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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-23

.of the sort. That tree, learned, is the
blown horn of proud and conquering
contractor. Whenever contractor
completes a building BEFORE the
stipulated date, he has an age-old
right to put tree atop 1t to announce
his triumph to the upward-peering
world. Anyone who has even had a
building built will understand why
we've never grown accustomed to see
ing that particular adorment.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-23
KENTUCKY TEAM MAY
GO TO NATIONAL HOG
JUDGING EVENT OCT. 8,
Twelve Candidates Out For Team
Which Plans to Enter Student
Judging Contest at National
Sine Show.

Lexington. KY. Plans are being
made to enter a students Judging team
from the College of Agriculture in the
intercollegiate swine judging contest
which will be held in connection with
the national swine show at Peoria, ILL.,,
October 8, according to an announce
ment made here by L. J. Horlacher, a
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-23
For Cir Clerk.

The Public Ledger Ia authorized TO
announce MR.. R B. ADAIR as q can
didate for reelection to the office OF
CITY CLERK at the approaching No
gember election.
The Public Ledger Is authorized u
announce FRED A DIENER as a can.
iidate for the Office Of CITY CLERK
If the city Of Maysville at the coming
November election
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-23
Telephone
No. 401

The winning team will receive $125.
The second team prize will be 500;
third $50, fourth $50, fifth $50 and
sixth $35. Individual prizes will
range from $50 for the highest scor-
ing individual to $25 for the fourth
highest scoring man.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-23
For Representative

The Public Ledger is authorized to
announce HENSLEY c. HAWKINS as
candidate for REPRESENTATIVE
in the General Assembly of Kentucky
from Mason county. subject to action
Of Democratic party in August pri-
mary.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-23
For County Attorney.

The Public Ledger is authorized to
announce W. H. REEFS as a candidate
for reelection to the Office of COUN-
TY ATTORNEY, subject to the action
of the Democratic voters in the Au-
gust primary.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-23

medicine. we are
very fond of children
and for a consider
able time after we
married l feared l
would not have any
owing to my weak
condition. | began
ia king Lydia E.
Pink h a ms Vege.
table Compound and
now l have a nice
strong healthy baby
o,;rl I con honestly
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-23
For Civ Councilman.

The Public Ledger is authorized to
announce ]. B. ORR as candidate Tor
CITY COUNCILMAN from the Fifth
ward Of the city Of Maysville at the
approaching November election.
The Public Ledger is authorized to
announce CHARLES B. PAUL as Q
candidate for CITY COUNCILMAN
from the Fifth ward Of the city Of
Maysville at the approaching Nevem-
har alaotinn
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-23
THIS YOUNG
MOTHER
Tells Childless Women What
lydia E .Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Did for Her

Millston, Wis., want to give you
. word of praise for your wonderful
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-23

and have sued another concern for
making doughnuts in the window
across the street from them, The
doughnut makers, says the Keeser
brothers, had promises not to conduct
bakery within ten blocks of their
place. faint bakery" says the de-
fendents. otis. Look at those there
doughnuts,' say Jacob and John,
"Doughnuts are not baked. They're
fried" is the retort. So Justice Finch
has been asked to decide the exact ma
ture Of the process of creating a
doughnut.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-23
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The Public Ledger charge for political For
district Offices $15; county Offices $O city Offices S. Candidates
will nease bear in mind that CASH with order insertion
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-23

Joseph Schildkraut, starring in lii
iom," is one person who showed wis
dom in selecting the right ancestors
for himself. With Roumanian father,
q Hungarian mother, Turkish garnd-
father and a Spanish grandmother, he
had a flying start when it came to a
matter of temperament. Added to this,
his father chose to be an actor. Could
any ambitious person have much
more hopeful background than this?
And Mr.. Schildkraut is living up to it
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27
PERSECUTION.

Although there has been suspicion
that the federal reserve board has
abused it's power and sought to coerce
b;nks to pay it tribute, facts sustaining
such suspicious have but recently been
developed and they developed in way
that leaves no doubt of the reprehcnsi-
bic conduct Of the board or of some of
its members.
On the whole the federal reserve
banking system is proving a success,
but before it will he what it should
and before the people will have the
confidence in it that a government serv-
ice should invoke, there must be a
house cleaning and satisfactory bust
ness principles must be strictly ad-
hered to.
According to advices sent out from
Washington it appears that the board
undertook to use its authority in an
illegal way to force recalcitrant state
banks to become members Of the
reserve system.
AS last resort says Washing
ton dispatch, lin its efforts to punish
state banks that refused to become
members the federal reserve bank
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27
to the white house usurping powers

to the white house usurping powers
not granted 1t by organic laws.
The republican platform adopted at
Chicago declared that 1--WE undertake to
end executive autocracy and to restore
20 the people their constitutional gov
Crnment. The policies herein declared
will be carried out by the federal and
state governments, each acting within
its constitutional powers"
Where is any intimation that the re-
publican party proposed that the SEN
ate should run the country, as Mr..
Sullivan AYERS?
In the course of his speech accepting
the republican nomination for president
Senator Harding said
Our first committal is the restora-
ton Of popular representative govern
ment, under the constitution, through
the agency of the republican party. Our
vision includes more than a chief exc
Cutiyc; we believe in a cabinet of high
est capacity, equal to the responsible
ties which our system contemplates. in
whose councils the vice president. sec
ond official of the republic, shall be ask
ed to participate. The same vision in
Cludes a cordial understanding and CO.
,Ordinatcd activities with house of
congress, fresh from the people. voic-
ing the convictions which members
bring from direct contact with the
electorate, and cordial cooperation
along with the restored functions Of the
senate. fit to be the greatest deliberatiyc
body in the world"
There is nothing in the declaration
of the republican platform or in the &C
ceptance speech of the republican
rarty's candidate for president that
justiffes Mr.. Sullivan's avcrmcnt that
1.-The theory upon which the republican
PARTY year ago laid out the future was
that the country was to be run by the
On the contrary the reverse
is true. The republican theory a year
ago was tile same as it is today-that
the country should be run by the CO.
operation Of the coordinate branches
of the government.
AS Mr.. Sullivans premises are entire
Iy wrong his conclusions must of neccs-
sity be valueless. fe
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27
Rl0LSHEYIK 1NlPUDENCE.

New York Mail: Whatever else we
may expect from the Russian bolshe.
viks, we cannot expect good faith.
Krassin, at the close of an interview
recently given oalt in Paris, said: Our
government has the advantage Of not
being incumbered with loans. We owe
nothing abroad and our Internal debt
will liquidate itself. We will print so
many bank notes that no one will take
money seriously any longer. Then the
people will light fires with an that pa
per and the situation will settle itself"
Reputation is dishonest and shameful.
The communists saw nothing wrong in
stealing what they wanted, therefore
they are free from obligation to re-
pay. They see nothing wrong in issuing
worthless money. Moral responsibility
is not bolshcyik trait.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27
Secretary Hoover suggested recent

Secretary Hoover suggested recently
In speech at Atlantic City that it
would help curb real profiteering If
fuller publicity of primary prices were
shown and if fair figures of production
and consumption we're made known.
For such service he advocated the
maintenance Of government informa-
ton service. Realization by the buying
public of conditions in industry and
commerce, Of approximately what it
cost to produce a given article under
certain circumstances, what it cost to
put that article upon the market, etc,
etc, would help protect fair dealers
as well as to discourage crooked deal
ings. OF course such government
agency would have to be entirely i'm
partial and fair and would have to be
sure of its facts, else great injustices
would follow. Informative publicity
would doubtless show that many inter
csts now charged with profiteering are
innocent Of the charge, while some 9th
ers would be proven guilty of grave Of
lenses that the public now believe in.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27

milking in 1910 1,osb cows and in 1920
she MIXED only 2lG. In 1910 Sioux
City had LAPS and in 1920 she had only
297. Waterloo's record is: 1910 354,
1920, 81.
This same tendency of town people
in getting away from keeping cows is
shown all over the United States. In
1910 Saint Louis was milking 5.131
cows and in 1920 the census cnumera-
tors could find only 1869. Minneapolis,
1910, 2,GO2; 1920, 1854, and SO it goes
all through the list.
However, the smaller Villages seem
to still be having larger percentage of
cows than the bigger towns and cities
have compared with 1910. In Iowa,
for instance, the total number OF COWS
in towns and villages, not on farms, was
1854, while in 1920 the number was
2S,354. While the reduction is heavy
it is not as heavy as when only the
larger cities are considered. What is
true of Iowa in this respect is largely
true of other states, though OH the aver
age the falling off in the towns and vii
lages of Iowa is greater than in the
towns and villages Of, the average state.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27
70 STOP LYNCHINGs.

eve urge congress to consider the
most effective means to end lynching
in this country, which continues to be
terrible blot on our American Citizen
ship. The equality Of all citizens under
the law has always been policy OF the
Republican party. Without obedience
to law and maintenance Of order our
American institutions must perish Our
laws must be impartially enforced and
speedy justice should be secured"
That is the declaration Of the 1920
republican platform. 1t is not clear
Just what the federal government can
do to stop lynchings. The enforcement
of police laws is generally in the hands
of the states and it is not easy for the
federal authorities to interfere. How
ever, some remedy for the present fire.
ouent lyncEing bees pulled off in vari-
Gus parts Of the country ought to be
found. If congress and the administra-
ton 90 to work in earnest to find ways
and means to put damper upon such
practices the number Of lynchings ought
to be materially reduced if not climi-
mated entirely. &,si4 .sr.
There are countries in which race
riots and massacres take place, more
frequently than in the United States,
but no country has more individual
lynclings than this. 1t is a disgrace
that should not be tolerated. Our con-
stitution guarantees every man fair
trial and ways and means must. be de-
yised to see that all men get that.
Every person who aids in mob violcnces
is criminal to just the extent OF his
aid and he ought to be made to suffer
the consequences Of Ills criminal act.
1t may be true that this or that man
deserves to be hung, as the mob claims.
hut there is no place where the facts
can be established except in a court OF
justice. I'll Ifs
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27
M = ''.'-''...'--,.. 80 -
NO TOTAL DISARMAMENT.

Peace is two and. one-half years old
today. There are 100000 men still
urdcr arms in Europe.-Ncw York
Herald. .s41 Ill. 4r.
There will be men under arms in
Europe, Asia and elsewhere for cen
turtles to come. Probably Europe will
find way in the not distant future tc
cut down the number Of men thus Ell
gagged, but an army is quite necessary
to a nation, same as police force tt
a city. SD ...r
The United States is going to main
toin an army Of from 10000 to .2OO.0O(
n,cn, but that doesn't mean that the
United States is going to seek wars
There is always danger Of trouble at
lone and an army is sometimes needed
70 maintain order and preserve peace
Navies are necessary to enforce in
ternational law when some obstrepcr
Gus nation refuses to recognize inter
ne tional customs and usuages.
Total disarmament appears to be as
far away as the dismissal of city police
forces. But the world wants some re,
lief from the mad armament race that
is being staged by Great Britain, Japan
and the United States. These countries
new have ample navies and their own
interests and the interests Of mankind
would be conserved by an agreement to
stop further extensive naval construc-
ton, thus relieving the people of a very
large part of the load of taxation they
are now carrying.
It Is unthinka bic that any of the lead.
ing nations Of the world will become
involved in great wars during the life
of the present generation and now is Il
very good time for the leaders among
the powers to come to some sensible
anent curtailing eXten
s:ye war preparations.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27

would have one of It's agents gradually
accumulate checks on the state bank
until the amount of such checks eX-
Cceded the amount of currency said
state bank was required to carry in its
vaults. 1t would then send its men
hIrriedly and unexpectedly to demand
payment of the checks in cash, III de-
fault of which the checks were sent to
protest and the news spread about the
community that the bank was being
questioned by the government that It
had dishonored checks, and the result
would be, very likely, a run on the
bank and its destruction. The bank
could save itself from this disaster by
signing an agreement to submit itself
to the orders Of the federal reserve sys-
TEN.
"To protect itself from the danger of
proceedings Of this kind the American
Bank and Trust Company of Georgia
appealed to the courts to prevent the
federal reserve bank Of Atlanta from
continuing cocrcive methods such as in
dicatcd above. In its defense the Fed
cral Reserve Bank asserted that the
holder of checks has right to retain
them and present, them at his pleasure.
"The supreme court held that while
this was true so long as the motive is an
honest one, the right can not he iex-
crcised for a dishonorable purpose. The
court said: Banks as we know them
could not exist If they could not rely
upon averages and lend large part
of the money. that they receive from
their dcpositors OH the assumption that
not more than a certain fraction OF 1t
will be demanded on any one day: If
without word of falsehood but acting
from what we have called disinterested
malevolcnce, man by persuasian7
should organize and carry into effect
a run upon a bank and ruin it.. we can
rot doubt that an action would lie.
Il similar result, even If less complete
in its effect, is to be expected from the
course that the defendants are alleged
to intend, and to determine whether
they are authorized to follow that
course it is not enough to refer to the
general right Of holder of checks to
present them, but it is necessary to con-
slider whether the collection Of checks
and presenting them in body for the
purpose of breaking down the petition
crs business as now conducted is justi-
fed by the Interior purpose in view.
We do not need aid from the debatcrs
upon the statute under which the re-
serve banks exist to assume that the
United States did not intend by that
statute tosanction this sort Of warfare
upon legitimate creations of the states
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27
FALSE PREMISES.

A day or two ago the Des MOines
Register contained an article from the
pen. Of Mark Sullivan. the well known
Washington newspaper correspondent,
Under the caption, Senate Fails to Re
gain it's Lost Prestige and one Of the
several Wilson republicans of Webster
City asks the Freeman J Journal to com
trent upon it.
In the first place, the senate of the
United States has not lost its prestige
among the. people, as demonstrated by
the results Of the election last fall,
hence it could not fail to regain
something 1t had not lost Possibly the
senate has lost its prestige among some
of the devoted followers Of Woodrow
Wilson. but this contingent is SO in
significant in numbers and is SO pre-
JUDGED that it is wholly useless to at
tempt to pacify it. The senate can
never hope to regain its prestige among
this class.
Mr.. Sullivan starts the article in
question by setting up false premises.
He says:
"The theory upon which the republi-
can party year ago laid out the future
was that the country was to be run by
the senate. That theory had it's origin
largely in resentment by the senate it.
self against the degree of power which
the white house under President Wilson
had acquired"
The republican party year ago start
ed out npon no such theory, the asser-
tions Of Mr.. Sullivan to the contrary
Notwithstanding. The republican party
favored last year rs it has every year
since its birth in 1856. the opcrat ton of
the government by constituted author
ity and upon constitutional lines. There
is just as much objection to the senate
running the country as there is to the
lower house Of congress running it or
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27
COWS IN TOWNS.

The number of cows in the various
towns Of the country has fallen OF
greatly during the past ten years, as
revealed by census reports. Twenty
five or thirty years ago a very large
number of people residing in towns and
cities kept cows to furnish milk and
butter for the table, but now very few
co so. nearly everybody buying milk
and butter. This is an advantage to
tie farmer, as it adds to the consump-
ton of such products of the farm.
The number Of cows kept in Des
Moincs in 1910 was 2,455 and in 1920
it was only 1872. In 1910 Cedar Rapids
bad 512 cows and In 1920 she had only
JOG. ~ The city Of Council Bluffs was
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27

DR.. Fort Newton, former we'll
known Cedar Rapids pastor, later of
London, England, says that Lloyd
George is listening with both ears to
hear the American proposal for dis
armament. The doctor also intimatcs
that Japan is in a very receptive mood.
The people of this country certainly
hope that the doctor has sensed the
situation correctly. If he has there
ought to be no insurmountable diff
ficulties in arriving at some practicable
disarmament program.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27

Some Of the big fellows who have
money to loan are denouncing work
men and mechanics for not willingly
accepting reductions in wages cores
ponding with the reduction in the cost
Of living. If these same gentlemen
would reduce interest rates they would
do a lot to bring back prosperity. There
is no more money in the country when
the interest is eight per cent than when
it is five, hence the higher; rates do
not increase the supply in this parti
cGlar instance. Interest rates ought
to be stabilized. as money is worth
compared with itself just as much ut
one time as another. a dollar will pay
debt today just as it would yesterday
and the day before and just as it will
tomorrow and the next day. Not so
with ii bnshel of corn or a. pound of
pork. The farmer year ago could
buy two or three times as much with
bushel of corn as he can today and
q bushel of corn would pay about five
times as much interest then as it will
now, the difference between the interest
paying value and the goods buying value
ut present being due to increased rates
OF interest. In the face Of a reduc
ton in nearly everything else the loan
ing companies and individuals loaning
money have increased rates. There is
no telling where rates would 90 but
for the statute against usury.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27
News dispatches say that a genera

News dispatches say that general
strike has been called by the miners
OF England. If workmen are goine
to keep on striking and money loaners
are going to continue to increase rates
there is no telling when normally will
return throughout the world. Now is
Il pretty good time for everybody ia
he satisfied, or at least to appear salts
tied, with reasonably good returns from
what they have to sell,-labor, money
or any commodities. The average con
sumcr Of coal cannot afford to pay ever
present prices fOr fuel, to say nothing
Of the increased prices that would
surely follow an increase in pay to
miners.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27

According to the national industrial
conference board the cost of living in
the United States decreased % per
cent in May, 2OS per cent from July
first last year to June first this year,
leaving the net increase between July,
1914, and June, 1921, at Clio per cent.
The reduction since the first of last
July is not as large as since the first of
May, 1920. s4
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27
The Freeman and Journal, both
papers, per year--------------@1.5o
The Daily Freeman.Journsl, BY
mail, per year----------------$5.00
Delivered, in city Per yesr----$6.00

A prominent London physician de-
clares that what ails Russia Is bad
teeth-teeth in the mouths of Lenine
and Trotzky. He says that no man
with bad teeth can have good health
and that men with good health never
see red. If this physicians diagnosis
is correct, the people of Russia ought to
catch Lenine and Trotzky and relieve
them of their diseased molars.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27
TAX PROBLEM WON'T DOWN.
81. PAUL Pioneer Press:

st. Paul Pioneer Press: Congress
soon must face the tax problem square
". AS yet the statesmen at Wash
ington have accomplished nothing. The
evil day when action must be taken is
fast approaching, despite all efforts to
postpone its arrival. When it comes
the sales tax Of necessity must be CIV
en- the serious consideration it deserves
but which it has not received. Without
some other revenue producing plan be-
ing devised in the meantime its ulti-
mate acceptance seems most probable
despite the bitter opposition which it
has invoked.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27
Attention. Farmers.

Bring your cream to the Chben 4
Grange creamery in the eco block on
Second street. 5-23f-tf
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-27

Business cards at this Office.