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The New York herald., 1922-08-27
and give a clean, thrifty administra-
tion. they rouse opposition instead Of
support.
The First Town With
Woman Government

While Des Lacs has been greatly
exploited as the first town TO elect a
woman administration. in reality Um-
atilla, Oregon, holds this record.
In 1915 this town, a railway divi-
sion headquarters, with a population
of 400, was practically bankrupt.
Among its debts We're $4,000 in out
standing water warrants, $1,000 for
fire apparatus and the interest on
$4,000 borrowed for the installation
Of water plant. The city charter
was about to revert to the State.
In this crisis the administration.
headed by Major starcher, conceived
the idea of turning its job over to
women. Their wives had been good
managers in their homes. Why not
pioneers in the community and thrifty
In town affairs?
Each office holder wrote his wifes
name on the ticket and electioneered
for her. From Mayor Laura Starcher
down a complete woman's administra
ton was elected. Everybody In town
except the newly elected officials ac-
cepted the situation as fine joke.
The town was bankrupt anyhow, so
why worry about what the women did
in office?
The women. looking over the situ-
alton, realized that they had a mans
sized job to handle, but they were un-
dismayed and determined. First they
decided that there We're too many
saloons and too many guests in the
city jail There were fights by day
and by night. and they still tell a
tale in Umatilla of how the "lady
Mayor" hearing a disturbance in
front of her house. emerged from the
kitchen, wiping her hands on her
apron and announced to the man who
had started the ruction: John Smith,
you are under arrest" In sheer
amazement the offender paid his fine
then and there.
When the Jail burned down the
administration" collected the insur-
ance and hired room in the hotel,
where eonvival citizens were locked
up until they were sober enough to
pay their fines. II they were out of
town men, all the better. Their fines
went into the treasury, and then they
were led, amazed and lamblike, to the
railway station, where the conductor
or engineer on the train, usually hus-
band of a town office holder, was told
to drop them off at their own towns.
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air currents, combined with the same
aero dynamic principles as are applied
to the conventional motor plane.
A number of Americans have at
tended tire meet since IL opened sew
eral weeks ago. John O. Scherer of
Detroit, a student of aeronautics at
the University Of Michigan. is one of
the spectators. Prince Henry Of Prus-
sia, brother of the former Kaiser,
has been an interested spectator. but
The New York herald., 1922-08-27
Women'ssCampaign
Brings Highest Vote

Practically all the organization
women of Seattle served her as cam
paign workers. They. divided the city
into such small districts that it was
possible for campaign workers to
make a complete house to house can
yass. They opened headquarters
downtown, and secured the coopera-
ton of business men. They raised
every dollar for the campaign, secured
phenomenal publicity for their candi-
date, and they elected Mrs. Landes
by a vote Of 56,49S, the next highest
vote being that of the Mayor, 40,474.
When she took office Mrs. Landes
secured the committee appointments
which she and her sponsors desired.
She is chairman of the committee on
public safety and a member of the
License. judiciary and Public Utilities
Committee. Her initial act was to
redeem her prediction promises on
questions of safety and morality, but,
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the air, The ropes were jerked clear
Of their hook on the machine and the
plane scared away like an ordinary
motor plane, keeping a level course
to the crest of the next HILL where,
catching new current it rose higher.
then descended somewhat until a new
current was encountered. Watching
the flights one can realize. as Hent-
zen explained, that they are based on
the principle of the lifting power Of
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Men Continue Work
Laid Out by Women

Bit by bit, fines and thrift began
to liquidate the towns debts. The
women were charged with being
stingy, but when the next election
came another group of women, headed
by Mrs. Stella Paulu, was elected.
During these two administrations
the town had to meet the exigencies
of the world war and to fight an epi-
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Selecting the Laws
To Be Enforced

Des Laos is not disorderly town,
and it's men do not riot or fight; but
they have decided opinions as to which
laws Shall be enforced and which iS-
nored. Most communities feel the
same way. In the telegraphic reports
of Marshal bertha Wards retirement
the new incumbent. Daniel Olson, a
section hand on the Great Northern
Railway, announces that he will ep-
force the law strictly, but unless pub
lie opinion as / saw it in Des Lacs
fails, he will select with care the laws
to be enforced. They will be popular
laws, like keeping your chickens
penned in your own hack yard and
your children at home after the curfew
bell rings.
And right here Is one OF the rocks
on which women office holders are
wrecked. The word compromise" is
absent from the vocabulary of women,
or il is synonymous with "dishonor"
Elected by an emotional or unthinking
public or by a peculiar phase of the
mob instinct, they do not take public
opinion or mob spirit into considera-
tion when they administer govern
ment. They possess a keeness of
vision for misdoing that never afflicts
the male office holder, and they lack
a saving sense of humor. Their liter
al Interpretation of laws and town
ordinances often disturbs the easy 60
ing atmosphere of courts and police
departments. and that zeal which ex-
presses itself In the process of spring
housekeeping plunges them into
forms Of municipal reform so drastic
as to be impractical.
In the average community, munic-
ipal government has been admin
istered for may years without con-
sideration for such trifles as ordi
nancea end budgets. Where there
has been no actual graft, there have
been slipshod methods OF conducting
the city or towns business. When
women, newly elected to office, at
tempt to keep prediction promises
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Run for Legislature
All Over Country

Running for the State Legislature
has become a popular diversion with
civic minded women. Arizona on your
west sent five women TO it's State Leg
islature last term. and so did Connecti-
cut on your east. In Montana Mrs
The New York herald., 1922-08-27
BY ANNA sTEEsE RICHARDSON

" HE announcement recently
printed in New York papers
to the effect that the first
woman marshal" Mrs. Bertha Ward
of Des Lacs, N. D., had resigned be-
cause she could not exercise the au-
thority vested in her office Is more
than a newspaper item. 1t is typical
of certain results which follow the en-
trance Of women into practical poll
tics and Office holding.
Since the enfranchisement of Amer
lean women so much theory has been
propounded concerning their influence
on politics that it was both refresh.
ing and illuminating to make trip
across the country and see what
women are actually doing as voters,
candidates, campaign MANAGERS and
officeholders.
In large cities like New York where
small groups of earnest women make
scarcelya a dent on perfectly organized
political machines, and where the
woman officeholder Is an accident
rather than the legitimate result of
women's acknowledgements, the investi-
gator can get hardly a human interest
thrill out of her task. But in smaller
communities, especially in those States
where the pioneer spirit still prevails
and where men are willing to try any
thing political once, women candi-
dates and officeholders offer absorbing
studies in sociology as well as politics.
When the Marshal
Came to ReSiguing
1t was on this voyage Of political
discovery that / sailed into Des Laos
and met the first lady marshal with
in few hours after the very incident
which led to her resignation. The dis
cussjon of her retirement among her
colleagues in the all-woman admins
tration of Des Laos was extremely in
teresting, not to say heated. More
over, the town of 200 souls was as
widely divided over the incident as a
Ladies Aid Society might be over the
color of the new carpet for the church.
] heard both sides of the story from
men and from women.
Des Laos is in the northern part of
North Dakota, dangerously near the
Canadian line. It's men are average
good Americans, the peacefui, law
abiding citizens who let their wives go
to church on Sunday morning while
they wash and tinker the family
flivver. While the Office of Justice OF
the Peace in that town Is sinecure,
the favorite sport of its men folk.
indoors and out, is putting one over
on the Federal prohibition officers.
So last spring, when the men Of the
town, in a spirit more or less merry,
elected a woman administration, the
big problem for the new officials was
the handling Of the prohibition law
To enforce or not to enforce, that was
the burning question. Eventually
Marshal Bertha Ward was instructed
to enforce firmly.
A few nights before my arrival a
dance was given by the local American
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Of the Hanover Technical students.
1t has no sensational lines but is an
especially light model of the paraso
monoplane, with a dropped cockpit
and n-feur-cornered front wheel steer
ing device.
Hentzen, describing the Vampires
lines, said 1t was designed to ride
lightly on airSwaves. AS a matter of
fact, there is no reason why the pilot
could not make a ten hours flight
or stay up even longer If he were
physically able. Hentzen and Martens
agreed.
Object Is to Solve the Problem
OF Cheap Energy for AirpIanes
But 1t isn't question of indefinite
flight" said Hentzen. The whole aim
OF the gliding tests Is to experiment
with air currents and solve the prob
lem of cheap energy for airplanes.
Every success along this line cheapens
the cost and makes more efficient
motor flying, which Is still being op-
Grated on the war time theory OF high
energy regardless OF cost. Gliding is
merely tending towards that goal In
aircraft which will be something like
a steam yacht with auxiliary sails"
Prof. Edward Warner, who was here
with the American gliders, declares
that the remarkable superiority OF the
German records over those made at
the French meet at Clermont Is due
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MSS EMILY SOPHIE BROWN,
QFNAUGATUck CONN Who
SERVED ~ THE 1921
LEGISLATURE G. sAc4~Aex

Legion Post In Odd Fellows Hall.
Marshal Ward, yigilant and deter
mined. watched the dancers. A pro-
tuberance on the hip of an out of town
guest caught her eye, and during an
interlude in the dancing when the man
slipped out of doors for a breath of
air and something stronger. Marshal
Ward followed, caught him In the act,
demanded the flask and ordered him
to leave the dance. Whereupon one
Of the leading citizens interposed and
advised Marshal Ward to run along
home. When a marshal was needed
she would be summoned
Now to a woman who had been
elected and had sworn to enforce the
law, who had been given a shiny
shield, pair Of handouts, a revolver
and the assurance that in time of
stress she might call on any male
citizen to help her make an arrest,
this was most humiliating expert
ence. 1t was the direct cause Of her
resignation.
The St. Mary banner., 1922-04-29
TT LOOKS GOOD.

Watch the bond market and you
will get fair indication OF what the
near future will bring US.
For some time past the market
has been strong. Buying has been
heavy and prices have been kept
we'll up.
This means but one thing.
People who have money are re-
gaining confidence and are seeking
means of investing it. The fellow
with few hundreds or thousands
is taking it from it's hiding place
and is buying bonds. He is no long
er pessimistic of the future. He sees
increased commercial activity and
consequent prosperity ahead, and he
is right.
Every bond issue that is f1oated
means more work for idle people. 1t
means an expansion in business, an
increased volume of trade, more
money in circulation, and that money
passing from hand to hand. Pros
perity is the natural result.
II you have any savings slowed
away you are quite safe in bringing
them out and putting them to work.
The time for action is here.
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Special Meeting Police Jury.
Franklin, La, April 26, 1922.

Franklin, La, April 26, 1922.
The Police Jury met this day in
special session with Mr.. Charles N.
Frost presiding and the following
members present: Haydel, McCar-
dell, Olivier, Boureaux, Gooch, Low
rance, O'Brien and Calm. Absent
Kinbrough and Pharr
The President explained that he
had called the meeting for the pur-
pose of discussing the high stage OF
the Mississippi river and the condi-
ton Of the levees, a break in which
would affect this Parish, to discuss
any and all matters connected there
with. and the matter of making an
appropriation to create an emergen-
cy fund.
Moved by W. J. Lowrance, sec
onded by A. F. Calm, that the Police
Jury appropriate the sum of$1, 800
90 as an emergency fund to be used
when called for by the Executive
Committee Of which Mr.. E. B
Schwng, of Plaquemine, is Chair
man, and that the President of the
Police Jury be authorized within his
discretion to have issued the neces-
sary warrant or warrants covering
this amount.
A roll call on this motion resulted
in its carrying unanimously and the
president so declared.
There being no further business
before the meeting, on motion oc "
N. Gooch. seconded by A. E. Gahr
and carried, the meeting adjourned.
CHAS. N. FROST, President
r. EMMETT O'NIELL, Secretary
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FIND THE WAY.

The incessant war between capital
and labor is one of the greatest ob-
structions to the prosperity Of this
country. 1t is ever present, and
seems to have no end.
Every strike that occurs costs
thousands of dollars. Often it runs
into millions, and the whole country
suffers because of a disagreement
between a small proportion Of the
population.
Labor must be protected or it will
be crushed by unscrupulous capital
lists.
Capital bust be protected or it
will perish at the hands of unscrup-
ulous labor leaders and the radical
element Of their following.
One can not exist without the
other, and the country can not sur
vive without both.
Under existing conditions neither
side can be trusted to give the other
q square deal all around. They have
fought so long the Golden Rule ap-
pears to have passed from their
memories.
And since the Golden Rule will not
suffice, government rule should take
its place.
There is a way to adjust these
differences on basis that would be
fair and just to all, but we do not
appear to have the man available
who possesses the brains necessary
to discover that way and enforce it.
Find the man who can find the
way, and clothe him with power to
act.
The St. Mary banner., 1922-04-29
BUT WE SHALL SEE

Chairman Fordney, Of the house
ways and means committee, says the
bonus bill will be passed at this ses-
SION OF congress and that the first
payment will be made in October.
Whereupon the St. Louis Post Dis
patch remarks that with a congress
ional election coming on in Novem-
Der, cash bonus in October is sound
psychology and magnificent politics.
But wouldn't IT be better, if the
bonus bill is passed, for the ex-ser-
wee men to feel that it was passed
because the members Of congress felt
that the ex-serviee men deserved it
and not for political reasons?
The St. Mary banner., 1922-04-29

juries. The constitution of the state
already gives them this right, and
women in Louisiana may register
for jury service whenever they de-
sire to do so.
The legislation which the Louisi-
ana Branch Of the National Woman's
Party will ask for, briefly set forth,
is as follows:
THAT a mother may have equal
guardianship of her children.
"That equal punishment shall be
meted to men and to women who
break the moral code.
"That recognition of the fact that
the wife's services in the home have
helped in the acquiring of community
property be established by requiring
her signature or her power of at
torney for the sale Of community
real estate.
THAT married woman, without
the authorization or consent of her
husband or of any court or judge
thereof be authorized;
To contract, to sue and be sued
IN her own name.
ITO acquire, own, hold, ALLEVIATE or
inherit property.
ITO bind herself either separately
or jointly with others for all debts
or contracts that may be lawfully
entered into.
ITO maintain and establish a DOM
lciie separate and apart from that of
her husband, provided a declaration
naming the place of her domicile be
recorded.
ITO retain the natural tutorship of !
her minor children after contracting
second marriage without the con-
sent of family meeting, and with
out making her husband liable for
her acts as natural tutrix."
The St. Mary banner., 1922-04-29

The speed maniac continues to
pull of his periodical executions.
$ Often the victim is a little child.
Tie reckless driver who kills a per-
son IS but little better than the gun
man who blows off another's head.
II We prescribe the death penalty
for the gunman, we should at least
punish the speeder with a long term
IN prison When q person becomes a
menace 70 . community the COM
1unity should be nd Of him.
= Say it with flowers, or with candy.
d yon prefer, but don't say it with
. hammer.
A mSn is like q postage stamp
70 y any account he must be a.
sticker.
Beware Of the fellow who SAYS
every man has his price. He proba-
b wouldn't stay bought il you shoula
buy him.
A man claims that he married IA
Or Is tines because he was hit by a
baseball bat when young. They didn't
BIT him hard enough.
When . high 6naneie1 steals al
million and gives nickel to charity
he thinks be- has paved the way to
A6ayeu end j. entitled to soft seat
y te right hard Of the Almighty,
The St. Mary banner., 1922-04-29
WORDS OF A WISE MAN.

DR.. Royal S. Copeland, Health
Commissioner of New York, whose
health hints appear daily in sever
al hundreds of newspapers, is with
out doubt the best known physician
in America today. He is wise along
other lines too. And for the benefit
OF Franklin merchants who may look
upon advertising as a liability in
stead OF an asset, we want to offer
these few words from DR.. Copeland's
pen:
Il have never urged that the in
dlvidual physician should advertise.
| don't care to see in the paper that
DR.. Smith is the best doctor on
broadway, or anything of that kind.
but l want to see medical men use
the engine of publicity to enlighten
the public and combat diseases which
kill hundreds of thousands because
there is not the contact between the
medical man and the public that
there should be, and because so many.
through fear of ignorance, fail to-
obtain treatment in the initial stages
Of disease which might be cured if
taken early and cannot be cured
later. The newspaper is the most
powerful engine Of publicity in all
the world Use it-use it often"
MT. Hayes can do wonders for the
moves by keeping people from read
ing the titles out loud in the theatre.
II has about gotten SO that one
aai! OF the world doesn't know how
20 Jump when the other half autos
It's a fact that some women are
nke houses. Paint improves theu|
eRpeeg1Dce>
The St. Mary banner., 1922-04-29

It has about gotten SO that one
half Of the world doesn't know hoou
to Jump when the other half autos. i
The St. Mary banner., 1922-04-29

It's a fact that some women are
hke houses. Paint improves theil
The St. Mary banner., 1922-04-29

Mr.. Hayes can do wonders for the
moves by keeping people from read
ing the titles out loud in the theatre
The St. Mary banner., 1922-04-29

4 min IS like q postage stamp
70 b any account he must be a
sticker.
The St. Mary banner., 1922-04-29

Say it with flowers, or with candy,
d yon prefer, but don't say it with
. hsmmer.
The St. Mary banner., 1922-04-29

BY Lavinia H. Egan, of Shreveport,
Member National Council Nation
al Woman'S Party.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-30

IS THE FLIVVER SICK? Come and see me; 5c per hour. J. Boucher, no Grandheld St. U19ali"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-30
pan Fat Ladies Who
 Display "Upholsterv' .

Nottingham, Eng, Oct 36-The Nottingham Goose Fair has banned fat ladies. It is stated that the fat ladies invoked the displeasure of the authorities by going too far in their efforts to prove that their upholstery was real and not artificial
 HAROLD H. BALDWIN vs. SALLY
 THOMPSON BALDWIN. - Order Of
 Notice.
 STATE OF CONNECTICUT, Fairfield
 County, Superior Court s. Bridge
 port, October 20, A. D. 1922.
 Upon the complaint of the said Harold H. Baldwin praying, for reasons therein set forth, for a divorce and custody of now pending before this Court, having been returned thereto on the first Tues day of September, 1922
 It appearing to and being found by this Court that the said defendant IS absent from this State and gone to parts unknown, and chat notice of the pen dency of the complaint was given as required by order of notice heretorore Issued, and now the Plaintiff asks for a further order of notice in the premises. Therefore Ordered, That notice of the pendency of sail complaint be given by publishing this order in The Bridgeport Times, newspaper printed in Bridge port Conn.,, once a week for two weeks successively, comm encins on or before the 27th day of October, A. D. 1922
 MICHAEL J. FLANAGAN, Asst. Clerk of the Superior Court for Fairfield County. G23b*1-1
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-30
Hawaii Has Costly
 Much Travelled Herd

Manila, Oct 3O.-Nineteen Here ford bulls at the college of agricul- ture here are believed to be the most travelled and among the most costly bulls in the world. They are what are left out of 250 Herefords bought by the Philippine government from Texas pastures three years ago. In stead of putting the bulls into the hands of cattlemen, the government shipped them to Zamboanga, at the southern end of the archipelago, then brought them back and afterWard sent them out to the college.
 At various stopping points they were infected with cattle disease call ed rinderpest, from which most of them died. Nineteen are left, from which it is said that fewer calves than the original number have come. Ma tive cattle are small; the original in- tentiOn was to breed size and beef in to them by crossing them with the HerefOrdS.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-30
Big Game Finds
 Haven In Alaska

Mckinley National Park, which lies in central Alaska, is rapidly gaining world fame as a big game reserve, probably the largest government res- ervation in the world in which wild animals can roam at large free from any fear of hunters.
 H. G. Kaiser, official photographer for the Alaska railroad, which skirts the park, has returned to Anchorage from a months trip into the McKin- ley country where he hob-nobbed with the wild life all the way from rock rabbits to brown bear, caribou and mountain sheep The sheep are so tame that it is possible to approach within a short distance of them. One rare picture obtained by Kaiser show ed a herd of mountain sheep, with a caribou and a mother brown bear
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-30
WASHINGTON CLAIMS
 MOST ANCIENT MULE
:" Jessie" Has Passed at Least B Summers and Is Still Going Strong.

Walla Walla, Wash, Oct. 30.-The State of Washington clans the old est mule living. She brays to the name of Jessie and according to the closest reckoning possible sine is at least thirty-three years old.
 Jessie" was brought to the Walla Walla Valley in 1893 by the Federal government, where she was used as one of team of six to haul freight from the city of WalIa Wall t6 Fort Walla Walla. She served within a year of three terms of army enlist ment, being "honorably discharged' from the army service when Fort Walla Walla was abandoned as a military post in 1910.
 The remainder Of her years she has spent at the State Penitentiary here but not as a prisoner" She hauls a dumpcart, driven by a negro trusty
 It is figured that since the Federal government never buys a mule under four years of age, Jessie cannot have lived less than thirty-three summers