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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-02-21
Growth of the Farm,

We notice the jokes about farmers grow
less
For the farmer himself has grown smart.
as you guess,
And he grows bigger crops by very
great deal.
30 he grows rather wealthy and buys a
mobile.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-02-21
Need of a Check to Monopoly.

NSCu VI q SuCIh w
think every thoughtful person viii
agree that the sherman act or some
equally effective statute was ahSOlut"
~ necessary to check the growing cen
tralization in a very few hands of the
vast industries of the United States
1t was the danger of that centra liza
ton which the leaders saw in 1890
when they framed and enacted rnc
sherman law. Slowly. but irresS,ibiy.
the construction Of the statute hta
been widcuCd. until now it is dcmpa
struted 10 be adequate to effect thai
great result
One Of the results which the ShrI-
man law viii accomplish, which must
he beneficial Ia a large class. is to drIy"
out the middcman where the condi
tionS are such that the middleman j.
not the natural economic result Of the
operation Of thr laws of trade.
1t must he remembered that in al!
this discussion nothing will really suir
the men who have built up the graat
trusts and whose interests have been
in the monopoization of great lines Of
industry hut some method of cOntin-
uing in the future. with greater or less
immunity from interference. the same
power and control which they have
enjoyed in the past.
How to Eliminate Uncertainty.
In my opinion. the only effective way
to eliminate all genuine uncertainty Is
through federal incorporation act
containing provisions adequate to meet
the situation. Congress has recOgniz
ed its power by asserting the right to
interfere and control and to that eX-
tent to regulate the conduct of inter
state commerce by declaring what con
tracts, combinations. monopOlicS, etc.
shall not he entered into. believe il
is time for il To recognize its duty TO
provide proper vehicles for the ccI.
duct Of that commerce, so as to maze
unnecessary the combinations it IA"
prohibited.
In the past congress has left the
whole law Of aS~OciltiOn.- the law Of
cooperation under corporate form-to
the states This has necessarily ted
10 the holding corporation whereby the
control over an industry, through com
parat.vey small capital. can he eTpr
cised with ever widening sweep and
virtually without bounds Congress
should provide for the formation Of
corporations. which, after all is moth
ing more than to regulate the rllea
whereby men may associate themselves
in the conduct Of Interstate cOmmcrc"
with limited liability and with Uro
vision for the transfer Of their inter
csts in whole or in part without n
fecting the continued existence of the
association.
Congress should provide for the crea
tiOn Of such bodies should prescribe
the rules Il der which they may trans
act their business and should protect
them in the transaction Of that bust
ness In accordance with those rules.
Then and not until then win the prob
lem be effectively solved Such n law
would remove all the scandal Of corpo-
rate organization. Of inflated cauinH
ZatiOn, OF deceit Of the public throur'i
lack OF information or dissemination
of misinformation and would thus on
able the business Of the country 10 be
conducted on Il safe and sane basis.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-02-21

lAIHERE one man gets rich through
WV halarOuS speculation a hundred
~ get POOR.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-02-21
SkYsoraper For Seattla

Seattle, 1t is reported, is to emulate
New York city and perhaps surpass
Chicago by building a forty-two story
skyscraDer.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-02-21
ENFORCEMENT
ANTITRUST LAW
Suggests Optional Federal In
corporation as a Means of
Supplementinq 1t.

the public interests they could be
checked by appropriate legislation. In
the meantime they could be checked
by apnronriate regulation
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-02-21
W|CKERSHAM ON
OF THE SHERMAN
Attorney General Declares
There Is No Occasion
For Its Amendment.
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From an article by George W. Wick
ersham, attorney general Of the United
States, in the Century Magazine for
February. Copyright, 1912, by the
Century company.l
~ ISCONTENT with the Sherman
antitrust law and its enforce
ment by this administration is
not nearly so widespread as il
popularity supposed. 1t is a reasonable
assumption that the majority of the
people who are disContented with the
Sherman law and with its enforcement
are the stockholders and others inter
ested in those corporations and com
hinations charged with its violation.
The people who will most benefit from
the enforcement of the law are the
great army of consumers who have
been purchasing the products Of these
corporations.
The purpose of the law is not to de
stroy industries The real purpose OF
the sherman law is to compel fair
trade. to protect the average business
man from injury due to unfair meth
DDS of competition. 1t is meant to
keep the highways of commerce open
to all, big and little rich and poor, on
the same terms. Therein lies its great
est ethical value.
The purpose of the Sherman act is
TO prevent undue combination and cen
tralization of power and therefore in
issuing their DEGREES the courts have
merely compelled the combinations
against which they have been directed
to resolve themselves into their in
tegral parts. The property of the
stockholders remains 1t is as capable
of production and of earning dividends
as ever.
There is, of course, some genuine dis
content with the Sherman law. but
suspect most of il arises not so much
from any real uncertainty as to lis
meaning as from realization of that
meaning
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-11-21
FORCED HIMSELF ON
GIRL Who SHOT HIM
Married Man Dogged steno.
grapher Until He Drove Her
ito Desperation.

Columbus, Ohio, Nov. lathe story,
Ibf how Alvin Il. Zollinger, q married
man, who was shot and killed In a park,
here last May, forced his attentions
upon Miss Cecilia Farley, a stenog-s
|rapher In a state office, who Is on trial.
for murder for shooting him, was
graphically told at the trial by Mrs.
Alfred A. Arnold, daughter Of Z. "A.
Loos, at whose home Miss Farley lived
for the two years preceding the trag-
.edy. ~ UT -. -. -
Mrs. Arnold said that zoliinger called
Miss Farley over the telephone several
times a day and talked with her many
minutes. When she would leave the
telephone, the witness said, Miss Far
ley would often be In a state OF ner-
cous exhaustion, w Y s. TTT 49,
The witness told Of meeting Zolling-
err at the Columbus Union station one
day and asking him to please stop
bothering Miss Farley. Zollinger was
alleged to have told her: "If- Cecilia
doesn't do as I want her, to, II will end
Ina tragedy for the three of us"
The defense furnished this testimony
TO show that Zollinger was objecting to
:se attentions paid Miss Farley by Jer-
ONE Qufgley the man she was to- mar
y wand that he had threatened violence.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-11-21
LEWIS JURY FAILS
TO REACH VERDICT
Finds ST. Louis Man Not Guilty
On Three Of Eleven Counts,
However.

st. Louis, No., Nov. 19.-The Jury In
the case of X. ". Lewis, charged with
using the mails to defraud, reported to
Judge Willard, IN the United States
district court today, that tt had found
that Lewis was not guilty on three OF
he eleYenycounts In the indictment and
that 1t was unable to agree as to the
other counts. The jury was discharged.
The counts in the indictments on.
which the Jurors found Lewis not gull
ty related to the z per cent notes. The
jury had been SO hours and on the
first ballot decided s to "a that Lewis
was not guilty. SUBSEQUENT ballots
showed the jurors stood 8 to s for Z
quittal.
This was Lewis second trial on the
Indictment, which was returned by spe-
ctal grand jury July ~, 1911. The Jury
In the first trial stood 8 to 34for con-
Viction. The indictment covered four
propositions which were placed before
the house by Lewis through the mails.
It was alleged that he Obtained millions
or dollars from investors by making
misleading statements In the ADVERTISE
mepts ! n his publications. Lewis was
the tncorporator and Is the mayor OF
university tgity, q residential suburb.
Lewis 6efense was that the postof-
nee department, by issuing a fraud or
der prevented him from carrying his
scompanies TO a successful end. He was
acquitted May-14. 1908, OF IL charge 81
miSusing the mails In the ORGANIZATION
7 conduct Of the PEOPLES. United
States bank. Tt
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-11-21
COOLIES OF VENUS
DE MILOS LIVING
Doctor Says There are Thous.
ands Of Women Possessed
Of Perfect Figures.

New York. Nov. 18.-The ideally per
feet woman represented in art by the
Venus De Milo exists today In the
opini0h OF DE-. Richard r. Smith, who
delivered an address on the 'Enterop-
totic Woman before the Clinical Com
gress OF Surgeons or North America
in the Waldorf Astoria. "~Enteroptotic''
Is the medical term used to indicate
a frequently encountered type of wom-
an, the opposite OF the ideal in form.
whose most prominent marks are the
round shoulders and lost flgure.p the
result too otter OF rearing large fam
He's and losing outdoor recreation.
In his Investigations to determine the
aus and remedy for the conditions
found inEthe woman of this type DR..
Smith has made measurements and
X-ray examinations OF 400 women Of
maturity. and 100 children from birth
to az years OF age. He is known as an
authority on the human figure.
Greek STANDARD Holds Good.
While not holding the corset respon-
sible to- any degree for the prolapse
OF the organs noticeable in the ente-
roptotic woman, he is outspoken in de-
~nouncing It as aggravating the condt-
ton complained OF.
THE Ideal womanfi as represented by
the ideal oma OF Grecian art" ne
said, at the conclusion or his address.
THAT standard still holds good. It 81
\ finest type OF woman you can see.
OF those j examined, I found none
IDEAL but a good many close to 1t.
The examinations, however, were made
among women in poor health and /
am satisfied that good many women
Of ideal form exist. But they dc not
have to go to the doctor" 's&" z
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-11-21
GERMAN MONOPOLY
TO GUST STANDARD
Governments Win Finance own
Corporation to Combat the
American Trust.

Berlin, Nov. 18.--The government LAST
night made known the proposed law
creating the state petroleum monopoly,
whichtts to GUST the Standard Oil COM
pany from Germany. The monopoly
covers only illuminating oils.
In an exhaustive brief. which accom@
panies the draft of the proposed law,
h government declares that the
Standard Oil company first conquered
h wholesaler and is now exterminatl
Ing the retailer. The government in
1895, 1t Is STATED, realized the danger
ahead, and the time has come when
II must act to prevent absolute mon
opoiy and price Increases.
It will be possible, the brief asserts.
to supply Germany with oil without the
aid OF the Standard Oil company, from
Galacia, Roumania, Russia, Germany
and the American independents.
1t was desired to include benzine in
the state monopoly, but the govern
ment was unable to do this, since the
control OF the product was complete
and unassailable. s#
The law provides for the organization
OF Q stock company with a thirty-year
contract. under the supervision of the
chancellor, who will appoint ar inn
berial commissioner vested with COM
plete oversight of the company con-
nections. The commissioner Is to have
q council of twenty experts. The COM
pany bylaws and any subsequent
change therein will require the cham
cellor's assent. The capital stock IN
to be 10000 900 marks.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-11-21
HE TEACHES HENS
TODOT THEIR DUTY
Prof. Kroch Of Stevens Insti,
tute Proves BY Eggs That
Science Pays.

Brooklyn, .Nev. e19.-So you, Mr.
Observation-Disclosures, rah, rah. rah, thini
It's a. mighty unpleasant thing to ST
for 40 minutes each afternoon and lister
to a tall, thin professor with spectacles
shoot a hogshead off scientific stuff
into your medulla oblongata.
Well, then, how'd you like to be d
chicken Haiti Al regular feathered
chicken in Orange, m. is? A
Thought SO. Over there Prof. Charles
r.. Kroeh. science Instructor in Stevens
institute, owns 70 chickens. They are
housed In a model hennery in the rear
of his home on Central avenue. He
expects each hen to do her duty, and
that consist In laying an egg every
two days,
BY means OF rotary nests the pro-
fessor determines whether his charges
are soldering and If they do he goes
into a conferences with science for ex-
PLANTATION and remedy. Each morning
he goes to the hennery with a note-
book. IL Q chicken is sick science finds
q cure. & ... E5 IL
And the professors success becomes
apparent through his statement that In
the last IL months his hens have pro-
duced 10000 eggs. Furthermore, very
few OF the chickens have died. y
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-11-21
TUB TRUST
DECIDED ILLEGAL
Licensed agreement In Viola:
tion Of Sherman Act. says
supreme Court

wtrMMN WHHEt 4lMEMhN .InWW HN4N AMEAWENEk
Washington, Nov. f9.--The sus
prefne court Of the United States
today delivered death Blow at
violations OF the Sherman ANTI
trust law under the eloas< of the
protection Of the patents laws, BY
annuiliua Ne invalid license agree
msnts, which held manufacturers
of sanitary enamei ware together
in the combination known &C the.
"bath tub trust
Justice McKenna delivered the
unanirnous opinion Of the court.
He said that rights conferred by
patents were extensive, but did not
DIVE q universal hoense against
the positive prohibitions Of the
SherFnan law.
The decision fully. sustains the
uovernment IN its fight began over
I, year ago against the bath tub
and enameIed ware manufacturers.
The fight against the enameled war,
manufacturers was begun by the gov
eminent In the United States distric
court Of Maryland. IT being charged
that the so defendants named had EN-.
teredtihtO a consultation to restrain IN
terstate trade IN sanitary ena1Relet
irohware and had attempted to mon
opoIize that trade. sixteen OF the de
PENDANTS were corporations.
Mayman IL King Pin
one or the Individual defendants was
Edwin &. Wayman, with whom tn
corporate defendants and their official.
were charged with having entered into
Illegal agreements. In erect licenses, fol
the use OF a patenteS enamelfng tool
Wayman was TO refund part Of the II.
cense fee IL the manufacturers had
not violated conditions OF the agree.
ments, one OF these conditions being
that they would not sell to any jobbei
who does not sign a contract not Il
buy from any other than the defend
ants; and another that they would not
sell at a lower price nor on more at
tractive terms than those made In 8
schedule Of prices attached to the
agreement.
The lower court held that the agree
ments destroyed competition and fixed
prices, i'm violation Of the ShermaTllaY
and furthermore that the patents or
the tool made the agreements lawful
The lower court prohibited the defend
ants from attempting furthereto re-
strain trade by means Of the agree
ments pronounced illegal.
Sic Victory for Government.
Justice McKenna, IN announcing the
decision Of the supreme court, called
attention to the effectiveness of the
combination made possible among
enametware manufacturers through
Wayfnan's plan to grant licenses on his
improvement for enameling.
The decision marked an epoch In
antitrust decisions, because ii sus-
governments contention that
a violation OF the Sherman antf-trust
law could not be concealed behind the
patent laws OF the country. The dec!-
sion OF the lower court was upheld
throughout as to the main defendants
and the Colwell Lead company, which
claimed Ii was not engaged / nMnter-
state commerce.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-11-21
GIBSON ON TRIAL
FOR GIRLS DEATH
State May Prove That Wen
Known Lawyer Choked His
Client,

Goshen, N. X, Nov. lg.-One hun.
bred dSninety ,tniesmen, most OF them
sfarmers, crowded Into the little court
room here today for the trial az Burton
Gibson, the New York lawyeS charged
with murder In the girst degree In
causing the death OF his client, Mrs.
Rosa Efenchinck Szabo. The attorneys
hoped TO Ill the jury box today, and
the prosecution thought that ii might
be ready to rest its case by Thursday.
District Attorney Rodgers will en-
deavor to prove that Mrs. Szabo's
death while boating with Gibson In
Greenwood lake. July 16. last, was due,
not to drowning, but stranguiation, and
that Gibson hurled her from the row
boat into the water. grappled with her
and ch0kedN her to death. Or. otto
SchHltS& q New York, the coroner's
physldi4n who performed the autopsy,
testifte3 sAt &fbson's examination that
Mrs, &hss@b died OF st~rangulation by
compression without
The defense holds that Mrs. Szabo
died OF drowning and that death was
'n~cctdGntaL Gibson had o decided
this ~fOrenohn whether he would take
the stand. AS a-motfve for the alleged
murder the state win seek to prove
that Gibson coveted his clients $4,000
Of which, under q will drawn by
him for Mrs Rzabos he vas named as
executor Mr. Rodgers will attempt to
show that $T.fO0 Of this estate, par
TALLY adminisfered by Gibson prior to
HIS arrest. is missing. Jacob J. Singer,
OF Gibson's counsel, said today that the
81, 100 was paid to a woman known to
Gibson as Mrs, Petronella Menchik,
mother OF Mrs. Szabo, and that Gibson
had receipts to prove 1t. Mrs. Petron-
ella Menchik died In Vienna two years
ago. The woman who Gibbons saws
unprecedented her a vanished.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-11-21
RUSSIAN MEATS WILL
RESCUE THE GERMANS
Nation Able TO Meet high Cost
Of Living Problem Results
are Good.

Berlin, Nov. 19.-On immediate and
satisfactory effect on tine nigh cost OF
living In Berlin was brought about BY
the importation OF Russian meat, and
the riots that attended the frst at
tenpts to ssllf 1t. Prices have since
DROPPED in some cases more than 50
One hundred ana twenty-eigbt butch
ers agreed in advance TO sell the Rus
sian meat, but only ~ fHlfilled their
promise IN the first day. The result
was rioting In six different market
halls, and the situation was really
serious In a market hall in Moabit.
Butchers were assaulted, their stands
were demolished, and sausages and
other handy materials served as mis-
siles. Thousands OF pounds of meat
were stolen by the enraged mob. which
consisted mainly OF
The resentment against the butchers
was shared by the city officials, who
look prompt measures to insure that
the cheap meat should be placed on
Prices Take ran.
The result has been somewhat aston
fishing. The first day the imported
meat was offered 1t prices much below
those FOR the home product. but on tho
second day many butchers lowered the
prices OF their own meat to the level
OF those for the Russian meat, and the
next day butchers who had refused to
handle the Russian meat began to un,
idersell those who were handling It
Soup meat, held for months at "A
cents q pound, has dropped to 15Ssr
cents: beef tenderioin from So cents dn
the whole tenderloin) to %; pork chops
from 20 cents to "a; leg of lamb from
~ to 1871 and sirloin Of beef from 60
TO 20 cents.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-11-21
.GIOVANNITTI IS PUT
ON WITNESS STAND.
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Last Of Accused in Lawrence
Textile Murder Case Tells
His Story.

Salem. Mass, Nov 19.-Arturo Gio-
yannitti, last of the accused in the
Ettor- Gioyannitti-C aruso murder trial
70 testify. took the witness stand here
The young socialist writer and poet,
who is charged as an accessory before
the fact to the killing of Anna LCoizzo,
In a Lawrence textile strike riot last
winter, faced the jury despite the abb
sence of his personal counsel, W.. Scott
Peters, Attorney Fred II. Moore took
UP the defense where 1T was left last
week when Mr. Peters Illness caused q
postponement.
Reports were current that Mr.. Peters
had withdrawn permanently from the
case, but this was denied.
Giovannittf. like. Ettor, affirmed to
tell the truth as ne faced the clerk OF
the court. He said he was born In
Italy 2S years ago. the 3 Of a. chem
ist' and was educated there. Coming
to America he lived for some time at
Halifax, n Montreal. While studying
English at Montreal he conducted an
Italian Presbyterian mission. after
which he entered a Presbyterian theo-
logical school.
Soon after that" SAID Giovannitti;
II was called to Brooklyn to take
charge of another mission. I was not
exactly a minister, but sort of a mis-
.sionary. preached TO the people on
Sundays and taught them during the
week" N
He Leaves The Church.
Later he entered the Union Theolog-
ical seminary and Registered also at
Columbia. university The work was too
much for him, he said, particularly the
study OF Hebrew. After this for eight
months he conducted an Italian mis-
sion at Pittsburgh. There he become
associated with the socialist party, but
people ci the Presbyterian church OBJ
tected.
T told them.' he said, II did not
think the teachings OF Christ and,
socialism We're antagonistic, but I
severed my connections with the
church,
Returning TO New York In 1911, he
took up Italian newspaper work and
met Ettor. He went 70 Lawrence Jan
uary 20 last, after the strike was called.
Before / went To Lawrence" the
witness said, II had learned that the
militia had been sailed, that there was
a feeling that Ettor should leave town
and that the stations were being
watched for outside agitators."
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-11-21
STERNS is MAN
WHO KILLED JOSEpHS
Rochester Officers Think They
Have Caught Slayer Of
Lackawanna Boy.

Rochester, n. " Nov. B.--In George
home, the Rochester police believe they
have the murderer or Joseph Josephs,
the Syrian boy OF LackaWanna.
Stearns was arrested Saturday night
on a charge of m~altreating a boy. The
description answers In every particu-
lar, the police. ray, to that of the
Lackawanna murderer.
Stearns insists that he has never
beensin Buffalo. or LackawannaS Specf-
mems Of his hand writing have been
obtained and sent to Buffalo for COM
,parison with the postal cards received
by the Buffalo police. and Chief of Po-
lice Gibson, of Lackawanna, will come
to Rochester today to attempt to iden-
,tify the man.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-11-21
CIGARETS BLAMED FOR
WILLIAMS MURDER

Pottsvflle. Pa, Nov. -A,19-Judge
Brumm, charging the jury In the case
In which Edward Raider. OF Razleton,
was charged with the murder OF
Charles Williams. following a quarrel
over a girl, instructed that the fact
that Raider Is as cigarette fiend must
be taken into consideration. ~
The judge pointed Il the tobacco
stained fingers of the defendant and
said the fact that he smoked d pound
OF tobacco each week in making cigar
cites was proof that Raiders brain
was affected and really caused the
murder. The jury returned a verdict
of not guilty, and requested the Judge
to make the defendant swear never to
smoke another cigarette.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-11-21
HUGE PACKING PLANT
BURNS; LOSS $500, 900.

+ Indianapolis. Ind, Nov 1s,-The
plant of the Van Camp Packing com
spany was partly burned this rnorn3
ing, the owners estimating their loss
at 100000. The loss Is fully covered.
by insurance. The cause. of the fire
has not been determined.
The flames spread rapidly In the,
building which covered several acres
of ground and had gained great head
way before the arrival of the fire de-
partment which had been called out by
a general alarm. .r. 4,... '
The company employed about 1900
persons. I - '