Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 5, 1910, Page 4

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REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company, Only 2-cent stamps recelved in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF GIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B. Taschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly orn, says that the actyal number of fuil complete coples of The Dally, Morn- Evening and Sunday Bee printed dur- the month o December, ), Was as follow: ... one year.... N 1 wlarities in Department. | West kY 42,530 43,930 41,630 43,770 48,480 42,850 42,450 44,530 H 1 £g88%28288E8 Returned Net Total Dally _Average PeYs . 48,334 GEORGE B. TZBOHUCK, Treasurer. Subacribed In my presence and sworn to betore me this 31st K.‘x of December, 1909, o P, WALKIR, Notary Public. malled to thom. Address will changed as often as requested. Broken ralls are almost as numerous s broken resolutions. Just as socn as the weather man gets ready, hé ean turn on the other wpout. “It seems to be up to each railroad mah to constitute himself a safety device. ‘When Sverdrup dashes for the pole he would better take along a few afii- davit-makers. The obtuge signal now blamed for the battleship Nebrask: mishap is subject to acute !flmch Glass bricks lmlfl‘ into use in France, but in this country the gold brick still has its advocates. The progress of the playground movement in many cities gives good ground for growth in others. Judging from weather conditions throughout the United States, we have annexed the North pole all right. Those Cuban congressmen have ac- quitted themselves of any suspicion of being passengers on the water wagon. ——— Tammany was sick enough after election, but partaking of Gaynor's taffy appears to have brought on a re- lapse. If pistol toting 18 to be accepted as prima facle ‘evidence of insanity in Kentucky the asylums will have to be enlarged L Rugby. baving fractured a player's skull, it myst be concluded that foot ball 4s foot ball, ‘whatever the brand or Blend, A Chicago preacher predicts that the earth will be a Utopia in 2010, by which time none of us will be here except Mr. Wu Once more the United States army has made'a record—that of having the biggest sick list of the world’s armed torces in 1909. G e The blnnket’;)f snow caused so much blankety-blank talk that the good reso- lutions engrossing -clerk must feel rather discowraged. Sault Ste. Marie having voted to itay “‘wet,” irrigation and navigation will continue hand in hand along the banks of the raging canal. e ] We kpew that this cry of the high cost of living would bring it about. Here {s the price of cats up to $2,000 aplece, l!‘ji)( a.fat cat at that. Let ud hope the switchmen in the northwest will get busy enough to side- trick the cold wave now on its way trom the. “Medicine Hat" country. The average man alternately shovel- ing coAl and snow refuses to get up any nt over that clay-court championship ¢ontroversy of the lawn- lennls enthusias Disclosure {n & rallway wreck of car- loads of peanut shells consigned to a breakfast, ~food . factory npaturally arouses ‘the' curiogity of the public as ‘o whetber ‘it WaB ulicovered another ihell wi - ¢ ——— slonal | linger appears Warnings of Whitewash. The determination of the adminis- tration to have an official congres- investigation to determine the truth of the accusations against the Interior department, and especially the general land office, is havidg a strange effect upon the noise-makers. Their cries are not silenced, but instead they are sounding a new alarm, the tenor of which is that the result of the in- vestigation s a foregone conclusion. The entire propaganda against Bal- to have joined in a concerted warnipg that he is to be whitewashed. This, in face of the fact that an im- partial jury of senators and represen- tatives is to hear all the evidence in the case and pass judgment accord- ingly, is more thah ungracious toward the administration; it is a direct at- tack upon national fairness and justice, and strikes at the very roots of Ameri- can institutions. ‘In their partisanship and spleen these assailants have gone #so far that they have forfeited the right to the respect of their fellow citizens. The latest utterances of the muck- rakers and their asso¢iates simply man- ifest the weakness of their case and the unfairness of their cry. They have no right to anticipate the verdict, but instead are in duty and honor bound to submit their case and.abide by the result. Before the investigation com- mittee they may be heard to the full- est extent of their regources, and if they have any real evidence they shoudld submit it fully to that tribunal which is bound to welgh it judiclally. All these clamorous prophecies of whitewashing are projected simply to stir up prejudice, and can nog fail to be accepted by the public as a con- fession that the investigation they pretended to want is a fearful thing to them now that it is in prospect, a confession that they dread the expos- ure of their side of the case. In seek- ing to forecast an improper verdict they are but convicting themselves. A Millionaire’s Monuments. Before his death D. O. Mills made arrangements for the perpetuation of an institution of the chain of hotels which bear his name and which he designed as clean and comfortable modern homes for men of moderate means, While he maintained that the hotels were not a part of philanthropy, inasmuch as he had the sagacity to make them self-supporting, still they must remain one of the most secure monuments to his benevolent spirit. Although he had a notable part in the general sociological problems of the day and gave freely of his millions to many charitable and educational ‘causes, nothing will be .more closely assoclated with his memory than the Mills hotels, which were so novel an enterprise and so satisfactory an achievement that the whole world has rung with their praises. It is to be sald of these hotels that they were founded in the faith that men like to be self-sustaining in proper and whole- some living, and that Mr. Mills’ con- fidence in the uplifting inner tendency of man's mind was not misplaced. The Mills' hotels are not only a monumént to the philanthropist who built and endowed them, they are also a testi- monial to the individual impulses of many representatives of self-reliant American manhood, who solved for Mr. Mills the problem of making his ex- periment a success just as he solved for them the problem of how to live in decency and ordef within their hum- ble means. Again the Garbage. The city council has finally suc- ceeded in putting the garbage question in a fair state for temporary solution, but the expedient adopted is only tem- porary. The division of the city into districts for the purpose of administra- tion and the letting of contracts for the collection and disposal of house- hold refuse, will force on the attention of the taxpayer the fact that he is not escaping any legitimate expense through the adoption of any of the various subterfuges that have been re- sorted to in the past in connection with this important public service. The cost must ultimately be borne by the householder, and the only satisfactory method for giving the service is to have it done under the direction of the city government. When the pend- ing ordinance is made effective, steps should be immediately taken to devise a plan where the city can take over this duty und attend to the work in a way that will not only be safe, but sat- istactory. After Other~Combines, * News from Washington is encourag- ing to consumers, both babe and adult, indicating as it does the intention of the government to get after the milk combine of the big cities and the to- bacco combine of the southern states. This is in addition to the state action now lo progress in New York against the milk wholesalers and the federal prosecution of the tobacco interests pending before the supreme court. The matter of milk supply concerng every household, and the Americas consumer will be unanimous in sup- port of any actlon that can be brought inst the men who juggle with this necessity, The fact that the New York investigation has . disclosed a most heartless concert of effort to squeeze ite history of arson and murder. The night riders have ridden long enough. Their desperate deeds to force up the price paid by the tobacco trust for the farmers’ produce have defeated thelr aim, It was admitted that the tobacco raisers of the south suffered grievously under the exactions of the great man- ufacturing combination that fixed prices and determined quality, but the “night riders’” were not the solution. Two wrongs never yet made a right, and that is why the government will now proceed against the lesser as well as the greater combination. “No"” to the Magnates. In connection with the visit of the railroad presidents to the White House to plead against any further rallroad legislation, it will be recalled that one of them last fall prophesied that no such legislation would be at- tempted. How accurate a prophet he is may be judged from the result of the trip of himself and his associates to Washington, where the plea to side- track the executive message and bill for amendments to the interstate com- merce act was eminently unsuccessful. Mr. Taft's “No” to the magnates was uttered in his inaugural address, again in his first message to congress, and reiterated to them in person, for the special message he is to present to congress is in no essential detail dif- ferent from what he has been known to have in mind all along. Herein is a fine example of the Taft firmness that underlies the Taft smile, confronted by which the railroad presidents made a very sober-visaged procession as they emerged from the White House. It must by this time be apparent to all that the administration is not to be swerved from its policies by any spe- clal pleadings aimed against the gen- eral welfare. While there has been no disposition on the part of the pr ident to attempt any measures of un- necessary hardship against corporate interests, he has never faltered in his determination to ask congress to amend the laws regulating traffic and commerce wherever in his judgment the public good will thereby.be con- served, The health director of a large east- ern city says that he hds proofs that some physiclans do not administer an- titoxin in either curative or preventive doses, and that as a result diphtheria has made great inroads. He charges that the physiclan’s reason is that the proper use of the remedy reduces the number of visits and the consequent income. Such an accusation seems in- credible, and if the director has the proofs it is his public duty to have the state deprive the offenders of li- cense to practice. Juggling with child- ren's health ought not to be tolerated in any community. Much sympathy will be . expressed for John R. Walsh, the Chicago mag- nate, who will be compelled to worry along for the next few years with only a paltry $750,000 standing between him and the poor house. It is such trials as this, however. that brings out the best there is in a man, and we feel sure that Mr, Walsh will prove suffi- clently heroic to make the struggle uncomplainingly. The Omaha brewers showed a com- mendable spirit when they shut down their plants pending a decision in the court of a technical question Involving their right to license to manufacture beer. No effort was made to run the breweries in the interim, the managers waiting patiently for the action of the court. This spirit will go far to- wards settling the liquor question in Nebraska. In laying down his work in connec- tlon with the Harriman lines, Mr, Erastus Young closes a record of un- usual service with the Union Pacific railroad. Other men have spent a greater length of years with the com- pany than did Mr. Young, but none have achieved a better record in the performance of their duty. The Metropolitan opera directors of New York are to send a Nebraska singer to Europe to cultivate her for stellar honors. This is not a novelty for Omaha musicians are already high in tavor of foreign capitals. Rhode Island having established a rigorous marriage license law, the snug little state has abolished a thriv- ing industry in serving as the Gretna Green of its neighbors. Mysterious are the ways of Providence. The reorganization of the Omaha Board of Education under the new law was accomplished without much effort. Whether the body will be more efficlent only the future can determine Tesla is ;gun on the ve}g’e of Invent- ing. This time it is & wireless trans- mitter of electric flame that shall il- luminate the whole United States. The | skeptical will make light of it. The fate of De La Grange will not add to the popularity of aviation. The ease with which the expert is killed shows that man is far from conquering the principle of bird flight. The Omaha building year started ofll at a pace that promises to set a new mark if maintained, and the Builders’ exchange banquet was not the less en- joyable because of the outlook. another cent per quart out of the poor buyer, in face of the already exorbi- tant profit, will prompt the heads of The '&gtyon vered by the Roosevelt party 1§ not so formidable 88 it soun It appaars to be the or- 1ginal ng Brier Fox, which lay Jow ‘these 'years till an American ex- preaident ¥puted him out 'y familied to breathe the indignant preyer that in the case of the unjust mjlk magnate the prosecution may be along criminal linés and may succeed. As for theé southern tobaeco soclety, that has been @ national scandal, with [, The unusual honor paid & retiring private soldier by the commander at Fort Crook is & tribute to creditable service, but only emphasizes the merit of Sergeant King's record, Too Much of a J Washington Star. Danish selentists are doubtless congratu- aling thetlelves on the fact that they OMAHA, WEDNESDAY JAN will not be called on linger-Pinchot dlscus: to referee the jon Bal- Not Much of a Novelty. Boston Transeript The new senator from Mississippl s hardly unique by reason of once having had @ price put on his head, He 1s not the first psenator who has had his price. Waste of Energy. Detroit Free Press. Those husbands who are trying to keep the papers away from their wives and daughters while the bargain sales are on might as well get out an injunction against the invasion of the Halley comet Another Job for Roosevelt. Pittsburg Dispateh, The suggestion that Americans buy the Korgo State and make Roosevelt ruler of it to end the misgovernment there may be due less to care for the welfare pf the Kongo than a desire to keep him abroad permanently. It Congress Would. Washington Herald So far, dongress has hedged agalnst the high cost of llving much more satisfac- torily from the personal point of view than the general. If congress would fix things 80 that everybody else's salary might elther be Increased 5 per cent or made to €0 0 per cent farther, much would be forgiven. A Jolt for Croakers. St. Louis Republic. It may be, as enyious Europeans claim, that Americans are great chasers of the al- mighty dollar, but the $140,000,000 bestowed upon public benefactions in this country during the vear sufficiently proves that when we catch up with the dollar we do not squeeze it hard enough to make the eagle thereon scream with pain ¥ Would Life Be Worth Indianapolls News. Another thing should be remembered by those ‘statesmen who are always pointing out the automobile habit as an evidence of the plain people’s increasing extrava- gance, If the people who can’'t afford them were to quit buying automobiles most of the automobile factories would have to go out of busines: Fitted for Hardship. Washington Herald. “There is on more chance for your ene- mies to defeat your confirmation than for a cellulold dog to catch an asbestos cat in Hades,” wired Senator “Bob" Taylor to Judge Lurton recently. Sooner or later, perhaps, the democrats (n the senate will select Mr. Taylor as their leader. That, whatever else It may or may not da, will add considerably to the gayety of the na- tions, we apprehend. Dramatic Argument. . Colller's Weekly. For ways that are dark and for tricks that are vain, theatrical folk are peculiar. Take the common method of advertising “runs. A play begins its metropolitan career—name furnished on request—in mid- April; It plays until July, and in Septem- ber it reopens with ‘‘seven months' run in New York” elght-sheeted across the coun- try. Another opens in November and plays until February 1, “Two vears on Broad- way.” “Isn’'t 108 one year?' the press agent asks. “‘Well, {sn’t 1909 another?"’ What We are Coming To. Chigago Post. Mr. Nikola Tesla, who has not predicted anything really marvelous for a long while back, tells us that iIn twenty years we shall see a “wirelass electric light” run by & current shippgd from the producing plant over ether waves, And we suppose there is no good reason to doubt him, With the wireless telegraph now In action and the wireless, telephone looming over the horizon the wireless Incandescent light seems not at all impossible. How far Is this elimination of wire to go, by the way? We can never have wireless mos- quito screens, we suppose, but may not some future wizard give us wireless poli- ties? TRUST REGULATIO Problem of Securing an Effective Check on Greed. Philadelphia Fress. A dishonest and malicious attempt is ap- parent in many quarters to prejudice Presi- dent Taft's offorts to solve the trust prob- lem by asserting that the president's plans for the regulation of trusts will prevent thelr summary suppression. Neither President Roosevelt nor President Taft has ever proposed the prohibition of all combinations. 1In all his speeches from the beginning President Roosevelt asserted the necessity and wisdom of combinations, provided they were properly regulated. He dld not propose to destroy, but reform. Neither does President Taft. Both are as one. Both have pointed out that larger and larger corporations and combinations are Inevitable. Both have admitted that the modern development of trade calls for them. Both have demanded that trusts should be regulated, not pro- hibited, and prevented from destroving competition and doing injury to competi- tors. It competition Js preserved, fair prices are required, all trust contracts made public, their rallroad rates known and thelr capitalization and profits regulated, the mere size of a combination can do no harm. Trusts do harm, not because they are big, but because they are secret. superlor to the law, stifle competition, raise prices, are free from regulation and enjoying speclal privileges from railroads. Remove these evils and the evils of trusts are removed. The screen of the trusts has been through state - charters, issued by states llke New Jersey. These alded secrecy, eluded federal and state jurisdic- tion, avolded yegulation and destroyed competition. The circult court decision in the Standard Ol case strikes down this screen. If affirmed at Washington it makes a state charter of little worth as a screen to the acts of trusts Nation-wide trade and nation-wide cor- porations must still exist. Substitute a federal Incorporation act for the state charter and federal regulation ean prevent the evils, while preserving the economy and efficlency of the great combinations. Those who oppose this are directly or indirectly, consclously of unconselously, the supporters and defenders of trusts and thelr evils. || Our Birthday Book January 5, 1910, David 8. Bispham, the concert singer, celebrated his 530 birthday. He Is a native of Philadelphia, and sang here in Omaha last year. Henry Loomis Nelson, author and maga- zine editor, was born January 5, 1846, In New York City. Slason Thompson, who is holding down a bureau of railway statistics over in Chi- cago, i just 6 today. Slason Thompson comes from New Brunswick, and put in his earller years as a newspaper man. Josephus E. Rugg, retired stockgrower, living at the Normandle, was born Jan- uary §, 182 He Is & Vermonter and did a thriving cattle business in Wyoming and 1daho up to ten years ago, when he moved to Omaha. Army Gossip Matters of Interest Onm And Back Gleaned from The comptroller of the treasury has pro- pared a new mounted pay certificate to be filed by army officers who are entitled to that extra emolument. Thia new certificate will require an army officer, entitled to mounted pay, to show the place where he maintains his mount or mounts. It will then become a question for sentiment the accounting officers of lthe treasury whether the officer Is, under the law, en- titled to receive mounted pay. It Is appre clated that no iron-clad adopted, and it looks as it every case must be settled upon the individual circum- stances, Involving the station and duty of the officer and the location of the animal The geographical factor is destined to enter vitally into the’ determination of questions which arise. Congressional sentiment may be de- scribed as entertaining greater favor to- ward the proposition for an increase in the commissioned personnel of the military establishment. The chairmen and mem- mittees have expressed themselves as en dorsing the project, although it does not definitely gppear that the Increase will be to the extent of the 612 officers contem- plated by the War department measure which has been introduced by Senator Warren. It really looks as if something needed and so urgently presented to con- gress as an adequate means of supplying a deficlency In personnel. As has already been expressed in these columns ion at the capitol s that the egtra officer bill stands an even chance of enactment in the military legisiation accomplished at the present sesslon of congress. It if that would be about the only army islation enacted, outside of the provision for the support and maintenance of the military establishment, the appro- priations for which have this year been re- duced in an unprecedented example of con- gressional prudence. leg- Army officers are discussing with lively {nterest the appointment which will be| made by President Taft to the grade of | brigadier general in January. It is under- #tood that senators who have to do with the confirmation of army nominations | have signitied to Mr. Taft the desirability | of confining these appointments to officers who are not, to be immediately retired. The recent annougcensent of appointments to the srade, Involving the retirement of three officers, upon advancement, has attracted corsiderable attention at the capitol and has been made the subject of much adverse comment, which, of course, 1§ in no degree durected against the officers who are recog- nized as being entitled to the distinction and reward conferred upon them. At the same time, it is also pointed out that thesu retirements have hitherto been the oceasion of eriticism in both the house and senate and it has been stated that they are to fur- nish Representative Prince of Illinols, a prcminent and active member of the house military committee, with an opportunity to address the house when the army appro- priation bill comes up for consideration after the holiday recess, Under the circum- stances and in view of the senatorial atti- tude, as described to Mr. Taft, it is ex- pected the president will select as brigadier general an officer who has at least a year to servo. There has been a rumor at the War department that the senate would refuse to. confirm the officers whose ap- pointments have been announced and who are to be promptly retired upon advance- ment; but there is no indlcation of such ad- verse senatorial action or of any intimation to the president that the nominations should not be made as given out at the War de- partment. The expectation is that some colonel of Infantry will be appointed to the grade of brigadler general in January, largely on the showing that it is due Lo that arm by virtue of its proportionate representation In the list of general officers. The army medical authorities are much' eratified with the prospect of a large class at the examination to be held in all parts of the country on January 17 of candidates for appointment to the army medical corps, Up to this date there are sixty-four can- didates and it is expected the entire class will number seventy-five by the time the examinations are held. There arc already four approved candidates who have passed the examination and who will form a part of the next class at the army medical school. It is hoped that enouga of the candidates will qualify to make an appre- clable showing toward filling ‘the elghty- three vacancies which now exist in the junior grade of the army medical corps. The corps has been greatly bencfited by the legislation which Increused and reoi-| ganized that branch of the army. In 1906-7 the vacancles exceeded the new admissions to the corps. In May, 1908, an examination of fifty-elght candidates gave only nine qualified men. In August of that year, four months after the passage of the reor- ganization bill, there were 128 avplicants and twenty-five accepted candidates. In the period between October, 1905, and the same month of 1909, by which time the ad- | vantages of service in the corps have been made known, there was a substantial in- | crease (n the number of applicants and | accepted candidates. The records show that In January and July of 1909 270 candi- | dates were examined and fifty-seven were accepted and the attendance at the medical school this year Is fifty-elght, us com- pared with ten in 1507 and thirty-three in 16408, senlor depart- i have | Approaching retirements of five officers of the quartermaster's ment of the army will caus that branch and will changes In duties, a part of which already been determined upon by Q master General Aleshire. Other will be arnounced later. These ments, elther for age or by will occur during the next six months and in- volve Colonels William 8. Patten, John W Pullman, James W. Pope and 1 Colonels Willlam W. Robinson and J. E. Sawyer, with possibly (wo others by re quest on account of service. This will pro- mote to the next higher grade Lieutenant Colonels Frederick Von Schraeder, Ry R Stevens and F. G. Hodgson, Majors Thomas Cruse, D, E. McCarthy, John Knight, John M. Carson, jr., and J. Baxter and Captains A. 5. Blekham, W. M Coulling, W. C. Cannon, . W. Arnold and C T. Baker. The ch s in duties already | | determined upon Include the assignment of Captaln Harry L. Pettus to the charge of the quartermaster depot in Washingtc in place of Major M. G. Zalinskl, who will | 80 on temporary duty in the office of the quartermaster gencral; the assignment of Captain F. L. Wells, Bleventh infantry, | recently detalled to quartermaster duty, 1o relleve Captain Frank A. Grant at Gov- ernors Isiand, the latter officer going to San Franclsco as assistant at the Fort Mason depot; Captain F. T. Arnold trans- terred from Fort Robinson, Neb., to New London, Conn., relieving Captain Charles A. Baker, who goes to Fort Wright. In the meantime, orders for examination for promotion have been issued to Captains | Cannon, Arnold, Charles T. Baker Scott, J. M. Baker—who will be examined In Manila—Rolte and Chamberlin, rerire request, itenant | by | gulation can be | bers of the house and senate military com- | would be done In the direction so greatly | the opin- | looks as | regular | | above Age Cone Springfleld (Mass.) Republican. The congressional directory for the Sixty- first congress, now beginning its firat regular session, has just appeared. It contains a 1ist of senators and representa- tives arranged according to length of serv- fce, and the first thing to arrest attenton Is the great youth of the senate. Of ninety-two members of the upper chamber no less than forty-elght, or more | than one-half, have five years or less of service to their credit, and not less than sixty-five have been In their seats no more than ten years. In other words, the | senators who have served more than ten years constitute less than one-third of the chamber, and of the twenty-seven mem- bers who have served more than ten years, seven exceed that period of service by only a few months, and of the twenty with nearly en or more years in the senate to boast of, twelve date back no further | than 18%. Thus only elght senators are of more than fifteen years standing. They are Kugene Hale and Willlam P. Frye of Maine and lsof W. Aldrich of Rhod Island, who entered the senate in 1881 Shelby M. Cullom of Illinols, 1883; John W. Danlel of Virginia, 1887; Jacob H. Gallinges of New Hampshire, 1891; and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and George C, Per- kins of California, who entered in 1893. It may be doubted whether before siuce the clvil war so youthful a body of men in point of service has ever filled the upper chamber. It seems but yesterday that Mr, | Lodge was a “junior” ‘senator, yet here he appears among the first seven of the | veterans. | There house here the are always to be found in the a few! cases of extended service therein, but they are rarely very numer- ous. In the present house, however, of 3% members (two vacancles existing to bo tilled), there are ninety-four men who have served five terms up to the present one, or ten years. They constitute about one- fourth of the whole number, while the 10- vear or older members of the senate con- stitue not much more than one-fourth of that body It is an unusual slituation which has brought the senate closely to a parity with the house in the small proportion which the older bears to the younger membership. There is no member of the senate who has served as much as, or over thirty years, but Speaker Cannon of the house has thirty-four years of membership in that body, and H. H. Bingham of Pennsylvanta, thirty years, each with elections toe two more years. Including the present term, Sereno E. Payne of New York is credited with thirteen terms, John Dalzell of Penn- sylvania, twelve; and Hull of Towa, Jones of Virginia and Livingston of Georgla, with ten each. Of the elght members having nine terms to thelr election two are from Massachusetts — Glllett and McCall, We have to jump over among the seven-term members to find any more Massachusetts representatives—Lawrence, Greene and Lovering. It may be sald, therefore, that that con- servatism, which is begotten by great length of service In either branch of con- gress is exceptionally weak In the senate of today and exceptlonally strong In the house, where it {s also aided by control of the autocratic machinery that has grown up In that body. Thus for once in the country's history the radicallsm of the day can find larger hope for itself In the United States senate than in the popular branch of congress COST OF COLD STORAGE. Means Employed to Boost the of Neceasaries, Boston Herald, When the investigation of the cost of living gets under way one of the factors in the product for food supplies which will invite the probe of the investgators will be the cold storage warehouse. Ac- cording to a statement recently made by the president of the American Warehousemen's association, 1,500,000,00 eggs were in cold storage the first of September, being held there in order that the egg market might be controlled and the price of eggs kept at a high level. It was sald with equal au- thority that a similar amount of butte was being held in cold storage for similar purposes. In otner words, $55,000,000 worth of f00d products were withdrawn from the markets of this country and an arbitrary price level created which had no connec- tion with the law of supply and demand, which should be the ruling force in an open and competitive market. The cold storage process has accomplished remarkable bene- fits for the consumer in many ways. Rightly used it would be the means of re- ducing the cost of his living. Wrongly it has Increased the cost of his living and created immense profits for specula- tors and manipulators. With the facili- ties of cold storage the market can be broken to such an extent as to ruin any Idependent movement to regulate it. With the facilities of cold storage a sufficient amount of the natural market can be with- drawn at any time to create an effective corner and to put prices at any desired point. The authoritative figures quoted are sufficlent evidence to family head in the United States now being forced to pay famine prices for but- ter and eggs to convince him of the im- portance of an Immediate and an Insistent appeal to the president and to congress for a complete and thorough investigation of this and other factors which tended to increase the cos: of 11ving beyond the point where there is a reasonable and natural explanation. Price used, any | PERSONAL NOTES. Leslle M. Shaw been would happen politically were Taft velt and Bryan to die suddenly. | he's Hght, but what'a.the use? | An aged woman recently called at the | Rockefeller home and asked for §700,000. Unfortunately the gentleman of the house | was away and she did not got it | General James B. Weaver of Iowa, once presidential candidate of the greenbackers | ana twice of the populists, has turned di- | vine healer. He is now In his 7Tth year | A Chicago official who s neither a hu- | mortst mor a fame seeker, wants his sal- |ary reduced 10 per cent. Just as dime mu- seums go out of favor materfal for exhibits multiply. In the opinfon of the Springfield Repub- lican Dr. Cook is the champlon guesser of | the age. In sporting clrcles the New York |Times is the favorite the guessing champlonship. Like some other great fortunes, the late King Leopold's has shrunk amazingly on examination. The ‘“old reprobate” died worth less than $10,000,000. No one can say, however, how much he had spent or given away. He was certainly a money-gettor. To keep warm and healthy Peary may be compelled to spend his winters in the Arc- tio. After returning several years ago he was lald up with a severe cold, something he had never had in the north, and now he goes down to Maryland and has his ears trozen. Prof. George Severance of the agricul- tural department of the Washington State college, drawing a salary of $2,00 a yer has resigned to take charge of three farms just beyond the boundary line in Canada, With a salary of $3,00 a year and all his expenses paid, and 18 also to have an Inter- est in the profits. An automobile is to be provided for his use in running around his k on the farms. CHEERY CHAFF. Mrs. Gabbel—What do you think, George? When the doctor called the other day hd. asked me to put out my tongue, and when 1 did 8o he quite hurt me. He Mr. Gabbel (interposing)—Did he step on it?—Chicago Examiner. has telling what Roose- Maybe wo Mr. Dubbs (with newspaper)—It tells he my dear, how @& progressive New York woman makes her social calls by telephone. Mrs. Dubbs—Progressive, Huh! She's probably like me—not a decent thing to wear.—Hogton Transcript. “Man's inhumanity to man," chuckled the backer of the winning pugilist who had pounded the other chap to felly, “‘makes countless thousands cheerfuily “pay good money o see It working."—Washing- ton Star. “Is Jimson lazy?" “Lazy? Well, there are just two jobs he could il i “What are they?’ “Raking leaves in winter and shoveling snow in summer."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “I'll be ready in a minute,” she sald to her_husband. 4 “You needn't hurry now,” he called up some time later, I find that 1 shall have to shave again.’—Detroit Free Press. Patience—They say she got all her furni- ture on the installment plan? Patrice—She Aid. She has had four hus- bands, and_she got & little furniture with each one.—Yonkers Statesman. Mrs, Frost—Who was it that said: perfect peace?"’ Frost—Some one whose teiephone was out of order.—Life. “You brainless cad!” exclalmed the man with the lofty dome of thought. “Ha!" retorted the man with the pale, scholarly cast of countenance, regardin him with immeasurable scorn; “'you colossal jgnoramus, it I am ‘brainless,’ where do my sensory nerves reglster their impressions? ‘Exclugively in your spinal cord!” was the crushing rejoinder.—~Chicago Tribune. JIM—A CONGRESSMAN. Edgar A, Guest in Detrolt Fres Press. When Jim was 'lected Congressman four years ago, 1 vowed % My cup o' Joy was brimmin' full, an’ I wuz mighty ‘proud; “My (i “make his mark,” I said, “the world will know his name, » He'll rise above th' common run, an uncommon fame, 3 His volce will rirg throughout th' land, his words eleetrify,"” i An' then I sat t' wait fer him t' eateh the Speaker's eye. ‘Peace, \ win I bragged about my Jim a lot, my Jim in Washington, i HoAl show -¢m how,” T told my friends, “this country should be run; Jes' walt until he makes a ‘speech, then you'll all admit That when It comes to Jim is full of it.” An' so wo waited. Weeks an’ weeks an’ months an’ months went by, An’ Jim down there a-tryin’ hard t' catch the speaker's eye. wisdom, my boy Th' nelghbors took t' jokin' me, If T went for a walk They'd stop me on th' street When's Jim a-goin’ t' tlk?” Until at lest T wrote t Jim, an' said: hoy, It's time You made that malden speech o yours, if you are goln' t' climb; You can't foul your constituents; it ain't no use to try." An' Jin wrote back: “I'm waltin' still ¢ catch th' Speaker's eve. an' say: “My Each summer Jim come home t' us, he glve some speeches here That brought th' house down ev'ry time, an’ made th' people cheer, An' every time he went away we'd sit ai walt an' wait, T hear that Jim had had th' some big debate; But not a word has come from him, now when I pass by, Folks twit me, askin’ {f my Jim has cau; th' Speaker's eye. floor an' led an' Jim's back in Washington again, in con- gress makin' laws, Plumb sure that this' term he will chance ' plead his cau He's got on some commitees, men know he's there, New York papers quoted some trust affair; Ma an' 1 are n't have t' dle Jim's reckoned big enough t' get the peaker's eye. got & ‘an’ some big ™ him sbout An' prayin' now that we ELGIN MINUTES HERE'S a modern ten- dency to com- bine business and sociability. Punctual- ity so becomes at once a duty and a courtesy; it’s best backed by an Elgin LORD ELGIN, Thin Model Pendant Winding and Setting. 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