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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-13

The Glee Club of the A. G. NJ. Col.
lege will present their minstrel,
zouave drill and all-round entertain
ment at the. Colonial Theatre this
evening at $780, The club itself, as
well as the Mandolin Club, which
takes a prominent part. is better this
year than ever before. The members
have been carefully trained by Mr.. F.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-13

FOR RENT March 1, nice 5-room
house, two blocks from Main street,
across the street from West Side
school. See M. S. Edge.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-13
COLDER TONIGHT.

New Orleans. La, Feb. l3, 1914.
John Daily Jr., Bryan, Tex.
Freezing to coast; will be 26 to 81
degrees Saturday morning.
CLINE.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-13
PRESIDENT IS
IS STILL LAID UP
Try Associated Pressl

Washington. Feb. -. - The Presl
dent was still confined to his room
with a cold today. The cabinet meet
ing had to be postponed.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-13

FOR RENT-Two rooms for light
housekeeping. one room furnished;
close in. Eight dollars. Apply to
Eagle office or phone 44S.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-13

HOUSE FOR RENT-Five rooms, city
water, electric lights. Phone Geo.
Brandon.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-13

FOR RENT-House in northern part
OF city. All necessary outhouses,
good garden. J. B. Stevenson.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-13

FOR RENT--Two new houses. one
five rooms and other four rooms.
Each has bath Close in Phone 40.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-13

FOR RENT - Good house, garden,
barn; one block from graded school.
Apply to Joe Greland.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-13

Exposed pipes should be drained
and vegetation protected
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-13
FOR SALE

FOR SALE = Silver Spangled Ham
burg chickens. Phone 371.
FOR SALE-Emerson typewriter, al.
most new. all modern improve
ments. Phone 80.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-13
LOST

LOST = Strayed from my residence,
one brown Jersey heifer calf. Re
ward for return to my residence. Robt.
Armstrong.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-13
FOR RENT

FOR RENT-Eight-room house, one
block from Main trseet. Phone 4S9.
Putnam patriot., 1914-01-23
of our coLstitnjion oI I-S.---. that is honor and freedom and prosper ity.
Relics ef savaaery.

Many marriage customs observed at the present time are relies of the time when women were simply the chattels or slaves of their husbands. The we'd ding ring iS but substitute for the chain or letter or perhaps the metal badge of the female slave of the past Then there IS the custom Of throwing an old shoe lu ancient times ruler would signify his dominion over q place by casting his shoe across it or over q Serf hy touching the serfs head with his shae The estsfing of shoe therefore signifies the transfer of au. thority over the woman to the bride groom. In the good old days" n mm who wanted wife sometimes went with companion to a neighborine tribe and carried girl off by force It was then necessary for him to take hurried journey 10 escape the vengeance of the pursuing friends ot the girl So today the bridegroom has d comrade III the shape of his best man. and his honey moon trip com memorates the flight from the wife's friends.
Putnam patriot., 1914-01-23
FEDERAL CONTROL OF
 RAILROAD FINANCES.
Law Urged to Make Interstate Com
 rnereo Bodv Guidino Povyer

Law Urged to Make Interstate Com
 neree Body Guiding Power.
 In the second place. business men as well as those who direct public affairs now recognize, and recognize with painful clearness, the great harm and injustice which has been done to many, if not all. of the great railroad sys- tens of the country by the way in which they have been financed and their own distinctive interests subordi- mated to the interests of the men who financed them and of other business enterprises which those men wished to promote. The country Is ready, therefore, to accept. and accept with relief as well as approval. a law which will confer upon the interstate com meree commission the power to super Intend and regulate the financial opera tions by which the railroads are hence forth to be supplied with the money they need for their proper develop ment to meet the rapidly growing re quirements of the country for increas- ed and improved facilities of transpor- tation. We cannot postpone action in this matter without leaving the rail roads exposed to many serious handi caps and hazards. and the prosperity of the railroads and the prosperity of the country are inseparably connected.
 Upon this question those who are chiefly responsible for the actual man. agement and operation of the railroads have spoken very plainly and very ear nestly, with purpose we ought to be quick to accept It will be one step, and very important one, toward tue necessary separation of the business of production from the business of transportation.
 The business of the country awaits also. has long awaited and has suf- fered because it could not obtain, fur ther and more explicit legislative def hilton Of the policy and meaning of the existing antitrust law. Nothing ham pers business like uncertainty. Moth ing daunts or diseourages it like the necessity to take chances, to run the risk of falling under the condemnation of the law before it can make sure just what the law is. Surely we are sufficiently familiar with the actual processes and methods of monopoly and of the many hurtfui restraints of trade to make definition possible, at any rate. up to the limits of what ex- perience has disclosed These prac. tices. being now abundantly disclosed. can be explicitly and item by item forbidden by statute In such terms as will practically eliminate uncertainty, the law itself and the penalty being made equally plain.
Putnam patriot., 1914-01-23
Saved by a Phetoars ah.

A very remarkable incident occurred at Rio de laueiro
 A passenger on board one of the large liners took Il photograph of the harbor lt included small yacht which had sailed in the morning with two men m her. but returned in tie evening wifh one only The survivor said his companion had fallen over board. but his statement was not he lieved. He was tried aud sentenced to death The matter had by this time come to the ears of lhe photographer who remembered that the picture had been taken on the day of the "crime' tor accidentl and that the scene eni. braced yacht. On examining the print more carefully he noticed small speck OH the sail and in order to deter. mine what 1t was had an enlargement made II proved to be the figure of Il man falling. + was shown to the all thorities at once. and the condemned man was released.
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bring new men. new energies, e no spirit of initiative. new blood. Into the management of our great business en- ternrises. It will open the field of in- dustrial development and originaticu to scores of men who have been oblig- cd to serve when their abilities entitled them to direct. It will immensely hearten the young men coming on and will greatly enrich the business aetiyi- ties of the whole country.
Putnam patriot., 1914-01-23
Oddities of Color Blindness.

Color blindness. or the inability te distinguish certain coiors. is by nd means rare Incomplete color blind ness Is when a person cannot distin guish one of the fundamental colors red. green or violet If a person is told to select colors resembling violet, he will if red blind usually select blues as well as Niolets. If he k green blind he will select green or gray, with pos sibly some blues and sioiets of the brightest shades Violet blindness is rare. To T red blind person the Amer ican flag appears to have green and white stripes. while the white stars appear on violet field To a green blind person the stripes have the prop CT colors. but the field for the stars is red violet To a violet blind person the stripes are normal but the stars ap- pear to be set in a dark brownish gray field To Il person who is totally colet blind the blue Of the flag appears q light yellowish brown. while the red stripes seem Co be darker brown.
Putnam patriot., 1914-01-23
THE PUTNAM PATRIOT January as 1914

UlSnt
 practical and sagacious men of affairs everywhere would applaud uS if we did see to it that penalties and pun ishraent should fall. not upon business itself. 10 it's confusion and interrup- ton. but upon the individuals who use the ins;rumeatalities Of business to do things which public policy and sound business practice condemn. Every act of business is done at tie communal or upon the initiative of some ascer. tainable person or group of persons These should be held Individually re sponSibIe and the punishment should fall upon taem. not upen the business organization of which they make file gal uSe.
 It should hc one of the main objects of our legislation to divcs5 such per sons of their corBeraie cloak and deal
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ly one and the same. those who sell and those who buy but the same per sons trading with one another under different names and in different com binations and those who affect to com. pete in fact partners and masters of some whole field of business. Suiii cient time should he allowed. of course. in which to effect these changes of organization without ineon venience or confusion.
 Such prohibition will work much more than mere negative good ef correcting the serious evils which have arisen because. for example. the men who have been the directing spirits of the great investment banks have usurped the place which belongs to independent industrial management working in Its own behalf. It will
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general. They also directly and seri- ously in1ure the individuals who are put out of business ill one unfair way or another by the many dislodgine and exterminating forces of combina
 ton. | hope that we shall agree in giving private individuals who claim to have been injured by these processes the right to found their suits for re dress upon the facts and judgments proved and entered in suits by the government where the government has upon it's own initiative sued the com biDations complained of and won its suit and that the statute of limitations shall be suffered to run against such
 itigants only from the date of the conclusion of the governments action
 It is not fair that the private litigant should be obliged to set up and estab- fish again the facts which the govern ment has proved He cannot afford. he has not the power. to make use of such processes of inquiry as the gov
 ernment has command of. Thus shall individual justice be done while the processes of business are reetified and squared with the general conscience
 I have laid the case before yon. no doubt. as it lies in your own mind, as it lies in the thought of the country
 What must every candid man say Of the suggestion I have laid before you. of the plain obligations of which. have reminded yon that these are new things for which the country is nof prenareds No. but that they are old things. now familiar. and must. Of course. be padertaken if we are to square our laws with the thought and desire Of ihe country. Intil these things are done conscientious business men the country over will be nnsafis. fled. They are in tlese things our mentors and colleagues We are now about to write the additional articles
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antagoniSm between business anu sO, ernlaent is over We are now about to give expression to the best business judgment of America, to what we know to be the business conscience and honor of the land. The govern ment and business men are ready to meet each other halfway in a common effort to square business methods with both public opinion and the law The best informed men of the business world condemn the methods and proc esses and consequences of monopoly as we condemn them, and the instinc- tive judgment of the vast majority of business men everywhere goes with them We shall now be their spolles- men. That is the strength of our pc sition and the sure prophecy of what will ensue when our reasonable work is done.
 When serious contest ends. when men unite in opinion and purpose, those who are to change their ways If business joining with those who nsk for the change, it is possible to effect ii in the way iii which prudent md thoughtful and patriotic men would wish to see it brought about with as few. as slight. as easy and simple business readjustments as pos iible in the circumstances, nothing es genital disturbed. nothing torn Hp by the roots, no parts rent aSunder whi h can be left in wholesome com bination. Fortunately. no measures of sweeping or novel change are neces- sary. It will be understood that oul object is not to unsettle business or anywhere seriously to break its estab lished courses athwart. On the con trary we desire the laws we are now about to pass to be the bulwarks and safeguards of industry against the forces that have disturbed it. What we have to do can be done in a new spirit, in thoughtful moderation. with out revolution of any untoward kind
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with them as with those who do not represent their corporations, but mere ly by deliberate intention break the law. Business men the country through would. l am sure. applaud Us if we were to take effeetual steps to see that the officers and directors of great husi- ness bodies were prevented from bring ing them and the business of their country into disrepute and danger
 Other Questions remain which will need very thoughtful and practical treatment. Enterprises ill these mod eru days of great individual fortunes are oftentimes interloeked, not by be ing under the control of the same di. rectors. but by the fact that the great. er part If their corporate stock is own- ed ny single person or group of per sons who are in some way intimately related in interest.
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be supplied by an adminlstrative body

be supplied by an administrative body an interstate trade commission.
 The opinion of the country would Tn. stantly approve of such a commission. It would not wish to see it empowered to make terms with monopoly or in any sort to assume control of business, as if the government made itself re- sponsible. It demands such a commis- sion only as an indispensable instrl- ment of information and publicity, as clearing house for the facts by which both the public mind and the mana gers of great business undertakings should be guided and as an instru- mentality for doing justice to busi- ness where the processes of the courts or the natural forces of correction out side the courts are inadequate to ad- Just the remedy to the wrong i'll way that will meet all the equities and circumstances of the case
 Producing industries. for example, which have passed the point up to which combination may be consistent with the public interest and the free dom of trade cannot always be dis sected into their component units as readily as railroad companies or simi- lar organizations can be- Their disso- lution by ordinary legal process may oftentimes involve financial conse- quences likely to overwhelm the se- curity market and bring upon it break down and confusion. There ought to be an administrative commission capa- ble of directing and shaping such cor rective processes not only in aid of the courts. but also by independent suggestion if necessary.
Putnam patriot., 1914-01-23

until now either denied its existence or justified 1t as necessary for the ef- feetive maintenance and development of the vast business processes of the country in the modern circumstances of trade and manufacture and finance. but all the while opinion has made head against them The average husi- ness man is convinced that the ways of liberty are also the ways of peace and the ways of success as well. and at last the masters of business on the great scale haye begun to yield ther preference and purpose, perhaps then Judgment also. in honorable surrender
 What we are purposing to do. there fore, is happily not to hamper or in- terfere with business as enlightened business men prefer to do 1t or III any sense to put ii under the ban The
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Putnam patriot., 1914-01-23

~RESIDENT WILSON'S special @u@ me,saee to congress in which he urges new laws for the fur
 ther regulation of trusts and menopoles is in full as follows:
 Gentlemen of the Congress-In my report "on the state of the Union,' which l had the privilege of reading to you on the 1st of December last, l ventured to reserve for discussion at u later date the subject of additional legislation regarding the very difficult and intricate matter of trusts and monopolies. The time now seems op- perfume to turn to that great ques tion. not only because the currency legislation. which absorbed your atten- ton and the attention of the country in December. is now disposed of, but also because opinion seems to be clear ing about us with singular rapidity in this other great field of action. In the matter of the currency it cleared suddenly and very happily after the much debated act was passed: in re spect of the monopolies which have multiplied about Us and in regard to the various means by which they have
  been organized and maintained it seems to be coming to clear and all but universal agreement in antici patton of our action. as if by way oi preparation. making the way easier {, see and easier To set out upon wit confidence and without confusion c counsel
 Legislation has it's atmosphere, like everything else, and the atmosphere of accommodation and mutual under standing which we now breathe with so much refreshment is matter of sin cere congratulation. It ought to make our task very much less difficult and embarrassing than it would have been had we been obliged to continue to act amid the atmosphere of suspicion and antagonism which has so long made 1t impossible to approach such questions with dispassionate fairness Construc- tive legislation, when successful. is al ways the embodiment of convincing experience and of the mature public opinion which finally springs out of that experience. Legislation is a busi- ness of interpretation, not of origina, tion and it is now plain what the opinion is to which we must give eff feet in this matter It is not recent or nasty opinion. 1t springs out of the experience of a whole generation. It has clarified itself by long contest. and those who for a long time battled with it and sought to change it are now frankly and honorably yielding to it and seeking to conform their actions to it.
Putnam patriot., 1914-01-23
SHOULD CONTROL BY
 STOCK BE LIMITED?
Suggests Shareholders Be Allowed to
 Vote In Only One Company.


 Vote In Only One Company.
 We are agreed. l take it. that hold ing companies should be prohibited, but what of the controlling private ownership of individuals or actually cooperative groups of individuals? Shall the private owners of capital stock be suffered to be themselves in effect holding companies? We dc not wish. I suppose, to forbid the purchase of stocks by any person who pleases to buy them in such quantities as he can afford or in any way arbitrarily .o limit the sale of stocks to bona fde purchasers. Shall we require the own ITS of stocks, when their voting pow IT in several companies which ought 10 he independent of one another would constitute actual control, to make election in which of them they will exercise their right to vote? This question l venture for your considera ton
 There is another matter in whicl imperative considerations of justice and fair play suggest thoughtful remedial action Not only do many of the combinations effected or sought to be effected in the industrial world cork an injustice upon the public in
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BAN ON INTERLOCKING
 DIRECT0RATES NEEDED.
But Time Should Be Given to Effect
 Change Without Confusion.

We are all agreed that private mo nopoly is indefensible and into!era ble, ~ and our program is founded upon thal conviction It will be a comprehen
 sive, but not q radical or unacceptable
 program, and these are its items, the changes which opinion deliberately sanctions and for which business waits. It waits with acquiescence. iD the first place. for laws which will effeetually prohibit and prevent such lnterlockings of the personnel of the directorates of great corporations banks and railroads. industrial. com
 mercial and public service bodies-as in effect result in making those who borrow and those who lend practical
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NOT TO HURT BUSINESS.

Fortunately no measures of sweeping or novel change are necessary. 1t will be understood that our object is not to unset tie business or anywhere seri- ousIy to break its established courses athwart. On the con- trary we desire the laws we are now about to pass to be the bull warks and safeguards of indus try against the forces that have disturbed it. What we have to do can be done in a new spirit, in thoughtful moderation, with out revolution of any untoware kind.
Putnam patriot., 1914-01-23
A CHANGE OF SPIRIT.

Legislation is business of interpretation, not of origina- ton, and 1t is now plain what the opinion is to which we must give effect in this matter. 1t is not recent or hasty opinion. It springs out of the experience of a whole generation. It has clari- fled itself by long contest, and those who for a long time bat tied with it and sought to change it are now frankly and honorabiy yielding to it and seeking to conform their actions to it.
Putnam patriot., 1914-01-23
NEW BLOOD COMING.

1t (the prohibition of inter locking directorates) will bring new men, new energies, a new spirit of initiative, new blood, into the management of our great business enterprises. 1t will open the field of industrial development and origination to scores of men who have been obliged to serve when their abI- ities entitled them to direct. E will immensely hearten the young men coming on and will greatly enrich the business &C., tivities of the whole country.
Putnam patriot., 1914-01-23
DIfsifSuMCmT
 TONISiti8LNi. q.

lnasmu-h ss our oh 'ect and the spirit of our aetio7 m les matters is to meet business tatf- way in its processes of self cor rection and disturb it's leuitimate course as little possi bic, we ought to see to 1t, and the judg- ment of practical and saga cious men of affairs everywhere would applaud us if we did see to 1t that penalties and punish ment should fall, not upon busi- ness itself, to it's confusion and interruption, but upon the in- dividuaIs who use the instru- rnentaiities of business to do things which public policy and sound business practice con demn.
Putnam patriot., 1914-01-23
MESSAGE
 REGULATION Says InterIoCking DireCto- rates Should Be Pro hibited.
 Thinks Government Should Control Financial Opera lions of Railroads In Future Developments. Does kOt Want to Upset Business Conditions.
GETTING TOGETHER.

The average business man is convinced that the ways of lib- erty are also the ways of peace and the ways of success as well, and at last the masters of busi- ness on the great scale have be- gun to yield their preference and purpose, perhaps their judgment also, in honorable sur render.
 What we are purposing to do, therefore, is happily not to ham per or interfere with business as enlightened business men prefer to do it or in any sense to put it under the ban. The antagonism between business and government is over. We are now about to give es- pression to the best business judgment of America, to what we know to be the business conscience and honor of the land. The government and business men are ready to meet each other halfway in com mon effort to square business methods with both public opin- ion and the law.