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No Question, Whatever, About Tariffs , Causing Higher Prices for Consumers From the Dayton (Ohio) News. In a recent \\ ashington address First Assistant Post master General Bartlett put the gist of the tariff question very clearly. He said: “If a given person could have protection on the thing he produces so as to get good prices for it, and at the same time free trade on everything he buys, so that he may possibly buys cheaper, it is plaiu to see that he would like that brand of free trade." Mr. Bartlett thought that attitude wras “selfish, narrow and sectional, as perhaps it is. Yet it is the universal atti tude of people who know where their interests lie. It would be called, we suppose, the businesslike attitude. For instance, the protectionists of New England are lined up solidly in con gress for free trade prices for the food products of the middle west which New England buys and naturally wants to buy as ■cheaply as possible. There wasn’t a single New England vote last winter for the McNary-Haugen bill for giving farmers protective level of prices for thair products. The western farmers meanwhile, such of them as have had their eyes opened, are beginning to demand free trade in the New England goods which they must buy.. Meanwhile they would like to have a protected price level for their own commodities. They are following the course condemned by Mr. Bartlett; but it is the course taken by the protected manufac turers everywhere. Isn’t buying in a cheap market and selling in a dear one, the foundation of all profitable business! Mr. Bartlett has unintentionally greatly simplified the CC -_l • T i A. 11 . . ... ■ 4ucn*,1vu. xi js, ttiu-r an, a very ami pie iiiniier. lariris do not create wealth. They only redistribute it. They take money out of the pocket of one man and put it in the pocket of another. When President Coolidge increased the pigiron duty last year he took an extra 50 cents a ton out of the pockets of the iron consumers and put it in the pockets of the iron producers. If congress, by passing the MeNary-Haugen bill, were to make the agricultural tariffs effective, that would take money out of the pockets of the food consumrs and put it into the pockets of the farmer producers. Senator Walsh pointed out the other day that her recent increase in the aluminum tariff was a plain gift by congress to Mr. Mellon’s aluminum com pany of from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 a year of the cash of tin American consumer. It is as simple as matching pennies. If the American public could get this perfectly true and simple idea of tariffs through their heads the subect would get a fair and rational treatment in polities. Publicity, knowl edge of the fact, is the great cleanser. If congress has made Secretary Mellon's aluminum company a gift of, say, $5,000, 000 a year of the public’s money, how much ought Mr. Mellon, in all fairness, to contribute quadrennially to the campaign fund of the political party which served him this treat? Public discussion of such matters is needed, and would greatly clarify the national political atmosphere. Secretary Mellon, true to Mr. Bartlett’s formula, favors free trade for farmers. He ad vised the president to veto the MeNary-Haugen bill. He wanted to keep his $5,000,000 a year. How natural! A simple local issue, the tariff. Mr. Bartlett has demon strated the fact very ably. TODAY. ‘ Let the hills alone today; They will stay. " Ttiey'll be ready for your rhyme Any time. And the mountains and the sea—■ Let them be. You can fill up future days With their praise. *.> And the planets and the sun— Let them run. •J Though they light a distant track, They'll be back. ’*• Better in the present hour Smell a flower; Better celebrate the rose While it blows. . j i Better rhapsodize the brief ' Autumn leaf. Or the momentary bliss Of a kiss. ! Music dying on the air Like a prayer, Or a dreaming bird at rest 1 In its nest. These, O Poet, strive to get In your net; j For some at tomorrow's dawn They'll be gone. —James Larkin Pearson in the New i York Times. < £S.V ' tfr4iF~" Excessive Fees. From the Wichita Eagle. This country has a well-grounded suspicion that much of the proceeds from increased rates, for which the corporations are continually ding donging, is handed in handsome re muneration fit) high-powered lawyers for their part in the play. There is some concrete evidence of It coming out of the United f*tates supreme court Abraham S. Gilbert, New York lawysr, as special master in the New York Olty f<as cases a few years ago, received $118,000' from eight gas com panies in “fees and allowances." The court had held that he wa3 entitled to about $50,000, which seems like plenty. But Mr. Gilbert, apparently with the notion that It is not what the law says but what you get by with that counts, elected to keep it all. When be became hard pressed, ho got a declaratory udgment from the New York supreme court sus taining his position. But Chief Jus tice Taft lias just administered a verbal spanking to the New Yorker, telling him his conduct is far from upright and ordering him to return the money with interest, amounting in all to some $80,000. The mater of excessive legal fees is contributing to America's prob lems in more ways than one. They spur discovery of legal loopholes and oxtend beyond all reason many of tho lengthy criminal trials of the country. When applied to corpora tion rate cases, the people eventually nav for them and thus the cast of livtiiK is hiked And while it isn’t cleat how the United States supreme Alaskan i«slt un Isrreautf. Pram Popular Mechanics Magaslne Heals or. the Prlbilof Islands, off Alaska, increased 41588. or A 3ft per cent, last year over the proceeding year according to a careful govern ment census The count shows that there were *08 870 seals In the roofc nrte* Last summer 383 588 pups were born but there was an unusual death rate ououg them Males for the breeding reeervee were given hair bobs Prom Answers hr truce IWacher Mama sense A*uM th»> WOW t frreer _ ✓** ** k 1., -•“?* ’Far the Streep, , I CoUeen Moore, film star, is con ventionally unconventional in this diwetyn street frock. The color scheme of rich brown with sand tone scallops is fiovel and new. {International Newsreel) ' I WHAT IS EDUCATION? Jay 3. House. Who shall say exactly what edu cation i: ? Everybody admits ifa a grand good thing, but what is It? Is it something one gets from books or something one learns from experience? A man who has never gone to school at all may be very well educated. One who has studied all of his life may know nothing of importance. And inter esting people are interesting peo ple, no matter how much or how little they know. court is going te rid the country of this evil altogether. It has swatted the practice in one instance, and this is something. A D.fferent Thin*. From the Weekly Scotsman. Little Boy ion the beach* Mum my. I want to go into the sea. Mother My dear, you cannot Little Boy But. mummy, daddy does. Mother Yea; but you see bis life la insured , From the Wsshtsbftuii Htar "You have a w*taderful mint patch * Help yourself answered Uncle BtU Bottletop "It makes me ih|pk id the darmwiw in an aneMBt , tank beautiful tat ueelsee " TODAY BY ARTHUR BRISBANE An assistant secretary of our navy fur aeronautics says various things that would make him an excellent salesman for battleship manufactur ers. Fighting planes are usefv’. accord ing to this gentleman, supposed to de velop air defense. In fact, he ad mits that “naval vessels are quite ineffective without aircraft aid" But, while aircraft may be useful "as a striking force against enemy naval vessels, they are useless' unless we have aircraft carriers, good only to defend home shores." So says the naval aircraft employe and adds that aircraft “are wholly useless without ships for regular operations, far from shore.” The Associated Press dispatch is quoted above. Does this valuable aircraft expert know that Britain is building airships lighter than air to cross the ocean, carrying each 100 passengers and crew, for commercial purposes? Would it interest him to know that Japan has ordered, in Germany, sub ject to performance, 12 heavler-than air ships, each to carry 100 men, with 12 engines, and a cruising radius of 5,000 miles? The first of these air giants Is to be delivered within a year. By taking on more gasoline and fewer passengers, these planes are built to cross the Pacific Ocean and this American continent without tak ing on fuel. And these British and Japanese giant air boats are not to travel on aircraft carriers, or operate “close to home shores.” Don't you think we have enough battleship salesmen in one so-called naval air depart ment? Would it not be possible, like other countries, to get for our air force somebody interested in air craft? It’s important to enrich our battleship armour plate builders, of course. And uniformed dodos in the navy dislike the thought of changing from a broad battleship deck and comfort able cabin to tight flying quarters. AJUV it It ilv.< ViUUlIVi J VIUV O i(WV H l»l»W up. pension the battleship gentle men if necessary, and build aircraft, there will be trouble some day. Part • of the trouble will be for the men that now neglect the nation's most important defense. Any man, democrat or republican, running for president this year, in dicating that he has heard of air planes and intends to build some, will get a lot of votes. Mrs. Lindbergh, mother of the great flier, went to Boston in an army plane from Detroit, taking a friend, Miss Maude Dawson, also teacher in a Detroit high school. The National Educational association gave Mrs. Lindbergh a gold emblem and life membership. It is a pleasure to know that some mothers live to enjoy and share in the success of their sons. The moth er of Leonardo da Vinci was not so fortunate. Her son, one of the world's greatest geniuses, was first to plan an airplane intelligently. His mother, a poor peasant woman, was never married to Leonardo’s father, and no one knows her name or his tory. A Florentine gentleman, fath er Of her first child, Leonardo, mar ried her off to some peasant. That Florentine gentleman had nine more sons that never amounted to any thing. Leonardo helped support some of them. Important is the statement that Dr. Irving S. Cutter and associates, of Northwestern university found a way to stimulate activity of the gall blad der, by identifying a new "hormone," produced by the lining of the intes tine and called “chole cystokinin,” a word meaning “that which moves the gall bladder.” The mysterious harmones, produced by different collections of cells, reg ulate physical activities. This "chole cystokinin” hormone, produced by the gastric juice and by meat and fat, eaten as food causes the gall bladder to empty itself, preventing the for mation of gall stones so large as to make operations necessary. Vegetarians, by the way. should be interested. Eating no meat or fat, they may not be able to produce “cholecystokinin.” A Detroit husband, rich, had no children, blamed his wife. She adopted a newborn baby, made him think it was his. Happiness for 17 mQnths. Then husband found he was not happy, anyhow. And now he learns that he was deceived and de mands redress. Hell get It. The wife is satisfied. She says the baby has given her 10 times more happiness than all her husband's money. But there’s a complication; the baby, born In Canada, came here without immigration formalities, and may be sent back. A special board of inquiry will examine the baby, ques tion the adopting mother, and de cide about deporting that baby. Uncle Sam and his labor market must be protected. But it seems a little hard on the baby. Recently Russia’s “red army” cele brated its 10th anniversary. Crowds thronged the streets, the thermometer 18 degrees below zero. Foreign ob servers remarked the perfect disci pline and training of the soldiers. When the Russian-Japanese war started, and later when the last czar and then Kerensky were selling their bonds, this writer warned Wall street s child bankers against buying. Grand dukes often spent at Monte Carlos gambling tables money that should have fed Russian soldiers and pro vided them with weapons. A different Russian army will go to war next time That should be remembered by those seeking to get this and other countries Into a quar rel wtth Russia. • • The oldest and smallest republic In the world la Han Marino, 14 miles from Rimini. Italy. Deliberate. From Answers. London. lie wa« being medically examined before taking out an inauranct policy. "Ever had a sertou. illness’’’ asked the doctor "No." waa the reply, “Ever had an accident?" "No" The doctor looked surprised “What? Never had an accident in your life?” TJ»e man shook hta head. “Never except laal month, when a bull touted me over a fence ’• "Well, don't you call ttot an acci dent?” "No air. The bull did It on purpose * If you smoke for pleasure —Camels lead the ning answer is ■ I I Camels The cigarette best-liked by so many 1 smokers, it leads by billions 0 1838, 8. J. Reynolds Toboeen Company, Wlnaton-Salom, N. C. Valued Souvenir Mrs. Mary Sylvester of Middlesboro, Mass., has a widely prized souvenir. It Is a piece of the telephone wire over which the first message between Boston and New York was sent 35 years ago. She was in a Brooklyn audience that heard the singing of “America” over the new device. Poets are born, but widows are tnade. Your mistakes may contribute to the wisdom of others. THERE Is nothing quite like Bayer Aspirin for all sorts of aches and pains, but be sure it is genuine Bayer; that name must be on the package, and on every tablet. Bayer is genu ine, and the word genuine—in red— is on every box. You can’t go wrong if you will just look at the box when you buy it: Magical Power Failed Wizard in Emergency Howard Thurston, the magician, bas astonished thousands while in Pitts burgh by extracting rabbits and Amer ican flogs from the most unlikely places. It Is even said that recently, while paying a visit of charity to the home of a destitute miner, he awed and overjoyed the miner’s wife by extracting $1 bills from her hair and presenting them to her with his compliments. But while on a visit to our office the other day, his magical gifts evi dently deserted him temporarily. Wishing to write a note to the dra matic critic, who happened to be out, lie searched in vain through his cloth ing for a pencil, turning his pockets inside out, with no end of trouble.— Pittsburgh Post Gaxette. Effective Rebuttal Two opposing lawyers tried a case In Franklin the other dny. One, a bald-headed man, repeatedly referred to the other as “my distinguished gray-haired friend." After tiring of the repeated epithet, which was evidently a Joke, the other counsel, who possessed an abundance of gray hair, decided to get even. He arose and said: “The gentleman on the other side keeps referring to my gray hair. I learned Just the other day that the hair grows In two direc tions. It grows outward and down ward. Unusually strong roots grow till they touch the gray rqatter In the head, if there is any, a**. the hair turns gray. On the other band, if there Isn’t any, the balr comes out.”— Indianapolis News. Veed to It “1 can’t understand Johnson. 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