Nebraska Newspapers

    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.