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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-06-25
300 Miles Through the Air
First Regular Airshp Passenger Service Inaugurated
With twenty Passengers--Average Speed Was
Thirty-Five Miles an Hour.

Dusseldorf, Germany, June 90
The first regular airship passenge
service was inaugurated to-da v wher
Count Zeppelin's great craft, til,
Deutschland, carrying twenty pas
sengers, successfully made the first
scheduled trip from Friedrichsllafer
to this city, II distance of 800 miles
in nine hours.
| The weather was perfect and the
motors worked faultlessly. The aver
age time maintained for the com
plete course was approximately
thirty-three miles an hour, but be
tween Friedrichshafen and Stuttgart
the 124 miles was covered at an
average rate of speed of Al miles an
hour. The best speed for a single
hour was 43 1-2 miles.
Count Zeppelin was at the helm
when the Deutschland arose ut Fried.
richshafen at 3 O'Clock this morn.
ing and sailed away on the trip that
was to mark an epoch in aviation.
The passengers were some of the
directors of the Hamburg-American
Steamship Company and the Ger
man Stock Company, joint owners
OF the dirigible, and guests. They
occupied the mahogany-walled and
carpeted cabin situated between
the gondolas and from the windows
OF which they viewed the scenery as
the aerial car swept along.
Count Zeppelin steered for the
greater part of the distance. The
route was via Stuttgart, Mannheim
and Cologne TO Dusseldorf. 1t had
been carefully marked out in advance
Tor the guidance OF the pilot and was
followed exactly. There was no air
stirring and the Deutschland made
her way unhampered through a food
Of bright sunshine.
The hour of the minute OF the prob
able passing of the various points
along the route had been bull etined
ahead so that not only the people of
the cities OF the line who flied the
streets. but the inhabitants of all
the intermediate villages turned out
aud cheered most enthusiastically
IS the immense torpedo-like strnc-
'ure with its whistiing screws drove
over their heads at "a height of be-
'ween 200 and 300 feet.
The Deutschland swung gently in
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-06-25
coLFAx, GRANT PARISH LA SATURDAY JUNE 25 1910

There are 100000 railroad EN-
ployees. 1t takes 100000 mer
to supply what the railroads need
and a vast number of men are EN-.
ployed in supplying the personal
needs of the above 100000 men
and their families, representing
100000 people. Every kind OF
business is dependent in some
measure on railroad prosperity.
HIGH COST OF LIVING.
Ii 1T had not been for the en-
enlargement given railroad inves-
tors In the past, where would we
have been to-day for our food sup
ply? They opened up thousands
OF miles of undeveloped and un-
productive land, and vet our food
is high, because of lack of supply;
our consumption is increasing fast
er than our food production. If
the railroad investor stops as be
now has, there will be an advance
In food rates soon that will be far
greater than increased freight
rates. High food means high la
Dor, and high labor means high
everything. Therefore the ulti-
mate consumer and the State and
National Governments should be
interested in developing land that
will produce bountiful food pro-
iucts. Half of the country west
Of the Mississippi is not used, and
will not be until covered with rail- |
'oads. Who would want to build |
'oads in unproductive lands when |
hose in cultivated country will |
barely pay the lowest rate of in
crest, and the owners and mana
,eis are being harassed and ma
lgned as In no other business.
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to her landing at noon and the mul
titude surrounding the landing yard.
shouted welcome. The city had
been decorated in honor of the event
The promoters of the enterprise and
their guests were entertained at a
public dinner.
Regular trips will be made. and
many tickets have already been sold
Tor the first few days at from $25 to
$50 each. The airshipAi is equipped
with restaurant, which will supply
the passengers with a buffet service
az is afforded on parlorcar railroad
trains.
The dimensions of the Dputsch-
land are: Length, 4S5 feet; width,
as feet. It's balloon has "A gas ca
pacity of 24,S52 cubiclyards, and it
carries three motors having a total
OF 800 horse power. 1t was design
ed to maintain "A speed of IS miles
an hour. Its lifting capacity is A.
600 pounds, of which IL 900 pounds
covers the crew, passengers and ex-
press. 1t Is expected to be able to
accomplish continued trip of seven
hundred miles.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-06-25
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This is true the world over whore shis
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success of ChambsrIain's Collie. Chsisrs
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The Federation of the World
Law and War; The Ethics of Reason and Force-Hamil-
ton Holt, Editor of the Independent, Discusses the
Commission to Enforce Universal Peace.
NUMBER IS

add a world executive and thus
create the united nations in the
very image of the United States
| The peace advocates from Penn
and Kant aud Hugo and Burritt
down to Hale and Bartboldt and
Carnegie have long realized that
world federation is the key. to
peace and disarmament Even
Mr.. Roosevelt in bis remarkable
Nobel peace address the other dsy
at Christians goes 90 far ss 10
urge "league of peace" to abolish
war. paradoxically, by force if nee
essary. The governments them
selves, however. have not yet of
ficiaIly recognized that world or
ganizatioI is the goal of ipterua.
tional effort. The passage of the
Bartholdt bill, however, will rem
edy this and guarantee to the peo-
pie of world that the United States
is in earnest aud ready to take the
lead in the practical and promis-
ing method of obtaining intesna-
tionsl peace.
1t seems the destiny of the Unit
ed States to lead the peace move
ment. The United States 10 the
world in miniature. It 10 q dem
onstration that all the races of the
world can live in peace under ono
government, and its chief value to
civilization is a demonstration of
what this form Of government is.
We have settled more disputes by
arbitration than any other nation.
In all history no men have doue
more to spread the gospel of peace
than two Pennsylvanians, Willism
Penn and Benjamin Franklin.
Coming down to recent times it 10
probably a fact that the late Fred
rick W. Hollis, of New York, had
more to do with the establishment
of The Hague Court than anyone
else, while Mr.. Carnegie has given
it a palace in which it shall here
after sit. The United States took
the first case to The Hague Court
that ever came before It. Mr..
Bartholdt was the first man who
ever stood up in a national parlia-
meut and suggested turning The
Hague Conference into = real in
ternational parliament. EIihu
Root planned the idea of having
The second Hague Conference Gre
ate world court modelled in the
United States Supreme Court, and
now Secretary Knox has snnouno-
ID its early establishment. Pres
dent Roosevelt's address indicates
hat he would feel compelled 10
accept the appointment on the
commission which President Taft
8 to offer to him If Mr.. Bartholdt's
,ill becomes q Law. He says:
But the ruler or statesman Who
mould bring about such a comb.
lation league of pesce) would
lave earued his place in history
or all time and bis title to the
gratitude of ell mankind"
If the world federation commits.
ion is appointed by the United
states Government with Theodore
Roosevelt as chairman. can anyone
'elieve that the day will not BE-
rought measurably nearer when
8 Victor Hugo prophesied in l849.
the only battlefield will be the
,arket opening to commerce and
he human mind opening to new
leas."
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There is now pending befor
Congress p bill introduced by MI
BarthoIdt, of Missouri, provi6in,
for the appointment of a commits
sion to visit the chancelleries O
the world and report back to Con
gress articles of world federation
limited to the maintenance O.
peace, SO that our recommends
tions to the third Hague Confer
ence of 1915 may be well consider.
ed and far-reaching. Presiden,
Taft has given advance intim alton
that he intends to nominate Mr.
Roosevelt as chairman of the com.
mission of five to be appointed as
soon as Congress has passed the
act. 1t will be the first time in
history that government has Of
ticially recognized that the true
philosophy of the peace movement
requires world federation as a pre-
requisite for universal peace.
The only two powers that ever
have or ever can govern human
beings are. force and reason-wsr
and law. The problem before the
world is how to decrease the area
OF war and increase the area of law
until war vanishes and law envel-
ops the world. At the present
moment the world is organized in
to ffty-nine nations claiming indie
pendence, and within their terri
tories-nominally, at least, orgaui-
cation, law and peace prevail. We
have already learned to substitute
law for war in cities aud States.
and even up to the fifty-nine ma
tons; but in that international
realm in which each nation is euu-
ally sovereign, the only way ct the
present moment for a nation to Sc
cure its rights is by the nee of
force. In other words, the nations
are in that stage of civilization to-
day where, without a qualm they
claim the right to settle their dis
putes in a manner they would put
their own subjects to death for i'm
itating. The peace movement,
therefore, is nothing but the pro-
cess of substituting law for war.
But how can we best create law
in. the international realm. Ger
tainly not by the cumbrous meth |
DDS OF the present. To-day there |
is no such thing as a code of inter-
national law which is binding on
the nations which are at perfect
liberty to accept it or reject it as
hey wish. We must have behind |
It some conscious political organi-
sation to give it sanction and val
dity, and that implies a federation
If the world.
The history of the organization
If the united nations" which
gives sanction to international law,
will correspond td the history of
he organization of the thirteen
American colonies into one nation.
The Declaration of Independence
oreshadows the declaration of in
dependence.
The beginnings of world organi-
alton, however, have already taken
lace. In the Hague Court and
he recurring Hague conferences
re- see the germs of the interna-
ional court and the parliament of
nan. The problem. is how to de-
elop these 80 that they will be-
ONE the Judicial and legislative :
apartments Of powerful world
constitution, just as our articles of
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-06-25
Railroad Rates and Business
The Interesting Claim Made that Prosperity is Depend
ent on Betterment of the Operating and Financial
Conditions of the COuntrys Railroads.
To The Business Man:

~ Poi oouoiiy, We uuSJ TecOBnlZ
that an improvement in genera
business is dependent on better
ment Of operating and financia
conditions of the railroads. Tha
the operating results are most un
satisfactory is readily seen by tn,
latest Interstate Commerce Com
mission reports, which show tina
for the nine months ended Apri
LIST, 1910, eleven railroad systems
all west and north of a line drawn
from Chicago to st. Louis, com.
pared with the same roads for the
same period in the previous year
had their gross earnings increased
about $50, 100000, while their net
earnings show decrease of S.
$4,000, a nd for the month of
March, on the same comparison,
they show an increase of $1,000
OOO In gross and a decrease of
S965,OOO in net earning.
These same railroads had their
taxes increased over the previous
year $2,5O0,0OO, or IA per cent,
and have to pay higher rates of
interest on their loans. These
roads covering the most prosper
Gus part of the country may be
considered representative of gen.
eral railroad conditions.
During the past three years of
poor business, railroad expendi-
lures for maintenance were nee
essarily at the lowest point, and
III consequence their motive power
equipment and tracks now demand
a greater proportion of operat-
ing expense. No provision has
been or is being made for the
growing demands of the country,
and as transportation is the back
bone of business, its weakness or
inefficiency cripples every other
condition; because all products are |
valuable in the ratio with their
accessibility to the consuming
market.
1t is most important to the ship
per, that railroads at all times are
fully equipped to take care of an
increase of business. The first
eight months of 1907 demonstrate
ed that the railroads could not
handle the business then offered
with any degree of satisfaction.
The financial conditions since have
not permitted them to even main
tain their then position. If the
then volume of business were to
come back supplemented by the
three years growth of the country
in the interval, transportation
would be paralyzed; and what
would that cost the shipper CON-
pared with a reasonable advance
in freight rates now? Such an
advance would provide the means
for avoiding the impending dis
aster. The iron horse needs to be /,
kept in good condition for the /,
same reason as the living horse
used for transportation. The
knows that if his horse
is not well shod, well groomed
and well fed, and his harness and
wagon kept in good repair, that all
ne will save on such economy will
De many times wasted in the in
efficiency of his transportation,
md also add great expense to the
shipper. 1t is exactly the same :
With the railroads.: the shipper .
las a right to demand that trans q
be ample and efficient; :.
he success of his business and the y
development of the country are :
on it. T
THE INVESTOR.
To do this, the railroad must o
how adequate returns to maintain g
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iunds 10 improve and develop thu
property as needed. 1t is neither
the railroad president nor the
shipper that controls the situation
it is the inrestor alone who holds
the key; without his uninvested
dollar the railroad cannot extend
or improve, no matter how great
the needs of the shipper or the
country may be.
With all the increasing cost of
operation, supplemented by ever
increasing aud burdensome legis-
lative restrictions concerning their
earnings, in face of the fact that
the average dividend rate on rail-
roads was less than 81 per cent for
the past six years, and the United
States Supreme Court in the case
of the Consolidated Gas Company
stated that "6 per cent was fair
return on money invested in pub
lie utilities" with the average
freight rate in 1909 of three-quar-
tiers OF a cent per ton per mile, the
lowest in nine years, the average
passenger rate per mile one and
nlne-tenths cents, the lowest ever
reached, is it any wonder that the
investor holds back and the bank
ers demand high interest rates
from the railroads. The railroads
need S2,00O,0OO,OOO to put their
lines In proper condition, and to
increase their terminal facilities
at all points that are even now a |
necessity, and 81, 0OO,OOO,OOO more !
for modern new motive power and |
equipment to move their freight |
with promptness and economy. |
Where can they get the money?
Only by increased earnings from
advanced rates, and by so doing
better their credit by attracting
the uninvested dollars that are
now going to other more attractive
but less productive investments.
COST TO THE ULTIMATE CONSUMER.
Poor's Manual says the average
haul of freight in 1908 was l42
miles. Tho average rate in 1909
was three-fourths of cent per ton
per mile. The average total rate
Tor the average total haul, assum-
ng 1t to be the same as 1908.
would be $l.06 per ton. An adj
rance of 10 per cent on this rate
would increase the cost 10 cents
Der ton, or 1000 of a cent per pound
An advance of 10 per cent on the
present specific rates would in
'rease the cost of 100 pounds dress
ID beef in New York, shipped from ,
chicago, Accents; 100 canned fish ,
n st. Louis, shipped from Maine, s
$40 cents; 100 pounds -four in !
Sew York, from Minneapolis, 2 {
ents; a suit of clothes in Chicago. {
rom Boston, ] cent; the same for c
woman's suit. On a mans out t
t, coat, trousers, shoes and hat,
lew England to Mississippi Val
BY. not to exceed l cent The VI
innate Consumer can multiply :
nese illustrations indefinitely. :,
he manufacturer, jobber, and re- b
liler could easily absorb this +,
light advance, because, if his bust +,
ess increased but one unit, that 81
ould more than pay the increased d
'st on one hundred units. o
Railroad net earnings thus in
'eased, the railroads would have a
ready market for their securities, a.
I'd with the money thus obtained ;,
gain start all the business and in :,
lstrles now comparatively idle Il
at are directly or indirectly de- nj
sndent on their property. The a,
orking men would be fully en- tu
Dyed, their families would again o'
lrchase freely, and that means tv
'od business for everyone.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-25

Washington, Jan. 25.-Five min
utes after James j. Hill, "the empire
builder" of the northwest, emerged
from a conference with President
Taft at the White House today and
the president issued his statement to
the effect that there shall be no Gin
discriminate prosecution" of the
trusts.
Hin told the president that yes
terday hints from the White House
OF a vigorous campaign against the
trusts and prosecutions under the
Sherman antitrust law, had caused
a crumbiing of prices in Wall street.
Hill told the president that such d
course, If persisted in, would result
i'm financial chaos
1t Is believed that the president
assured Hill that the government
contemplated no indiscrinlinatlon
action and that he thereafter decid-
ed to make his ofIicial announce
ment to that effect
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-25
MANY WILL
VISIT EUROPE
THIS YEAR
Hotel Men Planning to Meet the
Greatest American Inva-
sion on Record.

London, Jan. 25.-The increased
cost of living in America will not at
feet European travel, according to
a group of hotel managers who laid
plans today to meet the greatest
American invasion on record,
which they expect this spring and
summer.
MAY be it is' true that the poor
people in America are having a hard
time of It, but the rich are rolling
in velvet" declared one manager.
"It is the high tariff in America
upon which we count definitely TO
produce the great tourist influx"
The hotel men who are considered
probably the best qualified persons to
prognosticate such things, seem ab-
solutely confident.
"The poor man does not come to
Europe anyway" the speaker con-
tinued, so it doesn't make any diff
ference in our business whether he
is getting along we'll or not. We
| get the employers and they are the
ones to whom the high tariff Is
handing the yellow boys,
I'VE like to see the employers
get along-rather selfish of course
for we always get our share when
things are coming their way.
I'VE are sorry that the poor peo-
pie in America are being charged
high prices. see they blame the
employers. Well, maybe we can
even things up bit on the employ
ers, eh?"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-25
BOYCOTT AGAINST BRANDY.
German Treasury Being Effected
from Diminished Sale of
Brandy.

Berlin, Jan. 25.-While the Rus
sian treasury is facing trouble
through the curtailment of the sales
of vodka, the imperial German
treasury today is beginning to feel
the effect of a serious impairment
of revenue from the diminished sale
of brandy.
Brandy, which has been a popular
drink with German workingmen,
was placed under heavy taxation by
the government last summer The
masses of the people wanted the
land owners taxed, but the govern
ment preferred to levy on brandy.
The Socialists took up the peoples
fight and urged up on the masses a
,forswearing of brandy. The boycott
killed two birds with one stone. 1t
not only brought to the attention
the strength of Socialism in the
kaser's realm, but it also induced
anenormous number of persons 10
abstain from liquor which was in
juring them.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-25

islands is essential to the American
defense against a hostile fleet from
the Orient" he said.
Il regret that this matter has not
been pursued with the persistence
that is demanded by it's necessity"
Senator Bacon raised the question
of a future policy of independence
for the Philippines and Senator War
rem, chairman of the military affairs
committee, said that if the islands
should be given their independence,
repayment would be made for the
Notifications now under construc-
ton.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-25
BILL
PASS BOTH HOUSES
Must Make Preparations for a
Great Naval Struggle in
the Pacific.
UNITED PRESS LEASED w1Rn.l

Washington, Jan. 25.-The forti-
fications bill, carrying appropria-
tions aggregating $6,OOO,OOO nearly
$25O,OOO less than that of last year,
which had already passed the house,
was passed by the senate today.
During the debates Senator New
lands, of Nevada, emphasized the
necessity for the adequate protection
of Hawaii, in view of a possible con-
fict with Japan. This feature of the
situation was given considerable at
tention.
Senator Newlands said that he re-
garded the fortiflcation of Pearl Har-
Dor vastly more important than the
strengthening of the Philippines
He said that a great naval struggle
in the Pacific, which has been pre-
dicted on account of the growing
power of Japan, must be prepared for
by this country.
THE protection of the Hawaiian
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-25
Y. M. C. A. HOLDS.
CONTINUED from page one.)

500, 100000, 1t does not take the
place of the church, but supplements
the work Of the church.
Probably the most important event
of the session was the address OF
Fred B. Smith to 1900 men in the o.
A. C, armory on Sunday afternoon
His subject was THE Strong Man, ;"
and he handled it in such forceful
way that his audience was held SPELL
bound during the entire address. At
the close nearly so men expressed
determination to live the Christian
life. Mr. Smith is regarded by many
as the best evangelist for men in this
country. This can truly be said Of
him, that he is no sensationalist. He
speaks in Salem at the opera house
this Wednesday evening, ana the men
of Salem will have an opportunity
to hear him.