The Independent And The Dewey World (Bartlesville, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, September 28, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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AND THE DEWEY WORLD
VOL. 12 No. 32 Bartlesville, Washington County, Okla., Sept 28,1917 $1.50 Per Year
Japan is Making aur Brushes
A concre'e illustration of dan
gerou-i Oriental competition is
found in connection with (lit
American brunsli industry. The
Ta’iiTon brushes, all kinds, has
never been high enough, eithe.
und< r the Mi Kinley, Dingle? or
Payne Aid ich la ats, and the rate
oi duty, namely, 35 per cen
ad valorem, u< der the Under-
wood law i-i intirely inadequate
The American bru<di manufac
turers have struggled for an ex-
istance lor a gre t many years.
They probably have a harder
struggle in the future in view of
the tact that the foreign compe
tition is now from Japan instead
of f om Europe.
We cannot be entirely accurate
as to the exact importation of
brnshes in view of the fact that
the statistics furnished by the
I) partment of Commerce include:
“Brushes feather dusters, and
hair pedcils,” but the proportions
remain. Under this classification
with brushes as the leader, the
ii porta'ions ror the last three
verrs ending with June amounted
to: 1915, $1,644,189; 1916 $1,292.-
SIO; 1917, $2,209
Kefering to the importaiun?
bv countries it is foun I that over
one half of the-e importations
come from Japan, where the av-
erage wage for men and women
in th'st indu?*rv amounts to 24
cent* a d y l!hw can American
p ople compete with such a wage
rate?
A few weeks ago a ver\ prom
nent I nu-e which handles en r
mous quantities of brushes d"
cidtd to bnild a factory I r he
j> oduction of brushes in New
York Cttv (Mans were dev 1 >p.
ed and the company was on tli
point Of “breaking gr u id '
Finally, the president of t h com-
pany suggested that it wiu'd b«
well to itive tig te the American
selling prices and the Ori. nta
selling prices. He found that it
was simply impossible »o man i
lactute in this courtiy in compe
tition witlx Japanese brushes.
The intention was to bui’d a fac
torv emp o)in» bet wet n five hun
dred and one thousand peopb .
but Japan-se pr c s killed the en-
enterprise, an I a contract was
placed for brushes produced in
j pan ‘or about 2^per cent less
than they could poss bly be pro-
duced in this country.
We wish that the five hundte I
people who might have been om
ployed in th s fac ory could ex
press their personal judgment on
the t fleets of the Underwood
Tariff, which, u -doubt* dly after
the g ert war is over, wi 1 close
a large |ercentage of f ctories
which compete with the low
priced goods from the Orient and
the comment —American Econo-
mist.
“!5<den!a y work,” said he lec-
turer on p vsicil torture, tends
to lesson the iuriuranco ’’
“In other words butted in a
smart aleik, ‘the less one sits
tne m re one < an stand ’’
“Exactly,’’ retorted the lectur-
er, “and if ne lies a great de 1
one's standing is lost completly.”
An Unpatrutic Sir ke
The Strike of 25,<X)0 mechanics
in shipyards on the Pacific boast
is tying up ?150,(XX),0:,0 worth of
ship building on government con-
tract and appears to be spread
in’ to lumber and other related
industries It is a strike wh"se
effects are to palsy the arm'of
the nation when raised to beat
down the aggression of a formi
idable enemy in war. If we can
not build ships in gteat quanti-
ty and rapidity we cannot con-
tinue to supixirt or reinforce our
own army at the front and we
cannot aid Russia or our other
allies as they require
When under such conditions
any labor orgrnization concerts
a suspension of w’ork it assumes
the gravest possible responsibil-
ity. It would be unable to find
any justification whatever for
its course in the popular mind
unless the government in the
war had given over its pressing
war needs to the unrestrained
exploitatson of private profits at
the expense of private contrac-
tors for private profit at the ex-
pen so of labor.
But this is just what the gov-
ernment has not done These
many ships are being built for
the government at the public ex-
pense, and the builders have
been placed under the closest re
strictions as to profits Wage
increases must largely if not al
together, come out of the govern-
ment and the public, and neither
lias any desire to withhold just
or generous compensation to
labor.
What is then to be said of a
strike for fifty joer cent or any
per cent more wanes? Precisly
what is to be said of a strike
against the government and na
tion in war, a strike to cripple
and disarm the armies of the
United States as they proceed to
battle Such a strike could nev-
er be the work of patriots The
patriotic workmen would keep at
his work of armament for his
country’s soldieis, atrong in the
certainty that all complaints of
injustice in his compensation
would be righted while he kept
at work.
To Sell Osage Oil Le?ses
Pawhuska Ok —The sale of
leases on 20,000 acres of Osage
oil lands is set for Powhuska
November 12 This is expected
to be the liveliest and highest
priced sale ever held in Osage
county, for the season that the
tracts- designated by the Osage
council, are regarded as offset
lands and are scattered over the
east half of Osage county
Osage lands upon which leases
are expiring are taking on a one •
fourth rayalty bafis, instead of
one-sixth, as heretofore, it is re
ported.
I like to see men rise in the
world, but there’s one sad thing
about it.
What is that?
The fact that so many of their
wives get the idea they can sing.
She Prices Must Fill
Nowhere is war profitee*ing
running riot more rampantly
than in leather and shoes. Save
in soit kid leather for woman’s
shoe-* from the far east, there cx
ists no short tge of material fur
ordinary footwear. Both the
domestic and the South Ameri
can runs along on about the same
level, while the war, with cava!
ry cut out, imposes no v ist de
mand tor peace times.
This is the gemral te ti n* ny
to an inquiry made by the World
into local conditions Ware-
houses are jammed with hides
and leather, while sh e* are re-
tailing over 1 ne city at prices of-
ten 10U per cent above peace
times and c mtuonly from 50 to
75 per cent nigher.
There has nevnr been monopoly
in the shoe industry. It has
been among the most c mipetiti\ e
of the country's great manufac-
turers. Tuis is apparently true
today, th ugh symptitns of con-
cert of action may be d tecte 1
am mg the suppliers of the shoe
mateial. What we s em to have
instead is a psychological created
by the war wh'ch some manufac-
turers and jobb rs are taking the
full* st advant <ge of, while with
the multitude of eetail dealers a
itch field is opened for charging
all the traffic wi.l bear.
Pines for the same grades
vary widely fr< m store to store
according to the looks of the cus-
tomtr in bearing the traffic. Al*
the talk is: Buy now prices will
be higher in the spring What
an overwh Iming demand has
d ne to elim nate competition in
iron and steel, this psychological
condition has done in the shoes
to make possible ac >mpetition in
marking up prices on a demand
notgrea’ly above the peace nor-
mal.
The hide and leather trade ap-
parently i eed* an official probing.
But what the retail shoe trade
needs above everything else just
now is a more critical i ustoraer
armed with the knowledge that
prices map go lower in the spring
and that an excellent pair of bus
iness sh >escan be had if the a_e
hunted for, at from §5 to $5 dol
lars a pair.
Jack Loudon.s Book as Text
t -
Fate, aided by the literary muse
slapped hack at the University ot
California in behalf of Jack Lon-
don and Frank Norris. London,
in poverty, was unable to contin-
ue his studies for a degree. Nor-
ris was refused one because he
funked in mathematics
Now Ihe university has reor-
ganized the talents of the authors
by formerly accepting recom-
mendations of the national join
committee in English of the Nat
tional Education A-sociation and
the National Council of Teachers
of English that L tudon’s “Martin
Eden” and Norris’ 4 The Pet” be
used as books for study and gen-
eral reading in the high schools.
—Spokane Spokesman-Review
In 1861 the first elevator was
9
oj>e rated.
Bearer w Coupon BHs
A bearer of coupon bond is pay
able to the bearer,t the holder,
the title passing by delivery
The Treasury department does
not require p-oof of ownership
when such bonds are presented
f r payment or exchange, the
holder thereof being recognized.
Such bonds way be bought and
sold without forxality and with-
out ind >rs-ments of any kind.
Attached to b arer bonds are
sh.ets of coupons or certificates
of interesr. One of these cou-
pons becomes due each interest.
One of these coupon- becomes
due each interest piyment date
and should be detached by the
owner of the bond and cashed at
his bank or prisented to a Treas-
ury office lor payment.
REGISTERED BONDS
A registered bond is p*yable
only to it? owner or hi? order,
and can be transferred on'y by
being pr< perly indorsed and as-
signed by the owner. The bond
lias 'nsoribed (,n the fre: of it
ihe naui of the nwrer ur payee,
aud such I act is ecordcd on the
bo ks of the Treasu y D-part
meat again t Hie particu'ar b nd
indicated. The change in own
er h p of a registered bond i* at.
fected by the original payee in
dorsing aim assigning the bond,
using the form n the back there-
of in accordance with Hje reguja
ti- ns ot th • Treasury Depart-
ment. Such assignment must be
made before an officer designated
by the Tr asu-y De, artment, and
such officer must certify thereto
and affix his official seal. The
officers who atv authorized to
witness assignments are indicat
ed in a note p inte*l on the back
of a bond. Generally speaking
certain judicial and treasury of-
ficers and executive officers ot
Federal Res rve and Na ional
Banks are authorized to witness
assignments.
Wh *n the owner of a register-
ed bond bond disposes of it and
has properlv assigned it, it should
be forwarded at once to the S c-
reta y of t e Treasury for trans-
fer on the book•» of ihe Depait
ment I he bond s<> forwarded is
cancelled and a new bind in the
name of the new owner is issued
and sent to the new owner by
registed m il.
The iute*est on registered
bonds is paid by means of checks
drawn by the Secretary of the
Treasury on the Treasury of the
United States, such checks being
issued on the day inte est is due.
They are sent by mail to the
owners of the bonds.
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Applications Filed lor Divorce
4615— Mike Hendricks
vs
Josie Hendricks
divorce
4616— Fstelle Gilbert
vs
Harrison Gilbert
divorce
4627—Janie Baker
vs
VVm R Baker
divorce
A Wild Statement
I should like to know from
which of these "authorities” Mr.
Finn got the infoimation that
“the aimunt paid indirectly by the
American people In the form of
import duties, in furtherance of
the Protective Tariff policy since
the close of the civil war, would
more than build and equip every
every Tar ff-Protected mill fac-
ory aiul workshop in the United
States.” We all have heard the
Free Trader saying “that the duty
is added ts the price;’’ but that is
the wildest statement of the cost
ot the Tariff I know of. It would
not be far from the truth to re-
verse it. and to say that onr pro-
tective policy has saved the coun-
try the cost of every mill, factory,
aud workshop in the country by
lowering the cost of productiur,
saving costs of transportation and
freeing us from foreign dictation
as to prices both of w hat we sell
and of what we buy. — Robert Hill
Thompson in the Irish World.
Rats
The direct lessons in food and
materials due to rats amount to
$200,000,000 annually in the Un
ited States, says the National
Geographic Magazine The di-
rect losses, including the effect
upon public health and commerce
from the diseases carried by
rats, and the sums spent in com*
bating them, add materially to
this figure
We have lived with the rats so
long that we take them as a mat
ter of course Put a look into
their nocturnal activities will
show’ us that it is high time a
war against them is started
throughout the country. Rats
produce from six to twelve litters
a year. With the average of ten
young rats per litter. On a New
England farm last year a farmer
killed 9 000 rats, proof of their
ability to multiply as well as his
enterprise.
Rats are persistent enemies of
growing crops and seeded fields.
They are highly destructive of
young chickens, turkeys and
eggs. They hold high carnivals
in grain elevators, storehouses
and storerooms. What they can
not eat they destroy. Rats are
carriers of plague germs and
scattar death over a wide circle.
The total amount of the damage
they do would ransom a nation
from starvation.
The United States depart
ment of agricultue has printed a
series of pamphlets on rat ex-
termination. The government
urges all citizens to send for
these books. They cost nothing..
With such reservoirs of advice
and information available, and
with the need of conservation of
resources so urgent, the public
should inaugurate its own war of
of frightfulnoss against a com-
mon enemy, and one lurks at our
very doors.
When a woman leads a man a
dog’s life, that doesn’t mean she
pets him.—Atchison Globe.
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