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Across the Rio Grande into Texas has swept for years an unchecked tide of Mexican immigration. Throughout the Southwest great gangs of dark-skinned peons can be seen repairing tracks on the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe, plodding head down through beet sugar fields, tending endless rows of cotton, mucking about the dirtiest jobs in oil fields. In five years the U. S. has counted, on an average, 56,000 Mexicans per year coming across the border, has failed to count many a thousand more who sneaked over informally. Only one such Mexican immigrant out of a thousand becomes...
...House-Democrats and midwest and western Republicans- wanted special votes on at least three items: sugar, cement, soft lumber. It was their last chance to vote these rates lower than they are in either the Senate or House Bill. Another section of the House- members from 13 beet sugar states- combined to protest any vote on sugar, lest, somehow, it be reduced below the possible maximum (3? per Ib.) set by the House Bill. A third section of the House - regular eastern Republicans - wanted the bill sent directly to conference without any voting which might alter their expensive handiwork. Among...
...City commercially. The Church owns The Deseret News, two hotels, two office buildings, the Beneficial Life Insurance Co., and Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (first U. S. department store, 1868). Through the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., the Church owns 24,539 acres of farm lands and operates numerous beet sugar factories in Utah, Idaho, Washington, Montana, South Dakota. Board chairman of this company is Heber Jedediah Grant, now President of the Mormon Church. But though net current assets are listed at $3,466,860, worldwide oversupply of sugar following upon Wartime excess production has gravely injured this industry...
After 14 years of diligence and research Dr. Friedrich Bergius of Heidelberg University last week announced another ersatz: sugar from wood. He considers "all difficulties solved" in turning wood into cellulose, treating the cellulose with hydrochloric acid to get ersatz-holz-zucker. The product is similar to beet sugar in taste and application...
...thief in the night," flayed the substitution of "a poisonous alkaloid" for "a nourishing food." Advertising men (through Advertising & Selling, a trade paper) discussed Good Testimonials v. Bad Testimonials, thought that Bad Testimonials were wrecking public confidence in advertising. Utah's Senator Reed Smoot (long interested in beet sugar & its tariff) said that there had not been such an orgy of buncombe since public opinion rose in its might and smote the drug traffic. He proposed that tobacco should be included in the Food & Drug Act and that food and drug advertising be subjected to the regulations prevailing with...