NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering PRESIDENT WILSON lout his fight to place his personal friend Thomas D. Jones of the Harvester and Zinc trusts on the Federal Reserve Board. He recognized his first signal...
...Jones' name submitted "thai the report shows no Violation of any law by Mr...
...Reginaldo Cepeda, a senator from the state of Coahuila, to meet General Carranza at Tampico with instrnctiona and complete authority to arrange for the transfer of government, asking only two things—complete amnesty for political offenders and guarantee of protection for the lives and property of the Mexican people generally...
...it acquired properties, got stock control, impoverished competitors and bought them in, and resorted to many illegal practices to attain its end...
...In 1893 the maps shows hundreds of towns and villages in the five states reached by more than one transportation system...
...But always the people remain, pressing onward in a great stream up the slopes, and always somehow toward the light...
...The civil suit begun against the New Haven charges that it is an unlawful monopoly in restraint of trade and asks the court to divest the New Haven of its holdings in the Boston and Maine Railroad, the old New England Railroad, its Sound and outside steamship lines, its wharves and docks in New England and other properties which the brief says were acquired to make paramount its grasp on New England's transportation...
...by Senator Reed, Missouri (Democrat), leader of the opposition...
...The old leaders will pass, and the new will pass, and pass swiftly, for they are quickly consumed in the stress and heat of the passionate and savage struggle...
...set the glasses on the tray...
...And humanity will continue to struggle for it, to struggle toward it...
...Wish great reluctance, but in deference to Mr...
...Advices were received at Washington that Villa will not break with Carranza and that Zapata will act in accordance with the plans of the Constitutionalists...
...If that should be the result, he says, the progress of the movement toward votes for women in the last ten years in the country would be destroyed...
...He wrote on a slip of paper that Jones' name was to be withdrawn and put it on Reed's desk...
...It is only when you want to speak of setting something, laying something, or raising something that you need these verbs...
...The Big Four advanced $20,000 on $8,000 of valid claims at one time, later neglected to obtain a new note from the coal company for a debt of $170,000, permitted prepayment for coal delivered by the company, extended freight credit to the extent of $25,000, solicited business for It, although making no such efforts for any other company...
...Louis 96,500'aeres and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 30,851 acres, making-a total of nearly 400,000 acres under railroad control...
...In a "mercy" speech at Victoria, Mexico, on the 23rd, he is said to have advocated leniency in "treatment of the conquered by the victorious Constitutionalists...
...If these things are not granted it is reported that the federals will resist to the last the approach of the Constitutionalist army...
...Keep lay, set and raise, and their past tenses—laid, set and raised— out of your speech until you need them...
...For the great dream beckons, leads them on, the dream of social harmony always prefigured in human thought as the city...
...in 1913 with the New Haven and the Central Vermont and Grand Trunk only...
...Lenroot is a progressive Republican who is one of the strongest supporters in Congress of the enfranchisement of women...
...He recognized his first signal defeat at the hands of the United States Senate last week by withdrawing the name of Mr...
...This agreement purports to have been made at the home of the late J. Pierpont Morgan in New York...
...He raised a good crop of wheat...
...He always sets the table for his mother...
...These facte,' among others, were brought to light by the Commission in its investigation made in response to a joint resolution passed by Congress in 1906 ealiiKg for information about the connection of "railroad officials with coal properties.The.report shows that the railroad owned coat companies own...
...When Senator Hitchcock heard it he exclaimed: "Glory, hallelujah...
...McDermott's defense was that money received from the pawnbrokers, was in the nature of personal loans and that the brewers had contributed only $500 out of personal friendship...
...It was the angelic vision of the mystic on Patmos, the city descending out of heaven and lying foursquare, the city where there was to be no more sorrow nor crying...
...Fortunately, however, this association had an enterprising manager...
...President went over til*, entice Mexican situation Willi his visitor and made it clear that the Constitutionalists now have a chance to establish a government of, for and by the people in the republic...
...Lawrence River and the Canadian border...
...It has been the everlasting dream of humanity...
...At that time the two roads concerned were entirely separate...
...All literature- is saturated with it...
...It went into voluntary bankruptcy in 1933...
...New Haven Monopoly at'Last in Court One of the most important suits ever begun by the government under the criminal section of the Sherman act was foreshadowed last week with tho filing of a civil suit to dissolve the New York, New Haven and Hartford monopoly...
...The New Haven, the bill declares, resorted to many elusive and roundabout methods to cover Its tracks in perfecting its combination...
...unsafe rolling stock...
...fcsrandeis and Senator Hol-lis called on President Wilson to pro test agaihst...
...We have breathed already too Ions the air of suspicion and distrust...
...After a vote on this measure the Clayton bill to supplement the Sherman act will be pushed...
...Jones' name...
...Indeed,, the great feminist movement fo our time, a movement which in the histories of mankind centuries hence will be given the sectional mark of the beginning ;of a new age, is in itself the proof of a great advance,--in which the ballot will be the very least important of all the liberties to be won...
...Jones wrote the President that the misrepresentations of himself by the majority of the Senate committee and the prolonged fight engendered would seriously impair his usefulness as a member of the reserve board and he asked the withdrawal of his nomination...
...On the 23d the Senate voted to adopt the caucus plan...
...Some hundred miles to the west of Winnsboro lies the great 'black-land belt' of Texas, which is ideally adapted to cotton-growing, but this black soil will not grow potatoes...
...the lack of proper signal systems and safety devices: the destruction of the autonomy of the units now combined in making rates...
...certain features or the r-vised railroad securities bill on ihe ground '-that they"would make the •!/>,•erriln.-lij [irriej ie.'l l)y guarantee i.Y.'!l|e;J of slock Of railroads...
...and remember: You need them very seldom...
...The withdrawal reached the Senate three minutes after the minority of the Banking and Currency committee filed its report favoring the nomination, and at the close of a session given over to bitter denunciation of Mr...
...While the Presiderft still is standing behind Paul M. Warburg of New York, it is expected that he will find it advisable to withdraw Warburg's name, too...
...However, he said no leniency could be expected for those who took active part in overthrowing the constitutional government of Madero and the murder of its president and vice-president, but he added that they would be judged according to Ivy...
...Tho railroad securities regulation bill which was reported during the day by Senator Newlands, chairman of the Interstate Commerce committee, will follow tho Clayton measure...
...During his talk with Tenor Calderon the President impressed upon him the necessity of peace among the Constitutionalists themselves, expressing the deire that General Villa be placated so that .a «m& revolt will not take place...
...Under the agreement the New Haven was to aid the Boston and Maine to acquire transportation lines north of a certain line, the Boston and Maine to aid the New Haven to the same end south of that line...
...And the minority concluded: "We submit that all questions of expediency should give way to his personal fitness, as testified to by those who know him best...
...The brief carries With it an exhibit purporting to be a copy of an agreement between representatives of the New Haven and the Boston and Maine Railroad, made on March t>, 1892, by which (hose two roads divided New England between themselves...
...Copyright, 1914, by C. R. Rounds...
...In addition it is shown that the Chicago and Eastern holds 42,053 acres of coal lands in the two states, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and...
...Raise your arms slowly...
...Chicago's Vice Kings Tremble Chicago is again in the throes of "wiping out the...
...M. M. Mulhall, once an agent of the National Association of Manufacturers,, testified in the lobby inquiry that McDermott permitted him to use his congressional frank for circulating matter for the manufacturers and that McDermott claimed he had received $7,500 from local pawnbrokers to work against the federal loan shark law and a $2,000 campaign contribution from a Chicago brewer's association...
...He also denied a charge by Mulhall that he had forged Harold F. McCor-mick's name to a cheek for $250...
...Jones acceding to his request that his name be withdrawn is bitterly worded...
...Some Day Will Men's Dreams Come True By BRAND WHITLOCK OTWITHSTANDING- all the ignorance and all the woe In the world tonight never, before has there been such widespread opportunity for enlightenment, never such widespread comfort, never so much kindness, so much "pity for animals, for children, and, above all, never have women been shown such consideration...
...they laid their books aside...
...that is, they take effect on some object...
...Louts It...
...An armed engagement is already reported to have taken place when a number of vessels transporting Austrian infantry were fired upon from the Servian side of the Danube...
...The interstate trade commission bill will be taken up first in earnest...
...Men interested in a given policy would not advance that policy by repeated marchings up and down Pennsylvania avenue...
...use of inferior and...
...So far as we know no man has said aught against his character or his pre-eminent ability to fill the positioi^ with satisfaction to his country and with credit to himself...
...lay your wraps on the bed...
...In case of a prolonged war between the two countries it is feared the backing of Servia by Russia and France will call into action the governments of Germany and Italy, because of the triple alliance existing between the latter two nations and Austria-Hungary...
...They are transitive verbs...
...President Wilson did not withdraw the nomination of Mr...
...The shipping of farm products in carload lots and selling them straight from the car door to the consumer frequently offers a way out of this difficulty...
...On the 21st, President Wilson received Francisco Iglesias Calderon, a special commissioner of General Carranza and slated for Minister of Foreign Affairs in the new government...
...Rebate Evil Still Exists In a report to the Senate last week the Interstate Commerce Commission laid bare the payment of a rebate of $60,000 to the O'Gara Coal Company of Illinois by the New York Central Lines and discrimination by railroads against independent coal mines in the Illinois-Indiana ' coal fields...
...In this fatigue they may grow conservative after a while, and they should pray to be spared the acquiescence of the middle years, the base capitulation of age...
...Jones and the International Harvester Co...
...I think suffragists would make more rapid progress if they would realize that the question of women's suffrage should be treated as any other question of public policy is treated, and that to make progress there must be a sentiment built up throughout the country for the policy desired...
...He laid his coat on top of mine...
...In the meantime almost daily skirmishes are taking place in Mexican towns as the Constitutionalist armies approach Mexico City...
...Last week one police officer was shot dead and several others wounded in a pitched battle between officers from separate departments of the police department—one the regular patrol of the district, the other special policemen of the morals squad...
...Prospects for Peace Are Brighter in Mexico Negotiations tending toward the transfer of power to the constitutionalists in Mexico City and the pacification of the country made headway last week...
...It has been the ideal of human achievement since the day when the men on the plains of Shinar sought to build a city whose towers should reach unto heaven...
...He denied, however, that these loans influenced his vote on legislation...
...the best price that reliable commission houses would offer, despite the fact that potatoes were then retailing at from $2 to $3 per bushel in these same cities...
...be inferentially from the fact that he was a director and participated in such business of the International Harvester Company as came before its board of directors, and because of his interest and connection with the business and management of the New Jersey Zinc Company...
...This radiant vision of the city is the oldest dream in the world...
...With Huerta safe in Jamaica, the situation hinged upon the question of bringing about harmony between provisional president Carba-jal, and Generals Carranza, Villa and Zapata, the southern leader...
...the suppression of competition among these units, the diversion of freight traffic to the New Haven company, an effort to increase freight rates and dilatory and arbitrary methods in dealing with patrons...
...To them must ever come the fatigue of long drawn opposition, of the repeated and unavailing assaults on the cold, solid and impregnable walls of institutions...
...Raise your head a trifle...
...And he exclaims: "I believe that the judgment and desire of the whole country cry out for a new temper in affairs...
...It needs no very powerful imagination, peering into the shadowy background of human history, to appreciate the tremendous implications of this fact...
...but at this time, keep these forms in mind: lay your books aside...
...And some day, somewhere, to the sons of men the dream will come true...
...The effort for genuine social justice, for peace, the peace which is founded on common understanding and for prosperity, the prosperity of co-operation and mutual trust and confidence, should be a united effort without partisan prejudice or class antagonism, It is only of such just and noble elements that the welfare of a great country can be compounded...
...This will apply to all concessions granted by the Huerta government after that date and to all foreign loans and other obligations...
...Lenroot Opposes Militancy In a recent interview in the Chicago Tribune, Congressman Irvine Li Lenroot of Wisconsin expresses the fear that the constant heckling of Congress may lead to the tactics of the militant suffragists of England...
...The population of the forty-eight states and the District of Columbia is given as 98,781,324...
...In the former years they "show New England with nearly a dozen competing systems...
...It is WRONG to say lay down, rover...
...This great change in transportation conditions, the government alleges, has led to unreasonable delay in de-'liverlng freight...
...vice district...
...The minority report of the Banking and Currency committee filed a moment before the withdrawal of Mr...
...The New York Central dealt most generally with this coal company, according to the report...
...McDermott ascribed his troubles to loans sought from persons and associations that later had legislation before Congress...
...The bill does not show any termination of this agreement, but years afterward the New Haven, after it had secured the lines south and after the Boston and Maine had taken up most of those north, in turn took over the Boston and Maine and became the almost undisputed master of the field from the coast line of Connecticut to the St...
...Hastening Legislation The Democratic caucus of the United States Senate voted last week to hold daily sessions from 11 o'clock until 6 o'clock in the evening in order to expedite trust legislation and hasten the adjournment of Congress...
...After careful consideration he sent a man directly into this territory, to locate the demand...
...President Wilson replied in a letter in which he expressed his disgust with the exploitation of class and partisan prejudices by the opposition to Mr...
...High Cost of Marketing Farm Products IN THE current issue of Farm and Fireside a contributor says that under present methods of marketing and distributing farm crops, it costs $7,000,000,000 to get $6,000,000,000 worth of farm products to consumers...
...The...
...But a few days later he is reported to have told John R. Silliman, personal representative of President Wilson, that amnesty was something for the conquerer to give the conquered as an act of generosity and not as a condition of surrender and indicated that he will insist that the surrender of Carbajal be unconditional...
...it is announced that Mr...
...The time has come when discrimination against particular classes of men should be absolutely laid aside and discarded as unworthy of the counsels of a great people...
...The latter, (who had just said: "Under the head rebates, I find this") read the note, looked amaz-edly at his colleague, smiled triumphantly and with renewed zest continued his attack on the Harvester combine...
...196,795 acres of coal lands in Illinois and Indiana...
...set the dishes on the shelf...
...The O'Gara Company was incorporated in 1905, was capitalized at $6,000,« 000 and later $3,000,000 of bonds were issued...
...It is expected that the Democratic majority in the house will prevent further proceedings against McDermott, who is a Democrat...
...v —The population of the territory embraced by the United States was 109,021, 992 on July 1, 1914, according to a bulletin containing the estimates of population for the three years subsequent to the thirteenth census in 1910, which has just been issued under the supervision of C. S. Sloane, geographer of the Department of Commerce...
...LAY SET RAISE The three verbs, lay, set, and raise, cause a great deal of trouble by coming into our speech when they are not wanted...
...The bill is sweeping in character and if sustained by the courts the New Haven may be separated from so many of its present subsidiaries that it will have little left but its so-called shore lines from New York to Boston...
...Then when the car arrived at its destination the potatoes were delivered direct from the car door to the buyers," niiiiniin Use Good English wmMmmmmmmmmimmmmimmmm {This is Lesson VI in a series of short, simple lessons in English, by C. R. Rounds, Inspector of English, Wisconsin State Normal Schools...
...The manager decided to market his potatoes there if he could only get in touch with the demand...
...Secretary Bryan has announced that the United States Government will refuse to recognize as legal any acta performed by the Huerta government subsequent to October 10, 1913...
...And in the cities, now as always, the struggle for liberty will go on...
...There is such an undercurrent of opposition to the river and harbor appropriation bill that-few members believe it will reach a vote before adjournment...
...He laid his head on the pillow...
...McDermott Quits congressman James T. McDermott ot Chicago resigned his seat in the House oil July 21, forestalling a vote on the Judiciary Committee's recommendation that he be reprimanded and expelled for his part in the scandals lis-closed by Martin M. Muhall last fall in the Senate lobby investigation...
...1 The President in concluding hif-letter indicates his belief in the wisdom of withdrawing the appointment instead of continuing a fight the personal element of which might hinder the realization of his program of constructive legislation...
...It expresses regret "that I should have brought upon you so unpleasant an experience in which you were treated with gross and manifest injustice...
...there has been a "shakeup" in the police force assigned to this district and the king of Chicago's underworld and his subjects are reported to be somewhat disturbed...
...President Wilson's letter to Mr...
...Jones until it became evident that its confirmation might be defeated...
...Then he entered the Senate and took a seat next to Senator Reed...
...He set the table...
...Reports as to General Carranza's in tention in regard to the treatment, of the federals have been conflicting...
...The news of the President's decision reached the Senate corridors in advance of the formal withdrawal of Mr...
...regret that the organization of a great banking system should be so embarrassed and obstructed...
...Roosevelt's resignation came as a result of his determination to devote his time entirely to politics...
...The charges are freely made that this gun fight was precipitated by plotters of the underworld...
...Dogs lie down, and roosters sit on the fence...
...An investigation is under way by the civil service commission...
...After resigning on» the floor of the House and sending the resignation to Governor Dunne of Illinois, McDermott declared his intention of seeking vindication by re-election in the 4th Illinois District, which includes the Chicago stockyards...
...in 1913 it gives possibly twenty where there is competition in transportation, the rest touched only by the New Haven or its subsidiaries...
...It has been the goal of civilization down to this hour of the night, when, however vaguely and dimly, the ideal stirs the thousands in this feverish town going about their strange and various businesses, pleasures, devotions, sacrifices, sins...
...He had Mr...
...The progress of reform is not retarded by generosity and fairness...
...They are correctly used in the following sentences: lay your work aside...
...There is a very troublesome point in the use of lay, which we shall take up in our next lesson...
...Theodore Roosevelt has resigned from the editorial staff of The Out-ooJc...
...Maps accompanying the bill show the difference between transportation conditions of 1893 and 1913...
...and Car-ranza's attitude toward the granting of amnesty to the federal leaders...
...With all the complications of this vast and confusing interplay of the forces of this age, the city is inextricably bound by its awful responsibility for so much that is bad, for so much that is good, in our time...
...On July 20, Mr...
...Jones either personally or as a director unless it...
...paid an allowance of $21,230 for "storage coal," paid the O'Gara company 17 % cents more per ton for coal than it could have obtained elsewhere, was given the advantage of through rates where local rates should have been assessed and was finally rebated $60,-000...
...Jones' letter in his posses-'Sion for forty-eight hours, but hoped that the tide of sentiment in the Senate would turn...
...European War Clouds A war scare that may involve sev« eratfearopsfttt nations- broke-out last week when a crisis was precipitated in the strained relations between Austria-Hungary and Servia by an ultimatum from the dual monarchy to Servia mainly demanding the punishment of Archduke Ferdinand's assassins, and an "unsatisfactory" reply by the Servian government...
...I sometimes tell my students that dogs and roosters don't lay...
...Notice that in each case someone is asked to lay something down, to set something aside, to raise something up...
...He urged the granting 0f amnesty to the federals...
...On July 23 President Cartajal sent Dr...
...When a likely-looking district was found this representative of the truck growers would book advance orders for potatoes, and when enough were secured to insure the disposal of a carload the information was communicated to the home office and a car was promptly loaded and sent out...
...On Tuesday it was reported that the Austrian army had actually entered Servia...
...These verbs should never be used in the present tense without this something, which they are to act upon...
...News Notes —Announcement was made at the United States Treasury Department-last week that James B. Forgan, president of the First National Bank of Chicago and one of the biggest bankers of the country, had been elected as a class "A" director of Banking Group Number 2 of the central reserve district of which Chicago is the center...
...Both Democrats and Republicans hope to adjourn September 15 or earlier...
...Jones' regard for the interests of the party and the administration, the President said he would withdraw the appointment...
...When the farmers who compose the Winnsboro Truck and Fruit Growers' Association of "Winnsboro, Texas, harvested their 1912 sweet-potato crop they found, as many other growers have found before, that all the marketing centers were overstocked with potatoes, and 50 cents per bushel was...
Vol. 6 • August 1914 • No. 31
