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The spectator., 1919-11-28
Card of Thanks

We wish to thank all our friends and neighbors for their untiring help and many kindness es shown me and my family dur ing my recent illness. We deep- ly appreciate all that was done for us in our time of need.
 J. l.. Mcclellan and Family
 LOnelm.
The spectator., 1919-11-28

There wasn't no Sunday school nnday as the Supt. didn't come.
The spectator., 1919-11-28
DO NOT FEED WORMS

It is too expensive. They thrive and multiply on what you feed your hogs. The hogs starve. your profit vanishes. Begin with B. A. THOMAS HOG POWDER today. Free your hogs of these and other parasites.
The spectator., 1919-11-28
Notice Township
 Chairmen!

To township chairman and all who have Red Cross supplies on hand since the 3rd roll call will Please send them to Dr. Black burn at the Drug Store.
 Mrs. J. T. Greer.
The spectator., 1919-11-28
PROFIT IN STOCK

You can increase your profit by giving them E. A. THOMAS STOCK REMEDY. Removes worms. tonic and conditions. causes vour horses. cattle and sheep to get all the food value out of the grain that is fed them.
The spectator., 1919-11-28

666 has proven it will cure Ma laria, Chills and Fever, Bilious Fever, Colds and LaGrippe It kills the parasite that causes the fever. It is splendid laxative and general Tonic. - (Adv)
The spectator., 1919-11-28
DO NOT FEED DRONES

Feed is too expensive to waste. It is wasted if your hens do not show results. Add little B. A. THOMAS POULTRY REMEDY to their food and you will have . full egg basket.
The spectator., 1919-11-28
Is The County
 Work Doomed?


 con in the paper concerning the county agent work, and 1 feel it is matter worthy of our con- iteration, because we are mak- ing a step backward.
 | am a farmer and teacher and wunld feel unworthy to be called such if 1 should grumble at the tax have to pay to SUD- port this work. The county agents do not benefit me foi l do not call upon them. but my neighbours. and my neighbours children are receiving aid from them, and feel we should SUD- port it, because some men. wom- en and children are getting ln- formation they so much need.
 l saw a parade of boys and girls, over two hundred m number, marching down main street of town. l saw aged men and women look on with interest, every business man in that town for they were strong supporters of the movement. cheered them as they passed by. Each club carried a banner and on that banner was motto, Make the Best Better. Well Try' "Uncie Sans Heipers" and Lead the Way" were some of them.
 They yelled and sang as they marched on. This was rally day of the boys and girls clubs. and from that moment caught the vision. Here are boys and girls organized for the purpose ot learning to raise more and better corn. better pigs, better sheep, better calves. better poultry, to cook. sew. and can the products of the farm. Here is a plan by which our country schools will be taught the science of agri- culture. These organizations will be the means of lifting up communities from their dead selves and inspiring them to do things. Nay! more, 1t stand as a living example to fathers and mothers to become organized ln- to farmers clubs whereby they can further the social, education al, and bu mess interest ot their members aad of the dis- lrict in winch they i've. Would It no, b: great heip to us all, II we could buy all needs uf farm and ship ali our products co. operatively.? A child will lead them" Is true saying and the Iorganizatlon of the boys ana girls club Is ali advance step Tn the progress ot your community. Is this great movement to be checked? Is the county work m Franklin to be doomed for the year 1920? We must not take this step backward. Opportun- lity should be given our boys and girls to be better farmers; for boys and girls on the good old tarm means more to the world than boys and girls leaving the farm for jobs Tn town.
 | It IS time that we be realizing the fact that the county agent has come to stay just as other county officers. Hls important work can not be over estimated at the present time. A few years ago. the best county agent we have ever had. MT. Cassell, after serving the county two years. his work was voted out by the levying court. Little was said about it then. but now we have much to say. we do not stand for it today. The work has grown: then We understa nd what it means to the country boy and girl seeking that advice
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Who Settled the Coal Strike ,

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The answer to The question "Who
settled the coal strike?" is contained in
the chorus Of a once popular song the
final words Of which still echo family
in my memory, "Nobody. Nobody." The
coal strike is not settled. The immediate
price of coal is fixed, to be sure. and
that is important enough, but question
of far greater importance is now agitat
ing the mind OF every sober citizen
Glow soon Will it happen again ."
When President Wilson evadcd the
real issue, and bent the dignity of his
Office to plead with rebels. he sent them
back to work with the honors of war
and under terms which gave them COM
plete victory. The deal was so cleverly
engineered that the public probably never
viii know how complete was the Admin
lstration's surrender until the Lever act
is raised and the Immoral conflict
is renewed. This is because Mr. Wilson's
strike commission is empowered to in
vestigate nothing but costs and prices.
DO you think the public-wbo were the
chief sufferers in this strke-would be
interested to know:
l. That the contract which the opera.
tors are now forced by the government
to renew with the United Mine Workers
contains no financial or legal obligation
on the part Of the union for its faithful
fulfillment?
2 That the operators are again com
PEELED by this contract to collect thu
union dues from every mine worker il
their cmployo Ten million dollars wa:
collected by the operators for the unior
last year. Eight millions Of it was usee
to prepare for this battle with the pub
lie. Eight millions will be used next yea1
to prepare for the next battle.
8. That under the Clayton bill tn,
mine workers. labor trust need not eve,
incorporate?
When war legislation is removed. wha
is this Settlement" worth? What pro
lection does it give the public?
Who settled the coal strike? Within
year the answer will come from al
the corners Of Washington. "Not |
Not T." AN OPERATOR.
New York, Dec. 10, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Untyi1g Mandates

The legislative committee, headed
by Senator Davenport, which is con-
sidering the tax problems of cities
will recommend to the Legislature
next month the repeal Of some of
the mandatory pay roll laws which
afflict the City of New York.
Mandatory legislation establishes
the positions and fixes the salaries
in defiance of the home rule prin-
ciple and the rights of those who
pay the bills of government. The
Board of Estimate has no duty or
power to suspend the law under
which the closing hour for clerks in
one county Office is established at 2
p. m.
Undoing all the Objectionable acts
of mandatory legislation in respect
to the city alone is a huge task. But
with a budget near the $300,000,0
mark, and an enormous capital out
lay each year, the city is interested
in saving, despite Mayor whose
disposition runs toward the distribu-
ton Of public moneys for political
reward. The removal of a malady
that has come to be regarded as in
durable would bring great credit to
the Legislature.
Under the leadership of Senator
Davenport the committee may be
expected to formulate highly valu-
able repert-onc to which an intel
ligent Legislature may wisely give
close study. Professor Davenport,
an authority on taxation, is a figure
indeed welcome among investigating
committees.
In one way the present time gives
an exceptional opportunity. The
new dollar has made archaic former
salary schedules. Freedom to the
city would not now reduce the COM
pensation Of any class Of employees.
Repeal would thus escape the oppo-
sition of groups to whom the present
schedules are of little protective
value
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Communism Among Us

'fro'n The Rocky Mountain Nctcs>
For the present we are living under
sort of enforced Bolshevism. We
have dictators all around US. Our
hours OF work are limited. These
hours are about what the new regime
believes is necessary for the millenni-
um. Our hours Of amusement are
limited, too. One of these days our
hours of sleep may be limited for us.
We are limited in the hours at which
we may eat. If we are not exactly
under communism we are pretty close
to it in some things.
We are obeying the dictator as a
matter of patriotic duty. We are max
ing the best of it, too. But how would
the ordinary citizen like to have the
rule in force all the time?
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
MIR. Proskauer's Opportunity

1t is a complex and difficult situa-
tion that Mr.. Proskaucr faces as the
Governors choice to assist the
special grand jury which has been
disturbing the sleep of the Hylan
administration and the official family
of District Attorney Swami. The
opportunity is as great as the diff
Guilty, and it is a just tribute to
Mr.. Proskauer's record as a lawyer
and a citizen Of this community to
say that he measures up to the occa-
sion. He has long done able and
intelligent service in host of good
causes touching the welfare of the
city and the state. Mr.. Proskauer
knows the law, and he also knows
politics from the point of view of
the non partisan seeker after better
laws and better politics. The under
taking now before him has unprece-
dented possibilities for revelation of
facts and for the construction of
remedies.
We hope that in some fashion the
work may come into Mr.. Proskauer's s
hands. His appointment as Mr.
Swann's assistant, which the Gov
ernor proposes, is open to the obvi-
Gus objections which the grand jury
has raised before. Considering that
portion of Mr.. Swann's Office is
itself under investigation, it is Ger
tainlv anomalous that counsel for
the investigators should be even
nominally subordinate to the District
Attorney. Judging by Mr.. Pros
kauer's record, we do not conceive
that he would place himself in any
position in which his service to the
city at large would be in the least re-
stricted or embarrassed. 1t is much
to be hoped that an arrangement
will be made by which the Governor s
admirable choice can do the work
which the whole community greatly
desires to see done without favor to
any one and with the utmost Of vigor
and precision.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Starue and Grow We'll
Pollyanna Displays the Silver Lining
of the High Cost of Food
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In trying to discover a silver lin
ing on some of the various clouds which
hang over US | recalled the schoolboy' g
remark that "pins had saved great
many lives by not 'swalcring' them" "
and this suggested the thought that the
scarcity and high cost Of food havc had
benchccnt effect on the general health
Of the people; Of course, excepting tho
protitecrs, who. from all accounts, arc
preparing their own punishmcnts by cx-
cesses in feasting.
There can be no doubt that the eating
habits Of the nation have been auto
matically reformed, so that now the
average table both in judicious guam
tty of food and balance Of protein, car
bohydrates and vegetables, approximates
the ideals of the dietitians; and as 90
per cent Of all sickness can be traced
to dietetic sins. doctors and druggists
are noticeably less busy than in the days
of plenty. when most people we're indus
triously digging their graves with their
teeth.
Some have dcplorcd the fact that the
scarcity of food is harder on the labor
ing man than on the sedcntary class,
but it is becoming clear that the labor
ing man is rapidly getting himself into
the scdentary class. and we may, there
fore include him among the beneficiaries
of reduced ratons.
1t is obviously impossible to furnish
statistics other than the general obscr-
walton that many people we know seem
years younger and exhibit remarkably
increased vitality. and that cases of
acute indigestion arc becoming rare in
The Tribunc's obituary column; but any
one of us can recall the case Of Jones
Smith or Robinson who before the war
was failing in health because he fed his
engine four times too much of the wrong
assortment of fuels. and now seems to
have taken a new lease Of life.
There are several millions of our
Hypothetical friend, every one of them
groaning over the high cost of food
longing for the flesh pots and utterly
oblivious of the great benefits of a little
judicious starvation. J. N. BROWN.
Ogdensburg, N. Y, Dec ID, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17

merely to exhort employees to be
good Americans and to revere
sacred principles. Propaganda can
be successfully met only by a patient
labor for veracity that will equal
the intense activity Of deliberate
falsifcrs. This work can be done
by civic organizations only in part.
Often only those in an industry are
familiar with its data.
Associations Of manufacturers, if
they would escape what happened in
the Pacific Northwest, may we'll give
attention to creating agencies of
publicity to meet propaganda.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17

add a few days to the shortened year
of grace for vendors Of liquors.
There seems to be no other way in
which the indulgence granted in the
Federal prohibition amendment may
be extended to at least three-quar-
ters of the original term. And this
method Of relief involves a degree
of cooperation between the President
and Congress which is now practi-
cally out Of the question.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Meeting Propaganda


Sherman Rogers, in The Soturdoy
Ecening Post, tells of the genesis
of the industrial trouble in the lum-
her camps of the Northwest.
In the spring of 1917 the lumber
jacks, having received a 65 per cent
increase in wages through the COM
petition of the bosses for labor, were
altogether satisfied. Their axes
were Justify driven into the trees
felled to furnish the lumber for the
cantonments and the timbers for the
ships. "The big, two-hsted, rugged
lumberjacks, enthusiastically says
Mr.- Rogers, who was foreman.
were the finest body of conscien-
tious, big-hearted workers that |
have ever met in any industrial dis
trict of the country"
In June the men went on strike
without formulating wage demands
or pretending they had material
grievances. Why? Because early
in June $50 voluble I. w. w. agita-
tors suddenly invaded the district
and began campaign of lying to
the men. They We're told that for
every dollar paid in wages the COM
panies drew down nine dollars in
profits. The men accepted as true
the falsehoods of the organizers,
which no one contradicted. They
said it was not just to get only one
fifth Of what they earned. Asked if
they believed such preposterous non
selYe they said they did-that they
had never heard the charges refuted,
and that when people neglect to an
swer damaging accusations it is gen.
orally because they can't.
What this country needs more
than knowledge of social theories is
knowledge Of industrial facts. There
is a new force loose in the world
that of organized and directed prop
aganda Propagandists generally
lie-it is their business. They are
instructed to put something across
and are as unscrupulous as sellers
Of fake mining stock.
For years the propaganda process
has gone on sporadically, has filled
the columns Of radical publications
but now it is an established indus
try. Deception has become a pro
fession, and little is done to counter
act its work Truth is notoriously
slow of foot. and a quality in human
nature leads an average man
whether an employer or employee, tC
suspect the other side. This bias is
easily played on and stimulated.
1t is time for managers of indus.
try to take steps to see that their
!, associates in production are honestly
| Informed concerning the main facts
relating to the industry in whose
health there is Joint interest. Part
Of the proceedings Of every labor
union should consist of report OF
the state Of business in the craft
Every considerable business concern
should take it's operatives into its
confidence.
There are difficulties about this
for pride forbds a concern to con
fess to losses, and when things &C
we'll it is feared that to advertise
the truth is to bring in competitors
But in many instances the main
facts are already published-neec
only emphasis. Few factories would
deny to responsible committee ac-
cess to their books.
The truth is the only known anti.
dote to the lie. More is needed than
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
The Wet Surplus

Owners OF alcoholic liquors are
counting their losses in the millions
and threatening to bring damage
suits against the United States.
They say that their stocks still in
hand are valued at perhaps three
quarters of a billion and that they
cannot be reduced materially
through sales abroad the only
method of liquidation left open.
Much of the loss is, OF course, a
loss of paper profits. Restrictive
and prohibition legislation put an
artificial value on "wet goods" mul-
tiplying many times the cost Of pro-
duction. If the present owners
We're able to sell in the open market
the purchasing public would pay not
only record breaking rates for
liquors, but also have to foot the
Federal tax-estimated at S600,000,-
00O-on liquor to he taken out Of
bond
1t must be admitted that the
liquor owners have just cause for
complaint The prohibition amend
ment allowed one year in which to
dispose Of existing stocks But the
wartime prohibition act shortened
the liquidation period to six months.
Were the later ban lifted to-mor-
row the entire period of grace
would amount to only little over
seven months.
1t may be argued that the hold
ers Of liquors could have sold their
stocks last May and June if they
had been willing to accept less
gigantic profits. Instead, they kept
on raising prices in the hope of a
second open season this fall. Yet
the fact remains that they didn't
get the stipulated twelve months il,
which to unload.
The Supreme Court held on Mon
day that there has been no confs
cation. Those who did sell before
July | were the beneliciaries Of an
artificial enhancement of values, due
to legislation. Those who didn't sci
have lost their chance to sell. Ant
it is doubtful whether the law nov
offers them any remedy.
Many strong friends Of prohib
ton, without feeling any sympathy
with liquor protiteers, will regre
that the stock of intoXicants in bon,
or in the hands Of dealers was no
distributed before the date for tn,
enforcement of national prohibition
The stores which exist will not b,
poured into the cutters Most O
them will be disposed of illicitly
and this process will raise obstacle
everywhere to general acceptanc
Of the new order. And there will
be a certain sense of injury benin,
the law breaking.
What chance is there of a brief lift
ing of the lid between now and Janu
ary Is, 1920? The amendment to tn
: agricultural appropriation act, whic
clampcd down wartime prohibition
is to continue in force. according t.
its language, until the conclusion
: of the present war and thereafte
until the termination of demobilza
: ton, the date of which shall be de
termlned and proclaimed by tn
President of the United States.
, The President thinks that the emer
gency phase of demoblization i
over. Yet he hasn't proclaimed thu
termination of demobilization. No
has he ever taken the position tina
. The war has been "concluded" in ,
legal sense.
Should Congress pass Joint reso
luton ending the state of war will
Germany and Austria- Hungary tn,
President could sign it, and then de
sclare mobilization ended. That woult
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Mr.. Bennett Was Right
To the Editor of The Tribune

40 tne EdltOr OF Inc Tribune.
Sir: I have just been rereading the
speeches I made in Congress in 1916 in
relation to Frederic c. Howe, and what
regarded as his dangerous leniency
toward aliens detained on charges Of
crimnality and immortality For the
making Of those speeches l was de-
nounced edtorially by "The Times" The
Tribune, "Globe" and Morning World"
Those editorials quite naturally were
sent by my competitor that fall to every
registered voter in the 23d Congressiona
District. | was defeated for reelection
and undoubtedly those editorials con-
tributed toward the result.
The investigation now being conducted
by the House Committee on Immiera-
ton has resulted not only in the COM
plete upholding of everything that l
then said, but in the disclosure of other
facts against Mr.. Howe's record. of
which IN 1915 l was unaware.
Representative in CONGRESS-. ACTING
under his oath of office, ought at all
times to do what he thinks right, regard
less OF results. Nevertheless, there is a
distinct human satisfaction in being 80
quickly and so conclusively proved to
have been absolutely in the right. Ny
course toward Commissioner Howe al
ways had the approval of my own con-
science. 1t is evident that the course
OF The Times" The Tribune, GLOBE"
and Morning World" toward the com.
mission had the complete approval of
Emma Goldman.
WILLIAM S. -BENNET.
Washington, Dec. l2. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
uxstsrR or THE ASSOCIATED rREs.

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ase for republication OF all dispatches credited
TO IL not otherwise credited IN this paper. and
herein
All rights Of republication of all other mstter
AerVin also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
A Problem in Attitudes

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Washington dispatches say tha
it is learned from the highest authorit,
that the hope of the Republican leaders
etc. Highest authority! Doesn't tha
mean the All-Highest?
OLD READER.
New York, Dec. 10, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
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New-York tribune., 1919-12-17

in even a faulty league. But there
can be no surrender Of the Consti-
tuition no power of attorney
granted to a single man to put this
nation into war as he pleases.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17


"And, anyhow" l thought. "if he can
make that carving knife cut anything
he's the best swordsman in the fat
No wonder you can't understand the
parlor and the administration Bol-
sheviki,' writes Mora NJ. Deane. for
you belong to still another variety of
the Comrades semi Dolshevists.
That is, you seem to belong to that
wing Of the intelligentsia which aids
and abets revolutionaries without
really desiring a revolution,
"Mr. Chambers's book, like every
thing he has written lately, panders to
the lovers of the sensational and high
~ splced, but here, at least, he sees
clearly and warns against menace
which you highbrow critics haven't
the acumen to recognize under its in
fernally clever disguises. Your very
reviews Of books and plays. happily
phrased as they are, clearly show this
blind side of yours. l wonder some
times whether you cocksure critics,
who make such generous use Of ridi-
culc to discredit books and plays Of
fenslve to your sensitive radical
standards, ever pause to consider that
you yourselves are occasionally subject
to ridicule, partisan and unpartisan.
In other words, your style Is cramped
by this demi-semi attitude, and your
stuff seems a little grotesqus both to
conservatives and radicals"
l don't suppose can very we'll quar-
rel with that. l am not a conservative
and on clear and pleasant days I am
not quite radical. Anyhow, a reader
who places me among the "intelligent-
sla' and among "the highbrow critics
can call ME almost anything else she
pleases.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17

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