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The Penn's Grove record., 1920-02-13
Universal Military Training

There are a number of Congress
men who believe there should be uni
versal military training. A bill is
now before Congress. Some fear 1t
may lead to miIitarism which can
never become popular in this country.
Last Monday the Democratic Con-
gress voted in caucus LOG to II
against enacting such a law.
The spirit of militarism to gain
land, power or prestige by brute
force in this country can not be bred
into the pacifist people, because it is
against the spirit Of Christian democ-
racy.
But there should be men drilled in
military rules for uniform action in
case of need when occasion arises like
the World War. How to solve the
problem We always turn to the Father
of American Democracy, Thomas JEFF
ferson. He wrote to John Taylor in
1916, as follows:
eve must make military instruction
a regular part of collegiate education.
We can never be safe until it is done
Every State College has military
drill among the students. 1t is val
liable for physical exercise and de-
velopment. 1t was the men from
these colleges who became officers in
our army and made good soldiers out
of il~literates after six months educa-
ton and drill.
Military drill should be required of
all students in Normal Schools so the
future teachers will know the rules of
discipline to guide and control chill
dren by uniform procedures.
The spirit to kill others to get adj
vantage of them is not the spirit of
democracy. But there must be a mill
tary spirit for righteousness and a
holy boldness like Moses executed
when he drew the line as to who was
on the Lords side for the Ten Com
mandments. "And there fell of the
people that day about three thousand
men," Exodus 80.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-02-13

the installation of inferior electrical
work.
No. 1875. Amends the law determin-
ing what newspapers shall be qualified
to publish legal notices by requiring
six months, instead of one year con-
tinuous publication
No. 1872. Authorizes the Board of
Fish and Game Commissioners to ac-
quire by lease lands in any county for
the purpose of raising game, birds and
game animals. They are allowed to
spend $1,000.
No. 1873. Increases the salary Of
Board of Freeholders from $500 to
$500 per year. The director from
$500 to $500 a year. Amends the law
of 1916.
No. 1874. Changes the requirement
of the present law in order to sell at
private sale bonds which fail to sell
publicly. Two-thirds of the governing
cody must vote therefor. The bill
provides for a majority vote.
No. 1876. Amendment to the Fire
mems Relief Association. Provides
for the payments of the expenses of
the delegates sent by the local fire as
ISOLATION to the annual convention.
No. 1876. Relating to the sale of
land by cemetery companies. Pro-
vides a method of selling their sur
plus property.
No. 1877. Provides a fine not ex-
ceeding $4,000, or Imprisonment not
exceeding ten years for any person
who has stolen an automobile, OF any
person who wilfully buys a stolen au-
comobile.
No. 1873. Provides a fund to pay
for New jerseys share of the cost of
constructing a bridge across the Del
aware river, between Camden and Phil
adelphia, and a tunnel across the Hud-
son river. between Jersey City and
New York. Makes provision for bond
issue of $28, 000, 900, subject to refer
endum.
No. 143. To consolidate and make
clear the law relating to the retire
ment and pensions of both policemen
and firemen.
No. lat. Provides that in all coun-
ties of the State the Board of Free
holders may appoint and pay the sal
airy of a superintendent Of soldiers
affairs.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-02-13
"Watercd Railroad Stock"

Samuel Rea, the head of the Penn
~svlvania Railroad system, which ranks
as the biggest transportation sytem IN
the world, seems to have thoroughly
exploded the popular delusion as to
watered railroad stock. He says that
it is conservative to state that the
actual cash investment in the railroads
exceeds, by at least $4,000, 600, 900,
the issued bonds and stock. He
points to the Pennsylvania System,
which has put more than S500,000,0O0
in the upbuilding of its lines in excess
of the securities that have ben issued.
That, he says, is the result of seventy
five years of prudent financing. MI.
Rea also points to the fact that more
than one-third of the capital stock OF
the railroads of the country, or So
$50, 900, 900, does not pay any dlvl-
dends at all and that in addition there
is a considerable amount of bonds up
on which no interest is being paid.
Since 1907 the railroad accounts have
been very thoroughly scrutinized by
the Interstate Commerce COMMISSION
and during this time $4,000, 900, 1000 of
CAPITAL stock has been devoted to the
development and extension OF the rail-
roads of the country. No one, MI.
Rea says, can have any doubt as to
the actual investment of this cash,
dollar for dollar. Any doubt as to the
assets behind railroad securities, MI.
Rea points out, must refer to the
S13, 900, 900, 900 of property investment
on the books of the companies ml9Of.
Rnt that sum represents an average
per mile of $39,730. A mile of track,
he says, requires right of way, grad
ing, track, switches, signals, bridges,
etc, but the investment also includes
all the big terminals, station and yard
structures, locomotives, freight cars,
and passenger cars. He calls atten-
ton to the fact that $39,73O today
would purchase only about one-halt
of a modern locomotive.
Including the capital expenditures
which have ben made by the Govern
rent in the past two years the aver
age capitalization of all American
railroads today per mile of finished
line, including everything from the big
terminal to the last spike, is about
$50. 900. Railroad authorities estimate
that the railroads could not now be
duplicated for less than $4,000 per
mile. One authority points out that
a frst-class concrete and asphalt high
way today-just a bare road-costs
about $4,000 a mile.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-02-13
The High Cost of Loafing

National labor-union leaders, fran
tically seeking an alliance with farm
ers; attorney generals and other ma
tional, state II city officials, together
with parlor economists and sundry
million city folks have the idea that ii.
C. L. stands for High Cost OF Living
they're all wrong. 1t stands tor
High Cost of Loating. That's what
II means to farmer folks.
And during the past few months the
farmers of America, aroused to a
great need, tired of the methods OF
labor unions and capital profiteers,
tired of the senseleSs efforts to beat
aown the price Of basic food products
winch efforts are likely to make
prices even higher a year from now
nave organized as they were never or
ganized before. They have done it by
means of farm bureaus and state and
national farm-bureau declarations, de-
clares Harry R. O'Brien, in the Coun-
Crv Gentleman of February 21st.
The forty-four hour week VIII not
feed and clothe the world. Snort
hours and c~easeless demands for high
ar pay, strikes and lockouts; these
mean to the farmer but II thing
loating. And when we add profiteer-
ing and the II. G. S.-Hlgh Cost OF
Spending-we are getting at the
causes for excessive prices.
The American Farm Bureau FEEDER
alton. the National Grange, the Ma
uional Farmers Congress and many
other organizations have expressed
themselves strongly along these lines
and they ignored or declined Mr..
Gomper's invitation to meet IN con-
ference with labor.
Farmers have a rather high opln-
ion OF MI. Gompers, but they believe
.hat the unions harbor many radicals
worse-and that a thorough house
cleaning is in order. The Chicago
Federation Of Labor highly Endorsed
The work of Emma Goldman and Alex
ander Berkman-they left these
shores cursing the United States.
Able-bodied miners walking the streets
of Pittsburg, Kansas, refused coal to
the hospital; they denounced as scabs
Governor Aliens volunteers who were
trying to save a freezing state.
The slump in hog prices cost Iowa
farmers alone millions of dollars.
Turnout the Corn Belt the story is
being told of farmers cutting down
on the number of sows bred, of hogs
and cattle fed. Many observers blame
his state of affairs on the H. g.. l..
agitation, asserts Mr.. O'Brien.
"The solution of the problem of
cheaper food lies not on the farm, but but
in the city," Dean Vivian, of Ohio
State University, told Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce. 1.-THE farmer
will do his share. But if capital and
labor want enough to eat let them
show show their their willingness to cooperate
by cutting out large profits and by
giving a full days work for a full
days pay"
they will not strike; but if the show
down comes between them and radical
labor-many farm leaders think it is
inevitable-the man on the land will
not suffer most.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-02-13
Wages, Production, Profits

One of the leading piano makers of
England has closed his factory be-
cause he cannot meet the demands for
wages. Before the war six men would
make a piano in a week, but now it
requires tWenty-siX men to do the
same work. The wages alone exceed
the selling price of pianos, and now
the polishing alone is equal to the pre-
war cost of a complete piano. He
has no quarrel with his workmen, and
does not contend with them or their
arguments. He simply cannot keep
his factory going. This is not an iso-
lated case. The President of the Brit
ish Piano Manufacturers Association
says that Germany will take the Brit
ish piano trade if British production
is not enlarged. Before the war all
piano work was piece work, but the
trade has conceded demands. about
wages and hours until the production
has fallen off rs to 40 per cent.
1t seems that nothing but such sharp
lessons as this will convince labor that
there is merit in the plea of capital
that it must have it's wages if labor is
to have work to do. Too many labor
leaders are blind to the fact that
wages paid out of either capital or
profits must stop somewhere, but that
there is no limit to production as a
source of wages if they are fixed on
economic considerations rather than as
the result of surrender to the power
to stop work in ruthless disregard OF
all interests except those of labor
That is as true of national interests
as of the interests of capital. For
another British example, there are
now more than half a million of unem-
ployed in England, and the Trades
Union Congress is asking unemploy-
ment doles out of profits, after such
doles out of taxes have proved toe
~grievous to be borne, and are seen tc
be an undue encouragement to idle
ness. Instances have been cited wher
me have refused to work because
they could exist on the dole doing
nothing, and the wage above the dolt
was u~nattractive. No doubt British
labor is sincere in some of its ideas
as, for example, that the mines shoulc
be nationalized to save the profits Of
their owners. But the profits are Z
trife compared to the cost of national
ization, unless it is established by con
fscation. at the cost of wrecking Brit
ish institutions.-New York Times.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-02-13
"Rum Dragon" Executed BY Marines
in China

Pekin, China, Jan. 16.-"The Drag
on Rum was officially executed here
today after a ceremony organized by
United States Marines of the Amer
lean Legation Guard. AS there was no
"demon rum" available the Marines
borrowed one of the dragons used by
the Chinese in their parades.
With the band playing a funeral
dirge the dragon was solemnly march
ed three times around the parade
ground, ten Marines providing the mo
tive power from inside the beast. The
dragon was then decapitated in the
approved Chinese fashion.
All American reservations in China
are officially "dry." The rest of the
country is not, but the Marines held
the celebration to mark the passing
of the rum demon" in their homeland
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-02-13

Truman H. Newberry, charged with
completely in conspiracy, fraud and
corruption in connection with his
election as United States Senator from
Michigan, is still in the Senate, and
continues to constitute one of the Re
publican majority of two in that
branch of Congress. He votes and
otherwise participates in the proceed
ings of the Senate, giving no sign
that in thus exercising Senatorial pow
ers and perogatives he is violating
both precedent and propriety.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-02-13

There is a bill before the Legisla-
ture p~urposing to license cats to pro-
tect game. The import is that all
cats which the owners do not pay a
license for keeping and have a tag on
are to be killed. The bill, if enacted,
will be a worse dead letter than the
law which provides that all dogs shall
be licensed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-02-13

Most present day leaders in big
businesses were country boys. Many
just as good have stuck to the farm
and are now putting agriculture on
the map.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-02-13

Mailing up the school house for
lack OF teachers means mailing up the
barn for lack of farmers.
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To be free from all defects in material
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3lhey Lash longer. There is no
train on tire lxles or wheels caused
~ the wheels bending in the ruts.
They tit the dirt roads in all
parts Of the country. There are twelve
automobiles To every farm wagon in
fhe United states and each aatom0-
bile travels Ten times as far AS one
wagon In gear thus making the
track
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The Washington herald., 1920-11-06
PLANES BOMB
BUILDINGS HERE
Sixteen From Langley Field
Thrill Spectators in
Mimic Warfare.

After blowing up"-in theory
only--the Capitol. washington
Monument and several of the gov
ernment department buildings. the
sixteen battle planes which arrived
here two days ago. returned yes
terday afternoon TO their home
hangers at Langley Field. Va.
The planes scared over the city
in arrowhead or battle formation at
1880. oircled over the city for fif-
teen minutes and pointed southwark,
disappearing over the skyline in a
few minutes.
1t was at first planned to send the
'.ZD-1," the largest airship in the
United States, to Washington. but
this was postponed because of heavy
mist.
The maneuvres yesterday were
closely inspected by officers of the
staff at Boiling Field. Every turn
and twist of the big battle planes
will be used as the basis for study
ing improved aerial tactics, 1t was
declared. Photographers aloft with
the flyers took" several thousand
feet of views of the flying.
The sixteen planes from the
Eighty-eighth Observation, Squad
ron may return toI Washington
within few days, accompanied by
the "ZD-1," to complete the work
planned.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-06
OSBORNE MAY ENTER
MD. PENITENTIARY

Thomas Mott Osborne. student of
criminology and millionaire, may
become a voluntary prisoner in
the Maryland penitenriary. it was
learned yesterday.
Osborne has, in fact, already vol
unteered to become a prisoner on
condition the warden of the peni-
tentiary Is approved by the Mutual
Welfare League. In this event Os-
borne declares his readiness to en-
ter the penitentiary to establish
there a branch of the league.
The Mutual Welfare League,
which Osborne put into operation
in Sing Sing and Auburn. n. ", is
an organization whose purpose is
to allow prisoners measure OF
sclf-government and to promote
their reformation.
The proposals are contained in a
letter which Mr.. Osborne has writ
ten to the State Board of Prison
Control. OgIe Marbury. chairman of
the board, did not indicate yester-
day whether Osborne's proposition
would be regarded with favor.
The position of warden of the
Maryland penitentiary has been va
cant for some time since the dis
closure of maladministration of
penitentiary affairs.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-06
SUES FOR $4,000
AFTER COLLISION

Ten thousand dollars is asked of
the Washington Railway and Elec-
tric Company in a declaration for
damages filed yesterday by Domi-
nick Bifano in the District Supreme
Court. The suit is the result of a
collision January l6 last. between
one of the traction company's cars
and a motorcycle the plaintiff was
riding at North Capitol and c
streets.
Alleging that the car was "op-
Grated at an unlawful and excessive
rate of speed" Bifano AYERS in the
declaration that he received sundry
painful injuries as result of the
collision, among which was "a Sc
we're and permanent injury to his
back"
The Washington herald., 1920-11-06
POWER PLANT
NEEDS CURRENT
Delayed Apparatus Threat
ems Breakdown, Says APP
peal to Public.

Facing the possibility Of a serious
breakdown Of its alternate current
distribution fystsm. through failure
OF manufacturers to deliver needed
apparatus, the Potomac Electric
Power Company last might appealed
to all users OF alternating current
to curtail By 20 per cent their use
OF electric service between the
hours of p. m. and D. m
Unless this is done. President
William r. Ham said. some OF the
overloaded apparatus msy break
down and cause q total suspension-
OF the service in some sections of
the city
II was explained that the CON-
pany placed an order with a manu-
facturer last January for $4,000
worth OF machinery LPr it's sub
stations and other parts OF the sys-
TEN which was promised for de-
livery in from four and three-quar-
ter TO fve and one-half months. but
which now is not expected 20 be de-
livered until early next year.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-06

esting incidents. The locale is in
New York Of the immediate present.
Henry Hull's role in this play is
that OF young man who has run
through large fortune left by an
honored father. Sam, the old darky
servant of the family, sticks by the
young man in his misfortune. The
young man now lives with the old
family housekeeper, and in his
happy-So-lucky way falls in love
with a moving picture actress.
This latter exploit causes the
breaking of an engagement with an
heiress of millions. However. the
room above him is occupied by a
little girl who has been borrowing
books from the young mans library:
thanks to the colored servant Sam.
Here's where the real love story In
the play begins. out OF which grows
many charming and delightful incl
dents. and likewise the escape of the
young man from his difficulties. The
play has been staged by Edward
Elsner.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-06
FINAL TAPS SOUNDED
FOR COL. G. H. SHELTON

sCol. George II. Shelton, Inf. U. S.
a., former brigadier general in COM
,niand Of brigade of the Yankee
division OF the y. l.. T., was buried
in Arlington National Cemetery yes
terday afternoon with full military
honOrs. He died at Walter Reed
Hospital last Tuesday night after
An operation.
~ Following funeral services con-
Quoted at st. Thomas church by the
Rev. c. Ernest Smith, the body was
carried to Arlington accompanied
by a military escort from Fort Myer.
ChaplaiH Mccoy held the services at
the grave, Pallbearers were Col F..
H Lawton, Col. G. +. Madden, Col.
r.. c. keilam. Gen. c. VI. Saltzman.
iafaj- C..Dowef and Col. r. c. Lang
don.
M Coll shelton was graduated from
West Point in 1896 and had seen
;continuous service from that time.
he was for many years an officer of
the general stan and at the time of
his death was attached to the War
College In Washington.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-06
MOTOR CORPS
AGAINST RUM
District Body Owns Autos
Which Can 0utstrip
Bootleggers.

Washington's unlicensed pur-
veyors Of spiritus frumenti--vuigar-
ly, "bootleggers"-have 1855 reasons
to fear that the backbone Of their
business may be broken.
Each of the reasons Is symbolized
by an automobile shield. That
sounds innocent in itself, but when
you consider that this shield goes
on the automobile of each member
OF the District Motor Corps, and also
That members of the corps are
Obliged to assist the poice in any
emergency, it is easy to see why the
persistent standard bearers of the
late lamented J. B. are anything but
rosy-eheeked and light of heart.
Each OF the corps members has an
automoolie. everal of the corps cars
are built for speed.
There is only one bootiegging au-
tomobile in Washington that can
not be captured, IL it gets a fair
start. This machine is a roadster,
equipped with a special motor, and
can attain a higher rate of speed
than any machine in the motor
corps.
Another car is a Packard. 1t has
q boiler plated rear-it might be
called armor plate. The gasoline
tank also is protected. Revolver bull
lets would be useless against #.
These two. however. are the only
spare resources of Washington boot
leggers. All of the other machines
belonging to the spirit-reviving
trade are liable to pursuit and cap
ture.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-06
IRISH INVITED
TO OPROBE HERE
Cable Notifies Many Erin
Officials Of Opportunity
To Be Heard.

widows Of former Irish govern
ment officials and mayors and COM
missioners OF Irish cities and towns
were Invited yesterday by the
American Commission on Ireland.
which will begin a public inquiry
into conditions In Ireland. at the
Hotel Lafayette on November II,
to appear before the commission
as witnesses Cabled Invitations
were sent the following:
The mayor of Belfast. the mayor
OF Londonderry. the chairman or
the Urban Council Of Mallow; John
Derham, town commissioner of
Balbriggan; Denis Morgan, chair
man Of the Urban Council of
Thurles; Mrs. Thomas MacCurtain.
widow OF the former lord mayor
of Cork, who was slain in Marcn;
donald O'Gallachain, acting lord
mayor OF Cork; Miss Irene E.
,SwanZy, sister of Police Inspector
.Swanzy, of the Royal Irish Con-
stabulary, who was murdered in
Lisburn. Members of the commits
sion expressed the opinion that.
with the aid of these witnesses and
of the delegation OF Irish bishops
recently invited and others now
available in this country, a picture
Of the state of affairs in Ireland
could be presented.
The commission has selected Its
subcommittees to make prepara-
lions for the hearings ard complete
the list of witnesses \ letter was
sent to the British Ambassador,
asking him to help facilitate the
securing of passports for witnesses
from Ireland. Another letter was
sent Secretary of State Colby. form
ally announcing the formation OF
the commission and its purposes.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-06
NEGRO SLAYER GIVEN
FIVE MONTHS STAY

\ stay of five months in the execu-
tion of Charles Price. colored con-
victed of the murder Of Robert
Smith. also colored, who was ~to be
hanged at the District Jail Monday,
was granted by Justice Jennings
Bailey in Criminal Division Q, Dis
trict Supreme Court, yesterday. At
torney James A. O'Shea obtained the
stay on the grounds that an appeal
from the conviction is pending in
the Court of Appeals. Price is
scheduled to die April next.
Smith was killed May 30, 1918, at
Prices home in a dispute over
change amounting to less than a
dollar. the balance of payment in a
whisky deal. Prices wife, who, 1t
was said. procured the pistol from
another room at her husbands COM
mand. was acquitted by the jury
which convicted the colored man NO
Yember 13 last.