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The Delta independent., 1921-08-12
A Rspsntant Thief.

H. Thompson, well-known farmer
Of Dawsmere. South Lincolnshire, has
received back through the post f115 in
treasury notes. which had Disappeared
In mysterious circumstances. The
money had been given to foreman to
nay wages. and the man put the notes
In his waist coat pocket. He put the
garment on the ground while he was
working, and the notes disappeared.
The envelope containing the returned
money bore the local pOsfiDark md the
police are investigating the matter
London Times.
The Delta independent., 1921-08-12
PAONIA NEWS
. 90 >~>> >>>>>

Mrs. Powell and three daughters
are visiting in the C. B. Popp home
this week.
Mrs. Violet Clark went up in the
hills Monday to spend week with
her son Harold and wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orvil Hyer. from
Ohio have been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Eikenberry and family the past
week.
During the electrical storm lightn-
ing struck one of the electric light
wires and part of the town was in
darkness.
Miss Minnie Wheeler is here Wis.
iting her many trends. She has
been teaching the past year in the
schools of Laramie, Wyoming.
Miss Inez Stout entertained in
honor of her sister Miss Opal about
twenty-five of her friends at a
trosseau tea Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Taylor drove in
last week from Earlham. Iowa. to
visit, in the home of his folks, Mr..
and Mrs. John Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Taylor and little
son came in Saturday from Califor.
MIA to visit in the home of Mrs.
Taylors parents. Mr.. and Mrs. s. e.
Lewis.
Miss Dorothea Clements enter
tanned her class of 20 Friday night.
Dancing was the amusement en-
joyed during the greater part Of the
evening Delicious refreshments were
served.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Crook and
daughter Connie came in from Den
yer Friday and have been visiting
in the home of A. s. Mckee. MI.
Crook is speaking in the different
towns on transportation.
Mrs. Gabler and her daughter
Dora took the train Wednesday on
their way to Rialto California, at
which place Miss Dora plans to
teach during the coming school year.
See May for painting and paper
hanging S3-uc
The Delta independent., 1921-08-12

Visiting PenIey Family
Walter A. Penley and wife, and
Ernest C. Penley and wife, the
men nephews Of A. e. Penley OF this
city arrived here on an overland
trip Monday for visit. They were
returning from an extensive trip 70
Yellowstone Park to their homes at
Augusta, Kansas. The former MI.
Penley is cashier of the First
National bank at Augusta. while his
brother is proprietor of a large hard
ware company with stores at both
Augusta and Mulvane. Incidentally
their wives are sisters.
The Delta independent., 1921-08-12
Fine Aquarium display.

A novel window group OF the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History. in
New York, represents the life Of an
area Of shallow sea bottom only two
inches square. The objects are mag
nified Is diameters. and include min
ute Bryozoa. or moss animals. COM
monty found on shells and seaweeds.
together with microscopic hydroIds
bndding of tiny medusae or jelly
fishes. certain single celled animals. Q
sea spider. and colony Of ascidlans or
sea-squirts undergoing metamorphosis-
The magnifying glass. 40 inches In
diameter, is framed with cOlored
transpa rcncy showing the portion Of
sea bottom In natural size from which
the small section was taken.
The Delta independent., 1921-08-12
Arrested At Junction.

Arrested At Junction.
Sheriff Wilson went down TO Grand
Junction Wednesday to get George
Gerheart. wanted here on a charge
of wife desertion. Gerheart was ar
rested Tuesday on a warrant issued
from the local county court and is
at present n guest of the county.
The Delta independent., 1921-08-12
Notice, Fruit orowsrsl

Let all fruit growers who ish to
make and exhibit at our County or
State Fair Of early fruit gather be.
fore too ripe and pack In small peach
boxes. These should be sent In care
Of the Crystal Ice company at Hotch-
kiss. We have agreed to take care OF
It until Fair week. September 1915.
We hope to see the west part OF the
county show up with big exhibit.
both for the county and state fair.
a. II will be up to the Western
Slope TO furnish the biggest part Of
the fruit exhibits this year. We
know that Delta county has the best
fruit in quality that we have ever
had. Let us show the other fellows
what fine fruit we can grow.-R. 8.
Purtee. Inspector
The Delta independent., 1921-08-12
BIRTHS
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A baby girl was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. D. Carpnter Of Mort Delta on
Monday, August 8th
Mr.. and Mrs Glenn A. Bowie OF
Eckert are the proud parents Of a
baby girl born Monday. August 9Th.
Announcements have been re-
ceived of the birth on Monday. Au-
gust 8, to Mr.. anda Mrs. Tony For
rester, of a girl, at their home at
Salem, South Dakota. Mrs. Forres-
ter is a, daughter of Mrs. Sarah
Smith Of North Delta.
The Delta independent., 1921-08-12
Spray Notice

Growers should apply last cover
spray on apples in lower end OF the
county about August 18th. See that
all apples are well covered. We find
the apples throughout the country
looking fine with but very small
per cent of worms. With another
good spray we will have the finest
crop for years. r. s. Purtee, In
spector
The Delta independent., 1921-08-12
EnsIard's war Gain.

A. The result of tie war. II IN said.
the British have gained control nvsr
22.OhO.O0O additional inhabi,nnts and
i.27e. go ,4Qusre mIles VI territory.
The Delta independent., 1921-08-12
Jsc,ter ser 50 Years.

Nrs. t.iixabeth Toms. eighty five
years old. has severed her connection
wifh the Tyndaie public schools. Phil
adelphia. of which she was jnnitor for
50 years.
The Delta independent., 1921-08-12

Press Printing Company. of Mont
rose. will print the Service Star and
handle the routine work OF mailing.
The Delta independent., 1921-08-12
To The Public

To The Public
The Producers Market has on hand
for your Sunday dinner: Spring lamb
with mint; baby beef and spring
chickens. Give us trial.
w. e. Schoolfieid. Prop.
The Delta independent., 1921-08-12

DEMONSTRATING and PIcstinO
At Zaninetti Flats. No. 1S4. Nan
orders solicited. Lena 6eichrist, Bog
4s4, Delta Colo. COOP Phone s4s-O
The Delta independent., 1921-08-12
a earHaIn

We have in Delta . new piano that
must be sold At once. Special price
ond terms to suit in order to sen.
Write at once to 6tong Music Co..
Grand Junction, Colo. Piano fs high
grade and brand new. sSsbc
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-10-14
BUILDING OR BREADLINES?

A certain amount of amiable opti-
mism makes life pleasant at times,
but it does not, of itself, sustain life.
Just now, a little wholesome and
frank pessimism is in order. Two
hard facts are staring us in the face {:
the unemployed now number fully
5000, 900 men, and winter is coming
on.
1t is all very commendable and very
agreeable, up to certain point land
also very easy) to rely on favorable
turn which will ease the hard cir
cumstances of creature existence, but
times come when it is we'll to realize
that few good things just happen or
are vouchsafed to humanity by be-
neficent providence. The thoughtful
are in agreement, now, that work
must be found for the idle or we are
in for winter of deprivation and suf-
fering.
Fortunately, by taking thought and
acting promptly. work can be provid-
ed for those now idle %d the many
others who may be released from in
dustry with the coming on of the cold
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-10-14
LAWLESSNESS

At the recent meeting of the Amel-
lean Bar Association the two chief
law officers of the government, At
torney-General Daugherty and So
licitor-General Beck, chose to speak
on different phases of the same SUBJ
ject-the growth of lawlessness. Mr..
Beck drew a striking picture of the
rebellion against tradition and au-
thority in every country and in every
walk of life. He spoke of the fout-
ing of accepted standards in art and
of the jangling discords that occur in
the most "modern" music, painting
and poetry. He spoke of the neglect
of old-fashioned ideals of integrity
u commercial life, shown by the cpl.
demic of conceded orders that began
the business depression that still per-
sists. He spoke of the growing aver
sion to work among all classes, the
denial of those principles of modesty,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-10-14

industry and sobriety Of conduct that
past, generations have learned to be
the basis of healthy and sensible liv-
ing. He spoke Of the elevation of
pleasure above duty and the tendency
of men and women to ignore laws. So
cial or statute, that interfere with
their own desire or personal gratifica-
ton.
The Attorney General was less
philosophical but more specific. His
text was the disregard Of the actual
written law that is SO common today
among all classes of the community.
He laid most stress on the disregard
of laws by corporations, by capital
lists and by labor unions. But they
are not the only offenders. Probab-
Iy no one of us pays full obedience to
every law that limits what he con-
ceives to be his individual liberty and
convenience. From the boy who dis
regards an order to keep off the grass,
and the man who exceeds the speed
limit with his car, or violates the pro-
visions of the prohibition act, or fall
SITES his income tax return, or offends
against some other law, made for the
good of all but inconvenient for him
to obey, to the big corporation or la
Dor union, we are one and all, in
greater or less degree, guilty.
What is more needed than any
thing else in this country of law
breakers is a nationwide campaign to
nculcate respect for the law-for all
law. Its leaders should be men who
will pledge themselves to strict ODE
dience to every law or legal regula-
ton, whether it hurts them or not, and
who will keep that pledge.
Any such movement must start at
the top. 1t would be useless and fu-
tile to preach to the man in the street
his duty to obey the law if he knows
that the preacher is committing Of
lenses greater than his own. If the
children are to be taught to regard
both great and little thou-shalt-nots,
their parents must set the example,
What hope is there for the boy whose
father gives him a five dollar note as
he starts out in his car, to pay his
fine if he is caught overspeeding?
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-10-14

for himself in the expenses Of the
mansion, and makes the state pay the
bills.
But it was not thought he would go
so far as to buy automobile supplies
from the Trenton Buick agency, and
charge them to the state. Really,
this is the last straw.
There can be but one conclusion,
touching upon the Governors de-
meanor and methods-he has aban-
doned all thought of ever recouping
his fortunes and regaining his place
in the estimation of the people, so he
purposes simply to be himself, and do
as he pleases. He is going to be the
same spoiled boy in the executive
mansion that was so familiar to the
people, of his home town and county
for so many years.-State Journal
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-10-14
season. Public works offer the way

season. Public works offer the way
out.
AS everybody knows, many con-
struction projects have been post
poned from year to year for just sew
en- years. Much public improvement
work, long held up. should now move
rapidly forward. A very great deal
Of this work can be done during the.
winter season. The directing minds
in the construction industry long ago
learned how to cope successfully with
cold weather.
This is not only way out of bad
situation but in the opinion of many
it is the only way out. The choice
rests between action or inaction, be-
tween building or breadlines, between
public works or public charity. Only a
fiabby and unjustifiable optimism will
prevent public officials making the
proper choice. Now is the time for
some robust and rational realism; if
we don't takelcontrol of the situation
in the only way available the coming
winter will be one of suffering for the
millions of unemployed and their de-
pendents, the women and the chill
dren, the aged and the infrm.
While it is unpleasant to direct
thought to what will surely happen if
we go on waiting for providential, or
congressional, relief, it is pleasant in
deed to point out that if public works
projects be-driven forward, now, USE
full work will be provided for those
released from industry and great
sums of money will be placed in gen.
eral circulation, to the immediate and
substantial benefit of all lines of bus
iness.-Municipal and County Engi-
neering, indianapolis, Ind.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-10-14

would stabilize society and moralize
the world. They urge their reform
in season and out of season. All the
inevitable catastrophes and failures
that beset the stumbling march of
progress do but furnish them tri-
umphant arguments showing that if
their advice had been followed the
millennium would have long since ar
rived.
Such an obsession is always butt
ressed by ignorance. The wise, the
thoughtful, the patient do not pro-
claim quick and novel methods of
pushing the old. slow, obstinate world
into complete felicity. But those loud
asserters of sure remedies for an
cient maladies are too busy teaching
to pause and learn. They are mani
testify the deplorably ignorant Of the
history of mankind, Of the secrets of
human nature, even of their own
hearts.
Passive ignorance is evidently a
misfortune; but the worst enemy we
have to cope with to-day is active ig-
norance. The motto for both women
and men in politics should be: Read,
think, watch, listen, before you talk
or act.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-10-14
POLITICS AND IGNORANCE

There is real danger from too
great modesty in politics aS in other
things. One hears many of the no.
blest and most intelligent women say,
"0h, why should vote? How can l?
! know nothing about government or
craftsmanship" How much do those
excellent persons suppose the average
man knows about government or
craftsmanship? How much does
any one know about those complicated
matters? We all have our houses to
keep, and businesses to run. We can
not give our lives to the study of pol
itics.
But, oh, how slight is the danger
to the world from modesty in politics
compared with the danger from its OPP
posite! How many people there who
know just how a thing should be
done, and when it should be done, and
by whom it should be done! How
many have heard only one side Of an
argument and have got it thoroughly
into their heads and keep repeating
it with parrot insistence, utterly re-
CARELESS of facts that crowd in upon
them to prove the contrary! And
there are the people with nostrums,
with panaceas, people who have be-
come possessed by one idea, who be-
lieve that the application of that idea
to practical life and political affairs
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-10-14
THE SOIL SURVEY OF
ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY

l noticed in The Times that Con-
gresham Rhodes had supplied Supt.
Akers with copies of the Soil Survey
of st. Francois county for free dis
tribution.
On Monday dropped Supt. Akers
a card. asking him to save one for me
and l would call for 1t. With his us
ual thoughtfulness he event one bet
ter" and Wednesdays mail brought
me copy.
1t certainly is valuable booklet to
the farm owner, prospective farm
owner, renter, school teacher, land
agent and anyone wanting to be we'll
informed in regard to the different
kinds TO fertilizers each soil requires
and other agricultural, geological and
typographical facts of our county, A
soil map is attached and on it the
farm owner can locate his own farm,
find its kind of soil and from the
booklet find its needs as to fertiliz-
ers, drainage, etc. Towns, churches,
schools, Rural Routes, county roads
and possibly pig paths. can be located.
We grumble at our tax bills but do
we not get many priceless advantag-
es from our government in return?
! wouldn't take lots of dollars for
my copy if couldn't get another.
F. E. B.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-10-14

States Navy exercises control these through
known the Navy Radio Amateur Bureau This bureau
amateur OF secret codes and lectures
and otherwise interests hem An amateur writing Popular Science
Monthly him
joined.
The apparatus together
he took
he
fppes pond washed the receiving In this
washed the metal the the touched it,
the that the the began reproduce the
apparatus in his house
IT of community boys interested in becoming amateur
Photograph operators they should write United States Navy Radio Anna
asnr Bureau. New York City"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-10-14
A TARIFF STUDY IN WHEAT

1t is up to Mr.. Arthur Capper and
other noted "agriculturists" to eX-
plain why it is that the so-called
emergency tariff bill has failed to in
crease the price of wheat to the
American farmer. The bill imposed a
duty of 25 cents a bushel on wheat
and was heralded as the proper way
to meet the crisis in agriculture. 1t
has been in effect for months, and,
theoretically, should have made
wheat in the United States worth %
cents more than in Canada. And yet,
actually, wheat has not at any time
sold for more in Minnesota than in
Manitoba. In fact it has averaged %
cents a bushel higher in Canada. In
July grain imported from Canada sold
on the Minneapolis market for $40
a bushel, while grain from the United
States sold on the same exchange for
$1.65. 1t was all question of grade
and quality for certain milling pur-
poses, and some millers wanted Cana
dian wheat. They bought it at the
higher rate, while American wheat re-
manned at it's normal price-under OK
isting market conditions.
The farmer got nothing out of this
neither the Canadian nor the Amer
lean farmer. Across the line the
farmers of Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and Alberta, great wheat-growing
provinces, are organized new politi-
cal party which bids fair to elect one
third of the Canadian parliament at
the coming elections. They are dis
satisfed-even though their wheat
sold in Minneapolis for more than the
American product. The American
farmer is complaining because the on
ly tangible result to this anomalous
condition is that the government got
25 cents a bushel on Canadian wheat
and the consumer of Minneaolis -four
made out Of Canadian wheat, paid
four or five times the duty to the
miller. And there you are!
The emergency tariff was a failure,
as Democratic statesmen predicted.
The American farmer is not as well
off as formerly because of a restrict
ed market, such as new tariffs, i'm
posed without good economic grounds,
always create. The Fordney tariff
making method is antediluvian and
archaic. 1t belongs to the dark ages
of monopoly and public indifference.
1t cannot serve any good object in
these days when the exchange mar
ket establishes a protective scale far
more effective than any tariff that
could be devised, and when American
industry is interested more in expan-
sion for the development of world
trade than in excluding the foreign
competitor, who is already handi-
capped by exchange values. The fact
that the Republican party could find
no other way of dealing with present
day problems proves their bourbon
ism and their uselessness in this mod
ern hour.-State Journal.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-10-14
THE FAILURE OF
:. REPUBLICAN CRAFTSMANSHIP

DLlS<t1N "A
According to we'll authenticated
stories coming out of Washington,
there is extreme concern among Re-
publican leaders over the country with
the listlessness of the Harding adj
ministration. The reports from the
western states, which were dumped
into the Republican column last year
by unprecedented majorities, are any
thing but encouraging. The people
are displeased at the delays develop
ing in the Harding regime, the utter
lack of fixed policies on taxation and
the reduction of governmental ex-
penditures and a host of other vital
subjects.
The farmer has been buncoed
again, as Democrats said they would
be, through the medium of the So
called emergency tariff, which was
the only measure speedily enacted,
and which has proved to be dismal
failure.
The business man is disappointed
at the progress of tax revision, and
none is satisfied with the outlook,
not even the gigantic corporations,
whose burdens are being lifted, be-
cause the new scheme will not likely
be effective for this years taxes.
The administration promised to
search out and punish war profiteers,
but nothing has been done, and prac-
tically all Of the offenders are now
safe under the statute Of limitations
The President began his admins
tration by demanding the ratification
of the Colombian treaty, subject
never mentioned in the campaign, and
the only net result has been to create
a feeling of sullen resentment among
the friends and followers of Theodore
Roosevelt.
The proposal to leave the refund
ing of the foreign debt to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury's discretion has
been Objectionable in the highest de-
gree, and the opposition has delayed
the passage Of the bill.
The President killed the soldiers
bonus by speech in the Senate, and
offers no encouragement so far as the
future is concerned, in view OF the
government.
No progress at all has been made
toward eliminating expenditures. The
Dawes brigade is operating upon
lines that must go through Congress
and require many months of consid-
Grafton, so that even if Gen. Dawes
succeeded in cutting out hundreds of
millions of governmental expense,
there would be no, relief for two
years, which would mean two more
years of high taxes, at the most crit
ical time.
The administration has not even
pleased the politicians. The post
masters are still under the civil SER
vice, and the only way partisans can
be named is to carry on fraudulent
examination, and disguise the APP
pointments in a pitiful cloak of pub
lie hypocrisy.
Meanwhile, Congress has been vaca-
tioning, and the President is as far
from displaying any of the qualities
of real craftsmanship as he was in
his campaign, when he fitted lightly
from one question to another. And
there are six million men out of work!
State Journal.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-10-14
LISTENING IN ON THE WORLD!

Next to the au-'
,tomobile, t h e
I'm ost amazing
thing of this CEN
.tury, perhaps, is
lshe way the wire.
less has spread
among amateurs
lin America. The
lU.3S. Navy as
iserts that 100000
boys girls and
young men have
lsuch radiophone
Iplants, most OF
them n sti ng
from $40 to SIS.
This is an average
of 10000 to each
state-b ut Of
course S som c
states have sew
''eral times 10000.
Every mig hit
news. in Morse
code ! or lectures
or q addresses or
concerts are sent
out from central
stations in cities
for the benefit OF
these amateurs. 4
he limited
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1921-08-12
American Civil Liberties d : :.
Union Ask American Le i
i. gion to. Declare Attitude

New York, Aug. lin a letter sent
recently to the national Offices OF
the AMERICAN Legion az. Iqdlanapo-
lis. the American Civil Liberties
Union of New York summarizes the
outstanding attacks on free speech and
assemblage by posts of the Legion
throughout the country ii the Lee
rion's national campaign to Nuphold
and defend the Constitutions" and
calls upon the present Legion officials
to declare their attitude. "a
The memorandum prepared by the
Civil Liberties Union is entitled 1.-THE
Lawless American Legion" and con-
tains a detailed record Of fifty Incl
dents in the past year and q half IL
which members or posts OF the
American Legion have figured in at
tacks on radical or labor speakers OF
meetings. The summary lists 1C
cases Of mob violence, 22 cases Of
breaking Up or interfering with, meet;
ings, 10 cases Of attacks on radica
or liberal speakers, and, a few in
stances Of strike breaking and anti
German activities. i4q4s: :!
The instances cited concern actii
ties chiefly against the l.. WV, tn
| Nonpartisan League in the west, ant
against radical labor leaders in tn
east. Most Of the instances listed an
lin middle-western and western states
In introducing the summary, tn
! Civil Liberties Union says: "So far a