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The Brinkley argus., 1919-06-06
THE SHEPHERD OF THE
 HILLS"

''The Shepherd of the Hills, that widely read story of the Ozarks,f has been flmatized un- der thf direction of Harold Bell Wright, it's author.
 As a play the success of this work has phenomenal and as a picturizatfon under the direc- tion of MT. Wright the story bids fair to mark an epoch in the art of silent dama.
 This picture has been made in the heart of the Ozarks and in California where MT. Wright and his associates were en- gagged for months in this great work.
 The picture story in ten reels with incidental music written and selected especially for it will be seen at Princess Air dome.
 The new screen-drama will be shown here June 11-12. This motion picture has been taken from the novel by the same name, which is said to be most widely read of any book by an American author. This picture drama is one of the most emotional and effective that has been produced, no expense having been spared to make it.
The Brinkley argus., 1919-06-06

Messrs V. H. Wright and Jas. s. Mitchell were in Little Rock to attend a meeting called by Gov. Brough to organize Ark ansas into a nation wide Own Your Own Home" movement More later.
 reiI 'em you saw n m the Arous
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lie, TO pay their employees the new
rates of wages that have been estab.
lished by the government, and furnish
a legitimate return to stockholders
the necessary new capital may be
commanded for railroad development.
The different plans before congress
vary somewhat as to methods of ar.
all point in the one direction. The
Interstate Commerce Commission is
to be speedily restored to its rights
in rate making. and congress will go
necessary to restore railroads to pri-
vate ownership.
The pledges of many radical polit-
ical platforms, the speculations of sew
eral reports of postmaster generals,
and the speeches of many men in
congress, and hogsheads of printers
ink, recorded promises, in years gone
by, of what might be expected when
the government took over the railways
and wire lines. Cheaper fares, cheap.
er rates, and more efficient service
were included in the prophetic prom
ises that experience has demonstrated
to be un-prophetic. Out of six thous
ands editors throughout the country
who have been polled, S3 per cent OF
them have reported their communities
in favor of the resumption of private
management The sentiment seems
to be almost unanimous. With the
wire lines the conviction appears tC
have carried every quarter, and the
postmaster general made an ignomini
Gus flight for cover in the face of q
threatened strike, by abolishing gov
ernment management of the telegraph
and telephone lines between sundowr
and sunup.
1t is important enough that prices
are high, but it is more important that
people should know whether the high
level is going TO continue. The doubt
that fingers concerning the matter has
reflected itself in too little activity
among the industries IN America,
Some people ask the question: "Will
prices of labor come down. The an
swer is found in the history of labor
for the last half century. Haven
they always been going up? The larg-
est employers in the country are not
thinking Of reducing the cost of labor,
but they are concerning themselves
with the ways and means of meeting
the new standards.
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revolution ere the average man Will
have his chance" The secretary says
that there is no place where the an
swers can be found to all such tommy
rot, which is not only advocated by
the radicals who are generally CON
demned, but by the ''parlor intellec-
tuals," and the lounge lizards" He
gives the valuable advice to those who
believe that America is going to the
bow-wows that they should visit the
factories, where men are busy, where
speeches are not made and radical ed
itors do not trouble" Where is the
industrials leader who argues now in
favor of reducing the wages of the
American labor" asks Mr.. Redfeld;
who gives this reply: as not the 81
lence from a thousand industries more
potent than the shrieks Of few agi-
tators? In way which makes no
noise industries are moving on; stead
lily, as every financial authority states,
the country is settling itself down to
the assurance that matters are getting
stabilized; but they are not being sta
balized because labor is being cut
1t is pretty good advice when cab
met member tells his countrymen
that America expects capital to for
get to dwell upon its rights and to
think more of its opportunities Of
leadership she expects labor, waiv-
ing no rights, to recognize in candor
the helpful spirit and earnest purpose
of many leaders of capital to meet
them in a fair spirit and in equity
AS indicative of the change in methods
of government a little reflection re-
minds one that less than ten years
ago the whole country was demand
ing that all the railroads be punished
for the misdeeds that some of them
supposedly committed in their finan-
cial operations. Legislative, bodies
throughout the states, as well as n
Washington, reacted with the result
that when war laid its hand upon the
land it was seen that the handicaps
that had been imposed on the carriers
made il difficult for them TO perform
their full service to the country. The
result was government war control,
with a sweeping aside of all of the
handicaps and restrictions But the
period of Furnishing the railroads, or
of giving the great arterial highways
"the best of it," has been superseded
by new conviction which seems hap
PLY to be settling over most of the
affairs Of the nation Senator Cum
Minis, who in the early years OF ms
legislative career was classed as a
pronounced radical upon the railroad
situation, now expresses a conserva
tive view, which represents the KIND
of square deal that everybody be-
lieyes in. Senator Cummins remarks
upon the remarkable similarity OF
nearly all the plans for railroad legis'
lation that have come before him as
chairman of the senate committee on
interstate commerce. These plans
recognize that the basic principle is
that relating to the adequacy OF rates.
The railroads mast be given an earn
ing power that will enable them to
meet all the requirements OF the pub
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THE NATIONAL. CAPITAL
(BY j. Z. JOnes)


Price levels on foodstuffs tumbled
twelve per cent between December,
1918, and the close of March. Even
at that the increase in these prices
over 1913 still remained Is per cent.
The extra twelve per cent represent
ed a sort of excitement period and
lasted for only a few weeks. The fig
ures are from the Bureau of Labor
statistics. They show that for the
above period that -four scared 100 per
cent, bacon 10 per cent, lard ia per
cent, corn meal 130 per cent, sugar, 96
per cent, potatoes SO per cent. A
mans budget of clothing with cost
prices for 1914 and 1919, shows an in
crease of 80 per cent. The articles
in the budget include suit, an over
coat, shirts, shoes, stockings, night
shirts, collars, hats, gloves. A wom-
ans budget of clothing with cost
prices for the same period shows an
increase of rs per cent. The articles
enumerated included a coat, suit,
dresses skirts, waists, aprons, shoes,
overshoes, hosiery, corsets, under
wear, nightgowns, hats and gloves.
In view of these astounding figures
why should one kick about a little
thing like paying two cents for one
cent newspaper, an advance of 100
per cent, especially when it offers the
hope that there may be found in it an
intelligent editorial condemning the
increased railroad rates, amounting.
according to the railway administra-
ton, TO less than 25 per cent? Or
there may be a red-hot roast on trac-
ton companies that are looking for a
six or seven cent fare. The editorial
writer may even attempt to prove that
it makes no different that materials
have advanced from so to 90 per cent.
He surely will repeat the truism that
labor under the collective bargaining
system is getting only what 1t de-
serves. and no more than has been
contemplated by the arrangement OF
the United States government and the
peace conference.
Secretary of Commerce Redfeld has
taken a large fall out of the leaders
of capital who are "still lingering
among the flesh pots of Egypt" whom,
he SAYS. have "made no progress to-
wards the promised land" He puts
them in the same class with those who
speak plain words" in order to prove
that the social structure in America
is so adverse to the good of the toiler
that no course is possible save TO de-
stroy it, and that social war is the
remedy. Mr.. Redfeld has no respect
for the views of those who believe
that there exists a capitalistic class
who sit ii oppression upon the vast
mass of mankind and hold them down
that they may fatten at their cost;
that the door Of opportunity is closed
10 the humble and poor, and no one
extends a helping hand TO lift them
I'D: that there is no such thing as pro-
sress out OF poverty and that our evo
luton, such as it is, is so slow and SO
cruel that 1t must needs be altered by
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nous that the time had come for the
adoption Of policy specifically pro-
viding for the building outright by the
national government of highways of
interstate Importance including those
essential to the national defense, and
development of the public domain"
r. G. Ray. of Sioux Falls, has urged
in this connection the great opportun-
ity before our colleges and universe
ties for help at this time. He makes
in counties, as we'll as in state assem-
blies, our legislators are at loss for
scientific data on which this great de-
velopment of motor transportation
all.
For this reason il becomes increas-
ingly important that the colleges of
this and neighboring states should
provide instruction on highways loca-
ton, construction. and maintenance,
and on every aspect OF highways
transportation The efforts made dur
ing the war by the Highways Trans
port Committee of the Council of Ma
tional Defense should not stop but
should be incorporated as definite
part of the new Federal Highway Com
mission. And in addition to classes
for instruction in our colleges, there
should be research groups at work.
From such study made both in the
field and in the laboratory will come
not only text books, teachers and
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-06-19
TO IMPROVE HIGHWAYS

Improved highways of permanent
tvpe providing motor express and pas
senger transportation facilities spell
opportunity today TO the city which
intends to lay the foundation for
healthy, permanent future growth.
For. if we but admit that hope lies in
a more even distribution of the pop
ulation over the acres lying within a
city's sphere of influence then we are
committed to the task of arranging IA
cilties to permit that adjustment TO
take place in a natural way. Improved
highways that make possible rapid
motor transportation 365 days out OF
every year will just as certainly per
nit and stimulate our people to move
out on to the surrounding country
acres as a fast and free flowing stream
will deliver at its mouth the piece OF
bark flung in at its source" SO says
w. o. Rutherford, prominent rubber
company official
Quite recently our trade extension
division" adds Mr. Rutherford, com
pleted a survey of a large county IN
one of our great eastern states that
has not single mile of railroad track
within its borders. Our object in max
ing such surveys and conducting such
research is to help provide market
that will extend the field of usefulness
of products made by the workers OF
. ;nd n
life and happiness of mankind-and
to the strengthening Of our national
II life. This particular county was $50
lated. though of great productive pow
er. and was not harnessed up to the
homes of the great industrial cities OF
the east nor assuming its part OF the
burden in our march of progress.
Such a county, typical of many sec
tions of our country, offers unlimited
possibilities TO greater usefulness. Ad-
equate provision for improved roads
and highways transportation VIII pro-
vide a system of veins facilitating and
stimulating communication that can
he linked up with main arteries o.
travel. The new circulation thus pro
yided for will incorporate such areas
as vital parts Of this great living or
ganism we call home and county
ITO meet such situations as these.
and because of the evident solution
10 be found in the Improvement OF our
highways and the stimulation OF ni&A-
ways transportation, Representative
of the cities of this country assembled
at st. Louis recently and put them
selves souarely behind the deVelop-
Iment of highways as being of partc-
ular and pressing Importance. And al
this meeting of the United States
Chamber of Commerce a resolution
was adopted urging upon congress
that the time had now arrived to ere
ate a Federal Highway Commission
to lay out and build truly national
system of highways and stimulate
their efficient utilization. And this ac-
ton signifying the Importance to our
national life that may be attached ID
| the new Federal Highway Commls-
| sion merely re-echoes the voices oi
hundreds of thousands of citizens who
have already expressed themselVes'
AS a result of this general insistance,
Senator Charles E. Townsend of Mich
igan introduced his bill at the last ses-
sion providing for Federal Highway
Commission and National System OF
Highways. The feeling was unani-
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-06-19
HAM AN EGGS, PLEASE

The American soldiers opinion Of
a French hotel petit dejeuner is
summed up in the comment of one of
them: II amt no hummin'- bird
Century Magazine.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-06-19

over a week ago, a pair Of gold bow
spectacles. Call at this office.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-06-19

workers, but gradually will be evolved
the progressive science of transporta-
ton and communication.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-28
AGAINST ENDING
Wire CONTROL
BurIesOn Holds Immediate Return
of Phones and Telegraph
May Be Disastrous.

Washington, May 28.--Postmas-
ter General Burleson. in a letter
today to Chairman Sims of the
house commerce committee, said
the situation with respect to the
telegraph and telephone required
the determination at this time OF
a broad government policy rather
than immediate return OF the lines
to their owners, as provided for in
the resolution introduced by Chair
man Stevenson of the house post
office committee.
Mr.. Burleson's letter was in re-
ply to one from Mr.. Sims relative
to the statement sent to congress
by Clarence H. Mackay, president
of the Postal Telegraph & Cable
company, who urged the passage
of the Stevenson resolution. The
postmaster general said a casual
examination of telegraph opera
lions disclosed that this company
in 1918 carried only $14,930,896
out of a total of 100000, 900 of the
telegraph business and that the
saving to the public which Mr..
Mackay asserts he can accomplish
by a 20 per cent reduction would
necessarily be limited to 100000
annually instead OF S12.000,000."
May Prove Disastrous.
TN the situation now present
ed" wrote Mr.. Burleson, '-it would
seem to be a matter of public con-
Germ of which congress might well
take cognizance, that the present
high operating expenses have made
It impossible to operate these
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-28
STATE CHAMBER
OF COMM .RCE
FOR ILLINOIS
z. W. Bender, Secretary Of Local
Chamber Announces 30 Cities
Ready to Organize.
HOLD QUINCY CONVENTION
Local Body VIII Appoint Delegates
To Attend Session in June
Drive VIII Start.

AS result of a meeting which
was held in Peoria yesterday it
has been definitely determined that
the state Of Illinois will have a
State Chamber of Commerce for
the avowed purpose of advancing
the commercial and industrial in
terests of the state. F. W. Bender,
secretary of Rock Island Chamber
of Commerce, who returned from
Peoria last evening, announced
that about thirty cities throughout
the state were represented, largely
by business men, who were unani-
nous in the belief that the prob
lens of industrial and commercial
expansion as well as the problems
of transportation and public utiIi-
ties, of agriculture, of production
and distribution and state water
ways were problems on which the
thinking forces OF the state should
be combined and working as a unit
Through an organization such as
proposed in the State Chamber of
Commerce.
The plan provides for the calling
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-28

of a convention in Quincy on the
18th of June at which it is hoped
to muster 1000 men representing
the business interests of the state
of Illinois.
The tri-city district, represented
by Mr.. Bender, who was chairman
Of the steering and organization
committee, played an important
part in the bringing into life of
this new organization which it is
believed promises much good for
the commercial and manufacturing
interests of the state. An organ
ization committee charged with
the responsibility of drafting the
framework and the organization of
this state chamber body was ap-
pointed This committee will meet
in Quincy on the 10th of June. The
committee named is as follows:
Samuel Woolner, Jr., Peoria; H.
H. Merrick, Chicago; H. H. Cleave-
land, Rock Island; William But
terworth, Moline; Truman T. Pear
son, Quincy; J. H. Hudson, Bloom
ington; E. T. Stevens, Chicago; E.
F. Harris, Champaign; w. B. Muir
ray, Danville; E. H. Negley, Can
ton; F. Kohl, Centralia; A. NJ.
Legg, Pontiac; ]. H Camlin, Rock
ford; John W. OLeary, Chicago;
George Woodruff, Joliet; Howard
James, Monmouth; George Parsons,
Cairo; Professor c. NJ Thompson,
department of commerce, Unfver-
sity of illinois; H. M. Dunlap, Sa-
voy: F. M. Lindsey, Decatur.
All organizations having COM
mercial. industrial, civic, agrfcul-
tural and transportation objects,
will be asked to appoint delegates
to attend this convention. In ad-
dition to this mayors of all the
cities in the state are invited and
requested tn have one or more
business representatives in attend
ance at this convention. A drive
will be made to have at least so
delegates from. Rock Island, Mo-
line. East Moline and Silvis In at
tendance at this convention
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-28

properties at the pre-war charges
To turn them back without max
ing some adjustment which would
enable the companies to resume
operation on a basis comparatively
equal to that in which the govern
ment took them, would affect their
financial standing materially, and
in some cases, in my opinion, dis
astrously, and would cause not
only the investors but the public
to suffer-"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-28
TAYLOR RIDGE

Mrs c. V. Funk and children of Sher-
rard spent Saturday with friends here
Mrs George Wakefield had charge OF
the Epworth league services Sunday even
ing.
Miss Mildred Mofitt returned home
from Rock Island Sunday where she IN.
derwent an operation for the removal
of tonsils.
Miss Maud Gruby closed her school year
Saturday with picnic and program A
large crowd attended and a good time
was enjoyed
Word has been recefved here that Pri-
vate Gus HinterIneister has arrived in the
United States after being with the ex.
peditionasy forces since June of last year
All the news all the time-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-28
WOMEN shave
NkNOWRle

when ySu Om1y rem9ve hair
frSn the surface II the aAEkn the
result h the sanne ~ shaving. The
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hair An to RffaeRx IL unAex the sAim.
Dea1arAeaes the erlgfAmA sanitary
IirufA, does fhAs by AhserptacM.
Only ge1ufn0 DeAzfrnc2e kAs a
R4Asy-hae1k guarantee IN each
paekaGe. II t~91ef es9nferH I'm ooe.
81 amid q maDeg, or ~ mani from
us 1n plain wr@pReR On receipt Of
price,
FREE, b@ok nailed IN plaln
Sea1eA envelope On request. De-
Miracle, 1z0tA d. and Park Ave,
New T0rAK.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-09-25
GERMAN TRADE DRIVE is ON
Commercial Agents Flock to Vene.
zuela. Undsrselling American
Statesmen.

San Juan. Porto Rico, Sept. To-
American travellers who recently ar.
rived here from Venezuela report thqt
there are open evidences Of renewed
German activity In that country. Many
Germans have been arriving IN Vene
zucla during the last few months amt
German commercial travellers are re-
ported particularly active. They rep.
resent all lines ~ industry. A. one
man who returned from Venezuela, Inst
week explained a.; III want 20 sell
clothing M SIS n suit 10 the venezu-
elan merchants German salesman
has something just as good for Sl2 or
Sl3 Many Germans are arriving In
Venezuela, evidently prepared 10 set
tie there"
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-09-25
ROOT SCORES POLICE STRIKE
Declares Boston Pstro,men Challenged
Constitution Of the UnEeo
States.

New York. Sept 10 The Boston 90
lice by going ou strike have chul
lcnvcd the Constitution ~ 'he United
States. EIhu Root. former secretary
of state. Declared in Ur address 90 fhr
National security lerrgc'- Constitution
dny celebration hero I'VE cannot main
tain this Constitution without insist.
ing moon Us being followed" said Nr
Root eve cannot maintain 20 by
laughing no those who try 20 make
Joke of H. We cunuot maintain 70 hy be.
ing tolerant and liberal and indifferent
toward those who uftuck TO- We must
stand Tor 70 when 20 is challenged %
is being challenged today. here there
and in hundreds OF directions. Most
notably % challenged hy the police
STRIKE Go Boston now"
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-09-25
APPEALS TO LABOR TO
CANCEL ALL WALK0UTS
League Of Members Of A. r. Of /. ls-
sues Statement IN Effort
to End Peril.

New York Sept. l7.-iroposal- that
the president of the United States be
made member 81 the American Fed
Grafton at Labor and that aIl strikes
now in progress throughout toe coun-
try bee Immediately cancelled 10 order
to meet the present "porilous Situn-
tion" 10y which che foundations ~
our free democratic government are
threatened" are contained leo % com-
municatlou sent 90 President Gomprrs
aud the executive council of the
American Federation OF Labor by the
League of A. T.. ~ l.. Members Tor
Partnership and Industrial prmocrn-
cy. which was made public here.
The league was recently organized
boy John j. Pierce aud lsadore Epstein,
who were members NJ special com
mittcc appointed hy James T.. Holland.
president ~ the state Federation of
Labor. 90 investigate Industrial coudl-
lions The report ~ the committee.
which was published Labor day. rec
commended an Industrial truce Tor six
months during which an strikes were
90 be- called on.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-09-25
FIVE HUNDRED PERSONS
DIE IN GULF HURRICANE
Thousands Are Homeless and Millions
IN Property Lost--Army Com.
mander Bushes Aid

Austin, .eX., Sept. iG.--At least 5oO
persons were killed 10y the hurrcan,
In the Corpus Christie district. nc
cOrding 10 message from ex-Ninyor
Roy Miller 20 headquarters. of the
southern department ct the army a.
san Antonio and forwarded TO the
state adiutant here
san Antonio. Tex. Sept. l6.--Gcn
Joseph T. DIcknan. commander of the
southern department. ordered relief
train sent to Corpus Christi The train
viii carry tents. cots. blankets. mcdi.
cal supplies and several thousand cases
Of foodstuns.
The entire town of Port Arkansas.
whore GeO persons lived. hus been a..
stroyed. out whether or not the inhah-
itants had taken shelter inland is not
known
radio from the captain of Me
dian Line steamer 10 Galveston says
that his vessel has gone ashore over
the piling aud that The town is Com
pletely destroyed" Ills message said
nothing rhout loss of NE aud it's pre-
sumed De knows nothing except What
has ,benllcn his own ship