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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

The president Of an eastern candy
manufacturers association says that
the price Of sweetstuff will not come
down until meat is lower. There was
a time when the price Of sugar kept
candy up. Then there was some ex-
cuse, but we are unable. to determine
what the price of beef has to do with
the fixing Of prices for sweetmeats.
This is worse than any pretext we
have ever known to be advanced and
is sure indication that candy manu-
facturers have not yet been wiped off
the profiteer list. One of these days
we will probably read that the reason
candy has not been reduced in price
is because of the market advance in
single nails. One is as reasonable as
the other.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13
COMMUNITY SCALE

The community scale has been the
subject Of much discussion during the
past week. That scale was installed
primarily for weighing potatoes, since
potatoes are the big crop in this Sec
ton of the state. It is reported that
many farmers are not patronizing this
scale and the question arises, why not {?
Surely there is not a farmer in this
vicinity who does not think it is worth
fifteen cents to know that he has &C.
curate weight on his load. The scale
was tested Wednesday by the state in
spector and now there can be no oues-
ton whatever in regard to the WEIGHTS
it records.
1t has been reported that certain
potato buyers have attempted to dis
courage the farmers from USING this
scale. This seems highly improbable
because man who would be guilty of
such an act would be laying himself
open to at least high degree of sus-
'plcion. 1t is to the interest of every
potato buyer to have the farm rs who
market their produce here satisfied
with the treatment they receive.
The majority of business menin town
nave given the farmers excellent co.
operation in their scale project. When
.enIhuslasm was at a low ebb and
funds were needed the business houses
in the village purchased so shares.
thus contributing $3.50. This of course
is only small fraction of the money
invested in the scale since it cost an
proximately $4,000. Evens Hardware
company closed it's scale at quite a
sacrlflce and it is now offered for sale.
This was done solely for the purpose
OF helping the community scale. The
village council has agreed to have the
street on which the scale stands nut
IN good condition. In fact the maiori-
ty OF the business men in the village
have done everything in their power
to make the scale a success but all
this help will be Of no avail if the far
ners themselves will not patronize it..
They and they alone are the men who
IN the final analysis will either make
or break this project. If they cannot
get together on a small proposition
like this community scale, we hope
they will have the good Judgment not
to blame anyone else for their lack of
cooperation.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

The Cooperative Society of Ameri-
ca, with headquarters in Chicago, has
been declared bankrupt by Federal
Judge Evans. This organization
claimed ownership of one bank, FL
story skyscraper, a life insurance
company, the largest grocery store in
Chicago, numerous canneries, land de-
velopment projects and 181 operating
grocery stores. According to the evil
dence submitted to the judge the liza
bilities Of the<concern are about $751;
100000, it's assets something like $780,
900, while $4,000 people have pur-
chased membership. This reads like a
story from North Dakota when Town
ley was cZar.e.. ::
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

nights and Sundays il. stopped it is.
going to force the larger up town
stores to follow suit. There is no ex-
cuse for the store remaining open all
hours and, rather than to force stu
alton where all the Albert Lea retail
stores will return to the old basis,
something should be done to remedy
the matter before it is too late. The
law limiting the hours of clerks to 48
hours week might be invoked.-Free-
born County Standard.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

According to that eminent scientist,
Wallace Gregory of Scotland, the
earth is 8,000,000,000 years old and has
been inhabited 7,00o,oo0,000 years.
While we are strongly inclined to be-
lieve Professor Gregory, the bible tells
us that Adam and Eve were the first
human beings to trot around on this
old sphere of ours some 5000 years
ago. So it resolves itself into a case of
everyone to his fancy" as the old
woman said who kissed the cow.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13
CAN WE FLOAT THEM?

We have been told that the editor
of the nonpartisan paper at Milaca
has just recently stated that the
league was about dead in this section
of the state, in fact was rapidly be-
coming a thing of the past. 1t does
not take a great deal of foresight to
see that the league has about reached
the end of it's rope in Minnesota but
it is little surprising to find one of
it's ardent champions admitting that
fact at this stage of the game. How
ever this may explain the editors
seeming change Of heart in regard to
the farm bureau.
Last winter when the farm bureau
solicitors were conducting their men,
bership campaign in Page township,
we were told that certain nonpartisans
who were active supporters Of the
Mile Laos County Times trailed
these solicitors and urged the farmers
who had promised to join the bureau
to stop payment on their checks that
they had given for the membership
fee. During the winter the Times
continued to remain neutral except
occasionally when it surreptitiously
knocked the bureau. The Milaca Trib-
une, Wahkon Enterprise and the
Princeton Union boosted the farm bu-
reau continually and helped very ma
terially in getting good, live asso-
citation organized in this county. Dur
ing the test time when friends were
needed, the Mile Laos County Times
never did one thing to help the bu-
reau. Now the editor of this so-called
farmers paper sees the nonpartisan
league sinking and he is apparently
casting around for another raft on
which to float for awhile. 1t appears
that he has selected the farm bureau
and If our county association can float
him and his like for any length of
time without sinking, it is a stronger
organization than we ever anticipated
in our most sanguine moments.
We wonder just how the editor of
the Times is proceeding to make up
with the farm bureau officials.
intelligent men who cannot be en-
tirely uniformed as to his past rec
ord in this county. Any organization
likes to have the good will of the
newspapers in the community in which
it operates but with an organization
as an individual, good will purchased
with loss of self-respect is not worth
having. Possibly the argument has
been advanced that members could moi
be secured in certain strong nonparti-
san townships in the county unless
the bureau would make overtures tc
the Times crowd. We would say that
any man who could be won by such ar
argument is lacking in some very es.
sential qualities and is such a one a.
might be expected to- sell his birth
right for a mess of pottage.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

While William McCauley, Cana
dian government messenger, who car
ries mail between Windsor and De-
troit, was jogging along in his old
one-horse wagon on Saturday night,
and when near the general postofice,
four bandits in an automobile stole up
to him and relieved his conveyance Of
&c pouches containing 100000 in cur
rency. They, of course, made their
escape, leaving no clue behind. Pc
culiar, is it not, that, after so many
mail robberies have been sue
cessfully perpetrated, large sums of
money are still transported without
being guarded by armed men?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

Mrs. Cooney recently secured Bos-
ton TERROR pup which has pedigree
reaching back into the eighteenth GEN.
tury or thereabouts. 1t is an artful
little shaver and has a penchant for
chewing holes in things. Yesterday,
while pretending to be asleep on DR..
Cooney's shoulder, it bored hole in
one OF his ears. But the doctor merely
uttered few words in French and laid
the dog on the sofa.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

Eleven undesirable aliens left Min
neapolis last week for Ellis island to
be deported to their native lands. The
great pity is that too many Of these
anarchistic disloyalists have been per-
mitted by the government to go free
when they should have either been
hung CT exiled
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

The other day, it is said, President
Harding refused to eat from golden
dishes. But just think what diem
ma our dear president would be in
should he be seated next to our Col
onel George Harvey at royal func-
ton in Buckingham or Windsor palace,
where upon such occasions even the
toothpicks are of beaten gold.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

From the London Times we learn
that Sylvia Pankhurst has been ex-
PEELED from the British communist par
ty for continuing to run a newspaper
named the Workers Dreadnaught
when ordered not to do SO by that
organization. Sylvia is never happy
unless she is breeding strife. The
proper place for her to operate would
be among the bolshevists of Russia.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

Albania has asked the league of ma
tons to intervene in a new Balkan war
which is pending. The league can no
more stop Balkan war than we could
a ball hurled by professional pitcher.
Then, again, it is too busy solving big
problems at the present time to give
attention to little thing like war
in the Balkans.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

British chemists in convention as
sembled denounced gas warfare as
"abhorrent to the higher instincts of
humanity" So far as it goes this cam
not be refuted, but is not every other
form of warfare abhorrent to these
same instincts?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

An astronomer announces that he
has discovered vegetation on the moon.
Well bet this fellow a hundred dol
lars that there is no more vegetation
on the moon than that which fourishes
on billiard ball.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

"Why are oil producers organiza-
tons known as reduction companies ?"
asks the Detroit News. Probably from
the fact that many of them have re-
duced the bank accounts of numerous
persons who have bought shares Of
stock in them.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

Here is another opportunity for
Henry Ford to go to the rescue:
Tegucigalpa, Honduras. capital Of the
Central American union, has no rail-
road running into it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

The Kansas City Star says that the
neighbors used to denounce "Fatty''
Arbuckle's father for numerically
beating his son. Yet, we fancy, from
recent developments, the old man
failed to hit him hard enough.~>
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

In this country there are many asso-
Citations for the suppression of vice,
but to our mind what seems equally
necessary is national organization
Cor the suppression of advice.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

Mr.. Volstead had better be on his
guard. Democrats are about to hold
great regeneration convention in
Washington.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13
OPINIONS or EDITORS
EncouraRement. for Some of IIs.

5
Encouragement for Some Of Us.
People who insist on having views
of their own, must expect to be re-
garded somewhat cranky by those who
never had an idea Of their own, or if
they did have one, never dared to ex-,
press it.-Chisago County Press. ;,
g. * - ..
49, Doubtful. ~- p =
1t is claimed that the purchasing
power of the dollar, which was 38
cents in May, 1921, is now nearly 70
cents. It is doubtful, however, if any,
one has noticed that much difference
in the amount Of their monthly expen-
diture.-Red Wing Eagle.
X * X
Sound Advice.
In view of the probable shortage of
potatoes next spring and probable
higher prices, farmers who plan to
put in potatoes next year will do we'll
to get their seed now. Besides saving
money better seed can be secured now.
Hubbard County Journal.
X X r.
The Wisdom of Editor Davee.
1t is beginning to dawn on the
minds of the Journal-Press and Times
of St. Cloud that the civil service ex-
animation business is a good deal of a
humbug. Lord bless you, gentlemen,
we could have told you that some
years ago.-Clear Lake Times.
* * X
Good Advice.
The "Harpoon," political sheet
published once month in Minneapolis,
is booming Tom Schall as a candidate
for United States Senator to succeed
Frank Kellogg. Tom had better call
the editor of this sheet off before he
ruins what little chance he ever had
in furthering his ambitions Hubbard
County Journal
* X X
Bess at the County Fair.
1t is nightly discouraging to hunt
around for stoekman or somebody to
tell you who is the owner of certain
group of good-looking COWS, how
many prizes they took, etc., and then,
when you do find such a person, to
have him look scornful and say,
'Them? Oh, them is just nurse COWS
for seine Of these ere purebreds.
They're just grades and amt of no
Importance" Anyway the Gazette
editor found it ACKNOWLEDGMENT aw-
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13

Frank Day is running a column Of
Scripture and Prayer" in his Fair
mont Sentinel. May the Lord have
mercy on his soul.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13
Too Many Grocery Stores.

Too Many Grocery Stores.
There are thirty-six grocery stores
in Albert Lea by actual count That
is about thirty more than there ought
to be according to population. We do
not know what the profit is in grocer
les, but in the face Of this statement
it must be mighty small for some of
them. These many stores, we believe,
are burden to the people Of the city.
Think Of the big overhead expenses,
including the rents, lights and heat
for all these places. If there is any
truth in the statement that groceries
are high in Albert Lea it can be at
tributed to the oversupply Of stores.
The "neighborhood grocery" is caus-
ing peculiar situation here also. Un-
less the practice Of keeping open
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13
fully shrive1ing like. Boss Wilson in
Redwood Gazette IL \.
Could Then Wish Them Godspeed. 8

rzlE 49, --- i
. Could Then Wish Them Godspeed.
The late DR.. Hilbert SCI splendid
example to other rich men by insert-
ing clause in his will giving $4,000
to his home city-which is Melrose-
TO, park purposes. St. Cloud needs
about $4,000 to put it's parks in eve
view-with- pride" condition. While we
do not wish any Of our n1illionaires a
sudden or untimely departure tc the
unknown, we can give them a much
more eloquent. obituary, if they left
some of the wealth they cannot take
with them to the park fund Of St.
Cloud. It would be the ideal monu-
ment to their good citizcnsi1ip.-St.
Cloud Journal-Precs.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13
AS to Motion Pictures

AS W MOIlOu flCCuTeS.
Students Of the possibilities of the
motion picture as an adjunct to school
work are likely to sympathize with the
view taken by a Chicago banker that
the pictures should have practical
application. For instance, if used in
connection with a thrift campaign
they ought to show the actual benefits
of thrift, discourage speculation and
encourage saving. The fact is that the
motion picture has been drifting long
enough; it is being weighed in the
balance and found wanting in a great
many respects. Before very long,
without doubt, people are going to
demand and get something better in
this line, both in the thcaters and in
the schools.-Christian Science Moni-
tor
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-26
Manual to Present
Operetta Next Month

The students Of Manual will present
the military millinery operetta, Swords
and Scissors" IN the school auditorium on
the nights Of March 81, % and % They
will be assisted by Miss Gertrude ME-
dema 10 and several members OF the
January '21 class.
This operetta is an annual affair with
the Manual students and takes, this year,
the form Of a light skit Of Napoleon's
time. As have been its predecessors, the
operetta Will be under the supervision and
direction Of Ralph Winslow, musical d.
rector He will be assisted by Miss Lola
l. Perkins dramatic instructor, and Miss
Hilda Kirkman. Music will be furnished
by the school orchestra.
Mr.. Winslow has announced the princi-
pals as follows: Miss Gertrude Me
dema, contralto; Mary Homburg, Eve
Ign Athen, Mary Dolk, Mildred Shadley,
and Dorothy Sandefur, sopranos; Lucy
Court. alto; Barnett Brennan, tenor; Vic
tor Helm. bass; Donald Hoover, Arthur
] andes. Robert Vestal, baritones, and
Claude Pitsenberger.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-26
Births

Fred and Grace Driesbaeh. 1927 East
Vermont, boy.
Raleigh and Eunics Head. 29l3 Broad
way. boy.
girl.
wesley and Pearle Monday, 2229 Key
stone, girl.
William and Emma schiherdecksr, 1902
West Vermont. girl.
Jacob and Elizabeth schnepf, 1921
Shelby, girl.
Adams, girl.
Leo and Lorette Raymond, St vincent's
Hospital. boy.
Lloyd and Sarah Washington, 1884 Ear
hart, boy.
Andy and Matte Easley. 1747 North
western boy.
James and Anna JonT, 835 North Sher-
man Drive, girl.
James and Amy Chenowith, T46 North
Elder, girl.
Harold and Corine Mccoy, DeacOness
Hospital, boy.
Glenn ana Flossie seeright, 40 North
Bancroft, girl.
Wallace and Grace Bellaney. $50 Arbor,
girl.
William and Lula Higgins, 2o24 Lewis,
boy.
James and Emma HILL 112O Myron,
boy.
Raymond and EulaIia Calender, 522
West FOrtleth street. girl.
Joe and Roxie Parker, 1902 East Nine
tenth, girl.
Andrew and Stella Redo, 1876 West six.
teenth Place, boy.
Clarence and Nellie Close. SO West
Pratt, boy.
DEATHS
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-26

Continued From Page One.)
Il carried. to have the county council
vote the appropriation.
Representative Henry Abrams Indian
apolis, objected on the ground that such
9 move would carry the American Legion
which has fostered the project, into
polltics
"A special election Of that kind would
cost about Sl50,OO0." he said, besides
enormous campaign expenses
Representative Otto G. Fineld, Lake
County. moved to table Harrlson's
amendment, but the motion lost, 81 to 81.
Bedgood then asked II the Marion Coun-
ty delegation would be willing to delay
removal OF the blind asylum inasmuch
as It VIII be some time before work on
the memorial can start, He received an
affirmative reply
HarrisOn's amendment was then voted
on and lost by a vote Of 4S to %, fail
Ing to obtain the necessary two-thirds
majority.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-26
Minister Says We
Live in Fresh Age

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 26.-"The age
is brasil brazen. cheap. uncivil We are
fresh, vulgar, immodest, common. We
can't help being fresh. We like being
Just little immodest, and we mean 70
go on being common"
This is the estimate Of "A Mannerless
Age" as voiced by the Rev. DR.. c. X.
Havighurst, pastor of the First NJ. E.
Church here.
There are so many propagatofs Of
vulgarity in taste and manners all
around us that 1t is almost impossible
not to catch it," continued the Rev. DR..
Havighurst.
The very air is full of the germ.
Those whose material prosperity has
suddenly overtaken them are especially
susceptible.
THE classics, the source of real culture
have either gone to the top shelves OF
our bookcases or have been relegated to
the attic, and the cheap magazine and
the sterile, vulgar projection Of the
cinematograph have full swing and sway.
whether an age of intelligent refine
ment and good manners is about to set
in is difficult to tell Culture is the finest
Towering of the human spirit and 1t can
not he bought with, nor produced by,
money. The smart set is Characteristic
Of the mannerless age. The golden OPP
portunity to re establish culture and
good manners lies especially in the hands
If fathers and mothers In the home"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-26
(By Thomson & McKinnon.)
-Fah GA

Wheat-Yesterday' cables told Of pur-
chases or round lots Of Argentine wheat
by Germany at 10 to 20 cents less thah
United States varieties. In the face OF
this Germany has today bought one car
go Of United States wheat. Whatever
the reason for this demand, the simple
taking of more of our small surplus Is
distinctly worthy Of consideration. The
-four trade, both domestic and export,
appears to be reviying. Southwestern
mills claim a better demand than In
four months. Chicago millers were more
active In market and were taking some
wheat from elevator accumulations. Eco
nomic conditions are still In evidence TO
the extent that there is no breadth to the
Investment demand and all operators who
are friendly are acting with caution. As
a matter Of fact, this makes healthy
market as there is no oYerconhdent and
needless demand. The statistical posi-
ton shows so little available wheat that
the market will be sensitive to any I'M
favorable conditions In the present out
look. 1t would seem that the greater pos
sibilities lie on the buying side Of the
market.
Corn and Oats-The movement Of corn
from the country being so much larger
than the demand from distributors or
exporters the market Is not showing a
good tone. Practically all adyices from
the interior are to the effect that farmers
have stopped selling, but this is ignored
ment. There is not likely to be any
particular strength In either corn or oats
under the conditions now existing.
Provisions-The strong hog market has
been offset by the dizziness In products
and the dragging tendency In corn. II
is believed that the movement Of hogs
from the country viii decrease and that
market will maintain It's present strong
undertone 1t Is also felt that the pro-
vision list will be In sympathy.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-26
SAYS BREWERY
VIOLATED LAW
Woman Bares Interest in Sa-
loon in Suit.

Exposure of methods said to have been
used by the Terre Haute Brewing Com
pany, through its agents and the Vigo
Investment Company, to evade the Proc
tor law prohibiting former breweries
from having any interest in saloon prop
critics, today was made by Mrs. Erminie
D. Hanrahan Of this city in a suit filed
in Superior Court, Room 4, for $4,000
Judgment against the Terre Haute Brew
ing Con pany, Vigo Investment Company,
L. z. Fairbanks, Fred Wagner, N. J.
Ward, John E. Beggs of Terre Haute,
Remy Vesque and Maurice Donnelly, for
mer agents Of the Terre Haute brewery
III Indianapolis.
Mrs. Hanrahan claims that on Aug 8,
1914 Donnelly, as agent, sold a saloon
and fixtures at 170S South East street in
indianapolis for 81, 500 to Michael ]. Han
rahan and that Donnelly got a loan of
$1,000 from the Terre Haute Brewing
company through the Vigo Investment
Company. She claims she put up as Sc
curlty three diamond rings valued at
$4,000, She claims the rings never have
been returned to her and that the whole
transaction was illegal
The complaint says the Vtgo Invest
ment Company was incorporated under
Indiana laws by e. P. Fairbanks, 1895
shares Of stock; John Z. Beggs, 1888
shares; Fred Wagner, NJ. ]. Ward and
Remy Vesque, each one share, as "a part
Of and holding for the said Terre Haute
Brewing Company for the sole purpose
to avoid and evade an act of the Legisla-
turs of Indiana Of 1911, known as the
Proctor law, which prohibits breweries
and manufacturers Of intoxicating liquor
from owning any interest in or property
In Saloons"