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Show t THE RICH COUNTY NEWS RANDOLPH. UTAH WOULD EKTEflD WAR. CONTROL pos-abili- ty OF ALL FOOD That, and Provision of Penalties for Profiteering, Advocated by the President. TO FORCE In SALE OF SURPLUS Address to Congress the Chief Executive Makes Assertion That We Are Dealing With Very Critical and Difficult Matters. Washington. Addressing congress find proposing remedies to cheek the high cost of living. President Wilson declared existing laws were inadequate and itigli prices were not justified bj shortage of supplies, present or prospective, but ere created in many cases artificially and deliberately by vicious practices. He spoke practically as follows: Gentlmuen of tile Congress: I have sought this opportunity to you because it Is clearly my duty lo call your attention to the piesent cost of living and to urge upon you with all the persuasive force of which I am capable the legislative measuies which would be most effective in controlling it and bringing it down. The prices the people of this country are paying for everything that it is neiess.iry for them to use in order to lie aie not Justified by a shortage in supply, either present or prospective, and are in many lases artificially and deliberately create! hv vicious practices which ought Immediately to be checked by law. Profiteers Lawbreakers. Some of the methods by which these Pices are produced are already Illegal, some of them criminal, and those who employ them will be energetically pio-reed- against. But others have not yet been brought under the law, and should bp dealt with at once by legislation. With the increase in the prues of the necessaries of life come demands for in wages demands which are Justified if there be no other means of enabling men to live. Upon the Increase of wages there follow's close an Increase in the price of the products whose producers hae been accorded the increase not a proportionate increase, for, the manufactui er does not' content himself with that, lint an increase considerably greater than the added wage cost and for wh ill the guided wage cost is oftentimes hardly more than an excuse. The laborers who do not g t an increase In pay when they demand it are'likely to strike, and the strike only makes matters worse. It checks production; if It affects, the and railways it prevents distribution strips the markets; so that there'is presto and there is another ently nothing buy, excessive addition to prices resulting from the scarcity. Conditions Not Natural. These are facts and forces with which we have become only too familiar, but we are not Justified because of our familiarity woth them or because of any hasty and shallow conclusion that they are "natural" and inevitable, in sitting inactively by and letting them work their fatal results if there is anything that we can do to check, correct or revei se them. We must, I think, frankly admit that there is no complete immediate remedy to be had from legislation and executive action. The free processes of supply and demand will not operate of themselves, and no legislative or executive action can force them into full and natural operation until there is peace. Must Know Terms of Peace. v There can be no confidence in indusno calculable basis for credits, no try, confident buying of systematic selling, no certain prospect of employment, no no normal restoration of business, hopeful attempt at reconstruction or a proper reassembling of the dislocated elements of enterprise until peace has been established, and. so far as may be. guaranteed. Our national life has no doubt been less radically disturbed and dismembered than the national life of other peoples whom the war more directly affected, with all its terrible ravaging and destructive force, but It has been nevertheless profoundly affected and disarranged, and our industries. our credits, our productive capacity, our economic processes are inextricably Interwoven' with those of other nations and peoples most intimately of all with the nations and peoples upon whom the chief burden and confusion of the war fell and who are now most dependent upon the cooperative action of the world. Greatest in History. ' We Exports are just now shipping more goods out of our ports to foreign markets than we ever shipped before not foodstuffs merely, but stuffs and materials of every sort; but this ia no index of what our foreign sales will continue to be or of tlie effect the volume of our exports will have on supplies and prices It is impossible j et to predict how far or how long foreign purchasers will be able to find the money or the credit to pay for or suataln such purchases on auch a scale; how soon or to what extent foreign manufacturers can resume their former production, foreign farmers get their accustomed crops from their own fields; foreign mines resume their former output, foreign merchants set up again their old machinery of trade with the ends of the earth. All these things must remain uncertain until peace is established and the nations of the world have concerted the methods by which normal life and industry are to be restored. All that we shall do in the meantime to restrain profiteering aed put the life of our people upon a tolerable footing will be makeshift and provisional. There can be no settled condition here or elsewhere until the treaty of peace is out of the way and the work of liquidating the war has become the chief concern of our government and of the other governments of the world. "Europe will not. cannot recoup her ALL TAKE EXCESSIVE PROFITS Makes Federal Trade Commission Public Facts Concerning Present High Prices of Shoes. Washington. The federal trade com- which recently conducted an Investigation into the leather Industry, inquiring especially Into the prices of shoes, made public a summary of its report to congress. In its introduction to the summary the commission says: mission, S capital or put her restless, distracted peoples to work until she knows exactly where she stands fn respect t peace; and what we will do Is for her the chief question upon which her quietude of mind and confidence of purpose depends. While there Is any that the peace terms may be or changed may be held long In abeyance. or may not be enforced because of divisions of opinion among the powers associated against Germany, it is idle to look for permanent relief. Immediate Relief Measures. By wav of immediate relief, stocks of both food and clothing surplus In the hands of the government will be sold and of course sold at prices at which there is no profit And by way of a more permanent correction of prices surplus stocks in private hands will be drawn out of storage and put upon the market. Fortunately under the terms of the act the hoarding of foodstuffs can be checked and prevented, and they will be, with the greatest ereigy Foodstuffs can be drawn out of storage and sold by legal action which the department of justice wlil institute wherever necessary; but as soon as the situation is systematically dealt with It is .not likely that the courts will often have to be resorted to Much of the accumulating of stocks has no doubt been due to the sort of n which always results from uncertainty. Would Have Prices Plainly Marked. I would also recommend that It be required that all goods destined for interstate commerce should m every case where their form or package makes It possible be plainly marked with the price at which they left the hands of the producer. Such a would bear a close analogy requirement to certain proy isions of the pure food act, by which it is required that certain detailed information be given on the labels of packages of foods and drugs. And it does not seem to me that we could confine ourselves to detailed measures of this kind, if it is indeed out1 purpose to assume national control of the processes of distribution. 1 take it for granted that that is our purpose and our duty Nothing less will suffice. We need not hesitate to handle a national question in a national way. We should go beyond the measures I have suggested. We should food-contr- specu-Jatio- formulate a law requiring a federal license of all corporations engaged in interstate commerce and embodying In the license, or In the conditions under which it is to be issued, specific regulations designed to secure competitive selling and prevent unconscionable profits in tlie method of marketing. Law Would Do Much. Such a law would affoid a welcome op- d reportunity to effect other forms in the business of interstate shipment and in the methods of corporations which are engaged in it; but for the moment 1 confine my recommendations to the object immediately in hand, which is to lower the cost of living. We are dealing, gentlemen of the congress, I need hardly say, with y'ery critical and very difficult matters. We should go forward with confidence along the road we see, but we should also seek to comprehend the whole of the scene amidst which we act. There is no ground for some of the fearful forecasts I hear uttered about me, but the condition of the world is unquestionably very grave and we should face it comprehendingly. The situation of our own country is We of all fortunate. can afford to keep our heads and peoples to determine upon moderate and sensible courses of action which will insure us against the passions and distempers which are working such deep unhappiness for some of the distressed nations on the other side of the sea. But we may be involved In their distresses unless we help, and help with energy and intelligence. Disregarding the surplus stock in the hands of the government, there was a greater supply of foodstuffs in this counof this year than at the try on June same date last year. In the combined total of a number of the most important foods in dry and cold storage the excess is quite 19 per cent. And yet prices have risen. Law Department Active. The attorney general has been making a careful study of the situation as a whole and of the laws that can be applied to better it and is convinced that, under the stimulation and temptation of exceptional circumstances, combinations cf producers and combinations of traders have been formed for the control of supplies and of prices which are clearly in restraint of trade, and against these prosecutions will be promptly instituted and actively pushed which will in all likelihood have a prompt corrective effect. There is reason to believe that the prices of leather, of coal, of lumber and of textiles have been materially affected by forms of concert and among the producers and marketers of these and other universally necessary commodities which It will be possible to redress. No watchful or energetic effort will be spared to accomplish this necessary result. I trust that there will not be many cases in which prosecution will be necessary. Public action will no doubt cause many who have perhaps unwittingly adopted illegal methods to abandon them promptly and of their own mnt;-,n- . The department of commerce, the department of agriculture, the department of labor and the federal trade commission can do a great deal toward supplying the public systematically and at short intervals, with Information regarding the actual supply of particular commodities that Is in existence and available with regard to supplies which are in existence but not with regard to the methods of price fixing which are being used by dealers in certain foodstuffs end other necessities. Retailers in Part to Blame. There can be little doubt that retailers are In part sometimes in large part responsible for exorbitant prices; and It is quite practicable for the government through the agencies I have mentioned, to supply the public with full Information as to the prices at which retailers buy and as to the costs of transportation they pay In order that It may bj known just what margin of profit they are demanding Opinion and concerted action on the part of purchasers can probably do the rest. me urge, in the first place, that the present foodstuff control act should be extended both as to the period of time during which it shall remain in operation and as to the commodities to which It shall apply Its provision against hoarding should he made to apply not only to food but also to feed stuffs, to fuel, to clothing, and to many other commodities which are indisputably necessaries .of life. As it stands now it is limited In operation to much-neede- excep-tionate- ly X The federal trade commission Ims found that the high price of shoes cannot be justified by underlying economic conditions. The commission after exhaustive inquiry into the price of hides, leather and shoes. Is reporting to.congress that the larger packers control tlie hide supply and have taken excessive profits and passed increased costs to subsequent steps in manufacture and distribution : that the tanner lias taken exceptional profits; that the manufacturer of shoes has taken unusual margins, and tlie prices . the period ef the war and becomes Inoperative upon the formal proclamation of peace. But I should Judge that it was clearly within the constitutional power of the congress to make similar permanent provisions and regulations with regard to all goods destined for interstate commerce and to exclude them from Interstate shipment If the requirements of the law are not compiled with. Some such regulation is imperatively necessary It would materially add to the serviceability of the law- - for the purpose we now have in view, if It were also prescribed that all goods released from storage for interstate shipment should have plainly marked upon each package the selling or market price "at which they went into storage. By this means the purchaser would always be able to learn what profits Btood between him and the produier or the wholesale dealer. The wo! Id must pay for the appalling destruction wi ought by the great war, and we are part of the world. We must pay our slare For five yeais now the industry of all E jrope has been slack and disordered Thereoimal crops have not been produced; the normal quantity of manufactured goods has not been turned out. Not until there are the usual crops and the usual production of manufactured goods on the other side of tlie Atlantic can Euiope return to the formei conditions. and it was upon the former conditions. not the present, that our economic relations with Europe were built up. We must face the fact that unless we help Europe to get back to her normal life and production a chaos will ensue there which will inevitably be communicated to this country. For Hie present, it is manifest, we must quicken, not slacken, eur own produation U. S. Must Hold World Steady. We, and we almost alone, now hold the world steady. Upon our steadfastness and depend the affairs of nations everywhere. It is in this supreme crisis this crisis for all mankind that American must prove her mettle. In tlie presence of a world confused, distracted, she must show herself capable of sober and effective action. She saved Europe in her action by arms; she must now .save it by her action in peace. In saving Europe she will save herself, as she did upon the battlefields of the war. The calmness and capacity with which she deals with and masters' the problems of peace will be the final test and proof ot her place among the peoples of the world. And, if only in our own interest, we must help the people overseas. Europe Is our biggest customer. We must keep her going or thousands o our shops and scores of our mines must close. There is nonsuch thing as letting her go to ruin without ourselves sharing in the disaster. In such circumstances, face to face with such tests, passion must be discarded. Passion and a disregard for the rights of others have no place in the counsels of a free people. We need light, not heat. In these solemn timeB of and saving action. Everyone who is In real touch with the silent masses of our great people knows that the old strong fiber and steady are still there, firm against violence or any distempered action that would throw their affairs into confusion. I am serenely confident that they will readily find themselves, no matter what the circumstances, and that they will address themselves to the tasks of peace with the same devotion and the same stalwart preference for what Is right that they displayed to the admiration of the whole world in the midst of war. Sinister Influences at Work. And I enter another confident hope. I have spoken today chiefly of measures of imperative regulation and legal compulsion, of prosecutions and the sharp correction of selfish processes; and these no doubt are necessary. But there are other forces that we may count on besides those resident in the department of justice. We have Just fully awakened to what has been going on and to the influences, many of them very selfish and sinister, that have been producing high prices and imposing an intolerable' burden on the mass of our people. To have brought it ail into the open will accomplish the greater part of the result we seek. I appeal with entire confidence to our producers, our middlemen and our merchants to deal fairly, with the people. It is their opportunity to show that they comprehend, that they In tend to act justly, and that they have ol the public interest sincerely at heart. Labor Must. Consider. I believe, too, that the more ex treme leaders of organized labor will presently yield to a sober second thought, and like the great mass of their associates, think and act like true Americans. They will see that strikes undertaken at this critical time are certain to make matters worse, not better worse for them and for everybody else. The worst thing, the most fatal thing that can be done now is to stop or interrupt production, or to Interfere with the distribution of goods by the railways and the shipping of the country. There are many things that ought to be corrected in the relations between capital and labor, in respect of wages and conditions of labor aqd other things even more and I, for one, am ready to go Into conference about these matter with any group of my fellow countrymen who know what they are talking about and are willing to remedy existing conditions by frank counsel rather ttan by violent contest. General Interest First. No remedy is possible while men are in a temper.' and there can be no settlement which does not have as its motive and standard the general In- terest. Must All Work Together. Threats and undue insistence upon the interest of a single class, make setI believe, as I tlement impossible have hitherto had occasion to say to the congress, that the industry and life of our people and of the world will suffer irreparable damage If employers and workmen are to go on In a perpet- as antagonists ual contest, They must, on one plan or another, be effecHave we not steadtively associated. and business iness and sense enough to work out that result? In the meantime now and in the days of readjustment and recuperation that are ahead of us let us resort more and more lo frank and intimate counsel and make ourselves a great and triumphal nation, making a united force in the life of the It will not then have looked to world us for leadership in vain ourselves charged by tlie retailer are not justifiable, each factor in the industry adding to tlie hurden he laid to bear before he passed it on to ihe next. Means for reducing iha present high prices are recommended hj the commission in lids paragraph: Some relief from (lie intolerable prices paid by consumers for shoes may he had by (1) a rigid enforcement of the laws against monopolistic control of commodities, (2) legislation forbidding producers of hides engag ing in the fanning business. we have after twe years when we I quit Roxbury and came here? We had 1140, didnt we? Weve been here four months, and how much have we got? Weve got $480 of new money, that's what weve got. And its dene Id money, Billy, honestly earned. rather have that than a million that' was grafted. Were not getting along so badly. Maybe somebody else is By WILL T. AMES getting 9 whole lot more that doesnt deserve It half as much. But I guess these things will be straightened out (Copyright, 1919, by the McClure Syndicate.) if fellows like you dont go looney and A ferry boat load of the shipyard spoil everything. Anyhow, you never had so much money ahead in your Itfo, men piled over the wharf, across 'the railroad tracks and onto tlie Billy Noxon. and I know it. CONSTRUCT, ION QF GOOD ROAR Now, whos - tlie head devil over main thoroughfare of the town, at the this In alt there the at up foot of which lay the makeshift slip. getting yard Concrete Highway lx Composed oli d They were roughly ctad and grimy and I. W. W. sentiment? Is it a Mixture of Sand, Stone, Portland' Saunderson? call fellow they of them, strong, and, many Cement and Water. Well, Saundersons the smartest, There had been a crap game on the most independent man In th.e yard, tf The concrete road Is composed of boat coming over and it Jmd not gone thats wliat you mean, and not afraid disten his mind. fellows to The carefully proportioned mixture ol speak smoothly. Three of the men among the d sand, pebthousand showed the marks of It, for to him because hes there with the clean, hard, or broken stone, Portland cement bles goods. still more or and were less bloody they and water. This mixture IS laid upon I thought so. I sat heliin i him and white with anger. . a street ear the subgrade to a depth of 7 Inches' The three, each with a friend or two, some other anarchists 'in when he ought tc have been or more for the entire width of the ' stopped at the saloon at the foot of the yesterday, I know wha he thinks. at and road, and soon hardens into a mass work, street to wash off the stains of the as hard as rock. The materials are I heard li!in tell the mim with him row. The rest of the workers paid no boorzhwa bonded together by the cement so firmtime tlie was about it that heed but hurried on homeward. There everyfrom was that It is Impossible for traffic to monopolizing ly kept What was little laughter or joking. most beautiful loosen or separate the particles. For conversation there was among them thing, Including the reason no expensive maintenance was unsmiling and it was plain to be and desirable wives thats exactly this Noxon! is what he said, Billy required. seen that the yeast of discontent was The foundation or subgrade is comWell, responded Billy, rather at work. lie meant that a working where the concrete is to be pacted doubtfully, At the street corner two blocks from man cant compete with a rich one. laid and the roadbed is drained so the wharf a girl stood by the curb, for a girl, when he cant send her that no water will remain under the watching the passing throng and look- flowers and give her buzz-ca- r rides and slab, writes A. L. Pettlbone In Dakota ing for some one. By and by she such ' Farmer.' Upon the foundation conthings. , caught sight of a tail, touglily fashHe meant crete is laid in one or two courses. Billy, youre a simp. ioned young fellow with thick hair that e because he said so that the women A concrete road consists of ' sunlooked flaxen by contrast with his to .be nationalized. Understand a relatively rich concrete mixture ought burned skin. that? - Made the property of the men throughout. A road conHe spied the girl at the same inequally, like the food and the clothes sists of a somewhat leaner mixture for comstant, said a brief word to the and the houses and automobiles! He a base with a ifjher top or wearing panions of the moment, and stopped said it was too early to spring that course, applied before the concrete in beside her, automatically reaching out idea but it would surely come. yet, base has begun to harden. Frethe for the bundles she carried. Billy tried to say something, but the in the form of The girls eyes were shining. What little wife kept on. Billy, J didnt tell quently wire fabric or steel rods is embedded know,-Billya found do you I place! you before, but twice that black devil in the concrete. This assists to an apartment. Mrs. has tried to pick- me up on the street. vent cracks in the slab and aidspre-in Elis heard about a couple that are goYesterday when he got up to leave the keeping cracks which may form from ing out of town somebody she knows. car he grinned at me and winked, and to any appreciable extent. Shes a good old thing, after all, Billy, he said out of the corner of hts mouth opening The high wearing quality of the conand she went right down there and got as he passed : 'Pretty peach ! Billy crete road results from using properly them to keep still about it till we could Noxon, do you want me nationalized graded, clean, hard sand and pebbles get a chance at the place. for Saunderson? Are you for the bol- or crushed rock. These must be comIve been down today and engaged sheviks or for me? bined with Portland cement In careit. Its an old house, Billy, but theres, Billy Noxon found Saunderson in the measured proportions; mixed with three rooms and a hath and only one yard next day, and hammered him for fully d a batch mixer to proown other family, the folks that It; five minutes. He told him thnt hed duce a stiff plastic consistency, then they live downstairs. I guess they're lick him every time he saw him. placed upon the foundation and struck now dollars. two or rent is three the Saunderson agitatWherefore, boosting off with a template or strike board, But we should worry with your pay. ing elsewhere, and there hasnt been so shaped that the surface of the paveIts our lucky day, isnt it, Billy? any strike n the yard. Maybe everyment will have the desired crown. AfBut Billy Noxon didnt respond to the thing is not exactly as it should he ter rolling with a light metal roller happy mood of his young wife nearly as between labor and capital, but as to the concrete 'and remove compact as she had anticipated. While Elsie between Billy and Elsie, bolshevism excess water used In mixing, the conlook-in- . exa him she had in there hasnt for wait lay crete is finished by seesawing a secpected that he would throw up his tion of rubber or canvas belting along Places to live to PARAVANE PROVED ITS WORTH hat and shout. like house and live regular keep really civilized people were simply unobtainable In the town. The Noxons had No Vessel Protected by That Contrivance le Known to Have Been been light housekeeping' in a single Sunk by Mines. room for four months, like hundreds of others. The oddity of ttie word paravane, Dont know as theres any use in It now reaches the general public, as the about It, Chick, boy finally fussing Were likely to, have shows how well an important secret replied soberly. was kept during the historic years to get to blazes out of this mans town 1917-1During those years the innow. sore, The time any gangs pretty vention, perfected at Portsmouth, and theyre likely to tie a can, any time at all, to the bunch of grafters that England, was added to some 4,000 are running the tea kettle factory over British vessels, and no case is known in which a ship thus protected was the river. damaged by a sunken mine. Towed What-dyou mean, Billy Noxon under w ater on both sides of the bow, a strike? Its a heap sigtit more than just the paravane, shaped like a kite, met the mooring wire of the sunken mine An Improved Highway in West. one strike when the blowoff comes. The working man has been carrying deflected tlie hidden menace to a safe the tar end of the' stick about as long distance front the ship, severed itf the pavement, leaving a true, even, as hes going to In this country. mooring, and left it free to come to gritty, dense surface. When sufficientHeres you and me living like a couple the surface where it could be exploded ly. hardened to prevent pitting or of bums in a coop of a room and me by gun fire. Seamen naturally enough marking, the surface Is sprinkled with then covered with 2 inches or sweating "my hide off over there on soon came to speak of the paravanes water, those hulls and a lot of loafers that as otters, and they enabled many a more of moist sand or earth, which is kept wet by sprinkling for from ten , dont hit a ship a lick from the time vessel to travel safely through waters. Several hundred days to two weeks to prevent the conshes doped out till shes overboard, and havent even got a dollar of their American thus crete from drying out too rapidly. Unships had been der no circumstances should a conown money in the plant, pulling down equipped at the signing of the armiuse until It Is 14 millions. stice, and it is a pleasing thought that crete road be put in In cool weather a longer ' old and days their saved in and hostilities about of the cessation dressing palaces Living furs and $10,000,000 which the United States time is necessary. This is a brief sumwives in thousand-dolla- r meant to spend In providing paravanes mary of the' essentials of the construcswelling around in limousines and playtion of a concrete road. Vre play on a rivet gun while for American shipping. ing golf ! the All from stolen and all off us GOOD ROADS ARE PROFITABLE working man and his family ! And Would Return the Favor. then, when we hit them for a lousy dolSome years ago there was a Fourth lar a day raise, to help pay for the of July celebration at a town lit north- Authorities Should Act to Meet Growing Demands Before Trade profiteering prices on tlie grub we eat. ern New York, where my father was Goes Other Ways. they give us the hoot ! pastor of a church. During the day Elsie was looking very steadily and several out of town couples came to Good roads are a paying investment. studiously at her big husband. Well? the parsonage to be married, and one Local authorities in cities, towns and she said, as he ran out of breath. husky bridegroom as soon as the knot counties should act without delay to Well, Billy resumed, its about all was' tied, asked ; What are the damover, sis. Theres going to be some-liin- g ages? Father replied that he made meet the- growing national, and local 1 demands before trade goes in other and thnt quick. right doing, no particular charge for marrying peoluonos its worth while for us to ple, but left the amount to the gener- directions. It is almost impossible to get back the lost advantage after othThank-you- , hange from one room to three. May-'i- e osity of the groom. d er districts have won it well be In the middle of a said the young man, Ill do as much shindy In a week or two and for you sometime, and walked out. BY WEATHER 'ither have some kind of a decent leaving us all convulsed with laughter; NOT AFFECTED x hare In things or nothing at all. but when they reached the street the The bride Deaths better than slavery." Heat er and Cold, no would farther until Freezing Thawing go hoy stared goomtly at a passing tourDees Not Injure Concrete Once hubby came back and handed the car. ing It le Hardened. minister a $2 bill. Exchange. The girl was about an incli above five feet her husband about an Inch Concrete roads are not affected by Size ef Ocean Waves. above six. Her eyes had been growOr cold nor by freezing or thaw- -' heat The size of the Atlantic ocean waves when it is once hardened. Other ing bigger and b'gger as she listened ing to his dour speech. Now she seized has- beeit carefully measured for the materials tracked upon concrete have hydrographic bureau, Washington. In no effect upon !L Heat does not soften him by the arm and said: Billy Noxheight the waves usually average about the binder permitting it to flow; cold home with come me, straight. on, you And dont yon speak or even 30 feet, but In tough weather they does not make it brittle, causing it to think a word till I tell you to j The attain from 40 to 48 feet. During chip. somber face of th hoy thawed 'uto a storms they are often from 500 to COO sheepish grin as he permitted W nisei f feet long and last ten to eleven sec Proper Grade of Road. to be marshaled along six city Mocks onds, while the longest one yet known The grade of the road is important, to the place where they lived In Mrs. measured half a mile, and did not for on this depends the weight of the spend itself for 23 seconds. Ells furnished second floor back. load which can be hauled economNot until they were in their loom, ically.' Quest ef Novelty. with the door closed behind them did 1 demust a motorcar have she Now, Elsie speak again. Henry, Improvement in Texas. dared taking the bundles from Mlly that is unlike anybody elses. Texas this year will spend a total of I dont see how we are going to arand putting them on the table, Ive $76,216,000' on Improved highways, ac- - 8 ' got something, to say to you, you big range that, my dear. Most 'of the cording to figures compiled by the Youve been listening to those available models seem to be in use. state highway department. boob! You sit However,, we might persuade a manulamed bolsheviks again! facturer to build a car to order shaped lown there and answer me a couple Building Roads la Important. f questions;" and she pushed her like a bee hive; and you could buzz The building of good roads is of the morris around in that. msbatid into the llmpy-Iegge- d Birmingham greatest importance to a community. I First How much money did hair. Elsie Takes Command Nowo-psp- pell-me- ll black-muzzle- hard-lookin- well-grade- two-cour- ? honest-to-goodne- power-operate- o mine-infested- hard-lolle- , |
