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The National leader., 1922-01-09

This is Photographic reproduction of page from
the official report of the North Dakota hail insur-
ance department. The circle No. 1 represents a
dollar Of money paid by farmers to the state hail
insurance department for premiums. No. circle
represents dollar of money paid to private hail
insurance company. In the of both dollars the
farmer gets back, in money paid for hail losses, the
part of the dollar left white. In the case of the
state insurance the farmers get back $3.50 per
cent, or little over Sc cents out of each dollar
they pay in. In the of the dollar paid to pri
vate companies, the farmer gets back only 61.SS
per cent, little 61 cents out of each dol
lar paid in. The part of the state hail dollar which
does not go back to the farmer is divided up to
show what each part of the expense is for. Note
that TWO years. expenses of the state department
are included in this ONE year, which won't
happen again. Read accompanying
article for complete explanation.
The National leader., 1922-01-09

HE other day Governor Preus of Min
nesota made a speech in the East, to
a meeting of insurance men. He vigor-
ously condemned the idea of the state
entering into any kind of business,
particularly the insurance business.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07
AFTER THE FAKE PROMOTERS
American Legion on Watch to Detect
and Expose Organizations Victim
Izlng Ex-service Men.

The harpies who prey ON public
sympathy and the vampires who at
tach themselves to every legitimate
and worthy campaign for the relief of
human distress, have been flying In
focks behind the trudging army of job,
hunting ex~-service men. The police
courts are revealing the sordid opera
tons of scores Of avaricious persons
who have been conducting m~oney-rais.
Ing campaigns OF a ge~t-rich-quick ba-
sis, on the pretense of assisting upem-
ployed World a veterans. Some of
these fy-by-night promoters have
formed large organizations, using as
dupes veterans who are, themselves,
honest, but have been induced by ur.
gent need to grasp at the straw of q
Job which the swindler bangles before
them.
Behind a shield of plausibility, the
promoter sends his money solicitors
out upon the public. Needless to say,
little of the money raised actually Is
1SCu W uSSlot tHC GA
service men. The promoter takes good
care to see that his account books, If
he keeps any, never record the full
amounts which have been extracted
from the sympathetic public. And r.
he makes a pretense of accounting for
the way the money is expended, this
accounting Is only a clever construc-
ton of falsities, intended to protect
the promoter, II he is made the sub
ject of Inquiry by public officials. The
system by which he operates precludes
honesty.
These swindlers often copy the
names and methods Of organizations
which are legitimate and have repu-
table sponsors. The names the emf
ployment swindlers select for their or
ganizations only too often inspire pub
lie confidence because they may easily
be confused with those of l0ng-existing
public charitable societies, The Amer
lean Legion is constantly on the watch
to detect, expose and prosecute organi-
cations victimizing ~ex-servlce men.
The public should come to know that
any organization ostensibly for the
help Of unemployed veterans should be
regarded su%spiciously IL It does not
have the Legion's Observation-Disclosures
lean Legion Weekly.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07

entertained the largest assembly u *
lervice men and women since the war.
The career of Mr.. Hutchings Is
closely interviewer with the progress
of Kansas City, which he v~isualized
n 1900. when he decided to live there.
Since then he has organized the Kan
sas City Advertising club, he has been
president Of the Rotary club and the
Automobile club, and has participated
In every movement for the advance
nent of the city.
During the World war he was given
the immense task of organizing the
Liberty loan campaigns in the Tenth
Federal Reserve district, but civilian
service was not enough for him when
his country was involved In a war.
He organized a Seventh Missouri Ma
tional Guard company, and served as
Its captain. Later he was transferred
TO the motor transport corps of the
regular army, serving at Camp Meigs
and Camp Merritt, In command Of
headquarters motor command No. So
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07
80 PUBLICITY MEN IN POST
Number of Boosters In s. Rankin Drew
Unit Assures Body OF Most e.
fective Advertising.

OF all the 1000 posts of the Ameri-
can Legion in the United States and in
IA foreign countries, the one that slips
into the llme-light most often Is the
s. Rankin Drew unit of New York
city. The fact that the post has 80
publicity men on It's roster should ex-
plain 1t all.
Named for the first American actor
20 die In France, some of the .oun-
try's foremost actors of the legitimate
stage sought membership following
their war experiences. Motion pic.
ture men and those interested In the
allied amusements, along with 35 gen.
uine and successful, more or less, play.
wrights complete the membership.
The post stages an annual show In
the New York hippodrome, calling a
meeting of Its membership to assemble
q stellar cast. The 80 publicity men
do the rest and the money Is given &c
charity.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07

Mr.. Tubbs with folded arms, looking
round upon the company with an ex-
tr%aordinary air Of complacency and
triumph.
what is It. oh, what is 1t, Mr..
Tubbsf" cried Aunt Jane, fluttering
with the consciousness of her propri-
etorship.
But Mr.. Tubbs glanced at her as In
differently as a stated turkey-buzzard
at a morsel which has ceased to tempt
him.
"Mr. Tubbs." commanded Violet,
'speak-explain yourselfw
"Come, out with 1t, Tubbs," advised
Mr.. Shaw.
Then the lips of Mr.. Tubbs parted,
and from them issued this solitary
word
"Eurekar"
"WhatT' screamed Miss Higglesby-
Browne. you have found itr
Solemnly Mr.. Tubbs inclined his
head.
"Eurekal he repeated. II have
found It'll"
Amidst the EXPLANATIONS. the ques-
lions, the general commotion which
ensued, | had room for only one
thought-that Mr.. Tubbs had somehow
discovered the treasure in the cabin
of the Island Queen. Indeed, | should
have shrieked the words aloud but
for a proyidential dumbness that fell
upon me.
"Friends," Mr.. Tubbs began, lit has
been known from the start that there
was a landmark on this little old
island that would give any party dis
covering the same a line on that chest
Of money right away. There's been
some that was too high up In the ex-
ploring business to waste time looking
for landmarks. They had ruther do
more fancy stunts, where what with
surf, and sharks, and bangin' up the
boat, they could make a good show
of gettin' busy, But old Ham Tubbs,
he don't let on to be a hero. jest a
plain man o. business-that's old II. III.
Consequence is, he leaves the other
fellers have the brass band, while he
sets out on the q. t. to run a certain
little clue to earth. And, ladies' and
gentlemen. he's run It'll"
"You have found--you have found
the treasured" shrilled Aunt Jane.
Contrary to his bland custom, Mr.
Tubbs frowned at her darkly.
II said I found the clue" he cor
rected. "0f course, It's the same
thing. Ladies' and gentlemen, not to
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07

and she was the only poficewoman OF
the 65 employed In New York who went
into war service.
In July, 1917, Mrs. Taylor Joined a
New York hospital unit and went to
France where she was stationed at
S~avenay, Paris, and with mobile hospi-
tai No. 10 at the front. Her overseas
service lasted twenty months. Mrs.
Taylor is a graduate nurse Of the New
York Post Graduate hospital.
One of Mrs. Taylor's duties on the
New York police force Is finding "lost
girls" She conducts a bureau for that
purpose and makes regular inspection
tours Of dance halls, movies. cabarets
and other places where "lost girls"
r sometimes found.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07
SOUTH SEA ISLANDER WHO
WAS CROOKS FAVORITE SCOUT

* would rather lose a third of my
army than to have Frank Gruard
killed." once declared Gen. Frank
Crook, and when this great Indian
fighter set such q high value on the
services Of a scout it meant that
Frank Gruard vas without a peer.
Gruard was born in Tahiti in 1850,
the son of an American trader and a
native woman. His father returned
to this country when Frank was but
two years old and at the age of If.
teen Frank ran away from home and
went to Montana.
Gruard became a mail carrier, a
dangerous Job in q country full of hos
tile Sioux. They captured him finally
and were preparing to kill him when
a young brave pleaded for his life.
Calling their attention 10 Franks
swarthy complexion he declared that
the mail carrier must be an Indian
who had been captured by the whites.
This Indian was the renowned Sit
ting Bull. For 10 months Gruard was
guarded closely and, realizing the use
lessness of attempting to escape, he
into the Indian life as one Of them.
He lived with the Indians six years
before he finally escaped.
tine day Gruard was scouting for
an officer who attempted to guide his
command by use of the compass. They
became lost in a binding snow storm.
Frank borrowed the officers compass,
smashed 1t against a rock, and then,
taking the lead, he guided the soldiers
straight to the place they wished to
go.
Gruard's greatest exploit was his
part in the ashley Scout" in 1876.
Lieut.. s. w. Sibley wns sent out on a
scout to find the Indians. He found
them, and In a short time his little
command was surrounded by hun
dreds of Sioux and Cheyennes. After
a desperate fight In which the Chey-
enne chief, White Antelope, was
killed, the soldiers were forced to
abandon their horses and attempt es-
cape on foot. y
Gruard's knowledge of the country
was all that saved them, He led
them over unknown mountain trails.
winding through the deep canyons and
around high peaks, until the Indians
were outdlstanced. The next day he
guided them to a high point on a
mountain side and pointed down. Be-
low them lay Crooks camp.
Frank Gruard was given a lifetime
position as a government scout and
he performed valuable services In the
last uprising of the Sioux, the Ghost
Dance wal Of 1S90-91. In 1894 Frank
saw his father for the first time since
he had u away from home. Gruara-
died In st. Joseph Mo-, In 1919
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07
Stories of
Great Scouts
By ELMO o WATSON
70. 1921. western Newspaper Union,

k0, AVA western NeWspaper ohsons
KELLY AND
HIS RIFLE. "OLD SWEETNESS"
1t was the year 1888. The hostile
Sioux had surrounded Fort Stevenson
N. D., and any white man who went
out alone went to his death. When
the mail was sent to Fort Buford, 21a
miles away, a full company Of sol.
diers vent along to guard It. Ons
day, while the troops We're out on a
scout, important dispatches came
whiea had to be delivered at once, and
there was no one who would dare at
tealpt the hazardous journey.
A young man. named Luther s.
Kelly, learning OF this, went 10 the
commanding officer and offered to get
them through alone. Kelly was o
New Yorker who had come west seek
ing adventure. Because of his youth,
the scouts around the fort had nick.
named him 1.-THE Kid" and now these
ME told him he would be scalped be-
fare he was q mile from the post. He
laughed at them.
Il guess Old Sweetness and | car
take care of any Sioux WHO jumps
us" he said. "Old Sweetness vas
his pet name for his favorite rifle.
A few hours later Kelly walked into
Fort Berthold, IS miles from Steven.
son The Mandan, Gros Ventre and
Arikara Indians, camped about that
post for protection against the Sioux.
gathered about in admiration OF his'
daring, for they lived in terror Of the
Dakota warriors.
Kelly stopped at Berthold only ioDg
enough to eat and then pushed on to
Buford, 200 miles away. -Four miles
from Berthold he came to a timbered
valley. When he reached the bottom,
a bullet whizzed past his ears. As
the scout dropped behind a log, three
Sioux warriors rushed him. "Old
Sweetness spoke three times ana the
warriors dropped In their tracks.
nelly IttulIlSu ~ rOIl DS tho ~
told of his adventure. The fritandly
Indians were wild with joy, and after
that they called Kelly 1.-THE Little Man
With the Strong Heart"
The scout started again for Fort
Buford and delivered the dispatches
without further adventure. He be.
came the regular ylail carrier. but the
Sioux were SO frightened of his
STRONG medicine" that they never at
tackled him again.
Kelly remained in the United States
service as a scout urtil 1883. He was
a lieutenant Of volunteers In the
Spanish-American war and In the
Philippines the old Indian scout, as
captain of the Filipino scouts, added
further to his ialrels OF war before
he retired as a fighting man.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07

World war as a
member Of the
army n | 6
corps, is the first
woman of Mime
sofa to hold the
office of state vice
commander Of the
American Legion.
Mrs. Ware star
1ed delegates to
the last conven-
tion of the Lee
gion, at Winona,
MINI. by arriving
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07
SPANISH BY f4M3I5A
: :. n: g.

asked eager questions repeated
gioatingly fragments OF description
| wondered enyiously what ii would
be like TO have anything so old and
proud and beautiful in your very blood
when suddenly ! realized that, mis-
led by my enthusiasm, Cuthbert was
saying something which must not be
~said--thnt he was about to offer the
shelter of that ancient roof to me. To
me, whose heart could never nest
there, but must be ever on the wing,
a wild bird of passage in the track of
a ship
! sat up with a galyanic start. "0h
--liSten-didn't you hear something's"
! desperately broke in. For somehow
! must stop him. | didn't want our
nice jolly friendship spoiled-and be-
sides, fancy being cooped up on an
island with q man you have refused
Especially when all the while you'd be
wanting so to pet and console him!
But with his calm ~doggedness Cuth-
y pS6oh khi 4 vas q hst AiAdiu
the old place would have seemed too
quiet and dull to you" when the
day was saved and my interruption
strangely justified by a shrill outcry
from the camp. | knew that high fall
setto tone. Ii was the voice OF Mr..
Tubbs, but pitched on a key of quite
insane excitement. / sprang up and
ran, CrusOe and the Honorable Cuth-
bert at my heels. There in the midst
Of the camp Mr.. Tubbs stood, the cen
of a group who were regarding
him with astonished looks. Mr.. Shaw
the captain had left their tinker
Ing, Cookie his saueepans, and Aunt
Jane and Violet had come hurrying
from the hut. Among us all stood
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07

state commander to hold a public Of
ice, and when Mr.. Seymour was called
upon to decide between the legisia.
ture and the Legion, he placed the
eommandership first in Importance.
Mr.. Seymour, q graduate of Yale In
both arts and law, enlisted in the Con
necticut cavalry in 1914. He served
on the Mexican border in 1916, and
later was commissioned a first lieu
tenant at the P%lattsburg training
camp. He served In France as bat
TALON adjutant Of the One Hundred
and Eighteenth field artillery, Thirty.
first division.
After his return from France he was
elected state senator. He was a mem
Der of the military committee of the
1921 general assembly.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07

hold the position
Of state adjutant
OF the American
Legion. She was
appointed to that
position by the
commander of the
California depart
ment, pssnding the
election Of a per-
manent %adjutant,
Miss Cuttings
was one Of the
irst women to en-
list In the service
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07

dI tIIHt CIIy III IT HITpIHHt.
In the convention, Mrs. Ware was
nominated for the vice commander
ship by a man-Dr. M. Il. Withrow of
International Falls, Minn.-who had
served with Mrs. Ware in the Argonne
forest.
Mrs. Ware Is the third member of
her family, In as many generations. to
serve as war nurse. Her mother and
grandmother were volunteer nurses
during the Civil wer.
While In France, Mrs. Ware wrote
q book of poems, ECHOES of France"
which have been widely praised.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07
LEAVES SENATE FOR LEGION
Connecticut Lawmaker Resigns 70 40
cept commandership OF Depart
ment of His State.
Clarence w. Seymour, Hartford,
Conn, rendered his resignation az

state senator in
Connecticut
legislature to ac-
cept the COM
membership of the
Connecticut lie
partment Of the
American Legion,
to which he was
elected last Sep
TENDER.
TIL e eonstitu-
ton OF the Ie-
gion makes 1t i'm
poSSihfa for a
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07
BOOSTER FOR HIS HOME TOWN
Bert Hutchings Served as General
Chairman for Legion at Kan
sas City.
IF there is anything going on for
the good of Kansas City, Bert Hutch

ings Is usually the
motive power be-
hind it."
This is a COM
mon remark II
Kansas GV re-
garding Albert II.
Hutchings, gener-
al chairman of
the third annual
national conven-
ton of the Amer
lean Legion, un-
der whose direc-
ton Kansas City
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07

only woman mem
Der Of the La.
fayette Post of the
American Legion,
New York City,
composed entirely
Of members Of the
New York police
force. Mrs. Taylor
has been stationed
at the 47th street
station, the bust
est In the "Great
White Way" dis
tricf for ten a
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07
WOMAN IS VICE COMMANDER
Mrs. Amy Robbins Ware of Minnesota
Is First of Sex to Hold Office
In State.

Mrs. Amy Robbins Ware, Robbins
dale, Mimi, who served during the
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07
ONLY POLICE WOMAN MEMBER
Mrs. Rose r. Taylor Belongs to New
York Post Composed Entirely
Of the "Bravest."

Mrs. Rose r. Taylor, pioneer police
woman of the United States, is the
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07
0 NJ AS STATE ADJUTAN1
Mlss Honorah Sue Cuttings Of San
Francisco. First Of Sex to
Hold Legion Office.

Miss Honorah Sue Cuttings, Of San
Francisco, Cal, Is the first woman to
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-01-07

N her country during the World war
she Joined the navy as q yeomanstts
tn IA17.
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the American Legion News Service,)
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-07-12
FINED $3.50.

Paul Schmellick, of Philadelphia, in
a great hurry to reach Atlantic City,
via the White Horse Pike, in order to
be in time for lunch on Saturday,
found it quite costly to burn the road
over which the State Troopers are
keeping a strict watch. He was halt
ed by Trooper William Gardner and
brought here to face Justice r. G.
Brown. Schmellick admitted he was
in a hurry, but was not aware he was
making the time the Troopers speed
ometer showed. He willingly left the
$3.50 here, when he found that he
still had time to get to Atlantic City
for that lunch.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-07-12

tic blessings that belong to him.
The curse of this hour is the child
lessness of children. We haven't
children any more. Babies are plung-
ed into the malestrom of social in
EQUITY. They are prematurely adj
vanced to girlhood and boyhood, and
are ushered on the stage where young
men and young women play the fool
for the pleasure of a world of vul-
lures. Parents are ambitious for
their daughters to become social fac
tors, n for their ons to become So
cial leaders; consequently, they are
prematurely advanced. In advancing
them. forcing them, and introducing
them to a world of social maturity
they are robbing them of their child
ish nature, in%clinations, innocency,
pleasure and sweetness.
One can stand in the midst of So
called young men and young women
and cry out in anguish and sorrow,
Where are the children, o, where
are the children!" The girls of to-
day know more than their grandmoth-
ers knew at seventy-five years of age.
Boys can teach their old, aged grand
fathers.
Where are the children? The Ju-
venile Society of to-day is a curse, an
infamous blot on the page of Ameri-
can history. 1t is so because parents
have robbed their children of child
hood.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-07-12
CLASS TO MEET.

Members of the Class of 81, Pleas
antville High School, are requested to
attend a very important meeting to be
held in the High School on Wednesday
evening. President Ward Weaver has
plans for a get-together to be held
later in the summer. 1t will be held
at one of the country clubs. An or
chestra for dancing will be secured to
make the affair a real success. The
meeting will start promptly at 7.30
o'clock.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-07-12
ST.. JOHNS PICNIC.

Thursday the annual Sunday School
picnic will be held at Lenape Park,
Mays Landing Trucks will leave the
church, corner OF Doughty Road and
Church street, at 8 a. m. sharp. Tick
cts have been given out to members
of the Sunday School. II you have
not received your ticket, see your
teacher on that morning. A cordial
invitation to any who desire to go is
extended, and a nominal charge made
to those not members of the school,
just to cover transportation.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-07-12

POSTMASTER EXAMINATION.

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an exami-
nation to be held at Pl~easantyille. on
Aug. 5, as a result of which it is ex-
pected to make a certification to fill a
contemplated vacancy in the position
of fourth-class postmaster at North
field. The compensation OF the post
master at this office was 1893 for the
last fiscal year.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-07-12
NEW HEADQUARTERS.

The several county towns where
State troopers have been quartered
are likely to lose these resident troop
ers in the near future, according to
reports. 1t is said that permanent
headquarters for the South Jersey
command is to be established at
Amatol. and the several troopers will
be sen out from there on patrol duty.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-07-12
GunrhEttES
BY
Rev. MA. MATTHEWS
DID. Ill. D.
he CHIlDLESSNEss
OF THE CHILD

OF THE CHILD.
When a thoughtful person looks
lhto the face of a little child he sees
written there, and also in he Mains
vi MS hands and the soles of his
Ieet, the word, POSSIBILITY. Medi.
tate on that word, POSSIBILITY
CONTINUE to read it and think about
us meaning and you will discover
that the word leads you into one of
Two directions: 1t is possible for that
ilttle child to become a great man. tn
De OF 1ncalculable benefit TO his gen-
eratlon, and to leave upon posteritv
tne imprint of a noble life. The other
direction shows that it is possible for
Ihat enid through neglect to become
a crlmlnal-an educated criminal
VINO will blight the lives of thousands
OF people, and increase the tax hnr.
den OF the community in which be
ilves. 1t is possible for him to he.
come a curse to his family, a menace
TO society, and a blot on the page of
history. Which direction do you want
he POSSIBILITY to take in your
child's case?
The child is the indispensable unit.
the essential factor, and the master
n all spheres of human activity.
around the child the world must re-
Volye. From the child society must
evolve. Heaven bends to bless and
breathe a %benediction of infinite love
upon the child-the infant king-of
social destinies. The child cannot be-
come great, useful, and powerful if
the ch1ldishness of the child is taken
IRON 1t; If he is robbed of the spirit
OF youth; taken out of the sphere of
innocency, and deprived of the domes-