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Who Woi Caliban?
In Shakespeare's “Tempest” Caliban
Is a savage, deformed slave,—half
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ished from Argler (or Algiers) to the
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course, to Caliban, In the Tempest, a
Character in which Shakespeare has
blended qualities both hideous and re
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Washington Observations-By Frederic W. Wile
United States Senator* eat through Senator FTank
B. WilUR' sonorous reading of the farewell address on
Washington's Birthday in no perfunctory spirit. The
floor was not crowded, but was well filled. Perhaps
half the membership of the Senate was present, about
equally divided between republicans and democrats.
Men wer there who have weathered many similar
occasions- -Lodge, Warren, Simmons, Overman, Smoot,
Iatfalletta, Brandegee and Borah, each of whom has
| been In the Senate for more than 17 years. Coplea
of the address were in the hands of all senators and
were followed intently as Willis read it The Ohioan
raised his voice to an oratorical pitch only when he
came to the passages in which Washington warned
against “entangling alliances.“
Probably never in our history has a cabinet ol
I ficer of the republic been on the floor of the Senate
at a more thrilling moment than the hour Harry M.
Daugherty spent there on Washington’s Birthday. The
attorney-general promised Senator Willis a long time
ago that he would listen to his farewell address per
formance. When the session began, Daugherty took
up his station in one of the big armchairs back of
the republican side of the bouse. Worry seemed a
thing he didn’t know the meaning of. A wag in the
press gallery said it was a case of an untersified
Daniel in the lions’ den. Cabinet ofTicers have the
privileges of the floors of congress. Senator Moses,
republican stalwart, stepped over to Daugherty for a
smiling chat. Later Senator Davis Blkins, of West
Virginia, took a seat alongside the attorney-general
perhaps because misery loves company.
Capitol Hlli is suffering from an acute attack ot
nervous investigation. In the Senate, according to
official information supplied to this observer, no
fewer than 40 to 60 investigations are pending, au
thorised or asked for by resolution. In the House,
about 26 are under way or projected. The Senate
inquisitions embrace oil, Russia, the Bureau of En
graving, piopaganda, causes of the World war, and
a variety ot other topics in and out of the criminal
code. House investigations cover oeneral Wood,
bootlegging in the District of Columbia, ticket-scalp
ing Washington rents, why the colored vote In the
south doesn’t vote, Alaskan fisheries and what-not.
There would have to be a wing added to the con
gressional library to house the printed proceedings
of bearings held in recent years. Usually the vol
umes are read only by tbe unfortunate compositor*
who put them into type.
Since he recently passed from the scene, many
untold anecdotes of Woodrow Wilson are gaining cur
rency. For years he carried a copy of Rudyard Rlp
Ung's inspirational poem, *‘If’ in hiB wallet Often
Wilson told his Intimate friends that Kipling in “if
had epitomised tbe whole Wilsonian philosophy of
life and politics—the determination to keep on fight
ing when fighting was the hardest, and to amiie
through defeat as valiantly as in triumph. Once in
a while Wilson would say that his favorite stanza
ft* "If wae:
“If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings.
And never breathe a word about your loss’...,
John Stiles, speaking on behalf of the Rotary
club of Ottawa, Canada, in Washington the other day
told of the astonishment of a distinguished Euro
pean visitor in Ontario, as he was shown a map
containing the unfortified “imaginary line'' between
the United States and Canada. The European was a
military man. He pointed to half-a-dozen points on
the border which he said were obviously “strategic
points” of great value. “Are there no fort* there?"
he asked. “None,” he was told. “What is there?"
the Old World denizen persisted. "Nothing but
hydro-electric stations for peace-time industry," was
the reply, whereupon his Canadian host preached an
eloquent sermon on what war mad Europe could
learn from North America's “unprotected” frontier
of 3,000 miles.
Representative Meyer Jacobstein, of Rochester,
N. Y., seized upon the 102nd anniversary of George
Washington’s birth to make a timely argument in
favor of the soldiers bonus. Mr. Jacobstein has been
reading Washington’s diary and there he discovered
that the Father of His Country cordially approved
of th« payment of & Revolutionary war bonus not
only to the enlisted men, but to the officers, of tbe
Continental army. General Washington himself was
voted immense grants of land in token of bis service
in the Indian wars, including vast slices of what is
now the state of Ohio. But he returned them for
Inclusion in the domains of the public lands.
French Occupation Taught Germany
It Can Pay Share of War Expenses
From the New York Post.
As the time draws near for some sort of showdown on the
German reparations issue, signs and portents begin to appear.
The Dawes committee, whieh has so far worked in comparative
secrecy, is about to make its report. Naturally there is specula
tion with regard to the “recommendations” that are to be sub
mitted not only to the reparation commission and the govern
ments involved but also to a more or less candid world.
Two of these forecasts are of more than passing interest.
One is that the members of the inquiry board are convinced, after
surveying the situation in Berlin, that Germany can pay the total
amount demanded by the Allies. The German government has
not been collecting taxes. If Germans are taxed as heavily as
Frenchmen or Englishmen, as has time and again been demon
strated, the obligation of 132,000,000,000 gold marks can be met
within the stipulated period of 40 years.
Once this point is established and stamped with the approval
of the committee of experts, matters will be considerably simpli
fied. The know-it-all brethren and the German propagandists
Lave for years, day in and day out, been hammering upon this
one nail. “Astronomical figures,” “impossible indemnities,”
“ridiculous, ruinous, monstrous reparations” were but a few of
their favorite expressions. By dint of mere repetition they man
aged to gain wide circulation and considerable acceptance for
their viewpoint.
The reason for the belief that Germany can shoulder the bur
den lends itself to no such picturesque and dramatic exposition.
Germany has no national debt, and therefore no sinking fund
and interest charges to meet. Make reparations her national
debt, with annual charges of $625,000,000 a year. Tax Germane
no higher than Frenchmen are taxed for the same purpose, and
much lower than Englishmen, and the accessary amount is pro- j
vided. That is all there is to it.
It would never have been possible to force Germany to as
sume this debt had France not taken the role of sheriff and occu
pied the Ruhr region. Germany was prospering under a policy
of evasion. Berlin was receiving from the outside encourage
ment enough to convince authorities they could persist in sueh
a course.
Under pressure from France the policy had to be abandoned.
Men who believed that Germany would have to submit, that it
would be ehcape:* in the end for Germany to submit, were placed
in the high places of German politics and governmental finance.
Gradually the “will to pay” uamc into being.
Graft In European Pros*.
From the New York Times.
Articles were published some weeks j
ago in the socialist newspaper of
Paris, U’Humanlte, showing the cor- '
rupt relations between many French
Journals and the Russian govern- •
ment. The documents were drawn
from the .archives of the Russian
foreign office. They consist largely
of reports made by the Russian fi
nancial agent In Paris. He had been
constituted a sort of paymaster of
the forces in connection with tho
French press. The whole makes up
a shocking story of bribery or
blackmail resorted to at the time of
the floatation of successive Russian
loans on the French market.
There is, te be sure, nothing par
ticularly novul or surprising in this
disclosure, klot only France, bu» in
other continental countries, the re
lation of must newspapers to their
government, and to the governments
of foreign nations, has been different
from anything known in the United
Suites or in England. Sometimes
subsidies are given direct. More often
Journalists have secretly been in re
ceipt of money in return for their
supposed influence. The system has
been tong established and perfectly
familiar, but is none the less utterly
reprehensible. There is no excuse
for it. It brings journalism under
suspicion and reproach. It will be a
happy day for continental Europe
when in can point to newspapers that
are selfsupportlng and Independent
and known by all to have opinions
that cannot be bought.
The defense is set up that con
tlr.entil newspapers could not live
units* 11 '•>- securer! from time to
time, funds from political aspirants,
or from governments desiring to
make use of them. The small
amount of advertising carried by
foreign newspapers Is not sufficient
It is asserted, to enable them to meet
their coat of publication. They are
driven to seek financial help secretly,
whether altogether legitimate or not.
This may be an explanation, but it
is no defense. The first duty of u
self-respecting newspaper man—a
duty both to his own culling and to
the public—is to make the press what
it professes to be, an honest medium 4
of news and of editorial conviction. I
Anything short of this is a shame j
and disgrace.
Easy But Unnecessary.
W. L George, in Harper’s Maga
zine.
Oscar Wilde said that it was easy
to he virtuous on 160,000 a year, to
which I venture to add that it may
be easy, but Is not necessary.
No indicator.
You can't Judge the length of a
man's bank account by the length ot
hie cigarette holder._
The deeth is announced is Berlin of
General Von Hopfner, who served with
the German for-e in the Allied eipe
ditim in China at the time of tbs Boxer
rebeihea.
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The Literary Touch.
A correspondent copies for us a
sign he saw recently in a store.
“Superfine Selected Codfish. Choicest
product of ocean’s azure depths;
! taken alive on tha higH"seas. Per
fect Piscine Paragons. Flesh white
as the driven snow; abounding in
nitrogen; rich in nutriment; plent
eous in phosphorus. An Epicurean
Delight."
Much Meeker.
Magnus Johnson hails from Meeker
county, but It is only fair to state
that the county is meeker that Mag
nus
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BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
The political battle is on. Hiram
Johnson enters the primaries in
Ohio. A) Smith, of New York, en
ters the primaries in Illinois. His
petition was filed with the secretary
of state yesterday—by friends, he
said. He, It seems knew nothing
about tt.
Another copper concern, the In
spiration Copper Company, yester
day followed the example of the big
Anaconda, and skipped its dividend.
That means bad salesmanship and
not enough advertising. If the cop
per men would explain, through ad
vertising In plain language what
copper means and what it saves on
building, no company able to pro
duce copper at 20 cents a pound or
better, need lack business.
The convenient flummery that
permits lawyers to withhold infor
mation concerning clients as "secrets
and sacred” should be ended.
As things stand now a big legal
rascal, helping a bigger corporation
rascal to conceal his stealings, rises
solemnly in court to say, "this is
sacred confidence between lawyer
and client.”
There is no more reason for such
sacred confidence between lawyer
and client, where crime Is commit
ted, than there is for sacred confi
dence between burglar and pawn
shop keeper.
When a pawnshop man helps a
burglar to sell his loot he is com
pelled to tell about It and refund.
A lawyer helping a corporation to
steal property from the government
should also be compelled to tell all
about it.
There Isn’t any "saerednese" in
theft.
The franc while a little stronger
yesterday is still dangerously weak.
But be careful how you go “short**
of French currency.
The French have a great deal of
real money. They can, whenever
they choose, cut off the cost of ex
travagant military spending, the
subsidizing of Poland and other
military powers. The French are
naturally most economical and on
the average the richest people in the
world. It won’t pay In the long run
to sell France or her money “short."
I«ndon police discovered a new
drug, that secures its victim in a
new way. By inhaling the odor of
ihl* "perfumed alkaloid," the drug
habit can be established and the
perfumed drug lends gradually to co
caine, etc.
This Is new in the drug world, al
though since the days of Antony
and Cleopatra, tnen have been lured
into making fools of themselves by
perfumes of various kinds. Old
Bunyan. in his book on the "City of
Man's Soul," told of the gates to
that city, “eye gate, mouth gate, nose
gate,” etc.
Trouble comes through any of
these gates and Lakes possession of
the city.
Young people that Inherit money
may be depended upon to scatter it
swiftly enough.
Leaving vast sums of money to
children, making work unnecessary,
is the most harmful thing that could
happen to them. But it is still more
li&rmful to the general public to dis
courage the country’s ablest men.
Their ambition, Just now, is to pile
up money, which they don't need and
which will spoil their children. But
if they want it, let them have it.
An African chief that kills a lion
wants 40 fat black wives. Let him
have them. The lion killing is Lhf
important thing.
DM jron read that "discovery
douse" invented by kind hearted
democrats, during the Wilson ad
ministration. to save big oil com
panies from big income tax?
Briefly, about 1300,000,000 have
been taken from the public fund on
this basin.
WESTERN PIONEER TELLS
INTERESTING EXPERIENCE
Frank Rikert, Who Left Illi
nois for California in Cov
ered Wagon in 1864,
Wouldn't Take $100 for
Bottle of Tanlac.
Frank Rikert. well-known resident
of North Sacramento, Cal., who came
to the state front Illinois In a covered
wagon In 1804, along with other hardy
pioneers, recently exhibited a bottle of
Tanlac. which he had Just purchased,
to a friend at hia home and remarked:
"If I thought this was the last bottle
of Tanlac I would ever be able to buy,
I wouldn't take one hundred dollars
for It," thus proving the high valuation
Vegetable Tablet Said
to Give Men Energy
The admiralty Is experimenting with
a-new extract, In tablet form, of water
cress, spinach and other green plants.
It Is called phyllotuin und It may su
persede lime juice for the treatment of
scurry.
Phyllosan Is the discovery of Prof.
E. Buergl of Bern university, and Is
made from chlorophyll, the vital fluid
In plants which bears a dose chemical
relationship to human blood pigments.
"The theory of transferring plant
energy to enfeebled members of tbe
human race was expounded by !>r. A.
White Itobertson, the famous army
surgeon, as long ago as 1912." said a
London specialist, "and Prof. Buergl’s
application of it has been welcomed
at several London hospitals where pa
he places on the famous treatment.
"I believe Tanlac really saved my
life when I took It after the Flu about
a year ago," continued Mr. Klkert, “foe
tbe attack left me 20 pounds off la
weight, and unable to turn over In my
bed without assistance. I tell you, 1
thought tny time had surely eorne.
“Hut, (hanks to m.v wife’s Insistence,
I kept on taking Tanlac till I was able
to do all my work again, had hark all
my lost weight, and I’ve been feeling
years younger ever since. I’m always
telling my friends about Tanlac, and
can’t say too much for It.’’
Tanlac Is for sale by all good drug
gists. Accept no substitute. Over 4(1
million bottles sold.
Take Tanlae Vegetable Bills.
Uettts have I .ecu rejuvenated by a
course of treaunenr."
bs plate in the navy as a rival to
lime juice will depend upon the speed
of lis action in strengthening blood
that has been weakened b\ a lack of
green vegetables and fresh fruit
Conspicuous success, it Is claimed,
has already attended the royal air
force experiments on troops In Irak
suffering from scurvy, tufllarin and'
general disability.- London Tit Hits.
Not the Last of It
He - "But i thought you'd forgiven
me for that and promised to forget It?”
She- "Yes but I didn't promise' to let
you forget I'd forgiven It!"—• Bunch.
Tbo mistakes of a really great man
only make his virtues seem stronger
by contrast.
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Invention of "W eth-End”
It wasn’t nntll the word "week-end"
was invented that everybody wanted
both Saturday and Sunday for a holi
day.
Strange us It may seem, motor tulk
makes some people yawn.
When we have known belter times,
we ere all "reactionary.”
Need$ of Education
The wilderness was made inhabit
Hide by rough but daring men. Jfidueu
tlon nee<)s strong anus and eourage aa
Its aids.
It Is easier to forget a favor than It
is to forgive au Injury.
ltui every man Is not a hero, even
from Ids own point of view.
Your doctor advises
internal cleanliness
HE will tell you that the first results of consti
pation headache, sleepless nights, bilious
ness, backache, etc.—warn that the body is flooded
with intestinal poisons. In time, these poisons
may cause the breakdown of health and lead to
•erious disease. In constipation, say intestinal
specialists, lies the primary cause of more than C
three-quarters of all illness including the gravest 1
diseases of life. m
Hence, doctor* urge internal cleanliness—
regular and thorough removal of food
waste from the body. 'yjju
Laxatives Aggravate Constipation 4?==
Laxatives and cathartics do not overcome
constipation, says a noted authority, but by Say
their continued use tend only to aggravate
the condition and often lead to permanent injury.
Why Physicians Favor Lubrication
Medical science, through knowledge of the intesti
nal tract gained by X-ray observation, has found at
last in lubrication a means of overcoming constipa
tion. The gentle lubricant, Nujol, penetrates and
softens the hard food waste and tlius hastens its
passage out of the body. Thus Nujol brings in
ternal cleanliness.
Nujol is used in leading hospitals and is prescribed
by physicians throughout the world. Ntyol is not
a medicine or laxative and cannot gripe. Like
pure water it is harmless.
Get rid of constipation and avoid disease by
adopting the habit of internal cleanliness. Take
Nujol as regularly as you brush your teeth or wash
your face. For sale by all druggists.