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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12

Ser CT lire 2epereelcr, iom en-
erioren Wano INgger irem for oS:
t. &piS muIilt, prop at lcpe lilo
at sin Nppetit or gob. ga CT Din
@anlp nler eu0 baIppeis prlloet.
MtaiQc SiNleIi0elier og Sierteon-
ser ifripcr liz / @irfelisGcoeu ira
Mupen, bpor urimelig Ell Zig Toa-
itnno cllo m0er.
,. Sio alOril "a bpng 6in0renc.
6pIO Simeruc la iuloe Al npttigt,
i~ntcre2iont Nrbcioe, at bu in9en
Sio Iaor til at rllge pper pirtcli1e
ellcr gruuoleic @jenporoigbeoer. ga
ifol Sit 6oob itiGc, mems SoIen Oa-
Ter; "a ital 9}ottcn sipe Dig iinlo,
iprfeubc &pile.
3. 8lem oiQ i1Ip. OH bill alori1
ioIe 0iq riqtiq IrtfeIig, hpis 0u bare
tpnfer poa Oig iclo, Sin cgen Subj
tomntenbeo clcr zine Sell % Wtang-
Ter.
4. Stol p0n @lto % gooc Mcn-
neifer. Sro, at Ser err en- @ito, ipnl
pcO. bpoo er be0it for Sig, % 9ierne
piloe, at bper "a en- al os ie9te op
bans fiGrIi9c Narsarnc. Sam 81
al Nicrtct iou Sin til at fro SET, CT
9itterbeNeu Ncrmeo tat rs al sit
6ierte % Sin0.
GsoenS Spit 61r Sc iioiic 10, ire
gtur tilt mia res Here &%iclloinger,
%eluner "a 1oNc &elpuoere baaoe
Ter ~ ! 6omIcJanSet ero paa Sc
ioruoaooenoc - aar. Meit bar
ieg bel iaunet 9. N~nunoien - Mar'
ocn mes Sen ri3c 2iuseriaring 90
Be 6oritono, Set parme &icrte %
rifle SloNnloo. Sm iea emo life
bar ieIt mig iremmeb % tilIioeIat
/ "Eoiten"S NuS. ii5en Oct iaa piot
uobrcNtc @IoN5 @rnnoIGgaer blep
borte, miltet lea 500 pes slnlnloieils
Sob Ell al Sc brbite |enncr %
U0Icitc %%eIpnoere, ies mcStc | nit
Gin. NTit pao min Siite fomner
piimof aioeoe Sailor @iorso. aen'
ictt. "a. Ser cr, iom aitpoct,
mango fIer; men lea fan life nrpne
Nounene her. "a 2iitcn riloe hli Tor
lang. &eltuO miitct oisic %elner
Ear ieg, mar ieg beSre betTltier
mig. MI hcueriftc. Sea bar lpic,
itprfcnNe Miuber isien ON bper %
Ell al Dem. GiSie Minoer lanlnlel'
meo Sc %cnncr. lea bar iaien, or ior
mig Ell &iabom, leg life, ON oei
par muIigt, piIoe butte bort Tor Den
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12
montgomery Uaro 900.

Siclae ct Telegram ira Chicago
cr u. Montaomeru @aro, Gbeieu
ior SET betjcnNte 6irma Moutgome-
rp Naro & 60. Ser oripcr en- al
0e iterite Notwithstanding
/ S0n0ct 0en 10c IS. oi9aoct pes
Cooen i lit Stem oeritc05 / Ell 81.
Ser Al 20 Nor.
Aioooe por ieot ! Gbntham q. g..
ZEN zoe Ncbriar 1913. Somilien
ilutteNe til Nile@, Mid. 81 ban uor
S Nar. som II Mar gnuneI @ut
belnuNtc ran at orbcioe / en- Sun.
'abrif Tor - Gents Gagen. Scnere
orbcioc0e ban iom Gaglsmer / Ell
(eRlurrf. \ Slutteu al 50-Noreue
rci'ie ban I'll Ct. Soiepb. Mid).,
Gpor han iii Anipttelie / en- aieb.
manN@bun0cl meo en- 9su al So
N}oaueoen o. Soften. San Rite liz
mart meaet flint ionl 0aroel5be.
ticnt a citcr ire NorS 6orIe6 fore.
100 ban 9uiifen meN cn 9pu al
500 Q}aanocn. 0au Tom ienere
I'll Chicago Tor at beitpre Ell Mlnnu.
iot~turbonoel. iom ban citer @ran.
Gen / 1871 hioIp til al rcorganiierc.
Non om1itfeS meo TInner ON Ell
notwithstanding % grunoc.
DC en- iooonn iammen mes lin Spo.
ger, George u. Sborne. 6orretniu.
l9eu poreoc, % Sirnaet bIep ben
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12

roa oen natLiee @iiit. De bapSe flsiet
ira Berlin peb Mionatstiber % bap.
Sc auerebe t~ilbagelogt $50 engellfe
apil. Elnoielig bar De bleuet oper-
falbt al Ell tRt Gage, % % De prs-
pebe at Ianbe, itprteoe De neo paa
2o9at al oct lille Sils. Merfp9roig
nof bIcp ingell al &c TO 5lppere lfooct
peo set natIige llbelb. Ge lfal begge
pere ltolte oper at bore De fgrlte,
iom har abort Snobruo" paa oenne
originate Waaoe.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12

WtiiS E0oebe Goulin$, iom par Sen
ferlte f%uinoclI9e NoOofat / oc Sor.
Stater, Den ieritc aUinoc, iout inoe-
baOoc Gmbcoct iom llniteo Stote@
Waribol. % beu isritc apinoe iom
%Qro0nere0e ira @oibington llniuer-
iitct, cr Sen SOe IS. oi9aoet pe0 %.
ben / tit Stem / Ct. 2oniS, $40.
WferfeliB nof nn0er Nisie Srnitpn.
ri9beoer Opoe MiiS Gouiins / Sottig-
bonn / ct iiSieIt &TreIie / ct elerS
1lbebOet Sis.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12
SnlaapIuf.

- Carl &iort tiItraa0te Sir@0a1
en- Hciie biem til gSor8c.
Airs. $. =. Sobnion har i
roqIc Tiger belegt SIpQtuiu9cr i
Gbicn1o.
g}rs. g. 81. @innc "a II @arn
fro Nror, 81. Gof., INN iioitc llac
pao en- Britt hoS 8. q. @i0nes.
Y. 8. GIbp bar pperta8ct
gecntlirct FOR 28inmi5cif Goln,tq
FOR Sbcr;nou NurirrD Go. ! Charles
Gin.
mrs. g. u. 9}cIian fom bar
beioat AoYotat 3. ". 9le.ious her i
@DeH. ye.iie hem I'll NlN,in 42iHn,
&eroag.
Batter 9. :. scale aioroc ifs.
IL llqr en- Srnrtur bioo9 frn Obi.
Gage, hoor ban / @intcr iru0crcr pco
Gbicnao lIniucrrtet.
Mlr. "a Mlrs. Gle e. W0u'cn3
IN Nonte0joeo, mlinn., fom bcrnco
ii0'ie use Ter al bcirqc 1lrs. 81
9ror, 6. ". Sanger.
Gtio @oIporion ira Souo
Gprina Nlont, cr berne0e poa neg
Ic uQcrs @iiit bcs ijne 6orul0re.
g2r. "a Mrs. Y. y. 6alUorion.
Mrs. Grtau ArocrIon ira
Rem Salem. q. Gat.. bar cn Ter
Tigers GID beisat IN Seitcr, Mrs.
.. Sgiioe. 1rm reiite biem A2an.
oag.
mrs. GiI5crt GoTienion ira
Seeds. q. Gaf.. bar pGrct poo oi2it
Srafter et Gar uoers Ei0 "a 6eia9i
i'm 9ror, 4. Gugbretios "a aH0r,
SlRgtninger.
SIR. "a Mra. 3. Z. @uoab,
ira 6agiiel0, Alinn. Tom bar prrei
Der paa en- @iiit Cos ben0e@ IoyUl
are, Dir. % glr3. 0iteu 4eteriou
reiiie bIem Alan0aJ.
Mrs. Snuion Anoeriou reiii,
MauSag Bicm iii @outcoioeo
9linn., eiter ct Bar Tigers Niiit bo.
Mr. % Mrs. 8. 2. @ingaar0 o.
SIR. o. glrs. Guorep 3itao.
8. z. Siquin iom / &ebct a
Sommeren orbeioeoe / @utbcrar
NubIiibipg Souie'5 Yiuoeri, Dor III
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12
17Sc Maiicilisdcocruc 1914.

ct 6orleA paa at opuaa SOmarbei0t
mcucm 9p9oeiaaeHcS 9omitc ior
11oe W}aiicilIlBbe0crue 1914 /
0%tiuueapoIia "a @iuueapoIia Scr.
ajH8ey1e5 aoulite. ioul iorbere0er
en- irriiii SET 6olotea iielle "GoQ.
liza (ioMoe~ MauOng Nitcn / &9eit
@oteI ct @ie0c, bpori 0eltog Vroi.
n. u. &tbIen, Or. Smut @oegl.
.&oniuI & $. Ncbc. II. 6. Sloan.
.Gbas. y. Gallon "a I. u. @aIbp al
Nuoion lem 9Ie9rUieutauter Tor
&ogoeIagenea &onlite % oen o~eiiite.
.renoe IuIlin9bperneS Gor9ertomitc
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12

lite Sanuar iioitIeoen reorganiicrct
% inforporeret / Gep gosf meo en-
aapitnl al SAC, 900, 600.
Wontsomerp @oros eiterIabte
6ornite iiaes at uogipre pnlfring
felnten Milioner Dollars
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12
Cart QomiS Sfaar

aumobeS berpsS ON nopholatlig at opsips lin
nupGrenbs spresie til Suieieretsfaafsrtr j.
Msmusien, TronninGenS SoergnSe 40, aio-
henhaun, lom BEN odnlfs Sfiitetpmmisions
MeohiGlper / Soet siter Nru Sopbie Mnlalit
Sdbopr (Sfaar) feot SEMEN. Adopt. 8lein,
Sco / Siebenhcpu b. 4. slMs 1911. M.O.s7sl
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12

- Ncres 'Sorm. ct
at be iterite @obtfieb,
lom bar pGret tilbuot
%beromtrins. Foa@runo
al at Gicren III CT 70
Nar gan,mel % bar in
9eu SiGlp, nil ban iGl=
-, Sa,,,a fi,,s S.or,,.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12

Gn NiitcOnielt holotc@ / lir@oaQS
! scope luiberite Nirtt pc0 W}iuucio,
ta2 llHiperiitet ior Arthur 6. Grief.
lou, Ser mli3 lar ailluttct line Sn,-
>jcr peo lluiperiitcier. "a iom MT er
,eiit til NlentomooN. M'olt., Tor at
uco'otte fla lem Soliprcr. Gricg-
len bar i'sllc (iocn0e" urrct me.
1et oftip ! llu0oom&iorcninQcn "a i
ltarNmociite Stlocuterfreoie. "a en-
CrtIcH0ti8bec@8ace bclu opcrraft
ham. <aIer bltp boISt al Eaitor
(borpe &roi. @ot5nc "a &roi.
Brandt, Ger par i~orreiien riQciig
meo llu0crhoIoHiuQ ueo Sen huQQc.
ijae 6cit - bIarot ou0ct Soloiona
.of 3uloli @rinoclano. Oscar Ser.
Dee q @,iia Gitta 9otbuc.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12
Seven Prize Essavs.

Wanted:-.ady Agent in every county
for the booklet, which all ladies should
read. Price 30 Cents. DR.. Noss Mohn,
Sherman, Calf.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12

cifjal0s. = gierens Selbreb
- tpinssr BAN til at lutte Narnlins. Sil
iGl9e 1914 acres meget pel opoprtet Sarin
meo spoe Spsninssr, tort ytllloloro meo
e~er9rino, balp Wtil ira COB sn, Sooos
hue Gpuntp ! Sornsseltet, lfatotnapiif
Excitement. 800 pr. Mcre ON taset isr 15oe
December. SGrmen er p9rb minoit 50 500
mere. :. 8. a~ultinicn, Senniion. Minn.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12
sGatccidicr.

Sioitc 0n8oo1 r~atcoicNcS / @i3
Canoe Strife WGiS &alurab Sobnlon,
Sattcr at Or. "a QlrS. Sans Sobn-
ion / Canoe Somnlhip, til 6rco
lSoiI. @riofommen 0riucr Gmeoe-
f~orrettinq / 91irr Gof. @icIlca no
iertcS al @aitor Secbuu3.
SorSoag Sen 4oe IS. ~pgtcpieoea
2nrprc1cc Genn, Son al Mr.. %
M2rS. g Seim, til @}jiS 6Iorelre
gscliort. @icIicn forrettc0c5 Al go
itor Gtto G. SdnuiOt. Mr. Scim
0rioer iarmner meo SIR. &in10abI
set ti0Iiqerc @aaS 9leat @|arIct poo
@oter Street.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12

Sucnif or inoiert lou Ina / 6oi.
i @aJcabur9 m. C1ian /
9lolinc. Au., cr Spcnif mi in0iort
/ Npjltolcn.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12
@arpert, u. Munlun,

" Gier. = @orper og tilbereber ouber n9
Climb til SGlel0ner oo SlGpefrlber, SGloer
iores, nueer tiebes, eGosr os SGlber tillaIss.
Strip eiter lrislilte. Sarge Sannerp, 6ar9o,
j. Sat.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12

S>wifes. Iaent / buert Guuntg.
~ li CT ben enelte lllomele / HDrope'ten
iom i0lger &orer birette til Sarmerne. 800
pr. Mdoneb 9orontereS. SerguS ,yatlS
sScolen Wtills So, Ser9uS Sells, Wfinn.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12

SGlUbrplnp / SOulcr. Sra Som
Ter. Sol. me00eIc@ "2ccorab-l}o.
ten, al 6. q. @uIloro "a Nllltru
Sen lite Gcccmber icircor lit Snlo.
brplup. tn Tel al oerc5 marNe
@euner icirct 0oQen iammen meo
NNnt
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12
N~nuin0itcuur.

NhHlHNIIVUHt. NuiIlIl0tlNc puu
@ociiicfpitcn bor lit cact 2ag, iom
HoIil bar bnut ct Stcpuc / Eorf-
Iauo, %Soib (oitor @nnIiou uor
6ormauo. Ger in0toQe3 N(iNooa !;
Eociiic @Ithcrou Atuocun'@ Spite.
fall. %|clfoultitQle bolote5 on e.
tc~rlni0oalcn al Nrofc5ior Soma
buoreitcr Batter @naIior bolot Ell
Suarto,c. Si0cn taltc Enitor 5fat-
tc5e, "a i%or;oltc Hiipur poo SOL.
linamool. ata0cmict3 @duiittorp@
lpiltNe.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-12-12
1rn / Mnmlchicmmrt. Mlra. Nl

N0O / WnmIchiCmmct, Mrs. Ma
rit Glen, i0m babe beet poa
"EpuGbIomitcu"& @omlehiem / N}in.
~ncapoli@. tim iiocn ocu toe Souuor
iaar. 0r0c Ncylteo3 Gorvoaa Gitcr.
mio0o9. @m BAR ioot ocn
2ioc %nnuor 1916 / 6~offc0aIcn
Norae NcHoc% @}au0. ipcnif oooc
i0r moli3c Aar ii0cn. Gcttc er oct
'0ritc Ee0af0lo. iom bor iuotruiict
tlauot @tbocruc paa "@uuQbIom-
lttHs @0mlcblcu.
The Washington times., 1913-12-23
AS TO TELEPHONE PROFITS.

The New York Telephone Company owns very
large block Of the stock of the Chesapeake and Po-
tomac Telephone Company, which operates in Wash
ngton. Therefore, Washington people, who have very
real misgwngs about the reasonableness of telephone
rates in this town. justified in peculiar interest
in proceeding just now afoot in New York.
The public service commission of that State is
looking into telephone earnings profits and rates. On
November 3, the commission asked the New York
Telephone Company to report, by November g. its
gross and net earnings, and profits, on business in
New York city. The company has failed to produce
the showing and explained that its books were so
kept that it could not comply.
do you mean to say that you cannot tell what
your yearly income is in New York;" demanded til
commissions chairman.
The lawyer entered into long explanation which
was cut short with:
Then You don't know whether you are making
money in New York or not?"
The telephone lawyer admitted that he did not.
This kind of thing does not establish very firm
confidence in the intentions of the telephone author
tiles to comply with the spirit of regulatory statutes
1t has significance right here in Washington and i,
suggests the desirabity of early attention to the
local telephone situation.
The Washington times., 1913-12-23
NURSES IN THE SCHOOLS.

Other cities waking up to the importance of
having medical supervision and attendance, including
skilled nursing, in the public schools. The ideal ar
rangement according to report of the Federal Bu-
reau of Education, would be to every 1000
children. .......
Notice has been served on Philadelphia by the
Federal Bureau that it employs too few trained
nurses in its public schools. Twenty-nine school
board nurses have supervision over 10000 pupils,
or $500 children to nurse. Five of the most popu-
lous schools, with total of 5000 pupils, have
only one nurse among them.
School nurses are an important part in the up-to-
date scheme of education which believes that good
health is the first requisite of good scholarship. The
money loss entailed by annual epdemcs of children
diseases in the schools mounts into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Every city might forestall
of this expense if it spent few thousands an
nually on trained nurses r..
The Washington times., 1913-12-23
CHRISTMAS AND THE WEATHER CLERK

The present Christmas weather might better suit
the topsyturvy folk of Australia, where the festival
comes in summer than ourselves, who associate the
season with snow and cold and wintry Winds Nature,
whether Intentionally or not, has provided us with
holly berries and spruce and frs and evergreens of
the sort that seem thrive best in the time of frost
To see them now, when the sky is overcast with
springlike haze and the air. if Damp is balmy does
something of violence to the natural impressions
Particularly exasperatng is it to hear the older
inhabitants tell of the time of their boyhood when
there were real Christmases'- the streets
and roads full of snow. When we hear this the
only consolation to be found in the remark that the
seasons are changing. The seasons, we are assured
are not so hot as they formerly were-at some in
definite time in the past-and the winters are more
temperate. But are. they changing? Fanny Kemble,
the actress, in her diary tells of certain Christmas
she spent in Baltimore, quite long while ago, when
the trees were budding, the in bloom and houses
so warm that the windows were up
Be this as it may, there is no doubt that, so far
as the taste of most people is concerned, the more
bracing Christmas-the seasonable Christmas
preferred The blood should rush sharply through the
veins and the spirits should be exuberant AS it is
there is sort of languor which, with many other
bluebirds than of Santa Claus.
However, wise man quarreB with the me-
teoroogcal dispensations; but accepts with ressna
ton their mysteries. There is slight gleam of prom
ise in the forecast that seasonabe temperature
may be expected. There is no promise of sunshine
for Christmas Day, but the temperature is likely to
be more in keeping with popular prejudice. And
there are two good months to yet in which Winter
may still take the opportunity to wake up to his re-
sponsibilities and renstate his character.
The Washington times., 1913-12-23
THE NoN-PARTIsAN CURRENCY LAW.

Forty-nine Congressman of the Republican, Pro-
essive and independent cassifcations voted for the
currency measure on the question of accepting the
conference report. That is very creditabe show
ing of sincere effort to serve the community rather
than partisan ends.
Of course, good many members who voted fnx
it will be under the suspicion of voting that way be-
cause they believed such course would be good for
their political health No matter 1t is substantial
gain when public opinion on such subjects gets non-
partisan enough to impress members of tine Legisa-
ure that they, Also best afford to take broader
view than that dictated by considerations of mere
partisanshp. -
Passed by such bipartisan showing as has been
made in both houses in its favor the currency law
is largely removed from the realm of petty contro-
versy 1t is destined to have fair chance prove just
how useful it be to the country To that much it
is certainly entitled .'-
Nobody assumes that the measure is perfect or
anything like it. Almost everybody seems to believe
that the good in it will prove much more than to
counterbaance the bad. This much is certain at any
rate: That Congress has had long season of school
ing in the fundamentals of the national banking and
currency question Not since the passage of the
tiona bank act, following great debate in Congress,
has there been so helpful and informative discus
sion of the practical questions of banking, finance,
and currency. 1t is altogether good thing for both
Congress and the country to 60 to such school for
time The business of perfecting this measure, in
the light of experience with its operations, will be
vastly the easier and because of the discussion
that has taken place.
In this connection it deserves to be said that par
liamentary discussion nowadays is good deal more
practical and to the point than it used to be back in
the days when there were giants" We are wont to
turn to the rhetorical masterpieces of Webster and
Hayne and their contemporaries and wonder why we
don't have statesmen to turn out the orotund SEN
fences and sounding periods that they thundered in
the chambers. But the truth is that if the great
orators of that day were to come back and deliver
much of what used to win them fame, it would be
called flubdub. Congressional discussion nowadays
is not expected to be finished oratory it is expected
TO keep pretty well to the point, and on the whole,
from this point of view, it improves all the time.
The Washington times., 1913-12-23
THE SILVER LINING
EDITED BY ARTHUR BAER.

South East. You can give him a cor
net IL you want to. 1t will not annoy
us. We live IN northwest Washington.
Half and Half. If you are so angry at
lis attempted rider" why. not buy him
a nice hand engraved. silver mounted,
onSway ticket to Siberia?
Anxious. We do not know of any
sl:pl ers not to drag on the floor. nor 10
fray at the elbows.
Mss Tayke. There is no appropriate
gift for young man who neither
smokes, drinks nor chews. The only
thing we could suggest to give him for
Christmas would be three cheers.
Carabao. A friendly exchange of
Maxim silencers would be seasonable.
%till. it's shame that no one thought
Of that before.
THE CALENDER is AT FAULT.
II It ,oere only eight days later ICE
could sUedr of 1iring gifts.
Or we could swear off receiving them.
Or toe could sUear off stoearino ut EN-.
Add unsettled weather" for Christmas s.
bills.
stomachs.
pocket books.
minds.
Mexican situation.
*. L. L.. Bladensburg.
SINCE THAT PRESIDENTIAL RE-
PRIMAND.
They might call the insurrectos the
insurWRECkos.
The Washington times., 1913-12-23
HOW DO THEY DO IT?

The incident of Harvard professor of law resign
ing because an investigation proved that he had been
drawing $4,000 year on the side from the New
Haven railroad treasury, opens an interesting line of
inquiry. When the Dollver Hepburn law, with its
famous Section TO-" was passed. if was understood
that the supervision of railway by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission was going to stop the
improper expenditure of railroad money 1t seems
utterly to have failed to do that.
very large amount of Federal money is being
expended each year under the provisions of that
statute Yet there is little evidence that it has served
&c improve railroad practices in the matter at least
of some of the most Objectionable expenditures. 1t
turns out, under the present inquiry, that the New
Haven had long list of people secretly in its en-
poy because of their relations to the avenues Of pub
city 1t is not gratifying to learn that newspapermen
were numerous among these. Politicians, labor or
ganizers, and about all the classes of people who
might be of use in efforts to direct the formation of
public sentiment were well represented
The inquiry which developed all these facts in
sensational way conducted by the Massachusetts
Public Service Commission. One is tempted to in
quire whether the Federal law is so lax, or its ad
ministraton imperfect, that these things un-
known, and have been unknown till very recently to
the national supervision authorities If that is the
case il is apparent that better supervision, perhaps
better law, certainly money for getting the work
well done, are needed.
From the time when the Doiver-Hepburn meas
ure passed. has been recognized that this provision
for examination of railroad and understand
ing of their expenditures, was one of the very most
important features of it. There was determined op-
position to its inclusion in the law and even after
mat law had passed vigorous effort was made to
prevent it being effective, by cutting off the appro
prations to hire accountants for its administration
These efforts failed, and there has been test of the
nea' ures actual wor re, covering period of above
f'e years.
1t would seem that if any substantial supervisor
ship over the inner details Of railroads finances had
been established by that measure the benefits ought
to have become apparent in the of the Frisco
and the New Haven. Yet they were not made ap-
parent at all. On the other hand, those two notable
cases seem to suggest very decidedly that this law
not doing the work and producing the results that Con-
gress expected and the public assumed would folox
There is good why the Interstate Commission
should be asked to make esport changes that it
The Washington times., 1913-12-23
FALSE BILLING PRACTICE
STILL is I'm VOGUE.

THE false billing of freight by
shippers continues. During the year
a large number of instences of this
where 1t appeared possible that the
offending shipper was honestly mis-
taken as to the proper classification
under which to ship his goods a
warning as to the future has been
resorted to, rather than prosecution.
In many cases. however, the misbill-
ing or false weighing has been clear
ly willftl. and In all such cases
prosecution has been undertaken
During the year fines for these Of
lenses amounting to $lS, 80 in the ag-
gregate have been recovered.
"A large number of other instances
of false billing as to kind and weight
Of commodities shipped by firms in
New York city have been invest =
gated, and further indictments for
this offense are expected in the
southern district of New York with
In a short time. The temptation to
the dishonest shipper to commit the
offense forbidden by section 10' is in
many cases so strong and the injus-
tice resulting to competitors who
scrupulously observe the law is so
great that it is believed these Of
fenses can only be effectuaily
checked by tine tendency of the
courts, already observable. to in
crease the punishment for them.
THE amendments of 1910 to Sec
ton 10 of the act make II an Of
fense for a shipper or consignee to
secure transportation at less than
the published rates by means of
false claims for damage. Investiga-
ton disclosed that several con-
signees of eggs located in New York
city were, as a practice, making
claims against the carriers for dam
age to shipments of eggs much
greater in amount than the actual
damage suffered. These false claims
were made possible by the failure of
certain agents of -, the carriers to
properly inspect shipments before
delivery. 1t developed that the ship
pers in question were bribing these
agents of the carriers to discrlmi-
nate in their favor by thus failing
properly to inspect shipments and.
further. by favoring these particular
shippers of eggs with expedited co..
vice. Upon the above facts. Will
liam A. Scarborough. Charles T.
Adams. De Winter & Co. John G..
Wheeler. George Miller. r. B.
Sinner & Co., II. c. Sinner, Adolrh
Fortang, Willard p. Brown and W.
II. Sanford were indicted for obtain
ing transportation at less than the
lawful rate by means of false claims
for d. mage and for inducing and
also for attempting to induce agents
of carriers to discriminate unjustly
in their favor.