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THE CROSSVILLE CHRONICLE
"WASHINGTON OS
SIDELIGHTS -IBf!
Greatest Profiteers
WASHINGTON. The national live
stock exchange has declared war
on the retail meat dealers. Everett C
Brown of Chicago, president of the ex
change, appearing before the house
agriculture committee In opposition to
packer legislation, characterized the
meat retailers as "the greatest prof
iteers this country has ever known."
He urged the committee to desist try
ing to regulate the packers and. to con'
centrate jeffocts ion breaking, up the
profiteering by the retail dealer.
Mr. Brown furnished the committee
with a resume of a survey which he
made recently of retail prices in Chi
cago. These prices, be declared, fteo,
Haiti Peeved With
DEMANDING withdrawal of the
American forces occupying the is
land, three delegates of the Patriotic
union of Haiti have presented to Pres
ident Harding, the State department
and congress a report in which the
American marines and Haitian gen
darmes are accused of committing
numerous atrocities not investigated
by the Daniels' court of Inquiry.
The report calls the American occu
pation the "most terrible regime of
military autocracy ever carried on In
the great American democracy." The
three delegates are H. Pauleus San
non, former Haitian secretary of for
eign affairs and former minister to the
United States: Stenjo Vencent, for
mer president of the Haitian senate,
and Hi Perceval Thoby, former charge
d'affaires of the Haitian legation In
Washington.
The Haitian people, according to the
report. In addition to reparations for
the wrongs and Injuries done them, de
sire :
Immediate abolition of martial law
and courts martial.
Immediate reorganization of the
Haitian police and military forces, and
What Is Your Worth
A TAX of one per cent on the net
worth of individuals is suggested
by Representative Bacharach of New
Jersey, a Republican member of the
house ways and means committee, as
a possible substitute for present ob
jectionable taxes.
Mr. Bacharach, who Is an advocate
of a general sales or turnover tax, said
that he contemplated Introducing such
a bill as an alternative for the sales
tax in case that fails to receive the
approval of the ways and means com
mittee. He said that he believed that
a one per cent tax on the net worth
of an Individual would raise at least
Wm. Gilpin for National Statuary Hall?
HAS the time arrived for Colorado,
60 years old as a territory and 45
years old as a state, to select a dis
tinguished citizen for a place In the
national statuary hall in the national
capitol? Senator Nicholson thinks so
and proposes William Gilpin, first ter
ritorial governor, as one of sufficient
historic renown to make him worthy
of being the state's first representative
in the hail of fame.
Each state in the union Is entitled to
two statues. More than half of the
states now have representation, some
with one and others with two. Just
whose statue shall go to statuary hall
Is a matter for the legir.lature of each
state to determine.
"I think that Colorado Is now old
enough as a state to determine on at
least one of its early illustrious citi
zens as worthy of a place in this na
tional hall of fame," said Senator
Nicholson. "My first choice is Gover
nor Gilpin, who did big things for the
whole West, as well as for Colorado.
He was one of ihe pioneers who helped
to give the country nn appreciation of
in the Country?
showed a Jump of 100 per cent from
the wholesaler to the consumer.
"1 read nothing in the proposed leg
islation that tries to control those ev
erybody in this room knows to be the
greatest profiteers not only during
the war but at the present time that
this country has ever known," said
Mr. Brown. --Why does not congress
try to control these people who by
ihelr retail butchers' associations in
the large distributing cities have a
closer organization than any of the
big trade union organizations in Am
erica?
'A recent survey of wholesale and
retail meat prices in Chicago disclosed
startling comparisons.
''Meat obtained from the same pack
er was being sold "In one shop at from
10 to 18 cents a pound more than the
same brand and cuts were Dnugius
across the street.
"I was offered lard of a well known
brand at' exactly 'two and one-half
times the-prtce that brand was whole
saling for on that day. Bacon costing
wholesale 30 to 35 cents was offered
at 55 .to rfJ5 :cents a pound."
Our Leathernecks
withdrawal within a short period of
the United States military occupation.
Abrogation of the convention of
1915.
Convocation within a short period
of a constituent assembly with all the
guarantees of electoral liberty.
Administration of water cure and
other tortures by American officers
and marines, and the commission of
"numberless abominable crimes" of
which twenty-five cases with names
and dates are given In the report
The report is supplementary to two
resolutions calling for congressional
Investigation of Haitian affairs, one
Introduced by Senator Hiram Johnson
of California, the other by Represen
tatlve Bland of Indiana.
as an Individual?
$1,000,000,000' a year. Under his plan
there would be an exemption of $10,
000 allowed for each person.
"Personally, I am still of the opin
ion that the adoption of the sales tax
plan would be the simplest and eoslest
method of raising additional revenue
and at the same time bring a reduction
in the cost of living and a return of
business prosperity," said Mr. Bacha
rach. "However, as an alternative propo
sition I am considering the presenta
tion of a bill which will levy a tax of
one per cent on the net worth of the
Individual to take the place of those
taxes which I feel very strongly should
be eliminated. Under the most unfav
orable conditions, such a tax should
bring in more than a billion dollars In
revenue."
Advantage of a one per cent turn
over sales tax to the government, the
merchant, and the small taxpayers were
claimed by Its advocates at the open
ing hearing on revenue legislation be
for the senate finance committee.
the great West, and who early recog
nized Colorado ns a great state. He
was named by Abraham Lincoln as
Colorado's first territorial governor.
Before he became governor he had
served In the Mexican war arid had
led expeditions against hostile Indians
of the West Indeed, it was Gilpin who
Influenced congress to name our state
Colorado. He defeated a proposal,
made by secessionists, to name the
state Jefferson. He went to Colorado
In a wagon drawn by oxen. He served
as our territorial governor In 1861 and
18C2. He kept the state on the side
of the union, taking a position against
secession.
The Vanished
Freight
By E. FLORENCE
(Copyright.)
The loose-jointed Individual and the
watery-eyed one met on common
ground. They had both been fired
from the same freight and were
drawn to each other or, more correct
ly speaking, fired at each other, for
they came near colliding In the process
of ejectment
"Must take us for blooming cannon-balls,"
grunted the loose-jointed
one.
"Yes; those fellows are certainly
on the firing-line, all right." replied the
watery-eyed one. "Reminds me of
the way I've often floated through
space In Kansas, riding bareback on
a cyclone."
'So you've been in Kansas, too?"
queried the loose-Jointed one. "Now,
there's a state that con bonst some
about nearly everything. And, talking
of cyclones, did you ever hear how
they, are formed.
"Houses, trees and cattle are gath
ered In Its loving embrace, and the
whole blooming outfit forms a sort of
relief expedition to the afflicted place.
The world moves, but Kansas Is a
whole moving picture show.
"Speoklng of railroading," snld the
loose-jointed Individual, "I'd like to
relate to you some of my experiences
In the railroad business. Buck In the
seventies I did key-pounding down in
Kansas, on the P. D. Q. road. I held
down a shanty up along the line, -forty
miles from the nearest refectory.
"Did nothing much but give the
trains clear truck or hold them up to
side-track so's to let another train
pass. The old P. D. Q. was a single
track rood, with shanties and sidings
at regular Intervals, at which a num
ber of other jays like myself did the
bralnwork for the system.
"I was holding down this job In
that Queen Anne cottage, with no great
white way nearer than the milky
baldric of me skies.'
"Well, this particular incident I have
In mind happened on one of those days
when nature seems to be resting and
getting ready for a grand-standdemon-stratlon.
"I seemed to sense something was
going to happen, and felt as fussy as a
magnetized kitten. There was a south
bound train due at my villa at 7:30
p. m. I had orders to hold it on the
siding until the north-bound passen
ger, due at 7:45, had pnssed.
"The sky had assumed a dirty-gray
color. I felt certain that there was a
cyclone sashaying around somewhere
In my vicinity.
"I was wondering If my villa was In
the path of the whirling dervish, when
the stillness was suddenly fractured
by the shrieking of the south bound's
whistle.
"I got ready to do the reception net,
and wondered why Jim Bludsoe kept
his whistle blowing.
In a few seconds the big engine
loomed In sight. Along she came, like
a race-horse on the home-stretch, and
suddenly I realized that the big galoot
at the throttle was going to give us
the go-by.
I grabbed my red flag and got busy
with the wigwag performance, but old
Iron horse swished past with his long,
brown tall of empty freights strung
out behind like the appendage of a
comet.
"'What the Sam Hill's the matter
with that giddy choffer?' thinks I.
Then it struck me all of n sudden that
In about seven and a half minutes
there was going to be trouble, likewise
a lot of scrap-iron scattered over the
scenery of the Sunflower state.
"The north-bound train had already
entered the same block, and the two
trains would meet about half-way be
tween my bungalow and the next one
sonth, on the curve around a grove
thereabouts. In my mind I pictured
the horror of the scene.
"My mind was full of the possibili
ties of the situation, ond I was stand
ing there, paralyzed, as It were, when
suddenly there was a roar, and the
topography of Kansas began doing the
Wilbur Wright act.
"I was picked up bodily and hurled
against that shanty of mine with suf
ficient force to knock the sense out of
me. When I came to I saw a train
standing on the siding. The crew were
emptying the contents of a water-pall
on me and searching my anatomy for
injuries.
"As my gray matter resumed opera
tions, I realized that it was the north
bound passenger train that stood upon
the siding. 'How the Sam Hill did
you get here? I asked the engineer.
"Why, came in my engine,' he re
plied. 'Where's No. 23 isn't she In
yet? I had orders to run through to
X, and expected to see No. 23 side
tracked here. Not seeing anything on
the siding, I pulled up to Investigate.
What's up?'
"Didn't you smash Into 23f 1
gssped. V
"'Sure not.' he replied. 'Whnt's the
mutter? Did you strike jour head?'
'"My heads all right.' I replied.
Twenty-three passed her 1n a blaze of
glory some time ago. and If you didn't
see her. where Is she?"
"'Come, mun." eoaxed the engineer,
get word along the line and find out
v hen she is due. I don't want to stay
here all day.'
'"But 1 tell you she passed here,' I
Insisted, and In desperation I rushed
to the key and pounded off an Inquiry
to the fellow south of me as to wheth
er 23 had passed.
"The reply staggered me. He an
swered In the negative.-
"'Where's that train?' I shrieked.
'It passed here at 7 :30.' I perf isted.
"Just then the rear brakeman came
running up the track with a cap In
his hand. 'Found this down the track,'
he said. 'That's old Jim Bludsoe's
cap; and If his cap Is here, he must
have passed here himself.'
"'That's so.' rejoined the engineer.
'But what am I going to do? I can't
hang around here any longer.'
"Well, I wired to the northern end
for instructions, and got word to send
the passenger along. Then the word
went over the line to the next station
south to send out a searching party for
the missing train. The track between
my shanty and the next one south was
closed to traffic pending the urrlval of
the searching crew. In due time they
pulled In on a hand-car, and reported
that they has seen nothing of the miss
ing train. I wired the Information to
headquarters, and asked for instruc
tions.
"'Open up the road for traffic and
send men on foot to make a thorough
search for that train ; we need It,' came
the answer.
"I did as directed, and sent the
searching party down the track. Told
them to spread out on either side of
the track and work along until they
found the wreck, for I felt sure It
must have run off the track some
where.
"After they had been gone about
fifteen or twenty minutes, and I had
rnked my brain for n solution of the
matter, I heard a whistle away off
in the distance. It sounded low, ap
pearing to come from the south.
There was nothing due at my place
for an hour or, so; so I thought at first
it was a relief party coming up to
help solve the mystery, but as the
sound continued, and did not get anj
louder, I concluded that, whatever It
was, It was stationary.
"The sound kept up for about ten
minutes and then stopped. I waited
for about half an hour, and then I saw
one of the searching party returning
on the run. In the meantime head
quarters had been hammering me for
news of the engine.
"When the special courier arrived,
he was winded ; so I saw it was no use
trying to pump anything out of him un
til he got through with his breathing
exercises.
"When he got his bellows working
rgaln, I learned that they had found
Jim Bludsoe and his train about three
miles down the road, about a mile and
a half away from the track. Several
of the cars were standing on end, but
the engine and the balance of the
train were right side up, scattered
over the face of the virgin prairie.
"The senrchers had heard the whis
tle, and proceeded to investigate.
They had found the wreck as reported,
with old Jim standing in the cab,
scared, wild-eyed and battered."
"How the heck did they get there?"
asked the watery-eyed one.
"Well, they couldn't get anything
out of Jim. He seemed plumb locoed.
When I sent In my report over the
wire thoy sent down n lot of experts
to try and salvage the train. Jim
Bludsoe was the only living critter left
of the crew.
"They figured that the cyclone had
caught up to the train on Its wild
whirl down the track, picked It up
bodily, like a blooming airship, and
carried It across the country to where
it was discovered. This was verified
by the crew, who came straying in
like lost -sheep from the prairie
whither they had blown.
"It was learned from them that tho
engineer had developed a crazy streak
some time before passing my station
and chased the fireman out of the cab.
That explained why they gave my sig
nal the go-by. However, Jim Bludsoe
never had to answer for his crazy -act,
for the last I heard of him he was a
In dippy domicile, quartered In an up
holstered boudoir,"
"And what became of the locomo
tive and cars?" Inquired the watery
ejed one.
"Oh, they built a mile and a half
of track out to the scene, and the
wreckers salvaged the whole outfit.
The strange part of it Is that a pros
perous settlement known as The
Lost Freight, sprung up nt the
terminus. ' ' ,
"That's so," ' replied the watery-
eyed one. "You don't happen to be
related to Anner Nlas, do yon?"
"No," replied the loose-Jointed In
dividual. "My familiars call me
Monk Hansen. So long, pard. Thank
for a very entertaining afternoon."
FORCED TO FIGHT
FOR HER BREATH
Nashville Artist Tells of Terrible
Suffering Experienced by
His Wife.
HUSBAND GOES DOWN HILL
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Women Hoboes Now.
Woman hoboes are now adding to
the worries of the trainmen of the
Sparks division of the Southern
Pacific company. The third woman
hobo to be warned off a train at
Sparks this yenr was Intercepted by
trainmen a few days ago. The train
men say the woman was young and
attractive. Portland Oregonian.
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