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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-03-14

When patients mouth becomes dry
and parched during the night a piece
Of orange held in the mouth from
tir7e TO time wis quench thirst. The
orange should be u into small pieces
ami put within easy reach OF the ln-
valid. II VIII be easier 10 handle
tlan o glass OF water and Is more re-
frn.hlnr
The Washington herald., 1921-04-08
Grain Market Committee.

THE address Of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
i before the Farmers Grain Marketing Com
mittee of Seventeen at Chicago, reads we'll II is
sound document based upon economic verities
This movement of the farmers to promote the mar
keting of their grain is to be commended in its
objects and. if Secretary Wallace's advice is
needed, it will not stray far in its methods.
He seemed to scent criticism of his being there
to counsel with the committee. But why? There
is in his department Bureau of Markets authorized
by Congress. Included in its duties and purposes
is exactly such help and advice Mr.. Wallace went
to Chicago to give 1t is as much his official obi
cation to improve the marketing conditions for the
products of the farm to increase that production
by better methods of cultivation, cropping rotation
and seed selection.
Neither is it useful to question the right OF the
farmers to form marketing organizations. If such
objection had any force that force is lost, since
years ago it became accomplished fact as to
dairy products fruits, and even grains Farmers
elevators at least generation ago in their be-
ginning. They have this right and it is indeed an
obligation A farm is factory and to follow the
output to its market, is much the farmers busi-
ness as it is that Of any other factory owner.
Moreover. only by organization can the farm
ers gain admission to exchanges and here Mr.. Wal
laces advice was especially sound. He pointed out
the folly of any attempt to displace wipe out
the present marketing machinery. Any organiza-
ton the farmers can form has long road to travel
much to learn, much experience to gain before it
will be able to more than remedy evils, provide
steadying influence and, above ALL educate the
farmers to independent judgment in their own busi-
ness. The present exchanges the schools for
their organization managers.
More than this, the Secretary is to be
mended most sincerely for his warning against at
tempting monopoly arbitrary price fixing. The
raisin growers and fruit raisers have been accused
of this. 1t is not only as he said, morally and
legally wrong" but, as he added, will result in
absolute and costly failure at is not time" he
continued, ito try quack nostrums which leave the
patient at the end than when he began to use
them
1t may be hoped that the Secretary who said
his services were available to everyone concerned
with crop marketing, will be able to extend his ad
visory aid to the grain dealers He can render no
greater service than by using the influence of his
office to bring better understanding between the
grain traders and the grain producers. Theirs
should be spirit of cooperation, not antagonism,
of friendly understanding, and = mistaken hos
tlity.
The Washington herald., 1921-04-08
American Rights Not Waived.

CNECRETARY HUGHES makes much stronger
case for this government as to the Island OF
Yap than did Mr.. Colby. Mr.. Hughes bases
ms position upon the right of the United States to
participate in any gains from in which it took
an important part a participant. This right he
points out admitted and confined by the treaty
OF Versailles in Article 49, which reads:
Germany renounces in favor of the principal
allied and associated powers all her rights and titles
over her overseas possessions"
!, The Herald has previously quoted this article
as determining that disposition of any of these
properties, or possessions, could be final without the
participating consent Of the United States, which
was not only principal associated power" but the
only one of that description. 1t is also fact that
the United States was not party to any prior
treaty or agreement covering Yap or any other of
the German overseas possessions, and is in no way
bound, or under any obligation to consider such
agreements.
If a number of men entered a partnership ar
rangement to undertake certain project which re-
suited in material property gains; if these gains
came to them in common and were admitted by
the terms of their transfer would one of such part
surrender all right participate in their parti-
ton solely because he had not accepted and joined
in "a subsequent extended partnership? Such pro-
position seems plain and it appears to be parallel
of the international situation as to the war and the
,i Mr.. Hughes makes the case still stronger by
citing that in the allotment of the Pacific islands to
Japan, the principal allied powers included the
United States, the principal associated power as
asserting, while fact this government did not
assent, was not represented, even consulted 1t
was an attempt to take snap judgment, to which
the. United States refuses to submit
The situation, however, points the moral to the
tale that while have refused "entangling alli-
ances." we entangled just the same. This coun-
tryiis entanged to not only these islands whose
disposition has immediate importance as to Mesopo-
tarnia with its oil laws, but as to $I4ooooooooo of
debts due from almost every country of Europe the
bulk of it being guaranteed by the governments
1t is also proposed that private investors con-
sent to still further financial entangements and this
must come for salvation, while the gov
ernment refuses to support these enormous invest
ments and credits by any form of international asso-
ciation to assure their security.
1t is also somewhat embarrassing though not 4
weakening of the immediate case that the claim to
consideration to the surrendered German DOS
sessions has to be largely based upon treaty, or
agreement which this government refused to ratify
and which it is now even proposed to ignore and
scrap by separate peace with Germany
The Washington herald., 1921-04-08

siderable investment to devising ways to utilize the
canal economically. So far he has not succeeded
But the controlling fact is that all Mr.. Harvey
has said and much more, has been threshed over
time and again at the public hearings before the
international commission. Its report Is soon due.
Vessels of $500 to 1000 tons now pass the St
Lawrence. Hundreds of loaded ocean-going ships
of that size went from the lake shpyards across the
ocean during the war period They had four to five
times the capacity of any canal barge.
But they not economical for traffic OF the
character the great interior body of this country
provides for overseas traffic They useful only
for ocean "short-hauls." for distribution OF the
greater cargoes when these break bulk for coast
wise traffic, and for European distribution For
across the ocean, bulk commodity carrying vessels
must be of 5000 to 1000 tons capacity deadweight.
II is such the improved St, Lawrence will make
available and all grain shippers agree this viii IN
crease the price of grain to the farmers a minimum
of cents bushel by decreasing the transportation
charge. At present railroad rates this would be
close to- or fully 10 CENTS bushel With this
within reach it is useless to ask the producers OF
this country who provide the greater portion OF the
country's exports, to longer fiddle around trying
to use teapots in a ribbon of water
The Washington herald., 1921-04-08
Offers Rare Fishing
In National Parks

Uncle Sam has extended an
open invitation for fishermen to try
their luck in the streams and rivers
Of his national parks Fishermen
will find q paradise in any one OF
the parks, the national park serv-
ice Of the Department of Interior
bulletin stated.
The rivers and streams have been
stocked with large numbers OF
trout and other game fish.
Excellent trout fishing will be
found in Yellowstone National
Park. where nearly 100000 trout
fry were planted. More than 2o0,-
900 trout fly were planted in Yo-
semitic National Park. Other parks
on the list are Sequoia National
Park, California; Crater Lake Ma
tional Park. Oregon; Glacier Ma
tional Park, Montana; Rocky Noun
tain Park. Colorado; Lafayette Ma
tional Park, Maine, Other parks,
largely in the West. provide excel
lent fishing. The department also
advises the adventurous to give the
ocean a try-out and promises rare
sport.
The Washington herald., 1921-04-08
Value Of Merger.
~HE HERALD is opposed to any for

Il HE HERALD is opposed to any form OF taxa
ton to force merger of the two street rail-
way systems. To attempt to reduce the Capital
Traction earnings by surtax and to so lower its
earning value as to make it ready to combine with
the Washington Electric on merely investment
basis, would gain nothing for the people.
The Herald has sympathy for the Capital
Traction, but any merger based the full cap-
talization of the Washington Electric Company will
be Apples of Sodom for the people of the District
Rather than scaling down the earnings of the one
company, the right way is to scale down the wild
ca or least njudicious, investment of the other
What the people want is return to the scent
fare which once six for rs cents. To them
merger merely merger, means nothing. 1t might
be worse than the present condition, if brought
about by means under conditions which would
fasten upon them a combination capitalized beyond
what fair and just A great evil should not
be swapped for greater, and the District should
not be the perpetual victim of admitted bad
investment.
The companies have been conceded skip-stop,
which is very large saving in use of equipment
and in repairs, as well as the life of ears. They
should be relieved of any charge for traffic police
which is distinctly proper charge against the city
and not against the companies. 1t is better to
waive paving charges and pay it out of taxes, than
to have increased fares.
But the things the people must watch in merger
is just the effect on fares This means the limita-
ton of combined capitalization with scaling down.
not up; the continued separation of power charge
from private electric which should have to
bear any cf the street car power burden; the right
of inspection of all books and accounts to prevent
operative overcharge. and system of taxation
which will not compel street car users to pay what
rightly is a charge against other property
The people should, and will regard merger solely
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il and they will need to be mighty alert and forceful
if they would protect themselves from that human
nature as Characteristic of corporations as of
persons. G
The Washington herald., 1921-04-08
The St. Lawrence Project.

THE HERALD was glad to receive and publish
letter from Richard S. Harvey, opposing
the St. Lawrence waterway project. Mr. Harvey's
position is that the St. Lawrence should not be
made available for ocean-going vessels until certain
prior conditions have been fulfilled these he states
as follows:
When the Western shipper has shown dis
position to utilize to the utmost the means of
transportation thus placed at his disposal (the
Erie CanaD and when it plainly appears that
those facilities do not fit his needs, either as to
quality, or extent of service, it would seem that
then (and only them will people be in
position to seriously consider any route which
drverts our domestic traffic to ports under a
foreign flag.
1t may occur to American shippers and pro-
ducers that the bulk of the Western traffic which
would take the St. Lawrence route would be for
overseas destination. 1t would, therefore, make
mighty little difference whether it first met with the
British, any other foreign flag, in the port of
Montreal or Liverpool This reference to Canada
as though hostile country, is rather trifing,
especially all lake traffic is now using wholly
Canadian canals.
But all of Mr.. Harvey's conditions have been
fulfilled. The Erie Canal as originally built and as
now completed, never has been, never can be and
never will be used as way of transport for any
material portion of Western grains. Up to now the
largest barges used on the canal have been Goo to
700 tons. compared to 5000 and 10000 tons ves-
sells transporting grain the lakes
Handling is necessary and will be necessary at
Buffalo and again at the Hudson River terminal via
the canal Two landings are an expensive charge
against grain growers. Moreover. the canal has
never been a successful competitor even with the
railroads within New York 1t has all sorts Of han
dicaps and has seen its greatest success as source
of graft in New York politics
Speaking of what Western shippers have done
to promote the use of the Erie Canal, it may sur
prise even Mr.. Harvey to know that the first 1000
ton barges for use on the canal and much the
largest ever designed for there have been de-
signed in the Duluth shipyards, controlled by Julius
H. Barnes, the largest exporter of grain in this
country. and are now being built there.
1t may be surprising, also, to know that the
man who has done more of practical value to pro-
mote the availability of the Erie Canal than has
any New Yorker, is also Duluthan. Capt Alex
McDougal. who has large interest in that city's
shiPyards. He has given years of time and con-
The Washington herald., 1921-04-08

WORLD CLIMATE TOLD
BY NEW SCIENCE.

By means Of charts and tables. and
by determining when certain plants
hurst into leaf and flower. the sci
entists can now tell the proper time
to SOW wheat. what date will see
the hawthorn Of England in bloom.
and whether a certain plant or ami
NAL will flourish II Iransplanted
from a certain place in one country
to a favorable locality in another.
The latest developments in this
new science of bioclimatics. which
promises to be the governing guide
Of the future entomolog.sts. botanist
and agriculturist. were explained by
DR.. Andrew d. Hopkins of the De-
partment of Agriculture. in his ad-
dress as retiring president of thu
Biological Society of Washington at
the recent joint meeting Of ths
Washington Academy OF Sciences
and the Biological Society.
Some of the ideas about climate
that we learned from our geoGra-
phies are wrong. The temperate
zone is not a strip Of the eartA's
surface running straight around
with the parallels Of latitude. In
stead IL runs in a northwest ward
direction from the Eastern 20 the
Western coast of a continent. The
scientist finds that Seattle, Wash,
in about latitude as n. has a cli-
mate more like Washington. d. C,
in latitude SO thaa that of Northern
Newfoundland in latitude as. More
over, on the high mountains OF the
tropics all of the zones Of climate,
ranging from equatorial to that OF
the frigid North. may occur.
No wireless is needed to tell Or.
Hopkins when spring arrives
Eurasia. Sitting in his office. using
the data that have been collected,
and the scheme he has evolved since
his first work on the subject n
1895. he can make preliminary pre-
dictions with as great accuracy as
is often had in actual observations
as to the date for a given season
or average of seasons that leaves
and flowers will appear on certain
plants: when to plant crops. and
when they will bc ready for har-
vest: or when to spray for a par
ticular insect at any place on the
two great continents Of the world.
All that is needed Is the recorded
date OF the event OF an euuANdienb
event at Kanavha Farms. near
Parkersburg, w. Va. where Dr.
Hopkins has done most OF his work
and which has been adopted as the
international base station ~ the
system Of bio-climatic studies and
predictions for North America.
BY this method il is found that
spring is. on a four-yesr average.
forty-four DAYS earlier in Western
Europe than in Eastern America.
The address related particularly 80
preliminary results Incident to the
greater task of determining the sp-
plicatton ~ the hio-climat'c law in
making predictions as to the natu-
raj and ARTIFICIAL distribution of
PLANTS and animals Of the world as
a whole.
The latest achievement ~ the new
science which is being developed
through Dr Hopkins studies is the
nrcdiction Of the annual July ana
January temperature for over 500
meteorological stations in he
J United States with an accuracy that
even surprised those who were most
} interested
The Washington herald., 1921-04-08
A REFRESHING CRITIC.

To the EdirOr. The Washington Herald:
Let me thank you for your lead
ing editorial in today's issue of The
Herald. II is the most amusing
thing I have read for quite awhile.
"Remaking the Covenant" and
Roots Court" is about as amusing
as the Posts asseveration that the
Colombian treaty. with its amende
honorable, is one of the ma jor poll
cies Of the q. o. T. 1t is to laugh.
When did the leagues court be-
come Roots court? And are we to
assume that that is another of the
major policies of the g. o. P?
You say in "Remaking the Cove
nant' that IF a country's political
independence or political integrity
were threatened. il should have the
right of appeal to the court and
to compel the appearance of its
enemy" Compel? You must have
slipped UP. And you say. This
would dispose of Article "" Com
pulsion is the very essence Of Ar
ticle y. As a matter OF fact, let
us have soemthing to enforce peace.
but for heavens sake don't call It
Wilson's Article y. Call it Roots
Court"
The Republican party has made a
mess and gotten itself in a mess.
Its position would be pitiful IL il
wasn't so contemplate. The G. o.
p. hasn't had a new idea or a for
ward looking policy in fifty years.
Right now it is carrying out the
policies of a Democratic admins
tration-the most remarkable ad-
ministration this country has had
since the foundation of the repub-
lie. The league of nations is but
the elimination of imperial states
manship. 1t is the high peak of
achievement. II was too much for
the little souls who engineered the
G. o. p. Hence this country has
witnessed the hlackest record of
petty, picayunish and pusillsnimous
propaganda that was ever staged.
Right now the solons of the G. o.
p. are agonizing over how to get
the league without the Wilson ear
marks; to get the credit; TO mas
Querade in Democratic armor ca
mopfiaged with Republican paint.
What a sorry spectacle! Why be
SO little.
Just to thank you for that edi-
torial Much obliged.
/. C. MICHAEL.
Waldorf, Nd. April 5.
The Washington herald., 1921-04-08
FRANCE RECoNsTRTCTs
whR-RaZED MINES.

The French are gradually recon
structinE their coal mines and
plants that four years OF war had
razed TO such an extent that at
points the ground itself seemed
overturned with a giant plow. said
George s. Rice, chief mining engin-
eer, L. s Bureau OF Mines. at a
Joint meeting of the Washington
Society of Engineers and the Amer
ican Institute of Mining and Metal
Iurcical Engineers at the Cosmos
Club.
These wrecked mines are being
rehabilitated so that their present
annual production is over 100000
tons or about one-ffth Of pre-war
output. he said. in telling Of his
work as a member OF the Bureau Of
Mines commission which inspected
the devastated region.
Following the armistice and the
retreat of the Germans, il was
found that not only had the mines
been destroyed. but the workmen's
houses, all bridges, to a large ex-
tent roadways. and very completely
all railroads and railroad equip
ment. and the rails either carried
away or blasted at each joint so az
to be useless" said Rice.
About l2l mines. with go shafts.
were rendered imperative and the
surface works systematically de-
stroyed, besides battle destruction
in the limited zone of fighting.
Ninety-six shafts Of forty-nine
mines were inundated. resulting
from blasting the shaft Innings in
the water-bearing strata which
covers the carboniferous measures
Four OF the shafts were cratered
at the surface so deeply that the
steel head frames fell into the era
tiers. but elsewhere the German en-
gineers sought from the mine rec
ords in their possession the best
places to place charges to blast
the steel, brick or concrete Innings
so that water would enter, in one
case driving q gallery under a
swamp to admit water; in other
places ditching in surface water.
The French have shown great
engineering skill in the recovery
Of the shafts" Rice declared.
Pumping is proceeding actively
throughout the distgict. and SO far
as the upper levels have been un-
watered IL has been found that tn.
galleries which had been lined with
brick or concrete have come through
without serious damage, except at
crossings and turnouts. which have
caved in: but that the timber gall
leries which have been long under
water have caved completely"
The Washington herald., 1921-04-08
A QUESTION TO DR. RADCLIFFE
To the Editor, The washington Herald:

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
II in order may l say a word or
two in the open Court" column of
your valuable paper.
In Mondays Herald DR.. Radcliffe
Is quoted as saying that "the OPEN
ing Of the horse show at Potomac
Park by government authority on
next Sunday is a direct Haunting
against the american Sunday"
Will Mr.. Radcliffe kindly explain
why it is more of a crime for the
government to allow the opening of
the horse show on Sunday than 1t
is on Monday? What right has the
government to decide by so doing
that Sunday is a sacred day? To do
so would be un-American and un-
constitutional.
day of the week is the Sabbath Day
the memorial of creation-and
plainly says that holy time" is
gone when Sunday. the first day Of
the week, arrives. Then why any
more harm to open the horse show
on Sunday than on Monday? Haven't
1 Just as much right to ask that the
horse show be closed on the Sab
Ddtn LAY, "HlCH 10 tHC SCNShNH M
of the week?
1 agree with the Rev. DR.. Rad
cliffe that the government should
net send an American delegate to
the Vatican, but / can't quite see
why, II he Is so much opposed to
this. he should not also be opposed
to the government declaring sacred
the american Sunday a day
which Rome Gas DR.. Radcliffe can
easily prove IL he does not already
know it) gave to the Christian
world as a substitute for the Uni
versal Bible Sabbath" The same
objection-the union of church and
State-applies to both.
C. d. MEYER.
Washington, D. c., April 4.
The Washington herald., 1921-04-08
SQUARE THE CIRCLES.
To the Editor. The Washington Herald:

To the Editor, The washington Herald:
The unfortunate accidents in this
Capital City could. I believe, be
lessened il the city fathers would
surround Thomas, Scott and Dupont
circles with a railing about six feet
high. allowing three or four feet OF
ground to form a little park for ow-
ers inside. with a gate which could
be opened by park guards alone.
Take, for instance, Massachusetts
avenue. which runs from Capitol
Hill to Tenally town road; then
Rhode Island avenue; next. Six
teenth street, which Rns direct
from the Executive Mansion out to
the suburbs. These three thorough
fares can become the ride and the
drive by this change. and not spoil
their beauty.
At the auctioneer blocks. yclepi
platforms" which are ugly and
dangerous. / sometimes stand-and
so do many others-for ten minutes
awaiting an opportunity to cross;
and hold a review OF the vehicles tc
the right and left. back and front
going at a moderate rate of speed
and awaiting the pedestrian to
make an effort to reach a sidewalk,
1 have seen an old lady thrown
down at Thomas circle. stepping in
safety over the car track from the
curb, and cruelty foored by an au-
tomobile which she could not see
running neck and neck with the car
going towards Fourteenth street.
Iron railing Is not ugly, and
with flowers and plants at the foot
Of pedestals, become floral pictures.
(Mrs) ROSE A. BRAENDLE.
w..hi~ ~taa Anrfi T.