O'NEILL FRONTIER
P. H. CRONIN_
O’NEILL,NEBRA8KA
Tn official documents sent to con
gress, Secretsry Hughes this week rec
ommends rigid restriction of Immigra
tion. The report says 606,293 passport
vises were granted by American con
suls in Europe for 1920. "The director
general of polloe of Rumania.” the re
port ad da, "has Issued an order ex
cusing Jews from military service and
permitting their discharge from the
army if they desire to emigrate to
America.” In Rumania 1,300 persons
are awaiting an opportunity to come to
the United States; there are 35,006
awaiting accommodations in Poland. In
the Russian Caucasus It may be ac
cepted as nearly literally true that
every Armenian family which haa
•Bough money will endeavor to emi
grate to America. The great bulk of
•migrants to the United States from
this district are highly undesirable,
aays Ur. Hughes.
Scandinavian countries are disapprov
ing the steps being taken by the en
tente nations to compel Germany to pa)
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: "This is
then the, triple curse of the present
■uropean eituatlon: Germany will not
pay and cannot pay, as much as Prance
must Insist upon to escape her own eco
nomical destruction. The entente la
Justified in demanding Indemnity, hut
cannot for interior reasons accept Ger
man goods, the only real means of re
Mvment.” i
Seventy Salvation Army delegate#
from 15 central state# tn Chicago last
week reported that there was "Plenty
of work for women, but no Job# for
men.” "The situation seems to be the
result of changed Industrial conditions,"
said Commander Peart. “During the
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
retatn 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 Dorsey. The governor pre
sented suggestions designed to improve
relations between the races in Georgia.
Among them were compulsory educa
tion for both races, formation of two
etat# committees, one white, the other
negro, to hold conferences on racial
matters; assessment of a fine on each
•ounty in which there Is a lynching, and
laws providing for the governor to re
move county efflclals held to have per
mitted lynching# by negligence.
Probably the most important question
tn the world today is whether man Is
capable of directing Intelligently the
civilisation he has created and organ
ised. said Dr„ Stewart Paton before the
American Philosophical society last
week. He also remarked that "bolshe
vism, radicalism, and the tendency to
think in terms of class distinction are
defense reactions of inadequates afraid
•f facing their own personal problems."
A blind and deaf girl in Janesville,
Wla., called "The Helen Keller of Wis
consin," is able to carry on a conversa
tion and to distinguish colors. She
takes part in conversation by placing
her band on any part of the head of
the person talking. She distinguishes
colors by the sense of smell. She has ,
been totally blind less than two years,
and totally deaf only about seven
months.
Dutch papers are insisting upon the
punishment of the man who ruined ths
photgraphlc negatives of the Hohen
■olterns taken during the ceremony In
cident to the removal of the body of
the former empress. Many people of
Dorn suspect the former emperor's de
tective as the guilty parly.
Paper Is so scarce In Russia that a
special soviet government Institution
has been-created to deal with the short
age. Thousands of women have been
employed by the government to search
In old archives and record offices for
dean sheets of paper, or paper nsed
only on one side, which may be util
ised for soviet office correspondence.
Work on the largest dirigible ever
designed continues at the Philadelphia
navy yard, but has been retarded
through lack of appropriations, and
those in charge of the construction of
tt<e great craft of the clouds say it
probably will be a year before she is
completed.
Paris restaurant men. who have been
bolding prices as high as possible in
expectation of a rneh of American tour
ists this summer, have been warned to
prepare for trouble if reductions are net
made.
Dvvvrai pwwna anrsivu in puuHpesi
recently for whistling, ringing er hum
ming the ••Internationale," were saved
from punishment by a psychological ex
pert who testified it was done sub-con
•ciously.
Investments and loans of American
citizens' exporters, business men, farm
ers and of the United States govern
ment In foreign countries now total
more than $18,000,000,000, official re
ports show.
The railway carriage In which the
German representatives signed the
armistice Is, with Marshal Koch's con
sent. to be given a place of honor on
the terrace of the Invalides, beside the
trophies of the Crimean war.
A Massachusetts man by the name
of M Menlmen Is wearing a new hat,
which he won from President Harding
on a bet that Mr. Harding would be
nominated by the Chicago convention
for the presidency.
Disabled ex-service men are avail
big themselves of provisions of the re
habilitation law 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 of stealing the body of a Euro
pean woman from a grave to make
•harms, says a Johanesbcrg dispatch.
••Carrying coals to Newcastle." hith
erto held as about the most futile thing
•n earth, has actually been' 'accom
plished by a firm of French exporters,
because of the miners’ strike.
There are 286 more new companies
registered In the United Kingdom in
1920 than in 1919, and 3,586 more than
In 1913. Transport and transit* com
panies exceed all others as a class.
A University of Wisconsin lecturer
•ays it was the shape of the German
bead that caused the war.
The British Museum is the largest li
brary In the world, with 3,760.000 vol
umes and *0,000 manuscripts (1912 fig
ures).
New Tork has noted a decided slump
lu marriage*, beginning with April,
which it attribute* to economic condi
tions.
Vancouver firm has received a rush
•rder for brandled chocolates, following
the ruling of a Seattle judge that candy
flavored with liquor does not com* un
do ,*Wjuo«**lw of tb* Volstead law.
BIG VERDICT FOR
LOSS OF CATTLE
Railroad Company Must Pay
For Animals Hit By De
layed Train.
Kearney, Neb., May 9.—J. W. Law
son was awarded damages to the
sum of $2,400 in district court for
losses sustained through the killing of
43 head of cattle by the Union Pa
cific.
While the cattle were being unloaded
and driven across the track to feed
ing grounds a passenger train, oper
ating behind schedule, ploughed
' through the herd. The damage suit
was taken into federal court but or
dered back to district court for de
cision.
FIFTH BROTHER INTO
NEWSPAPER BUSINESS
Scribner, Neb., May 9 (Special).—
G. A. Mayfield, formerly of the Stan
ton (Neb.,) Picket, and later of a
Randolph, la., newspaper, has bought
the Scribner Rustler from Charles E.
Mjljers. Mr. Mayfield is one of five
brothers in the newspaper game.
Three of them are located in Ne
braska.
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J GOB’S BEST FRIEND *
j ,
Here Is the man who pays off the
thousands of "Gobs" and officers of
the Atlantic fleet. Paymaster General
Rear Admiral David Potter.
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4 THE TRAIL MAKER. 4
4 - 4
4 Henry Woodward Hulbert. 4
4 To be a worthy trailmaker one 4
4 must see In Imagination the 4
4 thousands who will follow the 4
4 path he lias the temerity to mark 4
4 out. Sympathy for them will af- 4
4 feet every rod of his work. He 4
4 must be quick to note the points 4
4 where there may be confusion on 4
4 the part of the climber. No one 4
4 can miss a path cut through 4
4 heavy itnderbruBh. But out In 4
4 the open forest or oil long 4
4 stretches of treeless ledges he 4
4 must take particular pains. Trees 4
4 must be blazed, footpath^ made 4
4 certain. Cairns of stones must 4
4 be placed like well marked sign 4
4 posts. A tr^Jlmaker must have 4
4 it on Ills conscience that even a 4
4 single traveler might fall because 4
4 of his failure to make the path 4
4 certain. If this Is true of one 4
4 how much greater the responsl- 4
4 billty on him who undertakes to 4
4 blaze the way into those higher 4
4 ranges of human activity. Honor 4
4 to those who made their way 4
4 across the uncharted seas or 4
4 trackless wastes, hut still more 4
4 honor to those who have dared 4
4 to lead out Into the unknown 4
4 regions of mind and heart along 4
4 every line of Intellectual and 4
4 spiritual achievement. 4
JUDGE “PASSES BUCK”
IN LINDSEYJSENTENCE
Denver. Colo.. May 9.—Judge War
ren A. Haggott, of the district court,
handed down a written opinion here
today declaring he had no right to
issue a writ of execution in the case
of Juvenile Judge Ben B. Lindsey who
is under sentence to pay a fine of
$500 or go to jail, following Lindsey s
conviction on charges of contempt of
court. Judge Haggott saidi the mat
ter was up to the district attorney.
District Attorney Phillip S. Van
Case, on whom the final ruling and
last court action in the case devolved,
said he would apply to the clerk for
a writ of execution of the sentence
within 10 days. Judge Lindsey de
clined to say what action he would
take. He Implied, however, that he
would make a decision before the
writ was put into execution.
HOTEL CLERK ROBBED.
Omaha, Neb.. May 9.—Two armed
bandits held up the clerk of the
clerk of the O'Brien hotel in the bus
inese district early today and escaped
with a small amount of money.
RUSSIA ANcTgERMANY
SIGN TRADE AGREMENT
Berlin. May 9.—Germany has con
cluded a preliminary trade agreement
with soviet Russia, and the conven
tion became effective May 6, accord
ing to the official text made public
here. The text shows the pact will
continue to be operative until a com
mercial treaty is completed, and pro
vision has been made that either par
ty may terminate the agreement by
giving three months' notice.
COLLEGE SURVEYS
Study of 58 Farms in Gags
County, Neb., Shows the
One Who Keeps Books
Is Most Successful.
Lincoln, Neb., May 7 (Special).—
On the theory that farming may be
approaching pre-war conditions, the
Nebraska college of agriculture hag
made public an analysis of the in
comes from 58 Cage county farms in
1914. The farms are graded accord
ing to their losses and profits and an
attempt is made to analyze some of
the reasons for the variations, the
purpose being to encourage farmers to
keep books and check up their opera
tions from time to time, as is the prac
tice in the business worltfc
The figures make no allowance for
interest on investment, which in some
instances was large. Also, the in
come allows the farmer no wages. In
other words, the profits as set forth in
the report represent the annual sal
ary of the farmer, and in addition
must cover interest on investment.
Allowances are made for depreciation. |
Six of the 58 Gage county farms
lost money in 1914, some of them us
much as $1,500. Not only did the man
who operated the farm receive noth
ing for his year's work and capital
invested, but he was worth $1,509
less at the end of the year than at the
beginning. Twenty farms made less
than $500 each. Eighteen of them
made less than $1,000; only five farm
ers received more than $2,000 for their
year’s work, and only two received
more than $3,000.
The farms ranged in size from 191
to 408 acres, but the college analysists
do not consider size as one of the Im
portant factors in the profits and
losses in this instance. Thef analy
sis shows that the men who had a
low income made less efficient use of
man and horse ‘labor. The farmers
making the most money farmed al
most twice as rrvany acres per man
and per horse as did those who lost
money. Likewise, the efficient man
agement of live stock stands out
rather prominently on the more suc
cessful farms. On the three highest
classes of farms, where the livestock
inventories were between $2,200 and
$2,300, the sales of live stock varied
from $772 to $2,064, a difference of 169
per cent. On these same farms the
sales of crops varied from $2,179 to
$3,600, or an increase of 60 per cent.
Crop yields were also materially bet
ter on the farms making the most
money.
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HE TRIED TO BUY BOOZE;
WAS SOLD SHELLED CORN
Hartington, Nez., May 7 (Special).
—It has Just been revealed here in
County Judge Bryant's court how Ray
Vernon, of Laurel, was sold two bar
rels of shelled corn, supposed to be
liquor, said to have been bought from
Louis Johnson, of Dixon. This un
usual transaction was brought to light
when the Jackson State bank, of
Dixon, sued to recover the amount of
two drafts from the First National
bank, of Laurel, and the Laurel Na
tional bank. According to the testi
mony at the trial it was alleged Ver
non had given the checks on the
Laurel banks in payment of drafts
which he gave to Johnson. The drafts
had been cashed in the Jackson banks,
but payments had been stopped on
them by the banka because Vernon
had stopped payment on the checks
after discovering the barrels did not
contain liquor. The Jackson bank then
sued to recover payment and was re
sisted on the grounds that Vernon had
never endorsed them. After hearing
the evidence Judge Bryant decided the
drafts had not been properly endorsed
and that the Laurel bank would have
to pay. The Jackson Institution will
not lose as the drafts had been guar
anteed.
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4 DEADLIEST OCCUPATION. 4
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4 From the Milwaukee Journal. 4
4 To be a member of a railway 4
4 train crew has always been re- 4
4 garded as an extra hazardous 4
4 job. Do you know that he has 4
4 an average chance of living a 4
4 year longer than the office man 4 |
4 who breathes vitiated air and 4
4 lets his physical resistance run 4
4 dowiv by failure to get exercise 4
4 out in the open? 4
4 The United States department 4
4 of labor, after investigating the 4
4 causes of death In 196,736 cases 4
4 in 20 occupations, puts the aver- 4
4 age age of death for the office 4
4 assistant at 36.5 years; engine- 4
4 men and trainmen. SIX years; 4
4 plumbers, gasfitters and steam- 4
4 fitters. 39.8 years; compositors 4
4 apd printers, 40.2 years; team- 4
4 sters, drivers aad chauffeurs, 4
4 42.2 years. 4
4 Thus the list runs upward until 4
4 coal miners are reached. In their 4
4 dangerous occupation under- 4
4 ground, subject to mine gas. ex- 4
4 plosions, fires and stones falling 4
4 from the mine roof, they are 4
4 found to have an average life 4
4 span of 52.8 years, thus besting 4
4 the office worker in the fight for 4
4 life by 16.3 years. The farmer 4
4 lives longest, with 58.6 years to 4
4 bis credit. 4
4 Conclusion— the security of a 4
4 shut-in office is the most haz- 4
4 ardous way to make a living. 4
4 4
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ABANDON FUNERAL BASE.
Cherbourg, France, May 6.—As a re
sult of orders received from American
military authorities at Antwerp, the
American funeral base here, organized
a year ago has been abandoned.
Minnesota now requires a permit from
anyone wishing to set fire on newly
cleared land or other plots, after the
snow has left the forests, l^ast year
more than 60.000 permits w-ere issued,
and 50 arrests were made for failures to
obtain them.
A professor of economics of Harvard
Is a sales tax advocate because he has
concluded that the moral strain of pre
paring a true income tax report at the
existing rate of taxation is s»o tremend
ous that it is making a nation of liars
out of the people of the United States.
If continued, the tax will amount al
most wholly to "a tax on honesty," he
says.
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DAHLMAN RESIGNS
U. S. MARSHALSHIP
Mayor-Elect of Omaha Asks
To be Believed as Soon as
Possible.
Omaha, Neb., May 6.—United
States Marshal James C. Dahlman,
mayor-elect of Omaha, sent his resig
nation Wednesday as marshal to At
torney General Daugherty to take ef
fect as soon as possible. Federal
Judge Woodrough, with the consent of
Judge Munger, who is out of the
state, appointed Chief Deputy J. B'.
Nickerson, for 15 years deputy, acting
marshal.
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ALLIANCE RANCHER HANGS
HIMSELF WITH HALTER
Alliance, Neb., May 6 (Special).—
John A. Gregory, 50, of Alliance, com
mitted suicide Tuesday night by
hanging himself with a halter In the
barn on the Kilpatrick ranch, 26 miles
west of here where he was employed.
He was found by a ranch hand.
Gregory was well supplied with
money and owned half a section of
land in this county and had land in
Idaho.
A brother lives in Creston, la.
BROKEN BOW MEN HEADS
M. W. A. OF NEBRASKA
Lincoln, Neb., May—Judge Dwight
Ford, of Broken Bow, county Judge
of Custer county, was elected state
consul, and George E. Merriman, of
Omaha, state clerk, at the quadren
nial state camp of the Modern Wood
men of America here Wednesday.
Omaha was selected as the 1925 camp
city.
TOO MANY WIVES
FDR THESE 3 MEN
“Millionaire” Murray Has 3,
Newton, Dashing Actor,
Has 3, and Casper, a
Mechanic, Has 2.
New York, May 4. — One of the
three wives of John William Murray
took active steps Wednesday to sever
herself from the man who headed
west when the marital storm threat
ened to break about his head.
Slender dark little Marie Dougher
ty visited the office of a prominent
attorney, who later announced:
‘‘I am convinced it will be a com
paratively easy matter to obtain an
annulment of Miss Dougherty's mar
riage of July 15, 1918. She has a very
clear case. It is strengthened by the
fact that she never lived with Mur
ray. Papers will be signed by the
end of the week and the annulment
action will be begun next week."
Wives Take “Shota” at Him.
Meanwhile, the three wives have
given thumbnail statements of their
opinion of the man to whom at one
time or another they were or believed
themselves to be joined.
Wife No. 1—Marie Pavis Mur
ray—"He was a man who would
talk to you in millions and then
borrow 50 cents of you.”
Wife No. 2—Marie Dougherty
Murray — “I guess he’s plumb
crazy, but no one would guess it
unless one knew him for a little
while."
Wife No. 3—-Ann Southwick
Murray—“He was so handsome
and 1 thought him wealthy, lib
eral and sweet—until I tried to
live with him-—then—oh, my!"
Here’s Murray's Story.
Murray, who is in San Francisco,
says:
“I did not live with Marie Pavis be
cause I learned she had a husband
living in London and a daughter by
him. In July, 1918, I married Marie
Dougherty on a dare. When I got
back I discovered things that con
vinced me that my second marriage
also was illegal. My third wife is
* the only legal Mrs. Murray. I can
prove it, though I don’t want to make
trouble for any of the girls.”
Acting District Attorney Banton
said Tuesday no action will be tak
en by his office unless formal com
plaint is made by one of Murray’s
"wives.”
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NEWTON'S THREE WIVES
MEET HIM; HE’S ARRESTED
New York, May 4.—Harry A. New
ton a dashing young vaudeville actor,
got off a train Wednesday in (jjrand
Central station.
A dashing young woman threw her
arms about him and said:
"Hello hubby.”
Another dashing young woman re
peated the same action.
A third followed suit.
Then a detective took his arm and
led him to the Tombs with his
"wounded” wives.
Florence Madiera, os No. 1; Oenn
Argoe as No. 2, and Iva Kdmondson
as No. 3. all met on a tour of book
ing agents in a quest for work. They
got to talking and No. 2. told them
that she had left Boston when she
learned that her husband was going
to marry another woman.
More confidences and they learned
they were all in the same trouble.
A telegram to Boston from No. 3
brought the actor to New York into
the arms of the detective.
Newton was held in $3,000 bonds in
the Tombs police court on a charge
of bigamy.
CASPER LEFT WIFE, EIGHT
CHILDREN FOR GIRL, 20
Seattle, May 4.—Desertion of his
wife and eight children in Saginaw,
Mich., and a bigamov*s marriage to a
20-year-old girl with a perjured li
cense, were the charges against The
odore P. Casper, 42, mechanic, ar
rested here Wednesday afternoon.
The arrest of Caaper, who has been
using the name of George P. White,
came as a distinct shock to his
pseudo-bride. When detectives forced
him to admit he was the father of
eight children, she swooned.
Old Concepts Explode.
We Need a Scientific System of World Economy to Guide I
Us to Prosperity—Even the Man of the Stone Age Wor
ried Over New Markets in Which to Dispose of His
Surplus Wives, Women Being the First Medium of Ex
change—Salvation in Endless Capacity for Consump
tion—Tomorrow the Fiji Islander Will Want Shower
Baths.
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From Bulletin American Exchange National Bank.
No body of ideas ever elevated to the status of "natural law" or science
has disintegrated as rapidly as our own "political economy." We have see®
concept after concept long embraced in what some of us have regarded as
a fixed system explode before our very eves. The truth about what we call
political economy is that it was never a fixed science and never will be a
fixed science. Our ideas about the interworkings of foreign trade have been
almost exclusively drawn from Great Britain, whose economy Is essentially as
different from ours as ours is different from the economy of the Man in the
Moon. We discovered our mistake only recently, because until recently we
were not overly interested in foreign markets. Now we are faced with the
necessity of looking the future of our foreign trade in the face and it is ap
parent that we shall have to revise our ideas and try to evolve an economy
of our own.
Thn nenhlnm t.l.. V . r__• ....
' --^ u.iue relations is con
cerned with the disposition to be made of the debt owed to us by our allies
in the great war. We are told that if we insist upon the pavment of this
debt we shall thereby limit our future trade with our debtors and perhaps
with the rest of the world. That is said to be so because if we insist on the
payment of what is due us, our debtors will be forced to liquidate their deb*
with goods that they might otherwise exchange for a part of our excess prod
uct during the coming years and will therefore, be unable both to pay us and
exchange for our new goods, too. It has been suggested that we eliminate
this handicap by cancelling^the debt our allies in the great war now owe us,,
so that they may start in to pile up a new debt which some time in the fu
ture we may be called upon to concel, so that we might start over again.
Before the war we were the interest payers and had to send more goode
to pay fixed charges against us than we received. The bulk of the old debts
upon which we paid interest has been wiped out and the position reversed,
Europe owing us much more by billions than we ever owed her. The an
nual interest charge on the debt to us now exceeds the total value of all the
goods we imported from France, Italy and England in any year preceding
the war. In addition we have cut down our payments to England for ship
ping, for insurance and for banking services. Suppose we wiped out the war
debt and started in to let Europe pile up a new debt? Where would that get
us? Evidently, it would get us right back where we are now. Suppose w&
took the balances due us in investments in the countries to which we sent
our goods? Clearly, it would not be long until the interest charges against
Europe would consume her entire ability to pay and force us to cut our pro
duction to fit reduced markets. Why, then have we ever thought of doing
these things? Because the economy we have been taught is English econo
my and not American economy. England is a convertor, a consumer of raw
materials produced in other countries, and her ability to import is limited,
only by her ability to convert. Hence, our notion that riches are to be got
by trade.
We are producers and converters, too, and there is very little that the rest
ef the world converts or produces that we do not convert or produce for our
selves. Therefore, the world has nothing to give us that we want and we
cannot get rich through trade. What we need is an economic survey for the
plotting out of the things we can do with profit and the things we cannot
do with profit. We need a system of world economy that will give every
nation a place in the sun, and particularly every European nation. We can
not allow Western Europe to disintegrate; Western Europe is the ultimate
barrier between the Asiatic and ourselves, and our self-interest commands us
to preserve that barrier, even though kinship sentiment does not. We have
the time, for the world is young yet—we have the ability, for we have dumb
founded the gods with our accomplishments—all we need is the will; if we
have that, it is given to us to do a thing that no race of men has ever done,
and that is to preserve a civilization.
Back in the Stone Age when a producer of stone hammers accumulated
a surplus he probably climbed around the adjacent hills looking for a cus
tomer, hoping to swap an extra hammer for an extra wife or club. Some
times the trader was a man with a surplus wife—women were the first medi
um of exchange, the first money, and the Stone Age men were probably the
only men who ever found it possible to accumulate too mnch money. But
whether he wanted to sell hammers or wives, there is no doubt that he com
plained about his limited market, felt in his bones that a day would come
when the consumptive capacity of his neighbors would be exhausted, and he
would be forced to sit and twiddle his thumbs and listen to the surplus talk
of his surplus wives. It is quite possible, of course, that the Stone Age man
never had a surplus of anything and that he would not have traded it if he
had, but if not he is the only link in the human chain that has 'not worried
about the exhaustion of markets at one time or another during the progress
of the world. But each age has developed a new culture and each new cul
ture has developed new needs and the world that once rolled on tree-rounds
now rolls along on rubber tires, or soars on wings of silk. There is still a
wide gap between th« man who today enjoys the utmost in material com
forts and the man who is content with less. That gap is not always the gap
that lies between the rich man and the poor man, It may also lie between rich
man and rich man. As a result of habitual use or cultivated taste a thing
may become a necessity to one man that would be a luxury or a nuisance tu
another.
Even the simplest livers of today ari luxurious in their needs at com
pared with the most luxurious livers of 100 or so years ago. Time makes new
consumers out of old ones. The Fiji Islander may not need a shower bath
today, or if he does he possibly could not be induced to take it, but he will
need it tomorrow. Our home market is practically inexhaustible. Thousands
in this country have yet to find their way even to the primary comforts.
They live simply because that is the only way of living they know. Candles
are burned in thousands of homes and not for faddists' reasons either, but
because the simple home economy of 100 years ago has survived. Values are
relative. The division of labor today is a complicated thing, and economists
in plenty will tell us that the labor of the average man will never be worth
the sum of all the luxuries of today. But the economists of 100 years ago said
the same thing and more, and today the meanest laborer lives in more com
fort than the economists of that day ever dreamed of. And what is more, the
laborer of today probably works less than the thinker of 100 years ago—he
presses a button and some steam thing or other digs into the earth and
scoops up a ton or so with as little effort as is required in crooking a finger.
The machine has made all this possible; it has not done away with the ne
cessity for labor nor justified idleness—it has simply made it probable that
the meanest laborer of 100 years from now will be enjoying the luxuries now
enioved by the rich alone, that is, if we all work.
“General” Coxey't Financial Plan.
From the Columbus Dispatch.
The war proved able to change a good
many things, but it left Jacob S. Coxey
and his financial hallucinations just
where it found them. The failure of a
northwestern state to find a market for
an issue of bonds, he thinks, could
never have occurred if his “plan” had
only been in operation. Under this
plan any state in the union could print
bonds, take them to Washington and
exchange them for legal tender paper
money In any amount desired, and then
apply this money to relieving distress,
wherever it might exist. Whether the
bonds had any dependable provision for
redemption or not would make no par
ticular difference, apparently, to Mr.
Coxey. It is hard to see, from this
point of view, just why bonds should
ent^r into the matter at all. To men
of his way of thinking, if the United
States simply prints across a strip of
paper the words “This is a dollar” and
then makes it legal tender, it at once
becomes a dollar, with no necessity for
a fund of gold or anything else stored
away somewhere for its redemption. If
prices get too high, just print more, and
if paper begins to run out, make the
bills of higher denomination. All Mr.
Coxey’s scheme needs to make it work
able is to devise some kind of paper
money that we can eat and wear, in
place of ordinary food and clothing.
But for some reason or other Mr. Coxey
finds the senators and representatives at
Washington strangely uninterested in
his financial propositions.
Wrong Time to Primp.
From Birmingham Age-Herald.
“So your experiment with a woman
traffic officer was not a success?”
••What was the trouble?”
“She started to readjust a hairpin at
the busiest hour of the day. The re
sult was a traffic jam that three police
men work an hour to straighten out.
Major General MacReady. replying to
the Cork Harbor board resolution pro
testing against the execution of four
Sinn Feiners under a “recognized state
of war.” declares that a “state of in
surrection” is what really exists in Ire
land.
Bryan Answers Questions.
From the New York Times.
"Is there any hope for the democratic
party?” was asked Mr. Bryan.
'It is entirely possible for the dem
ocrats to gain the next congress. I think
our fight will be made on economic is
sues The chief one will bo taxation.
First to what extent can taxes be re
duced? Second, in reducing taxes, shall
the preference be given to the rich or
the poor? The consumption tax is, of
course, an income tax with the heaviest
rates on the poorest people. The plan
now Is to take the tax off the profiteer
and put it on the victim. The smaller
the income the larger percentage of It
would be taken under this tax. But I
don’t think there is any prospect of the
sales tax passing.”
"Opposition from the public had in
creased so rapidly as to reduce its
chances greatly,” he said.
“What do you think of the passage of
the Colombian treaty?”
"Well, I made it. Naturally I favor
it.”
Mr. Bryan was asked what he thought
of the appointment of Colonel Harvey.
”1 don’t care to be personal,” said Mr.
Bryan.
Beats Even Iowa.
From the Springfield Republican.
South Dakota leads all the states in
what may be called automobile satura
tion. That is to say, that purely farmer
state has one car to every 5.2 persons
of its total population, beating even
Iowa which has a car to every 5.5 per
sons.
An Expert’s Views.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
A woman is the finest scenery, but
much depends upon the view. We re
call the feminent investiture of 25 or
30 years ago, and we have always con
sidered the severe straw sailor, the plain
shirtwaist, the stiff linen collar, the
ballon sleeve and the long trailing skirt
the heaviest cross beauty has been
called upon to bear.
Demonstration Needed.
She—Do yuh love me, John'
He—Sure.
She—Then why don’t your chest go
up and down like the man la the movies?