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, 1922-06-07
What About Secion l5-A?

The action of the Interstate com
merce commission on May 18th. in
reducing freight rates 10 per cent r o
sultfng in the lowering OF the nations
freight bills annually by from 800 to
400 million dollars, must have come
as a distinct surprise to the. folks
who nave been saying that freight
rates could not be reduced until sec
ton 15a of the transportation act
was repealed
Nevertheless some of them have
sufficiently recovered from their sur
prise to claim credit for the freight
reduction as wen as FOR that part of
the decision OF the commission max.
ing permanent the 20 per cent reduc-
ton on livestock shipments made last
September. which would have expired
July 1.
That phantom bin Of Senator Ken.
bricks for the repeal of section 15a
has not yet appeared-but two days
after the interstate mmerc com
mission decision tho senator q out
letters to his Wyoming constituents
assuring them he was laboring to
have the September rates continued,
and nine days after h decision of
May 18th the senator wired the news
to Wyoming papers and claimed much
credit for It.
, 1922-06-07
Sunrise to Sunset

From Sunrise Land.
creeping. standing, walking. you came
to face the Silver Flame
Cwhy. you do not understand.
Long and rough is the road.
burdensome your load
and irksome the toll,
yet Lilies of Love, Roses of Friend
ship
fragrant bloom beside the way.
Take them while you may
lest Regret. with her singing whip.
shall scourge your cringing soul.
The road you walk winds in and out,
side by side with other roads
that twist and turn, -
millions of other roads,
and men and women walk thereon
with seeming u%nconcern,
ever walk on and on
CThey will o. understand
trampling the Flowers down.
walk here and there and roundabout.
up a hill. then down
4 Sunset Land.
-E. RICHARD SHIP.
, 1922-06-07

Ned was used to his cousins queer
actions then he began 10 'ivet," SO
he grinned and watched.
"I known shouted Ned. You're
going to dig down to the middle of the
earth where everything IS all hot, and
get some heatr'
Something like that,' said Ted
as he finished the hole and carefully
measured the diameter with a til
bucket they had brought with them.
Then he went out to the camp fire and
gathered up all h coal and dumped
them into this hole. Then he put the
tin bucket bottom up over the hole.
THAT fire Outside was no good to
US" he said.
Figure 5 shows how he did It A
and b is the ground line. C is the
hole. just smaller than the bucket,
which Ted hDed with live Goals. u
and + are sticks he stuck under the
bucket SO as not to smother the Goals.
ID is the bucket.
Within ten minutes their tent was
as warm as toast and they slept COM
fortably. 1t was still slightly warm
the e morning.
TITS the only safe way to heat a
tent agreed Ned Friday-"Indian
Arrowheads.'D
Tomorrow-Merry Markings.
, 1922-06-07
Reasonable Protection

IN THIS COUNTRY of high wages, snort hours
l. and high standards of living, we quite often face
conditions which require government protection of
certain lines of industry, if they continue to oper-
ate under our America standards in competition
with cheap labor, long hours, foreign production.
We have seen this in our sugar beet industry and
we sen it in certain phases of our mining industry.
Various branches of our western mining indus
tr require certain tariff protection to place them
on an equal basis for business as compared with
the foreign product shipped in here. Particularly
is this true in regard to our lead-silver.zinc mines.
The Occur d'Alene district in Idaho normally
produces about onethird of the nations lead, a
heavy zinc output and about 10000, 900 ounces of
silver. Many other districts in the west produce
Important quantities of the same metals. Over
1000 people in Shoshone county, Idaho, are direct
ly supported by the operation of its mines and many
more are given employment in other western states.
The import tariff provided in the Fordney tar
iff bill will enable our domestic mining Industries
to compete with the cheap labor products of Europe
and Mexico to the great benefit of American labor
and capital. 1t is essential that when necessary our
industries be protected sufficietly to allow them to
meet this competition but not to kill competition.
, 1922-06-07
Rates Gouerned by Conditions

INSULT, president of the Common
~ wealth. Edison company, of Chicago, has been
in the electrical industry practically since its in
ception. BE began as private secretary and was
later general business manager for Thomas A Edi-
SON. Speaking of public utility rates he says, eco
nomic conditions, beyond the control Of any indi
yidual or group regulate public utility rates.
Managers of public utility companies have no
more control over rates than any other citizen
of the community in which they operate. Public
utility, public service, railroad and commerce COM
missions haven't any control over them, city coun-
ellis and village boards have no control. A utility
manager can no more maintain a rate that is too
high than he can push hack the Atlantic ocean.
Economics is the governor of rates. 1t is an au-
tomato adjustment that goes on relentlessly. Man.
ayers and commissions can influence it only momen-
tarily. 1t will show you how it works. .
"The commonwealth Edison company in Chicago
twenty years ago had a rate of 20 cents per kilo-
watt hour. Everyone patted us on the back and
marveled at its cheapness. II we charged 20 cents
today, we would be the laughing stock of the util.
ity business of the world That rate has been vol
unfairly cut nearly a dozen times in response to
economic conditions.
~The Peoples Gas, Light and Coke company was
chartered with authority to charge $3.50 per thous-
and cubic feet of gas. If it charged that today it
would not be in business.
"The street car lines in Chicago used to get five
cents for hauling passengers one and one-half miles
and you had to pay toll on many different lines
If you Travelled much about the city. Today you
can ride 30 miles for a single fare-go from any part
Of the city to another part for a single fare.
THE telephone companies used to charge you So
to 81 a month for the privilege of talking to 100 to
200 people in the community and you thought the
service cheap. Today for the same price you can
talk to many thousands and connected with your
telephone are 100000 other phones in the ma
ton.
What I have said about the economies of rates
applies equally to that relating TO development. 1t
cannot be controlled. 1t is endless and grows as
demand grows.
"There are many problems Of a private and pub
lie character in connection with the utility business
yet to be solved but its progress and success are of
such great consequence to the state that the one
cannot possibly progress and be successful at the
expense of the other
, 1922-06-07
Absorb the Shock

TUBE ACTUAL, normal and continuous use is the
l. only real test of anything, including roads. An
automobile motor stood all the tests in the expert
mental category, yet in actual use a small but i'm.
portant fault developed which cost $500, 900 to rec
tify.
1t is a known fact, established centuries ago, that
any unyielding substance such as stone will event.
ually crumble under sustained pounding there
is no elasticity to absorb the shock. This rs be-
ing illustrated today in anr experiment in road
building. Unyielding surfaces unable to absorb
the shock of traffic soon crumble where a cushion
or elastic road surface or base will be unaffected
by the same traffic.
Taking the shock off from the road base or sur
face is as important to long life for highways as
is taking the shock away from automobile machin-
cry by use of pneumatic tires and advance type of
spring construction and shock absorbers.
In these days when retrenchment in public ex-
pense is essential time tested and scientific meth
DDS of road construction should be insisted upon in
order TO prevent heavy losses to taxpayers.
, 1922-06-07
Will We Go Back?

IN REVIEWING the testimony for and against
l. the bills now before congress to aid American
shipping, it is interesting to note that radical la
Dor leaders like Andrew Furuseth, president of the
International Seaman's union and such organiza.
tons as the Non-Partisan league are the ones
which offer the most strenuous objections to the
measures.
On Mr.. Furuseth's shoulders may be placed
the principal responsibility for our present ship
ping laws which make necessary measures to pro
tect and encourage an American merchant marine.
The Non-Partisan league represents the radical
Socialistic element which would in one breath de-
mand subsidies for its own organization and pro
gram and in the next breath fight any measure
which was aimed to keep some line of activity in
which it was not interested.
Aside from the radical elements in our own coan-
try and the foreign element which largely domi-
mates the international Seaman's union, sentiment
appears to be growing in favor of measures to ex-
tend American shipping.
On record favorable to the passage of proposed
legislation are endorsements of commercial organ
%izations, merchants associations, banks, Touring
mills, boards of trade and last but not least, unions
of marine workers numbering more than $4,000
, 1922-06-07
Digging Up Inefficiency

nHE civil service is getting its. Mr..
l. Brown, the chief of the efficiency bureau, has
sent u communication To the president III which he
tears several large holes in the civil service sys-
the times and was built in the first place to keep
the unfit out of the service, never 10 secure the
services OF the fit
The whole country has known this during the
entire forty years And it has known the reason
also. Which can be found in the desire of the able
senator or congressman to save what he could out
of the wreck OF the old spoils system. With gov
eminent positions no longer to be distributed by
congressman and senator's to deserving bench
men at .home," the next best thing was to have an
eligibility list" from which government officials
could make a choice, which choice" might be In
fluenced by subrosa suggestions from the congress
manor senator
Neyes in the history of the government has it
been best served hy those who gave out its positions
to those who would work for the government The
best man or woman is not sought, merely a grade
of man or woman who can pass the examination.
The whole idea, anyway, that the man or woman
who can pass an educational test with the high
est percentage. is therefore best qualified to fill any
given clerical position is nonsensical. No bust
ness man selects q bookkeeper because he can pass
90 per cent in geography or history; no mercantile
house selects a buyer merely because he knows
grammar or algebra better than other persons
The banker wants a bookkeeper who has three
things, ambition, honesty and a knowledge OF book
keeping. The mercantile house wants a buyer who
knows goods, people, and who has honor and ambi-
ton. Why shouldn't the government select in the
same. way? And why not select the best obtainable
not merely the common rm~of passers of exami-
nations?
Mr.. Brown has dug up thousands of inefficiencics
already and he has by no means exhausted the pos
sibilities. Now if action can be secured to perma-
nently cure the evils discovered, may be we can
get the government service on q more modern and
effective basis
, 1922-06-07

but a general addition for the attract
lveness OF the town.
OF there be a hell and there is one
portion of it hotter than another. we
hope the vandals who steal and de-
stroy flowers will DO consigned to the
hottest part of that neither region.
have n cactus plant for a chair upon
which to sit down a thorn bush for
a bed upon which to repose, and h
his satanic majesty mas an especial
ly sharpened tool Of torture with
which to remind them daily Of their
offenses while on earth"
, 1922-06-07
The Thing Reoersed

THE NIQUTTY of the tanexcmpt bond is wide
l. ly known and recognized by business men and
financiers and moro and more they are coming to
speak their mind concerning it and TO denounce
it as not only a robber of the government but as a
robber of the hunblest of taxpayer. Judge Lovett
of the Union Pacific system says this of the work
ings of tax exempt securities:
"The processes of common sense seem to be re-
versed in our basis of taxation Instead of a pre-
MUM on enterprise and industry by a lower tax on
earned than invested income, just the opposite is
the law. A salary or a profit made by personal eff
fort is taxed the maximum rate under the provis-
lou for surfaces, while capital escapes the tax al
together by being invested in municipal securities.
The result is not only a sense of injustice suffered
and disbursement in the individual relying upon
his own efforts, but an orgy of recklessness and
extravaganza in municipal expenditures unpar-
allied in history.
@These huge sums are not only going into tax
exempt securities, shifting the burden of taxation
to industry, but are being Withdrawn from invest
ment in industrial enterprises of all sorts that en-
pIoy labor, and IN the building of homes for hous-
ing the people.
aBut that is not an-not by half. Ta1exempt
bond issues by village, town, city, county and state,
with other extravagances which attend w%asteful
habits, are increasing state and municipal taxa
ton to an extent that is truly alarming"
, 1922-06-07
Direct Dealing
IN DISCUSSING the relations between. employt
i and empIoHe whiting Milliams Laws down the;

IN DISCUSSING the relations between. employer
L and employe Whiting Williams lays down these
truths:
"Irregulariiy of work is driving more men to
Bolshevism than anything else in the world. Irreg.
ular work makes an irregular man, and an irreg-
ular man makes an irregular citizen.
"There is no gap between employer and employee
that cannot be bridgcd- The sooner we get his
viewpoint of the dignity of a job no matter how
mean, the sooner will he come to an understanding
that viii make the Golden Rule effective"
Organized labor and organized capital have both
grown so rapidly that the element of personal con
tact between employer and employee has. generally
speaking, disappeared. Both organized industry
and organized labor have delegated the manage
ment of their problems on questions of employ
ment to third parties who have dealt in too alb.
stract a manner with the questions involved.
The employer and employe have been pitted
against each other il tests of strength rather than
in tests of intelligence.
In an effort to solve their problems without vio-
lence, mutual respect, personal acquaintance and
discussion between the worL1nen and the empIoyer
must eventually supersede third party control or
dictation in the settlement of our labor questions.
, 1922-06-07
The Wild Flowers

The time Of year has again come
when it is necessary for every
thoughtful boy and girl and every
thinking adult to consider the CON
dition of the wild flowers and the
policy for their protection. When
one e people coming back from
the hills with arms fun Of withered
mountain flowers, he cannot keep
from wondering what they are going
to do with them.
Those flowers belong to all of US
and T for all of us to enjoy. One
or two blossms carefully picked SO
as not to destroy the entire plant
r all that any one person has a
right to. or can enjoy.
why then go through the noun
tains pulling up. and tearing to pieces
plant after plant Just to get an arm
fun of blossoms which soon wither
and are thrown away to be forgotten?
Why not look ahead toward next years
crop of blossoms? Why not look out
for the future? Why not let c~onserva-
tin instead II vandalism be Dur aim?
"A mountain trip is much more
pleasant when the hills are covered
with blossoms than when there Is
nothing in sight but bare rocks. And
yet on account Of a thoughtless group,
these wonderful sights Of an acre or
moro of columbines, tiger lilies, mar
iposa nIiea. the pasque flower. or fire
weed are fast disappearing from our
mountain parks. and 1t IS even be-
coming hard to find them. In places
where the summer campers can get to
them.
IF the destruction Of our wild flow
ers is to be ended It will take the
united efforts of every thinking pm
triotic citizen. Let's all get behind
and work for the conservation rather
than the destruction of all of our ma
tural resources"
Editor Tribune: The above clipping
, 1922-06-07

Is from n Denver newspaper. The
sentiment exprassed is as applicable
to Wyoming as 1t is to Colorado. so /
thought you might desire to republish
the article.
On a trip to Garden Creek Falls Dec.
oraton day 1 saw 20 many great
punches of flowers picked and thrown
away. did not ven bother to take
them to town. Vandalism 1 call 1t.
In 10 years there will be no flowers
left at Garden Creek Falls. That
means that children now in the cradle
when they r in the fourth grade at
school and Just beginning to get inter.
ested IN wild flowers will see mighty
few close to Casper.
MARY ALLISON.
, 1922-06-07

men Hundreds Of pages Of testimony have been
taken by congressional committees on the ship
subsidy question
After this is all in however, the fact will still
remain that previous TO the world war, American
ships had practically disappeared from the sea
We are rapidly drifting back 10 that position We
cannot meet foreign competition while maintaining
American wage scales and American standards OF
living on American ships without some protection
from our government. Our present laws act as a
subsidy to the foreign ship owner.
Will we refuse TO pass legislation which puts the
American ship operator on a basis of equality with
his foreign competitor?
, 1922-06-07
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~
Time to eatr' declared TED. ANT
here's a nice place by this stream"
Ned looked at his watch. sits only
half past eleven" he said
I'm not going By any old watch.
I'm going by my appetite" insisted
Ted as he removed his pack and began
getting ready. The boys lad bee on
a long hike since carly morning. and
had taken some foo with them So
Ted began lifting some stones in place.
to make a rough fireplace.
Don't bother with that-Make an
Injun nre." said Ned
But we've got to get our dinner"
said Ted.
Here. I'll show you" said Ned.
who dropped his pack and with the
axe cut several green hardwood sticks
'You can't kindie a IRE with green
wood. Ned said Ted, puzzled at
what he saw.
Ned laughed but aid nothing. Then
he scraped out 4 narrow little hollow
place in the son os shown at A in fig
ure l. His next move was to stick his
green hardwood sticks around this
like the frame Of an Indian tepee as
shown by i. .. 3. 4.and S in Figure ?.
Get some kindiings and soft and
hard wood" he ordered and Ted got
them together. Ned piled them into
the little hollow in the soil under
the green twigs until the place was
fun. He lighted this. The green
twiss held the soft wood together and
It was only a couple of minutes before
there was n hot little fire.
They broiled some trout IN a green
twig as shown in Figure 3 and by the
time these were broiled the green
twigs were burned down and there
was a good bed OF Goals in the little
hollow-because Ned had added dry
hard sticks. He placed the coffee pot
line F in Figure 1 shows. A couple OF
potatoes were thrust into the Goals at
each end and by the time the boys
were ready the coffee vas made and
the potatoes baked.
why we got dinne all cooked and
ready almost as quick as 1t would take
ISust to make n rough stone fireplace
said h admiring Ted. But why do
you call 1t an Injun fire?"
ST don't know except that Indians
used thai to make smoke signals and
campers discovered how handy It
was"
Uncle Ben taught me a lot about
different camp fires" said Ned and
that night he showed Ted how to
make a wheel fire" or one that win
burn n long time. After the fire Is
Started. logs arc used and placed about
like spokes Of a wheel as shown In
Figure 4. By pushing each log up as
, 1922-06-07
Queer Questions With
Hidden Answers
II You Cans Answer Them. Look
Among the Want Ads.

What plant exudes a sticky secre-
ton to catch insects for food?
What is a drupe?
What causes dsy rot in wood?
What is a dub? :
When was the ducking stool last
used?
What crustacean swins on its back?
What is the smallest OF all coins.
What is a fathead?
What animal is related to both the
errnine and the polecat7
What is a fid?
, 1922-06-07

gage you arc now carrying whom due?
II not investigate the 3 per cont pan
Of the United Home Builder 1850
ciation Suite c06. Bocklingo Bldg.
Phonc 1880. 66-tf
, 1922-06-07

II burns away. n small IRE Is easily
kept
Its great TO dry clothes as II will
burn all day with just a little atte,.
ton about once an hour" explained
Ned
And then came a cold night ana tho
boys had left their main camp ana
gone to another island for n few day,
hshing. using a small tent. They haa
Travelled light and tlsun but ons
blanket cach. Ned began to shiy.r
and said he was SURE he would bo
just an icicie in the morning.
Ted. the inventor. suddenly started
10 dig a hole In tho middle Of thu
tent
Evening star., 1922-04-28
Brides Will Be Brides
By Lucille Tass SlyIe.

side her on the porch ledge, tucking
an arm about her
You bewildered child" Nan smiled
at her. DO We sound utterly mad?
We're all so happy we haven't ex.
planned what my extravagant old
n1i! nnbny mas been and gone and done.
My dear. you couldn't guess-but he's
bought the most beautiful boat-yawl
rigged. with an auxiliary engine-oh:
she's the loveliest thing you ever saw!
When you see her you're going TO
forget that you ever said you didn't
like boats! He was going to keep
her a secret until he moored her over
at the club dock, but the last minute
ne Just couldn't. and he telephoned
me to come quick-so of I dashed for
Greenwich. where our two cOnspira-
tors wdre just closing the deal.
Think of 1t. Merry, he'd even bought
suit cases full Of sailor clothes to
surprise me-"
"oh, she's some boatw Blaisdell ex-
ulted as he teetered to and fro In the
hammock. "even if we didn't know
enough about sound sailing to start
up her engines when the sunset
breeze died down. There were We
becalmed two hours while we got the
hang of that engineJwhere's that
lemonade" he interrupted himself.
And Merry" he continued his boast
ing. "the beauty of the whole deal is
that I got the Flirt for song. You
see, she belonged to an actress
named Furman. who got her as gift
from her first husband. but whose
second husband can't afford to keep
the decks clean. got wind of the
bargain less than week before the
sheriff was going to nab the boat
so moved quick. kept myself out OF
sight and sent John around to wave
some real money under the actress
Evening star., 1922-04-28
Use it for Cooking

don't particularly ask for Dairy
mems League Brand when you
buy, you may get some other
kind that will not be "creamy
milk.
Il comes in 1 lb. and baby-s;ze
S OF. cans. Dairymen's League
Sweetened Condensed Milk in
II OF. cans.
ASSOCIATION, INC, UTICA N. Y.
BLDG, Baltimore, Md.