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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01


CURPASSING all other domestic
- news of the week, in interest II
not in importance, was the decisive
victory of Magnus johnson, Farmer
Labor candidate for United States SEN
ator from Minnesota, oyer Governor
Preus, nominee Of the Republicans.
The vote for Carley was negligible for
most of the Democrats, diSregarding
the advice or their leaders, cast their
ballots for Johnson. Minnesota now
has two Farmer-Labor senators, both
of whom may be counted on to support
Senator LaFollette, and the Wiscon-
sin mans little bloc thus is SO strength
ened that 1t can, In many cases, control
the balance of power In the upoer
house. Johnson, who Is a "self-made
man." frankly says that on many Is
sues he makes up his mind to accord
with that of LaFollette. He declares,
however, that already he is opposed
to the world court, the League Of Ma
lions and foreign entanglements and
In favor of a soldier bonus to be paid
for out of excess profits taxes.
Republican c%hieftains, from the Pres
ident down, were rather dismayed by
the result in Minnesota. OF course
Mr.. Harding had nothing to say of it.
Chairman Adams of the national COM
mite said:
"In a general way, the result was a
protest against conditions temporarily
affecting the farming interests adverse
". Conditions in Minnesota and else
where in agricultural sections of the
country are bound to improve, and
with their improvement public opinion
In those sections will right itself"
Chairman Hull of the Democratic
national committee, interpreted the re-
suit as "the most significant and hu-
initiating defeat and Reputation the
Harding administration has suffered
since the nationwide reputation 70
1922"
THE election was the first reaction
to President Harding's transconti-
mental political tour with its boast of
prosperity, its characteristic e~vasions
and reyersals and facing both ways
he said.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01

The major portion of the war-buil,
naval cantonment at coddington
Point, R. L., which cost $4,000, 900. was
sold to wreckers for s61.O50.
Twenty thousand members of the
l. W. W. of nation ordered to march"
on Port Arthur, Tex, and eat the
town into bankruptcy.
Secretary Weeks upholds Governor
General Wood in his action in Philip.
pine ruction.
Enhanced chances of a third party
boom in wake of Minnesota election
A board of investigation reported
that the navy balloon in which Lieu
tenants T. B. Null and L. j. Roth lost
their lives during the balloon race
which started from Indianapolis, July
4, contained a faulty valve on the gas
bag, which caused it to drop into Lake
Erie.
B.. F. Keith takes over New York
Hippodrome for vaudeville.
General Woods Filipino Cabinet
quits over policy dispute.
Former Secretary McAdoo testifies
in C. w. Morse trial.
Unionizing drive goes ahead in
Chicago steel mills without regard to
eight hour day.
Three carloads of beer from Phila-
delphia seized on way to New York.
Election Of Magnus Johnson as Sen
ator from Minnesota is a notice to
G. o. p. bosses. says Senator Brook
hart, Republican, Iowa.
Mrs. Luther Mott, widow of ex-Rep-
~resentatiye from Thirty-second New
York District, to run for Congress II
ex-Speaker Sweet decides not to make
race
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01

D EVERTING to Senator Brookhart,
IN the Iowan believes he learned a
lot while abroad. He says he talked
to "the living leaders of the common
people in nearly all the countries of
Europe" and his conclusion is that
economic cooperation upon the simple
principles of the weavers of Rochdale,
Is the only constructive idea that has
survived the war. 1t Is the only plan
that will end the criminal trusts and
combinations in America and give tos
the producers and consumers the just
rewards of their labors. 1t will take
immediate action of congress along the
line of the Norris bill TO enable the
farmers to get the cost of production
out of their present crop. The Presi-
dent should call an extra session i'm
mediately.
Another of his assertions is that the
Russian soviet government is second
in stability only to that of the United
States, and that Russia will soon be
making inroads on the grain markets
of America. He ignores the fact that
Russian stability is based wholly on
armed force exerted by a small group
of men who admit they are leaders of
a minority of the people.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01

D ESULTS of JOhnson's victory may
IN be more important than its causes.
LaFollette, Senator Brookhart of Iowa
and others gloatingly predicted that it
means the defeat Of Mr.. Harding for
denomination next year, and it was
said some of the party leaders might
renew their efforts to induce him to
decline a second term-efforts that
they exerted first after the Republican
reverses in the election of 1922. Brook
hart, who had just returned from Eu-
rope, launched in New York a boom
for the nomination of Judge Kenyon,
former senator from Iowa, and LaFOl-
lette also spoke of him as a possibility
though it is generally believed the
Wisconsin senator will again have his
own name presented to the Republican
convention. Kenyon cannot well be
classed with either the radicals or the
extreme conservatives, but he may be
found not distasteful to either wing
Of the party.
Our other Senator Johnson-Hlram
of California-also is to be brought
forward by his admirers as a presiden-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01

members of a government scientific
party which is investigating and sur
yeying the islands aboard the U. S. S.
Tanager.
For centuries these spots have shell
tered the secret Of once powerful col
onies that may have fiourished prior
to the main Polynesian migration
which resulted in the settlement of the
Hawaiian group, according to A. L. c.
Atkinson, president of the territorial
board Of agriculture and forestry, who
was one Of the scientific party.
Time and the elements have failed
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01
LOOK FOR IMPORTANT FIND
Scientists Confident Revelations of
Great Interest Will Follow InVes-
LEGATIONS In the Pacific.

Honolulu.-Traces OF a hitherto un-
known civilization that may have ex-
listed in the Pacific 1000 years ago have
been discovered on the little Islands Of
Necker and Nihoa in the Hawaiian bird
reservation, to the northwest of the
Hawaiian group proper, according to
the revelations made by returning
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01

to obllterate the traces of the temples.
houses and the agricultural systems of
long ago, and it Is expected that the
discoveries of the scientists may aid
appreciably in the final solution of
the problem of the origin and migra-
tons Of the P%olynesian race.
Bowls wrought from solid stone, a
headless idol and a stone adj were
among the many specimens that the
party brought back from the islands.
These specimens, together with all
others gathered by the Tanager party
are being studied here by scientists.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01

condition, and 1t is rumored that the
United States has consented to par
ticipate In the capacity of a friendly
adviser. Public opinion in Belgium is
turning to support of the British view
in the controversy, and in two of the
most influential newspapers is pub.
lished this paragraph:
ANY policy inspired Systematically
from Quai d'Orsay would be in the
year 1923 as much an alteration on
our part as during the French revolu.
ton, for we cannot forget that Eng.
land is the only power whose inter
ests oblige her to consider the neces'
sity for our freedom and indepen-
dence."
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01

GREAT BRITAIN'S draft of the re-
~ ply TO the German Preparations
note has been submitted to the allies
and the United States, but its terms
have not, at this writing, been given
to the public. They were kept secret
to give the various governments time
for their consideration. Marquis Cur
zon had a hard job in framing the re-
ply, and it is not at all likely that it
will be acceptable TO the others just
as it stands, but there is an increasing
belief that France will make conces-
sions that will result in final accord
In the note as sent to Berlin and thus
avert a rupture of the entente. This
despite the defiant speech made by
Premier Poincare at Senlis at exercises
in memory Of those killed during the
German occupation after the Franco
Prussian war. In effect he warned
England that he preferred abrogation
Of the entente to further sacrifice of
Frances claims. However, Poincare
and Baldwin may find common ground
If the British tell the Germans that
passive resistance in the Ruhr must
cease, and in Germany it is said now
that such an admonition from London
is all that is necessary to put an end
to that resistance.
Italy already, according to London
correspondents, has agreed with
Great Britain on a plan for calling an
international conference in Rome tn
discuss reparations and Germany's
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01

tial nomination candidate, and his
chances are admittedly better tina
they have been in the past. He is on
his way back from n long tour of Eu-
rope and a rousing welcome and big
banquet have been prepared for him in
New York.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01

president HARDING, now on his
L way south from Alaska after pre-
sumably learning what is the matter
with the economic development of that
territory, has had put up to him serious
trouble in another of u possessions.
For months the native leaders in the
Philippines have been in conflict with
Governor General Wood and the row
has eliminated in the resignation of
the cabinet, the council of state, Man
uel Quezon, president of the senate,
and Speaker RoXas of the house of
representatives. The crisis was brought
on by General Woods reinstatement of
a secret service man who had been
discharged, but this was merely an In
cident. The officials, in rendering their
/ designations, said to the governor gen
eral:
1--WE have observed for some time
that it is your policy and desire as
governor general to intervene and
control, even to the smallest details,
our government, both insular and
local, in utter disregard of the au-
thority and responsibility of the de-
partment heads and other officials CON
cerned."
General Wood, accepting the resig-
nations promptly, said:
in my opinion your action is
wholly uncalled for. 1 beg to state
most definitely and emphatically that
each and every declaration made in
your statement which charges neg
lect of the prerogatives and rights of
the secretaries or disregard for the
organic law is without the slightest
foundation in fact.
Your plans have been deliberately
made and your action is in the nature
Of a challenge and threat which i can
not Ignore
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01

TSMET PASHA was authorized by
L the Angora government to sign the
peace treaty formulated at Lausanne,
and the act of signing was set for July
"a. The treaty represents a triumph
for Turkey and for the United States
the latter because on the demand of
Minister Grew valuation of prewar
concessions is omitted and the open
door policy prevails. The Turks gain
practically everything for which they
contended, and even their concessions
were modified so that the treaty
would not be rejected at Angora. For
instance, they objected to a provision
that each allied nation should keep
two warships in the Dardanelles until
the final ratification of the treaty, so
the pact as finally drawn says each
allied nation shall keep n warship
there "at the invitation of the Turkish
government" The Turkish delegates
and Mr.. Grew were hurriedly complet-
ing the separate peace treaty with the
United States so 1t could be signed
Immediately after that with the al
lies. In both cases various questions
are left for diplomatic settlement.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01

EOR the first time during the pro-
L ceedings of the mixed claims COM
mission, a demand has been made that
the German government produce its
official records showing the activities
of its spies in the United States during
the a An elevator of the Kentucky
Elevator company was burned in Feb
ruary, 1917, and the company claims
81, O00,O 900 damages. 1t is %contended
that the destruction of this and other
elevators was a part of the plot Of
German agents to buy up all the grain,
or, failing in that, to destroy the
available wheat supply in America.
The demand for the spy records is
justified by an article in the treaty Of
Versailles.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01
NEWS review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Johnson's Election in Minnesota
Causes Excitement in Po-
IiticaI Circles.
ADDS TO LAFOLLETTE BLOC
v V

kenyon's Boom for Presidential Nom
ination Launched by 6~rookhart-
Governor General Woods Row
With Filipino Cablnet-France
May Yield Enough to Pre-
serve Entente.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01
DREMIER MUssoLINI has clinched

DREMIER MUSSOLINI has clinched
L his complete control Of the gov
eminent of Italy by persuading the
parliament to pass his new electoral
law which permits the redistricting
and gerrymandering Of election dis
tricts. The liberals opposed the
measure but Mussollni told the parlia-
ment he would get rid of it altogether
unless 1t obeyed him. He is admitted
ly doing great things for the %restora-
ton of his country, but his dictatorial
methods are looked at askance by
many Italians.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01

TOR ten years the government has
L been trying to break up the Inter
national Harvester company, apparent
ly with only partial success. Now At
torney General Daugherty has asked
the federal district court in st. Paul
for a decree dIssolving the company
into at least three separate and indie
pendent corporations, asserting hat it
is still a combination in restraint of
trade and commerce in harvesting ma
chinery and still is monopolizing and
attempting to ~monopolize said trade
and commerce in violation of the
Sherman antitrust law and contrary
to the several opinions, orders, and de-
crees Of this court"
The three separate companies pro-
posed would include two implement
companies of substantially equal size,
one of which would feature the McCor-
mick harvester machines while the
other would handle the Deering line.
The third company would take over
the steel and coal subsidiaries of the
Harvester company. The two imple-
ment companies, while larger than any
other company in the industry, would
be able to compete with each other,
and other companies could compete on
terms of equality with them.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01
BY EDWARD w. PIckARD

CAN you explain why the Cap
~ per-Tincher grain exchange
bill and the other legislation
put through by the farm bloc
have failed to keep the price of
wheat from falling below the
dollar mark? II you can, tell
the editor.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-01

GOVERNOR PROCTOR of YER
~ mont has called a special cleo
ton on November 6 to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of William p.
Dillingham;, for twenty-three years a
United States senator. The primary
will be held on October 8.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-03-15

Thursday March IS, 1928.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-03-15

OF experimentation with corncobs in
the departments laboratories has re-
suited in the development of a pro-
cess which. it is predicted. viii make
possible the production of a low pric-
ed substitute fuel for automobile en-
gines as well as for a wide variety Of
hard rubber and synthetic resin pro-
ducts. But the corncob's services to
mankind will not stop there. It's util-
ization for the purposes mentioned
will provide a good market for the
FARMS waste by-products and con-
serve the native supply of methanal,
or wood alcohol, and the forest pro-
ducts now used in methanOls manu-
facture The converted corncob is a
chemical compound called furfural,
and there is said to be every indica-
ton that furfural has a brilliant flu
ture before it. Somewhere in the
corn belt a plant will soon be erected
for it's manufacture on a commercial
scale. If there are tongues in trees.
books in the running brooks and SER
mons in stones why not gas in corn
cobs? Making two ears of corn grow
where only one grew before will never
be in it as a philanthropic achieve
ment with making one bushel of corn
eobs the energizing equivalent of two |
gallons of gasoline.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-03-15
Engineering and Mining
Journal-Press)

OF 1000 good Americans, probably
99s want to get rich quiclly-if they
are already rich, they want to get
richer. And of these, at least 995 are
ready to risk $50 or $500, or $4,000.
as the case may be, on a '1ong shot"
1t seems to be in the blood. If you
called it gambling many of them
would feel grievously affronted. In
vestment speculation perhaps, but
gambling-neverl 1t seems not to oc-
cur to them that the promised win
nings of hundreds or even thousands
per centum is really the inducement
that makes them part with their
money At any rate, the desire to take
a chance burns in most all of us; and
we have ourselves to blame for the
INSCRIPTIONS promoter, who does his
best to keep the supply up to demand.
Mining for obvious reasons, offers ex-
cellent material for his operations
Superficial examination often fails to
reveal the crooked features of a fraud
ulent proposition; and, since the dis
honest promoter is generally a more
plausible talker and more artful sales
man. he is often successful where the
honest man fails. 1t is the activity of
the faker that has made legislators
feel the necessity for putting "blue-
sky laws on the statute books.
About thirty states already have
restrictive regulatory laws, and the
Colorado legislature is expected to
pass a "blue-sky' bill during the
present session. This bill has been
drawn under the guidance of the Col
orado Metal Mining association. and !
the passage of it is being advocated |
by the mining interests of the state
1t differs from most blue sky" laws |
in that no commission is set up to !
pass on the merit of an yenterprise. |
as a prerequisite to offering stock for
sale to the public. II is contended by
opponents of blue sky" legislation
who are interested in the mining in
dustry that the average law is a SER
ious and unfair obstacle to the finan-
cling of legitimate small scale mine
operations. and that in consequence
the development of prospects and of
the mineral resources of the country h
S retarded in an unwaranted way. It .
$ certainly true that the appraisal of &
4 prospect, or the determination of {
low good the chances of success may '
De, is a difficult task even for the c
most experienced engineer or geolo- n
sist, and much more so for some state e
'fiicial who is probably selected for e
POLITICAL reasons. Moreover, the dele t
,ation to some appointee or small v
of authority to turn v
thumbs down"-or UPON any offer Il
ng of stock involves opportunity for g
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-03-15
STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND
GEOLOGY.

1t is matter of great qualification
to all who are interested in the min
ing industry that the legislature fin
ally made the appropriation for the
maintenance of the state bureau of
mines and geology for the next two
years and 1t would be equally graft
flying to all other people of the state
If they grasped the Importance of the
work of the bureau in its relation to
the general prosperity of the state. 1t
was doubtless a failure TO fully I'M
derstand this that caused the appro-
priation to be eliminated from the
schedule of appropriations in the first
place, and possibly for the same rea-
son the house committee on appropri-
atoms made an adverse report on the
bill. From one who was in Boise at
the time and who was in close touch
with the work being done in behalf of
the bureau appropriation, the Miner
learns that much credit is due the
delegation from Shoshone county for
the final victory. After the bill had
been adversely reported to the house,
it required unanimous consent to get !
1t referred back to the committee on |
appropriations, manifstly a difficult !
task. but one which was accomplish
ed largely through the personal efforts
If r. E. Thomas, of this county, chair
nan of the house committee on mines
ind mining, strongly assisted by r. L.
3rainard. Following the second hear
ng the committee recommended the
ill for passage and it went through
he house with an overwhelming ma
ority. When the bill reached the
enate, Donald A. Callahan was equal ,
J successful in putting it through I
hat body. The passage of the bill in
ures that the important work of the
ureau, which includes highly valu-
BILE cooperative work with the United e
tates bureau of mines and the Unit a
States geological survey, will con-
nue. throughout the next two years, .
nd by that time it's value will have o
scome so thoroughly established that Il
is not believed opposition will again 7
, raised against its continuance as a
ornament institution Of the state -
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-03-15
GOLD THROUGH ALL AGES.
Engineering and Mining
Journal Press)

journal EIeSSJ
Few of us have not been stirred by
the artistic accomplishments of 34OO
years ago as revealed by the excava e.
lions now being carried on near Lux
or, Egypt. Mining men are no doubt
surprised at the wealth of gold and
bronze and precious stones that are
stored in the tomb of Tut-ankh amen.
Where did all this gold come from
and how was it recovered from its
natural deposits? Metallurgy was no
doubt crude in those days, but it was
evidently effective. Those who are
will note with satisfaction the renew
ed assurance that gold has persisted
as the emblem of wealth and as an
object of adornment for more than
thirty-four centuries After this rec
ord it can hardly be discarded as a
metal not worth the mining, as some
present day economists and others
would have us believe 1t has had
long and honorable history. and any
aspersions that may be cast upon its
value and use by those nations who
row possess little of it, will, no doubt,
be forgotten in a few years.
Another thought occurs to us as
we read of the Egyptian revelations.
Already clothing and jewelry design
ers are sending representatives to see
and be inspired by the antique treas
lres. An Egyptian era of style is be-
Ing predicted, with women's clothing |
following the ancient lines. and jew
alry and objects dart modelled after |
hose which were fashionable in King
ruts time. This may well be reflect
ID in an increased demand for gold |
or commercial purposes. which, ac-
'ording to ones economic belief. may
IL may not be a good thing for the
-cld mining industry as long as it is
olG at the fixed price of s2O.67 per
Unce. In the last few years, platin-
I'm has displaced gold to certain ex-
ent in jewelry This is chiefly be-
ause it is more expensive for plat
mum has not the beauty of either
old or silver and does not set Oft a
iamond nearly so we'll as the more {
olorful metal. The vogue of platin-
m is likely to be limited. but that Of
old persists through the ages.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-03-15

be offset TO some extent by the
indirect tax upon gasoline. This
saving has not been made at the
expense of crippling state institu-
lions, but on the contrary we have
been able TO give to the education
al institutions of the state some
badly needed buildings in which to
care for the rapidly increasing
number Of our young people who
are seeking higher education. Mel
Their has it been made at the ex-
pense of our road program nor
any other vital department of the
states business, but by trimming,
pairing. consolidating and rear
ranging we have been able to
make reductions in keeping with
the ability of the people to pay"