The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
A Bird'seye View of Congress

it is all over, humanity ought to make
such demand for worlds court that
there will be no more reason for coun-
tries going to war in future than for
! men to engage in street fights, or for
one city to take up arms against an
other. To the credit of the United
States it may be said that a condition
more serious than that which pro-
voked war in Europe has been intelli-
gently handled in our affairs with
Mexico, and the chances are that
peace will ultimately be restored in
that stricken country and our df"cr-
ences with the people of Mexico adj
iusted. And while President Wilson is
to be commended for what he has done
in this direction, it is interesting to
know that his predecessor in office,
Mr.. Taft, predicts that the waste in
blood and treasure in the European
war will be so appalling that it will
sober up the leading nations of the
world and make irresistably for last
ing peace.
One of the mosy highly developed
branches in American agriculture is
that of fruit growing, and it is be-
lieved that the war IN Europe will
seriously affect this industry. During
last year the United States shipped
nearly S3,000,000 worth of fruit to
| Europe. In European countries. Amer
| lean fruits are more or less of a lu%
ury, and experts believe that the con-
sumption will fall off rapidly now
that the Europeans arc spending their
money for powder instead IL ArNeri-
can apples, of which 1J,00.00O )arrels,
valued at SG,500,00C were shipped to
Europe last year.
That there are still sDTisncn in
high places was recently evidenced in
the House Ct Representatives by the
attempt led by Representative Cullop
Of Indiana, to take assistant Tostmas-
ters throughout the country cut of
'ivil service. The proposition had the
support principally of : Lthcrn spoils-
men. who now that they have bad a
taste of Office after having waited for
so many years, have hecn como nstrat-
'np Il greedy eagerns Sc berctofCr al
most unhca' of.
Tho Agricultural department at
Washington has figured It out that
the average life of m,ik iDhe is
only ?2.E Tips along the ulIlk route
Tho estimate carried gu. respecting
average CO ditions thrN.u'1out the
country Indicates that the big milk
dealers are obliged to l;.l in Il supply
of bottles every three looks. There.
inre if de alcr who hGrfl $ 10000
bottles q ,Uy puts water in the milk
how can you blame hin, s,nrC his Gus.
toners through various systems OF
waste entail upon him the expense OF
$3.50 per year for bottles? 1t has
been determined that 100000 bottle!
we're rescued from city dumps durif'
hree years of the milk bottle clean
ny house in single city.
Now let us see whether AmeriC
an originate her own styles. Paris ha
ost its grip, and the fashionable won
, n of the United States will have L
, lake chance on American tailors
: since all the great establishments o
Paris are closed. There will be no fal
: creations from Paris, and therefor,
the modistes of Pawtucket, Kokomo
Kalamazoo, Oshkosh, Laramie ant
, Snohomish will come into their own
( 1t may be all right to tell the chill
, dren that fish and other articles ar
= brain food, but a Washington gentle
man who has been advertising himsel
= as food expert, and has been coin
ing wealth by what he called the "Nev
, Brain Diet System" has been indcte,
r by the Grand Jury of the District o
n Columbia for misuse of the mails,