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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25
THE SPIRIT AND INTENT"

'
w. G. Lee, head of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, is out with the flatfooted declaration that
unless the railroads live up to the spirit and intent of
the Adamson law the country will face a great strike.
w. G. Lee makes people weary. For what is the spirit
of the Adamson law? And what is its intent? Shortly
before election the honorable Lee was forced to admit
that he himself did not know what the law meant and
that he was trying to find out. 1t is possible that since
that time he has interpreted this remarkable statute to
suit himself, but who is he to say what the spirit and i'll
ten of the law are? And what are the congressman who
voted for it to say? They all admitted at the time of
their action that they understood neither the law nor the
merit of the controversy, and that they were actuated
merely by a desire to avoid a strike. 1t is only natural
to assume, therefore, that the spirit and the intent of the
Adamson law are to be found in the wording of that law,
yet Mr.. Lee and his associates flatly refuse to accept this
wording. They emphatically declare that the law means
something altogether different and they propose that
their Interpretation and their construction be accepted
by the railroads and the country. This proposed proceed
ure, however. is hardly regular. 1t has been the practice
IN the past for courts to cOnstrue the meaning of laws
and the courts have had a way of constituting them to
mean just what they say rather than what interested
parties want them to mean. If the Adamson law doesn't
read as Mr.. Lee and his friends want it to read, the fault
lies with them and not with the courts. They had a pres
ident eager for votes and a covering congress at their
feet last August and were in a position to have any de
mand granted them in the way of legislation. If they
allowed the man who wrote the law to stuff it as full of
iokers as a pomegranate is full of seeds, they have only
themselve to curse and revile. Moreover, if thev are
wise they will go rather slow in the matter of ordering
strikes. The election is over now and President Wilson
will possibly not be found to be the plant and putty-1ike
creature he was last summer. His need for votes lies in
the past, and the railroads of the country were built to
serve the people of the country.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25
ART AND THE NATIONAL LIFE

Fragments of Colonel Roosevelt's address on Matt
onaism in Art and Literature indicate that his deep-set
Amer1can1sm has not been tinctured by any influence OF
foreign culture. He is Just as ambitious for the home
products in art and literature as in industry or politics
and demands a devotion from his country to strictly
national ideals here as in everything else. While he
gives his criticism a quality more corrosive, perhaps,
than Others who have labOred to the end he seeks, the
colonel voices sentiments that are really held by the bet
ter friends of all that is good in Americanism. 1t is too
much that we should have developed by this time a COM
pletely rounded art of our own, but we have the begin
nlngs. Our writers have won a place among the worlds
great; some of Our painters and sculptors are already en-
shr1ned among the immortals; American music is known
abroad, and a hearing has been had for our dramatists,
although we have as yet given to the world no truly
great play. Our national life, given over for the great
part to bringing waste places of nature under subJuga-
ton, to building up cities in the Wilderness, to wrestling
from forest and mine the things needed by man in his
material growth, has expanded to some degree along the
softer lines of art, and our people have responded in re-
spectful and even liberal admiration if not with the
fuller appreciation that comes from understanding. 1t
is, perhaps, because we have followed The colGnels order
OF things, and have developed strength, courage and
justice first that we are tagging IN other ways; yet even
this impetuous advocate of things to be done, whose i'm
patience bursts forth in termagant speech at times, must
know that the real fiber of Americanism lies much too
deep and is far too strongly knit to be weakened by Ser
Witty" in art. and that America will lose little bv not
hurrying on to something that must come slowly if it is
to be worthy when achieved.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25
AMERICA AND JAPAN

In an address to the Japanese society OF New 1ork,
Ebert II. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel cor
poration, recently argued that patriotic Americans, like
patriotic Japanese, should stamp out the white and vel
low iingoes, who, he said, had been trying for years to
groom their respective nations for conflict.
AS a result of the most careful inquiry among Japan
csc statesmen and the Japanese people, MIR. Gary IS CON
WINGED that they earnestly desire to maintain cordial rela-
tons with this country. The same painstaklng inquiry
will reveal the same feeling here. AS Mr.. Gary says, there
is no misunderstanding trouble that cannot be removed by
mutual and amicable adjustment.
Eliminating all eXtraneous questions, the only basis
for any trouble in the future IS the immigration problem.
Japan has insisted that the United States should view this
problem with a realization of the senS1t1veness and sense
OF honor of Japan. This problem adjusted, there would
be no further question about Japans longing for the Phil
ippines or control of the Pacific.
1t is quite as necessary, however, that Japan should
oct the viewpoint of the United States as it is essential
that this country should get the viewpoint OF Japan.
Japan should realize that whenever her eminent men
come to the United States they are Welcomd royalty, and
the greatest respect and liking is shown toward them, not
merely by American officials, but by American people.
The immigration problem of the United States has moth
ing to do with Japan's national honor or sensitiveness.
1t is merely an economic proposition concerning the pres
ervation of the American wage scale. The Japanese who
have come to the Pacific coast, for instance, have disturb
ed the labor market by working for much less than Amer
lean laborers are willing to accept. Naturally there is an
tagonism against the arrival of any large number of lap
anese. Japan can solve this problem herself by clamping
the screws firmly upon her emigration. SO long as she
does this it is hardly likely that the japanese immigration
question will be raised again in California. On the con-
trarv. there is every probability that the problem will adj
lust itself.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25
BELGIUM'S APPEAL

The direct appeal from Belgium to the United
States for aid in thwarting a German plan opens another
and even deeper phase of the diplomatic situation CON
nected with the war. German military authorities are
frankly enforcing labor of Belgians, have deported the
able-bod1ed men from certain localities and are using
them in Germany. This course is supported by the state
nent that otherwise the Belgians are idle, are charges on
charity, and consequently are deterioating. To give them
steady and useful employment will not only assist in solv-
ing the problem of their support, but will aid in restoring
them to a condition of self-respect and maintain them in
decency until they can be properly placed in established
society.
Against this the Belgians urge they are forced into
labor of benefit to an enemy; that the work the Germans
require is the production of munitions, which is tanta-
mount to forcing the prisoners to fight against their own
country. This is a roundabout way, they insist, of doing
something contrary to modern usages of war, and forbid
den by agreement International conventions, however.
have been of little service in the present conflict, and will
lind about as much grace in this as in other emergencies
that have arisen.
What our government will do is not indicated. but if
has instructed the embassy at Berlin to represent to Won
Bethmann- Hollweg that Germany's course in this can not
but have an unfortunate effect on neutral opinion" some
hing tor which all the beligerents have so Ear exhibited 4
lofty disregard. Notes may be exchanged. but in .;,c
meantime the Belgians will continue to work in the Ge~.
man quarr1es and cement factories, if not in the munit;o1,
factories.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25
MEETING THE COST OF LIVING

The British government proposes to deal with the
cost of living in much the same manner as the problem
was met in Germany and to a lesser degree in France.
The government will take over the food supply. and will
so regulate the distribution as to minimize waste and thus
lessen the cost to the public as far as possible. Early in
the war Australia took over the wheat supply of the COun-
try, and arbitrarily fixed the price. New Zealand fol
lowed, and out Of this action has come a situation of curl
Gus interest. Australia permits the shipment of flour at
a lower price than is given on wheat, with the result that
Australian millers are undertaking the South African
millers in Cape Colony, and a general protest is there be
ing made. When the British government takes over food
control at home, even without fixing prices, it is certain
to have some effect on the prices in America, from whence
England is Just now drawing it's chief supplies. SDecu-
lators in food NAV be able to maintain the inflated prices
in this country for a time. but the action of foreign gov
ernments is sure to overtake them, even if our own GOV
eminent refrans from interfering and the Americans NAV
in time share in the protection that is given the people in
the war-ridden lands of Europe.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25
EFFECT OF OUR INEFFICIENCY

lust now the American people in general are paving
for indulgence in the national habit of procrastination
We laugh at the man who did It fix his cabin roof in good
weather and then follow his example faithfully. The
fuel shortage in November might have been anticipated
in June. Cold weather always comes in the fall, and the
people always put off buying fuel until time to light the
fires. This practice is not very complimentary to our ma
tional intelligence, and could very we'll be given over for
the better way of making seasonable preparation. The
time may yet come when we will lay in Our winter fuel in
the summe time, and not be compelled to shiver during
cold weather while waiting for the slow movement of
blockaded traffic. The railroads are not to blame for the
car shortage so much as the American people, who put off
buying till the rush is on.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25
ARBITRATE

The threat of the deferred railroad strike being put
into use to settle the disputes growing out of the Adam
son law are i'll avised. We do not believe that halt OF the
railroad men would go on a strike in the cold weather OF
January. 1t is largely the talk of hot heads. We realize
there is a railroad dispute on, but it is not of such a serious
nature that sensible men cannot sit down and settle IL
without striking or locking out. Thirty minutes OF COM
mon sense talk ought to get over that difficulty. And TO
begin with, the men who talk about not being willing to
arbltrate anything are the men who are not using good
judgment. There is no man who has his cause Just who
is not willing to arbitrate. Arbitration is the only process
that stands between the world and anarchy. All men can
not have their own ways. Where differences arise there
must be yleldinos; it may be on both sides. In any event
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

The announcement that ~Josephus Daniels is to be
continued as secretary of the navy makes the whole coun-
try groan. And the groan is echoed as heartily bv those
who supported Wilson as by those who opposed him. If
Daniels were possessed of a suggestion of shame he
would relieve the president of embarrassment and the
country of an affliction by ~resigning at once.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

Chicago's middlemen still hold a tight grip on the
citys provision table. A few years ago when a surplus of
potatoes threatened the fixed price thousands of bushels
were destroyed or thrown into neighboring sand dunes.
Similar action is now indicated in reports of carload lots
rotting in the railroad yards. Apparently no sacrifice is
too great to maintain a business holdup.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

The Be1gians argue that their employment in non
war industries in Germany, by releasing for military ser
vice German workmen otherwise needed for their jobs,
amounts to making them fight against their own
countrymen. On the same theory, workmen in neutral
countries, employed in making supplies for the warning
nations, are likewise engaged in the conflict to the same
extent, IN that they have released others for military ser
vice. That is an argument that goes in a circle with
no end.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

The prices of fuel, food and clothing continue to adj
vance, but the incomes of a large number of heads of fam
lilies do not advance, and from the very nature of their
employment cannot advance. Indeed, the coming of the
winter season curtai1s their wages while increasing their
expenses. For many the next few months are pregnant
with bitterness.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

The state of Massachusetts has abandoned the holy
primary law as a cumbersome, unsatisfactory and expensive
bit OF election machinery, and has gone back to the con-
vention system. carefully safeguarding the election of del
egates. Massachusetts displays good sense.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

OKlahona admirers start the annual flock of turkeys
toward the White House. Hitherto Rhode Island claimed
the leadership in presidential prize birds. The new order
accords with Novembers verdict.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

Specialists in the car shortage business agree in rec
omendlng the heroic treatment of the pocketbook touch,
Long ago the science of motion demonstrated that pres
sure eNerted on the purse invariably started something.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

Eastern financiers view the golden flood with pessi-
nllStic glasses. Still they show no desire to turn the flood
westward and Danish the gloom.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

Inc task OF ironing out the unseemly wrinkles of the
starch trust is passed up to the federal trade commission.
a federal court bath reduces the stiffenine. and facilitates
the Job.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

Accepting accounts as fairly accurate. Tie world war
far out-l1erods Herod in it's slaughter of innocents. What
has happened in I Poland, ravaged by opposing armies, has
beer duplicated in Asiatic Turkey, in the Balkans, il
Franz: and Belgium. The innocent are the chief victims
of al wars, more so in this than ever before.
One unfamiliar source of dubious satisfaction grips
warning countries. Neutral bread baskets feel the pinch
almost as severely as those in the thick of the fight.
The portrait of w. J. Bryan presently will adorn the
walls of the state department. No matter what befalls.
usage forbids the picture being turned to the wall.
Unless all reliable signs fail, the United States will
carve Turkey long before the allies reach the suburbs of
the feast.
1t is too bad George Francis Train is no longer here
to spread the gospel of his peanut diet as a true cure for
highliving-cost evils.
Federal price probes are bound to furnish entertain
ing reading, even if the consumer fails to find it in the
bills.
No more cabinet changes until Wilson changes his
mind. Still, he has quite a habit of changing his mind.
Some day the price boosting bubbles will burst and
smother the boosters in their own gas.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

One unfamiliar source of dubious satisfaction grips
warning countries. Neutral bread baskets feel the pinch
almost as severely as those in the thick of the fight.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

The portrait of w. ]. Bryan presently will adorn the
walls OF the state department. No matter what befalls,
usage forbids the picture being turned to the wall.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

1t is too bad George Francis Train is no longer here
to spread the gospel of his peanut diet as a true cure for
high-living-cos evils.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

Unless all reliable signs fail, the United States will
carve Turkey long before the allies reach the suburbs of
the feast.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

Federal price probes are bound to furnish entertain
ing reading, even If the consumer fails to find it in tn,
bills.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

Some day the price boosting bubbles will burst and
smother the boosters in their own gas.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-11-25

No more cabinet changes until Wilson changes h
mind. Still, he has quite habit of changing his mind.
The Ordway new era., 1916-02-18
QUESTION nAr,oNAL.zeo.

81 have been forced tc the conclu-
sion that the only effective way to
deal with the liquor question is by and
through the action OF the national
government" Is the declaration CT
United States Senator Borah OF Idaho.
"The liquor interests themselves have
nationalized the question. The large
distilleries and manufactures Of intox-
icating liQuore supply every state IN
the Union from some particular manu-
featuring plant SO that 1t becomes in
every sense matter Of interstate con-
cern and a matter which can be ef-
7ectually controlled and regulated
through the national government
which alone can deal with interstate
matters. .
IF i had felt that 1t could be dealt
with by the states alone would have
much preferred to see 1t dealt with In
that way. But feel sure that 1t has
passed beyond the control OF the states
and has become national question In
every sense. economically, CONNER.
cially and politically"
The Ordway new era., 1916-02-18
SYNOPSIS.
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At vestry meeting of the Market
Square church Gail Sargent tells Key:
5tnith Boyd that Market Square church
IS apparently e lucrative business enter, I
oscIor ear She tinds cold disapproval in
the eyes of 'ev Smith Boyd. Aiiiso,
starts a campaign for consolidation ana
control of the entire transportation sYs-
tenn Of the world Gail becomes popular
Allison gains control OF transcontinentai
traffic and arrauges to absorb the we'd
Ser court tenement property of Market
Sqla-e church Gail tells Boyd that the
rathedral Market Square church proposes
to build will be out of proiits wrung from
sNnaior. AT meeting OF the seven hnnn-
ciai magnates OF the country. Allison or
sanizes the International Transportation
company. Rev. Smith Boyd undertakes
Calls spiritual instruction and Gail un-
consciously gI-es Allison a hint that solves
the yedder court problem for him. On
en- inspection trip in Allisop's new sub
way the tunnel caves in and imprisons
Che party. who are rescued by the eNer-
lions OF Allison and Boyd The newspaper
ercognts OF The subway accident place
Gail In the spotlfeht and drive her to her
home IN the "es, Her friends plot TO
cox hor kack
The Ordway new era., 1916-02-18
CURIOUS FACT LITTLE KNOWN
But II is Easily Possible for One to
Boil and Freeze Water at the
Same Time.

It Is q curious fact that water may
be boiled and frozen at the same time.
The temperature at which water boils
depends simply upon the air pressure
upon its surface II there be high
pressure, the water must be rendered
a good deal hotter in order that it
may boil than would be the case at
low pressure.
In mountainous regions, where the
air pressure is a good deal lower than
at sea level, water boils easily at a
low temperature. In cooking vege-
tables that require certain degree OF
heat, when the water boils before that
degree of heat is attained, the vege-
tables will mot get done" Conse-
quently, they must be placed in a
closed boiler. SO that the generated
steam will create sufficient pressure
for the water to boil at or beyond the
required temperature.
In the experimental proof OF this
fact the water is placed in a vessel
and the air IS exhausted from above
the surface of the water. AS the proc.
ess Of pumping continues the water
will boil violently, the steam CONCEAL.
ing on the sides of the exhaust vessel.
If the pumping is continued for a suf-
ficient period, and the outside is cooled
below the freezing point, the water will
continue to boil and bubble until 1t Is
frozen into snowy mass OF ice.
The fact is utilized in the estimation
OF the height Of mountains. Ordinarily
at sea level, where the pressure is
about 80 inches Of mercury. water boils
at PIP degrees Fahrenheit. Now, II
1t is noticed that at a certain place 1t
boils few degrees lower. the height
of that place may be easily ascertained
by the comparison with table made
out for this purpose.
In general, for every degree the boil.
ing takes place under 212, height of
about 500 feet is counted. This prin.
ciple does not. OF course, apply to wa
ter alone, but Is characteristic Of all
liquids.
The Ordway new era., 1916-02-18

sWS)l IN ssSsr ~ 6saes.- -
! lsaeghinsiy roQueetoA df3rins back .
stsp and blpshins furiously.
We're wasting time" protested
Arly. Hurry ON In, Dick. We want
to exhibit You"
II don't mind" consented Dick
cheertuily. and stepped through the
doorway. where he made decided
sensation. ~
Eleven girls dreamed Of his melting
eyes that night; and the town boys
lost their monopoly. Viewing Calls
victorious scramble with Arly for
Dicks exclusive possession, their
friends unanimously reduced them to
the ranks.
After the dance. Dick made good his
threat with Gail, and formally pro-
posed. urging his enterprise in coming
after her as one OF his claims to con-
sideration; but Gail. laughing. and lik-
ing him tremendously, told him he was
too handsome to be married, and sent
him back home with fresh gardenia
in his buttonhole. That night Arly
and Gail sat long and silently on the
comfortable couch in front of Arly's
fireplace. the one in fluffy blue furtive-
ly studying the one in fluffy pink from
under her black eyelashes. The one
in pink was gazing into the fire with
far-seeing brown eyes, and was braid
ing and unbraiding, with slender white
fingers. flowing strand of her brown
hair.
Gail" ventured the one in blue.
"Yes" This abstractedly.
Aren't you little bit homesick? I
am"
so am Il" answered Gail. with sud
den animation.
Lets go back!" eNcitedly.
"When?" and Gail jumped up.
The Ordway new era., 1916-02-18

the back of his head was pushed a
bright blue cap. with Sanitary Po-
lice" on it, in tarnished braid. Mr..
Rogers stood up.
What do you want?" he quite natu.
rally inquired.
"Clean up" replied the sanitary po-
liceman, setting down his pail and
ducking his head at the rector. then
mopping his brow with bent fore
finger, while he picked out place to
begin.
"Nothin' doing!" announced Mr..
Rogers, afame with the dignity of an
and he advanced warning step.
(TO BE CONTINUED)