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AS TO THE BENEFITS.
The editor of the Foley Independent
seems to think that the farmers in
Stearns and Benton counties are not
deriving any benefits from the road
construction program of the highway
department. It would be most sur
prising if they are not because there
is no question concerning the benefits
the farmers are deriving in adjoining
counties. The Independent asks how
many farmers have been employed in
the construction of the roads. A
large number of men from Millc Lacs
and SheTburne counties were employed
during the summer on the Elk lliver
Zimmerman road. We suppose only a
small per cent of them were farmers
as most of the farmers were busy dur
ing the summer with their own work
and were not seeking employment else
where. This fall a large number of
farmers have been employed in grad
ing and graveling the roads in Mille
Lacs, Isanti and Sherburne counties
The Independent alco asks if the
roads have improved the marketing
conditions. Last fall scores of trucks,
loaded with potatoes, made daily trips
between Princeton and Minneapolis.
These trucks in many cases were load
ed directly from the fields. It would
seem that this must have been of some
convenience to tho farmers who
wished to sell a portion of their pota
to crop immediately. Of course no
one derives more benefit from the
good roads than the farmer who
drives on them in hauling his produce
to his market town.
Our bus service, such as it is, is
proving to be a great convenience to
many of the farmers who live near
the Scenic highway. By taking the
bus instead of the train, they can fre
quently eliminate a drive of twelve
miles.
No, the men who supported Amend
ment No. 1 have not been embar
rassed by being obliged to make ex
cuses for the highway department.
That department has made good.
Neither Mr. Babcock nor his associates
made promises that they cannot ful
fill. It has been said that Minnesota
today ranks second among the states
in miles of road built, under construc
tion or under agreement lor construc
tion, in conjunction with federal aid
funds distributed since July 1, 1916.
A communication has been received
from a stockholder of the Mills Lacs
County Times, a farmer residing
near Milaca, who does not ap
pear to be highly plotted with the
attitude of the Times editor. This
editor has frequently asserted that
those who believed he was not giving
satisfaction to his employers, the
stockholders who own the paper,
should attend some of their meetings
and hear the opinions expressed in re
gard to the manner in which the paper
is being conducted. If many of the
stockholders share the sentiments of
our correspondent, we do not believe
that even the editor himself would
care to be present at the meetings to
say nothing of inviting some of the
rest of us to witness the fray. The
writer asked us to publish the letter
but we have been obliged to refuse
because we do not wish to see another
miserable libel suit dragged out in our
county. Such things give the county
too unsavory a reputation and they
are sometimes thoughtlessly brought
on because the average man does not
realize that the truth is oftentimes
libelous. We would suggest however
that the farmeis and pui ocularly the
Times stockholders who rre not in
sympathv with the editor's views voice
their protests at some o^ their meet
ings. Just as long as the man
whoeiing
own the Mille L.acs County Times re
main silent and allow tirades of the
editor to continue they lend their ap
proval to the stand that he takes.
The United States is now emerg
ing from a condition of chaos, and it
would seem that the great need for the
present emergency is clear thinking,
basing our action on facts and not
on fancies, putting our faith in work
instead of words, relying on accom
plishments and not promises, and not
mistaking license for liberty. The
world is surfeited with cure-alls of
fered by irresponsibles. These quack
political doctors proclaim loudly and
promice muchthey even prescribe for
ills which do not exist. The real cure,
however, is so old fashioned that many
of us fail to recognize it. It is work.
The people who are recovering the
most rapidly from the effects of the
war are those who are working in
stead of talking, who are practicing
economy instead of extravagance, and
who, in putting their own houses in
order, are solving the problems con
fronting the country.
Henry Watterson is dead. He was
known to his friends as "Marse Henry"
and was the last surviving member of
the old suothern school of journalism.
He was nearly 82 years old. For the
past few years he had taken no active
part in newspaper work, having re
tired when his paper, the Louisville
Courier-Journal, passed into the hands
of Robert W. Bingham. He was a
democrat, a veteran of the confederate
army in the civil war and a fiery wicld
er of the pen.
According to a report prepared by
the census bureau, more thrn 50 per
cent of the people of the United States
over 10 years of age are engaged in
gainful occupations. Seventy-eight per
cent of the men and boys are wage
earners. The same is true with regard
to 21 per cent of the women and girls.
There has been little fluctuation of
the male workers since 1880. In that
year, however, only 14 per cent of
women and girls were wage earners,
showing an advance of 7 per cent in
the interim. In 1880 there was oneHere's
woman at work to every five and a
half men. At present the ratio of the
workers is one woman to every three
and six-tenths men. Reduced to exact
figures ,the increase in women work
ers advanced 1,400,000 between 1880
and 1890. These figures fail to bear
out the stories with regard to an enor
mous increase of women workers dur
ing the war, though a slightly larger
number were working in 1918 than in
1920. The period of the greatest in
crease in women workers was from
1900 to 1910.
Now is the time for everyone to
cast a glance backward over the past
twelve months, take a survey of the
future, gird up his loins and prepare
to enter upon another lap of the jour
ney. The way may not be altogether
smooth but it is only the weakling who
loses heart. As Sir William Osier said
in his famous address, "A Way of
Life," avoid too much retro- and intro
spection. Rememroer
the mistakes of
the past only to profit by them, do not
let them interfere with the future.
Shut off the future as tightly as the
past and live in the present only. Al
most any man can handle the affairs
of one day and that is all that is re
quired of any of us. So in entering
upon the year 1922 we would do well
to remember that each one has ahead
365 new days, 365 opportunities to
play a clean game and make a good
score.
From our understanding of the newdisease.Red
treaty it does not impose reckless ex
tended obligations on the United
States nor does it encroach on our
sovereignty by giving an international
body the right to summon us to war.
We only agree to submit differences
with any of our associates to a conven
tion of the four powers. In case of
aggressive action in the Pacific by an
outside powera very remote con
tingencywe promise in r.rticle 2 to
confer with the other three nations
included in the pact. This article 2
follows the lines of the Anglo-Jap
anese treaty, but it does not pledge
unconditional assistance as that treaty
did. It will have to be decided by con
gress whether military aid shall be ex
tended or not.
Eugene V.* Debs, seditionist, and 28
other prisoners, including five soldier
"lifers," have been released from fed
eral prison by order of President
Harding'. Is the president suffering
from spasmodic softening of the heart
or is this wholesale pardoning a politi
cal move? So far as releasing the
five soldiers tried and sentenced by a
court martial for murdering a British
officer is concerned, we agree with the
president's action, but/a^to the turn
ing loose of the most radical sedition
ists upon the country, we take excep
tion from the viewpoint of an Ameri
can citizen.
The St. Cloud Journal-Press, as
usual, is correct in stating that Ru
dolph Lee of the Long Prairie Leader
could ably represent the Todd-Wadena
district in the state senate. Lee is
progressive but not an extremist and a
few men of his type could obtain more
beneficial legislation for the farmers
than all the nonpartisan candidates
that could be herded into a forty-acre
field.
This is the era of inventions and sci
entists have even made the transmis
sion of sounds and signals for thous
ands of miles practicable, but no in
ventor has so far succeeded in discov
a means of extracting the elec
tricity which steals into the newsprint
on press day and impels the feeder to
fill the atmosphere with brimstonious
epithets.
A casual glance at the frcnt page of
last week's Milaca Times would convey
the impression that the editor of that
paper had been gathered to his fathers.
But upon closer inspection it is clearly
apparent that he had merely placed a
mourning border around a Christmas
greeting.
Now comes a writer in the Asia
magazine and tells us that there are
Chinese poets of eminence. May be,pated
but our experience in trying to read
Chinest poems in the original lan
guage has been that we could never
make two lines rhyme to our satisfac
tion.
Speaking in the interests of prohibi
tion enforcement, Frank Day advises
every Minnesota editor to attach a
battery to his backbone. In this way,
Frank has probably discovered, a man
can get "juice" with a greater kick in
it than moonshine.
It is reported that a Carver county
farmer who lost $25 found the money
at the bottom of his silo among the
fermenting ensilage. It would now be
in order for some mean person to ask
him what he was doing down there.
Verily times have changed when
3,400 Irish political prisoners are
freed from jail and not one of them
has reached New York to seek a job
on the police force.
While our bank account has not exdent
hibited any tendency to go soaring up
to dizzy heights during the past year
we have managed to keep our heads
above water and have been able to
meet all our obligations when due.
For this we are truly thankful and we
wish to express to our friends an ap
preciation of the patronage they have
given us during the past year. We
know of nb other paper that receives
more loyal support from its home
community than does the Union.
wishing everyone a Happy New
Year.
Several excellent Christmas editions
appeared among our exchanges two
weeks ago, two *of the best of which
were the Kanabec County Times and
the Bemidji Sentinel. We would like
to congratulate these papers on the
fact their big issues of December
15 were followed by extra large edi
tions the following week. The paper
that can bring out two big editions on
successive weeks certainly deserves
honorable mention.
As so-called "heathens" the Chinese
delegates at the arms conference are
doing splendidly. They seem to be the
only foreigners who speak understand
able English.
A San Francisco dispatch conveys
he information that the Arbuckle
trial may be delayed. Of course. Ar
buckle has the necessary money to de
lay it. OPINIONS OF EDITORS
Different Sort of Fighting.
Still there are cynics who keep on
parroting the familiar refrain: "You
can't stop warfare because man is a
fighting animal, and human nature
never changes." Yes, we will fight
but people who used to fight each other
are beginning to fight armament and
taxes and poverty and ignorance and
Wing Eagle.
Sure Thing, O'Brien.
The paragraphers have been won
dering what the men of Ireland will
do when they can't fight against Eng
land. See what happened in St. Paul
when Mr. Gibbons debated with Mr.
O'Dowd with no talking aloud. Don't
worry about the Irish, they'll get
along peaceably even if they have to
fight for it.Eden Valley Journal.
Cheerfulness in the Air.
Looks as if the "deflation" process
is nearing its end and that more busy
times may be expected in the coming
year. Interest rates are dropping,
industries are employing more people
arfd activity in building is increasing
everywhere. It may take a year or
two yet to get back to the steady
progress before the war, but it is
coming.Warroad Pioneer.
Back to Old Dobbin.
It is highly probable that Roseau
county will abandon the use of ma
chinery driven by gasoline and go back
to horsepower driven by oats in its
road work the coming year. Horse
power and oats have goLcen cheaper,
while gasoline is still much higher
than before the war. And, besides
that, it is desirable to keep the money
spent on road improvements within
the county.Warroad Pioneer.
Young Blood to the Farm.
One of the great laments in agri
culture has been the tendency of the
young to leave the farms and seek the
towns. Now the tide has begun to
flow the other way, and agriculture is
in a fair way to get the young blood
which it needs. A grange lecturer
recently told his hearers that he had
noted a marked "back to the soil"
movement. What struck him particu
larly was the high percentage of
young people who were taking up and
starting to develop abandoned farms.
This is very likely true in many states,
and it is one more proof of the sense,
intelligence and courage of the coun
try's young men and women.Red
Wing Eagle.
Good! Hadley Loves the Movies.
We confess that we like the movies.
We don't mind telling the whole world
that we enjoy seeing hero Peerless
Pete foil the attempts of Alkpli Al to
make way with the cow-eyed heroine
We yearn to see the fearless hero dive
off the cliff, and come up from the
depths with a pocketfull of gold with
which to ransom Kittie, the Kareless
Kid, from the clutches of the pirates
And we also crave to see the comedian
plaster the Innocent Old Party in the
whiskers with an over-ripe custard pic,
and to see the fussy cop stop a dissi
tomato with the end of his nose
is to reach the very acme of delight.
And thus we eonfess to an eager and
expectant populace that we area low
brow, and a crude, coarse, and even
crass person. We like to see these
things in the movies because they
drive dull care away, and relieve the
tension of the everyday grind. And if
this be against your cultured class,
make the most of it!Winnebago En
terprise.
A Recipe.
Sleep is pronounced by a doctor as
only a habit. A phonograph in the
flat below will break this habit.De
troit News.
Can Dispense With His Friends.
Eugene Debs is a man of kindly
heart and very poor judgment. He got
into prison because he opposed the
government plan of "making the world
safe for democracy," which was near
enough treason to secure his convic
tion. When he was released from
prison, through the leniency of Presi-
THB PRINCETON UNION: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 195*1
Harding, he said: "I left 2,300
men back there and *hey all should be
given their liberty. They are all my
friends." These twenty-three hun
dred men were convicted of violating
the law, and to turn them all loose
would augment the crime wave, which
is sufficiently vigorous just now. Debs
is a fanatic and that means a mind
not well balanced.St. Cloud Journal
Press. England Finds Experiment Expensive.
After seven years of control amount
ing almost to ownership, England is
getting tired of trying to run the rail
roads of the country and is turning
them back to their owners. As a re
sult of the experiment, the taxpayers
are called upon to make good deficits
amounting to 181,081,149 pounds sterl
ing. In addition to the gTeat loss
which the taxpayers will now pay, the
service has greatly deteriorated and
the people are glad to have a new deal
even if the change means the imme
diate payment of a huge debt. Thus
is another failure added to the long
list of failures which have come with
their losses when the government has
tried to dip into private business. The
wretched railroad mixup in America
today is but a hold-over legacy of our
own experiment in government owner
ship. It is going to take the country
a generation to get things back to
normal again, to put rates where they
ought to be, get the politics out of the
railroad business and give service that
is adequate. Normalcy in railroading
will never come to us again until the
hampering and harassing conditions
which grew up under government con
trol are removed and that is going to
take a lot of time. The element that
wants "nationalization of railroads"
is busy every day with its propaganda
and it is well for the people to be on
their guard. The best way is to never
overlook how "nationalization" actual
ly works. This is better than to take
the rosy statements of those who hope
to profit by the nationalization.Long
Prairie Leader.
America and Russia Compared.
Jane Adams says that the famine
in Russia, considered in connection
with the plenty in the United States is
evidence of the stupidity of the human
race.
It is evidence of the stupidity of
those who follow after demagogues
and doctrinaires, or submit without re
sistance to their dictatorship. It is
evidence at the same time of the in
telligence of those who stick to the
fundamentals of free, stable govern
ment as provided in the American con
stitution.
That one person should stick his
hand in the fire and get burned is not
evidence of the stupidity of the hu
man race in general, but only of the
lack of intelligence displayed by the
individual who has, to learn where not
to put his hand by so unintelligent a
method.
The famine in Russia is primarily
due to drouth in the Volga region. The
secondary reason is that the commun
ist government assumed that it could
seize all the surplus grain raised by
the peasants to feed bureaucratic of
ficials and soldiers and that the Rus
sian farmer would go on raising a sur
plus. But the peasant, when he saw
that he would not be permitted under
communism to retain that for which
he had labored, simply refused to raise
more grain than was necessary to sup-
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The closing of another year
could not be done satisfactorily
to ourselves without an expres
sion of gratitude to you for
your good will and friendship,
so in a spirit of thankfulness
we extend to our friends and
patrons the compliments of the
season and wish them a happy,
bright and prosperous New
Year.
port himself and family. The grain
surplus of the peasants of the Volga
region was thus wiped out,, and when
drouth came there was nothing to fall
back upon.
The bolshevist government has
learned its lesson and no longer takes
from the peasant all of his surplus
grain. It is confessing publicly the
futility of socialism. The lesson ought
not to be lost evert on American radi
cals who believe that by destroying
private property rights they can im
prove the condition of the masses.
America, "capitalist America," is go
ing to the rescue of a Russia brought
into the shadow of famine through the
application of a political and economic
philosophy long advocated by radicals
of many brands as a remedy for pover
ty.National Republican.
Germany is Putting Forth an Effort,
The German government has made
a much more substantial contribution
to the solving of the reparation prob
lem than we could hope to obtain
through any such break between Great
Britain and France as empty rumor
has been occupied with during the
last few weeks. The German govern
ment has begun to set its own house
in order. The fight against paper
money inflation is on at Berlin. Such
inflation has been due in large meas
ure to the virtual financing of the
postal and telegraph services and the
railroads by means of the treaaury's
printing press. It is now announced
that postal and telegraph rates have
already been raised twenty-fold above
pre-war rates and that something like
a similar increase is to be applied to
the railroads.
Of even greater importance for its
bearing on the reparation problem is
the government bill for drafting pri
vate credits. The bill is described as
aiming to place "all so-called gold
values and all the assets of Germany's
trades and industries at the disposal
of the government" as the basis of a
guarantee for foreign loans. In reply
to the argument that the German gov
ernment is unable to meet even the
beginning of its reparation debt,
French opinion has pointed to the re
fusal of private interests in Germany
to co-operate with the government.
Stress has been laid on enormous
credits built up by German capitalists
abroad. This has been called evasion.
France has refused to subscribe in this
matter of finance to the distinction be
tween the German government and the
German people. It may well be that
the German government is too weak
to impose its will upon the German
financiers and industrialists. To this
the reply has been that the govern
ment ought at least to try. And that
is what the Wirth government is now
doing. When the German government
has done its best the obligation resting
upon the allies to recognize hard facts
will only be emphasized.
Senator Borah declared the other
day that America can do nothing to
save Europe until Europe shows the
will to save itself. The argument can
be carried a step forward. The allies
will not be induced to "save" Germany
until Germany has shown an intention
to save herself. Given at Berlin an
earnest effort to check inflation, to
balance budgets, to rally all Gorman
interests for the payment of Ger
many's dues, it will be easier for
public opinion to press for considera
tion to Germany at Paris and London
New York Evening Post.
PRINCETON OIL CO.
Princeton, Minnesota
Women on the Grand Jury.
It is no surprise to learn that nine
women have been selected to serve on
the next grand jury of Hennepin coun
ty. Women serving, as mayors, as
governors, as legislators and as jurors
bear witness to woman's enlarging
sphere of activity. These nine women
are the first to bo selected for grand
jury service in Hennepin county and
they are among the few that have yet
been drawn for grand jury service in
the United States.
In early Anglo-Saxon times twelve
"thegns" were called to form a jury
of presentment or accusation. They
did not determine the guilt or inno
cence of the accused. They merely
passed on whether there was a prima
facia case. The modern grand jury has
much the same function, and few of
our institutions have changed so little
as this one has.
The worthy thegns of Clarendon or
the early judges of Northampton
would indeed be surprised could they
now see women taking part in the
functioning of this ancient institution.
Such a thing would not be within the
scope of their wildest imagination.
But again the unexpected has come to
pass as this new field of activity and
civic duty widens to women.
The grand jury as an institution has
largely outlived its usefulness, and
the work of presentment could much
better be performed by prosecuting
attorneysas it is in some states.
But the abolition of the grand jury
would involve considerable readjust
ment in criminal procedure, for which
the legal profession seems to have lit
tle appetite.
The greatest change in this old
jury we are witnessing today. The
panel of progress has put women
alongside of men as jurors. And they
will doubtless show as much fairness,
judgment and acumen as male jurors
ever have.Minneapolis Journal.
Torturing the Mother.
The news columns carried an affect
ing story from Detroit the other day
that is worth repeating here in the
hope that it will meet the attention of
someone it might help who missed it
the first time.
A young man, twenty-six years old,
had been brought before a Detroit
court for stealingthe third time
within two years. He was found
guilty and it was discovered, also, that
he was a drug addict. When the court
was about to sentence him his mother,
the wife of a prominent up-state bank
er, appeared, and asked that she be
given the sentence instead of the son.
"I spoiled him as a child, and after
he had grown up," she tearfully told
the court. "I, not he, am to blame and
I should pay the penalty. Let him k
home with me and Til keep him there,
try to cure him, and report regularly
in his stead. If I fail to do so, you can
give me the sentence you were about
to impose on him."
The judge accepted the offer, and
mother and son returned home to
gether.
It is needless to comment on the
tragic pain such an experience must
bring to the loving heart of a mother,
but it is a common one, as all the
world knows. Yet it should make a
still more powerful impression on the
young man involved and every other
son and daughter who is tempted to do
wrong. The real sufferers when chil
dren disgrace themselves are the
mothers.Duluth Herald.
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