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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-12-05
American Education wssk.

American Education Week will be OBJ.
served In the Warwood schools from
december to 10. All organizations and
citizens are urged To assist the school
to make this week 4 big success. All
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-12-05
MARKET LIGHT;
SHOWS STRENGTH
POPULAR FANCY HAS APPEARED
TO TREND TOWARD RAILS OF
HIGHER GRADES.

DeFira bic Stocks at Moderate Conces-
sions Pl onptly Taken by the
Public.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-12-05
Bazaar.

Thursday evening the adde's Of tho NJ.
T.. church viii hold their annual bazaar
and SUPPER. Booths OF all kinds Will he
display and IN appeti@!ng supper
\, ~ ha aarynJ
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-12-05
ENWOO
water Company Gets Charter.

The Benwood and McMsch"n Water
company was granted Il ch"rtcr at char
lesion las: Saturday Icy Se"retatN OF
state Houston G.. Young. The incorp0"-
A.ors are II. &. spiders. CAS- Beacon
street. Boston. Mass: Abraham Smith
and Hans Johnson. East Boston. Mass.
and Harold r. Wilson. Waltham. Mass.
The new compan - incorporated i
$70.0 90. The old company went INTO
Bankruptcy some time ago and A't"I1e,
=. &. Smith Of Wheeling, was appointed
receiver. lie has ted IN" rian,,
Very successfully the last few yeas.
Church Wedding.
Tn. marriage OF Miss MARY StIpin"Nic
Of rs Marshall street. "a John FaclnI
Of Marshall street. VAS solemniZed sat
urdav at II Il. m. al -. Johns ATTN
tic church with Rev. Father ".
Schooner officiating. The att"ndant9
were Miss Natauna Neric and Vincent
NiCini.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-12-05
Game Cancelled.

Owing to the bad weather the game
between the R~nwood 4. e and TIE
Nya' \. =. was cancelled yesterday A.
rern"on. This would haN. been n good
battle and mann w"r" disappointed
when il was earned they would not
meet. coach Sheets hopes TO arrange
another gam" with the Nyals in tive
near future. HI Is the second time
~ IL" last two weeks hat this game
las lad to be cancelled on account CO
;Ir weather,
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-12-05
WHEELING LIVE STOCK

Wheeling. w. Va. pe'. >. -.
WHEELING LIVE STOCK CON. co.
NIIArrrNl Z
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-12-05

Benwood Briefs.
Miss Elsie Clancy OF Pittsburgh har
rc;urued home ate" p pleasant visit
wit relatives IN this city.
Mrs. James e. barnard has returned
20 her home IN Washington. Pa, after
visiting some friends and relatives 10
This rity.
Hubert Williamson vas a visitor II.
tho city attending TO business matters.
Joseph Donaldson or R"llairc spent
yesterday With friends here.
Virginia His"c't is improving after =
rccent illn"Ss.
Mrs. Paul Wickers las returned m
her home in Hartford. Conn. after IN
extended visit with friends here.
Harold Rurkett sN"nt Saturday with
friends IN Washington. Pa.
II +. necEan and family have return
Cd from q weeks visit with relatives
in New A~latauoraS.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas DeeGan OF Wat
a. stree, are rejoicing over the arrival
of y rour;e~n-pound baby hoy.
Mss Helen Fries left last Saturday
evening for Baltimore. Md. where she
has accepted a government position.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-12-05
Regular Dance.

one Of the regular serni-week!y dances
given by tho P"nwnnd A. g will be held
th,s evening in tho Liberty hail. Theae
dances are becoming quite popular with
tho Local people and 4 large ~AttendanC"
- expected. THO Imperial orchestra %
Wheeling will furnish rhe music.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07
IS CONSTITUTIONAL

The farmers Of Iowa are pleased
at the decision of the United States
supreme court in affirming the con-
|stitutionality of the federal farm loan
act, although some of the loaning COM
panies and their agents are greatly
disappointed. Yet it is not clear to
the average person why the lOaning
companies should fight the farm loan
act. as they cannot begin to take care
lof the business offered, even at I'M
heard of rates Of interest and COM
missions. Nobody wants to put the
loaning companies out Of business but
everybody, except those directly and
personally interested in high rates,
would like to see competition strong
enough to hold interest charges and
commissions at fair levels.
The federal loan act was attacked
on the ground that congress was with
out constitutional authority to estab-
lish farm loan banks and exempt their
bonds from taxation and, as might be
expected, the attack was made by an
agent of the loaning companies, Char
les w. Smith, a stakeholder of the
Kansas City Title & Trust company.
Farm loans aggregating more than
$j0O00,O00 have been held up since
last May by the injunction and loans
many times in excess Of that sum have
been held in allegiance by the court
proceedings. March I, 1920, the farm
loan board reported that $1S2,S97 900
had been advanced to 1884 farmers
and that applications from 1879 then
pending totaled $471.OOO,OO0.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07
"a HARD BARGAIN"

In referring to the recent editorial
of the London Times which insisted
that Great Britain would pay the
United States every dollar due us, the
Des Moincs Register says:
'This will settle the matter Of our
getting the money we loaned. But
it will not relieve the bad situation
we are in not only with the English
but with all the other allied peoples,
who will feel that they fought our
war and that we have driven Il hard
bargain with them out of their nee
cssitics."
What does the Register mean by
saying that we have driven a hard
bargain with them''-with our late as
sociates in the war? What is there
about it that is "hard?" We have
not pressed our claim, nor have we
charged cent of profit. The people
of the United States are not expect
ing any gains from those loans. All
they want or expect is the principal
and interest and the same rate Of i'll
tercst we have to pay. The government
borrowed this money-eyery cent OF
it-giving it's bonds in return and now
because we are asking that the debt
he paid when the allies can pay, such
papers as the Des Moines Register
fain to see in such a program "a hard
bargain"
"They will feel that they fought our
war;" declares the Des MOincs paper
Well, in that respect the books are
at least balanced. The allies did hold
the Germans back long time after
we should have been helping them
and before we finally awoke to our
real duty, but we compensated for our
delay by making it possible for the
allies to win with our assistance.
We don't believe they take the view
credited to them by the Register. They
do not think that we are driving
hard bargain or that they did our
fighting for us.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

The Freeman-J ournal doesn't pretend
to be specialist in laying tax levies
and possibly if it were more familiar
with expert theories in that line it
would have different views. However,
the sales or turnover tax looks good to
it. Many people oppose such tax, but
there isn't any tax that nobody opposes.
The turnover tax would simplify the
matter of making out income blanks,
and that is no small thing. A tax of
say one per cent on all sales, to be
paid by the seller, with exemptions up
to sales Of $4,000 or $4,000, would
cost the man or firm or corporation do
ing a $4,000 business per year $500 or
$3.50, as the case might be. If the
sales tax theory is adopted it is pro-
posed to abolish the excess profits tax
and the sur taxes.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

If Uncle Sam wants to try a bluff on
Great Britain and France he might
propose that the United States will
remit the debt Belgium owes it if Great
Britain and France will do likewise
Belgium owes us about $175, O0O, 900 and
each of these other nations about $780,
100000. Belgium saved France and
Great Britain by holding back the Ger
man army until they could get ready
to resist it. Germany was after France
and Great Britain and Belgium was in
her way. Belgium paid an awful price
for being in the way, but she saved
France and England. 1t would be only
fair for France and England to cancel
the debt Belgium owes them, but up to
this time there has been no enthusiast
tic move in that direction.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

Ten counties of Idaho wish to break
away from the southern portion OF
the state. The senate at Washington
voted for self determination in Ireland.
Is the principle not to apply at home?
Toronto Globe.
But the senate of the United States
was playing the demagogue when it
voted for free Ireland, just as the
average politician is playing the dema-
gogue when he is promising. just be-
fore election. to do something for
Ireland No. the principle is not to
apply at home. 1t hasn't applied in
a number of states in this country
since the civil war and there is no
Indication that it ever will apply to
those states. Yet everyone of them is
solidly democratic, so-called.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

According to reports from Canada
the bank deposits in that country are
steadily increasing. Probably the poo
pie Of this country are helping Canada
prosper by buying of them wheat which
is permitted to come here free of duty.
thanks to the present tariff law. Some
people in the United States think it
would be better for this country to
buy American grown wheat, thus keep
it. anyhow. and see how it works out ?
Why not put 4 protective tariff on
other farm products?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

Senator Reed Of Missouri, who is a
fighter from away back. has said, if
Washington press reports are correct,
that he will fight the confirmation
Of Herbert Hoover for secretary of
commerce to the bitter end, even re-
sorting to filibuster, if he has to
carry it on alone. The pugnaciOus
Missouri senator is hard fighter and
is something of a bitter ender. He
is man Of ability and courage and
if he takes off his coat to defeat
Hoover may be able to accomplish his
purpose. His statement that he will
resort to filibustering methods calls at
tention anew to the idiotic and mex
cusable rules of the senate that per-
init one member to tie up business
and force his views upon the majority.
1t is time the senate overhaul its rules,
making that body responsive only to
tho majority. There should be no
gag rule. of course. but rules should
be adopted that will enable the ma
jOrity to rule in all matters, except
in cases that require two-thirds vote
as authorized by the constitution,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07
Guess Attorney General Daughert,

Guess Attorney General Daugherty
will find plenty Of work to do to keep
him busy for some time. In addi.
ton to the untried cases that have
been accommodating for some time, the
federal grand jury at Indianapolis re-
Gently returned 226 indictments against
coal mine operators and operators as
sociations, charging conspiracy and
collision to rob the public in viola
ton Of law. 1t is now up to the new
attorney general to show what he can
do in prosecutions. If he doesn't i'm
prove the record in that line made by
Attorney General Palmer he ought to
be fired just as soon as his incapacity
is demonstrated. However, the public
will be inclined to give him fair
chance before indulging in criticism.
The Freeman-JOurnal is expecting him
to make good and certainly hopes he
will.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

In case Judge Lands and General
Dawes are secured to make some re-
marks in Waterloo. of course we want
some good, punchful stuff. When they
arrive in our little city. as preliminary
to the main event, and to get them
in fighting trim. would not little
spin on the Logan avenue road to the
Bremen county line put them in good
".jaculatory mood, provided, Of course,
the trip did not disable or kill them!
Courier.
Well. well. are there such bad roads
in Black Hawk county? The fear Of
personal injury to travellers who ven
turc to drive upon them as expressed
by the Waterloo paper would indicate
that the roads down there are worse
than they are anywhere else in the
state. yet the Cedar Falls Record. pub
lished in Black Hawk county, has had
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

That building prices in Iowa have
been materially reduced is proven by
the experience Of Glidden. Ten months
ago the consolidated school district of
Glidden secured bids for the construc-
ton of a new school house. the lowest
bid at that time being $23S,OOO. That
was more than the district could pay,
hence the proposed improvement was
postponed. "A contract has just been
awarded for the same building at $780,
600, a saving Of $4s,OO0, a little more
than 20 per cent. Three weeks ago
a contract for school building was let
at Collins, Iowa, the price being up
$4,000. A little more than
a year ago the best bid on this building
was above the 100000 mark. These
in building operations ought
to serve to stimulate more building.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

People who have a little money salt
ed down ought to put it to work by
either depositing it in the banks or
loaning it to somebody who needs it
and is able to furnish good security.
Idle money is Of no more use than
idle people. If you put dollar in
the bank the bank loans it to some
body who needs it in his business, thus
it is serving the community. If you
loan it direct to the individual Dor
rover it is likewise serving some good
purpose. Whatever you do with your
money don't hide it away in idleness
where it brings you nothing and is
doing nothing for the community. An
active dollar, like an active individu-
al, is doing it's part in the material
of the town and country.
Put your money to work and keep it
working all the time. Money at in
tcrest is like fertile seed in the garden
or field. 1t is making more dollars.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

Joseph McCabe, noted English scien-
fist, has arrived at the conclusion that
the world will come to an end from
causes, dying slowly, in about
four millions Of years. He figures out
there will be enough heat in the old
sun up to that time to make life pos
slble upon this old globe. OF course
the end may come sooner through some
unlocked for cause. 1t might collide
with some planet and be destroyed.
But the probabilities are it will die of
old age. There is no occasion to get
excited over Mr.. McCabe's conclusions.
He knows very little about it. Science
now disagrees upon the present life Of
the world. Some have placed it as
high as billion and half of years,
while others put it all the way from
scventy-five to five hundred millions Of
years.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

And now the word is sent out from
Washington that President Wilson
agreed with representatives of Great
Britain and France that each would
urge upon their governments a proposal
to accept from Belgium German govern
ment bonds for the amount of Bel
GUMS debt to the allied countries up
to Nov. II, 1915" the day the armistice
was signed. The United States govern
ment will not be likely to agree to such
a thing. The United States has no de-
sire to become a collection agency to
collect debts from Germany. She is
going to have all the troubles she cares
for in that line in collecting the ac-
counts that other nations owe direct to
her.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07
HARDING'S INAUGURAL.

The inaugural address of President
Harding WILL we believe, be generally
approved by the country. He discussed
tie questions of the day in clear Ian
guage and straightforward manner,
making no promises that will be impos-
sible to carry out. The address is i'm
pressive in that 1t is logical and con-
sentative. yet progressive enough to in
dicate that Mr.. Harding will accept
new theories and doctrines of govern
mcnt when they appeal to his judg-
ment.
OF course all he said will not appeal
to all the people: some of his state
ments will be criticized, but on the
whole we believe his address will he
as acceptable to the country as the
first inaugural of any president has
been. Mr.. Harding certainly has the
faculty of saying well what he wants
to say and saying it in a way that
carries conviction. He appears to be
wholly sincere and honest and to ap-
preciate the grave responsibilities that
rest upon him. ''-f"
But the test of president is not in
what he says, but what he does, what
he accomplishcs, how he guides the
old ship of state through rough waters
and the skill exhibited in avoiding the
rocks and shoals that beset the way.
In closing his inaugural the presi-
dent used these very impressive
words:
"If l felt that there is to be sole
responsibility in the executive for the
America of tomorrow, l should shrink
from the burden. But here are n hun
dred millions, with common concern
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07
The heated discussion Of the Irisl

\ The heated discussion Of the Irish
British question in this country does no
good one way or the other and may do
lets of harm. 1t cannot help Ireland,
but may anger England so much that
people over there will be in no frame of
mind to approach the question with any
degree of fairness. What would the
people of the United States think If the
English press teemed with bitter de-
nunciations of our Philippine policy,
charging over and over again that the
United States government was dealing
unfairly with the natives. No matter
whether such charges were true or not,
we would resent them. If the inhabi-
tants of the Philippine islands acted
as many of the inhabitants Of Ireland
are acting there is no question but that
the United States government would
resort to repressive measures to main
tain order, whether order could be
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

The railroads are getting lin such
bad condition that the talk of gov
eminent ownership is renewed. The
management seems to be having great
difficulty in making the roads pay OPP
Grating expenses. They cannot reduce
wages and salaries without the con-
sent of the railroad labor board and
thus far they have been unable to
get such consent. Although govern
ment operation was very unsatisfac-
tory it is held by advocates Of gov
crnmcnt ownership that the govern
ment didn't have fair chance to
show what it could do. 1t took the
roads over during the war when serv-
ice was the first consideration and the
matter of expense was secondary. 1t
is now hard for the managers to re-
duce the high costs Of operations cs-
tablished by the government and many
people are predicting that the owners
of the roads will be anxious to sell to
the government before long.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

Some newspaper correspondents have
seen fit to remark that, as president,
Mr. Harding may be embarrassed by
the deficit incurred by the national
committee in the recent campaign. For
such embarrassment there can be no
occasion whatever. The republican ma
tional committee perfected its own or
ganization, managed its part Of the
campaign, collected funds and con-
trolled expenditures. Responsibility
for the expenditures rests solely with
the committee and need embarrass no
one else. If Mr.. Harding had selected
tie chairman or the executive commit
tee, or had set himself up as a personal
individual, dictatorial, autOcratic'
director. the responsibility would, Of
course, be his.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

The Marshalltown Times Republican,
in speaking, of income tax levies, says
the tax better be levied directly upon
all sales and be in percentage SO low
as to cause everybody to laugh at it,
That's the idea! Under such plan
this will become the greatest nation
Of laughers in the world. 1t will prob
ably put Charlie Chaplin and Fatty
Arbuclllc out of business, because the
people will be so fed up on laughter
that when they go to the movies they
will want to see something serious, if
for no other reason than to break the
monOtony of mirth occaSiOned by pay
ing taxes.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

According to Berlin dispatch the
Chilean government has granted con-
cession to the Krupps Of Germany for
the right to acquire land in Chile and
establish factories there. 1t is said
many German mechanics and work
men will 90 to Chile to erect factories
and work in them. The Krupps have
been the largest manufacturers OF
ordnance in the world and it appears
that the company has no intention OF
operations. The men
back of the movement to establish fac
tories in Chilli are evidently of the
opinion that there will be demand Tor
their goods in the future.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

Some of the business women Of Des
Moines are opposed to the proposed law
limiting the working day of women to
nine hours. They say that in nearly all
work it is necessary sometimes to put
in more than nine hours a day and if
women cannot work more than nine
hours men will get such jobs. MaySbe
something in that. Can it be possible
that the farmers of the proposed law
are trying to put something over on
the women?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-03-07

The number of strikes throughout the
country have been materially reduced
during the past few months. Blythe
way, do you remember when the demo-
cratic party insisted that strikes were
due to-a protective tariff. During 1918
and 1919 there were more strikes in
the United States than ever before and
during those years we were operating
under a sO-called tariff for revenue
only, which admitted importations of
cut turning much revenue into the ma
tionaI treasury.