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s and Qoufied 124 YEARS OLD Sebsarigtion prie 120 & weeki S{s & mentE; o par. { Enteed ot the Postoflics at Nerwieh, e, o matter. Willtmantle Offfrs 3 Chateh SL Téiolisne 105 Norwich, Tuesday, May 25, 1920. || commerce commission in allocating domatch. CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING MAY 22nd, 1920 10,651 MUST BE NO STRIKE. When President Wilson sends commnu- nications to both the miners and opera- tors in the anthracite region to the ef- fect that there must be no strike he takes the right position and does so at a time which should be effective in pro- ducing desired results. And the proposition he puts up to them in case they are not able to agree i§ a fair one, when he insists that the coun- try must be saved the detrimental ef- fects of a strike in such an industry as mining especially when conditions what they are in the work of recon- ion following the war. No one can ask for anything different n adjustment of the demands for increases according to the facts. wage It has been agreed that whatever agree- wnt is reached shall be retroactive to 7e first of April when the old agree- m ended. That meant the continua- of the coal mining during the dis- sion of the demands and a most im- consideration. highly important that there not be any interruption in the The country has not from the effects of the un- strike among the soft coal ers and it will firmly back up the sident when he says that there not y should not be a strike but that there st not be one Thus when the president proposes, in case an agreement cannot be reached umong themselves that a commission be appointed by him the same as was fi- wally done in the bituminous dispute he is on solid ground. Neither side can rex- that the adjustment will be based but the facts and such ald ed upon by a federal :ommission Which as in the case of the srevious one would include a represen- ative of the public. This would mean in additional delay, and for that rea- won committees now, at work may be spurred on to an early deciison, but n with the delay the adjustment would carry back pay to the first of April €0 that full benefit would be gain- hor It suld yroduetion of coal ecovered ranted Too m aid upon strike ch emphasis however cannot be the point that there must be OBREGON'S TASK. Good reason is there for the h is being manifested ea of the Wexico over the anza concern among the revolutionary forces in manner in which Car- has been put out of the way. “hanging government by means of as- assination has serious disadvantages. It loesn't set well with other nations and ‘very new government understands the mportance of getting the recognition >t other nations for the help and the lavors that may later be sought. Thus it is readily realized that the revolutionists want to have it ‘understood that ‘This. takes into consideration the | treatment if they are going to be able to ! | | respond to the needs of the country they have not been properly-supplied in order to handle the businegs. ment thus gives. diately put intb effect as soon as it took control. From that time on it has been recognized that the railroads of country were not being given the fair business ' development.. - tain and increase tie rolling stoek of the roads while they were under its control it could hardly be expected that the roads upen the resumption of con- trol could be expected to handle a mueh larger volume of business with an equipment that had not been kept up with the tramsportation femands. Even with this handicap recognized before the congestion due to the series of strikes that aggravated condition Serve@ to em- phasize it its glaring realities. A certain part of the help the roads need has thus been furnished and it is unfortunate that they will not be able to get the equipment as quickly as the money was allocated. HAVING A LIMIT. In connection with the fighiting of the high cost of Tiving the point has been urged that a strong influence would be exerted on the situation if there wgs a refusal on the part of the consumer to buy the high priced goods instead of giv- ing the dealers the impression that only the high priced goods would be pur- chased. In other words the position is taken that it is the eagerness to pay the high prices that has resulted in many of the large increases, witereas a firm stand against them would have a beneficial effect. One instance of how it works to have a price limit and to hold to it is illus- trated by the way in which a cargo of over 200 tons of butter sent from this country to Rotterdam was refused be- cause the price was considered too high ed. The fact that the butter was re- country. % It was considered that masmuch as Germany was in great need of fats that it would be willing to pay anything ask- ed for the butter. In spite of the great shortage, however, the Germans had the courage to turn aside this relief. Though greatly needed they refused to pay the price, and the butter was. brought back to this country with the round trip freight charge attached and it is to be they were In no way responsible for the murder of the deposed presi- dent This accounts for the explana- tions that are being offered, for it is desired to avoid the embarrassments that accrued to Huerta following the murder of Madero and it is necessary to show that the promised offer of protection to Carranza was not a trap to hasten his nd . Obregon therefore facing the im- portant duty of presenting a convineing statement relative to the manner in which Carranza met death. Much de- pends upon it in connection with the zovernment ®hich he expects to head. Tt will be remembered that there was no to shoulder the responsibility en Huerta faced a similar situation. denied any part therein and it was for some time that the real story the affair was disclosed. reason Obregon, even though the revolutionists are in no involved but that Carranza met ieath due to the treachery of his own ‘ollowers, recognizes the importance of stling up positive proof to that effect. There is nee§ of eliminating all doubt ind of clearing away all suspicion that he whole affalr may have been the re- sult of a well laid plot to have it appear hat Carranza's friends turned on him when such was not the case. Obregon thows that he understands the position In which he has been placed. Whether ne can prove that he was in no way in- slicated remains to be seen. THE ARMENIAN BOUNDARY. When it is declared In response to the "equest from abroad that this country will act as the arbitrator in the case of he boundaries of Armenia it means that ‘here is no desirable job going to be un- fertaken, but if we are to believe the sxpressions which have come from that region the fact that the United States will undertake the task will be wel- :omed with the most enthusiasm by all soncerned. Armenia has its ideas as to what ter- sitory it should have while its neighbors s all sides are likewise strong mind- *d and even now the Armenians are be- ing warred upon by those who are op- nosed to it. There are also the portions of Asla Minor which European coun- tries are guarding with a jealous eye. They offer much greater promises than does Armenia and therefore they will be well taken care of but there s need nevertheless of determining what Ar- menia should include, and just where the complete boundary should be estab- lished. This will have to include what It is believed is vital for the young re- public to properly maintain itself and to have access to the sea. ‘What Armenia should include and what it will be permitted to have is not likely to be determined without fric- “~=. Even after it has been decided af- presumed that those who are buying goods for which only the highest prices are charged are investing in this butter which the Germans declined to purchase. If there was more of this same deter- mination on the part of the purchasing public many of the instances of price boosting would be frustrated and there Todge must be regarded as a sensible]the name of Governor Coolidge, but n the railtead situation is that|tiomal committee officers has been taken by the interstate|be and that if the big transportation prob- It is useless to expect that the rail- roads, cramped as they have been for|time and saying it with eloquence a a number of years are going to be able|force. The positiom of temporary chair- to make immediate response to the sit- uation witlrout such help as the govern- It is not to be for- gotten that tiey have been held under such striet and unjust regulations for been the same person, but a considerable fime Before the war that|coeme i homors aro they were prevented from doing thoselyear it is quite likely Senator Lodge will very things that the government imme-{be selected for both according to ru- believe far wiser to have of the convention un by candidate, so Mr. to. their préference and after a friend- regarded selection | new equipment for the past several years sistently refused to name @ second choicel'jt wasn’t much good You see, the baok saying, “there will be time enough for| was printed about fifteen years. ago, and lems today are going to be solved there| that if it becomes necessary at the con-|the styles have changed since tmen. must be the provision of the locomo-| vention.” tives and cars that are so much needed’ man is the highest honor in the power of the convention. to bestow. of the key note the presiding office: tremendous power and influence. mors here. Tt was left with .women from the an- the | ti-suffrage state of. Connecticut to raise| c which . republican na- deal entitied to in order to improve their| ;) committee addressed the women service, make extensions and prepare for| ¢ ashington, or perhaps it were better \ to say at which Mr. Hays attemnted to With the government’s failure to main-{address them, for when he rose to speak a rumpus at the at Chairman Hays of meeting the Wiiss Blsie Hill. daughter of the late Congressman Hill of Connecticut, vose, and before Mr. Hays could ‘more. Began a systematic heckling which lasted sretty much through the talk. militant suffragists led by Miss Hill. She demanded to, know what the going to do for suffrage amd ware had not ratified the amendment und fired question after question. at Mr. Hays entirely on which he was attempting to speak. The scene «n the great red parlor of the Willard was soon a near riot. Wo men rose and shouted “put her out while others took up the cry for Miss Hill. When the latter shouted shrilly “T am from Connecticut.” Mr. Hays replied “Then why don’t you go back there and work for suffrage? If it is ratified it will be in spite of these methods not be- cause’sf them.” . Senator Brandegee will be one of a senatcrial party to go to Chicago for the republican convention. Very few of the senators are to be delegates this year, but there are half a score of pres- idential candidates among them, and many who are not candidates are anx- ious to get the news of the convention first hand and will be on the spot from start to finish. No one here—except men who are active managers of campaign, will make even a snap-judgment predic- tion as to the outcome of the convention. The soldier bonus proposition is a sort of “Now you see it and now you dom’t” affair. A month ago it seemed assured would be no chance to ciaim that the high prices were charged because the goods could be gold in no other way. EDITORIAL NOTES. It is well efough to plan about moving the crops but before they can be moved they must of course be raised. — Every back to the farm movement these days ought to be reason enough for the killing of the fatted calf. The man on the corner says: It seems to take a long time to awaken the prop- er recognition for the Salvation Army. If Germany is still convinced that there is no job too big for it, it Will|act for the shoulder the indemnity bill fixed by the allies and say nothing. It is unnecessary to get across the Rio Grande to find a place where American lives are in danger, according to the re- ports from West Virgini: It doesn’t make much difference what | CoPyright 1920—By James Morgan the season of the year i sthere is always something happening to keep the house- holder upset over his coal supply. Last year the people paid over four million doflars in taxes on amusement tickets. Conditions may be bad, and prices high, but we must have our fun. Pulling: two teeth has restored. the speech of an Ohio lad. On that basis possibly false teeth would work prop- erly for those whose speech needs curb- ing. 'The overalls movement was started in the south now comes another from down that way advocating the dying of old straw hats to keep summer headgear down. Of course if it s mecessary that the railroad man should have a salary of $2500 a year that means of course that everyone else should get Iikewise at least. . ‘When former Director General Hines declares that the country faces a period of poor transportation it is nothing for the railroad administration te feel chesty about. out of the federal penitentiary is to name him for presidemt there are friends of many others whe will eall conventions right away. —a week ago it had dropped out of sight in the face of determined opposition from the secretary of the trcasury, the demo- by the Germans to whom it was consign-| cratic leaders and many of the repub- lican members of the house. Today it is fused did not result in it being sold at|again holding up its head and taking no- such a price as they would give, but 'in{ tice. the cargo being brought back to thisj What it will do tomorrow is pure guess work. Thousands of letters and telegrams against the proposed cash bo- nus have poured in on congress this week; the ways and means committee had tacitly agreed to put off the report until after the summer recess, when at the noon hour one day recently a new pact was made—so it is said—by a few members of the committee whereby a complete turn of affairs resulted and the bill was suddenly reported - out fa- vorably. Then another mixup came about when it was in the hamds of .the committee on rules, which was' not ex- pected to order its immediate considera- tion, owing to the tremendous opposi- tion which had developed. Again it was 2 _quiet noonday conference which turn- ed the tide and set the bonus bill ence more in the direction of immediate ac- tion. The measure has stirred up more factional strife and recrimination than any that has come before congress for years. Charges of broken faith, vote changing and “playing politics” fiy thick and it is absolutely useless to predict the outcome. The tide of sentiment against a cash bonus, which results in merely a small pension for a couple of years, is running strong, but how the votes will run is not easily foretold. Congressman Tilson gave ont some good sound common sense When he said “to take it up before election will re- sult in recrimination whatever course is followed. If we wait till after election there can be a non-partisan considera- tion of the measure and a get-together on it. Now the boys are accused of holding a club over the head of con- gress in an attempt to get money and congress is accused of playing the game for votes. A delay of a few months will benefit of the soldiers.” Five Minutes a Day With Our Presidents LXII;~THE ONLY PRESIDENT TO SEE HIMSELF NOMINATED. 1880—June 7, James A. Garfield nominated for President by Republican Convention at Chieago. November, elected President. Garfield is the only president who was present at his own nomination. The presidential lightning struck him as he sat in his seat in that most extraordi- mary and exciting national convention which met at Chicago in 1880. After many great wars in history, par- tisan bands have kept up the strife for years in the form of brigandage, assert- ing the right to “live off the country” Which they had fought to save. In our unmilitary but very political country these bands after the Civil war went into politics instead of taking to the saddle and the highway, and they thrived on the spoils of office and in legislative jobbery. Clans or factions, springing up in many northern states to battle for the control of the patronage and the special favors of legislation, devotedly followed such chief- tains as Blaine of Maine, Conkling of New York, the Camerons of Pennsylva- nia, Zach Chandler of Michigan, Logan of Tilinois and Morton of Indiana. All though the Hayes administration had marked the end of that epoch, the 'clansmen refused .to disband and made their last stand in the republican na- tional convention of 1880. All the “Stal- wart” clans, believing with a St. Louis editor that there was ‘one more presi- dent in the bloody shirt,” seized upon the | $125,000,000 of the railroad revolving| Presentation speech ju favor af any one fund for the purpose of purchasing roll-|ig o ‘ling stock for the trunk line railroads. ference with Governor Coolidge, o o Sl s o ore e net - . shift from-Lodge to e directions about basting and hemmmng that the raflroads are im need of fairfmeme. The bt = ec ot ol s et of Senator Lodge as permanent o ot fhie comvention. M., Gillett| g daintily at. her Weary eyes:y it ChalTan o Coolidge man and has in-|jandkerch In either case the Massa- chusetts governor would not have suf- fered, for no two men in congress equall. | Mr. Lodge and Mr. Gillett when it comes to saying the right thing at the right As_sounder T Has In a few cases the permanent and temporary divided. This| also do than bow to the audience. Miss Hill In fact there eame near being ne address on ac- sount of the persistent interruptions of y was' y Dela- irrelevant to the subject orking yourself to ! You mustn't!” a- it will{'always been on the library !hzll. and 1 presiding officer | deeided to do it myself and not have it a|cost much of an: ything. “Maribelle” said the young juan ea nestly, “if you arem't the most enacgatic] q wonderful gi : . “The ‘Self-Help' was all right, with lis on the o:sutiful young woman, with another sigh, d;‘.-- § - her ief. “But as to the aciual dress “I suppose they have,” “But the young man the zencral “There isn’'t any general idea to dress- es nowadays, Alfred.” the young woman told him kindly. “They are just inspira- tions or insults to the human race. And fthe simpler they are the worse they are to make. I knew just how I wanted to make it and after I got out the sewing table and the thread and scissors and everything the ‘Self-Help' said to get out I remembered that I hadn't got any ®oods. Then I had to go downtown and buy some silk, and Alfred! Did you know that when you buy dress silks these days it is mot a simvle purchase, but a financial transaction of the first magni- tude?” “But,” suggested the young man, “how could you pay for it; Maribelle, if your father wouldn't give you any more money ?” “Oh, 1 just charged it,” the beautiful young woman told him. sweetly. “On mother’s bill. And, of course I got a paper pattern and I am sure I followed the directions most carefully.” “Of course you did,” said the enrap- tured young man. “I can just see you studying that pattern with a tiny bit of a frown Detween your eyebrows——" - “I @id exactly what it said to do,” she went on rebelliously, “and then the skirt wouldn't go together. All the pieces were for ome side. And nobody could wear a skirt that was made all for the great name of Grant, and under the ban- ner of the “Hero of Appomattox” they} railied against the “Half Breeds” who [followed “the Plumed Knight,” James (@ Blaine of Maine. It was a wonderful bat- { tle, but its true object on both sides was xiven away by Delegate Flanagan of ‘Texas when he blurted out in open con- rention, “What are we here for, if not “he_offices?” The rival champions in that remarkable lournament at Chicago were - Roscoe Zonklin, chieftain of the “Stalwarts,” and james A. Garfield of Ohio, the spokesman of the “Half Breeds,” although he was restrained from directly supporting Blaine by the instructions of his state in favor of the nomination of John Sher- man. Conkling, a handsome fop, care- , fully studied the right moment to make his theatrical entry upon the stage, the first day, drawing the applause as he ad- vanced down the aisle with his “grand- iloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering, turkey gobbler strut,” which Blaine had held up to the laughter of congress vears before in a never-to-be- forgiven speech. The next day Garfield took his revenge by entering while Conk- ling was speaking, and the weftoming cheers drowned the voice of the indignant speaker. On the third day the two came to grips in a debate and the Ohioan scored on the New Yorker. While the gallery was still cheering the victor in_that round, Conkling wrote on the margin of a newspaper and sent to Garfield a mocking suggestion that he was playing to the gallery in his own in- terest: “I congratulate you on being a dark horse !” In truth Garfield could not rise in the convention without helping himself more than he helped Sherman, who never had a chance to win. As ballot after ballot was taken, it became plain that neither the “immortal 306" who followed Grant could overcome the prejudice against a third term in the White House, and it was made equally plain that this “Old Guard” never would surrender to Blaine. A new candidate was necessary if the convention was mot to fall to pieces in factions. One solitary vote for Garfield on most of the ballots had continued to point the finger of destiny at him. Wis- consin pointed all her fingers in his direc- tion when her delegation broke to him on the 34th ballot. Garfield rose with vallid face and dry lips to a point of order. But Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, who was in the chair, rapped him down. In two more ballots he was neminated by a combina- tion of the Blaine and Sherman men In the midst of the uproar the nominee sat 1imp and perspiring in his seat. “Get me out of here,” he faintly whispered to his seatmate, ex-Governor Foster of Ohio. Foster pushed him through the clamorous crowd in thé" hall into a wilder crowd in the street. There he rumbled the agitated candidate into a public hack, the top of which was frantically torn away before the driver could whip his horses out of the mass of yelling, curious people who never before had seen a man struck by presidential lightning. The Garfield campaign opened badly. The “Stalwarts” sulked in their tents and the effort to “fire the northern heart” with the old war cries against the south had been made difficult by President Hayes’ policy of reconciliation. The democrats had been carrying the country at every election for six years, and the September election in Maine foreshadowed another victory for them in the national election in November. But the bankers—“Wall Street”—took alarm because the democrats had won in Maine by a coalition with the Green- backers, and they arcused the business interests to take a hand in the cam- paign. These powerful forces brought the “Stalwarts” and the “Half Breeds” together, and induced Conkling, Grant and the disaffected leaders to go to the rescue of Garfield. The office-holders also were warned of | their peril of their being. turned out, and the assessments on them helped to swell the biggest campaign fund in history up to that time. Garfield himself anxiously | inquired of the chief collector atfWash- iington, “How are the departments do- ing?” It was the first of our national cam- paigns in which money talked out loud. The tide was turned in the October elec- tion in Indiana, as Chester A. Arthur | frankly chuckled, “by a great deal of"— here the vice president-elect paused, s lently washing his hands in _invisible sozp, and then he ironically added, “ {tracts and pelitical documents.” A more worthy ald to victory supplied by Gen. Garfield. adopting the “front porch” method of campaigning, shipped crowds to his simple village home at Mentor, near Cleveland, where his daily chats, grace- was His managers “You'd better write the > them up with the silk! ‘thaz -wk-1 1 had, thought was | bottom. of the skirt was the top, but you. go thy stand it to think of you toiling and moil- ing like a slave when—- pattern,” she went on. thing else. I guess'I cried a little, and then it was 5 o’clock, and I had just ruined $31 worth of taffeta silk and ' 8o _to Alicia’s, party—" ““You poor child!” eried: the devoted young man, ‘you shall go to Alicia's varty if I have to go and® tell your father | What I think of him “Oh, you mustn't” said the beautiful young woman, in some alarm. “It’s ever so kind of you—but I found that I had a Georgette dress.and a tricolette one that T had forgotten, that were perfect- ly all right so I can wear one of those! So it's all right after all!” “Well, "I vum!” gasped the devbted young man after a minute. “I'm glad it's all right—I guess 1 don’t understand things very well after all! that T ought to lick somebody for some- thing for your sake, = Maribelle! —Ex- change. SNAP SHOTS OF G. 0. P. CONVENTIONS By A. H VANDENBERG Copyrighted by G. M. Adams Service venth Convention. vention, which met in Chicago, June 2 only did it result in the party’s momin- ation of its first “dark horse,” but al- of third-term presidential aspirations. Once more James (. Blain was the paramount leader of his party, and once more Rnsg)e Conkling, in his embittered personal Antagonism, undertook to foil his hated party rival. He used Gener- al Grant as the means to this end—ably seconded by Cameron and Logan and other deathless Grant adherents. Grant had just returned from a tri- umphal tour around the world and stood upon a pinnacle. The fact that an early Pennsylvania state convention declared against third terms, and that the house of representatives made similar proe- lamation by a vote of 234 to 18, did not stop the Grank campaign. He went into the convention with 304 votes. Sharp practices - were used in seating some contested delegates and in seeking to break the inhibition against the “unit rule.” and in a sensational at- tempt by Conkling to force a pledge that every delegate participating in the convention would be bound by its deci- sion and would support the nominee. But, these things aside. the fidelity of the Grant forces was marvelous. They never broke. Grant still had his 304 votes—with two added—on the final bal- lot. Once he reached 313 — (necessary to a choice, 379), Conkling presented his name in a speech which will live as second only to Infiolsoll's effort on be- helf of Blaine, in 1876. James A. Garfield of Ohio presented the name of John Sherman, also of Ohio, in another great speech which prob- ably had much to do with the ultimate outcome, although not as Garfield orig- inally intended. Washburne, Edmunds and Windom also were formally presented. On the first ballot Blaine had 284 votes—a figure which never grew. On the second ballot one lone delegate swung to Garfield. Thus there were few changes though one roll call after another. On the twenty-third ballot Garfleld ,rose to two votes. On | the thirty-fifth “ballot Blaine's strength ‘switched to Garfield, to be followed on the next test by practically all save the oM original Grant group. Thus Garfield was nominated. And on one ballot Chester A. Arthur of New York was put in second place—his near- est contender being Elihu B. Wash- burne of Illinois. The platform follow- ed closely the outline of four years pre- vious, the only novelty being a mandate in favor of Chinese exclusion. (Continued tomorrow with the story of the Eighth Convention.) Stories That Recall Others Taking After Mother. Bert just came home from college and he had a “shadow” on his upper lip. He stopped to say ‘“Hello” to his grand- father, who looked him over and said “Why, son, you look more like your mo- ther every day.” “What makes Bert. “Why because your father had a moustache that came down to his chin Just look at that ome of yours; you must take after your mother.” With the Children. Beth, aged two and a half, has diffi- culty in finding the proper words to ex- press herself, as most children at that age do. Personal pronouns are partic- ularly difficult. One of her friends asked Beth to go home with her recently. “I want to go home with Hazel, mo- ther, can me? I want to go down there with she.” One merning she came downstairs with_her shoes on the wrong feet and looking at them with a puzled expres- sion said: “Oh, mother, me got my shoes on wrong side out.” GLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The appeal on behalf of the housing bonds scheme was put on the right foot- ing at the Guildhall meeting. When the armistice came we all realized that the housing had got into a very bad way; but most of us assumed that another eighteen months would find us with the situation again in hand. Nearly eigh- teen months have since passed, and so far from our having bettered it, it is far worse. We must look ahead and ask ourselves very seriously indeed, where yet another eighteen menths will find us. No time is to be lost. So far as you think so?’ asked —_— After you eat—always use —one or two tablets—eat like candy. Insuntiyuhnvu‘ Heartburn, Bloated Gassy Fecling. syopchmdiguuoni the many WMM by Acid-Stomach EATONICisthe best remedy, it takes theh;mfuluidundg-fl'fight out ful and tactful, delighted his listeners and won the admiration of the reading pub- e. Tomorrow—The Assassination of Gar- fleld of the and, of course, you get gl = A wosdertuly benefited. Guaranteed to satisfy or money refunded by own drug- gist. Cost® trifie, Please try it! “I am sure they got the wrong waist | “It was one of . those unfitted waists that sort of slink | .around you and really do fit—but when I had mine cut and put together it look- | ed more like a circus tent than any-| i h.udmedp‘om:d..nmxamm:({! But I feel e e ——— The seventh republican national con- 1880, will always remain , historic. Not S0 it marked the beginning and the end come out right. Your pies will always be vor—it’s just wonderful. so good, and the best of the same. Try it and prove it. A your grocer’s. you your money No more merely hoping your Lemon Pie wil You're sure of every Ph"’.’@”“ firm but delicate; and the fla- Guarantee—%, ' 5 Sceees Pie after following directions, e back and another package, free. The D &C Co., Bush Terminal Bldg. 10, Brookiyn, N.Y. Also makers of the famous D & C Self-Roising Flour for cake ,“JMJM.MW”H’T-MM make it with You never tasted anything it is that it will always be package makes a pie At inconceivable reason in making a we will give ) for some it is a question of money. the money must be raised. But it is also a question of labor. Striking 0il.—Should the oil supplies of Mesopotamia prove to be the salvation of the British Empire, ag some hope- ful parlimentarians imagine, we shall{ know where to place the credits. For if that tireless and not to be discourag- ed Britisher, Mr. D'Arcy, had failed to find oil in Persia we should probably naver have heard anything of the pos- sibilities of Mesopotamia. Another National Holiday?—All the signs are in favor of the Nationalization of May Day, and it is tolerably safe to predict that in a year or two the “First" will become automatically a national holiday. If all the maypoles have been used up for telephone posis and flag- staffs, the love of dancing has revived, and gay times are in store for Phyllis and Strephon, to say nothing of Dobbin in ribbons and rosettes. An Oily Republe—If that latest born of republics, Azerbaijan, has really gone over to the soviets, the allies will lose not only the richest ofifield in the world, but the oldest. History cannot tell us when the pilgrimages to the sacred and dead-locked, | eternal fires of Baku began, but it has kept the record of the marvelous modern development of the Caspian city. How many millions have been lost by the wastage of oll it would be hard to com- pute. Probably more than would liquid- ate our own national debt. From one of these Caucasian wells, when it started to flow, there burst into the air a column 60 feet in height. Lakes of oil were form- ed around this fountain, and some of it was saved, but the emormous waste sad- dened the hearts of Baku. Another new well started a long career of beneficence by raining its oil upen the citizens and did not stop until it had thoroughly sat- uated the whole countryside. We have learned since to lay better traps for the genii of the sacred fire. The Polish Offensive—Our businese now is not to interfere agauinst them, (The Poles and Ukrainians), but to give them in good faith the best advice that we can from time to time. If they ar to come safely out of their perilous po- sition they will need to listen to coun- sels of moderation; and while Marsha] Pilsudski remains at the head of their affairs there is no reason to suppose that they will cease to do so.—London Chron- icle. Man is made of dust—otherwise wo- men would not have much use for him 5 (The Rate of Our TO-DAY June FOR SAFETY WITH / Last Dividend) Start a Savings Account: with the Cosmopolitan Trust Co. 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