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Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
HOLLAND COUNTY
STAFFoRDvILLE
North Adams Man Succeeds Frank
 Edaertcn at Garland MiIi.

Miss J. Eliza Chaffee. who has been spending the winter with relatives in Amherst, Mass, Windsor Locsk and Rockville, returned. home last week.
 Mrs. Elsie Allard has been spend : ing a number of days with her. parents. MT. and Mrs. Esten Be1cher. MT. Serno will be employed in Provi- denee for fe wweexs
 :. Allison Lyon Miss Ma,lde smith and Miss Bertha Beicher spent Sun- day with friends in Monson, Mass.
 Mrs. J. D. Thompson of Mansfield was the guest of her sister. Mrs Mary Little, over Sunday
 New Boss Dyer.
 Frank Edgerton has resigned as boss weaver in the Garland mill. MT. Nor rison of North Adams has taken the place.
 Everett Clark is working in Port land. Ct.
 Mrs. Sarah Benson is Ill.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
WESTMINSTER
Scotland Pastor to Occupy Local Put
 pit.

Mrs. Frank Linnell with Bernice and Dorrance Cook have returned from a visit in Pawtucket
 Miss Tourtellotte of North Society district was the guest of Miss Lila Ogden on Sunday.
 Mrs. Edwin Edmond had charge of the c. E. meeting Sunday evening
 Rev. A. A. Smiths discourse was on Sabbath Observance.
 Rev. L. B. Penney of Scotland is expected to occupy the pulpit here next Sunday morning in exchange with the pastor.
 Mrs. Olive Mcdonald is visiting her mother, Mrs. Baker
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
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 Mrs. Elmer Monitt of v11i,inaeptic was with hyr parents Mrs and My1E N; oxel welcets s,;o. wittsr. this wesk sne and
 On Southern Tip,
 Wallace l.. Pond of Providence, a Pond. Iefts his home on the 77th, en route to San Antonio. Texas visiting while away, BufEalo. Cleveland, C1n- cinnati, Nashville, Memphis, New Orr leans Houston. Kansas City, Mo. St Louis, Indiafapolis and Chicago. ex- pecting to return to his home May [. it being a business trip.
 Guests of Mfs. Wittsr
 Saturday evening Mrs. N. Wolcott per those who had aided her in seS curing the range in 2 recent contest A good. number responded. After fe- treatments had been served the eve- ming was spent in games+
 Rev c. F. Gennng. DD.. in the Baptist church, had for his theme tho three hundredth anniversary of the publication Of the King James or au- thOrized version of the English Bible.
 Samuel Bradford, IT,. of New Ha- yen IS visiting his father. Drs Brau- Sudden Death.
 Frank Litclnneid died suddenly son Tuesday, forenoon of valvuIar dieeAse of the heart The funeral was heidsp Friday, his pastor. Rev. Dr. O. F. Ge- nung, officiating. Burial WAS in the family lot in the South cemetery. He was born February 2, 1853,S and wae 5o years old. ,: He was Q member of the Baptist church. uniting March 5. 1871. and held the office of trustee nearly all the tirna since the church became incorporated and before that held the office as one of the society committee. He was one of the charter members of the Grange. holding the office of treasurer from the first. He was anx- ious to attend the meeting Tuesday evening. it being the twenty fifth an niversary of the Grange. but was moi permitted.
 Mrs c. F, Genung attended the meeting in Willimantic Wednesday O1 the Woman's, Baptist Home Mission of Connecticut, returning home from a lengthy visit with her daughter in Medford, Mass.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29

W <: 2 ss. x s \ Ss;s E:t z iii Wers Ii 15Na sssurday M 2
 1aias SaEsSh IF Inner sup peti1Iten- < dent q echooIA M1a m town Tues- ii,.. Nsttle orla!n who has sesn
 Mrs: Edwin F. emfeai and daughter
 MIss Florence, spent Saturday in
 Hart D. BuelI is much better.
 Two handsome bouQuots in the Com 8regationa1 church. Sunday. one of dafredils and the other pink and white and were sent to Mrs. Susan Hottfnan as birthday gift last week sby <her ne- pheW, Fred Hunt, who is a florist in that city, Mrs. Rottman kindly loan ed them to the church for the morning
 Miss Carrie Kellogg spent Sunday
 in Hartford. <
 Mrs, Haw1ey White and son Curtis spent Saturday in Hartford. Dr. Cyrus B. Pendleton Mrs. Pen
 dleton and Miss Clara Pendleton came tomobtle Sunday. They intend to re-
 main in town for month till the doc tor has fully recovered his hea1fhF Joel F. Brown returned tQ Hebron Monday, after being in St. Joseph's
 nospisa Mssas Yillimsnsic for several vera Rathbun.
 The Christian Endeavor service, on Sunday, was interesting. It was led
 by Miss Edna Latham.
 Miss Kate Phelps, who spent the winter in Meriden, returned here this week.
 The literary programme was given Friday afternoon in the preparatory school here. ". C. T. U. Meeting. Mrs. Caroline B. Bheik president oi the Connecticut w. c. T. U., and Mrs Emma J. Holman, president of the Tol- land county w. c. T. u.. will speak at the next meeting here, Thursday May 4 in the Congregational church Mrs. Buell. is from East Hampton and Mrs. Holman from South Wilmington A lecture was delivered in the. towr hall Thursday evening by Chester w Tennant on Yellowstone Park.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
ATTAWAUGAN.

Mir, and Mrs Elmer C. Wood enter tained all who took part in the Easter concert.
 Emma and Walter Robinson spent Sunday at Northbridge. Mass.
 Mrs. Timothy Sweeney is visiting in Manchester, N. H.
 MT. and Mrs. Mitchell Grimshaw, IT,, visited in New Bedford last week.
 MT. and Mrs. Eugean spent Sunday at West Thompson.
 John Watson has given up working for the company on account of ill., health and is to move. his family into one of Mrs. Emma Viewers houses.
 Misses Maud Rice and Sarah Barnes of Putnam called on friends in this place Sunday.
 Charles Weeks, Jr, has been i'll.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
ASHFORD

l. P. Richards and family are in Providence for a few days.
 Mrs. S. Lftchfleld and two daugl1- ters are visiting in Putnam.
 Archie Greene is blowing for B. M. Grant,.
 Services at the Center church were we'll attended Sunday.
 J. w. Whippls has moved his steam mill to the Hicks place.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
WOODSTOCK
Improvements at Swedish Church.
 Various Items.

Mrs. George F. Waters is visiting her daughter in Hartford
 Miss Sergeant of Brookline, Mass, has been the guest of Miss Mary A. Perley.
 Rev R. G. Kendall is in New Haven this week.
 A bungalow is being built on the knoll west of Valleyside.
 Miss Emma Spa1ding was in Wor- cester Tuesday.
 Mrs. R. R. Kendall is in Boston for a few days
 Church Improvements.
 The Swedish church has been paint ed, the work being done by members of the congregation.
 Freeman Spalding has q new tour ing ear.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
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-! taoe G6Isbf1ko
 m TIT 5sss E JljilissS sradsgsy
 Y - Arx!l {. seventy responded to the invitation 1nd SEfs. 3oSn Jessss isst Fqiday sft- ssPoa .ns ssss,ns sss ss.s ssssvissss ~sas ssss ed. They feceiyed about forty pres< ents, ,consl8ting of money. sf1yerware, cut Glass, chinas etc Miss EleAuQr Ko5tA student at Woodetock acad~ enny presided at the piano. Mrs. net silk, which she wore when she was married twenty five years ago.: It had not been differed. Rev. and Mrs. F B. King. Judge and Mrs ]. M T8- tenn were amons the 1uests.
 Alice and Charles Rindge of Union mer spent the night with Mir. and Airs. E. s. Keith. The latter was entertained over night at Mir. and Mrs. Warren Keitks home.
 psrsenaI in<erssts. '
 Mrs. Fred A. Bowen and brother, Edwin Lewis, was In SouthbridGe of tlfe 22d- They stayed over night at their sisters. in Charlton Mass.
 Mr. ard- Mrs Eugene Keene enter tained last Saturday the formers son, William and wife of Arlington.
 Mfss zida Young h9s gone to Wor- cester for an indefinite period.
 Jcdge and Mrs. J M. Tatem have re- turned to their summer home
 Elisha sherman of Pomfret fs get- ting the Old Castle ready for summer guests.
 Miss Helen H. Whitman returned on<6Qnday to her home in West Hart ford, whefN she will resume teaching fn the kf1deEgApttn department.
 Wbi5fSrd Place Auetionsd. 2. .Joh1 Whftford had m auction ajst S4aEtday4epdR RQld sIt5a 41nces a1sc .abne e8 H1alp655 6n12 ethhea
 Hhey will re sfo Gron N1R thpy spent thes EutAr ssessaz tin4ey -sltira giuiau Byadway NI1t nine Yeery Did on Apri1 x9t1 z ., geaz1x xtss the eAdeE lay S0slrfiI5 sfk thex F. s. C. Esz the diz52 v p5,ic lndaxs | 6f set
 1eoF1e BowenF and Mrs 1Sy4rd Holaqan entertained the Ladie6 i'd SSSfety of the ConxregationaI church W8dnesdAy aft ternoop and evfning kprif s26ss at the ch4ueIs z:
 GHarles D sTatepna and his mother spef1t Sunday with Mfr Tatemss broth et ff W1llilnantit.s z ~ < { z
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
Be :. Man.faetase-.

High prices brought down by use of half or it by adding <. of | gallop of Iinseed Oil to each. gallon of paint. x It costs then e1.60 DOT gallon.
 THirty i've yeArs general use has proven 1t.
 It's all paint real paint, reliable paint, and the best paint that can he made. -4s The L. < NJ. Pure paints. vsrni61lAs ard Paints for every purpQse. for o15e Dy L. " Carroll ( een; Wafter Kingsley. PlainAs1t
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
Midnicht in The Cxarks

and yet sleepless Hiram Scranton of Clay City, H., coughed and coughed. He was in the mountains on the ad- vice of five doctors, who said he had consumption, but found no help in the climate, and started home. Hearing of pr. Kings New Discovery, he begun to use it.. .I believe it saved my life, :" he writes, flor it made new man of ma. SO that I can now do good work again. For all lung diseases, coughs. colds. in grippe, asthma, croup, whocp- ing cough, hay fever. hemorrhages, hoarseness or quinsy, it's tho best known remedy. Price 50c and $100- Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Leo & Osgood Go.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
WOODSTOCK VALLEY

Allen w. Kenyon was in Norwich and Willimantic last week.
 Several from here attended the so- eial and entertainment given by the Baptist society at West Woodstock last week
 The 1ngalls boys have returned to Brooklyn, N r., after staying two weeks at A. N. Hammond's.
 w. H. Phillips & Son of Hampton and John Spencer of Willimantic were at Allen Kenyon,s Saturday.
 MT and Mrs. o. A. Hiscox were in Pomfret over Sunday.
 Mrs. Myrtis Briggs has been visit ing in Worcester and Charlton.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29

The town fathers of Sterling are repairing the highways. Farmers are beginning to blow, all though the spring is very backward.
 Miss Esther Gallup again presided at the organ in the Line meeting house last Sunday in tho absence of Mrs. KeiloEE, the organist who was ill.
 MT. Kellog preached a. sermon on The Pilot at the Helm."
 Accepts Natick Call.
 Rev. Albert Stanton, son of Avery A. stanton, has resigned his foui years pastorate over the Baptist church at Yarmouth, Me, to accept e call to the Baptist church at Ma tick, Mass. He will make the exchange soon.
 Pastors Farewell Sermon.
 Next Sunday will be the last of Rev. MT. KelloUgss pastorate and he will give a review of the pastorate. The sacrament or the Lords Supper will be administered also.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
FtIcnvlLLE
poIn,sr Brothers Company to Erect New Tsnennents-sprine Cleaning Up of Village.

Miss Shirley Miner has been confin- ed to her home by illness.
 Clifford Cantlin of Massachusetts has been the guest of MT. and Mrs. John Brown.
 Miss Dorence Hourixan of Norwich was a recent guest of Miss Alberta Harris.
 To Build New Tenements. Surveyors have been at work the past week surveying for a number of new tenement houses on Riverside and Maple streets, to be erected by the Fa1mer Brothers company. ,
 A months mind mass was celebrat- ed in St. Johns church Monday by the Rev. D. R. O'Donnell of Colchester for Miss Kathryn Breen.
 e. Spring CIean-up.
 The usual spring cleaning of lawns and yards has been in progress for the past two weeks by employees of the Palmer Brothers company, greatly inn proving and beautifying the village by its neat appearance.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
SOUTH cANTERBURY

Samuel T. Cooper of Brooklyn was the guest of Levi N. Clark Sunday.
 Theodore w. Yerrington was in Nor wicl Thursday
 Miss Lizzie Whitford called on her sister. Miss c. O. Whitford, in Nor wic1, Thursday.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
STERLING
Runaway Horse Breaks Neek--Meet-
 ing of Ladies' Aid Society.

One of the horses belonging to Ahern Bros. ran away Wednesday morning and in turning a corner fell and broke its neck.
 The Ladies' Aid society met with Mrs. H. B. Mowry Wednesday after noon.
 Mrs. -Myra Hawes is in i'll health.
 Mrs. Irving Anderson and Mrs. A. F. Wentworth and daughter Ruth spent Thursday with Miss .Abbie Vaughn of Rice City, R. T.
 Amos Faro of this village is very ill.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
HAMPTON

Auction at WeIch Place = Windham Preacher at Congregational Church.
 Mrs. Charles Benziger, who has been visiting at w. A. Pearles, has re- turned to her home in Auburn, R. l.
 Mrs. Wade is very ill.
 Martin Welch sold all his stock and farming tools at auction last Tuesday
 Andrew Bennett and daughter Ber- tha are staying at Arthur F. Pearle's for a short time.
 Mr. Brown of Windhan occupied the pulpit of the Congregational church on Sunday.
 Mrs. George Carr, a former resident of this place, has been staying for a few days at her home here.
 Frank Phillips made a business trip to Willimantic last Thursday.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
RAWSON

Improvement in Lowering Depot Hill.
 Mr and Mrs. Dwight Phillips were Chaplin callers Sunday.
 Dwight Burdick who has been aDsnding the winter in East Braintree,
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
\ ReIiabI. Msdiesn.-Net . Narcotic

Mrs F. Marei, St. Joe, Mich. says: Our little boy contracted a severe bronchial trouble and as the doctors medicine did not cure him, gave hiM Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, Ia cough as well as the choking and Dag- ging spells. and he got well in a short time. FoIey's Honey and Tar Com pound has many t,mes saved us much trouble, and we are never without 1t in the house. Lee G OsEood Co.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
UNION.

George Towne and MT. Tyler are in the forestry business few days i'll New Hampshire.
 Miss Grace Lawtoa visited her brother, B. I.awton, in Southbrfdge, the first of the week.
 T. O. NewAll and family visited friends in Sturbridke This week
 MT. and Mrs. W. Richards visited BrimHeld friends last Friday.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
Grange Programme.

The programme of the grange next Tuesday evening will be: Music by grange; paper, Inventions Of the Last Fifty. Years; piano trio; Can the Farm : CT Afford to Keep His Wagons and Farm Machinery Out in the Rain and Sunshine? discussion. by. R.. Colburn and G. D. Ide; special music: current events, Miss Isadere Dunham.
 Miss Mabel Booth is suffering from a sprained ankle.
 Charles .O'N'eil has taken a tenement in one of the blocks at Hydeville.
 Discussed Live Topics. { At a meeting of the Stafford Pro- xressive Federation held at the library building last Wednesday evening the following matters were discussed: The improvement about town by the recent cleaning bee; sane Fourth of July celebration: the necessity CT teaching young people to swim. The directors will choose a seer etary and treasurer to i'll the vacancy caused by the res- isnation of A. B. Todd. .5ss'
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29

Shopper Can I hang this paper on myself? Salesman-Yes, sir; but 1t would really look better on the wAlL
 Harpers Bazar
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
BOLTON
Mir. and Mrs. H. W. Howell Give Fare well Party-csmstsry Associations Officers.

MT. and Mrs. Herbert w. Howell en- tertained friends last Monday evening at the house at Bolton Center where they have lived the past year. The time was pleasantly spent in dancing MT. and Mrs. Howell moved to Bolton Notch to a place they purchased last fall. 1-'
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
Officers of Cemetery Association.

At meeting of the Bolton Cemetery association the following officers were elected: President, w. H. Loomis; vice president. John Johnson; secretary and treasurer, Miss Alvord; corresponding committee, s. M. Alvord and J. White Sumner s4
 Miss Annie M. Alvord has returned from Willimantic. where she spent a short time with Mrs. Chester Hills.
 School Superintendent F: w. Baker of Wil1imantic and the Bolton teachers held a meeting in the Center school house Wednesday afternoon
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29

Come over and smoke . while :, Cant I've got to chop wood Why not let your kid chop wood ?" "Oh, he's busy with the Boy Scouts.- Lou isviIle Courier Journal
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
STAFFORD
Practical Programme Arranged for Grange Meetins-Progressivs Fedsr-
 ation Active.

Eizen Richmond of Westford is very i'll with heart trouble at the home of Mrs. Emily Goodell.
 The home of the late Mrs. Mary Prince has been rented to George
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
To Build New Tenements.
W1NDHAM COUNTY.
EK0NK

'Iosa to Conclude Pastorate on Sun day.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29

one-third of Britain's telegraph op- orators are women
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-07
THE TARIFF BOARD.

In all the comment on the work of
the special session Of congress but one
convincing explanation has been given
OF the action OF the Democrats in
rushing through the carelessly drawn
free list, wool and cotton schedules.
anticipating the work Of the tariff
board by but three or four months at
most That has been offered by Pres
iGent Taft and Is summed up In the
one word. politics" It happens that
for the first time In our tariff history
a board of experts Is now at work on
the tariff schedules. securing the accur-
ate information that is necessary to
enable congress to wisely fix the tariffs
to be charged.
This board is one Of the triumphs OF
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-07
this DATE IN HISTORY"


1SO7-After bombardment of three
days, Copenhagen and the Danish fleet
surrendered to the British.
1S1S-James j. Wallack made his
first appearance on the American
stage. t9
1S19-Thomas A. Hendricks. DIST
Vice President of the United States
born. Died Nov. 25, 1855.
1S2S-Earl of Dalhousie finished his
term of Office as Governor General OF
Canada.
1S31-Russians captured Warsaw
after two days hard fighting.
1S59-Constitution adopted for the
Territory of Nevada.
1S79--Samuel Smith Harris conse-
Grated Protestant Episcopal bishop of
Michigan.
1S91-Convention met at Phoenix to
frame a constitution for Arizona.
1S92-John Greenleaf Whittier, the
poet, died at Hampton Falls, n. III.
Eorn at East Haverhill, Mass, Dec. II,
1907.
1904 decision i'm the Newfound-
land Fisheries case at The Hague was
banded down by the International
Court of Arbitration.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-07
'.'T-t-'Ett'-s-s-l'-t'-t-s-s-FF't-t'
Only Way
to Combat
IA Inch
Guns
Submarine
q
Power


- BY Rear Admiral F. T. BOWLES, u s. N, Retired
HERE is question that the general introduction guns
Of very large caibe such the fourteen inch will
~ REVOLUTIONIZE warfare. 1t will make MANY changes
necessary naval construction For instance it will NE
CESSITATE THE IMPROVEMENT OF ARMOR. The plates
will have to be made thicker of MORE PENETRABLE ma
terial
Against guns of such ENORMOUS ABILITY it question
whether deense HEAVILY ARMED though they aro
would be of much service for if it granted that
had opportunity get enough New York.
point to be attacked without opposition the chances that the
city would be pretty well the road UTTER EXTINCTION
before the gnners the forts could train their rifles the fleet
The fact that the guns shoot ACCURATELY at
distance of at LEAST twelve miles increases tremendously prob
lem of combating them
The upho of all this matter that the way prevent
invasion to have fleet which SUCCESSFULLY PREVENT
IT
IT SEEMS TO NE THAT THE ANSWER TO THIS PROBLEM OF
COAST DEFENSE is MADE BY THE SUBMARINE THAT
THE SUBMARINE SERIOUSLY EVERY
OF THE BATTLEsHIP.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-07
"THlS is MY 48TH BIRTHDAY"

Pietro Mascagni. the brilliant com
poser of the opera "CavaIleria Rusti-
cana" was born at Leghorn. Italy. Sep
TENDER Z, 1868. His father was a ba-
ker and IL was his wish that his son
should study law. But Pietros sole
ambition was to become "A musician
The father soon became reconcilcd To
his sons plan of musical cultivation
and sent him to the famous Milan Con-
servatoire to be educated. AS early as
1881. when only eighteen years old
Mascagni composed an operetta. His
next ventures were an ave Maria"
and "Pater Noster." which won for
him the first prize i'm the Milan COM
petitions. But until the first public
OF the "Cavalleria Rus
ticana." the world at large knew moth
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-07

under his own management in a new
drama called "a Grain of Dust"
Aubrey Bousicault is in the company
supporting John E. Kclerd in roper
toire i'm New York this season.
Edgar Atchison Ely is to be starred
this season i'm "Billy's Tombstones."
which Sydney Drew formerly used.
Sarah Bernhard may produce Ros-
lands new play, Faust" at her own
Paris Theater some time during the
season
Halle Erminie Rives' well-known
story, Satan Sanderson." is to be dra-
matzed, with Norman Hackett as the
star.
The Plymouth Theater, the new Bos-
ton playhouse built for Liebler & Co,
is to have its formal opening on Sept
cmber %.
Thomas T.. shea has added n new
play called "a Man and His Wife, to
his repertoire To be used during the
coming season.
For the first time since she made
her appearance upon the stage Louise
piNN 10 AiiS StdS'H W NC III tiit NNih-
pany of her father. John Drew.
David Warfeld will open his season
about the middle of next month. when
he will again appear I'm THE Return
of Peter Grimm" at the Belasco, New
York.
Mrs. F'iske has concluded her long
season of siXty-seven weeks and will
take a short rest before opening her
new season i'm Langdon Mtchell's "The
New Marriage"
Lawrence DOrsay has begun re-
hearsals of Augustus Thomas come
dy, "The Earl of Pawtucket." i'm which
he will be starred this season. His
season Will begin at Poughkeepsie, N.
Y, on September Is.
The play in which Billie Burke is to
star THE Runaway" has for it's theme
the marriage of a man of fifty to a
girl of eighteen. and its similarity to
the Astor- Force case is said to be
marked. The similarity is accidental.
however, as the play. which is from a
foreign source, was written over year
ago.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-07

the administration and is in sense q
personal triumph for Mr.. Taft. The
effort of Senator Beveridge to have
a permanent tariff commission APP
pointed failed, but the President had a
clause put i'm the Payne Aldrioh tarin
bill authorizing him To employ such
persons as might be required I'm ac-
curing information to assist him in
the discharge of the duties imposed by
that act. Three experts were prompt
ly appointed by him and later two more
were added There is thus AZ present
"a board of five members who are in
vestigating tariff matters with a view
to showing the cost of production at
homo and abroad. The bill for a non
partisan commission failed of passage
at the last session of congress, but am
pie provision was made for the ex-
pense Of the work to be done by the
non-partisan experts appointed by the
President.
OF the five men serving on this board
all are experts; none is in any sense
Of the word a mere politician. 1t in
cludes Henry c. Emery of Connecticut.
former professor of Bowdoin college
and author of several works on econo-
mics; James y. Reynolds of New York
widely known as n student of social
problems, who was assistant secretary
of the treasury when he was called to
the board; Alvin Saunders of Illinois,
an authority on the live stock indus
try; William NJ. Howard of Georgia,
Tor IL years a member of congress, and
Thomas Walker Page of Virginia, for
merly dean OF the department OF econ
omics of the University of California
and subsequently i'm charge of the same
department in the University of Texas.
These men are an advisory board
to the President and all the Informal
ton secured by them will be laid by
President Taft before congress at the
next session. 1t is not the duty or the
Intention of either the President or the
board To legislate concerning the tariff.
That is the province of congress. IT
is evident, though, that in order to in
diligently fix the tariff rates on various
congress must know their
cost Of production in this country