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Show T H E C tlin )llli seal I has been tried twice, the association wrote to asked for a thorough investigation, and bureau here and , terete was the most enduring and most satisfactory, the next paving job let in this city will be such f hope tint to bid for the work. The Citizen will give te all contractors future pavements in this city and e the facts governing lacktop as T I Z E N 5 The trouble is that our politicians have so much they do not know what to do with it, and 99 and 9 10 of themoney politicians have never handled until into any money they got public office, and know the rest. you INVESTMENTS. n n WHEAT. 'ei nil in wheat in about two weeks has caused the country. It is a long way off for the ro and yet when we are reported to be at our lowest ebb and 78 iuld be ; the highest, they are beginning to tumble like ten cents drop of 50 nment throughout J tifia tin ; bowling ally. . everybody is asking what is the matter. If the came at the harvest time it could be taken as a natation, but at this time of the year it is a most unnatural con- land-inwar- d ourse (Jy of those who made millions on the rising market are now $em. Somebody is holding the sack and those who got rid of are in the clear. farmer may depend upon one thing and that is that wheat sidings yk jie at the harvest season. At that time, huge Jare invariably discovered in the daily press and everybody then the price to sell. When the bulk has been collected, The farmers should hold their wheat, just as the wool-thei- r be selling as high be-soa- hec it PAPER MARKS. s vt Ani fact qua ck y We r am of te pe te the world. In the first place she fooled all by After the war, her e to hold out so long against all nations. Sb sold bales of their paper marks to easy marks in the States. It is said or estimated that about $1,000,000,000 of hard earned money crossed the pond in exchange of the fijer marks. People thought when the readjustment came the nark would of course take its proper exchange value. That sible. Every printing press in Germany was kept busy day turning out money, and today the mark is not worth the pa- i printed on. The wiseacres in this country got stung good r. They were going to harvest thousands of dollars from marks, but instead they harvested costly experience. It was worked scheme, and as usual there were plenty of suckers in Story that swallowd hook and sinker. The surprising part of it jhat the total was not more than given. irtiany fooled Itk i COUNTY GRIEVANCE. It tfd,: ' 1 the right direction has been started by our county movement in ioners who are adverse to raising funds for state purposes say in the matter. Heretofore, money raised for of if ding by the county has been turned over to the state and all interest as far as the county is and was concerned. rorc Commissioner Burgon has hopes that a plan can be port the county will have some say as to how funds shall hep Mand where. The county commissioners will present their to to the slate road officials by a special committee. dk re. i have no de-wnere- by j higk FEDERAL PLACARD 1 ctf R Federal Prohibition bureau is going to spend $50,000, or spend Lat amount according to present plans, urging the bor: ? dry law. Some genius advertising man has no iorit JQfmhis work, and some of the boys will now reap the haroir actf r real: at il Sot !.nh re L ) a 8'.- jUncin8 U bi - ts, ' r. wool. I Whether European investments are good or bad since the World War are yet to be determined. However, rumors are. afloat which should make our people more cautious in their foreign investments. The American buusiness man who with his banker friend has been buying large issues of foreign loans for all sorts of purposes, has begun to wonder just how advantageous this business is. It cheered a lot of people with the thought that New York rather than London was to become the money center of the world. Even the report of billions of American dollars exported abroad in exchange for foreign securities was heralded as evidence of our business prosperity. Now whispers $re beginning to arise that these good American dollars which we have shipped abroad so proudly and grandly are coming back to plague us. American manufacturers and exporters doing business in foreign markets are intimating that with these transplanted American dollars European bankers and manufacturers have been refinanced to such an extent that they are able to oust us from some of our own European markets. nation being placarded to obey a certain law! from bad to worse. Now let us also have plac- thugs, murderers and all criminals. MUSCLE SHOALS. Whether it likes it or not, Congress will be obliged to pass judgment on the Muscle Shoals program at the next session. Furthermore, the desire to dodge this issue, which is admittedly prevalent in certain quarters, will be made harder by reason of the fact that to the new Congress the President will transmit a report of the special commission which is already appointed to investigate this subject in all its phases. To that commission he has named former Representative John C. McKenzie of Illinois, former Senator Nathaniel B. Dial of South Carolina, Professor Harry A. Curtis, Yale University, William McClellan, New York City, and Russell F. Bower of the Farm Bureau Federation. Muscle Shoals, to the farmers of the nation, means an opportunity for agricultural development. The Presidents attitude is that this is a particular side of the subject which deserves careful study, and support in the event of the farmers conjectures proving to be justified. For that reason he will accompany the report of the Muscle Shoals commission with a strong sustaining message calling for action and decision. MORE MONEY. France is getting ready to float another bond issue, and of course she expects the bulk of the bonds to be subscribed for in this country. People should think twice before investing in foreign securities which are hard to get rid of when cash is needed. Home securities can alelectrical power propways be relied upon. Our mining properties, erties, telephone companies, all command good prices in the market for their securities, which are rated about the same as cash. the large sums Many of our present ills today are duly traced to of rold we have sent to foreign countries and which are now uncollectable. If we cannot collect our present debts, how can any of us the future? expect to collect monies loaned today in What we need more of in this country are alienists. T hat fact has been conclusively proven in the case of Dorothy Ellingson, the old murderess who shot and killed her mother because her mother refused to allow her to go jazzing. She has been sent to a madhouse. If a normal but infraclous girl is allowed to escape the for every murderer in the country. No gallows, there is some hope matter how villianous, heinous and torturing a murder may have is with the murderer. Yes, been, there are those whose sympathy and we call ourselves civilized. 16-ye- ar ! I |