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The Washington times., 1922-10-04
CREDIT MEN LISTEN TO
FIRE PREVENTION TALK
Do you know that

Do you know that
The loss in the United States in
fires is so a second?
Charles p. Benns, assistant man
ager of the District Underwriters
Association presented this fact and
others in a talk on fire prevention
before the Washington Association
Of Credit Men at the weekly round
table luncheon in the City Club
yesterday.
Y. A. Price reported early COM
pletion OF plans for the credit mems
fall dinner. John E. Moore an
nounced that the credit institute
committee was prepared to open
the course of instruction on credits
in the association offices.
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John McCormack Says
Voice Is Better
Than Ever
THOMAS w. LAWSON,
BY FORBES W. FAIRBAIRN.
Iniyer~nl Service.

LONDON, Oct. 4.-"I have
heard that some people in
New York say my voice has
not returned. ! am sailing
for New York today to prove
that my voice not only has
returned but that it is better
than it ever was"
John Mccormack made this
statement to Universal Service
today.
The famous Irish tenor, who
has been touring Europe, is the
picture of health. He sang at
Standardization last week
when Arch Klumph, president
of the international Rotary
Clubs, presented the town a
portrait of Booth.
He will remain in America
for seventeen days, making
records and possibly a few
public appearances.
He plans to make record
of an Irish song written by
Tommy Lyman and Roy Bar
ton, the American entertainers,
who were a sensation in Paris.
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ESTATE To
Be PUT Up
FOR SALE
Parting With ''Dreamwold'
Will Be Sad Blow to Writer
on Frenzied Finance.
by Universal Service.

BOSTON, Oct. 4.-"Dreamwold"
the magnificent, the dream which
came true for Tom" Lawson, for
mer master of finance" is to be
sacrificed as a pawn in the come
back" of it's owner.
AS in the olden days, when men
at arms deliberately sacrificed man
gled arms or legs to prevent death,
80 Lawson is about to wipe out
the place that meant more to him
than anything outside his family.
Rather than suffer total oblivion
financially, the author of Friday
the Thirteenth" decided to part
with his most cherished possession
to stage whirlwind back.
Although in failing health, the
mental faculties of Lawson are un.
impaired.
To Merge With Coal.
The placing OF the Dreamwold
estate in the hands Of trustees will
ultimately result in Strengthening
out Lawson's tangled finances.
While dreading the thought of
parting with the estate. where his
IiIIlll ell were blOuSll up anu
where his wife lies buried, Lawson
knew it was the bes, course to pur-
sue, according to his friends.
1t is said Lawson recently held
many conferences relative TO a coal
proposition, and that number of
coal companies have agreed to
merge their properties with his IA
nous Trinity, formerly copper
mine
Nevertheless, the parting from
Dreamwold will be a sad blow to
the man who spent the happiest
hours of his life there. He is eX-
peCted TO make his farewell appear
anCe on the second day of the
three-day sale, Friday the 18th.
1t is understood that Lawson de.
hberately selected this date, which
in his book was one Of dark deeds
and a day of ill-Omcn, for his final
appearance.
day was also selected for the sale
rumored that the comeback will
start on the same day.
Into this place he put the best
of himself. and with his wife, was
an enthusiastic collector of bloodad
stock. Long ago he disposed of the
cream of his stables and kennels,
but many high-bred horses, dogs.
sheep, goats, rabbits, and cats re.
main.
Art Objects for Sale.
From two rooms in The Nest"
the charming summer house erected
by the money king for himself and
his wife, no less than III artic. Is
have been tagged for the sale. Law.
sons determination to carry on his
final SOrtic against the system"
will be unShaken.
Among the art objects and curios
collected during his lifetime by BOs.
tons most picturesque financial
figure is a massive silver punch
bowl valued at $4,000. 1t has thou.
sands of elephants in ivory, gold
silver, copper, and other metals
ranging in size from tiny watCn
chain pendants to one of Shetland
pony dimensions.
LawsOn's liabilities We're given as
1925 900, and his assets, including
both real estate at DrCamwold and
Winchester. are assessed at 1922 .OOO
and his personal property at $3lO,.
600, as appraised and insured
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officials of the commission are r. l..
FalConer, Boston; II. G. Coles, New
York; Stewart Wilson, Philadelphia;
l.. ii. Fisher. WashingtOn; l.. A.
Meyer, Atlanta; |. l.. Earhart. Gin.
cinnati; J. V. Swanson. Chicago; J.
w. Shoemaker. St. Paul; b. II. Glenn
mons, st. Louis; +. II. Jennings, New
Orleans; c. w. Paine. Seattle; G. l.
Snyder, San Francisco, and J. II
Teicher, Denver.
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Mr.. Harding is the plant tool Of the
malignant and sinister forces which
center in Wall street and which
subtly and irresistibly secured his
nomination and election and now
daily send him secret orders which
h" automatically Obeys. This is the
faVoritc anti-lIarding myth.
Mr.. llardings friends, not to be
OutdOnG, have a myth of their own.
They make out that Mr.. Harding is
a sort of magnificent human ouija
board sitting in the middle Of a large
ring of wise Republican leaders and
slowly and thOughtfully spelling out
all the profound ultimate answers to
all our great national problems under
tn" combined Influence of all tn" en-.
CirCling hands of all our Creates
thinkers and meditaters. This is the
myth which Elihu Root labors to
persuade the Republican faithful to
swallow.
| have tried to catch Wall Street
sending orders to Mr.. Harding, bul
| am obliged to say that the only
things l have been able to intercept
on their way from Wall Street TO the
White House are not orders, but
curses.
Wall Street-most of it-wants
some sort of American cooperation
with Europe. Mr.. Harding produces
none.
Wall Strect-most of it's quit"
content to let American shipping
,akC it's own unaidVd chances against
he British merchant marine. Mr.
Harding has produced the ship sub.
sldy bill.
Wall Streot-mOst of it-wants Wig.
nrOuS measures against people lik,
Mr.. Jewell, of the railroad workers,
and Mr.. Lewis, of the miners. MI
Harding has taken no measures at
all against Mr.. Lewis, and his only
measure against Mr.. Jewell--namcly.
tn" Daughcrty injunCtion-is a dog
with wonderful teeth, but not drop
Of flood on them.
Wall street-most of it-as illus.
tratcd by Mr.. Lamont's speech yes.
tcrday at the bankers convention
in New Hork-thinks that the time
has come for emphatic reductions
in the tariff, Mr. Harding approves
the McCumber.FOrdne tariff and
approves il with expressions of
pleasure.
Wall street did not nominate MIR.
Harding. Mr.. Harding got nomi.
mated by two influences.
one was the adroitncss of Harry
haugh"rIv In going around and Itl-
suading largo numbers % dclega los
I" u" for Mr Harding as their sec.
ond choice. Wall stTeet-most OF
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BRITISH WAR VETERANS
IN u. s. HOLD ELECTIONS

CLEVELAND, o., Oct. 4.-Water-
town, n. Y. was selected for next
years meeting Of the British Great
War Veterans of America. which
opened it's third annual convention
here.
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SON. BROKE IS LIKELY TO STAGE COME ON FRIDAY 1911

elected as follows: DR.. l.. c. Corbett,
president; DR.. II. l.. Shantz, vice
president; DIR. w. w. Gilbert. trea.
surer; Roy G. Pierce, recording
secretary, and r. Kemp Beattie,
corresponding secretary. DR.. w. A.
Stafford was elected to represent the
society in the Washington Academy
Of Sciences.
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Railroad Values Fixed.

The Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion announced today that 1t had
fixed a tentative valuation OF $250, 900
on the property of the Philadelphia
Beach Haven railroad, of Pennsyl.
vania. and Of $571, ,7S9 on the prop.
erty of the Stanley, Merrill and Phil
lips railway. Of Wisconsin.
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twas for Wood. The business
men OF the Wcst-most of them
were for LOwden. The progressives
We're for Johnston. Those three
candidates wore themselves out and
the delegates were worn out with
them. They were exhausted. They
voted for their second choice and
went home.
The other influence which nomi.
mated MIR. Harding was that he
temperamentally is the splitting
image of the President of the
Chamber of Commerce in any small
cI.y anywhere between Pittsburgh
and Denver. The convention was
dominantly Main Street Conven-
ton. Its two acts of nominating
Mr. Harding and going home were
the same act. Mr.. Harding was as
homelike to the delegates as any
local banker or merchant in their
own home towns.
Wall Street rails al Mr.. Harding.
1t is on Main Street that he had and
has his strength. He is a Main
Street conservative, Main Street
suspeCtOr of trade uniOnS. but Main
Street personal friend of Tom and
Bill who belong TO trade unions, a
Main Street believer in the good old
doctrine of the tariff, a Main Street
spectator of Europe, thanking God
that Main Street is far from it.
If Warren Gamaliel Harding gets
orders from any street they are or
ders that come through the tempera-
mental ether from the street that
runs through the middle of middling
towns in the middle of the Mississippi
valley.
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Mr.. Harding s
n q V er h "A p e
are never haD-
pier than when
they deeply and
lnnl.lnr nnn. ahnn
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And this is the reason why it is
equally ridiculous to regard him as
the mere recording instrument of
the advice given him by the wise
acres of Washington. He went
against the mass OF them on the
bonus and he is going against the
mass of them on the ship subsidy
bill
He does not normally arrive at a
decision by calling in all the partys
'caders and counting their opinions.
He Consults on any question few
Of them, who either are supposed 10
have some knowledge of that Ques.
ton or else are esteemed by him as
pc Crsonal, faithful friends.
His Dc CisiOns are usually Just as
unknown beforehand to the mass Of
the party's leaders as to the general
public. He picks his own advisers
and comes to his own conclusions.
And the more those conclusions are
analyZCd the more they will Ue seen
on the whole to he tho very same
conclusions which would he speIlcd
out by ouiia party not in New York
and not in Washington. hut on thu
front porch Of frame house on n
shaded street in the hest residential
section Of any junction point on the
Pennsylvania Lines West.
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tral pc + 8 on a
issue in the cam.
paign. and tOda '
is just AS good as
any other day for
driving a f e W
punCtures in I O
the two gr ca I
IN y t h 3 which
have gone and
got themselves
attached to Mr.
Harding y char.
aCter.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-06-21
Wool Growers Happy.

The 1902 farmers in Michigan who
marketed their wool comparatively on
a graded basis last year have in their
pockets just $48,0O0 more than they
would have had under the old method.
The Michigan pool sold 2,858,OOO
pounds of wool at an average price Of
23.949 cents for all grades, which net
ted the grower 1894 cents after the
marketing cost Of 4.009 had been de-
Quoted.
The average local price throughout
the state at shearing time last year
and until December, 1921, was 1925
cents pound, according to the bureau
of crop estimates at Lansing which
gathers the price reports from govern
ment representatives in every section
Of the state. The Michigan Farm Bu-
reau Federation is pushing the 1922
pooling campaign and has three grad
ing teams in the field. The pool con-
tinues to receive wool and make cash
advances at Lansing.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-06-21
HORSES BRING GOOD PRICES
North Dakota Team Sells for $420 at
Sale in courtland, N. "
Others to Follow.

A 2,7O0 pound matched team in Far
go, North Dakota, recently brought
$420 at sale in Courtland, New
York. They were shipped by express
from Fargo to New York at total
expense of $50, which covered ex-
press charges, expenses for sale, feeds
and incidental expenses. The sale
movement was started by the Wells
County. Farm Bureau which hopes to
make arrangements with other farm
bureaus in New York and New Eng
land for the shipment of North Dakota
horses direct to farm bureau members
there. E. S. De Lancey Of Valley
City, an old experienced horseman,
has been placed in charge Of the work.
The farmers are listing their horses
with the farm bureau committees,
which pass on the condition of the
live stock and when found sound and
of good type they are accepted for the
sale. They are then stall-fed, made
fat and smooth, and shipped to Mr..
De Lancey who conducts the auction
sales.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-06-21

culture will try to function under the
circumstances.
The Capper-Tincher act was ap-
proved on August "a, 1921. The law
was fostered by the American Farm
Bureau Federation, and its passage
was initial evidence Of the power of
the farm bloc in congress. The farm
bureau has repeatedly insisted that
co-operatives must not be discriminate
ed against, and that gambling in food
products must be eliminated. New
legislation along these lines will be
vigorously supported through the leg
islative department Of the American
Farm Bureau Federation in Washing
ton.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-06-21
HELvETIA- MADE HIGH SCORE
Leads All Other West Virginia Com.
munities in Spirit, Citizenship
and Business.

In competition with more than fifty
of the most progressive rural commu-
mites in West Virginia, Helvetia, Ran
dolph county, just made the highest
score and has taken the lead from
French Creek, Upshur county, as the
best rural community in the state.
West Virginia, by cooperation Of her
farm bureaus, agricultural extension
division and other state agencies, has
been measuring her rural communities
for the past four years with the idea
of stimulating them to better things
by comparison with neighboring COM
munities, and by pointing out what
were the outstanding weaknesses.
In 1921, fifty communities were care
fully judged as to strength and weak
nesses and French Greek held first
place, which she had won the previous
year. She was closely followed by
West Liberty, Ohio county, and Au-
rora, Preston county. This year the
score card of series of tests by means
of which the standards of country
community are determined was so re-
.yised that all the scores of last year
were arbitrarily cut 30 points out of
possible 1000. r., g,s: ss:s''. =, ....e.
The various communities are re-
scored year after year in order to de-
termine how progress is being made,
so most of those tested out last year
have been scheduled for scoring again
this year with the new score card. A
few more than dozen of the half
hundred have already been scored
and among this number was Helvetia.
Helvetia scored 76S points, which
placed her 8 points above French
Creek on the corrected scoring system.
Franklin is another community
which has been tested this year by the
new score card, and which made a
score of $50. Considering the COM
munities scored last year, the ten
state leaders of the country communi-
ties are now as follows:
Helvetia. Randolph county, 1853 ;
French Creek, Upshur county, 759;
West Liberty, Ohio county, 767; Au-
rora, Preston county, '755; Franklin,
Brooks county. 75O; Berlin, Lewis
county, 74s; Hodgeville, Upshur coun-
ty, 746; Lightbur, Lewis county, TAP; I;
Lorentz. Upshur county, 740; Good
Hope, Harrison county, 734.
Great strides in the development of
every one of the rural communities
scored in previous years has been
noted, with marked improvement in
almost every phase considered by the
score card. These include community
spirit, citizenship, recreation, health
homes, schools, churches, business and
farms. West Virginia farm bureaus
feel that the country life conferences
in connection with which scoring is
done in the various communities, are
largely responsible for this growth
and development
The Devils Lake world., 1922-06-21
american
FARM BUREAU
new REGULATORY ACT
PLAN OF FARM BLOC
Decision Of Supreme Court
Leads Senator Capper to Out
line Action to Be Taken.

Commenting on the decision Of the
United States Supreme court holding
the most important provisions of the
grain exchange regulation law invalid,
Senator Arthur Capper, head of the
farm bloc, said to representative of
the American Farm Bureau Fedora.
ton:
This action by the Supreme court
takes the real heart out of the bill.
We are going to work Immediately
on new law. Possibly it will be
drafted along the lines of the packer
control act, which recently was de-
clared constitutional. Back of all of
this agitation, it seems to me, is the
fight to keep co-operatives off the
board of trade. We shall see that
they are put on the board of trade
when the new law is enacted. The
decision of the court comes as great
disappointment to the members of the
farm bloc i'll both senate and house,
as we have looked upon this measure
as one of our real achievements. The
court decision makes us all the keen
er to pass law which will stand the
test"
Courts Hint to Congress.
The Supreme court held invalid the
taxing feature of the law. which was
the method of enforcement. It also de-
MED the governments right to force
admission of co-operatives on an equal
footing with the other members Of the
grain exchanges. The machinery of
control Of the grain exchanges is left
intact BY the provision Of section 2.
This Would leave to the Department
of Agriculture authority to investi-
gate and make public it's findings as
!n the PACKER and stock Yards con
troll act. which the Supreme court
recently held constitutional. The pack.
ers are regulated through the com.
merce clause Of the constitution, and
not through taxing feature. The
portion of the decision dealing with
this phase is regarded as a direct sug.
gestion to congress as to how to pro-
ceed. The Supreme court says:
"There is not a word in the act
from which it can be gathered that ii
is confined to interstate commerce
The words interstate commerce are
not to be found in any part of the
act from the title to the closing sec
tion. The transactions upon which the
tax is to be imposed, the bill AYERS
are sales made between members O1
the board Of trade in the city of Chi
cago in the future delivery of grair
which will be settled by the process:
Of offsetting purchases or by de
livery Of warehouse receipts of grai1
stored in Chicago. Looked at in thi!
The Devils Lake world., 1922-06-21
Liner CHASED
BY WATERSP0UT
Passengers on the Carmanla
See Thrilling Struggle Be-
tween Sky and Ocean.
IS SAVED BY SPEED
Passengers at First Merely Interested
In Phenomenon, but When Chase
Began They Huddled Awe.
Stricken Along Decks.

New York.-The story Of gigantic
waterspout which chased the Cunard
liner Carmania half an hour and then
suddenly subsided when it was almost
upon the hard-driven ship was told by
officers and passengers when she ar
rived here after a round trip to the
Near East.
The liner was about 800 miles out
Of New York when the spout was
sighted. AT first, passengers said, it
appeared as slight disturbance OF
water about eighteen miles away.
Then the waves were twisted and
churned and hurled skyward with
much force in an ever-increasing vol
ume, while myriad colors played
ter was 1900 feet high and $50 feet
wide at its base.
Capt. G. w. Nelson ordered the liner
sent ahead at full speed.
At almost the same moment the
spout seemed to take wings and rush
after the big ship.
Wager on Speed.
Passengers crowded aft. Smoke
belched from the ships tunnels while
the Carmania strained every atom of
her strength to escape. AS the spout
Travelled it grew larger.
1t widened rapidly and lowered high
in the air, throwing off tons Of spray.
At first passengers thought it just
a wonderful phenomenon. They be-
gan to bet on its speed or whether it
would catch the boat or pass it.
Then, as it lowered in the Car
mania's wake, gaining rapidly, it oc-
Cured to the passengers that it car
ried certain death and that the race
was one for life.
The spout continued to gain until
1t was almost on the ship.
The passengers huddled, awe-strick-
en-, along the decks watching the on.
coming mass Of water.
Suddenly Subsidies.
It had only to reach out for the
ship-and it subsided as suddenly as
1t had risen. Five minutes later there
The Devils Lake world., 1922-06-21
JUDGE ORDERS MAN THRASHED
New York Recorder Tells Husband te
Give Wife's Annoyer "Good
Licking"

Atlantic City, N. J.-Webster Rsley
was instructed to "beat up Thomas
Curtis by Recorder Clarence Golden.
berg. This decision followed the
testimony Of Mrs. Risley, who said
that Curtis was accosting her on the
street, writing unfounded accusations
In letters to her husband and making
scenes when they went in public
places. ais
The husband is tall and muscular,
while the defendant is small in stature,
sparsely built and wtry in movement.
1T looks to me as If you were big
enough to settle the controversy by
beating him up, and while you are at
1t 1 would suggest that you give him
a good licking" said the recorder.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-06-21
The Great waterspout writhed.

was nothing to show there had been
any disturbance.
Frederick Pratt, Standard Oil COM
pany official, said it was the most ter.
rife but at the same time the most
wonderful sight he ever had seen.
Captain Nelson smiled when he was
asked about it.
aI'll never tell what would have
happened if 1t had caught u.s." he
said. "In fact, never could have
told. We would have been listed as
missing
The Devils Lake world., 1922-06-21
Burglars Maintained Office.

New York.-Asserting that they con-
Quoted operations from an Office rent
ed in downtown building, police ar
rested two members Of firm Of bur
glars" nipping in the bud their plans
for the "spring trade"
The Devils Lake world., 1922-06-21
Powerful x-Ray,

A French scientist, chief of tha bu-
Eeau of photography for the Paris hos
pitfalls, has demonstrated that an N-ray
apparatus can photograph subjects
through a stone wall more than %
feet distant from the source of the
rays. He has obtained clear photo
graphs of metallic objects, the rays
filtering through marble plate more
than an inch thick. - inches of oak,
four inches of plaster and a sheet of
lead one-eighth of an inch thick.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-06-21

If you contemplate buying a pure
bred sire this summer four herd don't
fail to attend the sale of registered
Shorthorn cattle to be held on Mon
day, June 26 at the Odessa Stock
Farm. You'll never be able to get
anything better. J. S. Kirk, Owner.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-06-21

aspect and without any limitation of
the application Of the tax to inter-
state commerce or to that which the
congress may deem from evidence be-
fore 1t to be an obstruction to inter-
state commerce, we do not find it pos
sible to sustain the validity Of the
regulations as they are set forth in
this act. A reading Of the act makes
1t quite clear that congress sought
to use the taxing power to give valid
ity to the act. 1t did not have the ex-
ercise of it's power under the COM
merce clause in mind and so did not
introduce into the act the limitations
which certainly would accompany and
mark an exercise Of the power under
the latter clause"
Not Interstate Commerce.
The court holds that future deliv-
cry sales on the board of trade "are
not in and of themselves interstate
commerce" There is the following
qualification, however: "They can.
not come within the regulatory power
Of congress as such unless they are
regarded by congress from the evi-
dence before it as directly interfer-
Ing with interstate commerce 80 as
to be an obstruction or burden
thereon
When the Capper-Nncher act to
control future trading on the grain
exchanges of the country was passed
It was felt that 1t would still the cry
for complete ban on all future trad.
Ing. Legitimate hedging remained as
q proper trade function.
The decision did not invalidate sec.
hon 3 which provides a tax Of 20
cents per bushel on puts and "calls,
nor section 8, which provides for In
vestigation by the secretary of agri
culture, but 1t has shorn the secretary
Of his power to make traders open
their books to him. 1t is question
aow whether the Department Of Agri
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-17

clearinghouse, We | our $,
cassimeres, worsteds and
cheviots.
Pencil stripes Or plain
worsteds, in blue, brown,
olive or black.
Double and single
breasted. Also sports mod
els.