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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-14
Unfair Competition
of Ignorance

OF Ignorance
There is no question that when
competition fails to regulate, the
government should step in and lend
its assistance in helping business out
of difficulty. am therefore in
sympathy with the referendum Of
the Chamber of Commerce Of the
L. S. A., which recommends that
there should be remedial legislation
TO permit cooperative agreements
under Federal supervision in those
industries which involve primary
natural resources"
But where business men cannot
present true balance sheets, they GER
tainly cannot expect the government
to allow them to get together. If a
group of manufacturers, say, 100,
representing a given industry, show
condition where only 10 per cent
Of the firms in that industry know
their costs and if they were to come
to the government and ask for per-
mission to form a combination or
cartel, | am sure that there is not
a man here, if he were in a govern
ment position, who would not refuse
to give such permission. 1t is obvious
that it would mean permitting 90
Per cent of an industry, who are az
mittedly inefficient, TO control and
dominate the industry. If cartels
were permitted under such condi-
tons employees would not develop
into efficient men, and the COM
munities in which the plants were
located would in the long run pay
the price which would result from an
industry controlled and dominated
by inefficiency.
Before we are ready to combine
in this country we must first learn
TO cooperate in elementary and fun
damental matters, such as cost &C
counting, Standardization and the
like. These are things that are in
line with sound business, and they
are of sufficient Importance to oc-
cupy the manufacturers and mer-
chants Of this country for a number
of years. II our business men know
their true costs, and if they have
an intelligent grasp of business meth
DDS, competition will be fairer, and
we will get better prices-prices
based on efficiency.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-14
How Business Ignorance Checks Trade OF the Nation

estimated, 90 per cent Of our manu-
facturers do not know their true
costs, we certainly are in no position
to take the progressive step which
German industry has already taken.
While the commission is anxious to
do all that it possibly can to assist
business, we do not feel that we could
recommend any legislation looking
toward the establishment Of cartels,
even in those industries controlling
our natural resources, until such
time as American business has i'm
proved its business methods.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-14
The Ideaism Of Democracy
II Is Striving for Citizenship That Knows
No Three-Mile Limit and but One
Leadership
Leadership

might contemplate humanity A..
Miles Standish would say. 4vl.
this is the battle from the be.:
ming; this is why Cromwell for.s,
his King; this is what Ir,s'
meant when he nailed his these, ).
the door of Castle Church; hi, !,
why they burned SayonaroIa a, :,
stake" And so you can po >.
back looking for its beginning, "
can pass the place where Cror,.-
fought his King; you can "a. !.
place where Luther defed u. -
eminent; you can pass the d.
where they burned SayonaroI, :.
the stake; you can pass Runnv,.I.
where Englishmen forced law, ~
a reluctant King; you can ~.
John the Baptist, who was pr.,.I
ing by the roadside in the Ror..
province of Palestine; you can u,,,
Paul preaching on his way 10 \,
mascus; you can pass Gethsem,,..
and then you come to Calvary. ,,1
there where Jesus Christ CAV. n,
life for better manhood and -.
ter Observation-Disclosures is whore r,
got the programme.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-14
Bv EDWARD y. HURLEY

BY EDWARD \. HUhLhl
Chairman Federal Trade Commission
II'ron al, address delivered yester-
dan before the Commercial Club Of
Chicago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-14
idle Machinery


THE first theory would charge the
expense Of maintaining in idleness
that portion of plant which was
not In use 10 the cost OF the product
made in that portion Of the plant
which was in operation; while the
second theory would demand that
such expense be a deduction from
profits. When plants are operated
at their full capacity, both theories
give the same cost. When, however,
they are operated at less than their
full capacity, the expense Of carry
ing the idle machinery IS, under the
first theory, included in the cost Of
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19
Psychology And The War
By William Milton Hess, of York, Formerly Instructor
in Philosophy and Recor der Of Yale College

&c These leaders are such liars and
willy deceivers and tricksters, that they
have brought a stigma on the German
name that will take generations to live
down. They have caused the rest of the
world to look on Germany as nation
without honor, as one that cannot be
trusted. They have engineered one lie
after another to msead the German peo-
pie. They have said the German~army
was invincible, and that the war would
be over in a few months. The British and
the French have already shown by hold
ing out in their state of unpreparedness
for over three years how invincibe the
German army is Was not the Kaiser
to have eaten his Thanksgiving dinner in
Paris as far back as November, 1919?
The German leaders have been guilty
of one deception after another. sub
sidized and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS press
cannot tell the truth.
The Germans recently in a raid in
which they outnumbered the Americans
in the trenches 10 to ], captured hand
full of Americans. 1t was all done to
fool the German people, They sent home
to Germany the report that the captured
Americans did not know why they were
fighting Germany Any lie to keep up
the fast waning courage of the German
people, Up to very recently the German
people were told that no American troops
could cross the Atlantic as the subE1a
rines permitted no ship to live, and that
there were no Americans in France.
German Leaders Fool People.
The German leaders have told their
people that Americans could not and
would not fight, and so, on and on Never
in the worlds history has people been
lied to as the Germans have been. Were
it not for their entirely wrong thinking,
the war would be over in no time
President Wilson'S aeroplane informa-
ton bureau scheme is q wise one. Aero
planes dropping literature containing the
truth in Germany will do as much or
more good than bombs. Right thinking,
the truth, is all they need.
War win be Won by Psychology.
The war will be won by psychology, by
spirit and truth The American spirit
of truth and justice and unflinching cour-
age, the American athletic spirit backed
by democratic ideas and by truth, and
a sense of justice and a square deal
will vanqush these wer-worshipping,
pagan lying. Germans. America, as al
ways, is on the side of humanity, on the
side of human rights, on the side of God
and Righteousness. The Kaiserites seek
to get God on their side; but the true God,
the Father of whom Jesus Christ taught,
will never be won over to the side of
deceit and hypocrisy. and lying, and
rape, and wholesale murder of innocent
women and children
The Almighty has no intention OF abdi-
eating in favor of a neurasthenic Kaiser.
Falsehood may rule the day, but to truth
belongs Eternity
December 4th 1917.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19
POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION.

Sammy wandered away from one of
the American training camps some
where in England and stumbled into
a nearby British camp, after dark.
Halt who goes there?" challenged
the Tommy.
who t'hell wants to know?" the
wanderer scountered.
Pass, American" said the sentry.
The Columbus commercial., 1917-08-16
WILL rsfoRcE miE LAW.

The wbsls country a Interested n ihs fosd esrssf.
saiioH BIZ fsesHsy psssss bg Congress, ard Nhls he
msssufs undoubtedly saIaafy me- same people
fsafsa hst ss provisions might h. sHs,y enforced
ssismsni isassd ~ Iisftst iieega ihs fsea aals.
s'fslsf shoaid tevsvsr ss 81 fssi ~ fasm SLING ih
ass
10 statement ggss epi ~ Ne pfse w. liesysr sasii
s psfpess n fbe fool administration ls - stabilize
and hoi ~ disturb eoaslnoht Efforts nln be made b
hfek spsfglsiea ahd correct pfees. bot drastic msas.
ufss vin be employed unless negotiations eih pro.
dussu fsi But II there 10 hsss ahe sspssf ~ exploit
che hour N sacrifice, fhefe afs men ~ organizations
.shsmae h. increase me trs ~ NE country, We shall
bot hesitate 10 apply 10 me fples, extent the drastic
eoefeve powers That Congress has conferred Bpo6 us IN
tbis Instrument"
The meat ~ The Statement, is contained In the final
sentence n The above quoted paragraph and II asaer.
tons made BY the press true, Mr. Hoover will on.
doubtedly be compelled 10 make use ~ the coercive
powers conferred upon him by Congress. A dispatch
recently sent out by the Associated Press which gen.
orally recognized as the most reliable news gathering
ageney IN the world states that the amount Of food held
in cold storage plants throughout The country Is much
larger than the date last year According to this
statement the cold storage plants Of the country now
contain 915O 600 pounds Of meat and poultry, and
The holdings of other commodities are corespondngy
large.
This statement to conclusiyely show that there
real scarcity of food in this country and that the
high prices being maintained result soey from
ket manipuatons of concienceless SPECTATORS These
commercial Corsars ought to be forced to put speedy
end to their nefarious activities, and the Commercial
hopes and believes that IIr. Hoover will succeed in his
effort to make them obey the laws of the country.
Nm - ~ -. u
The Columbus commercial., 1917-08-16
Will You Stop TO Think?

We are travelling at rapid pace
toward our journeys end and are so
busy with the work of the financial
part Of life that we fail to give to
our Maker part of our time to whom
we owe our all.
Let us wake up to the fact that
now as never before we need to
come in closer touch with each other
and put aside selfishness and 80
much formality and get close to our
Maker.
Good Roads and Liberty Bonds
has teen boosted by many so now let
us boost our churches and the work
of the Lord. Speak to some one
about their condition and ask them
to come to church on Sundays and
to meet you at Prayer Meeting We'd
nesday evenings. We have in oul
churches hundreds Of members who
should be termed "Slackers."
The punishment of the govern
ment Stacker is rather severe, but
nothing to compare with the punish
ment which God will inflict if we
fail to do our duty as God loving
people.
A Citizen.
The Columbus commercial., 1917-08-16
INsURRECTIoNISTs ACTIVE.

For some little time thought that the talk about
German spies and insurrectionsts in this country
greatly exaggerated but recent developments have
forced to change mind and feel that
agents of the Kaiser located in almost every indus
trial center in the United States and are doing every
thing in their power to bring about feeling of dscord
and discomfort among the laboring classes.
The gigantic plant of Aetna Explosives Company at
Gary Ind was recently destroyed by fire which is be-
eved to have been of incendiary origin, and two
ployes with German arrested on the charge
of having igned the blaze
Labor agtators at work in many localities
throughout the country and it is commonly reported
that these agtators in the employ of the German
government and are working with the view of Gripping
the industries Of the country that will be impossible
speedily manufacture munitions and other supplies
necessary to the successful prosecution of warfare
| The government is exercising due diligence in
ming down these agitators but the fact that both
cidens and labor troubles are of such frequent
curence makes patent that large numbers of them
at work
va n Ea H "a
The War Department announces that no negro troops
will be sent South, and while this is doubtless wise
precauon it does not necessarily that all fear of
friction will be obviaed recent riots in several
cities the other side of the Mason and Dixon's line
to show that the recacrant negro is persona
grata in the North just he is in the South AS long
as negro works hard and conducts himself in cir
cumspect he will always be well treated but
community will permit him to ruhlessly override its es-
tabshed laws and customs
IA NJ "a Fa a
Coal miners in the Birmingham district admit that
they have grievance against the operators but
labor union has recently been organized there and as
the first duty of labor union seems to be to call
strike, coal dggers have been instructed to quit work
at early date. statement recently published by
the operators shows that of the miners as
high two hundred dollars a month"; and it seems to
us that any who makes that much money ought to
think long time before he quits his job.
~ - - NJ N
| So far, have not heard of any movement on the
part of the food pirates present Herbert c. Hoover
! with loving cup.
The Columbus commercial., 1917-08-16

A. 81 indication " the revision ~
public oplneH Nhlsb u taking place
- sissisalDpl. he fsllsnlng card
addressed ~ ths Aefdias Dispassh,
snd written ~ the former Judge n
y cssbsan. i convincing llius
ffaiiss
IlJgs Cochran lb BE fafd saSsl
= sfvsA ysnatle ahsn hs isft fsf
Warrington - pes eifhssi any uas.
less dslag Of nsfsassfy legislation
and 70 adjourn and gst esi ~ Wash
aRtep hat = eaf fepld not be SOC
esssfullg waved II ihess charged Niih
The duty ~ winnlag 4 we're constant
y haffassed snd annoyed ~ q lot ~
peanst polltieiaHs In Congress
"Husala. Vt ihiH time hes been 80.
parehtly undooe and ruined by the
council ~ soldier md wofkmen dele
gaiss, and IN my opinion The Senate
j. going 10 do the same thing for this
government
u offered up my life 10 elect Var
daman 10 The Senate, but u il my
. mature judgement that be and hls
little group II co-eonspratofs. who
are training with him ought 20 be
ahot as traitors to the country
They are all out fishing for votes
with treason; and the country may
20 10 hell 50 far a. they are con.
eerned II they can accomplish their
traitorous purpose
"We ought to flood the President
with kilograms urging him to take
the Senate by their collar and shake
IL into sanity and loyalty to the gov
ernment, and pledge him our united
support while he performs thi'
patriotic duty to the people"
The Columbus commercial., 1917-08-16

ilii& ghost opposite"
pause, in which the young man
looks at the ceiling. the floor, the
walls. anything, everything except the
girl; then he gulps sorrowfully:
Il suppose it's all over between us?'
II should think SO"
This evening I'll not have you by
me, as usual You'll not sit on my lap;
my hearth not beat against yours. I'll
sit alone in my room, with no one to
comfort me except
Who'll comfort you?"
None but Billy"
You don't deserve any one-I mean
anything else"
"It'll be awful lonesome sitting there
that way"
"What way"
with nobody but Billy"
An 0minous pause.
Suppose | promise never to do 80
any more?"
No answer
never any one else in the world. It's
pretty hard TO have no real person to
love, only a"
No encouragement.
"Goodby."
He takes her hand, and she makes q
feint at Withdrawing it.
"Just one kiss before we part"
mot a single one"
"I'll never, never do anything to Of
fend you again.
Silence
won't you forgive me? If l 60 to
that awful room with that awful thing
there | do believe I'll blow out my
brains"
He draws her down into his lap
Curtain.
The Columbus commercial., 1917-08-16
Get Ready the Wreaths.

Fannie Hurst, Americas most pop
ular writer of short stories, never
wrote finer one than appears in
September Cosmopolitan, now on sale.
"Get Ready the Wreaths," has q
tear and smile in almost every line.
1t is story of supreme love and
sacrifice of an indulgent mother,
a selfish girl and old-world memories
that scar the soul.
In this story Miss Hurst has touch
ed a universal cord of sympathy and
understanding that reaches down in
to every human heart.
When you read this story you will
feel that you have better under
standing of humanity.
This is only one of the many Won
derful features in this months Co.'S
mopolitan.
The Columbus commercial., 1917-08-16

During the past few years great deal has been writ
ten about the inefficient manner in which spelling IS
taught in public schools and in the current issue Of Me
Cure's Magazine Clevland Moffett has article on
the subject which is quite interesting.
Mr.. Mofrett takes the position that too much time is
devoted to an effort teach children how to spell
common words while too little instruction is given in
those which used almost daily in both business and
social correspondence lie gives list of words en-
braced in the curriculum of the grammar school at
Springfield, H. which includes the following jawbreak-
ers: Abutilon, bergamot deutza, daguerrottypc
paradgm, reconnaissance erysipelas mnemonics
trichinae weigela.
Most of these words are technical in character and
the average man will never find any use for
them Abutlon for instance, is defined by Webster as
"a large genus Of malyacecous plant" while bergamot
is "a large juicy rear" Deuzia is shrub that grows
in Central America while wegalia IS another shrub in
digenous to Asia Daeuerrotype is old-stye photo
graph which is obsolete and probably the only two
words in the whole list which the average person would
be called upon to erysipelas which is a
febre disease and reconnaissance which pertains to
survey preliminary examination
1t is Just as injurious to overcrowd the mind of
child with useless knowledge is to stuff his stomach
with rich food. He assimlate the knowl
edge than he digest the food and besides, even il
he remembered the words quoted above he would fine
little use for them in after life.
There is unquestionably urgent need for reform
in the in which spelling is taught in the public
schools for personal experience with young men who
have recently graduated from these institutions convince
us that they possess little practical knowledge concern
ing this exceedingly important accomplishment
The average pedagogue goes about teaching spelling
in that could not be expected to bring salts
factory results word is given out and, if the first
omits two is passed to the next and down
the line until spelled correctly. No attempt is made to
impress the correct spelling of the word upon those who
have missed it, and nine times out of ten, they leave
the class room still unpossessed of this knowledge.
We have found in reading that the best way to assim
ilate knowledge is to carefully null of what have
read, thus fixing the facts in mind and students
in spelling should not only be required to cogitate the
words of the lesson but their meaning, when obscure
should fully be explained to them,
~ ~ "a W rs
We have often regretted the fact that circumstance
forced to live in small town, but metro
potan exchanges inform us that ukalee bands are be
ing organized many large cities we have reached the
conclusion that perhaps, after ALL life in one night
stand has its advantages.
The Columbus commercial., 1917-08-16
SHOCKED
By OSCAR cox
BY OSCAR COX

ITS all over between u.s.
"But, sweetheartw
Don't sweetheart mev'
"For heavens sake, what can have
made this changer
"Pu never marry a medical man;
that's what! I'd rather marry an un-
dertaker"
but you have made no objection to
my studying medicine before now"
"a sexton IN a cemetery would be
far preferable to sawbones."
Come tell me what has happened to
excite this antagonism to the noblest
Of the professions"
"You don't deserve to know"
(Haughtily) mo one Is more compe-
tent to pass on my deserts than you.
l dare say 1t is better that should
not know. Where is my hat?'
"You shall know. shall punish you
by telling you. Answer me. Weren't
you and Dick Trimmingham riding in
trolley yesterday on College street?'
II was"
"And who was the third person Of
the party?"
1--WE had skeleton with us. We
were taking 1t to our rooms"
"And who was the person you called
BillyT
"Why, that was what we called the
skeleton"
$50, indeed, you called 1t Billy? And
who put the cigarette between Its Jaws
and said. Don't smoke, Billy; 1t isn't
allowedT"
"Oh, you must have been told this
yarn by some mean, contemptible"-
Not bit Of It, No one told me-"
"Then how did you get on to It'll"
| "Never mind that. Was 1t necessary
that you should put nickel between
the horrid things finger bones and say,
Here. Billy. pay your fare like a
mani
"Did we do that?"
"Yes. you did"
"You mean Dick did it,"
1T doesn't matter which of you did
It. You were both acting like ghouls.
And If you didn't do 1t you did some
thing equally frightful."
"What was that"
"You said: Billy, you ought to have
worn your oyercoat You'll catch
cold.'n
I'll was thinking Of the real person
the skeleton was before he died"
"Oh, you were! Then why did you
laugh when Dick said, He slipped out
the back door and got away from his
poor old mother, who was chasing him
with his rubbersp"
"Did l laugh at that?'
"You know very well you laughed at
it."
1T wasn't funny at all, was it?'
Funny! 1t was shocking"
"Well, Dick, he
"Oh, yes; it's always Dick, he
That's the way you crawl out Of every
thing. Whose hat was ON the thing s
head?"
Il put my hat on it, but only for a
minute"
"And said, There's too much draft
for bald head
THAT wasn't funny either"
1T was reyotingr'
A pause.
II wish you'd tell me how you got
on to all this
Perhaps you don't remember girl
who got into the ear with thick veil
over her face to protect her from the
storm and hung on to strap. The
thing was sitting on your lap
"0h. my
"And you said-what did you say"
II don't remember"
Don't remember, You said, Get up
Billy. and give the lady your seat"
A pause-a dreadful pause
"What did you do?"
what did ! do? | know what
wanted to do. | wanted to tell the
conductor to let me get off, but just
then gentleman-a real gentleman,
such as / always supposed you to be-
arose and gave me his seat. shut my
eyes to keep from looking at the grin
The Columbus commercial., 1917-08-16

The Columbus National Farm
Loan Association wishes to offer to
the farmers of Lowndes County the
facilities of the Association for bor-
rowing money at low rate of in
terest:
The Secretary-Treasurer will be in
Mr.. Chas. Sherrod's office in the
Arcade Building every Saturday
from 10 to1. Information will be
gladly given to any one desirous of
getting lone from the Federal Loan
Bank. Slim.
The Columbus commercial., 1917-08-16

Near College and Southern depot
there is new, seven room modern
home, with all conveniences, includ-
ing steam heat. Can be bought, if
taken at once for $3,500. For fur
ther information telephone 285-J.,
OF address II. M. Box 1903, Columbus
Miss. GO 1t.