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Society
President Receives Viscount Northcliffe and
Mr.. H. Wickhan Steed-Vice President and
Mrs. Coolidge to Go to New England.

absent from the city attending tht
opening session Of the Institute OF
Politics at Williamstown. Mass.
Dr. l.. =. Rowe Leaves
for WiIliamstown Conference.
Or. L. S. Rowe. director general OF
/ the Pan-American Union, has gone tC
Wiliiamstown. Mass. to participate
; in the conferences of the Institute OF
International Relations, to be held al
Williams College.
Senior Sebastiao SampaiO. CONNER
cial attache at the Brazilian en-
bassy, who returned from New York
last week, has gone to Philadelphia
where he will address the Philadel-
phia Export and the Rotary clubs
and will also inspect Port facilities
there.
Mrs. W. Sinclair Bowen has gone to
Dark Harbor. Me, where she will be
the guest of Lady Geddes. wife of the
ambassador of Great Britain. Mrs.
Bowen will make several visits on
the North Shore and Long Island be-
fore returning to her apartment in
the Highlands.
Budapest. Mr.. Walter Reineck. and
Mrs. Reineck. with their son. will
sril today on the Mongolia from
New York for Europe. Mr.. d. $.
BiCelow, vice consul at Bucharest.
and Mr.. j. j. Ewart. vice consul to
Berlin. are also sailing on the Mon
golia.
Judge and Mrs. Charles 3. Howry
and Mrs James Mcdonald We're joint
hosts at dinner last evening at the
Women's National Foundation. when
the guests included Senator and Mrs.
Arthur Cappcr. Senator and Mrs. Key
Pittman. Senator Samuel D. Nichol-
son. Senator Thomas ]. Walsh. Sem
ator Richard p. Ernst, Representative
and Mrs. Frank W. Mondell. Miss
Helen Cannon. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
erick f. Chaplin. Mr.. and Mrs. Clar-
ence Crittenden Calhoun and former
Senator Hoke Smith.
Mrs. Henry c. Corbin will leave this
afternoon for NonQuitt. Mass, where
she will spend the week end and will
make series of visits along the
north shore before returning to her
apartment in the Connecticut.
Mrx. Hammond Entertains
sunday school Class.
| Mrs John Hcnr." Hammond and her
, daughter. Miss Emily Sloane Ham
mond. are at Elm Court. the summer
home OF Mrs. Hammond's mother. Mrs
Henry White. at LenOX. Mass. Mrs
Hammond entertained the members
, Of her former Sunday school class OF
Trinity Church at picnic on the
grounds Of Elm Court yesterday. Her
guests numbered twenty-five and in
cluded her daughters house guests
Miss Louise Vanderbilt Schieffelin;
her cousin and Miss Louise 3. kissel
of New York
Miss Helen Cannon has returned from
Gloucester. Mass. where she was the
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Mrs, Mcneil Leaves
for Canada Tomorrow.

for Canada Tomorrow.
! Mrs. John l.. Mcneil of Durango
; Col. who spent the winter III Wash
inpton will leave tomorrow. accom-
named by Mrs. George f.. Gilliland, fol
Cobourg. Canada. where they VIII
spend the remainder of the summef
al the New Arlington-Columbla
,, Mrs. John Wann of ST. Paul. MINI.
will sail on the Mongolia today 'o
, ioin her daughter Florence. COUNTESS
Ton Schwerin. in Munich. bavarla
Later she will visit her siS,er. -aas
I UolIand, in London. Mrs W ann, a.
isit.s Rar,ha Stettinius OF st. Louis Is
we'll we'll remembered in Washlnst@m m
there she lived some years ssof nt InI he,
more recently was the suts, houa,, -. m, ),
cousin. Mrs. Champe
Thornton.
Mrs c. V. Young. with hHr M, R.n.
Mrs. Linnie NJ. Bourne a'o w
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iE TEcSiueHl TcCciStu Nis-
count Northcliffe and Mr. H
Wickhan Steed at the White
House this morning. follow
ing Viscount Northcliffes arriva
earlier in the morning from New York
Fiscount Northcliffe's engagements
while here are numerous. This morn
ing he called on the Secretary OF
Commerce, Mr.. Hoover. and this eve.
ming. he is to dine informally at the New
Willard. where he is staying. Tomorrow
evening he will be among the guests al
dinner party to be given by Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Beale Mclean. and he
has several golfing engagements as
we'll. "
Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge
VIII Go to New England.
The Vice President and Mrs. Cool.
ldge. with their young sors, John I'd
Caivin. Will leave tomorrow morning
ior plymouth. Mass. to attend the
fHsrim tercentenary celebration. The
iensth OF their stay in New England
is indefinite. but it is not milk rel y
mat the Vice President and Mrs.
Coolidge will make a visit or two
IN that region before returning,
yesterday. the Vice President and
Mrs. Coolidge had as their guests at
luncheon at the Capitol Mayor Ed
ridge of Summerville. Mass and Ior-
mer State Senator John Brennan NJ
Massachusetts.
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ASSIGNED TO SEA DUTY.

Lieut.. Commander Carroll Q.
Wright. at the Annapolis Naval
Academy. has been assigned to the
cruiser Savannah as engineer officer.
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Announce Marriage
Of Miss Hazel OXIey.

Announce Marriage
Of Miss Hazel Oxley.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Rollins announce
the marriage of their daughter. Hazel
Ivalne Estelle Oxley. to Mr.. Albert r.
Cross. son of the late Mr.. and Mrs. j.
IT Cross of Baltimore. The ceremony
was performed yesterday afternoon at
s o'clock in the home Of the Rev. F.
w. Johnson The arrangements for
the wedding were simple owing to the
recent death of the brides grard-
mother. and Mr.. and Mrs. Cross left
Immediately after the ceremony for a
short honeymoon in Atlantic City.
They will make their home at 1903 d
street southeast.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. D. Rowe of Denver.
Col. are spending several days in
Washington at the Powhatan.
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The National Pen League and In
ternational Literary Association will
celebrate its first anniversary at a
fete champetre 70 he held at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank carlin
Octurus. Va, Saturday, July 80. 2:3C
to pm.
Mr.. and Mrs F. s. Smith of Wash
ington are at the Hotel Traymore, At
lantic City.
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dolph Bourne. are spending the sum-
mer at the Hotel Traymore. Atlantic
City.
The marriage Of Miss Chrystal L..
Matthews. daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
George T. Matthews. and Mr.. Walter
c. Poreet took place yesterday MORN
ing at o'clock, at the parsonage OF
the Rhode Island Avenue Methodist
Protestant Church. the pastor. the
Rev. G. l. Humphreys. officiating.
A reception followed at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. NJ. Devlin.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Poteet left later for
trip to Atlantic city and Niagara
Falls. They will be at home after Au-
gust l5 at 81 Q street northwest. the
guests present at the ceremony IN
cluded MIR. w. G. Poteet. father of the
bridegroom: his sisters. Miss Ella Po-
teet and Miss Nora Poteet: Mr.. and
Mrs. Devlin, Miss Violet. Schwing,
Miss frankie Osborne and Mr.. Ray
mond Ryan.
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THE LEAVENWORTH ECHO

that legislatures yielded to popular
demand-or clamor.
For 80 years there was 3-mill
limit to the general fund levy but as
successive legislatures yielded to pop
ular calmor they set one necessity or
convenience after another into a spec
ial fund and loaded down the general
fund with new burden, which at the
time was regarded as luxury but as
it grew stronger became regarded as
a necessity.
The first Legislature had its general
fund but it added military fund levy
that established a precedent for each
succeeding legislature-but in 1SS9-90
the adjutant general was an elective
officer for the moment and had no
Governor to hold him in check as he
lobbied his way through the legisla-
ture
In 1895 the legislature really began
its creation of special funds when it
passed John X. Rogers "barefoot
school boy" bill which subsequently
made him governor. This act requir-
ed raising $6 per census child, a sum
raised by subsequent legislatures to
IS, $40 and finally 500, for the sup
port of the common schools. There
was a provision on the statute books
that limited the common school fund
tax to mills and in 1901 when the
$40 rate was fixed and 5.447 mills
would have been required to raise the
amount the board of equalization
passed resolution, never contested,
setting forth that it could not go
above this limit. The special session
of 1920 created new situation. But
the fact is that approximately 5 mills
now and always has taken care of
| this states support of common
schools, outside revenues from the
permanent school fund.
With the ice broken on the common
school fund as public demands on the
general fund increased the legislature
has added the public and permanent
highway levies; took the higher ed
ucatlonal institutions out of politics.
by giving them special levy of 1925
mill in 1911, raised it to 1.5S in 1917
and 2.349 mills in 1921. Capitol con-
struction and reclamation revolving
funds grew up with one-half mill
apiece; the public voted mill for
soldiers bonus and Chehalis normal
school got 10 of a mil. Always
popular demand dove the legislature.
| The general fund, which pave all Of
| fetal salaries, keeps up state institu-
tins. nays for the odds and ends that
are, accumulated and supports the
real necessities Of state government
never was fixed by legislative enact
ment; it is the only levy. aside from
the military fund, that the equaliza-
ton committee has unreserved power
over Maybe the only one as certain
military requirements must be met
This general fund levy was cut in two
last month by the equalization com
mittee composed of Gov. Hart, Audi
tor c. W. Clausen and Treasurer C. L.
Babcock.
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longing to said estate, and the above
entitled court is asked to approve ana
settle said account, distribute the real
and personal property belonging 20
said estate to the heirs and discharge
the administrator from his trust, ana
Wednesday, the 5th day of October,
1921, at the hour of $3.50 o'clock AN.
OF said day, or as soon thereafter as
the hearing can be had, in the .court.
room of the court house in the city oil
Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washing,
ton, has been fixed as the time and
place for hearing on the settlement, OF
the final account and petition for DIS,
tribution, and any person. interested
ip said estate may file objections to
said petition and final account, or may
appear at said time and place and
present their objections thereto.
Dated this 7th day of Sept, 1921.
A. A. STEVENS,
Clerk of the above entitled court.
BY ISABEL A. ROSS,
(SeaD Deputy.
(5t-Sept. 8, Oct. y
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STATE ADMINISTRATOR NOTES

Olympia.-The Attorney Generals
office in an application for a rehear-
ing in the Macmillan case has asked
the Supreme Court to modify its find
ing that men enlisted in the army,
navy or marine corps prior to April
8, 1917, are not entitled to share in
the bonus given by this state to its
World War veterans. Attorney Gen
eral l.. l.. Thompson, co-author of the
bonus bill, and John A. Frater, head
OF the bonus department, both ex-ser-
vice men, ask the rehearing to get out
Of an embarrassing position.
Mr.. Thompson, no doubt having in
mind what he thought when he helped
draft the bonus bill, points out to the
Supreme Court what was hoped for,
in his opinion, and asks the Court,
which was unanimous in its first de-
cislon, to follow the bonus department
ruling that Max Macmillan enlisted
IN the regular army in Missouri in
1914, serve at Fort Casey, Washing
ton, until he went over seas, and that
this did not constitute a residence in
this state which would entitle him to
a bonus. By chopping the case off
there the attorney general wishes the
Supreme Court to ignore its impress
sion of what the legislature intended
when it submitted the bill and the
Poop e's Interpretation when they
voted on titus ignoring or wiping
out the regular service issue.
Though not officially stated it is a
fact that the bonus department fears
the decision would bar further pay
ments to veterans of the 2nd Wash
ingtOn because they were called out
haf l.,
court did not pass upon the status of
National Guardsman, merely ruling
professionals soldiers are not entitlej
to a bonus because they We're called
upon to do something the enlistment
papers provided for. Mr. Thompson
and Mr. Frater in their application
for a rehearing, though, contend over
seas duty was far beyond anything
contemplated in the old days of army
and navy enlistment. Furthermore
it is contended that thousands of pa
triOtic Washington boys hoping for
immediate action enlisted in the reg
ular army, navy and marine corps
service just before war was declared
The motion for rehearing sets
forth that approximately $l,6l5,000
has been paid to 1925 claimants of the
class the Court says are not entitled
to any bonus while only about 900
men claiming $325,000 are left
These figures are estimates based on
hurried check of application papers
but they approximate the situation.
State Treasurer c. l.. Babcock' 5
guarantee that if the court authorized
issuance of warrants for bonus
claims in excess of the 81 900, 900 APP
propriated the banks would cash them
at par has been unanimously approx
ed by bankers writing to the treasur-
er. Only one banker has suggested
special legislative session be called
to appropriate funds to pay the extra
claims, but even he agrees to pay par
for warrants. Lieut.. Gov. VIM. j.
Coyle, an overseas veteran, who has
checked up the bankers letters. de
clares the veterans should in no in
stance cash their claims for less than
par.
John A. Frater. head of the bonus
department. believes all claims now
pending can he passed for payment
within a month after the Courts au-
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Breezy Bits Of News
From Peshastin

Mrs. Matthew and Mrs. Bosquet of
Wenatchee were guests at the Ken
nedy home over Sunday.
Miss Amos of Dryden, visited at the
Baker home last Friday.
A baby girl was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Nelson last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kirby and children,
Miss Hannah and Miss Chamberlain
picnicked up the Icicle Sunday.
Mrs. Gregory entertained the p. l..
F. Club at the C. H. Baker home Fri
day. A short business meeting was
held and reports from the County
District Federation meeting were. Civ
en- by Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Newell
Selections were played on the Vic
trola, after which the ladies were
called to the dining room, which was
decorated in yellow and black, the
table appointments being suggestive
OF Halloween. a new England lunch
con of baked beans, brown bread,
salad and olives; apple pie la mode
and cider, was served. Following
members were present, Mesdames
Newell, Hauber l.. Harvey, H. Sauer,
Rogers, Stage, Nicholson, Daggett,
OFT and Baker. Guests of the club
we're Mrs. Clemens and Miss Amos.
The show given at the Auditorium
last Friday evening, was "The Silver
Horde" and a good crowd was in at
tendance.
Mrs. G. Z. Fryberger was sick for
several days this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Westoyer, son and
daughter of Olympia, are guests at
the Joe Kirby home for several days.
Two accidents occurred here Sun
day, but neither was serious, that, is
nc one was injured. A broken wheel
was the cause of one by the Coppock
kcme, and excessive speed making
the turning of the curve at the rail
road crossing impossible, caused the
other car to overturn.
Mr.. Barnhardt of Wenatchee, was
in Peshastin, Saturday.
The weekly dances being given at
the Woodman hall on Saturday nights
are a big success. There is good music
therefore good crowds. Better come
out, you'll have a good time
A washer is a small thing, to be
sure, but it is just as necessary as it
seems trivial. Always have an as
serted supply on hand, for they can
be used sometimes in the most I'M
expected places.
A dime" recital was given at the
Auditorium Monday night by Mr..
Simonson Of Minnesota. Mr.. Simon
son is humorous reader and his en-
tertainment is called a "dime" recital
because 10 cents is all the admission
charged.
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The request of the Interstate Com
merce Commission that Director f. V.
kCykendall and Rate Expert o. O..
Calderhead of the Department of
Public Works sits with the commits
sion when it hears protests against
the Henry 1-B tariff that raises
freight rates west of the Cascades %
pei cent is the first offer the federal
commission has made to include state
officers in such hearings. Incidental
ly this courtesy is extended on the
eve of the meeting of the national as
ISOLATION of railroad commissioners at
Atlanta on Oct. and may have an
effect on that body.
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Limit on Settlement Money.

Supporters of various land settle
ment projects submitted to Director
Dan A. Scott of the department of
conservation and development per-
sistently ignore certain features of
the law. The appropriation of $780,
600 is all Director Scott has for all
purposes of land settlement. 1t is eX-
pected many veterans settled on state
lands will need help in building hous-
es. and barns, providing farm machin-
cry and seed and another portion of
the fund must be saved for overhead
expense of the department There
fore it may be impracticabe to spend
more than half the sum on land. The
appropriation is not revolving fund
though it comes from the reclamation
revolving fund. Many people erron-
eously think the department could use
payments for land and apply that
money to increasing land settlement
work. The fact is any money taken
in goes back to the treasury.
Fred J. Dibble, director of licenses,
has appealed to autoists to help bring
in delinquent motor vehicle and driv
ers' licenses before the highway pa
troll bears down on motor car owners
and operators.
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Grange Purging Itself.

Grange Purging Itself.
Now that interests supporting VIM.
Bouck, deposed master of the state
grange, have called a meeting of
"progressives' in Seattle on Oct. Is,
to form an organization in which rad
icals will be free from all restraint,
It is believed here, where Secretary
Fred Lewis resides, that the organi-
cation is coming to showdown. c.
K Cottrell, radical in Grange,
Triple Alliance. Non-Partisan League
and Farmer-Labor party movements,
signs the call for Bouck interests.
Secretary Lewis has welcomed the is
sue, declaring it brings the fight into
the open where it may even be APP
pealed to the courts, for the Grange
is an incorporated body, and every
body will know whether Bouck, ad-
mitted Nonpartisan league leader, can
use the Grange for his own purposes.
Because of his instruction, Acting
Grange Master Nelson is reported
to have stopped Bouck's salary as SUI
pervising deputy last month. He was
suspended as master of the state
grange for his radical speech at Col
vile.
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Pen Ready to Make Shoes.

Receipt Of the shoe making mach
inery to be installed at the state pen
itentiary will be followed by imme-
diate development of the industry
which will supply all the footwear
needed by inmates of all Washington
institutions. If worked to capacity
the shoe plant would be able to trade
shoes and slippers to institutions of
other western states for supplies
needed in Washington-if such a pol
icy is found advisable.
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Girls School HELPS State,

Girls School Helps State.
Between Aug. %, 1920, and Aug.
81, 1921, officers and inmates of the
State School for Girls at Grand
Mound through special work and fl
nancial contributions added $l305.99
in money and supplies to the allow
ance the state made for the school,.
Practically all the contribution repre-
sents extra work done by the girls
during spare time. The list Of fur
nishings added by the girls efforts,
and their value, is:
Four fancy candles, $1.65; mahog-
any candle sticks, $3.50; 10 chairs, >
leather scatter, $1l725; | eggbeater,
45c; dozen small flags, $3.50; 2
hanging baskets, $3.50; fire screens,
brass mounted, $40; 3 sets brass din
ner gongs, $14; } jardinieres, S775;
81 pictures, S200.30; HUFFMAN
piano, 1916; rag rugs, SO; 1 Vic
trola record, SILT; 2 oak tables,
s11.50; 5 vases q flower bowD, 1891;
total, $S05.98.
The girls raised $327.50 for salar-
les for extra services in first aid work
and domestic science, canning, piano
teacher during the summer of 1921
and relief officer for additional voice
lessons; in addition they raised $57 .63
for expense of an entertainment and
S1l4.SS for expense and materials
used in their display at the South
western Washington fair. The De-
partment of Business Control has
| commended the girls.
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Examination of the record bears
out Gov. Louis f. Harris statement in
Yakima speech that during the last
quarter of a century the legislature
and the public have been deluding
themselves by getting away from the
policy of paying all expenses of state
government from one fund and have
added one government luxury after
another through the eXpedient of a
special tax levy the state eaualizers
could not touch. In a quarter of a
century Populists, Democrats and Re-
publicans have been in power so there
is nothing partisan in the criticism
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The Highway Committee now is let
ting contracts for bodybuilding at
figures running 25 per cent below
those of 1920. Not only has there
been return to normally in labor
and supplies but there have come in
to the field new contractors and keen
er competition. AS high as 20 firms
have bid on a single job and in no in
stance this year has there been an alb
sence of competition. Only a short
time ago, it will be recalled the high
way division was obliged to do some
necessary road work on force account
because of the absence of competition
OF exorbitant bidding.
First contracts this year were let
before the force of the downward ten
dency was felt, but the highway COM
mittee anticipating lower prices
started its program cautiously and
now is reaping the benefit for the
state.
Contracts for excavations have been
let as low as q cents per cubic foot,
as compared with from 60 to 20 cents
year ago. Grading and paving re-
Gently showed declines in cost of $25
per cent and better. Bridge work has
fallen about Is per cent.
This means a great deal in view of
the fact that the state expects to re-
ceive federal aid for next years pro-
gram. Already the highway commits
SIGN has made big saving and this
windfall together with next years
fund and the auto licenses to be col
lected in the first three months Of
1923 give hope of substantial in
crease in the highway program over
what was expected when the last leg
iSlature met.
Eagerness of some counties to be
permitted to match up federal funds
would block a part of the state pro-
gram if the highway committee did
not insist that work be done on the
highways blocked out and in adhering
to the principle that state interests
are superior to those of any locality.
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of the comparatively small number
found to be out of work.
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NOTICE OF HEARING ON SET
ELEMENT OF FINAL ACCOUNT
AND PETITION FOR DISTRIBU-

In the Superior Court of the State
In the Matter of the Estate of
BERT BLACKWELL, Deceased.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that
A L. Duhamel, administrator of the
estate of Bert Blackwell, deceased,
has filed with the Clerk of the above
Court his final account as such adj
ministrator and also his petition for
the distribution of the property be-
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thorization. While recent state
ment of the adjutant generals shows
59,339 Westinghouse were in the
army, navy and marine corps during
the war, the bonus department rec
ords show about 1000 of them have
not yet asked for their extra compen-
sation.
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State UNEMPLOYED Few.

Continued investigation by the De-
partment Of Labor and Industries
shows Washington's unemployment
problem is the easiest in the union.
Director Edward Clifford reports re-
opening of sawmils, activity in other
industrial plants, state, county and
municipal employment will take care