Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-02-20
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Floyd Collins. enlen,bed cav. ex-
pioIeT. As found dead in CRYSTAL
cave last Monday evening. II, hsa
bcen deaa at least = houfs. prshshlx.l
mesa lonEer.
TIE lneadesit attracted weird wide
attention. Many reports wcre eur.
. Ten during hls captivity. ere efI
Nllen expressed the opinion thai the
Nhoie ahalar vas a hoax gotten up
LOT ne purpose Of advertising the
cave. TIE hnding Of Collins lifeless
hoay put an end 10 al sueh rumars.
fhe death Of Collins in this tragic
manner vii, il is expected. prove \
national advertisement for the cave.
and Sill probably result, in further
expectations which vii Be conducted
IN scientific manner. The fnal
opening g the cave Is expected to he
the logical result
4 resolution submitted 10 the
House Of Representatives bv Senator
Edge, y. ], following the death If
President Harding. and which hal
never been acted upon. vas withdrawn
by the senator early this week. The
senator Nas fenorted 10 have de.
clafed thai the president does not need
the relief proposed.
Tire resolution Is said To have In.
cotnorated features that might have
been Objectionable, enc Of which vas
a clause recommending the limiting
Of the presidents term Of office.
Like many similar efforts TO obtain
beneficial legislation the main point
VAS elouded by attaching other points
calculated 10 insure defeat Of the
resolution when presented.
Senator Bofah. Idaho, is already
being plumed as President Coolidge's
opponent IN the Republican convention
Of 1928. II Is a triile early TO start
the publicity, but II Is certain that If
he voters want hre-eater In the
White House they can choose no more
prominent parsonage than the Idaho
senator.
Representative Byfnes, s. e. in
commenting on railroad freight rates
says; The stock OF the Southern
Railway, which operates through the
south sold for about S25 twelve
months ago. and now il is somewhere
in the eighties. The stock Of the
Atlantic Coast Line sold for about
$40, and now ii is from $3.50 to $3.50,
and this is true Of most of the rail.
foads. l do not think they are really
being impoverished and | think it is
time they should give some relief 20
the agrieuturists of the country"
That congressman are seriously de-
batting the problem of finding a
practical way to increase the pay Of
postal employees without taxing the
public by increasing postal rates is
Indicated IN a statement attributed to
Senator Harrison. of Mississippi;
Let us not cripple The parcel posi-
service Of this country. There was a
long and tedious fight before we could
write into the law provisions estab.
fishing the Parcel Post System. II
is working we'll; it is bringing bene.
fits TO those living on the rural routes
and at the small post offices of the
country. II is carrying some relief
10 the consumers OF America through
the elimination of the middleman.l !
let " do nothing by our action here
that will destroy or injure the sys-
tenn
Cardinal Mundelein, Of Chicago, de-
clares that the staoe must either
clean up or be cleaned, according 10 |
reported interview in the Chicago |
Tribune.
The Cardinal intimated that the
morals of the stage had reached sucn |
a critical point that the decent people |
Of America would have 10 interfere. /
His opinion is echoed by many clergy |
men Of the Protestant faith.
Just how the reform will be ap- |
preached has not been made public.
Representative Dallinger, Massa- |
chusetts, evidently agrees with Car
dinal Mundelein when he declares 1
that plays "are so obscene and in
decent in plot and language as to
shock the moral sense of the COM
munity." Such plays, he declares, are
staged in Washington theatres.
Representative Dallinger introduced
a resolution asking the District Of
Columbia commissioners what steps
steps had been taken 10 prevent I'M
proper productions.
Incidentally the capitol city has
been called the wettest spot in the
United States"
Governor Small in an address here
last Monday, stated that gasoline
tax of 2 cents per gallon would yield
a return Of Sl0,000,000. His state
ment was based upon estimates gwen
him.
The Industrial News, Lansing
Mich, has this to say Of the Michigan
gas tax:
michigan farmers wanted a gas
tax. They got il. Nov Lansing
working men, as well as working men
of other cities, are paying II. Iha}
is what everyone in the cities SAID
would happen. But-the gasoline taE
is now a law and the working men oi
Michigan are going TO pay the biggest
share Of IT,"
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