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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-12-04
Potato Corner is SOUGHT.

Washington, Dec. Ia new phase
OF the cost of living problem has
been brought to the attention Of the
department of agriculture. T. P. Gill,
secretary of the Irish board Of agri.
culture, told Secretary Houston that
spectators in the large cities Of the
United States were actively buying
up this years short American potato
crop and planning to hold out for
high prices counting upon the existing
quarantine against potatoes from
many foreign countries to aid them
in their undertaking.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-12-04
CONGRESS OPENS
REGULAR SESSION
CLARK AND MARSHALL CALLTH6
HOUSE AND SENATE TO
ORDER.
MANY MEMBERS ARE ABSENT
Ambitious Program 10 Laid Out for
the Nations Lawmakers, and
They May Be Busy Most Of
Next. Yeas

Washington, Dec. AT the stroke
Of noon today gavels sounded in sen:
ate and house Signalling the opening
Of the second, or first regular session
Of the Sixty-Third congress.
The familiar figure of Speaker
Champ Clark was seen in the house
chamber. In the senate Vice-Presi:
dent Marshall called the senators to
order. This was the first regular ses.
sion Of congress in many years which
was ushered In under entirely Demo-
cratic auspices-with Democrats in
control Of the house and senate and
Democratic executive in the White
House.
Galleries Well Filled.
As Is usual on such occasions, the
galleries were filled, there being a
brilliant display of millinery and win
ter fashions by women spectators,
The diplomatic galleries in both
houses were we'll filled, diplomats Of
South America and Central America
predominating in the attendance.
In the house the blind chaplain of
that body, Rev. Henry N. Couden, de-
livered the invocation, after which a
few new members were escorted to
the speakers desk to take the oath
Of Office. This ceremony over the
house proceeded to uninteresting rou.
tine business. Routine business and
preliminary diminishing over the cur
rency bill occupied the attention of
the senate.
Subjects They Will Take Up.
Many members, who were detained
here during the summer and autumn
months, have not returned yet, some
declaring they would remain away un-
til after January !, so as to be at
home for the holiday season. They
think little important business will
be transacted until after the begin
ming of the new year.
Although the program had not been
definitely formulated, members look
forward to tackling one of the most
ambitious legislative tasks that con.
gress in a long time has attempted.
Here are some of the subjects of legis.
lation that the new congress will take
up:
Final action on the currency bill.
Antitrust legislation.
Rural credits.
Naval program.
Passage Of a dozen appropriation
bills.
Train. safety and safety on the ocean.
Regulation Of the shipping trust.
Final action on the reports Of lobby
Investigating committees.
The cost Of living problem.
Legislation to protect women work.
ers.
River and harbor budget.
Legislation looking to the building
May Have to consider Mexico.
Another important matter which it
is believed will engage the attention
Of congress, is discussion of the Mex.
lean problem. However, this de.
ponds on the action of President viii.
son. There will be no action relative
to Mexico, most members think, I'm.
less the president gives it his ap.
prevail.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-12-04
Billion Dollars In Diamonds.

Washington, Dec. 1.-Milady's jew.
elry bill for 1913 will approximate
57,000,O00, according to statistics Of
jewellery importations just published
by the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce. This is declared to be
more than 30 per cent in excess of the
highest record yet established. The
former record was $44,250,000 in 1906.
The bureau declares that the value OF
all the diamonds in this country has
reached the enormous sum Of nearly
$1,000, 100000.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-12-04

New York, Dec. Item thousand
rounds of rifle and revolver ammuni.
ton were seized by customs inspec.
tors aboard the steamer Seminole, ly.
Ing at her pier here. The Seminole
was ready to sail for Haiti and San
Domingo. The confiscated ammunition
was hidden in many different parts OF
the vessel. The Seminoles officers
said they did not know of its pres.
ence.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-12-04
President Says in Message Pres
tiQe of Dictator Is Crumbljng
and End Is Near.
WANTS MONEY BILL PASSED
Urues Enactment of Legislation
to Make Farming More
Efficient Business.
LET SHERMAN LAW STAND

Primary Elections for Selection OF
Candidates for Presidency Urged
Ultimate independence OF Phil.
lppines an obIlgation-Dou-
BILE Duty Toward Alaska
employers Liability.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-12-04
Darlnu Auto Hoid-up.

New York, Dec. Three robbers
effected a daring and profitable hold.
up of an automobile party, taking
money and jewelry worth $4,000 from
Cornelius Doremus, president of the
Germania Life Insurance company, a
young woman companion and his
chauffeur.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-12-04
Locks Herself to a Chair.

London, Dec. Militant suffrag.
cites are returning to their old tao
tics. One of them fastened herself
to a chair in Caxton hall with chain
and paddock, from which point of van
tage she shrieked, "Votes for Women"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-12-04

odIeIy at 0ed.
An international congress for the
discussion of all questions that affect
safety at sea Is now sitting In London
at the suggestion of our own govern
ment. So soon as the conclusions of
that congress can be learned and con.
sidered we ought to address ourselves,
among other things, to the prompt
alienation of the very unsafe. unjust,
and burdensome conditions which now
surround the employment of sailors
and render 1t extremely difficult to
obtain the services OF spirited and
competent men such as every ship
needs If 1t Is to be safely handled
and brought to port.
May I not express the very real
pleasure I have experienced in CO.
operating with this congress and shar.
ing with 1t the labors of common
service to which 10 has devoted itself
SO unreservedly during the past seven
months of accomplishing concentra-
ton upon the business of legislation?
Surely it Is proper and pertinent
part Of my report on "the state of the
Union" to express my admiration for
the diligence, the good temper, and
the full comprehension of public duty
which has already been manifested
by both the houses; and hope that
1t may not be deemed an impertinent
intrusion of myself into the picture If
say with how much and how con-
slant satisfaction have awaited N.Y.
self of the privilege of putting my
time and energy at their disposal
alike in counsel and In action.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-12-04
Bow Is Shot Rv PLAYMATE

0Oy 10 oHoe ~ TIdyWAtes
Minneapolis Pomeroy, II
years old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. R,
Pomeroy, was accidentally shot by
his playmate, Edward Mcdonald. The
shooting took place in the kitchen OF
the Mcdonald home. The condition
Of the lad is reported as being serious
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-12-04
Noted Architect Dead,

New York, Dec. 1.-George Browne
Post, noted architect, is dead at his
home in Bernardsville, N. J., in his
seventy-sixth year.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02
Telling Character by
One 5 Handwriting
BY R. LAIRD

labor incident handwriting there time when real
interest evinced in good pnmanshp than the present time
School convinced that great weakness the public schools
of this country the lack of hoougness of instruction in English
Enough accomplished when the pupil has become able to cc
the language of others and to know when he himself is but
special effort being given instruct him expressing his thoughts
ideas and Impressions completely and correctly and in living words that
best suit the purpose
In spoken language the gesture and facial npor
tan uncs the uttered words Welcomed sentences delivered in
hating soven MANNER much of their desired effect How much
important them when voice and gesture cannot be added to
their hnded by untdy and gbe script
forms When mind busy engaged in trying decpher scraw
that mind condition receive the complete meaning intended
to be conveyed by the writer.
there two parties to piece
written paper entitled certain amount of consdera
ton the writer regard for the opinion convenience of the
may soven tangedup handwriting while in
proportion the opinion he desires will he in the
penmanshp of Handwriting horrible such popularity
believed resultant of ultra mental development the part of
lawyers and other VIGOROUSLY bad writer's really selfish disregard
of the rights and comforts of readers
writing machine narrowed the field of
the Nearly all business correspondence and much of the other
kinds by the aid of the typewriter but there vast amount
of work that probably always will be penwtten The typewriter has
people absolute egy and economy of space As
consequence the space allowed writing has been reduced
by having rulings and there little courtesy shown the
llegible penman
Bad penmansp may be blamed for considerable portion of the
of millions through forgeries and check raising check
badly written that letter dpherabe unless lean for support
upon neighbour invites the low of the check raiser while
signature lot of meaningless strokes written in
camped STYLE is delight to the oger strong clear weformed
handwriting be successfully initiated because the
pronounced individuality the writer through the complete writing
Cnery tips fingers the broad the shou
ders The fogr simulate far form of writing and he
may initiate crampd and grabbed movement but when he under
takes reproduce the writing of person who has been well trained
the Muscular movement method of penmanshp the task
great powerful microscope the difference
s sislastas'. expresses itself With IGz-zS4
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02
IT Madagascar Fable of
Truth and Deceit
,distlnctness.
By J. Rode Jacobsen. Minneapolis. MINI.

by missionary Norwegian Missionary society of Norway
in the official publication of that body:
A boy named Rey stumbled one day human skull
"Poor SKULL he said wat hast thou done that thou shouds thus
lie in the mud Hast thou murdered thieved?"
81 have neither murdered thieved answered the skull
"Why thou here then" queried Resy
81 await the company of another skull" replied the skull
Re amazed seeing skull that could speak, he into
the village and told everybody Naturally everybody became curious
they all o zee this remarkable skull.
snow, you so ahead and talk the SKULL the elders of the village
commanded Retsy.
Retsy poor fellow could question upon
question: but the skull silent dead skull could be- Whereupon
the inhabitants of the village enaged etsy making
of them.
"of course we all know that dead skull can't talk" they said
they killed etsy and threw his skull the ground saying "Now
let see if you talk"
But had Rets skull touched the ground than
skull spoke "hat what told etsy that awaiting
pany Of another skull-and here it is"
Then the villagers all amend the sad fate of Retsy had he
told truth the skull he would still
the fable.
There is much darkness still in the world
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02
Democratic Tariffs.

Sixteen years ago a Republican
president convened Republican con-
gress in extra session to provide a
new tariff law to restore the prosper
ity that had been dissipated by four
years of Democratic rule, and during
these sixteen years the country has
enjoyed unprecedented prosperity I'M
der continuous Republican control.
Now another Democratic president is
about to convene a Democratic con
gress in extra session to provide a
Democratic tariff, and the country
awaits the outcome with some appre-
hension.
In recent speech in New Eng
land member of the Wilson cabi-
net expressed the belief that tariff
reduction should be along very mod
crate lines. He is right in saying
that violent changes are not needed
Conditions call for no great disturb
ances, even for redemption of party
pledges, and it should be remembered
at that that vast majority of the
votes cast at the last presidential
election were for candidates standing
for and typifying a continuance of
the protective system.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02

He was working as a chain bearer
for a surveyors party on the Oregon
Short Line railroad at $65 a month
when called east to the bedside Of his
dying father.
mind, has been prominent in the Yale
Economic club and allied organiza-
tons.
His daily life at Yale is quite differ
emit from what 1t will be when he bucks
up against the financial world, but
nevertheless 1t is very busy. Here Is
the routine of day:
7.15 a. m.-Rises, shaves and has
breakfast.
$40 to 8.25 a. m.-Chapel.
$50 a. m.-First recitation of the
day.
1890 p. m.-Luncheon.
100 to p. m.-Coaching the Yale
crew, rain or shine, at the harbor boat
house
$50 p. m.-Dinner at the training
table with the members of the crew.
Evenings Spent Quietly.
lllb eFeuihBe are 5pSht III sbuuy anu
in social occupations, always attending
the secret rites of Skull and Bones on
Thursday and Saturday evenings. At
least one other evening he spends in
the Psi Epsilon tomb, less secret and
presumably as enjoyable gathering
| place as that of Bones. But he Ia not
by nature in sympathy with the Sc
crecy practised by such societies.
Aristodemus wrote: "'Tis money
makes the man" It is an old axiom
that "He that lacks money, means and
content is without three good friends.
Having those words OF wisdom II
mind, study the plain ways OF Harri
mans manner Of living.
That is best typiiied by the fact tina
he lives in Connecticut hall. the old
est building at Yale. 1t was put up In
1850. Nathan Hale and John c. Cal
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02

His daily life at Yale is quite diff
ferent from what II will be when he
bucks up against the financial world,
but nevertheless it is very busy. At
7:15 a. m. he rises, shaves and has
breakfast.
at Yale, for little more than a month
he has been director Of the Union Pa
cific railroad-the medium of many
Of his fathers many triumphs-and
also of the powerful Hartman Ma
tional bank,
Modest and unassuming, Hartman
has shown signs of tenacity and thor
oughness that have delighted the old
associates of his father, who are keep
ing a close eye upon him. And he
knows something of railroading, too,
for he was working as a chain bearer
for a surveyors party on the Oregon
Short Line railroad at $65 a month
when called east to the bedside Of
his dying father. He has been also
engaged in the operating and trans
portation divisions of other roads
dominated by the elder Hartman.
Fired Engine Entire Distance.
1t is related OF him that severa
years ago, when e. H. Hartman wal
making tour of inspection in Wyom
ing, the fireman of the big Mogul en-
CINE that pulled the special train gu
of Laramie was surprised when Av
erell crawled into the cab and grabbed
shovel. The fireman and enginee
looked wise and expected to see tn
youth soon tire from his self-impose,
task of hurting coal into the furnace
but he stuck to 1t.
70 the establishment and admiration
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02
NEW DAY HAS DAMNED
ERA OF Observation-Disclosures
LED CORPORATIONS AT HAND.
Looking to That End, True Progress
slves May Wish the Democratic
Administration Well-Rebuke
to the stand-Pat Policy.

We have waited long to see how
Woodrow Wilson would meet the test
of turning his principles into meas
ures. AS far as we can Judge today of
the tariff bill drawn under his leader
ship and of his accompanying address,
he has stood the test admirably.
The revision of the schedules may
prove to be technically unwise in de-
tail; because 1t is not based on nom
political expert investigation. But in
its large aspects, in its spirit, II
seems to us to meet honestly and cour-
ageously the promises upon which the
president ran for office. In this way 1t
is a smashing contrast to the brand Of
revision offered the country by the
Republican standpatters of four years
ago.
Even those who are protectionists
upon unselflsh economic principle
must admit this. 1T is clear to the
whole country" said the president to
the assembled senators and represen-
tatlves. that the tariff duties must be
altered" 1t is, indeed, clear The WI
mona speech made it crystally evident
to all save those who would not see.
The congressional elections of 1910
drove home Its lessons. The anti-stand-
pat revolt in the Republican party
proved 1t beyond cavil.
Admitting, them. the need of revi-
sion downward, the test of the Demo
cratic proposals comes in the princi-
pies upon which they are based, the
methods by which they are carried
out and the effect they will have upon
the manufacturer and the consumer.
When the president says that. his
main principle is to reduce the artifi-
cial and improper privileges which
have come from our protective sys-
tenn, we are with him. When he goes
on to say. however, that his wish is
to re-establish free competition, we
find ourselves at economic Issue with
him. We believe that the era of I'M
regulated competition is past. We be-
lieve that the day of the great corpor-
alton, controlled by the government,
is here.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02
Weary Of Apathy.

Senator Cummins of Iowa has
wearied Of the apathy and Indifference
which has enshrouded the Republican
party organization since the election.
Not only is he anxious that some evil
dence Of life be manifested, but he
is determined. if he can get no one in
authority to act, to take steps toward
securing a national conference Of the
party next fall.
He has behind him large number
of progressive Republicans, who are
anxious to preserve the great political
organization, which brought about
emancipation and maintained a stable
currency upon the gold standard.
These men cannot understand why
the Republican leadership should be
SO lethargic.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02
A Fantastic Proposition.

Democracy is supposed to be inher-
emily hostile to magnifying the power
of the president of the United States.
1t is surprising, therefore, to see the
suggestion emanate from administra-
ton sources at Washington that the
president should have the power under
the new federal income tax law to
fix by executive order the rate of the
tax levied on incomes.
According to report which appar-
emily comes from the house ways and
means committee, the proposition is
to vest the president with the power
to fix the income tax rate at his dis
creation, adjusting" it to meet the
revenue conditions of the treasury
From the New York Mail, Pro.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02

~ LISTENING gold does not daz-
Il Gle William Averell Hartman
~ Fortune has looked upon him
with no threatening eye. Yet
here is a young man, just turned
twenty-one, who seeks to write his
better deeds of achievement, not in
water, but on marble.
Hartman, like Vincent Astor. has
great aspirations!
The frivolous work Of polished idle
ness is not for this elder son Of Ed
ward H. Hartman. AZ is designed
to succeed his famous ia'her as the
head OF the enormous railroad inter
ests of the Hartman estate. That
prospect is enough 10 dazzie and COR
found many youth. But such Joy
as ambition finds animates young
Hartman and he has accepted eagerly
the chance to strive for place among
the princes in the empire of construc-
tive endeavor.
What vision to thrill even one
who was born to luxury and millions!
Already Hartman has. put one foot
on the ladder. Although still senior
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02

In the past So years nearly $50
American girls have welded titled for
eigners and it has been estimated by
those who keep in close touch with
such affairs abroad that $50 of these
girls brought to their husbands dow
ries aggregating $161,O00,00O in cold
American cash And in the great ma
jority of the marriages this cash has
been squandered in a most extrava-
CANT manner by the husband. who
has proved himself anything but
thoughtful or dutiful. This realization
OF their grave mistake caused the
wives to become disguised and either
live apart from their husbands or i'm,
mediately to start legal proceedings
for divorce.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02


grabbed a shovel.
houn had rooms there. To the average
student of wealth the luxury of Van
derbilt, Haughton or Fayerweather
halls offers greater attractions. Con-
necticut hall is meant for youths of
limited means. 1t has four stories and
the top story rooms are low and have
dormer windows.
Averell Hartman lives on the fourth
story!
With Charles Henry Marshall and
George A. Dixon of New York he &C.
cupies three rooms These lodgings
cost each of the men 1858 year. The
furnishings, as in the case of all Yale
men, are provided by the dodgers
themselves and are in good taste, but
in no way elaborate. II visitor were
told that the place was occupied by
Hartman he would be likely to think
the budding young financier was doing
it on a bet.-From the New York
World.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02
Bostonian Would Turn
Prisons Into Colleges
ByW. L. MOORE, Boston. Mass.

ideas about prisons He says that prisons cruel absurd anqua
vindctive, stupid and suicidal
His idea is to turn each prison in the country into college
model in part outside colleges give diploma good work but
blend practical productive labor and industry with the studies
give the prisoners what society ought have given them they
committed crimes
He thinks that these prison colleges would
literary colleges whose they do not reure
every student rich and to do productive earning
living throughout the part OF education
THIS accomplished the prisons would be great agency for the
upH those who need it, Every taught skilled
craft that he would be able support himself after prison graduation
With system prison gates bars and walls except very few
needless for the inmates could be trusted prisons would
build up characters than produced institutions
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02

of the crew, Averell fired the huge To-
connective all the way over the noun
tains to Rawlins, a distance Of 100
miles, and the run was made on per-
feet time.
That incident furnishes a keynote
to his character.
He showed his caliber in another
way when he entered college. He
doesn't look like a rugged lad and was
even slighter then. But he started out
at once to make the freshman crew.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02

tbs evenings arc bPcHl w oNeAy aHN
In social occupations, always attend
ing the secret rites Of Skull and Bones
on Thursday and Saturday evenings.
The sharps shook their heads and
prophesied that he wouldn't last.
But he won, and at the same time
lost, only to turn his defeat into a
telling victory!
Hartman had been just selected for
the first varsity boat when he was or
dered by his physician to stop rowing
permanently. So what does Harri-
man do but make a scientific study Of
Craftsmanship. with the result that at
the end of his sophomore year an I'M
precedented thing occurred.
The frail youth was appointed coach
of the freshman crew!
Captain Radcliffe Romeyn and the
graduates agreed that he would make
good. He certainly did! All of last
year he quietly labored with the fresh
man crew. He had everything his own
way and in the end. out of common
place material, turned out the best
crew of neophytes that Yale had had
in years.
Went to Study English Stroke.
Several weeks last spring were
spent by Hartman in England watch
ing the stroke Of Cambridge and Ok
ford, His power to easily master all
his studies won him a furlough from
Yale. He also studied the Cornell
stroke Returning to college in the fall
he spent much time with the varsity
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02

There is a man in Boston
who, if he had his way,
would free 80 per cent. of
the convicts now in the Mas
sachusetts prison and turn
the prison into a college.
This man has very pecul-