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New Britain herald., 1926-10-06

It was week later before Honey Lou laid eyes on Jack Wallack again. Then he came to her in the office and asked her if she would drive home with him that night.
 will you, Red Heels?" he asked, glancing down at the worn-brown
Evening star., 1926-02-14
Scarcity in Galoshes
Hits Russ Populace

In Soviet Russia this Winter the
galosh crisis has been close to the
pockets of the plain people. Every
body who can afford them-and this
year most Russians can-wears rub
bers. Entrances of hotels, restau-
rants, offices and banks are lined with
pigeonholes where attendants check
the rubbers of visitors. This year the
state rubber factories badly under
calculated the demand. Queues block
long formed in front of the state
stores.
1t was suspected that many of those
in line We're buying for spectators
and at a certain hour one day the
stores announced that only mems rub
bers would be sold for the remainder
of the day. Not a woman dropped
out of line. The state stores charged
S1.75 and private dealers resold for 81
or IS. Only persons having union
cards could buy at the state stores,
but, this proving not to be sufficient
restriction, notes from shop or office
committees, saying that the bearers
needed rubbers, were required. Final
ly rubbers were distributed and sold
direct to workers in the factories as
under military communism.
Evening star., 1926-02-14
ROUGH SPOTS In IMMIGRATION
ACT CAN NOW BE MADE SMOOTH

dropped at once from 10000 year to
1000. The only way that such an
Italian family can come Soon-unieSS
the Observation-Disclosures bill passes
is through acquisition of citizenship by
their pioneering husband and father.
That is a matter of years. and some
times it never happens at all. These
families should be reunited. on our
side of the ocean, and without further
delay. for good moral reasons.
The pioneer who has come since
1924 needs no relief. He knew what
the new quota was when he came. If
he came alone, he took his chances.
And the Wadsworth-Perlma bill does
not help him. We draw the line right
there.
But the poor fellow who came before
1924 was caught in a trap. Whether
he be Russian, Italian, Scotch or Dutch
he wants and needs and should have
his loved ones-over here. There are
not many of them. But their equity
commands, and every one of them
must pass every mental, moral and
physical test of the general law.
Let us hew to the line of limited
and picked immigration, for all time.
But let us salvage this one chip of
unintended injustice-to soldiers and
women and children--by promptly
passing the Observation-Disclosures bill.
Evening star., 1926-02-14
BY j. {. MUNIZ.
Acting Consul General for Brazil.

NV attention has been called to an
article by Mr.. Willis J. Ballinger pub
lished in your paper on January 81,
in which Brazil is severely criticized
with regard to her coffee policies AS
the views set forth in that article
were said to be inspired by DIR. Klein
director of the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce. j must ask you
to rectify some of the statements
therein.
Your interviewer must have mis-
understood what DR.. Klein said. for
it is difficult to believe that such a
well informed man as the director OF
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce would say such things as
these:
Coffee growers must sell TO govern
ment warehouses located in the in
terror. The government aims to pur-
chase as chea ply as possible and sell
ss profitably as 1t can. In Sac Paulo
the railroads are state owned Hence
at the ports like Santos the govern
n1ent brings down from its interior
warehouses only so many bags of
coffee each day as can be sold lucra-
lively. In this way coffee is taken
OF the mark by the government and
stored until it can be sold at a hand
some profit, The money required to
loans.''
The organization of the coffee in
dustry in Brazil is of recent date. 1t
was brought about by the necessity
OF maintaining a fair return to pro-
ducers and stabilizing as much as pos
aible the price, not only for the sake
of the growers but for the benefit of
the consumers. The oscillation in the
price of coffee, due to the irregularity
"a l1@ oh 80
plants on the part of the producers
az well as the consuming markets. SO
the Institute for the Defense Of
Coffee, which was planned as early
as 1922, was finally launched in the
latter part of 1924. It's main purpose
f not to create a monopoly of coffee.
as stated by your writer, but to guar
aptee a fair return to producers. avoid
ing the markets being glutted or de-
pieted at times.
Since its establishment the inSti-
sure has done nothing except control
the shipments of coffee from the in
terror to the ports, aiming to spread
the crop over the year according to
the requirements of consumption.
The institute aims TO do no more than
is being done by the marketing CO.
operatives in this country, assisting
the growers to market their crops
without being eXtOrted by money
lenders. and at the same time looking
after tho welfare of the coffee indus
try
Evening star., 1926-02-14
BIG INDUSTRIAL MERGERS HELD
RESULT OF ECONOMIC EVOLUTION

that are anti-social, and while Big
Business" may at times be lawless and
shOrtSighted, 1t is certain, | believe,
that these effects will only be tempo
rary and sporadic. because the pres
| sure of competition. as well as that
| of self-interest, combined with an en-
| hghtened public opinion, will compel
the development of big business as an
| instrument of public service. Finally,
there is no question but what the pub
| lie can effectively control in its own
| interest any system Of business that
! utiliZeS its power of organization to
the detriment of that interest. The
| political power-the power of taxation
and legislation--lies with the masses
of voters and can be directed, if neces-
Sary, to the control and correction of
abuses.
Whatever the objections, however,
! big business, and mass production and
mass distribution, through which it
works. must inevitably be accepted be-
! cause it meets our economic require
| mentS more efficiently and effectively
| than any other system of production
| and distribution. 1t is far better to
adopt and support a system that can
satisfy our needs, that can assure to
all of us an increasingly adequate sup
ply of the necessities of life, together
| Will d VI iuhuTl0S-6V0I IL
that system is more difficult to control
against misuse-than to continue
under a system which cannot satisfy
our legitimate needs, even If it is
easier to control.
| The result of the consolidation and
merging of business and industry will
be an increasingly higher standard of
living for the masses, through the
maintenance of high wages and
through increasingly lower prices for
the bulk Of the necessities which they
must purchase. Mass consumption is
the concomitant Of mass production
and it is only through the production
of consumers, that is, through big
wages and lower prices, that mass
production can succeed.
| Big business, therefore, which this
represents, should be supported in the
public interest, for 1t means, in the
| last analysis, greater economic free
dom for all of us, the assurance of an
adequate supply of the necessities of
life for everybody, together with a
minimum Of luxuries, and more oppor-
tunity for education and for enjoying
the finer things of life. High real
wages and lower prices upon which
our economic progress and prosperity
| depend can only come finally from
"big business"
Evening star., 1926-02-14
Famed Red ''KilIer''
Really Quite Tame

Nine kollontai, famous Communist
leader, is, according to her friends,
much misjudged woman. During the
hectic years of the Russian revolution
Kollontai was said by her enemies to
have killed batch of aristocrats every
morning before breakfast, as a kind
of 40 minutes daily drill" In 1921
she had a violent quarrel with the
chief Communist leaders. She was too
powerful and popular for them to
shoot, so they kicked her upstairs by
making her minister to Norway.
Six months ago she was reported as
disgraced and recalled. Not bit of
it, She is now back in Oslo, where
she has just effected the passage Of
the important Norwegian Russian
trade agreement. Responsible Nor
wegian state officials assert that kol
lontai is quite different from what
she is pictured. She has been all the
time on the side of moderation and
good government. The tales about her
love of slaughter are rubbish. Even
her worst enemies acknowledge her
high intellectual qualities. She speaks
with ease at least five modern
European languages.
Evening star., 1926-02-14
BY HENRY H. CURRAN,
Comm issioner of immigration. New Yof

When a country. or even a given
part of the world, overturns in three
years custom of 800 years, the revo-
luton is likely to be a little rough in
spots.
The immigration act of 1924 was
Just such an oVerturn. For nearly
three centuries Americas shores had
been open to the immigration of the
world. Then, suddenly and sharply
and very wisely, l thlnk-we capped
our arch of gradual restriction of i'm
migration by placing new and lower
limits upon the numbers of those who
might come, after 1924, from Europe.
Fewer from Europe-that was the heft
of the bill-and, particularly from
Southern and Eastern Europe. Our
door is closed, for good. to those
alien streams that threatened to
swamp us. 1t is high time.
But in closing the door SO quickly
we pinched a few toes and noses here
and there. We had no wish to do that.
We can see now, looking back, that
this was the one rough spot in revo-
luton that was right. We want to
smooth out that rough spot If we can.
The Wadsworth -Perlman bill. which
Senator Wadsworth has introduced in
the Senate and Mr.. Perlman in the
House. remedies the roughneSS.
| hope it may pass. 1t adds only few
to our immigrant stream, but to those
| few we cannot say NO
/ For instance, there are veterans of
; our American Army in the World
/ War, who fought for us in France
/ but who cannot re-enter this land of
their adoption unless the Wadsworth
Perlman bill goes through. / know
| of one soldier who tried, but was de-
| barred and deported under the law.
! He was an Italian. He came to Amer
| lea before the war, joined our colors
when it became our war, went to the
front as an American soldier and was
wounded in our ranks. Then he was
invalided to Italy to visit his old father
and mother. Presently he came again
to America. But here he was shut out
and deported back to Italy. He cannot
understand. And, the more ] think OF
it, neither can l. The Wadsworth-Perl
man bill will let him in, if he be still
alive and tries again.
Then there are wives and children
| and old fathers and mothers of immi
grant men who came here just before
! 1924, pioneering and alone, to pave
! the way for the little families to follow
after. But, just when the job was safe
and the new home ready, the law
stepped in and said NO to the wives
and children and the fathers anC
| mothers; just because the numbers al
lotted to some European countries
were so suddenly and greatly reduced
The quota for Italy, for instance
Evening star., 1926-02-14
BY EDWARD A. FILENE.
Noted Mereha ant and Pnhllclst

The business and industrial mergers
which are taking place are an newt
able and necessary development of our
time, and represent an evolution in
our methods of production and distri-
button which is fundamental to the
material and social progress of this
country.
Business and industry are going
through a period of readjustment and
change as a result of the war and
world conditions since the war. We
are facing q world competition which
will increasingly threaten our domes-
tic prosperity by limiting our ability
to find an outlet for our surplus pro-
duction in foreign markets. In order
to export our surplus and avoid a
situation of uper-competition in our
home market. we must, therefore,
adapt our business and industrial ma
chinery to the most efficient system
of production and distribution-a sys-
tenn which will not only increase pro-
duction and reduce it's costs to the
Ultimate consumer. including the costs
of distribution, but which will main
tain, if not increase, our present high
standards of living.
1t is clear that the most efficient
system is that of mass production and
mass distribution and that the eco
nomic development OF our time IS den-
nitely along that line. This means
Big Business" 1t means "fordizing''
business, that is, the application of
the same methods which Ford has de.
veloped so successfully and which
have enabled him to produce one OF
the most useful products of our pres.
ent civilization at lower cost than
any competing manufacturer In the
world, while at the same time paying
higher wages, and earn for himself
one of the greatest fortunes In history
If we are to succeed and prosper as
a great industrial nation, we must ex.
tend the "Fordizing" process, as far
as practicable, to all other branches OF
business and industry. We must ex
tend it especially to the production
and distribution of the material neces
sites of Hfe-to food, clothing and
shelter.
Objection will be made that mass
production and mass distribution, and
the merging of properties which
makes these possible. will result In
monopolies and, therefore, abuses
such as. the forcing of higher prices
and the forcing of lower wages. Such
objections are based on a mlsconcep'
ton of the true nature OF mass pro.
| duction and mass distribution-an OF
the underlying forces Of the modern
business-industrial system. Wnlie
! the concentration of economic power
may give rise to abuses ana 70 ponclss
Evening star., 1926-02-14
Brazilian Consul Refutes
Claim of Coffee Monopoly

The need of such an organization is
empha sized when one considers the
importance of the coffee industry. In
Sac Paulo alone there are about co.
900 coffee plantations, representing an
aggregate capital investment figured
at upward of s500.000.000. The idea
of the institute represents notable
progress in the Brazilian economic
system. for it will make unnecessary
the valoriZation operations such as
were resorted to in the past.
The semi-official character of the in
stitute is due to conditions which are
peculiar to a new country such as Bra
Zil, which has not yet reached the devel-
opment of the United States, where the
industries are organized by themselves
without direct assistance of the Gov
ernment. In Brazil a great industry
like the growing of coffee was left to
its own fate in the past, and only ex-
tended protection by the government
when conditions were extremely pre-
carious and the industry was threat
ened with complete collapse. Cotton,
sugar, fruit, tobacco, wool and many
other agricultural groups in the United
States are fully organized and have
been able to maintain A remunerative
price to their producers. This is what
the institute is seeking TO do in Brazil.
The present high price of coffee
shows only the response of price to
the law of supply and demand. Coffee
production in latter years has been be-
low the requirements of consumption.
The cost of producing coffee is also
much higher than it was before the
war The coffee plantations in Sac
Paulo have experienced great difficult
ties in securing labor, and only by
paying very high wages have the
growers been able to take care of
their plantations.
The institute is not buying coffee
and storing it, as is stated by your
writer. The regulatory warehouses
were created for the purpose Of con
trolling the amount of coffee shipped
to the ports. and also to enable the
growers to obtain credit from the
banks on the basis of the warehouse
receipts arising from the coffee stored
To speak of monopoly of coffee by
Brazil is to ignore the facts. The po
tentialities for competition in the cof
fee production are so great that they
more than Offset any possible tendency
of Brazil to create an abusive monop
oily of coffee.
The railroads of Sac Paulo, with the
exception of one system. the Soroca
bana, are all privately owned. Coffee
is shipped to the port of Santos by the
Sac Paulo Railway Co., a British
owned railway The financial aid that
the institute sought in this country
and finally obtained in London, will be
applied in financing the coffee grow
srs at rea6Qnahla terms.
Evening star., 1926-02-14

T HE primary season is about to open.
With ii comes tie open season for
Senators. members of the House. gov
l ernors of States and other State Off
Evening star., 1926-02-14

Thirty thousand dollars year Is
the income of the Duke of York, Sec
ond son Of King George and heir pre-
sumptive to the British throne.
Evening star., 1926-02-14

~ CR constant labor turnover
is one OF the greatest wastes
i in the American GoVe;nmenl.
~ Not only from good business
administration motives hui
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-27

Flying too high is an offense in the army, the
department has disclosed in announcing that the
verdict of dismissal by court martial in the case
of Captain William NJ. Randolph of the air corps
committed to reprmand by President Cool
idge. From the evidence brought cut at the court
martial it appears that Captain Randolph was fly
ing much higher than was necessary under the cx-
listing air conditions, something that is forbidden by
the army regulations.
The penalty may have seemed quite harsh and
does harsh to the civilian. To the military
man, however. it was not too harsh since it would
object lesson to discourage further in
subcrdinaton.
And in the matter Of flying too high the army is
perfectly right. Each hundred feet a plane flies
higher than is absolutely necessary, increases the
chance of accident. Each plane that crashes costs
the government money and each plane that crashes
costs the army lives Pilots are trained at stu
pendous cost each and thus the total loss to- the
army every time plane meets with accident is
indeed great. High flying and stunt flying should
be discouraged except where they part Of pre-
scribcd course Of training.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-27
Good News For Dairy Farmers
(St Paul Oisnatchl

Senator Lenroot returns to Washington and on
Monday gives out the tidings that the Tabor bill.
which passed the house at the last session, will be-
come law at the coming short session.. The Tabor
bill requires that milk and cream imported from
Canada shall submit to the same test for purity and
sanitation that the milk and cream produced by
American farmers is now required to undergo Il
demands no more Of the foreigner than II does Of
the American who. when the cream he produced
failed TO meet requirements. saw II rejected a. u-
tit Tor human consumption. to his own heavy loss
The east however, has regarded the measure more
- one OF protection to the dairy industry, and pre-
tending to fear an Increase Of price IN milk and
cream, has opposed it on humAnitarian gounds. Why
deprive the poor and their children Of this neces
sity they ask, ignoring the fact that those Who Inn
bbe impure or insanitary milk invite disease con-
dillon worse than that which would ensue 4 thew
could not buy milk and cream.
Ihs dairy industry Of 1Girmssola vim fspas6aaent
un. Ind ne infant dairyins industry Of tie Dskots,
q Incentive Y ~ market now opsu to impur. 81.
Derfs6 I'M = spsnsd - den.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-27
The Status Of Education

Public education in the United States is a local
and net federal function and should remain So
Despite the constant drift toward federal bureau
cracy in this matter the people Of the nation as a
whole will not favor such move. They insist that
the responsibility for the maintenance and opera
ton Of school systems lies with the state. county
township and municipal governments and they arc
right in that attitude.
The federal government is not insensible to this
feeling and Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work
recently revealed this when he stated that while the
United States Bureau of Education does undertake
the promotion of education throughout the country
it's mission is net to operate the public school sys
tens, but merely to a clearing house for
the dissemination of educational information.
If this course be followed sincerely all will be well
and the people will greatly appreciate the work that
the bureau will be able to accomplish in the CO.
ordination Of the educational facilities and methods
Of the ertre country. AS clearing house the
bureau will fill an important position in our educa
tional scheme, but if it is to undertake its chosen
work with the idea Of some day actually directing
the educational destnies of the nation. then let it
beware.
The governments education bureau maintains a
staff of specialists who survey all fields of educa-
tton and request investigate municipal, county
and state systems, making recommendations for
courses of study and revision of systems. 1t also
collects and publishes statistics regarding every
feature of education in the United States Thus il
can easily be seen that it is within the power of
the bureau to he invaluable to the duly constituted
educational authorities in the various sections in
purely advisory capacity. We only must watch tina,
the scope of this bureau does not gradually en-.
csbach more and more upon the power and discre.
ton Of our local authorities.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-27
Kipling. Man of Sorrow

= Rudyard Kipling recently gave to the public an.
other book Of stories and poems Debts and Cred
it'll" Much has been said and printed about barbed
shsfts in this volume which the author evidently in
tended for America.
These shafts concern the world war, and the part
in it which America played. That, and the Ameri-
can attitude in some Of the wars aftermaths
"Damnstion to All Neutrals" is the title over one
story IN the book-a story about villain, obviously
American, trying to sell oil to the central powers II,
the year 1918.
Il u strange, in way. Kipling's first novel first
saw, the light Of day in IN American magazine To
tie sale Of biz writings. American favor gave
m1ryelous impetus.
in his fortune there are many American dollars
H. lived happily In America for time, and mar.
risd Caroline Starr Balestier Of Vermont. Once ~
- lay grievously IL in IN American hotel, rrsyer
meetngs for biz rscevsty held al over ~ land
Whist, then = tie cause of tie ill-1ssline he
seams = hafbor toward u.s. this English near-hsr-
- y - giftsd psni
1; aSe9sr peshasS = Sesa1 = ~ history Of lie
- ~ IL Irish guards II ~ vorh usr.
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-27

1t was dawn when Myra lay sleep
ing quietly enough to be left alone
Judith turned out the electric lights.
In another hour, the Stedway house
hold would be astir. Already, spar
rows were twitteriQe in the trees
near the window pnne.
Judith drew the blankets high
about her patients throat, and
opened. the window wide for a few
minutes. The fresh dawn breeze
swept through the room, and il
seemed to her that Myra' breathed
more softly.
/ When she had lowered the sash
halfway and drawn the blind, she
tiptoed out. A door across the hall
stood ajar. After moment, the
face Of the elder Miss Reasey ap-
pearcd in the crack. Anything
wrong? ! heard you moving about"
Miss Alrich has been sick" Ju-
dith explained. But she's sleeping
now and | hope nobody will disturb
her."
In her own room. she made a
Don't Disturb" placard and, going
i;sto the hall again, hung it on.
Myra's door.
There was just time for a half hour
nap before she must dress for the
days work.
It was small voice that called to
Judith as she YEARLY climbed the
stairs late that afternoon. She went
into Myra's room, and found the girl
sitting up against the pillows. her
face like mask Of tragedy.
i've been waiting for you for
hours" she said TREMENDOUSLY. why
/ didn't yOt come
Judith smiled. Il had to meet my
classes. ! couldn't come any soon
or. How do you feel?"
Myra covered her face and began
to cry Historically. Il wish l were
dead" she s0bbed. over and over.
Judith sat down beside her.
: Hush" she said. You don't want
the others to know there's anything
wrong. told them YOU had a sick
headache. Did anybody come in dur
ing the day.
Myra shook her head. II don't
rare who comes in. l tell you moth
ing matters from now on"