The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1916-12-14
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looked as if Sandy Mush district in
Buncomb county. North Carolina,
would decide the political majority Of
the next House of Representatives;
but the unexpected victory OF NJ.
Clyde Kelly, Progressive Democrat of
Pennsylvania, has tipped the. scale to
the Democratic side without the aid Of
Sandy Mush. The real balance of
power, however, so far as legislation
is concerned, is to lie with a group
of independents of all parties, about
thirty in number, who have been or
ganized by Lynn Haines of the Ma
tional Voters league. Their first and
most important job will be to insist
on proper revision Of the rules.
1t cost 100000 to eradicate the
foot and mouth disease. The Federal
government furnished $4,6OOOOO of
this, and the states the rest. Large
as this sum u.s." says Dr. Melvin in
his annual report on the work OF the
Bureau OF Animal Industry, 1T is
trivial compared with the colossal
damage that would have been inflict-
ed if the disease had escaped control
and become permanently established
in the United States as 1t has been in
some countries" The source of the
infection, which first showed itself
near Niles, Michigan, in 1874, is still
a mystery.
The taste for chocolate drops in the
United States is growing by leaps and
bounds. Last year it took so million
more pounds than the year before to
fill the local appetite. A total of 243,-,
49,, 900 pounds were imported. There
were the usual impOrtatiOns of the
product and no increase
j exported chocolate. 1t was just
the accumulated sweet tooth of the
Great American Consumer.
The Navy League of the United
States has joined the Clifford Pinch0t
Conservati0nists IN trying to head off
the Phelan raid on the Navy's oil re-
serves in California. This is new
line of patriotism for the Navy League
OH which, if persisted in, will help to
restore that organization to public
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Save your sharks and gray-tish.
Their hides are valuable. Owing to
the high \ zee OF leather the govern
ment's de- .tment of commerce lis ex-
in tanning the skins of
these and other fish in the confidence
that they will help make sisters shoes
and fathers wallet, not to mention
for artillery horses.
The one thing of which the govern
ment> civil service is always short Is
male photographers and typists. In
order to remedy this shortage the civ
IL service has recommended; with the
approval Of all government depart
ments, hat the entrance salary for
such workers be raised to $1,000.
Clyde Tavenner Of the 14th Illinois
district failed of reelection by the
narrow margin of $50 votes. A re-
count may show him elected A spec
ial fight was made on TaVenner by all
the war-prOit interests. He had led
the fight for government arm0r plate
plant and government manufacture of
munitions generally; but in spite of
the money dumped into his district,
Tavenner led President Wilson by
5000 votes; received 5000 more votes
than he ever received before, in d
district which Is normally republican
by. from eight to twelve thousand
votes :, f1