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New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

be complete were these terms eliminated
from its public announcements.
these watchdogs guarded the Treasury
and watched each other with great sue
cess for many years. Through the mutual
rivalry and suspicious Of their owners
Uncle Sans accumulations waxed fat and
became more and more alluring AS tine
passed. and these accumulatons multiplied.
the financial virtue Of the factions was
gradually but surely disintegrated by the
temptation to divide and enjoy them. They
gazed more and more avidly at the vaults
which contained them, and more and more
reproachfully at their vigilant watchdoes
keeping sentinel over them. The barriers
of their moral resistance finally yielded
to the unremitting pressure of opportunity.
80 the watchdogs were gradually toled
away from the Treasury portals and tied
IN the backyards, where they were starved
and their breed finally extinguished.
CANNES Of different quality have been sub
stituted for them. They watch the Treas
ury, but only to ascertain whether any
thing is left in it or about to be put in
it. They do not watch those who need
watching, but they watch for them. Their
olfactories culver with no sense of the
possible proximity Of marauders, but with
the joy Of a prospective continuous feast,
''>-~SS
insatiate demands of their unappeasable
appetites.
Theirs is the policy of the open door,
and the more doors the better, and the
fecundity of the breed is beyond computa-
ton. 1t multiples but does not replcnish
the earth. They cannot be classified as a
species, for their shapes are protean They
have just one line of vision, and that en-
braces the Federal Treasury. Their motto
is Let no guilty dollar escape Their pre-
texts for public contributions are count
less as the sands of the seashore. They
are as prolific of them as Germany is of
spies. In their progress toward Treasury
exhaustion they have sheltered under the
roof Of the National Treasury all the birds
Of the air. the beasts of the field, the fishes
of the waters under the earth and the null
titudinous swarms of insectivorous life
They inspire Federal employees and men who
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
Browning Guns

M Z. MADDEN: Will the gentleman yield
AVA for one question In connection with
the Browning gun? The gentleman said we
had whole lot Of Browning guns. Where
are they?
Mr.. SEALLENBERGER: They are in the
army Of the United States.
Mr.. MADDEN: How many Browning guns
have we got?
Mr.. SHALLENBERGER I am going to
say something to the House about the
Browning gun, and / do not want to make
my speech now.
Mr.. MADDEN: The gentleman might tell
us now 1t his speech is good.
Mr.. SHALLENBERGER: will say this,
We produced more heavy Browning guns in
1913 than the United States had efficient
machine guns at the declaration of war. We
are producing right now at the rate Of
thousand month
Mv MADDEN: The heavy Browning gun
Mr. sHALLENBERGER: Yes.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
Uncle Sam,
Style Die
tatOr

rF. AS we were brought up to be-
lieve, clothes make the man. it is
l. evident that the War Industries
Board will have to. take the re-
.,,s;b;lity for the man Of the future in
.,..v;ca. The order has gone out and
.,ouser-cuffs have been abolished along
with the trench belt.
Newspaper opinion has decided to deal
,;,h the matter lightly. After all, c'est
i ouerre, as we, have learned so glibly
70 pronounce. The Tribune even hints
:, sterner regulations that should bo
adopted in the future, and lauds the
hoard's bold step in limiting the almost
endless height of women's boots. 1t says:
at is good news-so far as it goes--that
o,r all-wise War Industries Board has
tsckled the trouser-cuf for males and the
trae-boot for females. Never, it seemed,
NOD those strange beings who determine
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

the State Department contain the origi-
nails of the Declaration of independence
and of the Constitution, as we'll as the
Great Seal of the United States You
look the crowd over and you can conceive
some Of them wanting to take lock at
these documents for themselves, mistrust-
ing some of the hearsay evidence they've
heard. But nothing is going to happen
the national parchments; they will re-
main there for ages, as long as this Re-
public rests upon the solid rock of de-
mocracy, as the orators will say some
time in July. Why then all this fury,
this haste, this impatience?
1t isn't the kind of place a genuine
tactician or strategist-one never knows
which of those two words to use-would
pick for fight. In the first place there
is very little room for the range of heavy
artillery. You get inside and discover
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

side, each of them very much like every
other, and connected by long and barren
corridors that have that rare inst.tu-
tional smell you get so quickly in urt
houses, orphan asylums and jails. There
are two miles of these corridors, which
seems contemptibly moderate estimate
to any one who tries to follow a guide
around them to the Office he hopes to
reach. And so long as this much has
already been told about the building, the
rest of the figures from the encyclopedia
might as well be given. 1t covers four
and half acres and cost $10,700,000.
If you wander in from the lazy rus
ticity Of Pennsylvania Avenue, in the
White House section, away from the
doves and familiar sparrows of Lafay-
cite Park, you can't help wondering what
all these people want. The encyclopaedia
does say, it is true, that the archives of
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

space about twenty feet square in which
you stand in several queues waiting for
chance to ask for pass to see whom
soever you have come to call upon. There
is no possible way Of gett ng past the two
forbidding gentlemen who stand in the
way toward the broad corridor that runs
around the first floor. Symbolically, per-
haps, each of them has at his side an
almost man-sized 16-inch armor- piercing
shell. Whether this is for protection or
show has never been made manifest. At
least to this writing neither guide has
had occasion to pick up one of these
shells and hurl it in self-defence. They
are iron men, these fellows, and they
bow to nothing but uniform. A silk hat
and frock coat won't make deeper dent
in their impassive faces than bowler.
1t is said, however, that newspaper cor
respondents get by them by means Of a
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

heard the guns of the enemy from clustered
sanctuaries during the Civil War to help
themselves and welcome. They have de-
vlsed revolving funds which do not revolve
and cannot do so. They are incapable Of
turning over. They are called revolving
1nnds because they are all large, round ones
But their spheres become segments as soon
as they emerge from the Treasury doors
So HE war has ouadrupled the breed
and multiplied their pretexts many
1old. Discovering and utilizing them con-
stitutes the principal source of competition
between Uncle Samuels factions. The
things which have become and are becoming
necessary Or which are said to contribute
to the successful prosecution of the war
enhance within their scope the Garabed
scheme to harness natural energy and pur-
chases Of imaginary homes for homeless
lnd1ans. The hungry, bowling, clamorine
pack has surrounded the Treasury, bur
rowed under it and swarm all over the roof.
Time is feeting. 1t creates opportuni-
ties, but it bears them along it's hurrying
tides. This war is opportunity, and all
wars must end some time. Hence, other
avenues to the money vaults, all Of
them either necessary contributing
to the prosecution of the war, must
be divided and pressed to the limit
rlSht now. The field has been pretty thor
oughly CLEANED. but here and there straw
peppercorn may be uncovered and deyel-
oped. It may still be possible to secure ap-
preparations to teach the taxpayer the diff
ference between pulling mis- tooth and pull
ing his leg. and why he should howl at the
one and smile at the other; to investigate
the habits and hereditary tendencies of the
tumblebug and the lightning bug and ascer-
tain why the one pushes in one direction
antl looks in the other, while the latter
hangs his lantern upon his rear and then
flies ahead; to study the vagaries of the
lobster and make him quit blushing when
he is boiled; to develop eating crow from
an infiction to a pleasure; to study the
habitat and the anatomy OF the skunk and
teach him to use only blank cartridges in
polite society; to devise plans for abolish
ing toll and making idleness productive; to
study the maladies Of the skin and ascer-
tain why measles break out and shingles
strike in. Other suggestions occur to the
mind, but let these suffice as specimens.
every fable should involve moral. This
is an exception. 1t dmly suggests that
watchdogs must watch out lest they be tram
Piled by the multitude, and that political par
ties should always wink the other eye when
quadrennially denouncing each other for
sqlandering public money with reckless ex-
travagance."
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
The Battle of Washington
pass which bears the correspondents own
oLo%

pass which bears the CORRESPONDENTS own
photograph.
AS matter Of fact, it is almost as
hard to get out as to get in. If you
carry book with you you deliver it up
for inspection to prove it contains no
documents or secret information. And
there is the story of the visitor who man.
aged to get pass at the door, one-half
of which he left behind as he en-
tered, carrying the rest with him for de-
livery at exit, as the custom is. By
chance he happened to leave the building
by one of the side doors opening on Sew
enteenth Street without being fl reed to
give up his ticket of leave. The War
Department is looking for that man yet.
By all the mechanism of the State, War
and Navy pass system he is still inside.
| managed to get in myself one day,
past the retired bos'n's mate with the
struggling mustache who gives out the
navy passes, past the suave lady who
tends to the State Department, past the
cheerful and smiling guardian of Mr..
OoACA ACSSI |co, PdoC VIC suspicious SSA-
tlemen on guard, past the service flag
with 1908 stars on it, past the miniature
brass cannon that makes several parts of
this amazing building look like a toy
shop, up the echoing stairways, past the
hundreds of romantic latticed doorways
and all the elderly Virginia darkies who
maiordomo them | did all this, and
suddenly l had revealed to me why all
these people downstairs were clamor. .ng
to get through. A man came out of a
doorway in the State Department, man
who ought to be tall but isn't, man with
wonderful shoulders and short legs, and
with enough hair, tossed graying hair,
left to recall the flashing picture of many
stages where it has appeared and to re-
call the mad, furious sound that alw VS.
went with it. 1t was strangely familiar
face, marked gravely by victories and
new sorrow.
1t was Ignace Paderewski.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
The Golden Book of Congress

in the history of this nation when this gov
ernment ought to take prospector by the
hand and do everything possible to assist
him. this is the time.
There are minerals that are vitality needed
In this country for which we are almost
entirely dependent at this time upon other
lands, and it is the fondest hope Of mining
men that there may be found in this country
a sufficient supply Of these minerals to take
care of our needs. We have made a very
commendable progress in the potash propo
~ition. There is NOW being studied and in
vestigated in the West the tin proposition.
Along many other lines these Investigations
should be followed and the prospector should
be helped by having near at hand stations
where he can go for advice, where he car
have help to solve the problems that con-
front him. While men from agricultural
states might think the problem is general,
the problem is specific. Practically each
mineral belt of the nation has its own prob
lens that peculiar only to that locality.
By establishing mineral stations widespread
over the country we will secure the greatest
possible production of the minerals that Wa
need so badly.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
BY Ralph Block

Washington, June 20.
N FRANCE they quit for {, breath
ing spell, but in Washington they
have dispensed with breathing.
The embattled guards who stop
you with their keenly sharpened indeli-
BILE lead pencils at the door of every gov
ernment building in Washington fight
valiantly from dawn to sunset, snatch a
few restless hours Of slumber and then
return to their posts to do battle again
with the enormous armies of persons
who stand outside of government build
ings and would like to be inside.
1t has a technical quality all IDS own,
this battle of Washington. Some of the
common elements of modern warfare arc
present, it is true. There are the shock
troops from New Jersey, for instance,
fighting for war contracts. There are
the Women's Legions who storm the
Ordnance Department every morning.
There are the Colonials holding the
@IOISlS against ali COlIlcIS, DUC llOW dlIlOSL
starved out after an arduous siege. But
there are scattered instances Of advance
in out Of the way sectors that display a
remarkable courage and a strategy that
a Petain or Foch might scarcely hope
to match.
The battle is hottest every day at the
Pennsylvania Avenue entrance to the
State, War and Navy B dlding. Why
this should be so it is diffielt to say. The
interior of the State, War and Navy
Building represents nothing that any
body should crave to p-ssess. The out
side is moderately interesting, beng an
adaptation, as the architects from 1871
to 1898 found it possible to adapt, of Il
French Renaissance style. 1t is built a
little bit like Chinese pagoda, only it
remains broad all the way up. However,
there are five hundred rooms on the in
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

~ ~ MOORE, Ol ems yiNauid. ms
ME involves no controversy, it is
" simply clerical error. The
"A gentleman from Tennessee Mr..
Moon was speaking in low
tone of voice and his words were not dis
tinct.> His reference to fraud in connection
with the pneumatic tubes was challenged by
and some peasantres occurred between
the gentleman from Tennessee and myself.
I did not quite hear all that the gentleman
from Tennessee said, but when I obtained
copy of the reporters notes I found that
gentleman was reported as saying:
But l tell you one thing, l want you to
keep away from that boss, or you may be
liable to such charge.
Then revised the reporters notes of my
answer to the gentleman from Tennessee
so that it would correspond as follows:
The gentleman has no knowledge of any
"boss' and the gentleman ought not to make
such an insinuation.
now find as the speech is finally revised
by the gentleman from Tennessee that he
has stricken out the word "boss" as it ap-
peared in his statement and inserted
"bourse," and that word "boss" is stricken
out in my reply, so that am made to say:
The gentleman has knowledge of any
bourse, and the gentleman ought not to
make such an insinuation.
do have knowledge of boursc. The
Bourse is large business institution in my
city which has opposed the Postmaster Gem
eral and also the gentleman from Tennessee
on the pneumatic tube question about which
we were contending. To say had no knowl
edge Of it would have been ridiculous
statement. What l did say in answer to
what understood the gentleman from Ten
nessee to say, and which he was reported as
saying, was that I had no knowledge of
"boss." l do not know just how they inter
pref the term "boss" down in Tennessee,
but it is more or less offensive in the State
of Pennsylvania, and l was impelled to re-
sent it as it appeared in the notes. If the
gentleman said "boursc" and not "boss," l
can understand the situation, but it leaves
me in an awkward position
The SPEAKER: What is the gentleman's
suggestion?
Mr.. MOORE, of Pennsvlvania: / ask that
"The Record" be corrected so far as l am
made to say that ! "knew no bourse" l
certainly do know there is bourse in my
city, a very influential organization.
Mr. MOON: Mr.. Speaker, as a matter Of
fact, l did not say "boss" at all; did not
refer to "boss" in any way, shape or form.
My only reference in the world was to the
Philadelphia Bourse, and that is the matter
said wanted to talk with the gentleman
about. did not mention any boss. did
not know the gentleman had any boss in
Philadelphia. 1t is mighty hard to boss him
down here, know. lLaughterl / made no
reference to boss at all and did not intend
to say anything about boss. If he talked
about a boss, then he is at liberty to make
any correction he desires. | was talking
about the Bourse.
Mr.. MOORE, of Pennsylvania: am glad
the gentleman is SO pleasant about it.
The SPEAKER: What is it that the gen
tleman desires to do?
Mr.. MOORE, of Pennsylvania: Nothing
more than to accept the statement Of the
gentlemen from Tennessee, which clarifies
"The Record" The gentleman confirms
what try to affirm myself, that | know no
boss--except my wife. Laughter.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
Just After the Senate Had
Voted German Out of
the Schools

R. GALLINGER: Mr.. President, fear
ASA that Mr. Creel is encouraging Ger
man ideas and German kultur by printing
his pamphlets in the German language. a
copy of one of which hold in my hand.
presume the matter in the pamphlet is all
right but according to the decision of the
Senate, just announced, it strikes me that
1t is the duty of the government in printia,,
documents to ignore the German language
and use plain English
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
An interchange A bout
Bosses and BOurses
In which it develops that
Mr.. Moon didn't say
boss at all, and also that
MIR. Moore has no "boss"
except his wife. .,,---

IA MR. MOORE, of Pennsylvania: This
~ IA involves controversy, it is
" simply a clerical error. The
"A @ gentleman from Tennessee Mr..
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

Gmss Gf a Gsble I n1i,iit well cgoue tth:s
Gs:z1ssion lty rundi11g it:
"Onca upon Il time, when rTtn.El. SIM w.ss
yutc1lifu-, he had to u1aka his a,wn way in
the world He WAS therefore careful to
1--we within his income. Being til i4sy, be
xm2aoed wealth sufficient FOR al ku pxr-
poses, albeit these were many. In .1osc
da5s his money vaults were gcarded by
faithful and courageous animals called
lwatchdogs Of the Treasury Then, as now.
Uncle Sans increasing family was divided
into factions bearing attractive and inspir-
ing appellations. He committed the manase-
ment of his affairs first to one and then to
another OF these factions as their chang
ing preponderance in numbers required
Each OF these factions championed econ
omy with great vociferaton and each
claimed monopoly of the virtue Both
had their watchdogs, who succeeded with
their masters in the guardianship of the
Treasury. Hence, Uncle Samuel took no
great concern as to the safety of his strong
box, and especially since the watchdogs on
duty were watched in turn by the dogs in
temporary retirement.
Moreover each of Uncle. Sans factions
contended that it's watchdogs were the onlv
thoroughbreds, and those of the opposition
were mongrels and coyotes masquera6ing
as dogs of pedigree. Uncle Sam was
pleased with this situation, since theft or
misrepresentation would be detected and
exposed by factonal sclf-interest, prompt
ly followed by an early and complete sub
stitution of watchdogs.
IS TIME progressed these great fac
N tions established the custom of
holding Quadrennial pride and alarm
meetings. They were SO called because
the factions at these meetings always
paraded their own virtues and watchdogs
with great pride and viewed the vices of
the other faction and its watchdogs with
great alarm. They also compared each
his own economies in past administration
of Uncle Sans fiscal affairs with the reck-
less extravagances OF the other faction. SO
common has this formula become that it
has persisted down to this hour. No pride
and alarm meeting of either faction would
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
Speeding Up Our Mineral
Output
On the Housel

M X. CANDY: am concerned about the
49, general mineral development propo-
sitlon In the United States. 1t seems to me
snat II ever there was time when we ought
70 take stock OF our mineral resources, when
we ought to look out for the mining output,
this Is the time. If there ever was time
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26
Miller-Ray.

Mtsn htatirs; Ray, of this city. and
Mr. John C.. Miller, of Summit town
ship, were united in marriage Tues
asss ss sfR ome OF TIC e. b1 at
pa Asgak, aAGr, ssshh Mrs. Hayden Ray,
on Mechanic street Rev. A. J.
Cutrel, OF the Ohio street NJ L.
church, officiating
The bride is the winsome daughter
of MI aud Mrs. Hayden Ray. Her
wffole me- mas been spent in this city,
wlscssooloe3s "A. universal favorite with
ih8sseXyeesss "a, she She numbers among her
The groom is a son OF W. F. Miller,
of Summit township. He is young
man OF the highest character. Ener-
ge44z; =4EsasI7zF7E-=s1lsstzing and possessed Of
good business judgment he will make
good. He is one of the alternates in
the quota of selective service men
thaE1Ad bst7i called from Bates
county and expects to soon 60 to a
training camp. During his absence
his bride will make her home with
her parents.
They left Wednesday for Kansas
City, where they are enjoying short
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26
Merwin Items.

T. D, Holdsworth was Drexel
visitor Saturday.
w. r. Monroe went to Kansas City
Thursday to visit his daughter, Mrs
Nellie Meyers.
D. w. Corbin came down from,
Kansas City last week.
Dorothy Morlan went to Drexel
Sunday to visit her sister, Mrs. Pris-
ella Yingst. J.
Mrs. Eva Hedger, and children Of
Foster. came Thursday for visit at
the John Hussey home.
J. Fl. d. Ritchey made business trip
to. Butler Saturday.
Uncle Robert Lacy is working in
the Tottcn store again.
Mrs. Eli Patterson of Kansas City,
who has been visiting at the Hussey
home returned Thursday, accom-
panied by Mrs. Hussey. ~
John Yingst and family spent Sun.
day at the Young home.
Miss Asther Ritchey began teach
ing school at Burdette Monday.
Mrs. Eva Hedger went to Adrian
Friday.
Mrs. John Hussey returned from
Kansas City Monday.
VIM. Witt came down from Kansas
City Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hines came
down from Kansas City Sunday to at
TEND the funeral of her mother, Mrs.
Heath.
Parker Weiden came down from
Kansas City Sunday.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26
w. c. T. H>Ao.es.

The Double Branch w. c. T. u.
met at Mrs. Allie Halls September
IL with nine members and three Wis
;tors present.
They sewed for the soldiers and
gained one new member.
They served lunch at A. w. Pad
ley's sale Sept. II, from which they
cleared $2l.25. For this sale a num-
Der Of pies and some bread was
given. The w. e. T. u. wishes to
thank all who helped. III
For those who think beer does not
use sugar and cereals we give you
some data concerning the : material
used by the brewers of the u. S. in
the production Of fermented liquors
during the twelve months ending
June 80, 1917, as compiled by the Btu
reau of Crop Estimates of the u. S.
Department of Agriculture:
Malt. bushels, 67,o3I,577; hops,
pounds, 4I,o5S,753; rice, pounds, 1885,
632,260; corn, pounds, CT, 4oI, 6Io:
grape sugar, or maltese, po,nds, o.
2I3,6oS; glucose or syrup. gallons, g.
So, ZOO. grits, pounds, 1913 ,2o3,6 4o;
other materials, bushels, I8e, ago;
other materials, gallons, I6,6s6s other
materials, pounds, I7,s738o4. Total,
in pounds, 3,477,526,33o Beer pro-
dueed, barrels, 6o,72G;5oo. And re-
member it requires 1866 cars of Co.
900 pound capacity each to transport
these raw products to the breweries
Of the country. besides those required
TO distribute the manufactured. pro-
duct.
Now. Mr.. Voter, examine these
figures carefully and on November s
vote Missouri dry and we can say
they do not use. what we can use.
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