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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13
UNRAvEL ROAD LEGISLATION
Joint Committee Working to Bring
About Simplicity, Efficiency and
Uniformity of Laws.

To bring about revision OF state
road laws along lines that will insure
simplicity, efficient management, and
where desirable, uniformity, is the
task undertaken by a special joint
committee appointed at the third
American road congress and repre-
senting the American Bar association
and the American Highway associa-
ton, The magnitude. intricacy and
political and technical difficulties OF
the undertaking are discussed in an
article prepared for the Engineering
record by j, E. Pennybacker, chief
of the division of road economics of
the United States office of public roads,
Between three and four million
words comprise existing road legisla-
tion in the several states, according to
the estimate of officials in the, Office of
public roads, This great wilderness
of words would make up an edition of
80 fair-sized volumes. In view of the
comparative simplicity of the sub
ject, this vast accumulation of stat
utes, according to Mr.. Pennybacker, Is
scathing commentary on the con-
structive craftsmanship of our legis-
lators for many generations There is
scarcely a doubt that at least So per
cent of the legislation is superfluous,
and that, entirely aside from the mat
ter of reform, exactly the same pur-
poses contemplated in the existing leg
islation could be accomplished with
greater effectiveness with one-eighth
of the existing statute laws.
The compilers have found legisa-
ton still in effect almost identical as
to form and substance with the old
colonial road laws. which were in turn
based upon English precedent, extend
ing back to the time of Queen Eliza
beth; they have found statutes so
in conflict as to make eff
cient and responsible administration
utterly impossible. AS an example OF
the bewildering confusion of existing
legislation, the compilers came across
in the statutes of one of our most pro-
gressive states a recent enactment
a road law which was re-
pealed two years before the amend
ment was passed, and yet apparently
none of the legislators have thus far
become acquainted with the situation.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

the greatest humorist south of the
equator.
For 300 milreis, that is 800 month,
this man translated Tietsort's $4,000
or $4,000 words of matter into the
choicest Portuguese. Not only that,
but Vasco de Abreu, the star journal
list of Brazil and a close friend OF
the president, gave his services gra-
tuitously.
That automobile magazine at Rio,
started by that adventurous young
man who did not have penny to
brought letters from all over the
world Copies had been sent. to all
the American manufacturers. They
thought SO well of it that they wanted
to get in. There were $50 letters
from the automobile men of the
United States that came to Tietsort
by one steamer as a result of that
first edition, and the publication has
gone on and increased in prosperity
and size in great shape. 1t now has
1OO pGSCo- AUOLL oCNCilty Vi lLCilA
are taken up with advertisements,
The Revista de Automoveis has
done nothing but shower gold from
its first issue. 1t has a circulation to.
day of 1000
There is only one thing more to
tell Colonel Christopher Columbus
Wilson died in Atlanta prison, to
which place he was sent on account
of the frauds attending the exploita'
ton of United Wireless stock. Tiet.
sort is not one of those who thinks
harshly cf Wilson He has no reason
to. The colonel kept his word He
sent $500 to Tietsort that day the
ship sailed away. The thieving mes
senger gtole $495 and delivered S. to
the voyager. Tietsort never has been
able to understand his moderation in
not retaining that last five dollars.
Copyright. 1914. by the Mcclure Newspa.
per Syndicate.l
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13
MAKING ROADS IN THE FALL
Every Township Should Own Gravel
Pits From Which Material Can
Be CheapIy Obtained.

There is a growing demand for more
and better roadmaking during the au-
tumn months. In many localities the
roads become filled with deep ruts and
the wheel tracks so depressed during
the summer that they collect rains
which soon wash them into cutters
and ruin the roads for heavy loads and
comfortable travel.
There is no reason why portion of
the road tax should not be used for
putting the highways in better con
dition for travel The split-log drag
and other roadmaking implements
should be put to work before the
ground freezes. The outside of the
roads should be brought into the cen
ter of the track, which will establish
a crust that will shed water, rather
than retain rains which are sure to
occur during the late fall and early
spring months.
Roads having full high center are
quite sure to remain in good condi-
ton during the rainy season of fall
and spring. Steep hills, where water
is apt to collect in wheel tracks, should
be provided with open cutters on each
side into which rains may be diverted,
with an occasional crest which water
cannot pass. Approaches to bridge and
culyerts should be so filled with earth
that vehicles of all kinds may pass
over them without serious jolts and
Jars Roads are much improved when
covered with gravel. This is a sea
son of the year when such work can
be accomplished at a minimum ex-
pense.
Every township should own gravel
pits, from which roadmaking material
can be cheaply obtained. Concrete
roads will soon become popular The
same material should be used in MAX
ing bridges and culyerts. A good quail
ity of sand and gravel is necessary to
make serviceable concrete Every
farmer should have an especial inter-
est in all roads joining his place and
leading to market.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

place where planters punches are
brewed. A planters punch is closely
related to the well and favorably
known mint julep. The Barbados
gentleman steered Mr.. Tietsort up
against a planters punch and as soon
as that was disposed of insisted upon
another and still another.
Before the coming of the third
punch Mr.. Tietsort had borrowed five
pounds from his friend After the,
third he had to use all his restrain
ing power to keep himself from Dor
rowing more. That $25 covered the
incidental expenses for the rest of the
trip to Rio, but he landed there with
out dollar.
He had stopped at the Grande Hotel
International, the finest hostelry in
the republic, on his former visit and
had spent lot of money there, giving
dinners to government officials and
others, so he rode up in state. This
was all very we'll but what in the
world he was going to do for money
was what vexed his brain. He had
written an indignant letter to Colonel
Wilson and mailed it at Barbados and
hoped to hear from it in a month or
two. But meanwhile he was in a
strange land and penniless.
Mr.. Tietsort was in the middle of
bad fix for sure. There had to come
a showdown One of the business
projects he had suggested had inter-
ested George ]. Smith, who controls
the street car advertising in Rio jan
Giro. Tietsort went around to see
him about noon and the two went to
luncheon together After the meal
made a clean breast of the
whole situation to Smith
you are the darndest fool I've ever
met" Smith declared, Indignantly
why didn't you tell me this before
How much do you over"
From the restaurant the two men
went to Smiths office. Smith took out
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

OF his safe a roll OF bills big enough
to choke a hippopotamus. From this
roll he peeled OF enough for Tietsort's
hotel bill and expenses for month.
Started Automobile Magazine.
The project he sought to put before
Smith was the starting Of an automo'
bile magazine Such a thing never
had been heard of in South America.
Smith had faith and money. The stu
alton Tietsort was in stirred him to
action, so he authorized Tietsort to
get busy, right away Tietsort did.
He has Yankee push and ingenuity.
He believes in doing a thing well.
He does not speak Portuguese, ex-
cept indifferently, but that did not
bother him. He is an advertising
hustler He can draw bit, and he
can write cleverly. He drew up
sketches of advertisements, put them
in color and went around to the auto
mobile dealers of Rio.
It seems absurd, but that one North
American, by the desperate energy he
threw into his work and the interest
he aroused, managed to make the ad-
vent of that magazine an affair of real
Importance to Rio He called his pub
LEGATION Revita de Automoveis, which
means The Automobile Review
1t was of forty pages and half the
pages were advertisements. He
charged $50 a page, so he had $1,000
in business in the first issue. He
charged 33 cents a copy for the maya.
zine, that is one milreis, and so eager
were the people to get it. that the
whole edition was exhausted within an
hour of its being placed on sale.
That first edition was of $500
copies He could have sold 5000.
Nothing so handsome ever had been
taken off the presses in Rio. 1t was
a novelty indeed. In all Brazil there
are only two other trade publications,
and they are not of much account.
With such a start Tietsort thought he
had the world by the tail Prominent
Brazilians were so delighted and en-
thusiastic over the handsome publica-
ton that they were eager to do any
thing or everything to advance it's in
terest
Star Writers Helped Him.
BastOs Tigre, the most prominent
writer in all Brazil, offered to do all
the translating for a nominal sum.
Tigre is poet of fine ability. and is
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

Tietsort grabbed the envelope,
shook the mans hand. thanked him
feTvently and then waved farewell to
his friends on the pier.
AS the ship backed out in the
stream, Tietsort stood on the main
deck and gloried in the view of New
York that soon was to be lost to him
for long, long time. He felt a sense
of exhilaration. Having the envelope
with the money in his pocket and all
the rosy prospects that he pictured in
Brazil, he felt that he was fortunate,
indeed He remained on deck until
the vessel had passed through the
Narrows and it was time to think Of
eating. He went to luncheon and
after luncheon he went to his cabin.
Then it was that he opened the en-
velope to put the money in secure
place. Then he gasped! The envel-
ope contained a large wad of paper
and a fiVe-dollar bill. Mr.. Francis
Judson Tietsort was off for South
American travelling like a money
prince with exactly $815 to his name.
Tietsort is game. He determined to
act up to appearances so far as he
could and when the blow-off came, he
could not help it. Having come to
that conclusion, he gave a dollar tip
to the waiter who served him at din
ner, and, although he had a box of
very fine cigars in the cabin, he or
dered cigars in the card room and
handed them around to all present
1t was a horrible bluff, but it served
to establish him for a few days
Then he did little more spending.
He had just fifty cents left when the
steamship was nearing Barbados.
Then Mr. Tietsort went into execu-
tive session with himself Should he
go ashore, or remain aboard? There
was just one man in Barbados whom
he knew. 1t would cost fifty cents to
go ashore, twenty-five to be rowed
from the ship to land, and twenty-five
back Tietsort decided to 60 He
might as well be "broke" as the way
he was.
Effect of Planters Punch.
He went ashore and was lucky
enough to find his acquaintance. The
gentleman was tickled to see Tietsort
There is one thing gentlemen do in
the West Indies when they meet an
MD friend ond that Ia fn hunt nm a !
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13
Give Meat to PuIIets.

Give considerable meat food to the
growing pullets now and they will lay
earlier on account of it, Commercial
prepared beef scraps, or cut fresh
bone, will be satisfactory for this pur-
pose, and skim milk will be of great as
sistance.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

Tered Tor SIX years
terribly. | tried sew
eral doctors but none
seemed to give me
any relief. Every
monththe painswere
intense in both sides,
and m ade m e 10
weak that | had to
go to bed. At last
a friend recommen-
ded Lydia E. Pink
hams We etabIe
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13
Eaax to Improve tomato.

1t would not be easy to find fruit
that can be more rapidly improved by
careful selection or run out more rap
idly by careless handling than the to-
mato.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

Never attempt to borrow trouble; IL
you do, people will insist upon pre-
senting it to you
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

When a man says he was driven to
drink he always insinuates that some
woman handled the ribbons.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

After the second baby arrives a
woman seldom changes the style of
doing up her hair.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13
aY3YIlN P PGR aye ACHES cHE ESIIHa

In jam, confectionery and tin box
factories of Great Britain many Wom-
en- earn only $1.50 per week.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

Many harmless looking bottle con-
tains a lot of fish stories
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

This is free country, but you
should be ashamed to say some Of the
things you think
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

Sometimes a man wakes up and dis
covers that he has a boss wife-and
they live happily ever after
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

It's easier to make A. bad matter
worse than 1t is to make a good mat
ter better.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

And many a poor man after winning
woman's hand finds himself under
her thumb.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

An economical woman tries to make
her waist as small as possible.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

The girl who is a good cook usually
deserves a better husband than she
gets.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13
MRS, THOMSON
TELLS WOMEN
How She Was Helped During
Change of Life by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Philadelphia, Pa. II am just 50 years
of age and during Change of Life suf-
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13
INTERNATIONAL
SUNIAYSQUOL
LESSON

(By f. o. SELLERS, Acting Director Sun
day school Course, Moody Bible Insti-
tute. Chicago)
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13
Effect of Planters Punch.

He went ashore and was lucky
enough to find his acquaintance. The
gentleman was tickled to see Tietsort.
There is one thing gentlemen do in
the West Indies when they meet an
old friend, and that Is to hunt up a
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13

Compound to me and / tried it at once
and found much relief. After that I
had no pains at all and could do my
housework and shopping the same
as always. For years l have praised
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound for what it has done for me,
and shall always recommend it as wo-
mans friend. You are at liberty to use
my letter in any way. Mrs. THOMSON,
GAG W. Russell St, Philadelphia, Pa.
Change of life is one of the most
critical periods of woman's existence.
Women everywhere should remember
that there is no other remedy known to
carry women so successfully through
this trying period as Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
If you want special advice
write to Lydia T.. Pinkham Med
icine Co. (cOnfidential), Lynn,
Mass. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by a woman
and held in strict confidence
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-11-13
LESSON FOR NOVEMBER IS
JESUS AND PETER.

LESSON .TExT-Mark ll;27-$t, s., "a, Co
q. S
GOLDEN FExT-Let him that thinketh
he standeth take heed lest ne fall Cor,
1912 p -
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-20
David Lamar, Under
Indictment, Revealed
To Initiate Steel Re-
bate Investigation.
Disclosure Comes Before Meet
ing Of Senate Committee.

Washington, Jan. 19.-David Lamar,
who furnished sensational testimony be-
fore the Senate lobby investigating COM
mittee last summer, and who is under in
dictment in New York for impersonating
congressman in telephone conversations
with big financiers. was revealed today
as interested in the effort to initiate offl-
cial investigation into alleged rebate CIV
ng by railroads to the United States
Steel Corporation.
The disclosure came in a meeting OF
the Senate interstate commerce commit
tee considering a resolution submitted
by Senator Lane of oregon, which directs
an inquiry by the interstate commerce
committee to ascertain whether the steel
corporation had received unlawful re-
bates which would justify legal proceed
ings William II. Green of Creighton,
Neb.. was mentioned in the Lane resolu-
ton as the man to whom the commits
sion should look for information on the
subject
Last week the interstate commerce
committee heard Senator Lane on his
resolution and directed him to get fur
ther information and report.
The senator reappeared before the COM
mittee today. After he had made state
ment Chairman Newlands asked him ii
he could locate Mr.. Green and have him
appear before the committee.
"Mr Green is here" said Senator
Lane He is in the room now"
Mr.. Green was called upon to make a
statement and give details of his fnfor-
nation as to rebates to the steel corpor-
alton He made a general statement, as
serting that he had a mass of informa-
ton but that he did not wish to disclose
It except to the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Pressed by members of the COMMITTEES
for details the Nebraskan asserted thai
he would not do so until he had consulted
my board of strategy"
who is your board of strategy" asked
Senator Townsend of Michigan abruptly
..Do you have any relations with David
Lamar"
Yes" Mr.. Green answered. "I know
Mr.. Lamar and would like to consult
with him and Mr.. Herman Schuiteiss OF
the Antitrust League"
Mr. Green also said that he had con.
ferred with Mr. Lamar before coming tc
the committee room and that the latter
had told him to go before the committee
but not to disclose his information as tc
rebates there. 1t was learned by the
committee later that Green had beer
mentioned during the lobby hearings as
one of the members of the Antitrust
League which, in cooperation with Da-
vid Lamar, urged the steel corporation
Investigation which eventually was un-
dertaken by the Stanley committee.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-20
PRESIDENT WILL
ADDRESS CONC.
Trust Message to Be
Read in Joint SeS=
sion Today.

Washington, jan 19.-Congress will
meet in joint session in the House
chamber tomorrow to listen to the fifth
message of President Wilson, his spe-
cial address on the subject of the
trusts and their regulation.
AS in the country-at-lar at the
Capitol interest in the forthcoming
message is intense.
Arrangements for the joint assem-
blage were made today, both houses
adopting resolutions to meet in the
House chamber at 1890 o'clock. The
President plans to begin delivery of his
message at that hour. A few minutes
before the reading the House will re-
cess to await the arrival of the Senate,
which will march in body from the
Senate chamber, headed by the Vice
President and sergeant-a t-arms.
Demands for tickets of admission to
the galleries have been the greatest
ever known for such an occasion. As
the capacity is limited each senator
and representative is being assigned
a single ticket, though they are over
whelmed with requests. The Capitol
police have taken unusual precautions
to handle the overflow crowds, which
will he clamoring for admission on the
lower floors of the building.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-20
RAILROAD BILL
STRIKES SNAC.
First Violent Opposition to
Proposition to Build Gov
ernment Railway in Alas
ka--Attacks the Theory of
Govt Ownership.

Washington. Jan. 19.-The bill propos-
ing the building of a government railway
in Alaska encountered its first vigorous
opposition in the Senate today when Sem
ator McCumber attacked it as the first
step toward 1.-The realm of paternalistie
and Sociaistic government"
Amendments adopted today by the COM
mittee on territories would provide for
the taking over by the government of
any existing lines necessary by purchase
or condemnation.
Senator MeCumber attacked the whole
theory of government ownership. He
said experience mad shown that it cost
the government twice as much as a pri-
vate concern to operate any enterprise
Government departments in Washington,
he insisted paid twice the salaries paid
for similar services outside government
employ. and an extension of this injus-
tice to the proposed government railroad
could be looked for.
"Why should the government develop
gold producing regions?" Mr.. McCumber
asked. "lt cannot be eaten; it is not
good for clothing; it merely adds to the
bulk of the coinage Only the man who
digs it from the ground benefits.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-20
Highway Contract Pay in N. Y.
Held Up Because Of Refusals to
Contribute to Campaign Funds.

the word he'd see that 1 got my con-
tract signed that day."
Chester w. Meyers of Utica, an as
sistant engineer in the highway de-
partment. formerly stationed at Syra-
cuse and Rochester, testified that, al
Though Civil Service employee and
not a Democrat, he had been asked to
contribute to the Democratic party by
William H. Kelly, Democratic leader
of Syracuse He said that in response
to letters from Kelly he had visited
him at his office.
The Democratic leader showed him
a list indicating how much state engi-
neers and assistant engineers were ex-
pected to contribute, he said, and told
him he was down for from 800 to s125.
Il was an enrolled Republican" tes-
titled the witness, but 1 decided to
give $25 because l thought ii would
cost me something if l didn't. Other
state employees We're all giving.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-20
He and His p-Daughtef
Planned Death Together.
Convinced Coronaf's Jury That.
Il Was Pure Accident.
Remarkable Pact That Two Could
Wed..fhe Confession.

Galesburg, ILL.,, Jan. 19.-Robert Hig-
gins confessed today that he murder
ed his wife at New Henderson, ILL.,,
jan 5, so that he would be free to
marry his step daughter, Julia Blake,
Is years old. He was arrested after
the girl told States Attorney Wilson
of her infatuation for Higgins and
that she importuned him to dispose of
her mother, who, she said, was the
only obstacle between her and happi-
ness.
The prosecutor hesitated to believe
the girls story of the extraordinary
pact which she entered into with her
step father, but she told how they had
talked for hours devising plan which
would make Mrs. Higgins death ap-
pear accidental She said she was in
the next room when Higgins fired the
shotgun which brought instant death
to her mother. She told how Higgins
raved and struggled with neighbors
for possession. of the gun. saying he
would end his own life. When the
excitement subsided somewhat. she
said, they explained that Higgins had
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