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The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-04-10

Not one Miller Tire,
made under present methods, has
ever come back with the tread gone.
You will get uniform tires. Every
Miller Tire is signed, both by maker
and inspector. Every man knows
that faulty tire means penalty for
him. And faults are extremely rare.
You viii get greater mileage than from
any tire you put on the opposite wheel
4 That Is so nearly universal that we viii
stake your favor onNany single test.
But you will get the best tire built to-
day There are hundreds of thousands
who know that
When you buy new car insist on Miller
Tires. Twenty car makers now suppIv
thesn and there is no extra charge.
TIE MILLER RUBBER Co Ahr,n ORR.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-04-10

But don't expect that Millers,
/ under all conditions, can match some
exceptional mileage.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-04-10

dIc IuTIIlIIlB MlIItr IRE:
against high-grade rival:
to prove that Millers last
best.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-04-10
JURORS FOR NAY TERM or COURT.

List Of TIE Petit Jury for tbs ls&y tern O
the Tenth District Court, con, l1saciflg on Mon
day, the 10th day OF May 1870, to-wft:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-04
DR.. CRANE AND SCOTT NEARING
Troy Sunday budget:

Troy Sunday Budget: During
the past week, two speakers OF
more or less ability and fame, or
notoriety, delivered addresses In
Troy. One was Scott Nearing
and the other was DR.. Frank
Crane. The former addressed
a gathering Of some fifty to seven
ty people in what Is called Pythi-
an hall, and was supposed to
speak on subject relating to So
cialism. The latter addressed
about $50 people at, The opening
banquet of the Current Topic club
of the Central Young Mems Chris
ton association in the association
building. District Attorney John
p. Taylor introduced the latter
speaker. and representative citi-
zens of Troy were present.
At the Scott Nearing meeting
three policemen were on duty,
and care had been taken to note
the utterances of the speaker.
Unless efforts had been made to
restrain the anticipated express
ions of Nearing. it is matter for
conjecture as to what he might
have said, for he is recognized
as socialist, and any person OF
that belief is opposed to our form
of representative government. A
transcript of his speech, however,
shows that he was very moderate
in his views, and that his utter
ances were neither seditious nor
reasonable in the slightest res
pect.
Reported excerpts of the adj
dress of Dr. Crane indicated that
the attention Of the police officers,
the American Legion and real
American ! citizens would have
been most appropriate to the meet
ing of the Current Topic club.
Had Scott Nearing said to his aud
fence of socialists what DR.. Crane
expressed to the members of the
Current Topic club, he would, no
doubt, have been condemned
throughout the city.
Here is what was said, as re-
ported by one of the speakers:
"And there is this contraption we
know as the senate. The senate
was formed to prevent the people
from expressing their will. And
it looks to me as if the senate,
right now, was running true to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-04
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

! State of Iowa, Lee County, SIS.
In the District Court of Said Count
at Keokuk.
d. Kramer, plaintiff. versus Herbel
l.. Bigelow, defendant.
Original Notice of Suit, Attachmen
and Garnishment.
To the Above Named Defendant:
You are hereby notified that pei
ton is now on file in the clerks d
flee of the District Court aforesai
at Keokuk in behalf of the abo7
named plaintiff, against you an
claiming judgment in the total SUI
of six hundred twenty-six and fort
six hundredths ($626.46) dollars, wit
interest from February 81, 1920, an
for costs, including attorneys fee
on account of two promissory note
executed by the defendant in favor d
the plaintiff, one of said notes bein
dated February 10, 1915, for the SUE
of two hundred (S2G0.00) dollars, bE
with certain credits thereon; TIL
other note being dated February
1916, for the sum of three hundreI
sixty dollars and twenty cent
(S360.2O, and also asking that /
writ of attachment isue against tn.
property Of the defendant.
For further particulars see petition
now on file.
You are further hereby notified
that on February q, 1920, writ Of
attachment did issue in the above
entitled cause, and that on said day
John c. Scott, sheriff of Lee county
Iowa, did, by virtue of said writ levy
on and attach the following described
personal property belonging to you,
to-wit: One American automobile,
license No. 1860; four 32x3hs inner
tubes; three 30x30k inner tubes; one
35x4h inner tubes; three boxes mis-
cellaneous tools; and that by virtue
of said writ the following named per
sons, to-wit: John Nagel, keokuK
National Bank, Keokuk Coco-Cola
Bottling Company, J. H. Wilson and
Earl West, have been attached as|
garnishees and their answers to cer|
tain Undergraduates taken as prof.
vided by law; and any credits, debts
or sums due you from or IN the|
hands of said garnishees will pei
condemned for the purpose OF pay'|
ing any amount found due from YOU
in this cause.
And unless you appear thereto AMI
defend before noon Of the secohu
day of the next regular April term
OF said court, to be begun and hoiaea|
at Keokuk on the twelfth day vi
April, a. d. 1920, default will be en'|
tered against you and Judgment ren
dered thereon as prayed for in saia
petition.
BOYD & MCKINLEY.
Attorneys for Plaintff.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-04
MAKING THE SCHOOLS RADICAL

Cedar Rapids Republican: The
United States senate is investigating
the school system Of the District OF
Columbia, as they have a right to do
since the country as whole helps to
support those schools to the extent
OF about half 1t is charged that the
schools are under the dictation of
teachers organizations instead OF be-
ing controlled by the directors, and
that even the parents have little to
say about what their children shall
be taught them by their hired teach.
ers. There are some parents whe
want the teachers regulated to their
proper functions One Of the teach
ers is charged with assembling her
pupils and lecturing them on some
Of the good things to be extracted
from bolshevism. That is pretty
ideal to instill into the minds Of chill
dren who are still prone to listen to
their teachers and to absorb their
teachings. The radical teachers have
gone so far as to demand the dis
missal Of the superintendent. a man
named Thurston, on the allegation
that he is too conservative. Great
Lord, has the time not come for
someone to be bit conservative. or
are all the old ideals to be swept out
by the radicals?
In New York recently they had a
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-04
What is the worlds derision to him who
hath the yison?-Lorenzo Sosso.
CONOUERING INFLUENZA.

No one knows better than do the Insurance
companies statisticians the real conditions OF
the influenza epidemic. The insurance people
pay in real money for the inroads such scourge
makes upon our people. 1t is reassuring there
fore to learn from bulletin published by one OF
the big life companies that the death rate for
January 1920, in the industrial department OF
the company's business which well represents
general conditions the country over is one hun
elred and forty-two lives in one hundred thou
sand lives as compared with one thousand,
seven hundred and forty-seven in October to De-
rember III 1918. This bulletin states that the
eases of Influenza have been of comparatively
mild type and that the death rate is low for
them; that the cases developing into pneumonia
have been very much reduced in number and the
per cent of recovery in such cases is much high
O. Whether the public gained in experience
last year sufficiently to heed warnings and OBJ
serve precautions; whether medical supervision
has been more expert or combination of these
causes has helped reduce epidemic depredations
or whether the malicious microbe itself is less
ferocious this year, the fact that we have escap-
ed and are escaping with far less havoc than
that wrought last year seems established
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-04
Japanese Umbrellas.

ASA Magazine: A rainy day in
Japan! Mountains half disappearing
In wraiths Of mist like the LANDSCAPES
in old kakemono scrolls; grey-tiled
roofs transformed to glossy black by
slanting sheets of rain; coolies in
bristling straw raincoats; and every.
where great oiled paper umbrellas.
Little Japanese women trip along
daintily on their wooden clogs, OBJ
livious to the muddy rivers under
foot, totally eclipsed under their red.
blue, green, yellow or black um.
brellas. Shop apprentices and errand
boys hurry along with umbrellas
decorated with great black charac.
tiers indicating the name of the firm
or OF their trade. Out in Asakusa.
Tokyo's popular quarter, hugo red
umbrellas protect the old women who
sell beans to feed the doves that
dwell in the caves Of the Temple of
Morning Grasses. At the entrance to
every house a whole row of omen
umbrellas are drying. No two paper
umbrellas are alike in Japan. perhaps
because they are all made by hand
bamboo ribs, rattan handles, and the
patterns stenciled or formed by diff.
ferent layers Of colored papers. The
umbrella is as necessary to the ia
panese actor or dancer as his fan. In
the old prints the umbrella appears
constantly as a harmonious part of
the design. The geisha have um.
brellas appropriate for wistaria sea
son and cherry viewing, for winter
and summer. An umbrella may even
be the theme Of poetry, as it was for
the Japanese poet who sang: I'm
the spring rain an umbrella passes
by on which petals are softly falling.
falling" Yet the Japanese have been
able to find something picturesque in
our wire-framed umbrellas of uniform
black; they call them "bat wings"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-04

form. You see, we inherited
the, senate from England. Over
there they believe in two classes
OF people. There are blue hoods,
and there are just plain NUTS
like most of US. am NOT say
ing whether it is right or wrong,
but they believe in it, and they
have an undoubted right to do so.
So, of course, it is only natura. for
both classes to be represented. In
America, though there is no need
for two houses of the legislature.
It is just one of the illusions that
we inherited. When we took over
our ideas of government, the tail
went along with the hide. There
is no need for it, but we've got It
and we keep it, because we don't
know what else to do with il"
Did Scott Nearing say this? You
would naturally expect lie did, be-
cause he is an acknowledged op-
ponent of Representative govern
ment. But no, Scott Nearing did
not utter the foregoing sentences.
but they were given, according 70
the reported version, by DR.. Crane
before the Current Topic club.
Read them again. Think about
them, and then detel mine for
yourself which is the more dan
gerous man to the customs, insti
buttons and government of this
country.
AS is generally known, The
Troy Sunday BudgeE is so strong
ly opposed to socialism and all OF
its. contributory "isms" that 1t adj
! vocates and believes in the eradi-
cation of the socialist party from
the politics of this country, and 1t
Just as firmly believes that a man
of the DR.. Crane type, as judged
by his address before the y. NJ. G.
A. Current Topic club, is far more
dangerous to this country than
Scott Nearing, or even Eugene V.
Debs, for the reported expressions
that he made and such propagan-
da as he spread before that club
constitute the poison that is most
insidious in our body polite.
The senate of the United States
is the most valuable body in this
country today. and is one safe
guard of the strength of our rep
resenative government.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-04
one Cause Of the Coal Strike.

! Yale Review: We know that the
miners have less than two hundred
working days. Therefore, any discus.
sion of earnings requires that we
spread the multiple Of wages for NOT
more than two hundred days over the
necessitous three hundred and sixty.
five days. We also know that the
uncertainty and discontinuity of their
opportunities for work must make
and do make for decentralization.
Wholly apart, therefore. from the
mere question of subsistence for the
men, this irregularity of employment
presents issues of the greatest i'm
port to the moral fiber of the nation.
We also know that such things need
not be. They are not visitations OF
God-at least, no more so than
plaques and epidemics. For in 1918,
under the pressure of war, there was
an enormously increased production
OF coal and consequent increased
continuity of employment The ad.
m1rable reports on coal production of
the United States geological survey
tell the tale. With the armistice
coal production was unimaginatiyely
curtailed and even a limited public
control of the industry blindly aban-
doned; discon tinuity of employment.
distress and decentralization, have fol-
lowed IN its wake. This ignorance,
this chaos, Is illustrative of like con.
dltlons IN industry after industry.
There Is, for instance, as little scien-
tlnc data for the great textile in
dustry upon which the welfare of the
commonwealth of Massachusetts sup
rests as, according to the
confession of the national leaders in
the printing trades and the clothing
industry, there is in those industries
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-04
Lantern Nights in Japan.

| Asia Magazine: The lantern maker
is always busy, but especially so on
the eve OF festival. Then his half
dozen apprentices who usually spend
hours gossiping with one another
and their neighbors, are bending
lover their work until late at night.
The master himself is bowling low
and explaining over the teacups to
an important customer that the Ian
terms ordered for the temple festival
will be ready "tadaima"-a generous
word covering infinite tomorrows. In
the dark corners of the shop are col.
ilected lanterns of every description,
from slim, graceful ones with modest
crests to the great fat, bulgy kind
splashed with bold black and red
characters. Nights in Japan owe
much Of their charm to the lanterns,
which one comes upon Unexpectedly
at the end OF dark lanes or at the
entrances to houses and shops. Rick.
shaws with long slender lanterns slip
silently through narrow streets The
Sumida river in Tokyo melts at dusk
into, print land of long ago, when
the little round lanterns are lighted
on the veranda of all the teahouses
and the rippled glow dances across
the water. But the Sumida takes on
q memorable holiday atmosphere for
the festival of the "Kawabiraki," or
opening Of the river, in July, when
half Tokyo floats happily along in
boats festooned with lanterns to view
the fireworks. AT the same time of
the year the -Bonmatsuri," the
feast OF lanterns, when everyone
hangs a soft blue paper lantern in a
window to light back the spirits of
dead ancestors. Almost ghostlike in
delicacy, they futter on the summer
breezes.
THE pallid dew, It's said,
Puts out the last few glimmers of
The lanterns Of the Dead
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-04
similar experience. Some OF the
teachers were found to be traitor
ously radical and were expelled.
1.-THE SAME s!ckENING STORY"

Pittsburgh Chronicle.Telegraph A
London editor remarked the other
day that if many more American citi'
izens were killed in Mexico our gov.
iernment would send sharp note de-
claring that any repetition OF the
,uutrages would inevitably elicit
further correspondence. The satire
was not unjustified. To the man in
the street has not our governments
policy with regard to Mexican out
RACES against our people seemed to
consist merely of one note after an
other without, apparently, ever get
ting under the hide of Carranza or
any other representative Of sup
posedly responsible government? The
jenkins incident seemed about to
lead to some definite, strong action
under Secretary Lansing's unexpect.
ed initiative when he was suddenly
called off. Not all were ready to fol.
low Senator Falls demand for sew
erance of diplomatic relations, but
even this gesture had It's effect, if
temporary, on CarranZa and his
crowd. A different tone was observed
in communications from Mexico City.
But the sudden reversal Of the stern
attitude of our government made the
situation worse than ever 1t tended
to confirm the opinion which, we are
told, obtains in Mexican official
circles, that Uncle Sam is the cham
pion buffer and does not mean what
he says.
Now comes word Of the murder of
two more Americans, who were pur-
suing their legitimate business in
the Tampico district where Carranza
supposedly rules. And once more
there is the familiar despatch from
Washington, SO familiar indeed in it's
wording that any experienced news
paper man could have written it from
memory: Instructions have been
sent to the American embassy in
Mexico City to urge the Mexican gov
eminent to bring about the capture
and punishment of the murderers"
Representatives of the company
which employed these murdered
Americans, interviewed in New York,
declined to discuss the tragedy "be
cause Of fear of reprisals on others
of our employees still in Mexico" If
this is not the depth of humiliation
for citizens of sovereign nation,
what is?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-04
TO THIS SORRY END.

The Turk is to be punished for his part in the
great war by being permitted to remain IN Con-
stantinople! But he is warned that he must
positively let the Armenians alone, and any
more widespread massacres will bring stern
note from the supreme council. The kaiser IS
after all not to be too severely dealt with. He
is to remain comfortably in Holland all the days
of his life and the Dutch are to sole1nnly promise
that he will never be permitted to break out and
go home And as for the nine hundreds Germans
war guilty, they are to be forced to stand trial
by their own confreres, and how they must
dread it!
To this end have the dead given their lives,
and the living wrecked their world The VIC
tors not being able to arrive at any one opinion,
and being afraid each of the other, leave the
Turk undisputed control Of the great city Of
Constantinople and free to finish the job Of ex-
termination of the Armenans and other hated
subject peoples The near east is then in pre-
.csely the same situation it was before the war
II is pretty sight to set before the American
people, who had held before them ideals Of JUS
tice for the oppressed and retribution for the
'oppressor.
What is true than the observation of
George Washington in 1896 that Europe has
set OF primary interests. Hence she must be
engaged in frequent controversies, the causes
of which are essentially foreign to our concerns
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-04
THE RIGHT TO COMBINE.

The favorite maxim of Samuel Gompers Is
said to be that the mere right to combine can
not be limited at all and that whatever one man
has a right to do by himself any number OF men
have the right to do together.
Supreme Court Justice Stafford, OF the Dis
trict of Columbia, takes issue with this: Ii all
wage earners have right to unite to raise their
wages, so have all dealers a right to combine to
raise their prices; and all physicians, surgeons
nurses, druggists might unite in great teder-
alton and refuse to lift finger to save life I'M
til all their demands Of whatever kind were met
Justice Stafford denies the right OF govern
ment workers to strike Incompatible with
their duty to the people whose servants they are
He denies the right OF public utility workers 10
strike as conflicting with the public welfare,
which is the very purpose for which public
utilities were created. There is, he says, no un-
limited right to combine; and such overgrown
combinations as the American Federation OF
,abor are as incompatible with the safety Of
the people as the most overgrown and arrogant
combinations of money power.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-04
RAILROADS AND THE PUBLIC.

| For the next twelve or eighteen months the
lpublic should be patient with railroad short
comings The mere restoration to private man
aye1nent will not alter matters greatly over
night. Organizations will have to be rebuilt
and morale re-established. Only time and the
application of large amounts OF fresh capital
can restore the quality of service that existed
before the war Better service was the basis Tor
the almost unanimous demand that the rail-
roads be returned to corporate control At the
same time it was realized that until the trans
portation machine is improved there can be no
Istriking change in the situation. Patience on
the part of the railroads is urged by President
Itustis, of the Boston and Maine. Patience on
the part of the shippers is counseled by the trail
ific managers of the American chambers Of com
merce
1t is patent that there will be no immediate
change that the public can see All the present
agencies will continue; the same train schedules
win be kept, fares, ghts, all will be unchang-
ed for time, and will be altered, if at all, only
gradually and after the most careful consider.
alton by the joint councils of railroad managers.
Probably there will be no change in tram serv-
ice for long period. The Pullnans will con-
tinue to be crowded; there will be persons stand
ling in the aisles of the day coaches; there will
be much the same troubles with locomotives and
much the same annoyances as those which have
caused such great evaporation in the last two
years. There may be, and with justice, full
agreement with the conclusion of a writer IN the
Creston Advertiser that most of these troubles
I''would have been avoided if the roads had been
under private ownership. 1t will take
a long time to build up again the spirit of 10y
atty that characterized the employees OF many OF
the railroads and it will take long time for the
managers of the roads to work out successfully
the huge problems that confront them. =
One thing that the return Of the roads does
restore is competition on traffic, and solicitors
will be hunting freight with perhaps a little
more than their old keenness. There were many
changes in traffic under the government; freight
was diverted from some roads and given to
others: certain lines were filled up with low
paying freight; short routes were insisted upon
all in the interests of the public service, but
Ito the detriment of certain roads. These roads
will make supreme attempt to get their trathc
back; they must have it if they are to avoid DIS
aster The roads that got it also want it.
One thing may be depended upon, both IN
freight and passenger traffic. 1t is certain that
the railroads will do all that is humanity pos
sible to attain satisfactory service-serVlce OF
the kind that will win and hold business.