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PURE FOOD WINS OUT.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley's word is law in
the enforcement of the pure food act.
An arrangement to this end was made
between Secretary Wilson of the Depart,
ment of Agriculture and Dr. Wiley. The
board of food inspection, which friends
of Dr. Wiley said prevented an effective
enforcement of the pure food law was
wiped out so far as its personnel was
concerned. George B. McCabe, solicitor
of the department, was relieved from
further service on the board. Dr. F. L.
Dunlap, the associate chemist, who ac.
cording to the Wiley adherents, sought
the downfall of Dr. Wiley, got a leave of
absence. With McCabe and Dunlap
eliminated from consideration Dr. Wiley
remained the only member of the pure
food inspection board. Thereupon a new
inspection hoard was appointed, composed
of Dr. Wiley and R. F. Doolittle,
chief of the bureau of chemistry laboratory
fn New York city. Until Congress
adopts another statute creating a new
agency to enforce the act the decisions of
Messrs. Wiley and Doolittle will govern
in the matter of enforcement of the pure
food act. The decisions of the Wiley.
Doolittle board of course will be subject
to tbe approval bv tbe secretary of agriculture.
However it is tbe understanding
tbat Secretary Wilson will follow to the
letter recommendations made to him by
Messrs. Wilev and Doolittle. Mr. Doo.
little 1s said to be in accord with Dr.
Wiley's views. Tt. will thus be seen tbat
temporarily Dr. Wiley is made absolute
chief of tbe bureau of chemistry, with
no one over him in fact.
TEXAS HAS A DREAM.
Urging steps to secur? the Immediate
investment of $10,000,000,000 for development
of the state's resources A. T.
Cleveland, president of the Commercial
Secretaries and Business Men's Association
of Texas made his report at
the opening of the seventih annual meeting
of the organization, at Dallas.
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tions of farm life, improvement of public
highways, extension of rural telephones,
rural free delivery and better methods
of cultivation.
"The organization has promoted a
movement for patronizing home Indus- 1
tries as a means of building up our
manufacturing industry," said Mr. Cleveland.
"Our farmers ship to foreign factories
11,200,000 worth of raw material
per day and a large per cent of the finished
product is returned and consumed
by our citizens. We need a billion dollars
to invest in manufacturing to afford
the Texas farmer a home market
for his products. We raise one-fifth of
the cotton supply of the world; coal In
abundance lies beneath our surface, railroads
and steamship lines open up to
us the markets of the world and we
have $279,000,000 on deposit in our
banks, yet the bulk of our cotton goes
to European factories, while our resources
lie idle.
"The continual development of Texas t
makes it imperative that more railroads
should be built, and the association has j
constantly sought to keep before the
public the need of additional transportation
facilities. To bring our agricultural
area within reach of the markets will l
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require UV,UW limes UI Idiii utiu. i tie
opening of the Panama canal will demand
an immediate Increase In facilities
if we are to hold our place In progress. }
"The tranaportatlon facilities of a ]
country are the best Index to Its prog. ,
ress, and as transportation by water is j
cheaper than either railroads or public <
highways, the subject of waterways is t
of paramount importance to the bus!- ,
ness Interests of the State. The associa- 1
tjon has constantly urged the improve t
THE PEESBYTEK1
<f Currer,
ment of our rivers and harbors and the
deepening of our ports. We have 400
miles of gulf coast and 2,000 miles of
rivers that arc influenced by tide water,
and many of our rivers can be easily
made navicable for 1.000 mil?R inland "
NORFOLK, THE PORTAL CITY.
Built by the Virginian Railway at a
cost of $2,000,000 one of the largest and
best equipped coal piers in the world
has transformed Sewell's point, a few
years ago a sandy beaoh, into one of the
busiest spots of the lower harbor and
made Norfolk one of the largest coal
ports in the world. Steamships on their
way to and from south Atlantic and gulf
ports call in at Norfolk on their way
by for bunker coal. The big government
colliers, loading from 6,000 to 12,000
tons of coal to a ship, get their cargoes
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ships of the several fleets and for the
Canal Zone, Hawaii and the Philippines.
It is here tihat the big steamers
and schooners load coal for New England
ports. It is no uncommon sight to
see the lower harbor around the coal
piers crowded with vessels and barges
waiting their turn to he docked at the
coal piers to receive their burdens of
soft coal to he carried bv them to the
norts of the world. Built out from the
shore line into the water a distance of
1.860 feet?one third of a mile?until it
touches the deepwater of tJhe main harbor
channel, the Virginian Railway pier
is of concrete and steel construction, the
steel work of the pier resting on heavy
concrete foundations, of which there are
42 in numbbr, and the pier is 65 feet
wide. 69 feet high at the out-shore end
and 76 feet high at the shore end. For
quick handling of th coal and prompt de
inerj service xo vessels every laoorsavlng
device and mechanical arrange,
ment of worth has been installed.
BANKERS WANT A SLICE.
Twenty-six thousand bankers of the
United States, members of the American
Uankes' Association, will go into the
money order business in the near future
and bid for the $750,000,000 of business
that the government now handles anlually.
Twenty-six thousand letters, advising
bankers of the new money order
plan, copies of an original dictated in
New York by the money order committee
of the Association were mailed
from New York detailing the plan. At
past conventions of the Bankers' Association
the subject was discussed and
the money order committee came into
existence with power to act for the As
sociation. Mr. Chapman, chairman of
the committee, returned from New York
city and said the committee had completed
plans for both foreign and domestic
orders.
SENATORSHIP COMES HIGH.
Much of the necessity for expending
an amount as great as $107,793 to get
;he nomination for Mr. Stephenson at the
primaries in 1908 was declared by witnesses
before the Senate committee investigating
his election to the Senate,
to be due to opposition exerted by
Senator T.a Pollette's followers. To organize
each of the 2,200 precincts In the
3tate it was necessary to spend money
liberally, they said. Rodney Saekett,
who Is a clerk jn the United States Sen
*W? v^wvjmuvi 11V nvincu III U1D OTIIWOUtee
headquarters and bad the handling
sf about $98,000. He spent money In
paying salaries and traveling expenses
>f workers who were sent over the State
:o boom Stephenson's candidacy. He kept
i card index record of the expenditures,
jut after the campaign he destroyed
hem. "A man has to be ready to spend
A N OF TB ? SOOTH
it Events
$200,000 to get the senatorial nomination
in this state. Isn't that so?" asked
Senator Sutherland. "Well, if he hasn't
got the money he'd better keep out of
politics," responded the witness. It
was pointed out that in some counties
Senator Stephenson spent an amount
equal to $5 a vote.
GASOLENE YERSUS HORSEFLESH.
Much has been said and written about
the economy of motors for transporting
local freight as compared with horse
power. The weight of authority is coming
to favor the modern innovation as in.
stanced by the following from a writer
in Leslie's Weekly: Speaking of the
money saving through the substitution
of the motor truck for the horse-drawn
variety, an interesting item comes from
the Chicago Public Library. Six one-ton
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distributing of books. These trucks
have been in use several years and have
averaged thirty-five miles a day. The
depreciation has been figured as twentyfive
per cent, giving each car a life of
four years. The cost for maintenance
and operation is $10,846 a year, or about
six dollars a working day per truck.
Ten horses and five extra drivers were
required previously for the work, allow_
ing twenty miles a day as the horse's
capacity the year round. The saving
alone amounted to about $2,500 a year,
besides doing away with the necessary
reserve horses and keep cost. This is
one of the most positive pieces of evidence
yet adduced that the merchant or
manufacturer who sticks to the horse
truck is not only lacking In progression,
but is losing money.
COTTON CORNERS ILLEGAL.
The legal contest before the United
States Suprefe Court over the question
of whether a corner of the cotton market
is a violation of the Sherman antitrnof
low ?v
1,1 um inn ueguu wnen sojicttor-Gen.
eral Lehmann filed a brief on Wednesday
contending that the law so applies. The
point arose from the appeal of the
government from the action of the New
York federal court in quashing certain
counts of an indictment against James
A. Patton, Eugene G. Scales, Frank B.
Hayne and William P. Brown.
DAME EUBOPA IIAS HER LITTLE
WORRIES.
News, gathered from all parts of the
world, tells of Socialist uprisings, food
riots, general strikes, wars or preparations
for war in every important country
In Europe, with the minor exceptions of
Holland, Sweden and Switzerland a
careful analysis of the situation in each
of the countries which are now taking
part of a general movement of unrest,
such ae Europe has not before ex.
perienced In the present generation, re.
veals the fact that In every case Socialist
agitation or a revolt against the fast
Increasing cost of living is at the bottom
of the disturbance. Everywhere there is
evidence that workingmen are becoming
convinced they are not getting their fair
share of the wealth which they produce,
and for the first time they are applying
the principle of a general strike which
has so long been preached by Socialist
agitators. Rising bank rates and declining
government securities show the seriousness
with which the sltuai'on is re.
garded in financial quarters. British
consols, which have been gradually falling
off for months, establish a new
record of 776 and a fraction. French,
German and other continental govern,
ment securities tell the same story. The
most critical condition of the present
movement undoubtedly exists in Spain.
Deapite the temporarily soothing reports
[October 11, 1911
that AI'P hpincr annt /\t?nf i
-v-s auul VIOl UCllDUltiU WirBB
there is every evidence that the revolutionaries
have strong hopes of overthrowing
the monarchy. "While the
Spanish uprising has been fostered for
months by Socialists and revolutionists,
they would not have adhieved their
present success had it not been for the
general dissatisfaction due to the war
upon which the government has embarked
in Morocco.
SUFFRAGETTES MAKE THEM
NERVOUS.
One hundred and twenty-four members
of the House of Commons have
signed the following letter which was
sent by Sir Frederick Canbury to the
prime minister: "We the undersigned
members of the House of Commons hav?
sire to approach you with the earnest
request that tihe government may take
steps to ascertain the views of the
people before there is any Imminent
danger of the women's enfranchise,
ment bill being passed into law. The
great change proposed in this measure
has never been considered, much less
approved, by the electors, and we sub.
mit that it would be in the highest degree
unconstitutional to further the
passage of this bill Into law until the
principle of the change has been referred
to the people and accepted by
them. We desire to point out that the
anxiety of the suffragists to obtain further
facilities for their bill is clearly due
to the fact that they are afraid of the
people and desire to use the machinery
of the Parliament act in order to carry
women's suffrage without reference to
tihe electors, fiontendln? as we do
that the great majority of both men and
women in the United Kingdom are opposed
to women's suffrage, a contention
in support of which a large quantity of
evidence baB already been submitted to
the House and the country, we confidently
appeal to the government not to
commit themselves to supporting the
women's enfranchisement bill."
ITALIANS CELEBRATE FREEDOM
FROM THE PAPAL YOKE.
The forty-fourth anniversary of Sept.
20, that historic date on which the taking
of Rome was accomplished by the
Italian troops, was celebrated as usual
by demonstrations and illuminations
throughout the whole of Itafly. In the
capital an immense procession had been
organized. It consisted of the civil
and military authorities, and various
students' associations, besides a vast
crowd of enthusiastic spectators, all of
whom marched triumphantly through
the decorated streets to the Porta Pia,
where the famous breach in the walls
of Rome was made. Here they deposited
wreaths, while the assembled bands
played the national anthem. Signor
Nathan, the mayor of Rome, then read
aloud a loyal telegram which had been
sent to King Victor Emanuel, and alao
his majesty's reply, after which he made
a speech describing the reason of the
present celebration, and the significance
of the anniversary.
A BATTELEFIELD PARK.
Resolutions providing for the appointment
of a committee of five to co-operate
with other organizations in an endeavor
to have flag day made a national
and legal holiday and asking Congress
to purchase the battlefields of Fredericksburg,
the Wilderness, Salem Church,
Chancellorsvllle and Spottsylvania as a
national park was passed by the Society
of the Army of the Potomac at their
general annual meeting.
To Wrttln* to AdvcrtlMin Pleaoo lH?n.
ttoa The Preabytortan of the South.