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The weekly soliphone., 1917-03-08
Learn the Facts for Your
 Own Profit

It will profit directly every man and ber-its cost, it's adaptability and its Intelligent use. The Forest Service re- port has spoken the last word and we invite your critical examination of the facts and figures as set out in the center of this page. It has remained for the National Government to prove to you the utter untruth and insinua- tions concerning a Lumber Trust; that on the contrary, competition has been so keen that these products have been marketed at a small profit, and frequently at a loss during a greater part of the time in recent years past. The Government did not compel or demand of the manufacturers or re- tailers of lumber that they furnish in formation for the Forest Service re- port herein quoted On the contrary, they requested it, and the Government officials were overwhelmed with offers of the fumbermeH- to furnish 1Hforma7 tion. The lumbermen were more than gratified that the Government intended to publish the facts about the Lumber industry. A volume has been compiled, and some of the essential facts are set out in the centre of this page we ask of you your candid judgment. You have been led to believe that every time you went to local lumber yard you paid an eXorBitant price. Do you , believe it is possible to assemble lum- ber in your community from the South, North and West and distribute it to the consumer, from fence picket to a house or barn bill, at lower cost to do business, or at less profit! we believe the consumer never objects to paying fair and reasonable profit on what he buys when he knows it. You now have the unbiased facts and state ment of the Federal Government ana it is herewith submitted to you with the belief that it will be accepted as the truth, which it is.
The weekly soliphone., 1917-03-08
How Lumber Is Distributed

Remember so per cent of all of the lumber sold in the average community is sold in wagon loads or less, not in carlots. It is possible for a lumber yard to do fair amount of business and not sell as much as carload to any one consumer in a whole year. If it were possible, for all consumers of lumber (which it is not) to buy 1t in straight carlots it would cost less per thousand feet to sell it as matter or fact but not 10 per cent of the lum- Der consumed in the average commit nity can be sold in carlots, and no miIl--either North, South or West can fill an order for the average house even if carload is required, for the reason that the average home today contains from two to six or eight spe- cies of wood, all growing in and man ufactured in widely different parts Of our country. Lumber must come di- rect fronis the manufactures to the nearest point of consumption to be economically distributed. The retail CT assemblies it in his yard in carlots
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better living conditions made possible by modern Improvements, about most of which our fathers knew nothing. When your father built the house in which you were, born he not only did not include these now considered ne- cessities, he absolutely knew nothing about them. Instead of adding these to the cost, and making them part of the house, he went to the hard ware and furniture stores and bought his haeting plant ill the form of stoves; his lighting plant in the form of coal oil lamp, and his closets and pantries in the shape of wardfobes and kitchen cabinets. There was time when most people slept in the house and had the bath room in the shape Of d tub in the kitchen, and the children fought for the first chance at the. not water. The toilets were in the back yard. We have now reversed this or der. We have the toilets in the house and sleep out of doors.
The weekly soliphone., 1917-03-08

To get lumber from the manufac- turer to the consumer at the lowest cost, it should come with but one freight pale. Manufacturers betnE un- able to furnish all kinds or wood used In the average building, the To- cal retailer is thc only agency thru which this service can he reudcred t0 inc consumer. This retailer ts, therefore in a position to furnish what the consumer k unable to ob- tain in mixed shipments.
The weekly soliphone., 1917-03-08

Don't De deceived ky statesseats to the effect tbat you pay four or five retailers. Most large Raills have their own selling force and sell their luna- her to the gr~tatsrr Atrect. Many their own se1liNg force sell thcir yen- tire output to tthe wholesaler, who sells It to the fetni1er, In competition with the large nsamUfacturer wkO sells his own lumber thsOuEh his own office. The large manufncturer md the wholesaler are active gcOmpctttOr. for the retail trade. Low price and good quality always get the bssissess.
The weekly soliphone., 1917-03-08

The small tews ewtoys the same freight rates nS the large city. and Is. therefore, at ns ai@advamtage In buylng on account ss higher freight rate, CT on account of the quantity purchased. The carload Is the economic umIt h tse purchasing Of lumber always. aud the country dealer can bay carload. or two carIoads, or five carloads as low as the large ss city boyer.
The weekly soliphone., 1917-03-08
Your Opportunity

All the consumers of lumber in the Missouri and Mississippi Valleys have a greater choice of building woods than in any other section of our country. They also enjoy greater competitive conditions among these several woods. and a difference ofstwo to five cents in the freight rate often determines the species of wood rAsed or sold. @
The weekly soliphone., 1917-03-08
The Facts About The Lumber Business l

and distributes it to his customers. He can buy in carlots as cheap as the cheapest. He buys it direct from the manufacturers. He only pays one freight and one profit (yOur informa- tion to the contrary notwithstanding and that to the manufacturer. Lum- Der is a heavy. bulky and compara- lively cheap product.
 Freight adds largely to the cost for even short haul. You cannot ship it twice any more than you can. ship coal twice and distribute it ecOnO;n- ically.
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A consumer fa North Missouri re- eemtIy paid Stes.0s fresght en single carload Of lumber .shiPped from Hay City, Nichi4as. This was money thrown away because ke refused to give his home dealer an opportunity to save it fer hlMa.
The weekly soliphone., 1917-03-08

-H of the lumber consumed nG" in the building of Ssy /O homes and barns. and
 ~ in repairs and for general purposes, Is sold through the retail lumbermen. The purpose of this ad-. yertisement Is to show that lumber Is not sold by the retailer at an eX- Orbitant price, and. we offer the Gov ernment Forest Service report here with quoted to prove the statement. Upon the broad conclusions of the re- port herein quoted the Federal Trade Commission is also in agreement.
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RETAIL PROFITS.

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The weekly soliphone., 1917-03-08
Are You a Home Owner?

If you are a farm or home owner, or ever expect to become one; if you have ever bought any lumber or ever expect to buy any, you certainly should be interested in the contents of this page. -+
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01
SPEED THE WORK.

The National Security League sees with sor-
row and alarm that petty jealousies, self-seek-
ing, partisan rivalries and even unworthler
motives near to treason are preventing the efn-
cient conduct of the war. All citizens there
fore who have the honor and welfare OF the
country at heart, and who desire the speedy
triumph of righteousness and democracy IN
this war of the world are urged to exhort their
senator's and representatives to allow no more
time to be wasted in talk.
Honest men everywhere are heartsick at the
chickering's, the vain disputings and intermln
able delays in doing things that must be done
and cannot be done too soon. The work we
have set out to do should be speeded up In
every practicable way. Our institutions are
really on trial to see if they are equal to a
great emergency. The governments of the old
world have been centralized Power has been
put into few strong hands as the only way OF
weathering this mighty storm. If any great
disorder chargeable to governmental anefll-
cheney or dilatoriness overtakes US we may be
sure that such an angry clamor will fill our
land as never was heard before. We may be
sure that the culpable branch of orr govern
ment, whichever it may be, will sterniy be
called to account.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01
walking by the side OF an OK team
Yes, father paid the BILL
Lylno Labels.

Grand Rapids Press: It Is punish
able offense to use lying labels No
firm or individual may use standard
containers bearing the trademark of
another firm or Individual without In
curing a penalty.
We would like to see the same idea
carried out in regard to propagandists
who are peddling their noxious wares
in an effort to cause this country to
prove recreant to its principles and
promises.
Under the label american first. I"
these people are saying. why should
We send our boys across?' why
should We cultivate our back Yards
conserve our food-give up our lux
uries?"
Can any red-blooded American &C.
cept such goods under such a label
America first" is the synonym of un.
selfishness, nobility and heroism. It
means help to the oppressed, aid to
our frieunds. II means leadership,
generosity. bravery and sacrifice.
The. Chicago Evening Post saws:
Time was when America first meant
first over the WALL on the drive of tho
allied armies up the valley to Pekin
IL meant giving more money than any
other nation when Messina was de
stroyed-and 1t will mean that again !"
!. Our contemporary is right-it win
mean that again. Stay-at-homes. naci.
nsts, little-Americans must atom using
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01
Women RepudIate PIekets.

Waterloo Times-Tribune: Friends
of woman's suffrage are glad to read
the statement Of Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, president OF the National Woman
Suffrage association, anent the scan
dalous actions OF the women OF the
woman's party who have been pick
citing" the white house and offering
daily insult to the president for some
months. Mrs. Gait sent the women
out from the suffrage organization
this:
The National American Woman
Suffrage association, composed Of at
least SO per cent. Of the organized suf
fragrists OF the United States. is Off
ctally on record as disappearing alb.
Isolutely the picketing tactics Of the
woman's party. 1t regards these tao.
tics as an error OF judgment and has
said so cleary and emphatically, both
in its capacity as national organiza.
ton and through its various state at
tiliations."
That tells the story The pickets rep
resent but few women In the suffrage
movement. It would therefore be un.
fair to hold their action against all
women who want the ballot. The
pickets and the foolish woman's party
are playing into the hands OF the ants
The ants could well pay them for what
they are doing against the cause OF
woman's suffrage II the won en- pick.
cts We're fair samples Of the women OF
the movement suffrage would have a
hard row ahead.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01
What Did II Cost7

Manson Journal A few days ago
we saw young man driving down the
street in handsome six cylinder
auto. AS he passed we wondered II he
realized what that machine cost his
father.
No, his father did not buy the ma
chine for him. the young men paid fol
1t with his own money: but 1t cost the
father lot to put that young man
where he could have the money to pay
for such machine
We knew the father when he drove
an OK team through the streets oil
Manson and walked barefoot by thei,
side. That is one OF the things it cos,
the father.
We knew him when he drove that
same OK team to the coal banks and
nearly persisted In his thin cotton
clothes, to get coal to keep the family
from freezing. That Is another .h.na
81 cost the father.
We knew the father when 1t Vas
hard work 70 get the plainest food and
clothing for The family. when he went
trapping N the snow and often return
ed home with his clothes frozen stiff
because the snow had concealed an
airhole into which he stepped That is
another thing It cost the father
There are many other things fl COS.
rather that his son might have a bet,
ter chance in life than he had but he
paid the price, and paid it willingly
IL he were alive today he would only
rejoice that he had succeeded so well
tnat ms son rode in q six instead oil
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01
The true university of these days is a
collection of books.-Carlyle.
CARS AND COMMODITY PRICES.

An interesting study Of the bearing of a
year shortage upon the cost of living has
been made by the Railway Age Gazette. This
bearing is important and it merits considera
ton by the federal board that fixes railway
rates. and by the public, which pays in higher
prices for commodities when transportation is
DELAYED Producers, too, must be considered,
for the Gazette, saying that the inadequate
panson of the railroads has been one of the
causes of the advance in the cost of living, finds
that paradoxical though it seems, it has also
injured many producers by reducing the prices
they otherwise would have received for their
products.
Several examples are given of the harm re
suting when demand for transportation ex-
ceeds supply. It is said that, while the mines
have produced more coal than ever before,
they have not been able to get enough cars to
move all they could produce; that prices at the
mines have not advanced as much as in the con-
suming centers. and that relatively the largest
profits in the coal business have been made,
not by the operators, but by the spectators in
The larger industrial centers' The situation
is found to be about the same when farm prod
nets are considered. When transportation ia
rilities are inadequate, the supply Of food NOV
mo TO industrial centers is restricted Prices
there rise and at the same time the farmer,
with tonnage which he is unable to move, finds
that prices at the farm have been going down
while those that the consumer must pay We're
going up "In these circumstances" the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01

Gazette says, ''the speculator, through whose
hands the products go from the farmer to the
consumer, is the man who makes relatively the
largest profits.
Evidently a solution of the transportation
problem must be found before the cost-of-lv-
ing problem can be solved. The policy OF the
federal government has been to hamper the
railroads by refusing permission to charge
reasonable rates Had the interstate commerce
commission adopted liberal policy years ago,
there would have been little complaint OF con-
geston of traffic. The public demand Tor far
treatment of the railroads will increase with
growth of understanding of the way car
shortage" affects the purse of the consumer
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01

nounced its policies and belittled It's
achievements. At war with Great
Britain, in a newspaper sense, the
Hearst papers could not reconcile
themselves to the position OF the
United States as an ally OF Great
Britain. There you have the whole
explanation. But it is strange indeed
that a newspaper, or string Of them
should prejudice in the eyes OF Its
many readers-some of them thought,
less readers-its own country's cause
in the furtherance of private griey.
ance and spite. But so 1t goes. The
world is full of misunderstanding
of even petty considerations in a
time when every one ought to feel
the supreme call of duty and patriot.
ism.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01
MASONIC MARK AT ITS
TWO FUNDREDTH YEAR

ural that when the grand lodge ae-
termined to produce an autnoritatlve
digest of the constitutions OF the
brotherhood they should assign the
task to him. This work. under the
title of The Constitutions of the Free
masons; containing the history, Charg-
es, Regulations, ETC., of that Most An
cient and Worshipful Fraternity, was
long recognized to be the STANDARD
code by English Freemasons, and an
American facsimile Of the first edition
was issued in 1855 at New York.
John Theophilus Desaguliers was
trenchman, native Of La Rochelle.
His father was a Protestant pastor
and when, in 1865. the edict OF Nantes
was revoked by Louis XIV, and the
persecution Of French Protestants
followed, Jean Desaguliers fled hast-
ly to England with his little son, then
only two years of age. After stay IN
Guernsey, Desaguliers went to Lon
don and became pastor Of the French
chapel in Swallow street. He also kept
a school at Islington, where, later on,
his son assisted him.
Masons Among Royalty.
Some time later the way opened up
for John Theophilus to go to OxfM u
and, in course of time, he became
lecturer on experimental philosophy
In 1712 he was back again in London
where he settled down in Channel row,
Westminster, and continued to lecture
Desaguliers will always be remem-
bered as being the first man to give
popular lectures on natural science, a
venture which met with marked sue
cass. He was the author of many
books and worked in collaboration
with James Anderson In compiling
the constitutions"
King George ", is not a member
Of the Masonic order. but his father,
King Edward, was an enthusiastic
Mason, and, as Prince of Wales.
filled the office of grand master for
upwards Of twenty-six years. The
German emperor. like King George,
has kept apart from the fraternity. al
though his father also was an euInus-
iastic Mason. The emperor's brother,
Prince Henry, of Prussia, is. however,
associated with the order.
1t is interesting to add in this con-
nection that vast majority o. the
presidents of the United States. from
George Washington dcw,l TO William,
H. Taft, have been Masons. A not
able exception, however, was John
Quincy Adams, who talked and wrote
antagonistically to the order with
much vigor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01
THE EMPTY HOUSE.

Each time pass empty house wonder at who dwet
there,
Who dwelt there in the days of long
l the Joy and fear and happiness folk felt
there,
The tears and laughter that may not know.
I wonder they if they lived tragic story;
wonder child voices echoed through each paneled
hall; ---
they knew the touch of inspirations glory,
Or if they lived beneath despair's black pail!
Each time pass an empty house l who dwelt
there
Who dwelt there in the dusky yesterday.
thrilling words that tenderiy spelt
there
letters lover far away.
wonder tread of soldiers crossed the
Tagging,
And hurried clanking, up the narrow STAIR,
I they again-qute weary footsteps drag
cling
When drunbeats throbbed upon the sultry air
Each time I pass empty house wonder at who dwelt
there
nd the Father of hope-or woe
I wonder they linger in the dtmly lighted corners,
nd with yelled, reproachful eye?
And sometimes pausing by the way, dream line OF
Who in the shadows. long for days gone by!
Margaret E. Sangster Jrr in Christian Herald.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01

British Freemasons have celebrated
in London the bicentenary of the nrst
ASSEMBLY OF Freemasons in the united
Kingdom and the establishment OF the
grand lodge in England, which is the
parent organization Of all Masonic
bodies in America and throughout the
English-speaking world. At a meeting
OF the grand lodge, held in the Royal
Albert hall, the Duke OF Connausnt'
who has been grand master for the
last sixteen years, presided.
Two hundred years ago four OF the
leading Freemason lodges in London,
believing in some way they had been
neglected by Sir Christopher Wren,
one of the foremost Masons Of his day,
met at the Apple Tree tavern IN
Charles street, Covent Garden. and
there solemnly resolved ito cement
under a grand master as the center OF
union and harmony" Accordingly, a
year later, on June "a. I'LL, the day
of light and roses" the first grand
lodge was formally initiated at the
Goose and Gridiron, in st. Paufs
churchyard, and from that time on
wards it became the supreme authorl-
ty, without whose warrant no new
lodges could, be formed.
Five years after the establishment
of the grand lodge in England, Mason
airy was introduced into France. In
1929 the grand lodge OF Ireland was
established. About the same time the
order made its first appearance IN
America. According to many Masonic
authorities a provincial grand lodge
and also private lodge was establish
ed in Boston, Mass, in 1913.
Notable Pioneers In Masonry.
In 1874 the Boston lodge obtained
place on the roll of the grand lodge
OF England The same year Benjamin
Franklin. probably initiated in Eng
land. wrote to the grand lodge OF Mass
achusetts as grand master of Pennsyl-
vania. About the same time Franklin
published the Masonic constitution.
Another notable pioneer of the Mason
ic order in America was George Wash
ingtbn, who was initiated at Freder-
icksburge, Va, in 1852.
Two of the men who stood out most
prominently in the creation of the
grand lodge of England we're John
Theophilus Desaguliers, a Huguence
refugee, and James Anderson, Scott
ism preacher and writer. Coming 10
London in t71o, Anderson became ras-
tor of the Freshyfer;ai chu-ch N
Swallow street. He was prominent
FreemaSon and besides had consider
able learning. 1t was, therefore, nat
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01
WHY Hearst Hurts His Country.

Cedar Rapids Republican: The
Hearst papers, according 10 those
who read them, are slyly doing some
work that is not helyful TO America
They are trying TO quit before we
have commenced, SO 1t Is charged
Why are they doing it7 The Chi
cago Tribune offers the explanation.
The Hearst papers had their own
foreign news service Many of their
cablegrams, alleged, were written in
New York. On f1imsy rumoTs. The
British government exposed some of
these home made cables, showing
that they had not been sent out OF
London, as they purported. The Can
adam government barred the Hearst
papers out OF Canada. The Hearst
papers then declared war on Canada
and on Great Britain They de