Forest City press., January 30, 1919, Image 5

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"Rich Americans,
Booth Tarkington, in St. Nicholas.
I tooth '1 :i liiiis.on, writing to a young French girl. telW her this about
noh Americans:
ou luiyi' licnrd, you sny. my l«vir. of the ''rich Americans," and
how thi- I niliu! Stales is 1110 "null man's country." I.11 a way, this
is 1 rue. 1 lie American people are the richest people beeauso they
haw been iudusl rious iu developing such vast Irad.s of the rich iand.
And ali llie while, you know, anybody wiio wishes could conic here
ind share in the developnu-nt and in the prosperity. The immigrant
..had an much chance to grow rieli as the native had. Jt ail depi"nded
011 his industry and his intelligence, lvliication was open to
him. everything was upon 1o him, it' only lie were willing. And great
vhordes of immigrants did come, and shared in the products of thA-ich
soil and became Americans.
ou may have heard somewhere that the Americans grew rich
by other means ilian by their industry and the richness of the Ameri
can soil: and, ot course, it is 1rue that hern and Ihere were men among
them who by cunning and corruption got more than their proper
share: but the common prosperity of the people is a fact of over
whelmingly. more importance thtfn that of a few individuals who
have misused for gain the trust of citizenship. I am a kind of social
ist mysell, my dear, but I believe, with the unfortunate Russian lady,
more in the socialism that tries to make poor people rich than in that
•.which tries to make the rich people poor.
Almost all the richer people in America have won their riches in
open and fair competition they have won by industry or intelligence
or economy, or all three and there are indeed very, very few poor
.•people who need lo remain poor if they display normal energy and
intelligence. The advance has been so great and the opportunities
are so universal that almost all of those who consider themselves poor
today can have more comforts in their lives and better education for
their minds than were within the reach of those who were considered
"rich or GO years ago.
Our War at Home.
Theodore Price and Richard Spillman, in the Outlook.
"War communiques are not confined to the fighting front in France nor the
F.alkant or Syria. \Ve have a fighting front in America, for America has her
own lit
Kvery iuy or two there is a message received at the office of the e.ommis»
sionor «sf internal revenue at Washington that reails somewhat as follows:
ral«l yesterday at Blank. John Blank was killed resisting capture and
one of his party wounded. Deputy Blank was shot through the lee and
.Sheriff Blank injured slightly.
For the last, four months the government has been waging war on the
moonshiners on a scale greater than ever before in our history. At present the
engagements are confined to the mountain districts of Tennessee, Alabama,
North Carolina, and the Appalachian country generally, but they are expected
to embrace inr.imo most of the country. Since June 1 of this year more than
5CKi illicit stills and distilleries have been seized and destroyed. Scores of men
liavc been killed: scores, too, have been wounded. More than 200 men have
1)ee:i captured. and prosecution has been recommended through the department
of justice against nearly 500 offenders. The deacj Include moonshiners, sheriffs,
and deputy sheriffs. The wounded include lawbreakers, government agents,
and official:-: of the state. Among the men captured have been many deserters
from the United States army, mostly sons or relatives of the moonshiners.
Nearly 50.000 gallons of whisky has been seized and destroyed, and the value
of the property, including illicit, stifls and distilleries, seized by the government
amounts to more than $100,000. The property taken over by the government
embraces nut .- stills, but automobiles, mules, wagons, and raw material for
the manufacture of whisky. Among- the goods seized there have been more
than 30,000 pounds of sugar.
There is no romance in moonsliining today. It is commercial, demoraliz
ing, and. as such, is far more threatening than ever before. It is because of
this that Daniel C. Roper, commissioner of internal revenue, has organized
what is known as the "flying squadron" to combat the evil. This squadron
was organized in the Nashville division June 7, 1918, and was composed of 14
men. Col. Daniel Porter, formerly of the United States army, but now of the
internal revenue service, selected and trained, the men. The squadron has be
come a considerable foody. It now includes approximately 100 men.
At the end of the present fiscal year, with prohibition a nation-wide prin
ciple in America, the internal revenueertepartmeiii may cease to function as a
collector of liquor taxes, but neither the interna, revenue department nor the
department of justice expects that prohibition is j^ing to make America wholly
"dry." The "flying squadron" by that time may be very much larger than It
is today. It may then become an adjunct of the department of justice, or there
may be some legislation which will invest it with special police powers and
continue it under the jurisdiction of Commissioner Koper. At any rate, its
field of action wili be the whole United States. There probably will be much
less moonslNning In the mountains and more in tha great centers of population.
There is moonsliining today in New \orlc. There is moonshining in Chicago.
There has been a revival of moonshining in Indiana since prohibition went
into force there. In the city the detection of illicit distilling is more difficult
than in the country, where the distinctive odor generated may indicate the loca
tion of a moonsljim r's plant that is otherwise concealed. There is a conflict of
odors where there are many lines of industry. There is no place in which it is
60 safe to hide as where there are vast congregations of people. It is going
to be a herculean task to suppress the traffic in liquor s:o long as it is cheap
to make whisky and so long as man will pay a tremendous price for it.
Effect of the Lorraine
Iron Tonic Upon France
By Newell Dwlght Hlllis.
•The res'or«Tion of tiie iron mines of I.orraine to France is effecting: a financial
miracle. The sudden advance of French bonds and stocks gives ^ily a slight indi
cation of the new life now pulsing through the financial and industrial veins of tho
French republic. When'France lost Lorraine, with her hematite iron mines, in 1871,
It was as if the United St^bs had lost the'iron mines of hake Superior, and the
coking eoa! ot western Pennsylvania. Progress rides forward on wheels of steel.
This is an era of iron, and for nearly iiO years France was without raw materials,
and the result was she developed her fine arts—painting, sculpture, porcelain, lace
and aflk factories, jewels, women's gowns, millinery, and put the beautiful Into the
life of the people. Art has always paid largi returns "on the investment, but, what
France needed was an Industrial baste.--with an opportunity f»r her young men to
give themselves to manufacturing life. Thousands of her engineers went to foreign
countries because Germany had stolen,the iron mines upon which finansial life in
every country rests.
To understand strange business r»"ival that has just begun France O'f'
must ro'.i' I lie influence upon Ciermany of the iron mines stolen from France, lo
3ST 1 Great Britain !e! Ciermany both in pig inm and in stcl, and Germany was
nowhere. After the capture of the northern half of Lorraine. Germany united the
French iion ore with the coking' coal of Westphalia and Soar, and within 20 years
became a competitor of Fngiand. and by she was producing lf'.ooo.two tons ot'
Iron and steel, far outdistancing Great Britain, and being only M.ijOO.imii) tons behind
the American pi-eduction. But of this enormous triasuie Germany has obtained
only 23 per cent from her own iron mlnea. while France's captuied mines in Lor
raine furnished 77 per rent. Conceding thai Germany will be able to buy iron ore
from Swteden, Spain and lltissia, it still follows that the cost will be largely in
creased. and that the loss of the raw materials of her own is an immeasurable
Scarcely less Important upon the nnv Franco and her financial revival is the
Influence of her newly recovered oil wells and potai-h deposits ii. Alsace. Forty-two
per cent'of fterinr-jiy'a oil came from Alsace, while so per cent of the potash that she
baa acid come from the great mines in the province now restored to France. The
control of Alsace-Lorraine gave Germany a practical monopoly of the potash of the
world, but from this lime on Francs has an opportunity to fertilize her own fields,
and to export potaali to otliei countries that are in great need. The outbreak of joy
in Paris and Franca over th* fc.n-eiy -.f Alsace-r.orr.iine did not grow out of senti
mental conaidesstloris: It wa« baaed upon industrial necessities and vast economic
treeeur*. From ifcia llniu or. France .vwtrs more high grade ityi:, ore than all the
ether atatea of Euro-.*. this tim- also. Fntnei* |1JU, the oi»prtun!ty t..- become
manufacturing •'•Mint:**, ""he »\a.' hit* h«r th«- notcnti-il y-.cc. :r Oer
Mftfcr In the raaltr of tnjinuru.':: ir.s lifo
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did not. their condition bear out the
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This actual photograph of the
German evacuation of Belgium,
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world over as a musician, is now
playing an important part in the
destiny of Poland. He recently
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Naad of Blackamlths.
From the Cotton Oil Preaa.
Many patrtyta who willingly consented
be charted for bumanity'a aake during
!he war by atrincent soveramental reru
Ationa of their trade actlvitiea and
pmrnmeatal demands on their Mas-
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American prisoners of war aiming at Berne, Switzerland, on way home.
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HOW GERMAN HORDES FLOCKED HOME AT CLOSE OF WAR
German troops in Place St. Lambert, Liege, Belgium, ready to evacuate city
disorderly, gathered as a mob
when the evacuation at different
points in allied territory was or
dered at the close of the war. The
THE MEN WHO ARE DIRECTING POLAND'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
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Ignace Paderewski, Polish president, in center, with Major Joseph F. Kaslpwski. at left, and Capt. J. Marten, at
right, his chief aides.
Ignace Paderewski, famous the
became president of his native
land when it decl&red its inde
pendence. Poland is warring
against Germany, anything that
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trial production find that, ha vine locked
the bonds aecarely, their keeper* have
no keya to unlock them with, and they
must needs look for oongrewaional black
amitha to, cut them free.
A check for 11,000,000 waa received Wed
nesday from the Americas Red Oroae by
injr released from German prison of American prisoners of war r®»
cnnins and hurried to base hos- leased from German camps under
pi tula or to their homes in the the amnistice terms, arriving at
This photo, just received Berne en route for France. Their
from Switzerland, shows one group joy is apparent.
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troops in the photo are gathered
before the German headquarter*
with their supplies and loot piled
in stolen wagonr
speaks of Germany and against the
Bolsheviki. Recent disps**.chea
stated that Paderewski already
has dodged Bolsheviki bullets.
the National Tuberculosis Association
the firat installment of the' 12.W0.000 a#
propiatiqn of the Red CrOtia' for tuber
euloaia work hi the Unitcd'suttee durina
1919. in return for which the tubersuloala
agencies throughout the country asettW
the Red Croea roll call and canceled theli
sale ef Chriatmaa wdk.
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