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The Washington times., 1920-06-08
High School Cadets
Finish Drills Today
Line Up>For Awards
By COL. CHAKLEs 4, LANHAM,

Commander Of the Washington High School Cadet Corps
This is ''The Day" in the Washington high schools
Shortly after O'Clock this afternoon the winner OF the
Washington high school cadet corps annual
drill will be announced at the American League
baseball park
The Washington times., 1920-06-08

The twenty-third company. the last
TO enter the park to battle Tor hrs'
honors in the drill for 20 MN
utes. will go through the prescribed
movements. beginning at s;5b o'clock.
After this company completes It's or'ii
the entire high school brigade VIII AS
semble for the announcement OF
awards.
The second day of the drill opened
this morning with Company 1 OF Cen
trail High School. Capt. M. ID. Hensey
leading. entering the heid at '''
o'clock.
The stands were even more crowd
ed at this early hour than at any time
Yesterday. The boigterous "Razzo" OF
the Techites was supplanted today by
an even more boisterous yells from
the Centralites. with their famous
"Brecky."
The stands fairly shook. and the
echoes rolled back and forth long
after the cheering ceased-then came
the same strained silence of yester-
day, while the company went through
the prescribed program.
The companies drilled In the follow
ing order this morning: !. f, b. g.
and F., OF the Central High School
After the drill this morning the
stands were cleared. ana the oiB poh
network with its gates was set up al
the entrance to the park. Admission
heretofore has been without ticket
but this afternoon tickets will be
needed.
This afternoon. beginning at $50
the following companies will drill:
Company A, Mckinley; T., Business
F, Western: A. Central, and l., West.
eru. This concludes the program and
the entire corps will then assemble on
the field.
AnxiousIy Await Verdict.
There was many a restless boy last
night with visions of a very unde'
cided adjutant slowly making up his
mind to come toward his company to
announce that II had won the drill
There will be many arms and legs
shaking this afternoon when this ad'
jutant makes his final march.
The brigade will pass in review be-
fore the awards are made and will
assemble in a new formation. The
winner will then be announced and the
brigade will again pass In review.
after which it will be dismissed, each
The Washington times., 1920-06-08
$4,000 Reward Posted
Here for Toronto Man
Who Vanished Dec. z

Posters Offering $4,000 seward
to any one who locates Ambrose
J. Small. Of Toronto, Canada,
were sent to Inspector Grant, at
Headquarters. today. The paper
says Small disappeared from his
home on December 2, 1919. He
was owner Of the Grand Opera
House there, and IL widely known
in theatrical circles.
A reward OF $4,000 Is offered
for information leading to news
Of his death, ~ he has died. The
rewards will be withdrawn Sep
tember I.
The Washington times., 1920-06-08

Just because several thousand men
and women at the Navy Yard put In
eight hours of work every day, six
days in the week, it doesn't mean
that they don't get any fun out Of
life.
Recreation at the Navy Yard is as
much a system as the forging of a
fourteen-inch gun.
From sixteen to eighty years OF
age, there isn't an exception. There
are workers of these ages and all the
years in between, because in the 10
The Lamar register., 1920-05-12
Wilful Waste Alleged

During discussion of the Army APP
preparation Bill in the House few
days ago, Representative James c.
Mclaughlin emphasized the necessity
of using iron-clad language" in pro-
hibiting the department from purchas-
ing automobiles, Notwithstanding it
has now on hand more than can be
used and has permitted large numbers
TO go to waste through exposure to the
weather. Members of the Military
Committee assured Mr.. Mclaughlin
that the War Department is expressly
forbidden TO purchase additional mot
or vehicles of any kind. Mr.. McLaugh-
lin remarked that without such prohi-
bition the department will find a con-
struction by which it can spend the
money contrary to the intention Of
Congress. Concerning the waste of
property, Mr. Mclaughlin said: "There
are statements, more than rumOrs, that
the department has deliberately de-
stroyed the property of the Govern
ment of this kind. They have thrown
automobiles off railroad trains, have
taken new machines and driven them
around so that they would be second
hand, so that they would have no new
machines for sale"
The Lamar register., 1920-05-12

Ter Germany had been beaten to her
knees was something not touched up
on at all. 1t is true that Mr.. Wilson
himself, in his addresses to Congress
had referred to his ideal of a concert
of power, and on several occasions
while in Europe, he endeavored to con-
vey the impression that the American
people had dedicated themselves to the
establishment of league of nations.
But President Wilson's addresses to
Congress and his other utterances at
home and abroad do not constitute
explicit pledges by the United States
Government. They are merely the ex-
pressed wishes of the man who made
them, and have no binding effect what
ever on Congress or the American peo-
pie. Even if the Presidents views had
been embodied in written agreement
with the allies upon our entrance into
the war they would have placed no
obligation upon the United States
without the ratifying action of the
Senate. If such a written contract
could not have been binding how much
much less so were occasional remarks
of the Elective submitted at various
times
This is not the first time that Mr.
Wilson has recklessly perverted the
truth in the attempt to aid his fight
for the league of nations. More than
once he has declared that our soldiers
fought to establish the league, when
teveryone of them knows that nothing
was further from his thoughts. The
people are firing of the Presidents
constant attempts to make political
capital by misstating the ideals which
inspired them through the war.
The Lamar register., 1920-05-12
GOOD BASEBALL SEASON
Two Good Games Played This Week
and Indications Point to
Championship Team.

II looks rs if Manager Gregg had
succeeded in getting together a real
ball team, the first Lamar has had for
several years, and it looks as if our
fans will have plenty of good exhibit
tions of the real national sport this
season. Mr.. Gregg expects to play as
many week day games as possible this
year in order to give the fans who are
opposed to Sunday games an oppor-
tunity to sec some good games. On
last Thursday the Granada team came
up and played to fair sized audience
at the local grounds. The game was
a walk-away for the Lamar team, the
score being 10 to o. On Sunday the
local team went to Fort Lyon for the
first game of the season away from
home. The team at the Fort are the
state champions and have been prac-
ticing regular ever since the weather
permitted. The game was the best
played in the valley so far this sea-
son and went into the tenth inning be-
fore the Fort boys won by a score of
G to 5. Bud Baldwin pitched for La
mar and was a little wild in the first
three innings walking enough men to
give the sailors three runs. After
that he was almost invincible, and
pitched one of the best games ever
seen in this section. The Lamar boys
played an up hill game and succeed
ed in tying the score in the ninth, but
lost in the tenth. They will play
return game here May 23rd and La
mar hopes to change the result.
Manager Gregg hopes to be able to
give the fans of Lamar the best team
in the history of the town and de-
serves the hearty support of all good
fans in the endeavor. The class Of ball
being played is causing the patron
age to increase rapidly and it is hop
ed the team will soon be on a paying
basis.
The Lamar register., 1920-05-12
LAMAR REPUBLICAN HONoRED
State Convention Elects Floyd NJ. Will
son as Alternate to the Nation
nj Convention.

At the state convention last week in
Pueblo to elect delegates and alter
mates to the national convention in
Chicago in June, Prowers county was
given a prominent place when FLOYD
NJ. Wilson, manager Of the d. A. NJ. e.
p. Co., was chosen as alternate for
Senator l.. C. Phipps Mr.. Wilson has
ever since his residence in Prowers
county been an earnest republican
worker and all republicans of the coun-
ty feel that it is well deserved hon
or, one in which the party as well as
the individual is honored The dele
gates from this state go uninstlucted
and it is believed that the uninstruct-
ed delegates in this convention are go
ing to be the men that name the next
president of the United States.
The Lamar register., 1920-05-12
WASHINGTON NOTES
Presindential Prevarications
basis.

In his letter to Jouett Shouse re-
garding the policies which he thinks
the Democratic party must adopt in
the coming campaign, the President
makes statements regarding our en-
trance into the war which seem to be
prevarications. In a person with nor
NAL mentality they might be classed
as deliberate falsehoods. 1t is pos
sible, however, that the Presidents su-
preme egotism has actually convinced
him that the United States" and "Mr.
Wilson" are synonymous terms, and
that when he makes a statement to a
foreign representative it is the Ameri-
can people who have spoken. With
that charitable view of his astonish-
ing utterances we may conclude that
the Executive perversion of the truth
was not premeditated.
"The issue which il is our duty to
raise with the voters of the country,
says the President in this amazing
contribution to Whit House literature,
involves nothing less than the honor
of the United States and the redemp-
tion of its most solemn obligations; its
obligations to its associates in the
great war and to mankind, to whom
it gave the most explicit pledge that
it went to war not merely to win a
victory n arms but also to follow up
that victory with tho establishment of
such a concert Of nations as would
guarantee the permanence of peace
based on justice"
Nobody at all conversant with the
facts will contend for a moment that
there was any promise when we en-
tered the war to establish concert
of nations" According to the declar-
alton by Congress, which forms the
only official record, we entered the
conflict because "the Imperial German
Government has committed repeated
acts of war against the Government
and the people of the United States
of America" In the same resolution
the President was authorized and di-
rected to employ the entire naval and
military forces of the United States
and the resources of the Government
to carry on war against the Imperial
German Government"
Nothing there about concert of ma
tions. The President was directed by
Congress to wage war until the enemy
should be defeated. What the future
held for our international relations af-
The Lamar register., 1920-05-12
We Shall Not NEEDLE

Premier Millerand says There is
absolutely no desire among the allies
to avoid cooperation with the United
States in the solution Of peace pro-
blcms." Probably not, but there is a
very well defined desire among the
Republicans Of the Senate and mem
bers of the party generally that the
United States shall stand aloof from
problems of the treaty so far as they
relate to Eroupean questions. Coop
Grafton" may appear innocent enough,
but the moment we entered on such
a policy we would find ourselves be-
ing entangled more and more in Euro
pean diplomacy, a condition which
Washington specifically warned
against, and which the reservationists
of the Senate determined should not
be saddled upon the country.
The Lamar register., 1920-05-12
SNOW KILLS ANTI
HORSE ORDINANCE
IN DENVER
Trucks and Tractors Helpless Until Old
Fashioned Horse Had Broken
The Snow.

A good deal of comment has been
raised by the fact that the city of
Denver was considering an ordinance
which would have forbidden the use
of horses upon the streets for any
purpose. It was one of the most
radical traffic ordinances ever pro-
posed for any city. The purpose
was not apparent to n great many
people.
In discussing the matter Prof. G.
E. Morton of the Colorado Agricul-
tural College says, "The absence of
horses would somewhat reduce the
fly nuisance it is true, but horses are
by no means solely responsible for
the swarms of flies in the cities. As
against this one gain, the city would
have forced many truck men and
milk men to discontinue business, as
their routes are not large enough to
support trucks. The result of this
would have been to concentrate the
handling of food materials in cen
tralized agencies, and would have
increased the cost of middleman handl-
ing, instead of reducing it.
"The big snow storm in April put
an end to the ordinance. Without
horses Denver would have been buried
in snow for long time. Both horses
and tractors were used in clearing
the snow, but the tractors would
have been useless if horses had not
first opened the way On country
roads it was impossible to move any
motor unless horses had opened the
roads. Denver was without milk
deliveries for three days, but condi-
tions were returned to normal through
the use of horses.
Horses have been low now for
some time, and farmers are discour-
aged with breeding them. The result
probably will be that in very few
years horses will be higher again, due
to scarcity"
The Lamar register., 1920-05-12
HOME SERVICE DRIVE ON
Salvation Army Will Receive Its Full
Quota and More From Prov
ers County.

= Chas. Wooden, who is chairman for
.;Prowers county in the campaign to
raise funds for the Home Service work
of the Salvation Army, reports that
there is great interest and enthusiasm
in all sections of the county over the
raising of the quota, and it is already
certain Prowcrs county will 70 over
the top. No organization has deep
er hold on the public sentiment of the
American people today than the Sal
walton Army, and every returned SOL
dier boy is an enthusiastic booster for
the organization. The work being un-
dertaken by the Salvation Army is
one of the most noble and unselfish
ever attempted in the country. They
are going out into the slums to lift
UP the fallen both men and women,
and none are too lowly for them to ex-
tend the right hand of fellowship to.
The down and cutters, those whom
others are rot interested in, who are
unable to return any fecompcnse for
the service done them except by liv-
ing a cleaner life, arc the people they
are after.
II is unfortunate that so few of our
people went out Monday evening to
hear Mrs. Sarah Roe Robinson, district
marage- of the Home Service move
ment, a prominent attorney of st.
Joseph. give n history of the work
and organization and plans fer the fu-
ture. She is an interesting srd able
speaker and long years of earnest work
in the great cause have made her an
enthusiast on the subject. When the
work done is considered Prowers coun-
ty might well feel that $4,000 would
be cheap for its quota instead OF
$1,000.
Chairm:n Wooden expects to go to
Holly tomorrow night for n meeting at
which the quota for that city is prom
ised to be raised. Messrs. Wooden
and Kelsey are going to take their
flying squadron to Marvel farm for a
meeting on Friday or Saturday even
ing and a number of other meetings
will be held.
This is one time that people ought
not TO have to be solicited. You arc
not trying any experiment or giving
to anything that wastes the money. A
dollars goes farther and does more
good with the Salvation Army than
any other place you can put it. Give
literally and do it cheerfully.
The Lamar register., 1920-05-12

Figures being compiled by the State
immigration Department for use in the
1920 edition of the Colorado Year
Book show that the total amount of
taxes assessed in the several counties
of the state for the construction and
maintenance of roads and bridges this
year is $3,592, ,6O8.9S, or the equival-
ent of a general levy of about "a mills.
The total amount of taxes assessed for
this purpose last year was $2,622, ,276.-
SO, or the equivalent of a levy of about
1.S mills. More than one-half the
counties in the state increased their
roads and bridge levies for 1920.
The Lamar register., 1920-05-12

state showing assessed valuations
above SlOO,OOO,OOO. There were in
creases in the valuations for nearly all
agricultural counties, while most Of
the mining counties showed decreases.
County taxes levied for the year
amount to $1O,795 1896, which is equal
to an average levy of about 7.2 mills.
The Lamar register., 1920-05-12
POstpOnement

Owing to the absence fiom the
county of a number of the officers and
fact that several others are on duty
at the tabernacle meeting Malta Com
mandery ,as decided to postpone the
Ascension Day service which was to
have been held at Holly until date
20 be announced later.
The Lamar register., 1920-05-12
GENERAL COLORADO NEWS

Reports received by the State I'M
migration Department from county as
SCISSORS in 13 counties, covering sched-
ules from approximately 2,4O0 farm
ers, Indicate that there will be slight
increase in the total acreage of land
cultivated in the state this year, though
there will be decreases, apparently, in
the acreage devoted to some of the
principal crops. The largest increases
appear to be in the acreage devoted
to corn, sorghums, rye and spring
wheat. There is apparently n small
decrease in the acreage devoted to
winter wheat and potatoes and a more
marked decrease in the acreage devot-
ed to beans. The reports so far re-
ceived show very considerable
amount of raw land being put in cul-
tivation this year in the non-irrigated
districts, though in some districts
much of the land that was farmed last
year is being allowed to lie fallow be-
cause of shortage Of farm labor. Such
reports as have been received to date
indicate that the principal increases in
acreage result from the operations of
many new farmers who have come into
the state within the past twelve
months
Revised figures compiled by the
State immigration Department from
the records of the State Tax Com
mission for use in the Colorado Year
Book show that the total assessed val
uation of property in Colorado on
which 1920 taxes are being paid is ST.
9s,663,12s. This is an increase of
about s74,OOO,0O0 over the assessed
valuation for the preceding year and
an increase of about $3,000,O00 over
the preliminary figures. Denver coun-
ty ranks first, with s352,000.0O0, and
Weld county second, with s10s,oOO, 900.
Those are the only two counties in the
The Lamar register., 1920-05-12
His Sinking Spell

His Sinking Spell
Old Father Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get his poor self drink.
But when he got there
The cupboard was bare,
So he got him drink at the sink.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Lamar register., 1920-05-12
Getting Ready for the Dance

Old Mother Hubbard,
She went to the cupboard
To get her fair daughter a dress.
When she got there
The cupboard was bare
And so was her daughter-I guess.
Syracuse Orange Peel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-11
Chicks Up In Air As Dixie Carroll Balks
By HERBERr CALDWELL

Memphis. Tenn, April 10-(Special.) With the opening game of the season three days off the lineup of the Chick asaws is doubtful.
 Whether or not Dixie Carroll. center fielder with the Chicks last season, sold to the Boston Braves and recently returned, will rejoin the team, VIII have much to do with the lineup of the Chicks when they meet the Travellers in Little Rock Wednesday. Carroll has informed the Memphis club he will not report and wants to be traded, but President Watkins has instructed Car roll to report at once. Late tonight Carroll had not answered Watkins.
 If Carroll reports, the Chick outfit will mostly likely line up with Carroll in center, Sloan in left and Griffin in right. But if Carroll does not show up it is doubtful who Manager McCloskey
 will use in left. Tn the last two exhl-- bition games Bischoff, catcher, has been playing left and Meyers, young ster, has been catching.
 The remainder of the chick lineup will be McLarry at first, Lewis at sec ond, High at third, Collenberger at short.
 Hugh Canavan has shown more stuff than any of the other pitchers in the exhibitions and it is likely that the little Iefthander will face the Travellers Wednesday. Offensively the Chicks look pretty good, but until High. a youngster, proves his worth at third Collenberger asserts his right to short stop, and a left fielder is obtained, the Chicks defensively are an unknown amount.
 | It looks like McLarry. Sloan anc Griffin will be the wrecking crew o1 the tribe. Carroll would make tht 1 fourth member of the crew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-11
Pirates Have 6Players To
 Offer BaronS
By HENRY ". LoEsCH

Little Rock, Ark, April 10.-(Spe- cial.) .)-Manager George Gibson of the Pittsburgh Pirates, here today, re- fused to make any definite statement regarding players he may turn over to Manager Molesworfn or Birrning- ham when the two meet in Memphis tomorrow. He admitted he has some players to spare.
 Two surplus infielders with the Pi- rates are Jim Swetonc and Clyde Barnhart. Jim is a Pittsburgh semi pro and is said to favor third base. Clyde is a shortstop and may be one of the men Molesworth will get. Barn hart's- home is at Williamsport, Pa., where he played last year with a crack semi-pro club which was under the management of Bill Hinchman, the vet eran outfielder. who is with the Pirates again this spring. Bill recommends Barnhart as classy youngster.
 Gibson sent two pitchers to Wichita Falls from here, but has four others he is said to be considering farming out for the summer
 The best of the four is said to be Frank Herbst, a big righthander, who was the subject of a contest last win ter between the Pirates and the Phila- |delphia Americans. Pittsburgh won the decsiion when the case was taken be- fore the national commission. Gibson has not entirely made up his mind on the bigsfellow, it is said.
 The others who are pretty sure to be dropped by Pittsburgh are: Fred Blake, highlander from West vir- ginia; Leo Mangum, righthander from Durham, N. C., who starred on the lots there and was brought to the training camp this spring by George Whitted and Ray Steineder, from New Jersey also righthanded
 It is said to be practically certain that Molesworth will get two of these six men for the Barons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-11
COLLEGE BASEBALL

At Defuniak Springs, Fla: Palmer Col lege, 3; Florida, ?.
 At Lexington, Ky: Michigan, 8; Ken- lucky State, g.
 At Lexington, Va: University of Geor- gia, 10; w. & L., z.
 At Greenville: F'urmAn. 5; Clemson, Q2 innings).
 At Houston. Tex: Baylor University, g; Rice Institute, '.
 At Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania 8, Rutgers l. At Princeton: Lafayette 3, Prince ton 1. At Birmingham: University of Illi- nois 12, mingham-Southern (morning game); University of Illi- nois 2, Howard (afternoon). At west Point: Army II, New York University A. | At New Haven. Wesleyan 10 Yale s. l At Atlanta: Oglethorpe University I 5, Georgia Tech 1. ] At Washington: Georgetown 8, Le- | high (ten innings). ] At Washington: Fordham ,, Cath clic University 1. l At Sutherland, Fla: Rollina College | C. Sutherland 3.
 Charlotte, N. C.: Davidson 0, North Carolina State 2. l Charlottesville, Va: University of Virginia 4, University of North Caro- | lima 3.
 At Annapolis; Boston College 2, l Navy 9.
 University of South Carolina 0. 1 At Columbia: Columbia, South Att i1antic League. 10; Camp Jackson | At Lexington, Va: V. M. l. ,, Trln- At Knoxville: University of Tennessee. Ill; Lincoln Memorial. 6
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-11

Louisville. April Especial )-The Kensucky Jockey Club, which, since the season of 1919. has owned ana controlled the race courses of Lexlng- ton, Louisville and Latonia, will ln- augurate at Lexington April 24 a sea- son of spring and summer racing that will run sixty days and be marked by the distribution among horsemcn of a matter of $700.000.
 It is impossible to say with absolute accuracy at this time, what the total will be- The overnight programme for the Churchill Downs and Latonia meetings have not been made up. An approximation can be had by comput- ing the values of the rich stakes that were closed some weeks back and esti- mating overnight values on the recent Announcement of General Manager Matt