Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-05
EM BAND7OL1Z REPORTS ~ALL QUIET" IN WEST VIRGINIA
No Drab Days Even in Recess Period
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Young Lochinvar Has Record All His Own
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Exploits of Manuel HerriCk Discussed

ieiatite oDscurlCy, Dut an epldem-
1c of beauty contests in Washing
ton, sponsored by newspapers and
social organizations, brought him
again to view. He fathered bill
to make beauty contests illegal,
alleging that girls were already
vain enough and that such CON
tests iured them to the city. and
to the clutches of immoral multi
milllonaires and other enemies to
the sancity of the home.
Twenty hours after his bill had
achleved publicity. it developed
that he had been running a beauty
contest of his own. He wrote
~ letters to attractive Washing
ton girls. entries in one of the
contests which had just been con-
cluded, informing them that he
was the 'lonesomest man in
town and offering them "the
love of a man whose love would
be so great, that if that was the
only price to purchase your souls
salvation, he would ransom your
soul out of hell at the price of his
own"
Some of these letters had been
turned over to the post office de-
partment by the recipients. it
developed, and postal inspectors
questioned the Oklahoma con-
gresham about them. He said
he had written the letters to get
evidence in behalf of his bill; he
wanted to show that the girls
were ready to fall for anything.
The publicity he gained, inspired
the representative to issue a
statement which read in part:
'Let the slur writer's rave, the
fact remains and can't be got
ten away from first, that Her
rick has been in Washington since
February 25th and in all that time
he has done no running after
wimen in the sense that the term
is commonly understood to mean.
Second he employees no wimen
clerks in his office, but on the
contrary has full force of Men
clerks, third he has about a peck
of replies from the siley and gidey
girls which they sent in answer
to his decoy letter that he sent
out in order to geather evidence
in behalf Of his bill. He defies
the Social Hyenas. Moral Repro
bates and Moral Lepers to prove
by any evidence worthy of a mo-
ment's consideration in any court
of record wheare in the world
that he has even been guilty of an
act of Moral Turpitude in his
Whole Life. So He is willing for
hn n,+ Tn
long and as loud as they like and
it disburbes his not"
Herrick also asserted that two
pretty Washington young women,
one of whom is married, had
come to his office and signed
statements apologizing for having
turned over his letters to the
postal inspectors. and that he had
given them 25 cents to buy ice
cream and turned them out of
the office. The sequel came on
August 30. when the husband of
one girl and the father of the
other made an attack in force
upon his office and Herrick saved
himself from beating by seeking
the intervention of one of his
colleagues. 1t developed that two
women detectives of the Wash
ington police force had visited his
office impersonating the girls.
Herrick then retained detectives
of his own.
Herrick has unbounded conf
dence in his own abilities, and
some of the letters he has sent to
Washington girls express the view
that within seven years he is
going to be president of the
United States.
But the Oklahoma delegation is
not so keen about his prospects,
and President Harding is said to
have conferred with some Okla
homans as to what should be done
about the GRANT cOngreSSInan