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THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ELECTION RETURNS It is too early for either side to “gloat” or, to feel depressed over the election returns. Frazier’s nomination seems assured, but it is going to take an official count to determine definitely his ma- jority. As belated returns come in, it would ap- pear that his lead would be cut down under 5,000. Hagen and Lemke are running in some in- stances neck and neck with Frazier’s vote, espe- cially Hagen who' seems to have been the most popular candidate on the league ticket. His vote in many instances is greater than Frazier’s. It is just as well to suspend judgment on the election until all the returns are in. The league if it has won at all has won only a partial victory. Those opposed to Townleyism have put much solid ground under their feet to continue the fight for principles and for the protection of the best traditions of representative government. In the first place, the league majorities of four and two years ago have been badly punctured which should serve notice upon the Townley henchmen. The Anti-Townley Republicans have probably nominated Thomas Hall and have a very good chance of naming some others on the Victory Ticket because in many instances candidates for positions under that of} governor are running ahead of Langer in both league and anti-league counties. Minnie Neilson and Justice Christianson are running far ahead of Langer in every county. Of course the real fight .on these candidates will come at the fall election as both names will ap- pear on the ballot again. ‘ From compilations received from the 31 coun- ties carried by Langer, it seems possible that the ‘Anti-Townley Republicans will control the House. In any event Townley’s rule in the legislature and over the purse strings of the state is rudely shat- tered. Burtness has replaced Baer and Congressman Young is victorious. Norton has a fighting chance. . There is still much to be thankful for from an Anti-Townley Republican standpoint. William Langer put up an excellent fight. ‘The opposi- tion was centered upon him and Gallagher, cand- idate for attorney general, and White, aspirant for commissioner of agriculture. The governor, attorney general and commis- ‘sioner of agriculture control the industrial com- mission which has the league program intrusted to it by law. Townley put forth a special effort to save these offices. In the case of Hagen, it is possible that the league boss has been successful. As regards the attorney generalship an official count will be necessary. FIGHT FOR THEM! Take time, right now, neighbor, to get these} Fourth of July facts straight and vivid. It’s YOUR day, dedicated to YOUR. liberties. Fight for those liberties—your personal; individ- ual liberties—any day, any minute, at the drop of the hat—when anybody, high or low, ‘steps on them. That goes whether you are a new American, with your second papers just issued, or the great- grandson of a Pilgrim who kicked the first moss off Plymouth Rock. Your “inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” was flung defiantly in the Teutonic face of an autocratic old profiteer just 144 years ago today. Brave men flung it. Brave men are needed today. There are other auto- cratic profiteers now, more cunning and more tricky than frumpy, frowsy George the Third. Watch them, and swat them. But that wonderful declaration, wasn’t enough. So the Fathers, wrote another piece, to make it plain and solid—the Constitution. They said, “We, the PEOPLE * * * inorderto * * * secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution.” The ink was not dry on it before some high and mighty people began to quibble and superior peo- ple began to walk all over the rights of others. So, to make it dead sure, the Fathers quickly adopted amendments. They wrote it bold and straight that our government must never abridge free speech, free press, free assembly; that no policeman or deputy sheriff should ever search your home or drag you from it without due pro- cess of law; that no judge, proud or petty, should ever sentence you to prison without a fair, public trial. The Fathers won THEIR liberty by fighting for it, against big odds. You will have to fight, also, to keep YOUR. liberties*Eternal vigilance is the price. “And it’s wt : Seine snoereme nabassieimninmanee aiigge 1) oso Neen eee ee Whenever the lawful rights of any American/TF LIBERTY BELL COULD TALK WHAT: STORIES SHE WOULD TELL US citizen are violated, YOUR liberties are imper- illed. You are apt to forget this, sometimes, when you think a man deserves just what he gets, when you are absolutely out of sympathy with the vic- tim. If an autocrat tramples today on the lawful rights of a friendless man or woman, and gets away with it—look out for yourself tomorrow! And, most of all, remember that the Stars and Stripes is YOUR flag. The man who grabs it from you, or who wraps it about himself, dese- crates it. There’s red in it, too—the good red blood of strong men who died to hoist it and to keep it afloat. Be ready, like them, to fight for for it, then, if you are red-blooded—and to fight for all it symbolizes of “life, liberty and the pur- suit of happiness.” OUR VOWS OF FAITH By FRANKLIN D’OLIER National Commander, The American Legion Two years ago, this day, our armies stood on the Marne. Success hesitated in the balance. Americans at home knew only that their soldiers faced overwhelming odds. Americans in the field knew only the sleepless nights and harried days. But, through it all, there was confidence—justi- fied a fortnight later to the day when Americans went forward at Soissons, and the advance con- tinued until the capitulation of the enemy was achieved. 3 Olive drab and navy blue-are laid away, but in the hearts of those who served reside still the ideals and high purposes, the spirit of indefatig- able, that saw them through the anxious days of 1918, That spirit—love of country; that spirit—de- votion to the flag; that spirit—faith in the fund- amental justice of the basic institutions of our government, has preserved our nation through the years. It will carry on to solve the difficul- ties that perplex, the dangers that threaten. Such days as this we renew our vows of faith in the Republic. The American Legion pledges _ its strength that this faith may be fulfilled. THE PRICE The national debts of the world now approxi- mate $265,000,000,000, against $44,000,000,000 at the beginning of the great European war. The interest charges on this grand total of debt now exceed $9,000,000,000 a year, as against about $1,750,000,000 in the year before the war. * The debt per person per year for the aggregate populations of the countries for which figures are available, is now about $150, against $27 in 1913. The annual interest charges per person per year is about $6.00 against $1 per person in 1913. In the year 1700 the debts of all countries ag- gregated only about $1,000,000,000, at the begin- ning of the Napoleonic wars:in 1798, the aggre- gate’ world indebtedness was around $2,500,000,- 000; and at its close in 1816 about $7,000,000,000. At the beginning of the European war the na- tional debts stood at approximately $44,000,000,- 000. a Could the world stand another world war as costly as the last? Is not the price of war too terrible ever to allow another one to come upon the world? Cannot the human race devise some means to prevent another catastrophe so terri- ble? Its cost in dollars can be reckoned, and it is an enormous burden; its other costs can never be reckoned. SAVE $740,000,000 United States railroads own 2,500,000 freight cars. Few new ones were built during the war. Be- fore that, average construction was 150,000 a year, 100,000 to replace worn-out equipment and 50,000 to carry expanding commerce. Rail executives. say they must have 100,000 new cars. They really need at least twice that many, ‘costing '$740,000,000. Freight cars .travel,.on the average, 25 miles a day. In congested times, like now, it’s only 20 miles. Speed them all one mile a day and it re- leases 100,000 cars. Freight cars carry only 70 per cent loads. Raise that to 75 per cent and realese 120,000 more cars. Freight cars stand idle, waiting to be loaded or unloaded, more than eight hours every day. Cut that waste time to seven hours and release 140,000 more cars. i Total in added, available equipment, 360,000 cars—nearly twice the number needed—without a penny cost. 4 Shippers and rail employes, working together, can do this, and save $740,000,000. More impor- tant, they thus can save the labor and materials this money represents—vitally needed right now in 99 other ways. Now when a candidate says he is liberal, one can’t tell whether he is referring to his views or his purse. There is still a lot of room for improvement in a world where people will trade Liberty bonds for oil well stock. Where in the world do the manufacturers find all these perfect women they show in the corset advertisements? When a man says he is burning with a desire to save the country, he means that he is tired of working for a living. Palmer will do.fully as well at the business of | forgetting’a nomination ase haa at the business of reducing prices. .ing, the fire which made America. « Liberty Bell as she looks today | As It is Interviewer Must De- pend Upon His Imagination, But He'Gathers Inspiration from This Old Monument of American Patriotism ‘BY JAMES HENLE, N. E. A, Staff Correspondent. Philadelphia, July 3.—1! have just had an exclusive int lew with the Liberty Bell. It has been some time since she ‘talked for publication. The last. previous occasion was in 1885 at the funeral of Chief Justice John Marshall. This morning oaly the eventful Independence Day persuaded her to break her long silence. Like many good women, however, the Bell has talked enough in he time and has suffered for it, as any photograph: of her. show: It must be trying to be on exhibition all the time, I ventured. “Tvery day is a month of Sundays, and besides; this is Philadelphia,” the Bell explained. “The minutes go by so slowly you can count them like flivvers on a country road, They used to have ‘me in a-case, but so many people: from Painted Post and Kan- kakee: wanted to be able to say they had touched, me, .that the attendants were..kepti;busy epening and: closing the door-of, my cage. Now anybody can touch me. The other day a.rath- er good-looking young person from (Wyoming kissed. me.- That wasn’t half. bad.” “Let’s get back to the country’s welfare,” I ‘said hurriedly. ‘,Do you think our public men are as big as those: you remember?” “Their heads are biger,’ replied the Bell. “Don’t kid me,” I protested. “Well, if you must know, the boys who are running the country today aren't a bad lot, They are good “But don’t you think we are mak- ing progress very rapidly. these days?” I insisted. “Look at the airplane and Babe Ruth. Think how handy his bat would have come in during the Revolutionary War.” “Somehow or other we managed to get along without him,” said the Bell modestly. “Tm sure I don't know: how we did.” “You weren't as up-to-date,” I re- joined. “You didn’t have movies or anything.” 3 “We got along without them and without press agents ,too,” asserted the Bell. “In my time—I mean when I was young--a public official went about his work, and if he did any thing good, the people found it out in die time and remembered it. Some of the men in office today waste most of their energy in telling what they are going to do. They. are all) tired out: by the time they get down to; work. ui “f don’t follow you there,” I said. “A good guy) needs a good press agent. Look» at (Mitchell Palmer. Where would he be without his?” “Where, indeed?” asked: the bell. “Besides, didn’t I hear something about the way the Department of Justice treated aliens?” -“Shucks,” I said. “They. .weren't even citizens.” “Would you mind looking at my inscription?” said the Bell. 1 walked about the Bell and read: “Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land unto all the inhabitants thereol —tLev. xxv. 10.” “Doesn't say anything about citizens there, does it?’ demanded the Bell. “Well, you’ve got to admit there are'some big men today and right here in Philadelphia, too,” I return- ed. “What about ‘Penrose?” “Don't make me laugh,’ ‘said the Bell, ‘my lip’s cracked.” enough in their way, but they aren't | satisfied with just being themselves They always want you-to think they are someone else —{Washington or Lincoln or someone like that.” ween PAINTING SYMBOLIC OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISM GREW FROM CARTOON Artist Portrays Patriotism Which Overcomes Dif- ficulties Cleveland, July 3—‘Fourth of July Musicians!” That was the title of a comic paint- ing, a cartoon. “The Spirit of ’76.” That is the title of a nationally be- loved pai g, embodying the thrill and essence of American patroitism. In these two pictures are the same faces, the same figures, the same ac- tion—painted by the same artist. But in one he caught the spirit of homely humor in a country Fourth of. July band; in his second and greater paint- When Archibald M. Willard, Cleve- land artist whose death occurred in 1918, first deserted hie original pro- fession of carriage painting, he won fame with a series of comic paintings. He first chose subjects which would appeal to children. “Pluck,” his first famous picture, was reproduced by the literal thousands, and is familiar to every man and woman who is old enough to remember a childhood of thirty or more years ago.. It showed a trio of chubby children on a perilous dog-cart ride, with thé dog forgetting his charges ‘in a mad rabbit chase. For Exposition in 1876 Then followed such comic pictures as “Deacon Jones’ Experience,” which was named to Bret Harte; and more serious work, such as the portrayal of “Jim Bludsoe,” leading character in John Hay’s poem of that name. 4 When the time for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia drew near, it was suggested to Willard that he paint a picture appropriate to the time. From this suggestion resulted the comic “!ourth of July Musicians.” A well-known local character, Hugh Mosher, served as model for the fifer; the artist's own father, a retired min- ister, posed for the old drummer, the ctnral figure; and Harry K. Devercux, son of General J. H. Devereux of Civil War fame, then a student in a military academy, posed for the boy drummer. Grip of Patriotism But the true spirit behind the hum. orous sketch gripped Willard, and one day he threw it aside and began anew. This time he painted “The Spirit of 76,” first named by him “Yankee Doodle”—the picture in which tho ac- tion portrayed has become symbolic | of the very spirit of patriotism which led the Revolutionary Fathers to vic- tory. “ The conception was the three musi- cians marching on undismayed, after the troops behind them had been driven back. In the background ap- pears the flag untouched, and the first of the soldiers turning to follow the fife and drum,’ rallied by their fear- lessness. Almost under the feet of the fifer lies a wounded soldier, feeb- ly waving his cap at the sound of martial music. “The Spirit of ’76” was the center of art interest at the Centennial Exposi- tion, and was later bought by Gen. Devereux, who presented it to his home town, Marblehead, Massachu- setts. It still hangs there in Abbott Hall. One of the last bits of work Willard did was to copy the original painting, at the request of the’ city of Cleveland. This copy stands on an easel in the rotunda of the City Hall. The. artist painted it in 1912, at the age of 76. IT DEPENDS ON THE MAN BY ROGER BABSON. Four years at a university does not make an educated man or woman any more than a full get of tools makes a carpenter. In either case it depends upon the man not. on the machinery. I:know a chap with a string of de- grees as long as your arm, yet I do not soneider -him educated. T knew another, one of the most successful men of my acquaintance, who has been only to the grammar school, yet he can do a better job with his grammar school tools than most of the so-called “educated” fel- lows can do with their whole machine shop. You sce it isn’t’ the tools you have, it’s the way. you use them that counts. We are educated only as we learn to solve problems. “ Schools. simply furnish the raw material to work on and a workshop to work in 2 3 If you have felt that you are handi- capped by Jack of “higher education.” stop it straight off. 3 With public schools, Y. M. C. A.’s and correspondence schools, we have workshops galore. Tools are cheap, and if you want to learn, nothing can stop you. M lf you have to work daytimes and study nights, you have. an advantage because you can do some practical problems during the day. The government printing office at Washington handles about 80,000 dif- ferent jobs, using up about p2000,000 worth of paper. ¥ br09 —— at a * The United States has had’14 white House brides. DEMOCRATIC PEATEORM REFLECTS ATTITUDE OF PRESIDENT: WILSON 1 | hibition director. | San Francisco, July 3.—The Demo- cratic platform, adopted after an open fight on the convention floor, in which William J. Bryan’s prohibition plank and J. R. Nugent’s wet plank were thrown out,| along with Bryan’s other. planks, represents the mind of Presi- dent Wilson. The President's atti- tude is plainly reflected on all major | planks. The league of nations plank. as completed by the committee, and adopted, follows: League of Nations: The Democratic party favors the League of Nations as the surest, if not the only practica- ble means of maintaining the perma- nent peace of the world and termin- ating the insufferable burden of great military: and naval establishments. It was for this that America broke away from traditional isolations and spent her blood and treasure to crush a colossal scheme of conquest. It was upon this basis that the President of the United States, in prearrangement with our allies, consented to a sus- pension of hostilities against the im- perial German government; the arm- istice was granted and a’ treaty of peace negotiated upon the definite as- surance to Germany as well as to the power pitted against Germany, that “a 3eneral association must be formed, under specific covenants, for the pur- pose of ‘affording mutual guarantees of political independence and _terri- torial integrity to great and small states alike.” | Hence, we not only congratulate the President on the vis- ion manifested and the vigor exhibited in the prosecution of the war, but we felicitate him and his ‘association on the exceptional achievements at Paris involved in the adoption of a League and treaty so near akin to previously, expressed American ideals and so in- timately related to the aspirations of civilized peoples everywhere. Commend President We commend the President for his, courage and hisy high conception of good faith in steadfastly standing for the covenant agreed to by all the as- sociated and allied nations at war with Germany, and we condemn the Republican senate for its refusal to ratify the treaty merely because it was the product of Democratic states- manship, thus interposing partisan envy and. personal hatred in the way of the peace and renewed prosperits of the world. By every accepted standard of in- ternational morality the President is justified in asserting that the honor of the country is involved in this business; and we point to the accus- ing fact that, before it was deter- mined to initiate political antagonism to the treaty, the now republican! chairman of the senate foreign rela- tions committee: himself; publicly pro- claimed ‘that. .any.° proposition for. a separate peace with Germany, such as he and-his party. associates there- after reported to. the. ‘senate, would by the republican senate; and this convention can contrive no more fit- ting Characterization of its collony than that made in the Forum maga- zine of December, 1918, by Harry Ca- bot Lodge, when he said: “If we send our armies and young men abroad to be killed and wounded in northern France and Flanders with no result but this, our entrance into war with such an intention was a crime which nothing can justify. Intent of Congress “The intent of congress and the in- tent of the President was that there could be no peace until we could cre- ate a situation where no such was as this world recur. We cannot make peace except in company with our al- lies. It would brand us with ever- lasting dishonor and bring ruin to us also if we undertook to make a separ- ate peace.” . Thus to that which Mr.- Lodge in saner moments, considered ‘the black- est crime” he and his party in mad- ness sought to give the sancity of law; that which eighteen months ago was of “everlasting dishonor.” the repub- lican party and its candidates today accept as the essence of faith. We endorse the President’s view of our international obligations and his firm stand against. reservations de- signed to cut to pieces the vital pro- visions of the Versailles treaty and we commend the Democrats in con- gress for voting against resolutions for separate peace which would dis- grace the nation. We advocate the immediate ratification of the treaty without reservations which would impair its essential integrity; but do not oppose the acceptance of any res- ervations making clearer or more specific the obligation of the United States to the league of nations. Only by doing this may we retrieve the reputation of this nation among the powers of the earth and recover the moral leadership which President Wil- son won and which republican politi- cians at Washington sacrificed. Only hy doing this may we hope to aid ef- fectively in the restoration of order throughout the world and to take the place which we should assume in the front rariks of Spiritual, commercial and industrial advancement. Reject G. O. P. Assumption We reject as utterly vain, if not vicious, the republican, assumption that ratification of the treaty and membership in the League of Nations would in any wise impair the integ- rity or independence of our country. The fact that the covenant has been entered into by twenty-nine nations all as jealous of their independence as we are of ours, is a sufficient refu- tation of such charges. repeatedly has declared, and this con- vention reaffirms, that all our duties and obligations of the United States to the Jeague, associates must be ful- filled in’’strict“conformity with the constitution of the ‘United States, em- make us | “guilty, of the: blackest | bodied: in ‘which is ‘the “fundamental crime.” ;| requirements of declaratory action by On May 15 tast ‘the Knox-substitute| the congress. before this; nation may for the Versailles treaty was passed | become a participant in any war. or SATURDA +. July 3, 1920. This letter should commence with a_ big - Democratic rooster well disposed to:crow long and loud over the achievements of. our Supreme Court. It is not idle boast to say that our court is now right up with its work and that no motion or appeal remains undecided. Nothing is left undone. New, progressive court rules, formulated by . Justice Bronson, have been adopted. To se- cure justice without denial or delay, there will be regular terms of court commencing on the first Tuesday in each month, excepting July and Aug: ust, which are vacation months, when there is no pending court business. Now when a party appeals to the Supreme Court, he must, within fif- teen days, make, serve and filed a printed or typewritten and. transmit the same with the appeal record. to the clerk of thfs court. Then, within fifteen days the respondent must ‘serve and file his brief. Ten days be- fore the commencement of any court term the clerk makes a monthly court calendar on which he puts for hearing and prompt decision each appeal then on file in his office. The system gives hope and promise of fair justice with- out denial or delay. Under the former system judicial courtesy was carried to teh limit of absurdity. It was not in good form for one judge to write and submit a tentative decision in a case not as- Y EVENING By Justice J. E. Robinson t signed to him by the Chief Justice, nor to press any case to a final de- cision until each judge consented. 2 LETTER. 3 oe But now. under a splendid rule, form- ulated by Justice Grace; tach judge writes and: submits an. opinion in every fifth case, which falls to him automatically. ‘Twice a week the judges meet in conference and when a majority sign ‘a decision it is filed with the clerk so that within ten days the judges not signing may concur or dissent or call a conference; but within the time limit of ten days the dissenting judges, if any, must “fish or cut bait.” That is good business. After argument and discussion by the lawyers and the judges the soon a case is decided the greater is the chance of a correct decision. Under our present system, when a case is called for argument the judges no longer sit mute and look wise or let the lawyers do all the talking or Preach a kind of Sunday sermon. One or more of the judges read the record and look into the case in advance so he may be able to direct the argument to material points of law or fact. And the result is’ often ‘a general discus- sion or conference between the judges and the counsél, and a thorough un: derstanding of the caes. Now I. am off on vacation. The election is over and all is well that ends well. Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. But the State Board or Equalization must never again mark up the assess- ed valuation of property. That is ruinous. We must learn to undo and cut down the taxes. JAMES E. ROBINSON. BY EDWARD M. THIERRY. Chicago July 3—Pennsylvania and New Jersey are the wettest states in the union, according to John F, Kram- head of the prohibition enforcement | division at Washington. But Chicago steps /forts as the wettest city. Prohibition’s first birthday found the Windy City drinking an enormous quantity of prescription whiskey and bootleg booze, according to R. W. Stone, acting Illinois director of pro- hibition. While the city is technically dry, its wetness may be vésualized by these facts: Three months’ supply of liquor pre- scriptions used up during first three weeks of June. Half a million pints of whiskey— $1,500,000 worth at $3 a pint, and costing $2,500,000, counting the aver- age physician’s fee of $2—were con- sumed in those three weeks. Spurious prescriptions, aggregat- ing 300,000, were written in the first five months of 1920, according to Captain Hubert Howard, state pro- Certain drug stores regularly buy quantities of prescriptions in bulk from certain doctors and sell whis- key to those “in the know” for $7.50 5 = int. Nearly 200 booze robberies occur- red in four months, involving 200,000 quarts of whiskey, the retail bootleg price of which aggregates $3,000,000. * CHICAGO WETTEST CITY, FINDS INVESTIGATOR OF LIQUOR SALES This: doesn’t include wholesale rob- beries. A few Chicago saloons are selling real beer. Convention visitors found that out. Many, including some ca- baret places, are selling whiskey, cock tails and wine. In saloons the aver- age price is 75 cents for a small drink; in cabarets, $1. Some bars sell it openly in ordinary whiskey glasses and no attempt is made to have the patron drink hurriedly to get the glasses off the bar. The 200 thefts of booze from retail stores and private cellars, mainly drug stores, involved 16,327 cases. Curi- ously, the value placed on it by own- ers totaled only $155,631—or about $1.25 a quart. In reality, wholesale bootleggers actually quote prices per 1000 cases at $9 a quart, and the lone quart usually costs at least $15. Prescription fakes, totaling 300,000 in less than five months, were point- ed out by Captain Howard when he put his new ruling into effect a month ago—that only 100 — prescription blanks, each good-for a pint, be is- sued to each physician with a permit every three months. The United States senate, accoril- ing to word from Washington, has just purchased a Hudson Super-Six making it the first official car of the senate. It will stand outside of tho senate chamber during the day when that body is in session, and will be used by Senators going about the city on official business. The President: wy a 3 | bad a ; 4 } at ed 4 i ‘ { bet 4 { ‘ f |