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The New York herald., 1921-01-02

picling flaws in appropriation bills and
framing tariff and internal revenue laws
Smoot is in his element. He is 5S years old
and a native of Salt Lake City.
No account of the most influential figures
in the Senate would be complete. without
mention of Frank b. Brandegee of Connecti-
cut who represents perhaps more than any
body else the sharp tongued. sharp witted,
common sense, fearless type of Yankee. He
is a. Connecticut Yankee through ana
through with even the nasal twang In his
voice, and he represents all that is best in the
type. Brandegee and Lodge are close friends.
He does not often make a speech, but he can
make mighty good one when he wants to,
and woe be unto the unwary Senator who
crosses him in debate without plenty of am
munition with which to defend himself. HIS
logic Is of the merciess kind. 1t strips off
the husks and leaves the truth bare and
sometimes bleeding. His important COM
mittees are Foreign Relations, Judiciary and
Patents, but he interests himself in every
thing that goes on in or about the Senate.
He is 56 years old and a lawyer.
The Treasury watchdog In the Senate
is Francis Il. Warren. chairman of the Ap-
propriations Committee and member Of sew
eral other committees, including Military
Affairs, Of which he was chairman for many
years. Few persons looking at the powerful
frame OF Senator Warren would realize
that he is 76 years Of age. but the Congress
sionai Directory shows that he was born in
Hlnsdale Mass, June 20. 1s44 and that he
served as a private and dnon-commissioned Of
ficer in the Forty-ninth Massachusetts, Regi-
ment OF Infantry during the civil war. Just
as Warren is the man who makes Govern
ment expenditures his chief business. sena-
tor Albert 3. Cummins of Iowa makes the
railroads his. AS chairman Of the Inter
state Commerce Committee Senator Cum
minis took the chief part In framing the new
transportation act, and anybody who knows
the number and different kinds OF opinions
that were held In Congress on the railroad
question Nbefore that bill was reported from
the Cummins committee will realize the
magnitude OF the task he helped TO perform.
Then there Is William Edgar Borah OF
Idaho. He is a Senator In q class by him
self. He has set himself the task OF finding
the flaws in other peoples works and, by
crying them out In public, forcing their cor
rection. He ls the Senate's supreme critic
He is also probably its greatest orator to-
day.
Just now Borah's chief business is pre-
The New York herald., 1921-01-02
Kicking side he backed from the table and
began an astonhingly graceful interpretive dance"

;iful ball" he murmured; only why hang
clothes over bed?"
RESOLUTIONS adopted by the Innocent
Bystanders Club. jan l. Whereas, on Dec
81. person. or persons unknown did mis-
chievously. malcously and to the harm OF
this club insert or cause to be inserted. into
bowl of lemonade certain ingredients
which resulted in the subsequent court pro-
ceedings In which members of this club We're
accused of (1) creating riot upon the
streets; (2) urging duly constituted officers
Of the law to climb up the City Hall tower
and fall off, (3) singing ribald songs, to the
great annoyance of sleeping citizens;
Therefore be it resolved That during all
of the present year the members of this club
shall abstain from lemonade"
Adjourned to Jan. s.
The New York herald., 1921-01-02

bers make it their special business TO pici,
flaws in appropriation bills after they have
been framed with months of labor by MI.
Goods committee But that is part of tho
routine. There must be men who draft and
perfect the bills in committee. and others
who subject them to microscopic inspection
and criticism on the floor. Thus are the
peoples affairs watched.
There are two men on the Republican sidc
OF the House who have constituted them
selves the Treasury watchdogs in extraordi
nary. They are known as big Jim" and
Little joe" and they are James r. Mann
of Illinois and Joseph Walsh of Massachu
setts. Mr.. Mann won his way into the posi-
ton of Republican floor leader when the
Republicans were in the minority during
tho first part OF the Wilson Admnistra-
ton by his untirine attacks on bills OF all
sorts He amazed the House time after time
by the breadth and minuteness Of his knowl
edge. He asked questions wbich completely
stumped men who had been working on the
subjects for months. and then answered
them himself.
Mr.. Mann would have been the presen
Speaker Of the House but for a factionsi
fight against him due partly TO his record
on war legislation and the enemities ne
made in his career as critic Of everything
and everybody. But with IL all Mr.. Mann
Is a lovable character who likes to show
his teeth in the House but forgets all about
ms legislative battles outside. He harbor.
no animositics. Mr.. Walsh Is understudy TO-
Mr.. Mann, and is fast fitting himself to step
into his shoes
The inner group in the House includes
also Representative Philip L. Campbell OF
Kansas whose position az chairman Of the
Rules Committee gives him much 70 SAY
about what bills shall or shall not come
before the House under auspices that will
insure speedy action. If anything has 20 be
done quickly, or against the will Of fight
ing minority. Mr.. Campbell'ssservices are IN
demand. He calls his, committee, together
and special gag" rule is brought in. which
usually ends the matter with as little pain
as possible to the vanquished.
John ]. Esch Of Wisconsin Is the principal
authority In the House on the railroads. I'm
fortunately he was defeated for renomins
ton and will not be in the next House Rep
resentative winslow of Massachusetts, will
probably succeed him as chairman Of the
Interstate Commerce Committee. Julius
=
The New York herald., 1921-01-02
Harity Overrdes New Years Eve but Wa All Mis-
take, Members Say Due to Stranger Whose Tastes
Do Not Run Dignity and Plain Lemonade

During coming year" he said. with great
firmness, "shal never raise Pomeranian
poodles. Irrevocable resolution. shall never
raise single one! Wife and family entreat
me to. don't care. Let 'em suffer. don't care.
Been raising Pomeranian poodles thirty
seven years. Began with little one. He be-
came mother two Pomeranian poodles. they
became mother four Pomeranians poodes
then became mother sixteen Pomeranian
poodIes, then became mother two hunnerc
and hfty-six Pomeranian poodles-so on
House all cluttered UP with poodles. Got
enough of 'en. Hate 'em! But love old
Tolly Perkins,"
The New York herald., 1921-01-02
By EsDY YEMM.

T He New Years eve meeting OF the
Innocent Bystanders Club was not
L success. Certain members left the
club rooms early tho next morning singing
and dancing in a way which seemed re-
markable for their years. but others OF tho
members contended that their hilarity was
all mistake.
The mistake. so far as can be learned
consisted in allowing Wilbert Rogers TO
bring a complete stranger with him TO the
festivities a large, self-conhdent sort OF
person, who startled all the members by
slapping them on the back as soon as he
came in.
The entertainment a. originally planned
was to consist Of a light supper avoiding
all the customary holiday gorging indulged
in by unthinking persons; to be followed
by series of brief talks on subjects appro-
Z pirate to the new year by members Of the
club, after which general conversation was
to be indulged in until the stroke Of mid
night. The members would then shake
hands all around, wish one another happy
New Year and go home In their usual dig
nified way.
This schedule was strictly adhered to so
far as the light supper was concerned.
Wilbert Rogers's friend was overheard to
ask one of the waters in an undertone II
he knew why the club had pledged itself to
so on hunger strike, and on being an
swered with a startled look he lapsed into
gloomy silence.
He reused up only after supper when
Tolliver Perkins, chairman Of the house
committee. announced that as a pleasant
The New York herald., 1921-01-02

it upon the serving table. "On your way
boys!" he cried. jovially. "Ill take charge
of this. Now, gentlemen, come forward and
meet the handsome waiter!"
The club members advanced with due de-
corum and each was served with glass of
the mixture by the Jones individual, who
kept up a running fire of cheap witticisms as
he ladled 1t out When all were served he
filled his own glass
Success to crime!" he announced. The
members smiled as in duty bound to guest,
though they were slightly nettled by the fell
lows familiarity. and lifted their glasses to
Perkins Swallowing the punch in sips they
The New York herald., 1921-01-02

holiday surprise he had instructed the stew
ard to prepare bowl of punch and that he
would be gratified if the members would
Join in it with him. The stranger-whose
rame. by the way. was William Jones'
looked up with CLEAN Of joy in his eye.
Great" he beloved, slapping Perkins on
The back. you've got the right idea, old
kid"
The punch was brought in. 1t was con-
taiped in a bowl somewhat resembling cir
cular washtub. The Jones person was at its
edge almost before the walters had placed
The New York herald., 1921-01-02

II out at you from the old daguerro-
type that was recently discovered in
the attic of the old family mansion at West
port, Conn. Rugged and yet, in sense.
motherly.
Alpheus Waterbury the real inventor OF
the rubber overshoe-in spite of others
claims TO that honor-was born in the
obscure village of Bearsville Mass, in 1927.
The family shortly afterward moved to
Connecticut Even as a child Apheus was
particularly thoughtful and considerate of
dumb animals, trait which has often been
recalled by women whose husbands leave
their overshoes az the Office on rainy nights
Indeed il is to this characteristic OF the in
fant Alpheus that the world owes the inven-
ton which has cheered and comforted so
many millions Of homes.
The thoughtful little fellow was one day
The New York herald., 1921-01-02

1--WE are to be treated to a dis
cussion of the income tax laws by
our worthy fellow member Mr..
Abernethy Toombes."
The New York herald., 1921-01-02
Drawing Inspiration
From the Overshoe
Bv SAM M'COY.

lis is a simple, kindly face, as it looks
II out at you from the old daguerro-
type that was recently discovered in
The New York herald., 1921-01-02

Concluded on 'rouo,csro Page.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13

They know for what they fought,
but they don't know how to get it ex-
cept by fighting.
That is the business of statesmen
to make peace conformable with the
purpose for which the masses fought.
Have they done it? Are they doing
it?
Granted that militarism has been
crushed in Germany; has it been
crushed anywhere else?
Granted that the kaiser's war ma
chine has been hopelessly wrecked, are
we free from war machines?
Granted that the gospel of rule by
force has been shattered on the north
ern bank of the Rhine; does it survive
in other places, and if so, what do the
masses gain?
Too many statesmen seem to think
that the masses fought to crush mill
tarism only as it was made in Ger
many. They did not. They fought
to crush it as made anywhere, and
they wrote this purpose into an open
covenant, openly drawn up and openly
sancified with their lives, their blood
and their martyrdom on the battle
fields of Europe.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13
COST OF GOVERNMENT OF THIS
COMMONWEALTH FOR TWO
YEAR PERIOD ESTIMATED
AT HIGH FIGURE.
Placed at 500, 755,881
Increase S9,877,40
DEMANDS FOR THE EDUCATION-
AL BRANCH ARE LARGEST
SOUGHT FOR ANY DEPART
MENT CARRYING INCREASE.

Heads of various Minnesota depart
ments ask $39, 755 1881 for operation of
state government during 1921-1923 BIZ
ennium, a. yearly expense of $19,877,-
$40. The proposed budget is an in
crease of $9,538,19O over the 1919
1921 appropriations.
Demands of the educational branch
are the largest sought for any depart
ment, carrying requests for an in
crease of $6,446,743. Higher salaries,
building program and request for de-
fciency funds of $1,097 ,638 cited as
basis Of increase.
Requirements as submitted by the
State Forestry Department and State
Board of Health approximately dou-
| BILE appropriations asked for 1919
| 1921. These requests were proportion
ately high for the previous biennium,
but were trimmed considerably.
Building program for state institu
lions declared at minimum
The budgets are prepared by the
| department heads and in most cases
are conservative and are pared down
very little by the state. Most Of the
departments, according to H. E. Sam
uelson, executive clerk to the governor.
are requesting increases in salaries
paid to clerical and other workers, as
their increases in pay have not kept
pace with the increases granted by
municipalities and business firms.
| The increase would be $9,538, 100
more than the total of budget for the
l1919-1921 period, Governor Burnquist
will make a study of the budgets and
will turn them over to Governor Preus,
making recommendations and consult
ing with Mr.. Preus regarding requests
Of the department heads.
The building program for the state
institutions, which has not been ex-
tensive for the past few years, is not
extensive for the next two-years per-
iod, it apparently being the desire of
| the department heads to wait until
building costs become more stable.
The University, however, desires sew
eral buildings, as do the Board of
| Control, the State Fair association and
the Normal schools.
County Sanitoria-For the building
of three county sanitoria, $4,000
each or S150,000. There are now
twelve sanitoria in the state for the
treatment of consumptives.
State public school at Owatonna,
$45,000 for hospital.
State training school at Red Wing,
$4,000 for erection of cottage.
Walker Sanitorium, $4,000 for an
infirmary.
Anoka asylum, reconstruction of
north wing, $4,000.
Hastings asylum, erection of power
plant, $4,000.
School for feeble minded, for adj
ministration building, 100000.
State hospital for crippled children
at Phalen Park, St. Paul, for erection
of service building, $4,000.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13
Georgia Magnet Again
New York Herald.

More years ago than any woman
cares to recall there was little girl
down in Georgia who did things that
made the laws of physics look fool
ish. When it so pleased her, no man
or number of men could lift her, try
as hard as they pleased. They sum-
moned a colored person who had been
known to pluck a mule out Of Georgia
mud solely by strength of arms and
legs, but when the black giant strug
gled to raise the little girl she simply
took root and he quit the job with
some remarks about witchcraft.
Years later Sandow, whose very
name came to be synonym for mus
cular strength, matched his great bulk
against the singular inertia of this
little girl, now grown to womanhood,
but he might as we'll have tried to lift
a carload of brick. He tried it twice,
once in London and once here, about
twenty years ago. Other strong men
essayed the apparently ridiculously
simple feat of raising a few inches
from the floor a slim little woman
weighing scarcely more than 12O
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13
1T Was a Winner
for Me" He Says
ssI'M ENJOYING PERFECT
HEALTH SINCE TAKING TAN
LAC" SAYS MPLS. MAN.

"After hearing so much about Tan
lac l put it on trial in my case and it
has certainly proved a winner for me, .
said w. G. Jargenson, of 524 Essex
ST., Minneapolis, Mimi, an employee
Of the Northwestern Telephone Co.
Before got hold of Tanlac my
troubles of three years standing had
pulled me down until my work was a
daily grind and'I was in constant mis-
cry both day and night. My kidneys
were badly disordered and were contin-
ually worrying me, and I had pains in
my back and joints that were almost
unbearable. My sides hurt me terri
bly, also, and at times the pains were
so severe as to almost drive me wild.
Nothing seemed to do me any good
and / hardly see how managed to
hold out at my work.
"When I got Tanlac found the very
thing I was needing, for it just built
me right up and has put me in the
very best of condition. My kidneys no
longer bother me and I never have an
ache or pain at all. In fact I'm just
enjoying perfect health and gladly
give Tanlac all the credit"
Tanlac is sold in Redwood Falls by
Public Drug Company and in Sanborn
by Yaeger's Pharmacy and by all the
leading druggists in every town.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13
An Open Covenant,
Openly Made

Editorial in the Houston Chronicle.
The war resulted in one open cove
nant, openly made.
It was drawn up on the battle fields
of Europe.
It was witnessed by 100000 corp
ses.
It was registered in innumerable
broken homes.
It was attested by an incalculable
amount Of destroyed property.
It was sealed with oceans of blood.
It was recorded at the bottom of the
sea by thousands of torpedoed ships.
It was stamped on the sky by a
crimson hue.
And what was the import of that
covenant ?
What were the people fighting for?
Was it to teach their children how
to inflict more swift and CHASTITY
death?
Was it to increase proficiency in
murder?
Was it to prepare for other wars on
a grander scale ?
Was it to set new pace for butch
cry and destruction?
Was it to pave the way for bigger
guns and more deadly gases
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13

Statesmen have set down what they
believe to be the purpose of this war
on a certain parchment.
1t is long and detailed scroll, OBJ
scurred by superfluous words and in
volved paragraphs.
The masses will never read it.
But the masses know what the pur-
pose was, whether these statesmen
have written it down correctly or not.
They can express it in very few
phrases, all of which center about one
word peace.
The masses fought this war. The
masses died in this war. The masses
must pay for this war.
They know what it means. They
have been and will continue to be in
direct contact with it's tragic effects.
They want nothing like it again.
They may admit that a certain am
cunt of war is inevitable, but they
want no more than that.
They have no stomach for encourag-
ing more war than is necessary.
They want to plough and build and
make.
They want world Of life, not death;
reign Of law, not terror.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13
DIR. Julia MarlOwe.

George Washington university, on
the occasion of the celebration of its
centenary, did mighty pretty thing
when t~granted the degree of doctor
of letters to Miss Julia Marlowe.
It is said that this is the first time
in the history Of the country that a
university degree has been conferred
on an actress. If that is SO, we ought
to feel shame for it. And if degrees
have been conferred upon sterling ac-
tors, they have been very few indeed
England does better. It's great &C.
tors, producers and playwrights are
commonly knighted, and blossom out
as "Sirs." We may smile at this de-
coration, but we should not overlook
the fact that it helps develop talent.
and that it is far less absurd than our
practice of making wealth the chief if
not the only reward of successful en-
deavor.
We can't develop a titled aristocra-
cy, but we should use whatever means
we possess outside of box office fl
cures to encourage and reward artistic
endeavor-or any endeavor that works
to lift life up and to enrich it.-Du-
luth Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13
THE ELEMENTS
OF GREATNESS

A modern philosopher says: eff you
would be great you must be simple,
sincere and strong"
Simplicity, to be sure, is prime re-
quirement for those who seek great
ness. It breeds sincerity, too, and the
combination cannot but produce
strengthen body, Of mind and of
purpose. A more remote philosopher
touched upon the secret, too, when he
said: "There should be just three
cps" in the pod-purpose, plan and
push" But purpose is of little avail
if it is not sincere and lofty, and plan
avails naught unless it has simplicity
and vision back of it. And push will
not carry one over the goal line OF
life unless it has strength back Of it.
So both of the philosophers were
right-it takes purpose, plan and push
to make men strive for success, and
it requires simplicity, sincerity and
strength for men to achieve that sue
cess. One rule lays down what men
must do to become great, and the 9TH
err gives direction as to how they must
do it Both are safe to follow.-Oma-
ha World-Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13
pounds, but she might have weighed
10000 pounds for all their gasping eff

pounds, but she might have weighed
10000 pounds for all their gasping eff
forts availed.
In the East ballroom of the Hotel
Aston yesterday afternoon Annie Alb
bott, the Georgia Magnet" demon
strated before a group of physicians
and newspaper men that she had lost
nothing Of the strange power Or
knack-call it what one pleases-that
first made her famous in Atlanta
more than a generation ago; that re-
sisted the straining strength Of San
dow and Of Plachette, the French
strong man, and that gained her cele-
brity on the vaudeville in the days
when men thought toothpick shoes
were smart and women wore lego
mutton sleeves. Whatever the secret
of. the Georgia, Magnet" may be, her
success in defying laws Of gravitation
and Of physics, or perhaps her knack
Of using these very laws to defeat
strong men, has not been weakened
by time. She resisted the best eff
forts Of five men of average strength
to raise her from the floor.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13

No lodger can feel that he lives an
untrammeled life so long as he has
two trunks, instead of only one.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13

I There are varieties of that restful
feeling, but the most saturating is
ones state of mind when he has the
supply of coal in for the winter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13

A poor opinion Of the system is
forced upon the man who has to bor-
row money to pay his income tax
st. Paul Dispatch.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1921-02-03

music, the leader stopped and re
fused to have his musicians play
any more to the distress of the
great majority, who were morti-
fed to see such behavior but felt
that the disturbers we're given
merited rebuke.
No doubt it was thoughtless On
their part. and they we're not fully
conscious that they We're annoying
everybody else, but the fact re-
mains that they were, and re-
quests have come from many
quarters, asking that some COM
ment b. e made, for a two-fold
purpose; to let Mr.. Courtright
and orchestra know that the great
majority of Natchitochians do ap-
preciate good music and know the
time 1t taxes to prepare the class
of music that they rendered in a
manner that would do credit to
professionals. and that the dis
turbers will realize that other peo-
pie are entitled to consideration
in a public assembly besides them
selves, and if they are out for a
good time, to 90 ahead and have
it, but not at the expense of
everybody else.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1921-02-03
Why Judge B. Lindsey Could
Not be here February 2nd.

This year the Governor of the
state has appointed me Chairman
of q committee on Child Welfare
Legislation. This means that l
shall have to be here in Denver
during the legislature season.
which, unfortunately for lecture
and Lyceum dates, comes during
January, February and March.
If this were not a legislature year,
l could, perhaps, keep the dates
that have been made during the
period, but being q legislative
year, it is impossible; and l am,
therefore, compelled to ask you to
ask the indulgence OF the Com
mittee for this reason. l am sure
that they must know that the
valuo Of my services as lecturer
depends upon what we are doing
in constructive Child Welfare
work as 4 sort of example to
others: and that they will accept
such q substitution or other ar
rangements as you are able to
make"