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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-18
SPENDING OTHER PEOPLES MONEY

Charles Webster, one of the railroad commissioners OF
Iowa. has written a letter to Senator Cummins, of that state,
that so pertinently describes the railway traffic conditions
that the Tribune takes the liberty of quoting from a part of it.
Among other things, Mr.. Webster says:
1.-The farmer and the producer have been obliged to pay
these exhorbitant rates without a word of protest, in order to
allow the administration to pay salaries that were, in many
instances, giv.n without much thought or intelligence. Gall
bows are paid as much as experienced railway mail clerks
and men without education or experience are paid more than
men of ability; many trainmen who have spent their lives In
the service are receiving less than those with only a few
months experience. Trains were taken Off without reason
from double-tracked and firmly ballasted railroads and given
to rivals. thereby putting conductors with years OF service
back as brakemen and putting brakemen out of the service"
According to Mr.. Webster, stock cars were rushed empty
to one parl of the country, while livestock lay In country
yards shrinking and being fed high-priced corn; box cars
were bockaded in the east, while corn spoiled In the cribs and
elevators. Embargoes have been placed Unfortunately and
uninteHigently and innumerable so-caled innovations have
fallen flat. The saiing-day rule was inaugurated and mas
dine much good in many ways, for a wartime measure, Dut
people living on Mr.. Websters line, where they have a train six
days in the week, and where they are unable to get a box of
drugs only on Fridays, and not then if the car load happens
to be full, are unable to appreciate this Innovation.
Notice has been given" continues Mr.. WeDtser, that
Iowa express rates will be raised approximately 81 per cent
on January 4, although the express company representative
had indicated his willingness to accept much less. IL is easy
to spend other peoples money, and with such vast authoflty
in the hands of one man it is easily done, to make up for pos
sible extravaganza.
Live stock shipments are being delayed in the most alb
surd and ridiculous manner. Heavy feed bills are accumu-
lating and shrinkage without reason is sustained. People are
tired of rules, regulations and restrictions emanating from
Washington. and if a vote were taken it is safe to say that 20
per cent of the shippers and travelling public in the middle
west should welcome the return of the roads as soon as pos
sible"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-18
AN UNwELCOME WELCOME

The press of the country generally is CONCERNING Ne'
ork's Tammany mayor for appointing William handoip
Iearst TO a prominent place on the committee tnat Is
epresent the city in extending a welcome to the soiolers re
lrning from France. The Charleston News and Courier ma
ne following comment:
Up in New York sentiment still grows because
William Randolph Hearst, smeared as he has Deen WIN
pro-Germanism. continues to head the committee ap-
pointed by the city to welcome the soldiers returning
from France.
The latest outburst is a protest signed by 2oo leading
New Workers and filed with Mayor Hylan. "Mr. Hearst,
says this protest, lis not a representative CITIZEN; MS
loyalty has been seriously questiOned; our returning
soldiers are entitled to be welcomed by those VINO nave
supported them in their work and suffering; and 1T has
already been shown that it is not possible to give them
such welcome so long as Mr.. Hearst is to have any
thing to do with it. We consider it an insult to our SOL
diers that a man who uses the American flag to sell ms
papers should continue, to act as a member OF tms
committee"
1t is not probable, of course, that Mayor Hylan VIII
take any action to displace Mr.. Hearst OF compel MS
resignation. Hearst has a stranglehold on the mayor
and he is going to keep it. But is the situation there
fore without remedy? Certainly not. New York is a
great port, but it is not the only one. If the men from
France cannot get the kind of welcome they deserve
there. let them be sent to Charleston, to Norfolk and to
Boston.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-18

In the Iowa schools they found one text book which
taught an "unrestrained sOcialistic propaganda" 1t was writ
fen bv q fellow named Nearing, who has been kicked out OF
divers places and now seems to have found his way into popu-
lar text books. How do those fellows get their ideas into the
text books of children? But how did the Germans get ther
ideas into our text books before and even during the war, so
that even in h~igh-school children were told more about the
beautitudes of kaiserism than about republicanism and more
about Wilhelm of Germany than about Washington OF Amer
lea? Yes, how do they do such things?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-18

One of the Hearst editors, still anti British, sort of sneers
at King George because he has resumed going to an occasional
theatrical entertainment to forget the war. What drivel. In
Washington the president of the United Safes was frequently
seen at theaters, especially at vaudeville performances, of
which he is known to be a devotee, even during the war, and
it caused no adverse comment. And why should it have done
so? At the war front we provided theatrical entertainments
for the bows and many of our. actors were volunteers in that
sevice And has anybody read in any Hearst newspaper any
criticism of the Berlin tango and turkey trot on New Years
eve?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-18

France has three field marshals now, Foch, Joffre and
Petain. This fact is being used to prove that Pershing de-
serves the permanent title of general. But why should any
argument be necessary on that subject? He has commanded
the greatest armies ever under one American command in ac-
tual action. The battles of the Civil war were only skirmish-
es compared with what happened along the Mouse.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-18

If a book should ever be written setting forth all the
Hohenzollern ailments Of body and mind even the most
stupid worshippers of the family in Germany w~ould-welL,
they might drop dead. And yet the veal and woe was CEN
tered on men so afflicted, and it cost the lives of millions
to set things right after the lunatics had set them awry.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-18

Mr.. Burleson thinks that the government can purchase
the wire lines of the country out of the savings-if the rates
are placed high enough. There can be no doubt of that; all
you have to do is to charge enough. But after they have been
so bought ought they not to belong to the men and women
who have paid those increased tolls? And that is not the gov
eminent or the whole people, but only the small portion of
them who make use of the teegraphs, and most of us do not
send one message a year.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-18

In spite of the moneys we have put into Liberty bonds
and what we have given to the charities, there seems to be
plenty of money left in the banks. The deposits have not
been shrinking as many feared they would shrink.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-18

In the end even the railroad men will prefer the good old
days when there was some railroad rivalry and when there
was competition in services re~ndered-and if the politicians
had not played politics about railroad rates the railroad wages
would long ago have been made adequate. The politicians
spoiled the thing then and there is no assurance that they
would do any better as railroad managers.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-18

The news that government expenses are to be decreased
is decidedly good news. Let it be hoped that we have not
contracted any habits of official extravaganza out of a period
when even a secretary of the treasury is charged with hav-
ing said that it was "to hell with expenses"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-18

In the meantime the nations are still doing very little
thinking about the taxes that have to be paid to meet the IN
terest charges on their debts. Every time they see those
charges or pay them they will feel still more like hanging the
eX-kaiser.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-18

It is of course possible that the Germans wish they had
some of the wheat that they sank spurlOs versenkt. They did
not think of feeding anyone in those days.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-18
GERMANY'S "FREEDOM OF THE SEAS"

We are asked what Germany meant by the freedom OF
the seas" often referred to in her propaganda as one OF her
principal war aims. Briefly what Germany meant was that
it should be lawful in war times for neutrals to trade in enemy
ports.
Under that doctrine Germany, after beginning this war,
could have received shipments of supplies from the unlted
States and other countries, without hindrance, to enable 1T to
carry on the war. What happened was that the British navy
stopped such shipping in aid of her enemy. Great Britain
did it according to the laws of nations prescribed for such
times-by seizure and search and confiscatiOn of all contra
band of war.
If England could not have exercised that established rlght
it would have had. no show in this war, for England is a
naval power primarily. And it is just as legitimate for Eng
land to stop such traffic in aid of her enemy on the high
seas as it was for Germany to stop such traffic on lana. Ihat
England should now agree, or that France should agree, or
italy to change this rule of the sea is expecting too much.
They might as well sign their own national death warrants.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-18

The United States now owes a snug sum of money, but
it owes 80 per cent of it to it's own citizens to whom the in
terest will be paid. 1t is better that way than in other ways
Arizona republican., 1919-06-08
SOME ODD POSTAGE STAMPS
(From the Boston Globe)


 Imagine a postage stamp which, though actually used for franking let ters was yet never sold! This is the curious story attached to the original Egyptian EXpeditionary Force (com- monly called the Palestine) stamp.
 As q precaution against speculation, it was not placed on public sale in the usual way, but was affixed by the pos tal authorities themselves to letters upon which postage had already been paid.
 In some war collections, too, may be seen a typewriter stamp, headed "G. R. Long Island and of the face value of one shilling. This unique pro- ductiOn was issued" by the British civil administration of Chustan, Oong Island,) in the Gulf of Smyrna, during it's occupation in 1916.
 The most singular feature of the stamp is that it was absolutely super fluous as such, because the correpond- ence of the British forces did not re- quire prepayment and the natives could not be allowed, in the circumstances to communicate with the outer world.
 Many London firms preserve Russian stamps which were designed to serve as currency and then be used for postag2 Printed during a temporary scarcity of aman change and of three values-ten, fifteen and twenty kopecks.-they bear on the back this inscription: Having ..tculation on par With silver sub siiiary coins.'
 Just as remarkable is the British Honduras stamp of 191a When con- sienment of the stamps was ready for dispatch from London to British Hen duras, a number of German raiders were at large in the Atlantic. and there was a risk that it might fall into the hands of the enemy and be used to rob t british levNnHr
 sc the stamps w2's c 'erprins21 with g. iroire design l".L they mlgrt hc r.>Iy identified 70 Germans. how ever, did not capture the stamps and they were sold in the usual way.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-08
POOR "BACKSL|D|NC' FARMER
 DRIFTS INTO LAP IF PROGRESS

increase, cost of production will de- crease-and down goes old H. c. l..
 If we ask farmers what their big gest problem is today, nine out of ten will say the shortage of help-there isn't enough help to go around and there isn't enough time to do all the farm work that ought to be done, stated Lorel Stapley, head of the Phoenix headquarters of the o. s. Stapley company.
 Many farmers have solved their hauling problems with International motor trucks. They are built to run every day in the year, the construc tion is right, the power is there, and they save time on the road. They are built complete in the large Interna- tional plant at Akron, Ohio, devoted exclusively to building motor trucks. The heavy duty, 4-cylinder block cast engine is simple and durable; the sturdy International gear drive rear axle will stand up under constant daily use-a heat-treated drop forging car ries the load and a live axle transmits the power. Quality is built right into every part of the International motor trucks.
 And back of this truck stands a 40,000.000 manufacturing organization with 20 years experience in building high grade machinery. Think what it means to an owner to have an organi- zation like this with 90 company branches and thousands of dealers back of the motor truck he is using.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-08
BLUE TRIANGLE NOTES
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This Weeks Y. w. c. A. Program

This Weeks Y w. C. A. Program
 The board of directors will hold the regular June meeting at the Y. w. c. A. rooms Monda! morning, at ten o'clock. This is the last meeting for the sum- mer and every member of the board is urged to be present.
 Tuesday and Wednesday mornings the Adams and Monroe corps of the Girl Reserve will meet at the Y. W. C. A. boarding home. Reports on hon ors are to be given and members of the corps will provide a program of music and stories.
 Thursday evening the first event of the summer recreation program for business girls will occur under the di- rection of Miss Cris Satterwhite, chair man of the recreation committee and Miss Lucy Ford, 4. ". c. A. summer recreation secretary A swimming party and supper at Riverside park has been planned Any business girl in i Phoenix, whether a member of the Y. W. c. A. or not is invited to join the party. The only thing necessary is to 1 secure tickets from the Y. W. C. A. cafeteria or office by Wednesday even ing.
 The Los Angeles Y. ". C. A. is con- ducting a trip to the Yosemite June q to June 30 and has invited members of l the Phoenix association to join their | party. Business girls are also invited | to the Los Angeles Y. w. C. A. camp in the san Tntonio Canyon, two miles | above Camp Baldy. The camp is open ! from July 26 to August 90. Any one interested in the camp or the Yosemite trip may secure full particulars from l the Y. W. C. A offiqe.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-08
.DDRT ISLEVELER OF GRADES SAYS OWNER

Practically every section of the cOun- try has a pet hill-One of those steep lnelines that were used 10 test the pull Ing power of the automobile about ten years ago. Today modern refinement of. motor car construction has leveled .hese hills in effect. but nevertheless here are localities which still try the mettle of the modern ear.
 These arc the sections that are uoihing but hills, where grade upon grsdc keeps the motor hummiug 10 ne gotiate them successfully.
 Bust how nicely this can be done by Dort motor car has been well demon stated by R. W. Clothier of Washing ton, D. c. Mir. Clothier has driven his Dort more than 1300O miles, and many of-these miles have been over the hills
 mountains, if you want to term them
 pf the Cumberlands. And Mir. Clo- Infer has yet to find a hill that has stopped his Dort Whats more, he says the Dort has done it pulling a trailer
 The following fig the story of Dort hih-climbing in MT. Clothier's own words:
 Eve bought the car August II. 1916. and immediately started on a trip though Virginia and West Virginia We went by way of Cumberland, Md, thence 10 Keyser's Ridge, thence south 10 Oakland, Md, then over the noun tahs on rough roads 10 Clarksburg. West Va, then south to a point % miles south of Weston, named Duffy. Returning, VIC struck the old Parkers- burg and Staunton pike at Buchannon and followed it to Staunton, Va. and hen came home by the Valley Pike. We pulled all the worst mountains in second gear, except occasionally when ] tried to go into second from high, when it was necessary to go into low gear
 We pulled our camping outfit be- hind the car in a two wheeled trailer weighing 900 pounds with load. This was a trip of 800 miles, in the noun tains nearly all the way.
 'tln 1917 We started at Washington with the same trailer and went by the way of Atlantic City to New York Boston, Portland, Crawford's Notch t'ranconia Notch, Bennington. Vt Troy N. Y, Syracuse, N. Y, Ithaca N.. r., and returned home down the Susquehana Valley. Distance travelled 900 miles Pulled most of the worst hills in intermediate, but ran into a " where it was necessary to go into low
Arizona republican., 1919-06-08
LEFT WEALTH TO Co-WoRKERs

John R. Hegeman, late president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance com pay, remembered his fellow workers and employees of the company gener- ously in his will. The document was filed for probate the other day at White Plains, New York. The estate is un- derstood to be between 10 million and 25 million dollars.
 After leaving a life interest in half of the estate to his son. John R. Hege- man, the decedent, bequeathed $175,000 for division among his trustees and
Arizona republican., 1919-06-08

executors. They also are to divide be- tween them his palatial yacht Elolyn his fine motor boat Camilla, his horses and the furnishings of his summer home at Mamaroneck and his town house in New York.
 Half of the estate is divided into four equal parts. One part is left for the erection of a new building at the Metropolitan Life. Insurance company's
Arizona republican., 1919-06-08

sanitarium at Mount McGregor, Sara toga county, N. Y. This building will be known as the Hegeman Memorial and is to be maintained by the com pany. In the event the company de- clines to maintain it, the money left for the structure is to be disposed of at the discretion of the trustees and executors.
 Another of the four equal parts,
Arizona republican., 1919-06-08

equivalent to one eighth of the total estate, is to be divided among the of ficers of the Metropolitan Life In- surance company and Mir. Hegeman's private secretary. His servants also are to receive the equivalent of a months pay.
 The trustees are directed to pay s10 900 monthly to John R. Hegeman, Jr., the chief beneficiary.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-08
IN MOTOR TERMS

t'rom the New York Amercan) Shopping wife-Isn't it sweet little haG Jack? Guess what it cost Motoring husband About one tire. l should say.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-18

who presided over the upper branch of
Councils from 1868 to 1870. served as
the city's executive from 1872 to 1881.
William b. Smith. who was president
of Select Council from 1882 to 1884,
was Mayor from 1884 to 1887.
Before Mr.. Stokley's service as presi-
dent of Select Council he presided over
Common Council from 1866 to 1867.
State Senator Edward w. Patton. Of
the Fourth, or West Philadelphia,
Senatorial district, was a president of
Select Council, as was Recorder Of
Deeds James NJ. Hazlett and Sheriff
Harry G. Ransley.
Forty eight members OF Select Coun
ell and ninety seven members of Com
mon Council go out of Office automati
cally when the now Council convencs.
The most powerful Office in the present
Councils is that of chairman of the
finance committee. held by Joseph i,
Gaffncy, a lawyer and Common Council
man from the Twenty sixth ward, Con
gresham Narc's bailiwick.
The Twenty sixth ward is in the
First Senatorial district. which is en-
titled to three members in the new
Council Instead of representation by
wards, councilmcn, under the Wood
ward bill, are to be chosen from sena
torial districts. one member for each
go 600 of assessed voters.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-18
2 CHILDREN HURT BY AUTOS
One In Smash and Other Run Dow
Last Nlqht

Two children were seriously hurt in
automobile accidents last night and this
morning both arc in hospitals in n
serious condition.
About 9 o'clock last night. during tho
heavy shower which visited the city.
Charles Christon, 500 North Front
street. lost control Of his automobile.
which he was driving, and struck
telegraph pole at the corner of Eighth
street and Glpnwood avenue. His small
daughter, Marie. who was with him.
sustained lacerations Of the face. eye
aud neck and contusions nf the body.
She was taken to the Samaritan Hos
pital.
William Dillman, seven wears old =.
514 West Somerset street, was struck
hv an automobile near the corner of
Fifth and Reese streets last night. He
was rushed to the Episcopal Hospital.
where it was found that he had sus-
tanned double fracture Of the leg. The
machinc which struck the boy did not
stop and no one noticed the number.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-18
.F|REMEN COMPLAIN
OF CASH WITHHELD
Salary for Overtime Served in
Two-PIatoon System Delay
Is Asked
HOPE IN "MORAL CLAIM

Dissatisfaction is now apparent among
the firemen of this city because of what
they feel to be "injustice" by the city
authorities in not paying them compen-
sation money for their overtime service
from January 1 to May I, last year, at
which time the two platoon system was
inaugurated here.
The firemen claim. that although the
measure passed by the Legislature was
ordered for January I, 1918, giving the
firemen shorter hours, and calling for a
two platoon system, under which the
men were to work fourteen hours at
night and ten hours during the day, it
was not put into effect for four months,
thus making every fireman work over
time.
James NJ. Sinister, president OF the
Firemen's Union. says he has been be =
sieged by many of the men for 'satis =
faction from the authorities. A mum =
Der have resigned, from the union be =
cause no action has been taken in this
matter, he said.
eve have no legal status in the
courts" said Mr.. Sinister. "becausc in
sticking to their posts and working over
time when the ordinance was passed in
January, the fircmen violated the law
which had given them new hours. Still,
il they had observed the new hours, the
city would have been left unprotected
from fire for hours at a time, and We
felt that the public should be protected
"Our only chance of obtaining com
pensation is to present moral claim
against the city of Philadelphia, and it
is proposed to do that. either before the
present council adiourns, or at the first
meeting next September.
Although the men are discontented
at not receiving this money to which
they are entitled there will not be n
strike under any circumstances, con
cluded Mr.. Sinister. "The Firemen's
Union realizes that it is not the fault OF
the public that they have been refused
this compensation, and the public would
be the main sufferer in case of any dras
| tic action on our part