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The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1919-05-24

Although they do not regard
themselves as particularly unlucky,
the nineteen members of the class of
1919 are the thirteenth class to
graduate from the Colville high
school. When the members of this
class received their diplomas at the
commencement exercises last eve
ming, the Colvile high school list of
graduates was brought to the total
of 204.
The first class to graduate from
the Colville high school was that of
1907, and Harold Dexter held
place in it which no succeeding
graduate has been able to attain in
his class. He was at once the most
brilliant, the most popular, the most
athletic and by far the most liter
ary member of his class. There
was but one graduate in the class
of 1907.
The number of graduates has in
creased with time, until 35 students
were graduated from the Colvile
high school in 1917, and the same
number in 1918. War conditions
are responsible for the list of grad
yates being smaller this year than
last. That the students of the high
school played their part in the war
is seen in the honor roll of former
students of the Colville high school
who were in the service of their
country in the great war. The roll
contains 159 names.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1919-05-24
READY
FOR MAY 80
G. A. r., SONS OF DEMOCRACY,
w. X. c. AND BOY SCOUTS
TO MARCH
Colville Citizens Urged to Cooperate
On Program-Memorial Sermon
to be Sunday, May 25

Plans have been completed for
the observance Of Memorial day in
Colville. The program, which is in
the hands of the members of the
G. A. R., w. R. c., Sons of Democ-
racy, and Boy Scouts, promises to be
one of the most effective Memorial
day programs this city has had. As
each year death takes from the
ranks of the G. A. R. more of the
old soldiers who fought for the Stars
and Stripes, the observance of May
30, by decorating the graves of the
soldier dead, takes on deeper
meaning. This year sees the added
necessity of honoring the young men
who have given their lives in the
great world war. All citizens are
urged to cooperate in presenting the
Memorial day program, which is to
be as follows:
9:30-Meet at opera house and
take cars for the cemetery to deco
rate graves Of the fallen comrades.
Services at the veterans monu-
ment by members of the G. A. R.,
W. R. c. and Sons of Democracy.
Decorating Of the individual graves
by the Boy Scouts. #
Return to I. o. o. F. hall, where
basket dinner will be served by
the w. R. C. IA
1:30-Assemble on the courthouse
lawn and. form parade, under COM
mand of c. w. Campbell, marching
to the opera house in the following
order: Colville band, G. A. R., w.
R. c., Sons of Democracy in full
uniform, Boy Scouts, school chill
dren, civilians.
The parade will march as follows:
West on Beach avenue to Main,
north on Main to First avenue, west
on First to opera. house. ~
2:30-Convocation by Rev. Sykes.
Program.
Memorial address by F. Leo Grin
stead.
Benediction.
Memorial sermon, Sunday, May 25,
at the M. E. church. Rev. I. E.
Metcalf officiating.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1919-05-24

angels and he would explain. Mr..
Lindal, played by William Layers,
was sent to hades because his ap-
pearance, in the angelic costume was
considered too incongruous. Miss
Rachel Shuman, played by Orpha
Hickey, was sent to hades because
she didn't weigh enough and kept
freshmen after school for mistakes
in spelling. Miss Violet Hallowell,
played by Beatrice LaPlant, was ad-
mitted to heaven to direct the
heavenly orchestra. Upon getting
a director, the orchestra proceeded
to play whenever an applicant was
admitted or sent on his way to the
neither world. Prof. E. E. Elliott,
played by Carl Ferry, brought his
pruning shears with him and pruned
all the flowers in front of the gates,
before applying for admission. He
knocked on the gate with his shears
and was reprimanded by st. Peter
and sent to hades. After all had
arrived at hades, they sang "Hail,
hail, the gangs all here" and the
angels took flight as the drama end
ed
The class song, written by Ger
trude Thompson, was next on the
program. This was followed by
the class will, written by Helen Hud-
dleson and read by Ruth Wright.
Then the school sang "Till we meet
again." as the closing number in the
exercises.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1919-05-24
SOLDIER ORGANIZATIONS
TO MARCH TO SERVICE

The G. A. R., w. r. c., and the
Sons of Democracy who want to at
tend the Memorial sermon will meet
at the /. o. O. F. hall at 10:30 a.
m. and march in body to the M. E.
church, Sunday, May rs. Rev. l.
E. Metcalf will deliver the address.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1919-05-24

Tom Offutt and Will C. Spedden
enjoyed some good fishing at the
lakes Sunday. Mr.. Offutt landed
three-pound Cut-throat trout,
which was on display in the Keller
Hardware store window.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14
Prohibition and Crime. y

Representative kahn's figures show
ing that crime" has increased in
Washington since the local prohibition
law went into effect are not conclu-
sive. They undoubtedly show great
or number of cases in the Police Court
snd a larger amount of money col
lected from fines. But they fail to
take into account the increase in popu-
1ation due to the war, and they do
not show the character of the cases
brought into court. Until they can be
Enalyzed to show proportion to the
number Of people in the District and
10 indicate the nature of the charges
brought against defendants they are
increase of what is broadly termed
crime.
1t is well known that large per
ccntage Of the Police Court cases dur
ing the past eighteen months are in
eident to the enforcement of the pro
hibition act 1t was inevitable, WITT
wet" territory close at hand, tina
there should be much running OF
liquor into the District. The early
. efforts At enforcement were handi
|, capped by lack Of juries in the Police
Court, which slowed the disposition o!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14

of detection have greatly improved,
and the monky itself is more difficult
of imitation. If the bolshevist
schemers in Hungary have improved
upon the methods of the most expert
American cou1sterfeiters, who are
among the best in the world, they
may get some of their "green goods"
into circulation. but the chances are
against them. Probably this boil
shevik counterfeit money is poor stuff,
good enough perhaps to fool the igno-
rant. but certain to sbe stopped at all
banks and in many eases in business
houses.
In any case the menace to American
security involved in counterfeiting
scheme is slight. The government is
in no danger of being overturned
through bad money owing to the safe
guards that have been erected. Yet
it is necessary to be on guard against
this fraud and the publicity methods
of the government, which have been
one of the surest preventives against
wholesale counterfeiting in the past,
will be used to the best effect now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14

cases. Until the ''bone-dry" amend
ment was extended to apply to the
District convictions were hard to OBJ
tain. When that law was made to ap-
ply to the District the war time pro-
hibition act was soon to take effect,
and the result was a rush to bring
liquor into Washington in anticipa
ton of the drought after July l. This
fact alone would account for a ma
terial percentage of the increased mum
Der of court cases.
Washington is not crime-ridden. 1t
is an exceptionally peaceful, quiet and
safe place. The police are made
auate in numbers and the problems
here presented are difficult. Never
theless there is small percentage of
crime and even in the extraordinary
conditions that have prevailed during
the past year and half the city has
been we'll ordered. Prohibition
brought work for the police, unde
niahly, but the work has been as
well done as the circumstances per-
mitted. Nor are the Police Court
records for the past few months a
measure of the value to the cemmu
nifty of the dry law. in the enforce
ment of which the passing conditions
were a severe handicap.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14
A Counterfeiting Plot.

A plot to circulate great quantities
of counterfeit money in the United
States is believed to have developed
and precautions, it is announced, have
been taken by the Treasury Depart
ment and other agencies of the gov
eminent to circumvent the scheme.
This money, it is understood, was
printed in Hungary by bolshevist
groups. Currency Of other countries
has been also initiated, and much has
been put in circulation already in Eu-
rope The purpose of the promoters
of this plan is to spread financial ter
rorism and cause anger at the govern
ments, to the end of aiding in revo-
lutionary movements.
Counterfeiting has been kept down
in this country in recent years to q
very small degree. Fifty years ago the
false money makers had a compare
lively easy time in pushing" their
fraudulent notes. But the methods
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14
The Bridge Itself to Blame.

Whatever may be the official find
ings about possible carelessness in the
ease of the fatal motor accident on
[. Hunting Creek bridge, there can be
tbut one conclusion as to the real
cause of the disaster. That cause was
1.-The bridge itself, a long, narrow,
shaky, unlighted, antiquated structure
l that should have been condemned
years ago. 1t should, indeed, have been
' strapped by the government and re-
placed by a substantial bridge when
Camp Humphreys was established and
traffic between that point and Wash
| ington with motor trucks became
-, heavy. There may have been careless
driving the other night, but the best
of drivers could in those conditions
have come to grief. This is case
where NO one can personally be held
accountable. 1t seems to be a matter
of "anybody's business" Yet every
body who ever used Hunting Greek
bridge has realized the grave risk in
volved in its maintenance. This i:
one of those deplorable tragedies
where the corrective warning comes
after the fact. 1t has cost the lives
of six men to center attention upon
the constant menace of this structure
-
dately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14
Rastile DaY.

France is today celebrating Bastile
day in circumstances to arouse the
highest emotions there and a most
sympathetic feeling in this country.
July IA, the national holiday of
France. commentaries the beginning
of liberty in that country. For many
years it has been observed as a token
of the first move against the tyranny
Of autoeracy. Now it is celebrated as
q day of victory over fallen enemy.
1t marks the passing of a menace of
oppression from without.
A year ago Bastile day found France
in deep despair. The Germans, con
tinuing their great offensive of March
q, we're on the point of their supreme
effort. They began, indeed, the next
day in their drive against what they
thought was the weakest point of the
allied line, at Chateau Thierry. They
had made three previous smashes,
gaining ground and greatly straining
the allied line, and this was the SUI
preme blow which they hoped would
succeed before the American forces
arrived in sufficient numbers to turn
the tide against them.
Four days after Bastile day the tide
did turn, beginning with Foch's eoun
ter attack from the forest of Villers
Coterets that threw the Germans on
the defense and kept them there until
the end of the war. This, then, is the
first opportunity France has had to
observe the day of national rejoicing
in terms of victory. She has passed
through a terrible experience. She
has suffered frightful losses. Mil
lions of her men are dead and Grip
pied. Thousands of square miles of
her soil have been ravaged. Scores
of her cities have been ruined. Her
industries have been all but wrecked.
But never during the years of her ira
vail has she lost her spirit. Never
has she faltered in her faith. She has
borne her suffering grandly, and TO-
day the American people rejoice with
her. A new link has been forged be-
, tween the two peoples and on this &C.
easion of the French jubilation the
United States, which played SO potent
. part for victory, rejoiees with her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14
Government Paw.

1t is estimated by the Redistribution
commission that the average salary OF
the 100000 government workers in
Washington is about $1,000, which is
stated as the greatest pay roll con.
nected with any one enterprise of any
city in the world. According to these
figures the annual payments amount
to $l80,000.000. But this does not sig
Nifty exceptional prosperity for the
rank and file of the government work
ers. Formerly the average government
pay was estimated at between 1,100
and 81 200. The increase in the aver
age as now estimated is due chiefly
to the payment of bonus of $3.50 a
year to all persons getting $500 a
year and less, in consideration of the
extremely high cost of living. 1t is
due also to the higher rates Of pay
given to emergency workers brought
here for war service, who obtained
larger salaries than clerks Of the per
mament service performing similar
duties. In point of fact for the per-
manent force of the government there
has been no real betterment of condi-
tons, but, on the contrary, considering
all the factors, they are not as we'll
TODD as they were five years ago. A
revision upward of the whole pay scale
is demanded by equity and a proper
regard for the welfare of the gov
srnment's workers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14
The League.

The warn about the President and
conceived. 1t imputed to both Off
Gals qualities and influences unasso-
charged with heavy responsibilities.
1t is not supposab bic that the Presi-
dent has returned without pretty fair
knowledge of the Senate situation as
respects the peace treaty. Formidable
opposition to the treaty exists, and is
led by some of the ablest members Of
the Senate. The President needs
friends in the Senate, and needs also
to carry himself toward the supporters
of the treaty so as to invite their full
est cooperation.
Neither is it supposable that about
so transeendently important matter
Senator Hitchcock would indulge in a
huff. His attitude toward the treaty
has been plain and unequivocal from
ment, and would be glad to see it rati-
fed as drawn and presented. He would
probably stand as he now does If he
were not even a member, instead of
being the leading minority member, Of
the Senate committee on foreign re-
lations.
The treaty is far and away the most
important and interesting thing now
under consideration, by either the
Senate or the country. There are
strong men for, and equally strong
men against, the pact. There are re-
publicans for, and democrats against,
it. The debate has opened in a way
promising an elevated tone to all that
is said.
AS the debate proceeds there may
be some warm exchanges in the Senate
and out between opposing forces. A
great deal of feeling exists on the SUBJ
ject. A very great deal is involved in
the subject. 1t touches the funda-
mentals; and when they are touched
everybody sits up and takes notice.
That spirit is to be welcomed.
But we shall all profit if the sub
ject in its entirety is kept constantly
in view, and free from partisan bick-
erings and rasping personalities. If
the country, through the treaty making
power, is to take stand on this mat
ter favorable to league of nations,
the stand taken should be clear to
ALTO our foreign associates no less
than to ourselves. No doubt should
exist anywhere as to the character and
extent of the commitment.
For if we commit ourselves, we must
keep the pledge-live fairly and fully
up to lido all that in US may be
toward making the league a success.
There are predictions that the whole
thing will prove to be not much more
than a flourish; that it possesses no
workable quality. But even the pes
simistic authors of such deliverances
must admit that, once established, the
league will be entitled to the fullest
support of all its members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14
Senatorial Courtesy.

Senatorial Courtesy.
'What is senatorial courtesyi"
Senatorial courtesy" replied sena-
tor Sorghum, Consists largely in re-
naming silent so ostentatiously that
anybody can guess what unpleasant
things you must be thinking about"
"Flattery," said Uncle Eben, "is gen
orally q scheme fob easy money
maxim, wifout even goin' to de trouble
Of fxin' up gold brick or satchel
Of green goods"
Still in the Lead.
Oh, do you remember the "Old Swim
min Hole"
That Riley described with such art,
Even now the reciter puts pathos and
In the poem which touches the
heart.
Serenely the shadows are lowering
there,
And never a copper draws nigh.
To look for an ankle left thoughtless-
ly bare
That might give offense to the eye.
No landlord takes toll for the use of
| the shore;
No submarine turks down below.
No shark lies in wait for the folks who
explore
The depths that 50 silently flow.
OF all the resorts that invite us to
| play
In freedom from Cares duh con-
| troll.
There is none to be found that is bet
| ter today
Than that wonderful "Old Swimming
Hole"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14

Germany will proceed toward pros
perity more rapidly if she will imme-
diately shut down any official or un-
authorized efforts to raise propaganda
funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14

Necessity for new set of interna-
tional laws after the war has been
generally recognized, but Senator
Knox resolutely refuses to believe that
the league of nations covenant is it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14

Despite the voluminous interest of
the league of nations document, some
of the senators seem unable to read
with close attention any further than
article ten.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14

Max Harden as a diplomat might be
inclined to introduce little unusual
yet not undesirable "pep" into Ger
man state documents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14

Carranza contents himself with moth
ing less than an oil we'll and leaves the
minor looting to Villa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14

Senatorial courtesy attains another
handsome demonstration as Senator
Hitchcock remarks in effect, after
you, my dear Senator Swanson"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14

For some years past China has been
reminded that the fighters get more in
the way of tangible assets than the
philosophers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14

Suggestions of an international
strike make a world league of labor
organizations as interesting a propo-
sition as the league of nations itself
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14

France insists on considering the
possibility of more war so long as Ger
many is on the map.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14

The meat packers, not content with
controlling the pork, are now said to
be after the beans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14

Fiume is still struggling to deter
mine what element of its population is
to be classified as alien.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Evolution.
do you believe in the theory of
evolution"
81 wouldn't venture to contradict it,"
replied young Mrs. Torkins. "Charley,
dear, is always telling about animals
that start as race horses and finish as
dogs"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14

Overwhelming Erudition.
Unto a massive book / cling
With stout and patient hand.
The more try to read the thing
The less 1 understand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-14
A Melancholy Flippancy.

A Melancholy Flippancy.
EITHER that eminent Chinese official
is having great difficulty with the Eng
lish language or else he is a sad pun
ster."
what makes you think so"
"He keeps constantly referring to
the Shanstung peninsula
Glas svobode., 1919-02-18
Chicago February
1919 as required by The Act of October 9th 1917
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voakih krogh govo da Sc pogoj raz1kuJeJo od pref
njih pogoev udi ke e usavjeno nemko delovnJe ma
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napram Poljakom
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dobrem stan tovorn automobile aeropan vOne zaoge in ar
ria ki 10 bodo Nemc oci zavenkom VpraSanja demoblza
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,ago, ILL.,, February 18th,
with the Post master at Chicago ILL., FeOrua ~
required by he Act of October 9th 1917
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