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k?} ...NEW DIVISION IN DEPARTMENT j'ii* OF JUSTICE BEGINS .ITS IM- SPECIAL i' Kiit IWS tlTai. Firing and^lndivlduaU vi||h $|(tnptd\o Defr^he Gov. e|nrtie| jAre Now DuejctOuBe Ex- PRWdetrid Punished. I I &fc f. i By^EDWARD B. CUAR4C Washington.The new wur contract division'organized in the'Department of Justice has begun its work._ Its duty will be to investigate and, where' the evidence is sOfiMhkit, to prosecute cases against Wh|#l*ny and-perhaps graphically u|ay Jhe caJUed war graft eis. A special grand Jur*.,hasJust met In Washington to consider the cases of grafting .profiteers. The country knows by this time what the attorney general has promised ttrdo about the prosecution'- of Arms, %rporation and individuals against- wjhfceh. aad,-wboin tliere is evidence leading Jo a fair pre sumption thar* ibeyj^t$einj)J$drtp de fraud the goveftameat^durfng1 ^^thfSeSl^^ time of high wages for^^ American vfbrfc men' and low wageiv'for American fighters/ persons who never indulged In luxuries,: before s^ggled'to get places at the sales counters, The waiter of this was told at-pfip time by ft merchant that he had solid' thousands of luxuries to jglrl workers, in munition factories^arid that his business had been booming, and that therefore he felt he could afford at" last to take life extremely... easy, at least for a season. It may not, have been that this man was a profiteer in the ordinary sense, -for possibly he made a small profit"0if: on each arti cle sold, but the fact ti^liijih^wage^i were paid enabled. Tcert&fff r* ''"'TV *fa.- 4 1 W"\ul* ufliBDIB TASK. '5 "might wdr a little for their 'gdfern ft tt Jtf 5 little for thercselveWfald .-GRAND JURY MEETS thevprbg- ,ress of the ,war. Virtually every official in the cap ital today realizes, and" says so, that there would be no necessity for pros ecution of war profiteers, nor would there be any bonus bill to worry the country If a logical course had -been und thickets of white and pnrpte(^*% pursued at the time when the draft law was framed. Men, regardless of politics, say today that if 'capital* la bor, andj everything '-'and everybody else had been conscripted, just as the f\^f^%s soldiers were conscripted, the financial P'- 3*- and court troubles of the United States $r*- would be less today by at least 75 $ per cent. ft/ i W There is a vast amount of work to be done by- the new war contract di\^most inf" slon of the attorney general's office. |Lv All sorts, of frauds against the govern- ^.'"Yi ment)i#e bMh charged 'it said lYStl' S!acerns tha various kindsts made enortnotis profits, not only by over- fy*% charges^butby skimping workand by S~*. i doing other things which not only jf,0 i 'robbed the country, but imperiled the /f i lives of its soldiers. 'ilJ Som Prd'f^fft^Mgfc'B^eael^d..,^, IP- i There -are -prbj^S^io|iier- ^nd?'' who probably2cajfcojlbe re^cli|d by the band of the" ^^^piere.weiefmen and'concerns who took advantage of workers to buy for themseivias naany luxuries, some of which ikriibably +were useless. After every war seemingly there", must be a harvest of scandal. In the" old days the country heard of wornm biscuits, shoddy blankets, embalm'eff beef and various -other commodities for which thie* taxpayers paid in money and the soldiers paid In privations. It seems i&ely thatJftefore^tibe at' torney general's- dfflce^gets^ throtigh: with Its work tids land- will-hiye learned mu&i'about what some of Its citizens did to feather their nests while other citizens were going up against machine gun nests in thf* forestjof, the Argonne. Dls^08ire^*fi^B iSlartflrtd.^-i^:: Washington does not know whether or notva harvest of results is to-be reaped ny tlie^hands of the attorney general and oTlUsjnany new prosecut ing assistVints, "but*therpromise "has been made .that,whereyer the eWdencK is sufficfent 'to preseht 7a 'case for graftingJagainst- the*'ioternment,,. the, case will'be prtsefitelrtnd proscute to the limit. The cmitit*y may as vrell make it writer, however, 'represents us at the Court of" St.-James, ^ndtttehard Wash burii CuUfelMhe Court! of tikfj/ST There always, has beea certain percentage of literary njen in the. con-fjv sular.service. In the old^days before appointments to consular "positions I -were in any way regulated toy_tlie ftse|^ of the' applicant It" was the occasional habit jri^fjHts9dehta left their names on the shore to mark ^LrE^JS^^SLSilZi ^e^llmlte of. forgotten commerce. i steady western winds and the Sana thrown- un by the restless waves, are away the forests iatid left only the shifting dunesgreat sand blirpwa tbjat crept on inch by Inch?and yea* hy year entombing more of^e bTlght Iblossomed bruyeres and jgenets, no inatter. hovf, bravely theyffought ^fpf existence, leaving behind1 perlty." self ready to receive some highly, to- gomrmes it seems thi terestlng disclosures. The, charges vf^consul" is worth while* graft and profiteering have been made dally since*the country entered the. war in April, 1917^ It now Is to be learned p'^ahto^t been JustiBBdMI "gfl|tfe Jg.'S'e diers whdWdlpBt are particularly interested to ieaniji whetlier the gentiemeri wfio'took their ease at home also were taktog 4j#| toll ont PrthejpeopiS^tti^^if^ It is rteCOjgnteei g&$K(^&ffl.*Vm- meanest -Grafter is %e*'wtur" grafteft Ever? time that he puts out a bad arti cle when he Is supposed to put out a good one, and -MLpaid for a good one, he puts In jeopardy not only the safety of his conntry, ont the lives of its soldiers. Profiteering, as the word suggests, was profitable. It now Is to be found out Whether or not it Is to be unpunishable. ulterary Gem From Consul. It is not the .custom today, as once It wast to^^pvef dlptwnatic?. "appointments to' AmerlcanSi because of their literary distlttdtlon. Other factors,' ireauentlyLngytieStvraios** ei ter iDtothWeQaa^ REAP THE FIONg jyjj^asaV^'-f^u^ift^iw^ Ik^-iMd^.: JM&fegki&M i Jin ii to gltfe *8*r posts to men' '6t writing fame so that they jconglalt surroundttigs. ,y Aowogrtnen of 'writing fifaae ^ho havQ^r^ed the United States,ipxene capac^yor ano.tber in tbe dlplopmtlc jaervleei fire or _were,( Arthur Sber ^bourne Bardy, James Jeffrey ftoche Albion W. Tourgee, Francis Bret Harte,-Francis H. DnderwodS, *and of cdurse-James Russell Lowell*|ifid-oth- er greater lights. When Albion W. Tourgee was serv ing his country as consul at Bordeaux, France, he wrote for the pages of the Willy Reports one of-the fin est descriptive,articles of l$s specific Is ktiiowiftpClert^Inly no gov emment document issued'for the few and cnsuaFreaders ever contained any thing so compelling.' Tourgee's Reforestation Report. The title of'the article was simply ^Reforestation in France." The first few lines showed little of Interest Then the eye reached this:^ _,.,-# "One after another great waves' of 'sand, moved by the restless winds that ,swepj .across, -the- At^antic continued theJi- unceasing "march: across the fair plalps of southern France, burying all oefore themfierds,'"meadow^,-'Vfhe^ yards, houses, churches, even villages leaving behind them only gray^J*S'fefilf^bf lows to which clung bunches ojrbjr: en, a few starved bushes of sjirtib/ fighting stubbornly tor a hdidTibotfpe shifting sands, with here anir ttfere some straggling*groups at pine, the protesting remains of a .great forest which wind, and sand, dnd fire, and water had spared." iv s, This Was the beginning of a descrip tion of the irresistible march of the gray sand dunes from the shore of the Bay of Biscay toward the heart of the productive land In Europe. The istory, for this old official ^tommunica tlpn is,, a true story, continues: "On Ithe seaward side the .great furrows, lying one within the i other, were bar$ jand iray. The western winds 1^%^- the light sands, and dropped them ju jbeyond the crest to drown and srooth^ er the shrubs which struggled up the beward side. Here and there in fa ivorable places a few scattered pines parked the location ofsthe ancien^ for -Jeste:v -iQ-/whi(eK,/jttiS dreeks aa^ the SRomaiis,^e|^*ven^thjgfeiPhoinicI ans, came f#?"tfnAer and^Itch "and them only jdry roots, .wWfeh'-'the^ltiDireen^erB'^giMli- ered for their hearths. Napoleon Stopped the Devastation. "On and on crept the Bhaianx^^pf the terrible^duaes^ slowly-:m^ surely bnfhOn'g *a|^JA ^M^atb, not btilfc reatliil a dtt^rt But^troylng hpi**. \B l(^&:ass^windj|^!w:froniv|h> est th dtoea marked flMbe :east he desSt^^s rava^ theJIntei-veii ng spacesflocks grew fewer, the des bfeftb^i^dre extreme. In the heart of ^unny Fr^c^ a d9seryva| established, eVei uttr^siSteflpi^itelt tod'threalen ffig to'stretffli ^licJttilUls^jMiest fields, the^arldness of the Sahara." Bre'montier,. one of the sons of the seemlngiyl ''doSfte^ region ?concirvear hn of saving the country. It'waB EheIdea ^ftpoleoif who se%d-upon the thoafehjt! if'Bremoniier. HHls vision penetrated centuries and he saw the marjdh2of jthe deadly' dunes arrested and the.des rt they, had created made to blossom .fte^wW"-^^,:*''.''J' Today?ms,we are fpld,.the seeds-of the "pln ja^yitftra% Model of "Buffalo Nickel" Dead^ 4 The prlflnal nwdel of the "Buffalo ^Eso^^per(aw Jje y^t WH^ oVa.4fe dem and his head, properly mounted.Hmngs'ln the ranch house of the Mgler brothers^Thls jnost'-~t\ swaSai#ing a piece oT%arbd wire with its hay. The barbs penetrated the Uvea, of the beast and he jyed, d^prfe efUSs-M ^Wriilariai ^Wasted 'ferfort SportsmanStick to one game, ton can't* .bring down a back with bird- *hot." r. Anglel^That%, right, ind fishing for compliments never lands a hus band. Cause bf Evil. IIIHlltpi. I'l tti UGHTiEtWED RtJADS^ FRtABLE 1 trtl^O.^XKW*- -.1- Setne Sections of Bates ,Exprlin,4ntal 8tat* DcpArtynent iTture.) Some ofia*e-*llgh*e sections, a'the Batest%e^e^eiu^iL1 uttder the trattfc of light trucks driven along the edge of the surfaces on the first day of the-'tesfef^Tltestoad,- which vas especially constructed for the .experi ments now being conducted by the State highway department of Illinois in co-opei:ation with the- bureau of public' roadsr United States Depart ment o Agriculture, is two miles long and consists "of numerous sections of dlfferents-types jot construction. On March 30, the day the road was opened for the tests, 12 trucks with bodies removed'"to make a 'load of 2,500 pounds on each rear wheel were siarted on trips, which will continue with Increasing loads until the suit ability of each tyite is determined. The trucks were driven that the outside wtfeels were on the edge of the pav ing, and almost Immediately 'some' of the sections b^anstp fa 11.31TTJdslwaBti expected, as the sWtfoAs-wer o^fgM ^SfgfiR^HnA .intended Jo, demonstrate ttie futility of such construction. S4*ThiSpad will be subjected .to a num Itests under the destructive Ko]? 'the trucks, and It is ex ftt *oiMph Method of Obtaining Deflection arid Deformation of pavement Under, Load When Has Been Re- moved.?1, *SUb^grade tion will bP gained for use infutire road construction. In addition to spe cialist^, assigned,.to investigate sbif conditions, temperature re!rfects, *^^Y*^fe** &*- and other factors, five engineers are con stantly observing the effect 'as the trucks continue their dally grlnd^ The experiments will continue until air the sections have been thoroughly tested. BOOM MATERIAL TESPIK* Increase In Faelll^iee Has Grown"Rip Idlyip Pa^F^ew^ears'to' |||r^ Dlffereht States. The^ gfeitt ^hom to highway hiif ing which has come since the federal aid act of 1916 has led to an Increase in the facilities for testing highway l^&ureata ofBubU!fi-6|aiM Agriculture''keeps'in touch with''al laboratories which test material for federal-aid roads and repp*^f that lh. 'nuniber'has grown from a scattered ffew to?i9S6 to^t least one Jh fftvjerfc, 'state witrtwofoUows^State -dfitrU marrtime"" 6f' the French ptvere .gathered and sprouted and the prourig trees piaiited.y -Now "the dark' squadrons of the pin maritime ate poBted. on, tljousands of sandy slopes, faithful guardians in the shelter ot ^w^lch the' vineyards and wheat fields rest, .secure^,, The gray iiinii^i^Wcli vfetr^'swjBepiag over' the land have become serried fortresses which shelter civilization and prps- exceptions. Thejfkft JUgh^aj 'department laboratories 26, 'tinivfersltjr laboratories 27, and commercial iab or .jaipries Sl^total of W}" \B* *$'T Ctonditlons have becomes suclrthat iit -practically a necessity for each state to have means of Pttlck testing inorder noJClp 4*ay work. -In !pattP? infe on* materials the laboratories are? foverbed by theldCa that- roads'rajisf*' be Constructed with "'materials Cldse* at^| hand, ^erevtir possible and,' give ns-- surance5 for^the use of such' material where it Israitable. u'Ji ROAD DESIGNATED BY NUMBER ii ,'4-v^ TOew Method OfficiaHy Adoptedllif New EnlJanciAStates t'o'JJeplaceU,-, The new method of designating hlghmys by numbers, officially adop&y et|l| the.HAj HJffigiJ^es ^MhlP^Qita^Wl^^m' Wnen fully carried out It will provide a com plete and comprehensive plan possible ^^^ioWhnp^ou| |he .cduntr signed to w#st or tbe main ^tru routes by the hlfehway Commissioners A Road^Uf?age(f I BilMonThe godd die young. NetleyThat must be why so many i*rrea -f rV Country. Road mileage 'in the United States per square mile area Is .739.. England has 2.57 miles of road per square mile and France 1.75. Winnipeg* Has Widest streets. Winnipeg, CSnadi, claims to have the widest streets of any city In Amer ica. ittlnfl Rock Ih Road. The first time we hit a rock: fn the psinir fr""^-"- anaccideni --.ft***isintf ownjfault \5-'ir*%t gUBSCRIBE FOB THE PIONEER jj&X'iZi,Z&-**y .IjE&fiSt** i l'-- IlllTIWI irr ^ci^\j!tlFr^.QF,jAE Nqra, Rich I^Artflstlo Treasures, 1Va Once Classic, Canter of Shinto .Worship. ,'Nara, ancient Japanese city, Is a classic centqr of Jihlntp worslilp, and Vas' the first capital Japan, jf^ich of tho'buildlhg^vml b^auldlyinu bfgun in .A. p.^Vl^^pl^n .Age^ Japan." still is IntSctT" puridgrtbV1ea'Ayi,Bay of'K'ttW &."* Of --aLU its, glocies^ei* ,today re mpln^but.tew, chief-amo9g them be-,. Ing the Great South Cute, Randal Mon thd great'Eal^ of Buddha, ahd the ancient and most ^interesting old, shrine called Kaidan-in. The .Great South 0ate was Built to 752 A. D. and remodeled in 1199. On either side are two gigantic figures -Nio, pr the Deva tings, carved by^Tankei and hls) pupil Unkei. "With the t\\ o' stone' lions close by, ^xeellerit apeclmens of Twelfth century bh,in.es bcijlpture, they are listed and protected as "Na- tional Treasures." The Nara-no-Dalbutsu, the vast bronze'Buddha ctust to 749 A. P is the largest of the kind in Japan, if not in the world, being 52%* feet in height. The Kaidan-ln Is- remarkable for its unusual construction and 'arrange ment toslde^-a series of platforms ris ing tone ^valuable lnforma- above' the other to support the Iniages bf 'the 'Devi idlrtgs, Iidra and BrqUnja, which are said to be among the best examples of the art of Najfa era, also are courted among the "Na- tional Treasures." "RAWTHER DEEP, YOU KNOW" Introducing London's Latest Particu lar Wheeie as aJTest of Amer ican 80|$hlstleatlon. SayB*Sinclalr Lewis, back from Eu rope with the manuscript of a sequel to "Main" Street" '.'"it I had the power I'd make Henry tlencken the pope of America. He spreads Just the mes sage of .sophistication that we need so badly.'" How, badly(we'need this sppldstlca tlon every Americqn Bbifie$%an de- bark withtilm.]*)! itaer tWBlsh'e! are Clearbqliway the head of "the fdmlly can try It on' his flock. It^ufaA itkp'^hls,?^ rOnel chtfp UaytfW'apBffli r-r 9 i _, ptos, perity, the^yodayip/on^j o4( gi-eat teaMes^vjs m, JUaJjrfcW ilhism in Japan, and th buildingss cov-- ered'soW'Stf1 a*e (table^the/ satne one wo saw lawst 'Sight?" The tablecloth is "I cawn't say, too long." If the flock ,'gets the point It is adequately sophisticated. If ""the poliit escapes them and^loaves them pained And p'uzzted' it is a sign' that this family, at least," would be benefited .by a MencWan pontillcate, for Henry 'spreads not onlytft- ""i^sag so 'phlstteuHbn," btit other thlnB' as i ,well:Norfolk' VHiglnlrtn-Pllot? if J. HJ,.I s..' ip4A,f 4,Wncn t,,bot He OLdjt ri 4 One day us I was fitting lu.the wl^\ dow I saw a man oonitag upitlu^street, dressed Uke^a farmer., ^Tow. Lp^d but a few minutes before ,e?n. a g^ trying tp fly^over thebusies,lu. Uie yard. As the man seemed to be looking for something, I called out to him: "Are you looking for n^goose?" & He stopped short and gazed suspi ciously, as much aa to say, "Well, it looks as If tyl found one."Exchange. WHere% Of itself, advertising is little. I rAnd the differences in it are the dnfe^ences which exist in men. |fes^as some men are strong and Waff le %tod interesting, so is some I advertising. And just as^somem$fc'Ih I .are ineffectiiaUand weM'$$L ing, so is some other advertising. *^*1 ^Does it pay to advertise?','. It..,,, pays those meib^ho' are ^eh enotrgh students of te publico 1 make it pay thenxTft pays tlto^ men who are truthful sincere, in teresting and believable. OnS^e^enmiierefiomNbwon rwithmany iftigftowments nitcd States mi frS /Futi^ehid'W United States Rubber Company klk^ak^Ki.^ fcsVlilmLstaiklskbi fc fc stk.f ks,hkkivkfc fcvky KM JfEWETT & CO, F. M. MALZ^N 'oim'*.- ce in It pays the men whose product deserves the payment, hose brains are keen enough to organize fo* success and judge enough of the human mind to know how to tell their story with sincerity and interest. S^ when youjud^e advertising, ijuclie it by^^how it-is^used and by Wl^iiv-nDt^I/i^lf and of itself alone. Remember, an ugly nian just as ugly in a mirror. l^yi*iaaji lonte to eo-operstkB wl\ Tke AwerlesB AssoelatUm of 4}avrii^ing AgwtM.J^ :.'H., vv,-.- mmmmmsmmmm We Are 'no sub '4t LAkl&CltTE A ERlOkiON ^i V.i 1 14 't*muMz&mm:wzzm-tTrjM& ^tJj'fJ^F**'" ."V"! 9r^5ide|}{encleDt of amy ^cardil^ 'of ^n)gst r'Ebn^ ago/we $$&&'$ ,situati9n ^and 4^ suffiiifent suppjjft VrinLto fill injr prtb 7Wi#ito'tii|t to **-to'* ibmifyty, tions'here are in a pof4"1t^ to our old tm^r^nn EN"USCO"announced its low ^rifceof $10.90 last FaH, the 'rhakers wertii'alrfekdy ^..fiiy dfe^t8t)ldg*wiM ../l^^fUafao^Vsaife Thfe new and better^Uscp" as y^lQ^ee it today^-rwithiio change m^lficeand, tax absorbed by. the roanufacturer. ."'t i Ydju'll nittti in the fiew" fetter^"Usc^:Tt^teXSt#e8-^ "il*-^f1*hlckfer:^njad, riy|ngl greate, ndti'^kid protection. Stouter side* ::^aUB v'kh^ ,Aloge:her tife that will- take longer wettr l^jith* inside an but. the greatest money's w6rth of fabric tire in the history bt pneu matics. -JTJ" ii -j/jii -WMtJliM*t iA Ajft tt 'If T-i- ve %'&- i*'H 4,