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Reconciling means seeing both sides of a thing and the average American is struggling for justice and broadmindedness, Official United States has frequently in the recent past actively opposed revolution and usurpation of authority in bordering or distant countries, and yet without revolution there would be no United States today. Our department of state has reasonable excuses for its attitude, but it is interesting to note the reaction of that attitude upon the people of one of the world’s nations of a revolution, The American revolution and dec} ion of independence were conceived for the pro- tection and emancipation of the American colonists, who were the ancestors of the American citizens being protected today from external governmental turmoil and uprising. The perspective means everything. The motorist and the pedestrian of our congested thoroughfares must reconcile themselves to the rights and privileges of each other. Nothing toward relief can be accomplished unless each class views the situ- ation both from inside the car and from the sidewalk. America was once the land of hope and the mecca of the oppressed and impoverished of Europe and Asia. There were no restrictions against immigration. The United States became the land of the free, free to all who were free to come. Today thousands in search of freedom and a decent living are being turned back from Ellis Island, undit for American citizenship. The people who heve come from beyond to settle in the New World must be protected from those who come after them. It is right and proper that our government should grant us this protection from foreign infection, physical and mental, and still many Americans are deeply grieved that the opportunity enjoyed by them tmuct be denied to other human beings. egislation is a relative matter and a process of neiling. Tradition and ideals are as paper against march of time and legislation. FORTUNES “Shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations” focs an old saying. It implies that fortunes accumu- lated by one gengration usually are dissipated by the third generation. This is not true of American for- tunes. Whatever the ability of Americans to run their gov- ernment economically and to save money there is one thing in their financial life that is undeniable—their propensity for holding on to the almighty dollar once it is within their reach. All the outstanding great fortunes amassed by Amer- fcans have been increased by their heirs, with one exception, that of the Gould millions, and in this case it was the fact that the heirs were so bent on getting all that was coming to them that the fortune soon diminished through legal fights. The second, third and fourth generations of heirs have built up and added to most of America’s big fortunes. John Jacob Astor left $20,000,000 at his death in 1848. The Astor fortune now exceeds $150,- 000,000. Vincent Astor alone is worth $100,000,000. When Meyer Guggenheim died in 1905 he left an estate valued at $50,000,000, His heirs are reputed to be worth ten times that much today, The Du Pont estate has prospered even more under the guidance of the third generation. The Vanderbilt fortune continues to grow in spite of the financial setbacks of one of the younger members of the family. All of the older Standard Oil company fortunes are “bigger and better” than ever. This seems to refute rather completely the popular belief that rich men’s sons and grandsons know more about spending money than about making it. TWO YEARS FOR TAKING A LIFE How strict should sentences for gross violations of the traffic law be? A Kansas City motorist got drunk and indulged in a mad joyride across town. In this tide he hit two automobiles in succession, ran over and killed a 76-year-old pedestrian, drove away with- ut stopping and crashed into still another car. He was caught, brought to trial on a charge of man- slaughter. He pleaded guilty; the judge sentenced him to two years in prison, The man’s attorneys contended that was a severe sentence. The prosecutor said he thought it was about} right. A Kansas City newspaper cries that it was too light. +4 agencies, try to make it impossible for those out of = - client the assurance that the entire national banking system is, in a way, back of the trust that has been created. The plan makes for the safeguarding and increase of fortunes, Further evidence of the growing prosperity and wealth of the American people is seen in the large number of trusts and estates settled by trust companies. PARASITES Most of the states, through control of employment work to be imposed upon. Especially is immigrant labor protected from unscrupulous exploitation. In spite of governmental watchfulness, it is asserted that the “padrone” system again has entered the employ- | ment field in some parts of the United States. The “padrone” became particularly prosperous dur- ing the great railroad building era. He was generally a foreigner, and he acted as banker for cheap labor which subsequently he exploited. He would gather together a group of ignorant peasants, promise them good jobs in the States, ship them to an agent, and arrange to collect their wages. After he had deducted for their passage and such other expenses as he could trump up, there was very little left for the laborer. This corrupt and heartless system was stamped out some years ago, and will not be tolerated today by the American people. Where it is gaining a new foot- hold, if it is, government agents will sense its presence and check further development. Americanization workers can perform no more valuable service to im- migrant labor than by protecting it from this sort of exploitation. It is worthy of note that Americans are not the exploiters. The “‘padrone” invariably is a country- man of the men and women he r But both ex- ploiter and exploited, returning to the Old Country, blame the American system. FOUR MILLION CAPITALISTS Joseph S. McCoy, United States treasury actuary, estimates at 4,000,000 the “legion of capitalists” in the United States. One out of every thirty persons is the owner of corporate securities or bonds, The number of stockholders has increased materially since the World war. Businesses have encouraged employes to buy stock in the concerns they work for on the theory that stockholders take a greater interest in the business. National prosperity has also accounted for the growth of the “legion of capitalists.” American stockholders are not all millionaires, Less than 7 per cent of the outstanding corporation stocks is held by millionaires, although 95 per cent of the weathly obtain their income from stock dividends, There are some 100,000 widows solely dependent on stock dividends, and many orphans are cared for in the same manner. The character and psychology of the two classes is reflected in the preference of the city dweller for stocks and of the rural resident for government bonds. The one is ever progressive and the other conservative in all things. On the face of these figures and facts it is not sur- prising that the labor troubles have been reduced to a minimum here. As long as American workers are privileged to share twice—through wages and dividends —in the earnings of their labor they will leave com- munism and socialism to dreaming dranes. A BASIS FOR FRIENDSHIP The cordial relations that have existed between the United States and Canada have for years excited the wonder and admiration of the rest of the world. Since we are living in an era of business, one would expect any enduring relationship to have a pretty firm business foundation. And the friendship between the United States and Canada has ‘precisely that. Figures just issued by the United States Chamber of Commerce show that in the first’six months of 1928 Canada bought more goods from the United States, and sold more goods to it, than any other nation. The total business between tthe two countries amounted to the amazing total of $661,000,000. More than 18 per cent of all United States exports go to Canada. Prosperity on one side of the border means prosperity on the other side. Editorial Comment _ OBSTRUCTING THE SEAWAY (St. Paul Dispatch) When Governor Smith toured the West, telling the people of this land-locked region that he has banished taditional New York bias against the St. Lawrence waterway, he did not speak for New York’s chosen representative in the United States Senate. Senator yal S. Copeland, Democratic candidate for re-election, arcely waited for Governor Smith to return to New York before launching a new and sectional attack upon the seaway. Addressing the New York State Chamber of Com- merce, Senator Copeland declared that selection of tne St. Lawrence route would be a national calamity. He was speaking to a constituency of New York com- mercial interests, always hostile to the Northwest’s appeal for a useful outlet to the sea. He felt no necessity to temper his attitude to Western opinion. Senator Copeland’s aults on. the St, Lawrence waterway are not_impr For example, he ar- pe that the seaw@® would chiefly aid Canadian wheat ‘armers. He then added that they already have an advantage over American producers because transporta- tion costs over the government owned railroads of Cana ete lon. t. To the people of the west, who de- mand the Lawrence waterway precis American railroad freight rates are high—higher than in Canada—the contradiction in his argument is ap- parent. . Senator Copeland pleaded against building up an immense trans-shipping port at Montreal. If he can. convince Montreal, at present the center of opposition to the St, Lawrence waterway, that he is correct in his forecast of this result, Canadian hostility to the seaway will collapse. Forthwith the United States and Canada will begin to dig the decper channel. But after these digressions, the New York Senator finally returned to the stock argument against the sea- way. Docking at Great Lakes ports and loading export cargoes, deep sea ships would depart through the St. Lawrence to the markets of the world. And then what would they do? Senator Copeland -eplies that there would be nothing for them to bring back from Europe, except goods which would compete with American manufacturing. How about it? Is two years too much or too little _ for a drunkard who pilots a car he cannot control - about the crowded streets of a big city causing one cath, wrecking three cars and failing to take more lives only by the whim of chance? _ American exports to the United Kingdom are seven times greater than our Haports from the British Is! e port of New York ships out twice as much cargo as it imports. Vessels continue, however, to return to our ports. Not all of them would get return cargo for Great Lakes ports through the St. Lawrence water- way. But they would come back just the same. About. one ship in four now returning to America from Europe ils in ballast. New York does not worry now about But immense quantities of imports as well as exports would be available for the St. Lawrence waterway. “Return cargo now,” gays Alfred H. Ritter, port spe- | i | By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) , Washington, Oct. 23.—There is just a remote chance that the result of the forthcoming presidential election will be seriously contested by the minority party. There has been no such contest since 1876. There will be no contest unless the winning candidate’s margin in the electoral college is very small, if then. Electoral college majorities are nearly always of substantial size, but the fact that many political forecasters admit the possibility of a close vote this year enhances in- terest in what might happen. _, Failure of congress to reapportion its-membership, according to man- datory provisions of the constitution, is responsible for the raising of this question. Electoral college votes are. apportioned in accordance with con- gressional delegations. Each stat has an elector for every senator and representative. Congressional rep- resentation is supposed to be de- termined by population. The changes demanded by the constitution have not been made since the census of 1920—the first case of such omis- sion in history. Reapportionment. was formally refused in a vote by the hours during its last session. see Thus there has been a chance that some bright lad might raise the issue of whether or not any piece of national legislation passed in recent tional. No one has quibbled about that, but the matter takes: on added importance when it is recalled that the electoral college system, by which presidents are elected, is also involved. The question already has been raised in responsible quarters. Con- Gressman. Barbour, after the house vote, said he could readily see how the correct interpretation of the con- stitution might throw the 1928 elec- tion into the courts, William Starr Myers, professor of foreseen the possibility of’ serious trouble and has accused congress ‘of “utter recklessness” in failing to re- apportion, He even suggests that years could be considered constitu-/ politics at Princeton and a historian | of the Republican party, also has| the present house is not constitution- lly formed. Pointing out the possi- bility of “even revolutionary action,” he warns against the danger of an- other Hayes-Tilden contest. eee Here's a possibility, based on the correct apportionment of the elec- toral college as constitutionally pro- vided: Assuming that Smith should carry Ohio, New Jersey, Texas, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina and Oklahoma, there would be 12 ad- ditional electoral votes which might be considered his, taking ‘hese states by themselves. The House Census Committee estimated that in 1930 Ohio would have three less repre- sentatives than she is entitled to, New Jersey and Texas two and other states one each, On the other hand, if Smith should carry Alabama,. Lot na, Yo chusetts, Nebragka, New York, i North Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Mississippi and Missouri he would have 13 electoral votes which might be questioned, as these states would lose from one to three representa- tives by reapportionment. vee But counting in the Republican states of Kansas, Maine, Pennsyl- vania, Vermont, Indiana and Iowa, we would get eight probable votes for Hoover which these states would not cast in the electoral college if representation had been reappor- tioned. eS There are scores of combinations which might be worked out in this manner to demonstrate the possibil- ity of a contest. Ignorant of how the candidates will run in the var- |ious states, one cannot determine whether the present apportionment of the electoral college is likely to favor Republicans or Democrats. “e * William Tyler Page, clerk of the House, admits the possibility of a contest, but thinks it no more than “barely conceivable.” He believes the supreme court, rather than the House, would be called on to decide such @ dispute. The defeated candi- date or his party would have to in- stitute the proceedings, according to Page, as a petition from a private € citizen would hardly be entertained. “While the Constitution makes re- apportionment mandatory on Con- gress,” Page says, “Congress has failed to carry out mandatory meas- ures before. Reduction of appor- tionment on the basis of the Four- teenth amendment, for instance. There isn’t anyone to punish Con- gress.” a ee ee | IN NEW YORK | a | New York, Oct. 23—From “Mabel” who wrestles coup plates in a San Bernardino (Calif.) Harvey lunch room . « from “Dora” in Denver and from half @ dozen other young, ‘women who sign themselves “Anony- mous” and “Indignant” and “Fair Play,” I have been receiving notes asking how I “get that way.” By “that way” they mean, “what makes you think that New York waitresses have a corner on ro- mantic opportunities? It’s that way everywhere”, . . Or, at least, pretty nearly. It seems that of a noon hour, Mabel, of San Bernardino, is beset with handsome, if grimy, young engineers, oilers, shop-hands, sur- veyors, track workers and such. Mabel, if she wished, could attend| the combined movies of the orange belt any evening. She literally ducks out the back way to keep from arguments with potential es- corts. But, then, Mabel can’t tell me anything about that. I got my start asa reporter of Santa Fe events in and about the very Harvey House where she now tosses plat- ters. There was a Mabel c» two in my own life. . . As for “Dora of Denver”, she once waited table at Boulder and the School of Mines boys were among her ardent wooers. Had she wished she could have accepted engage- ment rings from any one of half a dozen potential mining engineers. But Dora “sensible girl.” She knows that college love is a fleeting love; that “they would go away and soon forget.” Well, there is something to that! Dora should take her movies more seriously. The waitresses always grab off the millionaires’ sons— that is, if they happen to be Clara Bow or Naney Carol. | This greatest letter response in my particular modest career, has to do with a New York column of some days back wherein I told of the man- ner in which romance comes into the we SAY -TH’ WoRD Nols PROMISE "EM cialist, ‘comprises countless articles consumed or used directly. by the people. The people of Chicago, Mil- waukee, Duluth, Cleveland, Detroit and other; interior cities consume these imports just as do the people of ¥ » Philadelphia and Baltimo: Senator Cope- land fears the competition these articles would give domestic manufacturers only when ener can be shipped directly by water to the land-locked Middle West. In other words, he thinks’ that rcescs to the sea is the vested prerogative of New York menufecturers and consumers. Northwest presumes to disagree. We have ro officials who lint, but our floor walkers Publishers Syndi 5 ‘look as intnortant gee fun him a close second. The New Yorker: The Paris divorce mill: hear, have greatly eurtziled their Teedochion. C: - note at on record of Americans returning with the very [our BOARDING HOUSE __ ILL Go ons TH’ STUMP FOR You! ~~ WHAT DID R, SOL WON'T REPEAT ‘a "EM IN “THIS “ME AN’ SHUFFY WAS DUST UP “To “TH” OWL'S CLUB, MASOR, +» AN’ “TH! BOYS ARE SAVIA” You'RE RUANIAS’ AGAIN FoR Sustice His ELECTION != ANN” LAST By Ahern | ABowT 1H! FARMERS + ]Z we-THEYRE ALL USIAT (TIA TH” BIG CAMPAIGNS f ~~ wit MAY Not HAVE 4 Yor SusTICE, NOTHIN To Do Wit RUNNIN” FoR SUSTICE, BUT ITLL GET You A HAND / << DoT Let EM LISTEN Witt Heir HANDS CAMPAIGA, SPEECHES . M-TH SMALL “TALK ! = EGAD, % JT WILL SWAY IM “TH” POCKETS, * HEALTH VALUE OF FIGS In some part of Central Asia the fig tree was cultivated to a very high degree of perfection many cen- turies before recorded civilization. The edible part of the fruit is not arranged around a seed center as are most fruits, but is really a sweet fleshy receptacle for the hundreds of small flowerets arranged in its interior. Because of the ease of propaget- ing the fig from cuttings and its drought resisting , ability, the fig tree was transported to, and culti- vated throughout, all of the semi- tropical climates of the world. ‘It was first introduced to the Americas by Spanish and Portuguese mission- aries. > A chemical analysis of the fig shows that it closély resembles the chemical composition of human milk. Figs are one of the most alkaline- forming foods that we have and are therefore a valuable addition to the dict. The fig is one of the best foods that can be given children and is far superior to candy from a health standpoint. Because of the many small seeds or carpels present, most people find figs highly laxative. To children and adults, figs are a nourishing food and wholesome medicine. Figs be- ing a non-acid fruit can be combined with any other food, but contain so much sugar that they are likely to produce fermentation if eaten in large quantities with starchy foods, such as bread and cereals, Only the unsulphured figs should be used, One must pay particular attention to this because many of the commercial figs are sulp!ured to keep them from spoiling and to bleach them. The white figs are especially likely to have been ily sulphuréd because this grea improves their appearance over the usual brownish color of sun-dritd, unsulphured figs, Packaged figs are required by law to state whether or not they contain sulphur, but usually the words are written in such small letters as to escape at- tention unless the package is closely inspected. Here are some methods of pre- paring figs which may be used for the sake of variety, since it is hard to make figs more delicious than they are in their natural condition: Fig Drink Cut dried figs in half and: cover them with a large amount of water. Allow the figs to soak overnight and press out the juice. This makes a very nourishing laxative drink, and may be used either warm or cold. Stewed Figs The best stewed figs are made by soaking them overnight and cook- ing for about 10 minutes over a very slow fire. No sugar should he add- ed. They may be served plain or with cream. Uncooked Walnut-Fig Caramels While I do not often recommend the use of candies, dried figs may be used by children as a dessert at the end of meals. A very tasty con- fection can be made by running equal parts of dried black figs and walnuts twice through a fine meat grinder, rolling out the paste which is produced, and cutting it into life of Marhattan waitresses, Of course, there was no intention to im- ply that romance doesn’t come into the lives of other waitresses. ‘ My recollection is that I said wait- resses in New York were besought particularly by those lonesome strangers who drift in and out of the lunchrooms, I’m inclined to be- lieve that’s about true of any city. Heywood Broun, an infinitely bet- ter columnist than I shall probably live to be, once told a charming ser- ies of tales concerning romances that sprouted between Harvard freshmen and waitresses in the days when he was a student. After all, the wait- ress does recall home at meal-time and there is an exchange of con- fidences, howevef casual, between the freshman ‘and the young lady who serves him ham and eggs. Being lonesome, he is certain to be ro- mantically inclined, And this goes for the strange young manin New York or the fireman on the Santa Fe line who invites Mabel of San Bernardino to ga to the movies. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) EE Paes SCARLET AL \ Our Yesterdays ———__—_—_—_—_—— TEN YEARS AGO A civil war veteran from Werner, who cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, announced his intention of voting for S. J. Doyle for governor. W. C. Casselman was appointed truant officer by the board of educa- tion. Mrs. Nancy A. eels widow of former governor Nehemiah G. Ord- way of Dakota territory, left an estate estimated at $250,000. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO According to Adjutant General Miller a cha was being made in the uniforms for the national guard. White was substituted for light blue in the trouser stripes for infantry officers and white chevrons were ordereds — The Isthmus of Panama pro-|@. claimed its independence. Mrs. C. S. Budlong entertained at luncheon for her mother, Mrs. J, M. Cochrane. The guests included, Mrs. White, the governor’s wife, Mrs. R. D. Hoskins and Mrs. Baldwin, Miss Helen Hughes of Minneapolis was visiting as guest of her brother, W. V. Hughes, FORTY YEARS AGO Mrs. E. B. Palmer returned from Pierre, S. D., whore she had been visiting relatives, Sitting Bull and his Sioux chiefs left: Washington, D. C., to return to Standing Rock reservation. Mrs, J. Dugan, returned to For- syth, Mont. after visiting here as guzet of Mrs. D, H, Shipley. Eighty-two cent of the cars menvufactured in the United States during 1927 were of the closed type. ares. By wrapping these square: i waxed paper ey can be kept al most indefinitely. Raisins may be Dr. McCoy will gladly answer — rsonal questions on health | End diet, ‘sddresaed to Bim, | care of | Enclose a stamped addressed | envelope for reply. substituted for the walnuts in the above recipe. ‘ig Whip With a fork thoroughly 5 or seven fresh, Pet ripe figs. Ad @ teaspoonful of honey. Ina ate dish thoroughly beat one egy white until stiff enough not to pour out of the dish. Fold che figs intc the beaten white without too much stirring. Serve as soon as possible, or bake for a few minutes in a slow over until brown. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Rupture Opera Question: Mr. El. M. write: i would like to know if an operation for rupture is serious and if thi person can be physically fit after the operation is performed. I do not think I am ruptured much, for I have been going without a truss for ove: seven years.” Answer: Most ruptures do no’ really break through the peritoneun. wall and can.be cured through de veloping the external abdomina muscles, meanwhile at @ suit able truss with a flat pad whick does not press directly into the ed part. An operation is oft- isable if the rupture is com- : plete. This cannot be considered @ serious operation but fails to get the desired results in a certain per- centage of cases. Months atfter- wards the rupture is liable to agair break open, tearing around the scart of the original opening. In your case, I am sure that using the set- ting-up exercises and, for a_ time wearing a suitable truss, will bring about a complete cure, Water Drinking Question: Mrs. L. K. writes: “Ir your menus you do not mention an) drinks, Is it encugh to drink about six glasses of water during the day —mornings, between meais and at bed time?” 1 Answer: I believe it very import. ant for one to drink as much wate. as desired. Thin people usually ac not drink enough, The water should be used principally betwecr meals rather than at meal time. Sick From Driving Question: Mrs. E. E. writes “After reading your article cajlec ‘Bile and the Blues’ I am sure thei my son is suffering from the sainc thing. He is a bus driver, and afi- er he has been driving for sori length of time, he gets sick at thc stomach. Do you think that driving is good for him?” Asswer: Of course, your son ma} have some liver disorder, but it it more than likely that he needs tc wear properly fitted glasses. fective eyesight is one of th princi ses of car sickness. Have mined by a goad optometrist and sce if this trouble does not come from his eyes. OCTOBER 23 1750—Birthday of Thomas Pinckney American statesman. 1776—Washington’s troops and sym. pathizers abandoned Manhat- tan Island, 1781—Messenger reached Philadel. phia from Washington witt news of the victory of York- town two days before—the fi- nal conflict of the Revolution 1863—General Grant reached Chat tanooga, Tenn. pene a BARBS | @ ars as himself in a new picture. Must be pretty ef- fective disguise. ae Dr. Eckener of the Graf Zeppeli: certainly has passed up a lot of chances for publicity. Apparently he brought along his, own pajamas. Lon Chaney ap] President Irigoyen of Argentine didn’t make a single speech or an- nouncement during his campaign for the job. Who said the people never recognized merit? DéWolf Hopper is celebrating his fiftieth year on the American stage All those who have heard Casey at the Bat more than nine times are sending him their sympathy, , Just because you’re a minus quan. tity you dont have to wear plus fours. see The stockingless fad surely wil not last long. The ladies can’t by running around continually withow any money. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘Heads Air Conference! Here is the NO‘LOVE LosT * Sadent: I did, I shook my head. a ‘ Professor: But "t ga to hear i yout-Patitindes PY «<e ee ——————-- Se se pe e+ c : : (