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BH i-f I i IS ' The Beaver Herald MAUDE 0. THOMAS, - - Publithtr. rUBUHUKI) KVKUY TH,'K8iMY Cotiredtttbe poatoillrtit Bmi(. Oklahoma.. aa toeood elm mull matur. Adfertlnltig rate made known ojion application, I'rlce reasonable. Subscription Price, SI.5U a Year liKlMUTMKNT KTOIUM AJTO PACKKIW. The whole complaint against the -packers so far teems to bo tbat thor arc too efficient end the main kick Is from tho wholesale grocers who claim tho packers enter their fields and undersell them. This Is a. queer complaint In an In vestigation supposed to bo for tho purpose of reducing tho cost of Ur ine. Commissioner Culror of tho Krlfcrul Trado Commission In his tes timony says: "When the packers ha-ro found their customers buying some-thing tesides tho meat they have to soli, or Us by-products, they ham gradually commenced to get Into the business of supplying tho other things. "When thoy havo thcmselroB been largo buyers of a given commodity thoy have gotten Into tho production of that article, nnd gone Into compe tition with their former purvnyors. "When they havo found n pub slanco which has become to somo ox teal a substitute for mont products, they havo gono Into tho husliiOHs of making nnd soiling that substance. "Supposo they put tho wholesaler out of business," Henntor Konyon nnk"l, "and sell products choapur to tho consumer and develop efficiency of supply, Is that not a sound econ omic principle which Is being worked out?" "Their utilization of every possible animal product and byproduct," ho said, "are economic and desirable activities." It seems us it tho packors by ox tending their business Into different fields and underselling compotors havo mado a lot of cnomlos who uro after their scalp on tho ground thoy are too big. Tho fact that thero Is such keen competition between packers and wholesalers would seom lo glvo tho lie to tho Btatomcnt that packers havo eliminated competition, Tho pcoplo of this country are In terested in just two things rolatlvo to tho big packers. Kirst do thoy constltuto a trust In restraint of trade? Second, nro they food hoarders nnd profiteers? Jn either of theso two cases wo havo laws to punish them and If thoy are .guilty thoy should bo punished. Iiut tho Idea of putting prlvnto In dustry on the rack and passing laws placing It under political dictation simply because It is big, In a dan gerous precedent to establish In n iroo country. No ono has nn yet suggested doing way with department store.! and yet a largo department store la an oxactly similar Institution to ono of tho largo puckers. In theory tho modern de partment ought to run nil other stores In tho town out of business but It docs not, It Booms In nmko inoro business. Tho wholesaler dlBltko tho dopaitcmunt stores for tho same i cu min they do tho packers bo cause tho big stores mid the big packors buy nnd sell direct nnd can undersoil tho wholeunlcr who Is ncss nnd the pcoplo profit by It. tho middlomnu. This Is slmnlv bust If tho puckers nro going to bo reg ulated merely becnuso thoy nro big and soil too mnny commodities It will le only nnothcr step until tho de partment stores nro regulated on tho same ground as thoy will be Just as much public utilities as tho packers. It being able to undersell competi tors through enlargement and effi ciency of a business, has bocomo u crime, tho chief end of proponed reg ulation would apparently bo to do away with keen competition, thus forcing up prices. MIRTH DAKOTA" SOCIALISM KK IMONSIVK. Frank K. Vncknrd, assistant attor ney gencrtil of Noith Dakota, sliows how tho North Dakota formers will pay for the Non-1'aitisnn League so cialistic schemes: Averago Uses naid on (mailer section of North Dakota form land, 11)18 ? 3G.07 Average taxes to be collected this your, l'.HU, on quarter section of form land 1)9.1)2 Increased cost to farmers per 100 acres of form land.. 21.85 Total assessed valua tion of North Da- kota property fur J018 .... 400,000,000.00 2UIsrd by tho Non partisan League of- cers for 1911) to 1,000,000,000.00 Assessed valuation sf form landx, town and dtv lota under tho Non-Partisan schemo .. 1,100,000,000.00 Increase valuation pheed on form land, per cmt.... 100 Proportion of its sensed vriliu nguirist .farm lands, tovn and city let:-, pur cent , 07 Tuxe leuad for.ttwte puipoMs In llUt. l.COO.OOO.OO Tucw lovittl tc state puiposwa in 1311).' 4,000,000.00 Increase! of, par cent.. 250 STAND FOR AMERICANISM. It is time that all American citizens knew that ours Is a government of lav and order that is sought to be overthrown by advocates ot what Is termed Direct Action, Mass Action, Syndicalism, Souvietism, Bolshevism nnd Radicalism in all its various forms. Many scoff at idea of Russian Bol shevism being transplanted to our country, but they overlook the fact that a national organization that is based on Direct Action and. with all its accessories of a political party is seeking with unlimited propoganda and dragnet methods to unite all forms of radical thought under one movement. Industrially it is known as the One Dig Union, and politically as the So cialist Labor party. Industrially it aims nt the so-called democratization of industries, that Is by moss action taking over the big industries nnd owning and operating them by the worker. Politically It seeks to unite every clement of discontent. itio people must be educated to stand as a solid wail against the ag gressions of the whole Rolshevistfc movement, for if it gets strong enough .n any state or even In any large city it is not going to stop at violence and evolutionary and red flag methods to accomplish its ends. Destructivism is inscribed on its banners. The four million men who enlisted or were drafted into the service of the nation In the great European war woro animated by principles of pa triatism and can be counted to stand by American institutions and for luw nnd order. Hut even their ranks are invaded by tho apostles of discontent. The nation foccs a crisis that wc can not Ignore. The police force of Iloston going on a strike, were unized and directed by union leaders, brings up n serious fact for consideration. The President called the police strike a crime. But mo same movement to unionize the police, firemen, public school teach on, public officials and finally the irmy nnd navy itself, shows the bold design of Bolshevism. To extend labor organizations to the public service to persons not la borers, to those who under law and oath aro sworn servants of all the oeortlc, means that a rulerehip for telflnh class interests in to be set up nsido of government itself, n dicta torship to these outside the organiza tion for the purpose of exploiting nnd robbing in (ho guise of government hose who are not in the ranks of the unions. It is our duty if wo nro Americans itnwllntr on tho ideals nnd founda tions of free institutions for nil the people, hating special privileges and lass rule with the inborn hatred of our revolutionary forefathers, to re list thin program of the domination oy tho Ono Big Union of our govern ment r.nd institutions, nnd stand for Amciicunism. ENLIST IN THE MARINES. Men may now enlist In tho United State Marine Corps for periods of two, three or four years. This is tho latest advice received by tho Oklahoma Marine Corps Head quarters in Tulsa from Washington, D. C. It is the first time in the his tory of this branch of the service that enlistments have been for a shorter period than four years except during the war. 'The purpose of the two and three year enlistments," says Lieutenant H. G. Hornbostel, officer in charge of Ma rine recruiting in Oklahoma, "is to Induce men to enter the service who have a desire to see the world and get an education and yet who would esitatc to enlist for four years. It is also meant as an inducement to men who have seen service to return. Men who Join the Marine Corps for these shorter periods will be accorded ill the privileges of four-year men nnd will in no wise be restricted to iny particular department or work of Hie Marine Corps unless they so de ilre. A man docs not have to have had previous service in order to avail himself of this opportunity. He must simply be 18 years of age, able to read and write and must be in good physi cal condition. Where there are no Marine Corps recruiting stations any postmaster will have a man examined ' for enlistment or the man may write to The Offlccr in Charge. Marine Corpq District Headquarters, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for further particulars con- J cerning tho men who serve on land, sky nnd sea '1 lie United States Ma rines. THE SQUARE ISSUE IS SOCIAL ISM. There is general denial that the North Dakota Non-Partisan League i is dragging the former into socialism. '1 his denial s mauo oy timiu news- papers that for local support have rone over to the League never by the leaders. The Non-Partlsnn League lias J thrown down tho gauntlet in Nebraska in the campaign for control or the forthcoming constitutional convention. Tho issue of its program is before Nebraska today. The first request which the Non partisan Lacgue will make of the Ne braska constitutional convention will bo power of the state to issue unllm- ONE SOCIALISTIC EXPERIMENT. Government control of railroads has foiled from whatever viewpoint it is resrarded. It has lowered the standard of serv ice to the public. It has increased rates beyond even the demands of the railroad opera tors before the government took con trol. It has destroyed the morale of the business organization of transporta tion lines. It has failed to maintain the needed improvements in railroad operation, and is now asking 200 millions for the item of impaired rolling stock alone. It has increased wages with a lavish hand, but it has failed to sat isfy the railroad employes and now faces what promises to be the great est strike in years. Finally, and worse than all else, it has failed in business management. In addition to all that it has cost the public in loss of service, it has cost more than one and a quarter billion dollars in deficits in revenues, not counting the 272 millions of shortage during the first five months of the present year. Against all this tremendous cost not one benefit has accrued to the people of the country from government operation. The plan offered by the railroad brotherhoods offers no relief from present condtions. It only plunres the country deeper into an impossible, condition. The constantly growing financial burden would still bo saddled upon the public, while conflicting in terests, bad politics ami mismanage ment continued to run riot in railroad control. - Treated for Cancer at Age of 81. Mrs. L. II. Donley nnd sister of t'organ were county scat shoppers today. Mrs. Blanch Covert nnd little three-weeks-old daughter nro hero from Wichita, Kansas, this week on a visit to her parents B. R. Stcadman nnd family. Mrs. Stcadmnn who has been spending several weeks with her daughter and was with her upon ar rival of tho stork, returned nlso at tho same time. Mrs. Norn Qulnn and daughter lit tle Miss Genevieve, nro hero from Des Moines, New Mexico, on a visit to Mrs. Quinn's parents, J. R. Quinn ind wife nnd other relatives. Ex acting tho return of her brother Or villo from overseas service, she re mained over to sco him. Ho arrived Tuesday night. itcd bonds, to incur unlimited indebt edness, in order that the state may engage In every sort ot business which may bo claimed to bo a public utility, a phrase expanded to in cludo elevators, flour mills, banks, in surance nnd what not This is par ticularly significant if coupled with I fin ilrm.ind for a "sinelo land tax." which would make the land bear tho great part, If not nil, the burdens of these greatly extended functions of government. Do tho property owners of Nebras kaand most of the people of the stntn are nroncrtv owners in small if I not largo degree favor this social istic program; win ino pcopic oi tho country approve it, under tho guise of n national liberal party? Tho issue, resolved into a general statement, is socialism. Its advocates dodgo tho trem. They talk about tho spccflc first steps rather than the program as a whole. But tho ulti mate end is certain. The program of the Non-Partisan League and of tho now nationnl party involves a rebirth of the socialist party discredited and shattered now with a now crop of misguided follow ers, who, in many instances, follow blindly, they know not whore. L. M. Long and wife of Balko were 'in town Mr. Long called at this office nnd squared his account for nnothcr I year. Blackwcll, Okln, Man Says He Was Cured of Cancer by Dr. O. A. Johnson. Mr. James Jones, 322 West Padon Ave.. Blackwcll. Okla.. is now 83 vcars old and enjoys excellent health. He was treated for cancer by Dr. O. A. Johnson two years ago. Mr. Jones now says: "About three years ago a little soro appeared on the back of my right hand. By December, 1917, it was tho size of a half dollar. "By a friend who had been cured of cancer by Dr. Johnson, I was advised lo take his treatment, so on December 3, 1917, I began his treatment, and in fine wgeks went homo cured, and there is no sign of its rctij. "I have notliinir but good wo"'i to say of Dr. Johnson and his able staff of helpers, and feel it u priv ilege to recommend him 'to all cancer sufferers. "I nm 83 years old and enjoying good health." Dr. Johnson has become widely known as a specialist in treatment of cancer. He conducts a large Research Laboratory, devoted entirely to this cruel disease. The treatment is en tirely medicinal external applications arc used to destroy the cancer and in ternal medication to purify the blood. Any sufferer should write at once to Dr. Johnson for his book, "Cancer Truths," which tells of his experi ences and wonderful non-surgical treatment. Address, Dr. O. A. John son, Suite 540, 1321 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. Quarter page ads will bo found in this issue ono advertising a public sale to be held at Madison, October fith, by C. E. Still, the other an ad for the Probst Grain Company, of Beaver, who are advertising a Snecial grain buying proposition which thev have to offer to the farmers. It will pay you to read these ads. 18 cents a package Camaa n ,oM rnrymhn In tcimnlillttllr aaf pacaaaa of 30 carfraa; or fan ptcktf 1300 citrtt9t) in tfljatfna.pjpor vovvfii ejirlon. Wm iron(tjr rc wnmnd f An caron for thm hom vr otffca a vpply ot whin joutta val H te?7 j'Jm H 1HJ0 ah. rii M H V5P,4?CaibfiatfjLi!ifw V iillfeAtfi-gl:'.lf,?iAWA.7? They Win You On Quality! 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