman in India as “protector of the poor,” and it is not surprising to find that there are elements in India itself resolutely opposed to the removal of the British "yoke” under which they find themselves comparatively free from the oppressions of religious fanaticism and of casts. Extremely interesting were the protests of the anti-nationalist groups, particularly the Mohammedans and the low-caste Hindus. For It (0 a faot significant of the complexity of the Indian problem that many mllltons-of In dians fear the Nationalist movement and look upon the present British autoc racy as a shield against nationalist oppression and discrimination. So great is the low-caste fear of losing their present protection under the British Raj and of being subjected to the domination of a high-caste Brahmin oligarchy that in recent years they have formed an association known as the "namasu dra.” The namasudra points out what might happen by citing the Brahminlc pressure which occurs even in such political activity as already exists. For example, in many elections the Brahmins have terrorized low-caste voters by threatenlng to "out-caste” all who should not vote the-Brahmin ticket, thus making them “pariahs"—untouchables—with no rights in Hindu society. In the face of these complications, the British have pursued a policy which may, on the whole, be called liberal, at least in intention. The Montagu - Chelmsford report recommended concessions far beyond any whtch Great Britain had hitherto made. It frankly envisaged the gift of homo rule to India “as soon as possible.” These recommendations were embodied in law. after over a year of discussion, at the close of 1919. Unfortunately during the 18 months which elapsed between the publication of the report and the bill’s enactment the situation in India had become much worse. Militant unrest again raised its head, and India was more disturbed than it had been since 1909. The upshot of It was an epidemic of riots, terrorism and seditious ac tivity. The government, alarmed, passed a strong repressive bill known to radical India as the “Black Cobra” bill, though its less descriptive name was merely “the Rowlatt bill.” Since that time repression has been the order of the day, the horrors culminating in the Amritsar massacre for whloh Gen eral Dyer was censured. India is thus in full transition. It is an anxious and a troubled time. The old order is passing, and thO new order is not yet fairly in sight, Tho hour la big with possibilities. One thing, however, is clear: the days of arbitrary British rule over India are numbered. To plead (he fairness, honestly and ef ficiency of that rule is to miss the whole point, because the majority in India wants not merely good government, but self-government. Guilty or Not Guilty? From the St.. Louis Post-Dispatch. Not all of the subject of our economic aliments is covered In the recent and last annual report of Comptroller of the Currency John Skelton Williams, In which he makes a sweeping Indictment of the excessive profits still being ex acted, he says, by the steel and . coal producers. Unquestionably disrupted foreign markets are very largely in volved in the hesitancy of industry to return to normal. Germany—to cite one of numerous instances—before the war was one of the largest purchasers of American copper, which she used In the manufacture of electrical goods. Owing principally to her present paralysed con dition, our copper mines have all but ceased operations. It cannot be held by Mr. Williams, therefore—nor does he attempt to main tain—that the free and fair marketing of the two basic commodities, steel and coal, would swing the Industrial pendu lum back to normal. But he docs inti mate very pointedly that American bus iness Is not doing all In Its power to in duce the return of normalcy. In the face of an Imperative demand for coal and iron following the armistice, states the comptroller, production was reduced one-fourih "for the purpose of enabling manufacturers and miners to obtain, be cause of the Insistent and peremptory de mand for coal and Iron, the exorbitant profits realised during the war. Instead of the more moderate profits whieh they would have had to accept if the max imum output had been maintained." Mr. Williams ought t<t know what he Is talking about. He was a veteran or ganiser and official of railway and indus trial Institutions before he entered the treasury department in 1913. Since 1911 he has served In his present important copaclty with original access to all the official information obtainable iu hls field. His report places the steel and coal Industrie# equate ly against the se •essity of d'.sosovteg Ms charge,- of do liberate profiteering and manipulation of the market, or of standing convicted. A Worthy Example. From American Legion Weekly. If tho shade of George Washington responds to the eoomiums heaped upor. his memory with each succeeding an niversary of his birthday, we may be sure that he does not step out upon his phantom balcony and make his bow alone. At his side must stand that Martha Custis who became the first lady of the land. There was no 19th amendment in Martha Washington's day and the part she played in the history of her gener ation was In large measure limited to the social and iiousowlrty duties of her station. But hero she set a superb ex ample to her countrymen and country women that history has chosen to neg lect by very reason of the unspectacu lar and homely qualities which were it* supreme virtues. The onset of the overall-and-calico movement a few months ago as a pro test against the high cost of clothing struck most Americans with the full force of novelty. Martha Washington anticipated the idea by nearly a centurj and a half. At a hall given in her honor she wore garments spun and I woven by her servants at Mount Ver non “as an example of economy to •' women of tho revolution," a cqranten tutor explains. It was her boast—and she had very few—that 16 spinning wheels were always In motion at the Virginia homestead. She was wont to display with pride two dresses of cotton striped with silk woven from "the rav ellings of brown silk stockings aud old crimson damask chair covers." - History does not record' the ulttau .\ i fate of tho knee-length stockings of ( first president. But no historian la re *' quired to tell us that they dod not go into the ragbag undarned. Green Bay, Wia. ear* that tbs bay ha* not frosea osar this wire r for the first time t» • years.