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MONDAY. MAY 22. 1922. WEBSTER CITY FREEMAN Issued erery MoniUy by th« Free nan-Journal Publishing Company Webster City, Iowa. Entered at the Webster City Post office as Second Class Matter. Foreign advertising representative— THE S. C. TIIEIS COMPANY, New York" and Chicago. The Freeman and Journal, both papers, per year 92JSQ The Daily Freeman-Journal, by mail, per year $5.00 Delivered, in city per year 96.00 .!uile a number of automobiles are Men iiJi.'Ut the 1U22 license plate. Tlic person who cannot pay the license -iti111st afford to own and drive a car. J-le would lie wise to dispose of it. And now "they are saying" flown in Missouri that the opposition of former l'residenl Wilson to Heed is helping the senator in liis nice for re-nomination, llsit few are believing it. however. As strange us it ljiay seem, the Genoa (inference has conceded that Germany and Hussia are interested and should have something to say about the reconstruct inn of Russia and Ger many. That is progress. AVhe» the price of gasoline gets as igli a* it can go it will slop going lip. is the conclusion of some wise philosopher. Do you remember before the waj when it retailed at nine cents a gallonV The nil itself doesn't cost any more now than it did then. Some of the highbrows are insisting Wiat tlie I'nited States can solve Eu rope's problems. Well, perhaps Europe can solve our problems, which is more than we have been able to do. This thing of solving problems off-hand is not as easy as it might be. Somchodv has charged that Director Dawes of the huge! system has nor suc ceeded in curtailing government ex penses. Although we have not seen .it must Mr. Dawes reply we can imagine it is something like 1'lii.s: il liar! etc., etc., and then some. Those two democratic newspapers, the Uingstad Dispatch ami Boone Coun ty Pioneer, are hiking unusual interest in the nomination of a republican candidate for congress from the Tenth district. They call themselves "iiule lendeiit." as democratic papers nlways do that arc ashamed of their party. It was announced a few days ago that the Iowa railroads are moving iiieio cars of freight than at any time ,'ince the l.onni (lays ot 11110. This is nw^-4 encouraging even though most .istonishini: while the big coal strike is on and during :i season when little iaii! i.« being moved. Generally speaking, the minimum up on which a family can live is tlie sum which the provider happens to earn.— Lincoln .lournnl. The Journal is not far wrong. The average family lives up about nil it makes and then complains at the few \\h» save ami accumulate. George E. Alter, candidate for gov ernor of Pennsylvania against GlfTord l'licboi. carried rhi'adelphin and I'tlfsbiirg by mure than 12i.0)0 liiajor ily. yet Pinchot was nominated by a Mibsfantial lead, the vote outside the cities, nut quite complete, standing as follows: Alter I i-li,HHI l'iiichot (kki. I'iv- li !it Harding and file republi can national cuiuniiilcc are wise in re lusiiig to take part iu the various con tests between republicans for scriator i.i! and congressional nominations. The jrcsidenf ought l«» be satisfied with t!i" election of good r'publicans and the j.mIional eo'nmiltei esily in the election of the candidate.' nominated by the party. E. Hunt. notary of the E continue. This :i:m1 another v(.r.-t is ovr. ClifTi rd Thome would be a pretty ,'0o(l man for Iowa to M'lid to the 1'niti States senate to co-npei Albert .1. Pevcridgi\ whom Indi goin il lcsults in bad whiskey, very bad whiskey, which "kills off the parasites iu the leisure class." Guess he is rk'ht about it. Society would hardly t,:ke ail axe and kill these try caii he kept going in open ami di rect competition with the output of plants in foreign lands where labor costs are but a fraction of the same costs here, is too preposterous to com mand serious eonsideration by people of common sense." diould be concerned ji,,., commissioned as postmasters since dent's conference o.i unemployment, 'ccnt "preference to declares in a tatcmciit that April !jng examinations for the eligilih Jiowed the largest gain iu employment appointments as postmasters of any uionlh during the present year, {number is considered 'ilio gain is steady and it is ::i(-iit 1 Mr. Hunt that it is going to |jj|s I he judg- gootl-l'or- »:tliillgs, even if it does feel like it. and perhaps bootleg whiskey is jmt i'(iui n.' .1 good public function after ail. because of the curtailed demand for money. The people have stopped bor rowing for speculative pentoses and are paying up as fast as they can. II state and local faxes could only Im1 •dreed it would help materially. Y&jrrr re American protective iK'licv is ready to idministration are M": cst any remedy but. the only realjj^rt. Watch the "Wo think the American people are entitled to have just what they want, says tlie IVs .Moines Capital. Wonder {slocks and it is reported ire increasing a The friends of Congressman Dickin son are conlidently expecting his re nomination by at. least a two to one vote. Ho has made the best record of any congressman from this district since the days of Dolliver and the people lire going to show him that they appreciate it. The. chances are there would have been no opjiosition to his re-]ii«niination but for disappoint ments in some quarters over the divi sion of socalicd federal patronage. The I'nited Department of Agri culture has established'!-specifications for 14 fruits and vegetables. The list is: barrelled apples, pouches, straw berries. cabbage, cucumbers, celery, let tuce, Kcriuudu onions, Northern grown onions, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, cauliflower and asparagus. Those iu teresteil in copies of the grade sjkm-Sli cations for any of these can obtain the same by addressing lie I'nited .States bureau of Market and Crop Estimates. The republicans of Iowa will be well represented in the upper house of con gress if Iturlon K. Sweet is chosen as United Slates senator. He has a ilne record as a member of the lower house and is a man who can be de pended upon to stay hitched without watching. While ttie Freeman-Journal The Pes Moines News, which had a disastrous fire a few days ago. is be ing printed in the office of the Capital aud in acknowledging its competitor says: gcntlennui in that he, extends a favor in a way that makes you feel that you are doing liini a favor by letting Iiini do it. That is the attitude of every one in The Capital oflice from the Lafes Young. Claude Jarnngin and John Hall to Messrs. Jones, Fowler and on down—or should one say "down when starting with an editor?" Senator New is what the hoys would call "a good old sport." He was de feated l'oi' re-nomination in the Indiana primaries and now announces that l.c is strongly for the ticket, declaring that he' "takes ofT his hat to the winner That is the right, spirit. The Iowa c.-.nilid ties for I'nited States senator must do likewise, if they want to Hold prblic respect, after the prima lit.» here, or after the state convention. When the nominee is named the party must bury all (inferences and present an un broken froul to the enemy. president Harding issued his executive |order Mav 10. 1l»-E !able No .salesmen country. where tlie Capital got that idea? people are entitled to hjivo anything without earning it and about every people will have what they earn sooner or Inter. If the Americans had every-Isiilc thing they wanted there wouldn't be anything left for anybody else. As v.anters. the American people have no superiors, or even equals. An old crab at our elbow says that Dr. 1 Soy ill S. Copebind. eoniinissionor oi' health in New York City, ought to ]jllgius iiij: is lite puis hope rj'hi* I.enine says that id by Uussiit when Ecnyon and would be able to lill Ken-j„(,t legitimate yon's I iocs. He tin-only one of the (,.,,,1 i,,to by tin I'-wa 1 andidates who could and would nssia can repudiate the debts owed qualify lo do .tliat. Pickett could but n,js emmtry for money borrowed wouldn't. lie is "11 I he oilier side of the political fence. order auth orized the Civil Service Commission I ires i- jitmi i)o-| authorities to give a l1^1' list ex-service nidi This rather remark- bv the Postollice Deparl no-lit in ils much as uim going to much a nine of them had no previ-1 i.an.lils and the strong is most encouraging iinsloliiee exiierience and a large {must crush them. indication that the {number of them had no business ei.ee whatever. the debts it was a ISoina not she now repudiate the deed convey- ing Alaska lo the I'nited Stale.-? If not. whv not Should llie present Has- Mr. Stone, head of the locomotive jin government ilvuiMci.rs. pro-ents another reason why th.it agreement and try to take pos-es prohibition is a good thing. He says sion d'Alaska il would men Some of the papers of the state are making predictions of the way the sen atorial primary is going to go. Some put Pickett in the lead, others think Thome will 1m- first and some believe P.rookhart will get more voles than any of them. The Freeman-Journal is go-, ,s ing to make a guess and its guess i« j,,, p.tj,i advertising it has National taxes are being slowly re- !'t(.r. It is guessing that Thome will such as Dr. So-and So. It experi-|,|0 masked criminul.s presume to regu contract- u1(, ,.,,urts and such functions cannot monarchy U,,, delegated to others. It is a serines •ate with j.,,.,. not binding on the present-govern-1 ,jn„ .,ny|,„dy charged with crime idiiina isjIM.|,|. Why not'! The noil gov-| j(( send to take the place of {criicd itnssia for centuries and» if the iihout a hearing. Such a proceeding n|t ,f Jhe community. New. Tliorne is much such a 111:111 as :(-|(.|,ts coutracled under their reign are .s ri (inced and the rates of interest are :itsil. lh'ookhart will be second# would be regarded almost as an al'mut {bp,,, movement did not have his syni radually coming down. These two {pickett third, and the others will comely, |o a doctor sis plain Mr. Smith jputiiy. Tliat was not his language, but ilea: enter largely into the cost of !,|. der I he wire'in the following order: |)ir ,lfS John Jones. It is Dr. Smith ori|u. declared there should 1*' Un,nps pn (luctioii and are paid generally by {sweet. Francis. Stanhy. If the muni j.|(,nes. in spite of the aversion to congress to control legislation. lint 1 ciiMinicrs. Interest is being reduced i, tt i«H goes to tin- convention the high j.|,ivi.rtising. Why not Grocery man tlia,t is just what the farm bloc is and smith or Clothier Jones? These gen-{j,.st hat it is trying to do. It has tlcineii lielieve iu advertising, lint we man ill tlie primary stands a good sl.ow. but the opposition may unite aud defeat liini and the nominee may he a lean who is not now a camlida.e. The following, from the Democratic I Dubuque Telegraph Herald, reads as Well. well, just fistf-ii to Ibis from a t| nugli it might have been written is pj'per published away down in Florida, inn,nth* ago when WjNon was in the The Florida Post: "The enemy of the jWhite house: "Pig business and the thoroughly en rap diplomatic moves .nil practical one for the defense Of'niiulc at Washington and you will know American producers against'tin des-|t|l(. international program which big tritelive effects of eom|ietitioti based tbusiness, indorses. If you swp|Misc upon the cheap labor and cheap ma- .we have delayed recognition of Uussia terials of foreign lands. The pre- Lu moral, grounds your ingenuousness to use 111111 American productive iinhis-lj* refreshing. Wlu-u big business f.'.-ls are investments in Hussia are safe the medical practice ami rout unethical soviet will be recognized.' Wli-n l'ig practil ioners, hut members of the business collects its debts in llaiii our ,prcfe.ssirai have not been able to take 11oops will lie withdrawn. When Mey- jiliis point of view. ico is considered safe l'i,ir coiiiuiereial "Tlie Texas State* Medical Associa opt rations we will establish ili iibrnia-! Once in a wbib There need be no surprise at the at- believes"CIifTord Thome can serve tliejiitude of the present Uussian govern people better than any of the eandi- Jnn-iit toward Germany. bile the czar people better than any ot the caiuii-inn-iit tnwnruiiciiu«iii.\. nn dates, it will be very well satisfied with {was in power Hussia was with the al an.v nomination except that of Mr. jlies ami Kerensky was also pro-ullj. Pickett and it will take Mr. Picket! if but the bolsheviki leaders had tit Her ideas and were against the allies lrom tin start and have been ngainsr them ever since. It is not strange, therefore, that the Uussian and German delegates got together during the opening days its obligation to :ilie Genoa conference and formed a "One test of a |conipact that is distasteful to the allies. Such a thing might have been expected. •It makes absolutely no diftercnco -what the Kussians and Germans agree 'to at Genoa they will do what seems best to them in tiic future, promises or no promises. Then what the use ol try ing to reach agreements with tlieni? Some day. however. Germany and ltns ja will have honorable governments vhen it will be possible to make worth vlrtlc agreements with tlieni. Senator Horali introduced a resolu tion in tlie senate the other day in favor of this government, recognizing the soviet government of Hussia. as follows: "Kosolveil. that the senate of the I'nited Slates favors recognition of tjie present soviet government of Hussia." The resolution was very prop erlv laid on the table. Recognition of a be canned for telling people how to live warren G. Harding is president. No KM) years. "Why." says this old crab, whether one approves the gen "a lot of fellows now live twenty ,r thirty years longer than they ought l'or their own good and for the «°,,(1|lujt |H.v' men of cool judgment o" Hie country. Instead of telling |teo p|e how to live longer Dr. Copeland ought lo tell them how to li\e more in a voar and how to be useful to ^the world." Guess tin* old crab is light about it. If is more important to live right than to live long. Postmaster General Work has an nounced that 100 ex-service ni"ii have it Mate the conduct of men and women.'' That is the function of the laws and j(, in secret and ^•ondetuiieil something to iry to the guarantees of our arc other contracts I t.OIIS1illit ioti and cannot be tolerated, monarchy valid? It •111- I'ROFKSSIOXAI. KT1I1CS. 'l'he medical profession has for isiamljial |i s|,.,,iigly j. !sis ,j ll} tliitl to advertise is proof i( jv( undertake lo violate ...... P'i' 11 war. I ion has decided on publicity nicns- tit. relations across the Itio Grande." jurcs tliat should tend to belielit the ipiofession and the people. II has Wiih increasing prosperity come'proved plan to advertise wore opportunities to invest in wildcat itrutlis anil information. that stock 'health topics will he published as iid I over the,vertising. This scheme should drive something {fakers and fakes from the field, ns of nicril is offered, 1ml probably ninety-{the authentic information will enable nine per cent of the stock offered for the public to decide who arecapable is worthless :ind always will he. The stock is printed upon line- bond paper, highly engraved and stainjiod with a seal interwoven with blue rib bon. It looks giind and is expected to create confidence. However, it medical Articles 'tin physicians and what nre elticiacions remedies and what, is dope.' PINCIIOT'S GREAT VICTORY. The most notable victory won in is not state contest in many years is that \noii really worth as much as it cost to exe-jby Gifl'ovd Pincliet in Pennsylvania at cute it. The people of Iowa have liadithe recent primaries. Mr. l'iiichot liav a lot of unpleasant experiences withjhig been nominated I'm' governor by various kinds of slocks aud il would Iji small majority over (ioorgo K. Alter, appear to lie unnecessary to issue warn- jone of the most popular men of tlie agaiusl buying more. However, it 'old Keystone state. Mr. Alter carried aid that a sucker is horn every mill-!tho city of Philadelphia by a majority and that onu seldom dies. This of more than S3,000. but Mr. l'iiichot into the heart of the gr.tfters. {overcame this in tlie outside districts (and secured a substantial lead. Moving picture producers would do The Associated Press announces tlie a popular thing if they would cut out result ns a victory for the independent all parts of pictures showing cruelty —progressive wing of the republican to animals, whether beast or fowl. The.party and declares that the discerning sporting pictures are especially often-1leaders of the party so regard it. sive to sensitive people, where 1 birds are shot for sport or where animals art trapped for their lur. The exhibi tions. too. tliat take place in England and elsewhere, showing the idlers hunting horseback following a puck of dogs after a fox or a rabbit are any thing but pleasant to people of humane ii'i'lination. Then there is the trap shooting of live pigeons or other birds. Not one in a hundred like such exhibi tions. The cruelties indulged ill the wild west exhibitions, the branding ol' cattle and the misuse of horses, etc., are anvthing hut edifying. Possibly thev are true to life, but the average person doesn't waul to sets them on the screen. Gilford l'iiichot was one of the closest personal and iKilitical friends of the late Theodore Iloosevelt and when tliat masterful executive wiis looking for a man to tarry out his comprehensive conservation program he picked Pinchot. Unosevolt seldom made a mistake in his estimates ot nun and the selection of the Pennsyl \anian for the important duties iui jKised proved to he a wise one. After his nomination for governor was certain Mr. l'iiichot issued the following statement: "I want to express my deepest appreciation and heartfelt thanks to the republican men anil women who have given me their confidence. There are two filings I want to do. The lirsl is to make such a republican candidate for governor as every republican voter can cheerfully support in the election this full.' The second is tii make a governor who will he good for the party and useful to the state. "With tlie firm determination to carry oul in letter and in spirit every pledge made during the campaign, with .no grudges to satisfy, no enemies to of punish, and with the support of a unit ed party, 1 slnill approach the great task witli strong confidence that it can and will lie carried through to the credit of the republican party and the advantage of all the people of Penii slyvania." SOMETHING TO TIIINK ADOPT. Theodore H. Price, editor of Com merce aud Finance, discusses with marked ability and candor "The In scrutable Future" in a recent issue of The Outlook, and in closing says: "Nearly every salaried Wage earner iu this country now expects at least two weeks vacation with pay. In most states there are twelve legal holidays. Saturday is generally a half-holiday, upon, which not more than four hours' work is done. "The eight-hour day is general, anil the result is there are but. few who work fnore than fourty-four hours a the Uussian government is a question for forty-eight weeks per year. lliat can he handled better by the stsitc department than by the senate. The state department 1ms more informa tion: besides it is not s'o apt to go off lialfcockeil so long as Charles Evans the head and so long as ,n,i records of Harding and Hughes or Jlot everv fair-minded person must ml- and sound reasoning faculties and are much safer than such senators as lior ah. That raid recently pulled off by Ku Klux Klaus in Eos Angeles is proving a boomerang. The raid resulted in a murder mid tlit* prosecuting attorney is making it hot for the guilty partici uants. lie is publishing lists of the members of the organization and tliere is a great scurrying for cover. Public ity is something flint masked raiders do not like and it is to be hoped the gangs that have been terrorizing cer tain sections «if the country will lie broken up. Masked bandits parading under the guise of a secret orgauiKii jon are just as dangerous as any oilier This is 2,112 hours. "A recent census bulletin reports that there are 41,(MM,1S)2 iiersons gain fully employed in the United States. "There are 8.7li» hours in a year of 305 days, and these figures mean that we are trying to subsist smd be pros perous upon I he labor of 40 per cent, of the population working 24 |ier cent of the time. Is it possible? If not, the only remedy is more work." Of course many persons work more than the average hours ns figured by Mr. Price. Some work more than they should and harder than they should. Many others do not work at all, never did and never will. But according to Mr. Price's deductions 100 per cent of the people are living tin what amounts to the labor of all of them only !MiO per cent of the time, and can tlie.v thus working produce more than all con sume in 100 iter cent of the time and more than is destroyed by all nat ural and artificial methods of destruc tion? If not. the country will grad ually lose in real wealth, because more must be produced than is consumed to prevent such result. II is impossible, of course, for those engaged in gainful pursuits to work all tin time. I'erluips eight hours a day is as inueli as any person should work at hard labor, either physically or mentally, but there is too much idle ness in this country for tlie good of the country. Every person who is able, no matter how wealthy, ought to pro add to the real WOt'M I5E A MISTAKE. As the senatorial campaign has pro prrssrrt it has developed that Hie old contingent of the republican averse to advertising, 'p^rty ia Iowa is almost solidly lined IJ1 digressing. What we wished to t-ull 'f)f important Star Stlite are about lo re nt' the bars against advertis- pVhinil the candidacy of Charles quackery. Some of i»j-kelt of Waterloo, and his friends 'more sensitive M. I' have actually j^re making every effort to secure a objected to the publishing of news nsijority of the drfegates to the state items that linked their names with cor- Lom-ehtiim. believing that the couven taiu cases of more «r less importance. j,,,, but have not always stic- pccularities of the jiro tliat in spite of its aversion 110 just as good as anybody's, but no bet-j(i) |ls,vj„K its practitioners ^lesigiiiited 1 j|,.. pjekett said in one of hi ing are the replies received: E. jh jU,ike the nomination. Newspapers generally have tried to| personally there is no objection to rrsnect this point of view of the very j!r pjekett. lie is an aide man and learned men composing the medical j,.(S congressional experience, but fraternity ct cdell. fine (^f tin he is hardly the sort of material lint should he selected to carry out the policies advocated and the principles amused l.y Kenyan and those who objcctUin m, i,jm the senate. |resses. ad- in substance, that tln- sl,cccede(l. farm too. iu securing a number legislative attention to is the report from Texas j|„v,„.tjt to the great agricultural inler le the effect thai the physicians of tlie ,,sts of the country. old l.ont move out enactments of Ueally. Mr. Pickett is the one candi date against whom the farming and al ii.-'. thus establishing what reaction- interest should combine. All the aries generally would cull" "a danger- {„thor candidates stand firmly u|miii the mis precedent." The story is told l»y Kenyon platform and in the event of tin Cedar Falls Ucconl as follows: {their election will not he under.special "Ethics of the luedieal profession {obligations to the interests that have prohibit doctors from advertising them- {fought the farm bloc nnd kindred move selves. The rules used to lie so strict, uicnts. and in some places still are so rigorous. Friend- of Mr. Pickett will use every that physicians shv at giving iuler- known political device they can to iews. It would se/111 thai ethical :id- {secure delegates to the state convention virtising would overcome unethical md the county 1 inventions in counties Jw-f that are not for Pickett must spe to ii that tlicy send delegates lo the Dos Moines convention vino will oppose the nomination of the Waterloo candi date. Nobody w'jml he deceived by. the plea The Freeman-Joiirual is not a stick lei lor the primary law as it now .^...iids, but believes that oil the whole it unite satisfactory. It is well to have •ounty officers, congressmen, senators ,ind governors nominated by a primary imd it is also well lo have delegates county conventions elected as now piovidcd. However, state officers Inf low the governor ought to be nominated iy a state convention, as it is Impos sible foi' any considerable port ion-'of tlie people to become familiar with tilt! (pialilieatious of such candidates. l£ is probably true Unit not one voter out of ten could inline today olT hand tlie candidates for state officers. Perhaps it is also true, as the Rock Kapids paper intimates, tliat the pres ent Iowa delegation in congress is not i.s strong iu point of ability and exfc-ri •itce as the delegation,if names. 4 A 1 1 4 I 1 W O II 1 1 gj^inst Mr. Pickett and the chances are. that if'Mr. Pickett is nominated it will be by the votes of delegates 1'rimi coun ties that go strongly against hiin at the primary. HEMS C'OMI\\KICI. There has been some complaint in AVebsler City by tenants that rents in 1 he business district were higher than tiiey should he aud to ascertain how quiry to parties at Ames. Sheldon, Cherokee and Spencer. Ity tlie census of 1020 Welwter City IIoWt ever, in service to the people it has done more than any other delegation ver did. Vis, mora, than any half dozen other delegations ever did. and service to the people is the real I est. It i.s a pleasant pastime for certain critics of present day ollicials to com pare them with those of tornicr times, bill the Freeman-Journal challenges such critics to submit a bill of particu lars showing what delegation ill con gress accomplished as much for the people of Iowa a.s tin- present tlelega t:on, including Kenyon among "those l-iesent." lias accomplished. This dele gation is coniposed of Senators Kenyon ami Cummins and Congressmen Koop. Hull. Sweet. Haiigeii. Good. Kamsayer. Unwell, Towner. Green. Dickinson and Uoies. Here is a* partial record of congress during tlie pasl two years and iu mak ing tllis record tlie Iown delegation was among Hie leaders. It look uiore active part than thedelegation from any other state, and here is enumerated only that portion that is for the direct lientlii of agricultural interests: Capper Co-operative Marketing bill. Future Trading bill, regulating .grain exchanges. The Federal Eand Bank Relief bill. The revival ot I he War Finance cor pora tiou as an aid to helping move farm products. As a result of this leg ation over $2!»,iiOO.ooo have already been sent to Iowa. 'Increasing fuiuls available for loans by the federal farm loan Iward by $50, (KHI.OOO. The passage of Hie emergency tarilT act 011 agricultural products, to pre- vent flooding of our markets. The passage•' the house of the per manent tariff bill for the benefit of the agricultural and business I interests of tin, country. ... -ea The lackers act, to r«£ulate intec- lnade by friends of Mr. Pickett to se- state and foreign coinii^rce in live- state and foreign comi^erce in live stock and dairy productsSj^poultry and eggs. cure delegated for liini. They will present to the enmity conventions men of wide aeipniinfante aud popularity aud. plead for the personal recognition of •such candidates as delegates, insist ing that their work for the party in .... the past entitles them to tlie honor, cd by tlie house. It is not going to be.easy to prevent The Anderson Intermeiiilte Credit the selection of some Pickett delegates hill should he inimediat§l£ considered even from counties that are strongly and passed. The passage of the Uil{5giving agri culture representative."jS the federal reserve hoard. This billows lieen pass ed by the senate and will soon be pass- The Federal Blue Sky blll to prevent the sale of spurious ami fraudulent stocks and securities. 1,'liisi hill will sooii become a law. These are some of tiif tilings tlio present Iowa delegation! in congress lias been, instrumental in securing, but perhaps its best work for the state has been along lines calculated to im press upon the people'of .the east the deiiendcucc of industry nud business liiey suouni «nni i" uvin.uuuv» rents here compare with rents in other upon the prosperity of tlift, agricultural towns of about the same size tlie Free- sections of the country. man-Journal addressed letters of in- replies received: thousands of other ^manufactured aiti Ames. Three 25 by J.10 feet build- cles, whose economical producwon will jugs, lirst floor and' basement, $l"i0 he made impossible by the impending two 25 bv liiO contracts made tariff.—Des Moines News. five venrs ago and for long What this country needs more than terms, the entire buildings, $1 To per five cent cigars and "tliousands ot month. Tliere nre small rooms J~ by 50 other manufactured articles, wliosi nnd 75 that rent for $-15 and ?55 per economic production will be made 111 foregoing- are for store possible by the impending tariff, is jobs for the unemployed. If the 1111 portation^of wrappers from Sumatra month. Tin' buildings such as merchandise, hard ware, groceries, dry goods und con lots (try jiuuiis unu tun- vi fectiouers. ltcstaurant buildings rent will seriously cripple tlie tobacco grow for considerable more, depending 011 ing industry in this country sm-li wrap size aud location. Cherokee. Buildings 25 by 100 feet i-roKce. isuimiiigjS _• o.v ji/w The best ones well located rent for iters-in this respect is true of iaci.v 150 to $250 per month. Impossible to manufactured article that can lie pro lent a building 011 .Maine street and it duced here, seems all they have to do is to set a price and they get it. $100 per month. The average would l.e about $75. Of course wider rooms rent for more. Spencer. One store 011 Maine street here pays $1200 per month for a room 5 by 100 feet. Ill the main block here they run about $150. old wooden buiidings, operating under old leases. $70 aud up. Here iu Webster City the highest rent paid for storiv room 22 by 100 feet is $125 per month and the average i.i not more than $100. From the foregoing facts relating to reuts in other towns in central and northwestern Iowa the reader can figure out for Iiimself how rents paid in Webster City compare with rents paid in other places of similar size, LOOKING BACKWARD. Evidence continues to* accumulate ti« the effect that the primary syslcni of making nominations—at least as practiced in Iowa—is more or less of a joke. Whereas its original advocates assured us that it would place in ofiice men of much higher tpuility than those who held oflice under tin* old system, it has fallen far short of working any .improvement. It is an exceptional citizen who. wit limit referring to a con gressional directory, can name the 'leven men who today represent Iowa in congress. What a contrast to the days when Gear, Hayes, Hepburn, Cp degraff. Cousins, Lacey, Hull. Hep burn, linger, Dolliver anil Perkins made, up the delegation."—ltock Rapids lteview. :*li ILLOGICAL. One day in the senativTifter several eU".er statesmen lnid Iwen .telling what has a population of 5.(ir»7, Ames has this country needs, Vit£ President Marshall was heard to i'emark in a hoarse whisper: "What this country needs is a good, nickel see-gar." 0.270, Cherokee 5,S22, Sheldon .'i,-lSS und Spencer 4,5."'.). The betters of inquiry were address ed to 11. W. Stafford, formerly member of the Hamilton county board of sup ervisors, regsirding rents at. Ames, where he now resides, and lo E. L. Itichards of Slieldon, a former Web ster City hoy. A real estate dealer by tlie name of C. J. Mulvaney was .-is-keil about Cherokee and the editor of the News at Silencer l'urnislied the information regarding the rents in that nyum- m»i —. town. Information was souglit as to geueral interests are not Ilea rd regard rents iu the best locations and follow- ",,v The tariff fruliters evidently do not. agree with Tom Marshall, even if mil lions of smokers of moderate circum stances do. It was developed in tlnj tariff hear ings that we can't liave'-'u good live cent cigar unless we can import Suma tra wrappers free of duty, The general interests of the country require that this he permitted, but the geueral interests are not heard reganl ing cigars any more tkdn regarding t'1 The power of suggestion is strong 'I.' A year ago— almost unknown Today a leader •if. r. •, rnmmmmm mm ws-'ardmi OIK IIIUUDHJ pct-s should not be iuiporteO free ot duty, and what is true of cigar wrap- What profits it to have five cents ..... igars if a man is out of employment? things tin- wage earner ami the farmer the principle of protection certain arti cles should be placed 011 the free list, 'l'l at is a question to he determined hy careful study of the problem. But as a general proposition impost duties should he laid in such a way as to make it possible to produce in the I nitcd States everything that can be produced here at reasonable cost based 011 the American wage scale and the American cost of production. Give our men employment, start the mills going, build fires under the boil crs increase liouu* consumption 101 fnrm products and stop worrying about the reasonable price of cifturs or any thing else if the price is established lUKin a fair basis and n*t arbitrarily liyed by combinations and monopolies. And a protective tariff scientifically laid with due consideration to the cost of production here nnd elsewhere will be a fair leveler of prices, Iw'cause ex cessive prices will invite destructive competition from abroad, Iience prices will lie maintained at fair levels un less controlled by world monopolies, like oil 11 nd kindred products. This evil must be reached in some other way. PEACfc TODAY, BIT TOMORROW? Sioux City Journal: Europe today is a kaleidoscope of human emotions, fears, distrusts, hopes, aspirations, jeal ousies, rivalries and suspicions. Today the topic is peace and how it may be saved tomorrow there is talk of war and more war. Nothing seems settled or agreed. Everything is up in the ail. Europe is like a fofe.st fire tliat, smothered in one place, persists in breaking out in another, and which re quires tlie most constant vigilance to prevent a sweeping conflagration^ A tbaos of ideas is constantly twisting iu all directions over there.- It Is a med ley of cress purposes, a riot, of views. No tine seems to be able to straighten things out ami, as is saiil in America, to make head or tails of tlie®. for that which is evil. Under the pres ent European circumstances, it may have a greater potentialityJor wrong because hunianily is srill Tormenting there. The ill wind will fan the' slum bering fire in Ihe forest into dame instead of blowing it out. Therein lies the danger to Europe, and, nat urally, to the rest, of the world. I11 America it appears as though the European* are fascinated by the hor rors through which they have passed and which' again threaten, that they nre being drawn closer to the abyss which they would avoid if not held viider a malignant spell. The opportunity for file appearance of a powerful leader, such as Tolstoi predicted years ago in forecasting the world war, never was greater than the present one. Where could* such a leader be found The candidate docs not appear at the jnoment. A single leader among mortals who could ef fect the desired transformation might, never develop, but if Europe would tin 11 to spiritual instead of material things long enough to canvass their advantage a way might he fouuu to reach a settlement. Beyond question,, the passions cannot he stilled so long a« hates are nurtured, so long as ven geance is sworn, so long as scores are held uneven mid so long as the iwwer of might is given precedence over ri"ht. Sir Ilarry Eaiulor, well known to& Americans, recently told his fellow countrymen at home that the world never could he pacilied until the ene mies of the past became the friends of tlie present and the future. He urged the forgetting of animosities, the tor giving of wrongs. Sir Harry Is standi Britisher and he lost 11 beloved son in the world war, and yet lie is ready to let bygones be bygones. Jlqjt anihassadors of peace of that type are needed. #What the world, and espe cially Europe, needs at this "lo ing the have to sell cannot find consumers.' us against1^ It may he that in the application of Sacrifice Desired. Meggemlorfcr Bliietter: The Fiancee --You will give up smoking when we are married, won't you. Felix The Fiance -I don't smoke at all. Tlie Fiaiicee~lh, what a shame. "(\veloncs go yards 11 second I ne pinvci 01 miKm-r-ini.. ••••r. —IICWS itelll. Bill liasll't till- size of for good, and it is equally powerful j.||(, yJir(is anything to with it? iS 4 f. ., (Plus Iozaa State Tax) A sweeping verdict for QUALITY /T\ is a'1 uplift such as nothing but the bioth erliood of man could bring. Then per haps. there might lit peace today and pi ace tomorrow. MORE EMPLOYMENT. Des Moines Register: The secretary of the conference on unemployment, which is functioning under .the call or President Harding, has issued the fol lowing bulletin which covers Reports from thirty-four states and the District o£. Columbia. -From all figures available, em ployment is showing a steady nnd sustained gain. April reports are the most encouraging of the year »nd eai ly indicate the upward trend ot indust ry and business. "Based 011 returns from tlie United States employment service, Ayril lias uIk.uti. tii irveatest naiu of any month month theit- vs 11 ,u Tllis ig February and 220 in January. Ibis is 11 decrease of 33 per cent in the number applying for work during tlie first foui months of the year. "In April, fifty-f«ur applicants employment were placed lor every 100 registrations, an ngainst forty-five for March, forty-one for February and thirty-eight fr January—a. gain ol 42 per cent. ,, The state represented in the figures include the chief cities of tlie country, the department of commerce explains. No interpretation is necessary. The showing of increased employment- is a gooil gauge of bettering conditions, und us such is very encouraging. SI SPK I0WS FRANCE. Waterloo i'ourier: It is difficult for the observer tif events to escape the conclusion that France is opposed to HBv plan that will rolj her of her pre sent power and preparedness and her ubility lo enforce her will over ier lnuny Her statesmen fear, apparently, that any kind of 1111 arrangement that disturbs her present position even purported compact for peace would take from her the only assurance of safetv she possesses or litis posscseu for half a century. It seems Triune is suspicious, even of assurances from England. A pledge from Aiuerion would 110 doubt change French attitude, but tllis pledge will not Hopeful as lias been the world that out of the Genoa conference substantial lienefits and better uuderslaiidifigH might come, the fear is general that the affair will be largely a water liuul." j.