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The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-02-20
State News Briefs

Brush-A suggestion at recent
meeting of the Brush Commercial Club
to change the city's name to Brush
| City has aroused resentment of early
settlers who named the city for the
late Gov Brush.
Wiley What is said to be the
largest oil drill ever unloaded in Colo
RADIO has arrived in May valley as the
property of the Nee-No.shee Oil Com
pany. 1t weighs $500 pounds.
Colorado. Springs-William kilgai-
lon, convicted of, selling liquor at the,
Alamo hotel, has been fined 800 and
sentenced to Jail for SO days.
Colorado Springs-The Interna-
tionai Cattle Company of Muscatine.
Ia, has. an option ON the Stelson
stock ranch. the largest tract of cattle'
and farming land. In Ell Paso county.
including 1900 acres. II is said $780,
900 is the sale price under considera-
ton.
Monte vista-Monte vista's stock
show will be held February 26 to rs.
Laman-The council has instructed
City Attorney Fee top go ahead with
preliminary plans for n municipal
lightning plant.
Colorado Springs-The Red Cross,
hospital. which has been maintained
since December i'm the Y. W. C. A.
building. will be closed March 1.
Colorado Springs-C. s. Phister Of
Grand Junction says coal production
In Western Colorado will cease within,
short time through the failure of the
Midland to resume operations.
Colorado Springs-PreIiminary sur
veys nor the paving OF the road leading
north to Denver apa being made.
Crais-Held on a charge OF stealing
fruit from the lobby of the Craig post
Office. the youthful son Of Craig
widow was released when an older
brother said he committed the theft.
The court placed the older boy on pro-
batfnn.
Colorado. SpriDss-rhe result OF
numerous deaths. from influenza In FL
Paso county is shown in a total of
$3.50 In fees from the probate division
of the county court for January. This
is record.
Durango-A ffghf Is being staged in
tAe local probate court between Miss
Marie Andrews and John w. Bell over
the guardianship Of the two. minor
children. 20 months and s months old.
daughters afthe late Mr.. and and Mrs.
Charles Andrews. both OF whom died
last fall. Miss Andrews is an aunt OF
the children. while Mr.. Bail is their
gI Iandfatier.
F'iorence--Jack Livingston OF Flor
ence. writing from Brest. France. un-
der daos of January rs. says he haa
fired I75.oo0 shells In testing Lewis
guns. and II he had all the machine
gun shells piece for piece. he would
have enough to get all the ducks that
/ will come to Colorado for the next 20
years.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-02-20
Notes from
Graves; HOSPITAL

Charies Marshall JanrJos. 1-year OH
son sf Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Jacobs.
who reside on a ranch at Eight Mie
PARK was operated ON yesterday and
is getting along nicely
Rssa Piocoli OF Portland. Colo, WHO
was injured by portion OF a garage
falling on her, will he able TO be- out
slsan.
Mrs. Mary Cenosio OF Chandler is in
the hospital for treatment
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-02-20

the criminal tendencies OF children
and they were listened to with the ut
most attention throughout.
The service was of a beneficial na-
ture and will be valuable to the COM
munity in dealing with its sociological
problems. Splendid music by the
choir. under the leadership of Prof.
R. L. Dick, was feature of the occa-
sion TfN
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
DOZEN STAYS WITH US.

The ascendency of the automobile as the modern means of transporta- tion over the roads gives rise to ire quent remarks upon the passing of the horse" Yet faithful Dobbin is far from extinction. although so many cities see so little of him, compara- lively, on their streets. and although he is approaching a rarity in some
 Statistics issued by the war indus tries beard go to req assure us that the time 70 say gooGtye to the he- ;e is still some dist~nCe off. Last year in spite of the enormous shipments of horses abroad for use during the war, there were 21. 500, 900 still in the United States. In addition to this there were 5.e0o.o00 mules in this country last year. Horses and mules together number practically one fourth as many as the human popula- ton of the country, and yet the ave- rage person sees hundreds of human beings every day for every horse that is seen on the streets or roads.
 Prevailing prices for horses are al- so of exceptional interest. A one-year- old. according to price averages is satisfactorily listed as worth *42. An average two-year-old is worth sS6 and young horses more than two years old are listed as being worth s1os each. Young mules more than two years old are. on the avcrag more valuable than young horses, for they are listed as being worth $149.- 50
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the Mayor of London is the only out side person supposed to know it. This custom is a relic of the time when Tower was primarily a fortress.
 Like the Bastils, London Tower Tower has been stormed. Desperate efforts nave been made to steal the royal relics kept there. which include the ancient arnointing spoon and Queen Eliza abeth's salt cellar. One fla nous effort, in which Col Blood. dis guised as a clergyman, nearly made away with the bejewelled crown. is thought by some to have been inspired by Charles II because he needed the money the rare gems would bring.
 'One of the less well known. but most Spectacular incidents, was the esca De of two priests by a ruse that would have done credit to Monte CrIs- to. One of them. having been strung up by the hands for days. and then put in rack while his wrists still were swollen. without making him betray his faith, wrote in orange juice to friends outside for light rope. with weight at ope end. He also asked that a boat be brought to the river below Cradle Tower on certain night. On that night he made his way to his fellow prisoners room. The two flung the weighted end of the rope to their friends in the boat. pulled up a heavier rope, climbed from the steep walls to the boat safely and made their es cape"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
TO pIscUss MARRIAGE LAWS.

Women physicians and other prominent women from the leading nations of the world have been i'm vited to meet in September in New York where they are to discuss re- forms in the marriage and divorce laws. The invitation to the confer ence has been sent out by Dr. Kath- crime Bennett Davis of the bureau of social hygiene. Rockefeller Founda- ton, who upon her return from six months in Europe on a tour of in spection declares that the world has been shaken up but not shaken down.
 Besides the marriage and divorce laws, attention will be paid to the status of children of separated par ents. It is, the desire of Dr. Davis to have uniformity of such laws throughout the civilized world
 A group of French women is advo- eating that children take their na- tionality from their mothers. This will be combated in this country be- cause many American soldiers have brought French wives home with them and children born in this coun- try are Americans, according to the law. What view will be taken of children born to French mothers and American fathers in France remains to be seen. There has been agitation in Germany in favor of giving unmar ried mothers the title of frau, and this already has been accomplished. Scandinavian people wish a revision of their marriage and divorce laws in order to make them more flexible. The leading social agitation in England just now is for more rigid laws to prevent the spread of social diseases.
 Present indications are that thirty six women physicians. representing England, France. Italy. Switzerland, Holland. Belgium, the Scandinavian countries, Russia, Japan and South America, will attend the New York conference. as well as women physi- clans from this country. Germany will not be officially represented at the hearings on the international problems, but Dr. Davis talked to many German women while she was abroad and feels that she under stands their views well enough to present them. Incidentally Dr. Davis believes that the woman physician Is ra pidly entering a greater sphere of usefulness and she predicts even more activity on the part of women doctors.
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"Pray,'i insisted the Hyde Park man, pray hard that nobody will leave your wife a fortune."
 Just let em try it." said the Wood lawn man, between set teeth. Just once! Why, I'd even pay them to do it. Whats the matter with you. any
 That" the Hyde Park man said shortly, peering. sideways into his friends cigar pocket, you're getting awful stingy these days or else you're one Of these nutty reforners. Thanks woe arises from the fact that Imo- gene recently inherited a fortune from a misguided aunt who boarded her partifnony instead of spending it riotously as she should have done. When I say fortune I mean to say that it acts like a fortune. You might not think $500 was enough to make any fuss about
 Man, man!" groaned his friend from Woodlawn. Tn these days $500 looks as big as mountain.
 You are merely quoting Inogene ' interrupted the Hyde Park man. T realize now that what I should have done at the start was to say to Imo- mesh bag and run downtowns and spend it. Buy dress and maybe a face veil I know that on such a miserably small sum you couldn't spludge and get a nat LOO, put we must resign our selves to the high cost of living. Or you might invest in two pairs of shoes a silk petticoat and nut sundae. I think your wad would carry you about that far
 But, mo- I had to nod my head ap- provingly when Innogene, with shin ing eyes said she would not think of spending that much money. but would invest it and when we were old and toothless' and homeless we could live on the income. I thoughtlessly agreed that it would be wise and she wanted to know what she should invest it in. She wanted something perfectly, ab- solutely safe, that could return her about .25 per cent I believe and her estimate of my business ability fell a foot when I assured her. that she couldn't get over 5 to save her life. She wanted to be told what was the use of having money if it didn't bring you in anything? Five per cent was utterly silly, and how did I suppose she
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sLINDINe TIE ARMY,s EYES.

Congress is putting itself into the
 position of being willing to blind the E-es of the army and navy when it
 proposes to cut in two the appropri-
 srions asked for in the army and
 navy bills for the development of avi- ~~tion-
 At immense expense, we have re-
 cruited a force of trained flyers, who
 arc now being sent back into civil
 life. and while it is true that the
 United States can afford to 20 slow
 ly, for 8 year or two at least. in the
 matter of expenditures for national
 defense. it is a question whether the
 air service is the place to begin with
 extreme retrenchment.
 --- Aviation in other countries is mal1-
 ing steady progress and we cannot afford to lag behind after having at taiued the position we have reached in : this field It was shown that the army or the navy without this auxiI- { iary branch at its call was at an i'm mense disadvantage in the face of an enemy, and we should neglect no measures to insure that an American army would be amply equipped in its air service
 Within a few weeks all our trained flyers will have returned to civilian life under the terms of the army ap- propria ton bill In the situation arising on the Mexican border there may be call at any time for an eff cient aviation corps. for, it is appar- snt that the difficulties of the coun- try to be traversed make the aviation arm particularly adaptable fer scout service and for border patrol here tofore in the hands of the cavalry. An emergency in our Mexican rela- tons much as we hope It may be avoided. might show instantly where la mistake had been made in crippliag the immediate future of our avia- tion corps
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ed within 8 comparatively short period.
 This seems to be an intelligent method of getting at results. Either the A hour week is near, or it is re- mote. If it is near, it is 9 waste of en- ergy to oppose it. It it is remote, 1t is a waste of energy to strike for it. It is undeniable that mass of the people and those practical measures which they strongly demand cans be obtained by them. There is no resisting 3 general and thoroughly organized public opinion.
 Present strikes are a measure. in part, of the scarcity of labor. and the greater sea rcity which is to be antici = pated. They are in part manifesta- ticns of the unrest which the war brought to the entire civilized world.
 The demands of labor ought to be speedily and intelligently considered and early resumption of work.
 It is very true. as MT. Hawiey, of the Bridgeport Manufacturers As- sociation says. that shorter hours and this labor leaders are as certain as Mir. Hawley is- But prices do rise and for the present nobody knows of any oth- CT way of meeting conditions except to which wages chase prices as eat ehases it's tail and never evertakes it.
 If the vicious circle Is to be broken labor and capital must join in finding cans of reducing prices, in which must be included such remedies as price fixing. improved distribution, and above all. means by Ehich pro- duction may be increased.
 The fact of material prosperity is in the quantity of usab ble things pro duced. A small heap of usable things means poverty. no matter what the reward of labor is termed in wages. A large heap of commodities means prosperity. and more things to enjoy with body and mind.-Bridgepor Times
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HER INVESTMENTS

could do anything with that amount a year? It wouldn't pay the grocery bill for week. Not that she expected to pay the grocery bill with 1t, but some time she might have to-
 .When I came home nights I had to swim in through sea of investment literature. That woman had all the pamphlets that the bond houses send out when they want to float S1000.- 900 issue and she had letters from trusting farm mortgage agents who sent her listss.of mortgages beginning at $7 7,S00 and running up to $20.000- She explained that she wanted to study investments and find out what was worth while before she made up her mind. Also in polite triumph she showed me where 1 was quite mistaken in my remarks about per cent She had one awfully nice letter from man with a gold mine and she would draw I5 per cent a quarter right away, when he got the mine started After I had led her attention carefully away from the gold mine, much as you would dis tract child from a rattlesnake. Inao- gene said she wondered if 1t would not be a good thing to put $500 into dia- monds. She had read that diamonds were a spendid investment because one always could pawn them in an emergency.
 ..Ske woke me up at I o'clock that night to tell me she had decided to in vest her money in a bond and what ktHO or d DOHO WdS SdIcSL. At # o'clock she shook me awake to ask whether a first mortgage on something would not be better.
 She put salt in my coffee cup in the morning while she was abstractedly wondering whether it would not be best to let the money just remain in the bank and compound. When I left she had figured up to the age of 5s, when the bank total would be some large imposing sum that so excited her she figured right on to the age of 15o. She had an uncle once who was 92.
 t'I tell you I am nearly gray headed with that woman and her money and her investment plans. Why she doesn't even have time to darn my socks, she's so busy figuring. I hope you never have a like misfortune in your family
 Huh" said the Woodiawn man.
 'Td just eat up that sort of trouble. You lucky dog!-Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31

than 50 per cent and as a result our share of the worlds output can now be safely stated at approzi- mately' 75 per cent.
 With this increase in our own out put during the war period coupled with the decline in production in the other tinplate manufacturing coun- tries, we have become the worlds chief distributor of that article and in 1918 sent the product of our tin plate factories to more than 50 coun- tries and colonies scattered over the entire world. To Europe, the other sent in 1918 11s ,ooa COG pounds. to As:a 150,000,0o0, to South America 142,00e,0o. to North America. other than the United States, 1S5. .00,000, to Oceania nearly 100000 and to. Africa over 100000 pounds.
 Considerable quantities of this tin- plate exported went back to the very spot from which we drew the piS tin from which it was manufactured. for ali of the tin used in our production n of tinplate is drawn from other parts of the world. Our importation of pig tin which amounted to s55,0o0,000 in value in 1917 was drawn chiefly from the Straits Settlements. the Dutch East indies, Great Britain. HongltonG, Australia and China. also limited qualities of tin ore from ont South American neighbor. Bolivia though by far the largest quantity was from Straits Settlements and: tho Dutch East Indies. To the Straits settle ments we sent in 1917 in exchange for their raw tin about 13,o0Q, ,0oo pounds of our tinplate to the Dutch East Indies 31,000,o0o pounds, to Hongkong 22.000.0o0 to Australia 15,- 0o0,0 to China 50.00o. .00.0 to Eng land over 16000,0O pounds to Bo- livia from which we now draw about $lo,00c,o00 worth a year of tin ore. we sent about 5o0,o00 pounds of tin
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
United States Production of Tinptase.

The Welsh, tinplate manufa cturers en route to this country to study our manufa curing methods will find the United States producing three-f -foutths Of the tinplate of the world. while 20 years ago she produced ncne. Mean time our imports have fallen from L. 000,0 pounds in the year in which our industry was itlaugurated to practically nothing last year. Produc- tion. which made its first record in 1891. amounted in that year to about 5000, 900 pounds. reached 100000 in 1903. 1000, 600, 900 in 1s12, 3,3s7 ,0oo,- 900 in 1917. and approximately like quantity in 1918.
 This rapid growth in our domestic production only comfortably supplied our domestic requirements until within recent years, for it was not until 1900 that cur expectations reached as much as 1,o0e. coo pounds advancing to 2e,- 000 eco pounds in 1910 and 1o6 900, 900 pounds in 1914. the year preceding the war. Then they jumped to 516 o0o.o0o pounds in 1918 5sO 05900e in 1918, and in the fiscal year 1919 just ending ap- proximated 500. t0o.00 pounds. At the beginning of the war our production of tinplate formed approximately two- thirds of that of the world but with the fall off in production in the other tin plate producing countries, Great Brit ain, Germany, France and Belgium, our production at the present time forms, according to an estimate by The National City Bank of New York. about three-fourths of the output of the world.
 The tinplate production of the world at the beginning of the war occurred chiefly in the United States. Great Britain, Germany, France and Bel gium and amounted with us to about 2,25e. 100000 pounds. Great Britain ap- proxifnateiy Ts5.oto. 900. Germany 157. eco and Belgium :tbout 5s,oeo.ooo pounds Tn all of the European countries the product, of course, de clined and with us increased more
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
JITNEY COMPETITION.

Just how large a part the jftney competition has to play in the trou- bEes of the trolley roads was shown in +a. statement recently made by Lucius & Storrs. president of the Connecticut company, when he appeared before 1he federal electric railway commis- zion
 In Bridgeport, for example, accord ing to figures that President Storrs gave, es-s5 per cent of the riding with zr two miles of the center of the city 1s. handled by the jitneys- Outside of 1he 3-4 mile radius the trolleys had aH the business.
 The jitaey thus comes in and takes the cream of the traffic from the troll lay road It is on the short hauls in aae thickly populated parts of a com smznity that the trolley company can s- nis4z sunEe- lurs-- Ba---7 s-zA-
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
Wind Blows Taste Into water.

The city of Milwaukee has been greatly bothered with a peculiar taste iTa it's drinking water. The water is ob- tained from a lake and is chiorinated before distribution. At first k was thought that the chlorine produced the taste but series Of tests prov ed that this was not the source Of contamination. There seems to be some connection between the inten9- itv of the taste a@I tho direction of the wind, and finally the source trouble was Iocllte1 ii TWO plants one three miles away and the other eight miles away, which were produe- ing coal tar products.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
LICENSING TIE PAcKERs.

2 However much we may think some &watchful eye and restraining hand fought to be kept over the packers it lis a question whether we are willing sto subscribe to the bill introduced by @Senstor Kenyon Of Iowa for the li- licensing Of the packers Carried to its sIritimate conclusion, it might well re- 1suIr in practical government opera srion of packing houses. stock yards, land dealers in dairy products and poultry Government ownership of
 the railroads and the telegraphs and
 telephones has been marked by no -@nch Elittering benefits as to encour- sage further extensions of complete rEovernment operation of big business. Senator Kenyon's bill would require sal persons engaged in the business sof sIaughtering livestock or preparing sliEestock products for sale to sell their sStockyards within two years; would -prevent the packers from engaging in ~zny other business or in the sale or -Hnanufacture of any other food pro 5duct- would take the meat refrigera- stor cars out of the control of the spresent owners; and would subject -tle packers to the revocation of any sfzcensc issued, practically in the sole >6iscrerion Of the secretary of agricul- sture-
 z Senator Kenyon's bill purports. no sdoubr, to be 2 step towards the re- .duction Of the high cost of living, but -iEnoreS the fact that no regulation, sstriuEent as it may be, can be ef- sfecrive to this end as long as the price -ot wheat guaranteed to the farmer re- mains at s226 a busheI, and corn
 fzs followed suit by rising from the normal of 50 to 50 cents bushe1 to
 $1-Sa. s1-91 and s2 a bushe1.
 When il takes $30 worth of
 corn instead of s10 to fatten steer &sr market and $50 worth of labor all along the line instead of $25s a cost factor is introduced that no amount
 Of legislation can eliminate. Until T1fe legislative branch of the United
 States government can compel the executive branch to stop stu61ng high grain costs into. live stock and poul- try # IS useless to expect the high cost of living to come down.
 When this s226 wheat is allowed to 20 on the market, under the law of supply and demand. we shall be talk ing an effective step towards the re- duction of the high cost of living.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
OTHER VIEW POINTS

They used to sheer at Connecticut for it's so-called blue laws. partly imaginary. In Massa achusetts cities like Springfield and Holyoke. they have the real thing-and enforced too with the state police moving on coun- try clubs to stop golf and tennis, while swimming and. baseball are criminal. This little state of ours has less law. more sense and better order than most of them.-Waterbury Americana.
 The story of the release on parole
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
,lAte in exchanee in 1s17.

plate in exchange in 1917.
 The value of the tinplate produced in 1a1S is estimated at about S2ee,- G0o. 1000 The census valuation of the production in 1914 was approximate ly s70, 1000 and as the quantity produced in 1918 was about 50 per cent more than in 1914 and the prices per pound about dauhle those ot 1914. the market value of the 1913 output probab ply appreSimated 5200i 0eaOD0 and the quantity produced approximately three-feurths of that consumed in the world.
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make money. but according to the ex- perience shown in Bridgeport from the figures MT. Storrs gives. it is exactly this profitable business that the jitneys take away from the troll leys. Outside the cities where the trolley line maintains long lines of track with considerable less riding the jitney competition is but little felt.