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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-06-19
FOOD PRICES UPHELD
FOR THE BIG PACKERS

Vigorous protest against the with
holding of 2SO,O00,000 pounds OF
meat products by the war depart.
ment in order to uphold the current
prices of the packers has been voiced
in the house of representatives by
Representative Simeon ID. Fess, OF
Ohio.
In reciting the facts he said:
'The government is now holding
100 100000 pounds of roast beef in
cans; 100000 pounds of corned
beef in cans, 20,O0O,000 pounds of
corn beef hash in cans and 10000
600 pounds of bacon in cans. The
explanation of the war department is
that to release it to the people
would cause a break in prices. II
is stated that this vast amount of
food in cans represents FIVE months
of intense active production, which,
under any other conditions than
those of war, would mean two years
of production.
81 know of no disaster that would
follow the lowering of food prices to
the people at a time when they are
carrying many burdens of taxation
and when a great number are out OF
employment The destruction OF
prices current should not be avoided
when prices are as high as now. This
| is the plea of a committee represent
| ing the packers and / do not believe
in it. In the face of abundant pro
duction. it cannot with reason be con-
tended that there is a scarcity of pro-
duction. Therefore the law of sup.
ply and demand should not be re.
| tarded and INSTRUCTED by the secre.
tary of war, but should be allowed a
! free reign so as to benefit all the
people of the country. This vast
amount of food should be thrown up
on the market. now that peace is
here, and should be permitted to take
its chance with the other output OF
the packers.
eve have the same situation with
regard to wheat. With a greater
yield than ever before the govern
ment has decreed that the price to be
paid for it shall be fixed at $2.26 per
bushel. This is done in order that
the original fixing of prices current
for wheat may be upheld as against
the discrimination in favor of cotton
which was regulated only by the law
of supply and demand. The govern
ment should take over the wheat at
the contract price, put it on the mar
ket at the rate which supply and de-
mand would name, in order that the
consumer may have cheaper -four and
bread, and then charge off the diff
ference to war loss. All of this COM
plication comes from governmental
tinkering with normal economic con-
ditions. So far as the prices of pro-
ducts are concerned, the people are
better off without such interference,
for the reason that they thereby
have in the long run to pay a greater
bill"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-06-19
NEW PUBLICITY BUREAU

Senator Cummins, of Iowa, chair
man of the senate committee on In
terstate Commerce, and just elected
president pro TEN of the senate, has
introduced a bill for the establish
ment in the department of commerce
of bureau of publicity to have
charge of all of the advertising of
the federal government, secure
greater publicity for information in
tended for the general public and
coming from the various departments
of the government, to advise and
counsel with all private interests re-
garding foreign advertising, and to
cooperate with organized advertis-
ing interests of the nation in promot-
ing and securing legislation to COM
pei adherence to honesty and relia-
bility in the advertising of all firms
and individuals throughout the ma
ton.
1t is also provided in the measure
that director of suitable knowledge
and experience in the business or
profession of advertising be appoint
ed by the president to administer the
affairs of the bureau under the gener-
al direction of the secretary of COM
merce, at a salary of $4,000 per an
mum.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-06-19
BILL TO STOP oUTRAGEs

As a result of the bomb outrages
menacing the government of the
United States, Senator Harry New OF
Indiana, has introduced abill in the
senate to deal with the reds" with
the utmost severity.
Under the bill il is provided that
the display, exhibition of appearance
OF a red flag, red banner or red en-
blem, or a black flag, banner or en-
blem at any meeting or parade, held
for the purpose of political discus
sion is declared unlawful. The dis
play of any such flag. banner or en-
blem in connection with the Ameri-
can flag is also declared unlawful.
The advocacy by speech or writing of
the overthrow by violence or any 9TH
er means of the representative form
of government now secured to citiz-
ems of the United States by the con-
stitutions of the United States and
the several states is declared unlaw-
full. Organization having as their
object the overthrow of the govern
ment by violent means is also de-
clared unlawful. Any person con-
victed for violation OF these pro-
visions of the bill are under it's pro-
vision to be fined $1,000 or imprison-
ed for five years or both.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-06-19
WOULD HELP PAY PREMIUMS

Enlisted men honorably discharg-
ed from their service in the army
during the war with Germany will
have their premiums on policies of
war risk insurance taken out by them
paid by the government for two years
from the date of such discharge, in
order that they may keep up their
policies and at the same time read
just themselves to the new conditions
following the war, If bill introduced
by Representative Roscoe McCul-
louch of Ohio, is enacted into law.
McCulloch, a republican, has be-
come one of the most pronounced
advocates in congress of the rights
of the private soldier and has for
months been insisting that the war
department should bring them home
as soon as possible. In the house last
January he sought to fix a definite
date for bringing home all of the
soldiers of the American expedition
airy forces. He has urged repeated
ly that all of the eonscripted men
should be discharged from the serv-
ice before any effort is made to pro-
vide in the future for any large
standing army.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-06-19
NOW ROOSEVELT CANAL

Hereafter the name of the Panama
canal will be changed to the Roose-
welt canal. if Senator Borah of Idaho.
who has introduced resolution in
the senate on the subject, has his
way.
The joint resolution states that
this name and designation be given
to this canal as tribute to the mem
DRY and patriotic services of the
late Theodore Roosevelt"
1t is now conceded by members of
congress that If there had been no
Theodore Roosevelt there might as
yet have been no canal. He it was
who by his impotence at first with
red tape and then with the hold-up
methods of Columia, precipitated
the revolution in Panama which thus
beanie willing to permit us to build
the canal across its territory. Presi-
dent Wilson has since urged that the
country which sought to hold us up
should be reimbursed to the extent of
$40, 100000 and that Great Britain
should have equal toll privileges with
US. While il is believed in congress
today that Mr.. Roosevelt did not take
a perfectly ladylike way of bringing
about the result, he did actually ac-
complish the uniting of the two great
oceans.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-06-19

later this idea will come home Did you
land that did increase in vaue Did
stop think viii and Land does
things the selling price established by the
that particular commodity The greater the population,
greater immigration into the United States
growing by leaps and bounds
Is there any why you should country home'
owners sell to homesekers willing and able
help home glad to show land free OF
charge glad when you make thorough investigation 1t
helps you Interested We glad to any in
qure you information and than glad have
you make personal inspection.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Going Back 10000 Years Behind the Garden Of

philosophy of. immancnt reason had been
OF record only in Indian. Egyptian, Persian,
Heilenic and Hebrew theologes, and the
earliest important reference to it was in
the sixth century b. c. The translation
OF Babylonian tablet made by Langdon
shows that the theory was known and
rather widely cNpounded as carly as $500
years before Christ
These and other researches convinced
Langdon and other archaologists years
ago that the buried and forgotten cities
ol ancient Mcsopotamia contain far older
records than anything 50 far brought to
ilght. Chief among these cities is Ur of
inc Chaldccs. referred to in the Scriptures
aS the birthplace Of the prophet Abraham
OWING to its inacccssbility and other dif
hcultlcs with which the archnolocist has
had to contend. no extensive exploration
ever mas been started there.
The same is true Of many other cities
khowa to historians through the dcvclop
mcnt OF the comparatively new science Of
Archaeology, which is less than one hun
area years old When it is considered that
IL Is less than eighty five years since the
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

obscure the newspaoern,an
F.' ''' u'"' source of information and
gets them cleared IN ana
- .le- practice at a stated ,ooo.
'"s' II the person holding it bas o,,..
one language, TO have an intor..~. '
present Sometimes, however -, - vel
'eS' on"ehS not speaking the lanonaao
i" 'sa mnst depend On his f'.;ans,
among inc other correspondor.1 .N''.S
translate for him. Private eo,,,.a W
information are among those with vvhs','
ore can converse more or los. g..
- ,,,,s+ -, special interviews an inttrpreter
must be provided if needed ''e'
with ne > rrcnen l., censorship is provided
wiz" large staff of foreign lanrnaoo
,Npei's' :. Some Of whom are exnert a
ulApa'ch written in English ja band,ad
1S o''e OF the experts in Ensl;sh II
'oeS "o' nave to be transla.od ,,,,o.s
" po'"' comes up about which the con-
s'r is d"btful. In that case no rskas
- 70 'he chief censor. translates tho
passage IN question and gets a rp];no
!" 'he correspondent is dissatisfied with
.''e ruilng he first sees tho cepso, who
'"no.ed the dispatch, and if still un-
sa'iS''ed 81 may see the chief censor In
'''a' event he would better be able -
Spe". I rench freely, for it is very un-
s'''N' :, "c'o'y TO conduct Il dispute with
VIC ch!e1 censor thrcu1b ,n ;,,ta,,,4
and 1t is generally useless anyway.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

Aquarium, and up at Madison Square Gar
den tho circus is still the circus
oddly enough you arc glad thcH have
lived up to their tradition, that the fish
still swim in the midst OF doubtful Veto
rian surroundings That the artist is yet
to come who win put art into the circus
poster In pictures at any rate. tho lion
end the tiger, thc giraffe and the gnu and
lot Of other animals, whose names are
too hard to spell. still lie down together
III blazing riot Of coior.
No artist has improved Inc cofnpositioh
Of the eallepine horses and lheit daring
riders, Ihes gallon on iie H#l outside ~
eli theu pristine ebatm, and .oaide fhe eii4
eas eternal iha GteDlesl FHgN oa hauh is
stiil The greatest siioW
10 you Wendef rs y0u WaHder home
through The bright liQhis bow The ojreus has
managed TO do il, and perhaps you conclude
that sadly enoHgb and strangely enough the
circus has never bad j. e1unro deal. In tie
cou's" 0i tmo some one has succeeded in
takns almost cyerything seriously some Of
the TINE, bat for some obacure reason tho
circus has been left OUT You can't explain
it. even granting the possibility that the
circus IS intended TO be funny. fox tn3 hardly
seems Il valid reason for such perennial
charity. We have analyzcd most Of our
hunoIists with thc same care that we nave
sought tho alcohoc content in our better
known beverages. We have discovered that
comedy IS merely Il miXturc OF a few rather
drab and conventional essentials. Away back
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
as, Is, and Always Will Be" Greatest on Earth

sou answer, you will ind yourself in a
maze of contradictions. You arc flooded
by rccollcctons Of other circuses; YOU
struggle with comparisons. You may even
pause to analyze your feelings. fatal
step that adds to your confusion. Yet in
any event the same answer will be vrune
from you. Out of the maze Of Uniformed
thoughts and visions Of bright colors and
l'npossibilitles. You viii hear yourself say
ing the same thing you said last year:
We'll. It's the same cid circus
fou aay have said il about the problem
play the other night, but tils time souf
voice contains no regret. iou say i With
tHllef' pfoud VI your discovery, The gold
blana and her bow does not look over lha
'oofs Of Madison Squire sDy longer She
gazes, lnstend, into the windows of office
buildings md ont upon u park whero the
fountain pnys a decorous accompaniment
to soapboN orators Time has swept nway
the Eden Musde and its chamber Of hor-
rors. Pillars of victory stand on the ground
where tcamstcrs used to loco their wheels
IN Jo'la debate and q. Ilcnry was wont
to lay his plots of tho -Four Milon." The
whirlpool Of traffic has moved up twenty
blocks. They have added an amendment
to the Constitution. The world is grow
ing better or worse, depending on how you
look at it. But out Of tho chaos Of change
you feel sure that two things have re.
maincd the samc---two institutions have
withstood the ravagcs Of reform Down
at the Battery the Aquarium is still the
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
What Language Does Peace SneaE5

delegates arc accompanied by their own
interpreters, who translate for them.
Official documents of the conference
arc also printed in the two languages
and copies in each language are dis
trlbuted among the delegates
This method Of procedure simplfics
the work of the conference as much as
IS possible among SO large number
OF delegates speaking so many different
languages. They Ill know they have
to understand or have some ono with
them who understands one of two lam
guages, and confusion is avoided and
delay is mnimized
or newspaper men the problem is
very much the same. They must be
able TO handle freely one or both of
two languages, but they must be. at
'he same tlmc, prepared to make ex-
curslons into various other lanplIance
as the special need arises Most of the
old hands among foreign corrcsDond-
ents have French and English and can
always get an Interpreter for what other
't ""SN '"eS lecC. ne men who
nave gone to Paris for this particular
JOB nave harder time, but the way has
oeeh made as easy as possible for them.
oecretaTy Lansing receives the nova
paper men at ! o'clock every morn
ing and gives them information about
what the conference is doing. This
meeting ls primarily for the American
correspondents, but there is no proh-
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

paper men and will talk freely TO those
""o"' 'hcy know car be trusted not TO
oe'r"y confidence or divulgc q source
% 'hformatlon. Some among The Amer
lcah delegation arc also accoec;h,o
WINE VI. Iardicu can always be seen
"hen ne has the time to spare.
mere are, of course, a thousand and
one sources of information ahont ,ho
aolngs OF the conference. but tl,;s
ne'hod OF procedure applies to all Of
t"e'a. IL IS matter of knowing whoro
20 go Tor a piece Of information, ,bat
IS required, gaining access to tbc ,,,,,
VINO has 1t and persUading him Ia "con,o
''ioueh. Moreover. it is n,attor Of
gaming the friendship OF NOR IN 40
S'''oA TO Know things so that they will
make point Of keeping you informed
IL IS a matter of being known as = man
% o'scret'on, one who knows what
should be published and what should
"o', ana as man who can be trusted
WIN Woighty secrets that are confaaa
10 nm IN order to clarity his unaor-
s'a"a'hs OF a situation and guide HIM in
what he writes ~
IN inc stated meetings, at which anv
properly credentialed newspaper man
Is received the person holding the meet
i'R Is always careful and guarded IN
"hat ne says, for some ndscreet nor
son may have slipped in will, the crowd
:, some or the points touched on at one
Oh these meetings remain pcrsstentlv
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

btion against newspaper mon from
oth"r countries. At these meetings.
questions arc freely asked and answered
with such freedom as the Secretary
chooses. The condition is that Secrc-
'ary Lansing is not to be quoted di-
rcctly. and that all dispatches built on
thc meetings arc to be sent as jnforma-
t'on and not as official statements. IN
other words the dispatches go on the
authority of the correspondent.
Lord Robert Cecil holds the same
KIND of meeting for the British dola-
cation and Stephen Pichon speaks Of
hclally once week for the French gov
ernment NJ Pichon is quoted. Andre
lardleu also speaks officially for tbo
frcnch government from time to tn,o
and is quoted directly.
Ihcse are recognized routine sources
Oh information. In addition to then,
'"c" correspondent cultivates particular
sources of news; that is to sav he cul
tVates friendships with men in :. no
s'''oh TO know what the conference is
oo'hS and what the delegates are think
"'% ABOUT. These sources are often more
VaiuabI" than the recognized and ron
'ihe sources. The correspondcnt ol
ways seeks. if possible. to make b;s
if'endsh'p5 among the delegates to the
conference who are attending the daily
sessions
Several members of the British do,o
s"''o'' are readily accessible to news
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

scum il is planned to establish, probably
at Fagdad a clearing house in which a
corps OF experts representing all the in
s;ltutions in tho field will examine records
found. They will then be packed up care
iully and sent to the respective museums.
with the danger eliminated of losing the
information contained upon them
at is the hope Of archaologists.o saws
the University Museum, "that, with settled
conditions assured for the future, trans
portatlon will show a rapid devclopmcnt.
and that contra point may be established
10Y the purpose Of cleaning, COMPARING and
deciphcrlng tablets. As an instance Of
what this will mean. it may be mentioned
ihat the tablet in the University Museum
containing tho Sumcrian story OF the flood
is broken off at a point where it starts to
give Information about the relation of tbc
ancients 10 their gods. The collection
from the Nippur library had to be brourht
hacN IN such shape that it has takcn
twenty-five years to clean all tho tahlct,
" hen labor and other conditions mako
1t possible to resume work it ia presumed
'hat the British government win follo,, IN
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Gossip of no
Centuries Ago

The survey now being made is uuccr the
direction Of one Of the worlds mos.
distinguished arch@oogisty, DR. Stephen
herbcf, Langdon, Don of Jesus College
snd curator OF the Babylonian Section of
the University Museum. Dr.. Langdon left
his post here nearly two years ago TO Join
the British army. Announcement is now
made by the University Museum that he
has been detailed by the British govern
sncnt to make an archaeological survey Of
aiesopotamfa, and to report upon all sites
available Tor excavation. iMngdon has led
many expeditions into Baoyonian fields
and has been active for years In ,ae re
daction OF the great clay tablet libraries
in the University and British snusenma
In the former he was the discoycrer Of the
famous tablets Giving the ancient Suoer.
Ian version OF the creation and the fall
of man, the flood and the twelfth book Of
the epic Of Gilgamish. He aso found and
Translated tablet containing what Is said
TO be the first recorded enumeration Of the
doctrine OF the logon. Previously this
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

would reach q certain height Yoa can find
out ~hat the wild man cats for breakfast.
what tune mos; cheers the musical seal in
deed. you can End cut Almost anything. ex-
cept thc great essential that the press agent
touches upon ever so Lightly End hoveIs about
gingerly the dramatic 9alde Of the greatest
show on earth
/. seems strsnge tnat tba circus e,ades
il. Il may be that It's rotieaaee is a pars
Of the great, anshahabia ;fadil.on taa' has
painted the posters nus 9,itt-n the pro
aramtas. Surely the circus Is not asnAned:
it hgs no reason T. be. beeaNss. II 1oa sop
70 tiihh Of It. fme and custom avs ffsee-
fully combined ~ insse !. ops Of lbe great
est Of ogf dfaifas. 'late i from le bes
ginning LYejy aea.oid feature. from tbe
gRy abandon Of The rush 10 the ticket Office
10 DE grand opening pageant which Was
marching when Nero huug bis rug oyer he
rniling Of the Coliseum, forms part, an
essential link in the great play.
Right from Tie beginning you get the
clement o. suspense You get the thing
that every playwright strives after the mo-
mcNt YOU pass uudcr tho colonnadcs oF The
yellow brick building. Il you have your
tickets. YOU wonder whether the show has
started; ii you ha>c thea not. you Wonder
if You viii he able 10 bay thcm. Although
IT is the aomc feol.ng you have experienced
every year, il is is poi~n;l; as it ever wa.
"llave yohv moneN .cady.' some one is
shouting IN pohtc monotone, and you
search your pockets inst as frantical!y as
ever. Nor do YOU feel am. particular relief
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

has oeen made by the Unsuitable instinc
of the British pioneer for order and prog
rcss. Huge tracts of land that were fer
tile fields in the days Of Ncbuchadnezza
and have been deserts ever since have bee
brought back to cultivation fiostiiy
toward outsiders is beng dssipated
Years OF painstaking research will be
necessary before the world can have any
thlng like complete knowledge of The
early inhabitants of Mcsopotamia. But in
the light of what has been accomplishsd
the task ahead seems comparatively sim.
pic. SO recently as the time Queen Vie
tora ascended the English throne scholar
were dcnouncing the new science of AsswI
loloGy as a igment of the Imagination
Archplshop Ushcr's scheme OF compus|
'ion, by which ne estimated that the caril'
and man were created about 1904 B. G..
was widely accepted. It is interesting to
note that this date is still printed in the
margin of man, Bibles, in the first chapter
of Genesis.
French and English scientists started it,|
excavation of Ninovch in The 40s Poss
bly II they had known the difficulties 4
the way Of finding key to the then r|
known script upon tablets uncarhcd The
m'eht nave given up in disgust. But afhI
the script had puzzled archmologists II
some years 1t was discovered inat the Pei
sians had adopted the Assyrian wedeI
SNAPPED stroke as the foundation for the
written charactera. With this as a Ml'
lhc work Of rclac,ion was s.ill furthts
he'ped by the discovery in Persia Of tvs.
'aplet with what Vas later found TO be is,
same narrative A the early Assyrian az
the later Pens .An Characters Archgoe
siSts now know that the Assyrian scriFl
contained about 500 characters, each wiz
at least two different phonetic values, "
with the key obtained they have learned Il
declpher tablets with accuracy and unsF
unity Of opinion.
One Of the chief difficulties IN the strd
OF ancient peoples has been to detcrm'
the'r methods of chronology Until a'
years ago 1t was thought that no approx
mate accuracy had been attained by sTl +
early civilization until within about 81
teen hundred years of the Christian e'' +
before the war science had carried bsf' F
ITS records and had fairly well establsAs
the sequence of years to pcint from 80 T
to 6on0 Il C.
The university has also made dseo'e'
les IN recent years that, when followed
aions lines indicated, may lead to no"
definite information about the connecsioi
that undoubtedly existed between the ear
Chinese and other ancient peoples. Qa'' I
recently the museum aquired the hcfse
oass-reliefs of the horses of Tsan-ls !
known and revered by Il quarter OF p'E
earth's population for centuries rs
Heavenly Horses" Research BY Dr. esE
w. BISHOP. curator ef the Orcntal see''sE
OF the museum, and by other sathoris''
has established the fact that the Empsp
VINO immortalixed these animals by hasis
them reproduced in stone got them ire
Persia by sending out powerful arnr
force which has been described as y.
largest horse stealing expedition of sncss.
times.