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WHEN Congressman Henderson NJ Jacoauay 1vas druo
- clerk his aUrt5ng saved hin, from traqedu

been brought up on the illustrated
Bible Quin had placed in the fam
lily. This naturally put him in an
intimate relation with the house
hold and all the men folks said
they would vote for him, besides
speaking a good word among their
friends.
With this Biblical organization
Quin verify walked through the op-
position like unto the children Of
Israel walking through the Red Sea.
One day a certain Mr.. Albert
johnson went forth to the marts for
the purpose of buying refrigera-
tor. The fact might not ebe worth
recording here, except for later
events. Still even at the time buy
ing refrigerator seemed to John
son matter of no little Importance
He was starting housekeeping,
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of the country and many persons as
sured Albert that the climate was
so delightful where he was going
that he would not need any refrig-
orator, and that everybody slept un-
der blankets at night. So Albert
foolishly sold his fine refrigerator
at big sacrifice, too-receiving only
fraction of the amount he had paid
for it.
In his new location he found that
he would need refrigerator after
all. But his brief experience at
housekeeping had instilled into his
soul certain principles of economy
and frugality which forbade his pay
ing $50 again for a mere ice chest.
He went and bought one for about
$18. But the new refrigerator was
never satisfactory. Albert never did
get done regretting that he had lis
tened to the talk of the weather
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Weather Anecdotes That Keep Washington Smi1

and when he thought Of fixing up q
fiat the first article he placed on his
list was refrigerator-simply be-
cause he was in the habit Of eating
with heartiness and relish and want
ed his food kept cool and palatable.
They showed him a refrigerator
priced at $50, which was about half
what Albert thought of spending for
his entire outfit of furniture. But it
was a perfectly lovely refrigera-
tor, all white enameled and fully
equipped, and Albert found himself
unable to resist it's appeal. He
bought it, even though relatives and
friends deplored his extravaganza.
He himself admitted afterward that
it was a refrigerator clear beyond
his station in life.
All this happened in a city out
on the Pacific Coast. Within a
month after Albert had settled down
to enjoy life in fiat with his costly
refrigerator he was offered more
lucrative position-or, at any rate,
he got a better job, in another city
a little further north. Weather liars
are, of course, plentiful in that part
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NHE connection between the
town crier and the news
: paper was demonstrated at

n paper was demonstrated at
Macon, Mo-, recently, when
the plant of "The Daily Chronicle
Herald" the only daily newspaper in
the county, was so badly damaged
by fire it was put out of commission
for several weeks.
Some very important announce
ments were waiting-a big stock
sale, a public meeting, features at
the movie shows and special sales by
the merchants. There were weekly
papers, but these would not be out in
time.
Then some one thought of Dick
Mckinney, the old town crier. who
had been off the job for a decade.
and whose retirement had been the
cause Of much storied sentiment as
indicative of the passage of the old
to the modern method which came
with the daily newspaper.
Dick said he was old and rheuma-
ticky, and that his voice was not
what it used to be, but they dug him
up a bell, gave him a megaphone
and told him to get out and tell the
people what was coming.
The old town crier did the best he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
Back to the Town Crier

could, but it was evident that years
had weakened his vocal organs, 50
that the bell was the most valuable
feature of his service.
While the daily paper was out OF
commission the town slipped back a
decade or more. No market reports,
nothing about the weather, nothing
from the conventions, no announce
ments of choir practice and socials.
The town crier was all in when
the paper resumed publication and
took his place. But, while his res
direction was brief, the town crier
came into such fame as he had never
known in his previous. humble his
tory.
A big milling company of Kansas
City ordered his photo for a brand
of flour named for him, and two
Sunday newspapers printed little
pieces about the return of the town
crier.
This was worth more to Dick than
the money he made by coming back,
and he is happy in the knowledge
that at the twilight Of life he be-
came "a prominent citizen" of the
town where he lived over sixty
years.
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boy saw the picture Of Lots wife, in
three colors with beautiful scroll
work around the edges, he set up a
cry until his mother agreed to take
the book.
In that way Quin sold great
many Bibles and made enough
money to take him the rest Of the
way through college.
That was in 1891, and the terri
tory was largely in what now com.
prises GUMS Congressional district
When he began his campaign for q
place as lawmaker in the nations
Capitol Quin started out on horse
back to call on the people in their
homes.
He had not proceeded far until
he encountered a house where he
saw a child's Bible lying close by
a conch shell on handicapped
table.
II used to sell a Bible like that"
remarked Quin.
That opened up a discussion, and
it came out that he had sold them
that identical Bible, more than
twenty years previous. The little
boy for whom the Bible had been
intended was now there, with chill
dren Of his own. They, too, had
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liars and disposed Of his fine white
enameled treasure. He had sold his
birthplace, so to speak, for mess Of
putty. Oh, how sorry he was!
Years passed, great many years,
and the people rose up and sent
Albert to Congress. His cup Of JOY
might have overfowed except that
his one great lifelong regret-that
about sacrificing the refrigerator
was still a sad little spot deep in his
bosom.
On reaching Washington to take
his seat up among the other great
men of the nation, Albert looked
about for a furnished apartment.
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beyond the correspondence school,
however. The textbooks are the
same, but while at Quantico the stu
dents have personal instruction. 1t
is only when duty takes them away
from the base that they go on
the strictly correspondence school
method, and whenever that occurs
an officer with the force is detailed
to take charge of the studies Of the
men in the force who are enrolled
in the Quantico school. This, for
example, was what happened with
the men ordered south to watch de.
velopments in Mexico. A large num-
Der OF the men in that force were
students in the Quantico school. On
the ship with them went MANY cases
OF books for their use, and all the
necessary missionaries and exami-
nation papers, while an officer was
especially detailed to look after their
studies and take charge of forward
ing their papers to Quantico.
There is another feature at Guam
tlco, which is an extension of the
correspondence school. After the
men have had their course in theory
from the books they get practical
laboratory or shop course. The NAVY
Department is able to supply every
thing necessary for this purpose.
The Most Popular Course
The most popular course so far
mas been that in automobile engi-
neerlng, and for the practical part of
this course the men are sent to the
repair shops of the Navy Depart
lnent, where they get practical ex
perlence with every make of automo-
bile. Students of chemistry are de-
tailed for special duty at the de-
partment's laboratories; students of
civil engineering. are detailed to as
sist the departments engineers in
the laying out of new posts and post
extensions, which is constantly in
progress. Every one of the twenty
two courses offered can be covered
in this way without going outside of
the routine work of the Navy Depart
ment. When men are so detailed for
the final practical instruction in the
course of study they have selected
nothing is allowed to interfere until
the course has been completed
and the diploma conferred.
The courses of study offered in the
marine school at Quantico include
architecture, civil engineering, cleo
trical engineering, mechanical en-
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An Education, Not Adventure Now the Lure for Enlistment

and the jobs pay too we'll. Some
thing had to be done, some induce
ment had to be offered to bring
young men into the Marine Corps,
and the corps decided that the best
thing was to make it possible for
young men who came to them to
leave them better fitted not only
physically but in point of view of
education and training to battle for
an assured future.
The question arose as to whether
sufficient time could be allowed the
average marine for study for train
ing of this kind to be of any value
without detracting from his eff
cheney as fighting man. In the
military service in the past one of
the principal problems of the COM
handing officer has been to find
enough occupation for his men to
keep them healthy, busy and happy
and out of trouble. Military duties
are so limited in time of peace that
it has been found next to impossi-
Bile to keep the mems attention con-
centrated and keep them interested
in those lines alone.
Two Hours Drill and Up
That was an indication that there
would be plenty of time for the men
to take up regular course of study.
Major General John A. Lejeune and
Brigadier General Sn1edley D. But
Ter were greatly interested in the
new idea. They called in Lieuten-
ant Colonel William c.. Harllee, and
after consultation he was sent on
a tour Of various educational insti-
buttons to study the practicability of
the idea. He found that at such
places as Virginia Military Institute,
Culver and Pennsylvania Military
Academy the program included only
two hours of strictly military work a
day. Yet both foreign observers and
American inspecting officers have
pronounced the students at those
schools as ranking among the best
drilled and most efficient bodies of
soldiers in the world, and when
America went into the great war all
branches Of the American services
competed for graduates Of those
schools for officers.
The conclusion seemed fair that
the Marine Corps could add an
educational course to its military
duties, and after some experiment
the Marine Corps Institute was es-
tablished at Quantico, several Of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
Thomas r. Marshall
Finds Social Duties
Irksome
By Fred C. Kelly

\OLoNEL BOB GATES
Washington correspondent
for "The Memphis CONNER
cial-Appeal," broke into the
newspaper business in small town
down in that state. Once when he
was still new at it train slowed
up in the little town and number
Of notable persons got off to lounge
about briefly. Among them was
John Jacob Astor.
Bob Gates was sent to interview
him. He had Astor pointed out to
him and, with number of ques-
tions all ready to put to him.
walked up to the man.
"I'm Mr.. Gates, Of the local pa
per here" said Bob, "and'-
mighty glad to meet you, Mr.
Gates" said Astor, with great affa.
bility, "and may I not offer you a
cigar?"
He .fumbled in his pocket, but
found he was out Of cigars. So he
led the way over to the station
counter.
"Got any real good cigars?"
Aston asked the clerk.
Chow good?" the clerk inquired.
ooh, something at a dollar, say"
"Just got one dollar cigar" said
the clerk, thinking he had called
the customers bluff. "It is a sam
pie cigar"
So Aston bought it and handed
it to Bob.
"And now" inquired Astor,
pleasantly, "what was it you wished
to ask me?"
Bob was still staring at the
cigar. He put it reverently into
his left-hand upper vest pocket, and
said:
"Why-er-that is, I mean, L
I've forgotten what it was"
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when the regular man was at his
meals. He put up prescriptions by
ear, so to speak, and often would get
them about right.
One evening an Irishman came in
with two prescriptions, one for in
ternal and the other for external
use. Anything over a few drops of
the one would kill and anything less
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rent took good look at him and
faltered:
II think-uh-haven't we met be-
fore? We moved here from the
West, and it seems to me that
aren't you the man who once sold US
a refrigerator"
She escorted Johnson to a neat
little kitchen, and there modestly in
one corner as If awaiting his en-
brace, stood Johnson's $50 icebox!
He rented the place on the SPOT.
Henderson NJ. Jacoway, an Ar
kansas Congressman, was once a
drug clerk and practiced at pharmacy
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IN OMANCE and adventure
were supposed to be the at
IL Va fractions in former days

that took men into the mil
itary service. But times change.
Perhaps war took the romance out
Of military life. At any rate, the
inducement offered to get men to
enter the Marine Corps now is an
education, vocational training. En-
list in the Marine Corps for two
years and come out chemical engi-
neer, a craftsman, a boilermaker
or an illustrator.
Of course, while one is getting
this training one does other little
things. One goes to Hayti, possibly,
to suppress revolution; one goes
to Tampico to protect the oil fields;
one makes lengthy cruise in Chi
nese waters. But the main idea in
entering the Marine Corps nova
days is to get an education. After
that has been accomplished, if one
desires, one may stay in the corps
and become a commissioned officer.
If one prefers to return to civilian
life, the corps, through its employ
ment bureau, will provide the prop
erly diplomaed ex-marine with job
in the line of work his studies have
fitted him for.
Any Profession Desired
A good many other schools do con-
siderably less. Certainly any other
school that undertakes the kind of
instruction the Marine Corps gives
requires a great deal more than
physical qualifications in it's en-
trance examinations. But the Ma
| rine Corps institution for higher
education will take any citizen in
good physical condition who is not
more than thirty-fve years old, put
him through the primary course, if
necessary, and top that off with a
technical education in any line the
student may select, pay him while
he is getting his education, give him
few sea voyages and get him a
job afterward. It seems as though
a reasonable man could not ask
much more.
1t is necessity that has put the
Marine Corps into the educational
business. The corps needs men,
about $1,000. 1t has approximately
10000 enlisted men now, and it
needs total of 7,499 to bring it
up to strength. Plain, ordinary re-
cruiting won't get the men. There
are too many jobs for willing hands,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
COLONEL JOHN JACOB ASTOR'S dollar CHAR made the
- reporter forget his questions

He got list Of addresses from
gentlemanly real estater, and set
forth with comparatively light
heart.
"High rents everywhere" he NUT
tered, "and no $50 refrigerator,
either, III venture"
At the first place he stopped the
woman who had the apartment for
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loud, and his mouth never changes
expression at all. He does all his
laughing with his eyes.

When Representative Charles
Davis, Of Minnesota, first came to
Congress friend took him in and in
PRODUCED him to Speaker Cannon.
what committee would you like
to be on?" inquired Uncle Joe.
"It doesn't matter" replied Davis,
Except that I do not want to be
on the District Of Columbia Commit
tee. Do not, oh, do not, put me on
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Representative Percy Edward
Quin, of Mississippi, member Of the
House Committee on Military At
fairs, once spent a summer distrib-
uting copies of child's edition Of
the Bible.
But he was not prompted to do
this through religious fervor-even
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11

Vice-President Marshall is the
most popular diner-out in Washing
ton. This is partly because every
hostess feels that it sets off a din
ner party to have a e-President
in its midst but more because
Marshall is good company and never
fails to keep the guests amused with
his merry quips and cute little bits
of Indiana philosophy.
There are many days when
Marshall has much less privacy than
the average window trimmer.
"Sometimes," the Vice-President
once told me, "I'm half tempted to
put on my evening clothes as soon
as I get up in the morning and just
slip on a nice set of blue overalls
to work in"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11

Vice-President Marshall stepped
from the Senate chamber one day
after presiding over a particularly
boresome session, fumbled in his vest
pocket for cigar, yawned and then
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gineering, mechanical drawing, sheet
metal work and boilermak;ng.
steam engineering, chemistry, COM
merce, English primary and high
school course), commercial law,
civil service, navy and army schools
preparatory courses for commits
slon), publicity, plumbing, heating
and ventilation, mining engineer
ing, illustration and design, agri-
culture, poultry husbandry, Ian
guages, navigation, domestic arts
and sciences, and special courses in
administration, band music, forestry.
the shoe and leather trades and
radio.
May Remain at School
BY this system man goes into
the Marine Corps for course of
study just as he would go to COL
lege. Suppose a boy just out of
school wants to study some branch
of engineering but cannot make ends
meet while going to school. He en-
lists in the Marine Corps, and after
his recruit training is sent to Guam
tico, where he studies the course he
desires. If at the end of his enlist
ment he has learned enough he is
discharged and placed in a position
through the Marine EMPLOYMENT
bureau. But if he wants to study
further, he can remain at the school
and complete the training he desires.
Suppose, in another case, a Young
mans early training has been
neglected and he wants an educa-
ton but cannot afford the neces-
sary years at school. He can go to
Quantico after finishing his recruit
training and take up grammar
school work in his first year. After
this he can take the high school
course, and then secure the eouiva-
lent of college education or learn
trade.
If the system instituted at Guam
tico proves as popular as it is hoped
it will be extended to all other posts
and detachments of the Marine
Corps. Already it is planned to have
branch at the Pacific Marine base
at San Diego. Several big industrial
organizations. among which are the
United States Steel Corporation and
the Bethlehem Steel Corporation,
have already asked to be notified
when men trained at the Quantico
school are discharged from the serv-
ice and have promised to employ at
once any men so recommended.
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Postmaster General Burleson has
long boasted of the fact that he has
never attended a professional game
of baseball and does not propose
to attend one. To see hundreds of
men gathered in front of a bulletin
board getting baseball returns
throws the Postmaster General into
a mild rage.
"Those loafers," he always OBJ
serves on such occasion, fought to
be at work down on my farm"
Which is doubly rough on the
baseball fans. For Burleson's farm
Of 800 acres is rented to the State
Of Texas, and is cultivated by peni-
tertiary prisoners.
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Just as an example of the way
public opinion often gets steered far
from the facts: Suppose that al
most anybody were asked to COM
pare Uncle Joe Cannon and Sena-
tor Henry Cabot Lodge in regard to
swearing ability. People think of
Cannon as q man who employs ordi-
nary language only as a carrier or
background for profanity, and Lodge
as q person so scholarly that he
never uses a word which would not
adorn large, learned book weigh
ing eight or nine pounds.
That, ! say, is the popular con-
ception. The facts are that Uncle
Joe Cannon has one or two little
cuss words Of one syllable each that
he slips in on occasion, and that
about let's him out. Lodge, on the
other hand, would be a formidable
antagonist in any swearing contest.
1t is not alone what he says, but
the way he says it. He can swear,
II need be, with vim, vehemence,
virulence and velocity.
Champ Clark has an odd wav Of
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squared himself away to paraphrase
as follows:
Sometimes I think I'd rather be
wrong than Vice President"
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chusetts Institute Of Technology.
Stevens Institute, Colorado School
OF Mines and many other well
known schools and colleges.
A Correspondence School
When it came to the question of
courses and methods of teaching
some way had to be found that
would provide for men enrolled In
the school who were ordered away
on expeditionary duty before the
completion of their studies, for the
national need has to take precedence
over everything else. In order to
take care of this contingency CORE
spondence courses were decided on.
Lieutenant Colonel Harllee con-
ferred with one of the largest and
best known correspondence schools
in the country, which readily agreed
to cooperate with the Marine Corps
Institute. The textbooks, examina-
ton papers and all the paraphernalia
were secured and the Quantico
school was started on that basis.
The Marine Corps Institute goes
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the committee on the District of Co.
lumbia."
So Cannon put him on the COM
mittee on the District of Columbia.
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ohamp Clark has an odd way Of
lauehins. he never laughs out
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11

HICE-PRESIDENT MAR
, SHALL is so popular
as q dinner guest that he
thinks of savimg time BIZ
slipping overalls ON over his
eVeMlmg clothes
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Career as Book Ace,
Won Seat in
Congress

than a bucketful Of the otbs,
harmless. So Jacoway put the 4. ' \
ly remedy in a small bott,.
wrote on the label: Take
spoonful after eating and befo,.
firing" The other he gayly pl,.']
in a large, commodious bottle a.
rated with a skull and bones
gave the man cute little dro,,.J
to drop the stuff into ol.,. e !,
water.
Several hours later Jacowav -,
denly realized what he had dona i,
FASTENED over to the Irisbr,., b
room to destroy the evidence ba,,.
the coroner should arrive.
The patient was much imuro,.,
81 found | couldn't resd =.
writin'," he said, "and so / toni =.
big dose out Of the big bottle :,
the little dose out of the little II
tie"
"Well," remarked the re,;.,s
Jacoway, 81 can't say that / bl,,.
you"
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\OLoNEL BOB GATES,
Washington correspondent
for seThe Memphis CONNER