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and trips him- up hy catch questions, to the
amusement of the guests and the discomfort
of the "witness." P
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cognoscenti cannot be so wild, after all.
the farm bloc will exhaust it-
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Q. Who is the composer of
the song, "My Blue Heaven"?
A. Walter Donaldson,
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abled emergency officers that
legislators are telling us should
not be discriminated in favor of
— I saw many of the 93 per cent
of the emergency officers of the
World War who went into the
trenches and over the top with
the enlisted men; wounded and
shot down, while only 7 per
cent of the officers of the regu-
lar army were casualties in bat-
tie.
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game he calls “murder,"
NEW YORK, May 24.—Anagrams, charades
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more refined and soulful than our husbands,
and that* our minds turn naturally toward the
good, the true, the beautiful.' But we are
only bigger liars, that is all.
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by the Democrats, but while it
may attract votes in the Middle
West, it is likely to alienate
them in the East.
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is the fact that tho President
Coolidge has spoiled the farm-
ers' program, if the McNary-
Haugen bill can be ■ described
as such, the Democrats have
done little and promised little
to justify the hope that they
would do any better.
it is far more likely that
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• cordially invited to make use pt tisis free bervice as often an you
-KDITOR.
Q Where can the following
quotation be found: "Why be-
musical education to be properly appreciated.
* To the person whose ear is attuned only to
the simpler melodies, it is almost Incompre-
hensible and bores to extinction. And, be
i sure of this, many a bland matron who sits
ND Herbert Bayard Swope, the eminent
and some for
seems to mo
memory test,
which
It's a
' to assure ourselves that we are a bit above
I the common herd.
And after one has listened for a time to
the empty prattle of women who are trying
| to give an impression of being learned and
highbrow, one loves the frank statement of
the .man who cannot understand grand opera,
does not like to sit through it, and says so.
The country is running over with women
who are not honest' enough to be their true
! selves, who pose and pose and pose, even
I before their mirrors.
OUR CUSTOMS COLLECTORS
My best judgment is that the
customs service is underpaid,
and "that an increase such as
has been suggested, which will
enable the bringing of the sal-
aries up to the average of the
grade, will have a distinctly
beneficial’effect on the morale
of the service and will mean
better results for the country.—
Ogden Mills, before House Ap-
‘propriations Committee.
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। certain day and at various hors thereof.
Generally the guest fakes his replies, since
he is unable to remember what/he actually
did and is ashamod to admit th,s. The per-
son playing the role of lawyer makes notes
of ennui from the door on those evenings
when only tea and ladyfingers are served.
I have at hand a little volume exposing
the very pastoral pastimes of many of New
York s most persistent parly tossers. It's en-
uitled 'iWhat'il We Do Now?" and herein I
come upon Frank Crowninshield, Rube Gold-
berg, John Weaver, the poet; Edna Ferber,
Alma Gluck, Alexander Woollcott and a great
i assortment of the "who's who."
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mother sev
know, must be
had an extensive
men as women actually like
The difference lies merely In
patiently through the arias is buried in plans
for her next tea while the tenor and soprano .
I soar'upward on the wings of song.
For the ladies do like to appear cultured
and artistic. We make gestures toward all
1 the arts, and nothing pleases us so much as
merits. Later their "score" is compared with
his own "average" and he is made to defend
his own analysis.
You can see what a w|ld, wild city Man-
hattan can be.
WILL DURANT has got up a list, of the
VV greatest thinkers of all time--and left
out Heflin of Alabama!
be tentatively
) FAIRLY GOD .
"I hope you and this young
man behaved yourselves.”
“I should say. We were so
good there was a halo around
the moon."—Detroit News.
as many musi-
FEATHERING THEIR NESTS
Senator Moses (Rep.. N. H.)
We have found that of the nine
men who from time to'time
have made up the personnel
board (for foreign service) un- |
der the executive order issued
pursuant 'to the enactment of ,
the so-called Rogers Act, every
man who has ever served for
any time with that group has
had promotions for himself,
some of them three or four
times, and, I think, the great
majority of them at least twice.
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CALIFORNIA now supplies 27% per cent of
U all fruits and vegetables consumed In the
U. 8. That’s how great California is.
A N Arizona editor aescribes his rival as "so
H green that the devil wouldn't undertake
to deal with him until given time to put in an
electrical furnace."
might say that would be in, conflict with ad-..
ministration policies would be spoken in poor 7 for It is honest enough
taste. his wife is not.
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sakkondmadudisadlcaduna
"Disheartening” Is Right
WIHEN he describes as disheartening the si-
W lence on public questions that has pre-
vailed in the presidential campaign, Nicholas
Murray Butler touches a tender spot in' both
parties.
And curiously, Butler, in May, .stresses the
identical point that none other than Al Smith .
himself emphasized in January, and, having em-
phasized. failed to follow up.
Says Butler now:
"Despite the economic and political .situa-
tion in the world and our relation to it, and
despite our pressing and insistent domestic
problems, there has been almost no discussion,
indeed no reference to any of them."
' Said Governor Smith last January in his
"NEXT to winning a law suit.
-N the other miracle, these
days, is getting a job.” A smoker
glanced up from the help want-
ed newspaper column, "One has.
to know how to sell goods, keep
books, run a car and own it.
too. He either has to be mar-
ried or single or divorced, un-
der forty and smoke a certain
kind of cigar and have a war
record. Domestic battles not to
be taken into consideration. A
man came to me looking for a
job. All of his citations for sell-
ing hitseif to me had fallen
Het on my hiring ear until he
told me that he had just re-
turned from Italy, where he had
sold Mussolini a book.
* ‘And what was this book
abut?" I commenced to weaken.
" ’How to Acquire Self-Con-
fidence.' ”
Q What is the value of a
Q. What is the weight of a
cubic foot of gold?
A. cast hammered gold weighs 1205
pounds per cubic fot.
• • • •
Q. How much does a cubic
foot of cork weigh?
A, Vifteen gound" .
Q. How many silver dollars
were coined in 1962?
A. 18,160,777.
ageous, militant, outspoken leaders.
But they are- not.
If they are going to win, they have to
play the game.
And that means an electorate left in the
dark.
It would Indeed ' be thrilling to see both
Hoover and Smith come forth and proclaim
themselves.
r But, much as we hate to say it about two
men whom we regard as the best available
presidential material, we don't believe they
will.
That sort of thrill doesn’t come in modern-
day politics, not even once in a lifetime. .
Ueve we have erred in the past by waiting for
he national convention,to undertake the entire..
•ask of preparing a platform! In 'the heal and
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WJHEN Audrey's father came
VV home he remarked to his
The skuh is a sport; he gives
you three warnings. He won’t
turn out of the path you are
treading but he'll stop and
stamp his feet at you. If you
continue to approach, he shakes
his head violently and lifts his
bushy tail. If you don't stop
at that, he stiffens the droop-
ing tail until you can see the
white tip or sail. If you scorn
all these warnings, your doom
is on your own head.
Q. What-is the greatest num-
ber of runs scored by a team In
the American and National
baseball leagues In a single in-
ning?
measure, or if they had proved
their capacity to relieve the
farm situation while in power,'
one could forecast the effect
. , . . .. ,, they got no more, one hundred
of these have been invented to keep the wolf
million consumers are rather
glad. Most of the housewives
in this country think they paid
quite enough for flour during
the war.
Besides, the price was suffi-
hattan’s most sophisticated folk. Variations
GET.thee behind me. Satan.—Matt. 16:23.
Keep away from the fire!—Sterne.
party principles might well
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। "THE farm outlook is favorable as a whole."
A informs a farmer Tiving in Washington,
D. C. Maybe; but. th durn trotble is with
the unfavovable farmer in a hole.
His GLONIOUS PKIVILEGE
Rep. Connery (Dem., Mass. 1
I was an enlisted man. I had
the honor and privilege—one of
these glorious privileges (sar-
castically) they talk about—of
standing in the front - lino
trenches and fighting the coo-
ties and the rats, and the glori-
ous privilege (sarcastically) we
had on the front of fighting the
KEEPING JEWELRY HONEST
Senator Watson (Rep., Ind.)
In 1906 the federal government,
passed an act to protect the
marking of gold and silver and
creating adequate standards
therefor. ‘This is a bill to pro-
vide for the correct marking of
platinum so as to bring it to
the same high standard. The
bill is Indorsed by the retail
jewelers' associations in prac-
tically all the states of the
Union.
'.....ch Maulim una
represented by the McNary-
Hauges bill Is sectional, rather
than partisan. .Eastern Demo-
! crats are as little inclined to
favor it as eastern Republicans.
If its veto could be used to
j gain Democratic votes In Iowa I
and Kansas. It might lose-them
1 In New York and New Jersey.
‘THOSE opposed to his nomi- |
- nation continue to charge
Herbert Hoover with responsi-
| bility for, fixing the war price
I of wheat at *2.20 the bushel.
The charge can not be sus-
tained, except by inference.
Even if it could, it would not
be altogether harmful.
Q. Does one have to be a full
citizen of the United States to
enlist In the Army?
A. No it in necessary, however,
that he shall have his first citizenship
papers.
OUR WEAKNESS IN THE AIR
In the number of new types
of commercial aircraft produced
we lead the world, but in the
multiplicaton of- designs of
those classes necessarily de-
pendent upon governmental en-
couragement, we are compara-
tivey laggard. — Edward P.
Waruer, before Houe Appro-
priations Committee.
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The total cost of the project,
with the eight units now install-
ed, is practically *47,000,000.
That includes the lock. If you
deduct for that, say $10,000,-
000, which everybody seems to
think is about right for the bene- ...
fit to navigation, that leaves
*37,000,000 as the Investment in
the power plant.—Major Thomaa
N. Robins, before House Ap-
propriations Committee.
schools, including 269 high
schools. One of the best exam-
ples was the "Public Utilities
Catechism For Use in the Sec-
ondard Schools of Connecticut."
supplied by the Connecticut
Committee on Public Service In-
formation.
This is a series of canned
questions and answers about
utilities. It begins by stressing
the high purposes of public
utilities, the need of a large Ai- i
come and Investment and the
necessity that public utilities
commissions see that the utili-
ties charge enough for their ’ |
service "In the Interest of the
public.”
One question:
“22. Do communities ever at- I
tempt to furnish public service I
themselves Instead of permit- i
ting companies to,do do it?” I
The answer: I
"... . Municipalities, how- I
ever, seldom attempt the oper- I
ation of the more progressive I
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Stewart Still Sticks
AN April 27 John* D. Rockefeller Jr. wrote
• to Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the
board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana;
"Your recent testimony before the Senate
committee leaves me no alternative other than
to ask you to make good the promise you
voluntarily gave me sopie weeks ago, that you
resign at my request. That request I now
make.”
Rockefeller's request was made because he
objected to Stewart’s part in the oil scandals.
"I have lost confidence in Colonel Stew-
art s leadership,” said Rockefeller, nearly a
month ago. 1
But Stewart remains head of the Standard
Oil of Indiana, and if any real progress is
being made toward ousting him, the public
does not know about it.
rTHE great weakness of this
- campaign, and Secretary
Hoover is no exception, consists
in the silence and pussyfooting
of the leading candidates.
As Dr. Nicholas Murray But-
ler says, “We have had an ex-
hibition, thru the press and the
mails, of an application to pol-
itics of the most obnoxious de-
velopment of modern busness,
to-wit, salesmanship,” a state-
went which would call forth
heartier applause were it not
put forward as the hash tor ex-
tolling ex-Governor Lowden.
Ex-Governor Lowden, accord-.
ing_to the president of Colum-
bia University, is the one and
only candidate who has made
himself clear with regard to
"these vast problems so im-
portant to the prosperity, to
the honor and to the Influ-
ence of the American people.”
That, of course. is just plain
bunk, for while ex-Governor
Lowden has made himself per-
fectly clear with regard to
farm relief Which is peculiarly
popular In the section from
which he comes, he has pussy-
footed with regard to some
other things.
victory.
No matter how the weather-
wise differ in these respects,
all agree that farm relief, as
represented by the McNary-
Haugen ill, has become an is-
sue. •
If the issue was raised by
political farmers, as some be-
lieve, it may evaporate in hot
air, but If It rests on what the
majority of dirt farmers want
and think they should have, it
may result In anything.
No one seems to know ex-
actly what the dirt farmers
want, how many of them want
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T‛K $ most people know, in these
M days of science, the sun's
ultra-violet rays prevent rich-
ets, the bone disease. In chil-
dren. What actually happens
is that the ultra-violet raises
the calcium and phosphorus
content of the blood, and the
blood conveys them to the bone
wi% they make rickets im-
possible.
BY MODNEY DUTCHEK
N KA SER VICK WRITER
WASHINGTON, May 24.—
YV Thanks to the Senate and
the Federal Trade Commission,
parents are now adequately
warned against efforts of the
so-called “power trust" to teach
boys and girls in public schools
and colleges to bow down and
worship the *21,099,999.990
public utilities industry.
The commission's investiga-
tion has disclosed what is prob-
ably the most gigantic program
in history to fill pupils full of
propaganda. This propaganda.
It is disclosed, seeks to imbue
the younger generation with the
idea that utilities should be
permitted to charge high rates
for electricity and other serv-
ices.
The same interests that have
been lobbying before Congress
to keep the American people
from utilizing one or two great
power sites have been spending
money to subsidize college pro-
fessors and to secure the use of
text books setting forth their
own selfish point of view.
MAY 24
1634—First election day sermon In Massa-
chusetts preached by Rev. John Cotton.
1764—Boston took action against taxation by
Parliament.
1776—John Hancock chosen president of Con-
gress.
1*1*—Andrew Jackson took Pensacola from
Spain.
1883—Brooklyn Bridge, built at cost of $15,-
■800,000 opened to traffic.
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YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Vou ran get an answer to any answernble question of fart ar information
by writing to -Frederiek M. Kerby. Question Fditor, the tort Worth Press,
Washingtn Bureau, 1322 New Yerk Avenue, Washingtom, D. C., enelosing
two rent* In stamps for reply. Medica) anti legal advice cannot he given, ver
ran entended researeh he made. All other questions will receive a personal
11 AS the McNary-Haugen bill
11 been killed in May to re-
appear as a ghost in Novem-
ber, or will the farm bloc
content itself with making
more or less of a disturbance
at Kansas City and then vote
the Republican ticket as usual.
The wcalherwlse disagree.
Some look for a bolt, some for
the elimination of Mr. Hoover,
Q. How old is Milton Sills,
the motion picture actor? Is h
married .’
A fl- <• 46 yer, old and I. n..r-
• • d ' Doris Kenyon, thr (Urn actross.
His address - First National Studios;
Burbank, Call'
funds” of *4,090,000, $5,000,000 or more, to
be applied to all of us.
Heaven,safeguard us patriots! "From cor-
ruption cohieth not incorruption."
United States five-cent piece,
dated 1912?
A Coilectora value them at 5 to 7
cents.
“Eor hw tar" ihey will go to
4 • I abet it! --- —-----------—■—
... Granted that they want re-
lief and that the McNary-Hau-
gen bill satisfied them, it is
.---still debatable whether they are
” disappointed enough to break
away from the Republican
party.
Q. Has "Elmer Gantry," by
Sinclair Lewis, been barred
from Boston Public Library?
A. Tes.
clent to boost the value of
wheat land out of all reason,
stimulate speculation and cause
an unwise amount of buying'
' on credit.
If wheat had gone to. *3 as
some say it ought,- the chances
are that the grin growers
would have found themselves
victimized by the same kind of
foolish expansion as nearly
ruined the cattlemen.
Secretary Hoover could ad-
mit that he waa responsible
for *2.20 wheat without hurt-
ing himself in the eyes of mil-
lions of people, some farmers
included.
"WHEN the community oper-
VV ates its own utilities the-
plants are Injected into the
field of politics. Executives
and employes change with dif-
ferent administrations and em-
ployment in the plant enters
the realm of the political plum-
There is an ancient-adage, well
proven in this case, that busi-
ness and politics won’t mix.
Statistics have proven that the
cost of living In cities that op-
erate their own utilities ir i uch
higher than in cities where the '
public service Is entrusted to ‘
private enterprise, regulated by
the public servants on the com-
mission. ..."
chances for the presidential nomination In' room to make out his own Card, while the
1920. “ ■ rest of the" party has a pleasant time at his-
But, later on there will be national "slush i expense, gossiping and weighing his various
Q. Who were three of the
more prominent philosophers of
ancient Rome?
A. Seneca, the tulor of Nero: the
emperor, Mareus Aurelius, mill Epicte-
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“Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”—Dante.
Q What price was paid by
the New York Yankees for Babe
Ruth when he was purchased
from the Boston Red Sox?
A. The repnrted oale price wae
$11,00
- the Dominion of Canada. On the other
hand, Northern Ireland is suhject to
tegfsinHon by the IIr|timh Parllament,
and elects memhers to it.
peace that ended' the Russo- ----- —__________
Japanese War signed at Forts in thy brother’s eye, but consid-
mouth, New Hamyshire? erest not the beam that la In
a. ilecaune that pice w»r s«r»«d thine own eye"?
age individual were he to be suddenly called
upon as a witness in a court trial. A crime
is imagined and a definite date determined
upon.
One of the guests is suddenly called upon
ush of a convention the platform when finally
vrltten is, to my * way of thinking, not suf-
iciently understandable to the masses of the
veople.
"There is too great a tendency to speak of
the evils that beset us and to fail to suggest
any specific remedy,. Party platforms of recent
years have beentoo general in Their terms
and Important questions have been neglected
by platform builders in the spirit of compro-
mise with great principles. We cannot carry
water on both shoulders. The Democratic
party must talk out to the American people
in no uncertain terms.” .
Conditions surrounding the two leading can-
didacies are peculiarly conducive to the strat-
egy of silence.
Hoover'is a member of the Coolidge -cab-
wife. “I have just bought an
electric egg beater for you.”
Little Audrey laughed aloud.
“But, papa," she cried, “you
forget that we have no electric
eggs, to best!” just like that,
and she was but 7 years old.
—K. C. Star.
(F COURSE, it is'Well to learn what money
U is being spent for nominations. Large
“slush funds” .indicate attempts to corrupt the
primary vote. Undoubtedly, Lowden's *111.-
967 “slush fund” expense' blasted all his
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NONT SAY “This is a book
L, which you lent me.” “That
you lent me” is better.
PRONOUNCE "ocean” as if
spelled "o-shun” with stress on
"o.”
DON'T USE “bad fix” when
you mean "difficulty" or "trou-.
ble." 71
ADAGE popularly used but
often misquoted: "Had his la-
bor for his pains” was "I have
had my labour for my travail,"
as Shakespeare wrote it, in
"Troilus and Cressida."
have cons
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tooTtrongrm dishearteninstereror ” "one ‘ Parlor (James Still Popular
The unfortunate fact is that politics breeds j *
evasiveness. , *
We like to think of our statesmen as cour- |
by reason of such' marriage?
A ot since the passage it the
Cable Act of Sept. 2-, 1922, which pro-
tithe that on and after that date mar*
lied women shail no lenger take the
citizenship of the hushand
HEREIN we learn that Crowninshield, tho
Ai,"the worldly, and disenchanted editor of
Vanity Fair,” has contrived a game called .
"Averages.” Cards are passed about on which
are charted a sort- of scoreboard of an ind-
vidual's qualifications, such as "brains, charm,
sense of humor” and so forth. The indi-
vidual selected for the test is' sent from the
•• ..1 ......—...—-
MOST newspapers have plenty of space lor for cross examination and is asked, even' as
.1 Mr. McAdoo's remarks on withdrawal of
his dry candidate in favor of.,Smith. , i
Accordingly, whatever Coolidge does Im- '
piles by ' inference Hoover's consent—regard-
less of whether the Inference be correct or not.
For example, if Coolidge vetoes the Muscle
Shoals bill, Hoover's approval is presumed,
unless he declares himself to the contrary.
Hoover in fact is in a "damned if he does
and damned if he doesn’t" position. Failing
to speak, he subjects himself to just such criti-
cism as Butler now advances. Speaking; he
throws himself open to the charge of bad faith
from his admivistration. associates.
Hence the expedient course for Hoover (s
to say nothing. .
Governor Smith had the impulse. But
didn’t obey it. Having expressed himself as
believing a declaration of principles should be
made, he has been lured by later develop-
ments to let well enough alone. He is win-
ing anyway. Things couldn't be better. The
nomination is Inevitable unless somebody spills
the beans. So why go further with a long line
of pronouncements about prohibition and_frm
relief and this and that? And one mfgnt Ds
dynamite. Whatever is said can’t do any good
and might do harm. Thus does the siren voice
nf expediency whisper into thelample ear of Al.
The public in the meantime is left to its
own speculations as to the position of both
Hoover and Smith on most of the problems
that one of the two will have to face, as
Inct. That fact in itself makes for reticence. rally inclined
Tracy
SAYS
No one seems to know
exactly what the dirt
farmers want, how many
of them want it, or how
far they will yo to yet it.
The "Power Trust’s"
propaganda sought to
teach children that all
municipal plants are
failures.
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HUSBAND'S LIMIT
"I don't mind washing the
dishes for you," walled the
henpecked husband. "I don't
object to sweeping, dusting or
mopping the floors, but I ain’t
gonna run no ribbons thru my
nightgown just to fool the
baby."—Oklahoma Whirlwind.
HROM which any reader, whether In the
A smallest Michigar hamlet or the largest
California metropolis, can take out grandma's
anagrams with perfect assurance that, should
anyone call him old ashioned, he can reply,
"Bob your Aunt Tiddleywinkis."
" Q. If a British subject mar- .a
riea an American citizen, does
she become an American'citizen
A. The Nattonal Lengue record In
18, made by Chicago Against Detrott in
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BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
KENATOR SIMMONS ol North Carolina is
• urging the repeal of the tax on grand
opera. He says in par?, "Grand opera is de-
lightful to many., I car little about It my-
nelf. I do not know that men like it so
much, but the women of our country almost
! without exception enjoy it to the fullest."
The senator is either childishly credulous
or he does not understand the queer work-
j inga of the feminine mind.
A. In.the Bi ble. Matthew, chnpter
7. verse72
• •
Q. How old is Red Grange,
the football star?
A 27 senr.
TRONICALLY enough the
I money used for this great
program of lobbying and propa-
ganda against lower rates and
against municipally owned util-
ities has come from the people
who pay electric light, gas and
telephone bills. Public service
commissions In 36 or 38 states
have beep doing the work.
Thus correspondence of the,
Pennsyivania committee dis- ,
cussed the need of "proper el-
ternate text books” and the
need of persuading school heads
to urge revision. The public
.utilities, now largely organized
in huge combinations, natural-
ly oppose text books which
speak favorably of municipally
owned uilities—these in many
cases having shown the possi-
bilities of lower rates.
In Illinois, where Samuel In-
sull, the uilitles king. 'gave a
great wad of money to the sen-
atorial campaign of a public
utilities commissioner and caus-
ed a national scandal, three-
fourths of the public schools
were treated with the propa-
ganda. Including 635 high
schools.
- The object, as Bernard J.
Mullaney, Insults right-hand
man; pointed out, was to "fix
the truth about utilities In
young minds before incorrect
notions become fixed there.”
Thousands of pamphlets were
distributed and scoreg ot prop-
aganda speakers sent into the
schools. The Illinois campaign
was so successful that it was
carried Into Indiana. Ohio, Ken-
tucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Ne-
braska. Oklahoma, Michigan,
Wisconsin. Iowa, Texas, Cali-
fornia and New York.
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THE WEAK RAILROADS
A poor man buys a cheap pair
of shoes or cheap clothes, and
he buys his groceries on credit
and pays credit prices plus the
highest rate of interest. In other
words, he Is necessarily waste-
ful. Now, you take a weak rail-
road and they necessarily have
weak ways.— Ben B. Cain, be-
fore House Interstate Commerce
Committee. •—-
sentatives?
A itepresentative Nicholas Long
worth of Ohio.
• • •
Q. Why was the treaty of
reply.
Vou ai
ty, plense:
What confuses the situation , *
Q. What is the origin of the
expression, "according to
Hoyle?”
A Hoyle was a noted Engiish
writer on whist and other games, who
fs generally recognized as an authority
on all kind* of card games, ate H*
W ar the author of many hooka on the
subject, ns wel as n techer of whltt
furnishing of light, power, gas,
communication and transporta-
tion, unless the community Is
too small for a private compa-
ny to operate at a profit.
"In practically every case In
which a community has at-
tempted to operate a public
utility industry which is subject
to great changes and develop-
ments, like the above mention-
edservices, it has been found
that the costs of the service are
higher than when the service is i
furnished by a private corpora-
tion. A study of actual ratea l
for service rendered alone
would not reveal this, for many
municipal utilities are financed '
by the community treasury as*
well as from their actual in-
come. The higher costs In such
cases are therefore not reflect-,
ed in the rates for service, but
in the higher tax ratea which’;
the citizens of the community
must pay in order to keep their ’ I
utilities in operation.
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Family Fireside
upion by the contracting powers in
whieh lo draft a treaty. They were
invited In meet in United States by
F’resident Roosevelt.
Q. Does the British govern-
ment have direct control over
the government of Ireland?
A. The British government haw no
direct control over th* government of
th* Irish Free Stte (Southern lr*
‘and). While it i not. In a broad
sense, independent nf Great. Britain, it
enjoys the_fullest nutonomy and the
status of • self-governing dominion.
The government la nimilar tn that of
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They Say— .
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