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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-08
WnpNEspAY EgENINa. SEPT.
ON WHAT BASIS:

"A Grand Forks grocer, well known
to Tho Herald, Is selling at 20 cents
per pound which he bought a
short time ago at $14-75. He Is losing
AZ cents ION every pound that he
sells. HE customers are not COM
planning. They arc not specially in
tsfested in the price that he paid for
tho sugar. They are Interested only
In the price at which they can buy.
Tho price OF sugar has beer dropping
steadily for some time. For some
little time past the commodity has
been selling in the local market
around 30 cents. and at a somewhat
lower price on special occasions. The
merchant referred to is not a specula-
tor or hoardeF. He bought sugar as
hA buys other articles. in quantity
sufficient. in his judgment. to insure
his customers q reasonable supply
until a new order can be filled. His
purchase in this case will cost him
several dollars in clear cash, without
taking into account his store expenses
and the fact that he and his family
find it necessary to eat occasionally,
to clothing, to sleep in beds and
to do many OF the things that other
people do. i
Sugar has dropped some seven cents
a pound since this purchase was
made, and the grocer is losing money.
Suppose it had advanced instead. And
suppose that1instead of selling. as he
must now, oh5the basis Of about an 18
cent market, this man had sold on
the basis of the increased market
cost, and thus had reaped the advan-
tage OF the advance. Would he have
been a profiteer? Many people seem
to think SO. A very prevalent theory
is that a merchant must in no case
+ benefit from an advance in the mar
ket, but that on a rising market he
must adhere strictly to his exact cost
as a basis for his retail price, but
that if the market goes the other way
he must suffer his loss and grin over
1t if he can. ~
The Herald has invariably taken
the other view and held that the cor
rect basis for retail prices is not the
actual cost. but the cost of replace
ment. If that basis is accepted the
merchant gains at n end of the
scale what. he loses at the other. and
thus breaks even on costs. being en-
titled all the way through to a. rea-
sonable profit in payment for the
service which he renders as a dis
tributor. h a. ~
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-08

suIafeepeCITIn IneIf ulnIIIuIIFtCss
thsSDemocrAts havs rejected - their
local chalrmsn bankr1pt.s and dere-
slicts And Fellows who have been de-
'feated for the once OF dos-catcher.
1f that e not the meaningysof Mr..
Moore,s testimony. than what il It's
meaning : Il
Doesn't the average American citi-
zen who hasa moderate amount Of love
and respect for his country feel just
~ little huniliated to e this sort of
siush being made a feature in a presi-
Dental campaigh?
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-08

ends of dainty clothing for Carol, who

ends of dainty clothing for Carol, who
had lived ready-n.ade during the
shadow1and Of Sunshine. =
A hurried letter was despatched to
David's doctor, asking endless ques-
lions. pledgi1g him to secrecy and,
urging him to wire a answer c. o.
u Little Julia was instructed as to
her mothers charms and her ia
theirs virtues far beyond the point Of
her comprehension. And Jerry spent
long hours with Connie in the car, ex-
planning its mechanism, and making
her a really proficient driver. al
though she had been very iskillful be-
hind the wheel before. Also. he wrote
long letters, to his dealer in Denver,
giving him such a host of minute in
structions that the b%ewildered agent
thought. the "old gent in Des Moincs
had gone daft
Carol wrote every day, pitifully,
jubilantly, begging Connie to- hurry
and get started, admopishing her to
take complete line Of Snapshots Of
every separate Starr. to count each
additional gray hair in darling fa-
TIERS head, and to locate every sep
arate dimple in Julia's fat little body.
And every letter was answered by
every n of the fanAly. who inter-
rupted themselves>to urge everybody
else not to give Anything away, and
to be careful what they said. And
they all cried over Julia, and over
Carols letters. and even cried over
the beautiful assortment of clothes
they had accumulated for Carol, US
ing Lark as a sewingymodel. 81
Z Twenty minutes after the tt&inIeft
Mount Mark came a telegram from
Carol: Did she get off all right?
Did anything happen? Wire imme-
diately." And the whole family rush
ed off to separate Dom to weep all
o~ver1again. +
But Aunt Grace walked slowly
about the house, gathering up blocks,
and headless dolls, and -tail1ess dogs,
and laying them carefully away in a
drawer until little Julia should re-
turn to visit the family in Mount
Mark.
For the doctor had said it was all
right to restore the baby to her>heart-
hungering parents in the mountain
land. Carol was fairly strong, David
healthy, and the parents being sani-
tary. the danger to its ting lungs was
minimized-and by all means send
them the baby.
So Julia was arrayed in matches
garments destined to charm the eyes
of the parents, who, in their hap
piness, would never realize it had any
clothes OF at all, and Connie set sout
upon her journey with the little girl
in her charge.
On Tuesday morning, Carol was a
mental, wreck. She forgot to salt Da-
[yid's eggs and gave him codeiner for
his coughsinstead Of. tonic tablets for
his :appetite.s She put no soda in the
hot cakes. and made histeggenogS OF
buttersnilk. She laughed out, loud
when David; was asking the blessing,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-08
MIR. o TEsT1FIEs.

After a great flourish OF trumpets
and beating Of drums, E. H. Moore,
personal representative Of Governor
Cox, and by him deputized t. testify
in place of Mr.. Cox before the senate
investigating committee, has APP
peared before the committee. has Of
fered to supply to the committee the
chiefly members of the Republican
campaign force. whom it might be
useful to summon, has declared that
ehis is substantially all the informa-
ton that he has on the subject of
campaign funds and that he does not
think his principal has any more evil
dence than he has.
This campaign fun sensation of
Governor Cox's reminds one of the
theory Of the suspension of the earth
which was developed at one period
in history. This theory was that the
earth was flat and rested on the back
of a giant tortoise, which rested on
an elephant. which rested on a
sn6l1er animal Each animal in turf
$3.50. ".S.a.-sFy-t1Sh GFIF|Hf fE+-lL En|-
rested on another smaller, until the
last but one rested on a gnat, which
was so small that it needed nothing
to rest on.
We seem to have about reached the
gnat stage in this present campaign.
But Mr.. Moore did say something
to the committee. He read from the
Republican campaign bulletin the
statement thatthe state chairmen who
had been appointed to supervise the
collection of funds were men .of
commanding influence. Shocking
as this was, Mr.. Moore added to the
shock by telling the committee that
chairnnen had, been appointed in sew
eral localities for the local ways and
means committees, and that he had
found that in most cases in Ohio
these chairrnen were manufacturers.
It Is unfortunate that Mr.. Moore
did not mention the articles which
these men manufacture. so that we
might have all the horrible facts at
once. But that they manufacture any
thing Whatever is certainly ~suficient
to damn them and the parity. And il
III IL TO be understood that these men
like the state chairmen, are men OF
sscomn1anding influence. then there
can BIZ no redemption for them.
We havensst quite reached that point
wet. but w shall doubtless learn pres
emily that fn the crude organization
which h Democrats have Al fecfed
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-08
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY.

Chicago, Sept. 8.-The fifteenth an
niversary of the first professional
baseball championship game will s.be
celebrated by the Old Timers Base
bail association at a banquet hero,
October 10. The game was played be-,
tween the Cincinnati Red Stockings
and the Chicago White STOCKINGS Oc-
tober 13, 1870, at the Old Dexter driy-
ing park in this city. The Cincinnati
aggregation went down to defeat, Is
70 3. at the hands-sof the Chicago
team.
This game was practically the be-
ginning OF. professional baseball, nc
cording to Al G.. Sphinx of Chicago, sec
The Old Timers Baseball associa-
ton was organized about a yearSaEo.
1t takes in persons who played in or
who saw the game and now has about
/, 800 members: Top Foiey, manager
member. 49, s sag4s Nd
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-08
ORUSOES CAVE A, MREsopr {,

(INeW Orleans Picayune.1
Wnen Daniel DE Toe selected a site
III rtoDlnson Crusoe's shipwreck and
SUBSEQUENT adventures he evidently
believed that there was nothine fmr,
lner IN remoteness, and of course Sell
XIX a proven pretty effectually
tnat the Juan Fernandez was well of
Inc map. But today we read, with a
tailing Of heart, that the tiny archi
peiago In the South Pacific is to he
Doomed as a tourist resort and that
Cave is to be equipped
win an modern c~onveniences and
transformed into a hosiery with a
"greeter," a desk. bell hops to relieve
you oEyou grips n coin, and pre-
sumaoiy a Man Friday in original
costume to "chauffe" the sight-seSn.
automobile that will carry visitors to
the Lookout" and other points Of
interest made famous by selkirk plus
the imagination of the literary hero
Of III boyhood. ~
The chileap government, we are
tod, is considering the settinp aside
of the Crusoe's island as a national
park, IKE our Yosemite and Yellow
stone~ Inc companies are ready n
supply all the attractions necessary in
1.-The shape of comfort and historic 81.
fusion. S Al
There are very few inhabitants al
Ipleseht on the island and it would
no, pc difficult to move them to one
of the ncighboring islets unless +ba<
preferred to fall into the scheme ~
things and adapt themselves to the
stage setting in the form Of natives to
supply the cannibal scenes. -
!. BY taking a tip from Beyreuth the
island might have an annual Cr1,soe
pageant when the various episodes OF
the great adventure would be carried
on throughout a week or two weeks
Wlth. well advertised actors in, the
leading role. and hams for the minn,
parts. WI tA
But who will carelto read Robinson
Crusoe when his cave will have he.
come a boarding house de luxa2 -
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-08
F-ALSEHORsE TEETH.

Chicago. Sept. 8.-False horse teeth
made from concrete, concrete potato
peelers and pipe organs are being
made today for practical use. accord
lished here by the Portland Cement
association.
French automobil4 concern Is re-
ported as making bodies from cons
crete. armor plate Tor warships,
freight cars, ny wheels and bed Stats
comprise some OF the otheTsuncowmoni
uses OF cement given,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-08

4 SS ~
and when he wondered
was she burst out or
BROKE two glasses in
haste to cover UP the,
break. Altogether it !
ing morning. sShc wa.
theNtrain exactly two h
before it was DUE, al
David's hair three tin
ever she couldn't sit
minute she got up ar
trailing around ting por
his lounging jacket. 4
roses in the vase
David, l honestly
homesick. l didn't kr
got along all right Def
was coming. but now
up and down and 81
earth didn't she take
and save me this ago.
At last, in self-deft
sisted that she should
impatient to wait for
dure their stepping a
she walked the two n
ton, arriving BREATH
and flushed. Even [
thirty minutes ahead
finally the announcer ,
and Carol stationed h
exit close to the gate
long line Of travellers {
the subway. mo on,
slender woman stand
less in the front Of t!
but the gel in Hes
marked the tumult tt
heart, and tho happi1
her bright eyes.
4, Then-she leaned
was Connie of course
{breath, and tears star,
Yes, that was Connie
girl with the shining
kind and merciful F
be her own lit
ling along. beside her,
face turning eagerly
side, confident shG was
that mother on sigh
Ethey had told her a m
most belonged to her.
Carol twisted her
w%ringing her gloves
She moistened her
blinked desperately !
! those tears. Yes, it ,
| little baby sister she ,
mercilessly, and Julia.
bud baby she had W
nights. She could no,
those ugly tears diF1 h
minute, she dare not
Of that feast to her HI
The two sisters VIII.
each other for nearl
looked into each
Carols so pleadingly
vision Of one of her q
strongly sweet and j
stinctiyely others
the little group, the
tendant trailing in Il
alone. /,
Julia, this is you
Connie, and tho wide
lifted wonderinglvJ il
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-08

Y 49,
how tall Julia
ing, and then
Ter energetic
4motiopal out
~ a most try
ready to meet
Yrs and a hall
she combed
US, and when
still anoth
q. duste the
y, brushed off
ID rearranged
Il his table.
.telieve L was
n, 1t before. ]
Re I knew she
want to jump
Why on
4 earlier strain
f?"
E,e. David in
fart, and, toe
n's, and to en-
corner,
les to h sta
+. perspiring
I'm she was
ff times, but
sled the train,
tselfH at; the
TO watch the
aning up from
| noticed the
SO HsotlOn-
aiting line,
1 must have
IL ing ip her
Mstinging in
w. lrd. aThat
! caught her
r. herSeyes
! t tall slim
! e-and oh,
'w1.lence, that
x Julia trudg-
Ae fat white
from side to
pingro know
{just because
her was what
fnds together,
p a shred.
y Lips, and
crowd away
Connie. the
Id to tease 50
be little rose
Ned SO many
bear to let
asight Q one
rs one second
fering eyes.
not S II
Y four years,
,.f,her's faces,
I CRY for the
Z Comics SO
I uring. In
away and
n cappe at
9tear. stood
mama
eyes Mere
i thqR other
Arizona republican., 1920-03-13
SAVED SHIPS BY
 TRACING SUBS IS
 SIMS TESTIMONY

WASHINGTON, March T.. = More shipping was saved by keeping track of German submarines and routing vessels clear of them than by any other single measure, Rear Admiral sims today told the senate investigating committee.
 The admirars statement was in sup port of his charge that the navy de- partment had a Fundamental miscon- ception" of the problem of defendang home waters in keeping American naval forces on this side of the At lantic, rather than by giving whole hearted and vigirous cooperation to the allies
 Actual experience has shown" the witness continued, that we could de- pend upon keeping accurate track Of all submarines at sea. We were cer- tain we never would have to deal with one or two submarines at a time on our own coast, and it was possible .o do a great deal towards providing for the safety of shipping in our home waters without the use of any antf- submarine craft at all.
 Admiral Sims presented cablegrams announcing the departure from Ger many of the first raider for the American coast more than three weeks before the vessels appeared in Ameri- can waters.
Arizona republican., 1920-03-13
GOAL CONFEREES r AvOR 25 PCT {.
 RAISE TO MINERS

l.
 WASHINGTON, March 12.-In ali quarters concerned over the bitumin- ous coal controversy, a disposition was evinced tonight to await President Wilson's word before taking any ac- ton.
 The ma jority, arising from the split in the commission, was at the White House, hut the minority report of John P. White, miners representative, on the commission, Etill was uncom- pIeted. Neither of fhe documents, It was said at the Wl.ite House, would te made public until the president 1e- term1ned whether MT. White and his associates, Henry M- Robinson, the commission chairman, and public rep resentative on it. and Rembrandt reaie, the operators representative. could reconcile theil views.
 John L. Lewis, president Of the min CTS union, on the ground, kept in close touch with the situation today, but re : trained from comm-n Tt It was made apparent however, that the orgaiiiza- ton would not move until the pfcsi- dent reached his determination or the issue. Likewise, the operators, repre- sentatiyes. said they would wait. Chairman Robinsol has left Washing ten for his home i'll California. a1ic Mir Peale has returned to New 4ork, leaving MT White, the only member on the ground.
 The majority report recoAinenus that the men be given 9 per cent increase in wages, including the l4 per cent awarded them by former fuei Administrator Garfield, and that local differences in pay and allowances be- tween different mining districts be re- ferred to another commission MT. White will recommend that the ln- crease be fixed at approximately So per cent, it is understood. The only factor regarded as serious in the diff ferences is the hour schedule. The original demand of the mine workers was for a thirty hour week, 6o per cent increase in wages and local ao- iustment of the differentials arising III and between districts.
Arizona republican., 1920-03-13
OBREGON ASSERTS HE WILL ACCEPT DEFEAT WITHOUT USING ARMS

WASHINGTON. March 12-GeneraI Alvaro Obregon, long a popular miIi- tary figure in Mexico, has made a campaign promise not to start a revo- lution if he is defeated in his candi- dacy for the presidency. Since the an nouncement of his candidacy and that of General Pablo Gonzales. another of ficer prominent in Carranza'S army, reports have been circulated widely that the defeated candidate would re- sort to arms. and some information has indicated the gathering O farms and ammunition on the west coast by fol- lowers of Obregon-
 Obregon's declaration, made at Sal tillo, Mexico, reached the state depart ment today. He said there was q time when he might have gained the ruler ship of Mexico by armed force but he added, T know what another revo- lution would cost me"
 ''I am a friend of the United States" Obregon said in the statement and shall always try to be on friendly re- lations with that country because l realize that any Mexican policy that does not include friendly understand ing with our neighbor will be doomed to failure
 He also promised that in the event of his election Mexican political exiles would be permitted to return
Arizona republican., 1920-03-13
VICE SQUAD TAUGHT
 IN NAMELESSV VICE"
 SAYS PROBE OFFICER

NEWPORT. R. l.. March 12-Cap- tain J. D. Wainwright, testifying today before the naval court of inquiry into practices of the naval vice squad here told of an investigation which he made in September last, on behalf of the bureau of navigation. He said he was sent here by Captain R. H. Leigh as- sistant chief of the bureau, to find out how the squad was operating.
 He reported to the bureau, he testi- fled. that he had found that instruc- tionS had been given the vice squad both orally and in writing, those in regard to perversfon being oral.
 CSctain Wainwright testified that after making his report, he and Cap tain Leigh saw Assistant Secretary Roosevelt and informed him of the substance of it. MT. Roosevelt, he said told Captain Leigh to have the squads operations stopped
 Judge Advocate Hyneman asked the witness if he had found that any of the operators on the squad had been instructed in a "nameless vice" as charged in letter written to President Wilson by Newport ministers. Cap tain Wainwright replied that one of the men had said the work had been explained to him and that he did not like it's general nature but had gone into it feeling that he could be of ser vice.
Arizona republican., 1920-03-13
JUDGES OVERTURES
 FOR PEACE BRINGS HIM DARKENED EYE

CHICAGO, March 12.-An attempt at peace making by Chief Justice Hary Olson of the municipal court during a fight in, a darkened corridor of the city hall tonight resulted in a bruised eye for the jurist. He threat enc dto swea rout a warrant for the arrest of a police sergeant, who the judge said choked him while the as sailants fled
 Judge Olson was leaving the city hall for the night when he encountered four men engaged in a struglge in the corridor A fifth was lying on the floor. bruised and bleeding.
 When the judge appealed to the men to cease fighting and aid the in- Jured man, one of the four struck him. Knocking him down. The judge de- tended himself and shouted to his stenographer, who was behind him, to sumon help.
 Judge Olson asserted that Sergeant Philip Carroll, who intervened, instead or assisting him seized him about the neck and choked him, while permitting his asallants to get away. Carroll de- ned this. asserting that he mistook the Judge for one of the assailants
Arizona republican., 1920-03-13
ASK LARGER SUM TO HELP BUILD
 EXPORT TRADE
rRepublican 4. p. Leased WireJ

WASHINGTON, March 12-Repre- sentatives of committee of business organizations appeared before the sen ate appropriations committee to urge that the original estimate of Sl,o5o'Voo for the commercial agent service or the department of commerce be restored in the annual appropriation Dill re- gently passed by the house.
 They said the work of the service was of the utmost importance to American interests and especially ex- porters. =.
 Any curtailment of the activities or the service. they saic, would result In q reduction in the volume of American export business and consequently m manufacturing in this country. Point ing that business interests paid the bulk of the taxes under the income tax law. they declared that curtaiiment of commercial business necessarily would result in reduction of the gov ernment tax income.
 Organizations represented at the hearing included the National Foreign Trade council. American Manufactur- CTS association. the American Bankers association, N a tional Automobile chamber of commerce anc chambers Of commerce in New York city and state