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THE HIGH PRICES.

In another column of the Tribune today appears a table furnished the Tribune by Mr. W. L. Sparks, which shows that there has been no excessive advance in the price of flour by Indiana millers. Too, it gives reasons why there should not be any Increase in the price of this necessity. The subject is one that has gripped the attention ot the entire country. Uncle Sam has set his machinery at work to analyze conditions and to punish those who are said to be using the war as a pretext for robbing the people. If dealers in food stuffs and other necessities have sought unfair profits the federal prob» of .alleged combinations to advance prices will sertve a valuable purpose in singling out those guilty and placing on them the stigma of trade dishonesty.

If such combinations are uncovered heavy trade losses will follow exposure, public sentiment will fall heavily and punishment harder to bear than fines will be inflicted.

The best way to combat inflated prices is to limit purchases. In the hands of the individual consumer rests this effective weapon. Whether in time of war or peace the law of supply and demand will ultimately rule. Its rule is the more quickly demonstrated if prices be artificial.

Making hurried purchases In fear of further advances tends to stiffen prices and makes buyers the easy prey of schemers. Decreasing the demand will pull prices down. -As population increases prices tend upward. That tendency is normal because of lack of attention to developing production. The parity between production and population Is lost. There is trade and economic defense for an upward trend of prices. The best way to meet it is to develop greater prudence in buying, sounder individual economy in living. These bring quick results against prices arbitrarily advanced.

OLD THEORY EXPLODED.

William Barnes, the New York republican boss who helped throw Roosevelt out of the Chicago convention, has sued T. R. for libel, claiming $50,000 damages. It is not made clear j|st what It was that Roosevelt said that caused this damage, but the suit dispels a popular idea that nothing that could be said about a politician would hurt him.

THE COMING BATTLE.

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cerning the movemtnts of the armies, points to the certainty that Waterloo is about to witness another terrific battle, probably the worst in the hisI tory of the world. This information, too, establishes the fact that the Ger^ mans have not been disastrously repulsed, but are massing such a force as is intended to annihilate the Belgian, French and English allies In Belgium.

Leaving the hostile Liege forts In the rear the Germans are now pressing forward along a northerly line, which, if persistently followed, will lead tq '*V the gates of Brussels. It is scarcely likely that Germany will waste time fL^ttacking the Belgian capital. Their ^ndeavor is more probably directed to ~ae forcing of a way across the plains

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the strongly fortified positions at Na mur in their rear. It is not unlikely that the southern German forces are intended primarily as a defense against a French counter invasion. If, however, the northern invasion meets with success German armies will doubtless attempt to ap proach Paris from the south, thus dis tracting and dividing the French de fense.

The German check at Liege and the subsequent minor victories of the Bel gians cam by no means be considered decisive German defeat. German pres tige is not lost, even though It has been sufficiently proved that German troops are not invincible. The great battle remains to be fought, and the Germans, following their revised line of attack, may yet defeat the allies in Belgium. German victory would go far toward opening the road to Paris, German defeat, with Liege and Na mur between the invaders and their own frontier, might mean the practical annihilation of the Immense German army. And meanwhile Russia, slowly but surely, has been gathering Iier strength. Germany, it seems, must win In Belgium to be able to withstand the shock of the blow which Is soon to be delivered by the Muscovite.

CUT BAIT.

The reservoir at Paris, 111., has re ceived from Commissioner Blackburn ten cans of fish. The consignment is but part of the stock allotted to the state by the bureau which is carrying on an important work. Reports from the fish cultural stations of the bureau in all parts of the country indicate that during the fiscal year, which closed June 30, 1914, the number of food and game lushes propagated and distributed by the bureau was considerably in excess of that of any previous year. The output was approximately four billion of which 485 million represented the migratory fishes of the great lakes, two and one-quarter billion the important food fishes of the north Atlantic coast over 200 million the salmons of the Pacific seaboard, and the remainder the fishes of the minor interior waters.

Distribution of fishes suitable for stocking barren public waters, or for restocking public waters which have become depleted, were made In prac tically every state of the union and in Alaska, while thousands of small inland ponds and lakes, the majority of them located on farms, were stocked with black bass, cr crappies, sunflshea, catflshes, and other desirable species,

Of the enormous output for the year, ninety-eight per cent represents the commercial food fishes and a very large percentage of these were hatched from eggs which would hajve. been entirely lost had It not been for the activities of the bureau of fisheries.

Coincident with the augmented output there has been a decided Improvement in the effectiveness of various branches of the ffsh cultural work, ats an example of which may be mentioned the rearing to the flngerllng and yearly stages of many millions of fish for merly distributed as fry. This feature of the work is to receive even, greater attention hereafter, as most decided advances may be made along this line.

THE TROUBLE EAST.

Those citizens who have argued that this nation should give the Filipinos their freedom and relinquish our claim on the island, to avoid being Implicated In war In the far east, have never been entirely vindicated, but events of today indicate that they are not far wrong.

Japan's note to Germany has the virtue of answering itself. The restrained insolence of the demand for the withdrawal of armed ships from Chinese and Japanese waters and the surrender of the leased territory of Klao Chow would provoke war if Germany had only sufficient breath remaining to utter one note of defiance. "The Japanese demands," says the Chicago Tribune, "were not Intended to present an alternative to Germany. They were intended to be provocative, and they reveal that the Rome for Germany's Carthage is Great Britain. The British purpose is destruction, the reduction of Germany to the status of an unaspiring continental nation of no maritime Importance and of no overseas possessions."

When the English bring the Japs Into the struggle they disclose the Implacable character of their plans. The question need not be viewed moralis-

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If Japan had wanted merely to accomplish a purpose which has been in the mind of our own government—the elimination of the far east from the scope of war operations—the communication to Berlin might have been worded to permit an acceptance.

The Montreal police have taken fifteen German prisoners of war, which reminds one of the ancient Jest about sending a sergeant and squad into South America to end a revolution.

The way in which food prices are advancing In New Jersey may be Judged by the statement that a man stole a loaf of bread in that state and and was fined $50.

John W. Garret, American minister to Argentina, requests to be transferred to some European post. There's no accounting for some men's preferences.

An eastern paper asked for the Seven Deadly Bores." Four contributors listed "married life" and three included "Roosevelt's Travels."

The Baltimore American wants to know if the Russians have left it to the French and English to do the fighting. But why lug in the English?

Possibly after a little experience of real war the belligerents of Europe may deem it worth while to mobilize their common sense.

An Englishman sent a cavalry troop one hundred boxes of cigars. Make a little bet he's in the employ of the kaiser.

If some of our reformers would only go to the war we might be reconciled to everything else that happens.

This Europtan war suggests that maybe the white man's burden is the whit* man himself.

Belgian Battles—What They Mean

NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—The Evening Sun, !n a review of the war during the last week, says: "Reading the dispatches from Brussels in recent days it is impossible not to suspect that the Belgian war office in some mysterious fashion has laid hands on Lieutenant Wagner, the illustrious hero of Balkan war correspondence. Accounts of 'battles' on Belgian soil, murderous, decisive and almost immediately repeated, suggest the imagination of the correspondent who decorated all the Turkish territory from Lulue Burgas to Chatalja with battles more terrible than Leipsic, river crossings more fatal than that of the Beresina. 'Wow the odd thing about the Belgian "battles' Is that after victory yesterday Belgian troops are invariablyfound fighting today some miles in the rear of yesterday's field ot victory. Thus, in turn they have triumphed on Monday at Tongress street trond, Tuesday at Hasselt-Lan-den, but Wednesday and Thursday are back at Tlrlemont, Diest and Eghezee.

Cavalry Advanoa.

"The unmistakable fact Is that the Germans ore slowly, methodically but steadily advancing through northern Belgium between the French and the Dutch frontier. So far as dispatches yet disclose the advance is almost exclusively cavalry, and It is sweeping before It a screen of French and Belgian cavalry which in retiring fighting upon Brussels, Namur and Louvain, presumably to the position selected by the allies at which to make the final stand In Belgium. "Presumably the German cavalry screen precedes ap advance of the army of the Meuse in great fore?, unless it be true that the delay at Liege has resulted in a change in German plans. But the reports from Holland of the construction of a railroad line round the forts at Liege and of the passing of strong divisions of German troops near the frontier point rather to an eventual offensive through eastern Belgium toward Brussels "and thence to France. Precisely this way Marlborough came twice from Liege In the wars of Louis XIV. The first time he broke through French lines stretched from the Dyle to the Meuse at Tlrlemont, where there already has been fighting. The second time he broke through at Ramilles, destroying Vllleroi's army on a field which, in part, was fought over at Eghezee on Wednesday.

Not Really "Battles."

'A great deal of nonsense has been written In recent days about "battles' and psrosxectlve battles in Belgium. In point of fact the English war office yesterday declared that there was but one small detachment of German infantry north of the Meuse and west of Liege In Belgium. This could only mean that the main advance of the army of the Meuse had no more than begun from Liege and that since the Belgians retiring before the German cavalry were destroying all roads, bridges and railways as they fell back, the advance would be slow when it did come. Hence a great battle in Belgium, north of the Meuse, If it Is to come, can hardly bo expected for at least a week unless the allies should take the offensive. "This Is precisely what the situation at Liege would necessitate. If the Llegsposdtlon tar likened to the neck of a

tically, but Great Britain would, if it could, reduce Germany to the status of Spain.

France, although it has made the sentiment for Alsace and Lorraine a powerful motive in French life for nearly a half century, has no such policy of destruction. Seemingly, without rancor or hate, the British are moving up every engine that can bo employed to wreck German Imperialism.

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bottle, a figure justified by the fact that the roads and railways from Germany to Belgium all pass by the city, then the preliminary operation of the Germans was in fact an attempt to pull tahe cork, which resulted not in extracting it, but pushing it into the bottle. The result was that while the contents of the bottle did trickle out the process was long.

Serious Task Ahead.

"What the Germans had to do when Liege did not fall was precisely like the task of the Bulgarians after Lule BMrgas, when they held both ends of the Orient railway between Sofia and Chatalja, but Adrianople commanded a connecting link. To supply and reinforce their troop® operating south of Adrianople they were compelled to unload their trains at Mustapha Pasha and transport everything in carts around Adrianople to Dimotika, where they could again use the railway. "The roads in Belgium are far better than in Turkey, the German machinery is vasttly better, but even with automobile trucks and all the resources of a modern war department the task la a grave one, seriously complicated by the necessity of bringing trp siege guns and ammunition for the reduction of Liege along the same line**. "Grave delay, then, has fofllowed the unexpected resistance at Liege. But It has not prevented the Germans from pushing strong cavalry masses around Liege and to the west These masses seem to be steadily driving the Belgian infantry and cavalry screen before them, and if the German general staff still persists in its determination to use northern Belgium as a way of entering northern France* following the Marlborough precedent, which was wholly successful, then the next week should see a great German mass, the army of the Meuse, following their victorious cavalry toward Brussels and encountering the allies on the position they have chosen, unquestionably between the Dyle and the Meuse facing Louvain and resting on Namur.

Success On The Moselle. "Meantime the army of the Moselle, operating from Luxemburg, has with equally uniform cuccees cleared Bel gium between Luxemburg and the French frontier of hostile troops, at several points crossed the, French frontier, and on a front from Glvet to Verdun and facing the unprotected gap of Stenay Is advancing slowly, methodically, but so far uninterruptedly. On this front a great battle may be Imminent, but even this remains wholly problematical"The outstanding fact about Belgian battles so far is that the great wave of German advances from Metz to the Dutch frontier is moving forward, gaining rather than losing headway, and that on the whole line the allied forces are falling hack skirmishing as they go. For the rest, apart from the first efforts to storm Liege, the fighting, both in numbers employed and losses, is relatively trivial and precisely what is to be expected aa a great forward movement develops. This newly reported capture of the Huy fort by the Germans is in itself an indication oi their progress. "Indeed, the general sucess of the German advance must infallbly suggest that the allies have deliberately elected to fight a delaying war until Russian reserves come up or that a French offensive is shortly to break out in another field."

TUT YEABS AGO TODAY. From the Xrilmar. Flic*.

August 19, 1904.

Attorney W. B. Hice is vistllng his parents in New Albany, Ind. Mr- and Mrs. W. S. Rea are in St. Louis visiting tho world's fair.

Guy Hall, chief clerk of the Southern Indiana, left for St. Louis today Fred D. Blake, of Terre Haute, was elected grand secretary of the grand lodge of Indiana, Free and Accepted Masons.

GOSSIP FROM THE PROVINCES.

Can You Imagine Bill on the Wagon. Having procured the prohibitionist nomination for governor of New York, Mr. Sulzer may decide to let Mr. Hinman have the progressive nomination. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Ah! Here's a Clew, Watson! In searching for the cause of the European war, it is well to remember that Colonel Roosevelt was In those parts not long ago.—Charleston News and Courier.

Joe Miller Left at the Post. Uncle S&m today opens the Panama canal to the commerce of the world, and yet some people maintain that Mark Twain left no successor.—Boston Transcript.

Who the Sam Hill Is Joe Bailey' A "great windstorm" was reported from El Paso recently. Huh! Only Joe Bailey making a get-baok-lnto-polltlcs speech.—'Memphis CommorcialAppeaL

Ploked "PV Prod Plnohot, Pinchot's Prodigious "Pumphandle" proclivities paralyze Pennaylvanian* possessing points pertaining to nla peculiar personality.—Philadalphla Inquirer,

"Wuxtree! Horrible! Wuxtreel'' There is one observation that it was never given General Sherman to make, It is that war is seldom as mush hull as the war rumors report it.—Houston Post.

Mary Never Did Wear Much, Miss Mary Garden says the late King Edward slept while she eang, hut perhaps Queen Alexandra merely made him cloes his eyes.—Washington Post.

He Is There Five Ways Now, It will be wholly superfluous for this French general, Paul Marie Cesar Gerald Pau, to make a name for himself.—Columbia State.

Will Lead the Eskimo Rough Riders. Has old Doc Cook offered his services fcr the defense of Denmark yet?— ICnln- bicker Press. v. -.

HOROSCOPE FOR A DAY.

The stars Incline, bat do not compel. Copyright 1912 by the McCluro Newspaper Syndicate.

Thursday, August 20, 1914.

Astrology reads this as an unfortunate day. The planets exercise counter influences for good and badEarly in the morning Venus is in benefic aspect, but Uranus and Saturn are adverse. In the afternoon, while Mercury and Jupiter are friendly, Mars exercises malefic power.

It is not a favorable day for love affairs, even though Venus holds sway, for Uranus and Saturn may Incline toward fantastic or eccentric persons.

The rule Is not good for partnerships, especially those concerned with literature. Many suits among playwrights and novelists are predicted.

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prognosticated. S*he will work in the east and gain worldwide recognition. Her name "wil be blessed by malefactors," it is predicted.

Inasmuch as the eclipse of the sun falls in the exact place of Mars tomorrow the rulers of Prussia and Austria are believed to be menaced by many troubles. Emperor WUlam will face many domestic problems, as well as disturbed affairs of state.

Persons whose birthdate it is have the omen of heavy losses. A troubled year Is prognosticated. Speculation will be disastrous.

Children born on this day. may have rather a combative spirit, but they will be well-fitted to meet obstacles In the way of their pjogress. As they are on the cusp they partake of the qualities of both Leo and Virgo.

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Mistress—Are you married? Applicant—No'm. I bumped Into door.—Woman's Journal.

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