W"' ' 'jf V|-||.rM fQ i, | Famose fej p. Vr- v f || POTETE COM- §É |j| PRARE una finis- IH i|| sima sigaretta per Ei ■fe| 5 Soldi ZIRA. E|. I La PIO' SQUISITA Sigaretta Pf /■ mmmmmmmmmm \ "• .•>}( |• * 0 DEMOCRATIC LAWS THAT HELP FARMERS Federal Employment Bureau One of Many Wilson Achievements. MONEY FOR CROP MOVING. Rural Credits, Federal Reserve Act, Good Road'fc, Warehouse Law, New Grain Standards arid Improved Mar keting System. By FRANK G. ODELL, Editor of the Nebraska Farm Magazine. Do you know that your postofflce is now an employment bureau? That is one of the new things Uncle Sam has started during the present administra-, tion. Secretary Wilson of the depart ment of labor has tackled the task of bringing the Jobless juan and the man 9 \ less togeilier, and now every post office is an agency of the United Stages employment service. The postmaster is equipped with blanks for listing ap plications for labor or for employment i and is instructed to help get the worker and the job in contact. While this may appear to be princi pally in the 4nterest of the worker. It is really one of the numerous far reaching things started for the benefit of the farmer by the administration of President Wilson. The increasing ! scarcity of farm labor has become a ! problem to the farmer, especially in i the wheat growing and fruit growing sections. This labor, which is of a seasonal character, necessarily must be performed largely by itinerant workers. Some agency which will meet this demand and relieve the laborer of the graft of employment agencies »s* necessary. Uncle Sam has started it. A single illustration will show how the system works: In the Willamette valley of thousands of temporary workers are needed in hop picking time. On Aug. 20 the Oregon Journal of Portland printed a news article about the new government employment agency,, stat- I iug that 600 families < >uld <> rain :: ined'r te employment in V • ..op vn r 1 y applying at the P eland divis : 4 . o 4 the federal employ: . it service This is another . a adde! ; • the mass of accumulating evidence which shows that the Wilson administration has tried to give both labor and'the farmer a square deal. For the first time in history this administration hu> placed the needs of rural distn ts squarely before congress as of etjuq,' importance with the interests of th<* financial centers. And why not? Financial center would not amount to much without th<* nine billion dollar crop of the Ameri can farmer. But the interests of the farmer have not always been so prom inently and favorably considered by congress as they have during the last three years. The record of Democrati • claims for farmer support is a recor.l of accomplishment. It reads like this in the passage of laws and adminis trative acts: • V What Has Been Done 4-or the Fame-. CURRENCY REFORM.-The fed eral reserve act, under which the farm er's paper is given special consideration. Including permission to national banks to loan on the security of farm lands. 'RURAL CREDITS.—An epoch mak ing legislative measure which will re lieve the farmer of the incubus of the short time loan at extortionate interest. This measure alone, when in full force, will save the farmers of the United States one hundred and fifty million dollars annually in interest charges. GOOD ROADS.—Seventy-five million dollars made available for the develop ment of roads from the farm to the market, under conditions which will prevent wasteful use of the money. AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION. The passage of the Smith-Lever act brings to every American farm, through the joint co-operation of the federal government and the states, the help of these agencies in solving the business problems of the farmer. COTTON FUTURES ACT.—Deals a death blow to gambling in this great staple. UNITED STATES WAREHOUSE ACT. —Enables owners of stored prod ucts to obtain loans on warehouse re ceipts more nearly approximating the full value of the product. GRAIN STANDARDS.—A law en-, acted last August authorizes the sec retary of agriculture to establish offi cial grain standards. This law is work ing. The farmer who has been robbed through juggled grain grades for yeara will appreciate its value. CROP MOVING.—The surplus funds of the treasury department have been placed directly in the banks of the south and west to aid in moving crops during the customary season of money shortage. INTEREST ON GOVERNMENT DEPOSITS. Banks holding govern ment deposits are now required to pay 2 per cent interest. This cuts off a big graft which formerly came from the free use of huge sums of the people's money. More than a million dollars revenue annually is now derived from this source alone. IMPROVED MARKETING SYS TEM.—The farmer has for years felt the power of the market combine, with its waste, inefficiency and dis honesty. The office of markets and the rural organization service, established In the department of agriculture dur ing this administration, are working on scientific lines to promote better marketing and co-operative business organization among farmers. These beneficent measures, with many others, show why the farmer Is satis fled with the Wilson administration. ROBINS DECLINES TO MEET ' MRS. FUNK IN DEBATE Brilliant Woman Progressive Support ing Wilson Had Challenged Hughes' Convert to Match Reasons. I Raymond Robins, who was chair man of the recent Progressive national convention in Chicago, has declined the challenge of Mrs. Antoinette Funk to meet her in public debate on the reasons why Progressive voters should be asked to vote for Charles E. Hughes when President Wilson is in the field. © Harris & Ewing, Washington, D. C. MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK. In his refusal Mr. Robins indicated that he would decline all offers to match logic with opponents on the question of Progressive activity in the presidential campaign. Mrs. Funk Is a lawyer in Chicago and was one of the prominent leaders of the Progressive movement so long a§ Coloneli Roosevelt remained at the head of it. aad Mr. Robins fought V i. | Facts Versus " T fallacies | FACT is a real state of things. FALLACY is an appar ently genuine but really illogical statement or argument —- FEW persons appreciate the enormous economic factor the saloon is in the vital life of the nation. The saloon is business end of one of the big industries of the United States. It is the medium through which the products of the great brewing and distilling plants are distributed. The liquor industry ranks fifth in the great industries of this c ountry. arc over a million men engaged in the task of supplying the demand for alcoholic beverages. Included in this list are 60,C00 carpenters, 35,0G0 truckmen, 42,000 stenographers, 30,000 glass fl ;J j (fi j i j workers, 33,000 traveling men, 27,500 painters, 25,000 office and errand • | boys, 18,000 printers and lithographers. Coskmakers, coopers, engi- -gffisgj&a- - ! \'\ t| neers, waiters, musicians, farmers, brewers, distillers, saloonkeepers j r >' i and bartenders raise the total to more than a million men who are :j'§Sk§Jl M j ' directly interested in the liquor business. All of these men depend v \ \Lv Jfy J 1&J T- jj 'J upen the saloons for a living. They receive in wages about /M' \MI $£00,000,000 a year. This money is spent with tradesmen in other iT- fTEST * §§ lines and goes to support all of the other enterprises in the United Lv— ——jra C j States. j ii ?Z- ~~ 1F THESE people were suddenly separated from their income by m j *■ prohibition it would create industrial chaos. It would jeopardize Ml every union in the land, for the wage earners would not be content j~|' to see their loved ones starve, and, if they could not get jobs at union wages they would cut the price and stampede the labor market. TT • n invested in the liquor business is estimated from i j n j \ jj ' $3,G00,0C0,CC3 to $5,OCO,OOO,CO0; but much more money tban that AjTftfc. liTan is directly interested in the prosperity c; t:te liquor industry. Farmers { I | alone receive $200,000,000. anually for . r products that are used in j 1 making liquor. The retail liquor trade pays an equal amount each } i year for rent, and this not include hotels and restaurants. The &railroads receive millions each year for their services. According to | I the United States Stat ! st:cal Abstract fcr 1913, the total movement manufacturers of the wine, whiskey and beer industry ill 1912 ( r '>\£ti r • vPV' ) amounted to over 7,000,000 tons or 1V 2 per cent, of the total traiiic j "Imsr K fJWfrJi t fil j! c • the manufacturing industries of the country. I'jK. j r PHE Government is in partnership with the liquor men. The ■ " * annual internal revenue is $230,000,000. The custom revenue is ! - $18,000,000, making a total of $250,000,000 received by Uncle Sam as his-share of the profits of this great industry. This is over one-third of the total annual incomS from all sources. Incorporated places having a population of 2500 or over receive in license money }£*&'- §51,000.000. The State and country receive other millions, making a grand total of hundreds of millions every year that are contributed to local self government by the saloons. - THAT it is a FALLACY to say that the saloon has no place as an A \ t " economic factor in this country is proven by the FACTS that / M\ \ over one million persons directly and indirectly owe their subsistence ' vV to the caloon—-that the liquor industry is fifth among the nation's jfJt V - |\ Jatv j industries—and that the liquor interests pay over one-third of all the Ul income derived by the United States Government! ttj'' \ v ij Penfisyjvart ia State Brewers' Association Vo | ' v . Uhd® Sarin's Ana?®© 5 ELhoV ll !?^- — 8 "JEJHU'imEih - i side by side for Progressive principles, and she was one of the most active campaigners for Mr. Robins in the senatorial campaign in Illinois two years ago. Mrs. Funk now is a member of the Associate Committee of Progressives co-operating with the Democratic Na tional Campaign Committee. She put her challenge to Mr. Robins on the high ground of public service, asking that her former associate submit the case of Wilson versus Hughes to popu lar juries. In her letter to Mr. Robins Mrs. Funk said: , "In 1012, endorsing the Progressive party with my whole heart, I left be hind me a tradition of middle western and New England Republicanism, and when the end came in the Auditorium last I followed Theodore Roose velt to i he door of the Republican camp with faith that the Republican party of 191G was in somewise differ ent from the Republican party of 1912 that he and you and I condemned, and I waited for a sign that would point the new way. "It did not come, but events mo mentous in their import did transpire and against my inclinations and tra ditions and against my associations and prejudices I was forced in honesty to myself to admit that Woodrow Wil son, greater than his party, a leader of his party, had in large measure kept for the Progressives their contract af firmed by them and entered into with the people. "I am inviting you now, Mr. Robins, to join me in a series of debates, the question to be resolved and the ar rangements to be made through our re spective committees, such debates,to be held during the campaign, it being understood that the resolution of the question shall comprehend all matters properly at issue in the minds of Pro gressives seeking their political affilia tion for 1916." PENNSYLVANIA NEWS IN BRIEF 0 interesting items From All Sec tions ot the State. GULLED FOR QUICK READING News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout tha Keystone State. The Hamburg silk mills cave added new machinery. Hazleton tread rolls will be raised from ten to twelve cents retail. Allentown bakers have raised the price of bread from five to six cents a loaf. . A button strike at Draper colliery, Shenandoah, has ma ie 1000 men and boys idle. In a freight smash at Lancaster a score of cattle were killed and a num- ber injured. The Lehigh Valley Coal company is conducting night schools at Lost Creek end Centralia. Because of a short cabbage crop, a sauer kraut famine is threatened in Bucks More than $5OO was raised by pri vate subscription for garbage collec tion in Pottstown. Lockjaw killefi twenty-one-year-old Allen D. Stettler, of Guthsville, who stepped on a rusty nail. Cornelius Flvnn, thirty-four years old, was found dead on Locust Moun tain, north of Shenandoah. Lehighton Dime bank has been char tered with $50,000 capital, and Profes sor A. S. Beisel president. Robbers dynamited the safe in the Lehigh Valley railroad station at Ful lerton, but obtained only $7. Jacob Weaver, seventy-five. years old, was found dead in his home at Lancaster, where he lived alone. William McClain, Hudsondale, shot a sharp-shinned hawk measuring over four feet from tip to tip of wings. Falling from a load of buckwheat, Ranson Everlin, Wilmot township, can not live, Towanda physicians say. H. C. Kramlich realized $4492 at a sale of Holstein cattle at Siegfried, animals bringing from $llO to $217. Stepping in front of George Cool baugh's automobile at Towanda, Leslie Bland, aged seven, died of a crushed skull. Falling into a pit of hot water, Mi chael Georgeine, employed at the Beth lehem Steel Works, was scalded to death. A ROTTEN REPUBLICAN SHOW New Rope. New rope may be made pliable with out impairing its strength by boiling it for an hour or two in water. E. B. Schmoyer has been elected secretary of Lehigh Odd Fellows, Al lentown, for the twentieth consecu tive time. The employes of the J. H. Meyer Silk company, Weatherly, have been granted an increase of from 5*4 to 6 cents a yard. While dfiving home the family cow, Fred Blahut, aged eight, was killed by a train a few squares from the heart of Allentown. Andrew Glvens, of Hazleton, a min er, was left $5OOO by the will of his cousin, James Givens, a Philadelphia liquor dealer. William A. Hampton, of Pottstown, has been awarded the contract to ereqt a four-room school in Whitpaln, Mon& gomery county. Harry G. Seltzer, of Hamburg, Berks county, U. S. consul at Breslau, Germany, left for New York to sail for his post of duty. Dr. George Taylor Ettliiger, dean of Muhlenberg 'college, was re-elected president of the Allentown Free Li brary association.' Montgomery county commissioners have directed plans to be drawn for a concrete bridge over the Schuylkill at Conshohocsen. Traffic on the Schuylkill canal is at low ebb just now, as no boats loaded to full capacity can come down the stream at Reading. Topton postoffice has been raised from fourth to third class, and Post master Robert Gallmoyer now has a fixed salary cf $llOO. -New York Evening World. African Moslems. Today African Moslems number lit tle less tban (J0.000.00b, about one-third of the total population. #
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