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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-07-29
THE JEFFERSON HOME

According to a news report the old homestead
of Thomas Jefferson including the house at Mon
ticello designed by himself, and built at cost
which financially ruined its owner, is now on
the market. 1t is offered to the government at
half a million dollars, and it, present owners are
anxious for the federal authorities to take it in
hand and make it a true shrine of patriotism.
hat would be the best solution Of the prob
lem but the difficulty of securing enough. support
in congress which knows not Jefferson" may be
insurmountable In that case, it should not be
hawked about, but taken in hand by a society of
Jefcrsonians and kept sacred to the one great
political philosopher which this country has pro-
duced
jefferson belongs to the nation, but he belongs
pre-eminently to the south. His achievements are
his most appropriate monument. He wrote the
declaration of independence He wrote and Sc
cured the passage of the statute for religious free
dom. He founded the university of Virginia. He
made the Louisiana purchase. In his CORE
spondence to friends, which he kept up until the
last year of his life he set forth the whole doc
trne of democracy, forecast the course of govern
ment in this country, and enunciaed moral prn-
cpes as sound as his political. aphorisms. He lent
announcement to the arts and sciences, and fulfilled
tho highest duties of citizenship.
He was as great man as he was as a states
men; as great as politician as he was as phil
osopher; and when his words are read today, in
the light of developments which he alone fore
saw. it is disparagement to his contemporaries
to say that he stood head and shoulders above
them ALL
His home, beautifully situated, is the most APP
propriate place on earth for the incubation of
his principles At cost of less than fourth of
that of one world-championshp prize fight the
plantation of Monticello can be converted into
world-famed beauty spot, and the old home made
sanctuary for the relics of Jefferson 1t should
be kept in sympathic and appreciative hands The
visitor should be welcomed as the hospitable own
er wont to welcome his friends and none
should leave without carrying away something
to remind him of the true principles of American
democracy.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-07-29
THE STAMP TAX

The suggestion of stamp tax for notes,
checks, drafts and other banking transactions is
which should be weighed very carefully by
the public. Such tax will have several injur-
ious effects. 1t will drive money out of circulation.
Many will simply refuse to pay the stamp tax and
make their payments in cash. 1t will constitute
direct blow at the banking business, and Offset
Postmaster General Hayes admirable plan to
induce the public to withdraw the billion dollars
from the private boards where, as he contends, it
is now remaining in idleness 1t will to that extent
be direct blow at the prosperity of the country.
Its weight will fall heaviest upon the small bust
ness concern. Take the corner grocery, for ex-
ample. Your grocer probably does gross bust
ness of $4,000 year, with net profit of not
over $4,000. He is rather fortunate if he gets
that His business is transacted by small checks
If the stamp tax amounted to half of one per cent
of his business that would mean an annual tax Of
$780, in addition to all other taxes. which would
have to be deducted from his net profits He
simply could not, and would not, make his pay
ments by check but would withdraw or greatly
reduce his account.
Stamp taxes unpopular, unfair, uneconomi-
cal. After all, the problem of taxes would be
greatly simpi6ed if it was freed from anxiety
to favor the big tax payer. There is no real ne
cessity of resortng to the petty tyranny of the
stamp tax, in any form. in order to raise revenues
for the government. Tax property instead of
consumption. Tax wealth instead of penazing
industry, and the problem will cease to be SO diff
hcult as it now appears.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-07-29
WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN
(By Moses Folsom.)


The United States has had two with
Great Britain. The last conflict was over 100
years ago and lasted two years. The first one
lasted seven years. During Civil af-
fairs were somewhat strained between the two
countries but good sense prevailed and armed
strife was averted.
1t during the Civil war that Mark Lemon
editor of London Punch, then and the
leading humorous publication of England. War
may have funny side, but Lemon didn't see
it in that light as you can note by his burlesque
challenge to America, which most fifty suggests
the absurdity of between England and Amer
lea. He said:
Let us quarrel American knsmen. Let
plunge into war. We have been friends too long.
We have too highly promoted each others wealth
and prosperity. We too plethorc; want
depletion To which end let us cut each 9TH
ers throats. Let sink, burn, kill and destroy
with mutual energy; sink each others shipping,
burn each others arsenals, destroy each others
property at large. We will lombard your towns,
and you shall lombard ours, if you can Let
ruin each others commerce as much as possible
and that will be considerable sum- Let our
banks break, while smite and slay
other; let our commercial houses smash right
and left in the United States and the United
Kingdom. Let main and mutilate
other; let US make each other miserable OBJ
jects-cripples, halt, and blind. adapted for the
towns end, to beg for life.
How many dollars will you spend? How many
pounds sterling shall we? How much capital
shall sink either side, on land as well as
in the sea? How much shall have to show
for it in corpses and wooden legs! Never ask
what other return may expect for the in
vestment. So, then, American kinsmen let us
fight; let us murder and ruin each other. Let
demagosbes come hot from their conclave of
evil spirits, cry havoc and let slip the dogs of
war and do you be mad enough to be those mad
dogs and permit yourselves to be bounded upon
us by them"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-07-29
PARoLEp

All over town the coppers run, to pinch the
man who Yields gun not wisely but too WELL
they risk their lives and strain their thews, and
wear out costly cowhide shoes to put him in
cell. The gent in Jail has rank renown he is
the toughest thing in town, terror to all men,
he is wolf in human guise, and it would
process wise to keep him in the pen. But
in these mad and maudlin times we would up.
lift the man of crimes, and rid his life of care
he should be jailed hundred years, but in
fortnight he appears parched, free air.
And when he leaves the cooler cool, does he at.
tend the Sabbath school, or hapy, join the "Y?
All, no. he gets another gun, brass knucks and
sandbags by the ton and makes some voter die.
No wonder that the cops lose heart or that the
briny teardrops start, and make their hang
downs wet; why toll upon the sinners TRAIL if
he, when landed safe in Jail, becomes the viii
lage pet? Why comb the alleys and the slums
for murderous and thieving buns, hyenas masked
as men, if Justice taps them the wrist, and
sees them by fool women kissed, and turns them
loose again? We have carnival of crime
for criminals don't serve their time, but get
reprimand and If the reprimand's severe, lot
of mushy goops uprear and wall to beat the
band
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-07-29

is removed. He raises the issue so that Mr..
Bowling can meet it promptly. antd without fur
Their parley. He leaves no ground for any one
to suppose that he is exercising his prerogative as
governor of the state to cover any personal mo-
tive. or serve any selfish ends.
This strikes the Telegram as highly COM
mendabe method of procedure. The power to
remove officers is very high authority to be vest
ed in any man, and it should be exercised only in
extreme cases. where the grounds of removal are
plain. Governor Hardee evidently shares that
view. He is proceeding like high-class lawyer
as we'll as an oficer-duly regarding the rights of
others as well as the power with which he is
vested. Evidently he would not care if MIR.
Bowling excupaetted himself, and certainly he is
not throwing any obstacles in his way.
The middle of governors term is not exactly
the appropriate time to pronounce his eulogy. but
every one who has watched Mr.. Hardee's course
must agree that he is making model state execu-
tive.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-07-29
REMOVING A SHERIFF

In removing Sheriff Bowling. of Duval county,
for alleged malfeasance and neglect of official
duty, Governor Hardee pursues course very diff
ferent from thai which was made sickeningly ia
miliar by his predecessor
He hides behind no generalities.. He sets
FORTH with all the particularly of legal plead
ing, the particular ofenses for which the sheriff
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-07-29
Member of The Associated Press.
NEIoa#1s
DEFENDING THE SOUTH

If the Telegram believed for a moment that
President Hardings offer of federal aid for the
people alleged to be suffering in the cotton regions
was actuaed by any desire to insult the south,
or put it under obligations to Republican poll
ticians, it would resent as promptly and as Wig
orousy as any of its contemporaries, Tor 1t yields
to none in readiness to defend the reputation of
the southland. But the notion is too prepostcgous
for serious consideration.
For eighteen months the cry has been repeated
that the cotton growers received a grlevous blow
when the price of their product dropped from 40
to less than IS cents pound. Conferences have
been held, thousands of articles have been written,
speeches have been made, and other
ployed to discover some remedy This paper has
discussed the situation, along with others, and has
recognized in it only the regretabe but inevitable
resuls of initiation followed by too rapid deAation.
as applied to a one crop region.
The statement has been made IN southern pa
pers that this impoverishment of the cotton grow
ers prevents them from buying fertilizer or proper
implements, employing labor, carrying on their
business with any hope Of profit And as such
situation falls upon the rich and poor alike it
necessarily follows that among the poorer classes
there must be actual want possibly not amount
ing to famine, but certainly very disagreeable to
them AS to the prevalence of pellagra. that has
existed in the south, not epidemic, but in
widespread individual cases. for many years. the
situation described in the cotton belt is likely to
= = u,
demic FORM
Are these the facts? We have been accepting
them as such for twelve months and have never
seen them denied. Nor do the news reports from
various other sections deny them One from
Jacksonville says there is such condition. in
Florida. Certainly not. Nobody has said there
was 1t is the same with regard to the other
press denias. 1t is poor consolation to the hun
CRY man, waiting for his dinner. to have the man
at the next table waive the waiter away with the
statement, nobody hungry here I've got enough
To try to get 'nled' over the offer of the
president of the United States to lend the good
Offices of the federal government to the relief of
such situation striks us as ridiculous. 1t is a
kind of super-sensitiveness which does little credit
to our sober judgment. If there is nothing wrong
then the government will have nothing to do. and
the incident will close itself If what we have
been led to suppose is wrong, and the government
can assist in righting it, what harm is done? Who
is aggrieved. and to whom is the south put under
obligations except to the government which belongs
to it as much as it does to the Republicans of
the north, and which they are called upon every
day to support by taxes.
(. The weather is too warm to justify such Wig
onrous grievance chasing If anything from the
federad treasury starts to roll in this direction.
let it roll
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-07-20
JUVENILE BAND PLAYS
:. AT BIRCHMONT FRIDAY
Concert Given at State College
Tuesday Evening Enjoyed
"a, By Large Number

The Juvenile band concert was en-
joyed Tuesday night by the faculty
and students Of the State Teachers
college and many other citizens, who
gathered on the college campus, at
1880 o'clock. Director G. o. Riggs
and the band gave a 45-minute con-
cert which was up to the usual splen-
did quality of the Juvenile band con-
certs. ~-
The concert given by the band Sum
day afternoon at Diamond Point was
attended by the largest number of
any concert given this season. The
band was in fine form and gave a
concert which did credit to the Or
ganization. The band boys We're
treated to ice cream by Custodian
Ditty, which was much appreciated
and Andy Lee transported all the
boys down town, on his launch
"Thor" who wished to go home that
way.
The regular band concert will be
given in Library park Thursday eve
ming, at 1880 o'clock. The concert is
being put on at that hour in order
not to interfere with the chautauqua
program.
On Friday evening from 7:45 to
$50 the band will give a concert at
Birchmont for the guests of the hotel
and all summer residents around the
lake. Cars will be needed to trans
port the boys from town to the no
tel, the cars to leave the City hall
at 7 o'clock. Amy citizen who WILL
lend the services of their cars for
this purpose are asked to advise Mrs.
Sanborn at the Civic and Commerce
association rooms.
The public lis cordially invited to
attend the concert at the hotel Fri
day night, and it us expected that a
large number will go out from Be
midjl for the occasion.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-07-20
Good Nature of Austin "Wiz-
ard" Is Standing the Test I
in Moore County Jail
TOTAL THEFT MAY BE 49,
ONLY HALF A MILLION
Knows He Will Either Win or
Lose This Week and Is
Keeping Jovial
(By United Press)

Austin, Mimi. July 2O.--"Come
again, l am always at home called
Cy Thomson between the bars of the
Mower county Jail to the United
Press correspondent today. That was
sample of his irrepressible jovialty.
Ills good nature Is standing the
test in Jail. Cy is not worried about
the huge sum he is alleged to have
stolen from his employer, George A.
HORNED 4 Company. Syncopated
tunes from a tiny photograph in
corner of the cell furnished jazz for
a game of rummy between Thomson
and the president Of the Oakdale
Farms Co., H. l.. Goss. Thomson
coaxed his cell mate into a game of
hand ball in their limited quarters.
Auditors examining Thomson ac-
counts indicated the theft would total
only around 100000.
us that the exact amount?"
Thompson was asked.
"No, ut isn't" he replied.
"What is the exact amount? Do
you know?'
Yes, know, but I am not telling"
he replied. If
He was Informed of the statement
Of ]. C. HORNED that the assets Of the
Oakdale farms will cover the amount.
"Of course they will, l told you
that at the time" he said. Jailer
Carmichael asked Thomson II he
knew the verse in the bible about the
door-keeper to heaven.
"Well, l can quote scripture. but
what do you want to know for?'
"lf that job Is any easier than mine
l am going to apply" drawled the
Irish turnkey. Thomson saw the
point.
He has more company than any
other prisoner in spite Of the report
that only members of lus family will
be allowed to see him.
Thomson thinks 1t will be all over
this week. He has assumed Il Snmbl-
ing spirit.
II know I will either win or lose
this week." he said. II am anxious
to know the results Of the meeting
of HORNED and Co., directors In CHI
cago today.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-07-20
STOCK JUDGING TEAM
GOES TO PARK RAPIDS

Beltrami 'county's livestock judg-
ing team, consisting Of at least Is
members, left Bemidji this forenoon
for Park Rapids where it was to in
spect at least two herds of CATTLE this
forenoon, returning to Bemidji this
evening. One herd Of Jerseys and
one Of Holsteins were to be visited
and possibly more. Two carloads Of
boys from the Kitichi district and the
remainder from the vicinity of Be-
midi made up the judging team.
The final judging contest will be
held in August and the winner of the
Class A and Class B will be entitled
to a free trip othe Minnesota state
fair this fall.
Activities in the boys and girls
club work have been progressing dur
ing the summer and two potato
demonstration teams have already
been started.
Among the boys and girls who will
be entitled to free trips to the fair
will be the winners Of the following
branches of the club work: two in
the stock judging contest, one in po-
tato contest, and possibly three more
if the team wins in this district, one
in the garden contest, one in the
poultry contest, two in the bread
baking contest, one in the pig contest
and one in the calf contest.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-07-20
ALLEGED WORLD SERIES
THROWERS STAND TRIAL
Bill Burns Tells of Visit to
Abe Attell on Stand as
States Evidence
(Ry United PreSSl

Chicago, July 20.---(By Carl Vic
tor Little) The BLACK SoX" de-
Tense, hike pack of wolves. grappled
at the throat of Bill Burns, confessed
err black leaders. who he declared
threw the 1919 world series to sure
| thing gamblers caused seven former
White SOX stars to bring charges
against Burns to get the sQuealer
during a cross examination. ''Black-
ScX" attorneys realized unless they
featured the damning evidence prac-
ticed by Burns, that their clients We're
in danger.
The picturesque Ropes O'Brien"
Wore a red necktie and blue stripe
shirt.
"IIow much money have you re-
ceived from Ban Johnson" shouted
Ropes.
The court upheld objections of the
state and the question then went I'M
answered.
Bill Burns resumed the stand as
states evidence against the former
members of the White SoN club.
Before the third game he went to
see Abe Attell." said Burns. He
asked him for the 100000 he agreed
to pay for the first game. He said
$4,000 was enough and that no man
would be paid by Arnold Rothstein.
Attell took me to 4 room and he took
the $4,000. was told that he
kept wire open all of the time be-
tween New York and Chicago during
the negotiations and also during the
game in order to keep Informed how
| things were going"
The defense attorneys objected con-
| tinuOusly as Burns told the story in Il
matter-of-fact way.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-07-20
RITFAL0 BANKS ARE
NOW HEAVILY ARMED

Buffalo, N. Y, July 20.-Due to
the increasing number Of bank rob-
berries throughout the United States,
Buffalo banking institutions have in
stalled many safety devices to insure
against robbery.
Sharpshooters armed with automa-
tic rifles, barricaded in an armor
plate cage above the corridor of the
Federal Reserve bank, are on guard
to Illustrate possible attacks by arm
ed bandits.
The "pill box" contains seven loop
holes and looks like world war for
LITIGATION. Amy point in the bank il
a target for the man in the cage.
. Additional night guards have been
placed in banks and they are now
armed with sawed-off shotguns.
Besides visible means of warding
off attacks the banks have installed
secret appliances that would bring
police instantly to the bank where an
attack was made and other appliances
that would trap the robbers.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-07-20
COMMISSION RATES ARE
REDUCED ON LIVESTOCK
Farmers Win Long Fight for
Lower Charges on South
St. Paul Market

St. Paul, July 20.---Sharp reduc-
tions i'm commissions to be charged
by livestock dealers on the South St.
Paul market went into effect this
week, on orders issued by the state
railroad and warehouse commission.
Reductions Of from 20 to 40 per
cent were ordered by commission, fol-
lowing hearing at which livestock
commission firms and livestock pro-
ducers were represented. Cuts in COM
mission rates represented a victory
for the farmers, who contendsa that
charges for handling agricultural
products should be reduced because
the value of all farm products has
declined to prewar levels. Weighing
charges also were cut.
The new commission schedule is
sued by the commission sets the fol-
lDwing rates: Cattle, roc a head; SIS
a car maximum. Calves, soc head;
$40 a car maximum, in cars up to
&c feet in length.
Hogs, in cars not over SO feet
long, zoe a head, $12 maximum for
single deck cars, SIS maximum for
double deck cars; $14 maximum for
single deck cars more than 36 feet
long, $40 for double decks.
Sheep, zoe per head, So maximum
for single deck cars; SIS for double
deck cars not more than sc feet; S14
for single deck, $40 for double deck
cars more than sc feet long.
When more than one kind OF live
stock is in a car, $40 car sc feet
long maximum, $22 for longer cars.
Less than car lots and driven in
livestock, SOC a head for cattle If less
than Is head; 35 cents head for
calves, if less than % head; soc a
head for hogs if less than rs head;
Csc a head for sheep and goats, ii
less than 80 head Carload rates APP
ply when the number is larger.
New commissions for buying live
stock are; Cattle, soc head with
maximum of $12 a car; calves, SOC a
head and So for a. single deck car;
miIkers and springers, 81 head and
$40 for a car maximum. Hogs, zoe a
head and SIG a car maximum; feed
ing pigs, SIS a single deck car or
500 a double deck car. Sheep, Csc a
head. $40 a single deck car and BIB
Continued on Page 60
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-07-20
CHINESE LABOR AFTER
AN ElCHT-HOUR DAY
Paid Agitators Are Engaged
in Organizing Laborers
of Sleeping China

Shanghai, China, July 2O.---Paid
agitators who have set the rest of the
world on end through labor disturb
ances have awakened sleeping China
and are today engaged in organic
ing what they. hope will be a counter.
part of the American Federation or
Labor.
Twenty thousand working men are
on strike in Canton today and nearly
that many have quit their jobs IN
Shanghai.
Picking and Tientsin are to be the
next points Of attack and after that,
if the preliminary movements against
the employer in the larger cities are
successful, the plan is to extend the
propaganda to the smaller commu-
mites through the country.
That foreign methods have been
adopted by the Chinese leaders is evil
dent and there is strong suspicion
among the authorities that foreign
err is secretly directing the campaign.
But thus fa- all efforts to discover the
identity of the "Man Behind the
Throne" have been unavailing.
Laundry workers who commit may
hem on soiled garments by processing
them through course of rock-pound-
ing in muddy water at three coppers
per garment were the first of the To-
cal workers to rise in their wrath and
demand better treatment from their
BOSSES An eight-hour day, double
Sundays and full pay for nationl} and
pay for overtime, halliday holiday on
labor holidays were incorporated in
their demands. The laundry owners
were aghast. They had never been
up against a proposition like that be-
fore. Seldom had their menials dared
to even raise their eyes to the higher
up, let alone demand or even beg bet
ter pay or working conditions.
at can't be DONE" they walled.
"But it will be-" grimly retorted
the aroused employees. Whereupon
they staged a parade demonstration
and succeeded in calling out the car
penters, the masons, the cotton spin
ners and the sawyers. Daily other
of the smaller craft are joining the
ranks and what threatens to become
a general strike is becoming more and
more probable.