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Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-02-14

your illness | requested the heads of the
( executive departments of the govern
ment to meet for informal conference
shortly after you were taken i'll in
october, certain members Of the Gao
met, Of which | was one. felt thar. ),
! view OF the fact that we We're denied
communication with YOU, it was wise
tor US TO confer informally together on
lhfer-departmental matters, and mat
tefs as to which action could not be
postponed until Your medical advisers
permitted you to pass upon them Ac-
/ eordlnely. /, as the ranking member. re.
quested the members of the cabinet to
assemble for such informal conference: !:
and IN view of the mutual benefit de-
rived. the practice was continued. I
can assure you that it never for a nom
ent entered my mind that | was acting
unconstitutlonally or contrary TO your
choice, and there ceretainlv was no in
tentlon on my part to assume powers
and exercise powers which. under tho
constitution. are exclusively coufided TO
the president.
During these troublesome times
when many difficult and yfxatio,,s
questions have arisen and when, in the
circumstances. | have been deprived of
your guidance and direction. it has been
my constant endeavor TO carry out your
pottles aS understood them ana TO act
in all matters as | believed you would
wish me to act If. however. YOU think
that I have failed in my loyalty to you
and if you no longer have confidence in
me and prefer te have another conduct
our foreign affairs. | am Of course
ready Mr.. President. to relieve you OF
any embarrassment by placing my
resignation in your hands.
L am, always. faithfully yours,
ROBERT LANSING
Might Have Waited, Says Wilson.
The White House, Washington, Feb.
II, 1920.
My dear secretary:
l am very much disappointed by Your
letter of February 9. in reply to mine
asking about the so-called cabinet meet
inss
You kindly explain the motives OF
the meetings and | find nothing in
your letter which iustifies your assump-
ton of presidential authority in such n
matter. You say You "felt that in view
ot the fact that You were denied com.
with me. it was wise to
confer informally together on inter |
matters and matters as 10 |
which action could not be postponed |
until my medical advisers permitted me /
o be seen and consulted: but I have to |
'enind YOU. Mr.. Secretary that no ac- I
ion could he taken without me by the |
'ablnet, and. therefore. there could have I
Continued on Page Twoo
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-02-14
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FIRE DEPARTMET STRIKES.

Vancouver, B. G.. FEB. 13.-N;ne
members of the Mort Vancouver fire
department including .lE. Sparks. de-
partment captain, wenon strike here
today
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-02-14
Comment Caused by Canada.

CUWWeHt CdUSVu Uy CdHaud.
Whichever of the above reservations
is preferred by Republican supporters If
the treaty will, as a compromise, be
acceptable TO u.s.
The senator's who signed included
Myers and Walsh Of Montana.
Senator Hitchcock's move was the
only surface development in the treaty
fight during the day.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-22
E||Le[ES ELECT
new OFFICERS
next MEETING


Arraugements were made By
!setle Of Eagle. No. s5s. Of this city,
10 regular session Tuesdsy night,
stoe the annual slsctiou Of onicers
y36f the ensuing year. Nominations
ltd9 the oflcers were made, the elec-
iti6h to be hsld on May 1, polls
Sopen from 70 . p. m.
AlTangementA tar the state CO.
fv(atton Of Eagles TO b held in this
ley June Is, Is. II, under the ans
sp99es Of the local aerie are being
3mAne ~ the committee IN charge.
Ia large attendance at the annual
fest and business sessions is e.
spected.
4 50 day membership campaign
flor 800 candidates is being waSed,
80 applications being presented to
the members. 1t was also decided
ito pay $1,000 on the Indebtedness
FLOR the aefie homo on Twenty-1irst
5street and Fourth avenue. 4 b ex-
spected that the completion Of pay
sments on the building will be
,made in the next three or four
years aud strenuous efforts are
being made tc realize this ambf-
stion.
/ Mayor Harry NJ. Schriver I'D.
| dressed the aerie with reference tt
! tho removal Of departments from
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-22

Fhael IN accord with the spirit Of
sAmesicanisation day" They viii
accept anything the purchaser
cares 10 give and proceeds will 30
TO the maintenance Of the ANIL
larry.
The auxiliary is recently organ
[ised, Rock Island being tho ma
tional headquarters and the loca-
ton Of the first unit. The local
unit now has 40 members and the
charter is still open. The auxil-
larry b the newest national war or
Eantzation. The United War Vet
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-22

The women's auxiliary q the
Fred c. Schafnsr unit Of The Unit
ed War Veterans Of the Republic
VIII hold . nag tag day On Nay /.
Tho women hope to dispose Of q
large number Of pin Gags wh6eh
nay be worn on the dress or cost
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-22

members OF the association now
away at colleges and universities
might attend. was favorably re-
ceived.
The association officers will meet
next Tuesday at which time they
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-22

evant q IL association 1t q meet
ing It IL Myers Optical parlors
Tuesday. No definite arrange
nsnes were made, but the plan to
give . dinner dance affair, 10 ve
held late ID June, in order that
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-22
ANNUAL EVENT OF
ALUMNI OF HIGH
SCHOOL PLANNED

Officers Of the Alumni association
Of Rock Island high school dis
crssed plans for the annual social
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-22
A Tasteless Castor Oil

remarkable new process, perfected by
Spencer Kellogg & Sons, Inc, one of the worlds
largest manufacturers of castor oil, has made
castor oil absolutely tasteless. Strength and purity
remain the same. Nothing has been removed
but that nauseating taste. This valuable new
form Of the good old family remedy is strongly
recommended by up-to-date doctors and drug
gists. Children take it without even knowing
it is castor oil. Take no substitutes. If you
want really tasteless castor oil, insist on
KelIogg's Tasteiess Casfor OIL laboratory bottled,
plainly labelled
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-22

FAST BECOMING
3 household necessity b the opin-
Ion expesssed ~ one that l1ovs
Ahe1Aa81 Pecan He1l.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-22
will arrange details and also. q,
mate two tickets for officers . n
association for the coming -.

All the news all the tineAr.
Argus. aa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-10
observation-disclosures

@. Hew can colored print be taken out
of flour sacks ?-B. N
A Boil up your new flour sacks in soap
suds, to which kerosene mas been added IN
the proportion of tablespoonful to two
quarts of suds
Q. Please give the number of clerks en-
ployed at Washington before the World
War, during it, and now IN. E. S
A. In 1917, there were 3S.221 clerks en-
ployed under Civil Service in Washington.
At the signing of the Armistiee there were
10 100 and on March 81, 1920 there were
99,37S. This is not a peace footing, but the
force will probably never be reduced to
pre-war numbers.
@. How many children attend the public
schools rs. H. r.
A. The 1918 statistics state that of the
q, CSC .4T6 children between the ages of 5
and IS in the United States, 72.3 per cent,
or 20, S53, 516, are enrolled in public schools.
An additional 1915, 125 are enrolled in 9TH
err schools, leaving almost 100000 who are
not in any school. The average school year
Is eight months. OF the attendance, only
10 per cent attend daily, which means that
the average pupil loses about two mouths
of school annually.
A. vessels of limited size can go up the
Mississippi and Illinois Rivers thru the
Illinois and Michigan Canal, into Lake
Michigan. 1t is necessary to go thru the
Welland Canal which forms navigable
channel frem Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.
Q. What is the emergency treatment for
sun stroke III. Z. II.
A. Place patient in a cold bath and rub
with ice. Put ice water on head.
Q. Can boats go from the Gulf of Mexico
to the Gulf of St Lawrence by an inland
route ?-I. W. 7.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-10
wAsrEFUn STRIKES.

Secretary of the Treasury Houston,
in a recent address, said that a grad
ual return to stable conditions was
conditioned on greater productivity
and that the underlying causes of high
prices were strikes and financial in
flatien. There was some prefiteering,
of course, but these were the main
causes of the present difficult situa-
ton.
The outlaw railroad strike cost the
roads about $3,00O,000 a day and oc-
casioned great damage to general fl
nancial and industrial interests. 1t is
estimated that strikes last year cost
labor alone s750,000,0oo and industry
about a billion and a quarter dollars.
Obviously the result of this state of af-
fairs is to increase prices for com
modities produced under such condi-
tions.
The bad effects of the OUTLAW" rail-
road strike were illustrated by the
news dispatches stating that rolled
oats prepared for human consumption
were fed to horses in New York City
because of the inability of the owners
of the animals to obtain horse feed in
the usual way. The congestion of
! traffic in shipping centers, owing to
the inability of the railroads to move
their freight cars, made it impossible
to ship oats and hay into the metropo-
lis. A similar condition, altho not so
grave, existed in nearly all of the large
commercial centers Of the United
States.
! Congestion of traffic is something
that grows upon itself. So long as
cars are kept moving in a normal way
it is comparatively easy to keep traf-
fic clear. but as soon as there is con-
gestion at one roint delays occur all
along the line with the result that it
requires double or treble the amount
of work and time to extrieate freight
cars from the tangled conditions in
the yards of the terminal cities
Altho the railroad strike was far
from complete cessation of work on
the part of the railroad employees and
only those workers who were desig-
mated as outlaws" entered into the
conspiracy, yet the result was seri-
GUS injury to the commercial welfare
of the nation. The incident serves tc
emphasize the need for just such q
law for the nation as that passed BY
the Kansas legislature last winter ant
advocated by Governor Allen at Chi
cago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-10
Moulton Musings
By ROY z. MOULTON.

She was apparently a lady of refine
ment She had all the hallmarks of
the elect. Her clothing was faultless
and there was look of keen intel
1ectuality in her face. With her was
beautiful little boy-not exactly
Little Lord Fauntleroy. but a little
chap with big eyes and wealth of
tousled hair.
noticed them, the lady for her
dignified bearing and the boy for his
bright face, as I sat down just in front
of them on the suburban train. Pretty
soon I heard the little boy, evidently
referring to me:
Amt that a funny hat that man
has got on? Amt it an old hat,
mom?'
No reply.
"Ain't he a funny looking man,
nom? Amt he?"
Ne reply.
"Ain't it funny when a man has got
a boil on the back of his neck, nom,
amt it?'' eve happened to have one
that morning.)
No reply.
"Ain't there nothing to do about
boils on the back of the neck, NOM,
amt there?"
Shut up!" came the voice of the
lady 'If you use that word amt t
again, am going to soak you on the
bugle. now take it from me. How
often have I got to tell you not to use
that word ANTI"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-10
THE CARRIAGE NUISANCE.

Frequent complaints are reaching
the office of The State Journal re-
garding the garbage situation. Many
citizens allege that they are unable to
have garbage removed from their
premises except after long and dan
gerous delays. This is condition that
should not be permitted to continue.
The city has taken the garbage matter
into its own hands and its duty to the
people demands that it attend to it in
a proper manner.
Topeka maintains an expensive
health department. and when epidem-
les prevail the expense is vastly in
creased As a means of preserving
the public health, there is nothing
more important than cleanliness.
The city cannot afford to expose it's
people to the dangers of disease in or
der that private corporation may
prosecute a profitable business ven
ture. Neglected garbage breeds flies
and bacteria and these in their turn
breed disease.
The people have been placed in a
helpless condition by legal enactment.
They cannot themselves cause refuse
to be removed, neither can they in
| duce those whose business it is to re-
move it to do so at proper intervals.
| 1t appears that their complaints fall
on unheeding ears.
/ Something should be done and done
at once to relieve the situation. The
I health of the people must not be tri-
fled with. If the city lack the means
of remedying the evil it must set about
providing itself with such means i'm
mediately. Time waits on no man;
neither does disease. Prompt action
Is of the utmost importance. It is no
time to pass the buck. Somebody has
duty to perform and he must per-
form that duty now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-10
SO e@ @-
Copyright. 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate
Incl
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
WITH EYES THAT SEE.

LOOKING WITH EYES THAT SEE.
Most people are very wealthy and
don't know 1t. They carry fortunes
around with them and are not aware
OF it.
I remember many years ago listen
ing to a great orator tell of a man
who looked right over the top or his
fortune every day. But he had to get
mad at his collar button, and tear his
collar all to pieces, to find it out.
Then, because that set hif to think
ing, he invented the collar button
with a hinge so that a mans collar
made him his fortune.
Many men could stand for an hour
on g. street corner and get enough
knowledge to write useful book.
But they would have to use their
eyes-and they would have to think.
No matter where you go, no matter
what you look at, no matter what
you hear-if you do a lot of think
ing along with your looking, you can't
help accommodating knowledge.
When you look, look right thru
things-and be sure that you see
them.
1t is a good habit to get into-that
of trying to visualize a thing after il
has passed from the view of the eyes.
Your eyes are really reporters to your
brain. And if they do not report &C
curately, they need training-and that
is what this little Talk is about. For
| only as your brain gets the truth, and
the whole truth, thru your eyes, can
you be truly intelligent.
A Michael Angelo or Rodin could
look at a massive block of marble
and see rhythm and motion and grace
and beauty there, because his eyes
would travel thru days and months
of labor to some complete work of art.
The engineer and builder must see
things with his minds eyes as well
as with his two physical eyes.
| Keep looking. Keep seeing. Keep
thinking while you look and see.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-10
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Dinner Stories

Two women weavers were married
on the same day, and each had de-
clared her intention of not returning
to mill life; but their husbands thought
different, and the two brides were
back On their three looms in a few
days.
Mary Ellen struck a grand idea.
Going home one evening, she began to
cry, and her husband asked the rea-
son. She refused to say. He insisted
and she said:
Its yon oerlooker. He keeps
winkin' at me"
WHAT cried the husband.
'eWinkin' at thee? Thee stop a-wh pam,
lass. Aw con keep thee"
Mary explained the wheeze 20 her
friend Sarah, who tried 1t on ner hus-
band.
The brute replied: "Oh, is that. az
Well. lass. thee wink back. an he'll
81 thee another loom !"-Biighty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-10
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE

This AFTERNOON ma sent me to the
store for sumthing, and on the way 1
met Pubs Simkins, saying, Hello Pubs.
got to go to Snaits meet store, come
with us?
Witch Pubs started to do, saying,
wonder wy. people call it Snlits meet
store wen he sells vegtibles too?
Well that don't pervent it frum be-
ing a meet store. does it? 1 sed. WITCH
it don't. and we kepp on going till we
got there, and Mr.. Smit sed. Well,
Benny, wat can I do for you? Meen-
ing wat did I wunt to buy. and jest
then all of a suddin I forgot wat ma
sent me for. and sed, G, I did know
And I started to try to think with
out eny thawts coming, and Mr.. Smit
sed, Was it meet or vegtibles?
l forget, I sed.
Potatoes? sed Mr.. Smit.
Maybe, I forget, did know, I sed.
Some kind of chops or stake? sed
Mr. Smit.
I don't think so. maybe, I sed.
Maybe it was something in a can?
sed Pubs. And him and Mr.. Smit
kepp on saying the names of all the
different things in the store without re-
minding me of wat ma told me to get,
and all of a suddin some lady that
came in after me got mad and sed
don't intend to stand heer like a
dummy all day vile that boy shows
his ignorants. Meening me, and she
quick wawked out, and Mr.. Snit sed,
There. confewnd you, you made me
lose a customer, think of wat you
wunt or elts go back and find out
G, remember. l sed, it was loaves
of bred at the baker store, 1 amt sip
posed to be in her at all.
Then get out. and get cut quick, the
2 of you, sed Mr.. Smit.
WITCH we did,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-10

no cut in wool prices can be made
deep enough at present to move large
quantities of wool and that market is
dull from sheep to the mill. WOODEN
goods men, however, are refusing to
seek trade at lower prices and there
are some predictions that sudden
change is possible. Shoes are dull,
special sales are numerous and pro-
duction as in woolens is being sharply
reduced. Hides and leather are dull,
The silk trade is dull from the cocoon
to the woven fabrics and low prices
are noted for raw silk"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-10
Dorothy Dix Tails
The Blessing OF WorL
By DOROTHY DIX.
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Write~.


None of the other false doctrines of
the day is doing SO much harm as
that which is teaching the unthinking
that work is a curse
We hear nothing in these times of
the dignity of labor, nothing of pride
IN flne craftsmanship; nothing of the
deep and abiding peace that fills our
souls when we are employed on some
worth while task that calls for every
energy of our bodies and minds.
On the contrary, from every side
there arises loud and insistent de-
mand for less work and more loafing.
for six-hour day and a five-day
week. Every strike has for its main
object the cutting down of the amount
of labor to the least possible amount
that can be given in return for the
pay exacted, and thus is work put into
the category of the misfortunes that
are the sad lot of those who are born
out of luck.
There could be no more pernicious
ideal held up before the young than
that idleness should be the goal of
their desire. and that they should be-
Crude every minute given to work.
Such a theory of life is not only the
death knell to ambition and achieve
ment, but to all real enduring happi-
ness.
No man who labors with his eye
on the time clock, and who counts
the hours he gives to his work; no
man who looks upon work as a
penance ever gets one inch higher
than the level on which he started.
No six-hour day worker ever rises
from obscurity and poverty to power
and place. 1t is eternally true that
the successful men are those who
while their companions slept were
toifirg upward in the night"
We shall have no more wonder
stories of poor boys who became great
statesmen, or rniliionaires and powers
in the land when we have convinced
T, the youths of the country that work
| is a curse, and that they show their
superior cIeverness in side-stepping II
| as far as possible
For the difference between those
wFe fail and those who achieve is the
difference between the man who does
as little work as he can, and the man
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-10

who does as much work as he can.
The extra time he puts in on his task,
the extra effort he makes, the en-
thusiasm with which he goes about his
work is the margin of success.
The young man who does his days
stint and no more, who has no interest
in his work except in so far as it af-
fects his pay envelope will stay at the
bottom of the ladder to the end of his
days. The youth who will climb to
the top is he who gives his days and
his nights to his work without grudg-
citing amusement on earth is selling
goods, or making shoes, or whatever
it is that he is doing.
And work is the only road that leads
to eententment and happiness. We
must have something to think about,
something to do, and if we have any
intelligence at all it must be something
worth doing that gives tangible re-
suits. That is why the most cheer
full people you ever meet are the busy
people who are absorbed in their occu-
pations.
You never hear them complain that
time hangs heavily on their hands, or
wondering what they will do next, or
see them yawning and gaping around
They find the days too short for all
they have to do, they have a vital in
terest in life that takes up their
thoughts, they are planning, scheming
building pitting their wits against
| others and they have the perpetual
excitement of seeing their labor trans
lated into terms of real creation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-10
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
DECISION.


There's no limit placed on you
Save what's right and wrong to do;
No one here has power to say
That you may not.work or play,
None may order you to stop,
None may keep You from the top;
Life will cheerfully return
All that you are pleased to earn.
You are master of your strength
And your fortunes breadth and length /;
You decide which road you'll take,
How much money you will make;
You determine when you're hit
Whether you'll fight back or quit;
Here en- earth you stand alone
Making your decisions known.
All your whole life's story thru
Centers Oh the thing that's you;
Swayed perhaps at times you are,
By life's currents carried far,
Tempted soreIy now and then,
Striving with your fellow men;
You have lost or you have won
How much money de you need.
What shall be your golden creed
How high do you care to climb
How shall you divide your time2
How much wiz yeu do and dare?
For the crown you love to wearf
These life asks, and it is true
None can answer them but you.
You alone have power to say,
In your hours OF work and play,
Whether you prefer TO stand
Pure of heart and clean of hand,
Rather than to stain your soul
For some temporary goal:
In this werldF nlace you fill,
You are master OF your will.
Copyright 1880 By Edgar A. Guestf