Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-09-21

ter Bay to show colonel R~o0SeVeltS con-
law. AS long as relief from high prices
is obtained in this manner, the food adj
ministration holds it will be satisfied
with these price fixing combinations,
like those reached with sugar dealers
and millers.
Women to Continue Work.
Remarking that the women of the
comforts committee of the Navy league
have greatly appreciated the privilege
of making the men of the navy COM
Portable until the department was
ready to do so, Mrs. j. G. Frazer as
sured Secretary Daniels that the COM
mittee would continue to supply gar
ments as long as they were needed.
Nh. Daniels had written a farewell
letter to the women in his endeavor to
supplant their organization with the
Red Cross auXiliaries.
"In the recent conference between
you, Mrs. Thomas f. Bayard and N.Y.
SELF" Mrs. Frazer wrote, 1--WE asked
you what would be your attitude to-
ward us in the event of the comforts
committee continuing to work as at
present. You replied, If the group Of
ladies wanted to send gifts to the sail
ors they had the right to do So
Our many units are protesting
against any movement to disband
them. 1t would seem unwise, more
over, to stop the activities of an al
ready organized body just now when
the necessity that originated this work
continues to exist"
Workingman's Prosperity.
During the course of a speech on
the revenue bill Senator Frelinghuy-
sen of New Jersey said that one work.
man in his state told him that before
the war he was earning $12 a week
making a little glass stopper and was
now getting $50 per week for the same
work. Senator Frelinghuysen was ar
guing against destroying the plants
which paid such wages by too high
taxes.
Talk Loud and Earnestly.
1t is a wonder that men in the senate
and house do not realize that the way
to secure attention is to talk loud
and earnestly when they have any,
thing to say. The man who drones or
speaks in a low voice or reads from a
manuscript does not get very much at
tention. The man who talks loudly and
vigorously is almost sure to command
attention.
Sons at the Front.
When our state and drafted troops
are at the front there will be a great
many anxious men in the senate and
house. The sons and sons-in-law of
many men in congress are in the state
troops or among the reserve officers
who will largely command the con-
scripted forces.
Quoting Hughes.
Senator Ollie James of Kentucky, say
about a year ago, was making speeches
in which he frequently referred to
Charles e. Hughes in a way that was
not altogether complimentary. But
war changes conditions. Just the 9TH
er day Senator James had printed in
the Record a speech delivered by
Charles e. Hughes to the Bar associa-
ton and by doing so commended it as
valuable reading matter. The speech
strongly supported the prosecution of
the war.
Universal Madness"
SIX years ago or even six months
ago." said Congressman Slayden of
Texas in a speech in the house, '1f we
had been told that in one session we
wouT ote eleven thousand million
dollals all of us would have said that
the suggestion was preposterous. The
world is going bankrupt under the in
fuence of an almost universal mad
ness. While madmen are Strengthening
each other and imperiling civilization
unparalleled and to some degree I'M
avoidable, burdens are being put on
the man who labors. not merely on
those of the present generation, but on
those yet unborn, who will be called on
to pay the debts we are making today.
In no period of the worlds history has
the future ever been so heavily mort
gagged, and the end is not in sight"