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The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Rep. Brown has introduced bill to
repeal the presidential primary law.
Rep. McKeon has put i'm bill to have
payments on township highway funds
made only on order of the township
clerk, the latter to get ten cents for
each order Rep. Lewis wants the deer
hunting season changed from it's pres
ent dates of November 10 to Nov. 80
and to have it run from Nov. 20 to
Dec. 10. He also would have the
closed season ON muskrats and other
small fur-bearing animals start April
l instead of May of each year, con-
tinuing to New 10 as at present. Rep.
Lewis would have orders of county
drain commissioners ineffective until
approved and countersigned by judges
of probate. Senator Brennan wants
county agents appointed by the state
board of charities and corrections in
stead OF by the governor and paid
$500 in Wayne county; $4,000 in
Kent county and SIS day in all other
counties.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13
DOINGS AT The
STATE CAPITOL
IMPORTANT BILLS AND REsoLU-
TONS NOW BEFORE BOTH
HOUSES OF LEGISLATURE.
TERMINAL PROJECT HELD UP
state Senate Rushes Through Bill to
Preserve Ballots In Senatorial Elec-
tions-5ill Passing Unanimously.
BY STAFF Correspondent.



To keep pace with developments In
Washington in the Newberry-Ford SEN
do some rush work on the bill to pre-
serve ballots in senatorial elections.
The bill already had passed the house
and had been given immediate effect
there, and was just reported out OF
committee in the senate when word
came from Washington that the SEN
ate down there was about to take up
the Newberry-Ford argument again.
Newberry men here wanted to show
that they are as anxious as anyone to
see the ballots of last November re-
counted il Washington thinks they
should be, and urged immediate pass
age of the bill in the state senate.
Last November, when these ballots
were cast there was no provision for
saving them and no way of having a
recount except on order of the u. s.
senate, but practically all OF them
still are intact.
When the state senate took the
matter up il heard the bill in commit
tee OF the whole. sent il on to third
reading, then resumed third reading
and suspended the rules, passing the
bill unanimously. Immediate effect
also was attached to it and it was sent
at once to Governor Sleeper who was
awaiting its arrival for his sigma
ture.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

There are numerous bills In TO In
crease salaries of circuit court
stenographers in various districts
about the state. The first to come up
i'm the senate affected Berrien county
district. Senator Herbert Baker, OF
Cheboygan, had a referendum at
tached to IL when II was up in COM
mittee of the whole. Lawyer mem
bers of the senate pondered on the
matter over night and the next day
objected to referendum on strictly
legal grounds.
Baker hell that II was a matter To-
cal to Berrien county. The lawyers,
including Senators Brennan, Hicks
and Clark, contended that the whole
circuit court act is one general act,
covering the state at large; that 1t
subdivides the state into districts,
various sections OF the act dealing
with the various districts. Hence,
they insisted, an amendment to a GER
tain line of a certain section, affecting
the salary of a stenographer anywhere,
was a part of the general act.
The matter finally was referred
back to committee, with instructions
that the views of the attorney gen.
erals Office In the matter be ascer.
tanned. Chase Osborn, when gov
ernor, once vetoed a stenographer's
salary bill on the same grounds that
Senator Baker now takes. but others
have taken the other view.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Good roads projects continue to hold
limelight in the legislature. The
house invited Philip T. Colgrove. of
Hastings, TO address it on the plans
of the road boosters. Among other
things he informed the representatives
that Senator Townsend of Michigan,
will introduce in congress soon a bill
to create national department of
highways, taking road work out OF
the hands of the department Of agri.
culture, and giving the new depart
ment plenty of funds to carry Oh a
national plan of good roads.
The proposition which the legisla'
ture has placed before the voters at
the election next April, to bond the
state for as high as $50,000,000 for
roads, means the enabling OF Michigan
to meet the federal government half
way on it's plans, he said He declared
that Michigan Is the leader in the
good roads movement and that many
other states are following along the
lines it began.
The legislature adopted resolution
to memorialize Michigan members OF
congress to support the Bankhead bill
calling for 100000 900 for good roads.
Michigan stands to receive $5,500,000
OF this II 1t is ready to do its share
in the federal road plan The house.
in committee of the whole, adopted
without amendment the Aldrich bill
to empower the state highway COM
missioner to see that work on state
trunk line highways is not held up by
any county neglectiIg to do its share.
The bill would permit the state high.
way department to go on with the
work and charge the county's share
up to 1t, Withholding state reward
money if necessary to get the county
to pay up.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

So much interest has been taken in
the project of Senator MacNaughton.
of Kent county, to have the state
build terminal warehouses for the
storing of farm products, that the mat
ter has been held up temporarily. The
joint resolution to provide for sub
mission of the matter to the voters
OF the state at the April election ha6
been sent along to third reading in
the senate when requests became nu-
merous for a public hearing on it,.
Senator MacNaughton himself then
had the resolution sent back TO the
state affairs committee so that a
weeks notice OF a hearing could be
given.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

work is q pleasure. tell all my friends
who have any trouble of this kind what
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound has done for me. "-NELLIE B.
BRITTINGHAM, 600 Calverton Rd., Balti-
more, Md.
1t is only natural for any woman TO
dread the thought Of an operation. So
many women have been restored to
health by this famous remedy, Lydia E.
an operation has been advised that it
will pay any woman who suffers from
such ailments to consider trying it be-
fore submitting to such trying ordeal.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Representative Olmsted, of Midland,
wants county boards Of supervisors
compelled to submit to vote of the
people any large public construction
work involving the expenditure OF
county funds. Representative Chew
wants the limit of 5000 year which
rural communities may expend on
cemeteries removed, so that they may
spend any amount they vote to spend
for this purpose.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Both houses have adopted con-
current resolution to allow the state
war preparedness board to loan $50
each to returned soldiers and sailors
who have returned broke" and for
whom Job is not Immediately avail
able. Enough to allow each one to
get suit of clothes and a meal tick
et," was the idea expressed in the
house where the resolution was intro.
duced.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Senator Condor has introduced in
the senate and Representative Frank
lin Moore has introduced in the house
bills to place private and Darochial
schools under the supervision Of the
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton; to have them graded similarly
to public school grades; and to have
all instruction in them in the English
language. Representative Vine also
has introduced bill to place the
teaching staff of the Adrian school for
girls under the direct supervision Of
the state superintendent of public In
struction.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Both houses now have passed the
bill to exempt pages in the legislature
from school attendance under the com
pulsory school act and ii has gone to
the governor The senate has passed
and given immediate effect to a bill
raising the salary of the state inspec-
tor of coal mines from 81 a day to
$500 year. 1t was declared that
it no longer is possible to get any
competent man to inspect the 81 coal
mines in Michigan for 81 a day. as he
must know mining and can earn So or
more day working as miner.
The senate also has passed the
joint resolution to submit a consti-
tutional amendment to vote in April
to allow the raising Of salaries Of
supreme court Justices and judges of
courts of record during their terms Of
office.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13
A Fair Proposition.

Mrs. Peck-My first husband never
acted like YOU.
Henry Peck-Well. if you can per.
suade him TO come back, Pm willing to
exchange places with, him.-BOston
Transcript.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Senator Henry has put in bill to
create the Office OF state hotel inspec-
tor, with deputy inspectors in each
congressional district. The hotels
would pay license fees ranging from
81 to SIS. according to the number
of rooms they have. All would have
to be equipped with large electric
fire gongs on each floor.
Representative Warner has intro
duced joint resolution to amend the
constitution so that no one may vote
on first papers obtained before 1894,
but must have complete citizenship
before being allowed to cast bal
lot.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

NOuSucso anu ucdu-
aches and every
month would have to
stay In bed most Of
the time. Treat
ments would relieve
me for a time but
my doctor was al
ways urging me to
have an operation.
My sister asked mo
to try Lydia E. Pink
h q ms = Vegetable
Compound b e T ore
consenting to an
j took
five bottles Of it and
it has completely
cured me and my
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Representative John w. Smith. OF
st. Clair county. introduced bill to
have party state central committees
made up Of three members from each
congressional district instead OF two
members from each. The idea is to
make room on the committees for wo-
men members from each distract.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Representative Lewis would vine
out all private banks in Michigan
and allow the Incorporation OF banks
In small communities for as low an
$4,000 capitalization. These banks
would all be under the supervision Of
the state banking department.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Senator Penney wants the state 10
have control of the fish business.
through the public domain commission
would be able to set Wholesale prices
for Ash and fish companies would
have to sell at these prices. Also the
state game warden could seize all
the fish that the companies had. pay
ing for them at the prices set by the
domain commission and then selling
them through the state at sufficient
amount to pay the cost Of handling
them.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13
DOCTOR URGED
AN OPERATION
Instead l took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
and Was Cured.

Baltimore, Md" Nearly four years
I suffered from organic troubles, ner-
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Senator Clark has introduced a bill
TO amend the absent voters act so as
to allow any one TO cast an absent"
vote who is away from his home city
on lawful business on election day.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Keep your liver active. your bowels clean ny
taking DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and you'll
keep healthy, wealthy and wise. Adv.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Tampa. Fla, has over 100 cigar fac
tories, which employ the major part
Of the population of that city.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Resolve and thou art free.-Long-
fellow.
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

Used by Mothers for over thirty years.
Do Not Accept Any Substitute MOTHER GRAYS SWEET POWDER
The Yale expositor., 1919-02-13

A.encss sbor'hors BREEDER Association. Chicago
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
THEIR OBJECT.

A rather choleric golfer went out
to play for the second time on GER
tain course. Evidently his fame had
preceded him, for at the drive-off he
found an interested audience of To-
cal youngsters.
whats this?' demanded the
choleric one, gazing at the assembly.
"What do you want?'
"Nothin'," was the noncommittal
rejoinder of the leader of the bunch.
"Then clear off, every one of
you!" exclaimed the player. '1There
isn't anything here for you to
watchp'
owe didn't come to WATCH" re-
turned the youngsters, without at
tempting to move on. Owe came to
listen"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
FOR UNCLE SAM
sln in Response to Government
Queries.

Among the wearisome masses of
correspondence a government de-
partment must read through daily,
there is a never-failing source OF
amusement in the answers of I'M
educated people.
Asked "where were you born ?"
one answered, "died when / was an
infant" Another, deceased is dead,
SO far as | know" In space at the
bottom of form for signature or
mark appeared zone small scar on
the back of my neck"
One of the most cryptic replies
was "Aitin aidono becosegorntuita-
lie," which was finally deciphered to
read: eighteen; | don't know be-
cause he gone to Italy"
Some weird and wonderful occ,l-
pstions are revealed at times, such
as "norker," ''dust gentleman"
bulldog burner" ''body washer"
animal instincter" and Catching
rabbits on me own" which is tact
full way to describe poaching.
An old lady pathetically re-
marked, 81 have been left enough
money to live on, when | get it."
A fair specimen of English as she
is written is: "Sorry to inform You
that he has listed for the war and
we can't do nothink about anythink
about him and we don't know what
to do without anythink Of hisn' be-
cause we don't know where he's
went"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
INGENIOUS TNvENTIoN."

A "carry-on magnet, efficacy guar
anteed," was advertised recently in
German newspapers by its "inyent-
or" and is described in the Elec-
trical Experimental, which special
lies in astonishing inventions. The
magnet was declared to have mystic
powers enabling its possessor more
easily to endure the food shortage of
the country.
The price was 300 marks and the
buyer was privileged to inspect the
magnet before paying. Those who
sent in orders received a package
bearing the inscription: Contents:
One Carry-On Magnet"
1t is not ON record that anyone re-
fused to pay for it, for the mag
net" proved to be ten pounds of
Thuringian bacon. The ingenious
Inventor" now is being sought by
the police.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
TO OPEN IRISH COAL MINES
Belief Held In Many Quarters That
They Can Be Worked to Com
merclaI Advantage.

Great Britain's fuel shortage has
caused attention to be directed to
certain of the potential coal re-
sources of Ireland with view to
their immediate commercial e1-
ploitation. Operations are about to
be commenced in County Tyrone
and borings will be made at Coal
island and in the district be-
tween there and Tough Neagh.
1t is said that some of the
Coalisland seams are known to
be Of good quality, but the pres
ent operations in the country along
the way to Tough Neagh are to be
for the purpose of determining the
existence of coal in paying quanti-
ties. Ignite abounds in the region
and its utilization is to be underta-
ken at once. 1t is to be stripped
from its bed by rotary cutters, proc
essed, and pressed into briquettes.
The secret treatment to be employed
is said to make Ignite a good coal
substitute. The machinery now be-
ing installed will be capable of pro-
ducing perhaps $4,000 tons of bri-
quotes weekly.-Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
is PLANNING GIANT AIRSHIP
capronI, Famous Italian Constructor,
Said to Have Under Consideration
One OF Great Power.

1t was announced on November
IL, at the annual meeting of the
Aero Club of America, that Mr..
Gianni Caproni, the famous Italian
airplane constructor, is planning to
construct an air cruiser OF the
hesvier-than-air type with a num-
Der Of motors aggregating $4,000
horsepower. The armistice having
lifted the ban on the discussion Of
coming aeronautic Developments, the
transatlantic flight committee Of the
Aero Club of America, of which Mr..
Henry A. Wise Wood is chairman,
made known the fact that there are
several airplanes already being de-
signed, each to be equipped with 81
600 horsepower. Caproni has one
such machine, and it was in connec-
ton with the discussion Of this type
that it became known that Caproni
has an 1S,000-horsepower air cruiser
under construction, which will be
capable of carrying large number
Of passengers in nonstop flights
across the Atlantic. The famous
British constructor, Handley-Page,
is also planning to manufacture
5,000-horsepower machine, and SINH
lar plans are under consideration in
the United States-Scientifc Amer
lean.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
REFUSE ALL "GAssED'' MONEY
Accept Coins That Have Been
Blackened by Fumes.

Gassed money has made its way to
Paris to be spent, since the small
townspeople refuse to take it in
trade. A Young Mems Christian
association secretary in q village
protested when an aged woman
storekeepcr refused the jet-black
coins he offered, briefly explaining,
"No good"
"But," insisted the Red Triangle
man, "those coins are perfectly good.
They were new and shiny when /
put them in my pocket. 1 have been
through gas attack, and the fumes
have turned them black. See"
He took out his knife and scraped
until the bright metal was revealed.
'Non," replied madame, still un-
convinced. ace nest pas bon"
And she went on to explain that
after toin had been gassed she did
not want to have anything to do
with it. Finally the man who had
made the purchase was obliged to
borrow enough from fellow-worker
to pay for what he had bought.
at is bad enough to go through
the danger and discomfort of a gas
attack without having perfectly
good money ruined" unused the Y.
NJ. G. A. man. ''This matter ought
to be held against the Boehes when
the final settlement comes. 1t is the
worst of all their crimes"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
SAD CASE.

"Who is this unfortunate person
who slashes the air with an mag
mary pencil?"
''He was a censor during the
war"
"Do you think he will ever re-
cover his reason ?"
"I'm afraid not. When he broke
down he was trying to wade through
several thousand letters written on
delicately scented note paper in
every color of the rainbow and run
ming chiefly to postscripts and kiss
marks. Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
THINKS NOVELS TOO SHORT
To Persuade, Writer Should Take
Enough Room, Is Contention Put
Forward by One Critic.

The average length of the novel
has steadily declined for many years,
and in spite Of certain examples to
the contrary, it continues to decline.
1t is quite extraordinary how this
fact has escaped recognition as some
thing hostile to proper development,
observes the Dial. We are all-nov-
elists and critics alike-biased not
by our own feelings, but simply by
a ridiculous fear of ridicule in favor
of brevity.
The novelists have been terrorized
into an absurd anxiety to avoid
boring us when one of them does
run over 500 pages as we all me-
chemically shrug our shoulders and
behave as though he has set us a
perfectly impossible task. But these
protests are all really purely me-
chanical. No one dislikes length in
good novel, and well the best seller
knows it. Hall Game, Marie Corel-
Ii. Richard Dehan" and the rest
throw enormous wads of language at
their public, and the public accepts
it all and Graves for more.
The novel is the fullest and most
discursive form of literary art that
exists. 1t is its business to give us
high moments certainly, but also to
rationalize and substantiate those
moments by setting them against a
detailed background. The lyric and
the drama convince us by lightning
flashes of Imagination; the novel
must persuade And when the nov
elist does not allow himself enough
room he does not persuade.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
ROME TO SPEND LARGE SUM.

Public works involving an ex-
penditure of 100000 will be be-
gun at once by the city of Rome, SO
as to give employment to those for
merly in war industries Wherever
possible factories engaged in war
work will be transformed SO
manufacture building material ,..A
railroad supplies and equipment.
The mayor of the city has asked that
the Bank of Loans and Deposits adj
vance the capital needed for the mu-
nicipal work at rate of 4 per cent.
Schools, hospitals and charitable in
stitutions will be among the first
buildings to be constructed.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
A MATTER OF BUSINESS.

Re Music Professor-Ah, Wee
lynn, you are too queek. You failed
to hold re half rest for two beats.
Willie (of Indianapolis, Of course)
I admit being a little hasty, pro-
fessor, but you must admit that it
isn't bad business policy to meet
notes before they are dse.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
BUDDHISM DOOMED.

DR.. Danjo Ebina, leading Japa-
nese Christian pastor at Tokyo, pre-
diets that Buddhism will die out
when militarism and imperialism
are abolished and Christianity will
become the religion of the Japa-
ness.-Lsslis's Weekly.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
The Delaware and Atlantic
Telegraph and Telephone Company
RARE FIN ..

"This influenza epidemic has
forced a great many people to spend
their evenings at home"
"Quite true. A strange case came
under my observation"
"What was it?"
"a friend of mine discovered that
he had set of Shakespeare that
had been in his house for seven
years without his knowledge" Dir
mingham Age-Herald.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
CONSERVING MAN POWER.

"Now that the war is over do you
expect Josh to come back and work
on the farm"
"Nope," replied Farmer Corntos-
sci. "It'll be some time before we'll
be willin' to take chance on gettin'
Josh tired out so that he can't tell
us all about the war when we come
home from our daily TOLL
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
STILL WAITING FOR NEWS.

care you tired of hearing about
the war;"
'No, SIR" replied Farmer Corn
tossel. 'I'm hangin' over the front
gate waitin' fur Josh to come home
an tell us all that inside informa-
ton the censor wouldn't let him
write"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
MILD IN COMPARISON.

"Back in your old job, I see."
eyes," replied the discharged SOL
der.
'Do things seem natural to you?"
"Not quite. | used to think the
boss was human cyclone when he
lost his temper, but that was before
] listened to a few heated remarks
from top sergeant. birmingham
Age-Herald.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
THE TROUBLE.

A negro soldier, when ordered to
move by an armed sentry, went to
safe distance and then turned
around and shouted back: 81 amt
'fraid of you, and | amt 'fraid of
your rifle, but | don't like that big
razah on the end of it."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
INDUSTRIOUS INTENTIONS.

Didn't you understand that poll
tics had adjourned?"
eyes" answered Senator Sor-
ghum "but I was like the rest of the
fellows. thought everybody else
would lay off and let me work over
time"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
SOMETHING TO eRlEvE ABOUT.

II tell you, it's too bad" muttered
the sympathetic soul.
'FSure, what is it?" questioned the
other fellow, who is always handy.
"Why, poor old Atlas held the
world on his shoulders for thousands
of years and didn't ask for any back
pay"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
LIVING UP TO HIS RECORD.

Husband-The chauffeur doesn't
show me proper respect.
Wife-You must remember that
he has driven for Jack johnson and
Gunboat Smith.-London Answers.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-24
SOFT sTUFFlNG.

He (relating experience in billet
SO went to sleep that night with
q stone jar for pillow.
She-W Wasn't that awful hard?
He-Oh, no; you see / had stuffed
it with hay.-Boston Evening Tran
script.