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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1917-04-28

Congressman b Aswell spoke
the truth 10 his speech a few day 9
ago 10 the House VI Representa-
tives. when he said that the army
bill presented to the House, as
amended by the Committee on
Militar, Affair. was born Of poll
tics whit: the bill introduced in
the Senate had it's inspiration in
wise state -mnnship
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1917-04-28
SATURDAY, APRIL %. 1917.
Town Council Proceedings.

FRANKLIN. La, April Is. 1917
The Honorable Town Council
met In regular session this day.
Mayor Chas. Lauve presiding
with MessIs. O'Niell. Anderson,
Norris. Kramer and Loustalo,
present.
On motion of Mr.. O'NielI, sec
onded by Mr.. Loustalot, and car.
1ied, the reading of the minutet
of the previous meeting was dis.
pensed with.
The repoTte OF the Secretary.
Treasurer. and Collector were
read. after which, on motion OF
Mr.. Morris. seconded by Mr.. Kra'
mer and carried, they were &C.
cepted.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1917-04-28

Ma! be caused by eye strain and muscu trouble big
centage of headaches We can SON tell if yours
are by examining your eyes We can probably CURE
YOUR HEADACHES permanently, as have cured
others
We have now in our employ frst.class graduate op.
tomerst graduated from the colleges California
and Illinois. We prepared to do frstcass work.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1917-04-28
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K. L. SlGUR. Treasurer.

T. L. S1GUR. Treasurer.
The Finance Committee ap-
proved bills am ouuting TO $3.50 81.
which the Council ordered paid.
Franklin. La, April Is, 1917,
Mr.. Chas. Lauve, Mayor, City:
DEAR SIK:-We, the members Of
your Finance Committee. beg to hand
you the following bills checked and
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1917-04-28
TREASURER'S REPORT.

TREASURER'S REPORT
Balance as per statement rem
dered March IL, 1917 1880 II
Amt received from Secretary,
March q, 1917, to and in.
GLIDING April IL, 1917 1863 As
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06
LIMITING DIVIDENDS BY LAW

William Jennings Bryan opposes federal control OF
the railroads of the country, yet he would nave a law hi
iting dividends to six per cent or some still lower rate on
the actual capitalization or cost OF replacement. lie IS IN
consistent because such a law could only be passed and en-
forced by the federal government, but he has always been
incon sistent. so that does not matter. He is not the only
man in public life who favors limiting the earnings and
dividends of railroads and other public service corpora
tons and his advocacy Of such a policy draws attention
TO the fact.
If congress could guarantee that dividends would not
fall below five per cent most of the holders OF railroad
shares would gladly accept a fixed rate. All OF them
would if railroads of high earning power were recap1tahz-
ed on a five per cent basis so as to yield the average IN
come derived from the stock in recent years. If earnings
are TO be limited for the good of the public, the earnings
should be guaranteed by the government. That. however
is not what Mr.. Bryan contemplates. He would limit the
earnings of the prosperous roads and leave the struggling
ones to their tate.
American railroads have not been uniformly profit
able ventures. The greater part of the existing mileage
has been in receivers hands at one time or another.
Better laws to protect investors we should have and
are likely to get. but investors know that railroad shares
have not been free from risk in the past and they expect a
sporting chance of making generous profits when they
put their money into such ventures.
If earnings and dividends are limited by law investors
will refuse to take chances. This means that new rail
roads will not be built in undevelOped territory and the old
ones will not push their tracks into new ground unless
some guarantee of dividends is given. 1t is easy to sell
well-secured bonds, but the man who puts his money into
the common stock of a new railroad IS the one who makes
its construction possible. He takes all the chances. In
terest on bonds, taxes, wages, etc, are prior liens. The
making a profit. The original stockholders of most of our
railroads made nothing. Is not the stakeholder entitled
to a good return on his Investment if the railroad can
earn it?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06
AMERICANS CARRY MOST INSURANCE

The United States, with less than a fifteenth of the
population of the earth, now has more life insurance IN
force than exists in all the rest OF the world put together,
according to original statistics presented by Alfred Hur-
rell, associate general solicitor of the Prudential lnsur-
ance company at a gathering of insurance men at New
York last week.
Another interesting statement at the meeting was
made by T. Z. Rittenhouse of the Equitable Life Insur-
ance society to the effect that 100000 Americans are an
nually rejected out of a total of 100000 examined for
life insurance. Mr.. Rittenhouse urged the need for inn
proving the physical preparedness of the people of the
United States.
"The composite physical American looks smooth,
pink and healthy" said Mr.. Rittenhouse. "He is a good
liver. q said is, not has, He hurries. He has no time
to waste. The average age at death of the American peo-
pie is about 40, the medium age 4S. He is trying, with the
aid of new knowledge and inventions, to crowd the expert
ences of two lifetimes into one. He is having some sue
cess, but the strain is telling on him.
"His digestive organs have been given SO many new
and arduous duties to which they were not trained that
straining his heart, arteries, kidneys, nerves and digestion,
as the rapidly increasing death rate shows. He could de-
tect and head off these troubles if he would go to his doc
tor for an occasional examination. He is more than we'll
rounded at the belt and slightly so at the shoulders. I'm
der exertion he is short-winded, due to lack of exercise or
a bad heart.
"His 400 muscles are virtually all soft and weak from
lack of use. He IS designed as an erect, outdoor animal
with feet and legs for service, but he lies down by night
and sits down by day. He never walks when he can ride.
He surries around at his work, gets tired and nerve-worn
and thinks this is physical exercise, whereas his MUSCLES
and Joints have been virtually idle. And yet he looks
smooth, pink and healthy, for the first of these signs of
deterioration are not OutWard1v visible.
"The evil effect of his physical inactivity has been
greatly aggravated by his deadly excuses and errors in
eating and drinking. There is no burden too great for
him to put upon his digestive system. He would not
think of mixing bricks or scrap iron or gravel with the
fuel for the furnace which heats his house, but he does
not hesitate to follow this plan in supplying fuel for his
body"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06
VALUE OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REPORTS

A leading trade journal in a recent editorial COM
mented upon the United States Geological Surveys EN-
viable reputation for accuracy and prec1seness throughout
all its different branches" but. added that in maintaining
this accuracy the survey had lin the past shown a tend
ency to ignore the necessity for promptness IN placing ITS
vast store of statistical data before the public" J
To this the survey replies in a bulletin that the obv1-
out difficulty of giving to the public statistical data that
are accurate and yet not somewhat out OF date has Dccr
met since 1910 by supplementing the complete detailed re-
ports with the publication in the first week OF January OF
preliminary estimates of mineral production for the year
just ended. These new-year statements have now at
tanned a degree of accuracy that not only meets the practi-
cal needs of most users of this information, but also robs
the later complete reports of their news value.
Thus the surveys estimate of the gold output OF
Alaska for 1915, published January I, 1916, was less than
IL per cent in excess of the final figures made public
about four months later, and Alaskas exceptionally large
yield of copper was estimated within three per cent.
1t is, of course, through the collection OF detailed stat
1St1cs from individual producers that the specialist IS able
to keep so closely in touch with his subject that his pre-
liminary estimates have high value for approximate &C
curacy. Some advances have been made in the date of
publication of the final statistical reports, but here the
compiler encounters the difficulty of obtaining full and
prompt cooperation from a very small minority OF the
producers, SO that it is the last one or two per cent of the
returns that cost the most time and effort. A gain of
weeks in the publication of the statistics of some products
might be made, but only at a sacrifice in the quality OF the
results.
AS information to be valuable must be timely, the
Geological survey regards the preparation and issue of
its quarterly and monthly statements as representing the
ideal plan for statistics of all the principal metals and min
eral fuels.
Already a further step in the same direction has been
initiated and the Geological survey is now issuing every
month a comparative statement of railroad movement of
coal and coke for the preceding month. 1t is believed
that these authoritative figures furnish the public a valu
able index of the general industrial conditions as we'll as
of the current rate of utilization of the country's mineral
reserves.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

The prevalence of the automobile and auto truck,
their adaptabl1ty to every line of transportation, has
caused many predictions that the horse would be crowded
out, and the humorous papers have pictured his remains
on exhibition in museums as an extinct animal species.
However, the price of horses and mules keeps up and the
demand exceeds the supply. Just at present this may be
part to a falling off in breeding. 1t is difficult to see how
the price is to keep up in normal times. They are building
tractors for every kind of farm and heavy work; and the
propelled by the gas engine. The future of the horse GER
tainly looks dubious. Even the race horse has lost his i'm
portance because Of the general inhibition of racing.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06
AMERICA HAS LARGEST FREIGHT CARS

The attempts of the railroads of the United States to
increase the carrying power of their equipment by en-
couraging the shippers to load more heavily has called the
attention of the general public to the fact that no country
in the world approaches this in the average capacity OF
its freight cars.
Some of the European countries use cars or not more
than one-fourth the capacity of the American. Canada
and one or two other countries have cars that approach
the Americans in size. But it is safe to say that hall the
freight of the civilized world is carried on cars that have
less than twothirds the capacity of the average car IN
the United States.
The substitution of the big cars for the smaller ones
has been going on rapidly during the last ten years.
Every year has seen larger cars than were used before,
and this has called for an immense amount OF work IN pro-
viding bridges, roadbeds and rails fitted to stand the add
ed strain. Possibly the coming of the heavier locomo-
tives brought the larger cars, but whichever inuced the
building of the other, they both had to have the better
roadbed prepared beforehand
This increase in the capacity of the freight cars has
led to some errors in computing the increased capacity Of
the roads to handle freight. AS the smaller cars wore out
and were scrapped they have been replaced by the larger
ones so that a road having a thousand freight cars in use
today has a greater freight-handhng capacity than its
thousand cars of ten or five years ago would indicate.
It is to the interest Of the railroad to have its cars
loaded to capacity over the whole distance it may be
necessary to carry it for there is then no weight hauled
that is not represented in the freight bill by something
paid for it. But in actual business it is very difficult to
achieve this result.
What the railroad lines are trying to do now is t.
come as close to this as practicable, and in this way get
the full benefit of their large-capacity cars, high-power
locomotives, strong bridges and roadbeds.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06
ERA OF SPECULATION IN SIGHT

Judging from the columns of advertisements printed
III New Ork, Boston and other eastern papers offering
opportunities for investment in all sorts of promotion en-
terprlses, the warning by financiers of the danger of the
opening of a great speculative era is more real than most
of us in the west thought.
These promotions include everything from gold mines
to paint companies and dye works. There are motor con-
Germs, oil wells, plantations, steel companies and a hun
dred and one different money making schemes. The
Astounding prosperity of the manufacturing concerns of
the country and the speculative activity in the money
centers has led to the development of new channels for
the investment of profits and savings.
This is a normal and logical development. 1t follows
naturally on great prosperity, for the next thing after the
problem of getting money is solved is to find a place to
invest it.
AS long as this development is healthy and confined
within reasonable bounds it is a sign of prosperity and in
dustrial progress. But there is danger that wild-c cat
speculation will follow the period of unusual investment
activity on which we have entered.
The signs of this speculative era are abundant and
the warnings of the financiers are timely. Initiation and
wild speculation always leave in their train suffering and
depression from which recovery is slow and uncertain
Sacramento Union.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

A Methodist preacher who had sent to a number of
widely known men the question: What Are the Greatest
Safeguards Against Temptation?' received a reply from
Thomas A. Edison to this effect: Il cannot answer the
question contained in your favor of the 5th instant. as |
have never had any experience in such matters. Lave
never had time, not even five minutes, t. be tempted to
90 anything against the moral law, civil law or any law
If were to hazard a guess as to what young
people should do to avoid temptation it would be to ctt
job and work at it so hard that temptation would not
exist for them
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

The railway workers and the railway managers are
parleying, and the chances are that the troubles of which
the Adanson bill was an outgrowth will be settled.
Labor troubles SO often terminate that way in a compro-
mise arrangement. So many acrimonies and so much
travail results from the bitter strife that characterizes these
struggles that, considering the general wind-up, the Won
der is that the parleying does not proceed to an amicable
arrangement at the outset.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

Arguing that neither set of the European belligerents
will be crushingly defeated, a speaker quoted Bismarck as
having said in a discussion of the outcome of the war be-
tween England and Germany: England is a whale and
Germany is a horse. How doyou expect a whale to beat
a horse2 Or how do you expect a horse to beat a whale ?"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

Chicago has a financial crisis. The mayor, corpora
ton counsel and comptroller have donated their salaries
for the first three months of 1917 to tide it over. The
crisis can't be of the usual big character of Chicago things
if it is to be tided over as easily as that.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

1t is a sad commentary on modern conditions that so
many otherwise respectable people can work themselves
into a passion when the possibility of bringing about peace
is suggested.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

Down in Texas they are making sausage out of the
meat of the jackrabbit, and everybody is jumping at it
Los Angeles Times.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

The censor is certainly sitting tight on the news serv-
ice in Greece. Nobody seems to know Just what has been
done by the invading allies, and as they control the wires
we are not likely to learn the truth until after the war.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

Venice reports the Imprisonment of a pretender to the
throne of Albania. One would have imagined that he was
a case for the insane asylum.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

A dispatch from FL Paso states that MANY Carran-
zistas were killed in a fight among themselves. Not very
agreeable news, but an endurable variant of the usual thing
Of killing inoffensive civilians, including Americans.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

Andrew Carnegie has written an article on 'The
Curse of Hereditary Wealth." If he has not made his
will vet, he will please understand that we are not afraid.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

Congress is first asked to try the "bone dry" on
Washington, D. c., and see how it works. NothineU he
trying it on the dog.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

Bucharest means City of Joy. Just now the aptness
of this depends upon whether your point of view is leu
tonic or Rumanian.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

That decision not to award the Nobel peace prize this
year may have been arrived at a trifle too soon.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

Any other small country that wants a chance to "real-
lze its national aspirations may apply to Won Mackensen.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-01-06

Even in an aeroplane CnriG cannot fly high enough
to avoid collision with the divorce courts.
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