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WEDNESDAY MORXIXC, AITl'ST 6. 13111
I A ray of imagination or of wisdom
may enlighten the universe, and glow
into the remotest centuries.
Bishop Berkeley.
The Colombian Treaty
i' The senate it is understood will ratify the treaty
with Colombia, negotiated by Mr. P.ryan when sec
retary of stale several years ago. The treaty had its
origin with the Ta ft administration and proposed ihe
payment to Colombia of $-.".J')fHHM for the loss of
Panama during the administration of President
J'.oosevell. It failed of ratification at that time and
fn the spirit in which it was presented it would prob
ably never have been ratified by a really American
S"iiate.
It was negotiated by Mr. Bryan who injected into
i something of his own small nature that of the
partisan politician. It contained an expression of
''regret" at the circumstances which had deprived
Colombia of the Pnn.iman territory. Mr. Wilson and
Mr. Pryan who were aiming directly at Colonel
Roosevelt doubtless believed that the democratio
senate would promptly ratify the treaty but to the
credit of some of the democrats the treaty failed
session after session. Though the amount proposed
I" be paid Colombia was reduced, the objectionable
"regret" was insisted upon by both Mr. Bryan and
Mr. Wilson, but later .Mr. Wilson until now fte ad
ministration has given thai up and a republican sen
ate will probably ratify the treaty.
There has always been a willingness to recom
pense Colombia, not for the loss of Panama hut for
the canal zone though Panama was later paid $10.
Oeaiot) fur that concession with an annunity to begin
nine years later and run for VMI years. Tn a projected
treaty with Colombia before the Panaman revolution,
this government had agreed on the same terms only
the annuity of $"ii,niii) was to begin with the ratifi
cation of the treaty.
It was the refusal of the Colombian senate to
tntify this treaty that produced the dissatisfaction
that resulted in the revolution. Though President
Koosevelt's political enemies charged him with hav
ing connived at the revolution and with having aided
the revolutionists, he acted only under such powers
as were conveyed by t he treaty of 1 S 4 permitting the
t'nited States uninterrupted passage between Aoca
pulco and Colon. American gunboats refused to per
mit the landing of Colombian troops at Colon, to sup
press the revolution. Though the powers exercised
by the t'nited States were perhaps not such as had
been contemplated in the treaty of 1S4G they were
t'c h as the language of the treaty permitted.
There was moreover the justification by the end
J'f tl.e means. It was necessary that the canal should
tie constructed, a work made impossible by the cupid
ity of the Colombian senate.
. It is no doubt well for Colombia that it did not
feceive the money at that time. It would have he
Some the private property of -statesmen,", so that
the state itself would actually have derived nothing
from the concession.
:a The ratification of the treaty now will not he
in any sense a recognition of a wrong done to Co
lombia. It will be effected rather for the purpose of
'more closely cementing our relations with our Latin
American neighbors.
The Over-weening Question
If congress and the president can do something
to relieve the cost of living, what they may do or may
fail to do with respect to the peace treaty and the
League of Nations will be forgiven them. Those and
other matters real and ideal have been thrust into
the background. We are not caring much about
forms of government, humanity and posterity. The
question -of things to eat and to wear and materials
for providing shelter the earliest and most 'pressing
needs of mankind has been brought close to the
people.
With prices of necessary foods and clothing dou
bled, with dollar coffee and $100 suits of clothes and
$0 shoes in the offing, the average citizen is not apt
fo care about our political relations with the world,
and he is apt to feel resentful toward a government
which fritters away its time on such distant and ab
stract subjects.
The situation is more, perplexing than the war.
We knew then what we had to do and we quickly
learned how to do it. We could see through it and
we knew there would be tin end of it.
Put the wisest have discerned no way for the
abatement of the cost of living. We have learned
that it can not be accomplished by merely command
ing II. C. L. to come down out of the tree. It cannot
bo accomplished by the process of raising wages or
by deflating the dollar as has been proposed. What
i)i wanted is a restoration of the relations that ex
isted before people began to complain of the high
cost of living when the dollar contained a hundred
honest cents.
If we could tell congress and the president how
to do it we would do so, though they are being paid
salaries for that kind of work and we are not. But
we do not know. We think that somebody is manipu
lating supplies and prices but we arc not able to
. prove it. ,
Mr. Sims' Bill
Representative Sims of Tennessee introducing
his government ownership of the railroad bill in
forms the world that it would "establish harmony
between the public interest and labor and would go a
long way toward reducing the high cost of living.
Just what Mr. Sims means by the public interest we
do not know. If he means the interest of the public,
the producers, the shippers and at length, the con
sumers and that is all of us. who have at last to pay
the cost of transportation, he is certainly mistaken.
There can be no harmony between high wages which
must make high rates and the people who have to
pay those rates, hut do not share the wages.
If by the public interest the representative means
the administration which at one time wanted gov
ernment ownership, then there may be some har
mony between that public interest and labor. But we
doubt very much now whether the administration
wants public ownership. Its fingers have been
burned with government direction. We do not be
lieve now that anybody really wants government
ownership except the railway laborers, who believe
they would be more liberally dealt with by the gov
ernment than by private employers; by socialists
and dreamers who would see in government owner
ship a long step toward the socialization of industry.
It would be interesting to learn though from Mr.
Sims how government ownership of the railways
would contribute to the lower cost of living. Could
the government manage the roads more economically
and efficiently than it has managed them the last
three years, piling' up wages, deficits and rates?
Would it seem good business to put the roads in per
petuity into the hands of one who has made such a
conspicuous failure of an experiment and whose
failure has admittedly contributed so much to the
present cost of living?
But the bill of Mr. Sims has probably gone as far
as it is likely to go so that any discussion of it here
or elsewhere is a waste of time.
When a restaurant charges fifty cents for a glass
of lemonade it is charging for service and because
the overhead expenses have to be made up somehow.
Any man who is fool enough to pay such a price
when he can go around the corner and get a glass w .
one tenth of that sum, deserves to be bled. The price
is not after all exorbitant; no price is unless one has
to pay it.
Summer is on the down grade. Though it would
be premature to say that its backbone has been
broken, the worst is over. August in most places
the United States is the most disagreeable of months,
but in Arizona it always brings with it a moderation
of temperature.
The earthquake in the ocean on Sunday was na
ture's welcome to the Pacific fleet. It was old
Neptune's salute.
The detoured tourists will not hereafter believe
that the country west of the rockies is the "land of
little rain."
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
As time goes on into generations, the mere name
of a historical character may remain perfectly famil
iar to all of us, but their acts, their relation to their
time and all future time may become but little known
through the neglected reading of their lives.
That we of this generation may be reminded of
the accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin, and
possibly be inspired to a reading of his complete life, '
here is a very partial list of his inventions, social and
diplomatic servces:
Discovered that lightning and electricity were
one and the same.
Discovered the conductivity of electricity that
electricity could be transmitted by wires of certain
metals.
Discovered the use of copper in the science of
electricity.
Invented the double lense spectacle for near and
far vision.
Invented the lightning rod.
Invented a form of heating stove on which he re
fused a patent, saying that he preferred to give its
benefits to society.
Founded the first free circulating library in
America.
The father of our present postoffice system.
The father of our metropolitan police system.
Advocated systematic street lighting aa a preven
tion of crime in cities, and invented one of the first
forms of street lamps.
The original save-an-hour-of-daylight man.
Wrote a work on the prevention of smoky chim
neys that is standard today.
Was the first man to advocate fasting, keeping
out of crowds and in the open air aa a treatment for
colds.
Conceived and was one of the founders of the
University of Pennsylvania.
Was the largest newspaper and periodical pub
lisher of his time.
Organized one of the first city firs departments
and gave much thought and effort to the prevention
of fires and the improvement of fire-fighting ap
paratus. Organized the first fire insurance company in
Philadelphia previous to 1752 there was not an In
sured building in the city.
Saw the wealth in wtiat is' now the Lake Su
perior copper region, and shrewdly had the upper
peninsula of Michigan included in the treaty of peace
with the British.
As minister to France in 1776 he became known
as "The Good Richard;" he organized the transport
ing facilities that brought raw cotton, flax and to
bacco from America and which were sold in Europe
and with the proceeds, together with the contributions
from royalty and nobility of France, he purchased
mvinitions and supplies for the army which fought
the American revolution.
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ing downward, the plane came nearer! throughout the entire history of the
and lower then flattened out, and i United States.
swept close to the sea like a giant
gull.
"Wouldn't it be exciting if we were
watching our own Jim perform?" re
marked Chrys.
"Well,' it might very well be," said I,
my eyes still fixed on the fisherman.
Did that man see more than we did, I
wondered, in the pilot's acrobatics?
Why was he so uneasy? Was he
i afraid of losing what the depths con
! cealed that even a plane hovering
I aimlessly near at hand worried him?
I Next dav Jim. Jr.. had leave of ab
sence, ami I joined the family in their i ment r agriculture?
! New York miarters I A. The following
Q. What is the present value of the ;
peso or Honduran dollar? N. M. I-
A. The peso of Honduras is now
worth a little more- than 72 cents In
United States currency.
Q. What states furnished the great
est number of soldiers? L. M. T.
A. The states furnishing most sol
diers were in the following order:
New York. Pennsylvania. Illinois. Ohio.
Texas, Michigan. Massachusetts. Mis
souri, California and Indiana.
Q. What are the duties of the
meat inspection service of the depart -
F. K.
are among the
(Dorothy, aged 26, is spending the summer at Lively Beach, having staked1 Daddy had written him. long ago,!d,nieR of ttlp meat inspection service:
her job and $500 savings on the chance of winning a suitable husband during j that I was among the living, and Jim ' To eliminate diseased or otherw ise bad
the summer. These are her letters home to Joan, her chum.)
NO. 11
Somewhere on a Train.
My Own Joan:
I almost wish I hadn't undertaken
this trip. No, I don't mean that. But
I'm upset and all on account of that
most exasperating Jimmie Ross. I
never supposed that poor little color
less chap had it in him. 1 wrote you
before that Jim Ross is one of those
youths no girl particularly notices un
til he suddenly begins to make love to
her. He has but a single talent
courting. And a man may be neutral
tinted, narrow-shouldered, nearsighted,
and shy, but if he attaches himself to
a girl with the fidelity of an airedale,
anticipates her every wish, ignores
her every slight, has eyes for none but
her and makes love with all the in
tensity of one-track mind, I challenge
that girl to remain totally unimpressed.
Now when I told young Ross I was
oing away for two weeks in the
mountains, and he insisted he was
coming to see me there, I merely
laughed and tried to put it out of
mind. I was busy getting off. and did
not see him again until I was going
(own the hotel steps to get aboard the
bus for the station.
Suddenly, from a little blue roadster
tl at whipped up to the door, sprang
Jimmie. He seized my bag from the
startled bellhop, laid hold of my el
bow and proceeded to haul me gently
but firmly toward the car.
"Y'ou didn't suppose," said James, "I
was going to let you go to town on
that stupid train did you? Car's been
in the repair shop nearly a month, but
I got her out just in time. I'll spin
you to the Grand Central or the Penn
or wherever it is you go.
"But I've got to make the twelve
ten." I gasped, rather undone by the
turn of affairs.
"We'll make it all right, don't worry.
Come, jump in."
He had tipped the boy-, stowed my
suitcase in the little ear and tucked
me neatly in before I knew what was
happening. The thing whirred, rasped,
coughed and shot forward with a jerk
that nearly severed my cranial verte
brae, and we were off toward New
York.
I am not used to motor cars, Joan,
worse luck. And especially am I not
used to being kidnapped in them. The
breathlessness of it all kept me from
conversing over-much until we were
a third of the 'way to town. Then T
became conscious of Jimmie repeating
something again and again, gradually
increasing the volume of his tone till
it rouse me.
"Where is it you're going?" was
what he was saying.
Oh. a place in Jersey, Jimmie, don't
insist on knowing. As a matter of
fact I'm going on business and don't
want anyone to write or come or or
anything."
"What sort of business?" persisted
James.
"In connection with my work. I told
you I was a stenographer, not a lady
of fortune as you seemed to think."
"But you're on your vacation. Why
break in on it to resume your profes-
! and I perfected by correspondence our
plans for sailing away on a treasure
hunt.
I Neither of us wasted much time tn
i exclamations and sentiment when at
last we met. We had got through all
that by letter, but Jim did administer
a resounding kiss right in the middle
of my forehead. And the family left
us alone for one of our confidential
chats after dinner. j
"Some old plot you've hashed up,
Sis," said Jimmy-boy. "I've been car
rying student -observers around lately,
and whenever I've bad a photographer
up I've had him snap that suspicious
point of ilie triangle, with a camera of
my own. We've done the thing from
various heights, and in sunny and
j cloudy weather, but we got nothing
I for our pains until yesterday."
I "So it really was your plane that
Chrys and I watched. Fate must
have sent us." And I told him of the
fisherman who had taken such a keen
interest in that hovering plane. Also
1 showed Jim my queer note.
"Don't worry about those fellows.
Sis. Read this," Jim handed me a
blurred photograph.
"Means nothing in my young life,
Jimmy-boy." I said as I gave it back.
"I suppose you expected to see a
life-sized U-boat, and all you can make
out is a shadow. But my observer savs
jit's a hummock a little hill on the
ocean bottom. Do you see what that
means?" Jim asked. "Partly buried
already. The diver will have to dig
his way in. But let our rivals get
to it."
"Yes," said I. "Thanks to your cam
era practice, we've got the start on
them. We know where to dig."
(To Be Continued)
He has but' a single talent, courting
meat from the general food supply; to
see that the preparation of the meats
and products passed for human con
sumption is cleanly: to guard against
the use of harmful dyes, preservatives,
chemicals or other deleterious ingre
dients; and to prevent the use of false
or misleading names or statements on
labels: in short, to protect the health
of the consumers of meat and meat
food products to the fullest extent pos
sible under the laws. The service is .
administered through the bureau of
animal industry of the department.
Q. What is a trench mortar?
J. F. A.
A. A trench mortar is a verv sim
ple sort of cannon which is used in
throwing high explosive into the ter
ritory of the enemy. It began as lit
tle more than a piece of pipe with
one end sealed up, into which wa-'
placed powder and a projectile con
taining explosive much as an old
muzzle-loading shotgun is used. It
would throw its charge two or three
hundred yards. By the end of the wnr
the trench mortar had developed to
twelve-inch caliber and to a range of
a mile.
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THE YOUNG LADY ACROSS THE WAT,
sion?"
"It s an unexpected piece of work.
A rush job.. I don't want to be dis
turbed." "Any reason why a fellow shouldn't
write? You'll stop stenogging long
enough to eat and sleep and read an
occasional note. I suppose?"
I didn't answer.
"Oh, very well."
Time pressed, and he drove fast. We
reached the station jist in time for me
to get my ticket and board the train.
"Don't go in with me, Jimmie." 1
urged, motioning a porter to take my
bag. "I'd rather you wouldn't. Thanks
a thousand times, and au revoir; I'll
be back at Lively Beach before yoi'0
realied I'm gone."
Jimmie seized my hands and pressed
them hard. As I dashed into the con
course I heard his motor start. I
rushed to the ticket window, one eye
on the clock, the other staring into my
handbag for my purse.
"A one-way- ticket." I shouted to the
man behind the wicket, "to Forest Val
ley. New Jersey."
But at the instant I discovered my
purse wasn't there, who should ap
pear at my elbow, holding it out to me
but Jimmie.
"Here, careless girl!" he grinned tri
umphantly, "now you can get your
ticket to Forest Valley."
Curses on that Jimmie Ross!
DOLLY.
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
A. Saint Nicholas was a fourth cen
j tury bishop in Asia Minor. His feast
( in Germany was a time of presents and
, feasting. In various places Saint
.Mcnoia-s began to be mimicked by a
man dressed as a bishop, who brought
gifts. Santa t'laus was the Dutch form
of St. Nicholas.
: Q. What is the salary of the presi
, dents private secretary? H- D. V.
A. The salary of the president's pri
i vale secretary is $7.."i00.
j Q. May the president of the United
States bold his office for three or
I more terms? I. F. V.
I A. There is no provision in the con
stitution prohibiting the president
from serving three terms, hut the idea
is always opposed by popular opinion.
George Wasiiington refused a third
term and this precedent has held
The young lady across the way say
its an odd thing but every southpaw
she ever saw was left-handed.
My Warning Fails to Prevent Me from
Urging Jim to the Jewel Hunt
"Better keep away from here. Game
too dangerous for a girl!" There was
nothing cryptic about the note which
the Hun dropped into my lap. I
thought I caught its meaning at a
glance. I presumed it had been dic
tated by Hamilton Certeis, although
the writing was not his. It merely
warned me to abandon the search as a
losing prospect or so I construed it
and to leave the jewel trove to those
who were determined at any cost to
get it.
Later, when one of the men was dead
in a shocking way. I realized that the
warning had been intended for my
personal safety. But 1 didn't flee from
the vicinity of the treasure that day.
nor did I keep away from it later.
The fisherman who had slipped the
note into my lap paused, 1 thought, to
observe its effect upon me. But then
I noticed that a faint spot in the sky
had caught and absorbed his atten
tion. Presently to my own ears came
the peculiar whirr of an airplane en
gine. Planes were novelties to Chrys and
me. In our city we had viewed them j
only by government favor during Lib- I
erty Loan drives. While the oncoming i
plane held Chrys intent, I kept my own j
eyes on the fisherman. The look on
his face, turned toward the eireline:
plane, oddly suggested suspicion and !
antagonism. Side-slipping and swoop- '
For Wednesday and Thursday
11
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EVERETT TRUE
BY CONDO
A MAN FIRST OF ALL THE WORLD'S DEMAND
(By the Rev. Charles Stelzle)
Lieutenant Commander A. C. Read was selected
by the navy department to fly across the ocean
and he succeeded the first man successfully to make
the trip.
Yesterday I met him and chatted with him. His
father was a Baptist minister. His clean-cut face
and clear-cut language marks him as a man of nerve.
And, by the way, he is the type of man who
has done things in the war and who is working out
our perplexing reconstruction problems.
Blusterers and buffoons can't get away with it
these daysj The times are too serious and demand
too much of our leaders.
For the man who has a broad outlook upon life,
and who can see and feel the needs of the people,
there never was a better chance.
But for cheap, sneering, profane men well, they'll
have a hard time to prove their sincerity of purposs
and their ability to measure up to the requirements.
Read reaped the fruit of many martyrs' efforts
in the aviation field. They all had done their share
in preparing the way for this daring flight. Read
had many qualities and achievements to his credit,
but he was selected chiefly because he was a real
man.
Whatever else the world demands of him who
is selected for the place of honor, it always insists
that he shall be a man.
Ka.cn little nation believes in self-determination
for everybody except its neighbors
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10 lbs Cane
Sugar
6 lbs. Fancy California
Potatoes
1 lbs. Breakfast
Bacon
Crackers in box lots,
per lb
12 lbs Pink
Beans
48 lbs Star
Flour
3 big rolls
Toilet Paper
All 20c size pkgs. of Cookies and
Crackers
1 doz. half-gallon
Fruit Jars
We deliver all over town.
45c
$1.00
.. 25c
40c
16c
$1.00
$2.80
26c
15c
$1.26
Griebel's Grocery
218 W. Washington St.
Phons 1508
Everybody
should have a Savings Account and should
deposit regularly and systematically. Those
who follow this plan will always have ready
money for the big opportunity when it
comes.
Financial opportunities are always pre
senting themselves. You must be ready,
and to be ready you must save!
We pay 4 ner cent, interest on Savings
Accounts. .
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