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Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-09-25
SPRINGFIELD RIFLE
 WINS AT GAMES

The United States standard Spring field rifle proved at the Olympic Games that it was the most accurate rifle in the world.
 In competition with rifles of every conceivable type and pattern, with no restrictions as to telescopic sights. special barrels and other accessories which make for accuracy, Sergeant Morris Fisher, U. s. Marines, of Youngstown, Ohio, firing the U. s. magazine rifle, won the individual rifle championship of the world at Antwerp, Belgium, last month.
 Ninety crack shots from thirteen different nations competed in this 3OO-meter Free Rifle Event, and Ser geant Fisher pulled up under the wire with a score of 996 out of a possible 10S0, which was seven points in the lead of his nearest rival, Larsen, of Denmark, according to advices re- ceived recently by Major Joseph C. Fegan, of the local office of the sea- soldiers at Los Angeles, Cal.
 This is the first time in history that this shooting classic has ever been won by a competitor using the stan dard military rifle of any country. It is also the first time it has ever been won a member of an American team.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-09-25
250,OOO SPEEDWAY
 FOR FRESNO, CAL.
Again the West scores.

Again the West scores.
 The competition of a new $250,C0 one-mile board track speedway at Fresno, Calif., brings the third great race track to the West-equalling the number of speedways in the East.
 The new speedway will be dedicated on October 2, with a 200, mile race in which all important racing drivers of the country will participate. Two major races are guaranteed at Fresno each year, the "Raisin Day" classic on April 30 and 200 mile event on the closing day of the Fresno fair.
 When the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California bought the Ascot Park race track at Los Angeles and announced that it would be dis mantled to make way for 500 homes for Goodyear employees, racing men were fearful that winter racing in the west might be discontinued. But the erection of new speedway at Bever- ly Hills last winter and the new track at Fresno has dispelled this fear. Racing drivers are now planning to spend the entire winter on the coast, many of them bringing their families with them.
 With tracks in each end of the coun- try at Los Angeles, Tacoma, Fresno, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Union town all-year round racing is possi- ble, with the California tracks fur nishing the center of winter racing activities.
 The new course at Fresno is locat- ed on the site of the old dirt track at the fair grounds and is flanked on one side by the old grand stands from which thousands of shouting rac- ing fans have cheered their favorite horses and jockeys in former days. About 300 feet of new bleachers have been added.
 It is modelled after the new speed way at Beverly Hills, which since the
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-09-25

dismantling of the Sheepshead Bay speedway is the fastest in the United States. The surface is composed of 2x3 boards placed on edge. The course is but quarter mile shorter than the Beverly Hills track and will permit speed of better than 100 miles per hour with safety.
 All of the race courses on the coast are of board construction allowing de- velopment of the speed of the various racing cars.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-09-25
The Old Order Is on the Bias

I met a vampire.
 She didn't have any blod red roses anywhere.
 She did not glance at me through heavy half-closed eyelids.
 She never hissed a hiss.
 She said her favorite drink was a marshmallow fudge.
 She seemed real put out when a gust of wind Tipped her skirt a trifle recklessly.
 She coughed when a zephyr of my cigarette smoke assaulted her nose. What are we coming to?
 Is everything going to pot?
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-09-25
Good Old Times

Buell-Harvey is quite an old-tim- CT, isn't he?
 Swope-I should say so! He says he can remember when person could make a statement regarding some National question and two or three men would immediately agree with him.-New York Evening Post.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-09-25

Window-dresserr-Shall I place the 1915" tags on the shirts?
 Proprietor-Or the neckties- what's the difference
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-09-25
Pure Fancy

Excuse me, sir, you have made a mistake" said the taxicab driver to Jones. "This isn't a one-dollar bill you've given me, it's a five"
 Jones fainted.
 Deeply moved, the taxicab driver knelt by the prostrate body. He was replacing the five-dollar bill in Jones's pocket when a policeman stepped up and arrested him for assault and att tempted robbery.
 Moral. Don't waste any sympathy on the taxicab driver. This didn't happen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17
DIRECTOR WlNSToN'S PLANS

director WINSTON denies that
- Donald NJ. Hepburn mechanical
and industrial construction engineer, has
been appointed as head of the street.
cleaning bureau with the ultimate inten-
tion IF r,utt'ng him at the head of
consolidated highway bureau in the De-
partment of Public Works.
But man of Mr.. Winstoos wide bus
iness experience is not likely to consent
long to the division of responsibility for
the care of the streets among three diff
ferent bureaus, with three Independent
heads acting without consultation with
one another.
We prefer to believe that Mr.. Winston
is not vet prepared to take the public
fully into his confidence, and that. when
the proper time comes, he will announce
that he has perfected arrangements for
putting the care of the streets into the
hands of one bureau with the most cap
able man that he can find at the head of
~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17
Member of the Associated Press
Philadelphia, Saturday, January II, 1920
WHY A LICENSE COURT?

MISUNDERSTANDING their admission
= that the national liquor law enforcing
the prohib titory amendment to the fed
eral constitution supersedes the Brooks
high license law in this state, the
common pleas judges are Planning to hold
the usual license court on March /.
They might as well announce that they
would adjudicate bankruptcy cases in ac-
cordance with the state law which was
superseded in 1898 by the national bank
rurtcy law, passed by Congress in the
exercise of its const tutional function.
# the federal law is valid, then the
state law no longer runs and no power in
the state has any right even to consider
an application for license to sell intox-
icating liquor. No license is needed to
sell Misunderstanding beverages.
The power of the license court to func-
tion has been destroyed by superseding
federal liquor regulations. This might as
well be admitted now as at any other
time. Those optimistic saloonkeepers
who apply for licenses, and the judges
who attempt to grant them will be vast
ing their time, if not actually violating
the federal law in vicious manner.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17
PRODUCT OF HYSTERlA

THERE are two fatal objections to the
L sedition bill framed by the judiciary
committee of the national House of Rep
resentatives. One is that it attempts the
impossible end the ether is that it pro-
poses penalties for offenses already pen
allied by law.
A third objection might be raised. and
it is the really vital objection to all the
anti-sed ton laws thus far passed or
proposed. 1t is that these laws are based
on the assumrtion that the state is
sacred thing which it is crime to attack.
This was the Prussian theory, under
which the citizen was said to exist for the
sake of the state. The American theory
is that the state is the creature of the
citizens and exists for their sake. To set
un the state as a fetish and to make
criticism of it crime is to introduce a
new and dangerou and oppressive theory
into American law.
But to the two minor objections to the
judiciary committees bill: The measure
makes any acts against the government
which result in the death of others a
crime punishable by death. Such Of
fenses are punishable by the existing
criminal laws as offenses against life
rather than offenses against the state.
If punishment is all that is sought no
new laws are necessary. Not only is the
man who does the violence criminally
liable for its results but whoever con-
srired with him is also crimir allv liable.
Every attorney familiar with the law is
aware of this.
The measure also provides that no
person accused of any of the offenses
snecifed in it NAV be excused from testi-
flying or producing any book, paper or
document on the ground that his testi-
mony or the book or document might
tend to incriminate him. The men who
drafted this part of the bill ignored the
fifth amendment to the constitution in
cluded in the bill of rights ratified by the
first session of the first Congress and
PASSED on Septomber 25. 1899 and then
suh~'itted forthwith to the states and
ratified by eleven of them within about
two years. That amendment provides
that no person shall be compelled. in
criminal case, to be witness against
himself.
The ren on the committee are lawyers
and thew are not unaware of this nro-
vision. The fact that thev have consented
to bill drafted in plain violation of the
constitution proves that they have not
at the present time sufficient poise to
frame suitable legislation against revolu-
tionary activity, even if such legislation
were advisable.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17
"RoBlN HOOD" DE KovEN

pEGINALD DE KOVEN, who died sud-
~ denly at Chicago at the age of fifty
nine years. will be known in American
musical history as the composer of
"Robin Hood" when it is forgotten that
he wrote anything else.
"Robin Hood" was one of the finest
light operas ever written in America. 1t
took its place along with the best of it's
class in England France, Germany and
Austria. It's merit explains its popular
ity. In the hands of a less canabie COM
pany of singers than composed the Bos-
tonisns It would have heer welcomed on
Enthusiastically but with Barnabee, Nc
maid, rockingham and Cowes, ably
Piisted by Jessie Bartlett Davis, there
O..s a conjunction of delightful light
para with efficient singers and actors
which comneled public attention FOR
mary seasons.
De Koven wrote other things of merit,
but mono of them he'd the lasting appeal
that characterizes "Robin Hood
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17
AN AILING PHILOSOPHER

MANY people disagree with Uncle
A'A Dave Lane. Many others have de-
nounced him. Yet. according to his
lights, Uncle Dave is an honest man. He
says little that he does not sincerely be-
lieve. Of how many politicians can this
be said?
The sage of the Twentieth ward has
frequently been held up and verbally
stoned by the reformers. Yet Uncle
Dave has never lodged. He has done
his fighting in the open. He has made
no secret of his beliefs and his nurposes
He was fair fighter because he didn't
wear an elaborate disguise. Even those
who find his political theories abhorrent
will be glad therefore. to learn that he
is recovering from the effects of his re-
cent illness.
Even as terrible example Uncle Dave
has his uses. Most people, however like
him because he has never been d hypo-
critic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17
A REGULAR GUY
ssTT is all so chic" said Captain Bruce
( Bairnsfather, describing things seen

ssTT is all so chic" said Captain Bruce
Bairnsfather, describing things seen
in America.
AS he places chief among our assets
and the chiefest of things that delight
him our pretty girls and our musical
shows we take it that he was not using
French but abbreviated English. He
meant "chickens." He added that they
were a little bit of all right, first-class
and all that sort of thing; and thus
labeled himself as pretty much in the
same class.
1t is really quite relief to have the
captain with US after being patronized
by the poets and other highbrows from
across the pond. He seems to be reg
ular guy with fondness for revues and
the bright lights.
All, the lights! My word! He never
saw anything like them, by George!
All of which is what we might have
expected from the creator of Old Bill.
1t is a cinch he wouldn't crouch. If he
saw a better 'ole ed go to it!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17
ONLY TEN MORE NEEDED

THE ratification of the equal suffrage
4 amendment by the Legislature of
Indiana yesterday brings the number of
consenting states up to twenty-six. Since
January the amendment hos been rati-
fed also in Kentucky and Rhode Island.
1t must be ratified in ten more states be-
fore it becomes effective.
Among the states which have not yet
ratified are Vermont, Connecticut, New
Jersey, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona,
wyoming, Nevada, Idaho and Washing
ton. where it is confidently expected that
afirmative action will be taken. What
win happen in Delaware, Maryland and
west Virginia is not ceriEa but the
group Of far southern sty e~are not
sxpscted to,favor the amend he
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17
CHANGED

TN DISTANT fields they lie,
l. Young lads whom you and
Have teased and played with sunny after
moons,
Have kissed or fouted under gentle moons
In distant fields they lie,
Beneath the blood bought soil Of Picardy,
Their names forever set
Among the great whom Time may not forget
In distant fields they lie
So clothed upon with majesty,
So far-so far
We can but view their shining as star
That thrones it's deathless fire
Above the puny reach of our desire
Of love--or grief.
1t seems beyond belief
That we have ever known
These lads to hero stature grown;
That these have ever been to us the gay,
Light hearted comrades of a summer day.
Ida Judith johnson, in Contemporary
Verse.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

The incorporation of the United States
into the league is extremely likely to
crush two of the most rernicious miscon-
ceptions ever irculated--Lenine's, that
the world is disorganized and is a helpless
victim of his hordes, and the mistaken
belief Of certain European agencies in the
efficacy of raising hullaballoo to mask
malignant designs.
America has no monopoly of virtue,
but its position is fortunately such that
it is enabled, when it chooses, to give the
league of nations a much desired and
impressive balance. 1t is mighty new
PEACE not the reckless threats of "new
war;" which has a still heartening op-
portunity to extinguish the latest lurid
and partly specipus international panic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

,yil states ment. .oned at the beginning of
this paragraph ratify women will have
the vote in every state.
Thus far 70,000,000 of the population
of the country are committed to the
proposition, for this number of people
live in the twenty-six ratifying states.
The ten more states needed will bring the
proportion of the population favoring the
change long way above three-fourths
of the total.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

united moral pressure of the overwhelm-
ing majority of great nations expressed
in severe terms, though not in field cam
paigns, is something that has never yet
been tried.
There are reasons for believing that it
will succeed if the union of purpose is
sincere and complete, whereas many a
war has ended in hideous injustice.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

Without casting any slurs against able
and conscientious correspondents, it may be- I
noted as matter of general interest that the I
acutest phases of the Bolshevist peril usually
synchroni2e with dearth of news elsewhere
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17
The New Era

Rev. Homer Tope delivered an address
celebrating the arrival of national pro-
hihtion.--News item.
When Homer smote lis bloomir' Tyre
e made us dry from sea to sea,
And wot we think we may require, .g
'Enceforth, will be on strict q. L.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

The new municipal administration is
showing appreciation of the fact that the
province of city government is t. get the
work done rather than to provide places for
political adherents.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17
THE FEMINIST MENACE
By William McFee

Especial Correspondent of the Chatting DiSh)
Editorial Note--When William McFee's
novel "CaSunls of the Sea" tods published; IN
1916 IL made a considerable sensation The
other duv tUe tuere talking toith an adnsirer
Of Mr.. McFeeS 1corh 1oho tods once connected
t0ith Philadelphia publishing house. He
told as that after "CdSuaIS" t1aS published
he read u, liked it greatly and ,crote to a
literary agent in Nep YORK, "Why don't y9u
euer send us something like 'CaSHals OF the
torted that he had sent the manuscript Of
that VerU book some time before, and 1t had
been declined. our friend looked the matter
up aud found that the book had indeed come
to the office had been read BY the young lady
employed as "frSt Siete," and she had re-
iected 1t.
We discussed this little item Of netDs IN q
letter TO Mr.. McFee, aud this Is his reply:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

Report has it that flock of wild geese
swept southwark over the Delaware river at
Hog island yesterday. This gives confrma-
tion to the theory that the old woman plucks
them during a snowstorm.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

TALKING of female first sieves, without
L actually going so far as to contend that
there is something rotten in the state of
Denmark, l would respectfully draw atten-
tion to the fact that it was the result of
giving a woman too much power which led
Hamlet to emit that aphorsm. If an alien,
who has to carry an Identification Passport,
with his thumbprint and photo which
makes him look like member of the crimi-
nal classes, may venture an opinion, there is
just shade too much of the distaff in Amer
ican life. 1t is my fate to receive q large
number of letters from young ladies who
really ought to be washing the dishes instead
of writing to strange men. AS a rule they
are "aspirants' to the magazines, or they
are living apart from their husbands and de-
sire to 'live their own life" One recently
demanded my exact age and the color of my
eyes, which to person bordering on q sedate
middle age is little short of brutal But the
point is, that these engagingly curious young
women are portents of state of society in
which their sex is lowered with a perfectly
preposterous amount of freedom and power
would say that this free verse which, is
such vogue just now is the literary equiva-
lent of the loosening of the bonds of disci-
pline in modern society. To those who de-
mand the right to produce free verse would
say, ''Yes, certainly. if you can write verse"
To a young lady who wants TO correspond
with me, u stranger of questionable probity
and virtue, / would say Eyes, if you say
| your prayers and can cook Wiener sChnitzeL
nit kdlt Kartofel Saldt or prepare Filet
| de boeuf dur chumpignons and get away with
| it." There is trick in this. of course If
| you can write poetry, if you have mastered
| the metrical craft, you will not fob off upon
| a simple public the rough clippings anG odd
ments of your workshop and call it free verse.
| If you can cook, you will not want to write
| to a harassed stranger who is half off his
| head with the hundred and one complications
| of a ships engine room and who wants 10
| get home to his tea. No, you will ALREADY
| have shared an accessible and eligible man
and will be busy adjusting the moose about
| his neck.
t THE same time there is danger in
"A advising the publishers to employ big
| fellows as readers Of manuscripts Arnold
Bennett deals with this very sklfully in one
of his books on authorship. The big fellow
has his own ak to grind He is preoccupied
with his own work. If he were not he would
not be big fellow. And most literary men,
| big and little, are chock- a block with preiu-
| dices. l, for example, would have turned
down Fl. G.. Wells's last three novels.
would have sent back Tarkington's Ramseu
| MilkOIl0nd and advised him to rewrite the
last part again, leaving out the war; In
deed, would have a slip printed and sent
with all communications to authors:
BE mGaascript will be considered by tbis
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

The news of the world daily demon
strates that the red flag of Bolshevism Is not
banner but signal with which to stop
the train of progress.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

The Senate investigation goes far to
prove that constructive criticism, when bot
tied up, is always in danger of becoming de-
structiye criticism.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

The Young Lady Next Door But One
wonders if it wouldn't be a good idea to
lure all the Bolshevists into Siberia and then
keep them there.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

The Bolshevist propaganda made great
progress yesterday, All pedestrians wore red
noses and red ears.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

England has come to the conclusion that
if she had taken time by the forelock there
would now be less danger of hair pulling in
the East.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17
Why Filings Leave Home

"I'hese Filings fail you and come out?'
The dentist jeered-"Why, ma am, you re
daffy!"
But ah, since then I've had bout
With adamant salt water taffy.
NJ. V. n. S.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

A sweet voiced client has just called us up
to ask if we ever eliminate" material sent
in to the Dish.
We told her, alas, that we do but she was
so awfully nice about 1t that we gre going
to lamp It over again and see what we can
do about II. SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

Many complaints are being made of the
taste of city water. This may be due to the
fact that more people are drinking it now.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

What appears to have been theNmatter
with Commander Bagey was that there was
nobody to save him from his friends.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

If that rocket ever reaches the moon it
will probably find II. G. l.. toying with the
green cheese.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17

Mayor Moore's reception in Harrisburg
is indication of the truth of Mark Twain $
declaration that nothing succeeds like sue
cess.