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The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
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Rehabilitation of Veterans a Failure"

control of single administrative head'
For this new organization the Le-
gion asks an appropriation sufficient
to buy, build. equip and enlarge hos
pitfalls sufficient to provide facilities
for all the men now under hospital
treatment. Bills providing for this have
been introduced in both houses OF
congress at the behest of the legion.
The memorial says the United
States has been more liberal than any
other nation in its provisions for the
disabled soldiers, but that 1t had
failed in u large measure to make
these provisions available. This is at
tributed to ian astonishing state OF
divided responsibility and wasted ef-
fort among the government agencies.
ain the rehabilitation OF disabled
man there are three needs-medical
treatment, vocational training and IL
nancial support" the memorial pro-
ceeds. "The government has recog-
nized the three needs, but overlooks
the fact that they are the simultaneous
needs of man, not of three different
men or of one man at three different
times. 1t makes three problems out
of what really is one three-part prob
lem."
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05

u REPRESENTATIVE Kelley Of Michi-
N gan. chairman Of the house naval
subcommittee on appropriations, at
ter conference with President-elect
Harding, will propose to the committee
q 40 per cent cut in the naval estimate
for ship construction.
Representative Kelley said he was
giving his own views and made no
attempt to reflect the opinions sS the
President-elect, but declared he
thought the policy should be to grad
ually complete the naval building pro-
gram of 1916, but with view to pro-
portionate disarmament of the nations.
"The coming year In my opinion"
he said, should be normal, healthy,
naval building year. The navy is ask
ing for $1s4. 100000 for new ships
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
Congress May Reduce Naval Estimate

more than thirty, In
Guiding six battle cruisers, ten battle
ships and ten scout cruisers. AS this
work goes forward now the navy is
spending about S7,0OO,OOO or $4,000, 900
a month. This rate, believe. is rapid
enough to carry on the necessary con-
struction, and about 100000, 900 ought
to be enough to carry out the building
program.
'T told Senator Harding that In any
discussion Of the reduction Of arma-
ment I could not see how we could
avoid building these ships, for 1t
would cost as much now to discon-
tinue building as 1t would to finish the
job"
Representative Kelley said proper
tionate armament reduction SHOULD
be made off the bottom"
"We should abandon the old ships
and old guns" he said, sin any dis
armament scheme. Every nation will
keea its new weapons"
Disarmament is scheduled for
lengthy discussion in both branches
of congress In the senate the for
eign relations committee will resume
consideration Of the Borah and Walsh
resolutions for naval disarmament.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
Gen. Crowder's Difficult Errand in Cuba

wow to accomplish defation without
ii precipitating a financial crash,
possible revolution, or American In
tervention, is the Cuban problem con-
fronting Gen. Enoch Crowder, who
was sent there by the United States
to straighten out Cuba's tangled polit-
ical and economic affairs. The Gu
bans have great confidence in General
CrOwder.
The Menocal administration pro-
fesses deep distrust of the schemes
for Cuban financial reform. These
schemes are alleged to favor absorp-
tion of the tottering Havana banks
nv Wall street financial interests and
the consequent profits Of millions by
them from Cuba's distress.
Cuba owes her present financial
troubles largely to speculation In su-
gar when the world shortage was ac-
ceutuated through the boarding by
proflteers, which sent the price OF
sugar to 1S cents per pound on New
York docks. Cuban planters and mill
owners reaped fortunes overnight, but
this only whetted their appetites, and
tbey formed combine which was
pledged to withhold 100000 bags of
su9ar from the market until the price
should 90 to % cents or more.
In the meantime the speculation
Ibubbfe brrst and the Cubans woke mp
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05

yIyASHINGTON.- present sys-
w tenn of rehabilitating disabled war
veterans is denounced by the Ameri-
can Legion as failure" which should
be remedied by consolidating under a
single head the three government
agencies now engaged in that work.
The Legion memorial asserts that
the function of the three agencies
the bureau of war risk insurance, the
federal board for vocational education
and the United States public health
service-''must be co-ordinated, their
machinery decentralized. and all three
placed under the common control"
"To do this" the memorial says,
"there must be a new law which shall
place the unified organization under
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05

schedule a change in the basis Of val
uation In calculating ad valorem rates
of duty was urged. Henry Howard
chairman of the executive committee
of the Manufacturing Chemists Asso-
ciation of the United States; Nathan
NJ. Clark, representing the Pyroxolin
Manufacturers association, and also
a number of others, proposed that the
domestic value rather than the for
eign value be taken as the basis of
any rates that are in any way regu-
lated by the value Of the imported
article.
Representative Fordney. chairman
of the committee, and other Republi-
cans on the committee showed de-
cided sympathy with this reversal of
the policy which has been in effect for
more than a century.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05

the right. as God gives us to see the
right"
But in all probability Lincoln at
Gettysburg touched his highest with
the written and spoken word. 1t was
great assemblage OF the wisest and
best of the nation. Edward Everett,
statesman. patriot and orator, was
the speaker of the day. He delivered
long, eloquent and notable address.
Then President Lincoln arose and
said just 257 words.
Those 257 words were not appre-
cIated at the time. They were drowned
by Everett's flood of eloquence. Today
Everett's Grafton is known only to
students. Today Llncoln's 257 words
have been committed to memory by
the world.
Do not think for one minute that
Lincoln's Gettysburg address was
happy Incident His letters, his de-
bates, his speeches-all his papers
proclaim his mastery OF the written
and spoken word.
Nevertheless, Lincoln's Gettysburg
address is in sense the sublimation
of all that he wrote and said. II IL
the utterance of great soul aroused
to expression by great occasion. IL
touches the heart. II satisfies the
brain. 1t is Abraham Lincoln him
self.
Lloyd George, in his tribute to Lin
coin at the unveiling of the Lincoln
statue last August near Westminster
Abbey, used these words:
"I am not sure that you in America
realize the extent to which he Is also
our possession and our pride.
In his life he was great American.
He is an American no longer. He Is
one of those giant figures. OF whom
there are very few in history, who
lose their nationality in death. They
are no longer Greek or Hebrew or
English or American-they belong to
mankind. l wonder whether l Will
be forgiven for saying that George
Washington was great American.
but Abraham Lincoln belongs to the
common people of every land"
True, but wordy! The same thing
was said better long ago.
spised Lincoln, who had reviled and
insulted him. But Lincoln knew his
ability and his patriotism and took
him into his cabinet as his war secre-
tary. The man entered the cabinet.
expecting and intending to run the
government.
Truly had Lincoln said, with a
task before me greater than that
which rested upon Washington" That
task was to prevent the Union from
splitting In twain, to bring back the
seeding states by force Of arms. and
to reunite divided country half slave
and half free.
How Lincoln accomplished part
of that task we all know. In 1865 Lee
surrendered at Appomattox and the
armed resistance of the Confederacy
was at an end. And during those four
momentous years this war secretary.
who had despised and reviled and In
suited Lincoln, had quickly come to
appreciate and love Lincoln and to
obey him.
Six days after Lees surrender at
Appomattox Lincoln's further accom-
by the assassin's bullet. And as Abra-
ham Lincoln's eyelids closed In death
his great war secretary. Edwin M.
| Stanton, stepped forward and spoke
the proved judgment of humanity:
"Now he belongs to the ages"
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05

known In the American political arena.
81 saw Abraham Lincoln keyed up
to righteous wrath on the subject
of human slavery and l regarded him
as a slngularly lofty demon of Inn
mense proportions, stirring strife be-
tween the sections of our sacred union
of confederated states.
al saw Abraham Lincoln admins
tering justice in military and naval
affairs, when he seemed to be COM
posite incarnation of Julius Caesar
and the hero of Trafalgar.
81 saw Abraham Lincoln In the
White House tenderly offering to
mother mercy for her condemned son,
sentenced to death by court martial;
saw him revoking the doctrine of an
eye for an eye and tooth for tooth,
substituting for 1t the new command
ment that ye love one another ana l
believed his face to be the most awe
insplrIngly beautiful cameo ever cut
by Almighty God to demonstrate thar
Omnipotence had created man in HIS
own Image and then sent His Son to
say concerning mortal man Father,
forgive them, for they know not what
they do
Future generations cannot see
Abraham Lincoln In marble, In
bronze. nor on canvas. for no human
being can portray him with chisel nor
with brush"
IL the time. place and occasion OF
this proposed portrait of Lincoln were
left to a vote of the American people,
what would 1t choose? There certainly
is a wealth Of suggestive occasions.
Take. for instance, the debates of
1858 between Lincoln and Douglas, on
which in reality the fate of the nation
largely hung. Vice President Marshall,
when boy of four, heard the Free
port debate and was on the platform.
He says:
"While Mr.. Lincoln was talking I
sat on the knees of Senator Douglas.
and he never said one word to me;
lust held me. When 1t came his turn
to talk / sat on the knees of Lincoln.
He asked my name, my age, where l
lived, whether 1 knew my A, B, C's,
whether 1 had puppy dog or not,
and all sorts of questions of kind
to interest little boy"
At the Charleston debate Douglas
made the mistake of indirectly accus-
ing Lincoln of disloyalty by referring
to the old story that he had voted
against appropriations for the soldiers
in the war with Mexico. Sitting on the
platform as chairman of the Douglas
committee was Colonel Orlando b.
Ficklln. AS soon as 1t came his turn
to speak Mr.. Lincoln grabbed him by
the shoulders, dragged him to the
front of the platform and shouted to
the audience:
81 am not going to hurt Ficklin, but
I am going to make him tell the truth
TO this audience about that ten-year-
old lie which Judge Douglas has
brought up again. FicklIn was men,
ber of congress when 1 was, he knows
the truth, and he must tell it"
And Ficklin did.
Take the occasions of Lincoln's fare
well to his Springfield neighbors when
he left for Washington to assume the
presidency.
Take the occasion of Lincoln's sec
ond inaugural. when he uttered the
words: "With malice toward none,
with charity for all, with firmness for
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05

The truck driver emitted startled
yelp of warning and threw on his
brakes hard.
Nanny had resources of speed. With
amazing agility she leaped toward the
curb. just clearing the front wheels Of
the truck.
The truck driver leaned over with a
bawling: "Hey. you"
Nanny whirled on him. "Yo' low
down no count trash. Whaffo yo' mean
tryin' to hit me. yo' wuffless white
mani Ahll-"
What she would do nobody knows.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
eenlua Riaxed In Aaa.

Goethe was more than eighty when
he wrote the second part Of Faust"
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
sy JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.

OUSE Resolution VI, lh-
troduced by representa-
tive James Gideon Mon
ahan of Wisconsin, au-
thoriZes the painting or
a full-length portrait OF
Abraham Lincoln and the
placing of 1t in the hall
of the house of represen-
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
Had Business Further On
Truck Driver Evidently Couldn't Wait
to Learn Just What Nanny
Intended to Do

She was buxom nanny. She was
crossing Broadway at Reade street,
moving slowly. She waited for sur
face car to pass. Engrossed in her
thoughts. she started on again to cross
the rest of Broadway and stepped d.
rectIy in the path Of a motortruck.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05

Nobody will know. She started, but
the truck driver started first. Mammy's
big jump showed him. He shot the
truck up Broadway. leaving nanny
glaring like an ebony Nemesis.-New
York Evening Sun.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05


of the house of represen-
tatives. If Mr.. Monnhan's resolution
goes through, the portrait painter Sc
lected to make the portrait may wen
feel proud over his selection. But rev
real artists will be envious of him.
For Abraham Lincoln was so many
kinds of man that his physical body
produced widely differing impressions,
even upon those accustomed to his
presence and familiar with the many
sidcdness of his character. Moreover,
the whole civilized world has now
come to revere and love the name of
Lincoln and will be satisfied with
nothing less than great achievement
by the painter of this portrait.
This Is the moral of the recent con-
trovcrSy over the statue of Lincoln
erected In London. 1t will be remem-
bered that the British government set
apart site related to the house of par
lament and Westminster Abbey for
this statue. A controversy arose over
the choice between two statues. The
plain truth is that there was feel
Ing that one of these statues fell far
short Of doing Lincoln Justice. The
British government asked the United
States department of state to settle
the controversy. The department of
state referred the question to the COM
mission of fine arts. The commission
reported to the British government
that the "man and site call for u
statue representative of the highest
achievement of the American sculptor"
and advised Great Britain that "such
is the statue of Abraham Lincoln exc
cuted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and
erected In Lincoln park. Chicago" The
British government accepted the re-
port of the commission.
The world does not want a hand
some Lincoln, but It does insist upon
an impressive Lincoln and Will toler-
ate no suggestion of the grOtesque or
the inefficient.
Lincoln well knew the wide varia-
tion of Impressions his appearance
and actions produced. No doubt he
grieved over 1t. But his philosophy
rose superior and his course was set
according to his declaration:
"If | were to try to read, much
less answer, all the attacks made on
me, this shop might as well be closed
to all other business. I do the very
hest I know how-the very best I
can; and 1 mean to keep on doing so
until the end. If the end brings me
out all right. what is said against me
won't amount to anything. If the end
brings me out wrong. ten angels swear
Ing / was right would make no diff
ference"
This variance of impression pro-
duced by Lincoln upon even the same
behoider is well illustrated by what
Col. Richard ]. Bright. long an official
of the United States senate. once
said:
mo sculptor has told the story and
no artist has recorded the drama
comedy-tragedy revealed In the fea-
lures of that meteor of humanity and
spirituality which flashed Its bright
est iridescence on the field of Gettys-
burg.
IL saw Abraham Lincoln when be-
lleved him to be the homeliest creature
fn human form ever permitted to cum
ber this earth by walking and talking
with the statesmen of our republic.
81 saw Abraham Lincoln on the plat
form engaged In earnest discussion of
then current topics and 1 believed him
to be the most forceful character ever
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05

Alikeness In Unlike Thlngs.
Watches and rivers seldom run long
without winding.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-01-12
Residence Burned to Ground

Wednesday morning shortly
after four o'clock fire was dis
covered in the automobile shed
adjoining the John Weber
home and the families aroused
fought it to protect the house
which was very close, however,
it succeeded in reaching the
top of the roof on the house,
and having no immediate help
had too great a start before
any help came. The house
would have easily been saved
had word reached the people
in time and the fire engines
brot out, but it was doomed
and the nice home of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Weber is now reduc-
ed to ashes. Mr.. and Mrs. j.
b. Fleming occupied the same
building and both families suf-
fered severe losses in clothing
and household furniture tho
some furniture was saved.
+, To reconstruct the building
Las it stood would cost about
$4,000. and some insurance
Twas carried but not near enuf
Ito repair the loss.-MurdQck
Leader, =.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-01-12

Miss Lois Latterell spent the week
end at her home in Kandiyohi. s
+ Lee SOmerville spent Wednesday
and Thursday at the w. E. Somerville
home. -~--.}... - ~>..s< =
Mrs. W. B., Holiish entertained =
number OF ladies at her home last
Thursday afternoon. =
Misses Betty Person of Great
Falls. Mont, and sister Marie return
ed Monday from short visit in the
twin cities. .-.- ~ -.
Mrs. ]. c. Strand and Mrs. Leo
Penney and children returned Mon
day from a few days visit with rela-
tives at Foreston and Milaca. p
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-01-12

Mrs. A. C. Carlson and daughter
left last Wednesday for visit at Ben
son.
Miss Wayne Rasmussen returned
last Friday from short visit at Ha-
wick. = =. 2.-~
Edwin Kiland left a week ago last
Friday for Minneapolis after visit
at his home in this city.
Walter Knutson left a week ago
Monday to resume his duties at tea
cher at Anamoose, N. D.
Miss Ethel Carlson returned to
Minneapolis last Wednesday to re-
sumo her teaching at the Northwest
ern Conservatory of Music.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-01-12
y. S. Government Warns Far.
mers About Disease Caused
Bv Rats

They carry Bubonic plague,
fatal to human beings. They
carry foot and mouth disease,
which is fatal to stock. They
kill chickens, eat grain, cause
destruction to property. If you
have rats RAT-SNAP will kill
them. IL Cremates rats after
killing, them-leaves no smell.
Comesfin cakes, ready for use.
Three sizes, 35c, Csc, $1.25.
Sold and guaranteed by Nell
son &,..Gabbert, and F.. j.. Hal
lin, Willmar, Mimi. ADV.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-01-12
OLD UNCLE SIIAS WRITES
Post Christmas Days Strenuous over at
his House with All of Hirum' s
Youngsters Staying There 80 Tries
to Mend Sarah James Doll and Has
=: a Mighty Sticky Time Of It

neck, there arose such q heart
rendering wall that ]. low I.
really didn't know what to do.
Malindy offered the hoWlin'|
Sarah Jane a ginger camel
with a raisen on each hump,
and I. stood on my head and
beat tomtoms with my heels,
but--nothing dom. Ye
might as we'll try to stop the
flow of Niagara as to stop the
torrent of sound waves as
swelled from that 'ere child's
larynx. There was nothin' to
do but restore that doll. =.
Now last summer I gaved a
one-armed fakir a quarter of a
dollar fer. a recipe to make a
cement fer mendin' anything
from a broken door-knob to a
cracked croquet. ball.. 49,.
Gets Stuck ON Job
Following these directions /
melted up a mixture of bees
wax, pitch, rubber, blackstrap
and chewin' gum: I spilled
some Of it out on the stove and
it most skunk us out of the
house. Some sticky stuff too,
I tell We. And by the time I
got thru I. had it pretty well
all over my. clothes and that
part Of the house. Even the cat
got some of the stickum on her
paws and got stuck to the
floor so that I pretty near trip
ped myself over her and spat-
tered some of the stuff into my
eye which closed up like a clam
and I haven't got it open yet:
Malindy sat down in the kit
chen rocker to laugh and when
she started to get up she could
MT; and when I grabbed the
scissors to cut her loose I could
mt let go the tarneled shears
on a bet. 49, 80, =, ~
Fact was I never felt so
stuck up in all my life; and as
fer as the mendin' Of the brok-
en- doll is concerned, the less
said the better. It's huff to
say that when I got thru she
was a sorrowful lookin' baby
and was point blank disowned
by her bewailing mistress. And
so the howl opened up again
worse than ever before. > "
= Buy. Niger Doll
I reckoned the only thing to
do was to go down to- Dan
Whittaker's emporium and see
what he might have to offer in
his doll department. As !
started off down the road
found that the kitchen carpet
was hangin' to one of my boots.
But Dams Zine New Ship
ment of Xmas Toys' which he
had brot out from summer stor-
age in the side room jest be-
fore Christmas, was pretty we'll
shot to pieces by this time, and
the only thing he had in the
doll line was a dusky pickan-
inny made of painted muslin
and stuffed with saw dust. Dan
said the Irregular price" was
30 cents, but he'd marked it
down to 81, being it was after
the hollerdays.
AFTER the hollerdays?'
says I, :tSeems as the 'holle1
days has just begun over at
our house," says I. "
Well, anyway I took the doll
on the condition I could bring
9o1D D04
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-01-12
Badly Burned

: Mrs. Emil Pearson and son
Clifford of Svea, MIMI, spent
a week at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. G. Peterson in ST..
Paul, and while there the lit
tie son was badly burned by
pulling the cork out Of the
washing machine but is getting
along nicely at this writing.-
Hector Mirror.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-01-12
LOCAL /! !. ! | IS
(Intended for Last Week)

fisa Cora Galliford left
Monday afternoon for st. Paul
where. she will. enroll in the
music department. Of the Beth
.el Academy.
Clifford Rodlun, Eugene
lOhsberg, Minton Lundquist
and Frans erickson left Men
day for Minneapolis where
they will sresume their studies
Eat the State University.
lambert Rodelius and
Marvin Eric kson Of Lake Lii
liam and Albin Norling Of Svea
left Monday afternoon for st.
Paul to resume their studies at
the Bethel Academy and Theo-
logical Seminary.
Miss Myrtle and Goldie
Felt left Monday afternoon for
Minneapolis where they re-
sumo their studies at the State
Univ ersity. Sc IS "
-. E-:a i y9IeI anu ~: 10
neapolis Monday morning to
lEss.ns n men stuoies AZ tne All
erlca y: business Coilege.
. -. ~ lss margaret Jameson
1 1elt ": eunesoay TOT 9 Visit W1tn
ner slster I'M ~ Mlnneapolis; =,
,t- Mss Ollve zGreenneid 1e1'
monuay 1or ner nome az rem
lloch ~ - - Il. y sc.
-Hnt. anu MIS-. ssGnauncey
RYE and daughter sKuth re-
turne t Monday evening IRON
q a. V W3;, WIN MIS- rs frye.s parents
at Wlnnepeg,sCa
o -Mrs. severn !, Vlson' soi
urv s'll II ;and Miss xatDorg NJ
1ano'. returned 10 MonteVldec
HOLIDAYS with relatives
| -M;as R,+h' A. aso,, ~ mr.,
.-4A i.oo A.util <11AesoiA " Will
ItHeaPOllS* spent the week enc
twisting. relatives here while en-,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-01-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Lundberg
very pleasantly entertained the EN-
ployees of the store at their home
last Thursday evening, Dec. 80. Games
and music furnished the amusement
OF the evening after which they all
enjoyed dainty lunch.
I. Mrs. Ida Stromert and son Reu-
ben and daughters Gladys and ,Clar-
ice, spent last Wednesday visiting at
the Sidney Stromert home in Pen
mock.