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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-06-06
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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-06-28

6n FueELO h1co uo SAASee = d eAt'
repub icano. nj rnionista, v, menos so
cialista. Sc encuentran tres grupos gi
rando en-. derredor de contados caudi
Hos, sin otro ideal que Ell ca'culo, sis
mas bandera qre sus pasiones, y con e
hnico principio por anahzar, Ell prin.
cipio de ciases. Tres deseos, Y ninggna
aspiration legal nj logica.
iOue logica, que fundamento tiene
la propendencia la estadidad, cHando
la prepondencia a la astadidad, cuando
clio signiflca un. atentado contra la paz
ell orden de Estados Unidos7
lCral puede ser la efcacia de Ia au-
tonomia 81, tras de no implicar rn de-
recho, acusa un concepto deprimente
de presunta inferioridad y una decla-
raci6n de insufciencia?
iHacia donde Sc dirige la division de
classes, la creaci6n de privilegios, sino
la disociaci6n?
Actuar bien, no actuar.
Pretender que Puerto Rico sea un
Estado de la Union Americana, es su-
ponerlo capaz de gobernar a los Esta-
dos Unidos. r.. aun cuando la capaci-
dad es discutib'e, faltaria la legitimi-
dad. Los que no adulan nj especulan,
desde Ell sitio de la honradez, prueben-
me 10 contrario.
Greer que la autonomia proporciona
ra la fc icidad Y progreso de Puerto
Rico, ,es una nifiada: equivale ignorar
las necesidades de relaci6n Y concurrs1
cia qre tlenen los pueblos para su de-
senvolvimiento, Y la cantidad de NAL
que acarrean todas las intervenciones
extrafias, sobre todo, 81 aouellas Sc We
rifican entire pueblos de raza y cuai-
dades distintas. AL que estas lineas es-
cribe, va 10 ha consignado en- otro lu-
gar: La Autonomia es, I'm estado de
esclavitud aNlativo, atenuado Nor Ell
consentimiento de las presuntos auto
nomos que posponiendo sus derechos,
Sc acojen, ror ruinidad hipocrecia a
las veneVolencias del despotismo''
Afirmar que este socialismo, especie
de panacea, cosa sin orientaci6n nj tex
to a'guno, contradictorio en- los procedi-
mientos err6neo en- las tendencias y, des
de todo punto immortal sea, de reden-
cion econ6mica, no va de IN pals, sino
de una clase creada en- negaci6n de los
principles humanos, es no afirmar ma
-.
da: es tanto como implantar la explo-
taci6n del mas habil respecto de los
menos expertos: es 10 mismo q. hacerse
pagar en- buen orc una ficha del peor
cobre.
SD6nde estan, pues, los idea a'cs, las
doctrinas, los principles que substentan
esas facciones2 49,,
Abandonese los enconos, las ambicio-
mes, las quimeras y Ilnanse todos, cada
uno en- su extreme. A 'tLa Alianza qua
defiende ell Coloniaje, al Partido Ma
cionalista que aspira a la Independent
cia. HAY que estar con Puerto Rico o
contra 81.
cpcrtunamente diremos 10 que Eigni-
flea ESA ALBANIA.
Ju'io Medina GONZALEZ
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-06-28
'lndependenlciia 0 cOloniajje =

Ell dileIna es ese.
| No hay terminus de conciliaci6n en-
tire los extremes. Es. precise avenirse
a La logica, va que no Sc plede alterar
el sentido de los conceptos
! Dos Partidos, v dos aspiraciones no
mas tieLen .raz6n de ser en- Puerto
Rico: LA Asianza Puertorriquefia' =
con sus tendencias de anexion, v. el
Partido Nacionalista con sus ideales
de Independence.
Esas dos agrupaciones, en- principles
v prop6sitos Sc dividen la fuerza cleo
t toral del pals, y Sc sumar, aunque por
lineas oprestas, al movimiento politi-
CO mundlal, unica Ley de accion en- Ell
orden de las ideas fundamentals pro-
c'amadas por ell Determinismo.
Los demas grupos -diseminados " en-
revoluci6n que Sc agitan fuera del, GEN.
tro esencial, no Sc les debe tener en-
cuenta, son parties disgregadas del to-
do, al servicio de las intenciones, en-
contra de las ideas: su interes es cir
cunscrito, v mEy corta su existencia;
son facciones Que NADIA pueden aportar
a la consolidation de los principles.
Cuando Sc trata de definir el Status
de Puerto Rico, es necesario distinguir
" sepsrar los deseos de las ideas, la
necesidad de la valuntad.
Tales expresiones tendencias, Sc
confunden y Sc mezclan hasta perdsr
su verdadera valdez.
Los grupos republicano y socialista
cuando actian, obedecen intenciones
correlativas en- provecho de respecti-
vos deseos; Sc uneven hacia necesida-
des propias, netamente exclusives de
un CO ectivismo aislado de la masa CO.
MIN; hacen para ST, solamente, aun a
despecho y en- detrimento de sus con-
g6neres desasociados. Esta accion Ii
mitativa, es incoherente apesar de ini-
ciarse restrictiva: es egoista disocia-
dora.
Cuando no Sc sostiene ell PRO el
CONTRA de la question fundamental,
como que sc desbarra: Sc incurre en- di-
vagaciones. Sc fomenta ell obstaculo.
Esas facciones que por la vaguedad
contextual de su estatura politica,
10 impropio de sus gestiones fuera
de la question que Sc debate no
significa NADIA en- cl campo de las ideas;
deben, para cimentar loss derechos a So
correr sus legitimas necesidades, agre-
Earse la parte que mas puntos de
afnidad les ofrezca, sea cral fuese
la tests que Sc defienda, deben ocupar
uno de los dos sitios. convenidos para la
lucha: deben manifestarse claramente
legalmente en- contra favor de
Puerto Rico: al Iado de "La AianSa.
u opuesta ella: .por la Independencia,
o en- pro del Coloniaje.
No es serio sustentar posiciones am
,biguas.
Los que sc intitulan republicanos,
unionistas radicales, v socialistas. des-
pues de las u;timas decisiones de las
Asambleas del oeste, Sc motejan: Sc
apropian calificativos en- contradiction
alberta con sus actuaciones: Sc aplican
un apodo risible, ridiculo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
WORLDS SAFEST INVESTMENT

The United States is certainly the strong est natiop materially in the world. In spite of the critics, I believe 1t is also in q posi- tion of leadership in all the fundamental idealistic, moral, and spiritual forces which make nation great and constitute worthy civilization. It seeks as its highest aim to have clean national household from cellar to attic. Its paths are the paths of peace. It has good will for all peoples and it's charity is abounding. It has it's crudities, but they are the incidents of young and growing democracy. Its finer flowers are yet to apear.A But it does hold out more hope for the man who wishes to get on than does any other nation. It. seeks to give each man an opportunity to make the most of himself and the best use of bis faculties and, in fuller measure than any other, it assures him the fruits of his labor. The rapidly growing ownership of all forms of property by the masses and the widespread wellsbeing evil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
nRAINAGE LAW AGAIN

Those who are interested in drainage reclamation projects in Alabama are not discouraged by the supreme courts de- cision that the drainage law is invalid because it delegates the power of taxa tion. They have applied for rehear- ing, on the ground that the court was in error in holding the taxation feature delegated function. The brief says that the legislature levies the tax and adds: ''The act itself makes the only levy that is or can be made. The drainage com mission, its officers or the corporation created only assesses and values the property, ahd collects, but it does not make the levy. The legislature itself did this by the act which authorized and provided for the assessment, valuation and collection"
 The above may not be law, but 1t IS surely commonsense. The legitimate de- sire of property to organize for the construction of drainage outlets IS praiseworthy and constructive purpose. if there is any legal way in which that purpose can be upheld by the court pubiic service will be performed in that act. If the court cannot find any legal way to validate the law, then it is incum- bent upon the legislature to invent such a way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
THE BATTLESHIP TRAGEDY

The three officers and forty-five men killed by explosion on the battleship Mis- sissippi, while at target practice Thurs day, died in the service of their country no less truly than if they had been engaged in actual combat with the en- emy. Their names belong on the lists of those who died for country's sake, for their very enlistment meant that they were ready for whatever might happen. That death was accidental does not de- tract from the fact that soldiers and sailors in uniform by that very costume proclaim the dedication of their lives to duty.
 It remains, however, for the naval au- thorities now to discover the cause of the explosion of the charges in the turret guns in order that precautions may be taken against it's ever happening again. It is by accidents such as this, some ot them costly in human life, that our en- zines of war are perfected and made more reliable, Therefore, even such deaths are not altogether in vain, no mat ter how much the nation may lament them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15

Here is California, storied land, whose every son and daughter, sings her praises. And here is the long roll of the Pacific, mother of oceans, whose majestic sweep impresses most of us as it did Balboa when he beheld it from a noun tain top in the Isthmus of Panama. And here is the Northwest, another play ground of the nation, while all the way from Maine to Oregon there are desti- nations in between-Niagara, the Great Lakes, Salt Lake City, the Mormon cap ital; Yellowstone Park, and scores of others that interest the traveller and the sightseer.
 See America first and then, if you can, see the Old World. Say what we may of the scenic beauty of America, and it is not surpassed anywhere, history and tra- dition cling about the Old World--such history and such tradition as we shall not make in America for al thousand years. We are young, as nations go 1; our past is but yesterday. Across the seas are lands that teemed with civilized life thousands of years ago and have left to us and to all mankind heritage of learning and human experience that is the foundation of modern civilization. This in itself is reason enough to make the tourist pause in awe and reverence, but one may behold the tangible evi- dences of the great events that have made history, and the world as we know it. Here are the palaces, or their ruins, where dwelt the great of other days; these the roads they marched along as conquerors, and these the cities where they passed before the fearful or the admiring multitude. This the scene of battle that turned the whole tide of hu- man existence. Genghis Khan passed here, leaving countries and nations des- plated behind him; this was the scene of Julius Caesars triumphs, and Charle- magne was crowned in this very cathe- dral. In India, in Egypt, in China are reminders on every side of a civilization that was old long, long before Columbus started his tiny caravels across the Att lantic, seeking new route to India, and found New World.
 If we love literature, art or music, in those lands across the seas there are shrfnes for all of us where, with proper humility, we may bow down and worship genius. After all, the wanderlust that afflicts us most strongly now requires few devices to stimulate it. In most of us it is never entirely quiescent, but and here is the tragedy of life-au of us have our Carcassonnes, and most of us will meyer see those places of which we dream while the buzz fans drone and the sultriness of summer afternoon makes work "a weariness of the flesh" and A burden to the spirit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15

believe, but forty-two years ago found my self-and the Lord-became Christian, am on the sunny side of Christianity and en- joy it.
 Again And must be 6 true and loyal citizen of these United States" I am, and challenge any one to prove that I'm not all of that. Voted for Blaine in 1884 (at that time in Minnesota one could vote on first papers), was told by an American (who deliberately lied to mel that if Cleveland was elected, slavery would come back. Had read Uncle Toms Cabin" in Danish trans lation. Of course not, no slavery for me by my vote Cleveland was elected, no slav- cry. Had been fooled, and am sorry to say, have had a lot of costly experience along that line. I came from a country where we had respect for public officers and property rights; had confidence one in another. person would come to town from a neighbor- ing city or a distance; leave their suit case parcel or packages in a corner in the depot waiting room; come back after several hours. It was all there. Indeed sad great loss when we lose confidence one in another. Of all the immigrants coming from any nation to our shores, Denmark is the only country delivering lem 100 per cent. All can read and write.
 I love that beautiful little country as mother A person who doesn't love his mother is of very little use And love America as a wife, and of course all hus- bands should love their wives.
 can't rAason out all this activity, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
The Peoples Forum
A Twenty.Four.Cent Tax on Gasoline

A Twenty Four. Cent Tax on Gasoline To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 One realizes that when he rides on dirt or even gravel roads he pays tax many times larger than the insignificant levy such as is generally assessed by states for road building. Figures recently compiled by z. E. Sevison, ssate highway engineer for Wy oming, which he discusses in the March, 1924, issue of the Wyoming Highway News Letter, indicate that the increased consump- tion of gasoline required by dirt roads really costs the motorist as much as if he had to pay tax of 24 cents a gallon, considering 20 cents a gallon as the selling price of the gasoline. Even good gravel roads, according to MT. Sevisons estimates, impose an extra expenditure equal to 9-eent tax.
 Mir. Sevison bases his figures on tests made at the Iowa engineering experiment station, Ames, Iowa, to determine the mile age of a gallon of gasoline on various types of road The result was computed in ton miles, the ton-mile being a unit of measure ment denoting the moving of ton one mile The Ames tests showed that gallon of gas oline will yield thirty-one ton-miles on con- crete, twenty-one ton-miles on gravel, and fourteen ton-miles on dirt roads
 To make practical application of these test results, Mir. Sevison assumes the weight of an ordinary automobile at IA tons, or 2,S00 pounds. Dividing 31 ton-miles by this weight gives the mileage that should be de- livered by this particular automobile from a gallon of gasoline as 22.1, when driven over a concrete road. In the same way, 1t is clear this automobile will go only 15 miles on a gravel road. and ten miles on a dirt road, with a single gallon of fuel. If gaso- line costs 20 cents a gallon, these figures mean that the fuel cost of this automobile will be nine-tenths of a cent per mile on con- crete, 1.3 cents on gravel, and cents on dirt.
 MT. Sevison summarizes these estimates in a very striking way: The automobile weigh ing IA tons on concrete road will deliver 9 miles of travel, at fuel cost of 20 cents for one gallon. To travel 9 miles on gravel will require 1.46 gallons which will cost 29 cents. The same distance on a dirt road will require 2.2 gallons, costing A cents. From this, Mir. Sevison concludes that when the car is driven over gravel road the owner is really paying the equivalent of tax of g cents per gallon of fuel for his Iaileage, while the dirt road cost means the equivalent of a tax of A cents per gallon. Compared with these, the "gas tax" with which many states are paying for road improvement, is truly insignificant.
 JOHN CRAFT.
 Mohila Ala June 10 1924
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
TRAVEL LIRE

At this time of the year, even those of us who have no more imagination than is necessary to earn a livelihood in the most prosaic and humble of call ings, are vaguely stirred by desire to leave the haunts we know too well. We see fascinating advertisements in the newspapers and magazines and on bill boards, picturing the delights of travel. Places in our own land that we have never visited are glorified by the wiz ardry of advertising writer and artist, who sometimes lend a famous brush to the work of creating patronage for rail- way and steamship lines. Foreign coun- tries are invested with a magic that makes them seem almost unreal. The seas that bear those mighty liners to the ports of dream are gorgeously blue and green and purple; while the skies have an intensity of color such as Ma ture herself could hardly duplicate.
 And the ships The stateliest thing that moves is a ship. It does not require much of the artists skill, or word wiz ardry, to make the vacation ships that crowd the sea lanes, going to all parts of the earth and around it, appear beau tiful, and luxurious, too. Picture and text of the advertisements invite us to forsake the humdrum paths of every day existence. Here are the great mountain ranges and the dazzling gorges of the West, in their varicolored splen- dor, calling us to come; travelling on such trains, we almost believe, as never were, and through a scenic wonderland from which all traces of the grimy common laceness. of life have been removed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
THE soTTTHERN EXPOSITION

It would be a source or prloe anu qualification for the prize of five tnou- sand dollars which has been offered oy The Manufacturers Record for the best exhibit made by Southern state at the Southern Exposition held at New 1ork newt winter to come to Alabama. But the biggest practical benefit from sucn an exhibit as will capture that prize lies in the information the exhibit would or fer the thousands of people from many parts of the country who attend the eX- position. Efforts are being made ny industrial and commercial interests III this state to see that Alabama is cred itably represented. No Southern state possesses larger and more varied re- sources than Alabama. The people or the country, however, generally know comparatively little of what has been done and what can be done in Alabama industr1ally and agriculturally. On1or- tunately, even the majority of the peo- ple of Alabama are not informed or the achievements, opportunities and possl- bilities of their own state.
 Alabama needs the investment of out side, as we'll as home, capital, and many industrious workers to help In the state development. There is no more ettectlVe way of attracting both than for the resources to be properly set forth where all the people can see and learn, Thus this Southern Exposition with it's tacll- ities for spreading this information widely offers a promising opportunity to advertise Alabama. To impress out siders who have capital, intelligence and industry with the opportunities in this state, it is necessary that its people dem onst1'ate their own confidence in it, One very effective way to do this is offered by this exposition. It is real oppor- tunity for Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15

sideration along with the clothes style of the bridegroom and his money-making and stay ing-out-late inclinations. The scientific, moral and intellectual factors of the relation to be entered into undoubtedly will be weighed. Although, I do not approve of this super-supervision. I would suggest that if we are to have these examining boards, they ascertain the outlook which the applicant holds on the married state. When we probe beneath the allegations of cruel and inhuman treatment, neglect, incompatibility of tenn. peraments and other charges we usually find that the marriage was regarded by one or the other of thes contracting parties as an opportunity to better his or her condition, and then when realities failed to measure up to expectations an excuse of one kind or an- other to dissolve the marriage was sought, in the hope of better luck next time.
 -
 Still third class of persons seeking rem edy for the unhappiness of family life and hoping to end forever the war in the homes of America turns on the young of this. gen. eration, condemning them as idle, frivolous, devoid of purpose, inconsiderate, selfish, pleasure seeking and vain. Such talk an- noys me, not that it may not be true, but because it nevertheless is unjust If there is anything wrong in the manners, morals and outlook of the young people of today, responsibility rests not on them, but on their elders. The fathers and mothers of the land are the real offenders, We have not halted the trend of the times We have not uproot. ed the evils which are imperiling our .chil- dren. When we rear and train our, chil- dren properly, instill in their hearts and minds reverence for home and parenthpod, school them thoroughly in the right concep- tion of government, religion and society, we shall need no longer any court of domestic relations and will not have to bother our selves further about uniform laws of mar riage and divorce and public boards to ex. anime applicants for marriage licenses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15

~ :" ORSE, even than the present-day .W/ disturbances of politics, religion and
 w business are the disturbances in fam flies of America. So widespread and serious have these become that not a few of our great cities have established special courts which are denominated courts of domestic relations. ..
 Disturbances in families seem to be grow. ing in proportion to the decrease of disturb ances in politics, religion and business. Po- litical disturbances are not nearly so danger ous as in the old days, when men quarreled over principles of government rather than over personal interests, as now. Religious disturbances have simmered down to contro- versies over the essentials of religion. Busi- ness is still provocative of much trouble, due to the ambitions of men for financial success, but nowadays disturbances of business are less earth-rocking than in the past
 These courts of domestic relations seem to have been established on the theory that they could patch up differences which, if al- lowed to continue, lead to divorce. Judges of these courts were to instill into quarreling husbands and wives a sacred idea of the sanctity of marriage. They were to keep families united, stimulate bonds of affection, cause children to honor their fathers and mothers, and generally to produce felicity in place of strife. l hope their efforts have borne fruit but am inclined to doubt it.
 Such knowledge of these courts and their methods as l possess tend to convince me that definite conclusions as to the best me- dium of producing domestic happiness have not been reached. Most of the judges seem to be wandering in a wilderness of doubt What. they believe one moment they question the next. Their views are hazy and uncer- tain. The general confusion of these judges was perhaps well expressed by one of them when he asked, "Why are all these people at war with each other and with life?" An swer did not come to him because of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
FAR-REA CHING MOVEMENT TO SUPPRESS THE DRUG EVIL

An important conference is to be. held at Geneva in November to discuss the drug evil, and the program is now being prepared by the international committee which met in Paris last month. Opium offers one prob lem and cocaine another. In the case of the poppy, only control is suggested, but of late there have been proposals of international action to end altogether the production of CO., caine. That it has been immensely useful in medicine is conceded, but it is urged by ad- vocates of the reform that satisfactory sub stitutes, including novocain, can now be found.
 The greater value of cocaine lies in its curious property of producing local insensi- tiveness to pain, which makes 1t helpful in dentistry, and in minor surgical operations which do not require the use of chloroform or ether. If it could be confined to this legit- innate role it would be a helpful servant of