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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-16

users are served by 500 public service
corporations.
The mail handled by the commits
sion has averaged 1000 incoming let
ters a month and 5000 outgoing a
month. This vast volume of CORES
pondence has resulted in smoothing
out in most instances the rough
places between the utility and the
customer.
The report declares that the great
majority of our utilities have been
honestly conducted. There have been
honest mistakes and errors of judy
ment but only very little evidence of
actual fraud After explaining how
special rates grew up in the intimate
associations of the early utilities the
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-16
Public Utilities COMMISSIONS Report

The annual report of the Public
Utilities Commission which has been
filed with the the Governor and Coun-
Gil, summarizes the work of the COM
mission for the year and gives detailed
reports in relation to the railroads
and other utilities of the State
The report states that a large por-
ton of the time of the commission
ters, which is not surprising, as it
Was only after Dec. l. 1914, that any
one of the more than 100000 users
of services offered by public service
companies had any proper tribunal
before which they could come. These
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-16

ringworm, favus, double-pored tape
worm, round worm and tongueworm
are often conveyed to human beings
| in this way. 1t occasionally happens
also that the dog helps fleas and ticks
in transmitting bubonic plague or the
deadly spotted fever
Hydatid disease is caused by the
presence in the liver, kidneys, brain,
! lungs and other organs, of bladder
worm or larval tapeworm Bladder
worms are often as large as an or
ange and may be larger. A dog which
is allowed to feed on carrion or the
raw vscera of slaughtered animals
may eat all or part of a bladder worm
containing numerous tapeworm heads.
These tapeworm heads develop into
small segmented tapeworms in the
intestines of the dog. The tapeworms
in turn develop eggs which are pass
ed out in the excrement of the dog.
They are spread broadcast on grass
and in drinking water where animals
can very we'll eat them and thus be-
come infected. The hog is partieu-
| larly liable to this disease because of
its roofing habits. The eggs may get
into human food. and persons who al
low logs to lick their hands and face
also run the risk of getting the eggs
of the tapeworm in their systems.
Prevention on the farm consists in
so restraining the dog that he can not
get at carrion or raw viseera. NiScera
should be boiled before being fed to
the dog and should never be thrown
on the fields. If not cooked and ted
yicera and carcasses should be burn
ed, buried with lime, or so disposed
of as not to be accessible to dogs
Proper feeding of the dog is essential
and the owner who does not feed a
dog properly has no right to keep one.
The parasite which causes gid in
sheep somewhat resembles the hydatid
worm. A dog allowed to eat the
brain of giddy sheep may swallow
this parasite and later distribute the
eggs of the resulting tapeworm over
the pasture. Sheep while grazing
swallow the eggs with the grass
which they eat In the case of sheep
dogs it is important to administer
yermifuges often enough to keep them
free of these worms. In the case of
sheep measles, the bladder worm in
the meat, typical of this disease, is
swallowed by the dog and again the
tapeworm eggs are passed by the dog
to grass or water, and there are eaten
by sheep.
OF the external parasites which
dogs may carry to animals. tieas and
the various kinds of ticks are both
troublesome and dangerous. The
remedy is clear. The owner must
keep his dog clean. not merely for
the comfort and happiness of the dog,
but to prevent it from becoming
carrier of disagreeable and dangerous
yermin.
These reasonable measures, import
ant TO the stock on the farm, have a
direct connection with the health of
the family. Where ringworm or
other skin diseases break out among
the children, or the worm parasites
develop. it is well to determine
whether dirty or uncaredfor dog
may not be carrying infection on his
skin or hair. or be conveying disease
from carrion directly to the food and
persons OF his friends. Even II no
one is infected with disease, the folly
OF allowing dog to remain dirty and
have the freedom of home where
personal cleanliness and hygiene are
respected, is apparent.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-16
Good Bye,
Painful Corns j!

When your feet are not right
paining you-corns continually on
edge-makes you hate to put your
feet down solid, it makes life just
about unbearable-you're wrong
all over, day in and day out.
One of the simplest yet most eff
fective methods of removing corns
is to apply
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-16
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Stands

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cies in any town or community where
the Reporter is not already on sale,
Anyone so situated that they might be
able 10 sell few copies each week
should write us about the matter.
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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-16
NYAL'S
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1t relieves all pain, banishes dis
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when you've forgotten you ever
had one. There is absolutely no
danger of infection-it is thor
oughly antiseptic-forms a coat
ing over the corn, softens and re
lieves the pain following pressure
of shoe.
Price IS Cents
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-16

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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02
SHORT

"Eron, every factory. from every banker and business
man, from foreign and domestic tinanclers and manulac-
trrers comes the one cry of shortage OF something that Is
needed in that particular line of endeavor whence comes
the COMPLAINT saws the Financial World. There IS a
famine in steel and orders taken now cannot be Delivered
before we'll into next spring, II then, the word continues
Labor asks wage increases and the employer, helpless,
must give in: the copper metal producers are trying to
limit the clamoring buyers, who are asking for deliveries
in the second quarter OF 1917; the car manufacturers are
overrun with orders and the shortage is made the SUBJECT
of an official investigation by the chamber OF deputies III
Paris, where it is asserted that out OF $1,000 railroad cars
ordered in the United States, only 5000 or 1000 nave Deeh
delivered: the Railway Review explains in part the reason
for the French car shortage by the statement that car
orders since January I last have been 10000, or 5000 more
than were ordered in the year 1915, while there is not a s11l-
lar supply of labor from which to draw IN order to com
plete the Job; Chief Engineer Bump OF the Doherty organi-
cation points out that at the present rate OF Demand II the
government insists on carrying out its naval plan with
ont DELAY, the General Electric and Westinghouse Elec-
trio companies will be engaged for three years on the con-
tracts and be unable to do any commercial business what
ever to fill new orders in that period; the steel trade asserts
that a serious car shortage now menaces Its business at
Pittsburgh, as the production is limited by the number OF
cars available for carving away the immense output, and
our bankers find bonds and high-grade stocks extremely
scarce, as a result of a tying up OF hundreds OF millions OF
the same in loans.
The only thing that is abundant seems to be money,
with complaints that its abundance is one OF the factors
making for high prices. Europe cannot stop buying if she
would, and as long as she keeps up the pace there seems
to be no relief for us on this side, except as we moderate
our demands and become content to waive some OF the
things now demanded. If. therefore, in the next SIX
months industry shows some slowing down it should not
be surprising. The country must have time to catch up
and clear away the mountain of orders.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02
PUTTING BELGIANS TO WORK IN GERMANY

The deportations in Belgium are still going on. One
statement makes 1t out to mean, ultimately that every
able-bodled man in the occupied part of that country will
De torn from his own country, and from his home and
FAMILY. Only the good-for-nothngs are to be left in Bel
gum, including the crippes, Whole train loads of the
able-bod1ed men are said to be moving into Germany, not
at their own will, but under compulsion of the govern
ment. Germany needs them, but it has made out a case
Tor It's summary action. 1t is alleged that the men who
are being taken are a burden on Belgium, that they are
dependent on charities and will not work at home. Since
they have to be supported, the Germans are going to put
them to work in Germany. Under the rules of war and
international law, the employment of subjected peoples in
war is not permissible. Germany in this case saws that
the men being deported will not be used in making war
On the allies. They will be employed in stone quarries,
lime kllns and so on. But it is pointed out that such work
is directly connected with the making of war. The con-
crete which is used in making trenches and other defenses
IS made out of the materials that the Be1gians will be
forced to quarry. That is, the Belgians deported will be
used to help kill the Belgians who are still fighting on the
side of the allies.
We must assume that Germany is under some great
stress or other or these Belgians would not be taken into
Germany to carry on work. If the war is to be continued
more men will be needed, for the armyand the work in
factories and the fields cannot be neglected. The factories
must be opened to keep up the war supplies and the fields
worked to keep up the supplies of foods. Presumably all
the prisoners that Germany holds are doing similar work
similar to what will be required of the Belgians. And
those who will not work, they shall not eat.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02
EMBARGO AN IMPOSSIBLE REMEDY

Probably the most vital material question before the
people of this country today is that of the food supply Tor
the next two or three years. The cost of foodstutts has
reached a point which seriously endangers the welfare OF
a very large proportion of the people of this country, ne
cessitating a degree of economy in food supplies on the
part of millions, with no assurance of any lessened cost for
the next year or two, which demands our most serious
study.
The suggestion of the embargo on foodstuffs might
as we'll be dismissed from all consideration. Even if it
were feasible from every point of view, and it is not, it
is not conceivable that the farmers of the country would
permit congress to pass a bill which would deprive them
of the right to a foreign market for their products.
The grain growers of the west would be no more will
ling to submit to an embargo on the shipments of wheat
and flour and provisions than the cotton growers OF the
south would be willing to submit to an embargo on cotton.
Any serious suggestion of an embargo on cotton or
foodstuffs for the purpose of reducing the cost of food
stuffs and cotton to American consumers would meet with
a storm of protest from the producer of those staples
which no congress would stand.
Moreover, it would be unjust to the producers.
The farmers have not been over-prosperous as COM
pared with other classes. AT times they have passed
through long periods of depression in the price of cotton
and grain. They are as justly entitled from every legal
and ethical point of view to get the most out of what they
are now producing as the day 1aborer or mechanic is en-
titled to get the largest amount of wages he can secure.
The economic law of supply and demand must regulate
these questions.
Before the next grain crop is produced the country in
all probability will be swept absolutely bare of wheat and
corn and other grains. We shall, therefore, go into the
next crop season under conditions that would guarantee
high prices even if we could be absolutely sure that the
crop of 1917 would exceed the unprecedented yield of 1915
Therefore, under the very best conditions we cannot hope
for any material decline in the cost of grain to the consum-
ers of the country, and the cost of grain will largely meas
ue the cost of all foodstuffs.
Under these conditions it is essentially important 70
the welfare of the country that the farmers should be in
duced, because of the assurance of these prices so profit
able to them, to put into foodstuffs every possible acre that
they can sow or plant and cultivate. The margin IF safe
tv between a food supply fairly equal to demands next year
and an absolute famine at e%xorbitant prices IS too narrow
Tor the comfort of the country to be considered without
serious concern.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02
CONTROL OF INTERSTATE WATERS

The federal court of appeals sitting at Denver has
handed down a decision affirming the right of senior claim
ants in Nebraska to use OF the waters OF streams flowing
across the state line from Colorado. The Justice of this IS
apparent, but junior claimants had set up a claim of state
priority over the waters in controversy, necess1tat1ng the
suit. 1t is a most important point in irrigation, the appl1-
cation of which is vital to the development of reclamation
enterprises. The irrigator falls without the common law
provision that the user must return the water to the stream
undiminished in volume and unaffected as to quality. He
applies the water to such uses as preclude its return, and
therefore must have a different rule to govern him. The
establishment of the principle of priority without regard
to state lines affords this rule.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

The farmers of the country are now being mildly ac-
cused of having lied about their wheat crop last summer
Understanding it at least twenty-five per cent in order to
force up the prices. But are the farmers holding back
twenty-five bushels out of every hundred they raised
We doubt it. In the past the farmers have always been
accused of overestimating their crops, or the agricultural
experts have done it for them. Our own opinion IS that
the farmers were not guilty as they are chang There
was an actual wheat shortage and every man knows there
has been also a corn shortage and a potato shortage. ANY
farmer even in Iowa or Michigan can convene you on the
matter of potatoes, and those in Nebraska and Illinois can
tell you about the corn.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02
serious concern.

The narrow margin by which opposing parties claim
control of the two houses of the S%ixty-fifth congress is but
one of the several worries in sight for floor leaders. A
huge suffrage lobby plans a descent on the members, and
a host of dry campaigners threaten a continuous ghost
dance on the frame of John Barleycorn under the capitol
dome. The pressure of vocal thunderings at both ends
and the middle insure the lawmakers variation in exercise
and fatigue to warrant the salary.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

The culinary genius who complies a breakfast of four
pancakes, with bacon and eggs to match, for 10 23 cents
comes fairly close to defining one vital section of the
American standard of living. Economy is limited to non
essentials, which, in reality, obstruct the inward JOY radi-
ated by the festal combination.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

The plan to elect presidents by popular vote is simplv
a plan to give the southern states a strangle hold on the
government. They can provide any majority needed to
put their candidates across.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

When Tom Taggart sent that big bouquet to the w.
c. T. u. convention at indianapolis the other day, he pos
sibly realized that the big sensation would not be in the
ranks of the w. c T. u, but elsewhere.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

Five thousand cases of eggs, nearly two million eggs,
were shipped last week from Sioux City, Iowa, to France.
having been purchased by the French government for the
army. 1t is stated that by January I there will be no
try will then be dependent upon the meager winter pro-
d1ct1on of the American hen. The ing1orious finish OF
the man who insists on two soft boiled eggs for breakfast
is looming ominous1v in the offine:
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02
PRICES HERE AND IN CANADA

Canada, like the United States, is complaining of
high prices, but unlike the United States she complains OF
a condition that would be accepted here without especial
demur. For while Canada is at war and devoting a great
portion of her energy to this wars prosecution, her people
have not suffered the imposition of war prices that has
been visited upon the people in this land, where peace
and plenty are presumed to nest and brood like twin doves.
The Canadian lament on the high cost of living is set forth
in the following summary of the situation by the Canadian
Department of Labor:
In the six months between July and December, 1914, the cost
Of weekly family budget of some thirty staple foods rose from
s742 to $S13, though part of this rise a perhaps due to
seasonal differences. The cost of food in 1915 as reckoned 13
per cent greater than five years before. The cost of fuel and
lighting a but four Der cent greater than in 1910, but in many
manufactured goods there we're again phenomenal rises. The
predominating influence the department naturally finds to be
the war, and it points out the compensating stimulation Of the
high prices upon industry and trade. Not only did the "a make
necessary production in many lines never before thought of, but
had been attempted in queer times with unsatisfactory results.
There we have it in official figures by the Canadian
government. The cost of food has been boosted II per
cent during the last five years, practically all of this raise
being within the last two years. During the same period
the cost of food in this country has increased from 40 to
so per cent.
The cost of fuel in Canada has increased but four per
cent since 1910. In the United States at large it has in
creased anywhere from so to $50 per cent.
There is no escaping the conclusion to which these
comparative figures lead us. The rise in the cost of living
in Canada has been normal and legitimate. That in the
United States has been abnormal and il1egitimate.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

Just because congress passed the Adamson law at
stop-watch speed is no reason why the courts should not
deliberate consideration to the law suits bv which it is
to be determined whether the law collides with the CON
stitution or what it means if valid.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

The fact that one million barrels of alcohol were con-
sumed last year in manufacturing high explosives for the
entente allies possibly explains to some extent "the in
creased per capita consumption the "wets" are advertis
ing.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

The California reports state that Jack London's i'll
ness was discovered by his valet. What's this! A social
lst with a valet? Oh, we'll, the things men preach and the
things men practice are sometimes very unlike.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

A Pennsylvania congressman actually flew to Wash
ington and claims to be the first man to get there by the
air route. Omitting the word "hot' shuts out a lot OF
competitors for the title.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

Woeful and wanton waste is Americas greatest of
offense and if the high living cost helps to cure the fault,
the affliction will have compensating advantages.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

Colonel Tohn B. Stoll, a democratic leader of lndi-
ana, and for many years a writer of note, has evidently
not been satisfied with a certain phase of his party's "pr>s-
perity talk In The Editorial he says:
There is one thing that will disappear from pub
lie discussion now that the election is over: We
shall be treated to no more fustian as to what caused
the spotted prosperity that has been filling the cot
fers of our millionaires and enticing the beneficiar-
les of abnormal wages into extravaganza eXpendl-
lures. Why a matter so self-evident and apparent
should have become a subject of political dispute is
beyond comprehension.
Yes, Colonel, the discussion closed on the night of
November E, along with that other discussion of how
Wall Street was 'smashed." And after all, isn't even
Spotted" prosperity better than the kind we had during
the first year of the Underwood law2
Woeful and wanton waste is Americas greatest OF
offense and if the high living cost helps to cure the fault,
the affliction will have compensating advantages.
The recent elections have made a lot of recruits for
the short ballot movement and have made no conversions
away from it. 1t is only a question of time.
Admiration for the law of supply and demand grows
in proportion to the advance in the price of the goods.
This deciding first and investigating afterwards rule
may make for speed in litigation as in legislation, but it
is dangerous in both.
The rice booster who is not lust forced to it, by
some one else boosting prices on him would be a fine mu-
scum exhibit.
Christmas dolls are to be so expensive this year that
there are visions of the revival of the old rag doll with the
butternut head.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

Christmas dolls are to be so expensive this year that
there are visions of the revival of the old rag doll with the
butternut head.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

Admiration for the law of supply and demand grows
in proportion to the advance in the price of the goods.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

The recent elections have made a lot of recruits for
the short ballot movement and have made no conversions
away from it. 1t is only a question of time.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

The rice booster who is not "iust forced to it by
some one else boosting prices on him would be a fine mu-
scum exhibit.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02

This deciding first and investigating afterwards rule
may make for speed in litigation as in legislation, but it
is dangerous in both.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02
OUR SPOTTED PROSPERITY

Colonel John B. Stoll, a democratic leader of lndi-
ana, and for many years a writer of note, has evidently
been satisfied with a certain phase of his partys 'pr)s-
peritv talk" In The Editorial he says: