tice games that the bail on in the south. It is announced that in a test of strength in a Michigan county Govâ€" ernor Al Smith‘s friends won out over the antiâ€"Smith‘ Democrats. Howâ€" ever, these offâ€"year tests of strength are a good deal like the spring pracâ€" Bawling Babblers Flustrated by|Cheap European Merchandise Is Foreign Plans to Take Care Even Now Being Dumped in ~â€"â€"~~â€"@éâ€"Nationals In Nicat..__| _ _ U. S.; Means Displaceâ€" ground is plainly ‘visible and yet so softly lined with the artists‘s brush that it takes on an air of mystery and of almost unearthly beauty. The bold handling of the boatmen who are thrust into the foreground, gives that touch of strength with H)ch Japanâ€" ese prints are endowed. Thus we have exquisite beauty, combined . with strength, and over all a peaceful atâ€" mosphere very soothing to frayed nerves. Hiroshiege‘s show scenes in the same exhibition all evm; quality of peace ahd quiet, s in an art unhurried and unruffied and far removed from the stremuous modâ€" ern art of today. 1 Snowy Evening," by Kiyochika, and see how simply this is handled and how much the creamâ€"white paper is left by the artist to suggest the vast, silent expanse of snow and water; the picturesque village in the far backâ€" There is always a feeling of restâ€" fulness in Japanese landscapes. The splendid callection of color prints from the Buckingham collection which has just been opened to the public at the Art Institute, exemplifies this‘ to a marked degree. They are nll‘ snow landscapes but they have this quality of restfulness and peace, and it is with a feeling of relief that one comes in from the busy street outside and stands before these beautiful prints. Note "Matsuchi Hill on a CHARACTERISTICS OF JAPANESE LANDSCAPES Feeling of Restfuiness Seen In All Paintings From or born of a spirit of malignant perâ€" verseness or the knowledge that the trade of the literary or political scavâ€" enger is profitable, their authors should be made to understand that their libels are offensive to Ameriâ€" cans, because they are untruthful, in~ sulting and disloyal. These bawling boors, super smartâ€"alecks, sloppy senâ€" timentalists and downright disloyalâ€" ists should be loudly informed that men and women who remain in this country should observe the ordinary decencies of life by respecting the roof which shelters them, the table which feeds them and the company which endures them. j Look and listen! How much do you hear or read in appreciation of this republic‘s record of service to its own people and to the world" That Uncle Sam has had the power every moment since the Civil war to take everything he wanted in this hemisphere, and has taken nothing from an American sovereignty except some coaling staâ€" tions acquired by treaty and the Panama Canal Zone, twice bought and paid for, for a work of worldâ€"wide benefit; that he has freed Cuba and set it on the path of independence and ceded the disputed Isle of Pines to that soverignty; that on his long northern boundary not a gun frowns at his responsible neighbor; that he has never interfered in this hemisâ€" phere except to save the western reâ€" publics from ultimate European interâ€" vention and acquisition, all this counts for nothing in the face of the determâ€" ination of his slanderers to make him vutâ€"a greedy and predatory rascal. Sloppy Sentimentalists . .. The time has come when every normal American who has a voice should talk back, in language not over polite which can be plainly unâ€" derstood. Whether these assaults are of open or covert foreign inspiration, . _ â€"_ _Echoed In U. S. But, what is even more astounding, this chorus of detraction is echoed in the United States. From the pulpit, the school rostrum and the editorial deck this chorus of denunciation is echoed in a thousand forms. The loathsome disease is epidemic. When someone arises to say a good word for the record and purposes of the United States, the utterance has the merit of great originality. of the United States and has been saved _ from _ Balkanifation _ only through the power of the United States; and in the Orient, where the United States has given the world an example in government of overseas possessions unique in its altruism and has stood between China and absorpâ€" tion by European powers, â€"including Russia, â€" QUESTION OF M(,‘HONITAR!FF ONLY PROTECTION The hymn of hate against Amerâ€" ica sounds not only in Europe as the result of American assistance to the allied cause during the World war, and the huge grant of credits to aid in winning the war; in Latin America, where every existing republic came into being with the aid and sympathy Genuine Americans are growing weary of hearing their country maâ€" ligned, says the National Republic editorially. The American people‘ take very U.S. EFFORT| MENACKE TO BUSWNESs|_ > back may damage and even ruin some without jerking, and not too tight. Jt is advisable aiways to turn the hands wind a clock is"slowly, steadily; and _ "Clock cleaning is as important as house cleaning. Average home clocks should be renovated once every three years. More costly designs, in vogue in the best homes, in which a clock adorns every room in the house, need more frequent attention. Banjo and tombour wall styles as well as mantel and bedroom clocks should be looked over once every two years. Expenâ€" sive hall and chime clocks should be viled once a year and cleaned every three years. Chth_dunl_&!_!fl‘ mechanism, should be cleaned and oilâ€" ed at least once every two years. of the people let their clocks run withâ€" out any care until they stop. shadows death. Others think it means a great many hold that it impends sickness or aeciâ€" dent in the family. Fact of the matâ€" stops, it foreshadows only its own premature demise. Fully 90 per cent "Because of the important part clocks play in our daily lives," deâ€" clared Mr. Hays, "many people hold to the timeâ€"worn superstition that when a clock stops suddenly it presâ€" Does the sudden stopping of a clock Only tragedy it spells is that the clock itself is seriously ill from lack of care, according to Warner S. Hays, seeretary of the National Clock Man~ ufacturers‘ association, in an address What It Means "Now what does this mean* The displacement of American by forâ€" eign production simply means"the disâ€" placement _ of American by foreign employment. It means the stopping of American pay envelopes in favor of foreign pay envelopes. It means that we must shut up shop in indust or scale our wages, and therefore, 03 living standards, and therefore our consumptive capacity, to the foreign level. This process has already startâ€" ed. What is the inevitable finish, unâ€" less this process is halted? ‘Disaster. And such disaster as this country has never before dreamed of, despite our several past periods of industrial paralysis due to this very condition of displacement of domestic by foreign production. Our present personal credit situation has developed on the basis of high wage scale production and steady employment. Halt this, and our prosperity will collapse like a house of cards. Prosperity is an endless chain which passes from conâ€" sumer to producer and producer to consumer. Break one link in that chain and all the wheels cease turnâ€" ing. Create a condition in industrial America where the worker cannot meet the payments on his house, his motor car, his radio and the other comforts and luxuries known only in great quantity in the United States, and we will have an industrial, a poâ€" litical and social crisis more serious than has ever before been confronted "As our imports increase, our exâ€" ports must to an increasing extent slow down. The large scale foreign production encouraged by American and foreign investment in low wage markets is more and more meeting the demands of foreign markets. Inâ€" stead of our dumping surplus producâ€" tion abroad, the alien producer is beâ€" ginning to dump his surplus producâ€" tion here. six per cent tariff on the price at which it is bought by an American jobber from the impoflgt. as against a difference in wage scales of from fifty to five hundred per cent. The American consumer reaps little or none of the benefit from the low purâ€" chase price of this commodity abroad. It is sold in‘ the. United States just enough below the price which must be charged by an American industry paying the American wage scale and American raw material prices, to take the market. Alien industry, armed with a deadâ€" ly weapon of cheapness is already beginning to make serious inroads in the American market, despite our present tariff, :ecor&mg to Will R. Wood, representative in congress from Indiana in an interesting article in the current issue of the National Republic under the title "Industrial Invasion: Shall We Repel It*" Speakâ€" ing of our tariff rates Mr. Wood says: "Our tariff rates are not what they seem because they are based upon valuations fixed abroad by foreign producers rather than upon the sale price of these imports at our ports. For instance, a thirty per cent ad valorem rate on a given article at its European cost may mean only a Most of the people who think that STOPPING OF CLOCK * zï¬'.;‘ ‘nfâ€" CCE T KE c hi ",â€","\ prominent sociologist says the it is abroad. Next thing you know they will have the official stork beâ€" fore the World Court. ‘ People used to admire the flowers that bloom in the spring, but that was before they had to compete with ‘One of the most delightful hobbies to pursue is to become inferested in art in some of its various forms. Some gather etchings, others collect Japanese color prints, still others like water colors or pastels, while many prefer oil painting. Then there are those who prefer sculpture and this group also collects Chinese and Japâ€" anese objects of art, pottery, figurâ€" ines, vases, etc. If it is a question of finances and one is unable to buy an oil painting or some of the more expensive pictures, the etching or aquatint offers a splendid opportuniâ€" ty to begin in art collection. At presâ€" ent the Chicago Society of Etchers has an international exbibition of etchings at the Art Institute and one may find beautiful and highly desirâ€" able etchings at prices as low as five dollars each. Since its opening on January 2%, over seven thousand dolâ€" lars worth of these etchings and acâ€" quatints have been sold, the average being about ten dollars each. Thus we find a real army of buyers who are taking advantage of this opportuâ€" nity to begin really worthâ€"while colâ€" lections of art. other bodies. 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