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be Just ito the public at large, to the rail-
road workers, and to the present owners.
They asked for public ownership with
democratic control.
This petition went everywhere along
the railroad systems, into remote farna-
ing districts, into the mines, through the
factories and even into an occasional city
Office. 81 II ss
Then it was shippe to representative
Sinclair of North Dakota, and he pre-
|sented the huge volume it it weighed
nearly 20 pounds land laid it on the
speakers desk, on the Saturday before
the holiday recess.
Mr.. Sinclair printed in the Congress
sional Record a letter from the Public
Ownership league, explaining that this
petition expresses the sentiment of
millions Of organized labor, organized
farmers, and other millions Of unorga niz-
ed citizens who make up the public at
large. II !.
This is the biggest single petition pre-
sented in congress in years. 81 ls
Fishers Stabilized Dollar.
Professor Irving Fisher of Yale uni
versity, economist and famous for his
agitat ton for a national department Of
public health, has come to the capital
with pamphlets, books and speeches
to back his plan for a dollar that will
stand pat" in value. To stabilize the
dollar, he explains, the government has
only to adopt the scheme of determining,
each month, the gain or loss in pur-
chasing, power of last months dollar.
That is done by averaging the price
changes for.30O commodities the aver
age known to all modern bankers as the
Index number. . #5
1t is not mere chance, says Fisher,
'.:that 800 articles of common use GO
up or down in prices according to the
vuolrhe Of money in circulation, and
that they all have about the same.
changes, month by month, with relation
to the gold dollar If we must choose
between believing that the 800 COM
modities are each severally and separate.
" to blame, and believing that the dollar
is to blame, we must conclude that the
dollar, our measure Of value, is to blame.
1t expands and contracts. = 81
Mislabeled Goods.
The federal trade commission has
issued an order prohibiting the Nestle's
Food company from using a misleading
label on its products shipped into Mexico
for resale and consumption. The label
on cans of condensed milk offered to the
Mezicans read Henri Nestle, Vesey,
Switzerland, Wholesale Dept, s & s
Eastcheap, London, p. c. s..
This is the first order Of the kind issued
under the Webb-P omerene export trade
act The fact that a big American firm.
was trying to conceal from the Mexican
consumer. the fact Of the: American origin
of the goods is eloquent of the regard
held by Mexicans for the United States
just now. Whether the owners OF this
concern had a special anxiety, due tosany
connection with the League for The.
Protection Of American Rights in Mexiees
co, is not evident.
Berger's Reelection.
Victor Berger's reelection by more
than 1000 majority in a nonpartisan
contest in the fifth Wisconsin district
will apparently have no effect upon
congress. That body will not lose a
minute in entertaining the motion OF
Representative DalGnger Of Massa-
3chusetts, when Berger presents his
certificate Of election, that the Mil
waukee Socialist be denied permission
to take the oath or to enjoy any OF
the benefits Of membership in the house.
Berger will be rejected and his seat
declared vacant. Thereby the district
which has twice within IA months elected
him by big majorities will be denied any
voice in the national legislature until
after March 4, 1921.
Members Of the, house do not like to
talk about the case, except to say that
Berger is a dangerous German who