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The Lamar register., 1921-06-22
SANTA FE TRAIL OPEN
by Way of Arkansas Valley
Over Good Roads.

The grossly exaggerated accounts
printed in many eastern states have
caused a scare among many tourists
who expected to make the trip over
the Santa Fe Trail and the Y. NJ. b.
A. at Lamar is helping the work of
getting the real fGcts before the pub
lie. While the flood did great dam
age to most points along the valley.
the people as soon as the water sub
sided were Immediately at work TO
repair the effects of its ravages. In
few days the roads were back in
shape and a few days more found
substantial bridges across the streams
and traffic resumed.
The class of people that have built
up a rich farming region out of the
Great American Desert are not going
to sit down and wait for roads AMI
bridges to grow. They build them
over night if necessary. Secretary r.
l.. Christy Of the Y. NJ. b. A. has
issued a letter for the organization
and sent the same to commercial Or
ganizations all through the middle
west, stating the facts in regard to
travel on the Santa Fe Trail and the
reaching of all Colorado scenic points
firm the valley 1t is as follows:
All Commercial Clubs and Chambers
of Commerce.
Many letters are being received
daily from tourists in Oklahoma. Tex
as and other states requesting inform
alton as to the possibility OF getting
TO Colorado points by way Of the San
Ia Fe Trail through Lamar. La Junta.
Pueblo and Colorado Springs.
While this valley has just experienc-
ed severe flood from the Arkansas
river the roads are opened and in fins
condition.
Tourists should come direct to La
mar over the Santa Fe Trail. At La
mar they will be detoured over q fine
road south Of the river to La Junta,
there to get back on the Santa Fe
Trail again. The Trail is open and in
good shape from there to Pueblo, Colo
rado Springs and Denver.
Please see that the garages and
tourists bureaus in your city are Civ
en- this information.
Lamar welcomes the tourist. Have
a fine camp ground here. It's free.
A little flood more or less doesn't
bother us any. Come this way.
THE YOUNG MEMS BUSINESS
ASSOCIATION.
X. L. Christy. Sec'y.
The Lamar register., 1921-06-22
The Harbinger

The 1921 Harbinger, Lamar High
schools annual publication, arrived
last week and the members of the
senior class have been busy this week
selling those that had not already
been subscribed for. 1t is neat and
handsome publication Of over one hun
dred pages and does great credit To
the class The delay in its publication
was due to the printers strike in Den
yer and no fault Of the class who had
all their work done early.
The Lamar register., 1921-06-22
GREAT MUSICAL OPENING
yierra's Original Hawaiians at Chau-
tauqus First Day.

A lot of bunk has been foisted on
people in recent years and called
Hawaiian" They got by pretty well
too. All that was needed were a steel
guitar, a couple of "ukes" and some
one to sing aloha Oe."
Redpath- Chautauquas held
OFF these past two years until they
could get a one hundred per cent COM
pany of real Hawaiians. The oppor-
tunity came to secure George Vierra's
original company, an organization
that has been together since 1915 un-
der Mr.. Vierra's management.
This great company will open the
1921 program. Mr.. Vierra, the great
est ballad singer the Islands have ever
produced will positively be with this
organization. The steel guitar play
er, Mr.. Fern, is a son Of the man who
was mayor of Honolulu for sixteen
years. This is a company of well edu-
Gated, thoroughly professional, genu-
inc Hawaiians-the original Vierra
Company.
The Lamar register., 1921-06-22
Runs The Earth.

J. T. FARRELL Of Chicago was taking
in the flood district last week. He Is
no kin to his late highness, Emperor
Billy, but just the same he runs the
Earth-the Santa Fe Railrosd publ
cation of that nome. He was here In
the interest Of putting before the pub
lie the real facts of the damage done
by the floods and quietinS the grossly
mislssding reports spread in the east
The Lamar register., 1921-06-22
THE BACA COUNTY FAIR
How II Has Been Put Over Hereto
fore. and How 1t is Being Pro-
NOTED This Year.

By reason Of certain reports, it Is
thought advisable to make this state
ment, To the end that the good people
Of Lamar might have no misapprehen-
sions Of how the Baca county fair Is
being promoted this year.
In 1914 fair was put on by means
Of donations to pay prizes and prem
iums on displays.
In 1915 a non-profit association was
organized. and by it the fair was put
on up to and inclusive Of last year.
After the fair last year the fair
grounds were sold to private parties
as an addition to the town. Sometime
afterwards the grand stand and all
other fair property were sold as
wreckage. and still later the old as
sociation dissolved, prorated its small
assets among its members. and from
then on ceased to exist.
Some time ago personally took the
responsibility of putting on fair. af-
ter talking with others about it, and
TO put on a larger and more intensive
scale than ever before, leasing grounds
adjoining Springfield on the south for
that purpose, arranging for grand
stand and judges stand and an agri-
cultural hall, and other things essen
tial to the promotion of ar up-to-date
agricultural and circuit-track fair and
exposition.
The Springfield commercial club
had talked at times Of the possibili-
ty Of a street fair. However, at our
regular meeting Tuesday night it was
moved and unanimously voted that as
Mr.. Konkel had made the necessary
arrangements for putting on the fair,
the club would not put on fair Of
any kind-street fair or otherwise.
Three years ago ! started the fair
at Kim, two years ago got out the
fair book and assisted In putting it
over. and last yeer. on the dissolu-
tion of the association, took the per-
sonal responsibility Of putting on the
fair myself, at the unanimous request
Of the old association members and
others at q public meeting held to con-
slider the matter.
The fair at Kim last year was count
ed by those Observation-Disclosures
ing the horrible wind Of each Of the
three days, as one Of the very best
ever held in the southwest, and in
tending to give Springfield the same
rafting good fair this year wish to
extend q special invitation to Lamar
to attend the fair enmass when the
event comes OF, it being scheduled for
| September Z, 8, 9 and 10.
Watch for the fair book and other
propaganda in the early future.
! 8. NJ. kONkEL.
The Lamar register., 1921-06-22
Bank Official Here.

Hon. Milas Lassater of Wichita,
president of the Federal Land Bank
for the district of Kansas, Oklahoma,
Colorado and New Mexico. is here to-
day inspecting the damage done in the
valley. He and Mr.. Floyd NJ Wilson,
one Of the directors of the bank, are
looking over the rsvages of the flood
in this section.
The Lamar register., 1921-06-22
REAL HARMONY AND ECONOMY?
Advocates of Harmony and Economy
at Last City Election Show Real
Animus at Council Meeting.

When the last city campaign was
under wcy the city administration
fearing their work of the past two
years had put them in sthe ''In-Bad
Class" with the taxpayers. made a
very urgent plea for a harmony ticket
composed OF men of all classes with
reduction Of expenses as the main in
ducement. Hoping for some good re-
suits the other faction accepted and
ticket was named, but when the
cards were all shuffled it was found
that the outs had named three very
heavy city taxpayers for aldermen
while the administration forces had
named three who pay very little city
taxes.
1t early developed that the latter
had no intention Of reducing expenses
where their fsvorites were concerned
and 1t was only by concerted efforts
Of Messrs. Myers, Strain and Brown
blocking all proceedings that some
economical concessions were granted.
One Of these points was that the city
printing be let to bids. The Register
had very little faith in the protesta-
tions of harmony all along so had put
in no application at any time for any
part of the printing and did not then
and does not now expect any Of it.
However, when it was called up by
city officials and asked to put in a
bid. as a matter Of courtesy immediate
ly complied The administration COM
menced hedging at once and for over
four weeks kept the matter held up.
At last on Monday evening they were
forced to open the bids made by all
three papers and that Of The Register
was considerably the lowest. The
former city organ had the nerve to
claim more than the legal rate fixed
by state law on some Of the work.
The administration forces immedi-
stely began stalling for time. They
intimated The Register could not give
service. As it has only been under
present management thirty-one years
and never failed to keep contract,
Of course its responsibility might be
hard to prove. The city attorney rui-
ed the mayor could not decide tie
vote on a contract so after taking
three to three vote twice on the prop
osition the matter went over until n
later date to give the administration
q chance to make few more publi-
cations in their organ at legal rate
and let the taxpayers pay the bill.
As we never believed for one mo-
ment that the administration crowd
was the least bit honest in either their
professions OF desire for harmony or
economy the result causes neither sur
prise or disappointment in this office.
We always knew that crowd was mar
row enough to put a Crouch above
either honor or fairness, and as for
economy the nearly half million dol
lars spent in the past two years makes
the little that they could save on print
ing 9 small matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14
Little Wreckage in
 Path of Readjustment

@ECRETARY OF LABOR DAVIS G merely voiced what everyone aileady knew when he said in an ad- dress at Elwood, Ind, Wednesday that the industrial depression was over and the country had "come to. ' He expressed another outstanding fact when he declared that in the period of depression i've were accom- plishing marvellous work.2 Speak ing further along that line he said:
 Getting American business back rfom war boom to q sound basis was one of the most complicated and dangerous situations our leading men in business and industry have ever had to face
 That is essentially true and it is also true that the heaviest burden and the gravest responsibility lay on the federal reserve board.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14
MERE TALkERs

From the philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Speaking te the Pennsylvania Con gress of Mothers of Altoona, Mrs. Alice Carmalt of the Pittsburg board of education, said that the best type of woman in public life is one who does not talk too much and does not leap to conclusions.
 Mere speech without sober reflec- ton Is at a discount nowadays An audience demands not merely that an orator shall be audible. but that he shall have something to say.
 Colonel Carty of the American Tel ephone company, x describes the new amplifier as an invention which will help the man with gray matter. pos sessing low-speakinE voice. to get his thoughts into the minds of as many auditors as he may want to reach"
 As soon as such q man Is placed on an accoustical prity with the one whose ,utterance is merely a sonorous rever- beration. the speaker, who is not a thinker too, will will find 1t harder to capture and command an audience. 'Heretofore,' Colonel carty somewhat cynicaliy observes. orators have been chosen largely for their loud voices.'' They will have to bring more than voices to the rostrum in days to come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14
A STRANGE PROVISION

From the Mobile Register.
 Among the provisions of the new compromise tax revision measure is noted a tax of $6.40 gallon on dis titled spirits with rebate of s4.20 a gallon If It can be shown to the satisfaction of the internal revenue commissioner that the spirits are used for medicinal or industrial purposes. This provision looks like a double compromise. Distilled spirits are taxed high if used otherwise than for. medicinal or industrial purposes, so that in effect the higher tax is on distilled spirits used for beverage as well as other purposes, although the constitution forbids the use of such spirits for beverage purposes. Fur thermore. If distilled spirits are used for medicinal or industrial pnrposes they must still bear a tax of $2.20
 gallon. itself almost a prohibitive price for the purposes named, to say nothing of the additional price that must be added to take care of cost of manufacture and marketing. All of which makes it clear that a tax should never be imposed as quasi-penalty for the use of the product 1t affects
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14
Farm Loans Good Use
 Of GoverAment Money

THY February the federal farm lAO loan board expects to Nave loaned $l00,VO0,000 to the farmers of the country. That sum will be used III producing and marketing the crop of 1922 and in making perma- nent Improvements.
 Loans to worthy projects and in- dividuals out of the funds of the na- tion are good business. They do not savor of gratuity or paternalism. The largest enterprises and the most substantial of industrial captains have need of borrowed money. The government need not avoid the bank ing business when it is conducted on banking principles and good busi- ness is promoted.
 Gradually the average citizen is realizing the plain fact that the pub lie treasury consists of his money and that of his neighbors. Along with that conviction he.is ceasing to expect or ask for a bonus, but is de- 1nanding the employment of public funds in legitimate manner for the common good.
 Loans to farmers enabling them to get on their feet, but so placed that security protects the, loans, is as good business as any in which the government could engage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14
Editors Now and Then
m the Florida Metropolis.

From the Florida Metropolis. The editor of the Fort Pierce News Tribune, sitting at an exchange table and perusing Florida's daily and weekly journalistic crop, observes that two other editors are firing type writer barrages at each other. and comments in these words:
 "rwo of the newspapers in the state are engaged in duel with type writers at something like TO miles because one of the editors perpetrated joke on the other by pointing out a udicnous typographical error. Of course 1t was funny. and the first ed iter has had deal of fun at the ex- pense of the other.
 "But the other editor took the mat ter in q personal light and the col umns of both<papers are sputtering as a result.
 (Which makes us think that both editors should be spanked and sent to bed without<any broth. They are taking themselves nightly to heart while the rest of us are laughing. They have all the braggadocto of knights errant and al the appearances of q couple of imitators of Don Quix- ote,
 ''Now, we are wondering whether they are going to jump on the News Tribune--but heres hoping"
 The affair reminds us of Mark Twain's editorial experiences. and eomparing this controversy with those Mark describes so wildly, the ques- 1 tion naturally arises, are editors los l ing-the spirit of the old days and dis [ cardinx masculine means of defend 1 ing honor and resorting to mere ink singing
 In Marks. day and ttme--at least according to his book on his adven- l lures in the newspaper business--an { editor was a marksman first and a writer afterward An editor then i, who couldn't shoot with both hands and hit a bulls eye 49 out of 50 shots
  l couldn't set type. The editor who {, didn't throw at least 10 indignant readers out of q window in the course of day was held In contempt by his tfellow citizens, because 1t was quite evident he did not possess the cour-
 age of his convictions.
 The cry in those days was no'
 Copy boy"
 Bang! Bang" was the usual echo sayeth Mir Twain.
 And now (peace to the ashes oi Mark TwainD, editors sit In cubb, holes and fight under Worcester and Webster rules More attention is paid
 to the arrangements of commas thar to tho caliber of shooting irons.
 Thus civilization claims us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
The Consolidation


 More persons are interested in tho cancellations than one might think, said c. B. Rencher, himself among the closest students of the stars and an astronomer of repute.
 Neither Is the belief in astrology lost cult. know of more than one plain business man in this city who, as soon as you begin talking about the stars, commence to speak of their alleged influence on the des- tinies of men.
 Two years ago the planets hap pened to get together on the same side of the earth and practically in line with the earth and the sun like a brace of birds spit on a ramrod Immediately the local astrologers looked into the Scriptures and else whe in an endeavor to discover what tk-s conjunction portended Some are still of the opinion that serious results are to attend.
 For myself regard no conjunc- tion of planetary orbits of more sig nificance than another, because they are apparently balanced as well in enc position as another"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14
UNCLE SAM'S FAR EAST

i Nearly every man in the world who uses rope pays tribute to the Phil- ippines, for Manila hemp is one of the best rope materials known. It is harvested from a species or banana tree. Nearly s47.00e,o00 worth of it was shipped in 19l7 Coooanut prod ucts-'meat' and oil--come second. Much of Americas butter substitute is made from Philippine cocunut OH. Shipments in 1917 amounted to s2o,- 100000. As a producer of sugar, the Philippines cannot yet be compal ed with the famous sugar isles. Cuba and Java, but it's production entities the group to be classed with Hawai-. Porto Rico and Formosa among the worlds sweeteners.
 The Philippines might be said to be a jagged land both vertically and horizontally. They are very noun tsinous and their coasts are much indented. Though only about one twenty-fifth the area of the United totd lcS, cASAuSlNSs O1 AldShstr t1lt 1iiAl ippines have g coast line twice as great.
 Commercially, Manila, on q com modious bay and with good harbor, has an excellent strategic position. It is a sort of oriental center, less than 1000 miles from important Chi nese ports and less than 1.500 miles from southern Japan. southern ko- req, Singapore and the ports of the Dutch East Indies It Is estimated that within a radius of $500 miles of Manila live three quarter of billion inhabitants, more than third of the total population of the earth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14
Pennsylvania Loses a Favorite Son

@ ENATOR PHILANDER c. 0 KNOX of Pennsylvania occu- ped for 20 years a conspicuous place in American public life and stood high in the councils of the republic an party. Three Presidents, McKin- ley, Roosevelt and Taft honored him by appointments to cabinet po- sitions, and he was a leading figure in the United States Senate.
 After serving the nation with marked ability and zeal under three Presidents and winning a reputation for being one of the "best minds" in national politics, Senator Knox rounded out his career by taking part in narrowly partisan and bit terly contested fight against Presi- dent Wilson and the League of Ma tions. He had the satisfaction of knowing that the ''bitter enders" won, and the further satisfaction of seeing the United States abandon it's allies and make separate peace with Germany.
 These later activities of Senator Knox overshadowed more worth while achievements and~did not add to the prestige he had gained as q fearless and efficient Attorney General, capable Secretary of State, a presidential possibility and one of the greatest lawyers of his time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14
Birmingham on Official
 Route to Florida

~ COOPERATIVE effort has re- N suited in having the Bee Line highway from Nashville to Orlando, via Birmingham, declared the off cial automobile route for Florida tourist travel. Minor road repairs in Blount and other counties in Ala bama, following suggestions made by Florida and Birmingham auto mobile clubs andsthe Bee Line High way Boosters association, brought about this very important change,
 The official route from Nashville was heretofore by way of Atlansa The Florida Automobile association compared the two routes and came to the conclusion that the one via Birmingham was decidedly better provided few bad spots were smoothed over and several bridges put in repair.
 When it is realized that about O,O0O automobiles make the trir to Florida every season the i'm. portance of being on the official route is apparent. It means thou sands of persons stopping over ir Birmingham en route, spending thei' money here and some becoming
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14
THE MARROW DoaR

Charlotte Mew, in the Saturday Mar ket. y Thf narrow door. the narrow door On the three steps of which the
 Cafe children play Mostly at shop with pebbles from the
 shore, It is always shut this narrow door, But open for little while today. And round it, each with pebbles in his
 hand A silenced crowd the cafe chi
 stand To see the long box jerking down ,..e
 bend Of twisted stair; then set on end. Quite filling up the marrow door Till it comes out and does not go In
 any more. Along the quay you see it wind. The slow black line. Some one pulls
 up the blind Of the small window just above the
 narrow door "Tiens, que veux-tu acheter?" Renee cries, "Mais. pour quai'sous. des cignous."
 Jean replies And one pays down with pebbles from
 the shore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14
ALASKA FULL OF MOSQUITOES

By Science Service.
 Washing gton.--Alaska has millions of mosauittoes, but not one house fly. This Is the information that Is brought back from that territory by Dr. J. M. Aldrich of the United States National
 museum, who made an insect survey
 there this summer.
 | Hordes of mosquitoes during the Alaskan summer in places as far north i as Seward and Fairbanks rpovide con tinual entertainment for the inhabi- tants, who, however, do not have to contend with the ravages of the do-
 mestic fly.
 When the ladies of Alaska wish to wear thin and filmy silk stockings they have to place protective layer of paper underneath as an armor-
 plate against the mosquitoes Is one
 story that he has to tell. Laborers wear mosquito nets and heavy gloves.
 Smudges are a national institution
 there They are everywheFe, In the interior the Alaskan summer is suf- I1NleHllN WuEih lOi Sn N@s this sport must be accompanied by a ceremony. The boys construct hut of branches on the bank >0f the stream, protect 1t from mosquitoes by
 q smudge. and enter and exit from
 the water with a mosquito defying dash.
 Alaskan mosquitoes do not act as
 carriers of malaria and yellow fever as do those of the United states and
 tropics, but they are very vicious. They literally fill the air. In one sweep of an insect collecting net
 about his head, Dr. Aldych was able to capture 1lo mosquitoes by actual count
 The absence Of house flies In Alas 1 l1a has raised the question as to { whether there Is a northern limit to ! the house fly Heretofore 1t has been
 assumed that the domestic fly ac- ] Companies man wherever life is pos 1 sible, but Dr. Aldrichs observation { has thrown new light on the. sub I ject. The absence of horses and ! their manure in large quantities. may i be q minor reason for the absence of
 the house fly. but climate seems to be 1 the principal one. Even in the south ! ern end of Aiaska's pan-handle at i Ketchikan there are salmon factories. l houses and stores, all unscreened and
 with absolutely no traces of the com l mon fly A few of the rare flies that
 are found in the United States also
 live in Alaska, but in Insignificant
 numbers
 l Insects from the interior of Alaska were collected by pr. Aldrich for the first time. The valley of the Tanana river, tributary of the Yukon, is very much like the northern part oi Minnesota and the. region around
 Lake Superior so far as insects are ! concerned, he has found. pr. Al drichs trip extended from Seward tc Fairbanks. along the route of the
 partially completed government rail way