Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 29, 1920, Page 4

¥ “ interstate commerce commission has seen —wendeat “are of the utmost vaiue. S™%But for such added faciliti ] ST TY e Serwich ulletin aitied ot e Peietios st Kerwieh, Cven. i i macien. b CIRCULATION EK ENDING MAY 22nd, 1920 10,651 THE SOUND LINES. Oncp again the question of whether the New Haven road should be permit- ted 1o retain the ownership and opers- n of the lines operated on Long Island und has been ralsed Heretofore the the wisdom of extending this privilege. This was not only just to the road but i took into consideration the seryioe upon which the business interests of New Englagd are 10 a large degree de- The grounds urged before the commission for the continuance of this servics were good and sufficient before und there certainly has been disclosed mo reasons in the meantime for making any changes relative thereto “_ New and pending legislation, however, brings the matter to the front again and the sentiment of business men of the state such as can be gained through the chambers of commerce s again to be secured upon this subject. It is a mat- ter which is of deep concern just at this time when transportation is badly con- gested To Connecticut these water lines even though they may go between the same points as the railroad and there- e be open to the charge of competing, 1t is dectdedly fortunate that this added means of mgy- ing goods is available to the industrigs and business houses of New Pngland and as they af- ford the movement of goods by the rail- road would be much more seriously ham It is urged that even if the railroad did not run the boats that some other company or companies it is realized whai the getting cars from one it can be appreciated that the same difMcuities uul’ be expected between the road and other boat lipes. It would throw out of joint a long and well gs- tablished service and those of Connec- tigut who have reason to know the nec- #ssity of retaining the steamship lines as they are for the sake of the service Involved should take advantage of the epportunity to see that transportation mervice ta this part of the country whould at least not be made worse would, but when difficulties are in road to another THE PEACE VETO. Right in accord with such action as Was expected was fhe refusal of Presi- Went Wilson to give his approval to the Peace resolution regacdless of the fagt ihat it, of course, represented the ma- jority sentiment of congress. Hithertp it has been the senate that has strug- gled with the neace treaty but the rge- plation represenjed the sentiment of both the house and the senate in an ef- ot 30 #pd the existing situation. Whtoughout ihe Whole contention re- & the treaty of peace President Wilson has insisted upon the ratification| of the document just as he brought it from Europe. He hasn't been willing to. eoncede es that would protect the Intetests of this country in the way is belleved they should be protected. it was this stubborn refusal to accept reservations, the directions given to the lemoeratic followers and the repeated mtimations that even if the senate did . ingt bis wishes In getting ihg Teservation plan adopted by the nec- esary vote he would withbold his ap- proval It has been a case of ratify the treaty ®s presented or there will be no actual “ading of the war. That attitude was tpeountered relative to he treaty and i Is pow revived in connection With the peace resolution. No one claims that the resolution is “Preferable to the right kind of a treaty. 2t bas been put forward to remove the Bar restrictions. The president has Mhown his disposition toward both the “freaty with reservations and resolu- tion. Whether steps will be taken now |9 end war legislation remains to be Ween. but doubtful if avy attempt o pasy ihe resolution over the veto wiil be undertaken. The vote on the pass- age of the resolution indicates the fu- ity of such a move. It was a claim made in the galgn that the president war" “Ho kent chi st cam- kept us out of is mow more fittingly said, us away from peags."” 00D ADVICE TO MINERS. it is evident that while there were | veptain radicals who were urging lhgt pard coal miners to take action that Would result in a strike and (he conse- iuehk sorious curtailment of coal produg- in this country. there were others who were urglng sane action and why fok & clear headed view of the situa- tlon and understood what would be the “fect of plunging headlong into a strike. This was noted in the adyice given Ry Chairman Kennedy in his address to the miners’ delegates when he said, “a strike is put of the question” and poipt- $4 to the fact thet therc was an obli- gation resting on the miners and the one Shonorable road” out of the situatign s 10 submit the entire dispute to a idential commission. Chairman Kennedy indicated that he preciated the error that was made by soft coal miners in entertng upon ir strike and defying all authority disregarding the comfort and con- Venience of the people of the country. His advice was to steer clear of any § f not reachi Lo "’?"fl! ted g an #0 many words tgld’ them n!n Qiscretion was the better part of valor. Where could be the sense every to all a submitting to ebtained from the very start had the don in turning. W et ik ool | TS 128 Sttt B ey R S proper spirit been shown? That what was dome in the €oft coal miners strike and it is with that in mind that Chairman Kenngdy. called for genmgible action at jhis Limé. A What is needed of course is an ad- justment that will be fair, one on the facts and taking into comsidgration present conditions, the paznipgs of the compagies and . the. men, ‘SHd the pogi- tion of the public &8 load carrier. That Chairman Kenaedy impre the conyention with his address s evidenced by the declsion made. This will mean dealing with the situation . without a sirlke, nermit the y lo get the coal and the miners their pay whily the decision is betng reached. EARLY ACTION NEEDED. Just how much delay will be caused by the inability of Secretary Colby to appear betare the forplgn relations com- mittee of the lower house of congress relative to the request of Pregident Wil son that athority be granted tp gecept the mandate for Armepia i3 &m indi- cated, but the prompt movs af the cpm mitige to get busy em the is tp be cammended. Here is a matter that has been hang- ing fire for a year and a half. It has been said that had this country been of- fered the mandate, or urged io take it the day after the armistice was signed, it would have acceptéd Wwith alacrity. There arc good reasons to believe that the very same objections which are raised today would have been ad- vanced then Dbyt there can pe To ques- tion bul what the knoyledge gained in the meanwhile has setved fo confirm the opinion that this country shouid stay ip its pigce on this alde of the Atlantle and prevent the fncrease of its troubles ra- ther than rush into 3 hotbed of them 2 long distance from home. We will be doing much when we contribute to the relief pf the starving and suffering with fpod and clothing supplies, when we fix the boundarles of the new repub- lic and give the world to understand that our sympathies are With Armenia even if we' canpot’ assume the responsi- bitisies of a mandate. 1ut regardiess of the delay in bringing the matter tual decision and i spite of (he"flg’n"‘ ::nvl;ugncn:; the ex’3 pressed ppposition there i5 every reason y there should be just as early a de- cision on this matter as possible. If it Is necessary to get an actual. vote of congress on this question the quicker it can be done the better. It has been be- fore the country ‘so lopg that it cannot be said it is being rallroaded. It has been regarded from the various angles, and in the light of conflict with estab- lished principles, and there is a prepon- derance of opinion to the gffect that It is a proposition which the United States should not undertake to shoulder. There is ng Teason to belleve that de- lay will change the atijtude and it should out of justice to Armenia and others who are concerned in adjusting matters in that reglop that this couptry should dispose of this’ mbtlér as carly as possible and not permit its failure to act'to add tg the uncertaigty there any tonger. HARVEST HANDS. Well may the crop raisers of the country begin to worry lest they be un- able to secure sufficient belp fo harvest the crops that ey have had the te- merity fo raise in spite of the known difficuity of getting help. We are told that the wheat yield does not promrise as good results as last year yet there will be u large wheat crop apd ' mugl be yfi'p?q.t There will be @ blg corn crgp ‘and that must be gotten in. There will be great quantities of other grains raised which must be taken re of threshed acd boused and there are also the sugar beet fields where many hands are going to be required for part of the year This is not the first year that there has been a threalened shortage of farm heip, vor the ficst time that there has been a question where the necessary number of harvest hands was going to be obtained hut it is uwnguestiopably a situatlon ‘that differs from mos: pthers in a3 much as there appears o be lit- tle resuils obtained from the relatively big offers that are being made to secure the help needed. Every aggney that can raise its ef- foris to religve the situation should bring its influence to bear. Out in the beet sugar fields of Mi- chigan, and greater dependence thap ever is being put on beet sugar produc- tion under present conditians, Mesicans from siates along the southern border are being employed to cultivate the flel at the rate of $35 an acre which means gbout six dollars'a day for them In four of the wheat raising states whers 50 cents an hour was paid last vear it has been agreed to pay 70 cents this year which is a substantial increase but there s no cectainty it will be suf- fickent to attract (he neopssary assist- ance. Tt is well thergfore that tiie crop raleers are making early plans for the solution of the help problem. 1t is to be hoped that no crops Wwill have to be wasted because of the inability to get sufliclent help to Rapvest them for while the thoughts of such 2 waste are dis- congerting ‘there are not a few who are anxiously looking forward to the day when the Price of foodstuffs can come down instead of go up. EDITORIAL NOTES. Villa docsn't intend to remain pass- ive when there is an opportunity to dol Stherwise. i, What is deeded now is & spell of May @unshing 1o give the gardeps the start they are longing for. The man gn the corner says: The old argument that two can live fust ag cheaply us one doesn't seem to lose forco, The ite Seems jo be melting when therg are those mapufactugers who ad- mit that shoes will be cheaper by next winter. i Running blind tigers ought to get the atteptign of the S. P. C. A. if the pro. hibition forees aren't able to stop the practice. m the way .lg iihicfi‘t’ounu is ning to fight most all its neigh- bors it doggn't look as if it was going 1o be 3 peage proveking' nation. Froy h With receivers of the Rhode Island Company ggntemplating the ambandon- ment of fiye lines the unprofitable days of trolley operation are not all over, It doesn’t sound well for the hard opal miners to intimaie that they are ready fo defy the country even as did the bi- tuminous men. They.wafortunately have the same leader. It should be remembered that all the §90d work done my the Salvation Army vas not eyg&nq to.the war period. And as it worked before it should be en o work In the future. Word is given that any attempt to There is a right time for doing every particular- thing; no other time will do quite as well if we cxpect the best re- The time for doing certain things is when we have the greatest capacity Some things we -can do at any time, others we can not because tho “capability for doing is gone. have never played football, sults. for doing them. a b2 Y and you but largely thing under the sun.” realizing this in the pianted. that they cannot be t: riod, but if not taken now the most fa- vorable time is gone The banks are telling us that a crash At least that is what they ntend to convey although their state- ment is not quite so bald. us that our credit is fast approaching the danger point—that thes is coming. intend 5 within sight. It we through ohe of -those periodic spasms of money stringency thos first and loudest wilk be those chiefly re- spongible for causing the panic, i e. Money shortages are hast- if not actually produced, by reck the wasters. ened, less extravagance. have not conserved -their extragrdinary They have gratified every whim reckless spending wages. y " the most history of the republi unreasonable prices for things they did ot need, and when come, np matter if have nothing to buy they who invariably heafl the bread line, r baseball ‘try to do so At sixty 3 How many persons in & thousand learn to read and write: when seventy and older? Not only has the desire gone, the aptitude. saying, that “there is a_time for every- will enjoy it. years of It is a The farmers backward spring, for the time has come for potatoes to be There are certain studies that ought to be taken now. 1 will_pot alen at a later forever. limit ve g se who will wl The rank and in ic. ‘They have the “lean prices drop, with. These ve: They remind Thursday, at the Hotel Astor, Ne you thé ' Guaranty Trast Compan; , or York, said in part as follows: over the country. esting economic age byt the public. And y the public is only realizati the beneficiary the movement. frankly exp! the prices of certain _commodities, cause the pubiio is refusing to bl gh price: largely psychologi omic, in_eharacter. ‘And it will. be well to bear that ¢ netion wise rdil are but also the creator Merchants say De-! i 1. prices. production ; for there production in many essent'd is likely to continue for some time. sequently, it would seem advisable avoid a hasty conclus is pass hine drastic drop. and in commodity very probabl prices. is, gl as it b Teached during war, although have defipitely passed prices. the | m.mi i ars th are rapidly and as precipitatel but rather to & a gradual readjustment with a view t THE COUNTRY-WIDE PRICE CUTTING MO In discussing high prices in relation to the consumer, at the fifty-third meet- ing of the Economic club of New York, York city, Francis H. Sission, vice president of y of New “A’ wave of price-cutting is sweeping 1t is the most inter- nomenon of the day | with their rapidity as —an event long heralded and waited for : . curiously enoush, Foecie awakening to a| manufacturers and others n of the fact that it is not only of gererally that they are reducing De- at In biief, the Movement .| no plipre It 1 = nd ne rather than scon-| possible to bring about a real e hout | that slur in their church. in mind in endeavoring to an! and foresec the trend of commodity | record of failure. The reductions in prices that are being made today are not due to over- fayt, under- s which on that the pres- ent movement forecasts a universal and It merely an oscillation of the economic vendulum | ins to swing from the height it result’ of the epms certain that we tiie peak of high not a force of price re- v g about of production in the granting of loans, woreover, is_also for upeyen pressure 0 e PiSonar 1r, o sucn! a pective readjustment of _prices,) ‘%&é effects of a broad downward) swin in commodity prices upon produc- ers vary not merely with the distribu- tion of th echanges—iheir spread over the gemeral list of compmodities—but e ‘more, Drices aré reached &: | greater difficulty is e nced by i in turning their commifments with a maximum of gain or a minimum of loss. A price re- cession of a given extent, which would result in . sweeping losses if sudden, might, if .gradually reached over @ long- er period, be successfully withstous { There are those who do not believe it is rapidly lower. gzncsna T {essary readjustment in prices passing through a period of marked bus- | iness. depressigns, attended by a heavy It is argued that our banking machinery, while _functioning smoothly in the process of expanding con- tracting credit. The fact, however, that as yet our federal reserve system has | not "been tested by the necessities of a period of general and sustained contrac- tion is not proof of its inability to func- tion well under such conditions. For there are reasons to believe that the system will demonstrate ils ability to lead in an orderly contraction, a read- justment not ushered in by a geperal eol- lapse of credit. In other words. it is possible to apply the necessary restric- tions gradually rather than suddenly to the credit structure, thereby accomplishs ing an casy and gradual reduction in the price level. “The chief problem of producers under conditions of a decliping market for their o Nevertheless, the election was still so close that the republicans did not give it up until the third day. was president-elect by virtue of 2 plu- rality of less thay 1,209 in the nearly 1 200,000 Cleveland tes cast in the State of New York. Mopduy—The Democratic Moges- SNAR SHOTS OF G. 0. P. CONVENTIONS Copyrighted by G. M. Adams Service leventh Cox n. The eleventh republican national con- vention assembled in St Louis, Jube 1§, 1895, with Charles W. Fairbapks of In- diana as temporary chajrman apd Jobn without a single loss to any of our customers is suffic- ent guarantee of our capability to care for your furs A post card or telephone call will bring our man. Rates reasonable. . at Summer Rates Marhatan 121-125 MAIN STREET for if a panic come: er application than which we now live. “Jachin Solomon's Temple. meaning is: strensth.” the edifice itself. “He shall establish The reference doubtless is to it would seem there will be Jobs Degging to he taken. hile the sun shines” never had a clos- Making. to the davs and “Boaz” wWere two of the most conspicuous pillars in the porch of Their combi ow stabilization. There is quite no | ha { prices Above a all all, we their should attendant e remember that in tained only as the 5 forces, some of which seemingly_are u; related but all, nevertheles: directly or indirectly, toward objective, namel. adjustment. ined t in that Solomon, in spite of his pronounc- ed matrimonial bias, was a man of fine artistic tastes. temperament he admired their st that something was something was heauty, and hence he or- dered that lily worl on the top of those pillars, “so work man: of the pillars and _ cultiv When he saw those two massive | atone pillars, Jachin and Boaz, rength, lacking, and Kk be engraven as finished. people we see just lixe Jachin and while | » he ' noticed “The present recession in concentrating the attention of producers the consumers prices both upon ated a decline. The wature of which may be lstribution of the declines (he whole range of commod; 1s upon the extent the that up- the THow are brought about has attained its u precedented height as a congrauenc as much | er from too accelerated and extreme reduction. as there is from too high is. | permanent lower price level can be ob- resultant of many | Forking, common a general economic re-{ is the the probable effects upon themselves of such eftects feli will depend upon the throughout as’ wel and the rapidity with | of 2o0ds is. of course, the difficulty of con- fining costs of production within the lim- its of the sale value of gleir products. Generally speaking, cost of production moves in harmony h the values of the goods produced. = Wages, however, which are unprecedentedly high now and | often the largest single item in the cost of production, usually respopd le: promptly to variations in ~ commodity prices. In other words, wages nearly always lag behind copimodity prices in their movement either up or down. Ac- cording it is to be expected that wages will mot fall as rapidly as prices. This may be expected to retard the gdecline of prices through the influence of wages on the cost of production. While the maintepance of high yages may thus in-; crease the difficulties of producers in a period of decli prices, on the other band. the preservation of fthe buyipg power of the wage-earning classes would powerfully reinforce the demand for al- a 1 & M. Thurston of Nebraska as persoanent chairman. 1t was fextured by the boit of the “silverites” who. led by Senator Teller of Colorado and Senator Cannop. of Utah, left the conveglion affer their resplution — pledging Ipe party to bi- mentalism and “1§ to 1" — was voted down $18 1-2 to 105 1-2. "Sound money” and the protective tarift redemption of the country from democratic free trade naturally ~domjn- ated the resultapt plati®m, apd fea- tured the teriffic campaign which fol- lowed. McKinley was vominated on 8 gingle ballot, with 661 1-2 voles to his credit; followed by Thomas B. Reed with 34 1-2 votes. Matthew Quay of Pepnsylvania) ith $1 1-2 votes, former Vice President| Yerton with 33 Xoles gnd Senater Al- lison of Iowa with 35 3-2 votes arret A. Hobart of New Jersey was nominated for vice presidgnt on glnfh being | Boa exhibit strength attract. before they were completed. They but they are not at tractive—in fact they repel rather than There are men iIn public office today who are strong enough and ought to be more 1Y work was i ness and popularity. Wil some one expl combined strength. it would add to their effective- nfluentéal. with I Inin why it is most people hasten to get their by and household goods insured, but will n take up life insurance until it {s driv- hammer? en into them with Scarcely are they office building, climb of stairs—if necessary—Jst to get pro- altost them to take out a small life insurance poli to show tection from fire. B the point of a bayone All evidence goes property is far less flames tnan his life cident. phasized? ers’ Dills to pray their i ¥ Is there not in the re “Lord, it relations, demand for a revival of good will? Sunday Morning Talk of Him outside his neighborhood were | Blorsl ralues aitached iovan : his sledgehar: vetoes from the ma: sary commodities have ABIDING 1Y CHBIST. or's office onl vears before his elec- | widespread ill-feeling. pt to follow Christ without!tion to The presiderc - whole state swol point with ~ corporatior Him is to the form of '/ New ork stopped to listen to his re- consumer is dissatisfied with the re power. The | Sounding whacks apd next the whole the retailer with the wholesaler. / took notic In turn With the producer, and i not spent in Mayor of Buffalo never would not be very strange if ‘the Almighty h for new have made Cleveland famous, but being not dissatisfied with the whole Jot of US.{ \ha old nature, P A e oy I Is there not good reason for believing | . i Tnita ‘Statée ai that tne, who hnd the| Bt &y crs D guod Wil towsnl onhy ied. He is not trouhled courage of his honesty, was a distinetion ggother would go" far toward restoring | Vexed questions relative fo fhe extent al SRR, PE0 & ClstpsHon {he confidence We seem to have lost i (hristian may eneage in the follies of the ! . ax e A ‘f gne another? Tf there had been thel world ife does mot try to get as near|mesal 1 1 el and B fecling of gopd will among the mations| v o B0 O T e s Mo | people while municipal tinss and gangs : i her e world gs he ¢a ©ing CON-| hicked their pockels of franchises and of 2 rope in 1914 and earlier thete | sigoreq o worldling. for he is under - the} boqiry 4 s Would have begn no world war. The al-| Sgcred @ worldling, for he is under thel contracts for predatory interests—rail- mgst continuous ‘Succession of strikes| [iUenCe of & DOWEL that draws tm street car and gas companics, con- Hat we are haying In these days, all|{ 21OTher direction. ‘The spirlt witiin SR s .and the petly criminals of the of which have a hearing on the hignj 5o ins MM 10 & course of conduct WINER | underworld. cost of living, would be cut down onerigut"]""';,, aacpe R It chanced that year that two half if good will could be substituted for | *° SHnesct men” were dividing the votes of the selfishnegs. The secrel of @ Lapps life has been In-| Democraite State convention for govern- What & strange whirliglg s Time: | tenesly sousht in cvers age. PRI0sobhy:|or ang the “ittle’ fellow,”, this “veto For illustration take May Dav, whichjever T to wiiohd ihe soul can fully re.|Maver”. sliped in between them. The was once a day devoted to all the sim lj‘"s“f“ The mleasures of wealth 4nd fame | republicans had put up 2 machine-made ple joys of Tural life. Youthful Egg-|Spond. The pledsures of wealth ind fame} land of vesterday gave way to natural 3 e o ol ite|He did not have to make 4 campaign éauberanpe of feeling. . Merry sports| Many will agree that the Christian life| (' 1is vetoes spoke for him, and he marked the day's festivities as a time|affords the only true hanpines DiBY as. elected by 192,000 plality: 134 R e s by 192,000 plurality, the for the hanging of May baskets and) blessing however, it not for the wWakering |y ooy ine records of New York up.to i : | en ut for him only who ab isges 2 2 vouthful yigor. “In spite of Puritan se-|thy of more carefu i Atter votiog on elsction day, he gt Yerity May Day was colebrated in Wke| “If a man abide not in Me, he is cast|dcwn in the certainty of victory and fashion “here in America and to some] forth as a branch and is withered. {ywrote a letter to his brother. It is a| feeble extent has continued. But what| Iow ought the professed followers of|létter which reveals which revealss & a change! Instead of happy boys and|Jesus to live? “He that saith he abideth|Side of the man that he pever turned to girls baving @ good time. the day o in Him ought himsclf to walk even as Ho the public and that is always the real bDeen captured by the “Reds” the “I|ywalked” “If we live in the spirit, let us|side of any public man. “I am homest W. W.s" and angry soctalists for pa-|also walk in the Spirit” “By what mark|and sincere in my desire to do well,” he rades that arouse opposition 1o 50od Of- | may believers be known?" “By this shall| Wrote; “but the question i whether T der and constituted government: that ! all men know thal ve are my disciples, it | know enough to accomplish what I de- threaten to burn. loot and murder; and|ye have love one for another.” Not only|sire. If mother were alive, 1 if police protection is weak resort to|has the soul that abideth in Christ’s|should feel much safer. I have always criminal yiolence. Upon what evil davs| pence, jay. and abundant spiritual life,|thought that her prayers had much to has the old May Day celebration fallen. |yt the relationship with kindred souls is|do with my success.” O for a return of that season of joy- ous pleasures such as son to write: “You must wake and call me early. call me’early, mother dear.” We are all familiar with the story of the boy Who cried “wolf” So many times when no wolf ‘'was about that when one really did come, no and he was deypured. duction. seifish abandon settled home before they go to an eleven story a sledge in_their up all the fli it needs rsuade ut t to that exposed to to disease and Are we not all tangled up as to the relative value of things to bo em-| Fine clothes are Sometimes worn at the expense of a hungry stomach. | Automobiles are bonght while b unpaid Don't let me “see things and act aceord se days 2 pr. ingpired Te: one he glad Tt may rallway these men have had their wages creased 90 per cent. since 1914), what would ‘be the result? The farmer has the game right to strike as fhe brake- If manual laborers refuse to do farm work, there Will be—to all intent and purposes—a farm strike With its re- sultamt food shortage. serious than it was during the war, the oply antidote man. g of ‘us to make eve available land product ¢ on the verge of another Mem- in its” memo- ries of pailioti¢ devotion to our coun- Tt is 4 time when all citizens ought. to drop partizan olta in the deliverancs ot our country from the iron grip of slavery. b £ orial’ da3, & Season try for the time by politics, and rej ing. We all ' Gugh tegrity of our country that wa torn’ asdndet i tho Civil wa to rej the i lcxample to the community on $680 as atmost | (o inder Tt 15" AC the garly death of his father, Ste- Wil for"is"to lay ‘our wreaths on the | - v E9N TR G, SRR B grayes of those who fought and bled and died that slavery might be abolished and the Union preserved. never forget the services rendered by flose brave mep whose hair is now Whose ' eye is mow dim, and silvered, * whose 'step is faltes the ‘mightiest nation of earth i§ thelr| God' bless the monusaént. 18611 This_questio is’ for “each . “rich joice ‘in America ring. ~America ‘heroes their one’s, groc- | Y be some- | thing like that in the cry of “low pro-| But where there is so much “smoke thers must be some fire”” Sup- pose the farmers of this country should g0 on a Strike With the reckless and that ployes do (and we must remember that square inch of world-wide scarc traordin the American buying publ “Production under con eral ‘shortage moves un overtakes the demand, now now in that It na jced goods. luyuries should soonest show ard turn of price ently who only unevenly o in that that ings ol e sil N big drop i ed by some new ghts for which there is d at preva expression of with high living ary dem: the | 1 ac- et of fore of nora export “The th ously pu: credit and tion in ind non need . in as ial Yy of goods nd of ew ry extravagance on the part of | ons of gen- q in this lige, high particujar, down: present. | Tower | prices in| nsequence of the was preced- dual weaken- re other ex- growing impatience | The extraordin- | ying fortunes | mtion | affected. | ssential hu(s‘ most all classes of manufactures and be an additional factor making for gradual rather than sudden price recessions. The crux of the whole price problem may be held to be the gradutl decreasing of the supply of money znd crecf and at! the same time the incrusipg of the BuD- viy of zoods throuzh propcrly halanced production. To the £ ‘in of this | problem bankers, mup: § ‘urers. labor- | ers. consumere—in Dbrief, cvery element o-{ of ‘our body politic—must be actively | dedicated “The popular idea of deflation is some proe agitely conceived, that will re- duce prices so that one's income may buy twice as much as it does mow. e are all willing and eager to have prices de- flated, but. of course, we are decidedly | opposed to having our incomes debated. That is not the way, however, that refla tion works. And those who are clamor- ting for a rapid fall in prices should bear in_mind ion will mean painful cconomié readju’ @ nt. of w ad pnemploymc d bus ss would be features—such as have | urred in Japan. The average man| should remember that there is not much | dvantage in being able to buy twice much for a dollar if he does not have f necessarily harmonious DOY-| the soul that abideth in Christ Five Minutes a Day With Our Presidents ery | Copyright 1920—By James Morgan LXVI—FROM OBSCURITY WHITE HOUSE IN THREE YEARS No other man has stepped so quick from obscurity to the presidency Grover ' Cleveland. em- in- Buffalo attorney, who was to stand the same place four vears afterward. At forty-five known outside his county. seven he was in the Whtite House. It was a meteoric rise. was no meteor. Slow of narrow n 1s one mind, with quired to rear a large famil . artl shift for himself. i | school arM shift for himself. next he taught in a blind 3 ally swept out a four dollars 2 path for himself to the bar. 2s of| For more than a quarter of a century | stemmed the tide. Probably he would lodded zlong in Buafflo, a quiet, [haye succeeded in turning it had he ted, but not distinzuished lawyer. [promptly corrected the spokesman:of a do business under the 2.75 per cent. beer law in New York state will resuit in Drosecution. it It d greater Tesulls than forcement elgewhere there will be little to fear pesn't bring Drohibition community, where one Buffalonians ma hundred any to their fellow-townsmen. €8 He had been an assistant district at- torney of Lrie County and also have ever failed to bestow contentment. | Heaven is within 10 THE in Cleveland remained un- At forty- Yet this man range of reading and of intellectu- al tnterests, Cleveland was stolid in man- {ixed politics and business. The repub- ner and without brilliant qualities. ~But | licans retorted by assailing the private he had charactel rugged and im- jcharacter of Cleveland, who commanded movable as a mountain. It had been |his friends in Buffalo to “tell the truth.” built up in rural parsonages, where his|But just what the truth was has been father, a Presbyterian minister, was re- | old—to the public ai least—the bache- and set an dropping the first part of it, had fo leave First he clerked in a_village store at $30 a year; lum, and fin- w office in Buffalo at week until he had swept Unmarried and without family or a home, he took no part in the social life of his other v have been better known its sheriff. The first that was ever heard ticket and Cleveland personified the issue. eveutu's Lay years in the Governar- ship at Aibany was only an enlargement of his few months in the Mayorality of iduftale. His promotion to the presidency naturally followed. ‘The sudden, the theatrical rise of thig man was not a mere caprice, a blind stroke of luck. OUn the cuntrary, be was nominated and elected president because he was the logical, common-sense choice ; because this uakuown, unambitious law- yer of Luffalo had become in two swift years the most conspicuous embodiment of the things that thé times called for— independence in_politics and a higher standard of conduct in office. ¥ The National campaign of 1884 sank to a new low level of mudslinging, when a great people seemed reduced to a muili- ating choice betweei ~common honesty and common decency. Inscribing on their banners, “Publis Office is a Public Trust,” the democrats bombarded thé pub- lic character of Blaine, the republican candidate, with his “Mulligan letters,” in which that thrifty stafesthan had' sadly s When Garfield stood on the steps of the Capitol to be inaug- urated he never heard the mame of this a lor candidate himself mad¢ no other pro- fession than that since be had been goy- ornor, vith a special obligution to the | people. his “walk had been correct in every shadow. The independent, or “Mugwump” vote, with a brilliant ‘wrray of newspapers, went over to Cleveland, skimming the cream off the top of thé republican par- ty in New York, Massachusefts and in certain other quarters. But the brilllagt personality of Blaine, a “magnetic’ man,” a delegation of ministers in New ork eity. an alliterative clergyman who addressed him on the eve of the Voting as the o popent of “rum, Romanism and rebel- lion.” 'The democrats had not @ minute i flipped. ballot, bis unsuccessful obponen(s Henry Clay Evans of Tennesgee, William G. Buckley of Conpecticul, = General James A. Walker of . Virginla and Charles Warren Lippitt of Rhode Is- land. o (Continued Monday with the story the Twelfth Conventiop.) of tories That Becall Others i Winning His Way. The lunch couater was filled with busi- ness men in starched collars and over- alls, which would pot have been surpris- ing but for the policy of ohe of the denim yearers. “Se¢e, I've got a quarter,” the waiter. The waiter nodded. T pitch it. Heads you get the quar- ter and tails I get my lunch Tor nothing. The waiter agreed and ibe coin was ced the overalled ane d he proceeded to make in getting away with his he said to ‘Tails,” annou triumphantly, apid time lunch. He Dida't Cure. It was raining hard and the car dows-| town was filled with the high school girls. Mr. Flirt was also present and from 1 advantageous position was making eves at the girls. That fellow doesn seem to care whom he winks at” suggested one of the fem- inine members of the crowd. Then five seconds later: “Qb, heavens—he winked at me. HIGH PRICES N0 DETRINENT IN 1. & BPOT AND SHOE TRADE 5 of bools and shoes have zp- ntly no terrors for the American The quantity of material being | Dbl imported for their manufacture is 2 1-3 times as mueh ag last ycar, and the sums heing paid thercfor four times as much. The quantity of hides imported into the| “nited States in the seven months end- ing with January, 1920, says a statement by The National City Bank of New York, is 545,000,000 pounds against 210,000,000 ip the same months of last vear, and the stated value $241,009.000 against $39,000,000 in the same montbs of last year. While not all of this material Imported is psed in the manufacture of shoes, $3y'5 the bank's statement, the Increase in those “classes digtinctly used for Shoe manufacturing is very great. and this is trie also a8 to prices. The quaptity of calf skins imported in the seven moatbs ending with January, 1920, is 50,800.990 pounds valued at $27,000,000, against less than 2,000,000 pounds valued 8t a littie® over $1.000,000 in 1919, ‘while the ayer- age import price in’ January, 1920 s 56.6 cents per pound against 18.4 at the termination of the war, November, 1§18. Goat skins, used chiefly In the mapufac- ture of ghoes, show a total for the sev- en months ending with January of §0.- 000,000 pounds against 25,000,000 In the coprespopding menths of the prepeding year, and the price in January, 1920, 95.5 cents per pound against $7.9 cents in January, 1919, and 54.1 cents in ihe month in” which the war ended. Dry ;vm skins actually averaged more than 1" per pound in January, 1920, as against dn dverage of over 25 cents per pound in the year preceding the war. Hides of caftle- show a total for the | seven months endipg with January of 309,000,000 pounds against 140,000,000 in the same months of last vear, and the average price per pound in Jantary, 1920 was 36.6 against 21.4 in January, 1312, and 22.2 in November, mt.h‘ i is class of This large importation of tb material in the fiscal year 1919-1920 ig due in part to the pegullar conditiops during the closing years of\hg War, and | especially to the embargo which those natlons participating ‘Ip the war, placed upon the exportation of materials of this character, and now that this- embargo has been removed the quantities which can be exported are larger than be- fore, while the demand in the Uniled States, due {o shortage of supplies re- sulting from the embargo, is greater than usual=—greatef than ever before appar- ently—for the quantity imported I not only far larger than ever before. but at prices ‘far higher than ever before. The Present indieations ‘are that the quan- {ity of hidgs and sing imported in the fiscal vear ending June, 1320, will ap- proximate $50,000,000 pounds against the former high record of 744,000.000 in 1916, and’ the yalis fa the wicinity of 400,000,000 as Aginst the high record of 216.000,000 in 131%. Apparently quantity of this claes of manufacturing material imported o the fiscal Year 1920 will be fully 50 per cent. greater than in the year precedipg the war. and the' value nearly 100 per cent. greater than in the pre-war year: | Not all this increase, however, ap- pertains to or results from the ¢d demand Ip the United States. for very considerable proportion of our man: ufagctures thereof in the seven Efl ending with January, 1920 is $189, - | il 000 agninst $§3,000.000 in the months of ‘1919 ‘and $§7,000.000 1n the corresponding months of 1918, ce it yeats , or fiscal year as In either of the two yea to lose, and they did not lose a minute in thrusting before voters of the Catholic faith the Sunday preceding the election times as mugh fa value in fhe cw immediately Ql’é*dilli Should the Dres- ent rate continue, the total exports of leather and leather goods in the fical r endigs with Juge, 3 [ERES D selecting @ starting battery for your car? It means you are getting a specialized product backed up by over 2 generation of specialized experignce. It means you are getting the best that the lasgest maker of storage batteries in the world can produce. It means you are getning £he stars ing battery right in every detail; copstruction, performance. durability. Know the facts—come in and examine the “EXIDC" for you; can * Norwich Electric Co. 42 FRANKLIN STREET $100,000,600 in 1919, 2nd $38,990,00 in imporicd come chiefly from Asis, Ape- the year precefling the war. tralia, and Latin America. and the boots Evidently the advance in prices Las|and shoes exparted to different no greafer terrors {or tl foreign wear- | countries. distriimted the world over. bui ers of American footwear than for our | esecially (o Latin Amerix, Cenadas, and o¥n people. The average export price | the Qrient of women's shoes exporied in Janvary, 1920, was $3.77. against $2.30 per pair | — — p Japuary in 1919, and $171 per pair in SHE FEELS FISE MOW the month preceding the oponing of the war. July, 1914 Men's shoes also show | Aches and pains often indicate kig- simijar_increass in export price .\",|:;;; "-'e"r—’ ardpr q:‘t;g‘-)h -l'n:‘p; -v,'ygu;, agipg $4.48 per pair in Januars. 1920, 1ings o fest are sWGiIEn and ¥ou fee aggipet $4.05 in’ January, 1919 mu‘“m hoh ‘sluggish. 1o FBUr Bppetiic u‘,'!‘ in July, 1914, yel despite these |asd your enfigy apd there is 2 puffy advances in price. the quantity exported look under the eves. Mrs. i. G both of men's and Women's shoes shows |1 d Edison 8ts. Lajuota. an indrease of 50 per cent. over the [WIiles: "M kidneys were glving me 5 Same period of last year. and 100 per cent. ovef the corresponding period the year preceding the war. The 12 ¥ ook Foley Kidney of for »a) ! ) hides 4 ',' MACPHERSON'S “FOR QUALITY" Genuine South American Panamas THAT ARE DIFFERENT “Biffgrgnt” in that they are uncommen hats that giye eae that uncommon smartness that so many strive fer. Apd they are uncommen witheut being expensive. Thess hats will find favor with the man of discriminat- ing taste and good judgment. Comservative and uitr —smart modgls are shown to suit the business, pro- fossional man or man of affwirs. LEGHORN, BALILUKO AND SENNIT STRAWS J. C. MACPHERSON i QUALITY CORNER _ OPPOSITE CHELSEA SAVINGS BAN