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THE DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1929. 3 uah it uADorvrn TnnAV II I J). CeL ef Looking Backward I'v tldle Thoughts I 1 INEZ BOIBEE, CITY'S SOAP Ql'EKN, THE DAILY TIMES By TILE TD1ES COatPAXY r. ADLfclt, Publisher. R.

J. LEVSEM, Managing Editor. Mtaber ol the Lee Jewipapor Syndicate Entered at the Poatofflee In Davenport, Iowa, Second Class Matter AdrerUslBi BepreaentatiTes COBS, HO EE, la. Chicago, Hew Toxk, Kansas City, Detroit GOES WEST Twenty Years Ago Today Frank Nadler, Davenport phar. macist, was killed in a train wreck at Muscatine.

Rev. J. W. Edwards of Moline) spoke at the revival services held, at the First Methodist church, Rock Island. Franlt Hefferman, 2018 avenue, Moline, engineer, was in jured in a collision of switch engines at Silvi3.

At aa early hour this morning; Inez flolbee, the little bubble girl of soap- i ilom, left for the west. Her terminus Hollywood, Calif. Before departing 1 the five a reporter for IT, who wis Mtnrnin, hnm from -hi mAtlnr. TAGLOIP5 Ars Tr-f NW-S THT TALK i 5 GOT A SWELL can be absorbed without a burden. The freight on a pair of shoes Bhipped from Boston which sells in Davenport for $5.00 is but a fraction, of its sale price.

But the charge for moving a bushel of grain from an Iowa farm to seaboard is a "very considerable part of the amount the farmer receives. Freight rates on manufactured products could be raised without imposing a hardship on the buyer, thus augmenting rail revenues. When the farmer can ship his grain to seaboard for from five to ten cents less a bushel, or receive for his crop a price from five to ten cents more a bushel because of this reduced carrying charge, he can't grumble much about a few cents more being charged for transporting the shoes or the suit of clothes he occasionally buys. CITY VS. COUNTRY Evidence anew of the clashing interests of city and rural districts is shown- in the fight at Springfield on Governor Emmerson's plan to impose a three-cent gas tax.

The country districts favor the tax and they want it applied entirely to the build I LOTS A TACK in -ok i -y her Interview ai typed at the Chafing Seap works: "Hello, everybody! Well, I am going, to Hollywood. Why? Because I want to have all Hollywood using my Chafing Soap in the Hollywood bowl. Think of this great big bowl, where a hundred thousand people gather, with everyone holding a bar of Inez Chafing Soap. I expect to sell 52,000,000 bars on this trip. Thit will give eve.

person who goes to the Hollywood bowl a bar a Ten Years Ago Today The Davenport levee commis i sion proposes to collect $15 annual week per capita and per bithlca." Our citizens were all agog when the news spread over town today Inst Davenport's lather girt had gone west. Humors flew thick and fast, but the mayor stood fearlessly for a clean-up. rental from each of the "Squatters" occupying cabins on City la-land. Dr. D.

J. McCarthy of Daven. port is reported to be on his way home from Serbia' where he was engaged in Red Cross work on hia second trip to Europe. Miss Etta Peard was elected president of the Woman's Missionary society of the Edgewood Eap-tist church, Rock Island Burglars obtained property" worth 5100 from the home of Albert Havens, 732 Thirteentii street, Moline. In the meantime, IT will keep gasping world Informed on the prog ress reported at the Inez Chafing Soap works.

Editorial Opinion ing of state highways. Representatives of the cities, which will produce most of the tax, insist that a part of the proceeds be used for city streets. The fight on the part of the cities was somewhat slow In developing but it has gained in strength until now a demand is made that at least one-third of the tax be available for city purposes. Next Wednesday, the whole situation is to be gone over thoroughly in a hearing at Springfield. The rights of city and of country in the matter of a levy on gasoline are difficult to determine.

It is true of course that the building of state highways and the improvement of city streets Is re-ciprocative. Residents of cities use the highways and rural residents use the city streets. There are, however, thousands of automobiles and trucks in the cities that seldom get beyond the municipal confines and there are hundreds owned in rural districts that seldom travel city streets. The cities contend that rural residents receive the principal benefit from paved highways and while this is admitted, cities also benefit by reason of the ease with which customers may get into them and goods may be delivered. That this is recognized is shown by the fight made fcy cities to have state highways routed through them.

Upon taking office under Gov. Emmerson, H. H. Cleaveland of Rock Island, director of public building, found the road fund to be sadly depleted. The 3-cent gas tax is necessary to complete work already contemplated.

Whether two cents will do it, in the event one cent is allotted to cities, remains to be determined. FARM TARIFF AND LIVING COST Minneapolis Journal: The York World, greatly concerned over the plight of the farm-" er when, some months ago, was the leading newspaper sup- porter of the Democratic national ticket, is apparently concerned now over the prospective plight of the consumer, after the farmer" gets such relief as federal legisla-" tion can give him. Either eliminating unwieldlv surpluses, or eliminating the tariff wall, or both, in the opinion of the World's Washington correspondent, will place the consumer "at the mercy of organized agricul-" THE SEA REMEMBERS The sea remembers! Only man forgets! The sea remembers All the glorious wealth Of snowy sail that bloomed lTpon her bosom Like soft roses white That rise and fall Upon the breasts of beauty. Remembers, too. The hulls of steel That slowly harried them Into sublime extinction.

The plodding iron drays That carry on With stolid unconcern The commerce of the world. The slinking grey hounds Of the liner lanes. Loaded with love And laughter, The insolent winged engines That hum by But Just beyond the reach Of licking wave tongues; And all the long-lost craft That smuggle in the ooze Of her abysmal depths, Triremes, galleons, clippers, Liners, tramps, A treasure house of jewels. Silver, gold. Marble of statues, Beauty born of man.

Marvel of lovely women. Beauty of Nature's own, All gone before their time; Remembering how all life Was born in her and crawled From out her sheltering womb To walk two-legged on Unlovely land; Never upon her face A sign of this! ture." I It I Jff .1 I Strong words, but silly words." conceivable plan of agricultural TIGHTEXIXG BANK SUPERVISION" .6 roll Leaaed Wire Service of the Aeaoeiated Frees Members American Hewipaper Publisher AssociaUon JANUARY CIRCULATION Daily Off HCQ average net paid (or January, 1939.... I UO Member of The Aaaoclated Frees Associated Press is exclusively entitled to, the Tor republication ell news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the iucai news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. WASHINGTON'S ADVICE The nation celebrates today the birthday of the First American.

George Washington Combined in a remarkable degree those qualities and" virtues essential to leadership in peace and in war. As a youth he was outstanding among the lusty Virginians. At the age of twenty-one he was entrusted by Governor Dinwiddie to convey to the commander of the French soldiers who had bo far invaded the hinterland of the Eritish colonies as to establish themselves near the present city of Pittsburgh, an ultimatum which was to produce sparks of war which set the world afire from Canada to Intfta. Had General Eraddock heeded Washington's advice, the first Eritish debacle of the French-English war would have been avoided. A few years later we find this young man who was the instrument by which King George's claim to the great western expanse of this continent was proclaimed to invaders of the territory, leading the colonials in a death struggle for liberty.

A test of his leadership came at Valley Forge. It remains a miracle of unselfishness, of heroism, of victory over stark misery and starvation. It was the spirit of their commander which, sustained them in this supreme trial. Eut Washington was no less a statesman than a soldier. Many of his utterances are as applicable today as in his time.

On this anniversary we may profitably give ear to his precepts, since they constitute the essense of sound Americanism. These gems of wisdom remain our heritage: "To persevere is one's duty and be silent Is the best answer to calumny." "Labor to keep alive in your heart that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." "The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter." "The very idea of the power and right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government." "All obstructions to the execution of laws, all combinations and associations, under whatsoever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract or awe the regular deliberations of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency." "Promote, then as an object of primary Importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened." "We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this land the life and truth of reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition and that every person here worships God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened age and in this land of equal liberty, it is our boast that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the law nor deprive him of the rights of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States." As a people we have a long way yet to go before we attain the ideal of political equality set forth by the nation's founder. In this day of militant lobbies seeking to work their will upon our law makers, in contravention of the liberties guaranteed under the Constitution, and of widespread disregard of laws lacking general approval, which in turn fosters the rule of violence by highly organized forces of vice and evil, we have need to heed the admonitions of the revered Kewanee Star Courier: The banking commission authorized by the last session of the Illinois legislature has introduced into the assembly and the state senate new banking legislation which, if enacted, will appreciably tighfen the state bank supervision under the Illinois banking act.

The commission headed by State Auditor Oscar Nelson carries the unqualified endorsement of the Illinois Bankers' association. The identical measures were Oratorical Flashes of Borah, Reed, On Prohibition Compare Favorably With Webster, Clay, Calhoun Jibes introduced in the senate by Senator Reynolds of Utlca and in the house by Representative Michael ituci win ever put. me American, farmer in a position to gouge the other fellow in the way that he" himself has at times been gouged by the other fellow. Any by organized agriculture would automatically and swiftly defeat itself. The chance to share in the, feast would rapidly bring marginal lands under the plow in a way that would swamp and break the markets for foodstuffs.

But if the large centers of con-f sumption for which the eastern newspaper speaks, are going to object to whatever reasonable advances in food prices may prove necessary to bring the farmer's dollars up to parity with other fellow's dollar, then theso centers of consumption would du well to pause and scrutinize price advances and the wage increases of the last 15 year3 which" have built up their own The farm relief program to Igoe of Chicago. The outstanding provisions of the new legisla er been interested in oceanic affairs, he says his forbears Connecticut people were seafaring folk. All seven women members of the next house of representatives Congresswomen Kahn, Norton, Langley, Rogers, McCormick, Pratt and Owen, are to be guests of honor at a luncheon of the League for Political Education in New York on March 7. Several of thera will make speeches. The fairer of the political species will be welcomed by men, including former Attorney General George W.

Wickersham and United States Attorney Tuttle, of New York. tion would give the state auditor more latitude in passing upon the permits of new banks; it would increase the present minimum capitalization of new banks from 525,000 to 550,000 in addition to a required paid-in-surplus of 10 per cent; it would provide that the total liabilities of any one bank client shall not exceed 25 per cent of the deposits of a bank nor half the capital stock and unimpaired surplus; it would require one-tenth of the net profits on every dividend payment to be set aside until a surplus or 20 per cent of the capital stock had been set up; and it would define "bad France Planning which the incoming administration debts" to the extent that a bank customer who owes for a loan for six months could no longer New Tourist Bait i in i'L aorvtu jjui. uilu vy- borrow from a bank. Few in Kewanee will contend that these addi tions to the banking laws are not urgently needed. eration includes both tariff revision' and whatever plan Mr Hoover may be devising to improve marketing taethods to the point where the, farmer himself will get a larger share of the price which the ulti- BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE (Exclusive Dispatch.

Copyright. 1929.) WASHINGTON. D. Feb. 22.

Prohibition has been the subject of debate in the congress of the United States for more than 10 years, but never in that long interval has it ever produced a discussion of the higher caliber of that conducted on February 18 by Senators Borah and Reed (Missouri). Had oratorical flint flashed like that in the days of Webster, Clay and Calhoun, we should probably be reading about it in our school books nowadays. The eloquent periods of the Idahoan and the Mis-sourian compare very favorably with the finest flights of language in the senate's history. The prohibition polemics stamped Borah and Reed indubitably as the master swordsmen of congress. Who is to take the Missourlan's place on the Democratic side is a question.

"Joe" Robinson of Arkansas, will come nearer doing so than anybody else. Like Borah and Reed, the Democratic minority leader never uses notes or manuscript. "Jim" Reed faces an immense and lucrative law practice and intends plunging into it without delay. Any time he wants to don the mantle of Robert G. Ingersoll and take the platform professionally, he doubtless can command his own terms.

mate consumer pays for the farm Had all these provisions been In eifect tnree or five years ago, it is doubtful whether the Savings bank of Kewanee would have failed. Had these provisions been in effect some time ago, they would have prevented other downstate banks from closing their doors. If the present legislature passes these much-needed additions to the Illinois banking act, it would be like locking the stable door after a herd of horses had been stolen in one sense, yet the door would be locked nevertheless. in the National Press club building at Fourteenth and streets. In addition, the radio and the movies will be utilized.

A special appeal will be directed to individual out-of-towners here for the inaugural show in the form of an attractive folder depicting Washington's suffrage plight It has been this observer's personal experience that the average man or woman out in the United States has only to have the situation brought to his or her attention in order to enlist enthusiastic approval of the district's cause. Are congress and the nation at large on the wrong track in planning to celebrate the bi-centenary of George Washington's birth in 1932? To Mrs Henry F. Dimock, Washington society leader, who is president of the George Washington Memorial association, has just come an animated protest from a Connecticut Yankee. He says there's no doubt that George was born in 1732, but he points out that 1933 is the proper year for the 200th anniversary of that event, because the "year 1751 lost the months of January, February and the first 24 days of March." Therefore, the objector contends, "as the year 1751 had no February, Washington could not have had a birthday in that year." The change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, Mrs Dimock's correspondent explains, is responsible for the mix-up. President Coolidge intimates pretty plainly to White House visitors that he's going to write professionally now and then, at any rate, if not regularly when he resumes private life.

PARIS. (INS France must abolish passports and identity cards if she hopes to make tourists remember "See Paris and die," according to the National economic council. In 1927 over 2,000,000 foreigners spent $400,000,000 in France but incomplete statistics for last year fall short of these figures. Estimates indicate that 44 per cent of the tourists leave $850 each in France when they depart for home, while the per capita expenditures of 28 per cent is $425. Eighteen per cent spend $1,700 and two per cent fail to do "Gay Pa-ree" and the provinces for less than $5,000.

Unless more hotels are built, and docks improved tourist experts fear that other European centers will make further inroads into the annual quota of visitors. QUILLEN'S QUIPS er crop. Such things as better machinery, lowered production costs, and the like, will add to-farm incomes without adding to food bills. The tariff part of the-program, necessarily, will add slightly to the consumer's food bills. Well, what of that? The farmer: ntributes to industry's tariff pegged prosperity every time he buys a pair of shoes a suit of clothes, or any one of Innumerable other needed commodities.

Why then, shouldn't industry contribute to the agriculture's tariff-pegged prosperity every time industry '3 wage receiver, or industry's dividend receiver buys the groceries for his table In smiling blue Or scowling gray She seems alike Indifferent to roan And gods and time. Tet still we feel The sea remembers, Only man forgets E. LESLIE SFAULDING. WANTS PLACES BIN ON LEVEL Deir D. I wish to compliment our city officials for the fine way they cleaned up our city.

most be better place to live in now. As the father of five, I know what it is to keep four out of five supplied and not miss a payment. Looking at the saloon, both from the outside and inside, it was a cinch the windows needed cleaning. I am not a young mm and so appeal to you to help me in getting an uplift movement started, namely, elevators to these second and third floor places. This town needs them or it needs a few places on the level.

I II.LEB CLASS. WHO can remember when every winter someone claimed to be the first to cross on the Ice? No one has attempted the thing this season. It must be because of the rahdlo. Speaking of the rahdlo, will someone tell me why, when an announcer says he'll sign off for a few moments for "station announcements," the "station announcement" consists of nothing more than the name of the station? Why don't "station announcements" Include a good gag or two? Instead of saying "This Is station WC broadcasting the Pickle Twisters at 1187 meters on the FOB chain," let the "station announcement" gallop thusly: "I see by Idle Thoughts that they know the Scotsman who found the needle In the haystack?" It It Was Young Lady I'd Say "Whee-linger" T. Running around this old country, we find Phoenix Ariz.

If we lived there would we be a Phoenician? A resident of Reading would be very studious, eh? A Reader? Take a jump and we land In Kalamazoo. Now, what would a resident of that place be? A Kalamazooian, a Kalamazooer? Of course, not a Kala-mazoozer. Which brings tffrnind the old classic Three circuses have merged. Now If only the three rings would. If the killer should be convicted, that would be news.

The road hog Is nobody's fool. He knows he Is safe because nobody else is fool enough to risk a smash. Few business practices are "unethical" except to those whose pocketbooks are nicked. All glory departs, and it is only a question of time until we shall read in a footnote: "Batted for Ruth in the ninth." The trouble There's already lively discussion Twenty thousand tourists Hawaii in 1928, breaking records. as to the form in which Herbert Hoover will take the oath of of fice on March 4.

He has the priv ilege under the Constitution of About either swearing or affirming the oath. When Hoover wa3 inducted Into about a dominating personality is that it never seems to work Roosevelt and Taft will be his the secretarvship of commerce on March 5, 1921. by Edward W. Lib-bey, chief clerk of the department, he signed the oath which read, Newark when you're talk ing with a rough Herbert Hoover, do solemnly swear cuv vou want to 1 (or affirm) that I will, and BY RICHARD G. MASSOCK NEW YORK Harlem has become accustomed to entertaining and women, mostly strangers, engage in promiscuous drinking and' dancing.

Because it is sub-rosa, the rent then, when Mr Libby, addressing him said, "Do you, Herbert Hoover, diversion seekers in its night clubs, solemnly swear (or affirm) that but the real revels of the negroes party presents a difficult prob- you will," the Californian answered (as Is customary) "I do." '-the rent parties are barred to lem to the authorities, iney are whites. 1 handicapped, too, by the conges- The rent party Is an orgiastic i tion of 250.000 negroes in an area development of recent years. Lit- about a half mile wide at its base" tie has been known about it out- and extending for a mile north of 125th street side of Harlem except by welfare dominate. Who ever expected to see the day when a padlock would save the money of those on the outside. Ten years ago it was more profitable to be hit by a big car, but now the bigger the car the bigger the installments and there's little left for damage claims.

Explaining Einstein's theory of limited space Is easy compared with explaining to a prominent citizen why his letter had to be left out of the paper. Americanism: Being dissatisfied with your porcelain bath tub because it Isn't pink or blue; forgetting that you once used a wash tub on the kitchen floor. Be specific. When you say "colored girl," explain whether you mean hand-colored. When they write a bill to provide for fighting material, it seems easy enough to construct sentences that don't need interpretation.

All you need do to make 525,000 a year as an author is to write one moderately successful novel and have a regular job that pays 522,000. CHANGES IN TRANSPORTATION The number of passengers cafried on American railway trains last year was the smallest since 1905. The average mileage traveled by passengers was 264, the lowest in 40 years. The decline in rail travel has been contemporaneous with the utilization of the automobile. Those who have the time for leisurely travel use the family car.

Several can travel as cheaply in it as one by rail. A large part of the passenger revenue is derived from the business man, who desires to cover his territory or fill his appointment in the shortest possible time. What will the airplane do to this source of revenue? The tri-motored plane capable of carrying from eight to twelve passengers is winning the confidence of busy executives. Within a very short time all of our cities will be connected by a dependable air service, the schedules devised to accommodate men whose time is money. William B.

Stout, addressing the southwest foreign and domestic trade conference at Kansas City, reported that orders for the ships selling from 555, 000 to $65,000 were being received three times as fast as they could be turned out by the Stout Metal Airplane Co. They are now producing three ships of this type a week and shortly expect to turn out one a day. It will be only a year or two before hundreds of them will be in use. That's going to rob the railroads of countless thousands of their best paying customers. The prosperity of the country has brought car loadings regularly above the million ton mark weekly.

The increase in freight traffic alone permits the rail carriers to maintain their present passenger service. Within a few years bargesv will be moving much precedents, if he cares to justify any literary or journalistic activities on that score. Mr Coolidge's messages reveal him as the possessor of a terse, staccato style of statement that conduces to what editors sometimes call "readability." He Is fond of short sentences. The president will be interesting on almost any subject to which he puts his pen. If he wants to start off with a bang, he couldn't do better than tell the world why he did not choose to run for reelection in 1928.

Paul W. Chapman, head of the group that has Just bought the United States and American Merchant Lines from the shipping board for $16,300,000, was born and reared far from salt water. He hails from Jersey county, Illinois, and has been identified with Chicago banking and finance since his graduation from high school In his native town in 1899. Chapman's first job was as office boy in N. W.

Harris Chicago (now Harris Trust Savings bank). He became a specialist in the purchase of municipal bonds. Since 1912 he has been Michigan. Remember the Michigander, Congestion's Effects On the surface Harlem is all gaiety. The streets swarm witttj singing, chattering, lounging folk." Stores are filled with shonpers, some of whom are buying "goffer-dust" and other charms considered potent in personal affairs.

At night jazz blares forth from tho "clubs" where the jaded rich from outside find a new thrill. But underneath this surface of -merriment, social sen-ice organ workers who have noted its effects on family life. It is unlikely that any person has ever witnessed one as a white man. Wallace Thur-man, negro writer, says in a novel. "The Blacker the Berry," that white people must pose as negroes to gain admittance.

Outsiders, however, will see a stage version in a play written by Thursman and Jourdan Rapp, and titled after the section known as the negro's haven. Perhaps Chief Justice Taft will pursue the same procedure. The point has arisen because of the president-elect's Quaker faith. Quakers never swear oaths, either in law courts or under other circumstances. They affirm.

The option as to swearing or affirming was put into the Constitution by the founding fathers because of Friends' inhibitions about swearing. James Ford Rhodes, In his "History of the United States," says of President Pierce. "When he took the oath (in 1853), he did not, as is ordinary, use the word but accepted the constitutional alternative which permitted him to affirm that he would faithfully execute the office of president." Voteless Washingtonians are going to take advantage of the presence of thousands of enfranchised izations have found conditions not so carefree and gay. Referring the Michigoose and, of course, the Michigoslings? But there's one thing that has me stumped. What about the old lady from Wheeling? What would you call her besides foolish? THE ETCETERIST.

HEAVINS. N-O! That big bldg. at Brady and 13 Is not to be a speak-easy, but a clean-up temple or something similar, PETE, the IT exclusive linntyper, offers these to the "Famous Overs" list: Ho Rotten liquor has its good points. The victim is paralyzed and can't weep on your shoulder because bis wife doesn't under Riotous rasumes This reporter first heard of rent parties three years ago from a Quakeress, a gentle woman whose disagreeable duty it is to help untangle domestic difficulties resulting from them. Their purpose, as the name implies, is to raise money when the visit of the landlord is imminent Living quarters are converted into impromptu places at the head of his own securities the migration of negroes Here front southern states and the West Indies, a negro child study committee reports: "Families whose background had been a simple, rural plan of work and life were suddenly introduced to the rigorous northern, climate and the exigencies of a metropolitan community.

Tfcs areas of residence have expanded but not rapidly enough to accom-modate the increase. The reut' have been severe overcrowds, rerjt exploitation, and serious tU organization of family life." investment company in Chicago. Recently Chapman organized the Hoboken Shore railroad, which owns and operates freight and stand him. Poverty prevents Insanity, anyway. You never hear of a poor murderer being temporarily More talk of an operation for Mussolini.

Maybe he's just contemplating changes In the cabinet. Correct this sentence: "His rich old dad will cut him off without a cent," said the chorus girl, "but I'm going to marry him anyway." tCopy right. 1929, Publishers' Syndicate). Americans in the Capital city for the inauguration and plead the cause of national representation for the District of Columbia. In general, their plans will follow the program enacted on election day last November.

Campaign headquarters will be maintained at the most prominent corner in the city the vacant Btore of pleasure for a night and tickets are sold on the street. The usual price is 25 cents. The fun, the informant said. Is neither good nor clean. It is always a Bacchanalian ppree, in terminal properties in Hoboken.

Water, gas and other public utility interests are also within the scope of his activities. Although Mr i of the bulky freight from the interior but that will "ri.E.mRE a new revue, opened this week In t. Here Is a simple joke from it: I love cornet-on-the-rob. Can you play the dill piccolo ,4 leave the railroads with merchandise freight for which thry may levy charges for handling which Chapman himself has hitherto nev- which usually a half-hundred men.