The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-06-14
TENSION Bill
PASSED BY CONGRESS
Measure Provides Forty Dollars
Per Month for Veterans
Over Seventy.five.

Washington, June S.-(Special cor
respondence)-After waiting many
months for the president to exercise
the authority granted him in the food
conservation law of last summer to
put a stop to the use of food material
in the manufacture Of alcoholic liquors.
Senator Wesley l.. Jones of the state
Of Washington has given up hope of
relief from that quarter. He is at
lacking the matter from a new angle
now, and has presented an amendment
to the recent bill passed by the house
for the stimulation Of food production,
which specifically provides that floods,
fruits, food materials, or feeds" shall
not be used in the production of malt
or vinous liquors for beverage pur-
poses during the continuation Of the
war. The presidents policy Of
'watchful waiting" as applied to the
continued consumption Of food in
breweries, has Disguised the people
of the country who believe that such
waste should be stopped, is the view
taken by Senator Jones.
Dignifying Dental Corps.
Representative Leonidas c. Dyer Of
Missouri is much .gratified at the in
clusion in the Naval Appropriation
bill, as q senate amendment, of prac-
tically the exact language of a mea-
sure he introduced some time ago for
the organization of the dental corps
of the navy. The purpose of the pro-
vision is to place the dental corps on
the same plane with the medical corps
Of the navy. Appointments, promo
to agree with relatively similar posi-
kionc IN Tho rooIsoo1 h~o~oh ~ <ka
naval service, a principle that has been
fought for for years. MI. Dyer is
urging the house conferees on the bill
to accept the senate amendment with
out a contest.
Grand Army Gratifed.
The pension bill introduced by SEN
ator Reed Smoot of Utah, and report
ed by him as an amendment to the
general pension bill passed by the
house, is receiving the enthusiastic
support of the members Of the grand
army. The mail of senators is filled
with copies Of resolutions adopted by
Grand Armp posts throughout the
country, urging favorable action fol
the Smoot bill. The measure provides
a pension Of $50 per month for all sol
diers who served ninety days and WHIT
are now on the pension rolls or may
be placed there hereafter. There j!
no age qualification for the rate o.
$50, but if a veteran is rs years oil
and has served six months he will ge
1872; n year, $35; one and a hal:
wear, 1913; and two years or over, SAC
There is no apparent opposition to tn
bill, as everyone agrees that pension
should be raised to correspond witt
the increased cost of living. 1t i
anticipated that the measure will pas
the senate before the adjournment o
the present session.
All Agreed.
The unanimous vote by which tn
vocational rehabilitation bill for GU
crippled soldiers passed the senat
should be a matter of qualification t
all good citizens. It is a further proc
that, regardless of party lines, legis
. lation manifestly necessary in tn
winning of the war or to improve tn
condition of fighting forces, wi
be enacted. Republican opposition
unwise provisions in certain war bill
is and has been constructive and ne
I factious, and when a a like IL
vocational re-education bill, drawn
the interest of humanity and efficiene
comes up for action it Immediate
gains the support Of republicans, r.
I CARELESS of the politics of it's author
Match-M Making Abroad.
The tariff commission, which jum]
I from pianos to shoe buttons and loc'
\ motives to manicure sets, in its desu
! tory study of the tariff, estimates Il
| output of American matches in 1911
I to have been 28,805 900 gross.
finds that our greatest competitors Al
Sweden and Japan, the latter COUNT
I having multiplied her sale of match'
! to US 1917 over 1914 by about 4
while Sweden doubled her exports
I US during the same time. The con
mission says that "Sweden's prox
I nifty to Germany gives her an amp
supply of potash, and her nearness
Russia gives her advantages in the a
QUESTION of suitable wood for Il
match stick, while Japan is both
producer and an exporter of potas
and has an abundant supply Of matt
stick wood and cheap skilled labor
It is also conceded by the commissi,
that labor is cheaper in foreign cou
tries; that about $4,000 people
Japan n engaged in the match j
dustry, seventy-three per cent
whom are women, while but thir
per cent of the employees here a
women.
Now the tariff commission is on !
cord as declaring that differences
the rate of wages have comparative
little to do with trade" yet that "ce
. of production is the central factor
a determininp comnetitivo condition,