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Show THE 6 C T IZEN that before the final settlement is made, if there ever h a INSURANCE PROBLEMS Wliat use is insurance if the underwriters decline to pay settlement, that England will graciously deduct the afor, losses? This question was brought before Congress recently by amount from our bill. the Near East Relief, which filed its annual reports and accountThose English financiers certainly know how to gt ing with the Senate and House of Representatives, in accord- cards, but then this is a young nation and we have lots to ance with the provisions of its national charter. The insurance and experience is invariably purchased at an excessive problem was presented to Congress by Cleveland E. Dodge, copA BANK VICTORY per millionaire and philanthropist, in his report as treasurer of the relief organization. The amendments to the national banking laws pag$ Our relief activities have been unexpectedly curtailed during the past year, said Mr. Dodge, by the fact that sup- Congress will permit national banks to absorb some of the plies worth $412,000 were destroyed in a fire which consumed banks and to establish and operate branch banks. Some0 the Near East Relief warehouse at Piraeus, Greece, in July, pessimists in the national capital say that branch banks vi 1925. The cause of the fire has never been determined, but the come as common as Woolworth stores. organization was protected by insurance with an American a PLENTY OF OIL company, which has so far refused to adjust the loss, formally iiu denying liability on the ground of improper storage of medical 0 official An statement shows from in warehouse. that the Washington pn supplies tion of petroleum in the United States reached its peak in The Gulf coast area, the Appalachian section and the THE PEOPLE WIN mountains all registered gains in shooting the greasy sing The Supreme Court of the United States lias declared void the market. the Doheny oil leases, and the highest court in the land finds that There is a total bonded indebtedness of $40,012,436 ini Doheny and Fall conspired to defraud the Government. Doheny s $12,000,000 expenditures are lost to him and only an which some day the people must pay. The large sums oft action of Congress could reimburse him. Congress will never est paid upon this amount is one of the big items in our give anyone any part of $12,000,000 in the face of such a de- high taxation. Let us put our shoulder to the wheel and get rid of thii cision as that handed down by the Supreme Court. The Doheny punishment is imposed in large round sums. Recently Doheny and fall were tried in the criminal courts in Washington in Four men riding in an automobile forced a driver connection with the $100,000 bribery of the latter while he was curb and then used him for a punching bag. The attackers i Secretary of Interior. Both were acquitted. The proceedings be taken down to the juvenile court for a reprimand. Ak demonstrate the difference between a Washington jury and a driver should carry a gat for his own protection. About a year on the rockpile for such ruffians migi Washington Court. Way back in 1876 Jerry Black told a constitutional convention: Justice travels with leaden heels, but some good. strikes with an iron hand. Senator Auerbach gave a banquet dinner at the Hetoll WATTS PROMOTED in honor of his pal legislators and it sure was a merry crovd gathered there. One thing was noticeable, the Senator lit Have you seen L. R. Red Watts lately? Probably not. the prominent ones at the dinner, excepting the ward It He walks upright and straight ahead, looking neither to the whom he will hail later on. right or to the left. He imports his hats now, the local stuff is The Philadelphia Law association denounces the entirely too small and inconvenient. Oh, yes ; he has been made narcotic agent for the Utah divi- Volstead Act in most emphatic terms and charges that the; sion. The government says Watts is a veiy capable fellow. We ent law is an abridgement of our personal rights and life and that it does not bring about temperance. told vou so. , pi; It pfi loo WHAT MAKES MAN Education, like a slioesliine, puts a polish upon mankind, but it does not really make the man. Henry Ford only had a common school education he could read and write. However, he was a good machinist by trade, yet by his marvelous vision and organization work has produced results unequalled by any known in the history of the world. Solomon, with all his wisYandom, could not hold his nation together, but this marvelous kee has the tact to organize and standardize industry so as to make himself the richest man in the world, and all this in but a few years. The governor of Wyoming cut off over $400,000 ft state budget when the bill was presented to him. lie etf prived himself of a state automobile. Senator C. R. Hollingsworth tried to make a redueft taxation. Senator Booth of this city supported Ilolling but the two proved an easy mark for the rest of the gang- President Coolidge talked to President von Ilinde over the new cable between Germany and the United StJ was not so long ago when the two nations were speaking the mouths of big cannons. fast. Aft; The Moslems are holding a thirty-da- y religious rites are obeyed, the other extreme is indulge. You have heard of the fellow who backed the wrong horse eating and drinking becomes the order of the day, prob1 and then hollered because he lost and wanted his money back get even with the fasting. That is the position of England today. During the Civil civil to North the under South will be the now backed Prohibition against agents placed capitalists War, English the extent of some $75,000,000. and now England has hinted that because of a recent civil service measure signed by some adjustment on this debt should be made. Coolidge. j drinking" billions to wets of from the the service cure Civil because at sack the We arc holding ought present Amendment eo is the a We but said The $75,000,000 Eighteenth bootlegging. this owes paltry thought country. England sum as compared with the World War debt, and there is no doubt all the necessary dynamite to make the country dry. 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