The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph, 1920-09-11

ONE OF THE BESTSELLERS More Thin Half a Million Copies of - - ***'**YV- VVDIfl ( General Robert's "Rules Of Order" Have Been Soldi Robert's "Rules "cll be classed of Order" might sellers. -a one of the best . . More than 630 000 coples had been sold at the time of Its last revision in 1015. Probably not many persons know It - 9 Probably not military man. - -- - .... wvru that its author had io printing'of the flrat 4.001 was written by a and even fewer know ppnnusrnad to pay for the Prntint'ht the r" 4,000 copleu of it, "ys the Kansas City Star Gen. Henry M. Robert of the States army, completed the text book In 1878. United debate "hen he submitted the volume to a publishing house it came back 4o him with the pages un unThe - The unThe publishers informed General Rober that they did not understand now a military -d to stand man could be expect* as an authority on parlin mentary practice. So General Robert had 4,000 copies printed at his expense and distributed them Mates. Soon the demand t great that a publishing firm over the contract for printing Mates. own in 40 WBA so i gladly I migh.hare answered the pub Ushers at the Mart that or I know, military men ail the men are the most analous for orderly ways out of strife, and care least for coma. coma.Robert - Robert coma.Robert said, s "Military sno"n.them, want trouble less than any. Soldiers do conflict," General men, as I have Iliana do it." wot make wars. Clv. maims father and brother Girl with Pistol Halt. APgumant over Furnace - Claims Self. Defense. Burlington, la. - Enraged when her father and brothers Brothers engaged In an ar over a furnace about to be in stalled their home ni- HIm Ota Ha Barr She shot her father, ... in the nick, and her brother, Robert Barr, in the chin. Both mes have j brought to a hospital in Burlington Nlta.en,!"eln,tn.thw.towwJallar Hospital authorities will probably at Dallas City. drew a pistol. George Barr men have been and Pecover. say both men A special dispatch muys that Stins Barr declares that she fired defense, charging that her father at temptu to choke her. While the fur furnace - nace furnace dispute was the immediate cause of the shooting, a disagreement the estate left by her in self selfover - over selfover real catse, she says. mother is the Aged Twins Columbus, Ind. - Mrs. Rebecca Dan forth of Elzabethtown returned from "belby vllle recently where whe visited her unle, James Rowe. She was Ae companied by another uncle. Samuel Bowe of Everton. Ind. The brothers are twins and are eighty-four years old. They are veterans of the Civil war. and nge said to he the oldest twin survivors of that conflict. The broth era' birthday is November 11,Armis tire day. She was The brother. Makes Love Like a Grizzly. Goshen, Ind. - Under a 'caption de declaring - claring declaring "This fellow is missing chanee for popularity," a Ideal puper recetitiy printed the following: a "Her physielon today refused to dl vulge the name of n Goshen young woman whose lover last night played the grizzly bear role so successfuliv that four of the girl's ribs ' broken. were, Nor roulei the mime of the muti in the rase be learned." -*eps--== -

alyze what we mean by American business we find that we mean the daily work of the nation. "And when this bungling adminis administration - tration administration now seeks to perpetuate itself in 'perfect accord' let us remember that its suspicion of business and the use of the extraordinary war power and its Socialitstic tendencies have been bullying and tinkering with the I pocketbook? c ' all the American peo peo| - | peo| Pie. "We must summon the best ebil ities of America to put America back on themain road and remove the de debris - bris debris o fthe last eight years. The day of the one-man-power form of gov government - ernment government must yield to the sound practice of the Republic. "We must repeal a mass of execu executive - tive executive orders and laws which serve only to leave American business in anxiety and darkness. We must re readjust - adjust readjust the tariff. We must readjust oru Internal taxation, especially the excess profit tax. from our national yearning to undertake and experiments which We must uproot government the enterprises were never intended as the work of government. We must give government coopera cooperation, - tion, cooperation, to business. "American business has suff'red staggering blows because of too much meddling by government, and it is equally true that good govern government - ment government has almost died on our hands because it has not utilized the first sound principles of American busi business. - ness. business. Gtom "The government has engaged in prodigal waste. It has engaged in all kinds of costly bungling experi experiments - ments experiments of government management and ownership of enterprises. American people pay. The "It has spent our money and fail* ed to do business, while the prodigal flow went on. With a return to sanity we now have another task be before - fore before us, in making the administra administrativa - tiva administrativa part of our government one in which people can take pride "Democracy has done nothing in eight years to cure waste and inef inefficiency; - ficiency; inefficiency; it has rather added to them. We are the ineffective prodigals of the world." Internal Combustion Engine. ' The Diesel engine is an* Internal combustion engine which runs on crude oil and the, lowest grades of fuel oil. It burns cheaper fuel and less of It than a gasoline engine. Its con construction - struction construction is heavier, but more simple, as It requires neither magneto nor carburetor, positive ignition and burn burning - ing burning of the fuel without explosions be being - ing being obtained from heat of great inten- i sity, generated by compression of the air between the piston and the cylin cylinder - der cylinder head and the liquid fuel being atomized and sprayed Into the heated air In the combustion chamber under great pressure. It Is claimed that the Diesel engine converts into available mechanical energy a greater percent percentage - age percentage of the power represented by the heut contained in the.fuel consumed than any other form of engine yet pro duced.

H. C. L IS NOT 6 4 . NEW PROBLEM 1,600 Years Ago Citizens of Rome Were Tormented by Same Plague. DEFIED THEM MIGHTY RULER Diocletian's Edicts Have Familiar Ring - Hla Ediets and Curses Do Doing - ing Doing No Good, Ha Advised Recort to Boycott. Rome. - Let those who can draw comfort from the fact know that il. O. I... is no newer than many, other plagues which poor humanity suffers from. In fact, the citizens of Rome. now tormented with further leaps and bounds in prices, are trying to console themselves with the discovery, made by those who read aucient books, that | this city was bothered with the iteer 1,000/years ago. I Ruler Fixed Prices. j In the feign of Dloelefan, who flourished in 300 A. D., the emperor was so disturbed by his subjects, who] suffered from the H. C, I. that he fixed the prices of foodstuffs and drew a schedule for workmen's wages. To! read his prociamation is to read the i many long-winded documents which j food controllers, mayors and other public functionaries have perpetrated] in the past three or font years. The] condentitng of the profiteer, "moved I by a zreed for profit width is out of ] all proportion to the real value of the gois he sells." and the imperlul wish I that his "Axed prices should he re- i spected throuzhout the empire, tive I giatthe ; re- i nfamiilar ring which makes hearts of historians who want to] make history popular. 1 But telor, comfort and joy do stop there. For it is enough te,read a lit little - tle little further to discover that the sood emperor's laws and curses against newly rich ami profiteers were us use useless - less useless id centuries ago as they are to today. - day. today. And. In despair, the good old Roman tyrant imptaren his "honest and patriotic subjects" to resort to! the one and only remedy, boycott of] high-prieed gopds. I With this ruler's history fresh In i their minds. the modern citizens of an- ] elent Rome are now being Informed that the following goods are to go up:' Aluminum goods, 500 per cent; j nickel, copper goods and utensils, 500 per cent; goods for household use. . such an knives, forks and spoons 500 I per cent; iron goods of all kinds, 000 ! per cent; locks and bolts, 700 per bent;: earthenware and china, from 400 to j 600 per cent. All these increases an anon - on anon present prices, which are from 3(0 to 1,000 per cunt above pre-war prices 'The Course of True Love. "(larence Spradd has had n spat with that 'ere plump (iggles girl," re inted Burt Blurt of l'etunin. "II. hought one of them there fuwhionable thin-legged suits of clothes with a belt and a pucker in the back, and ex expected - pected expected it would make him laok llk the swell young fellers .In thendvertis ing columns of the newspapers. And the (higgles. girl said he looked mor like ti comic picture Jn another purl of the wame paper. He up and told her he'd rather he hung than to marry ' " ' he'd mt her he her, and she said 'would be," - Knnsas she'd .... City Star,

SOFT CORN PREVALENT Columbus, Sept. 11. - Improvement in corn, potatoes and tobacco is noted in the monthly crop report Jointly by the state agricultural de deissued - issued deissued partment and the federal bereau of crop estimates. The hay crop is said to be heavier than was expected. Prediction Is that the apple, peach and pear crop will be larger than es estimated - timated estimated a month ago and that grapes are fairly plentiful. Oats shocks have been aamaged by rain which Interfered seriously with threshing. The percentage of soft. unmer unmerchantable - chantable unmerchantable corn will b* very high, it is claimed, if a killing frost should, come before September 2C. I I I i I I i i r 3 ISSUED Columbus, Sept. 11 - A warning against diphtheria. issued Friday by the state health department, was prompted by reports that thare are unusually virulent cases of this dis disease - ease disease in Ohio. * / . Physicians are advised to be ex extremely - tremely extremely careful in diagnesing cases of sore throat and other conditions 1 Indicative of diptherla. Strict pre precautions - cautions precautions by loeal health qfticials for controlling and .preventing spread of the disease are urged. Parents and school officials are re requested - quested requested to watch for signs of illness among children and see that children having sore throats receive examina examinations - tions examinations by physicians. Where sgar is Not For Sale. ' Sugar, aS such. it not to be pur chased in a Central African village, but the people do not need it, for they have frult alt the year round. and the children have sugar cane to suck oi the sweet stalks of the sweet maize plants to chew. / * I * Synchroneity / * oyncnroneixy Married life will peyer be a com complete - plete complete success uktil the baby and its parents get sleepy at the same time. - Boston Transcript Highway Fund Has $7,514,304. Columbus, Sept. 11. - bash on hand in the state treasury totaled $9,379,22 at the close of business on August 31, according to State Treas TreasI - I TreasI fund amounted to $690,645; sinking I urer Archer. i fund I $38,021; $9,585; The general revenue common school university $5,626; high highway - way highway $7,514,364; liquor license $47; | school and ministerial $90,108; school and ministerial rental $4,865; auto registration districts, $1,125, $1,125,966. - 966. $1,125,966. . 1 i AA! d

SUPER-CANNON WAS PATCHWORK Giant Gun Used for Long-Dis Long-Distance - tance Long-Distance Shelling of Paris No New Invention. 1 MADE FROM WORNOUT GUNS Was 122 Feet Long, Weighed 318,000 Pound and Throw Projectile Weighing 264 Pounds a Dis Distance - tance Distance of 75 Miles. I I Paris. - The super-cannon with which the Germans began shelling Paris. March 23, 1918. was just pieces of ole, womout guns put together. In Instead - stead Instead of a startling new invention, sc- I cording to American army officers, who were permitted recently by the Germans to visit some of their huge armories. It was actually just a neat bit of putchwork that startled the world | when the terrific explosions began det- ' ousting in the streets of the city of Paris, although the verdict at that time was unanimous that the Germans had ' Invented a marvelous new cannon. Naval Gun Was Foundation. I To begin on the super-cannon, the tiermans took a womout 15-inch naval | gup. 36 feet in length. It was bored j oub and a very lieu vy tube with tin in side dimmeter of 8.3 Inches was iaser* ed, with about 40 feet of it projecting ; beyond the end of the original guu. ! liver Hint n..other hoop was shrunk ' and lo.sed to the forward hoop. There | also wat a patch of 19.7 icet, i.l.h' was attached nt the muzzle of the gun. The bore of the gun was treated to a uniform rifling, the lunes and grooves which Impart a rotary motion to the projectile. The six-meter sec section - tion section of the gun at the muzzle. how however, - ever, however, was unritled, probably designed to steady the projectile and defeat its slight tendency to "tumble" or yaw ami fail to travel directly to its mark. Such "tumbling" is caused by the con conflict - flict conflict op two forces, one spinning the projectile to the right, the other send- i ing It forward. Such a force had tobe obviated us the shell had to travel up upward - ward upward 24 tulles on its arc in order to cover the horixontal distance of 75 miles. I

MUHD 7 N FUND Chicago, Sept. 11. - The Republi Republican - can Republican campaign fund for 1*20 for na national, - tional, national, state, senatorial and congres congressional - sional congressional campaigns, will total exactly $4,8*7,000 "If all the money is raised which is sought" and not the $15, $15,000,0040 - 000,0040 $15,000,0040 charged by Governor James M. Cox This summed the flat testimony given by Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the Republican national commit committee, - tee, committee, as he left the stand Friday for the second time. A campaign fund of $4,8*7,000, Upham told the senate investigators. is the "absolute maximum" aimed at by the Republican national or organization. - ganization. organization. Only a little more than one and one-quarter million of dollars had been collected to June 20. 1920, by campaign workers throughout the country for the Republican campaign fund, according to testimony read in into - to into the records of the slush-fund in investigating - vestigating investigating committee, Friday, by Fred W. Upham. On request by the committee, Up Upham - ham Upham submitted to the investigators a "minutely-detalled list" of Repub Republican - lican Republican campaign subscriptions and colections to June 20. In all states, counties and t: te districts for both the national and state funds. From January 1, 1919, to June 20, 1920, Upham testified, cash collected for the Republican fund amounted to $1,369,897.49, including funds for all state campaigns, amounting to a total of $469,455 - 18,515 contribu contributors - tors contributors made up this fund. Upham told the committee, averaging $99.13 per $9,000 contributor. $9,000, according to Upham's statistics, was the lorgest single contribution made during this period. Thirty-nine contributions, he said, totalled $108,000.

But there is such a thing as saving Economy is never economy too well. when it is carried to the last degree of parsimonlousness. s Do not starve yourself nor your fam family. - ily. family. Substitute more plentiful foods for those that are scarce; save the futs, but keep up a balanced menu; eat less, but not too little; keep a wasteless garbage pail, but above" all: - Save wisely, but not too well I - other's Magazine. Sitka Pine Comas Into Its Own. | A steamship that arrived in Seattle recently brought the first shipment of Sitka spruce from Alaska for use in making airplanes. This wood is supe superior - rior superior to any other for lightness and strength, and rods 00 feet long without u knot or blemish are easily obtained. Much of this spruce has already been shipped to Europe from British Co Columbia, - lumbia, Columbia, Oregon and Washington. Sit Sitka - ka Sitka spruce is the dominant tree of the Alaska coast region, and was for a long time regarded with contempt by lumbermen and used only for fish boxes. Now it is the hope of the Unit United - ed United States for paper pulp and airplane frames. Too Hot For Him. Arthus Feust, consulting engineer from Utah. breesed Into New York and attended a banquet at the Engineers' club. Several of the guests were the McLean Kilties of Canada. A feature of the menu was squab on toast, and one of the Scotch veterans, after asking what It was, proceeded to cover it well with tabasco sauce. He ate a couple of bites of the burn burning - ing burning liquid and then with a low cry put down his knife and fork. "Lay thaur an' bu-Pr-n," he said. Then turning to the waiter called: "Aye mon. I've had eneuch Ole's a shellin's warth o' ham this. Ie ye? An' say, laddie, bring a bucket of ice water." t . A ..

\ By George R. Holmes, Marlon Sept. 11 - Senator Warren G. Harding launched attacks on the Wilson administration along two fronts today. Addressing a delegation of nearly 500 Chicago and Indianapolis busi business - ness business men from Ma front porch this morning, he charged that a "bung "bungling - ling "bungling administration which could plot even run its own' business" has "put its hands on the throat of American business" and all but strangled it with "weird economic theories and Socialistic tendencies.* ' He pledged if elected to let legitimate business alone ano i<.n the government on a business like basis. Ina later speech to a delgatica Ct Northern Indiana and Michigan Re Republicans, - publicans, Republicans, Senator Harding asserted I that America had narrowly escapi e ou losing herMonroe Doctrine "or going to war to preserve it." He said that America was being deceived about the Monroe Doctrine Article of the League of Nations Covenant. The Covenant, he ex explained, - plained, explained, is writen in both English and French, in parallel columns. In Article XXI, dealing with the Doc Doctrine, - trine, Doctrine, Senator Harding declared that the English text said one thing and the French text another. The French version be asserted, does not guarantee the integrity of the Mon Monroe - roe Monroe Doctrine, and "in case of contro controverny - verny controverny would subordinate it almost to the point of complete abandonment." Senator Harding combined the two addresses into a "message to the business men of America"'and com compared - pared compared the entrance Into the league of nations with the signing of a busi business - ness business contract. - r*