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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-13
WANTS LOW PRICE TO PRODUCER
AND HIGH PRICE TO CONSUMER PROBED
Representative Manahan Introduces Resolution
in Congress.

only direct the said board as an eX-
change, but, acting in conjunction
with the leading members of the Min
neapolis chamber of commerce and
controlling most of. the terminal ele-
vators of both cities, exercise and
have an unreasonable and unlawful
control over the prices paid for wheat
in these great terminal markets and
therefore in the whole country and un-
duly control and restrain the move
ment, purchase and sale of wheat to
suit their speculative purposes"
The resolution provides for the ap-
pointment of committee of seven
members of the house with full in
quisitorial powers and with specific
directions to investigate all the trans
actions of the three organizations and
the makeup of the membership OF
each.
Copies of a memorial to congress,
petitioning against legislation affect
ing grain exchanges unless a full in
vestigation precedes action, were re-
ceived by all members of cogress from
James c. Murray, president of the
council of grain exchanges.
Mr.. Murray says the exchanges OF
Buffalo, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincin-
natl, Duluth, Kansas City, Minneapo-
lis, Milwaukee, New York, Omaha
Peoria, st. Louis, San Francisco, To,
ledo and Wichita join in the appeal,
The McCumber bill, authorizing the
secretary of agriculture TO inaugurate
grain inspection system and to fix
grain standards, has been reported
favorably in the senate. The memoria
is regarded as directed chiefly against
immediate action on this measure.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-13
FOX HUNTING IN AMERICA.
Pennsylvania Leads With Sixty Packs
of Hounds.

Fox hunting in America at the
moment is of much greater concern
and interest than it was, even as re-
Gently as thirty years ago, says
"Baily's Magazine.
English hounds have been sent
across the Atlantic season after sea-
son, and huntsmen and others as.
sociated with English packs are now
occupying posts of trust in the several
American hunts.
English title names have been given
to many new packs; hounds revel
in that nomenclature which has made
the Belvoir and others of English
packs famous the world over.
In actual fact there is more genuine
hunting of the wild fox in the State
of Pennsylvania than in any other
two States in the Union. There are
about sixty distinct packs in the
State, which of course is huge
district. Some of these are very
primitive institutions of the trencher
fed variety for the most part. but a
lot of them show good sport.
An Englishman who had hunted in
all the best parts of England and Ire
land once related to Mr.. Trevelyan
that some winters ago he had quite as
good hunting within easy reach of
Philadelphia as a man could get any
where in the world.
At Aiken, S. c., where there is a
winter colony of wealthy New York
people, there is a we'll organized pack
and throughout the South there is
much hunting of a sort Foxes there
are plentiful and if the country were
more open and not so thickly wooded
the red fox would give good sport
though the gray fox, which is more
common, is miserable ringer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-13
TEACHERS SAY THREE RS
NOT So IMPORTANT /!
Typewriter Better Than Pen, Movies Far Quicker
Than Books

The recent agitation on the part of
prominent educators in favor of more
thorough training in the "Three RS"
makes of interest the following edi-
torial in the Boston Teachers News
Letter, the official organ of the Boston
Teachers Club.
Evidently the teachers of Boston do
not consider reading, writing and
Importance today. The editorial is as
follows:
This is the season of the considera-
ton of the time honored subject of the
"Three s." and the elimination of
the Fads and Fancies" of the school
curriculum. Discussion of this sub
ject has broken out again ad nauseam.
The fact is that the ignorance of
average citizens concerning the aims
and results of the public school cur
riculum is so colossal that they do not
yet comprehend how far away Life
has travelled from possibility of re-
turn to a serious consideration of the
"Three RS" as vital problem in ed
ucation.
Our schools palpably have a large
percentage of failures, as is ineitable
in large systems of production. Causes
for these failures must be sought and
efficiency must be secured, but it is
absurd to suppose that efficiency fol
present day living can be obtained by
trying to turn the wheels of the uni
verse back to the days of our grand.
fathers. The world moves on and we
must move with it and refuse to ret.
rograde.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-13

Congressional inquiry into the or
ganization and operations of the Chi
cago and Duluth boards of trade and
the Minneapolis chamber of commerce
to determine their influence over
wheat and flour prices was proposed
in resolution introduced by Repre-
sentative Manahan of Minnesota.
The resolution was referred to the
rules committee. Representative Man
ahan announced his intention of press
ing his demand for hearing at the
earliest possible date.
"The cost of living has not respond
ed to the general reduction in tariff
rates." declared the preamble to the
resolution, "and it does not yield to
the steadily fal ing prices received by
farmers for their products.
"The worlds demand for wheat and
the consumption thereof so closely
balances it's production from year to
year that there is no legitimate occa-
sion for violent fluctuations in the
price of that necessity"
The constantly changing price to
the farmer and the continued high
price to the consumer it was asserted
are due to the manipulations of the
purchase and sale of the wheat by
the three organizations named. Each
of the three, it is charged, is monop-
oily controlling wheat prices,
at is generaly charged and be
lieved," continued the preamble, "that
the business of the Chicago board OF
trade and its operations are controlled
by memberships owned by few large
operators, particularly Armour, Pea.
vey, J. Rosenbaum, j. G., Shaffer &
Co., Bartlett Frazer & Co., who moi
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-13
FIRE LOSSES In
COLD WEATHER

The cold weather, as usual caused
great increase in the fire losses.
Every "cold snap" costs house-own-
ers of insurance companies large
amount of money. Usually the fires
are started from stoves or furnaces
that are allowed to get too hot.
One typical case was the burning
of the summer home of Mrs. w. K.
Vanderbilt. Several hundred thousand
dollars worth of beautiful rugs, pic
lures and furniture was destroyed be-
cause careless "care-takers" had not
used good judgment about the fires.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-13
EMBASSY AT
BUENOS AYRES

The Argentine Republic washes to
raise it's minister at Washington to
the rank of ambassador, if our gov
ernment will send an ambassador to
Buenos Ayres. President Wilson and
Secretary Bryan favor the change.
An ambassadors duties are like
those of minister, but the rank is
higher. This is sometimes an ad
vantage. The pay also is higher, ST.
500 year. We now send ambas-
sadors to Mexico (vacant), Brazil and
Japan, as well as to the larger coun-
tries of Europe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-13
The Midnlaht Sun.

The Midnight Sun" is not visible
south of the Polar circle. 1t is above
the horizon throughout the twenty
four hours at Bodo from June 3 to
July 2; at Tromso from the 18th of
May to the 22d of July, and at the
North Cape from the 18th OF May to
the 29th of July. There are CORE
spending periods during December.
January and November when the sun
is not seen. But the darkness of the
Winter is by no means so great as
might be imagined. The whiteness of
the snow and the glimmer of the
Northern Lights" make sort of per-
petual twilight.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-13

finally determined to let the water in
and to dredge her out. He is now
inviting her to do her very worst. He
has dredging fleet ready to take her
out as fast as she comes in, ad II
now looks as if she has slid until she
can slide no more.
Meanwhile Colonel Goethals, in
keeping with suggestion made by
Division Engineer Cole, decided to at
tack Cucaracha in the rear. She had
sid and kept a-sliding until she went
away back past the summit of the
hill, and so it was decided to sluice
off all the material that would drain
away from the canal.
The plan worked we'll, and
Cucaracha, in her final strugg e
against the engineers, finds herself
beset before and behind and son she
will become n thing of the past for
ever. But during her unremitting
fifgfht she has shut up Culebra Cut
dozens of times, has brought so acres
of ground, scenery and all, into the
cut, and has required the removal of
some eight or nine million cubic yards
of material.
Fortunately the two great hills,
Gold Hill and Contractors Hill, stand
like Gibraltars, and rear their heads
proudly above the majestic scene be-
low. They seem to be of solid rock
wherever there might be danger of
slides if they were not. Gold Hill is
] flanked by Cucaracha on the south
and by East Culebra slide on the
north, but has never given any sign
of wanting to ioin the flowing pro-
cession into the cut. 1t rises 652 feet
above the sea and is the highest hi
in the canal region.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-13

After all, what are the three RS in
their relation to present day life?
Reading is useful still, necessary to
much enjoyment and to certain sort
of culture, but not as necessary and
not as important as hundred years
ago. Given the main elements of read
ing and that is sufficient for the bow
or birl of today who is to take the
place of mechanic or saleswoman.
Hundreds of our children have con-
ceived a dstaste for reading books
Many of our successful business men
read only newspapers and money mar
ket reports.
the standpoint of the older culture. 1t
moving pictures tell graphically more
in a few hours than book does in
days.
How about writing?
That, too, is passing out of the list
of the necessities, after its elements
have been mastered. Authors and bus
mess men dictate to their stenograph-
ers and the typewriter makes cleaner
copy than man can write.
The elements of arithmetic are still
of great value to the common man.
The four operations, simple fractions
and mensuration cannot well be elm
mated without harm, yet much of the
more advanced work in this subject is
merely rubbish to the average man.
Education should relate man to the
life he is forced to pursue. More than
this cannot be claimed to be neces-
! sary, however desirable it may prove.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-13

CucVavacha slide, the most trouble
scme point on the Panama Canal, is
being reopened rapidly and if there
is no further movement of the noun
tain the channel will soon be open for
large vessels. The slide affects the
hillside for almost third Of a mile
from the waters edge.
The principal type of slide is rep
resented by Cucaracha, mass of soft
earth with no rock reaching down deep
enough or holding strong enough to
keep it from sliding in, slipping
across a smooth surface beneath it.
Cucaracha scared out the French.
1t is said that when they were work
ing along at her toe and she began to
give them a tropical imitation of
glacier sliding down into stream,
they saw their visions of sea-leves
canal disappearing into the realms of
impossibility. At any rate, they
promptly quit excavating at the bot
tom Of Cucaracha and left her as a
prob EN- for the Americans; and a
problem she declared herself to them
as far back as 1905.
Cucaracha has ben like the poor
problem always with the canal en-
gineers. Every time they got littl,
nearer toward the final bottom of the
cut, Cucaracha would take fresh
slide, sometimes shooting millions of
yards of material down the embank-
ment and across the cut with such
force that her toe would turn to the
opposite bank, some 60 feet or more
She kept this up in season and out
botting up the south end of the cut
and so preventing the work from go,
ing forward that Colonel GoethalS
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-13
The Debtors Refuge.

A young Bloomsbury dramatic au-
thor and critic was up as judgment
debtor, and said he had no engage
ment.
Lawyer-Well, how are you living?
Critic--My wife has little money.
Judge Bacon-H has found a hav-
on of rest. but his wife cannot be COM
PEELED to pay his debts. Naughter).
A rich wife is. to some, trade like
many others. She nay love him and
choose to do 1t. ,Laughter). When
o man Is in debt. and the pressure OF
poverty comes. the finer feelings go
away through the window. (Laugh-
teri.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-13
RAILWAYS AND THE MAILS.

What would our government do if
the railroads should refuse to make
any new contracts to carry the mails +?
Some of the railroads.&c. Minneap-
oils and st. Louis system-are threat
ening to quit unless paid much more
They say the parcel post is too heavy,
and thus far they have had no pay for
carrying it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-13
PIucked Fowls. !

A plucked fowl should not be dis
colored. The flesh should be pink or
yellow, according to breed. Stales
are blush, often green. over the crop.
The shin tears easily. Stir. dry feet
belong to stales.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-13
ENGINEERS At PANAMA
CONQUER CUCARACHA SLIDE

Ameaican Engineers Overcome the Most Serious Problem
in the Building of the Panama Canal. Vertable
Mountain of Soft Mud Constantly Sliddng into the
Channel.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-17

! mander, carrying On a bona fde trade
IN Garrick street, quite a wcll-ltnoNr
figure among London collectors, and a
pretty high figure ii Our bookkeeping
too. | suggest that he accompany them
when they call at Scotland Yard at a
o'clock 1t would be the natural thing
for Great Fish to engage his services. -
And the plate?"
The police will wish to keep it for
comparison till they've got the lot back.
They are on the track
The young man smiled, and said alb
stractedly: Excellent !" Then he
added "As a friend of Great Fish's,
might be allowed round with him this
afternoon"
II have no doubt" the commander
considered, that it would be permits
sible."
The young man explained: Il wish
to direct everything in this case myself"
The small party of Great Fish,
Card and an English friend called at
Scotland Yard that afternoon. The
Great Fish gold plate robbery was a
big case. There were with the chief su-
perintendent one or two subordinates,
who had helped to trace the piece, and
slouch-shouldered, tall, fair man in gray,
with Homburg hat.
The story of the search was outlined
briefly to the millionaire owner of the
biggest breweries in the country; the
piece OF gold plate was produced the
expert took it to the window to examine
in full light with the aid of a magni-
flying glass. After him went the very
interested young friend of Great Fish,
whose presence, ushered in BY such
power, was permissible Great" Fishs
prototype was talking to the chief super
intendent, and the supposed Card TO the
man in gray, and Great" Fishs proto-
type could be heard saying that upon
the damned worry OF the loss OF the big
was Soiii'is, PiOpdDiS, TIC
damnedest worry of the lot-hs brew
cry hands were working sullen.
"Congratulation, Fish, cried his
friend
This is the originall' the expert pro-
nounced
Ten minutes later they had gone. In
the street Mr.. Captain said to the ex-
pert;
i only stopped you on the moment.
1t was very-very-ve-ry close!"
The other replied: The piece is
fake, as ! was going to say
I'VE shall shortly be in possession of
the whole collection from the hands of
the police, | suppose2"
THE whole collection-the collection
we shall receive-will therefore be
faxed"
What is the value Of the faxed LOTT"
The value of the metal and work
only. About-say, ten thousand
pounds"
Uncomfortable beside our expecta-
lions" said Mr.. Captain briefly.
Quite inconsderable.
Captain turned to the other two.
i leave in your han, the Job of re-
ceiving the faxed lot from the police. II J
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-17

left the last Of them, and drove to
Great Fish's palatial place near Hyde
Park corner. To the footman who
opened the door he said quietly:
You go and tell Mrs. Fish wish to
sec her in private"
Mrs. Fish is resting before going
out
is Mr.. Fish OUT"
'He is
Having asCertained this, the man in
sray repeated his demand. Receiving the
same rebuff, he wrote a few words on
a leaf Of his pocketbook ordered it to
t. taken to the lady Immediately, and
added Show me to room while
wait"
The tootman sent tie note by sub
ordinate, allowed thu caller a chair in
the hall, and kept guard over him. All
these precautions the visitor observed
with cool and urbane amusement. The
subordinate returned to say the lady
would receive the gentleman.
He found a tall, overbown woman
sitting on a couch in a pnk-lighted
boudoir. She said quickly, in a high
voice that tried to be pereinptory, but
which only succeeded in trembling:
You are intruding at time likr
to keep Tor rest"
lie replied with extreme gravity:
Madam, am Enfield, from Scotland
Yard, as my note said, and have to in
sist on disturbing your rest
Sit down, Mr. Enfield said Mrs.
Fish, with some attempt at urbanity. He
sat
Madam, | have to ask vou in the
light of recent Investigations we have
made, where you obtained the money
which your husband refused you to pay
the immense bills of Lucien, lie Grand
Jardin, and your wine merchant for
your celebrated BALI"
Silence
The bills have been paid" said the
man from Scotland Yard. Il have seen
the booking entries. Your husbands
collection OF gold plate has also disap
peared
~ our husband knows nothing of this |
discovery OF ours. We approach you
first out of regard to your feelings,
wishing, if possible, to tighten the reve-
lations. If you will make me a full |
confession here and now, madam, we
may be able to restore the Great Fish |
collection, at no cost to yourself by de-
it from the receiver OF stolen
goods"
She had Mysteries out of which he
shook and cajoled her.
you might also" his diplomacy grew
confidential, be able to keep your share
in the business from your husband if
you wished
"If!" said she, shaken to pieces, IF I
wish Sakes man-if | wish -
Il think, as | say, it can be arranged,
f you will give me all information con-
,erning the transaction. We could get
I. of course. in the long run, but on the
conditions we hold out, we think that
on will save US the trouble"
you're sleuths," she whispered
You Men! You're sleuths"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-17

Il. worth, anyhow, ten thousand pounds
Listen"
Newsboys shouted a special edition
One OF them passed, stopped in recogni.
ton OF familiar figure, cried: "Thisl
interest you, sir!' sold a paper to the
soidisant Great Fish, and ran laugh
ing and yelling.
Strike at Great Fishs breweries, >
said he, scanning a headline Captain
laughed.
"Thatll be something for him to chew
the next few days. Card will keep him
busy and look after all police communi-
cations By-by both of you You
know your work. He hailed passing
cab, leaped in, and was driven again to
the commander Of the Hundreds and
Thousands, whom, by luck, he found
still in MS fiat Walking in upon the
little dream-eyed man, he raped out
THE plate is a falfew
What, sir"
The young man told the story with a
cre'itable conciseness. The commander
said:
And Scotland Yard?"
Let EN- find the rest OF the faxed col
lection, and hand it over to us. Great
Fish is busy for day or two, and he
won't hear anything that we don't allow.
Card is watchdog. As for us-wherc
is the genuine collection?"
Who knows: We don't"
Captain considered matters.
There was man there" He gave
a crisp but detailed description of the
slouch-shouldered man in gray.
"Ah" said the commander. That
that must have been Enfield. Enfield
their big new man"
Again Charles Captain considered mat
tiers very slowly, and a smile dawned
about his mouth.
Enfield OF Scotland Yard' Give me
a colored photograph of him.
This being the kind of commodity
stocked on principle, he was supplied.
That is quite good-quite,' murmur
ed the young man, examining it. "Yes,
that is the man !"
He handed back the photograph.
walked about, and became fragmentary.
I'VE have wardrobe here"
"We are supplied, or can supply Won.
as you know, with practically every
thing under the adoption of your new
system"
1T is not bad SYSTEM" said the
young man, half abscntly. Not half
a bad system"
He murmured this in an undertone to
himself The commander watched him
attentively.
Il should like said Mr.. Captain, with
a great air of apologizng for the lib
erty, TO see our new resources"
Come with me-" said the commander
and they went out.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-17

The round-shouldered man in SQUARE
cut gray clothes and a Homburg hat
visited three frms-a famous pine mer-
chants, florists, and caterers. At all
the magic words "of Scotland Yard"
secretly spoken to heads of firms in
sured a rapt, if anxious attention. He
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-03

still have that opinion, and add TO it
the belief that sam might actually
win the title from Johnson
But the chance is still an outside
one. For il Johnson has slipped back,
he is still good enough to put up 20
rounds of defensive milling without so
much as putting. This much was
proved at Paris. Saturday
It's a grave question If Sam Lang
ford himself has not slipped" quite
as far as has Johnson sam has been
squeezing by the referees notice with
but scant margin. In fact, Gunboat
Smith won a decision over LangfOrd
sam has been entering the ring weigh
ing about PIG pounds, when his normal
figure is IS5. or not over 100
johnson Too Big for aTham.v
But even though he does his little
best to come into the ring in condition,
Johnson's bulk. stamina and defensive
skill are such that il is hard to believe
Sam can whip him, desperate fighter
as the tar baby" is known to be
Johnson is the first pugilist Of mod
ern time to successfully defend his
title at the age Of So. Fitzsimmons
was not quite IS when he won from
COrbett at Carson City and he was 81
when he lost to James J. Jeffries
During the interval Fitz did not defend
his title.
Figuring weight and everything into
consideration, Johnson is a better
physical man today and far more dan
gerOus than Fitzsimmons when he won
the title from COrbett
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-03
FRANKIE MARTIN is
AFTER ANOTHER BOUT

Frankie Martin. champion lightweight
boxer Of the border patrol, belonging 10 COM
pany L. goth infantry. is anxious for an
other bout in the near future
Martin wants TO box either Frankie Gage
or frankie Russell, II a bout can be arranged
with either OF these fighters. He is also
willing TO meet Jack Torres, the AlbuQuer-
cue. y NJ, lightweight who meets the Bat
ling Dane Of Denver. Colo, in Albuquerque
on the Fourth OF July.
Though but 20 years old. Martin has
record Of 16 bouts in the year and half
he has been boxing. He has never been
knocked off his feet. nor lost a decision on
the contrary the most Of his bouts have been
won by knockouts- He has fought such boys
as the Battling Dane. Eddie Fitzgerald.
Lonny Tucker, Eddie Greenwald and Marty
Rowan.
In his last bout, staged at Fort Bliss. Mar
tin knocked out Gunner Rice OF the sixth
artillery in the first round-in two minutes
OF fighting to be exact
Arrangements are being made 10 stage a
boxing carnival at the Fort Bliss arena about
July %