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man of the federal trade commission.
Some of the extraordinary energy OF
the pneumatic tools he used to manu-
facture seems to abide in him. Only
fifty-pne years old, he has accomplished
much in the world Stocky. muscular
alert, alive, his thoughts move faster
sometimes than he can express them
in words, and his hands and features
have to help out. He radiates forceful-
ness.
He has made money-much money;
he has engaged in many enterprises
the pneumatic tool business being but
one of these; he has created factories
in this and European countries; he has
been railroad director and a bank
president. Commercial and financial
circles in London. Paris, Berlin and
Buenos Aires know him intimately.
just as those in Chicago and New York
know him.
ASK him the secret of his business
success and he will tell you, with a
touch of impatience.- that he does not
know. He has no prescription war
ranted to bring success, no intricate
theories on the subject. for he is a
practical man. Get him in conhden-
tial mood and he may admit that the
habit of thoroughneSS his mother IN
stiiled in him in performing tasks
about the house when he was. small
boy may have had something to do
with what he has accomplished.
Call him a political enonomIst ana
he would not consider himself fiat
tered, and yet his report on financial
and trade conditions in Latin Ameri-
can countries, made as result OF a
journey he took as trade commits
sioner in 1913 for the Department of
Commerce, is considered text book
by political economists.
With a common school education he
began to earn his own living as an
apprentice in a railroad machine shop
in his native town of Galesburg, Ill,
when he. was boy From there he
went to railroad shops in Chicago,
became locomotive fireman. and
years before he had reached his ma
jority he was locomotive engineer.
Restless, ambitious, he left that en-
ploy to become a salesman for a COM
pany manufacturing railway supplies.
Presently he was sales manager at a
large salary and. on the side, an in
ventor of successful equipment and
supplies for railways.
Then, with a few thousand dollars
saved and loyal partner, he left all
this to embark in business for him
self and to develop his IDEAS for max
ing pneumatic tools. His first factory
was an old barn. The tools began to
sell, and sell in great quantities.
a bigger factory came. Then he went
to England, talked English investors
into the enterprise and erected another
there. Presently he was the
figure in the pneumatic
tool business of the world and, at
thirty eight, in the millionaire class.
The opportunity came to sell out at
a big profit and he sold, retiring to
his now famous country place at
Wheaton, ILL.,, place where he farmed
and bred prize stock and built up a
country seat that is one of the great
show places of the middle west.
But after several years business
called and he embarked in other man
ufacturing enterprises in Chicago and
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INDIANS OF MATTO CROSSE.

az and Matte Grosso-which contain
more land than one-half of our coun-
try, with an aggregate population not
greater than that of the city of Bal
people number not more than one to
every ten square miles, and in many
districts the Indians are SO savage that
it would be unsafe to take census
except under arms.
There is no doubt that the largest
number of wild Indians to be found
anywhere is here in Brazil. They are
of many tribes and of all stages of
civilization. When the Portuguese
came they classed the Indians into four
great families and all of these were
found in Brazil. The Tupi-Guaranis
occupied one-fourth of Brazil. They
were to be found also in Paraguay and
Uruguay, and they covered much of
Bolivia and the Argentine. / saw many
of these Indians during my travels in
Paraguay. They are a mild people,
good looking and intelligent. The Tupi
Indians have one language with many
dialects. The Jesuits. who have done
most of their work among them, have
reduced their language to a grammati-
cal and literary form, and it is now
spoken throughout central South
America. 1t is understood from the
Amazon to the Rio de la Plata
The second family of these original
Indians was the Botocudos. These In
dams lived some distance back from
the coast, and remnants of them are
still to be found in Minas Geraes. Es-
pirito Santos and Sac Paulo. They
are about the most degraded of the
Brazilian savages. They wear great
plugs of wood. bones and pebbles in
their ear lobes and lips, not unlike
some of the tribes of Central Africa.
They wander about naked in the woods
and live on nuts and roots and what
they can kill. They are broad Shout
dered and muscular, but are under me-
dunn height. Their hair is coarse and
black and their color a yellowish
brown. almost the same as that of the
Chinese.
A few of the Botocudos have become
civilized, but the bulk of them are still
savage. They live in little huts in the
woods, seldom more than four feet in
height, and their only weapons are reed
spears and bows and arrows. The use
of the plug in the lips is now confined
to the women. When girl is eight
years old a small hole is made in her
lower lip with a hard pointed stick. and a
plug is put in to keep the hole open
From time to time the plug used is
larger and larger until at last it is
often as big around as tumbier. the
lip finally becoming a mere ring or
skin around the wood. The Botocudos
also use ear plugssand these are some
times of the size of a napkin ring or
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HURLEY the Federal Trade Suggests
l. Activity ltfUge Adoption of Uni
fmS CAn Business He
Credits Which Is Make the Task EaserFs
Ideas Based His Experiences
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n Not so many years ago a young
IN\U machinist with a big idea was
Nj building up a pneumatic tool
% business in Chicago Being
good manager as well as something of
a creative genius-a combination which
is unusual, since a creative genius,
whether he be an artist or tool
maker, usually subordinates the COM
mercial instinct to his passion for
creating a perfect work-his business
was growing.
So fast was it growing that he found
himself without capital sufficient to
meet the demands of expansion. He
owed $1,000. and his customers owed
him $50. 900, and orders were piling in.
That $4,000 was perfectly good
some time-but ii was slow coming in.
The orders were an additional asset.
The problem of getting the cash to
meet pay rolls and material bills and
to install new machinery was practi-
cally insoluble. He sweat blood over
it. Gray hairs came into his head.
His difficulty. as analysed in later
years, was taat he did not know how
to get the bank credit he needed and
was entitled to. Linked with a consti-
tutional horror Of borrowing money
and an almost fierce Independence of
spirit was an Ignorance of the language
Of finance. Frankly, he stood III awe
of the bankers.
And so he writhed and squirmed and
cut corners. Finally success came.
Eighteen years after he had quit run
ming an engine on the Burlington rail-
way he found himself at the head OF
tWo-million dollar business. the domi
mating figure in the pneumatic tool In
dustry of the country.
Since then he has had wide business
experience. The world has been the
field of his operations. He is au
thority on finance and foreign trade
as well as domestic trade. He ranks
business men. But the thought of that
dreadful period when he needed CAPT
tai and did not know how to get ii
abides with him. IL matters not that
in later years hnanciers were eager to
get his name on commercial paper;
the Remembrance of his mental sur
fering in those earlier days is never
lost
ing something which may prove help
full to all business in the country for
tine man is Z. n. Hurley. vice chairman
of the federal trade commission.
few months ago the commission
announced its consideration of d plan
proposed by Mr.. Hurley for an activity
on the part OF the commission in the
aid of business. Briefly IL is to bring
about the adoption in each of the 400
odd classes OF trade and industry of a
standard form of accounting and a
standard system of credits. Trade
journals and trade organizations
throughout the country have hailed the
idea as sound
Credits, in the opinion of Mr.. Hurley
ore essential to the conduct of modern
business and industry. Proper credits
can be based only on exact knowledge
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3razh Hopes to Civilize Her One Million Red Men

HE Botocudos and Their Enormous Lip
Plugs-Among the Savage. Mundu-
rucus-Head Hunters Who Use Poisoned
Arrows = Cannibals of the Amazon
Tanning the Nhambicares and the Kahn
gangs-Indian Farms and Schools
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Character, the late J. Pierpont Nor
gan said, is the great element in de-
terrnining credit; but character in the
business world is but .the record Of
past performances, the business mans
form chart, or dope sheet. as 1t were,
and the essential data of such perform
ances should find their place In the ap-
proved form of standard statement TO
be presented to the bank.
Here is an illustration which Mr..
Hurley used many times in talking
with business men on the long tour last
summer of the commission through the
country:
John Smith is a business man in a
prosperous community. He under
stands his business, he turns mis- stock
over frequently. he never defaults on
his bills, his bills receivable are SOUND !,
but he needs credit in order TO expand
his business and to operate ON more
economical basis. For instance. he
wants to buy stock in quantities in or
der to purchase at lower figure.
The bank knows very little about his
business, and he. standing IN awe OF
the bank does not know no" 10 tell his
story, In other words. he does not
sneak the language of the banker. He
stands on the bank records as, say,
two hundred dollar credit. simply be-
cause he happens to belong to the same
lodge and the same church as the
banker and is rated as a good citizen.
From time to time he has borrowed
that much on his note and always paid.
But the bank would hesitate about
lending him more.
should he try to get a larger line of
credit from the houses which supply
him, those houses concerned would
write to the bank and would get a re-
port indicating that he is fair risk"
which is not calculated to awake any
enthusiasm in the breast of the credit
man. John Smith does not get the
credit he needs and to which the con-
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clude complete information as to every
item of costs, profit, turnover and the
like. In other words. it must be based
on scientific accounting. And scientific
accounting is yet in its infancy in this
country, as compared with the develop
ment of scientific accounting in bust
ness and industry in some European
countries The result is that many
businesses do not get the credits which
they need and ought to have.
Time was when so rapid was the
country's growth that percentages Of
profit were so high that it did not seem
to pay to analyze the operations of
factory with all the refinements of
modern accounting. That time has
passed. The country is going into for
eign trade, competition at home is
keener, percentages of profit have come
down toward the worlds normal.
Slipshod, inexact methods no longer
go. The other great commercial and
industrial nations in their commercial
and Industrial activities operate from
scientific basis; commerce and indus
try in the United States cannot afford
to do otherwise.
Exact cost keeping and accountancy
methods Mr.. Hurley argues, are abso-
lutely necessary to a sound system of
credits His plan, as outlined to the
commission, in part provides for the
establishment of standard forms of ball
ance sheets. statements. for pres
entation to banks from which credit is
desired.
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Even before he made the suggestions
certain Industrial and commercial or
ganizations Of national character had
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Credits, in the opinion of Mr.. Hurley
gre essential to the conduct of modern
business and industry. Proper credits
can be based only on exact knowledge
of the condition Of the business requir-
ing credit. That knowledge must in
Warren sheaf., 1915-07-28

Miss Sadie Anderson made triu
Ito Thief River Fails last Friday. s.' !
l A Mission meeting was conducted
in the church here last Wednesday.
Alfred Underberg met with a sad
accident last Sunday, while playing
ball couple Of miles out Of town,
he s had his leg broken just above his
ankle. ,35
Mrs. Oscar J Johnson went to Warren
last Friday, and will spend some
time there.
Hedvin and Andrew Holmgren at
tended to business matters in Argyle
last week
| Miss Lavine Rokke, of Zumbrota,
Minnesota, visited with her. sister
here last Saturday.
Miss Olga Holmgren made a. trim
+ to Warren last Wednesday.
John c.. Anderson, of West Valley
was struck with paralysis last Thurs
day. At present much cannot be said
as to wether he will recover or not.
but he is slightly improving.
Miss Ethel Pihlstrom returned tc
her home in Warren on Tuesday.
The Svnod's Ladies Aid will meet
at Mrs. P. O., Hanson on Aug. 1st.
Mrs. Lindemo; of Minneapolis, has
been visiting her brother. Ray Ander
son. during the past week.
Axel johnson visited with home
folks at Detroit over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Onger went to Karl
stad on Monday.
Dolpha Strandquist and Ottine
Kokke attended confirmation ser
vices near Englund on Sunday fore
noon and enjoved a pleasant visit at
Rev. Gronberg's.
Ella Lund came up from Radium on
Sunday morning to spend the day at
home.
Editor and Mrs. Wilson. from
Newfolden, aecomranied bv Mrs. F. r.
Halotte spent few hours here last
Monday.
J.sJ. Oistad was business caller
in kar]stad on Monday.
g: T. Johnson ard family went to
Strathcona. on Sunday.
The Youn~ PEOPLES Snciatv will:
meet at Backer's on Aug. 1st.
On Aug. 9th the Young Peoples
Society will meet at N. S;hlbero's
Mrs. Walters. from Mirneanolis is
here visiting relatives and friends.
Mrs. Holmlund and Miss Aaker-
blom are visiting at R. Nelson's.
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Miss Helena Aakerblom is visiting
relatives and friends in this neigh
borhood and also called at Karlstad a
day last week.
Mr.: and Mrs. Jonas Sjodin spent a
few days visiting relatives near Ste
phen, last week.
;. News was received last Sunday
that Anton Holmlund. former farm
er in West Valley, but, now residing
near Melfort, Sask., Canada, !. was
accidentally shot, when on fishing
trip last week. His body was not
found before after couple of erdays
search. Besides his wife and children,
and two brothers in Canada, he leaves
a sister, Mrs. Ole Sjodin, at this
place, to mourn the loss of the unfort-
unate one.
Warren sheaf., 1915-07-28
HAVE YOU WEAK LUNGS

Do colds settle on your chest or in your
bronchial tubes? Do coughs hang on, or
are you subject to throat troubles?
Such troubles should have immediate
treatment with the Strengthening powers
OF Scott's Emulsion to guard against
consumption which so easily follows.
SCOTS Emulsion contains pure cod liver
OF which peculiarly strengthens the res
Plratory tract and improves the quality OF
tne blood; the glycerine in it soothes and
meals the tender membranes of the throat.
Scott $ is prescribed by the best special
lists. You can get it at any drug store.
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Important
News Events
Of the World
Summarized
European War. News
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Austro-German troops of the armies
of Field Marshal Won Hindenburg and
Field Marshal Won Mackonsen are in.
Vest1ng Novo Georgievsk, Warsaw and
1vangorod. three of the greatest for
tresses in the world, and the mighty
battle in Poland continues with the
utmost ferocity, says a Berlin dis
patch.
The American bark Dunsyre, bound
from New York TO Stockholm. has
been seized by the Germans and TAX,
EN- into Swinemunde, says Berlin
cablegram. ~ -.~~--,>,-.;'t 80. s.>->,
Great Britain has apologized to Nor
way tor the action qf = British armed
trawler in invading Norwegian waters,
It was announced at Christiania Fri
day.
lvanEorod. the Great Vistula for.
tress and key to- Warsaw and kublin,
has been invested by the Germans,
uaysfa London dispatch: Already the
German siege gums have been brought
up, IT 1vangorod falls, the Russians
VILE be forced to evacuate all Poland
A. Turkish German expedition, it is
.leborted at Cairo, has landed in. Trt-
poll with Cyrenaica as it's objective:
If this is SO, Turkey has openly Joined
the war against Italy.
An Official declaration published in
Berlin says that Germans working III
factories in neutral countries, partic-
ularly in the United States, producing
war supplies for the enemy, render
themselves liable to prosecution for
treason.
The Mittags Zeitung of RotterdaHn
reports that the new $3.50 900 900 Eng
fish war loan will be used to induce
neutral nations to enter the war on
the side of the allies.
The Norwegian ship Nordlyset was
0CLdChcu NY OeTmdn submarine ana
destroyed of Cape Lindesnaes, Nor
way. Her crew landed at Frederiks-
havn, Denmark, according to Copen-
hagen dispatch.
Renewed activity of British subma-
rines has paralyzed for the time being
all traffic in the Turkish inner seas,
says an Athens cablegram.
No British ships were sunk during
the week ending July 21. according to
an official statement issued by the Of
fetal press bureau of the admiralty at
London The statement gives the
number of arrivals and departures Of
vessels in British ports during that
period as 1926.
Premier Borden of Canada has ar.
rived at the front and visited the Can
adian ditis1on, according to London
dispatch.
Nedjemkden Effendi, Turkish minis
ter of Justice, accompanied by Fos-
sun Ehendf, are expected at Geneva
for the purpose, 1t is reported. of OPEN
anE separate peace negotiations with
the triple entente. .,-
Warren sheaf., 1915-07-28

THE MINNESOTA 9TATE<FA September 6 to H. IL fer
ALL THE MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN in the 8tate
It IS EvERYofEs Have you bouncing baby boy q
ear 3etween twelve and months old? +
the Baby Show before entries close September r Have you
e1der children? Let them to the Fair the wonderful
pionshp girls canning bread making contests Art Smith
IN his airship and the fire works you raises
i've stock Or farm products above the
ews and cooks well write to Secretary G. Simpson Ham
hne Minnesota for premium list In this way you may
only win some money but help your
Minnesota State Fair the largest all America larger
and l more successful Don't put it off, WRITE TODAY.
Warren sheaf., 1915-07-28

The safe IN the post once &C Iron:
ton, Mo-. was blown and 1880 worth
of stamps taken. The money drawer,
containing $50. was not touched
A plot to kidnap Joseph F. Smith,
head of the Mormon church, and hold
him for 100000 ransom, has been dis
covered by federal authorities at Den.
yer, Colo @
The cattle sanitary board at Al
buquerQue. N, M, has rescinded the
order requiring the disinfection OF
cattle cars entering New Mexico.
Lamar Brey, son of a prominent
Memphis (Tenn.) family, and Miss
Mabelle Daley, society girl, were
killed some time Thursday nj ight when
Brey's automobile overturned in Riv-
erslde park. Their bodies were found
under the automobile by a park .po.
.liceman
The Cunarder Orduna sailed from
New York Thursday morning for Liv-
erpool with large cargo of muni-
tions and IS cabin passengers, includ,
ing several Americans. '..
One man was killed and 500, 900
loss was inflicted by f're which de-
stroyed the repair shops OF! the Santa
Fe railroad at Kansas City, KAN -
Foreig1
The Tagaloxs o1 Euson threaten =
new insurrecti6n, according TO: =
Manila cablesram., Carriaga,. lienten-
ant OF Ricarte ana one Of f'the leaders
Of the Christmas eve revolt, has been
spurring it on.
a strike having broken out at Leib-
nitz, the Austrian government sent
troops to the town. Six Of the strik-
ers were shot, says Paris cablegram.
A London dispatch says the British
steamer Polish Prince from New.
York June II has been sunk in col
lision with the Lowther Range. -.
=
The strike 81 the 100000 Welsh coal
miners has been practically settled.
The terms, which are favorable to the
strikers, have been unanimously &C.
eepted BY the workmen's council, sub
ject to ratification by the miners. -
= Three bodies, believed to be those
of Lusitania victims, were recovered
along the Irish coast, one on Kerry
coast and two on that of Clare accord
ing to Queenstown dispatch.
A dispatch from Durham, South Az
RIGA, says that the new peninsular and
Oriental liner Benalla, from English
ports to Australia with 800 settlers on
board is on fire at sea some 500 miles
east of Durham.
Warren sheaf., 1915-07-28
Washington

President Wilson called for reports
on the subject of national defense
just before leaving Washington. Fri.
day. These will be made to him per.
sonally by the heads OF the war and
navy departments
Reports were current in Washing
ton Friday that former Representative
A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania
has been selected for the post Of coun::
,sellor of the state department.
Secretary Of Stats lansing at Wash,
ington tefegraphed General CarrAhza
that his troops must be withdrawn
from Naco, which they entered in vi
olation of the agreement made by
General Villa and Carrahza's repre-.
sentatives with Gen, Hugh Scott, chief
Of stan Of the United States army.
Attorney General Gregory at Wash,
ington is planning TO put THE 1900
federal convicts in TIE Atlanta and
Fort Leavenworth penitentiaries at
work making munitions of war, ex.
cept explosives, for the United; States
army.
!!
! The government is facing a strike OF
the machinists employed at the Wash.
ington navy yard. The workmen
charge that a ''black list has been
prepared that is to include every ma.
chinist who resigns TO accept private
employment, and they demand re-
storation of the wage scale in force
prior to July l. y A.
The people of the United States
spent $750,o00,O0C last year for edu.
cational purposes. This was less than
one- third the amount. they spent fol
liquors, says a Washington report
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Personal

James NJ. Sullivan, United States
minister to Santo Domingo, has re-
signed and his resignation has been
accepted at Washington. II
tt .-'E
The body of Herbert S. Stone, who
was a Lusitania victim, has come
ashore at Ballybunnion, small town
at the mouth of the River Shannon
on the west coast of Ireland.
United States Senator Albert Cum
mings Of lowa->said in an interview
Warren sheaf., 1915-07-28

g Pittsburg.s Kan, that he will not
be 2 candidate for president on the
Republican ticket in 1916
Henry s. Graves, chief Of the Uni
ted States forestry service, was at
Seattle, Wash, Wednesday . On the
way to Alaska to collect data to sup.
port the forestry department in op-
posing the abolishment of any Jof the
Alaskan forest reserves.
Prof. Augustine ]. s. Bourdeau, a
prominent Seven Day Adventist, and
Edwin Andrews, fifteen, years old, are
dead as the result Of a lightning
stroke at Takoma Park, Md.