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The Redwood gazette., 1921-09-14
What Ais Ameri-
can Schools.

Conditions in the public schools Of
the United States are characterized
as "deplorable" in the report Olga COM
mittee representing two or more ma
tional organizations interested in
educational problems. Two prime
causes are held to have produced the
lamentable situation-machineN or par
tisan politics and red tape.
In scores Of cases, the investigation
shows, ireffciency and waste, in the
public-school system are traceable te
interference by local politicians with
the functions of the school board
The latter is generally dependent
and cannot base its budgets on {
scientific study of the needs and con
ditions of the schools. Hence the re
port argues for thoroughly indepen
dent school boards.
In one report or one generalization
it is difficult to cover all school situa
tion in country SO vast and hetero
geneous as the United States. Ger
tainly dependent school boards are tot
often the victims of ignorant or crook
ed politicians. The Illinois school Law
now in effect was framed for the pur
pose Of doing away with evils of thi'
kind, 1t made the Chicago schoo
board virtually independent of thu
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The American Legi-
on's Pilgrimage,

The American Legion is making a
pilgrimage to France. Some two
hundred members are going. They
represent every State, each arm of
our land and sea forces, and, as far
as possible, every combat division.
They are to be the guests of the
French Government at the dedication
of the monument at sFlirey, in .Lor-
raine, to the memory Of the American
Expeditionary Forces. The monu-
ment is the gift of the municipality of
the people of Lorraine. No less than
seventeen American divisions fought
in the neighborhood of Flirey.
The French Government was dis
posed to be very generous in its,~re-
mission of expenses, but the men pre-
.ferred to pay their own way, though
they would naturally enjoy special
privileges. What is more, their pill
grimage is not one for well-to-do
soldiers only. They have raised
funds so that the less well-to-do can
go too. For example, members of the
famous Lost Battalion" will be re-
presented BY enlisted men chosen by
vote.
There will be plenty of interest in
the Legion's itinerary. From Paris
it goes to Blois, where statue OF
Joan of Arc, the gift Of the New York
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|625,OOO Bottles
Sold in New York
BIGGEST THING OF KIND EVER
SEEN IN THAT STATE, DE-
CLARES BIG WHOLESALER.


The fact that 625,0OO bottles Of
Tanlac have been sold in the state OF
New York since it's introduction there
less than one year ago, is big busi-
ness item that will attract unusual
attention throughout the entire East
for nothing like it has ever happened
before. It breaks all records.
Mr.. George B. Evans, manager OF
the Gibson-Snow Company, the we'll
known wholesale druggists, with
branches in Albany, Buffalo, Rochest-
er and Syracuse. recently announced
that the preparation was now selling
in their trade territories alone at the
phenomenal rate of approximately
100000 bottles a year.
eff the present rate continues,
said Mr.. Evans, "this state alone will
probably require considerably ove1
100000 bottles a year. This is {
tremendous figure, but / am really
conservative in making this state
ment"
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Poem by Uncle John.
Exchange

Exchange.
Our Mary AIMS a-takin ''Voice, /"
whatever that implies-Sh takes
it in the city, whar everybody's
wise. I. don't regret her takin'
it, nor wish to raise fuss, but I
have grown suspicious Of the stuff
she hands to us.
She used to sing the good, old songs
an tackled new ones, too, an
everybody listened till she'd sang
the last one through. We UNDER
stood the words she said, which
made our hearts rejoice but that's
before our Mary Ann had went to
takin' Voice.
I reckon that the screech-owl is a
songbird in his way, and puts that
doggone tremulo in all he has to
say -. There's nothin' to it but the
tune, and even that is raw,-jes'
ssyah-yah-yah-yah- -yah-eel O., yah
yah YAH yah yah -yah-yaw-w!!W
A wiggle may be handy, or be the
proper thing to exercise q puppy's
tail, or cen flyers wing. But
when they wiggle harmony, until It
goes to rack, i wouldn't mind 'em
takin' voice but I wisht they'd send
it baekl
The Redwood gazette., 1921-09-14
How many Questions
Can You Answer
Correctly.
Americans Suffering From Mental
Atrophy, Says Thomas A. Edison.

Here are some Of the famous Edi-
son questions which started some
thing. Sit down with the list and
answer as many as you can.
Where do we get shellac from?
What is a monsoon?
Where do we get prunes?
Where do we get domestic sar-
dimes?
Where do we import cork from?
Of what kind of wood are ak ham
dies made?
Who wrote Home, Sweet Homer"
Where are condors to be found?
Who was Cleopatra?
What voltage is used in street cars
What is felt?
What states produce phospates?
Why is cast iron called pig iron?
Where is Spitzbergen?
Who was Frances Marion?
Who invented logarithms
What ingredients are in the best
white paint?
Where do we get benzol from?
How is window glass made
Bound the state of West Virginia.
What number of vibrations per Sec
ond do red rays of light give violet?
What country owns Madagascar
Bound Idaho.
Name two locks in the Panama can
al.
In what country do orang- -outangs
live?
Name the highest quality Of bunk
ering coal used for steamships and
what district it comes from.
What country has the greatest per-
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centage of gypsies ?
What is sago?

What is sago?
In attacking the American school
system and defending his quizzes, Mr..
Edison says:
competent men in our jobs mean
success for us; incompetent men in
them would mean failure. The best
Of qualifications is fine memory.
"The QUESTIONABLE idea grew out of
my desire for way other than sheer,
bullhead luck, of finding good men.
We know the plan is right.
"Young men cannot think efficient
ly unless they have facts in their
minds ready to serve as basis for
their thinking.
"The employer who does not study
and Judge men before hireing them is
foolish. There is no way in which
men can be judged save by finding
out how much and what they know.
"I am for the college men,
'They are the best we have, but
they might be great deal better, for
only z per cent answered our simple
questions with evidence of decent
memory and actual intelligence Of
this per cent, thirty-two men have
been given jobs and all have made
good. Seventeen are the heads Of de-
partments.
Something is radically wrong with
the way we are training minds.
Atrophy Of perception affiicts Am
erica today.
Perhaps the failure of the college
lies principally in their lack of appre-
citation of the dull inferiority of the
material which the lower schools de-
liver to them.
"The fact is that our youths are
spoiled long before they get to col
lege. Whatever may be the remedy,
the situation is one to shock the pride
ofsan American.
''The time has surely come for us
to stop, look and listen"
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Pull Them Down.

| wish we had fellow,
In every little town,
Who, when the dance is over,
Would pull the posters down.
I walk the streets in August,
And every pane and door
Displays luried poster
From three months back or more.
''Coming!' I see upon this bill,
ga big Home Talent Play!'
1t fills me with a maddening sense
Twas hanging there since May.
And here I see another
"I1l sell my full-blooded herd!"
I eager scan the date below.
It mocks me-June the 3rd.
There are bills of all descriptions
To taunt me, passing by,
But when they're two months over
They make me heave sigh.
I like my fellow towns-men;
I love my little town;
But when the dance is over
The posters should come down.
Helen Jenniges in Sanborr
Sentinel.
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Herb. Hotaling, of the Mapleton
Enterprise, whose official headquart-
ers are at the States capitol, and
~whose business puts him in touch
with what is going on politically,
makes this mention Of the senatorial
situation: Comment arising here
and there indicates that Governor
Preus expeats to take advantage of
any deadlock that may spring up be
tween Judge Hallam and Senator Kel-
logg in the United States Sentorship
campaign. The governor is not an
nouncing his candidacy-neither did
he announce his candidacy for COVER
nor, but his friends are pointing out
that he would be the most available
and logical candidate to succeed Mr.
Kellogg, and it is no secret that Min
neapolis would like to land the honor
and that they have more votes than
St. Paul.
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Yet what has come

city government. Yet what has come
about !. I
The independent school board of
Chicago permits itself to be subser-
Went to selfish, predatory and IN
solent factional machine. The public
lis not allowed to know anything about
school finances and school policies.
Thus the school system has bedome a
rich field for spoils and favoritism.
There are plotssand conspiracies with
in the system.
Laws alone are insufficient to safe
guard the welfare of the public
schools. Personnel is Of equal if not
greater importance. In any COM
munity where the mayor appoints the
school trustees reform will have to be-
gin with the nomination and election
of fit man to the mayoralty chair
Chicago Daily News.
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UOW you can measure
tire value in lqa1 :

country to another to ind a market.
There are 81 us. Factory Branches.
Each c1e gets it's share of y. S. Tires.
There is a broad, constant even dis
tribution of U. S. Tires always going
on from these Branches to the dealer.
The Redwood gazette., 1921-09-14
WANTED
LIFE INSURANCE AGENT

This is a fine time to get into the
Life insurance business as the need
for insurance was never greater.
We want good man who is well.
known in this community and will
ing to work to represent us as gem
eral agent. We are an old line
Company with a line of service sec
ond to none on the market Ex-
perience is not necessary as we will
give the right party all the assist
ance necessary ins getting the
agency work started. Full parti-
culars concerning yourself, past
experience, ETC., will be treated IN
confidence. Address
General Agent, 2732 Pillsbury
Avenua, Minneapolis, Mimi.
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Committee, is to be unveiled. The
Legion goes thence to Bordeaux,
Tarbes (Marshal Foch's birthplace),
Toulouse, Lyons, st. Die (where the
Legion will place a tablet on the house
of Waldsee Muller, who suggested
that the newly discovered Western
Hemisphere take it's name from Am
erico Vespucci), Strasbourg, Metz,
and Flirey; and will make tour Of
the battlefelds of the Argonne and
Champagne. At chateau Thierry the
Legion will lay the cornerstone OF
Pont Roosevelt. This IS to be the
name of the new stone bridge which
is to replace the one blown up when
our men first arrived at Chateau
Thierry. The name commentaries
two heroes-President Roosevelt and
his son Quentin Outlook.
The Redwood gazette., 1921-09-14

Buy a u. S. Tire anywhere
in a community of 50Opeopl,
or even less-and you get a
fresh, i've tire Of current
production with all the orig
inal service ard mileage the
factory put into it.
The owner Of a medium or
light weight car stands on
equal ground with every other
ca owner.
Any United States Tire is
versal full moneys worth-ba
with a leadership policy of
quality, buying convenience a
for everybody.
The Redwood gazette., 1921-09-14

Many will remember the scarcity
of u. S. Tires last year.
A hardship at the time, but a bere-
fit now. There are no u. S. Tires to be
worked off no accurnulations-n0
forced selling of any US. brand -Io
shipping of. tires from one part of the
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THE u. S. ROYAL CORD

A famous tire-and 4 famous tread.
Acknowledged among motorists and
dealers alike as the worlds foremost
example Of Cord tire building. AL
ways delivering the same repeated
economy, tire after tire, and season
after season.
The stripe around the sidewalk is
registered as trademark inthe IS
Patent Office.
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garets which may be purchased at II,
Is. or 20 cents a box. There are just
about as many places selling them
at one price as at either of the others
But all places seem to be doing an
equally good business in them. It
would seen that the cigaret smoker
buys where he is accustomed to buy
ing and that a saving of Is per cent
IS not enough to induce him to change
his habits. In this case, there is not
much to induce the retailer to lower
his price. If a low price brought a
flood of trade and high price produced
a prompt boycott, it is extremely pro-
bable that the average retail prices
would fall.
In another case a brand OF trade
marked and nationally advertised kha-
ki trousers, widely used by sportsman,
was priced at three different stores.
The prices were $50, s6.25, and 500.
Likewise, large hardware store want
ed $3.50 for a certain hand-aX, which
is trade-marked. A smaller place sold
the same tool for$165. 1t is safe to
say that many more of them are sold
at the higher price than at the lower.
Sporting goods are an instructive H.
Iustration of the shopping habits of
men. The goods are bought almost
exclusively by men. There are about
100000 such men in this country
who go afield, and the industry which
caters to their wants is a large one.
1t supports in a typical city of half a
million people five or six stores de-
voted exclusively to such goods. The
prices charged for these goods vary
from 10 to so per cent. The leading
store on the principal retail street al
ways gets more for exactly the same
article than the little store up a side
street. Furthermore a reel which
sells for $500 in the spring is only
$500 in the fall, but very few are sold
in the fall.
Inc average sportsman spends pro-
badly at least half again as much as
he need spend for his equipment. He
IS. in fact, about as careful as a small
boy IN candy store. His outdoor life
represents the kid side if his nature
anyway When he sees some shining
bit of equipment that he likes in a
window he runs in and buys it without
question, though he NAV nav so ner
cent. more than is necessary. But a
rise of one cent in the price of gaso-
line will always get a howl of rage out
OF MIN, While to mention the prices wo-
men pay for clothes in his presence
is to insure a philippe.
Inc women as a matter of fact are
much better shoppers than the men,
and as result the prices charged for
the things they buy exclusively are
much more uniform than those charg-
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ed for strictly masculine goods. 1t has
been noted that stores catering to wo-
men usually run in groups of three.
That is, there are usually at least
three stores in a city which carry Wo-
mems cloaks, and larger places are
likely to have three stores of each dis
tinctive class, or on each principal
retail street. The reason for this is
that a woman about to make a pur-
chase will usually price the desired
article in at least three places and
then buy in the cheapest market,
whereas, the man will probably buy in
the first place he enters if the sales
man there knows his business at all.
Women Determined
1t is also easy to see that a woman
will take more trouble to make her
purchases. In the department stores
the mems furnishings are always on
the first floor They have to be- Men
will not go TO an upper floor in search
of what they want. But the women S
furnishings are always on an upper
floor, while the first floor is revoted
to lot of small articles that every
woman needs, so that she will see
them and buy them in passing.
Despite her greater determination
and resourcefulness as a shopper, it
cannot be said that the woman comes
off much better than the man in the
buying of ready-to-wear clothes. On
the other hand, women's clothes gener.
ally seem TO be little higher than
mems. There are two principal rea-
sons for this. In the first place, wo-
man is a good deal more a slave to
fashion than man. She must have the
latest thing right away, no matter
what it costs. Likewise the merchant
must sell the latest thing while it is
still late, or never. What is left over
Is mostly loss. So he has to charge
high price.
Mems styles in suits change every
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The Resourceful Shopper
BY FREDERICK J. HASkJN

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 21-The
outstanding fact about the retail mar
ket these is the variation you can dis
cover in the price asked for exactly
athe same article at different stores.
Some retailers are apparently try
ing to stand pat on war time prices,
while others are trying to build up
their trade and hasten the turnover by
selling at the lowest prices they can.
No doubt, too, the retail price varies
widely because the wholesale prices,
at which goods now in stores were
bought, also vary. Some retailers have
goods in stock bought at war time
wholesale prices, and they are holding
them for a price that will give them
at least their money back Others,
who bought more cautiously, have the
same articles purchased at somewhat
lower rate.
Whatever the reasons for this vari-
ETY. of price on the same article, it Ger
tainly exists, and it creates an unusual
opportunity for the resourceful and de-
termined shopper to find what he is
looking for low price. incidentally,
the fact that the same town the same
article is sold for three or four diff
ferent prices shows that most people
are not resourceful and determined
shoppers. While constantly protest
ing against high prices, they, as a
rule, tamely pay whatever the retail
er demands, and they make no special
effort to patronize the man who of
fers goods at low price. They buy
where they are accustomed to buying
and would rather pay a few cents or
dollars more than walk a few blocks
farther. This is undoubtedly much
more true of men than of women.
Cigarets at Three Prices
Take for an example, such a pre-
ponderantly male trade as that in to-
bacco. The most surprising variation
in the prices charged for the same ar
ticle is observable. In this city, for
example, there is certain brand of CT
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rands, vain or sane, amid the sIush
and mud and rain. But Mr.. Killjoy
| says, My friend, this doggone rain
will never end; and if it does thereIl
be freeze and well have green pains
in our knees. The weathars hourly
growing worse, and he is wise who
hires a hearse; thereU be an out
| break of the flu, and that will put an
end to you" We hear him spelling in
the rain, and feel that everything is
vain, and when at last we reach our
homes were shooting spasms in our
domes, and rheumatism here and
there, and mumps, and falling of the
hair. Thus these two scouts go up
and down; one tries to cheer the
weary town; the other journeys to
and fro, and scatters stovelength
chunks of woe.
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energy if they are required to wait at least few
more months until conditions become more GER
tain and we have passed the realm of speculation
as to what the new unit can do in reducing oper-
ating expenses
Some citizens enormously believe that the
light and power rates here are higher than else
where, and that the plant is penalizing the con-
sumner, whereas in truth, as Mr. Perk shows, the
the Richmond rates are so low that they are an
invitation to industries to settle here. Cheap
power rates are an attractive talking point in any
selling campaign that city may wage. Rich
mOnd is fortunate in having municipal utility
that is able to provide current at rate which is
regarded as low when it is compared with rates
in other cities.
By paying the present rates the citizens are
safeguarding their investment of 81, 043, 0O0 and
are providing sufficient revenue to enable it to
show earnings that will take care of the various
charges that have to be met. 1t is much better
to maintain these rates than to reduce them and
to be confronted with deficit that will Ultimately
ruin the plant create conditions that will mill
tate against its future welfare.
Some of us are not aware of the value of the
municipal plant. We underestimate the fact that
it is giving power and light at rates that are
lower than most cities have. If the plant is
able to give us this utility at lower rates than
other cities enjoy, and still is able to meet its
charges of all kinds, we have an investment that
IS worth safeguarding at all costs.
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Light Rates to Remain the Same

The recommendation of Benjamin Perl1 that
power and light rates of the municipal electric
light plant remain as they are at present squares
with good business judgment and the principles
of sound financing.
The accountant, in his report to the board of
public works, sets out fully his reasons for this
recommendation. The present rate schedule will
enable the plant to earn about $4,000 this year.
If the rates were reduced one cent on light and
power, the revenue would be reduced about
$4,000, which would seriously cripple the plant
The present rates are not high compared with
those prevailing in other cities. Mr.. Perks OBJ
servation on this point might we'll be considered
seriously by every citizen. He said:
THE present rates in the city of Richmond
are low; in fact, among the very lowest in the
state of Indiana, and consequently no hardship
is being worked upon the consumers of electric
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Answers to Questions

ANY reader can get the answer to
any question by writing The Palladium
Information Bureau, Frederick j. Hask-
in, director, Washington. D. c. This Of
Ter applies strictly to information. The
bureau does not give advice on legal,
medical and financial matters. 1t does
not attempt to settle domestic troubles,
nor TO undertake exhaustiv research
on any subject Write your question
plainly and briefly. Give full name and
address and enclose two cents in stamps
for return postage. All replies are sent
direct to the inquirer)
brated? G. s. P.
A. The beginning of the celebra-
ton of Christmas as a Christian an
niversary cannot be dated exactly.
The first certain mention of the fes-
tival is in the reign of the Emperor
Commodus CA. y. 1S0-192l. The fes-
tival is also spoken of in the third
century by Clement of Alexandria. 1t
was. of course. celebration com
memorating the birth of the Son OF
God. and was participated in by the
little groups who recognized Christ as
such.
@. Have as many immigrants arriv-
ed from any country as the laws al
lows to enter? G. T.
A. The years quotas for Greece,
Spain, Jugoslavia, Palestine, Turkey,
Syria and Smyrna are already eX-
hausted.
Q. Explain the Six and Six Plan Of
school organization. B. 0. F.
A. The Six and Six Plan of school
organization is a plan whereby the
education Of a child shall be divided
into six years OF graded school work,
two years OF junior high, and four
years of high school work. making six
OF graded work and six of high rath-
or than eight grades and four years in
high school
Q. Which is carried on more eX-
tensively in the West. cattle raising
or sheep raising? L. K. |.
A. The cattle industry is more ex-
tensive in the West than sheep
ranching. The total farm value Of
cattle in the United States for the
present year is estimated at S1,346,-
665. 900, while the total value Of sheep
and wool is estimated at S288732, 900.
Q. What was the Battle of the
Rosebud?
A The Battle of the Rosebud was
a battle between Federal troops and
the Indians, fought shortly before the
Custer Massacre. The Sioux were
victorious in this encounter which Oc-
Cured July It, 1876, on the banks Of
the Rosebud river