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si *A'i -\^mK ^TTW%_ -ft -, f€. Jgatf PAGE TWO MOWER COUNTY NEWS. AUSTIN. MINNESOTA MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1921 CONGRESS WILL AID ed for the purpose of assisting in the ity of food and that terror and anarchy sequently, they decided to sweep of Nebraska, introducing a bill for ECLIPSE?CORNER exportation and financing of these would breed from hunger. The away all of the* war laws, including the appointment of a joint commission products, had -been suspended last farmers took this credit to run their the espionage act and the Lever fuel It to study and recommend reforms. bj FARM AND May by order of the Secretary of the business. They accepted the steadily and food law, which was utilized by was taken up and passed by the House Weekly Shavings Edited Treasury, and that the Federal Reserve declining markets as inevitable, Vol. 352. the Attorney General to attack labor Monday, January 3, 1921 after a few hours of debate. In the Splinter* Board, under his jurisdiction, asking only that the decline be kept with the injunction provision permitted debate it was pointed out that there had refused permission to its banks in just proportion to the decline in HAPPY NEW YEAR by that law but previously denied are now forty bureaus actively engaged Tremendously improved railroad thruout the country to assist the other commodities. But with the by the Clayton anti-trust act. transportation facilities, predicted in maintaining the public health A MEASURE of success, accomplished Fullfill Campaign Pledges By lower interest rates and more plentiful farmers by lending them money so gathering in of the greatest harvest The trading-with-the-enemy act was of the United States. Several different in spite of handicaps, marks funds, together with the nationsserious Shutting Off Immigration that their crops might be held for the country has ever known, the financial the building industry's 1920 record. also included in the repealing measure. agencies undertake to get rid need for more homes and other Patience endured disappointments better prices. powers inaugurated an entire And Lending Crop Money. England has been doing business of rats, one recommending rat-dogs, necessary buildings causes us to predict resourcefulness overcame obstacles ly different policy. The country that the present low prices of at the old stand with Germany Senator Dial, of" South Carolina, others cats, others poison, and so on. co-operation achieved what otherwise lumber are only, temporary. Washington.— Without an instant bankers began hammering the farmers. and Russia for more that a year, but confessed in the Senate that he had With the eradication of overlaps and would have been impossible. The of delay the Republican Congress has These banks could not help it. Eclipse enters the New Year with increased the United States has been forced to made an appeal to the Secretary of^ getting the government down to a appreciation of the needs of begun the work of redeeming campaign Further up the reserve banks were wait under the restraint of this act the Treasury that he rescind his order business basis it is figured that $500,000,000 the building public and with a determination A BASEMENT CEILING "OF pledges by the enactsient of hammering, and further up the powers until the President could carry out suspending the War Finance Corporation a year can be saved to the to demonstrate our responsibility WALL BOARD PANELS keeps cold, legislation to remedy business, farming that control credit were hammering. his threat to incorporate the league so that the farmers and taxpayers .of the country. For one with service. ashes and coal dust from penetratingupper M-T floors. and labor conditions brought And every blow struck the farmer. covenant in the treaty as to make the planters might nst be under the necessity type of engineering there is an overhead Panel the walls and ceilings of about during the present administration. From June 1 to December 1. Senate accepted it. "HOME"—the foundation of contentment, of sustaining such a loss. The drain on the Treasury from 34 your basement, garage or any room in the corner of stone of good No. 2 mixed corn, the grade on which Secretary refused. When wheat had different bureaus. "Practically everyone wants war the house by nailing WALL BOARD1 citizenship an inspiration at each One of the first things found by corn trading is ba?ed, slumped 70 per fallen off 8 cents a pound, he, Senator right to the joists and studding or legislation repealed," said Representative day's beginning—a sanctuary at the the solons when they returned to cent, or from $1.90 a bushel to 60 over damaged plaster. WALL BOARD' Simmons, of North Carolina, and Ottawa, Ont.—It has been estimat Gard, of Ohio, a Democrat, who end. Home ownership is the ambition Panels take the place of lath and Washington for the last session of the cents a bushel in Kansas City iand 50 of every right minded man and woman. ed here that Norway, Finland and Senator Fletcher, of Florida, joined foresaw the storm and did not become plasted and cost less. They form ef-s* 66th Congress was a seriously threatening cents a' bushel at country shipping Sweden, all important newsprint paper in a letter to the President in which a candidate in the last election. fective insulation—are rigid, attract-ive Greatly reduced lumber prices industrial depression. This had points:" producers, wilPproduce by their and fire-resisting. they urged that the Secretary's order "To me it has always been a monstrous makes attractive homes again possible been promised in the last months of combined efforts about 75,000 tons be rescinded. That was in August. •x: Immediate Tariff Aid thing that two years after the at comparatively moderate cost. 1913 and the first months of 1914, The President was at that time more less newsprint than will Canada in armistice was signed two years after Without waiting for a general Hardwood flooring is not an ex4 Consult the Eclipse for plans and after the protective tariff schedules interested in the great and solemn 1920. the men of the American army travagance, but is an investment! tariff law, which will be enacted at a particulars. of the Taft administration had been well worth while at home. referendum on the league of nations achieved most remarkable victories special session to be called soon after superseded by the tariff-for-revenueonly issue, which turned out, as Senator on the field of battle, two years after March 4, the Republican leaders J.J. CLEMENS basis of the Underwood law, and TIME TABLE Gore, of Oklahoma, afterwards said, have decided to relieve the industrial they had established for all time our PIECE OR A CAR LOADj/ soup kitchens for the unemployed to be great for the Republicans and principles and embodied them in the situation to as great an extent as Manager CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN had been established in New ork solemn for the Democrats. In Ocand possible by the enactment during the civilization of the world, two years St. Paul and Minneapolis Chicago. But the war came, mak-1 tober, Dial wrote the President aning Phone No. 47. winter of a tariff on certain agricul- from alll those things which are as Leave for—4:00 a. m. 4:45 p. m. imports impossible and creating other letter, indictaing that the botthe tural products, such as wool. A sociated and affiliated with war, we Ft. Dodge, Mason City, Lyle, Council greatest demand in our history torn was falling out of farm prices, Bluffs, Dubuque, Des Moines, Caroll, Advertise In the News, It pays! are still at war. Everybody knows duty of 3 per cent per pound will be Leave for—12:55 p. m. 10:59 p. m. for our exports. During the calendar I and that the order be rescinded. But placed on wool. Duties will be placed that immediately on the signing of year 1913 our exports amounted to the President was too absorbed in the armistice the Central Powers were on cattle ranging frojn $5 to $7.50 CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST P. $2,484,018,292 and those of Great noting whether Governor Cox of laBritain rendered impotent and unable to per head, on sheep from $1.50 to St. Paul and Minneapolis to $3,089,353,116. During mented memory had slipped up in proceed further with armed force and Leave for—7:05 a. m.—3:10 p. m. $2.50 per head, and on corn of 30 Mni\ 1919, when Great Britain was still his allegiance to the league to pay Arrive from—11:40 a.m.—7:25 p.m. everybody hoped—the people of the A W E E cents per bushel. Meantime, the LaCrosse importing eight billions in raw mater-, attention to agricultural values. United States especially—that these Ways and Means Committee will hold Leave for—11:20 a. m. 7:20 p. m. PROGRAMME ials with which to supply her manu-j Re_ laws, some of t^em necessarily drastic, hearings and it is likely that when So when the Senate meki the Arrive from—3:35 p. m. 11:45 p. m. factures, our exports were $7,920,- LubIi(!an determined to com- the new administration comes into but war laws,- relative to war le0(iers Calmar 426,90° and hers were ?4,688,5.81.-1 -e, Treas. conditions, would be repealed." by law gecrctary of thc power, a few weeks hence, a tariff Leave for 7:20 a. m.- 11:59 a. m. W O E E N I N S O W S 7 3 0 8 0 0 525. In the first eight months of 7:50 p. m. ury to do the thing which would give bill will be nearly ready, so that American Reorganization Provided For MATINEE DAILY AT 2:30 1920, however, our exports were $5,478,306,728 Arrive from—6:50 a. m. 2:55 p. m. immediate relief to the farming com­ industries may find protection No time was lost by Congress in 7:10 p.m. and Great Britain's were munities. bill was passed reviving'and the way be opened for what is A Mason City getting at the reorganization of the $5,143,549,831, a large proportion of the War Finance Corporation. And anticipated as the greatest of American Leave for 11:59 a, m. —7:25 p. m. MONDAY AND TUESDAY— government departments, promised which came to the United States. No in the same bill the Federal Reserve trade booms. Arrive from 7:00 a. m.—3:00 p. m. during the campaign in order to get protective tariff barrier had been Jackson WIlllAM S.« HART Board is directed to permit the member And not to be reckoned as least in at the wastes in expenditure for the raised to^ withstand the trade invasion Leave for—6:55 a. m. 3:45 p. m. banks of the Federal Reserve in the accomplishments of the first week same object. Representative Reavis, and when Congress assembled two Arrive from—10:50 a. m. 6:50 p. m. System to grant liberal extensions of of the reassembling of Congress is millions of wage earners were out of Setting credit to the farmers of the country the repeal by the House of all of the employment throughout the country. upon the security of the agricultural war laws which have disturbed the b'jiio Factories had shut down in every section, products now held by them, by the A tale of the wild Sierras—thrilling as their perilous country. The President has contended Values had dropped out of commodities. re-discounting of such notes of extension chasms. that the war is still on and at the lowest possible rate of must go on until the treaty containing At the same time that such a vast interest. the unamended league of nations number were out of employment and WEDNESDAY— covenant is ratified. He previously "Last year," said Senator Capper, serious suffering was threatened during of Kansas, "we were all alarmed lest vetoed a resolution ending the technical KATHERINE McDONALD the winter, 150,000 foreigners the farmers could not "produce food war.with the long since defunct were coming to our shores every in for us. The farmers were short on German Empire. The returning legthat month, aggregating more than a million capital. They needed credit urg- islators thought perhaps and a half a year and attaining The Notorious Miss Lisle ently. The financial powers saw to the recent verdict of the people the highest immigration figures in our it that credit was transferred to the!might have impressed him with history. These came for employment The Romantic Mystery Play producing country, for they feared the conviction that he might have and to compete with the two millions that otherwise there might be a scarc-' misrepresented their sentiments. Con- Sunshine Comedy "PALS & PETTICOATS of American wage earners out of work. So the Republican leaders in the House thought of but one sure THURSDAY & FRIDAYWALLACE and safe remedy—to shut off all immigration until the country could REID Home Made Taffy, Fudge, again right itself industrially. The in result was the passage by the House Peanut Bar, Buttered Pop "WHAT'S YOUR HURRY" within one week after convening of Corn and Crispettes. a bill shutting off newcomers for a period of one year. Representatives Simeon D. Fess, chairman of the Republication From "The Hippopotamus Parade," the Smashing Saturday Evening Congressional Committee, Park Crispette Kitchcn summoned up the argument when he Post Story by Blron Morgan. iiHifjiiiia said: J& "5ft "If I vote to put up the bars in the Ed. Mortensen form of protection against the products C. PATHE NEWS of European labor, I must also vote to prevent European labor from coming here. To do one and not do to Back the other is inconsistent. We must also deal with the anti-government movement, which has been coming to PRINTING Old W. Prices our country, brought by men who know not our institutions. We can not do than put up the bars less against a further influx of this undesirable group from Europe, and when we do that we shall make more On January first, the price effective the deportation act. The big thing in America is not business, of USL Batteries will be The big thing is the maintenance of reduced from the fundamental institutions of America. Whatever be the value of immigration, we can not allow further 20 to 25 %o admission of elements antagonistic to American ideals, principles \i and institutions." |*P|HE We have today in this country," Value of Printing does not lie in what one pays for the id Representative Campbell, of This is: the .'contribution of USL nsas, chairman of the Committee 'to 'the "meeds of readjustment. job. Not by any means. The worth of anything lies in its Rules, "The highest standard .of. -As the mamrfactUTBr of an im., living in the world and the highest poi^ant Aiitbin^tiyje Accessory scale of wages in the world. We haVte USL often finds itself in the benefit'to you—to the Service it renders. The News endeavors the best opportunities in the world, position of Pathfinder. 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Helping Hand to Farmers £:. .-v 4 At the moment that his aid to COURTESY a labor was being extended in the HONESTY House, the Republican leaders in the Senate were hurrying to the aid SERVICE AND of the farmers suffering from unparalleled distress on account of their USL Machine-Pasted Plate Batteries inability to dispose of corn, wheat, TTS cotton, livestock and other commodities at prices high enough to pay the k- Pierce Battery Co. cost of their production. It was pointed out that the people of Euvrope are in dire need of American •-*. vik .1- farm products, but are unable to purchase Phone Bridge 301 112 E. Maple them because of existing financial i* a conditions there, and that the v. /Ws* .5 •Jv5r* War Finance Corporation, establish- mmm •J -r