Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1914 — Page 4

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DEJECTION should not be raised to the frank and serious discussion of sex problems, but the trouble is that we have had VERY MUCH FRANKNESS AND VERY "LITTLE SERIOUSNESS. It is conceivable that the white slave problem could be presented in such a way as to be salutary and serviceable, but we have had white slave plays which do nothing more than STIMULATE AN UNWHOLESOME AND MORBID CURIOSITY instead of driving home a moral lesson. WE SHALL HAVE NO BETTERING OF CONDITIONS OF THE DRAMA UNTIL THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE STAGE BEGIN TO PROTEST AGAINST THE INDIGNITY WHICH IS OFFERED THEM IN fTHAT THEY ARE COMPELLED TO WASTE THEIR GIFTS UPON THE INANE AND UNCLEAN THINGS WHICH THE MODERN STAGE TOO IOFTEN GIVES US. M H I do not agree with a distinguished critic who condemns the “present system of ignorant and conscienceless commercial management.” But it must be pointed out not only that the theater has “been TOO COMPLETELY COMMERCIALIZED, but that the control of the theaters of the land has been overcentralized, an overcentralization which has made the theaters throughout the land dependent upon Broadway’s theatrical sewers. . ' ' THREE THINGS MUST BE MORALIZED IF THE PLAY IS TO COME TO ITS OWN AGAIN—FIRST, THE STAGE AND THE DRAMA ITSELF, INCLUDING THE PLAYERS; SECOND, AUTHORS AND MANAGERS, AND, THIRD, THE PUBLIC.

Five School Hours More Tiresome Than Eight Hours of a Working Day

By Professor GEORGE W. KIRCHWEY

I THINK most men will agree with me that five hours a day in school for a boy or a girl is equal to eight or nine hours of . work for an adult. And I would like to know how easy it would be to find grown men and women willing to work eight or nine hours a day if they were FORBIDDEN TO STAND UP when tired of sitting down, if they sere FORBIDDEN TO SPEAK TO EACH OTHER, if they WERE NOT EVEN PERMITTED TO MOVE AROUND A LITTLE to rest themselves by change of position. Furthermore, particularly in large cities, one principal cause of breakdown on the part of high school and elementary students is insufficient nutrition and bad hygienic conditions in the school. I regard it as essential that public schools furnish a substantial luncheon.to pupils at bare cost. AT THE RISK OF INCURRING CRITICISM I AM WILLING TO' SAY THAT THE TEACHING FORCE IN MOST OF OUR ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOLS TODAY IS MADE UP OF TEACHERS WHOLLY UNFITTED FOR THEIR IMPORTANT WORK. WHAT OUR BOYS AND GIRLS NEED IS TEACHERS OF PERSONALITY. FULL OF SYMPATHY FOR THOSE IN THEIR CARE AND POSSESSING THE FACULTY OF INTERESTING PUPILS IN THEIR WORK. •6. M H x\ll over the country we have the buildings, the laboratories, the equipment, the books, but we LACK TEACHERS OF THE RIGHT KIND- As far as possible the work done in elementary and high schools should deal with the actual problems of the pupils’ daily life and be largely constructive in character, with increased attention to manual and vocational training. -

Ballot Will Not Reform Every Vice and Establish Every Virtue

By Bishop WARREN A. CANDLER

THE American mind seems to be infected with what may be called the SUPERSTITION OF THE BALLOT. Many men, otherwise sane, are foolish enough to think reform can be brought about |by the result of an election, and in consequence we are having all sorts of elections on questions which ought not to be in politics. •t * THESE MEN OUGHT TO BE REFORMING THEIR OWN LIVES AND THOSE OF THEIR CHILDREN, AND THEN THEY WOULD LACK TIME TO BE CLAMORING FOR ELECTIONS ON ALL SORTS OF ISISUES. WE WOULD NOT NEED SO MANY REFORMS IF THERE WERE MORE RELIGION IN THE HOMES Q.F THE LAND. Many women also have fallen under this delusion that voting will [REFORM EVERY VICE AND ESTABLISH EVERY VIRTUE in the earth. But the plain fact is that where it has been tried it has not accomplished any such"end.'

America Has Faith In Education

By EMILE BOUTROUX,

Nowhere else in the world is more faith placed in THE- POWERS OF INSTRUCTION AND MORAL EDUCATION, TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY, THE WISDOM AND THE MORAL QUALITIES OF MAN, THAN IN AMERICA. I was greatly touched by the attention paid me by American students and by their confiding amiability, and it was not difficult for me to believe their masters when I was told of the spirit of duty and morality which prevailed among them. The prayers with which the universities ,are onened each morning are not merely a vain formality. RELIGION IN AMERICA IS ABOVE ALL A QUESTION OF MENTAL SERIOUSNESS which may be expressed in the well known verses of Emierson: A’.'' ■ When duty whispers low, Thou must • . The youth replies, I can.

Players and Authors Can Eliminate Plays That Are Unclean

By the Rev. STEPHEN S. WISE of New York City

Episcopal Church

of Columbia University

of Southern Methodist

French Academician

ANTI-TRUST BILL ENTERS CONGRESS

First of Measures Favored by Wilson Is Before House. TRADE BODY IS CREATED Interstate Commlaalon Given the Greatest Power*—Corporations Muat Show Books Under Penalty. Washington, Jan. 23.—The first of the series of administration measures designed to solve the trust problem—the interstate trade commission bill — was Introduced in the house on Thursday by Representative Clayton, chairman of the house committee on the Judiciary. It had been approved by President Wilson, Attorney General Mcßeynolds and Joseph E. Davies, commissioner of corporations, and probably will become a law without substantial change. Three other measures prepared by a Judiciary cub-sommittee for submission to the full committee were made public Im accordance with the president’s program of publicity. Hearings will be held on them all. Subjects of Other Bills. The three bills to be Introduced embrace the following subjects: Prohibition of Interlocking directorates of Industrial corporations, railroads, banking or trust companies, to be effective two years after approval. Definition of the terms of the Sherman anti-trust act, specifically to include within the meaning of “conspiracy in restraint of trade” every contract, combination in the form of a trust or otherwise; within the meaning of the word “monopiles” certain definite offenses, all of which would beyprohlbited, and fixing guilt on inldiA trade-relations measure designed to prohibit “cutthroat” competition through price discriminations, discounts, rebates, territorial restrictions, etc., and giving individuals injured by reason of anything forbidden in the Sherman act the right to bring suits In equity against corporations against which decrees have been obtained by the government. Trade Commission’s Power. The bill already introduced creates an interstate trade commission and gives it the most far-reaching powers ever delegated by congress to any administrative body, surpassing even the authority conferred at different times on the interstate commerce commission. Common carriers which are regulated by the interstate commerce commission are exempted from the operations of the trade commission. Every other corporation engaged in interstate commerce, however, comes under the jurisdiction of the trade commission, which will consist of five commissioners who will receive annual salaries of SIO,OOO each. Davies to Be Chairman. The bureau of corporations will be absorbed by the trade commission. Joseph E. Davies of Wisconsin, present commissioner of corporations, will become chairman of the commission. The commission will have authority to investigate either on complaint or on its own initiative any corporation which is charged with or suspected of violating the Sherman anti-trust law. At the request of the attorney general it will also make investigations for the purpose of acting in an advisory capacity in negotiations for the voluntary dissolution of trusts and monopolies. Power to Get Firms’ Books. Authority is conferred on the commission to demand the production of books and documents needed for its inquiries under penalty of SI,OOO a day for conviction of failure or neglect to comply with the order of the commission. The commission will also have power to subpoena and compel attendance of witnesses it desired to interrogate, and hearings may be held anywhere in the United States, although the commission will maintain headquarters in Washington. Immunity will be granted only to natural persons testifying under oath in response to a subpoena of the commission- The authority of the United States courts may be Invoked in case of disobedience of the orders of the trade commission. The membership of the commission is regulated so that one member will quit each year so as to provide continuity of policy, each member serving seven years.

BODY DECIDES FOR PINDELL

Foreign Relations Committee, After Wrangle, Orders Favorable Report on Nomination. Washington, Jan. 23. —After wrangling for several hours over the nomination of Henry M. Pindell of Peoria to be ambassador to Russia the senate foreign relations committee ordered a favorable report upon the nomination at the next executive session of the senate.

Will Explore Panama.

New York, Jan. 23.—George Shiras, former representative from Pennsylvania, and A. G. Anthony, an explorer on the staff of the American Museum of Natural History, will leave next week for Panama, the former to obtain flashlight pictures of the jungle creatures and the explorer to collect mammals and birds.

WEEK'S NEWS

Summarized for Very Busy Readers

Washington Congressmen of both the Republican and Progressive parties found their own aims - and principles set forth in President Wilson’s ( message, according to comment heard about the lobbies in Washington. The majority gave almost unreserved approval of the plan for trust legislation outlined. •' * ♦ A fist fight between Representative Johnson of Kentucky and John R. Shields, an attorney, broke up a meeting of the house committee at Washington on District of Columbia. Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson, eldest daughter of the president, rose from her seat in the audience at a civic Improvement meeting in Washington and made a plea for the movement to have the schoolhouses of the country opened to the public as “social centers.” • * • Radium was described to the house committee on mines at Washington as the only cure the- medical world has discovered for cancer. The resolutions empowering the president to withdraw from entry public lands known to contain radium-bearing ores were discussed by many physicians. ♦ * • The nomination of John Skelton Williams, now assistant secretary of the treasury, to be comptroller of the currency, and, as such, ex-offlcio member of the federal reserve bank board, was confirmed by the senate at Washington. • * • Charges that $80,000,000 of public property has been destroyed and the fur seal herds of Alaska virtually exterminated to enrich a few individuals were made by Representative Rothermel of Pennsylvania in making public the results of an investigation by the house committee at Washington on expenditures In the department of commerce, of which he is chairman. • • • Co-operation among the farmers instead of competition, that “the farmer may receive the whole of the consumer’s dollar for his product, instead of 35 to 45 per cent., as is now the case,” is the alm of a bill Introduced by Senator Borah in the senate at Washington, to create an “agricultural capital” or clearing house, to be run by the farmers under government charter or subsidy. • • • A project for making part of the Panama canal zone free trade territory with a view of establishing there a sort of clearing house for North, Central and South American commerce, is being worked out by Representative Copley of Illinois, who will present it to congress at Washington in a bill. * ♦ » Individuals whose net income from March 1, 1913, to December 31, 1913, was $2,500 or more must make returns of their net income for the year, according to a regulation issued by the treasury department at Washington. The tax for 1913 is assessed oqly for the ten months mentioned. Hereafter only persons having incomes of $3,000 or more must make returns. • • • Representative Stanley of Kentucky, after a conference with President Wilson at Washington, introduced an amendment to the Sherman law which would make illegal the monopolization or restraint in trade “in any degree.” It is designed to eliminate the “rule of reason” laid down by the Supreme court in the Standard Oil case. » * * • Red Cross officials at Washington telegraphed Governor Hatfield of West Virginia to inquire if they can assist in caring for the refugees in the flood. • • • Senator Bacon of Georgia has just made the discovery that one of his ribs was broken two weeks ago. He was on duty in the senate at Washington, despite the Injury. » • • Domestic In addresses at a joint banquet of the Illinois Bankers' association and the Bankers’ club at Chicago, W. 'G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, and D. F. Houston, secretary of agriculture, analyzed the new measure and cited facts and figures to show that, under it, a panic would be impossible. * ♦ William Oberklerck and Harold Shirley, convicted in the federal court at Mobile, Ala., of changhairig McLaurin Clarke and Emmett Smith, Columbus (Ga.) boys, were fined S2OO and six months in the Atlanta federal prison. * * ♦ Tottering under the "weight of eighty years, William Eberwein stood in the criminal court at Philadelphia and told how his wife, 15 years younger, had pleaded with him to kill her and how he committed the deed. He was sentenced to seven years in jail. * * * The strike on the Delaware & Hudson railroad in New York whiqh began in the morning and by noon had tied up the entire system, was settled the same night. Railroad officials met the union’s demands that they restore two discharged employes.

Declaring that they had information that wages would be out, 400 employes in the Toledo plant of the General Electric company struck. • * • Declaring the Wisconsin eugenic law unconstitutional, Judge F. C. Eschweller of the circuit court at Milwaukee granted a writ of mandamus directing County Clerk Widule to issue a marriage license to Alfred Peterson without the previous presentation of a health certificate, which the law requires. • * ♦ H. H. Hanna, who was a member of the monetary commission appointed by President McKinley, and former head of the Atlas engine works at Indianapolis, Ind., has filed an involuntary petition in bankruptcy in the federal court. He listed his liabilities at $1,210,275, and his assets at SI,OBO. • • • Half of the estate of Richard D. Lankford, vice-president of the Southern railway, who was found dead in his Brooklyn home from gas asphyxiation, is bequeathed to his fiancee, Miss Nellie Patterson, in the will which was filed for probate. The other half is given to his mother. • * • Seven persons were killed and three others wounded, one a girl telephone operator, in a pistol battle at the Oklahoma state penitentiary at McAlester. The convicts were killed. Among the dead is John R. Thomas, formerly U. 8. district judge and a former congressman from Illinois. An Investigation intended to determine the truth of insinuations of corruption of federal employes at Chicago in connection with the recent "white slave” case against Jack Johnson, negro pugilist, was instituted by James H. Wilkerson, Unite! States district attorney. • • * Forty-one New England heirs of Abel Stearns, a pioneer who died in the early '7os, were defeated at Los Angeles in their contest for the $7,000,000 estate of Mrs. Arcadia De Baker, formerly the widow of Stearns and at brer death the richest woman in southern California. Mexican Revolt Fighting between a scouting party of the Zapata forces and a small detachment of federals at Tlzapan, a suburb of Mexico City, has renewed the fear of another series of raids within the federal district. Some of the government forces deserted to the rebels. * * • Despite denials, British Minister Carden’s transfer to Argentina has been arranged by the British foreign office. Notice now is on the way to him by mall. The foreign office at Mexico City has been informed that he is to go to Washington. - » * * Personal Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, high commissioner for Canada, died in London. Hon. Mrs. Robert Howard, who was Margaret Charlotte Smith, Lord Strathcona’s only child, is his heir. She not only will inherit his fortune, estimated at more than SIOO,000,000, but also his title. * * • Miss Eva Booth, commander of the Salvation Army in the United States, is ill at Buffalo, N. Y., suffering from bronchitis. Pneumonia is likely to develop. "Gunboat” Smith, the heavyweight pugilist, and Miss Helen Remley \of New York were married by a justice of the peace of Oak Park, 111. ' . ■ • ♦ • ■ Carl Browne, lieutenant of Gen. Jacob Coxey, who led an army of unemployed to Washington in 1893, died at Washington one hour after he was stricken with acute indigestion. ♦ ♦ ♦ Ambassador Page is confined to his room in. London suffering from a bad cold. ■• • • Foreign The task of Insuring greater secur ity for ships at sea and their passengers was dealt with in a thorough manner by the international conference on safety at sea in ; London, which came to an end. The delegates of 14 nations signed a convention laying down regulations for the future. * * * Secretary Bain of the South African Federation of Trades and his band of 300 armed comrades, who had barricaded themselves in the Trades hall at Johannesburg since Tuesday, surrendered unconditionally to 1,000 police Secretary Bain and ten other leaders were lodged in jail. The collapse of the strike is near. ♦ * » “How do you expect peace withi& natiop that is deliberately inciting out* neighbors to war with us?” asked Senator James Hamilton Lewis at the American club luncheon at Londoii in response to the hope expressed by an official of the British admiralty that the peace policy of President Wilson would prevail. Senator Lewis said th« policy of President Wilson is a sincere one. • • * A Tientsin dispatch says that on the arrival there of the ' express from Peking the body of a man who had been stabbed to death was found in one of the carriages. He was identified as the revolutionary leader, Jung Kwashlng, who was implicated in the murder of Gen. Sung Chiao-Jen, exminister of education, at Shanghai, last March. ♦ » * King George received the delegates to the safety-at-sea conference in London and entertained them at Ijnincheon.

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Subscribe for The Democrat. Favor Gorgas for Surgeon General. Washington, Jan. 23. —The Senate military affairs committee ordered a favorable report on the nomination of Col. William C. Gorgas te be surgeon general of the army. SIOO,OOO Fire in Montreal; Montreal, Que., Jan.’ 23. —The Canadian Athletic club gymnasium was destroyed by fire. Loss SIOO,OOO.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Jan. 22. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. eat. Ing. May 92-92% .92% .92 .92%-% July ..........87%-% .88%-% .87% .88% CornMay 65-65% .65%-% .65 . 65% July 64%-% .64% .64% .64% Oats— , May 39% .39% .38% .39% July 38%-39 .39%-% ,38%-39 .39% FLOUR—Spring wheat, patent, Mlnneapolls brands, wood, [email protected] to retail trade; Minnesota and Dakota patents, [email protected]; jute, straight, $3.70(§:3.90; first clears, jute, [email protected]; second clears, jute, [email protected]; low grade, jute, [email protected]; winter wheat, patent, jute, [email protected]; straight jute, $3.75@3,80; rye flour, white, patent [email protected]; dark, [email protected]. BUTTER—Creamery, extras, 30c; extra firsts, 26@27c; firsts, 23@25c; seconds, 22c; ladles, 20c; packing stock, 18e. EGGS—Current receipts, 26@32c; ordinary firsts, 30c; firsts, 32c; extra, 36c; checks, 22c; dirties, 24c; storage, firsts, 27c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 18c; chickens, fowls, 14c; springs, 13%c; roosters, 10%c; geese, 14c; duqks, 15c; guinea hens, $6.00 per dos. POTATOES—Wisconsin white, 60@67c; red, 58@63c; Minnesota, white, 60@67c; red, 58@63c; Michigan, white, 60@67c; red, 58@ 63c. East Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 22. CATTLE—Market slow and steady; prime steers, $8.7508.90; butcher grades [email protected]. CALVES—Market active, 25c higher; cull to choice, $6.00(312.25. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active, lambs 10c higher: choice lambs, $8.15@ 8.20; cull to fair, [email protected]; yearlings, $6.00 @7.15; sheep, [email protected]. HOGS—Market slow, 5c lower; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]; mixed, sß.® @8.70; heavy, sß[email protected]; roughs, [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. Live Stock. Chicago, Jan. 22. CATTLE—Steers, good to choice heavy, [email protected]; steers, fair to good, [email protected]; yearlings, good to choice, [email protected]; distillery steers, [email protected]; inferior steers, $7.00 @7.50; stockers, [email protected]; feeding steers, [email protected]; medium to good beef cows, $5.25 @6.10; fair to good heifers, [email protected];’g00d to choice cows, [email protected]; common to feood cutters, [email protected]; butcher bulls, $6.10 @7.50; bologna bulls, [email protected]. . HOGS—Choice light, 16O@18O lbs., $8.05@ 8.20; light mixed. 170@200 lbs., [email protected]; prime light butchers, 200@230 lbs., $8.28@ 8.35; medium weight butchers, 230@270 lbs., [email protected]; prime heavy butchers, 230@330 lbs., [email protected]; mixed packing, [email protected]; heavy packing, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]. New York, Jan. 22. WHEAT—Strong, fair trade; No. 1 northern, $1.01%; No. 2 red, $1.01%; No. 2 hard, 99%c; May, 99 11-16 c; July, 97c. CORN—Firmer, moderate Inquiry; export, 68%c; No. 3 yellow, 70c; Argentine 70%c. OATS—Steady, moderate dealings; No. 2 white, 45@45%c; No. 3- white, 44@44%c; standard. 44%@45c. Omaha, Jan. 22. HOGS—Heavy. [email protected]; light, $7.75@ ?0; pigs, [email protected]; bulk of sales, $8.05@ 8.30. ' ATTLE—Native steers, [email protected]; cows a nd-heifers, [email protected]; western steers, $7.00 @8.15; cows and heifers, S4J»Q>6.SO; calves [email protected]. SHEEP-Yearlings. [email protected]; wethers. [email protected]; lambs. [email protected].

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