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The Washington herald., 1913-08-04
PLEA FOR MORE PAY
FOR HIGHER OFFICIALS
Mrs. John B. Henderson Thinks Com.
pensation Should Be commeasu-
rate with Growth Of Country.

In letter from her summer home al
Bar Harbor TO the editor. Mrs. Mary F
Henderson. wife of Gen. John B. Hender.
son. expresses her Views as follows or
the question of official salaries:
so much has been said lately about
Mr.. Bryan's salary that ! venture "a
say that a little thought should con-
vince any one that the salaries Of all our
national officials are too small. Our
country has continually grown larger
and larger and has become more and
\ more involved in worldwide affairs. The
| many questions brought before Congress
are, OF course, of utmost Importance.
calling for the talent. experience. and
conscientious endeavor of the most COM
petent men OF our country.
There was q time when our Con-
gressmen could have summer vacations,
with little breathing time to look
after personal business affairs; a time
also when the purchasing power of
money was far greater than at pres
ent. Congressional duties now require
alert attention winter and summer,
day and night. 1t is a question IL the
time for summer vacations will ever
come about again.
Aihc al 5,
the Congressional profession is not
fully acquired in a short time. Con-
gress always needs not only men of
Congressional training and experience,
but also all the best working time of
mans life. At the end of such serv-
ice. in what state is likely to be his
former business? Is there a certain
duty to old age, in saving a little more
each year than is necessary for actual
living expenses?
In any kind Of important business
one recognizes the economy Of paying
for the best talent that can be COM
manded. Our government is funda-
mentally a business institution In the
name of economy let US have and pay
for what Will best insure for our gov
ernment the best OF service.
Without such service are We not In
more or less danger Of unnecessary wars,
and foolishness of many kinds? With a
sane, expert management what a surplus
might we have for advancing the in
dustries of the country. the arts and
sciences. &c? Ten or twelve thousand
dollars a year is little enough compensa-
tion for practically the whole time of a
Congressman of the United States. Our
Vice President and Cabinet should also
be properly paid.
England especially recognized the
value OF the social function. When with
deliberate common sense and adequate
knowledge. one discusses knotty questions
with foreigners or others over the small
dinner table. the disputants obviously feel
less like killing one another the next
day.
las for that. the social requisites are
provided by all the first-class countries
but our own. Our own country could
surely be the gamer by recognizing the
of the governmental social
factor. There is an advantage in 1t for
all our officials and especially for our
Vice President, Speaker. and Secretary
Of State"
The Washington herald., 1913-08-04
Becker's
Leather Goods Co.,
1324-l326 F St. N. w.
PIE-EATNG CONTEST
FEATURE AT FAIR
Four-Day Event for Benefit Of he
Young Mems Hebrew Asso-
tion Is Opened.
South Side. near 18th st.

A four-day fair was opened last night
at the Young Mems Hebrew Association.
as NJ Street Northwest Several hundred
of those interested in the institution, for
the benefit Of which the affair was ar
ranged. attended the opening.
The fair was held from 7:30 o'clock until
midnight. during which time q straw ride.
a pie-eating contest, a most popular girl
contest, and several other contests were
held. A country store, fortune telling.
and dancing also were features
All who survived the pie-eating coz
test confessed that they had found so
much entertainment in this novel exer-
else that they would try 1t again this
evening.
NJ. Gutenberg Is the chairman Of the
committee in charge. The other commit
tee members are Harry Cohen, Jack
Small. A. Spiegelblatt. W. NJ Samuels.
and H. Jaffe. The fair will open each
night at 7:O o'clock. Admission In free,
but there IL a large assortment Of ar
ticles on hand that one may buy.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-04
Colorrd Sunday school Picnic.

The Sunday school of the Cosmopoli-
tan Baptist Church. colored, will hold
its tenth annual picnic and pig race at
Mares Park, lexington, next Thursday.
Various other colored Sunday schools
Of the city will take part. The Sunday
schools will assemble at the Cosmopoli-
tan Church at 10 o'clock. and will march
to the picnic grounds, led by the Silver
Star Brass Band. Dr. Simon p. w.
Drew will act as marshal OF the parade.
A long program will be carried out at
the grounds
The Washington herald., 1913-08-04
DENOUNCED BY NAMEsAKE.

New York. Aug. 3.-Cipriano Castro.
the would-be dictator of Venezuela and
the rest of the world. is not a real Cas-
tro, or even a gentleman, according to
Victor Cita Castro. who reached here
today on the French liner La Lorraine,
and VINO spouted Indignantly when de-
layed for time by Federal officials in
the belief that he was possible ally of
the redoubtable Cipriano.
Il know why you are keeping me
here" he said. you think I am going
to participate in the revolt down there.
You wound me; you pierce my heart
with your words. Oh, vile! he is a peon
and a peddler: not Castro or a gentle
man."
The Washington herald., 1913-08-04
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
o. s. Dept. Of Agriculture. Weather Bureau.

O4
Washington. Sunday. August J. 1875 n m
There Will be local showers Monday in the Lake
region and the New England States, probably fol-
lowed by fair weather Tuesday in those districts.
Showers NIL continue in the South Atlantic and the
southern portion of the East Gulf States during
Monday and Tuesday. Elsewhere Throughout the
country fair weather will prevail.
The temperatures will not change much in the
eastern and southern districts during the next two
days On Monday the weather will be somewhat
cooler over the eastern slope Of the Rocky Noun
tains. and on Tuesday the temperatures will rise
slowly in the Upper Lake region.
The winds along the North Atlantic coast will be
light to moderate southwest Monday. shifting to
northwest Tuesday; the middle Atlantic coast
light variable. the South Atlantic coast light to
moderate variable the Gulf coast light variable; ;
on the Lower Lakes light TO moderate variable; on
the urTer Lakes light to moderate north. becoming
variable Tuesday.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-04
PLANS TRIP TO ARCTIC.
Newspaper Man VIII Explore TIA
Frozen Land OF the North.

Edmonton, Alberta, Aug. 3-Territory
north Of the arctic circle will besinvaded
this year by Francis L. Geyer. news
paper man, scientist and traveller, who 10
in Edmonton outfitting for an expedition.
to EsQuimaux Lake, where he plans ~
spend two years.
Geyer il q graduate Of the University
OF Illinois and claims to have visited
every state In the Union and all the
provinces In Canada. He has explorct;
the wilds Of Central Africa, the interior
Of South America. and the various
islands in the South Pacific Ocean. On
the present trip he expects to cove,
more than 1900 miles. chiefly in the un-
explored north country. He will re-
port his discoveries to the scientific So
cieties in the United States and Cansca
and possibly England and France.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-04
POSTAL SERVICE
Changes MADE
Statement Is Issued by Post
master General
Burleson.
PARCEL RATES LOWERED
Weight Limit Raised to Twenty
Pounds-Rules for Use Of Pre-.
cancelled Stamps Liberalizsd.
PARCEL RATES LOWERED
CHANGES MADE IN
P0sToFFICE DEPARTMENT


All departments relating to
fiscal operations of the postal
service are assembled under one
management.
Postal savings system is extern
sively changed in order TO be
more convenient to the public.
Regulations imposing heavy
penalties for using wrong
stamps on parcel post packages
are modified.
Rules governing precanceled
stamps for big lots of mail mat
ter are liberalized.
Charges for sending Sunday
editions of newspapers across the
Canadian border are lowered.
Fourth-class rates changed.
beginning August Is, from s
cents for the first pound and /
cent for each additional pound to
5 cents for the first pound and
l cent for each additional two
pounds.
Weight limit for fourth-class
matter raised from eleven
pounds to twenty pounds.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-04
PET DOG HAS RABIES.
Canine secured by y. j. Strllwagen
and Attacks Prevented.

Presence Of mind of E. ]. Stellwagen,
of 1903 Biltmore Street Northwest. pre-
vented his pet dog, found to be suffering
from rabies. from attacking members of
his family yesterday afternoon.
The dog, playing with Mary Williams,
thirteen-year-old girl who lives at the
Stellwagen home. suddenly became Ill.
Mr.. Stellwagen had the animal so bound
it could not attack any one, and then
sent for DR.. Henry l. Santelle, of 3o01
Eleventh Street Northwest. who dag
nosed the case as rabies. The dog will
be turned over to the District pound.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-04
BIRTHS REPORTED.

Adolph and Agnes Knopf. girl.
Percy c. and Bertha 8. Smith, boy.
Henry w. and Barbara Eibel. girl.
William A and Sue Z. Duncan. boy.
Bore and Leah Udoa, girl.
Cornelius and Della Cullinane, girl.
Charles @. and Katherine Grimsley. girl.
William L. and Goldie P. kolarik. bog.
Charles II. and Annie L. Martin. bog.
James q. and Isabel z. Naushton. boy.
Emory and Ada G. Saylor. twins.
CoLORED.
Louis and Blanch Mckinney, boy.
Zachsriah and Georxia Wilson. girl.
Horace and Agnes Howell, boy.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-04
DEATH RECORD.


WHTTE
Joseph Watson. % wears, Govt Hosp Insane
Ellen y. Plunkert. 65. 80 o st. nv.
Clifton Talbert. a. Tuberculosis Hospital.
Charles b. McCann. Sc. gs 10th 81. me-
Charles Ostrander g.. George Washington Hosp
Anna c. Burritt. So. National Homeo. Hosp
COLORED.
Emma Saunders, ss. Washington Asylum.
Mildred ]. SpriSss. months. 81 Pierce St nv.
Theodore Gilchrist. months, Fredmen's Hosp
The Washington herald., 1913-08-04
$500 GOWNS FOR soUAws.
Indian Girls of West Wear Ex-
pensive Dresses.

Spokane, WASH, Aug. 2-About the
most expensive dresses In the Pacific
Northwest are worn on State occasions
by Julia and Rose Webb. two Nee Perce
Indian girls living on the reservation
near Lewiston. Idaho. Each dress l.
worth $500. not for the material but
for the $50 elk teeth used In the decora-
tons the teeth being worth 80 apiece.
The teeth were collected by ancestors Of
the Webb girls when elk were more
plentiful than now.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-04
Local Temperatures.

Midnight. 81: a. m, 81; a. m, IS; a. m. s.;
a. m, Y; 10 a. m. 81: Il noon, S.: p. m. 90;
p. IN, 30; u m. s.; p. m, 81; 10 p. m, "A.
Highest. 81 lowest. s.
Relative humidity-s a. m. IS; 8 p. m, s.. Hours
Of sunshine, 1876: per cent OF possible sunshine. &.
Temperature same date last year-Hishet. 70;
lowest, 50.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-04
Temperatures in Other Cities.

Temperatures In other cities, together with the
amount of rainfall for the twenty-four hours ended
at 8 p IN. yesterday, are as follows:
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-30
Bad Fire at Prosper.

Fire completely destroyed the
lumber yards at Prosper, Thursday
afternoon. The fire originated in
an old barn just north Of the lum-
Der sheds from an unknown cause.
Active work on the part of citizens
of Prosper and surrounding neigh
borhood with water buckets and lad
ders prevented the flames from
spreading to other buildings. Had
there been a very strong wind we
fear the greater part Of the village
would have been consumed. The
lumber yard, which was owned by a
stock company was we'll stocked
with all manner of building material,
hence the loss is quite large, but
fortunately the loss is covered by
insurance. Several DEBORAH people
have interests in the yard.
In response to telephone MESA
ges, quiet a number went up from
here by auto, and it is said that the
fire attracted 200 to 800 autos The
loss is about $4,000.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-30
TO STUDY CHILD LIFE.
Experts Will Choose Some
County i'm Iowa for First Study
of Child Life i'm Rural Dis
trict in United States.

Iowa City, Ia, July 2S.-Plans
are under way at the university Of
Iowa for the first study of child life
in rural district in the United
States.
This study will be made as a fed
eral experiment under the joint d.
rection of the childrens bureau OF
the department of labor at Wash
ington and the university of Iowa.
The children's bureau has already
undertaken a study at Montclair, N.
j., and one at Johnstown, Pa. The
bureau now desires to have a SINH
lar survey made of county in the
middle west in order that the data
concerning the children in the city
may be compared with correspond
ing data concerning children In To-
wa.
The work will be undertaken at
the university under the direction OF
an expert from Washington. Exact
information will be obtained con-
corning all children about one year
of age in a given county in Iowa.
What county will be selected has
not yet been determined.
1--WE talk a great DEAL" said one
CT the experts in this work recently
in Washington, about the splendid
opportunity of the child born In the
country and in the little towns to
grow to strong maturity.
From such information as | have
been able to secure, l believe that
the boy born on the east side in New
York, in that vastly overcrOwded
district, has more chance of strong
boyhood than a boy born on an av-
erage farm in the middle west.
THE people in the middle west
generally have no adequate concep-
ton of the tremendous waste going
on in the death rate Of their child
rem. The study which we propose
to make in connection with the uni
versity of Iowa will give to the state
of Iowa exact data concerning the
situation, and it will be the direct
means of leading to the source OF
waste"
mot only will the investigation
proposed cover vital statistics, but
il is also proposed to obtain infor-
nation in connection with the work
in dietetics of the new department
of home economics at the university.
Dietetics here will be studied from
the highest scientific point known.
The department of sociology will al
so have charge of certain phases OF
the work
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-30
Calmar Sure a Dry Town.

Some time ago this town went dry
as far as saloons are concerned, and
now they are even going to deny us
the water wagon. Wednesday after
noon when everything was quiet
there came crash and a road and
the city water tank, which stood ell
evated on an eighty foot tower, was
wreck and deluge of water flood
ed the adjacent territory. The old
fiat bands or hoops that had girded
the tank since it had been built,
gave way, having become weak from
rust. The breaking of these bands
caused the slaves to be forced out
ward by the pressure and break,
and the roof collapsed and fell into
the wrecked tank. 1t is nearly
twenty years ago since the tank
was built, and had the hoops been
renewed would have lasted some
years longer Luckily no one was
near enough to be injured by falling
timbers, although some received a
little shower bath.-Calmar Cour-
Ter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-30
BANNER ROAD COUNTY.
Fayette County, According to State
Highway Commission is Likely to
Make the Banner Record
i'm Road Building.

Ames, Ia, July 2S.-Fayette
county according to the state high
way commission, is likely to make
the banner record for road building
in Iowa under the new road law. Its
board of supervisors levied at once
a tax which will produce 5000
this year, instead of waiting until
next year to do it.
They engaged a competent engin-
Ger and they were among the first
to establish close cooperation with
the highway commission. AS a re-
suit, they have two county grading
crews at work, they are letting the
contract to employ third private
grading crew, and two county trac-
tor outfits are engaged on tie prairie
roads.
There is every prospect that Fay
cite county will put forty miles of
its $50 miles of county roads into
excellent condition before the season
closes. Fifteen miles of the forty
lies through rough, hilly country,
and the other twenty-five miles is
through prairie country. These for
ty miles of highway will be brought
to standard grade, they will be per-
manently drained, they will have
concrete bridges and culverts, they
will be properly crowned, and they
will be dragged and packed smooth
and hard.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-30
LARGEST APPLE CROP SINCE 90.
Iowa State College to Maintain
Clearing House to Help Farm
ers Dispose of Great Crop.

Iowa State College has come to
the aid of the Iowa apple grower to
help him dispose of the biggest crop
since 1909. The official estimate for
July l predicts a bumper crop for
the state in excess of five million
bushels.
In previous years of big yields,
thousands of bushels of good apples
have been fed to the hogs or left to
rot because the grower has found no
market available. This year the col
lege proposes thru it's extension de-
partment to help the grower find
the buyer and the buyer to find the
grower All parties concerned, the
grower, the dealer and the consum-
er, will profit by the new arrange
ment.
A college clearing house" has
been established whose services will
be without charge. Every grower
in the state is asked to register with
this clearing house and to make ac-
curate report of his varieties, ex-
pected yields, quality of fruit, and
methods of grading and packing.
Fruit dealers and fruit buyers of
this and other states are also asked
to register with the clearing house
and to indicate the kind and guam
tity of apples they are in the mar
ket for.
The clearing house itself is not in
the commission business. 1t will
neither buy, sell, nor handle apples
in any way, nor will it guarantee the
reliability of either buyer or seller.
1t will merely act as medium thru
which any grower or any buyer can
find out where apples are in demand
or where they are for sale. Efforts
will be made to keep only reputable
persons or concerns on the college
lists. All those interested should
get into touch with the. college clear
ing house at once.
1t is believed that there will be
much improvement in the percent
age of first class apples in 1913, as
compared with 1909. Iowa fruit
growers are giving more attention
to spraying and orchard manage
ment This will mean that dealers
will need to bring in less outside
fruit to supply the state with good
apples.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-30
HOG PLAGUE BREAKS OUT.
Dry Weather Causes Cholera IL
Several Counties.

Nora Springs, Ia, July 2S.-Due
to the recent hot weather, Floyd ana
peighboring counties, such as Cerro
Gordo, Butler and Chickasaw, when
hitherto have been quiet free from
hog cholera, are now afflicted, sever
al cases having been reported. Tne
disease first made its appearance
near Greene, a couple of weeks ago
and has been spreading.
Treating of the animals with the
serum preparation is being done by
numbers of farmers but the expense
attached to the operation because OF
the cost of the serum itself makes II
q matter which is questioned by the
small farmer. often till too late 10
save his hogs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-30
DRIVES MOWER OVER son.
Lad, Unknown to his Father Had
Fallen Asleep i'm Oats Field.

Marshalltown, Ia, July Is
Not knowing that his little Agar
old son Raymond had fallen asleep
in an oats field, where he had been
playing, Henry Gummert, a farmer
living near Gilmanffi, in this county,
yesterday drove the mower over the
lad, cutting him fearfully about the
arms and legs.
The little fellow had accompanied
two of the older Gummert children
to the field to carry fresh water for
their father and his help. The
father had sent the children back
to the house to get some more bind
ing Irvine, and supposed that little
Raymond had gone with his brother
and sister. The youngest boy, how
ever, tired at his play, lay down in
the field and went to sleep. Although
seriously cut it is not believed the
boy will die.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-30
Good Pearl Find.

Two young men, Messrs. Gokey
and LaBonne of Prairie du Chen
were out on Monday in a rowboat
on the Mississippi and for sport
fshed up a few clans, finding one or
two small pearls and slugs and one
large pearl which was purchased by
F. r. Honzel for Sl,6O0. The
ground has been CLAIMED all sum-
mer and it was by the merest chance
that the young men found the clam
or opened it. Mr.. Stenad of lower
town also found a $3.50 pearl with
in the last few days.-Lansing Mir
rcr.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-30
Bryan Got About $500 At Oelwein

Oelwein, Ia, July 2S.-Fifteen
hundred people listened to Secretary
of State Bryan's lecture yesterday
afternoon on The Making of a
Man" The price paid him here was
$3.50, with an equal division of the
proceeds after the local association
had received a similar sum. There
was a goodly number of season
Chautauqua tickets represented in
the audience, and it is probable that
the lecturer did not receive more
than $500 all told, but he also spoke
last evening at Hampton, where he
received a similar sum, making
total of about $500 for the day.
His present Chautauqua engage
ments will probably net him $4,000,
which is one-fourth of his salary as
secretary of state for whole year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-30
Law Firm Installs Dictograph.

The law firm of Hageman & Far
well has added a photograph to the
office equipment and it is found to
be very useful. The machine is a
piece of delicate mechanism which,
when in operation, records every
sound, and conversation can thus
be correctly reported. The princi-
pal use to which it will be put in the
law office will be for dictation,
though it may be used for recording
statements of persons having bust
ness with them.-Waverly Democrat
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-30
Swedish Sayant to Iowa.

Iowa City, Ia, July 2S.-Sweden
has chosen the University of Iowa
as one of the six institutions in the
United States where representatives
of that country will study this year.
Finar Corvin of Stockholm, Sweden,
has selected the University of Iowa
after careful investigation, as the
leading center in the Unitd States
for the study of experimental psy-
chology. Mr.. Corvin will come to
the state university in September.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-30
Cream Separator Injuries z Women.

Northwood, n. d., July 2S.-A
cream separator which Mrs. Bernt
Gulbrandson and Mrs. j. Nygaard
were operating at the Guldbrand-
son farm, near here, exploded yes
terday, both women being injured.
With loud report, the revolving
cup or bowl of the machine burst,
pieces of it being hurled with ter
rifle force. One struck Mrs. Guild
grandson on the arm, cutting deep
cash, while the other woman was
hit in the forehead. Both Were
made unconscious.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-30
Packing Live Pork i'm Ice.

The Manson Democrat relates of
the scheme a farmer out in that To-
cality has of packing live pork in
ice and delivering the goods on the
Chicago market. His operation is
itself Into each car to
be loaded with hogs for shipment,
he breaks up about half ton of
ice, leaving the chunks about twice
the size of a mans fist. Some sand
is sprinkled over this and the swine
loaded in. The ice lasts long enough
on the journey to keep Mr.. Hag
cool until he lands in the pen of the
Chicago stockyards. A very humane
and no doubt profitable scheme.