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The New York herald., 1922-02-12
What We Can do 10 Bring Prices Down

it requires $50 bushels of corn to buy
wagon to-day. At IL cents a bushel in
creased freight this means that you are
paying the railroads S7S more transporta-
tion on the corn necessary to buy this
wagon. Therefore your increased con-
tribution to the railroad company in get
ting this wagon out there and shipping
corn enough to Chicago to pay for it is
$8940.
You can well see from this that it is
absolutely impossible for any of us to get
back to a normal basis of prices until the
cost of transportation is very materially
reduced. You ask us when conditions
will change; we tell you when transporta-
tion costs are gotten back on reasonable
basis. The great difficulty in getting this
adjustment now is the expense the rail-
roads are put to for labor
The implement business has been hard
hit, by the farmers loss in purchasing
power and it is only one of many indus
tries so affected. The loss in purchasing
power of the farmers affects every line of
business. 1t is the fundamental cause of
unemployment, and the sooner everybody,
including wage earners in the towns.
understands what is the matter the better
it will be.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

Thomas Paine is reported to have died
in house whose foundations lie at what
is now SO Grove street. The building in
which he passed away was removed when
Grove street was made.
When Paine died it was believed by the
few remaining admirers who clustered
about his deathbed that the Society of
Friends, of which his father had been
member would receive his body. But they
rejected him. There could be no repose in
their burial grounds for a preacher OF
infidel opinions. The Huguenots at New
Rochelle where he had made his home,
were appealed to, but they, too, refused
him burial in consecrated ground Other
appeals were made, but all were denied,
and Paine was finally buried in a corner
of his farm.
1t is interesting that the Tom Paine
homestead, a hundred yards away from
the simple monument that has been erected
to the author-patriot of the Revolution, is
to-day the headquarters of the Huguenot
Association of New Rochelle. The descen-
dants of the stern churchmen who allowed
Thomas Paine no resting place in death
now care for the farmhouse and show the
Paine relics to visitors every weekday.
In his life Paine had a few faithful
friends, who held the belief until they
passed away that he was not at heart an
infidel In spite Of his atheistic writings
they comforted themselves with the belief
that he really did not lose his faith.
Bits of biography left by some of them
declare that Paines natural impetuosity.
as shown in his writings, led him to i'm
patient disgust with the bigotry of his day,
and that he wrote the age Of Reason" in
the heat of temper. His scanty biogra-
pliers point to declarations made in Paines
later writings, such as.
81 wish with all the sincerity of Chris
tian."
And, they say, in his last illness, when
his sufferings were great he called upon
God to help him. The doctor who attended
Paine at the last said he doubtless would
have confessed his faith in Christianity
had he been less distinguished infidel
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

patriotic the people of the new America
may have been, they were more fervently
worshipful, more deeply religious. The
anger of the Puritan and the Huguenot peo-
pie of his day followed him long after his
death.
While the soldiers of the Continental
armies were most dispirited Paine was
writing his famous essay, "The Crisis"
remembered for its stirring and fire.
quently quoted line: "These are the times
that try mems SOULS That, distributed
as a pamphlet read to the ragged armies
by their commanders. put renewed life into
the tired souls of the discouraged warriors.
Another pamphlet, Common Sense"
was described by DR.. Rush, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, in this manner: "It burst forth
from the press with an effect that has
rarely been produced by types and paper
in any age or country"
Concerning this same work Major-Gen.
Lee, in a letter to George Washington,
wrote: 81 never saw such mastery per-
formance. He burst upon the world like
Jove in a thunder"
And Britain admitted that the cannon
of Washington were not more formidable
worshiped him. Directly after the war
the State of New York presented him with
275 acre farm at New Rochelle in appre-
citation of his patriotic service to the cause
of the colonial armies.
The house in which Paine lived while
he wrote his stirring essays still stands
1t may be that some ambitious young
essayist sits at the window from which
Paine looked, for the house is close to
Greenwich Village. In Paine's time, Of
course it was miles away from the city.
The house stands at 800 Bleecker street,
1t is two story structure with sloping
roof and dormer windows. Few of it's
neighbors realize that the old place has
historic interest. Few of it's neighbors
know that Thomas Paine was one of the
chief inspirations of American liberty
Few of it's neighbors are native born Amer
leans. 1t is a district where the immi-
grant element makes its home.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
No Prosperity Is Possible
Without Much Readjustment

Prosperity cannot return until there is
general readjustment of wages and prices
Something | had occasion to say more
than year ago is just as true now: "The
prices of what the farming population
wants to buy must come down to CORE
spond with the prices of what it has to
sell. Until then the state of reciprocity
which is necessary to the full employment
OF labor and general prosperity cannot
exist The equilibrium must be restored.
There will be no confidence in the situation
until it is restored. Merchants are not
going to buy goods which they know their
customers are unable to buy, railroads will
not buy equipment to carry goods which
will not be bought, construction work will
be at a standstill, enterprise will be dead,
until basis of fair exchange for the prod
ucts of industries is reached"
That certain farm products, such as corn
and cotton, will regain some part of the
declines which they have suffered may be
expected, but there is no prospect of a re-
turn of farm products generally to war
prices. Ultimately Russia will resume her
position as an exporter and competitor in
western Europe. IL is necessary there
ftre, to look forward to a readjustment of
trade relations between the industries
upon lower level of money values. Any
theory that present levels can be main.
ta.ned for transportation charges and
manufactured goods when farm products
and raw materials have fallen to pre-war
levels is fallacious.
1t would save a great amount of agony
il these simple economic propositions could
be understood.
The farmer has taken the greatest fall
I'm prices He is not able to sustain them,
but must sell at the prices fixed in the
world market. Approximately half our
people are either working on farms or in
small towns dependent on farms, or in
ctDer primary industries such as mining
or numbering. Generally speaking. they
have lost one-half of the purchasing power
they had in 1920. 1t follows that they can
not buy the product Of town manufactures
to any such extent as they could. The re-
suit is a great falling off in trade and all
Industry is set out OF balance.
Transportation is a principal factor in
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

Q o old as to be new is a scheme originally
carried out by Franklin and now re-
- vived in England to test the heat alb
sorptivity of different colors. Small squares
of cloth OF exactly the same material but
varying in color, are placed out on the snow
In full sunlight
At the end OF an hour in one case the
pieces were examined and interesting re-
suits noted. The black cloth had sunk down
into the snow until II was completely in the
shade. rhe red piece was down to about
half the distance. The light blue was only
Just below the surface while the white cloth
was unaffected by the rays Of the sun The
yellow portion sank down to about the same
depth as the red
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
Greatest Tragedy
IL
By CHARLES BURNHAM.

Edwin Booth used In his repertory under
the title of 1.-The Fools Revenge"
Taylor felt a warm admiration for an
American actor, Joshua Silsbee, favorite
of that day in London, where it was said
of him that while faithfully representing
the Yankee character, his performances
are permeated with the natural humor of
the man. His looks, gestures and action,
the arch twinkle of his eye impress the
spectator with ludicrous emotions, and his
infiexible >countenance, rigidly innocent of
fun while his auditors are in roars OF
laughter, gives an additional zest to the
humor of the language and the absurdity
of the situations"
Around the personality of this actor
Taylor wrote his play and offered it to
the foremost London manager for produc-
ton, with the pr0viso that Silsbee should
impersonate the authors idea OF
"shrewd, keen Yankee boy Of 25."
Rehearsals were we'll advanced and the
date selected for the first performance,
when the managers opinion of the plays
merits underwent a decided change and the
contemplated production was abandoned.
The manuscript was given to Silsbee, with
the suggestion that he produce the play
in America and should it prove a success
to reappear with it in London. On his
return to America in 1853 Silsbee decided
to give the comedy an immediate trial, and
plans for this event were practically COM
plete, but the actors belief in the play
diminished to such a degree that he can
celed the arrangements made and the
manuscript was consigned to supposed
oblivion as being without chance"
Silsbees death occurring some two years
later his widow disposed of the play for
a nominal sum to two of the leading man
ayers of the time, who determined to give
it the chance denied by others, when their
trust in it's possibilities wavered and once
mere it was thrown aside, forgotten and
neglected.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

The explanation for the disgrace that
attended Paines later life and for the
neglect and denial that he suffered at his
death is his atheism. After his great
work during the Revolution and during
the period of organization following the
war Paine turned the alteration in which
he had been held into abomination by
writing his deplorable age of Reason"
an argument against Christianity.
They were Puritan times, and however
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

cossive loss, reduction of 40 per cent. being
common. According to a statement pup
lished by the Bureau of Mines the total loss
from this cause throughout the country, with
aluminium at it's present price, amounts to
$60O, 900.
The bureau has published valuable sug-
gcstions for minimizing this loss. The main
cause OF the trouble seems to be the lack OF
ready coalescence Of the metallic globules
and this means that the problem is one OF
colloid chemistry applied 10 metals.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
How the Fatal Play
Reached American Stage

The full account of the way Our Amer
lean Cousin" finally reached the stage is
something that might be used as an illus
tration to confound the remark one often
hears that there is no such thing as
chance"
Tom Taylor in his day was known as an
indefatigable writer for the theater both
as an original compiler of merchantable
plays-an an adapter from foreign sources.
He Is forgotten now except in anthologies
which preserve excerpts from his most
ambitious piece, play in blank verse that
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

LITTLE story about a farmer who
~ wrote letter will illustrate point
I wish to make and perhaps help
those who are wondering just what is at
which we call hard times"
The farmer lives in Nebraska. He found
his income dwindling until, although he
needed many things, he could not buy
them, for the prices of these things were
staying up. In his perplexity he sat down
and wrote letter to company which
manufactures agricultural implements.
81 need a wagon" his letter said. "and
my dealer wants the price of $50 bushels
of corn, the same wagon could buy with
200 bushels of corn before the war. The
harness man wants the price of a wagon
load of hides for No. 1 harness. l simply
cannot see my way clear to buy wagon,
harness or anything else that can pos
sibly manage to get along without"
How Costs Have Advanced
As Analysed by Factory
The company made a lengthy reply, only
the gist of which need be given here. In
the first place the depletion Of our forests
had sent wagon stock up. Next. the effect
of increased freight charges was consid-
cred. 1t was admitted that the manufac-
turers were getting just twice as much for
a wagon, Z. o. b. at the factory town as
they got in 1914, although even so the sell
ing price was 20 per cent. below cost. In
the same time the freight rate on farm
wagon from the factory town to the far
mer's town had risen from $1.37 to 1892
hundred pounds. Transportation Of such
a wagon as the farmer wanted cost $11.4O
more than II did before the war.
And while wagons, which farmers have
to buy, had gone up 100 per cent, plus
freight corn, with which farmers have to
pay for wagons, had gone down. And at
the same time the farmer had to pay IL
cents more bushel to get his corn to Chi
cago, the corn market, than he did in 1914.
"You state" the manufacturers said In
their answer to this farmers letter, that
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
How Science Aids IN ENery Day Life

which fourteen go to make the thickness OF
a mllimeter (0.03937 inch). 1t is first treated
with chemicals to remove any resinous sub
stances and to make it flexible. The cork is
then sewn between two cotton sheets and
pressed several times
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

value. Farm products should go up some
what and other things should come down.
There has got to be a general reduction in
industrial costs so that goods may be dis
tributed. The low purchasing power of the
farmer-that is the overhangng cloud in
the business situation The farmer is not
organized as are the town workers and the
railroad workers, who say they will not
accept cut, although 20 per cent. of them
are out Of work because traffic is slack.
They could better afford to take a cut
which would permit cut in freight rates,
thus helping business generally, giving the
farmer better return for his products,
and in the end helping the railroad worker,
too. At present the farmer is buying only
under the pressure of absolute necessity.
He is not even buying clothes.
Unemployment Is Forced
BY High Wage Scales
The fact is that wages are so high that
they force unemployment, the public not
being able to buy the products at the exist
ing level of costs. The story of the farm
wagon illustrates the whole situation If
wagons cannot be sold less coal will be
used in the factories and fewer trains
moved on the railroads. In some parts of
the country corn is being used for fuel.
This means that less coal will be mined
and the railroads will lose the transporta-
tion of both corn and coal. Moreover, the
high costs of transportation and of mining
coal come back to the wage earner's door,
added to the cost of everything he buys.
The farmer is partly to blame for the
plight in which he finds himself. At the
present prices of corn and pork he could
make money by feeding his corn to hogs.
Many farmers are doing this, but many
others got so much for their corn at war
time prices that they neglected the hog in
dustry. SO when corn slumped these farm
ers found themselves out of breeding stock,
and II takes some time to replace 1t.
recall similar conditions in Iowa in the
90s. Corn sold for even less than it brings
now. 1t sold for fifteen cents bushel and
the situation looked so blue that in 1896.
when Bryan came along, the people almost
overturned the standard of value. They
were desperate and willing to try anything
But these things always adjust them
selves in time in this country. Economic
laws will bring about an adjustment OF the
present situation. That adjustment would
be hastened to the benefit of all the people,
II the people would pay little more at
tention to economies
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

the farm situation because the farmers
/! oduct is bulky and the rise in railroad
charges since the war has seriously re-
freight charges cannot be reduced without
a lowering of railroad costs. The biggest
item in this cost is the payroll. Railroad
employees are getting about 100 per cent.
more than they got before the war The
:econd highest item is the cost of coal.
Mine wages are more than 100 per cent.
higher than they were before the war.
These two industries, railroads and coal,
are the two most important factors in the
delay in the recovery Of business.
Situation Is One Sided.
Making for bad Times"
Generally speaking, wages and prices
in the towns have not gone down as have
the prices of farm products. So we have
q one sided situation. All business in the
last analysis is an exchange of products,
and when anything seriously interferes
with this exchange we have bad times"
That is what we have now. And the reason
for it is that farm products have fallen
more than anything else, and the Con-
sumner is not getting the full benefit. What
the farmer gets is the price at the local
market. On the way to the consumer
there is added freight, handling, distribq
tion and retail charges, none of which has
been reduced in keeping with the reduc-
ton to the farmer.
None of the expenses of doing business
has been lowered to correspond with the
lowering of the primary cost. In short
everybody who has any command over
prices has dug his heels into the sand
and refused to come along and do his
share in the general readjustment. The
result is that thousands of people are out
Of employment In some cases the wage
rates have been maintained, but you can
net say the wages themselves have been
maintained when great number of per-
sons are not working for any wage or are
working part of the time.
Recently l saw a report that the coal
miners would appeal to Congress for relief
on the ground that there was not enough
work to keep them from starving Yet
their wage rates are so high that they
interfere with the industry. Consequently
the miners income is not as large 1t would
be If their wage rates were lowered and
the cost lowerd TO the consumer We have
there a state Of deadlock in industry.
We cannot say too often that all indus
try must be put on a common level OF
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

A DEVICE has appeared for keeping
"A the light projected from the headlight
within legal limits. 1t is described
os an all metal cellular attachment that is
put in the upper half of the headlamp be-
hind the regular glass door. 1t contains
more than 5000 small metal refiectors, con-
stituting approximately nine square feet Of
hghly polished rejecting surface.
The object of the "glassless lens is to de-
fleet those rays which normally rise above
the forty-two inch level and cause glare and
to project them instead upon the roadway
where they are wanted
The principle Of construction is said to
cause the device to transmit 90 per cent. of
the lamps candlepower.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
No. 300 Bleecker street, where
Tom Paine wrote many stir
ring pamphlets that helped
the Revolution.

T HOMAS PAINE was born January
20, 1877. That was 1856 years ago.
He is almost forgotten His
birthday was not day of commemora-
tion Yet Thomas Paine was powerful
figure in the development of the spirit of
resentment of the American colonies to-
ward England which led to the Revolu-
tionary War and to independence. And
during the war against England it was the
pen of Thomas Paine that served to re-
vive tagging spirits. His essays, dis
tributed among the soldiers of the army
of Gen. Washington during the darkest
and most hopeless periods of the Revolu-
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
THOMAS PAINE.
Born. Jan. 20, 1897.
Died June 8, 1909.

The world Is my country;
To do good my religion.
The harder the conflict the more
glorious the triumph.
Heaven knows how to put a price
upon its goods.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

mattresses pillows quilts, &C., as it is cleaner
and lighter than wool.
Government officials at Washington have
received from the same source information
relative to a Spanish process for utilizing
cork as 4 textile material The cork is en-
ployed in the form OF very fine pelicles, of
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

TINE aluminium chips, such as are pro-
r. duced in the machining OF the alumni
mum alloys used in motor car con-
struction, are hard to remelt without ex-
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

..VV FOOL" is being manufactured from
w cork in Spain and 1t may be
substituted for natural wool in
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-09-22
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HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT "KIBITZER?"

NEW YORK. Sept. 2s.--No vocab.
uiary in complete without the newest
importation from middle Europe.
It,
"Kibl,zer."
The accent ~ on tho first syllable
"Kibitxcr" makes up a deficiency
In the language. Heretofore no sin
gle one Of the half million available
English words has adequately de.
scribcd the wise guy who hangs
around telling you how whatever
you're doing ought to be done. You
were privileged to bawi him out. call
the police. submit 10 him with pa.
ticnt resignation. hit him complain
20 the house COMMITTEES. or walk out
on him--hut you couldn't classify
him. There wasn't a word IN the
language that exactly fitted his case.
Hence the immcdiat. popularity OF
''kibitxer." The word IL bringing
now peace and tranquility 10 the bill.
Hard tables and card rooms. 10 the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-09-22

QUINCY. Ind. Sept. ,,.--Thls III
tic village. IN the Indiana Hill eoun.
try. ~ all astir over the citation OF
the Rev. J c. Cassidy. pastor OF the
Quincy Methodist Episcopal church.
for contempt OF federal court. for
alleged violation of an injunction "a
sued BY Federal Judge Francis Ba.
kcr OF Gary. Ind. IN regard 70 the
nhopmen's strike.
Tie case has boen continued In.
definitely.
The Rev. Cassidy contends he was
simply expressing his opinion an the
right Of every free.born American
citizen. and OF a minister In hln pui.
pit.
lie had been advised In view OF
his small salary. 10 AJAX for work IN
the Monon railroad shops at wal.
lace Junction. and from his pulpit.
shortly after. discussed forcefuily
why he could no, take the position.
without violating the dictates Of his
conscience.
Tire citation followed.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-09-22
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You will find all itching and dig.
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feel hundred times better.--Adver.
tisemcnt.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-09-22
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