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The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-08-01
SAY SOFT DRINK
 TAX BAD FOR PUBLIC

A Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune sends the fol- lowing to that paper from the capitol city:
 Officers of the international Reve- nue Bureau have come to the follow ing conclusions in regard to the so- called soft drinks excise tax of the new revenue law:
 That it tempts about 100000 per sons to become embezzlers and law evaders.
 That it is making 100 100000 per sons disgusted with the whole feder al internal revenue taxation system. i That it is so vague and intrinsi- cally contrary that any attempt to comic opera.
 That it is being made the vehicle of profiteering and eXtortion, individ ually petty, but collectively enormous. The law makes every soda water dis penser in the country collector of internal revenue, but it gives him no salary. requires no oath of office and exacts no bond. To check each of hun dreds of thousands of dealers, most of them petty. on the pennies they daily collect from the people is impossible.
 The general custom of the dealers is to provide some sort of receptacle into which they drop the tax pennies. There is no way to tell how often the clerk forgets or purposely omits to drop in the pennies. There is no way to tell whether the clerk or even the proprietor himself appropriates a considerable part of these coins from time to time. What is left in the bottle, can or box belongs to Uncle Sam. Whatever is taken out seems to pass for good into the hands of the takers. Clerks and proprietors know there is no check on them. This temptation, officers say, leads to crime. with no chance of punishment.
 The public is becoming aware that under pretence of the tax. soft drinks ihave been marked up in price and that under the pretence or actually of misunderstanding the law a great many pennies are being collected that the dealers have no right to. There is no consumption tax on grape juice cider, ginger ale and such drinks as are carried in bottles or other con. tainers, but reports from all parts of the country indicate that dealers every where are exacting such tax. Thus the public, in addition to having tc lpay a pety tax that it detests, feels
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-08-01
SENATOR LODGE AND sHANTUNe

Republican ''strong men in the Senate and particularly Senator Lodge, long noted for his familiarity with and interest in foreign affalrs' are moved to tears over the ''crime of Shant- ung'' Because of Japan's acquisition of the territory that Germany grabbed from China, Senator Lodge and others would reject the peace treaty and throw the League of Natohs covenant into the boneyard.
 It is more than passing strange that Senator Lodge should suddenly develop so deep an 1n- terest in China s territorial integrity after the lapse of twenty-one years during which he was silent and stone cold on that subject
 It was in 1S97-9S that the international rob- berv was committed and Shantung passed to the possession of Germany Senator Lodge was then in the Senate, President Mckinley was in the White House., the, Republicans were in control everywhere Senator Teller and some leaders of the opposition party denounced the dismmeberment of China, declared It to De America s duty to join with Great Britain m a notice to Russia and Germany that dlsmen- berment will not be permitted
 hid Senator Lodge define similar attitude for himself? Not until the lapse of twenty one years, hen to suddenly burst into tears to be moved to intense indignation by the tff'hs- fer of bit of territory from one lnternauohal robber to another strong-arm nat1on Whose lltie is at least no worse than was that of the 1mper- ialistic country Senator Lodge saw commit the or;oinal robbery without so much as lifting hls voice in protest Verify, the years have soften ed the Massachusetts Senator's heart, but nave failed to make consistency his jewel
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-08-01
WHERE sTATEMANsH1P HAS FAILED

Nowhere has statemanship risen to the emer- gency> with solution of the problem of the high cost of living. From every quarter of the civilized world come the complaints of the steady increase in the prices of necessaries since the signing of the armistice. Month af- ter month has passed without any effective means having been devised to change condi- tions for the better In countries demoralized and exhausted by the privations of war, Gov ernments cling to the policy of drift, as though people who are pinched by want could be persuaded that their only hope of relief was to bide in patience the advent of happier days.
 In Italy the Government has had to face acute social unrest eliminating in widespread food riots, during which the people in many cities in their desperation have seized stocks of provisions Premier Nitti pleads before the Parliament that the Government has done its utmost and that to reduce further the price of wheat, already handled at heavy loss, will mean ruin. In France short domestic supplies restricted importations and excessive prices are pictured as the cause of dire want among large classes of the population who have looked ln vain for easier conditions since the cessation of hostilities In England Dr. Conan predicts popular uprisings if price jumping is not very promptly stopped. s'There is no limit to con scienceless greed, he protests, and insists that the dealers be restrained.
 The universal cry is against peace profiteer- ing of which there is abundant proof in all these countries, as there is today in the United States. Against that abuse it should not be impossible to adopt measures that will check if not stop it Yet the food extortioners and profiteers are permitted to go unmolested while lawmakers and official bodies solemnly discuss why nothing can be done.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-08-01

Chairman Graham, Republican of the special House committee to fd out why Demo- cratic Administration the world war, and how, attacks the Council of National Defense for ante-bellum preparation As large ma jority of the Republican members of Congress voted against all American legislation prior to our entrance, into the war, then assailed the Administration for not preparing, and next noisily voted for all war measures, it would seem that charge of inconsistency is in order Also, Mr. Graham <overlooks the fact that the majority of the Council were Republicans Perhaps he has not found that out yet.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-08-01
that it is being mulched.
 Inconsistencies of Measure

The inconsistencies of the law are easy to see. If you live on the fif- teenth story of an apartment hotel, 150 feet away from the soda fountain in the building, you pay tax on the ice cream you buy there.. If you live across the street 100 feet away, you don't pay This is the way the ''prox- unity" qualification of the law is in- terpreted. If you buy dish of ice cream at a soda fountain you are taxed; if you buy it at a restaurant with something else you arn't taxed. If you buy it in cone you are taxed; if you buy it in paper bag you are not taxed.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-08-01

Thomas Jefferson through the Declaration of Independence helped set the new world free, says Chairman Homer s. Cummings of the Democratic National Committee ''while today Woodrow Wilson is the primal force in pre- pairing document of liberty that is destined tc set the whole world free But there are certain 'non-partisan'' Republicans who stren- uously decry universal freedom because Democratic President has made it possible
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-08-01

Senator Sherman agrees that war is what Gen. eral Sherman said it was, especially when it was fought under Democratic administration and when Democratic President negotiates the greatest pact of peace ever written, and is instrumental in forming a sociey of naions that will give the world its first promise that there will be no more wars
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-08-01

Tn the program of highway construction in Greenlee county the Era expects to see moor porated plan by which the death trap ra1l- way crossing on the Clifton-Metcalf highway will be wiped out of existence. In all Arizona we doubt if more dangerous highway crossing over a railway track can be found With the compIetition of the Metcalf-SpringerVllle Highway and the greatly increased auto trahc over this route between the northern and south ern sections of the state, the continuance or
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-08-01
Fighting in Clifton Comes Heh.

Fighting in Clifton Comes Hgh.
 Santiago Aguirie., Felipe Lopez ar| H. c. Gonzales were arrested by nig} marshall Buck Young last Tuesda| evening, on Chase Creek for fightinI Santiago Aguirie got little too mud bootleg whiskey and started a ro| with Lopez and Gonzales about thd time the night marshall appeared q the scene and placed them in th bastile. Wednesday afternoon the were brought before his honor. B. E Shortridge, city judge for trial and a ter hearing the evidence in the cas he fined Aguirie s5O.oo or fifty, day in jail. Gonzales and Lopez were r, Ileased.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-08-01

Had 1t not been for the veto of Democratic President and the insistence of Democratic Senators and Representatives, the disabled American soldiers of the World War would have gone a-begging as regards adequate vo- cational training But the Republican party could have pointed to another example of party efficiency in saving the nation s money
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-08-01

If Senator Borah really wants referendum on the League of Nations, and does ''represent a very intelligent and patriotic constituency, he can obtain quick answer by resigning his toga and returning to Idaho for vindication Perhaps his reluctance is due to recollection of what happened to Senators Roscoe Conking and Thomas Collier Platt in New York in 1SS1
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-08-01

''The abundant capacity of Republican lead ership to make mistakes Mo- the quotation is not from Democrat It is from Senator Kenyon of Iowa Surely, Senator, you didn t have Senator Lodge or Chairman Hays in mind
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-08-01

Senator Borah' s threat to quit the Republican party if the League of Nations covenant is ratified is another reason why many Republi- cans favor ratification
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-08-01

this death trap on this scenic highway is not to be considered
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-03-14
CHESTNUT RIDGE

Mrs. Joe Worst of St. Genevieve
spent the first part of last week with
her sister, Mrs. Minnie Burgess on
Route s, and the latter part with Mr..
and Mrs. Zcller Of Pennington.
Mrs. Bert Bowling and children
Lillian and Carl, of Hurryville spent
last Sunday with their cousin, Mrs.
Minnie Burgess.
Luther Feezcr lost a valuable hog
one day last week.
Robt. Marks and Andrew Smith
came home the latter Fart of last
week from the army. It's certainly
;. great pleasure to see the boys COM
ing home.
| Mr. and Mrs. Henderson and chill.
dren, Nola Gean and Robert, and theiI
nephcws, Albert, Harold and Wright
Miller, and S. G. Counts spent last
Sunday at the home of Ella Burgess
Lewis Wigger has returned home
from the hospital, much improved
Tom Marks bought tract of lane
J from "Riney" Lang. The land was
: formerly owned by VIM. and Jesse
Marks. 1t is 6 miles cast of Farm.
ington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert dickinson o.
Iowa are visiting relatives in this vi
cinity. Mrs. dickinson was Miss Ma
ME Larby, daughter of Jacob Larby
Lloyd Laws visited his grandpa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. J. Harrelson
last week. Lloyd has just returned
from France and was one Of the frs
to enlist in the service.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-03-14
BISMARCK

s. ]. Moore made business trip
TO St. Louis the first of the week.
Miss Lorraine Templeton returned
to St. Louis Monday after spending
the week with her parents.
Mrs. Sophia Leggett spent several
days of last week visiting Middle
brook relatives.
M. Bisplinghoff spent the week
end with his sons at Chaffee.
John C. Hinze has returned home
from q months visit with relatives
at Oxford, Nebr.
Ira Eaton was down from ST. LOUIS
the weekend.
Mrs. Earl Wright had for her guest
last week her sister, Mrs. AnnaMc-
Donnough of st. Louis.
Mrs. Welker has received amessage
from her brother, Charley Sparks,
who has been in France for several
months, saying that he had landed
from overseas. .,
Misses Myrtle and Hattie Watkins
left last Thursday morning for Los
Angeles, Cal, where they will spend
several months with relatives.
Mrs. H. A. Lucy visited St Louis
friends and relatives ire latter part
of the week. A..
Miss Nellie Fitzgerald spent the
weekend with her mother.
Mrs. Mary Nolte received message
Friday from her son, Oscar, stating
that ne had landed safely in New
mort News. Oscar had been in France
With the field artillery for almost q
year. F.. h.,
Guest her neice, Miss Canter, OF Weof
City.
Mrs. Charley Buford returned Mon
day from a two-week's visit with mel
mother, Mrs. Geo. Gamble.
Miss Nellie Hattridga of Believer
spent the week end with her cousin
! Miss Essie Anderson.
Grant Burns of Ellington passed
through Bismarck enronte home iron
! st. Lonuis, where he had purchased
q new automobile.
Mrs. Lindsay received word earl!
NTondav morning that her brother, lr
vim Shaner, of Desloge, had died sun
day night. Mr.. Shaner had been sici
| for several days with pneumonia. /,
| VIM. Lattimer has been on the slcl
list this week.
Mrs. G. w. Signer Of Arcadia spen
| Monday and Tuesday with Blsmarcl
relatives.
Jess Woods and family moved t
the Nolte farm, about mile west Q
Bismarck, Saturday.
The Methodist Young People hav
organized an Epworth League. Mis-
/ Essie Anderson was elected Presi
dent and Miss Matte Zopf, Secretary
VIM, Bowen, former resident o
Bismarck was killed at Corning, Ark
hy being struck by passenger tran
Mr.. Bowen was brakeman on a MIS-
souri, Pacific and was working out 9
Hoxie on freight train which ma
taken siding at Corning.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-03-14
WHOM DO YOU BELIEVE?

Major General Peter E. Traub, tes-
tifying before the Congressional Com
mittees, was a complete and heroic
answer to Governor Henry Allen of
Kansas and other Republican strate-
gists who are attempting to make the
conduct of the war an issue for par
tisan ACKNOWLEDGMENT. If what Gov
erilor Allen and the chorus fcritics
alege were true-but Major General
Traub proves it the reverse-every
American commander, from General
Pershing down, would have been gull
ty by commission of commission not
merely Of incompetence, but of the
gravest inhumanity.
In the battle of the Argonne, Am
erican wounded were allowed to lie
in a woods all day before they were
taken to the hospitals in the rear of
the lines, says Governor Allen. Cen
eral Traub replies that the statement
is correct. But Governor Allen i'm
plies what he does not charge, meme
ly, that this was due to indifference
c1 inefficiency. General Traub con-
WINGED the Congressman and Senators
that the evacuation Of these wounded
over oper fields where exploding shells
BY the thousands were killing every
Ewing thing, and not their detention
III a place of rlative safety until they
could be removed under the protec-
ton of darkness, would have been the
inhumane procedure.
Governor Allen from the security
of a shelter five miles in the wake of
General Traub's victorious division)
says these troops lacked transport.
General Traub, who was at the front
in the thick Of the fighting, says he
had full complement and "all the
necessities to overcome any obstacles
whatever"
Governor Allen (again from his
point Of vantage in the rear) says
American artillery killed our own
men--a most serious charge for even
a reckless partisan to utter. Genera,
Trsub, who was in direct command
of the artillery, says there was nc
such blunder; that not single rounc
from an American gun fell short OF
injured an American fighter.
Governor Allen says that Genera
Traub's division was without sufficient
support from the air. General Traut
says our airplancs were plentiful anc
that if they didn't always hold the su
premacy along the whole front i
was because the task was impossible
with fewer than $4,000 machines.
Governor Allen finds fault with th'
War Department and with the Amer
lean high command. General Traul
praises both, but pays his highes
tribute to the plain "doughboys."
Governor Allen, who was visito,
al Tor near the front, comes back ;
critic of Americas part in the wal
General Traub, who was in the mids
of the bloody conflict, returns wit
ness to the success and glory of tina
participation. =.
Governor Allen is veteran poll
tician. General Traub IS = soldier o
nearly forty years. experience, an
an able commander
General Traub helped to win tn
war; Governor Allen is trying har,
to belittle it.
Whom do you prefer to believe
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-03-14
WALES MINES

A. Z. Roughly Of FestHs was a
Wales Mines visitor Thursday.
Mrs. Olga Heaton visited visited her
sister, Mrs. H. G. Rhodes, Thursday
and Friday.
Miss Cora Buschcc vas guest Of
Mrs. Geo. Barley Friday evening.
Geo. Barley was a 3onne Terre
visitor Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lon Bunt of St. Louis
are visiting relatives and friends here
Arthur, Alb and Steve Sykes and H
G. Rhodes We're DeSoto visitors Sat-
urday.
Misses Lizzie, Gertrude and Gladys
Watt and Willie Bellevilie visited al
the home of w. P. Wnirescli Sunday
Mrs. Celia Bunt, who hes been Wis
ting her son, Jas. Bant, returned tx
her home in Festus Tuesday morn
ing.
Mrs. Gentry Larkins Of st. Louis il
Visiting. her mother, Mrs. r. III. Rowe
Mrs. Henry Finney Of Borne Terr'
visited relatives and friends here |
| few days during the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. A. Frazier wer
Festus visitors Friday.
Miss Jennie Thurman, who has beef
visiting her parents, rel Crned to tn
Bonne Terre hospital to lake up he
| work again.
Misses Anna and Ada Hcaton, Free
Ga Nussbaumer and Frances Atkins
Chas. and Willie Bellyillc, Michae
Sweat and Chas. Vineyard visited a
| the homo of G. Stated Sunday.
Miss Frances Atkins Of Rrickey wa
guest cf friends here the latter par
of the week. e
/ Little Eva Belle Rhodes is very sic
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-03-14

Picturesque is the word best de-
scribing the lovely millinery with
which this years debutante Is destined
to crown her youthful head. Every
thing in beautiful millinery materials
is available for her-ribbons, flowers.
braids, laces-and all fabrics in flow
erlike colors. How effectively they are
used may be gathered from the hats
pictured here. At the top there is a
lovely hat of tuscan and piping braid
trimmed with wreath of wheat and
field flowers that is like a song OF
summer. Below 1t a pretty hat Of taft
feta, with frayed fiounces about the
brim, is lovely in marine with a band
of bright embroidery In the crown.
The last hat is of hair braid OVERLAND
with bands Of narrow ribbon Joined by
stitches ce embroidery silk v III 4; I
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-03-14

With the "fu''.
Mrs. W. Christopher ard sister,
Mrs. Lille Heaton, of flattin visited
at the home of VIM. E, Heaton Mon
day.
. Frank Shannon of Camp Bowie,
Texas, is spending few days fur
Tough with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
C.. w. Channon.
A. P Rowe and daughter were
Bonnie Terre visitors Mor,ay.
Mrs. VIM. E. Hcaton visited her
daughter, Mrs. H. C. Rhodes, Monday
and Tuesday.
Miss Gustina Buscher, who has been
working in the Bonnc Terre hospital,
returned to her home here Tuesday
evening.
VIM. f. Heaton was Bonnc Terre
visitor Tuesday.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-03-14

Verna, who will spend several weeks
with her. 81
Miss Edith Gordon, Hilda Bauer,
Henry Bauer and Wimple Gordon OF
Route 3 spent several hours with their
friends, Misses Ella and Cont Graves
Sunday,
Joe Gegg, Tucker Boyd, Carol
Boyd and Frank Gegg motored to. Ste.
Geneveve Sunday.
Emily Gegg spent Saturday with
her sister, Mrs. Franz Graves.
Miss Ida Evans spent Tuesday night
with her grandparents Vale.
/ Little Violet Graves was the guest
of her friend, Nevada Gordon, Tues
day night
Aunt Martha Gegg spent the week
end with her son, Henry Richey and
family, of near New Church.
VIM. Smith is improving very slow
| ~ at this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Harter and chill
drcn were the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs
Arie Boyd Sunday.
Miss Marth Vale spent the day
with Mr.. and Mrs. Arie Boyd Sun
day.
Bill Martin of Acron, Mo-, is visit
ing friends and relatives Of this neigh
torhood at this moment. -,
Miss Edith Gordon took dinner with
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Adams and fam
lily Saturday.
MRS. Tida Gordon and Mrs. Mcfar-
Hand spent Friday with Mrs. McFar-
lands sister, Mrs. Noah Mertcll, OF
Routes, who Is in poor health.
Mrs. Arie Boyd and her sister, Mrs
irene Smith spent Wednesday after.
noon with Mrs. John Patterson anc
family.
Miss Mildren Boyd spent Sunday
with her brother, Mr.. Arie Boyd ano
family. u
i Miss Edith Gordon and Miss Ella
i Graves spent several hours with Mrs
| Andrew Harter and family Friday.
Miss Irene Smith of LeaGngtor
and Mrs. Martha Vale spent Friday
afternoon with their friend, Miss Ger
Itrude Harter.
Mrs. Arie Boyd and children were
1.-THE guests of Mrs. Antoine Vale FRI
day afternoon. -
| Mrs. Chas. Danieley and little dau
ghter of near New Church spent Mon
| day with her mother, Mrs. Joe lloyd
4 Burl Porter of near Libertyville
rnotored through this village Frlda.
tevening.
4 Miss Bertha Rigon was the guest o
ther grandmother Tuesday. She wa
! accompanied home by her cousin, Mis-
Ema Herman, of Route 3.
Mr., and Mrs. Oscar Rigdon Farm
, Iington Route spent the first part Q
, | the week with Mr.. Rigdon's parents
! Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Rigdon.
Several from this ncighborhood at
/ tended the sale of Br. Louis Smith Q
tAvon. Mr.. Smith is going to move t
Synite. He sold his farm to Mr., Ee
. Marshall who will move on the tarf
I las soon as he can.
Elmer Govreau of near Wingearte
was shopping in this village Tuesday
Fran, Graves and Cont Graves mo
ltored to River Aux Vases Sunday.
II Little Billy Graves VINO has been Q
i 1.-The sick list is rcpored much better.
August Gegg who was at the pom
\ LOT death out at the camp is able to .
l1p and around some now.
4 Jasper Mcfarland spent Sunda
with A. ]. Gordon of Route 3.
Il Mr.. Mcfarland has sold ms fari
Henri Gesss and he e ypects to NOV y
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