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Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-08-26
Barren Land ii pr,~.,.

The area Of barren land yet to be
found In Prussia alone IL estimated
at not less than s.7Oo.0Oo acres. Re.
tween 1850 and 1915. approximately
100000 acres were brought under
cultivation. A further $4,000 acres
Of rich soil Il yet b b. obtained b
drainage.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-08-26

Better dozen freckles on your face
than one on your character.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-08-26
Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.

For speedy and sfsstfvs action DR.. Pesry,s
Dead Shot" has no equal One doss only
will clean out Worms or Tapsworm-- -Idv.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-08-26

Some people 60 without what they
want in order to get something they
don't want.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-08-26
yls,,aiIv EvIden%

She Cat swell functon)-I barely
got here.
He (observantiy)-So I see.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-08-26
The Manle Distance

The Magic Distance.
Question: advertised a magnih-
cent view.
Proprietor-Yes, You can see thres
miles out at sea.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-08-26

It's wise saw that knows its own
maker.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-08-26

III man itches for fame II prob
ably keeps him scratching. :.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-08-26
He Kept on.

He Kept On.
Why are you stalking out Z lot
here, my man7"
Gonna live here"
But you can't live here. This Is
the great American desert. It's too
dry"
Il can't see that It's any dryer here
than anywhere else."-Louisyille Cour-
isr-Journal.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-08-26

No advance In the price Of shoes
Will prevent kicking.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21
REsPONDING WHETHER GOOD
OR NOT

Probably you read in your News
Press, or In the Gazette or some other
newspaper the story sent out from
Corvallis. Oregon this week. to the ef-
feet that dozen hens at that Oregon
city each laid more than 400 eggs q
year. II you did. no doubt you at
once wondered II the oregon hens
should be allowed to eclipse the hens
of our own Missouri 1t Is stated in
the dispatch that this establishes a
new western record, and that the land
OF irrigated fruit products has taken
the iaurels in ''hen fruit"
We could have endured rivalry from
most any other section, but when this
land Of the artificial apples aspires to
the real stuff, we pause to ponder.
II is possible, II this hen record con-
tinues. that we will be buying Oregon
eggs wrapped In tissue paper at 10
cents apiece. And they may not be
tirst-class eggs. Bob Burdette was
man is like a moderately good egg"
But while eggs is eggs there is some
difference between a good egg and one
that is just a little better than a bad
egg. We do know that those big
fancy apples are mostly water, pump
ed full with the substitute for the
seasons rainfall. Perhaps the egg
has been tampered with too. II may
be that inventive Oregon has a recipe
for production that will make for in
ferfor quality. We are certain they
Will look all right, because Oregon
products are great for looks. but sus-
picions are bad things, especially for
eggs, and we would be the last to
raise them. Anyway, the Oregon hen
is responding nobiy to the call for in =
creased prod
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21

they hope to escape the consequences
Of that speculative cverreaching
abuse of credit for which with stocks
they are responsible.
1t is stated that the federal de-
partment OF Justice has started 900
prosecutions against profiteers in q
laudable effert to reduce the cost OF
living. That is all very we'll. But the
federal reserve board has started a
single action against the continued
easy use of money and credit for the
squeezing of the many for the profit
of a few. and the results are already
apparent and In the way OF becoming
more so. A 20 per cent fall in stocks
should mean at least an equal de-
cline IN the cost Of living. which de-
cline the fall In stocks Is only antici-
pating.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21

rested for making open a Rock Island
car in the olive street yard, and
making off with large amount OF
goods. This pernicious habit not only
has grown into a world wide organic
cd business. but its methods are
identical in all parts.
the railway administration has Just
announced that the value OF goods
stolen in transit in 1919 was $4,000
600. That is twice what It was in the
pre- war days. It seems a tremendous
amount OF goods to be lost in that
way. but 1t explains the activity, OF
which we every little while get giimps-
es. OF the railroad companies In
watching their cars in railroad yards.
This amount OF commodities stolen IS
equivalent 20 almost $l,00GoO0 70.
every state in the union in a year.
We better understand why 1t Is that
railroads must e1pend large sums
every year in maintaining secret ser
vice agents to prevent box car steal
ing and in running down thieves.
II is to the railroads what shop
lifting is TO stores The value tf
goods lost in big department store
annually is surprising. The railroa d
has to make little higher freight
rate to cover these immense losses by
theft, and the department store must
ask a little higher price on the aver
age to cover those goods which it
parts with without price. Another
illustrating the we'll or
ganized proposition that dishonesty is
an expensive thing for us all, for all
lose a little when railroad or store
loses much.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21
COPS SEE DANGER IN ALLEvIA-
TTON

The steering committee OF the Re-
publican house has discovered new
danrcr--a political onc-and through
il The suffering and starving jeopje OF
central Europe have first had their
asked for credit OF sl5O.OOO, 600 Gu,
down first to sl25,O0O, 900. then n
s5O.000oOQ, and now stand 10 lose II
all-and starve-just because that
gop steering committee sees in it a
political move that would hurt the
grand old party Of standpatism and
rawrawm
No Washington standpatter can
blot out the history OF the commission
for the relief Of Belgium. The graft
tuie Of a nation fed, clothed and IN
some degree protected from the bru-
taiity Of an invader Is imperishablv
recorded. what was done under the
same auspices for the ,amlshed peo-
pie Of southeastern Europe will long
be the theme Of song and story in
laudauon Of American bcnevoIence
But insensato partisanship at last
turns hearuessly away from human
suffering in order 10 check the grow
ing prestige OF thls most efficient agent
Of public and private philanthropy.
It happens that the United states
Grain corporation has a profit exact
ly equsllinE the sum thus withheld
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21
LAYS BARE THE c. o. p. CAUSE

II is not often that the entire pur-
pose Of a party is exposed through
the medium OF a newspaper headline,
but here IS one instance where It did
and glariRFly at that.
Tn the Omaha Bee Of last Friday
appeared over an editorial which
dwelt upon the presidents objection
to a Republican compromise" the
headline Wilson stnl Fighting Peace"
and while the inference is far from
clear and certainly not fairly drawn.
1t viciously lays bare the whole
Elaring weakness Of the G. o. p. cause
in those words Republican Compro-
mise"
The entire fact Of the matter is,
that IL is tho determination Of the
cops that thoro shall be a "republi-
can compromisc, that has delayed the
ratification Of the treaty Of Versailles.
Who cares anything about a "rrpub-
lican' com promise? Nobody among
the democrats has denied the consis-
tency or the expediency of a fair and
honorable settlement OF the differ
ences of opinion over the treaty, but
who besides a few republican leaders
would insist on the compromise being
republican one?
The democratic leaders have time
and again evidenced their earnest de-
sire to arrive at an honorable solution
of the difficulties which confront the
senate over the treaty. and not once
have they so much as suggested that
the compromise be qualified by the de-
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21
WHO BOSSES THE CoPsp

Who has the right to speak for the
Republican party-who comprise the
party in these United states?
It might be reasonable to suppose
that the party is comprised OF the
several million misguided voters who
are in the habit OF registering as re-
publicans with regularity and voting
the republican ucket--with some
what less regularity. One might sup
pose that these millions OF the rank
and file are the ones who have final
authority TO speak for the party eth
er directly or through their chosen
I representatives in a national conven-
ton.
But looking at il from the proper
) anFic--the one Of little Willie Hayes
they are not for little Willie Of
the republican national committee
thinks otherwise and has appointed
o committee or III TO draft a ready
made platform for the Chicago con-
vention next June He has offered a
$4,000 prize to the youth under s5.
who will submit the best political car
ry-all. These are the ones who, II
Chairman Hays has his way will speak
for the republicans OF the country.
Yes, but wait a moment Even this
hand-picl,ed committee Of III is not
to be trusted with an absolute voice.
1t may consider domestic questions
as much as it likos, but Mr. HAYS
states that questions OF foreign rela-
tions do not properly fan within the
scope ot this committees work" and
that all the facts, data and necessary
information will he readily supposed
by republican senators and congress
men whose position In the meantime
will necessarily guide the conventions"
ring within ring. The Hiram
Johnsons and the Borahs and the
Lodges are not only to indicate to the
republican majority OF the senate and
through that power, to the senate and
the government but as they act so
"necessa rilv" must the convention act
Mr., Hayes does not apparently con-
slider for a moment that there are
millions Of republicans who are not
unfortunately, in the senate. who ia
Vor the league OF nations and who
want the peace treaty ratified. Or.
81 he considers them. he thinks them
OF no importance as COM
pared 70 the half dozen controlling
Senators.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21
Stop the Railroad Stealing

The railroads will go back to the
owners March 1st. II no doubt win
be some time before the owners will
get them adjusted and back to the
old order. IL they ever do. There are
many very serious problems outside
of the matter OF wages for employers
to adjust. One OF the most serious
problems is is, how to break up the
wholesale stealing of merchandise
sent over the road. Merchants find
IL almost impossible to get certain
kinds OF merchandise over the road
without loss from the breaking open
Of packages and the stealing of part
or all the contents. 1t is almost as
bad with goods sent by express as by
freight. 1t has gotten so that the
freight charges are a small item COM
pared with the stealing loss. It is cer-
tain the roads can never make money
unless this stealing is stopped and It
will require heroic measures to put an
end to it-Moberly Democrat.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21
AS STOCKS FALI-SO COM
MODITTES

Whether financial or commercial,
securities and commodities are sub
ject to the same laws. When either
or both have been specula lively bid
up so high on easy money as to ex-
haust and endanger the credit sup
ply, either or both must come down
or iquidation-stocks always leading
the way. Both had been doomed to
this point OF credit exhaustion by late
last summer and stocks have since
been coming down. Commodities
must follow.
The average price Of twenty rail
road stocks has declined l6 per cent
from the high of last year. and that
was subject to comparatively conser-
yative influences. The average price
OF as many industrial stocks has de-
clined over 20 per cent
COMMODITIES, including rents, musi
inevitably he affected in the same
way By the same influences. They
must come down and they are al
ready beginning to come down, nov
here. now there. and then all alons
the lima No more than stocks car
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21
LINCOLN AND WI son

On last Tuesday we celebrated the
birthday Of that great American
statesman and patriot, Abraham Lin
coin. Had he not been laid low by the
bullet OF an assissin just after the
great civil strife ended. there is no
doubt but that great deal Of the
turmoil and distress OF the reconstruc-
tion days would have been avoided,
and that much sorrow and InIsunder-
standing and injustice and crime
would not have registered upon the
pages OF our history.
And great man that he was-we
cannot do too much to honor his
memory--for had he lived this great
country would have felt the benifi-
cence of his aid and guidance through
= period Of much gloom and distur-
bance
And we are now again IN another
period Of reconstruction days-the re-
suit OF a greater war--and while the
president who took us safely through
that awful whirlpool OF crimson pas
sion is spared TO us in the flesh. there
are assa sssins burking behind him,
They do not flourish the derringer
too.
OF John wilkes Booth, but they have
that actors aptness tor resounding
phrases and are staging their decd
their attempted deed-with all the
theatrical quality that marked the last
scene Of the memorable and shame
ful performance at the Ford opera
house.
There is a wonderful mem orial
temple at Washington, recently fin
ished, to the eternal respect Of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
There is another memorial, much
more costly and fuzzy as beautiful
building TO the honor Of woodrow
Wilson. 1t is to be found in the hearts
OF grateful Americans and thankful
foreigners, who have learned anew
the lessons Of freedom and peace and
liberation and good will from his acts
and teachings, And all over this land
Of ours the hum OF prosperity and the
song Of returning happiness tell us
that the president has Just about "fin-
ished the job" as Abraham Lincoln
himself once put it-although Wood
row Wilson well nigh wrecked his
health in the effort.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21

Tt Is admitted by Wayne b. Wheel
er. general counsel Of the Anti-Saloon
League, that William J. Bryan has
received pay for some of his speeches
which he has made for the league and
now democrats would like to know
whether the speech he is to deliver
at the San Francisco convention Is
to be one OF the speeches for which
he is to be paid by the league. Every
thing will depend" says the New
York World. upon whether his pleas
are made as a public man pretending
to represent Democratic constituents
or as an avowed attorney speaking In
behalf of un-Democratlc clients who
are paying the price."-St. Joseph
News-Press.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21

scriptive adjective "democratie"--em =
ploying that word In lts narrower and
partisan sense. They have simply
sought compromise-fair, impartial,
honorable compromise; a compromise
which will enable them to place before
the world document of which Ameri-
ca will not be ashamed.
1t is then to the disparagement Of the
president to charge him with fight
ing a compromise admittedly "repub-
lican3" The treaty is above partisan
bigotry. Mr.. Wilson has endeavored
to keep It clean, and It is for this that
he is censured now.
The way that the president has
fought peace" is to undermine his
health In fighting for it-for a dur
able. permanent lasting peace
and he has not carried on his fight
behind the barred doors of secrecy
either. for 1t was in the midst of a
crusade which he was carrying on in
this country in his determination to
bring the issues to the attention Of
the voters that he was stricken in
health.
1t is to the credit OF Woodrow VIII
son that ne now opposes any compro-
mise that In It's very essence, would
compromise away the fundain entail
principle Of world peace--that nations
agree to respect each others rights
and property.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21
DEMOCRATS ACT AGAINST
EXTRAvAGayCE

| ThoSe who have not looked CAREFUL
lly, possibly do not understand why
the Democratic house caucus held last
week put Itself on record as against
universal military training despite the
fact that the president in a letter to
it, had requested action In that direc-
ton but If these careless ones win
but read this statement sent out by
the Merchants and Metal National
Rank OF New York, light will dawn
upon them and they will see the wis
dom of that democratic committees
action. Here is the statement:
Representative James w. Good,
chairman OF the appropriations COM
mittee of the house has estimated
that the expenditures OF the govern
ment for the fiscal year from July
| !, 1920 to June 80, 19s1-wholly
apart from any assistance to the rail-
roads-win total ss,2SO, ,00o, 600. Rep
resentative Good estimates that there
will be a deficit in the general fund
OF the treasury on June 80, 1920, OF
sS,156, 900. 900, and points to the pos
sibility of treasury deficit on June
| 80, 1921, OF ss.S7o, 900 900.
The facts stated here have not yet
reached the thinking part of the people
who have too generally assumed that
because the war was over we should
soon be back on the old footing in
the matter OF taxation. Nobody has
taken It home to himself yet just
what 1t means that we shall spend
more than 5000, 600. 900 in the fiscal
year which begins July 1. next, and
does not end until July /, 1921.
The very least calculation of the
cost OF universal training. even as
presented in the wadsworth senate
bill which calls for only four months
OF training, has been more than
$500, 100000 a year. while the Kahn
House bill, calling for six months
training, would demand at least
$3.50. 100000 a year. As a matter Of
fact, before the camps were ready
and the organization perfected for
either the Wadsworth or the Kahn
scheme the treasury would be called
upon 20 spend millions
Before the campaign is over. in fact
before it is on, these figures are go
ing TO mean more than they do now,
and party programs, are going to be
shaped with some regard for them
The political leader who believes that
we can go ahead with no regard for
expenses is going to meet mighty
unresponsive audience. Republicans
have already begun to talk this with
earnestness, and the democratic house
does not intend to be caught mapping.
That is why it has taken time by the
torelock and in this most important
item OF proposed increased cost IS
making a record with which to off
set republican charges of extrava-
gance during the war and redeem it's
promise to the people, that with the
successful closing of the great strife
all efforts would be made TO bring re-
duced. instead of increased taxation
for the masses.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21

farmer, was S5 years paying for his
farm under a Republican admins
tration and that 1t cost him $500
per acre in the first place. That her
brother who was not nearly so indus
trious and economical as her father
bought the same farm from her fa-
ther for $4,000 per acre and paid for
Il in the seven years of Wilson's ad-
ministra Co. Times.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21
VIII Get Them Out of Clouds

Nobody seems to have any definite
opinion about the possible financial
panic that threatens to put a crimp
in everything for a time. II is about
the only happening that would GER
tainly bring the people down from the
clouds and again realize that bread
has to be earned by the sweat OF the
brow or in other words. hard toll or
real work.-Moberly Democrat.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21
The Best Place for Killers

A Kansas City young man entered
a restaurant picked fuss with the
keeper over a cup of coffee and shot
him dead. After a laborious trial he
was convicted OF murder I'm the third
degree and given three years in pri-
son. Circumstances like this make
Kansas City about the best place in
the middle West to go and get killed.
st. Louis Times.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21

OF course the cops see great things"
for themselves in the result OF the
election in the Third district, and pro-
fess-on the outside--to believe that
they have almost won a victory--but
the truth of the matter is that they
were given just what they should have
had-a most merciless drubbing-
and deep down In their unsanded gig
yards they know II.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21
Not For Military Training.

The democrats have found one is
sue they seem to be agreed upon. Now
IL they can find one or two more
that they could work harmon niously
for and let all the others go they
could win the next election. It is
quite clear that compulsory military
training Is not going 60 go with DEM
ocrats. Nearly everybody has got
enough OF this compulsory business
that belongs to war times only Mo-
berly Democrat.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21

We naturally expect to see a fob
lot OF tin horn anti-leegue editors in
this section Of the country keep
mighty quiet since the big battle re-
suited so disastrously for them in the
Third district.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21

President Wilson is improving so
rapidly that is Is causing his gop ira
ducers unbounded concern. They
know that when he Is thoroughly re-
covered. he will tell them u few things
that they will not care to hear.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21

Those republicans in congress are
getting mighty anxious to get away
from Washington as some will have
to build fence-but they will find that
IL they do not pass some OF the legis-
ton that the country is suffering for
before they do come home, that they
will have no material left with which
to construct fences of any kind.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21

About all that the gop paper can
harp on now is the retirement of
Lansing from the cabinet, and the
charge that the president drove him
out. II Wilson did-that is his af-
fair-and he is not in the habit of
taking advice from cops either.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21
THE LOOTTNG oF FREIGHT CARS

Every week Of late there are arrests
made in the railroad yards here or in
the tributary territory to ST. Joseph
of freight car thieyes-and every
week there are continued reports Of
depredations against railroad cars in
this section. where no one could
or would be arrested. Only the other
night one box car thief was killed be-
low this city and three men were ar
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21

When there are fewer profiteers-
which may be the case some day
1t will be when the slip moose attach
ment to shade trees becomes more
fashionable.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21

II the state and federal game war
dens together cannot stop the illegal
seining al Sugar. Bean and Contrary
lakes In this vicinity, a few new dep
uties who would enforce the law
should be sworn in.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21

If the three judges keep up their
divorce granting, 1t will not be long
until we will be obliged to call for
recruits in order that we may have
few married people In St Joseph
and Buchanan county.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21
WHERE FREE SPEECH ENDS

When he was called before the
house judiciary committee the other
day attorney general Palmer at ths
request OF that committee correctly
traced the deadline of free speech and
showed that the constitutional guaran-
tee does not protect one who, by word
or implication, urges or inoites resort
to physical force or violence TO over
throw our democratic institutions.
Free speech is a flower Of dem
ocratic freedom. 1t blooms from no
other soil. Destroy democracy and
there is and can be no free speech
A rule of force means the appllca-
ton of the gag.
So, to defend free speech il Is ne
cessary to deny any one the prililege
Of attacking its roots. Any one who
upholds the doctrine that it is per-
missable in a free country TO advo-
cate the establishment OF a regime
OF force is an enemy to. not friend
or, free spg gech,
This country. as the attorney gen.
eral says. has had its revolution.
Those who come to our shores accept
the results OF this revolution. Some
truths concerning government are i'm
mutable - self-evident as Thomas
Jefferson wrote and one is that
government must rest on consent, and
not fear.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-21
And Get Your Head Cracked

Tell your wife everything. advis-
es one writer. This is all right, but
what is the husband to do when every
thing always turns out that he is the
Landmark.