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Evening star., 1917-12-09

Through investigation, Immediately.
aud relief from this session of Congress
Ter the plight of the government work.
es1 many of whom are receiving con-
sederably less than a living wage, is
psumised through the appointment of a
5otlt subcommittee from the commit
tsss on reform in the civil service. from
beth the Senate and the House to ef-
5seG . reform in the salary schedule
vhfch Is admitted to be antiquated and
eheolete.
re members Of Congress are not re-
Mcfant at all to say they believe the
mkbary schedule for the thousands Of
abternment workers should be rear
s4aged. that the government clerks are
a&d that this condition must be cor
1eceed Just as soon as possible
Numbers generally say that they do
MT think It right to ask the clerks to
- satisdeld with continuance OF the
6per cent and / per cent graded In.
tAat the abnormal increase IN living ex-
penSes makes IT imperative that the
gNyernment, which hnds no difhcuIay in
r1fsing money for all sorts of war work
ana humanitarian work should be fay-
voEAbly disposed towards those who are
Aethg the wark work in office and who
afN Just az much in need of food and
Stpthtng az peoples of other nations.
CouAdent Congress Will Act.
Representative Hannibal L. Goodwin of
18th Carolina, chairman of the House
oqlnu11tfee on reform in the civil service,
ento last night: There IL no doubt that
- government clerks win get at the very
z le44t o continuance of the and 10 per
MI / am in favor ef giving them a
OcettAntial increase sufficient to decently
met the present demands. The abnormal
a14 In some cases extortionate prices
&xNe made the salaries Of the government
vpglsers, especially those in the lower
3fAHe.. less than living wage. This
u1net be corrected
:. ~ think the proposal that Is being dis
oped by members Of the committee on
Rtgm IN the civil SERVICE. Of which am
ehAkman. to have the entire question Of
01Afle0 for the government workers
eS6 houses Of Congress. is a fine idea
- opportunity win be given for proper
&beuss1ou Of the question anc for getting
3Gun 10 systematic reform. It seems
- me that this VIA come nearer to set
11ag this moot question than anything
- should receive prompt attention, and
b4ereaA5usted on . new basis"
representative James Az HarnfN of New
SegDey, also q member of the civil serv-
3G4l committee OF tia Honse. is another
laeAest advocate Of higher salaries.
efAn tho necessities. the salaries paid the
3151m at present (and this includes the
u NJ 10sper cent increase) are entirely
1eQuAta Tho prices for the things
49, federal workers must eat and wear
A$Ider 20 Be able to continue at work
Evening star., 1917-12-09
What Increase Would Mean.

An example of how much even S
and 10 per cent increase means to the
clerks and other federal workers in
Washington is shown in the report
made from the government printing Of
fee. which in four months paid out in
the and 10 per cent increases t$129,-
364.62.
Evening star., 1917-12-09

are not only very much higher than
normal than they were a year ago when
wergaye them the increase. but In some
cases are exorhitant and we can see no
prospect Of an early reduction. Tne
salaries of the clerks, on the other hand.
are stationary and they are based on q
system that 10 now obsolete. We must
do them justice and give living wage.
am in favor Of q substantial and reason
able increase, Probably we cannot see
our way to granting more than graded
10 and Is per cent increase at this
time"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
Cleansing the Mind.

There are kinds of illness that cleai
the system, and there are kinds that
spread through the system a subtle
infection. There are wounds that
heal from the outside and that tester
within. In the mind and the spirit
there may be conditions precisely sim
liar. Now, everything depends ON the
treatment, upon getting at the deepest
causes, sometimes so far away as to
be almost beyond detection. When we
trace the causes we are almost GER
tain to find them associated with some
defect of character. 1t is this defect
that must be treated. The wound may
be only the clamoring of health, under
the circumstances a blessing in dis
guise, bringing warnings and incen-
tives.-John d. Barry, in New York
Evening Telegram.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
Sheep in the East.

If the abandoned farms could be
utilized for sheep-raising, it will be a
long way togard reducing the cost of
living in this country. The sheep in
dustry was originally started on the
Atlantic seaboard of course; but it
has worked its way westward until
now there are only few sheep breed
ers in the East. That the industry
can be brought back to the East is a
sure thing. Sheep, it is well known,
are the most economical domestic ami
mails produced. They can live on al
most nothing. 1t has been estimated
that every sheep in the United States
produces a profit Of $40 annually. If
we can bring back the industry to the
eastern states and use the abandoned
farms for grazing, we shall very soon
make a dent in the high cost of liv.
ing.-Boston Globe.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
COTTON CROP is VALUABLE
Yield for Season of 1915 Was Worth
More Than Three-Quarters of
Billion Dollars to Growers.

Final figures compiled by Uncle
Sans census experts for the season
of 1915 show that the crop Of cotton
and cottonseed was worth more than
$75O, 100000. The production. of H.
191, $50 bales of cotton was worth $627,-
100000 to the growers while the A.
$4,000 tons of cottonseed produced
was worth $167,900,000.
Texas alone produced 1927, 4S0
equivalent 500-pound bales, or nearly
20 per cent of the total American crop
of 1915; while four states-Alabama
Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas
each with an output of more than l.
100000 bales-together produced near
ly two-thirds of the crop.
According to the revised estimates of
the department of agriculture, the acre
age from which the crop of 1915 was
harvested amounted to 81, 412, O00-the
smallest since 1907. This reduction in
acreage was due to the demoralized
state of the cotton market following
the outbreak of the European war; The
average production of lint per acre in
1915, as estimated by the department
of agriculture, was 40 pounds, as
against 200 pounds in 1914, 1S2 pounds
in 1913, 191 pounds in 1912, and POS
pounds In 1911.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
new RADIO STATIONS
Uncle Sam Installing Powerful
System Throughout Country.
Work of Installing New Equipment
and Improving the Old Is Being
Pushed by Navy Department.

Uncle Sam is pushing the work up
tons that are to be established
throughout the country by the navy
department.
Contracts have recently been enter
ed into by the department for the
radio equipment at San Diego and
Pearl Harbor, and for the radio and
power equipment at Cavite, and while
it is said that the general trade con-
ditions have caused some delay, 1t is
believed that the San Diego station
will be in operation soon and the 9th
ers will follow.
officers of the bureau say that the
equipment of the stations at Boston,
the Great Lakes, Charleston, Key
Juan and Cordova, Alaska, has been
SO improved as to render these sta
tons capable of communicating with
vessels beyond the range of low-pow-
cred stations and also to relay mes
sages across the continent. 1t is in
tended to similarly equip the station
at Mare Island.
Distant control of stations, to per-
nit simultaneous sending and receiv-
ing of messages, has been established
during the past year at Arlington,
Mare Island, Boston and Washington,
and similar improvement will be made
in the near future, the officials say,
at Charleston, Key West, Puget Sound
and New Orleans. In stations thus
equipped for transmitting with large
and small set, with facilities for re-
ceiving simultaneously the signals
coming in from similar sets, the capa-
city for handling messages is in
creased fourfold. Marked improve
ment has recently been made, it is
said, in the transmitting and receiv-
ing capacity of the more important
vessels of the navy.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
Romance in the Present War.

The romance of war is far from
dead. Witness the reports of the
French parachutist at Monastlr, who
jumped from his balloon at height
of $500 feet, who took out his pocket
book with one hand and, holding it in
his teeth, inserted therein all his i'm
portant papers, threw 1t into the
French lines as he sailed over them,
and himself reached the Serbian front.
Then again, we have the account of
the fight In the Adriatic between an
Italian torpedo boat and an Austrian
submarine. Both were sunk, but the
survivors of the torpedo boat cap
tured the submarine crew. Our novel
lists have never ventured on imaginary
exploits that beat these realities of
war. Perhaps some of them will take
the hint
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
ARE YOU EFFICIENT?
HERE is A TEST WHICH MAY BE
OF INTEREST.
Anyway It's One Which Very Few
Persons Find 1t Easy to Master,
So Don't Be Distressed II You
Should Fail.

Are you efficient? The awful query
refuses to down. The clocks tick It,,
| the fiat wheels in the subway thump
| it, the INCREASED curves of the ele-
| waited screech it. If you are an old
business fogy, the question burns in
the eye of every plying employee.
You find your wife measuring the
distance from the range to the kitch-
en- cabinet and your son computing the
power necessary to propel a football
in the lowest arc. The telephone COM
pany advises you to give your name
instead of saying Hello"
Blessed be the concrete of thought,
if not of heed. Concreteness enables
you to see just what the efficiency
master mean. One of them, William
| FretZ Kemble, tells in Industrial
Management "How to Test Your EN-
ployees." OF course, every man who
reads it will first test his most i'm
portant employee, his fathers son.
Watch with pad and pencil are all
| that is needed to acquaint yourself
with your virtues and faults. In 80
| seconds answer as many of these ques-
tons as you can:
Give the name of vegetable,
man, a woman, an ocean, lake, a
town.
If at the end of the half minute
you have written only "beet, gold,
| flea, adder" you are pretty poor. If
you have also put down trout,
Hughes, Pickford Atlantic" you are
| up to human average of eight an
swers. If you feel that you can go
beyond ten answers, you may describe
| the color of water, tea, beer, ivory,
the sky, grass, milk, chalk, coal and
skin. But men who go beyond 10
answers in 80 seconds are rare; they
should have secretaries, limousines and
big black cigars.
Next try to answer five difficult"
questions in 20 seconds.
1. Who is the greatest living gen.
| eral?
Lucky for you if you are pro-ally.
"Joffre" or "Haig" is written so much
luolc quiShiy tHdA iiiuuSlpuiS VI
| "Mackensen."
2. What is the most powerful force
in the world?
Perhaps love isn't, but it's a shorter
word than militarism.
3. What is the greatest modern dis
covery?
Quick, mani Radium will do
4. What is the greatest necessity Of
commerce?
Secretary Redfield probably would
not answer that In less than 1880
words. You perhaps will write "ships"
or railroads" and pass on to the
last:
5. What is the cheapest food for the
human race?
Bread unless you are a fiend for
lentils or employed by the makers Of
fluted oat-corn. But you ought to an
swer three of these questions in 20 Sec
ends, says Mr.. Kemble. If you answer
fewer, it indicates "slowness or de-
liberation in thought"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
USE OF THE PILLORY
CONTINUED AS A PUNI SHMENT
IN THIS COUNTRY UNTIL 1887.
Delaware Was the Last State to Abol.
ish lt-Barbarous Devices Used
Generally for Cheats, Forgers
and Perjurers.

1t was only 115 years ago that the
pillory was used in Boston. The last
American victim of this medieval mode
of punishment did not suffer in vain
for by his martyrdom he aroused so
strong sentiment against the pillory
in Boston that il was abolished. This
barbarous device, which had been COM
mon in Europe and America for long
period, was not finally abolished in the
United States until 1889, and even
after that Delaware continued to give
legal sanction to its use. The pillory
was abolished in 1887.
An instrument similar to the pillory
was in use in England in the earliest
times, and in numerous instances the
victims were killed by being struck
with stones.
In England and also In colonial New
England the punishment of the pillory
was most often inflicted on cheats,
forgers and perjurers. 1t is recorded
that the mayor of London, in 1887, ibid
sharpe correction upon bakers for
making bread of light weight; he
caused divers of them to be put in the
pillory, as also one Agnes DANTE, for
selling mingled butter" Quacks and
mountebanks, fraudulent coal, corn
and cattle dealers, sellers of sham gold
rings, users of false measures, sooth-
sayers and fortune tellers, and beggars
who made false pretenses We're also
frequently subjected to punishment by
r,;l A Lea I'll 4
Tory was used for the punishment of
heretics and advanced thinkers, and
many men and women of noble lives
and high aspirations were subjected to
this ignominy.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
FOREST ROAD FUND ALLOTTED
California Gets Largest Share of Mil
lion Dollars to Be Spent by Uncle
Sam in Next Fiscal Year.

Secretary of Agriculture Houston
has announced the amount allotted to
each state from the $1,000,000 to
be spent by Uncle Sam during the fis-
cal year 1918 in constructing reads
and trails within or partly within the
national forests. This money is part
of the $10000,000 appropriated by the
federal aid road act to assist develop
ment of the national forests, which be-
comes available at the rate of a mil
lion dollars year for ten years.
The allotments as approved are as
follows: Alaska, $46,354; Arizona, $685.
604; Arkansas, $9,S03; California,
$14O,98S; Colorado, $62,575; Idaho,
sos, 730; Montana, $7O,042; Nevada,
SIS, 296; New Mexico, $42, 495; Oregon,
$12S,111; South Dakota, 5000; Utah,
SAL ,167; Washington, $91,944; Wy
oming, $40,6S4. A total of $9,995 has
been allotted to Florida, Michigan,
Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota
and Oklahoma. The group of eastern
states-Georgia, Maine, New Hamp-
shire, North and South Carolina, Ten
nessee, Virginia and West Virginia
in which the government is purchasing
lands for national forests, receives
$21 ,120.
In making allotments, it is explained,
10 per cent of the amount available
for 1918 is withheld as a contingent
fund. One-half of the remainder has
been appropriated among the states in
amounts based on the area of the ma
tional forest lands in each state,
while the other half has been allotted
on a basis of the estimated value of
the timber and forage resources which
the forests contain.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
SAVED BY BUTTER
SEA CAPTAINS WONDERFUL
PRESENCE OF MIND.
Slippery Story of How He Discom
fitted Pirates Who Had Boarded
His Ship With Murder in
Their Sinful Hearts.

Sea captains have many adventures,
and the stories of their wonderful es-
capes seldom lose by repetition. Many
years ago pirates cruised up and down
the English channel to the great peril
of the merchantmen. The story is
told of Captain Davis, who was
noted for his quick wit as well as for
returning from Ireland with cargo
consisting mainly of butter.
He had not been out very long when
a pirate was seen coming down upon
him. In vain all sails were spread +;
every moment brought Inc pirate
nearer.
The men were at their wits end, but
the captain knew a trick or two. He
ordered his men to take off their
boots and stockings, and directed that
a score of butter barrels be brought
on deck.
In a few minutes the barrels had
been knocked to pieces, and the but
ter was thickly spread all over the
deck and outside the ship. Not rope
nor a spar that was not slippery.
Even without their boots and stock
ings the sailors could scarcely keep
on their legs.
On came the pirate, not dreaming
how smoothly he was to be received.
Captain Davis assumed an air of sub
mission, and allowed the enemy to
come alongside quietly.
But when they jumped over, fully
armed, with pistol in one hand and
sword in the other they slipped about
and tuInbled over one another on the
buttered deck like so many rats.
One fellow shot head-foremost down
into the cabin, where he was imme-
diately set upon by the boy; another
slid across the deck, and shot out into
the sea by an opposite portfolio.
Not one of them could stand on his
Feet, and as pirates are generally SUI
perstitious, an idea seized them that
the ship was possessed of the devil.
They hurried back into their own yes-
sci, cast loose, and Captain Davis got
safely into port at the expense of a
few pounds of butter.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
Japanese Get 12-Hour Day.

japanese wage-earners have not
heard of the eight-hour day, but they
have won a 12-hour day, according to
Uncle Sans commercial representa-
tives In the Orient. In a new factory
law which has gone into effect, IL
hours day is fixed as the maximum
number of working hours for laborers.
Two million girls employed In Japa-
nese factories hail the new law as a
great improvement In working cOndi-
tons.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
National Forests Restricted.

Since the passage in 1912 of the act
providing funds for land classification,
and as a direct result of the classified
ton work, a total of 13,477,7S1 acres
has been eliminated from the national
forests. This includes an elimination
of approximately 5,S00,000 acres of
land from the Chugach national forest
in Alaska, which embraced lands of
low value for any purpose other than
mining.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
German Exports to U. S. Drop.

The total value of the exports In
voiced at the American consulates in
Germany for the United States during
1916 was $S,349,902, as against $780,
967 1873 for 1915. Exports to the Phil
ippines were valued at $21 ,42S against
$140,871. No exports were declared
during the year for Hawaii or Porto
Rico, while in 1915 the shipments
were valued at $S9,159 and $16,841,
respectively.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
Pennies Keen Mint BUSY.

According to the report of the direc-
tors of the mint, there were coined by
the United States during the last
year 347,900,469 coins with a total
value of $33, 743, 376.O7.
The greatest number of coins mint
ed We're 1-cent pieces, of which there
were 190299,677. There were 796, 900,
in round numbers, of $40 gold pieces
coined. There were, approximately
100000 pieces coined for other gov
'rnments.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
Wasted Energy.

"What q terrible crush !" exclaimed
one lady to another in an overcrowded
car.
at is indeed" said the other. San
such waste of energy, too"
"Waste of energy" echoed lady
No. l.
Eyes" explained the other. mo
bargain counter near. See"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03

exhibit showing
brchbak torch the
of picture
fashioned peculiar hold and OIL Oil
am
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-03-03
Could II Be PLEASANT

Redd-I hear your brother spent the
autumn In his airplane?
Greene-Yes, he did.
"Well, l hope he had a pleasant
fall.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-07
LAIR BUILDING :
TO Be LARGER.
BUSINESS GOOD
Motor Sales Company Decides to
Increase Capacity of Plant :
80 Per Cent
CLUB ROOMS; SHOWER
BATH; LADIES' PARLoR

Shower baths and club rooms for
employees, and Hastily furnished rest
roolns for ladies will be some of tho
outstanding features of a three-story
assembly and distribution plant for
the Overland and Willys-Knight auto
mobiles son which the Lair Motor
Sales company will ask bids June 8.
Business gas usual is regarded by
President W: E. Lair as something
more than dp empty slogan, and on
the strength Sof his belief that bust.
ness conditions are fundamentally
sound and WIN remain so, he has
made his plans one-third larger than
originally contemplated, and the new
home Of the Overland will be one Of
the finest automobile plants in the
northwest.
The lots at the corner Of Fourth
street and Thayer heve been cleared
for action by the removal of the two
residences which they formerly con.
tanned. Bids will be opened June 8,
and Mr.. Lair hopes to SEE work under
way not later than June Is. The
structure will be three stories in
heiehth and with full basement The
Fourth and Thayer street elevations
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his face, he told the Judge Of the Sec
ond communication.
Don't endanger my child's life,"
Keet begged.
Judge Johnson, convinced that the
life of the child hangs in the balance,
will hold off the officers.
ChiId's Father Issues Statement.
|. Following the interview Keet issued
this statement:
81 know there are thousands of ru-
mors going about the city in relation
to our baby. The day after the baby
was taken I received a letter giving
the instructions as to how he might
be recovered. followed these in
structions to the best of my ability,
but for some reason | failed.
"Since that time | have had addi-
tional information from parties claim
ing to hold our child l feel certain
that within a short time will be able
to arrange a plan with them by which
| can get the baby back. !. -,
Recovery Of First Importance.
"Of course recovery of the child
is of first Importance with me and ]
am bending every energy to that end
81 have felt and now feel that to
take any other course than the one
mapped out by the parties who have
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will be Of almost solid plate glass
with face-brick panels trimmed in ter

.7I Sr-N. " - t
will be Of almost solid plate glass
with face-brick panels trimmed in ter.
"a Gotta. All Of the windows in the
show room on the ground floor, 'front.'
ing on Fourth and Thayer will be
eighteen feet long, and high French
windows will open from the display
room upon the ladies' retiring rooms
at the rear.
Arrangement Of Floors.
The first floor will be occupied by
the show room, Offices, shop fore
mans Office, ladies' rest room and ga
rage. The garage will be supplied
with wash racks and door opening
and closing by electricity will give
access. On the second floor will be
more storage room, the parts room,
connected with the parts shop on the
first floor by a dummy elevator; a
club room for employees, with billiard
tables, shower baths, library and 9TH
er features, and the general offices
Of the company. IS
On the third floor will be the serv.
ice department shop, paint shop, fin
fishing room and additional storage.
The combined storage facilities will
care for 40 cars. H. - "
with even an ordinarily good crop
next fall, the demand for cars next
spring should be the greatest in the
history of the state" said Mr.. Lair
today. 1--WE are going ahead with
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all the advantage of me would not
aid me-
II believe that if left to work this
out l will be successful. While 1t is
natural that the excitement here has
run riot and my friends have taken
all the interest possible in offering to
help us, yet that very fact I feel has
possibly deferred the holders of the
baby from returning him to us.
while 1 have no. idea as to his
whereabouts, information received
leads me to believe that he is being
we'll taken care of. 60.
Thanks Friends for Interest.
Eve feel a full appreciation of the
interest taken by friends and the gen.
eral public. But j want further time
to hear from the abductors of my boy
with the hope Of recovering him"
A big development, in the case-the
recovery of the child is now momen.
tarily expected.