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The Lamar Register VOdtUMB XXV 111. BASEBALL LEAGUE . The Arkansas Valley Or ganized for Beeson of 1014 The representative** of the cities and Rooky YVFord met in La, Junite of L&mar, Las Animas, La Junta, on Sunday and perfected an or ganization tor a iower Arkansas Valley league of baseball teams for the season of 19L4- Lamar was represented by R. L. Christy, Frank Sayler and W. M. Corson. The fol lowing were elected as officials it being the object to have the pres ident and secretary in the same town: F. E. Hall of La Junta, president; R. L. Christy of Lama., vice president; W. B. Winchell o. La Junto, secretary; Fred Krause of . Rocky Ford, treasurer. An executive committee to arrange a schedule and govern the league was ap pointed consisting of one lrom each of the four towns. Dr. C. Ai Spicer being .the Lamar meuibei. An arbitration committee to, settle all disputes was likewise appointed with Frank Sayler representing La-* mar. The schedule will be adopt ed later, but it was decided 'hat each team play eleven games at home and eleven away from home beginning on Decoration day and including each Sunday and holiday through September. Each team will pay its own ex. penses while on the road and get the full gate receipts of its home games. Each team Is allowed to furnish a list of fifteen players who will be ineligible after once sign . fag to play with any other team of the league unless released- Earh team will be allowed to have two v c regular paid players only, but may pay the necessary expenses of ex tra players when necessary to se cure them. The executive com . mittee will fix the schedule and settle all disputes unless one party appeals, In which event the arbi tration committee will act and its r decision be final. Two umpires will be employed to handle the games during the season. The Lamar committee will go to work Immediately to see that I—- mar haa a good park enclosed and ready for the opening of the sea ■on. It will be neceaaary for the tana and bualnea, men to purchase steak liberally tq see that this Is done but no other one thing will add more to putting Lamar on the map than n good ball team. Victims of Misplaced Confidence The wool growers of Oregon seem to be rather plain eepoken In dealing with the attitude and the acts of their United Statea sene tora on the tariff question. Tnej appear to think they have ben buncoed. In a series of resolu tions passed a few days ago tho wool grower* declared: "We had a right to expect that the Oregon senators would give at least aa much consideration tt, the industries of Oregon as they gave to those of Nerw Jersey and Mresa : chusetts. Both Oregon senators • when campaigning for office went on record as favoring a moderate tariff on wool.” we regret that the business men of Oregon including the wool growers, were the victims or mis placed confidence in thin mattrer. But they were not alone. Thei* were many other states, Includ ing Oolorado, which were be trayed by their senators, in Colo rado Senators Thomas and Shafroth though making a great show of their Independence (before election, - promptly put the democratic party first In their consideration and the interests of their state The, -voted to put sugar on the pw, u,t and anything that Col • LAMAR. PROWERS OOUNTY, OOMBADO. WEDNESDAY, DEG. 17, 1913. | radp produces. They talked vali antly of reducing the high cost of living to the people in this man ner. A* a result, suga> has gone wa> down so that the people are urged to carry it home free, and a good all-wool suit of clothes can be bought anywhere for $U>. Just »ak the dealers if this isn’t so.—Ex. outrageous folly Tariff Legislation Enacted in Be half of the Importeiw* art! Re finers* Sugar T* u*t Without the protection affordtd by the tariff which has existed tor years, in tact was enact* d to start the domestic sugar iui.ds.r., and which has resulted in the In vestment of $100,000,000 In the manufacture of beet sugar, it 1h the unanimous sentiment of beet sugar manufacturers that (his c ui try cannot oompete with Cuua and other foreign sugar producing na tions, owing to the . dlffereim e Hi labor coat. Cuban raw sugar In the New York market was q-uoted last week at 2‘>4 cents a pound. The Mich igan beet grower gets 2.46 cents on each pound of sugar made from his beets. Cuba is producing about 2.428.000 tons of sugar this year, or three times the amount than she produced live years ago, and the sugar producing area on the island is being steadily enlarged In other words the policy of the Washington government under the new tariff law Is to build up the foreign sugar countries at the a** pense of our own. The outrageous folly of the dom inant party In thus striking this stunning blow at a growing domes tic industry at the instigation of a few importers and refiners of for eign raw sugar hasn’t a peg to stand upon. It is shown up glaringly in tne comparative figures on prices ga r erod by the United States labor bureau. This comparison anowe startling increases in the prices ol every article of common food con- Buam.pt ion during a ten year period. Theee astounding increases range from 139 per cent In bacon, 124. b In the price of pork chops, 108.6 In the price of round steak, 75.2 in potatoes, 66.4 in eggs, down to the lowest, 38 in the price of milk. «>n the other hand sugar Is »be only commodity on the family food list that is lower Jn price than ft was ten years ago. But the bureau of labor contents itself with giving plain statistlrs- It does not concern Itself with the causes of the changes. It does not -and neither does any administra tion authority—reveal the Incan trovertible fact that sugar is cheap er than any other food article be cause the beet sugar Industry grew up In this country under the pro tective tariff that successfully held the once powerful refining trust in bounds. Without that pro tection the refining trust, with foreign raw sugar coming in free, can now boost sugar prices to the limit only of its discretion. Its great competitor, the western sugar industry, is crippled, its wings clip ped and Its very existence threaten ed with complete wiping out. Hod there (been no beet sugar makers during the past ten years, the *bu rean of labor statistics wou’d have had to list sugar, the universal food among the commodities that have soared skyward in price. If the tar iff Is not restored .meantime, the next ten yea** period will tell a different story—sugar will have en tirely joined the other hundred pei centers. And the benefit ta the consumers If /there bs any; will be so slight THE PIONEER NEWSPAPER OF PROWERS QOVNTY that it will be not even partial compensation lor the injury done to a great industry and the con sequent direct and indirect losses to many. Even *a small fra action of a cent less on the price of a pound ot su gar means the wiping out of ajl or most of the protit that mak* s the sugar industry a paying on*. And It will <mean nothing that the average consumer will notice. And incidentally the government loses many millions of the revenue which the people of this count! jr must make good. The congress simply handed the importers and refiners of raw su gar a handsome bonus of millions of dollars annualy— National Kami er. : 5, 1 Dignity Vs Practicability President WHSon will not gain any compliment* irom the thinking people who believe in th. 1 lesson of experience and practica bility for his hasty action in with drawing his name as a member of the Caraboa, an organisation 4om prised of officer* of the army and navy, because that organization at a Jollification gathering travestied the administration policy in Uio Philippine*. Admitttlng that the criticism of a superior officer is not very cour teous,there are things in.this wforld which it la well to overlook, and even aside frm this phase of the matter. It is v*ry often quite the act of wisdom to bend the ear U 1 these mark* of criticism voiced in momenta of fun and Ridicule, for quite often it It lamer such clr oumstsnees that wise counsel I* so ured. Such is th* case in this In stance. President Wilson has been attempting to put Into practice In the government of the Phlllp ples a theory, and it is one which is in marked cqntradictory con. treat rto the of practicability which has been in vogue in the islands. The latter was based on a knowledge of condition* In the Philippines and supported by n term af office therein by Fonmei President Tait. A* against the system employed by President Taft, who knew by personal contact wltih the native* and by afbeolute close contact with every phase of the condition* In th# possession just 1 what was best In th* way of gov ernment, President Wilson tried; something else. There haa been criticism of prta tdent Wilson’s Philippine policy but It was well enough to take such criticism with an air of dubiousness and to give the president the bene fit of the doubt. Well enough un til the men who come in dir© t con tact With condition* voice their sentiments. The officers of t*’e army and navy who, at their cele bration, presented a travesty on the Wilson Philippine policy and the r fellow-officer* received the »am • with acclamations of approval, if we would know the facts and ap preciate the truth, know more of conditions in the Philippines and what is the best policy to pursue than does President Wilson. There fore It would seem the better part of wisdom tor the president to have smiled at the satire enacted by the Caraboa —and he could have done so with grace and ease Inas much as the occasion was one of those resembling the Gridiron club dinners when presidents, states men and nation are ridiculed—and Instead of showing his displeasure and resigning profiting by the les son there taught—Pueblo Chieftain A Strange Mixture An organisation has Just been pperfected in China of Christians— Protestants and Catholics alike, Mo hammedans and Buddhists to fight the adoption of Confucianism by the people of China as the stale religion. To the average layman such an organization as this seotqs. not only inconsistent but wholly beyond belief. In the first place the general impression of the lead ers of the new movement to awak en China, among them being such men as Dr. Ohen H-uau Chang, is that the aiacefie of this effort lies in the adoption of the time honored and revered religion of Confucius. Confucius is one of the most celebrated sages of China. He lived about five hundred years be fore our era. He was not a found er of u religion; nor even a relig ious teacher, as we understand the. term. One of his principles was, "Respect the gods, but have a* lit tle as possible to do with them.’' He had an announcement to make about the immortality of man but he Inculcated the duty of honor to parents and obedience toj author ity. (He taught principally five vir tues—humanity, uprightness, de corum, wisdom and truth. Will the carrying out of a teach ing of this character be harmful to China or to the world? Would not a whojle lot more such teachers in the countries we call Christian, be of more value. Can the band, ing together of such opposites as Christianity and Mohammedanism to fight a religion that has not a taint of wrong be productive of good? The charge ha* been made, and altogether too often, that many of those whm we uent to fon*ign mission* forget the objects $991 which they are sent, that I* the mrsad of the tnw floapd. a»4* be come mercenary handling! < o*^* missions solely and wholly - so .ft, business proposition. The euggca tion that China might adopt a state religion and thu* bar t th* profitable Chrsltlan, Buddhist and Mohammedan mission, probably>h*d a great deal mor* to do with th* convention held In Peking to pro. test against Confucianism. than did any real desire on the part of these elegatee to advance the re ligious tone of the Chine**.-—-R*. TALKS ON ADVERTISING By Nels Darling (Copyrighted) A New Year's Greetln# in a pa per during the month of August, that has appeared in every issue since the previous December. 1* poor advertising. I saw this ad vertisement in a paper in lowa last summer. In a Missouri paper I saw garden seeds advertised and the flies showed that the advertise ment had been in every issue «lnc9 the previous spring. The manufac turer can talk hi* good* through out the year, in season and out of seeason, but th© retail merchant must tell hi* customers of the goods on his shelves that ho wants to sell NOW. and of the commodi ties that the consumer Is going to buy because the season and his needs demand them. A merchant walked IntO( a news paper office—in his hand-held an ordinary Ink blotter on which was printed his name and a statement that his store was headquarters' foi hardware. He handed the (blotter to the editor and said “Just run this for my advertisement for this week.” A mere business card Is very poor advertising for any mer chant. The few lines of space us ed to tell the farmer, the house wife, the business man, that yon have something they need, will bring results In time. A- descrip tion of some article In season. « line or two about Its merits, ft*, salient features* will he sur* to ( attract attention. NUMBER 88. Don’t give yowmelf and the edi tor the excuse that you are too .busy to prepare your copy la Ad vance. Be systematic—select nome day in the week and some hour in the* day for thinking, study mg. and preparing copy for your adver tisement. You merchant* jrhp k®«P / y° ur books right up to the minute, look after collections carefully and pay your bill* promptly, usually have no regular time for attending to this important matter of advertis ing. Better put this down with the Important and necessary duties mentioned above and give it the same attention if you want to *ee a continual growth in your busi ness. NELA DARUNO. WARNS AGAINST DAIRY FRAUD Mew-ton of Agricultural Behead Say* Water Stock In Nqw Capte^n* Is Pcdtfted tm Farmers Promoter* af fraudulent dairy concern* are trying to induce farm er sof the atate to tak* ftook In corporation* which they are. organ izing, according to PrQf. O. E- Morton of the Btate Agricultural college, whq was in Denver yeater day. .. He .visited th* state, stock in spection board -tq pat th* Mat* government to proeecuto th* .finite promoters. He says th* man-represent them selves an agent* of the Hastings Or earn cry *o eapany ot Ohio***, in corporate dairy cancer**, sail wa tered Sodtto fti »■* then dlMftpdar, I*hving asset* worth o**teanth>3 the niadey ihrmted by. farmers Nows. Sound* a good deal like th* can ning proposition that Lamar turned down. A Good Suggestion On* of the men most . familiar with the fruit growli* opportuni ties in this county wonder* why it is that some enlorprising. young man does not buy a complete out fit tor spraying orchard*. He be lieve* that euch a person would nnd plenty to do. It has been long, established that the greatest enemies of fruit are pot the wea ther conditions but the Insect peats and leak Of Q*re. Unfortunately the average individual finds/spray ing 4 laborious Job and it 4s diffi cult get the P r °P orllon e of th«* the mixture right eo as not to barm the trets or vines. An ex pert in this business, iw’ho could properly apply the sprays would be most welcomed by many fruit raisers. There are scores of or chard* that would be benefited by the proper application of sprays and also by some little attention. Some of the fruit raisers of the county the last year had very pro fStable yieldß but it was only by application. Without question many farmer** who have orchard* would welcome methodical spraying by some one whq understand* the business. *o here is the opportunity tor the en terprising young man to learn and apply, something new. agq the man vritk the outfit for cleaning carpet* wag not known, but now there are man who find It profitable to invest in carpet clean ing machinery and go -from house to house to tender their seryicee So with this fruit epraying proposi tion. The orchards need It, the average person has not tbp rt> qulred knowledge of spray* and it Is a work that require* consid erable pain*, and along come* the man with the outfit that can do the whole business for him. Let u* have the expert eprayer—Bs.