Show SM S M our washington ton f Y it weekly chat J 4 immia i it p 14 10 TRE till T TUM U N E 0 01 1 S slit U t sugar sugar burai ill rie clous gatins gr ains of mild thais tile tune tulle that will be heard in cery american household for many months to lo come but it vill nill not he be a popular one it means i that eye eveia Y citizen will N ill have to dance to the music and why nobody noboa knows at least no one in washington will admit that they know although everybody seems to think blat 1 it some blunder has been made somewhere the law continuing ill the au suar ar equalization board throughout 1930 went into effect on oil the last day of 1919 immediately afterwards government officials at the capital announced a speedy deop in alices pi ices but quickly thereafter and right in the stores of washington the retail price suddenly increased from 13 to 21 cents then came the prediction by the board that luring 1020 1920 the price over the entire country will not lie be less than 20 cen s it means that the people ot of the united states will have to cough up about a million dollars a year more for sugar than they have ever paid before during the laba rive five years each person has consumed about 90 pounds of sugar annually there are 1100 0 00 0 0 people tile the increase price is 9 cents a pound over the famine piles pi ice ot of 11 cents in 1917 costly dance music when the tune is priced at a million had the advice of the sugar board the hie majority nia jorty of members been followed last august the anthe cuban output for 1920 could have been bought tor for 6 12 1 2 cents it a pound after refining and transporting arid and allowing everyone fair profit sugar could have been sold today for 12 cents a pound OUT olt GO THE CEDAR CHESTS mm congress is coming to the belief that economy like charity sheild begin at home so it has decided to lop IOP oft off 10 ot of its annual expenses by denying cedar chests to its members but whoever knew that congressmen used cedar chests and for what well they did every time mr air congressman or mr senator desired to take a trip back home and wished to carry with himi him some or all ot of his valuable papers all he had to do was to call for or a chest made of real cedar pack his official belongings in ili it and turn it over to the express company when he arrived home there was the cedar chest waiting for him not a measly little chest either but one about half the size of an ordinary trunk but when he journeyed back to the capital city the cedar chest was left at home some congressmen from the number of trips they have made back home must have a storehouse filled with chests or perhaps they have presented them to favored constituents but no matter now hereafter their official documents will be shipped la in ordinary packing boxes tied with a rope and having convenient handles on the ends for or carrying cedar chests are to be no more arid and the U S treasury will be in yearly 0 0 THE WAR HAS INCREASED CHILD LABOR an increase la in the number ol of working children and a longer work 4 ig g day tor for children under 16 years has been the effect ot of the war on child labor as announced by figures compiled by y the department ol of labor the declaration by the supreme court that the federal child labor liw law was unconstitutional broke don the bars that prevented the employment of child labor ibor 10 bacil a great extent as now and brought forth so BO many violations ot of state labor laws in some sections it was found that 47 out of 0 55 65 factories were emp employing loing children under 12 years and in other states where the minimum age tor for bluer t as s children under that age including so 50 not 10 years old were found at work INDIANA WA WANTS TS ta THE ae LINCOLN STATUE reposing Hep somewhere in a store loom almost in the very sl shadow ot of tile ilie capitol dome boxed and wrap tied tea to prevent dirt and dust accumulating upon pon it Is the famous statue of t lincoln erected shortly after tile the close of als tl e civil war and which fiats 3 recently removed from in front of 0 the district dietrict coult building in washington its outlines were not it in harmony with the newly reconstructed court building no decision hy by officials could bo be reached 85 83 to a deper place to re erect it bill tl now w indiana comes t the rescue 1 ad I in a stirring telegram from rom its governor Eo vernor pleads that the start bhatt bet bo I 1 shipped to spencer county of state there that to of lincola LIn colas s mother rest near the gray crave that nancy hanks mother and son son may be represented thele together to gollier COLD STORAGE PIRATES EVERY THINKING person knows that cold storage were ware houses ale aie a modern necessity nece sity in order to insure a proper distribution of food and prevent enormous w wastage floru lorn decay but well informed people also know that such is not lot the principal use to which they ale aie now being placed they are by which food pirates rob and plunder the people stores aie cornered on the market hid away in tile the cold storage warehouses and allowed to remain there until a fictitious price has been created by an apparent shortage then they are dribbled out and enormous profits are made things run along smoothly for the pirates in this manner until some enterer enterprising ising newspaper noses out the facts and begins to stir up the natives then some public official comes to life lets out a few terrifying roars at nothing and goes home and takes flakes a stiff drink if i lie he can call find it lie ile has performed his sacred duty to the goats atho lie elected him lie i oared and a roar makes a big noise i prosecute prosecute the pirates 9 piffle they are prominent people and have money also votes vote often food Is kept in cold storage until it is rotten and then it is sent out for people to eat and spread disease in their ti antic niantic efforts to boost prices eggs are held in storage until they rattle in their shells like dry bones and apparently the longer they remain the higher is the price when they do break bounds we americans have a queer way ot of doing things in the present day or of enlightenment ement II if a poor devil steals a slab ot of bacon to teed feed his hungry family e call him a thief and send rend him to rot in jail but when food pirates milk tho the public ot of millions by their criminal manipulation of the cold storage warehouses we envy them in their greatness and leave them to keep right on plundering in other words we curb the little thief and give the big one a free rein some 0 of the large cities ot of this country are rotten to their cores and it if the cores were required to stand alone they would collapse ot of their own decay for it is in the cities that this wholesale piracy and plundering ot of the people finds its inception and protection some of the country districts may not be exactly sprouting wings but the systematic robber which Is de batching bau ching the country does not flourish where every man knows his neighbor the public has reached the point where it Is beginning to demand that congress take adequate measures to relieve the situation and tailing failing tills this it would be quite appropriate tor for it eo resign and go home the lid has a disagreeable habit ot of bio blowing ing ott off when the pressure F W barber great becomes become s too |