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New Ulm Post. [volume] (New-Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1864-1933, 1922-10-20
9pfal Nenigfeiten.

Sobn @erbo1s bon @oploro be-
iudte ant SamStas bieltse Treunoe
lno erlebiste glei6seitis @elddIte bier.
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LET THE BOARD DO IT.

AS the railroad strike situation
stands today. it looks as tho the only
way out is thru submission of the
seniority matter to the railroad labor
board for determination. 1t appears
TO be impossible for the contending
forces to reach an agreement. Fail
American public.
The shopmen have much to gain
and nothing to lose by submitting the
seniority question to the board. They
have no jobs now. If the boards de-
eision should go against them there Is
no power that can compel them to re-
turn to work if they do not desire to
do so. On the other hand, If the de-
cisiOn should be in their favor, the
railroads would be compelled to obey.
They are bound hand am foot by the
interstate commerce laws.
The act for the regulation of in
terstate commerce has gone thru n
generation of Strengthening by con-
gress. and the interstate commerce
commission has had long experience
in its administration. The conse-
Quenee is. says the New York Times,
control the railways. They have
given hostages for good conduct in
the form of twenty billions of invest
ment. They long ago ceased to be
contumacious. Therefore there is no
chance of resistance to enforcement
OF the act
The law under which the country's
commerce is to be conducted during
the existing emergency is the same as
that which gives the president power
tp act in the case OF war or threat of
war. The commission is acting under
the provision:
Whenever the commission is of
opinion that shortage of equipment.
congestion of traffic, or other emer-
gency requiring immediate action ex-
lists in any section Of the country, the
commission shall have, and is hereby
given. authority, either upon COM
plant or upon its own initiative with
out complaint. at once. if it so orders.
without answer or formal pleading by
the interested carrier or carriers. and
with or without notice. hearing. or the
making or filing OF a report, accord
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differ. I stand for all the nonsense in
the world. I'm the most good -natured
fellow you want to meet, but when il
comes to the serious things of life
the big things, that's when my good
nature stops. won't stand for a
poacher; get that?"
Jim's eyes biazed. "A poacher
Who's a poacher?"
"Youi You knew Lucille and I
were engaged. Poaching is a serious
offense and"
Look here'-Jim fairly beloved
you have nothing to say about this.
it's up to Lucille. she can decide" and
he smiled gloatingly.
Not a word. Lucille" commanded
Reggie peremptorily. Lucille decided
a long time ago. If she is wavering
now, I'll decide it for her. Now sir,
you get out!''
Jim looked a Lucille, her eyes were
fastened on Reggie in breathless
Amusement, and perhaps he realized
that this was not any nonsense, for
without a word he stalked out of the
house.
Copyright, 1922. by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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OuestionS-AnSwers

O. How IS the percentage of baseball
teams arrived at? +. T..
A. To determine the percentage of games
won and lost. divide the total number of
games won and lost into the number won.
In all cases where the remaining fraction
is One-half or over, point is added to
the average.
.. What denomination is the Little
Church Around the Corner? a. F.
A. This is an Episcopal church. the real
name of which is the Church of the Trans
figuration.
Q. What Presidents of the United States
were the sons of preachers? H Z. 7.
A. Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland,
and Woodrow Wilson are Presidents who
were sons of ministers of the Gospel.
(Any reader can get the answer to. any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau, Frederic J.
Haskin, Director, Washington. d. c. This
offer Applies strictly to Information. The
Burea u rannot give advice on legal medical
and financial matters. II does not atfemp Ut
to settle domestic troubles. nor to under
take exhaustive research on any subject.
Give full DaIne and address and enclose two
cents In stamps for return postage. Al
Write your question plainly and briefly
replies are sent direct to The inouirer.1
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George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
uNCrT FRIENDS.

1 went into a bookstore today and
purchased dozen BOOKS or so. They
had come from private library thai
the bookseller had himself purchased.
took my treasures home. I took
up one of the fat ones first for 1t
looked SO full of pay ore" And tho
the book showed mild evidence OF
considerable repose upon the shelf OF
its former owner, 1 had 20 cut the
pages of the entire book before 1 could
bury myself in it's wealth.
Uncut pages in a book so rare and
SO full of beauty and research and
inspiratiohI
As 1 read tonight I am remind ed
of the one who lets a friend go with
out knowing it-of letting richness
slip away. and no acquaintance with
it. Today carried this book with me
in my car as 1 drove to work, and
then I took it with me into my office
where 1 could have IT looking at me
as 1 worked and planned. And now
1T is smuggling tight to me in my chair
as write to you.
Bishop Quayle once told me that
when he got new book he Would put
1t into his pocket and pet it, all the
way home.
This uncut book has made me think
of the many human associates who
remain t6-us as an uncut book-many
of them all their lives.
Just think of the beauty and hap
piness and loneliness that would burst
into our lives if we would but cut the
leaves that bind the possible friends
with whom we come in daily contact
L know of many a home where the
wife or husband remain as the uncut
leaves in q wonderful book-silent
and ungiving
We are known and loved only as
we give, only as We unfold. only as
we have the courage to cut the leaves
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ing as the commission may deter
mine" to do whatever becomes nee
esSary.
The priority rules are an example
of how summary and complete are
the powers given. The same powers
are given in the same language in the
transportation act as an incident to
the creation of thru routes Temporal
rily. Still another clause provides that
the enumeration OF the commissions
powers shall not be exclusive of any
powers otherwise given under the act.
Another section gives the commission
power to act thru designated agents
and agencies required to cooperate
under a penalty. 1t is plain that the
commission has initiative. without
awaiting action by railways and re-
gardiess of their protest.
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1t is pointed out by the advocates
of a ship subsidy that in the absence
of such subsidy. there would be no re-
straint of competition to prevent our
commercial rivals fixing the ocean
freights at SO high levels that our
grain and other produce would be I'M
able to compete in foreign markets
With our competitors goods. But it is
n well known fact that the consumer
pays the freight, so if the rates were
Unfortunately high the foreigners would
suffer and soon would be heard from.
At the same time the tariff advocates
tell us that we cannot compete with
foreign products owing to our high
wages and high standards of living.
What would be the object of high
freight rates if there were nothing to
Carry2
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JUST FOLKS
TOO FRIENDLY.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

TOO FRIENDLY.
He never caused a man to sneer,
Was never tainted by a jeer,
Had never battled with foe;
But thru the years that come and go,
He smiled his easy way along
And played the friend to right or wrong
Out of the well-worn trodden way,
He never pried adventures lid,
He voted his father did;
But when an argument arose
He sided both with friends and foes.
He talked as one who loved the right
But he wis never known to fight;
Fearing the hate OF men, he stayed
Holding opinions but afraid
To give them voice In moments tense
His silence gave no man offense.
Pleasant his smile and meek his way
The same tomorrow today,
Living this life, its joy and smart,
\ ct Sinking duty Sterner part;
A friend TO all he walked along.
But friendly both to right and wrong.
Who never braves the cynic's sheer
Nor wins the sinful braggarts jeer,
But seeks thru life's long years to go
Free from the malice Of a foe,
Buries his talents in the earth
With nothing done to prove his worth
Better to fight and fall than stay
Upon life's side-lines day by day;
Better the 1eers than smiles OF those
Who should be looked upen as foes.
For friendship has no value when
1t makes no choice twiXt knaves and men.
Copyright, 1922, by Edgar A. GuestJ
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Dorothy Dix TALKS
Bad Mental Habits-.
BY DUHOTHY DIX
Woa4d,s hlRheSe raid W~nan WrItsR.

The doctors are telling US now that
about half of our i'll health is the re-
suit of our having permitted ourselves
to fall into bad mental habits.
We slump mentally. and get narrow
shouldered and narrow chested. We
eat our intellectual peas with our
knives, so to speak. and we gargle the
soup of our opinions. as it were, and
| falPin divers other bad habits that
make US an offense to our fellow
creatures.
We used to consider that people
had right to think anything they
pleased, so long as they didn't trans
late their n1editations into actions
that were against the public peace.
Now we know better, for as a man
thinketh so is he. He is well or sick.
good or bad. an agreeable companion
or an affliction to be with. according
to his thoughts.
How important, then. that we
watch our thoughts, and and thus pre-
vent ourselves from forming bad
mental HI. bits!
There is self pity, for instance. That
is the favorite indoor amusement of
countless people. No one knows why,
but there is a strange. fierce. savage,
bitter joy in being sorry for yourself,
and when once you let your thoughts
begin to dwell on how cruelty life has
dealt with you, it takes an effort of
the will to wrench them away.
Self-pity. becomes an obsesSion
You can do nothing but think how
cruel it is of fate to rob you of those
you love; or how unjust it is that
you have not succeeded; or how ter
rible it is that you are poor; or how
sad it is that you are sick. You be-
come SO doped with your own misery
that ambition is paralyzed and energy
killed, and eventually you drown in
your own tears.
If you are firmly convinced your
self that you are unlucky, and that
the world is against you, and that
life has given you a rotten deal, you
will be unlucky and the world will
be against you, and the cards will be
stacked against you, for to succeed
we must have faith, and hope, and
enthusiasm, and If we discard these
of our own free will we bring our
misfortunes down upon our own
heads. Therefore, when you feel in
clined to pity yourself. turn your sym
pathies towards someone else. Self
pity Is a luxury nobody cam afford.
Another bad mental habit which
we do well to avoid forming is that
of talking about ourselves. OF course
it is perfectly natural that each of us
should be the center of our own little
universe, and that we should be more
interested in our own dinners than
we are in starving nations, and that
the great world problems should not
thrill us as much as whether Mamie
is invited to such and such a party,
or Johnny makes the football tea m
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LITTLE BfNNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

Sundey AFTERNOON 1 found a old en-
yelope with printing ON 1t saying
Spick-O Span-O. Sprinkel a few
flakes on a wet brush and make your
old straw hat better than new.
Me thinking, G, herray, Ill try it
on pops straw hat and serprize him.
WITCH I did, scrubbing it with Spick-O
Span-O till there was eileen streeks all
over it insted of being dusty looking
all over like 1t was at ferst, me think
ing. G. pop will be serprized all rite,
bet he wont hardly reckonize it.
And after suppir pop sed to ma,
Well mother, 1 feel like a crate man
at last, and ma sed, 1t seems to me
you always thawt that way about
yourself, and pop sed, Naturally, but
now more so than ever because for the
ferst time in yeers 1 have managed
to keep straw hat looking respecta-
summer.
Now Wil1yum you don't meen to
calmly sit there andstell mesyoure go
ing to keep on wearing that dingy
thing, ma sed, and pop sed. Absilootly,
no power on erth can make me buy
another straw hat this season, I've
<hersed that hat faithfully sints the be-
ginning of the season and I'm not go
ing to desert it now.
q pop, it looks even better than
you think it does, I sed, and pop sed,
The dooce it does, wy does it? and
sed, Because you awt to see wat did
to it with Spick-O Span-O. And Iran
down and brawt pops hat up and
handed it to him, pop saying, Yee
gods, look at this mess, who told you
to tutch this hat? and sed, Nobody,
found the Spick-O Span-O up in the
store room.
That's not saying ware you're going
to find my slipper. pop sed. and ma
sed. Now Willyum be reasonable. that
cleenfng stuff must of bin lying err
round for at leest 10 yeers, no won
der it dident werk, but that not the
boys fault, he certeny ment well, and
tomorro morning ferst thing you can
stop in at the hat store on the avenue
and get a nice new one cheep before
you go down town, and then you'll
have it.
o, don't you sound sorry? pop sed.
Being wy he's got a new straw hat
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The senate committee on nr

The senate committee on privileges
and elections has authorized the APP
pointment of & subcommittee to con-
slider means of limiting campaign ex-
psnses. II the subcommittee reports
truthfully. 1t probably will say. 1T
can't be done, unless in some fashion
that will bring worse evils with it,
For years congress and other law
making bodies have been tinkering
with the question of campaign ~expen-
d,tures, with the result that today the
evil Is gigantic compared with what
it was when Perry Belmont started
the agitation with the mild proposal
that the books should be made pub
lie. II congress could devise arway by
which candidates andNtheir supporters
could be made to tell the truth. the
whole truth and nothing but the
truth" it would not matter how much
money they spend.
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THE SHIP SUBSIDY.

In n circular issued by the Missis-
sippi Valley association appears a long
| list of dire results amounting almost
] to a national catastrophe which it is
declared will follow IL congress does
not pass the bill to aid the American
merchant marine These promised
consequences follow:
/. The American farmers and other
taxpayers will continue Indefinitely to
pay the existing annual subsidy of
S50.0O0.000 required for the ships IN
the governments hands.
2. The government will be obliged
| to continue Indefinitely in the ship
ping business, because, without aid to
the governments ships and run them
under American standards at a profit
in competition with the vessels of
other nations.
8. Therefore, the ships acquired by
the government at a cost of billions
would continue to deteriorate until
they were junk. and the cost of junk
ing them would run into millions of
dollars.
4. With this trade fleet scrapped
there would be left nothing even re-
motely resembling an adequate mer-
chant marine under the American
flag. There would be no reserves of
merchant vessels for the navy to draw
the transport of troops and equip
ment. Recurrence of war would find
us again unprepared and inadequately
protected.
5. without shipping facilities of our
own, control of the overseas Transport
tatlon of American products would be
in the bands of our foreign eompeti-
tors. And there would be no restraint
of competition to prevent our CONNER
cial rivals fixing the ocean/freights a
such high levels that grain ami
other produce. would be unable to
compete in foreign markets with our
competitors goods.
s. And. furthermore, there would
be no assurance of adequate shipping
services if foreigners held a monopoly
of ocean transportation. American
products would be deprived of ready
access to world markets and the de-
mand for our goods abroad would be
killed.
7. Inevitably, there would follow a
shrinkage in our foreign commerce.
And, without markets for our wheat
and other commodities abroad, the
surplus of American production over
home consumption would be increased
to a point that would materially re-
duce the price the farmer would re-
eeive for his output And always
there would be present the menace of
a recurrence of the conditions at the
outbreak of the world war. when the
produce of our farms rotted on the
wharves for lack of American ships
to carry it to the buyers abroad.
The answer to the foregoing is that
this country has grown to be the
greatest and most prosperous in the
world without a ship subsidy and
practically without a merchant ma
rine. If it could do this in competi-
tion with the rich and powerful ma
lions of Europe, why can it not con-
tinue to progress and prosper when
most of the countries OF Europe have
been shorn OF their commercial power
and their wealth?
The fact that the government has
sunk billions of dollars in a lot of
useless ships can in no way be made
to Justify the sending OF good money
after had.
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James E. Smith. president of the
Mississippi Valley association. in a
letter addressed to United States SEN
ator Ransdeh, declares that Proof is
now conclusive that the powerful
shipping interests of England are de-
termined. If possible, to prevent the
enactment of the ship subsidy bill" If
this be true. British interests are vast
ing time and money. The American
people already have decided against
the subsidy.
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and there partake to the full of that
which rightfully is ours.
How many there are who allow
those about them to pass to others,
simply because they have made no
effort to seek the unrevealed-toN cut
the closed pages. And how rich do
those become who see in these neg
lected beings a complement of them
selves, who imm ediate1y cut the long
closed pages and there discover bright
patches of HeavenI
The former owner of this book of
mine which has already given me
such happiness. will probably never
know what he has lost.
Copyright. 1922, George Matthew Adams.)
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In an effort to prove that importers
are making inordinate profits on arti-
cleS manufactured abroad Senator
Watson of Indiana recently offered
the following exhibit: Gentleman
cowhide belt, made in Eugland;' for
eign cost Ar cents; total cost to i'm
porter (the total cost in each case rep
resenting the foreign cost, plus trans
portat:on charges. plus the tariff IS
cents; retail price 50; bought of Mar
tin & Martin. New York City: increase
of retail price over total importing
cost EOS per cent" But apparently
there is no reason why the American
purchaser should pay such a price
A gentleman's cowhide belt. of excel
lent quality, can be bought in Topeka
for IS cents.
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LATE MARKETS
KANSAS CITY CASH GRAIN
Furnished by B. c. Christopher & Co.
226 New England Bldg Topekal


Aug. 7. 1922
demand. Hard. market unchanged TO p
lower, mostly 1c to PC down, quality cOnsid-
&c lower. limited inquiry.
CoRS-MaEket nc, to NC down. slow.
oATSS1 Ats unchanged to nc lower.
kAFIR-Market unchanged to &c up.
SALES.
WHEAT-Dark hard No. i, at 81 II
smut, at Slip smut No 2 at 81. Is. 4
at si14. at $1;i2, at si.iOs / at I.1e
smut s e sfi4. '% at s11 G al s e f1 Al
S11L at $1.o9; No. 4, 1 at 81 10 smut. 4
No. s, 1 at S1O9, at 81. OS, / at 81. OF Sam
= Hasd. No i. j az s1.os. I at s1o4 No. 2,
at SIos. at i IS at i 6S. at si. Ss
at 81 o. l at $1O3 smut, 1 at $1.OS smut.
Sos Sc at It So T. p at At % C at +, sI z at
800 1t s. 10 smut. at 81 os smut smut 70 No. o.
/. at $I.63, at 81 OF. 5 at 800. = at sac
No; 5. at $1-05, at $1.04, 1 at 97c, 1 at
3d. ' at sSsE al Il SS ssnRs nsa Ct
Ing. at 9Ic. 1595 mixed. 1 at 95c 1870 mois-
ture, 4 at 81 heating. yellow hard. No. ,
81 :01. II At s100 No. !, / at 81 90. 5 at eat.-
j a s !. = T. 4 sos 4 + q? a.
500 at ss1sc i al ne. e. Sample " mixed K a
Red. No. ? 3 at 800 No. ss at s1.o1.
.CoRN1white, No. I, l at 5sc No. ?, ;
weight; I at 551se shippers weight.
BARLE6-No. 4, L at soc. Sample barley,
oATs.white. No. 3, at s4c Red. No.
3, ] at 3434.; l at &c.
No. 2 at 500
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The manufacturing industry is NOV
ing westward. says a recent article in
the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Also
southwark. and that is the prime rea-
son why the southern members of
congress occasionally come forward in
support of protective tariff schedules.
thus proving once more the truth of
General Hancock's remark that the
tariff is a local issue. Tariff laws are
enacted by log-rolling methods.
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Tho twin fniquities, the pending
tariff billI and tho ship subsidy. not
only would tend to make us a nation
Of hermits but would take from the
people large sums of money for which
they would receive nothing in return.
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reduced from s cents to cents but
without benefit to the people. They
are paying rs cents for rides. There
are no cars running. The News of
that city intimates that there is collu-
sion between management and strik-
ers to force the fare back to where it
mas
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NEW YORK MONEY MARKET

New York. Aug. 7-MONEY-Ca1l money.
steady; high. 4: low, 3I5 ruling rate 81
closing bid 4 offered at AZ last loan.
call loans against acceptanees, 3. Time
loans. steady: mixed collateral. eG-9O days.
camille paper, 4m4L.
Foreign exchange. irregular Great Brit
ain. demand. 4461 cables. 4.46ss 60 day
8 16h; cables, s17 Italy. demand 400;
cables. 1901 Belgium, demand. T.721z ca
IA
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HEART AND HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I went with
young man for two years and then
he went to another town. loved him
very much at that time, but when
he. went away he didn't even ask IL L
would write to him. 1 really Suffered
for several months, and then l grew
hard and hated him for pretending to
care so much only to go away and for
get me completely.
AT last 1 have letter from him. He
is coming back and he says he wants
to see me before any o-e and just as he
gets in town he will telephone me.
Do you think should let him come
back? ANXIOUS
If you want him to come back, let
him. Some people hate to write let
tiers and never do it if they can get
out of it. The fact that~the young
man wants to see you again shows
that you still hold place in his heart
B --------0--
A lady who kept a little curly
poodle lost her pet and called on the
police to find it. The next day one
of the force came with the dog very
wet and dirty.
The lady was overjoyed and asked
number of questions one being:
Where did you find my darling ?'''
why, ma am" said the officer.
"a fellow had him on a pole and
was washing windows with him!"
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NEW YORK ITBERTY BoSR MARKET

NJ NOTsh IsHbEhIN bUNB MAkhEI.
New York. Aug Liberty bonds close
3lz's. 101 90: first As. 101 Is: second As.
1000; first AIS. 1O1-22: second AZ s.
10o.54; third AS. 1oO52: fourth AZ =.
101 %: Victory ~ s. uncalIed, 10oSs; Vie
tory ANS, called 1OO.52.