The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-08-01

class as well as against the common
offender; those who believe in the
prosecution Of the profiteer and those
guilty Of corruption In high places;
those who still hold to the political
principles and personal ethics of JEFF
farson and Lincoln, must needs find
political abiding place outside Of the
two old parties as they are constituted
and managed today"
Wheeler Is said to be the only West
erner in the senate with a Yankee
twang. He was born In Massachusetts
in 1882, worked his way through the
University Of Michigan law school and
landed at Butte. He's been In many
tough and complicated political fight,
sometimes loser and sometimes winner.
His war on Attorney. General Daugh-
erty fixed national attention on him.
In the midst Of 1t he was indicted in
Montana In connection with oil per-
mits. He says it is "frame-up." The
senate exonerated him.
VxTHo is Americas favorite child
w right this minute? Why, nobody
else but Helen Wills, our eighteen
years-old woman tennis champion Of
the world. oh. yes; we all know that
Helen won the Olympic title at Paris
without meeting Suzanne Lenglen, the
temperamental French tennis genius.
But who did the lodging? Not our
Little Poker Face" Some day Helen
and Suzanne will meet-and we know
what will happen to Suzanne.
Little Poker Face" Is a whole lot
more than a champion tennis player.
She's also what, we Americans call "a
nice GIRL" when. we mean all-around
approval. Moreover she's easy to look
at. And she minds her father and
mother and studies hard at her books.
Last-and not least-Helen Is a
good sport''-which Is short for
good sportswoman. the Lady Of Out
doors. She has worked her winning
way up from the bottom, taking the
game as 1t came, with no grouches, no
aiibis and no spells" a la Lenglen.
They beat her at Wimbledon. But she
came back at Paris.
~ R American world flyers are now
~ headed towards home, with the
sixth and last stage Of their flight be-
fore, them. They will make a long
circuit to the north from England,
through Arctic regions that have never
seen an airplane. At Kirkwall In the
Orkneys they say good-by to John Bull.
With one stop at The Faroes they
land in Raykjavik, South Iceland. The
sea flight to Greenland is 500 miles.
Along the coast of Greenland to Ang-
magsalik is another 500 miles. Then
comes q 572-mile sea fight to Indian
Harbor, Labrador Thereafter will
come successive hops to Newfoundland,
Nova Scotia, Boston, New York and
Washington. The last stage will be the
transcontinental trip to- Los Angeles.
whence they started March II.
The United States navy has its
patrol work well under way. A dozen
or so cruisers and destroyers will
watch things on both sides of the At
lantic. The flyers are equipped with
radio to keep In touch with the war
ships. About 1000 miles of their 25.-
OOO-mile flight lie before the flyers.
nITTSBURGH plus was abolished
1 Tuesday by the federal trade COM
mission. What is Pittsburgh plush
The United States Steel corporation
controls 80 per cent of our rolled steel
supply. 1t has many mills in various
places. The price for the steel is the
price at Pittsburgh plus the freight
from Pittsburgh minus the freight
from the mill where the steel actually
is produced.
The Pittsburgh plus system of de-
termining steel prices Is held by the
federal trade commission to not only
be an unfair method Of competition,
but violation Of the Clayton act. in
that 1t is a means of price discrimina-
ton. Operation Of the system, the
commission adds. tends to retard the
steel business in all centers except
Pittsburgh, to lessen and eliminate
competition and to increase costs to
consumers to an amount that reaches
$4,000, 600 year in the case of farm
ers in eleven Western states alone.
The case was one of the most vigor-
ously contested in the history of the
commission. attorneys for thirty-two
Middle Western states and western
steel consumers joining in the fight for
abolition OF the system.
Results of the abolisbment Of the
system-if the United States Steel