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Show to be started over again and continue in this manner, owing to progressive expenditures for improvements, betterments and extensions. Authors of the bill may have meant well, but that in no way compensates the public for the waste of money occasioned. DIAMONDS Why the high cost of diamonds in this country today? People are not purchasing diamonds like they used to one reason they are too expensive, and another reason that there are too many thieves in the country for the health of the diamond GAS INDUSTRY The gas industry is the oldest of the industries com,,. meant by public utilities but it has no hardening of the eries, says Bernard J. Mullaney, vice president, The p. Gas Light & Coke Company, Chicago. Gas has come out of the kitchen. It is taking on the a job of keeping the home fires burning, and it ranges the ways and byways for the larger tasks of commerce and im In the home, besides cooking, it does anything and eve from heating a cupful or a bathtubful of water to incim the household wastes, warming the garage, running the owners. erator, and heating the whole house, with cooling the hi The other day some diamonds were taken to a loan office to summer a possibility. In shop and factory its versatility get some money. The money lender sadly notified the owner from tempering watch springs to making brick and the that the diamonds were of an old style cut and were not worth treating operations of heavy manufacturing. much. If you purchase, the dealers want from five hundred and The output of manufactured gas in the United States more than doubled in ten years. In the same period, large up a carat; if you want to sell, well, where are you at? Diamonds are lovely gems when worn, but what good are ume demand for commercial and industrial purposes hasgi from a mere fraction of the output to nearly 30 per cent they in the vault? A few years ago gas engineers boasted of a thousand ferent uses for their product. An English engineer nowi PRONOUNCE THIS ONE that gas is used in more than 21,000 industrial processes. search and enterprise are expanding the use of gas as never Wales hold the record for long names. Pronounce it if you can, fore since the industry was born. if not, see Johnny James and he may possibly give you some There is room for more research and more enterpria help. Here it is: Llanfairpwellgwyngyllgogerycheyrndrobwellof appliances ; also room for modernization development from a missionary andysiliogogogoch. It is reported that structures. The encouraging thing is, that the industry Wales went to Russia and when returned home he was not to be its needs in these fields and is moving to supply ognizing outdone by any Russian and suggested this name, which without doubt is the longest name ever known. WRONG IN PRINCIPLE of is the FARMERS AND BANKS In New York state the proposal is made to eliminate pri insurance companies from the field of industrial casualty ii Farmers throughout the United States are going to ask ConHigh state officials and the New York State Feden bna gress some pointed questions about the Federal Farm Loan sys- of Labor favor destruction of this branch of private If compens tem. The opening gun in their campaign comes this month from Organized labor leaders in New York state: Huston Thompson, one of the original members of the Federal is to be effective as a special agency it must necessarily Trade Conmiission, wTho discusses the situation in the columns of bad as a business. A state monopoly will make it a social Farm and Fireside. cy. At present it is a competitive business run from a Give us the truth! urges Farm. and Fireside, which sums for profit. The argument of the New York gentlemen that the up Mr. Thompsons article as pointing out that the 400,000 farmh er stockholders who own the twelve federal land banks do not re- ance business is run for a profit, and, therefore, should ceive vital information to which they are entitled. stroyed and taken over by the government, could he appfo Mr. Thompsons article will be attentively read by farmers any business. How many officials of the New York State undo and probably also by politicians in all parts of the country. eration of Labor work for the love of their jobs ? They lain It is too long and too closely written to be summed up in a few edly all work for a profit, namely, a good salary. All men work for a profit. Grocery stores, clothing stores, lines, but a paragraph or two will indicate its trend : Hit Farmers who own $55,000,000 of stock in the twelve land markets and every line of business works for a profit. banks are worse off than stockholders in any other reputable en- not make a profit, it goes out of existence and employes In any laborers cannot make a profit. terprise in the United States, says Mr. Thompson. Labor unions exist because they show that they nfl .normal corporation the holder of securities automatically receives an annual financial statement which deals with that enter- profit for their members. Why should not the government take over the labor prise and no other. Farmers who hold stock in the district land banks receive no annual report without solicitation. Washington eliminate the overhead of high salaried officials, climinaj gives out a consolidated statement which would confuse any but profit of labor and furnish it at cost to the producer sumer?. an expert. Even for an expert the information is inadequate. The whole argument is wrong in theory, and repres Without the general knowledge of the farmers who foot the into bill, expenses of the Loan Board in Washington have swelled to drive of officialism to extend the hand of government more than $500,000 annually. Stockholders will not find this possible branch of private activity. Every time the govtf the P item in the report. There are 600 appraisers and examiners con- starts to furnish a service at cost, it means that ad citizen has been barred from doing business and that stantly travelling. a11111 It is fundamentally necessary, the farmers say, that the burdens have been heaped upon the taxpayer.. Nocan get vocates of state ownership of private business Land Board give full information to the public. these hard, cold facts. Statistics show that over 70 per cent of the Germans and Last year there were 22,001,23 automobiles registered11 Welshmen who come to the United States take out citizenship telephone papers and swear allegiance to Uncle Sam. On the other hand, United States, as compared with 17,500,000 fow ever p only 17 per cent of the Greeks become Americanized and only 10 telephone had a big start in this race and than per cent of the Spanish immigrants care to mix in our political that the automobile would become more numerous than p life. phone. Yet here we are 4,500,000 more motor cars d in 9 |