COMMENTS OF THE PRESS
Newspaper Comment on live
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PRICES IN THE PAST.
Dayton News.)
Somebody hus dug up an old account
hook giving prices of certain commo
dities ninety years ago—a "little coun
ter-hook" kept by a merchant who
cnaiged more of his merchandise, evi
dently, than he sold for cash. But
taut has nothing to do with the story.
Following is a list of the prices shown
to prevail:
"Eggs 4 cents a dozen; butter S
cents a pound; sugar 10 cents; pepper
Bo cents; coffee, 31 cents; tea, $1.60;
b.teon, 0 cents; whisky, 26 cents a gul
lon; wheat, 40 cents a bushel; oats 15
cents a bushel; corn, 25 cents a bushel;
muslin, 20 and 37 cents a yard; calico,
30 and 50 cents a yard; flowered wall
paper, 4 cents a yard; salt, 2 cents a
pound."
The most notable thing about the
prices then and now is the fact that
tie native products of the soil have
so greatly increased in price, while
t. e manufactured products have so
greatly been reduced. Machinery has
worked wonders In reducing the cost
nf manufactured products, and the
greater number of people to be fed
from the soil has wrought the increase
in the prices of farm produce.
SCIENCE TO MEND THE
RAVAGES OF WAR
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The Scientific American ponder
ing on the ruin and destruction
wrought by the war, finds new and
phenomenal opportunities for scienti
fic t’cx eiopr tent in the rebuilding which
mu it follow:
Whether Germany merges victori
ous, moderately defeated, or over
whelmingly crushed, the fact remains
she has taught the world a very
valuable lesson. She has taught the
world the importance of the obvious
—that if you wish to apply science to
warfare, it is even better to employ
scbntiftc men than professional poli
tic',,n? In England this has been
rcnilzed, and a board of Inventions has
been created. In America something
cf the same kind is being instituted. ,
It Is probable that after the war, En- j
gMst inventors will not take their In
ventions to Germany.
We venture to think that science
will, in a measure, come Into Its own.
We say in a measure, beoause the les- j
son is not yet completely learned. The
English parliament recently rescinded
ax of $125,000 for medical research
on t'u ground that so much money
coutfl not be diverted from strictly
vac purposes. England has up to the
present spent about $6,000,000,000 on
the war. and contemplates spending
another *5,000,000,000.
NATIONAL SOLIDARITIES.
(Kansas City Star.)
The United States need have no more
fear that the great mass of its people
v. Ill not stand together In the case of
national emergency than the European
nations had cause to fear disaffection
among their people. Before the Eu
ropean war there was no more solidar
ity in France, England and Germany
titan here.
Certainly there was no more in Great
Britain, where peace societies, Kelt
Hardies, militant suffragets, the Irish
row and labor troubles make, by com
parison, American dissensions or dif
ferences of opinion mild Indeed.
In France, Gustave Herve, Anarchist
or Syndicalist, and Jean Jauroes, of one
of the patterns of socialism, were rep
resentative of millions of Frenchmen
who regarded as monstrous the action
they are now taking part in with all
fervor.
Right after war was declared there
came out of Germany the false story
thiit 100 socialist deputies In the relch
stag had been shot by military com
mand. As a fact, those deputies and
the more than 4,000,000 workingmen
and small tradesmen they stood for
were heart and soul with practically all
other Germans for the yar. Yet the
untrue rumor reflected the divergent
I v lews that had prevailed in Germany
'until actual war melted all divergen
• .os away.
And that melting away of differences
is what war or any great national
i risis does.
U'e of tlie United States have no
need to magnify the influence of per
sons who might seek to obstruct the
way of the nation to its manifest des
jlin.v. When that destiny becomes un
mistakably manifest in the sharp light
of facts, the voices of those who ob
struct will die away or become as the]
crackling of thorns under a pot.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.
("Zim" in Cartoons Magazine.)
Noah set up an example in wisdom
land good judgment against the ele
ments by building his ark on top of
the highest hill in ills neighborhood,
although it took some courage to defy
the knockers. Follow his example when
you start out in life. Build your struc
ture above high-water mark, then you
will not have occasion to go fishing
for your chickens, every time the
creek comes up.
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LET IN THE SUNLIGHT.
(Countryside Magazine.)
We are ail too apt to shut out the I
light in our modern houses, because ;
we do not realize the wonderful vital
power of light and sunshine, but fre
quently mope in negative semidarkness.
There is a closer connection between
uie vivifying power of light and tne
life force than we may perchance
Know. Let us try the experiment and
see the effect of light and cheer in
null interiors and upon our depressed
feelings. There need not be a glare,
i he light can be regulated to suit
changing conditions of the day or ses
son. it is one of the interesting proo
lems in the adjustment of window
draperies.
MUST DO IT HERSELF. •
(New York Telegraph.)
Great Britain has been at war with !
Germany for more than a year. Dur
ing that time she Inis loudly and vo
ciferously cheered on the Russians and
French and Belgians and later the Ital
ians, and urged them to the slaughter
of the Germans. Through her agents
Great Britain has opened recruiting
offices in Canada and Australia and
other colonies and urged and begged
young men to go to Europe and fight
the Germans.
From time to time pictures have
.,,ine to this country showing war
meetings in different parts of England,
in those pictures great crowds of well
built young Britons were seen cheer'
ing and swinging their bowler hats
and shouting denunciations of the Ger
mans. The hotels and clubs of New
York swarm with young Britons. Have
they run away from the war? Do those
who sit around the gathering places
■in New York look to neighbors, allies
jand colonial relatives to reap the
j bloody harvest in Europe's battlefields?
lit would seem so.
, But Lloyd George probably has been
reading the fable of the lark and the
field of grain. Announcement comes
1 y cable from London that if the young
men of Great Britain do not volunteer
for service in the army there will be
i conscription. These men of military
jnge will be made to fight.
Great Britain will reap her field of
grain.
TOLLS DISCRIMINATION.
(Seattle P.-I.)
Gen. Gothels, in talking about the
operation of the Panama canal, calls
attention to one of the many ways in
which American laws directly discrim
inate against American ships, through
the system of tonnage measurement In
this country, as contrasted with that
of other nations, and Its effect on the
payment of tolls in the Panama canal.
He showed that of two sister ships,
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uili ut the same yard on Identically
He same lines, one operated under the
• meiicau flag, the other the British
Hags, passing through the canal the
.tnorlcan ship would pay |600 more
| olis than the British ship. The ton
i age of the two ships would be in fact
(the same, but the system of measure
" nt In this country Is different from
lhat in England, and the American
hip gets tlie worst of it.
While he wag speaking of Panama
canal lolls alone, the same dlscrlm*
j Ir.atlon against ships of our own
| country is seen in other ways. Under
our commercial treaties the United
States has bound Itself not to charge
any more tonnage taxes or tonnage dues
on foreign ships than on American ves
sels engaged in foreign trade. By tak
ing the American system of measure
ment of tonnage as the tiasls for levy
ing tonnage taxes and tonnage dues,
voile accepting the foreign system of
measurement as the basis for levying
the same kind of taxes on foreign
ships, this country actually charges the
' merlcan ship far more, every time It
i liters port, than is charged the foreign
hiii of identical size.
So it Is with pilotage ones and port
charges in different parts of the coun
ry, practically all of which are based
upon registered tonnage; the American
ship uniformly gets the worst of it in
American ports and also, incidentally
n foreign ports. The absence of any
legislative aid to American shipping is
bad enough, but we have laws, to
which congress in Its last session add
ed the worst and most onerous, which
deliberately discriminate In favor of
foreign ships and against the American,
even in the use of a gTeat waterway
which we constructed ostensibly to
■ American shipping and commence.
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