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Warning} Not All Paekago Dyoo
Aro "Diamond Dyoo."
Always ask for “Diamond Dyes” and
tf you don’t see the name “Diamond
Dyes” on the package—refuse it—hand
it back!
Bach 15-cent package of “Diamond
Dyes” contains directions so simple any
woman can dye or tint skirts, dresses,
waists, sweaters, stockings, kimonos,
coats, draperies, coverings—everything
new, even if she has never dyed before.
Chooee any color at drug store. Refuse
substitutes I
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iioux CITY PTC. CO, MO. 10-1924
Washington Observations-By Frederic W. Wile
It Is undeniable that statesmen and lesser mortals
In Washington are "watching their step" these days.
Nervous anxiety, bearing a cousinly resemblance to
col# feet, is in the air. Nobody is quite sure where
the lightning will strike next, or what, or whom. On
Capitol Hill there is a refreshing taciturnity. It will
pass and Washington soon again will lapse back into
loquacious normalcy. Meantime oil has unmistakably
calmed the waters of loose talk. Where there is not
uncommunicatlveness, there is an uncommon precise*
ness of statement. The "they-say" fraternity is in re
treat. if it remains scared Teapot Dome will not
have boiled over altogether in vain.
Any number of United State* senators will be
up for re-election this year. Some of them who voted
against the Denby ouster are wopdering if their ac
tion will come home to roost in November, as pro
N^wbtrry votes did, in 1922, in the case of several
pfc/minent Republicans who now write "ex” before
their names. There are two or three quaint points
of personal resemblance in the cases of Secretary
DoAby and former Senator Newberry. They ure
both Detroiters. Newberry was secretary of the Navy
(in the closing months of the Roosevelt administra
tion) and Denby occupies that portfolio now. Both
Newberry and Denby are Spanish-American war vet
erans. They served in the same warship. Newberry
was Denby’s superior officer—a junior-grade lieutenant
aboard U. S. S. Yosemite, on which Denby served as
a gunner’s mate. Newberry recounts their experiences
in a book called "The Log of the Yosemite.”
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the termau
Reichsbank, who is now in daily contact with Gen
eral Dawes and the other American reparation com
missioners at Berlin, has an American background.
For many years Schacht’s father was the "procura
tor,” or general agent, of the Equitable Life As
surance Society of the United States at Berlin. As
a young man, the present Reichsbank head was em
ployed In the Equitable offices in Germany and co
operated with his father in the construction of the
company’s fine office building in the Friedrichstrasse
at the * end of the nineteenth century. It was Ber
lin’s first skyscraper—Blx stories high.
When the Senate was debating the* Robinson reso
lution calling for Secretary Denby’s retirement, a
celebrated Republican irreconcilable set the cloak
rooms into peals of merriment by an ironic quip
about the Junior senator from Alabama. "Why, Cool*
ldge,’’ he said, "is entitled to tell ns to go to the
other place, just is we should extend to him the same
kind of an invitation if he’d ask the Senate to unseat
Tom Heflin!"
Harry 8. New, of Indiana, postmaster-general,
seems to havn the knack of remaining the confidante
of presidents. No one in Washington was closer to
Harding than the Hoosier republican and now he
ranks as one of the powers behind the Coolidge
throne. Politicians were quick to note that no other
member of the cabinet was invited by the President
to accompany him to New York for the Lincoln Day
speech at the National Republican Club. The friend
ship between the Coolidges and the News dates back
to Senate days, when the President was employed on
Capitol Hill. What New doesn’t know about politics
isn’t worth the trouble to learn. These are the times
in which Calvin Coolidge has use for hard-headedness
of the New brand.
Talking of political knowledge, Boies Penrose
was once told by a sycophantic admirer: "Senator,
I guess all that . (a well-known Pennsylvania
G. O. P. leader) knows, you taught him.” Penrose
soliloquised a moment, then said: "I may have taught
him all he knows, but I didn’t teach him all I know.”
Eminent New Englanders in Washington, a good*
ly company, are quietly amused over the project of
Henry Ford to re-establish Longfellow’s Wayside lnu
at Sudbury, Mass., and turn it into a shrine of "com*
partive American history.” Quite evidently, they
say, Uncle Henry no longer thinks “history is bunk.”
The Cabots and the Lowells are said to be con
servatively chagrined over the spectacle of a mere
Middle Westerner invading the Pilgrim country for
the purpose of reviving its languished interest in
American history. Ford was born in Michigan and
had no known forbears aboard the Mayflower.
Senator Copeland is not the only M. D., who
basks in the sunshine of a Democratic presidential
boom. Dr. William J. Mayo, world-famed surgeon of
Rochester, Minn., is the latest medical favorite son.
Minnesota isn’t exactly the camping-ground of the
democratic party, which has practically been blotted
out in the State by the Farmer-Labor upheaval. .But
Dr. Mayo’s friends appear to think his candidacy
could 'easily be .galvanized into a -nation-wide move
ment because of the enormous acquaintance his prac
tice has given him and his brother. Dr. William
Mayo is approaching the age of sixty-three, being
four years tho senior of his brother. He has never
held political office. Medical and surgical societies
throughout the world have showered the Mayos with
honors. In 1915 they established a 12,000,000 foun
dation for medical education and research at Ro
chester.
Habit of Looking To Artificial Help
Weakens Americans In Foreign Trade
From the Christian Science Monitor.
American manufacturers in the long years of competition
With the British and Germans before the war failed, to a degree
that kept down their profits, to show proverbial Yankee keenness,
alertness and ingenuity in going after foreign customers. There
('*' Vferjr many reasons for this, perhaps the strongest and most ob
vious being the high American protective tariffs on which they
grew accustomed to rely for easy retention of the vast and profit
able markets of their own country. Lacking the spur of serious
competition in this great field, their energy and astuteness, so
far as foreign markets were concerned, lay dormant.
When they finally did seek to dispose of their surplus beyond
their own borders, they were slow to realize the necessity of close
study of details as to the wants and peculiarities of foreign custo
mers. The atrophy that was traceable to the numbing effects of
continued “protection to infant industries’’ clung to them for a
long time and dulled their native genius for trade. The inevitable
result was that their British and German rivals retained the
mastery in many foreign markets from which the Americans ought
to have ousted them with comparative ease. This was strikingly
true of the rich markets of South America lying right at the doors
of the United States. The North Americans were slow to adopt
methods of banking and credit to which the people of the southern
continent were accustomed. In matters of salesmanship, pack
ing of goods, and transportation t'hey did not bother to learn local
desires and customs.
Before the Avar there was some improvement in these respects,
and trade of the Ignited States with the southern continent was
gradually picking up. Conditions due to war made it easier for
the North Americans to increase their southern commerce greatly.
But European competition is reviving and is blund to grow. If
the manufacturers of the United States want to keep some of the
advantages they have gained in recent years, they must go at it
more keenly and with closer attention to a thousand and one little
details. There are plentiful signs that this is realized now more
than formerly. The study of Spanish in the United States has
grown with leaps and bounds, and mueh more attention is given to
South America peculiarities than was once the case.
But there is still room for'improvement. A vivid and hum
orous proof of this was revealed recently in a report of the United
States Department of Commerce. Some Spanish translations of
advertisements made by employees of American exporters were
quoted, and they told the whole story. There were single-horse
buggy harnesses to be pushed for sale. They were referred to as
“harness full of bugs for a bachelor horse.” One maker had
vacuum cleaners to sell. The translator said they were “clean
ers of emptiness.” “Monkey wrenches” became “wrenches for
monkeys.” Iron Avashers Avere transmuted into “Avashers of
iron.”
These are little things and sound funny, but the United States
exporters must learn how to avoid just such errors all through the
complicated routine of trade, if they hope seriously to meet the
competition of their more methodical and seasoned German and
British rivals in the vastly rich markets of the world.
Vengeance.
Prom the Progressive Grocer.
"When I’m a married man—’’ began
Bobbie after a stormy interview with
hie father.
"What will you doT’’ asked his moth
er.
“I’ll name my boy after papa—and
oht how I’ll spank him!"
Brickmaking was one of man’s earl
iest pursuits. Babylon was acquainted
with the art, and it is recorded that
the Israelites baked bricks from clay
mixed with chopped straw, much in
the same manner that has come down t«
the present day.
Valuable markets for Pacific coast
products exist In Belgium now, accord
ing to A. S. Bleakney, Canadian Trade
Commissioner in Brussels, who arrived
here recently to investigate business
conditions in Western Canada. Doors
and salmon produced on the Pacific
coast are in demand in Belgium, he stat
ed, and frozen as well aa canned sal
mon finds ready market. Soft wood
flooring also can be sold readily ir. Bel
gium. ha adds4
Something Wrong.
Proud Father—Well. Tommy, what do
you think of your new bouncing broth
er?
Tommy—Something’s the matter with
him, paw. 1 dropped him as hard as
1 could on the floor but he wouldn't
bounce.
Swedish politicians are busily en
gaged in the solution of the problem of
national defense, whiyh is the weight
iest before the country. The Socialist
and Liberal parties advocate curtailing
the period of training, the Socialists
asking a reduction from 280 to 150 days,
and the Liberals to 200 days. The cab
inet recently decided upon a new uni
form for the army of an olive drab
color, in place of the present gray, and
cut somewhat after the American army
uniform.
Fujiyama, the volcano famous In
Japanese art, had its top changed by
recent disturbances with the flatten
ing of Kengamlne peak, formerly the
highest point, and the formation of a
»*w peak, reports from Osaka say.
Argentine Wheat.
From the Lincoln Journal.
Ill 1922, Argentina exported 137,000
000 bushels of wheat. The United
States exported 104,000,000. The
wheat of Argentina and this wheat of
the United States met In the markets
of the world, sellinr, quality con
sidered, at the same price. The net
price of the Argentine farmer was
however from 8 to 11 cents greater
than the American farmer received.
This means that the cost of gettlnr
the Argentine farmer's wheat to the
foreign'market was that much less
than the cost of getting the American
wheat to the foreign market The
Argentine farmer lives, on the aver
age, closer to a seaport than the
American farmer. Little Argentine
wheat has more than 400 miles to go
to a seaport. Western Nebraska
wheat has 1,C>00 miles to go. Few
Argentine fanners pay over 16 centa
a bushel for railroad transportation.
Many American farmers pay 60 per
cent. more.
un me omer nana, we Argentinian
has farther to go by sea and he pays
much higher for his going. It costs
him about 15 cents to ship a bushel
of wheat from Rosario to Liverpool.
From New York to Liverpool last
September the ocean rate was 4.8
cents, from New Orleans it was 8.6
cents. According .to the studies of our
department of agriculture, however,
our advantage In ocean rates does
not overcome Argentine’s advant
age In railroad freights. The Ameri
can wheat farmer must meet Argen
tine competition in wheat under a
handicap of 3 to 11 cents in costs of
delivery in the market where they
meet.
President Coolidge spoke favorably
in his message of the Great Lakes
St. Lawrence waterway which would
bring the wheatflelds of Nebraska
within a few hundred miles of an
ocean port. That, probably would
put Nebraska on an equality with
Argentina in the competition of
wheat.
[In discussing competition between
United States and Argentine wheat,
due consideration should be taken of
the fact that the United States "sur
plus" Is Just a trade myth. It is
produced largely by Canadian im
portations. In other -words, we im
port as much wheat from Canada as
we export to outside points.—Editor’s
Note.] ^
Net Her Fault.
From the Boston Transcript
Doctor—I suppose, Mrs. Johnson, that
you have given the medicine according
to directions.
Mrs. Johnson—Well, doctah, I done
mah bes’ You said give Sam one o’
dese heah pills three times a day onttl
gone, but I done run out o’ pills yista
day an’ he haint gone yit.
Cashes His Opinions.
From the Washington Star.
“You are sometimes rather cautious
about expressing your opinions."
"Not cautious,’’ answered Senator
Sorghum, "but economical. A states
man’s opinions are his capital, and it's
utter improvidence to scatter them
around unless they are wanted by a
campaign manager or a magaslne
editor."
The Minister of Finance at Rome,
Signor De Stefani, has presented to the
cabinet a measure making 3000 lire the
minimum income on which a tax will
be levied. Under the present law th«
minimum is 10.000 lire.
A Powerful Timepiece.
From the Logdon Weekly Telegraph.
Ship’s Officer—Oh, there goes eight
bells. Excuse me. It’s my watch below.
Miss Brown—Good gracious. Fancy
your watch striking as loud as that.
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Five times more fish are consumed in
England than in France.
Bet L. cy Got It I
From Life.
Little Lucy (to gueet)—Do you like
that cake, Mrs. Brown?
Mrs. Brown—Yes, dear, very much.
Lucy—That’s funny, ’cause muvvef
said you haven’t any taste.
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Will Your Family Be Happy This Spring?
If your* in one of the few remaining families lacking an
automobile, no doubt you have finely decided to get one
within the next four months.
A low-priced modem automobile like the Chevrolet has be
come indispensable to the family of ordinary income- A
million other families can easily prove to you tnat the better
wav is with Chevrolet. The beauties of nature, the interesting
and educational features of other places and ways of living,
remain things to read about or seen dimly in cold photographs
until you are free to get to them at your convenience and pleasure.
But, suppose you have definitely decided to buy a Chevrolet
this spring. This does not necessarily mean you are going to
get it. Anyone posted on conditions in die automobile business
will tell you that thousands of families are going to be unable
to get cars this spring. This has been true almost every rprog
for the last ten years. There are Just two ways of making sure
of getting your Chevrolet for use when the flowers and balmy
breezes of spring hue you to the country roads—buy it now
or order it now.
If you do not want to pay for it In foil at this time, any
Chevrolet dealer will arrange terms to suit your convenience.
You will be surprised to learn how easy It is to pay for a
Chevrolet and use it addle yon are paying for It.
Please realize these statements at* made by us in good faith
and we mean Just whet we my about the possible difficulties
of getting a car delivered |to yon this spring if yon wait until
then to order it. The only way to be ante of a Chevrolet
this Spring Is to order it NOW.
Prices /. a k Flint, Michigan
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Her Favorite
Tactless Lady Friend (to hostess)—
By the way, what birthday is this we
are celebrating?
Hostess—My thirty-fifth.
Lady Friend—But huve we not cele
brated that before?
Hostess—Oh, yes; it is one of tny
favorite birthdays.—Struy Stories.
Always Keep Allcock’s Piasters
In your home. Invaluable for ail local
aches and pains. Inexpensive, abso
lutely pure, safe and effective.—Adv.
Eoeieet to Make
Fair Caller (at the tax office t»
Paris)—A declaration la obligatory?
Clerk—Absolutely.
Fair Caller—AlFrlghf, then I adore
you!—Boston Transcript.
No man ever lives to be as old as be
feels at twenty-one.
Embarraeemg Moment
A shy young hostess. In an effort to
be genial, led aside the comparative
stranger, whose name somehow eluded
her.
“Look,” she said, "I’ve paired yon off
with that lady In the corper. WtU yon
take her In to dinner? My husband,
naughty man, says she's a bit of an old
frump, but she’s got lots of money,
and one of his clever friends has jaat
married her for It, so we must be nice
to her."
“1 am sorry, madam,’’, said the guest,
“but I am the clever- friend In quo
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Worth Trying *
i„ Brown—Halloa, old chap! Nice
melons >eo’ve gob tttsife!
Green—Yes, tliere’re for my mot he r
In-law. She said she would giro haft
her life for a good melon, so IV*
bought a couple.—Stray Stories.
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nvo pleasant ways
to relieve a cough,
Take your choice and suit
your taste. S B—or Menthol
flavor. A sure relief far coughs.
* colds and hoarseness. Put one
in your mouth at bedtime.
Always kaap a boa. on hand.
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SMITH BROTHERS
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