The National tribune., 1909-08-05
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State. We get letters occasionally In whicn
either the name or postoflice address has
been overlooked. Do not mix business ques-
| tlons and correspondence. Use separate
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prompt attention, ether by mail or in The
National Tribune.
l.. C. NJ, Burlington, Iowa: Your
railroad ticket agent can give you the
| rate to the G.. A. r. Encampment at
Salt Lake City, which meets Aug. 9-14.
| The railroads make q reduced rate. The
| Salt Lake people are making Dig prep
| arations to entertain the comrades The
| city has many attractions, and the 43d
Annual Meeting promises to be sue
cess. s..;
L. NJ. T, Ironton, o.: After Aug. 5
| il will be too late to register for the
! dian reservations to be opened up in
the Northwest. The drawing begins
Aug. 9.
A. L. c.. st. Cloud, Mimi: In the
| matter of instituting claims against the
| Government, in all cases except PEN
sions, the claimants must arrange the
| question of fees with their attorneys.
| In pension claims the fee is limited by
the law. In all cases Ii Is understood
tndt exOTD1tdTC ieecS Will HOt De dDCHeo
when brought to the courts attention.
B. L. NJ, Atlanta, Ga: A severe
| blow to one of the commonest methods
| of evading State and County prohibi-
! tion laws is included in a decision just
rendered by the Interstate Commerce
| Commission. The Commission holds
| that express companies may not be re-
| quired to accept c. o. ID. shipments of
| liquor and assume the burden of col
lecting the selling price, plus the ex-
| press charges, as they do in the case of
other commodities. This will have the
effect of putting stop to the custom
of shipping intoxicants into q prohibi-
| tion town addressed to fictitious con-
signee and leaving it in the express
| company's office until called for by
| some one who is wise" to the scheme
or until a customer can be found for it.
| The case arose from the complaint of
the Royal Brewing Company, of Kansas
! City, against the Adams, United States
| and Wells-Fargo Express Companies
under the clause of the Hepburn inter-
| state commerce law, which prohibits
undue discrimination against a particu-
lar commodity. The express companies
had adopted rule that they no longer
would accept such shipments G. o. d.
| In its decision the Comm iSSion states
that the discrimination against liquor
Is not undue, and upholds the ruling
adopted by the express companies. The
| express companies alleged that the
liquor dealers had taken advantage of
the c. o. d. plan to send large guam
titles of intoxicants into prohibition
1 communities without bona-fide orders,
in many cases to fictitious addresses.
On being notified that the shipment
had not been called for, they would
obtain customers by various devices,
sometimes employing travelling agents.
Under this plan, they claimed, the ex-
/ press offices often became liquor ware
houses, which had demoralizing effect
on. the employees, involved additional
risk of loss from fire or. robbery, and
frequently involved the companies in
litigation with local authorities.
L. P. NJ, Harrisburg, Pa: 1t is only
a question of time when the country
can pretty well rid itself of mosketos
and flies. In the cities it ought not to
be very long before the flies can be
4 cleaned out. Health boards are taking
hold of the matter in the principal
cities, and telling the public what to do
to shut down on the fly.
i T. M. Y, Vineland, N j.: There are
a dozen or more men perfecting flying
machines or trying to do SO. The
Wright brothers, of Dayton, o., have
been at 1t for the last seven or eight
years, and have perhaps attracted the
most attention to their work and the
flights they have. made. A Frenchman
named BIeriot made a flight recently
across the channel separating France
and England. The Wrights are making
experiments at Fort Myer Va, in which
the Government is interested. On Fri
day, July 30, 1903. Orville Wright made
a fight of 10 miles, from; Fort Myer to
Alexandria. Va, and return, in little
over IA minutes. travelling at the speed
of AZ miles an hour, and won the Gov
ernment test, which included the pur-
chase of his machine at a cost of $685.
900 and bonus of $4,000. Glenn h
Curtiss recently made a straight-away
flight of % or more miles on Long
Island, N; Y. There is to be an inter-
national airship contest in Fraiice next
F'alL The Wright machine is heavier
. than-air device, ard weighs about 500
! pounds. Most of the other flying ma
chimes have balloon attachments.
|, S. T. ", Derby, Iowa: Theodore
Roosevelts name. appears in The Out
look Magazine as contributing editor"
Mr.. Roosevelt is now too busy shooting
big game in Africa to do much writing,
| but he will probably have something to
say on his return.
L. c. B.. Lagrange, Iowa: The pro-
fessors of the University of Chicago are
credited with saying a great many
things out of the ordinary. They have
| aSSalleQ the BlDie, the Government and
all known moral agencies, aid are
! probably not thru with their reform
: work. The recent utterance of one of
them that West Point and Annapolis
, are turning out an army of snobs, men
educated and supported by the public
/; who think and act as beings superior to
;; the power that created them" may have
some foundation in fact, but as long as
we must have armies and navies there
must be men to command, and there
will always be snobs among them, men
who feel themselves better than the
common citizen. The Sutton case al
Annapolis. wherein a young officer was
killed during a quarrel, should be
! probed to the bottom. Three companion
officers, who were enjoying Sutton's
: hospitality in an automobile ride to
their quarters late at night, seem to
, have combined against him in a fight
! which ended in his death. 1t is absurd
to believe that Sutton. upon whose body
three, assailantS were sitting should
shoot himself except by accident. One
Officer admitted he was grinding Sut-
toms face into the ground, while the
Officer of the Day confessed that he
said, Beat his head off," 1t was a
disgraceful affair. and any attempt to
\ shield the assailants will be to the dis
credit of the Navy Department. Three
men against one is hardly fair fight,
when that one was smaller physically
, than his three companions Whatever
the verdict, the public will decide II q
most cowardly assault.