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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-04-10

the question of how he can get a
good substantial, comfortable and
convenient home for his family, if he
be q city man, or his family and the
hired help, if he be a farmer, for
the amount of money he has avail.
able for the house.
To such a man, the house shown
in the accompanying illustration will
appeal. For here is combined all of
the things that a practical city or
town man, or farmer wants in his
hOme--convenience in arrangement
of rooms provision for the things that
will make the work of the house
keeper easier, and a house that ex-
ternally will compare with the best
of them in that community.
Cutting the Corners.
Corners cost is an axiom among
contractors and builders. The
straighter the walls, the less expen-
Sive the building. The house shown
herewith is a substantial building,
with no frills, and at the same time
is good to look at.
The bare building is 26 by Al feet,
dimensions that are suitable for a
narrow lot. AS will be seen by the
illustration the foundation and porch
walls and columns are of brick, while
the house is of clap-board and Single
construction.
The large porch, % by s feet, the
hip roof, and the bay window at the
side relieve the straight lines of the
building and make it an attractive
home from the exterior. The size
of the porch, % by feet, makes
it comfortable sitting place in the
summer.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-04-10
Y. M. c. A. NO LONGER
TO MAINTAIN ARMY
POST EXCHANGES.

Paris.-The American Y. M. C.
, A., at its own request, has been
relieved of it's work of maintain
ing the post exchanges with the
; American army. Correspondence
. exchanged between General Per-
shing and E. c. Carter, in charg.
Of Y. m. c. A. with the army,
: shows the reason for this ar
), rangement was that. the Y. M. C.
A. now has Increased respon-
sibiIities in promoting education
: al, athletic and entertainment
; activities in the American expe-
dictionary forces" thus placing
a rapidly increasing burden on
its personnel.
; General Pershing in a letter to
Mr.. Carter approving the change,
expressed his thanks "for the
very valuable services and as
; sistance which the Y. M. c. A.
has rendered to the American ex-
peditionary force in handling
these exchanges. General Per-
; shing added:
Handicapped by the shortage
Of tonnage and land transporta-
ton, the Y. M. c. A. has by extra
; exertion served the army better
than could have been expected,
and you may be assured that its
aid has been a large factor in
; the final great accomplishments
of the American army"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-04-10
600 YANKS VISIT IRELAND
Number of Irish-American Soldiers.
Guests of Emerald Isle, Arrive
in Dublin.

Dublin, April Six hundred Irish
American soldiers arrived here from
Holyhead. 1t was their first OppOrtu,
nitv to visit Ireland during the war.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-04-10
British Fear U. S. Competition.

London, April 1.-THE Morning
Post, commenting on conditions in the
British motorcar industry and Ameri-
can competition says: $50 soon as
importation is permitted, Americans
will fill the British market with mex
pensive and serviceable cars. The re-
sult will be that the British motorcar
industry will be ruined"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-04-10
STARTS REVOLT IN ABYSSINIA
Grandson of King Johannes II Pro-
claims Himself King Under
Name of Theodore.

Ads Abara, Abyssinia, April 5.-A
grandson of King Johannes II, who
died in 1889, has revolted and de-
clared himself king under the name of
Theodore. The government has sent
out a punitive expedition to put down
the rebellion.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-04-10
INDICTs MOTOR CO., OFFICERS
Twenty-Five True Bills Handed Down
by Federal Grand Jury at Chi
cago Against OFFICIALS.

Chicago, April TWENTY-FIVE In
dictments against officials Of the Pan
Motor company, on a charge of con-
spiracy to use the mails to defraud,
were included in list Of % true bills
handed down by the federal grand jury
before Judge Carpenter.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-04-10
"Y" to Open Clubs for Troops.

At the request Of the French minis
ter of marines the Y. M. G. A. is
planning the establishment of clubs for
American and French troops in Toulon
and in the suburbs of that city.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-04-10
New South African Strike.

johannesburg, South Africa, April
4.-Strikes and agitation which had
been believed definitely suppressed
have broken erf anew Strikers seized
the munich;
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HOW THEY DO 1T IN FRANCE

T'HOSE local politicians who demanded
during the progress Of the new charter
through the Legislature that the men,
bers of the Council should be elected by
wards might profit by considering what
has just happened in France.
We have been told that it was impor-
tant that each ward should have a repre-
sentative in the Council for the represen-
tative from a larger district would have
no interest in the wards, as though it
were the business of the Council to con-
slider local districts as of greater mpor-
tance than the city as a whole
The members of the French Chamber
of Deputies have been elected from ar
rondissements since 1889, that is, from
districts similar to our own congressional
districts. The reimbursement is not an
administrative entity at all. Electoral
reformers have for years been demanding
that the members of the chamber be
elected from the departments of France,
all those from department being chosen
on a general ticket. President Poincare
in book on "How France Is Governed
says that there are grave drawbacks in
the reimbursement plan because at sub
iects the representative to local influences
and tends TO make him see the interests of
the country in too fragmentary a
fashion" He reminds his readers that
the members of the chamber are not rep,
resentatives of the arrondissement, but
.they are representatives of France"
The French Parliament has just voted
that the members of the Chamber Of
Deputies shall hereafter be elected from
departments, or provir instead OF
from the arrondissei lnd it has
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-28

be brought to this admission only by
terms devised Enthusiastically for thor
oughly beaten and detested foe.
1t is idle to hope that the mere signing
of the treaty will bring an era of com
plete peace in Europe or a settled order
Of national relationships. Germany's
plight is hard A people more resource
full in spirit, more imaginative and opt-
mistic. might have better survived the
crisis which has come about for the nation
that started out to own the earth.
Germany may disintegrate and GER
tainly it will be generation before the
country is as efficient industrially as it
was at the outbreak of the war. There
may be hopeless years or firtations with
the Bolshevists in Russia and new hatreds
and a passion for vengeance may rise to
bring further despair and bewilderment
to Europe.
The preservation of the new peace will
depend to large extent upon the league
Of nations. But it will depend to con-
siderable degree upon the manner in
which the German temperament with
stands the present test by frss Yet it is
apparent that Il soft peace would have
been the most dangerous one. The ques-
ton is one between the welfare of Ger
many and the we.farc Of the rest of the
,yorlI
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THE OTHER FELLOWS VIEW

THERE has been much speculation
= about the effect Of the war on the
thinking. of the men engaged in it. We
shall not know the truth about it until
the men tell US either by their words or
by their acts.
The war has certainly changed the
point of view of one man, according to
his own confession. and that man is
W. W. Atterbury, vice president of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Mr. Atterbury made remarkable ad-
dress before the railroad womeN's divi-
sion for war relief, in the course of which
he said that he had realized that we had
fought in the past in order to mako life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness the
right of all. 81 had always known that
it was my right" he said. "but do not
know that had ever had so keen a real
ization that it was your right and the
right of every other fellow"
Mr.. Atterbury said that he began to
try to put himself III the other fellows
place and to try to get his point of view
and as a result he had concluded that
this great right meant for the worker:
First Steady employment:
Second. At a good wag.:
Third Time for recreation
Fourth. Opportunity to elevate himself
In his employment
Fifth. voice in determining the rules
and regulations under which h. should
work:
Sixth. A fair division Of any profits
after a reasonable wage had been earned
and a sufficient amount paid to capital to
attract it to an expanding business.
After setting forth these six points
MIR. Atterbury made the significant an.
nouncement that when he came home he
found that the men here had been think
ing along the same lines and had come tc
substantially the same conclusion.
If this broadening of the sympathie
which this railroad manager reports il
general then there are compensation.
for the war which may in the long run b,
worth all that it has cost.
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THE LEAGUE AND THE PROPHETS

HOPE RATHER than horid prophecy
- was simply and earnestly expressed
by President Wilson at the farewell din
Nor given by President PoinCare to the
peace delegates. This attitude, particu-
lally emphasized with respect to the
league Of nations, is one which should
readily enlist popular sympathy.
When the rival forecaStcrs, now so
cXaspcratingly common among us, get up
steam either side can "provc," after its
own lights. about anything it chooses. 1t
can lie shown that given a succession of
conjcctu,al happenings international
peace will expire in a second Arma-
geddon And it can he demonstrated that
series of hypothetical favorable events
will lead to an approximation of the mil
lennium. Such performances are void of
sane argumentativc force. They are
wcarisome,y reflective of the prophecy
mania which has become one of the most
lamcntab,e features of the postwar era.
Mr.. wilson COnsolngly cleavcd to
actualities in his remarks to the peace
makers. I'VE have begun" he said. "a
plan of co-opcraton. " % We have been
and shall continue to be comrades. " % =
We will weave out of our sentiments
common conception of duty and com
mon conception of the rights Of man.
= IT," he significantly added, at be
true that this has been accomplished it
is a very great thing" The proviso is
exceedingly important and in its sanity
it ntrenches the position Of the league
supporters.
The pact is a preliminary step toward
an intensely desirable thing. Time will
prove its value. good or i'll, just as it did
that of the American constitution, con-
celnng the future fate of which mankind
was naturally ignorant. The world
leagued in a covenant Of partnership is
novelty. 1t stands a chance of high ac-
complshment. 1t is a substitute for
discredited competitive international sys-
tenn saddlod with jealousies. An un-
pre- ejudiced trial is its due, especially in
view of the fact that no other scheme
breaks So much fresh ground. To regard
it with hope is to consider it in spirit
Of earnest fair play.
This is the note that the President has
once more accented. There can be little
question that the best sense of the nation
will eventually be similarly responsive.
Meanwhile if the prophets delight to
match one eXtravagant fancy against
another there is no constitutional lin ita-
ton on their mental exercises.
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taken this action in order that the mem
bers may be men who will think first OF
France instead of the little constituency.
We are so accustomed here to electing
legislators from small districts that the
charter trainers who wished to have the
members of the new Council elected on
a general ticket were unable to carry
their point. A compromise was reached
under which the councilmen are to be
chosen from senatorial districts. This is
much better than electng them from
wards. but it is far from being the ideal
system
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-28
MILLIONS FOR MUSIC

n LINE with the swift, comprehensive
and solid development Of musical cul-
ture throughout the land is the munifcent
bequest IN the Will OF Augustus D. JUL
lard, New York mu.tlmIIionaire and
opera enthusiast. The endowment, which
may amount to $2O,OO0.O00, is to provide
for the education of "worthy students of
music" and to defray the cost of high
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-28
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

|. The president of France is elected every
seven years by majority of the votes
in the Senate and the Chamber of
Deputies sitting as the National As
sembly.
.. Herbert Hoover and General Pershing
have received degrees from Oxford Uni
versity.
8. Mlliner is corruption of Nlianer, so
called from Milan, which at one time
gave the law to Europe in matters Of
taste in dress and elegance.
4. Tray as dogs name is said to be de-
rived from the word ''trag," a runner,
or else from the Spanish verb, 'traer,
to fetch.
Z. The German national monument is at
Niederwald opposite Bingen on the
Rhine.
6. Bathos describes fall from the sublime
to the ridiculous; anticlimax; per-
formance ahsurdly below the occasion.
Pathos is the quality in speech, writ
ing, events, etc, that excites pity or
sadness
7 Washington addressed his farewell ad
dress '"ro the people of the United
States on his approaching retirement
from the presidency
& Two books written by Woodrow Wilson
prior to his presidential term were "a
History of the American People" and
George Washington"
q. A wit is called n wag for his qualities
of amusing roguishness, The word
wag is thought to be derived from
''wag halter rogue. -
10. The ex x-crown price of Germany Is
thirty seven years old.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-28
THE KISS

A RE you shaken. are you stirred,
"A BY whisper of love?
Spellbound to a word
Does time cease to move.
Till her calm, gray eye
Expands to sky.
And the clouds of her hair
Like storms go by.
Do the lips that you have kissed
Turn to frost and to fire? s.
Does fame shot mist
Enwrap your desire,
Till back to their birth
Fade water. air, earth.
And the First Power moves
Over void and dearth?
So the elements return
Into chaos of night.
Yet the not flames burn;
They dazzle your sight;
And desire rules the word
Till it fails, goes by,
And death down is hurled
With a ringing cry.
Robert Graves. in The Century.
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What Do You Kno,U?


QUIZ
/. In what part of the Netherlands ID
Wiefingen?
.. Name three American musical compos-
3. Why is the alphabet so called?
L. Some members of the German delega-
ton in Versailles have been quartered
in the Hotel Nntcl Who was Natel?
D How many British ships were sunk by
German submarines during the war!
6. Who were the "Hunkers" in Ameri
scan politics?
I. In which direction does the earth re-
volve?
s. Of what state was General Grant al
native?
@ Who wrote the drama "Wiliam Tell?
10. When did the United States acquire the
Danish West Indies Virgin Islands)?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-28
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
Approaching Conflict over Protection
for American Industries and the
Right Of American owners Of
Foreign Industries to Re-
ceive Tariff Favors


NTllEN Mitchell Palmer. the attorney
w general, was alien property custo
dian. he took over $500 patents for the
manufacture of dycStufs that we're credited
to German owners and under an executive
order of the President sold them for 500,
600 to the Chemical Foundation. lncor-
poratcd. company made up of doIlar-a
year men in the bureau, who accepted as
their president Francis L. Garvan. of Now
York. who succeeded Mr.. Palmer as alien
property custodian. That was the alien
property Custodian's way of dealing with
enemy interests. Subsequently, the Chemical
Foundation. Incorporated. suggested to
Congress Il high tariff plan to keep out
German dyes. accompanied by licensing
system which would enable those in con
troll Mt Washington TO gauge the distribu
tion. At the ways and means committee
meetings where this matter was discussed.
the question Of magncSitc was also being
considered. Whereas dyestuffs were said
to be III" key industry in tho manufacture
oi textiles and war munitions it was said
that magncsit" was equally essential in the
product of iron and steel. copper and the
like. But this interesting question at once
arose: The alien property custodian hav-
ing seized and disposed of German patent
rights in tho United States. what was to be
expected with regard to a S2,OOO.OO0 in
vCStmCnt Of Pennsylvania and Ohio interests
in magncsitr mines in Germany and Austria?
The American owners. who said they went
into the foreign magnCSit" business to pre-
vent Il German Austrian monopoly. frankly
stated they did not know what had become
Of their property, but whereas American
magncSitr had been developed in the state
of Washington. they insisted that no such
tariff should be imposed as would utterly
bar out their foreign product which they
said was superior to the American. and
which could be laid down at the foundres
in the east for about one third the cost of
transporting the Washington product across
the continent. Former Congressman James
Francis burke. Of Pittsburgh. who repre-
Scntod the American interests in the foreign
product. insisted that what his people had
done before the war to prevent foreign
monopoly operating in the United States
was equally as patriotic as was the extra
effort put forth by Americans to develop
domestic industry. But. query. If the
alien property custodian Spizes German
property in the United States and sells it to
private corporation organized under his
own auspices. what are the American
owners of magnCSte mines in Germany and
Austria to expect with regard to their
property. which they have not been able to
approarh during the war period? This is
one of the tit for tat problems of the war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-28

TNHE rain came down in whirling silver
L sheets as we crossed the flats toward
League Island. but after a short wait at the
end of the car line the downfall slackened.
Under the guidance of three courteous war
rant officers we were piloted about the navy
yard.
Nothing is ever so thrilling as a place
where ships are gathered. and the adventur-
BUSINESS of a trip to the navy yard begins as
soon as one steps off the car and finds great
gray hulls almost at ones side. 1t seems odd
to see them there, apparently so far inland,
their tall stacks rising up among the trees.
The Massachusetts and the Iotcd were the
first we passed. and we were all prepared TO
admire them heartily until told by our naval
convoy that they are obsolete. Passing
by n pack of lean destrOyers. leashed up ike
n kennel of hounds, we gazed at the gray
nrofle of the Nerada. The steep chains per-
ncndiug from her undercut prov we were told
were for the use of the paravanes, and !
think the ladies of the party were pleased
not TO be paruvanes. The older destroyers-
such as the Waintcriqht--are very small com
nared with the newer models: but 1t is
curious that the outmoded types of battle
shin appear to the civilian eye more massive
and towering than the latest superdread-
nouehts. The ohio. the Connecticut the
Nem HAMPSHIRE. all older vessels, loomed out
Of the water like cliffs of stone; their two and
three high tunnels out topping the squat
single stack of the new oil burners.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-28
To LEAGUE Island and Back

YESTERDAY afternoon the American
l. Press Humorists visited League Island.
When the party boarded a Fifteenth street
car | was greatly excited to see lady sitting
with a large market basket in her lap and
placidy reading The Amasing Marriage.
"You sce.' said to Ted Robinson, the de-
lightful poet from Cleveland. 1--WE have
genuine culture in Philadelphia. Our cti-
zcns read Meredith on the troleys as they
return from shopping" That's nothing
said Ted. Il always read Meredith on the
cars at home I've often read the greater
part of a Meredith novel on my way to the
Office in the morning. SO perhaps the
Cleveland transits aren't any more rapid
than our own.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-28

One of the first effects of the peace
terms will be the knowledge throughout
all Germany that the war was lost, that
the armies were beaten, that mlitarism
and the materiaIistic PHILOSOPHERS which
rotted out the national conscience of
the country have failed. 1t has been ap-
parent recently that the Germans could
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-28

Obstinacy seems to have been iniudi
ciously distributed lately. With the proper
apportionment Germany might have made n
graceful response to justice and Governor
Sproul could have rebuked tyranny by veto.
ing the anti sedition bill.
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DoHERr HopEwELL HEPBURN. of

| 11N'l T. W T.l4lS 11TSi pl M, VI
IN West Philadelphia. has been explaining
to the ways and means committee his rea
sons for admitting bolivia tungsten to the
United States free of duty. Mr.. Hepburn
is up against American producers, princi-
pally in Colorado, who believe n duty should
be placed upon tungsten to protect the
American products notwithstanding Ameri
can capital is invested in foEegp countries.
Mr. Hepburn is in substantially the same
boat as those Americans who invested in
German and Austrian potash mines.
American competition opened up during the
war and now the question is, shall foreign
potash or foreign tungsten come in. as here
toforp. under normal regulations, or shall
a high duty be levied upon them to protect
the newly developed American deposits: Mr..
Hepburn. in discussing the matter, contrib
utes the interesting thought that 1.-THE bust
ness man knows that there is little altrusm
in trade and none in international COM
mcrrc.
And vet there are a number of gentlemen
who have been serving the government dur
ing the war at the rate of 81 per annum.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-28

NEWSPAPER men keep coming to
~ Congress. We now have Guy L. Hardy.
representing the Third Colorado district. n
Republican. who happens at the present time
to be president of the National Editorial
Association. Hardy beat Edward Heating,
n Democrat. who was probably the most
persistent labor leader the floor AS
Heating was an organization man through
aud through, it goes without saying that
Hardy must have been something of an
organizer himself. For this he may have
been indebted to his Pennsylvania training,
for. notwithstanding his sombrero and de-
cdedIy western make up, he acknowledges
with some degree of pride that he once lived
in Pennsylvania and did not feel the worse
for it. As a mere stripping he spent II num-
bor of years in Sullivan county and later
on resided at Canton. the home town of
Congressman McFaddpn. who is endeavor
ing to unhorsc the comptroller of the cur
rcnry. John Skclton Williams.