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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1923)
5 QpptBP KP CXpTJP, mwiifgn. ' 1 .( v- Ti iU, Commissioner Proceedings Red Cloud, Ncbr. September 4-23 Tho Webster County Board of Commissioner met at 10 o'clock A. M. as per adjournment. All members present, A petition was presented to tbe Hoard signed by mini Potter and twenty one otber freo boldcrs of Red Cloud Precinct asking that a road be laid out on the section line between section -I and D In Township 1 Itnngo 11 In said Webster County. Motion made by Orowcll, seconded by Waldo th'vt tlie following resolu tions bo adonted: lie It resolved. That a public highway bo opened nnd established on the sect'on lino running north and south between sec tions 1 nnd 5 in Township 2 Range 11 In said Webster County. Said road to be 10 foot in width. County Suvcyor instructed to survey nnd lay out thl" road and County Clerk in structed to notify the owners of tbe property adjoining this road accord ing to law. Motion carried. The following claims were audited and allowed nnd County Clerk In structed to draw warrants on the proper funds in pavment of same. GENERAL FUND 0. C. Tool ... 8 7fi Anna Stumphcnhorst ... $ CO 00 Henry R. Fausch .... . 205 00 Gricc & Grimes 49 BB Milbum & Scott . 44 00 Lincoln School Supply Co 17 .17 Red Cloud Cemetery Assn. .. 10 00 Frankcl Carbon Co 10 00 W. D. Edson 37 85 A. E. Cox .... 2 25 E. McBrido -..-.- ,. . 4 00 C. E Vnughan ....- 0 25 F. W. Endorf 50 Frank Rischling 175 Farmers' Union Red Cloud 379 14 Commercial Advertiser . . 0 00 Stnte Journal Co. ' C 00 T J. Chaplin 115 00 O A Waldo GO 75 E. J. Cox 102 CO II. II. Stumphcnhorst 53 25 II. H. Crowcll 51 00 BRIDGE FUND Chicago Lbr. Co. Blue Hill 133 52 Mt Clare Merc. Co. 3 15 Mid State Construction Co. 1748 04 .1. A. Silvey Lbr. Co. 9 25 II. G. Feis 23 00 POOR FARM FUND Joe Topham 19 27 Henry R Fausch 22 00 Standard Oil Co 14 32 Farmers' Ind. Tele. Co. 4 50 Irvine Harpham 18 G7 1. W. Crowcll 101 CO No further business appearing the Board adjourned to meet October 22, 1923. B. F. PERRY, Co. Clerk. CONTINUE TO CLAIM TRACT Anneke Jans' Heirs Still Confident They Are Entitled to Trinity Church Property. Though the New York Stato Court of Appcnls outlawed the Anneke Jans heirs' claim to the Trinity church trnct In New York city as long ago as IS.'O, and again In 1881, the claim still persists In the minds of some of Mrs. Juiis' thousands of jescendnntB. The vTfrT(lflS"IIHBli(TSii5"altncklng tlie Trinity church title wero. all based on technical irregularities In grants of conveyances, such as the nbscace of a seal or signature, or on allegations that the grantors themselves had no title. The defense has been adverse possession nnd the statute of limita tion. Tlie streets laid out by Trinity Church corporation In the Jans tract were named after leading men In tho church Vesey, after Itev. William Vesey, the rector; Barclay, after Itev. Mr. Barclay, who succeeded Vesey as rector; Murray, after a 'distinguished lawyer nnd ofllcer of the church ; War ren, after Sir Peter Warren, command er of the British naval forces at tho station, who married 'Miss Delancey of New York city; Chambers, after John Chambers, a lawyer, born In New York city, nnd n leader In civil and church affairs. URUGUAYAN "GAUCH0" GONE Natural Evolution Has Resulted in Disappearance of Most Pic turesque Character. While tho Uruguayan "gaucho" was a full-blooded Indian, In the Argentine the name was extended to deslgnato the halfhrceds and Creoles who led tho romantic cowboy life of the grent plains. Here the "gaucho" becamo In distinguishable from tho "palsano" or "countryman" of tho American South west, or the "ranchero" type of the Mexican agricultural states. Naturally lie then became the enemy of tho In dians, n man of peace withal, though a somewhat turbulent peace, forerunner of tho great modern agriculturist. In this evolutionary stage, in tho middle of tho last century, tho Argen tine "gaucho," with his characteristic poncho, long boots, tight pants, long "hair tied back about tho head, his ker 'chief at his neck, and his high, narrow lirlmmed hat, lent a barbaric note of color to tho formation of tho rural ele ments of tho embryonic nation. Sub jecting himself to wugo service on the great estates, he camu to be civilized, and being so, he arrived gradually at tho extinction Which civilization effects for all outstanding Individualistic types. Ceislmlitlc Doctrine. The highest order of mind Is tie-cu-ied of folly, as well as tho lowest. Ni thing Is tjjoroimhly npprnved but iiicu.ocrlly., The tpnjowty has estab lished this, and it fixes Its fangs on whatwer.gets beyond it either way. Pascal. ." w v THE FARMER'S NEW POSITION By WALTER W. HEAD, First Vice-President American Cank ers Association Tho farmer today Is moro thnn n tiller of tho soil. Ho Is a business man. Raising crops Is only a part of his business, If ho Is a real uptodnto Twontloth Century farmer. Problems of marketing, dlstrlhti Hon and financing nro euually Impor tant. Tho complexity of our modern eco nomic organlzatloa makes It nocessary for tho farmer to Walter W. Head understand and assist in solving theso problems if he Is to succeed. In this now rolo as a buslnoss man tho farmer Btoadlly has advanced to a better position. There was a tlmo when tho farmer was dependent wholly upon prlvato marketing agencies, whoso Interest was not always identical with his own, whose greed for profits somotlmes out matched consideration of tho farmer's need. Today there are many great cooperative marketing organizations that handle a largo part of tho farm er's crop and win for him more liberal treatment from tho prlvato agencies which still haudlo tho bulk of his pro duction. Today tho farmer nlso has his own cooperative agencies of credit. If not satisfied with the terms upon which his local capitalist is willing to ad vanco money upon a land mortgage, tho farmor can go directly to tho Fed eral Land Bank, which, by reason of tax-exemption and other advantages Incidental to Us governmental char acter, can loan money at a rock-bottom rate of Interest. In addition, tho foderal government has established another group ot banks which permit the local bankers by rediscount privileges to extend the farmor credit for his current oper ations on a moro favorablo baBls than over beforo. If ho thinks his local bank Is not sufficiently rcsponslvo to bis need, this same legislation enables him to join with other farmers In a cooperative marketing association and arrange for credit direct from tho government banks. New Credit Facilities For years It has bcon tho farmer's complaint with considerable Justifica tion that ho, alone of all producers, has been forced to market his crop on the buyer's terms becauso of bis Inability to uso his products, In stor age, as a baBls for credit. Today tho agricultural credits act authorizes the acceptance of warehouse receipts, on non-perlnhqblo agricultural ,. products, as collateral for loans, tho Bamo as la tho case of sugar or other commodi ties of commerce. These developments havo rclioved tho farmoi from what seemed to bo persecution by short-sighted, tight- fisted, grasping grain dunlors, land lords and bankers for thoro were somo bankers who worn guilty of this very tllng, who thought ot the farm er principally ns a weak and Ignorant opponent in a gnmo whoso only stake was tho collection ot a high rato ot lntorost. Tho farmor's suspicion of tho banker arose becauso of misunder standing, bocause ho Judged hankers as a class by tho derollctlons ot a few. Today, with theso sources of government-controlled credit avallablo at his call, tho farmer cannot charge or oven suspect that the bankers nro conspir ing to do him harm. As the real farmer has taken advan tage of those opportunities, ho has made himself a business man. Like other successful business men, he is equipped with crodlt to flnn'rico his operations, ho is ahlo to mako uso ot labor-saving machinery, ho Is ablo to bartor with buyers ot his products as their onunl. COMPULSORY THRIFT In Kansas a group ot power and tolcphono companies Is trying a com. pulsory thrift plan, which affects about 1,200 omplnyecs nnd applies to ovory mombor of tho organization from tho president to tho humblest day laborer. The plan roqulroH that each shall savo and Invest monthly at least 10 per cent ot his Incomo. Every month ench employee must mako a report to tho general office of how much ho has saved, and In what ho has Invested It. Tho Investment must bo approved by a committee competent to advise. Government se cudtlos, savings bank accounts, build ing and loan stock, payment on a homo, even pnymonts on furniture aro allowed. If debts have been Incurred, theso must bo listed and payments tuny bo arranged on them, but no more aro to bo assumed. Tho Idea Is to mako the employee llvo within his menus and also :ay aside somcthlug In a dullnlte form. Reports for the first nine months show that about 13 per cent of the wages havo been saved, no single em ployee fnllli,g below 10 per cent. This amounts to over 5100.000. Failure to roport or to savo brings dismissal, but In ouly two Instances among the 1.2G0 employees was Siii-h action ncrdod. Budget books nro distributed and their uso explained as a 'helpful method in establishing a working scalo of living thai will allow for thrift PERIL OF EDISON-FORD'S MONEY SCHEME i i Would Create More Paper Money Than Russia's Trillions But Add No Real Wealth. SOfJH DANGEROUS FALLACIES Would Remove Safe Restraint of Gold Basis nnd Open Way to Endless Issues of Paper Money. How tho United States would bo Bwamped, under n greater volumo of worthless paper monoy than has ruined Germany and Russia, by tho Edison-Ford commodity currency plan is pointed out In tho present article, concluding the rovlows, proparcd by tho American Bankers Association, of tho recent exposure of the folly of I., i.ilinln onlinmn liv Wllllfim T. Fill, j tor, Director of tho Pollack Founda tion for Economic Research. Mr. Foster sayB: " 'Tho supply of money,' says Mr. Ford, Ms Inadequate. Thero is moro woalth than thoro Is monoy to movo it.' Ho draws a vivid plcturo of 'tho goldon dam to tho stream ot pros perity.' From a hundred quarters comes the demand for tho govern, ment to speed up the printing pressos, In order to crush 'tho money monopo ly,' reduce Interest rates, and make It oaslor for everybody to get monoy. "Iullatlng tho currency, howovor, though It enables people to get moro units of currency, docs not enablo them to obtnln moro purchasing power, and It does not roduco interest rates. In all her history Germany never had so much money or ns high Interest rates as in 1022. Money, un like other forms of wealth, Is not oaslor to obtain simply because tho total supply is Increased. On the con trary, Increasing tho supply of rtoney ordinarily increases tho demand for money, and Interest rates depend not on Bupply but on the relation between supply and demand. A Dangerous Fallacy "Wo are assured, however, that the Ford-Edison plan provides money .for the farmer at virtually n.o expanse to the government or to anyone else. All the government has to do la to print tho monoy. What could be sim pler? Here we come to the most dan gerous fallacy in the whole project' It la dangerous because of the uni versal desire to get something for nothing. ' "Hero Is the gist .of 'the matter? Money will buy whatever Is produced, not a particle moro by any trjck Of alchemy, or legislation, 'or' finance. Tho Russians, haVing multiplied' yterf money ,WiO0D- times, 'cannot, buy x much'wl'th 'it as'befofe. ',. Wh'ewe prUitjjjioro money there aro ri'o'nic'r'o ggpds. for money to buy; not a slnglo additional plow, or hnt, or ..potato. k"Soiuo of those' who got tho newly printed money can buy more good's than before; all other pooplo can buy fewer good than before, becauso their money lu ,s fallen oft In purchasing power. S tice thoro nro no morp plows, and lints, and potatoes, o,nd so on, to distribute, if some people, got moro, others must get less. I "Inflation under tho Edison plan Is limited mainly becauso, on account of Its Indefcnslblo discrimination, most groups of producers of goods and sorvlces nro not allowed to partici pate. If all groups woro Included, as in fairness and in politics they would have to bo eventually, the poslbllltles of Inflation would bo vast. The Deadly Spiral "Tho total Income of the United States Is now in excess of fifty bil lions ot dollars. The total money in circulation, Including bank deposits subject to check, is not far from twenty-five billions. It follows that tho annual production, if used as a basis for jiew Issues on tho Edison plan, could at once greatly Increase tho volume of money in circulation. Every addition to tho monotary supply would tend to ralso prices. Tho higher prices became, tho higher would be tho loan value ot a given volume of goods since tho size ot tho loans Is based on values and not volume. The greater, thorefore, would bo the vol umo of new money that could bo Is sued on the basis ot a given annual production. Prices would become still hlghor; and so on up an endless spiral. "Even In Russia, where financial printing presses hold tho world's rec ord for volumo, whore now Issues of two hundred trillions ot rubles per month stagger tho Imagination, the people complain that 'thoro Is not enough money to do business with.' Without tho arbitrary rostraint ot the gold basis, and with Muscle Shoals Inflationists, and sundry othor kinds of Inflationists constantly pressing their claims mon Congress, It Is not at all certain that tho United Statos, onco well on tho road to financial chaos, would In the end bo outrun by Russia." BANKS HELP CLUB WORK Yakima County Banks In tho State of Washington havo loaned SS.G70 to boy nnd girl club membors. Yakima County has twonty-nlno pig club mem bers, tT7enty-four poultry club mom hers and forty-thrno dairy club mem him. Dairy ilili members are nil using purebred stock, local breeders and bankers coop rating with thorn to the fullest extent. , THE It Is easy to do n big business if you loan your customers tho monoy to buy with. When a woman brags about trim ming her own hnt other women say It suro looks it. A real friend is one who continues to like you when you bogln to get up in tho world. What does It profit a . taxpayer If his tax rato is lowored and his as sessment raised? Low Sholloy suggests that many pooplo might reduco tho cost of liv ing by changing their Ideals. A sarcastic editor observes that most of tho loafing you see nowadays Is among follows who havo Jobs. Churches would soon go out ot business If tho women took no movo Interest In thorn than tho mon to. It is safo to assumo that the man who hasn't nn enemy In tho world has never accomplished very much. Blxby snys there is no such thing ns righteous wrath. Wonder how ho Justifies his periodical attacks on my pipe. Country editors don't cut much flguro in political circles now but watch their popularity return next year. A gentleman has been defined as a man who makes you bate him but Is so nico to you that you aro asham ed to cuss him. ' It it Is true that women will voto for none but handsome candidates then Al Mathers and Art Weaver are suro to win next year. It Is ridiculous to think that a man who has spent all his life In a business knows more about It than a professional politician. Tho Junior owns tho finest and best car In town, to hear her tell it. But when tho roads are rough or muddy she alwnyB uses my old Dodge. If wo used no moro Judgment In soloctlng our own employes -than we do In selecting officeholders all busi ness would' go to smash In a month. An Ord man compalifas becauso his wife can't take -a Joko. Tho neigh bora say the surely 'took oho" when Bhe Btrtodat the marria'g'6 altar. ' "i ! According to tho riewsp'apers hridos nro always beautiful. Perhaps tho mean husbands-thqy get .account for tho largo percentage of ugly married women. ' ' Henry Ford says organized labor Is organized loafing nnd that tho talk of a bonus Is an insult to tho former oervico men. That proves that ho Is no politician. People lived better and for loss monoy when everybody In .town kept a cow, raised chickens and had a garden. Automobiles don't leavo tlmo for such work nowadays. BU Maupln says he Just can't stand tho smell ot tobacco. No wonder. When a fellow smokes dried soap weed all tho time it is sure to affect his taste for the real thing. heard the music always stops? the loudest in order to make yoursell the meals that when you are yelling a place where they serve music with favor. Tho Boss still raises thunder every time a chunk of flro from my plpo blows down her neck. I don't seo any reason for her being so fussy. This is , funny old world. People will beltovo anything a candidate tells them bofore ho is elected and then turn around nnd beliovo every thing that Is said against him attor he is elected. I can remomber tho tlmo when tho best hotel In Council Bluffs chargod only a dollar a ' day for room and monls. And wo nil kicked liko sin when tho price was boosted to a dol lar and a Quarter. One of Aso Wood's daughters got all excltod last summer becauso her small son bit a chunk out of a drink ing glass. Any boy with as tough an old granddad as that boy has isn't going to be hurt by broken glass. I might Invest my reserve capital in three bushels nnd a half of wheat but If I did I don't see how it would help tho firmers for I'd buy It at tho market pilco. And ir h should go to $3,50 a bushel tho reformers would all Inmbust me for robbing tho farm ors. If you can't stand criticism from othors at least bo honest enough to sit down and look yourself over onco in awhile. You aro suro to dlscovor that you aro not anywhero near as 1 important as you think you are, Nixing Printers INK With Brains Printers' ink has made thousands of men rich when it was mixed in the right proportion with Brains LET US HELP YOU MIX THEM BOTH PHONES The Red Cloud Chief Program for Old Settlers Pic nic to be Held at Cowles September 13th. List of survivors of prj grasshopper dtys, Henry Keeney. Pioneer Batching, Emanuel Peters. The First Church Building, Noah Wagoner. First Lady of Cowles, John Waller. Beginnings of Potsdam, Louis Pel siger. First Sorghum Mill, John Campbell- The First Bored Wells, M. C Sher man. Deep Well Digging, William Crablll, Thomas Crouch. Buffalo Jerk, Charles Ourney The above will be Interspersed with lively talks about Indoor life by Mrs Parker, Mrs. Pace, Mrs. Arneson, Mrs. FJ McCune. Muslc'by the Cowles Orchestra and vocal music by Laban Wagoner. By order of tbe Committu Kansas Pickups SMITH COUNT? Master Marlon Brown is numbered with the sick. F. M. Brown and "wife were visiting in Smith Center Saturday. D. K. Qrewell and family spent Sun d ly with the E E. Spurrier family. . Several from ibis neighborhood were p'cniclne nt Golden Rod Beach Sun day. Velma Carr visited the MUses Grace mid Louese Brown Wednesday ot last week. Miss Velma Carr spent last week in Smith Center the guest of Miss Letha Luse. Ed Manning, County Engineer, was a Sunday visitor at the E E Spurrier home L O. Vance and wife and daughter, Mrs Ernest Freeman, visited in Phil, lipsburg last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Rhorer visited their daughter, Mrs. F. M. Brown and family last week Glad to report Mr Halirer is able to be out again. Queen Disliked Long Sermons. Visitors to the Savoy chapel, off tht Strand, are often usked to look at the "old hour-glass" on the pulpit. It la not "old," for It was tint placed there until Queen Victoria restored the chapel In 1807; It Is not nn "hour glass," for the sand runs for 18 min utes only. That period Is said to have been chosen by the queen us a protest against long sermons. Christian Sci ence Monitor. A Fljht for Reputation. A man going ulong n lonely rond was sot upon by two highwaymen. lie fought desperately, but was flnnlly overcome and searched. All that the bandits found was a dime. "Search Itlm again," said one. "He would nev er put up a tight like that for a dime." They searched him again, but could llnd no more. "Now tell me." asked tho spokesman, "why you fought so we nearly had to :lll your "Well," answered the victim, "tho truth of tho matter Is I didn't want my llnanclnl condition exposed." Har per's Magazine. He Didn't Mean That. A newly married w'dow overheard her second husband telling a friend: "Yes, I got ii wife nnd four children to boot." "iou Just try booting my children," snhl the huly with vigor, Louisville Courler-Jouittul. m s' Legal Notice. To FRANK CALLAND:- Vou ore hereby notified that on May 14, 1923, Jennie Callaud, filed a petition against you In the District Court of Webster County, Nebraska, the object and prayer of which is to obtain a divoice from you on the ground that you have been guilty of extreme oruelty towards the plaintiff and of non support aud desertion. You are required to answer said peti tion on or before October 15, 1923. Jennie Callaud, Plaintiff, By E. G. Caldwell, Oer Attorney. Notice o! Final Report In the County Court of Webster County, Nebraska. In tbe matter of the estate of A. D, MoMurray, Deceased All persons Interested in said estate, are hereby notified that the Executrix has filed herein a final account and re port of her administration, and a' peti tton for the final settlement of such account and report, and for' a decree of distribution of the residua of said estate, and for tbenSslgnmoritof tho real estate bolonglng thereto, aud n discharge from ber trust, nil of which said matters have been set for hearing beforo said court on the 8th day of September, 1923, at the hour of 10 o'clock, A. M., when all persons Inter, cstcd may appear aud contest the same. Dated this 29th day of August 1023. (Seal ) A D. RANNEY, County Judge. m LUTHERAN Regular services every first and third Sunday in the month in the Adventist church at 11 a. m. Preaobing at 11 a. m. Subject "Cares and What to Do With Them". Every body welcome. O. R. Beinitz, Pastbr Cholera Kills Hogs Many faUl diseases CAUSED BY WORMS arc mistaken for Cholera. Rid your hogs of' worms with Kamarika. Avoid losses. 82.50 size will treat 64 hogs weighing 75 pounds each. At Cottinga Drug Store Newrock's Kamarika Laboratory Arapahoe, Nebr. The Margin of Safety Is represented by tho amount of insurance you carry. Don't lull yourself Into a fancied security. Because fire has never touched you It doesn't follow that you're immune Tomorrow -no today, If you have time and you better ilnd time come to tho ofllco and we'll write a policy on your houso, furniture, store or merchandise. -LATER MAY BE TOO LATE- . C. TEEL Reliable Insurance V v? . , . i v !.. Vr -Sffw'' "m... r'V J V ."V1' V..--- m . .wi,v mniXjevM.t,.- ,.a;5&'. jjea?"jtf . .i' fc