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Necessities of Life
Washington, April 16.—Regardless
of theoretical discussions as to
whether government ownership should
be a permanent policy or simply
war measure, Secretary McAdoo is
daily adopting measures that tend to
nationalize the railroad systems. Uni
fled operation, the dream of railroad
men for years, has been given a great
impetus by the announcement that
after May 1, goods may be shipped
across the country, on one way bill, no
matter how many railroads may han
dle them in transit. In the past
car of goods from New York to San
Francisco might be shipped by four
different railroads and on four dif
ferent waybills. That meant when a
car arrived at a railroad terminal
point it had ito be held there until it
wa-s checked in on the old way bili
and checked out on a new one thai
had to be made. Durijig a period of
freight congestion that system often
held up cars for days and even weeks.
Mr. McAdoo, who has already or
dered the discharge ol' all lobbyists
and legal departments that could not
show legal reasons for their existence
is now moving to discharge useless
officials and useless branches of rail
road staffs. These useless persons
include chairmen of boards of direct
tors, traffic solicitors and attorneys
who negotiate contracts with the gov
ernment. In short, the upper strata
of railroad society is to be pruned
for the henefi of the stockholders and
the public.
Government Recognizes Labor.
Another big factor toward unifica
rion Of the system is the recognition
by the government of the four broth
erhoods 6f train operatives in all
vr&ge
&Tid labor disputes, and the pro
viding of boards for the readjustment
of all differences. This mean? abso
lute solidarity between the govern
ment. aijd 2,0Q0,000 railroad employees
In the debate in the house on the
Baer.bill, the fact kept outcropping
that, Jt was the farmers' organization
that was feared rather than the pre
cedent for loaning money for agricul­
tural
enterprises.
Particularly was that part of the
bill appropriating $2,500,000 for ex
penses for transporting agricultural
Jatyoregs froin ope section
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another
opposed thofce wftb-want to keep
tlifrir Wrift workers'contented. This
was brought out by Stevenson of
South Sarolina, who said:
''Everybody knows that our /labor, is
largely colored labor, and a proposi
tion to give them a free rido to Kan
sas or Montana or elsewhere would
denude the cotton and corn farms of
their .labor in 24 hours." His voice
wjjte simply the conscience of the
South expressing itself, for the bill is
safeguarded so that transposition of
lator would help rather than hinder
production.
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Never was the waste of our pres
ent system of distribution so well 11-
American "Ads" in
Readers of The Saturday News may
also be interested in 'learning how
such a paper is prepared. In India
there are presumed to be about four
hundred million inhabitants who have
about, fifty different dialects or ver
naculars. The Chamberlain Medicine
Company advertises in ten of these,
as follows: Benglai, Gujorathi, Hindi,
Kanarese, Malayam, Marathl, Sindi,
Tamil, Telegu and Urdu. The Sindhi
and Urdu are written from left to
right in the Hebrew fashion. The
Urdu is a sort of script and so chaotic
in shape that it is impossible to re
duce it to movable type form. Papers
printed in the Urdu language, there
fore, are first written out by hand
and a plate made by the lithographic
process. From this plate, or plates,
the "Oudh Akhbar' is printed.
With few exceptions the advertising
pages would give an American "ad"
writer the nightmare. The foreign
advertiser, excepting the English
speaking peoples, have but little con
ception of the value of space or o£
attractive methods in presenting the
lustrated as they have been by an'text or illustrations. A pleasing re-
article In the April Outlook by J. L. 1).
D^an, a fanner of .Waterville, Maine.
According to figures given by Mr.
Dean from the New- York department
of» foods and markers, the consumer's
dollar-Is, divided so that 35: cents, goes
to" the .producer and 65 cents to, the
various, agencies of distribution. Just
how much of this 65 cents is required
for needed labor and how much of it
goes tftjvthe ^profiteers the report does
,»it say, nor does Mr, Dean contend
that, the ,average,, iintjividi^al in the
'""system, of distribution get#..,t^a-large
ptty for his labor.
9The,. 4Q.tJty» ,9cJi?jaet,pf ^attribution
Ifcgtoo cumbersome and expensive, for
thp service'
tha£1It1^fendera
There is
trinspartauon, wii,ii high
.'Ctjarges,' and the gobffs ]go"through an
-unnecessary, .number of hands. before,
"i, tKi?y get to the retailer.
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Duplicate Labors Costly.
*The Outlook article occasioned con
,$jfterable comment at the iiat_ioy^t
rapitalv It teas^ra^de
sj®artoou bxfjfanfipessnv||iMji,
ami of comment ly many others who
Srsjnarked that the fundamental pro
•grjua pf th?, apAparUsan Joague, j.he
eUmlna-ticn-^ef the useless middleman,
«ftd the organization of a distribution
ittea based
on
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Dean fl'ectayes that'tW expense
^distribution Is responsible
toe
riiucli
X^h^land in the East beta# kept
It oit'production. With prices that
iuW'pa/ a fair return for labor, the
Sit&r thinks that/with the sasie
nta now in operation the prfoduc
i^.oftiie eastern- states cdtild be
iRei&ised firora four to ten fold and
Bast would be able to feed itself
vnc rarasties.
^'%^V'Dean points to another advan
11*% 4hat vrjould- como by cutting
rii the cost of iiiarketing. A large
of parasites retained now by
fit the 65 cents oct of the con
could he Teteased for
labor In the industries so neces
to making war work effective.
Bean reaches the conclusion
the ^ikitoent ought to redr
thh» »yst®as#nd:make it better
lore ettclent. He advocates rii
itlon between fapmeW atfil
porkers
lief to this- monotony is afforded by
the "ads" ol' American advertisers
which are rather "numerous on their
pages.
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Foreign Newspapers
Attracting Attention
As a matter of curiosity, The Sat
urday News asked the Chamberlain
Medicine Co., of Des Moines, la.,
-manufacturers of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, to send it a few copies of
foreign newspapers in which it ad
vertises quite extensively. The com
pany complied with our request, and
we now have in our files, subject to
examination by any interested read
er, twenty newspapers published in
various parts of the world. (The
Chamberlain Medicine Coi, by the
way, will be glad to furnish similar
packages to public libraries or high
school libraries, upon application.)
For the information of readers of
this paper, it may be said that the
collection embraces papers from the
following cities and countries: China,
JJ*pan, Calcutta (India), Hiilo (Ha
waii), Madras, Ceylon, Bangkok
(Siam), Bloemfontein, The Straits,
and many other places.
The Chamberlain! Medicine.. Co. ad
vertises In newspaper^", printed in
thirty-twio languages.-. Besides the
vernaculars and the wieli- known Eu
ropean language*, French, Spanish,
Portugese, Dutch, German, etc., the
list embraces a number of languages
which until comparatively recent
times possessed,.no alphabet but for
which the Roman alphabet ha^ been
adopted. There is also a modern form
of thei-Malfty language .using Roman
characters, known as Romanized Ma
lay. This'-is*'iised'-iri -Java sfhd the
East Indies.. ,,
It is difficult to conceive how the
readers of Bome of the papers man
age to handle them, Imagine a man
oil a crowded street car trying to read
a paper whose pages are thirty-eight
inches long' and twenty-nine inches
i0M° This Is the size of the "Hitad
a Bengall ^e^kly published in
"Ceucfttta, india."j ,-h-
In running through these twenty
papers, ranging through as many dif
ferent languages, some of which we
daft "&ofrt of sense fhe'mettttlng of, and
much of which,, we c&n't (there aro.
two or three- papers |n the bunch
whose place of pubiication we cannot
eveh guesB at) we finS more' than a
dozen American advertisers.
The Royal typewriter, for instance,
occupies a conspicuous place on a
conspicuous page Jot the "Bintang
Soerabala," wherever the thing may
be published the Goodrich tires ap
pear in the Straits Mair and In an
other paper whose title we cannot
make out the Remington typewriter
is advertised in several papers, among
which is the Daily Gleaner, published
at Kingston, Jamaica the Michelin
tires are shown in the Halo Tribune
(Hawaii) and the "Bintang Soer
abala" the Maxwell car in the Kings
ton daily the Bulck and the Chev
rolet in the Slam Observer, Bangkok
Colgates perfumes In the "La Dis
cuision," 'Habana, and the "Ag MI
thl," Manila Mellin's oFod in the
Burma Herald Sttidebaker cars In
the S^un Observer and other publica
tions Beaver Board, a building ma
tertal, in the "De Vrlend des yolks,"
of Bloemltontein
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Emperor Charles in
Pickle Writes One
convinced, especially after the de
tails furnished by Clemenceau. that
the ideas imputed to the emperor of
Austria' are exact.
"The organs of the military party
are crying treason and demanding
that Austria be placed under the tu
telage gf the German empire. The
.Neue Sadisch Landes Zeitung adds
that the German ambassador at Vien
na called Tuesday at Ballplatz to pre
sent a communication from his gov
ernment."
(Editorial note.—The emperor of
Austria is alleged to have written: to
Prince Sixtus, his cousin, to the ef
fect- that the claims of France with
regard to Alsace-Lorraine are well
founded and that justice should be
done France. Emperor Charles, in
this letter, which was an unofficial
document, asked the prince to convey
to President Poincare of France, the
personal regards of the Austrian em
peror and to assure the French presi
dent that the writer of the letter
would use his personal, influence tq
help in meting out justice to France
in the final settlement of the difficul
ties into which the two countries had
become involved. Alsace-Lorraine ap
pears to have been one of the princi
pal obstacles to the conclusion of
peace, from the German standpoint,
some months ago. France demands
„that this rich province be returned to
the French republic. As a result of
theM war of 1870 Germany acquired
Alsace-Lorraine, but the people of the'
province,'according to* French author
ity, supported by many investigations,
.While German in language, are French,
in thought and sentiment. If it be
true that Emperor Charles expressed
himself in favor of the return of this
French province to the people of:
France, and there is a general disposi
tion to credit the letter as authentic,
it will not be so difficult., in the event
,of a defeat of the Gertaati military
•war problems. It is obvious, how
the war on any sort of terms that the
ever, that nothing but complete de
feat of the Prussian rulers will end
the war on -any sore of terms that the
•allied governments1 can consistently
accept.)
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Washington, April 13.—The letter of |XaI
Emperor Charles foas greatly agitated .j.?
Germany, according to an official dis-]
patch from Zurich, whfch says:
"The German press is very much
excited over the revelations which
the French government has made
concerning the attitude of the emper
or of Austria toward the Alsace-Lor
raine question. The Neue Badische
Landes Zeitung, announcing that the
chancellor of the empire left sudden
ly on Tuesday to join the emperor at
great headquarters, affirms that these
conferences, which are to take place,
will revolve exclusively around the
situation created by the revelations
of Mr. Clemenceau.
"Although the Vienna correspondent
of the Frankfurter Zeitung in a note
of extreme timidity wrote Tuesday
evening that the high personage
mert-
tioned by the French minister in his
reply to Count Czernin could not be-
The "Straits Echo," for instance,
now in its fifteenth year, has a sub-J long to the ruling house, every one is
script ion price of $24.00 a yr?ar, and
sells at ten cents a copy.
One of the least attractive (from
the standpoint of an American) is the
"Oudh Akhbar," a sixteen-page daily
published at-,Lucknow. We don't know
what the subscription rate is, for we
can't read the stuff, excepting the
name of the paper and the place of
publication. The first page appears
where the last, page of an American
newspaper is supposed to be, and we
take it that the reader in Lucknow
reads the last page first and then
runs backward until he. comqs to the
top line in the northwest corner of
what in America would be the front
page position. This paper is said to
have a circulation of 5,000 copies a
day. It is furthermore said that it
requires an office force of about 200
people to handle it. Fortunately,
however, for the publishers and read
ers, the wages paid to natives amount
to only a few cents a day.
BITA OLIVET "LEST WE FOBGET"
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, APRIL 18-19^
Over the
Siljk Skirjts
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"So you own a good many suburban
house.Oind small farms., Live on any
'No." .41
"Then" you don't raisa
yourself?" ,,, -(t,
"Oh, ,yes every spring
rents."-nrBoston, Transcript.
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I Pauline Frederick in "DOUBLE CRQSSED^FojSb'
Star in a Paramount Picture:
Also FRIENDLY ENEMIES,'' Mack Sennett Comedy.
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Silk Hose
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Come and see us. We offer only the best merchandise ait .' Jov^est prices. ,, It,
Outfitters for Women, Misses'and Children
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Chiggers and Jiggers
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tol poristirufe^a. ^uil^g, pf any. 'sort-^.
they' get't^le( 'perc^p^age'.'.on'• whatever,
th.e*,cost. may be, ancl the jijore 'a' thing
'eosw •the.'^i^. gflonf', thej pget.'
€f .c6urj^|^f'4asfif '.y%5rie thei cpn
tractor is afi^careful'. and .painstaking,
as it .he were attending to'^iis p.^iv^teV
.^different,, but,,
in too .maTiy.Jnstar.des tho ':,work is
rushu thr-rtn^h p.ellmell without re
gard to cost. ^.11 that the contractor
has to do i^ to prove tho cost.—the
amdunta' pawl out ^nd for what pur
pose,—and h6L gets his percentage
thereon.
Louls says that there are various !aient
and numerous pests in the southern
region that were'new to him. The
little "red bngj" as lie called it., a"
name generally applied in Texas, is
a ir^st industrious little cuss. It is
so small as to defy detection by tlje
naked eyet, and "the first thing a fellow
knows~he is afitticted with an itching
here and there, and he begins to
scratch and scratch, and Anally he
discovers, hasing bis judgmtent upiqn
what his friendis tell Mm, that these
little bugs are eating into his anat
omy. After a few days the annoyance
passes away, the tags having died,
evidently, in a'fellow's* skin, and then
he's all right until another set of 'em
attacks him. In Arkansas these lit
tle red bugs are called "chiggers" or
"jtegero," or something like that
^he -horned toads, the centipedes,
the scorpions, the fleas, etc., etc..
Louis says, are cdnetant dreads ^to an
ttiated northerner until he hecotbea
timated, .and provincialized, and
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from Texas, here he spent the great
er 'part of the winter, engaged,' to'
large extent, lit"the carpentering ,^e:
parhnent 6t the federai govniment's,
training caiiipi.
tVliges/' h,e'tsays,' a,veraged about,
?5.9^ a'Hay, With('pi'ic» ai^d, a half foi
over-timle. ,.6'ije,'jweek, ^dtiripg' kis so-,
journ there, "his. piy ehyeiQpe con-'
tallied* ?'42 o6',.' 7.
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able part!of. Anfe .gpve^nm^nt.ci^ilig^i.
worji. ^Th^ geneifal, .rul^tthat'.cqntrajpfe',
•orjs'operate, ujfder' is,( ^dat^jis'.^ .Refe,
jt ftaiii", per'efen^g^. ,proflt.'j The, .re
sul{ ,is^^ tiiat'^^tfte,contractors,:,in jnany,
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Amsterdam, April 13,—By Mail.)—
Germany's, debt after the war will be
30. times what it was at the begin
ning, George Bernhard, editor of the
Vps.sisclie Zeitungj.ideolared in a lec
ture:,recently in Berlin in connections
with the campaign lor: the. eighth Ger
maji,,war loan.! The, editor's:,.speech
was.,.hardly culenlated. to. ,ajlord his. '-,
hearers
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for, irejoicing. »He
said- that at the -.end: of the iwor Ger-:
many probabiy-.will hei ,faoed twlthan
debtn o£ 150,OOOjOOO,O.GiO,, marks^ i,
against 5,000,000jflOO betorei tke wtair. i."
J. 'Editor Bernh'ai'd said
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14,000,"
000 ,000! iA'arkfe! wbuld have t6! be jjro-""
vidisd''annually' after '{he? war"thr'6Ufrh:
taction. He estiittatetf the'em^ire'^'
natiotfif-'wfealth1 'at ," 460,000','OO'O.OOO^'
mafks,'a 'tdrge part' df'Which'i^V^tatfe1
aria:'comnlunal property.'- He did' not"
faVxi'r ai sin'gTe" levy'dn cap^taf and said
sm'dU capitalists shoul'd 'hot be titled
tob: hard. Thife, he declared, vCould
mean that the larger fortunes wdtfld
halve to pay as'hi^h as 50 per cent,
which he thought
a' Safe tax:
'froin an ecOnoiTiic' viewDdirit:
JThe latent inducement, to subscribe
to the' war loan js a device by which"
a man may mortgage his prospective
savingjs for the" next lit) years by
means of a special insurance policy.
RHEUMATIC PAINS RELIEVED
"1 have used Chamberlain's Lini-
for
Pains in the chest and lame-
ness of. the shoaMers- due to rheuma
tism, and .am pleased to say that it
has never failed to give me prompt
relief," writes Mrs. S. N. Finch, Ba
tavia. N. Y. -s^Adv. 43 47
PEACE EXPOSE IS CAUSE OF
REMOVAL COUNT CZERNIN
Amsterdam, April 15.^~Count Czer
nin, the Aus-tro-Hungarian foreign
minister, acorQing to a dispatch from
Vienna, has resigned.'
Emperor Charles accepted the res
ignation and entrusted'Count Czernin^
with the conduct of foreign affairs un
til his successor is appointed. TheJ
emperor has cancelled .a visit to Buda*
Ptst, where he was to have fttende4,
an^ impomnt^oonference a«
of Czernin's resignation.
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