Associated Press dispatches bring bandits by the word of the payment of a ransom of $15,000 to Mexican United States for the release of two American aviators captured by the Mexicans and threatened with death if the money was not paid today. Just how long will a government as great and powerful as the United States stand for such humiliation from dirty greasers like those living just across our southern border?
Last Saturday the new grade on the road between Moscow and the mountain was again dragged, took only a few hours to do this work and the results were certainly satisfactory. We are learning, by watching the work of a real road builder, how easy it will be to keep roads in repair if we just work intelligently and do the work at the proper time. Nothing helps a road more than frequent dragging.
Just how labor expects the high cost of living to be reduced when almost every union in the United States, which demands increased wages, means increased cost of all necessities is a mystery. Will some labor leader please explain to a long suffering and patient public when the prices of the necessities of life will begin to decline with the price of labor constantly rising?
In condemning the packing trust, no one must imagine that small packing plants like the one in Moscow are guilty of such profiteering methods as the big plants of the middle west. These small plants have a hard enough time to compete with the big plants and are not trying to corner all of the food products as the packing trust has been doing for years. 