The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-03
(By Hert.rt Corcy.)

Socialism is being given its first reai
test at Schenectady-by socialists.
They are in complete control Of the
city administration. Those socialist
employees of the city who draw wages
Of $3.50 a day OF less T. earnestly
in favor of all socialistic employees
putting their wages into a common
pot-to be drawn therefrom share and
share alike. Those socialist employees
who get salaries bitterly resent this
proposition.
Its hardest on Mayor Lunn," said
a man who knows the situation. "He
gets the biggest salary-$3,500 a year.
If he doesn't share that salary he will
rot be renominated. If he does share
it-what's the use?'
OF course, you'll remember the
story of the irish socialists. Pa was
defining socialism to Casey.
1T MEANS" said he. that 1 take
wan of your two horses. and wan OF
your cows and half your chickens"
lit has nothin' to do with goats"
said Pat. You see j have a goat"
Mrs. Kate Trimble Wooley. n of
the delegates named by Governor
Sulzer on the American commission to
report upon agricultural conditions in
Europe. has baked. She would not
sail with the other commissioners on
the SaXonia.
The commission has arranged tina.
no shall make an address,"
said she. NO woman is to have a
share in the official program. l felt
that under the conditions it was my
duty to Withdraw"
Well-of course-ever one for
himself. But Mrs. Woolsey certainly
is missing one of the grandest little
i,lv1y-tc thnt nSrar shot ofhuyorf fha
startled map Of Europe. The federal
government and the various states
have made appropriations for the sup
port, comfort and s~ustenance Of the
100 members of the commission on a
ts.Nicab and truffles basis. The men,
hers of the commission may not know
the difference when they return be-
but they will be equipped to talk elo-
quently on the menus, vintages and
Gccolletages.
There is a place for everything
and the place for Gaillard Smith to
stop seems to be about here. Smith
is the inventor or adapter OF the de-
tectaphone. This is the little jiggeT
which a detective hides in your bureau
drawer. And then he goes away, and
ties a stenographer to the receiver at
the other end Of the wire-and by
and by he has a complete record Of
your conversation. including the exact
price for which o agree to deliver
the discriminating papers.
Now" says Mr.. Smith, I'm going
a bit further. I'm at work on the
strument it will he possible to SEQ
what is going on in the room under
observation. With the eyepiece Of the
d~etectascope before you, and the ear
piece Of the detectaphone clamped
over your caput, you might just as
we'll be in the room, so far as observa-
ton goes"
The Kaleidoscope is a tube thirteen
inches long and three-eights of an
inch in diameter. 1t is inserted in a
hole bored at a convenient point. In
one end of the tube is a fisheye lens.
The focus can be altered so that the
faces OF those passing money or writ
ing checks may be observed. As 1t
stands, 1t is a modification of the cy-
long been accustomed to peerainto our
most sacred works.
But when 1 get through with
this"
Mr.. Smith pauses in his profane
rapture. 1t may be assumed that
when he gets through with it the
practice Of legislative bribery n al
dermanic purchase may come to a
dead stop.
THE next time" said a bribed
councilman to w. J.. Burns on one oc-
casion. that ! take any money I'll
be in my bathing suit-and we'll be
swimming out to sea-"
One Of frank Stockbridge's oc-
cupations used 'to be city boosting
He'd take a pale. wan municipality
and shoot mental dope into IL, and
pretty Don It would be hamYnerine on
its chest and hollefinE.
But one must be careful" said
stockbridge. Its easy to make mis-
takes"
He told OF a speech that the best
lawyer of a Furnishing upstate town
made to a convention that the town
desired to attract for it's next meeting.
The various town boosters were each
given ten minutes in which to present