The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 7, 1919, Page 14

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But we don’t ask you to take our word for this. ‘We prove before you pay, thet ‘‘For-do’’ will do just what we claim or you don’t keep it. - We take all the risk. Saves Half on Spark Plugs Makes Old Plugs Work Like New $3.00. If you are not pleased, I charge will be made. We l trial. 22 North Eit!lfi Ave. ' MAW%D. ILLINOIS- Name Town . . Street of B, By D Novssssoioensses StatOL. o ssasvasss To prove it, make this test: - Pick out any 4 old, cracked or worn out plugs you have thrown away and try them again with ‘‘For-do’’; see how it will make them spark like new. Oil, carbon or grease have no effect on plugs when ‘‘For-do”’ is used.. ‘‘For-do”’ . is easiiy attached to any Ford in 3 minutes. No changes necessary in car or engine, no holes to bore —no bother at all. A child can put it on. Can’t possibly harm ¢ngine, coil or plugs. Send No Money—Just This Coupon Just write your name and address on the coupon—tear off | and mail today. We will send you ‘‘For-do’’ complete, postpaid, ready to attach. TUse it 10 days free. At the end of this trial, if you find it does everything we claim, LI T T P P T T T LT 10 Days Free Trial Coupon G. B, COLBY CO., Inc., 22 N. Eighth Ave., Maywood, TH. Please send me ‘‘For-do” on Fre Trial in accordance with your offer, -$8 within 10 days. to you promptly and no charge is to be made for this If I decide to keep it I will gend you If not pleased, I will return it and that the war industries board appointed ‘the big wool dealers to ad- vise it how to do the job. The wool buyers, Mr. Campbell alleges, and the wool dealers were made govern- ment agents and helped fix the prices which the government would pay; and he says that wool bought from the farmer “in the grease” at 65 to 67 cents a pound was sold to the govern- ment as “scoured wool” at prices ranging from $1.30 to $1.85. Not a single pound of this wool, he asserts, was actually scoured by the dealers or buyers, and that the plan was put into effect merely as a “smoke bar- rage” under which the buyers and - dealers made profits of from 100 to 200 per cent for the mere handling of the wool. - “If the public wants to know how much it has been defrauded by this gang,” says Mr. Campbell, “just mul- tiply 700,000,000 pounds of wool by the number of cents that have been added to the price after it was bought from the farmers. Ten cents a pound would mean $70,000,000. “There was no more flagrant at- tempt at downright swindling during the war than this one. It was con- ceived and executed by a series of in- cidents through which the farmer and the government were cheated of un- told millions. Patriotism had no part in the drama, nor does patriotism de- mand that silence or protection cover the actors who hold the ill-gotten gains. “From the time the wool was sheared from the back of the sheep until it reached the government, it was unwashed and. unscoured wool. But in order that the big dealer might have a dark corner in which to hide, he provided a plan by which the - local wool buyer should buy the wool and | of the farmer ‘in the grease’ by which the big Boston wool dealers would sell it to the government as ‘scoured wool,” although every pound of it was sold to the government just as it had been received from buyers. “Both the local buyer and the deal- er were government agents, the for- mer to get 112 cents a pound to be taken from the price paid to the farmers, and the big dealers to get a 5 per cent commission, to be paid from the United States treasury. Alto- gether there should have been a dif- ference of not more than 5 cents a pound between the: price the farmer was paid and that the government paid. “These prices were paid by the gov- ernment: Per 1b. Fine delaine ............. .$1.85 Fine clothing ............. 1.75 Half-blood staple ......... 1.68 - Half-blood clothing ....... 1.62 Three-eighths staple ...... 1.45 Three-eighths clothing .... 1.42 Fourth-blood staple ....... 1.32 Fourth-blood clothing ..... 1.30 “These prices were paid to the farmers: . A Per 1b. Delaines ceeeinneisieesseiss D Three-eighths ............ .68 Quarter-bloods ............ .67 “I appreciate that the government hgs all: the guns to go after these birds, and hope that it will not be overlong before it will use them.” Among the persons with whom Mr. Campbell came in contact while on the trail of this fraud was Charles J. Brand of the bureau of markets, department of agriculture. In an in- terview Mr. Brand told Mr. Camp- - bell that “he was busy with the mat- ter but hoped for results.” That was some time ago. He 'has since left the department to engage in private business. e SEhwse it s - g H