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New Britain herald., 1923-04-24
PORTUGAL SIGNS TREATY.

Washington, April 24.-Advices re-
ceived today by the state department
from Lisbon said the Portuguese gov
eminent had ratified the two nine
power treaties negotiated by the
Washington ornaments conference.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-24
NEW LEAGUE OFFICIAL.

Geneva, April 24.-The council of
the league of nations has elected the
DutchaHendrik Lorentz to the MEM
Der on the commission on intellectual
cooperation. He replaces Prof. AL
bert Einstein who recently resigned.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-24
RAISE SUGAR PRICES

Philadelphia, April 24.--The Penn
sylvania and McCahan Sugar Refg.
companies of this city today increased
the basic price of fine graduated to
1925 to the wholesale trade.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-24
Dennis Il, NIorIip

The funeral Of Dennis Y. Morrin
will be held Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock from st. Mary's church and
interment will be In st. Mary's ceme-
terry.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-24

TODAY'S TREASURY REPORT.
L. s. Treasury-Balance, s44S,O26.224
New Britain herald., 1923-04-24
TETANUS FATAL TO CHILD

WATERFOWL, N. Y. April 24.--Laura
Meyer, ., is dead here from tetanus
which developed after being hit Just
below the eye by dart thrown by
playmate.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-24

Among the Kachlns, tribe in
Burma, girls wear their hair bobbed
as sign that they are unmarried.
, 1923-01-02

the war So per cent have been those
of agricultural products. It shows
Furthermore hat 10 per cent of our
exports o: agricultural produce has
gone to Europe.
The total figures for tho current
calendar year 1922 will not be avail
able until some time in January. but
the figures for the calendar year of
1921 show that the American farmer
exported during that year more prod.
ucts than the average Of any five
ear peace period In the history of
America. He exported more prod.
ucts during hat year than any one
peace yea in the history of Amer
lea.
These figures are sufficient to dis.
prove ali the ely propaganda that is
being put out from the Democratic
Leasu' Of Nation. and European
sources to the effect hat the Amer.
lean farmer has NJ his export trade
because tho United States has refused
to become identified with tho quar-.
rels of Europe.
, 1923-01-02

upon the hearthstones. The sturdy old idea of a
sturdy old generation was that that was the best
government that governed least and still MAIN
tanned a healthy social order. Faithful to that
policy. free government in America waxed and
prospered for many years.
"But nowadays a misguided public interest Is
persistently uprooting the local self.government
that has bred strong men and women for the con-
duct of national affairs is centralizfng the govern:
ment in well.nigh innumerable bureaus and com
missions at Washington, and through one device
and another Of paternalism is seducing the an
cient spirit of independence and self-reliance
among our people, gradually bringing them to be
upon the will and favor of politicians
in the national capital and implanting in them an
.ever-growing sense of responsibility and ease that
can in the end but breed a generation of parasites
and helpless dependents with whom no socalled
free government could either actually govern or be
free.
every home a sentry box It Is time to rouse
Ole multitude to an understanding of the danger
that confronts them and their children and their
children's children. These paternalistic devices
now being introduced to a people whose forbears.
would have Indignantly repealed the attempt to
pauperize them are but the vain inventions of poll
teal doctors who are desperately struggling to dose
into 4 few more flickers of life the ~decaying civic
institutions and social order of lands across the
sea. They are desperate Old World attempts to
keep an outraged multitude quiet yet a little while
longer. They are Old World remedies brought
over here to cure a country that isn't sick.
"Every home a sentry box Let us highly resolve
to restore the old balance of power between the
states and the federal government in every respect
consistent with national integrity and safety. Let
us restore to the fullest practical measure the old
spirit and policy of local self. government among
our people. Let us bend our energies as far as
may be upon the idea of developing the strength
Of the nation through the nursery of the home and
the home community. The government at Washing
ton can never DO any stronger than the homes it
comes out Of. Let US maintain all the government
we can at home, where we can keep our eyes on it
, 1923-01-02
Learn TO Talk.

THOSB who use the telephone, and most of US
L do, have discovered that with some people con-
Versation can be carried on with ease and ~satisfac-
ton, while with others the attempt to do so invari-
ably results in irritation due to inability to under
stand. If only everybody would take the trouble
to learn how to talk over the telephone, many tenn
pers now in danger of ruin would be saved, many
imperiled friendships would acquire new warmth
and no end Of moro or less serious mistakes would
be avoided.
The operators In the central offices receive a
course of instruction on the proper use of the
voice, the best rate of speech and the distance from
the transmitter that gives highest intelligibility.
The result is that nobody ever has any trouble in
understanding central" and if central" not infre,
quently fails to "get" a number right, the fault
almost invariably is that of the person who wants
the number but does not know how to ask for 1t.
In the interests Of the social system and the pre-.
servation of peace and goodwill on earth there
should be a general reform among telephone sub,
AS there has been provided for them
Pne of the most potentially beneficient machines
vet invented by man, it is the obvious duty of every
Pdy to learn how to use it. If the people who try
8 talk are asked for frequent repetitions, that
proves either their ignorance of this simple but
highly important art or their carelessness, and
lessons should be sought by them immediately.
, 1923-01-02
Records Disclose Falsity.

Tho American farmer has not been
deprived OF a foreign market because
of the refusal of the United States to
enter the league of nations or to
Join any European league or alliance
or to be a participant IN any Euro
pean conference. or to agree to can
eel any European loans.
All Of the propaganda now being
fed the American farmer to the eff
feet that he is a sufferer because of
the refusal OF this government to be-
come identified with European en-.
broglios Is a tissue Of lies manufact-
ured out Of whole cloth.
The 'w~arnings'' which various Eu-
ropean lecturers touring his country
and League OF Nations advocates
principally Democrats who were
prominently identified with the VIII
son administrator are issuing to the
effect that tho farmer will never re-
gain his foreign markets until the
United States "does her part" in re.
establishing normal conditions IN Eu.
, 1923-01-02
4 Political VdudeUillain.

.GENATOR LA FoLLETTE, during the past year,
~ has attacked the integrity of the United States
Supreme court, he has started another i~nvestiga-
ton "of the oil industry, claiming it is an Illegal
combination for the purpose of robbing the con-
Stunning public and to wind up the year, he now
launches a vicious attack against the big Five"
packers, accusing them of "~robbing the people by
unlawful combinations" and demands an i~nvestiga.
ton of the proposed packing company merger.
: Senator IaFollette has stayed In the limelight
all his life by constantly attacking some person
or corporation.
His line of reasoning Is destructive. He ap.
peals to the hatred and antagonism Of the masses
by pitting them against organized Industrial nctiv.
iy or our established form of government.
1t is constant agitation of the brand LaFollette
peddles that keeps the country In an unsettled
industrial condition.
Senator LaFollette is undoubtedly the headliner
in American political vaudeville and can keep more
people fooled all the time in favor of voting for
him than any other politician of the United States
With his scalping knife under the hide of the
United States Supreme court, the oil industry and
the packing industry in 1922, the public will wait
10 see whether he can hang these trophies on his
belt during 1923.
In the past he has been able to wave his political
knife at those he wishes to attack and thus get
great publicity beneficial to himself but he usually
fails to bring home the bacon for the public.
, 1923-01-02
Too Much for Sing Sing.

There Is something about the
movie business that generates great
clouds Of bunk'-pale blue clouds.
Dark purple clouds. bright pink
clouds greenish yellow clouds, that
enshroud all Hollywood and its envi.
ROM and rise UP to the ambient
ether" writes the New York Times.
Mr.. Hays. a newcomer in the bust.
ness, produces bunk as easily as Mr..
Roscoe Arbuckle. who has been in 1t
for years. But the bunk is not all on
one side. Tho idea. for example that
tho convicts in Sing Sing are liable to
moral debauchment II they look Upon
Mr.. ArbuckIe's sedulously pure films
begets about as much %repulsion as
Mr.. Arbuckle's own quotations from
Holy Writ.
'sHe. indeed, is right when he says
that his misadventure was a tragic
accident. He let himself in for i.
but he forgets that among the differ
ences which separate members Of the
human race Is that between those
who get caught. When you get
caught you may as well take your
medicine. Mr.. Arbuckle was acquit.
ted by a jury, but an odor clings TO
him: and it will cling no matter how
much he sprays himself with the
perfumes Of Biblical analogy. This
may be unfair, but 1t is the way
things are.
Mr., Hays was employed to deodor.
lie the movies, and he did It with
notable success by shutting off the
, 1923-01-02
HoW Much and How Long.

How FAR should the public treasury In these
IL days of high taxes, be loaded with further
burdens by extending the scope and expense of the
national government?
The desire of the sorely tried taxpayer, and Of
business in general, is for n radical lessening Of
the tax load. But two great obstacles intervene.
First, about twothirds of the total government
tax goes to meet items that are fixed charges over
which there is no administration control. Interest
on the public debt is nearly n billion dollars a year.
The second obstacle is the tendency to widen, at
large cost. the scope of government through so.
called improvements and reforms" The more
federal appropriations demanded for bureaus, edu-
cational, maternity, hygiene and other innumer.
able progressive" projects, the less chance for
retrenChment.
Conditions faced by the national government are
faced by virtually every state government and. TO
a large extent bv lesser political subdivisions. The
remedy rests with the people; II they constantly
! demand more and more from their government,
they must expect to pay higher and higher taxes.
1t will be interesting TO watch the coming SEES.
Eions of western states legislatures to see what
attitude our representatives of the peopIe mani
fest toward retrenchment in public affairs. IF
they adont every new measure pronosed. the people
have nothing 10 expect hut greatly increased tax
burdens over those about which they now complain
, 1923-01-02
Government Proceeds From Homes.

HTHE GOVERNMENT at Washington can never
L be stronger than the homes it comes out Of"
This is the declaration of Hon. Frank L. Greene of
Vermont, in a protest against the prevailing ten.
dency toward enervating paternalism.
Mr.. Greene is an editor of high standing In New
England journalistic circles, is a public speaker Of
Taro Attachments, and was recently elected to the
senate of the United States as a recognition of
hts satisfactory service in the house covering a
period of twelve years.
His discussion Of the evils of paternalism was
contained in a communication endorsing the pur
poses Of the "Sentinels of the Republic an or
gnnization which takes as its motto, Every citizen
a Sentinel: every home a sentry box" In the course
of his letter Mr.. Greene said:
"Civic liberty was born at the fireside, waf
reared and made strong by experience in local self
government, and forever renewed itself in success
sive generations Of men and women who did not OK
pect the nations government to do for them wha'
they ought to do for themselves at, home. Thi
American experiment in civics was original,
meant TO be n popular government, deriving its jus
powers from the consent of the governed proceed
ing from the countless hearthstoncs Of the land t.
Washington, and not descending from Washington
, 1923-01-02
ConnercidIized Statesmdnshib.

TT WAS NOT a great while ago that the Chautau.
L qua graft almost became a national scandal.
A certain type of senator's and representatives
in Congress would howl and rant all through the
session. not for the purpose of preventing the pas
sage of a bad bill nor for the purpose of promot-
ing the passage Of n good one, but for the purpose
Of keeping their name before tho public so that
on proof of being better ADVERTISED they could
consistently demand from the lyceum or lecture
bureaus moro pay per lecture.
To cover the trail from the front door of the
capitol to the back door Of the lecture bureau they
always endeavored to make it appear that they
were Fighting for the people" They never origi'
mated a helpful bill nor offered remedial amend
ments to a bad bill. That was not their business.
Their business was to howl and rant and keep their
names in the daily press reports and then shake
down the Chautauqua. organization for more
money.
President Taft broke up this practice by keeping
Congress in session, and the Chautauqua spell.
binder who had to remain in Washington and at
tend to public duty for which he was paid, and
dig down into his pocket to employ someone else
to fill his lecture engagements, at once became his
bitter opponent.
1t is more or less a political secret but all the
way a fact that much of the opposition to President
Taft came from those prevented by an extra session
of congress from commercializing their Statesman.
ship on the Chautauqua platform. The lure was,
mot the call Of the people, but the jingle of the gate
receipts.
While wholesome education Of the masses best
insures public rectitude and mental equipoise, still
in view OF the harm potentialiZed by demagogic
preachment it may well be questioned whether any
man in public life shall be permitted to commercial.
ize his views on the Chautauqua or any other plat.
form for back Of and surrounding it is the incen.
tive to play to the grand stand, not for the Purpose
of promoting the public welfare, but to become
"better advertised" Senators and representatives
are paid q regular salary by the public for all their
views on the lecture platform they compel a Dor,
ton Of that same public to pay twice. If a sense of
public duty impels them to lecture let such lecture
be free and not tainted with veneered duplicity
and avarice.
, 1923-01-02
Who Will Get H2

MILLIONS and hundreds Of millions will be
III turned over by the government, to the hold
ers Of government securities during the. coming
year.
What will become of this money? The sharpest
brains in the country are studying ways and means
to get hold Of It.
Will the savings Of a lifetime Of many individ.
uals be d~issipated in speculative undertakings
about which the prospective investor knows moth.
ing?
If you were sick or had matters which needed
legal attention you would 70 to a doctor or n lawyer
as a matter OF safety. BY the same token, when
you have financial matters to consider it is e.
sential that you consult your banker or bond
dealer before letting go of your hard earned money
in an Investment of unknown quality.
, 1923-01-02

Arbuckla pictures last April. TIL
movie business was then under
cloud. and Mr.. Hays sought to disps
T. Rightly or wrongly. millions q
people were convinced by his actioi
in the Arbuckle case that now TIL
movies had a master who would keel
them in order. The reversal Of thai
action will do more to create sen |
ment for censorship than the origina
Arbuckle scandal itself. There mV.
be much ignorance and prejudice IL
the groups which Demand that tn
movies clean up: It may be appar
ent from the record hat a CLEANUP
from the outside by way Of censor
ship does more harm than good; buI
unloss there is at least the pretensI
OF a cleanup from the inside thert
will be louder demands for a clean
up from the OUTSIDE. even II It meant
the appointment of censors who viii
pile new stupidities on the mountain
rus ~stupidities already plain In thu
picture business.
Mr.. Hays seems to think that Mr.
Arbuckle's exemplary purity sinci
last April entities him to another
chance. Perhaps 1t does. but ordin
airy business sense forbids It. TIT
Motion Picture Producers and DIS
tributors' association vas organized
to attain and maintain the highes'
moral and artistic standards Thu
improvement of artistic standards Il
a good deal more necessary in tn
movies than the improvement o
mral standards; but It does not ap
pear that Mr., Hays has done mucl
toward that. He has merely helHe'
the movies to attain the higheS
moral standard, and to maintain i
for iust seven months"
, 1923-01-02
Silence.

God must have loved the silence, for
He laid
A stiffness on the unset and the
dawn;
Upon the moment when the bird
has gone,
Leaving a note, ~hIgh-hung, within
the glade
More sweet than when he sang 1t;
moons thai pass
Too full OF forest changelessness
for sound; .
Creeping of little frosts along the
ground:
Silence of growth among the summer
grass.
God must have deeply loved the 81
lences.
For is there one OF US who has not
heard
Promptings to silence that ht
speaks not Off
What Of an cd remorse; a hope thai
Too deeply hoped; what OF a gr!e.
outgrown;
And silence. old, unconquerable
love?
-Mavis Clare Barnett.
, 1923-01-02

rope are sheer Misrepresentation.
The proof OF this fals!ty is furnish
ed by the official reports of the Blu
reau OF Foreign Commerce. The
American farmer in tho fiscal year
Of 1913. when Europe was normal, ex-
ported 25s. 343, 62e bushels OF grain
and grain products. Fol the fiscal
year 1921 he exported 543 .375 1923
bushels Of grain and grain products.
and for the fiscal year 1922 he TX
ported 544. 220. 964 bushels of grain
and grain products. In other words,
the American farmer has since the
war, and Is today. exporting twice the
amount Of grain and grain products
that he exported prior to the world
war.
During the fiscal year 1918 the
exports of meats. dairy products. ami
NAL and vegetable fats. amounted to
!, $40, O53.715 pounds. For the fiscal
year 1921 they amounted to 2,s34, 517,
262 pounds. For the fiscal year 1922
they amounted to 2.192 .174.236. In
other words. the American farmer is
exporting 30 per cent more meats.
J dairy products, animal and vegetable
fats, now than he did prior to the
world war whom conditions IN Europe
were normal"
Our exports Of tobacco leaf In the
fiscal yea 1918 amounted to 41S, 1885,.
900 pounds. For the fiscal veal 1921
they amounted to 496. SIS. $3.50 pounds.
For the fiscal year 1929 they amount.
ed to. 451 .555 .221.
Cotton elbows a decrease. Exports
Of cotton since the war show a Ce'
crease as compared with pre.war rec
ords. The figures are as follows: For
the fiscal year 1919 we exported g.
724.572 bales Of raw cotton. Fol the
fiscal year 1921 We exported 5.40S,'
$50 bales. For the fiscal year 1922 we
exported 6,541. s41 bales. Two rea
sons are assigned by the Bureau q
Foreign Commerce for the decreasf
of raw cotton exports as compare
with the pre-war period. First. c
shorter production in this countrS
and SECOND. a tremendous increase III
the consumption OF raw cotton by
American cotton manufacturers TIL
two combined left less surplus for
export. The Bureau of Foreign Con
MERGE might nave added a third rea'
son. nancy, European cotton manu-
facturers are buying more extensive
ly OF Egyptian and other cotto'
rhiaeS in countries where land /
, 1923-01-02
The Casper Tnbune's Program

Irrigation project west Of Casper to DO author
lied and completed at once.
A complete and scientific coming system for the
city OF Casper.
A comprehensive municipal and school recreation
park system. including swimming pools for the
children OF Casper.
Completion of the established Scenic Route boule-
ward as planned by the county commissioners to
Garden Greek Falls and return.
Better roads for Natronn county and moro high
ways for Wyoming.
More equitable freight raise for shippers OF thu
Rocky Mountain region. and more frequent train
service for Casper.
, 1923-05-15

POPULAR BAKERY
HOS S. Poplar. everything new and
clean, fresh bread. prize cookies and
cake of AL kinds. try a loaf of our
bread we are sure 1t will please.
, 1923-05-15
is THIS

The question arises in the minds
of some observers iof thu ito
Observation-Disclosures" issue that
perhaps the irreconcilables might do
well to consider a few things they
seem to have forgotten before flood
ing the country with more brilliant
oratorical efforts on the subject of
"entangling alliances" Whether
the United States goes into the
World Court, or into the League of
Nations itself, winch will supply
the judges for the World Court, is
entirely up to the American people.
The Republicans contend that the
great and solemn referendum" of
1920 put that League permanently
to sleep so far as we are concerned.
The Democrats contend that the
great and solemn referendum" was
not a reputation of the League of
Nations solely, although it may
have been in part; and that the sem
timent of the country since that
time has changed.
However all this may be, pending
the almost impossible task of put
ting the subject squarely up to the
electorate with no side issues and
no dangling modifiers to affect the
answer it would seem that we are
20 be more or less involved abroad
anyway. Secretary Hughes an
nounces that unofficial American
Representatives will take a big part
at Geneva in the conference called
by a committee of the League to
consider the illicit traffic in habit
forming drugs.
Is this "entanglement"?
And it is also known that Miss
Grace Abbott, director of the Fed
eral Children's bureau, has returned
from Geneva where she attended a
conference on the traffic in wo-
men for immoral purposes under
the direction of President Harding.
Is this "entanglement"?
1t appears to President Harding
that the United State can hardly
be as aloof and isolated in this day
of wireless, airplanes that hop 5000
miles in a day, and turbine engines,
to say nothing of world markets,
as Senator "Hell-Roaring" Hiram
johnson and others might wish. But
perhaps it also appears to MI. Hard
ing-though he is not so unkind IS
to say so-that the faction lead by
Mr.. johnson has not yet heard of
wireless, airplanes, turbines and
world markets..
, 1923-05-15
To Graduate 10
Fontaine Fox

LOWELL. wyo., May 15.-The Big
Horn academy will close its school
ear next week and from its doors
will go n group of 10 young people
who have finished their work. so far
Al that institution is concerned. 1t
is a rather peculiar incident. that
Lowell high and the academy are
each turning out a class OF 10 stu
dents this year. And further that
the same number OF boys and girls
are in each class.
Beginning Friday. May IS. with the
faculty program in tho forenoon and
the alumni banquet in tho evening.