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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11

the American flag-.and that defni-
ton stands today; for the flag stands
for American institutions, American
laws and American customs, and es-
pecially for that foundation stone Of
American liberty and laws, ten con-
stituton of the United States.
So important is this latter that no
officer. ether Of the several states or
of the United States from the high
est to the most humble cannot as
sumo any office to which he may be
elected or appointed until he has TAX
en- a solemn oath to uphold the con-
stituton of the United States. Ev-
cry service man took such an oath be-
fore he entered the army or navy Of
our country.
The constitution, with it's nineteen
amendments, is the supreme law Of
the land, and no one can be truly 100
per cent American who violates any
of it's provisions. What, then, is the
status of those who evaded the prohi-
bition law, by making or selling in
toxicating liquors? And one cannot
be a 100 per cent American and do
these things, what of the man who
buys the liquid damnation? As he is
aiding and abetting the violation Of
law, is he really 100 per cent Amerr-
can?
Also, if you are shielding any per-
son who makes or sells liquor, by
Withholding any information you may
have from the officers of the law, can
you qualify as 100 per cent American?
Doubtless members of the late
grand jury are in better position to
know-even if they cannot tell-who
are some Of the 100 per cent Ameri-
cans in this county, and some who are
at a discount.
1t is a proud cast, 81 am 100 per
cent American" Can you qualify p
Charleston Enterprise Courier.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11

ing from Judson Weliver's interview
with Henry Ford in the coming issue
of that publication.-Editor.)
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11
WHAT MOTHER EARNS

That excellent country newspaper,
the West Point (Neb.) Republican,
carries the following story in its cur
rent issue and declares that every
newspaper in the land should print it.
We agree, and here it is:
"She never earned any money-she
lives on an Ohio farm, but she lives
on almost every other farm. She is
somebody's mother, maybe your own.
She has earned nothing. No, but dur
ing her thirty working years she has
served 432, 983 meals; she has made
1928 garments, $4,000 loaves of bread,
$3.50 cakes, 1882 pies, 1900 gallons
of lard; she has grown 1882 bushels
Of vegetables, and has raised 1860
chickens; churned $3.50 pounds of but
ter; put up 1925 jars of preserves;
scrubbed 177,725 articles of laundry;
and she has put in 35,839 hours or
sweeping and washing and scrubbing.
At accepted prices for this work it is
worth Sis, 48050. She can't retire on
her savings-she has to keep on. Not
earning! No. How do you define the
ordinary woman's contributions to her
family wealth COLLIER Weekly.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11

the work, and it would take anybody
else that long, except a man who has
been giving constant and continuous
study to it and who has made it the
sole study Of his life.
81 think | can say without contra
diction that what say of myself is
true of you: l have rot found man
on the Finance Committee, or a man
in the Senate, who can tell me what
all the clauses of this bill mean, or
what all these chang IS mean. 1t has
been the story here every day, when
amendments to this bill come up and
members of the Senate have inquired
as to the meaning Of them, that the
reply was that they would have to
get their information from the ex-
perts of the Treasury Department.
81 think the difficulties which rest
with you, not only in this bill but in
the tariff bill which now slumbers in
the Finance Committee, are that you
do not want to be candid with the
American people. On the surface you
want to say that you are reducing tax
alton, but behind the closed doors you
want to raise the taxation"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11
"When review the result of their

"When | review the result of their
/ (the experts) handiwork as presented
to us in this bill | can but feel that
we have before us the tattered rags
Of tax measure three years old,
long since out of style and faded, but
to which now has been patched and
embroidered in a vain attempt to
bring it up to the mode of 1922. This
was not the promise of last year; this
cannot be the fulfillment of that prom
Use if those responsible for this seri-
ously expect to seek Judgment of
their countrymen in 1922.
at has been said that whatever tax
law we now enact will be only tenn
porary measure. 1t may be that this
statement will prove true in a man
ner which some Of US little wish, for |
am convinced that the dominant party
in this country, although swept into
power less than year ago by ma
jority vote of 100000 of their coun-
trymen cannot hope again to ride the
flood of popular approval if we con-
tinue to cling to the fragments of
taxation system which even those who
sponsored it only three years ago now
declare to he outworn and unsuitable
and under which the enterprise of the
country must remain paralyzed and
stifel."
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO KICK
FOR THE &. 0. p. is IN

When oats are twenty-seven,
And corn is twenty-five,
And you're sorry you're alive,
Please don't find fault and murmur,
1t would be an awful sin,
For the Democrats are out, you see,
And the G. o. P. is in.
It's your patriotic duty
Not to holler or complain,
Though you feel you're going nutty,
Please don't show trace of pain,
Whoop'er up and say you like it,
Help to make the welkin spin,
For the Democrats are out, you see,
And the G. o. P. is in.
Twas all right for US to holler,
For that Wilson, darn his skin,
Said therell be no wheat a dollar
While the Democrats are in.
And he seemed to think the farmers
Would be in better fix
If the lowest price that they could gel
Would be two twenty-six.
But some folks whole lot smarter,
Said dollar was enough,
And they've gone right on and PROVED
it,
So we know it was no bluff,
Now the thing to do is like it,
Cause 'twould be an awful sin
To find fault, or even mention it,
For the G. o. P. is in.
Though we cannot pay our taxes,
Nor buy any gasoline,
It's enough to know that Ladide Boy
Is as happy as queen.
So we'll try to play we're tickled,
Though in trouble to our chin,
For this one thing offsets it all,
The G. o. P. is in.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11
Tax Bill Mysteries Defy Senator Tn.

derwoOd, an Authority on Taxation.
Some of the most glaring defects OF
the Republican tax revision bill, in
GLIDING its understandable clauses
were pointed out recently in a speech
by Senator Underwood. After call
ing attention to the Republican par
TVS promise in the last campaign t.
reduce taxation and pointing out that
no effort was made by the Republican
Congress in the last two years of the
Wilson administration to follow Pres
ident Wilson's recommendations to re-
wise taxation, Mr.. Underwood said:
~ think it is only fair criticism
to say that you have done nothing to
redeem your pledges; that up to this
hour, after you have been in power in
every branch of the government for
six months, your pledges remain I'M
redeemed.
$50 far as | know, there is not
man in the Senate, there is not man
in the House, and so far as | know
there is not man in the country who
has given unqualified approval to the
taxing features of this bill.
81 rose more particularly not to dis
cuss the taxing features of this bill,
but to discuss those features which
are designed to carry the law into eff
feet, the machinery of the bill. say
that in the administrative clauses of
this bill you have presented about the
worst tax bill that ever was present.
ed to the American people.
"Why do l say that? All laws
ought to be simple and plain if it is
possible to make them so. Every law
ought to be such that the people who
must live under it can understand it
without hiring a constitutional lawyer
to interpret it; and if there is any law
which goes On the statute books that
should have simplicity written on its
face it is the law that goes with the
hand of taxation into every hamlet of
the land.
There are one or two cases here
where | happen to understand what
your amendments mean, but if sat
down to study out, with the law books
before me what | thought was the in
depreciation of the amendments you
have put into this bill it would take
me from now until next spring to az
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11

ing from Judson Welliver's interview
with Henry Ford in the coming issue
of that publication.-Editor)
Interview With Henry Ford
"a few decades ago, there were To-
cal Touring mills in the small towns.
Then came patent processes, big mills,
consolidation. The little mills were
shut down. Now they are making
small four-mill plants that will pro-
duce the same flour, in very small es-
adjustments; and we shall be return
ing presently to the old system of the
local mill, supplying the local market,
That will cut out another big item of
waste transportation.
"The new era will see great reds
tribution of industry back to the
country. This country has got to live
in the country; industry must be TAX
en- back to the country; small cities
and towns should supply more of
their requirements, diversity their in
dustries, enable local capital to
finance their business, and thus keep
it in the financial control of the people
who have the greatest interest in its
success. Financing industry is all
wrong; the thing to do with industry
is to run it; under the management
of people who own it, and who stay on
the job.
Make every community as nearly in
dependent as possible. The great
modern city is an abnormal develop
menet. 1t tends to break down under
its own weight. 1t is socially bad and
economically unsound. You can see
the evidences of this, in the acute
housing problems of cities, and in the
breakdown of municipal facilities, es-
pecially traction systems"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11
ARE YOU 100 PER
CENT AMERICAN?

During the world war, and espe-
cially after war was declared on Ger
many the phrase 100 per cent Amer
lean was coined to describe those who
were whole-hearted in sympathy with
America in her support of the allies
and in her war on Germany. 1t was
the boast of thousands of American
citizens, both native-born and some of
foreign parentage, even of many who
spoke the language of the fatherland,
Il am 100 per cent American" 1t was
a proud boast-it is today.
We can also recall without much eff
fort the scorn and contumely that met
the "hyphenates", especially so when
the first half was German" and the
last American.
Time makes changes, and peace
has been declared with Germany, and
with the war has passed much of the
approbrium of the hyphenate, but it
should be remembered that any so per
cent allegiance in time of stress is
perhaps as dangerous as disloyalty
itself. And though peace has come,
after fashion, these can truly be
called times of stress, and 100 per
cent Americanism is as truly at pre-
MUM, and its absence as much at a
discount as during the uncertainties
of the world war What, then is a
100 per cent American today?
In war time, it was being true to
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11
Moses Calls Tax Bill a "Tattered
Rag.

The surrender of the Old Guard re-
dictionary Republicans to the Progress
sives by the adoption of the Demo-
cratic amendments to the tax bill
caused Senator Moses (Rep., N. H.
to refer to the Progressive bloc as the
Ken-Cap-Klan the first syllables of the
names of Senator Kenyon and Senat-
or Capper and also to indulge in some
caustic criticism OF the tax revision
bill and the work of the experts who
drew it. He said:
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11
NOVEMBER ELEVENTH

Three years ngo--it seems much
longer-back to November II, 1913.
On that day the order went forward
"Cease Firing" and along the battle
fronts there was a great silence,
throughout the world mems hearts
literally stood still. The great news
was "too good to be true" but it was
true.
Then we fancied that we had seen
an end to war. We had just won
the "g.eat war to end war;, but there
is always a gulf between hope and
reality. Many wars, in all parts Of
the world have been fought, are still
being fought, since tie end of the war
to end war.
Men are still, rs before Arranged
don, greedy. Nations want more ter
ritory, just as individuals want more
land, or a larger farn--still selfish
And as long as selfshness rules the
actions of men and nations, there VIII
be wars, private and public.
Today, three years after the armis-
tice, there meets in Washington I.
conference of powers dedicated to the
purpose of agreeing Gmong them
selves to in some measure, at least,
restrict the great programs Of arma-
ment on which the nations Of the
earth are engaged, three years after
the "war to end war;. May each and
everyone of US fervently pray that
good may come of this effort to re-
duce the hazard of wars. But we
should watch as well as pray, and
prepare to accept much less than a
concord of powers in perfect agree
ment to forever cease from war.
The cry of gladness DER the fields
of Judea, "Peace on earth, good will
towards men," had its echo back from
Calvary. AS it was then so it will
be today. If the world could not ac-
cept Christ then, and Danish forever
from their hearts the hunger of greed.
when the Master himself plead with
the souls of men, how much less are
we justified to hope for this great
blessing now, when the voices that
speak His message are less clear and
strong than His voice; and when doubt
is fixed state of mind of more THAI.
half the world.
Those who truly believe His mes
sage, who firmly espouse His cause,
doubt not that He will usher in, in due
time, "peace on earth. These have
faith in the coming of the Lord, and
the rebuilding of the New Jerusalem.
But the vast majority of the world
today is far--very far indced-from
being Christianized. And only under
the reign of the Prince of Peace may
"men build houses and dwell therein, "
or plant vineyards and eat the fruit
thereof"
The Washington conference win
doubtless do much good, if it only
makes clear among the representa-
tives of the nations the particular
viewpoint of each to the other; in
brief, map out line of action de-
signed to avoid as many points of
friction as possible. But that it will
agree on concert of united action
from which we may expect cessation
of all preparation for conflict. is
vain hope indeed.-Charleston Enter
prise Courier.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11
No Light Taxation for rs Years,
Says Senator SmoOt.


There is one Republican leader in
the Senate whose utterances on mat
tiers Of taxation indicate that he has
: newer been impressed by the promise
of his party to reduce taxation, or that
he has been favorably impressed with
low estimates of needed revenue. Sem
ator Reed Smoot (Rep., Utah. has
lost few opportunities if any to i'm
press upon the public that there will
not be and cannot be any material re-
duction in taxation. Of the many
statements he has made along this
line he has within the last week added
the following:
"How are you going to materially
lessen taxation when for many years
we will be required to meet obliga-
tons of the government that will run
into billions of dollars ?"
He then cited $4,000, OOO, 900 as nee
essary to meet the interest on our OBJ
legations, to care for disabled soldiers
and the sinking fund, and added:
$50 that anybody who thinks that
there is going to be light taxation in
this nation for the next quarter of a
century must have his mind disabused
of such an idea. 1t cannot be real
lied, and we might just as we'll pre-
pare now a tax bill which will pro-
vide the billions which we will have
to raise every year rather than to have
any mere temporary measure.
But some of Senator Shoots Re-
publican colleagues and others in the
executive branch of the government
go right on trying to fool the people
with the statement that the Republi-
can party will keep it's campaign
pledge to reduce taxes.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11
Senator POmerene Wants Explanation
Before Vote,

Following colloquy between Sen
ator Underwood and Senator Penrose,
Chairman of the Finance Committee,
Senator Pomerene (Dem., Ohio) made
this sapient and telling observation:
81 have been greatly interested in
this little colloquy. The Sentaor from
Alabama, who is pc flams the leading
exponent of tariff legislation on the
Democratic side, excepting, of course,
and only, the senior Senator from
North Carolina (Mr. Simmons), has
said that the bill is so drawn that it
would take him until next spring to
understand it. The Chairman of the
Finance Committee tells us that the
explanations are embalmed in trans
script of the stenographic notes taken
before the Committee. Neither the
Chairman of the Finance Committee
nor any other member of the Finance
IEommittee on the other side of the
/ Chamber has attempted to explain full
ly and in detail the mysteries of the
bill.
"If the Senator from Alabama is
not able to understand this bill, l am
at loss to know why it should be
rushed through here and voted upon
without being discussed and explained
by the majority side of the Chamber"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11
WASHINGTON LETTER

Washington, Nov. when Senat-
or Underwood of Alabama, tie Dem
ocratic leader of the Senate, said, a
think you have about as bad a bill
as was ever presented to the Congress
of tie United States" he epitomized
Democratic opinion CT the Republican
tax revision bill, wholly non-under-
standable to taxpayers, and not under
stood apparently by the proponents of
chat measure-at least none of them
has yet had the temerity to attempt to
explain it.
The tax experts of the Treasury are
supposed to understand it and have
explained it to the Republican men,
bers Of the Senate Finance Commit
tee, but when the Republicans are
called upon to explain some Of its ETA
lures they cGnrOt or viii not even
give the explanations given by the
tax experts, as Illustrated recently
when Senator Hitchcock (Dem., Neb.)
challenged Senator Watson (Rep,
Ind.), to explain an amendment in
language the Senate could understand
The following colloquy took piece:
Mr.. Watson Qnd.)-- can explain
what it rlean3 but
Mr.. Hitchcock (Ncb. will the
Senator explain it?
Mr.. Watson (Ed.)--Brt | am not
going to explain it, because tile Sena-
tor has said that it ought to be writ
ten out so everybody can understand it
Mr. Hitchcock (Ind.)-I will give
the Senator from Indiana a nice,
large red apple if he will explain it in
five minutes so that we can understand
it.
Mr. Watson (Ind.)-I understand
exactly what it means, and l will say
that DR. Adams has explained it all
over to me within the last ten min
uleS. had MN DO II.
Mr., Hitchcock (Neb.)-Ah, the
Senator has to have an experts ex-
PLANTATION, just as l thought.
Mr.. Watson lind. )-Precisely.
had it explained because it was nee
essary that should have it explained
There is not Senator here who can
understand these complex propositions
unless the experts go over and over
them.
Mr.. Hitchcock (Neb.)-Will the
Senator kindly give DR.. Adams ex.
PLANTATION, so that we can understand
it?
Mr.. Watson Qnd. ii will not, be,
cause arose for another purpose, etc
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-11
BIG CITY BREAKING DOWN;
SMALL TOWN LOOMS,
SAYS FORD

Editors Note-This newspaper has
been specially permitted by the ere
view of Reviews" to quote the follow.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-16
COURT PARTY LEAVES
 FOR KETCHIKAN TERM

United States District Judge Robt w. Jennings and other court off. cials- left for Ketchikan yesterday morning at 6 o'clock aboard the lighthouse tender Cedar, this ship being used on account of no steamer transportation being available owing to the present marine strike. Going to Ketchikan the Cedar was supposed to have called at Wrangel and Pet ersburg for members of the peti; and grand juries, also witnesses. The court term opens at Ketchikan next Wednesday.
 Besides Judge Jennings the cour; party consisted of Clerk of Court J. w. Bell, deputy clerk Mrs. V Pugh, court stenographer Mrs. l.. A Green, United States District Attor ney James A. Smiser, Miss Leibhardl and mother, and Deputy U. s. Mar shal w. w. Casey, Jr.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-16
HIGH IDEALS THEME
 OF BACCALAUREATE
 ADDRESS TO CLASS

\At the baccalaureate exercises given last night in the high school auditorium, Rev. Charles E. Rice Dean of Holy Trinity Cathedral, in the address of the evening, en deavored to show the students of the high school and especially the graduating class, that they must place their ideals on high scale and then try to attain them. He took for the text of his address the 18th verse of Chapter , of St Matthews, relative to perfection in life.
 There was large attendance at the baccalaureate exercises and the program from beginning to end was well given and proved most interest ing. Miss Condit gave two instru- mental selections and Mrs. Lester D Henderson gave as solo My Task, ' hy E. l.. Ashford
 Invocation was pronounced by Rev Waggoner; scripture lesson was read by Father Roccati, and prayer and benediction given by Rev. Bruce.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-16
SUNDAY WEATHER HIT
 HIGH MARK FOR YEAR

Today is the warmest day experi according to the records of the To cal United States Weather Bureau At two o'clock this afternoon the thermometer registered Fl degrees Inc highest temperature since July 29, 1920, when it ran up to S9.
 Sunday was almost asj warm, witt |; high mark of 70 degrees.
 Apparently Old Sol was working overtime all over the Territory yes terday, high temperatures being re ported from every station. At Moor vik, in the Kobuck Valley, 20 miles north of the Arctic Circle. 62 degrees was reached. Valdez reported the anne temperature, Eagle 6S degrees Panama 66 degrees and Sitka GA de grees.
 Citizens yesterday went hiking iutoing, boating and enjoyed othe, )ut-cf-door recreation. It was al deal day and all of Juneau enjoyed being out in the open sometime dur ng the. day hours.
 Straw hats also made appearance" yesterday, it being the first day tho jtraws were worn in any great nun bers.
 Last night, as if trying to make the nd of a perfect day more perfect the Northern Lights ffickered and raced across the skies in brilliant hues and in a spectacular manner.