The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 20, 1911, Page 8

id i AIRES Si GPE ed + i Special Washington Correspond- | ent of The Times. | By Clyd> H. Tavenner, | Washington, D. C.—Did President Taft throw open Controller bay fss| der conditions especially designed to! permit the Morgan-Guggenheim in- | terests—and no other—to gobble up| this richest of the Alaska land prizes | before anyone else could have a chance to file? This is the big important ate to which the House committee on ex- | penditures in the interior department, made, lower prices are not found anywher. | If we Could Make you Realize : land, is seeking an answer. If such was not the deliberate ela| why were} these lands thrown open by such un-| usual procedure—by a secret execu-| tive order instead of by proclamation? | If there was no conspiracy between the administra- | tion and the big exploiting interests, | how does it come that Speculator of the administration, Another query: Ryan, supposed agent of the Morgan- Guggenheim, alone knew of the issu- | i ; | ance of President Taft’s secret (?) or- | and was able to file a soldier’s | der scrip on 150 rods of Controller bay | water front within three days after) President Taft signed the order elim- | inating the land from the national forest -and before any other man could have known of the order? Another extraordinary feature of the case is this: has been to give 60 days notice be-, any claimant could file on this but, according to Mr. of the General Land Office, when the fore President's order first. came to him, the 60 day provision was in it, and when he next saw the order there was no time allowed whatever for no- tice to the public—not even a day. That there was actually an under- standing between the administration and the men who were to profit through the President’s amazing se- cret order is nota state of affairs so! remarkable to those who have been closely following things in Washing: | ton. exactly paralleling such a perform- ance, bill was sent to the last Congress by | the President the public was in abso- | lute ignorance of its contents. But | the fact developed later that althoug the President had not seen fit to take | the public into his confidence, he had allowed the railroad interests not on- ly to suggest the lines along which | daughter-in- -law of Senator Hale, and} the bill should be framed, and to load it with jokers against the public inter- The unvariable rule | Dennett | There have been precedents | When the railroad regulation | | | what a saving it means to you to supply your needs now, you would come here right away— to-day—and take advantage of these exceptional bargains this Sale offers. Finer goods are not Come and tog yourself for the great Chautauqua which will be held here August 5 to 13 inclusive. 200 Yards of Foulard Silk This year’s Pattern only. Goods not bought for sale purpose but selected from our own Big Stock. | Regular $1 values at, yard.................. LO OHA AR ere teem Fee Ae waver Gere 36-inch colored Rajah silk, suitable for dresses and coats, regular $1.25 vale; vend Leanne 65c 500 yards of fancy Jacquards and Voiles, regular 50c values at, yard.. ........... , +024 BOC COME AND INVESTIGATE New voile skirts, regular $10 values, at...... ae tone rec ore NO ee DHONI ne tress $6.00 i| New voile skirts, regular $12 values, at.......... 0... c cece cece tenet e een ence eres ees 7.00 New batiste skirts, regular $7.50 values, at.........0 00... c ccc eee ence nent e ene ee en eeeena 4.50 New fancy shirt waist skirts, regular $6.50 values, at................... REO R TN Cee GRTRT 3.50 New fancy shirt waists, regular $1.50 values, at......... I hIChy eco Cginiran arited ign eee ee . 98c All linen and.cotton dusters at a Discount of 4% Regular iue. 4c 36-inch L.L. muslin at, yard.......... Be (72cicrashvat yards yc. ses 5s eos Sc 10c 36-inch bleached muslin at, yard...... 7c 10c dress ginghams at, yard.............. ..8c ¥% off on all fancy parasols. Si-25 umbrellas at ......6.050.2060000008s 85c SIR & G)Corsetsiat, 166.53. ces ccusss. 5c, S00 Ri& G, corsets ati. i... cnc ees es 25c 45c flouncing embroidery at, yard:....... 29c $1 flouncing embroidery .................. 65c 15c light colored percales, 36 inches, at...10c 10c lawn at........... cece cece cece eens Tic Samuel Levy Mercantile Co. cipal owners of the building is a jthat Senator Hale had inserted in the | | Senate appropriation bill an item ] | Missouri’s State Song. Missouri, grand old commonwealth, ‘in buttermilk I drink your wed est, but to actually pass upon and O. | which compelled the government to Your prairies from a verdant park K. the bill before the people were lease the building. Senator Hale al-| your Bowling Green produced Champ | even permitted to know that its prep- | so caused millions of dollars of pub-' Clark, your pleasant hills are crown-| aration was contemplated. Before the investigation into this newest Alaska land jugglery is finish- ed it promises to develop a condition | of affairs beside which the attempted | tieft of Alaska coal lands is inconse- place for Senator Hale’s political | quential, The probe is in charge of Repre-|Senator Hale was in the exercise of, sentative James M. Grafiam of Illi-| nois, one of the really big men in the Democratic House, whose career from the very first day he entered Congress has stamped him as a man above partisanship and one especially | qualified by service on the Ballinger investigating committee to make the inquiry he is now so conscientiously engaged in. An ‘Impartial’ Investigator. G. W. Burton, special agent of the Tariff Board who is now traveling in Europe gathering “exact informa- tion’’ to be used as the basis of tariff revision. by the Republicans, is an Aldrich standpatter on the tariff ques- tion, and was undoubtedly selected because of this qualification. Bur- ton, on the side, has been writing let- ters back for publication in the Los Angeles Times, a high protectionist paper. This ‘“‘impartial’’ investiga- tor, gathering ‘‘exact information” in in a recent letter declared that: “Your tariff revision demand fellow Americans, is a fad.’’ In another letter, excoriating the whole tariff re- vision suggestion, this “impartial” investigator made this judicial and carefully weighed observation: ‘The merchants of our country who are so inadvisedly shouting for lower duties in order to get the cost of living re- duced, should stop making so much noise until they learn what they are talking about.” All of which is in- teresting in view of the fact President Taft insists Congress should not touch the iniquitous Payne-Aldrich rates until this ‘impartial’ invegtigator, G. W. Burton, has told it what it ought to do. : Chickens Coming Home to Roost. For many years the government paid a handsome rental for the use of the Union building in Washington. ry Aeariiede: ss og Met urday, it was decided to covery. It developes now that one of the prin- ‘lie moneys to be expended on a naval shore station off the coast of Maine, ithe bulk of which expenditure was} sheer watse. The principal mission | this yard performed was to provide a henchmen. Nor was that all: While almost unlimited power in the Senate ‘as chairman of the appropriations committee, his son, Frederick Hale, | secretly received a fee of $5,000 out | Canadian boundary line. | find out what young Hale actually did to earn this $5,000. These and other acts of Mr. Hale while he was senator justify the demand that he be given a chance to explain. Perhaps he will demand it in justice to himself. If modesty restrains him, the opportun- of the House investigating commit- tees. Expensive Trust Busting Fifty-nine thousand dollars was the amount paid Frank B. Kellogg, the | Republican trust-buster, by the gov- ernment, between 1907 and 1911. It jis believed that Kellogg received as much, if not more, from the trusts. It was developed before the Stanley committee that in one instance he re- ceived fees from the steel trust while being paid by the government to prosecute its friend and ally, the oil trust. J. B. McReynolds, another “trust-buster’’ received $64,000 from the public treasury for his services in the tobacco and coal-carrying railroad cases. In all the Republicans spent more than $3,000,000 in ten years for ‘trust busting’ and the trusts are still with us. Airman Mars’ Wife Sees Mortal Plunge. Erie, Pa., July 17.—J. C. (Bud) Mars, American aviator, probably was mortally injured here recently when he lost control of his machine in bent and fell several hundred feet. bi dropped of Ty ai injure agen 4 |of the secret service fund for alleged | diplomatic labors in helping to fix a) No one can | ity may be forced upon him by one) ed with schools, you beat the world ,on raising mules. T’would™ take a year to write a list of all your glow-| ing charms, I-wist, but when your | bards take down their lyres, and stirred by patriotic fires, attempt to, ising Missiouri’s praise, the hearers scatter, forty ways. Missouri’s song! And nota line about her elderberry | | wine, her pawpaw groves and placid | streams, wherein the catfish lurks and dreams; and not word about the | corn that rustles in thesummer morn; | and nothing of the wheat and oats, | \the hogs, the chickens and the goats, | | which help to swell Missouri’s fame and hang large tassels on her name! Missouri’s song, and naught set down about the city and the town which rose triumphant ina day on plains], where bison used to stray. And nothing of the pioneers who labored through the bitter years, who o’er the lonely reaches trod, and builded | homes and brokethesod. Yoursong should be a rugged strain with a victo- rious refrain, with .minor chords that tell of tears, and hardships, toil, and doubts and fears, and pulsing through | ‘it there should be a fine heroic melo- dy to tell of men who laughed at scars and fixed their eyes upon the stars. Your anthem is too dull and gray. Missouri, take your song away!—Walt Mason. i Drouth Won’t Prevent Bates Co. Fair. Bates County’s big annual fair will be held in this city Sept. 19 to 22 in- clusive as previously announced in these columns, in spite of the drouth of the past few weeks. A number of counties in the state have announced their intentions of not holding fairs this year because of the drouth, fear- ing that the exhibits would not be up to the standard. However, good Essay Contest. Following is the essay receiving second premium inthe Peoples Bank Essay contest: “(Why Has the Peoples Bank of But- ler Succeeded?’’ The Peoples Bank is the best bank lin town. There are several reasons | why this is so. It is on the best cor- ner in town, on the main street from the depot and just across from But- ler’s biggest hotel. The officers are all fine people. I guess about everybody in the county knows Mr, Jenkins. He is president jing business many years. He knows for all the money in the bank do any- thing wrong. Mr. Wesley Denton grew up here and everybody that I ever heard say anything about Mr. Denton said some- thing good. He has worked in three’ knows how a bank ought to run. He} is as kind to one person as the other. When I went through the’ bank he showed me everything from the ad- bill. Its number is A 1—500,207 and series of 1880. He treated me like I had a thousand dollars in the bank and I haven’t got a cent. They keep a record of the stock market and farmers can always find out what hogs and cattle are worth | before they sell. They have a big safe that robbers or fire can’t break into and keep in jit so much money that there is no ‘danger of the Peoples Bank ever | going broke. They have an iron room and you can put any valuable things in this you want to and they won’t charge you anothing. They have lots of money to loan, jand you can go there and borrow money to buy a farm. Step in the back and have your insurance written by Mr. Sleeth, the best insuaance man in the county, and it will be done right for this is “The Bank on which you can always bank.’’ rains in the county during the past two weeks have placed an mgd ing aspect on Bates county’s and at a meeting of the directors ot of! the Fair Association, held here Sat- Mae Dea Riley. next week’s paper. WANTED:—Work by an experi- hold the fair/enced waitress of chamber. maid. this year on the dates above named. | Call at;600 North: Mechanic. It -- of the bank and has been in the bank- | | how to treat people right and wouldn't | different banks in Butler and just | ding machine to the thousund dollar| Prize Essay'No. 3 will appear in| ‘The Bates_County Normal Club. On Wednesday of last week the Bates Co., people met and rendered the following program: Talk—Dr. S. A. Hoover. Cornet Solo-—Louis Thompson. Round Table “Why Rural and Grade Teachers Should Take a Higher Education’’—W. L. Coonrod. Discussion—Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Miller. Piano Solo—Miss Eula James. Vocal Solo—Miss Rhoda K. Shaw. Bates Co. Quartette. Dr. Hoover's subject was ‘‘Give the Child a Square Deal.’’ He described the various needs of the child which the courses of study do not provide for—improper nourishment, defective eyes, defective hearing, adenoids and throat trouble, and deformed teeth. The fact that the physical condition of the child should be better understood by parents and teachers is being re- alized more and more each day. Mr. Coonrod in his talk impressed |the thought that the teacher in the country or in the grades cannot teach successfully in that particular position without a knowledge of the work which follows. This subject might have been discussed more fully had time permitted. The Annual Picnic was held Satur- day; July 15th. About fifty attended. The occasion will long be remem- bered by all as one of the: pleasant events of the sumnter. S. E. S. ' Boys Attention—Here Is Your Opportunity. It is all up to you to receive a mili- tary training and a summer outing at the expense of Uncle Sam. It will cost you nothing, all equipment and uniforms furnished free and all of your expenses paid. In addition to all this you are paid for such time as you are on duty. Company goes to State Camp Aug. 20th, hurry up and get in the band wagon. Company B. visits the target range twice each month for target practice, all expens- es are paid. Apply at once to Lieut. Claude Keele or Lieut. Charles Ga- rard. Ed. S. Clarke, ein & Commanding Co. B. 2d. Inf. Kaffir Corn. We have about 15 bushels of fine seed kaffir corn which will close out at $1.00 per bushel or 2 cents a pound as you want it. DEACON’S, South ernor. It is announced in the Globe-Demo- crat that Al. Speer of Osage County will become a candidate for the Re- publican nomination for Governor, ‘Gf there is a sufficient demand for him.” The demand in such cases is recorded by a barometer in the office of Governor Hadley. But John Mc- Kinley of Putnam County is going to run for Governor, without regard to the laws of supply and demand and without reference to barometric pres- sure. John Swanger, also, has been struggling with the importunites of his constituents, and is only awaiting the Jovian nod of his chief. The German Republicans have a favorite in Lieutenant Governor Gmelich. But they are not consid- ered. Their businéss, in the view of the Republican bosses, is simply to elect the Republican ticket. The pol- iticians whose word is law in the realm of Missouri Republicanism are quite willing that the Germans shall elect their ticket, but an ambitious German Republican must, content himself with a minor elective office Governor’s table. The Executive Council at Jefferson City will never agree upon Gmelich or any of his race. 7" Just now, it is said,- the Hadley choice is Kennish. Should the Dem- ocratic election contests succeed, Judge Kennish will run asa ‘“‘martyr”’ candidate. If they do not succeed he will be pushed forward anyway, and his martyrdom will be deferred until the general election in 1912. But the ‘‘frank’’ of the country post office will not be placed upon any favorite of Governor Hadley. The Postmasters are for McKinley be- cause Hadley is said to be against him, and because his name suggests that of the ‘‘martyred President,”’ al- though he does not look the part. If Hadley is to defeat McKinley for that nomination, he will have to find a man who looks like Taft.—Republic. Baptist Association Program. The following is the program for the Fifth Sunday Meeting of the But- ler Baptist Association to be held with the New Hope Baptist church July 28 to 30, 1911. FRIDAY, JULY 28. 7:30 p.m. Devotional, led by J. W. Holloway, Butler. 8:00 p.m. Sermon, Rev. A.S. Gwinn Butler. SATURDAY, JULY 29. 8:00 a.m. Meeting of Missionary Board 9:00 a.m. Devotional, led by Walter McCombs, Antioch. Discussion. Subject, Re- 9:30 a. m. - lation of Church to Com- munity Life. Rev. F. O. Hess, Austin; Rev. C. F. Williams, Liberty. 10:00 a. m. Discussion. Subject, The Ideal B. Y. P. U. Rev. T. P. Crawford, Passaic; Rev. S. I. Myers, South Fork. 11:00a.m. Sermon, Rev. J. A. Smith, Dayton. 12:00 m. Dinner on grounds. 1:30 p.m, Devotional, led by D. T. Rodgers, Rich Hill. Discussion. Subject, The Ideal Sunday School. (a) The Superintendent, F. R. Allen, Adrian; T. J. Smith, Butler. (b) The Teacher, S. H. Hardy, Altona; J. F. Allen, Salem. Sermon, Rev. J. M. Cor- nelius, Liberty. Devotional, led by Charles Zhwaen, Passaic. Sermon, Rev. B. F. Heat- on, Adrian. SUNDAY, JULY 30. 9:30 a. m. Sunday School. 10: - a.m. Devotional, led by Dr. Billings, Hume. 11:00 a.m. Sermon, Rev. R.S. Beal, Rich Hill. 12:00 m. Dinner on grounds. 2:00 p. m. 3:00 p. m. 7:30 p. m. 8:00 p. m. 1:30 p. m.; Devotional, led by Wallis Lewis, Amsterdam. Discussion. Graded work in Sunday School, Mrs. Nettie Ely, Butler. The Primary Class, Mrs. F. L. Davis, Butler. Sermon, Rev. T. A. Smith, Worland. B. Y. P. U., led by A. R. Hardy, Liberty. Devotional, led by Rev. W. C. Self, Butler. 8:90 p. m. pease Allen Prevo, Rreybeds Attnél in come ond en- 2:00 p. m. 3:00 p. m. 7:30 p. m. 8:15 p. m. Side. | joy these meetings. Republican Candidates for Gov- or with an occasional crumb from the , Lt >