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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-04-12
PATERNALISM VERSUS BUSINESS

If five great business corporations be-
came involved in a destructive struggle
that cost five million lives, destroyed
hundred billions of property, and created
as much more bonded Indebtedness for
future generations to pay, we would all
say business was failure
Yet that is what paternalistic and So
cialistic governments of Europe have
loaded upon the shoulders of humanity
And there are those who want to saddle
upon our country an ever increasing load
of governmentally owned industries and
political paternalism.'
The great, experiment of substituting
governmentalized banking and industries
is now inaugurated in North Dakota and
money is being spent. lavishly to impose
this program on other western states.
The Daily Star Mirror of Moscow, Ida
no, state that had a.. narrow escape
from being captured by the new move
ment, says of the Great Experiment
"The most radical of the measures fav-
ored by the Nonpartisan league in North
Dakota land designed to remodel the state
according to the league, have been enact
ed into laws and the affairs of the state
will, for some time at least, be directed
exactly in accordance with league ideas.
The result will be watched with keen
est of interest by the outside world and
with some misgivings by thousands of
people who have invested money within
the state.
"No obstacles are likely to be encoun-
tered, as the courts are supposed to be
controlled by the league, so the great ex-
pertinent will probably be carried out &C
cording to schedule.
"In the meantime Idaho should be
thankful that the try out is taking place
in North Dakota.
Zone of the bills provides for the state
bank. There was considerable doubt as
to the wisdom of the step, but farmer
caucus decided to put the state into the
banking business and the legislature
obeyed the caucasus it invariably does
now.
''The state is thus to embark on general
banking operations. Another bill creates
an industrial commission of these persons
to operate the bank and employ the active
managers of it.
"The terms on which loans may be
| made on several classes of collateral or
security are prescribed by the act itself.
GA third of the set of bills empowers
the Commission to establish state eleva-
tors, mills and markets. Finally, there Is
an act authorizing the commission to &C
into the farm and loan business.
A $10,000,000 bond issue is provided tc
make the last named enterprise possible
For the state elevators a $5,000,000 bono
issue is authorized and for the hank
100000 issue"
State funds raised by taxation anC
bond issues, to be loaned by.politicians tt
create industries managed by politicians
is the most radical advance in paternal
ism and socialistic schemes.
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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-04-12

Now they have decided to keep the
hours of meeting at the peace conference
a secret. Remembering the first of the
Id principles, declaring for "open coven-
ants of peace, openly arrived at, the Am
erican people can only groan in derision.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-04-12
Your Telephone Service
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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-04-12

Most of the bolshevism in Berlin is pro
badly fostered by Prussianism for psy
Geological effect at Paris.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-04-12

s'You will know all that know" prom
Used Woodrow Wilson on the eve of his
first departure for Paris. If Wilson
knows no more about affairs at the con-
ference than the rest of us, his knowledge
must be in very muddled state.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-04-12

If Mr.. Burleson holds the telegraph
and telephone wires long enough and the
government hangs on to the railroads for
five years we may yet win the war
Minneapolis Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
The Cost of Food
[From Harvey's Weekly.l

When we think of the cost of food,
we think first of all of the cost of
beef. But the cost of beef, we are
told, is conditioned upon the price of
pork. Now the price of pork, ac-
cording to Mr.. Armour, is largely
determined by the price of corn, up
on which the porkers-saving the
rczor-back variety-are fed. Nov
corn is at a top-notch price partly
because of the higher wages of farm
hands, but still more because of the
sympathy between it and wheat,
which is, after all, the real basis
upon which food values are deter
mined.
And the Government, says Mr..
Armour, is responsible for the high
cost of wheat, because of it's guar
antee of $2.26 a bushel for it; to
make which guarantee good, Con-
gress has appropriated a billion dol
lars of the peoples money.
So then we have the taxpayers of
the country paying a billion dollars
to keep up the high cost of living!
What was it that Lewis Carroll had
the mob in Sylvie and Bruno cry?
LESS bread! More taxes!"
Meantime, without in the least dis
crediting Mr.. Armour's diagnosis,
which is no doubt largely true, it
will be well to consider also the re-
lationship between high prices of
food and all commodities, and in
fiation of the currency. For it is a
we'll known principle that an in
fiated currency, and a deprecated
currency means high prices.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
FOcht on PinchOt

Lewisburg News in receipt of a
long interview with himself sent out
by Gift Pinchot, who is endeavoring
to attract attention to his personal
Inspirations by calling together "a
conference of Pennsylvania Bull
Moose" Later in the interview
with himself the old chap Gift says
he wants to do things exactly as
Colonel Roosevelt would do them if
he were here. From this interview
with himself it is to be taken that
Gift intends taking Colonel Roose-
velt's place, and doubtless to his
own mind doing things ever better
than the Colonel would be capable
of doing them.
Unfortunately for the Pike county
political piker the sentiment that
was fast crystalizing favorably for
the nomination of Colonel Roose-
welt for the Presidency next year,
did not involve the counsel, much
less the leadership, of such party dis
organizers as Gift, who in one place
in his interview with himself says
he wants party harmony, while in
another place he calls for "a con-
ference of Pennsylvania Bull
Moose" only.
When in Washington a short time
before his death, in the parlor of
the home of his daughter, Colonel
Roosevelt expressed to the writer
sentiments that were anything but
favorable to any such program Gift
would like to now pull off in Har-
risburg in the name of the Colonel
1t was most gratifying to find Colonel
Roosevelt eager for party unity with
the complete control of the Republi-
no time for repudiated agitators and
party trouble breeders of the Gift
Pinchot stripe.
The Republican party is now
solidly united and will remain so
for long years to come. Right now
is bad time for professional party
smashers to do much at their regu-
lar business of starting something.
Pinchots game is we'll understood,
and so far as the prospect of sue
cess is concerned, his name is mud.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
POINDEXTER LOOMING UP

X ENATOR MILES POINDEX-
- TER, of Washington, is regard
ed as the strongest candidate
for the Presidential nomination by
Charles S. Barrett, of Georgia,
president of the National Farmers
Union. Mr.. Barrett has been.at the
head of his organization for thir-
teen years. and the correspondence
he has had with the 2,50O,OO0 mem
bers of the Farmers Union gives
great significance to his estimates
of popular opinion.
mo candidate for the Presidency
stands stronger with the farmers
than Senator PoindeXter," declares
Mr.. Barrett. I'm my own section OF
the country, the Southeast. Poindex-
ter is especially strong. He would
stand a good chance of carrying
Georgia, for example, which is
going some for a Republican. The
fact that he is a native of Tennes-
sec, although he has spent most of
his life amid northern political
environments. adds to his strength
in the South"
Senator Poindexter's popularity
with the farmers of the South and
the United States generally lies in
the fact that throughout his entire
career in Congress, first in the
House and then in the Senate, he
has always stood four-square for
the things in which farmers are
interested. He has met all tests,
and to please the farmer element is
difficult task. They know what
they want and why they want it,
and they are not deceived by false
promises from any man in public
life. They gauge performance as
against mere words. 1 know per-
sonally thousands of farmers
throughout the United States, and
know how they regard Poindex-
ter"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
Stay Out of Germany

Annie S. Peck, writing to New
York newspaper, says:
"It seems to me high time that
some one was organizing another
society or that the American De-
fense League should pass around a
pledge-a pledge that should re-
ceive 100000 signatures in a week,
100000 even without delay
This pledge is one that will hurt
the Germans feelings, l hope, and
make them realize how the rest of
the world regards them, which as
yet they do not understand. This
society should take in all of America
and much of Europe, too. Neutrals
can here show their feelings.
Here is the pledge, a simple and
easy one: Not to go to Germany
within ten years unless compelled by
business. That will injure no one.
OF course we don't expect the Ger
man born to sign, or any who have
near relatives there. Some men, per-
haps few women, must ct on busi-
ness, but they can sign. The Ger
mans must manufacture, must buy
and sell if they are to pay their
debts. But l purchase none of their
cloth, which may have been made
on stolen Belgian or French looms
why not go to Germany? Why
should one go? There are no bat
tlefields to visit, no desolate villages,
ruined cities, fields laid waste, for
ests destroyed. Spend what money
you can afford for travel in helping
the poor peasants, the innkeepers,
the factory workers of France to
restore their shattered homes and
desolated country; those in Belgium,
in Italy, in Serbia, too.
And let the Germans know that
they are held responsible by the
whole world for the millions of lives
lost, the saddened homes, the pow
erty and starvation in many quar-
ters, the waste of billions of money,
the anarchy rife the world over.
They all rejoiced over the deadly
work of the submarines, the bomb
ing of Paris and London, the LIQUID
fire and gas and all the rest, sup
porting the kaiser and the iunkers
up to the last moment. They are
sorry they lost, but not one word or
sign OF repentance have they given.
DO the soft-hearted say forgive? e?
Christ said, If thy brother repent
forgive him. Let us not try to i'm
prove on that, but strive to deal
justly.
Il think it would be just as well.
too, if the pro-Germans and Ger
mans over here should understand
that we do not care to have any
better acquaintance with the Ger
man spirit and kultur than we have
now"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
REPUBLICAN LINES FIRM

II ENNSYLNANIA is going to
take its proper place in the
nomination of a candidate for
the Presidency next year. Harmony
prevails throughout the party and
only ineXcusable stupidity will check
the return of sanity in the direction
of its affairs.
Members of the old Progressive
party, which returned in a body to
the Republican fold under the in
spiration Of the lamented Roosevelt,
are in conference in Harrisburg to-
day with a view to arousing inter-
est in the preliminary campaign of
1920. May we not hope that the
more conservative and astute repre-
sentatives of the Progressive element
will avoid any action that may be
construed as an invitation to further
controversy and party division.
1t is regrettable. on the threshold
of such a conference, that the former
State chairman of the Washington
party has assumed to speak for the
Roosevelt men of Pennsylvania. His
statement, put out with all the old
trimmings, has encouraged the
Democrats of the Wilson brand to
believe that there is about to de-
velop another fatuous and unneces-
sary Republican split. Mr.. DIETRICH,
as the oracle of the so-called Pro-
gressive wing. declares what we
want to do at this time, and what
we feel as a strong duty. is to lend
our organized aid to the national
success of the Republican party"
Wherein any good Republican diff
fers on this proposition we are not
able to see. All Republicans have
been and are now contributing their
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
To Duplicate Lost Bonds

TFrom the New York Times.l
The sailors and officers who lost
more than 100000 worth of Liberty
bonds when the cruiser San Diego
was sunk after striking a mine off
Fire Island. July 10 last year, will
have their losses made good by the
issuance of duplicate bonds, accord
ing to State Senator Martin SAKE,
who acted for the sailors in present.
ing their claim.
After the sinking the Navy De-
partment decided not to try to SAL
wage the vessel. but instead dropped
thirty depth bombs on the wreck. A
diver later found that such extensive
destruction had been caused as to
make it certain the Liberty bonds
had been destroyed. This enabled
the Treasury Department to agree
to duplicate the bonds. as the law
permits duplication of coupon bonds
when they are destroyed, but not
when lost.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
REWARDS FOR FARMERS

" THROUGHOUT the Common
wealth there is increasing in
terest and enthusiasm in the
comprehensive plans of Governor
Sproul and his administration forces
for the development of a wonder
full system of modern highways. In
addition to the direct appropria-
tion of some millions of dollars
approximating s10O,000,000 in all
and covering new mileage of about
900 miles-the Legislature has pro-
vided and the Governor has approved
a system of rewards for townships
to encourage the authorities of the
lesser community units in the con-
struction and Improvement Of the
back" roads and the building of
township bridges. An appropriation
of $1.000,000 will be available for
this purpose after December first
next. This law provides rewards
equal to one-third of the cost of
the local Improvements not to ex-
ceed specified amounts per mile
These branch roads extending into
the remoter rural districts will be
made of sufficient width to assure
their use as practical highways.
Highway Commissioner Sadler has
been getting around considerably
since the Legislature adjourned and
with his keen business sense is CIV
ing such personal oversight as will
result in first-class construction in
every direction.
While the State is about it, why not
encourage the owners of lands along
the main State highways to plant
trees that will provide shade for all
who use these modern roads. New
York had a law some years ago.
which may still be in force, that re-
lieved farmers and other owners of
land abutting on the State road of
taxes as reward for planting and
caring for the trees. The result was
magnificent avenues of fine trees in
every part of the State. Such a plan
might easily be adopted in Pennsyl-
vania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29

Post Office Department to send out
inspectors through the rural dis
tricts of the country to rearrange
the system.
The final decision came when
James I. Blakslee, fourth assistant
Postmaster General, was closely
questioned by the committee and
put on record as promising for the
department speedy action to restore
the system to a practical basis.
Many cases were cited to show
the error of the Postmaster General
in doing away with many rural
routes and extending others to such
length that it has been impossible
for the carriers to cover their routes
except with mail one or more days
late.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
President Violates Tredty
From Harvey's Weekly. [


Does President Wilson regard the
Franco American Treaty as a mere
scrap OF paper? If not, why did he
deliberately violate one of its most
important provisions within a fort
night after he, as president of the
United States" and Mr.. Lansing. as
Secretary of State of the United
States" attached their official sigma
lures to the agreement?
That he did that every thing there
can be no question. Article of the
Treaty reads:
The present Treaty will be sub
mltted to the Senate of the United
state at the same time as the Treaty
OF versailles is submitted to the SEN
ate for its advice and consent to
ratification"
Did he keep it? He did not. This
is what he said and all he said re-
specting the Treaty on July 10, when
he submitted the Treaty of YER
sailles to the Senate: -.
Il shall presently have occasion
TO lay before you special treaty
with France, whose object is the
temporary protection of France from
unprovoked aggression by the Power
with whom this treaty of peace has
been negotiated. Its terms link it
with this treaty. l take the liberty
however, of reserving it for special
explication on another occasion.
lie did not submit the Treaty: he
did not divulge its terms; he aid not
even summarize it; he simply took
the liberty" of violating it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29

"
either to withdraw as leaders of the
Republican party or to select better
men for office" The Mcclure
element does not like the league a
bit.
From all accounts the Wares
have been just waiting for the COM
mittee of 100 to be named so that
they could get their lines formed.
A meeting of Ware leaders can be
looked for within a few days to put
forward candidates. The Philadel-
phia Press has been running a gal
lery of mayoralty possibilities, in
cluding Ex-Governor Edwin S.
Stuart, who refuses to listen.
Lieutenant Colonel James P.
Kerr has accepted the call of the
citizens of Allegheny county and will
be a candidate for the Republican
nomination for County Commission
er in the September primaries" says
the Pittsburgh GaZette-Times. He
will at once begin an active cam
paign with the assured support of
thousands who are desirous of en-
couraging men of his high type to
take up the burdens of public office"
Register and Recorder George
g. Irwin has caused a stir in Blair
county political circles by dismiss
ing his first deputy, James P. Bart
ley. His reason for taking summary
action was the candidacy of the
deputy for the Republican nomina-
ton for Register and Recorder. Mr..
Irwin, who is former Legislator
and we'll known to many here, ex-
n n nj Il.
BARLEY being in the office while a
candidate against his chief. Four
years ago Irwin was defeated for the
Republican nomination for Register
and Recorder by Harry A. Thomp-
son, but ran on an Independent
ticket. BARLEY was also defeated
by Thompson at the primaries, but
was nominated by the Democrats.
He retired in favor of Irwin, and
the combined Democratic and inde-
pendent vote elected Irwin. BARLEY
served nearly twelve years as a
deputy in the Register and Record
er's office and wants the real job
There will be a strenuous battle
Uncle David Lane, the sage of
the Republican party in Philadel-
phia, celebrated his S0th birthday
and Goth anniversary in the councils
of the organization and gave some
notable interviews. He said that he
was an organization man and Would
be for the men it selected. FIe reit-
Grated some ideas about reformers
and said that he did not like them.
The Philadelphia Press says:
"The Democratic State Committee
is after money; so is everybody else,
but only a Democratic committee
can squeeze money out of Demo-
cratic officeholders."
Allegheny politics have been
stirred up by an announcement by
ex Mayor Joseph E. Armstrong, Of
Pittsburgh, that he will be a cam
didate for county treasurer, coupled
with this comment: Nobody runs
my business except myself, and what
l told the Mayor is what l am tell
ing the people, namely, that l am a
candidate. He talked about the need
of holding party conferences and
getting good men to run for the
various offices, but l told him that
so far as my affair was concerned
it was settled, and that l am an
active candidate. l believe l shall
have his support, but with or with
out I am a candidate to the finish" "
In McKeesport no announce
ment that a city treasurer was to
be elected was made until a few
DAYS ago. Now candidates are busy
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
Your Face to Me
TErnnn The Nation /

From the Nation.
Your face to me is like a beautiful
city
Dreaming forever by the rough wild
sea,
And 1 the ship upon wilderness OF
waves
Heavily laden with mem ories.
l roam all over the earth
Making rhymes of you, and singing
songs.
Because your face will never let me
rest,
Because l cannot frame it in a star
Surrounded with my cloudy reveries,
Because l may not pluck it like a
flower
To breathe the incense of it's per-
fumed soul
Your face is like the carved hilt of
a sword
Whose sheath is in my breast!
Iris Tree.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29

There exist innocent people who
are wondering why the Government
persists in its effort to get whole on
the eXtravagant war prices which
were paid for foodstuffs that are now
gorging military warehouses. It
would seem that the consumer who
is also the taxpayer, might have the
benefit of the necessarily reduced
prices of the canned goods now de-
teriorating in these big warehouses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
GOULD STIRS UP P. o. D.

+" HE introduction by Representa-
tive Norman j. Gould of a re-
solution to suspend the opera
ton of the Burleson orders regard
ing rural routes, and which caused
heated hearings before the House
Committee on Post Offices and Post
Roads, has had the effect of bring
ing about the desired results in th"
form of promises on the part of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
No Tips in Barber Shop

The Volunteers of America, an Off
shoot of the Salvation Army, have
started barber shop in Pittsburgh,
Pa, that does only hair cutting-no
shaving. And tipping is taboo. The
customer is not supposed to hand any
tmalf change to Il barber before or
after having paid the cashier. Be-
sides the shop will cut the hair OF
poor children free.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29

Secretary of Internal Affairs Wood
ward is going right to the front in
the preliminaries to make the Susque-
hanna River navigable. Pennsylvania
lis a progressive Commonwealth and
the record of the Republican party in
this State is one of creditable achieve
ment in the development of its enor-
nous natural and industrial resources.
Mr.. Woodward. as one of the stall
warts, is injecting lot of pep into
his department and has abiding faith
in the ability of the several bureaus
under his direction to further develop
the public works of the State and its
great mineral deposits.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer is to be the orator at Wiki
insburg's welcome home celebration
in September.
Frank Morrison, secretary of
the American Federation of Labor,
Will be the Labor Day orator at
Pittsburgh.
The Rev. Mark B. Roy, of Wash
ington, who has been in missionary
work in Egypt, is home again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
BIRDS OF A FEATHER

"HE radical Socialists, the Boil
shevists. the German propa-
- gandists, the Internationalists,
the l. w. W. and a varied lot of
hyphenated Americans are conduct
ing a campaign that dovetails so
perfectly that one might almost
think they have n complete under
standing and agreement.
And the sum and substance of
their work is anti-American.