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Evening star., 1922-03-24
ropAY's ADJUSTMENTS.

NATIONAI-"Mr. PIN Passes BY,
with Laura Hope Crews; performahce
at $50 pm.
KEITH,S - Marion Harris .Grahs
Mitchell and vaudeville, at 2:la anu
Sis pm.
BELASCO-"Pins and Needles anu
vaudeville, at 2:15 and Sis pm.
COSMOS-.Last Night" and Sai
nival of Venice" at :, 6:o0 anu o'''
pm.
STRAND-Royal Pekin Troupe anu
vaudeville, at gas, $50 and S:4? PIN
GAYETY-Vaudevil and pictures
] to 2:15 p.m.; Barney GeIaiu 70
show, burlesque, 2:15 to 4:4o' f;1S
Sis, pictures and vaudeville, anu
to IL, burlesque.
CAPITOL "Ting Ling, pur
lesuue, at 2:15 and S:1o pm.
PALACE-Mabel Normand. In molly
o." at 1885 am. 1920, 2:0o, - o'4''
7:35 and $3.50 pm.
RIALTO-Marion Davies, IN
Brides Play" at IL am, l. D. D. s'hN
8 pm.
OLUMBIA-'Turn to the hiSn...
with Alice Terry, at ii a.n.' l. D. o.
T:05 and 9:15 pm.
METROPOLITAN-N TalmadSe
in Loves Redemption, at ll:4o a'i'i''
i:41. 3:4J, $40, 1:lo and 9:4o pm.
Evening star., 1922-03-24

mission has been started at the naval
mag azine ut st. JulieH5 Creek. Va,
where. two destroyers Il day are ex
pected to be handled until theS3ob is
Crews of the destpoyers and the
mara2ine force will be ang3std in
Evening star., 1922-03-24

Transporting the -orpeodes arc. am
in,,nItien into the magaz n. store
houses. A total of 376 torpe,l'n.s will
bn removed from the, ships at this
magazine alone.
Evening star., 1922-03-24
STRIPPING n DEsTRoYERs

Work Of stripping seventy-seven ,e-
stroyers of the Atlantic fset of their
torrcdoes and ammunition prepara-
tory to patting the ships nut of COM
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14

In his final report to the President,
upon completing his work as secre-
tary of the interior, Franklin X. Lane
sketched with a sure hand out of the
abundance of his experience the pres
ent Washington condition:
The call is for thinking, planning, engi-
neering, craftsmanship. For we are quick
ly passing out of the rough-and-ready
period of our national life, in which we
have dealt wholesale with men and
things, into a period of more intensive
development, In which we must seek to
find the special qualities Of the individual
unit, whether that unit be an acre of
desert, a barrel of oil, a mountain
canyon, the flow of a river or the capac-
ity of the humblest of men.
ITO conquer and to master-the same
old task is ours; but not in the same old
way. We have discovered this and and
mad it ours, but this is not the end
of our journey, for now we are to give
thought, the deepest thought, to the ways
in which 1t may be made to yield most
abundantly in the things which a COM
pick society with a most imperious curl
osity demands.
Washington Is a combination of politi-
cal caucus, dra wing-yoom and civil serv-
ice bureaus. 1t contains statesmen who
O1S "AAA ~ ckO
not statesmen. It is rich in brains and
in character. 1t Is honest beyond any
commercial standard. 1t wishes to do
everything that will promote the public
good. But it is poorly organized for the
task hat belongs to it. Fewer men of
larger capacity would do the task better.
Ability is not lacking, but it is pressed
to the point of paralysis because of an
infinitude of details and a n unwillingness
on the part of the great body Of public
servants to take responsibility. Every
one seems to be afraid of everyone. Ths
self-protective sense Is developed abnor-
mally, the creative sense atrophies. Trust,
confidence, enthusiasm-these simple vir-
tues of all great business are the ones
most lacking in government organization.
We have SO many checks and brakes
upon our work that our progress does
not keep pace witt the nations require
ments. We could save money for the
government If we had more discretion as
to how We should use that given us.
For the body of the civil servants there
should be quicker promotion or discharge
and a sure insurance when disability
comes. For the higher administrative
high as those now given, and they should
be made to feel that they are the ones
responsible for the work of the depart
ment. the head being merely an adviser
and a constructor of policies.
AS matters are now devised there are
too few in the government whose bust
ness it is to plan. Every man is held to
detalh to tbs view which comes
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14
GEYSERS SPOUT IN ICELAND
Fountains Of Boiling Liquid Furnish
Sight That Is Said to Be Really
Magnificent.

There are hot-water fountains Of
Iceland. They are on mounds averag-
ing seven feet in height, the tops of
which form a sort of basin. From
these basins the steam of boiling wa
ter can be seen arising and the e
flow Of water is continuous. The con-
tents of these basins is as clear as
crystal and one can see to a great
depth, while just below the surface
are many wonderfully beautiful white
in~crustations. The %petri1cation caused
by the boiling water streams from the
geysers include birch and willow
leaves, grass and rushes seemingly
converted into marble.
At no time is it entirely safe to loi-
ter in the vicinity of one of these
bottomless basins, for the geyser has
a way of spouting and gives no ad-
vance warning. Sometimes there will
be a shoot Of boiling water to a
height Of Is feet, followed by a sue
cession of jets. The highest shoot Of
which there Is any record was 80 feet.
Occasionally a basin will for some un-
explained reason become entirely
empty, or will give forth a steam
shoot" which in the form Of a column Of
spray and vapor at least go feet in
height presents a really magnificent
spectacle,
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14

very lovely indeed. II there was a
look Of usefulness in her blue ayes
nobody noticed. There was too much
noise, too much gaiety, for that.
Nobody noticed either when, at ten
o'clock, Kathleen threw her white
wool scarf over her shoulders and
slipped quietly out the side door. That
"sweetheart booth n" Boys and girls
looking things into each others eyes.
She could not stand it any longer.
She made her way slowly down to
the orchard where she played when
she was a little girl.
All at once she realized some n
else was there. Some one tall, with
his hands in his pockets, was walking
slowly in her direction. Kathleen
stood stock-still. Her heart turned
a somersault. Was she dreaming thisf
There in the moonlight Charles Hayes
took the last steps toward her.
"Kathleenl !" he cried as though he,
too, were seeing a vision. "What are
You doing here-out in the countryT'
TITS where I live, Charlie" she an
swered In q. strained little voice. g"
only pretended I was a city girl
lied" Kathleen was deeply ashamed.
Then, "But, Charlie, what-what are
you doing herer'
wearing out my heart for you,"
he said in boyish, even tones. II
ran away from you because I wal
broke. I was always afraid to stop
taking you to places because I was
afraid I'd lose you. Then T found
out I couldn't keep it up any longer.
I had to forget about you. You were
out Of my class. 1 couldn't ever say
good-by. I read about this new Giant
Tire company in the paper, and that's
fellows came W to this stunt to-
night. I took a look in. Everybody
was too happy-I just couldn't stay.
That sweetheart booth"
That's where I was-at the sweet
heart BOOTH" She was like a fairy
there in the old orchard. TITS where
you buy ~sweethearts."
He stood there looking at her mute
~. do you have to go inside to buy
one?" he asked huskily. But he did
not wait for his answer. Tight in his
arms she heard him choke forth his
love and then his own confession.
II was a country boy, honey. I
lied, too-lied to try to win you"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14
= "a
Siuns Were Bad.

A husky negro applied for a Job in
a big ship building company and his
fine figure and strength got him &C
copied. He was told to report to a
certain department in the end Of a
mammoth building.
He hadn't gone ten feet before he
saw a sign hung above an alcove read
ing: "Stretcher Here" Duplicates of
this assailed his eye here and there,
and then came a bigger sign which
read: ITO the Hospital" The odor
of ether and other smells filled his
nostrils and he turned back.
"Boss," he said to the man who had
hired him, "Ah resigns. Ah'm
through"
"Why Sam, what's the matter?
You're not afraid of danger, are your
"Nossuh, boss, danger All Graves, but
not wilful destruction, no subj
American Legion Weekly.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14
Catching a
Whale
By MARTHA MACWILLIAMS.

\ M ~
g, 1921. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
What sort O. scent dye want on
your h~and'chif?" Mrs. Willem asked Of
he= son Roy. aged twelve and one
half, therefore a steady prey to the
most painful embarrassment when
dressed 20 please his mother. they
had different ideas-as was manifest
by his answer: Make it camfire, If
you're bound and determined to put
something. It's sorter clean, like para
goric, smells baby all over"
Pm treating you to my Dest-Es-
sence of White Rose" his mother in
terrupted. BE sure you shake out
your hand'chif before you pass the
Allen pew. Stuck up as they are, they
never smell of nothing at all. S'pose
they think it'd be a waste-here with
nobody but country folks to notice. |
want EN- learnt good, country folks
are jest as good and up-and-coming as
town ones. even eff we don't have all
the money they squeeze out of US"
Jaw, MASSIVE that sort q dope for
the club you w~immen-folks have
started" Roy flung back, edging TO-
ward the door. If he thought to go
scentless he was checkmated-his
mother set her back against the door,
holding him prisoner while she deluged
his head and his kerchief with her roSe
essence then with a final yank to his
10 ayat on4 q tu-iCt fn hjC ffn showed
him through the door, with q parting
admonition: BE sure to remember the
x so you can tell me-and what old
Nine. Allen had on"
A catapult could scarcely have
landed Roy quicker than his own legs
did, at his steady haven, the Bagby
place. 1t lay close, but beautifully re-
mote, thanks to clustering shrubbery,
untrimmed for years, and a rampant
hedge of arbor-vitae, with a sagging
green gate that Roy utterly disdained.
instead, he shot himself through d
break, invisible from the road nn:
plain to see within. Old Major Bagby
dpon the piazza. with dogs and his
Sunday paper littering space about
him, chuckled at sight of the boy, but
welcomed him hushedly. asking very
low: "Say-is she waiting for you
outsider"
mo, sir! Home with q beautiful
swelled Jaw" Roy answered unduti-
fully. "And that amt all the luck.
neither. Jimmy Higgs has done prom
Used to swap clothes, go to church for
me, tell me the text n everything-so's
I can 60 long with you on this boob
hunt-whatever its like"
You'll find out time enough, SON.
n.y." said the major. "Plenty time-a
Gods plenty. Now let me see! Love
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14
Man Of Varied Character.

Elihu Yale, although he was born
In or near Boston, always boasted Of
being a Welshman, according to the
Manchester Guardian. He amassed q
vast fortune in India, where he "shook
the p~agoda-tree" by questionable
methods Of his time; and he appears
to have been what the cabman called
John Forster, "a very harhitrary old
gent" When governor of Madras he
hanged his English groom for tax
ing his horses too far afield for ex-
ercise. But on his return to England
he won wide reputation for the OPEN
handed liberality with which he
scattered his gifts.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14
said, "not Just a visitT

said, mot just a visitT'
"Nope, mummy, for good" Kath-
leen answered as they bundled her
into a little, car which was an &C.
QUESTION since her departure. Game
home to make pies for daddy, and,
say, daddy, can I learn to run this
thingr'
"You bet your life you can, but
your mothers going to keep you
mighty busy for the next few days.
Signed you up for the fair. Can I
tell her, mother7 . All right,
here goes, sis. They've signed you up
for the Sweetheart Booth What
you know about that? Thought you,
being in the city, could give them cards
and spades"
And that evening after the piping
hot biscuits and the ~fricasseed chicken
and the CHEEKY conversation in the
coy kitchen they whisked her off
to a committee meeting Of the fair.
What fun it was to say hello to every
body again! The girls wanted to
know If she still knew how to make
cake, the boys wanted to know If any
one In the city had cut them out.
There were endless plans to be gone
over. What did she think Of this?
What did she think of that7 Here,
she a wanted, Kathleen thought.
It was good to be home!
But up in her little white-curtained
room that night Kathleen stood for a
long while in the moonlight and
looked out the window. To say you
are going to forget is one thing; to
really forget, another.
Now came three wild, flurried days
of cake baking, crepe paper twisting
and goodness only knows what. Than
1t last the night Of the fair ITSELF
clear, sparkling and moonlit.
The "sweetheart BOOTH" needless
to say, was a center Of attraction.
Here eager-eyed girls in b~right-colored
dresses stood ready to be bought"
for dances. One white dress stood
out In contrast to the others. 1t was
Kathleen's. "Tm tired OF colors," she
told her mother, and brought forth a
rufny summer thing. Her pretty gold
en- hair was combed softly about her
forehead. With her cheeks just soft
iy pink as she whirled in the arms of
one partner after another she was
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14
New Type of Snow piow.

A new apparatus for clearing snow
from railroad tracks has been devised
by Louis P. Chicoine of Vaudreud,
Quebec, Canada. The apparatus has
the general V-shape of a snow pillow,
but instead of consisting of a plain
V-shaped pillow it has a series of cut
tiers detachably mounted on the front
portion Of the pillow. These cutters
each have a rectangular shank, the
lower end of which extends forward
to locate the cutting point In advance
Of the plane of the shank and rear
wardly to REINFORCE the point which
has a knife edge. This enables the
device to cut through the Ice and
crusted snow efficiently. The device
las been adopted as a standard one
IN one Of the large Canadian rail-
@.-ys. ~ 49,
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14
sl$% $ w. - ""
That Sweetheart
Booth
By M. X


. 1882. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
Kathleen Higgins ran down the
hall Of the fat into her room and
stood there In the dark for a breath
less moment before she struck a
match. Then In the sudden glare Of
gaslight her eyes darted to the bu-
reau. They Travelled furtively to the
little table In the center Of the room.
Kathleen gave a deep sigh and threw
her beaded bag down on the bed.
There was no letter. It was three
days now.
She looked in the mirror and sud-
denly a great hate for herself and her
cheap %prettiness arose in her. There
she stood like a little blonde doll, friz-
sled hair, f1ashy clothes, painted lips.
And what did it get her? Not even
an invitation to the White Palace Fri
day night. The angry look slowly
faded from Kathleen's ayes and
something like pain took it's place.
Charlie Hayes was getting tired Of
her. Some one who got more than
$40 a week pounding a typewriter,
some one who could spend more money
on clothes than she could had won him
away from her.
In their WEAKNESS her eyes caught
the eyes of her mother looking sweet
ly at her from out the frame on the
bureau. Her lips trembled. All the
things she had thrown away to come
to the city six months ago, the coun-
try town home she had been ashamed
to tell big, handsome, stylish Charlie
Hayes about suddenly became most
dear to her. She had not even Sent
her father a birthday present. Re-
morse and shame crept into her heart.
A wave Of defiance followed. Did he,
with his fine clothes and his money
every other night In the week, think
she was going to forget her own peo-
pie just so she could have gay things
to wear and go to the White Palace
to dance? Let him have Hosanna
Finnegan with her lace stockings and
a new hat every pay day. She would
show him.
It was two days later, just as the
winter sun was setting, that Kath-
leen stood on the shabby station plat
form at Frackville, stood there in her
plain blue coat,then rushed pell-mell
into the arms of her mother. She
had let them know. She had wanted
just this. Dad trying to tell her
about the big new Giant Tire company
plant-hadn't she read it In the city
papers? Jack jumping up and down
at her side yelling about his skates.
And motherl Through the voices of
them all she could somehow hear her
mothers.
For good. dear. you've come" she
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14

too often 70 De fnc d. ITfneIr VIeW-r
some sort of parochial view. We need
for the day that is here and upon US
men who have little to DO but study the
problems of the time and test their ca
pacity at meeting them. In a word, we
need more opportunity for planning, en-
cheering, craftsmanship above, and more
hXed authority and responsibility below,
The employment methods of the gov
eminent could be improved. Under
the civil service law of 1883 a good
system of competitive examinations
nd appointments on merit has been
built up for the classes of positions
covered by the law. But beyond GER
LITIGATION by the civil service commits
sion for appointment of those appli-
cants who are proved by examination
to be eligible, the merit system is not
fully operative ever in connection with
the positions to which it applies. Hap
hazard practices in assignments of
work and in promotions, over which
no central authority has jurisdiction,
have brought about inequalities which
are discouraging to the workers. This
condition and the relatively low sal
aries paid by the government cause
a turnover" in government forces
that could not long be withstood by
a private business.
The REIMBURSEMENT of government
salaries in the District of Columbia
has recently received the attention
of the joint commission on reclassiti-
cation of salaries, which was author
lied by a provision in the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
act approved March l, 1919. The re-
port Of this commission is now in the
hands Of congress and it's fate remains
to be seen. The report represents
many months of work and an effort to
present data which will enable con-
gress to understand conditions as they
exist.
The present civil service law was
enacted to correct the evils of the
''spoils system which had become IN
tolerable. That the plan provided by
the law, that of appointments through
competitive examinations for certain
positions, has been a vast improve
ment over the old patronage method
is generally conceded; but the law
failed to be a completely effective in
strument by not providing for the ap-
plication of the merit system to the
more responsible and, therefore, the
more remunerative positions.
The administrative Offices. aside
from the cabinet, which do not come
within. the scope Of the civil service
law, are postmasters at offices of the
first, second and third classes, col
lectors of internal revenue, collectors
of customs; registers, receivers, and
surveyors general of the land office;
assistant t~reasurers, surveyors, special
examiners, appraisers and naval Off
GERS in the customs service; super
intendents of mints, assayers in mints,
supervising inspectors in the steamboat
inspection service, commissioners of
immigration and naturalization, as
sistant secretaries and heads Of bu-
reauso of the departments at Washing
ton. etc.-about $4,000 positions in all.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14
"Fooiscap."

Paper 1914 inches long by a little
more than s inches wide il known as
foolscap, and this is the story of it's
name: when Oliver Cromwell be-
came protector, after the execution
Of Charles I, he caused the stamp Of
the cap of liberty to be placed upon
the paper used by the English gov
eminent. Soon after the restoration
Of Charles II, having occasion to
s some paper for dispatches, some
Of this government paper was brought
to him. w. A+x
"On looking at it and discovering
the stamp, he inquired the meaning
of it; and, on being told, he said: -
"'Take it away; I have nothing to
10 with a fools eapr
va 4E q. .l FEFH &. FN .
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14
Peculiar Reckoninq.

When Harry de Windt visited the
Siberian Ostiaks he found that they
calculated quite long distances in
terms Of kettles, an almost identical
custom at the other end Of Asia. If q
Journey was five kettles long an ex-
plorer found they meant that it would
take as long as it would to boil five
kettles Of cold water In succession.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14
TRAILING Aiono.

'That was a rafting good poker
story Bibles told"
II don't know one card from an
other" said Professor Diggs.
"But you laughed at the right time"
II started three seconds after the
crowd did."-Birmlngham Age-Herald.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14
He Was Re.enltahtened.

Customer--Say! Do you remember
the flashlight battery called "Kwik
Light" that I bought here tho other
day? t's
Druggist--Tes. what Of lit
Customer--1FelI Il should be called
''Quick Finish" iseca,n,e It lsss burned
out aireahy.''-~Scitnce teGtt Invention.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14
Courage Wins

The successful man jumps al .
shance while tine other fellow Id balk-
sng at q logical conclusion.-Boston
Transcript.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14
By EDWARD G. OWR
XVIII.
READ LANES

Copyright. Western Newspaper Union
, 1922-01-23

Lloyd George, was given out by the I,s-
elgn Office. My colleagues and Inc
ceived with great satisfaction Your cor
dial re-afirmation in behalf O ii NV
French Government of the assurances
we explained last Friday" Describing it
as superfluous to repeat the British Gov
erpment's views, so recently published,
Mr. Lloyd George concludes: We desire,
only as we are glad to note you also de-
sire SO to settle the outstanding problems
that nothing may impair the complete
ness OF the entente Of our people and
yours and thus carry the comradeship
OF he wal into the higher task of bring
ing the European peoples together in a
just and abiding pact Of peace.
Washington, Jan. l7tk.-United States
proposals to redefine the open door poll
cy in China and create an International
Board to examine both existing and fu-
ture concessions which appear to conflict
with it, were debated without decision
today by the Far Eastern Committee of
the Washington conference. The British
and Italian accepted the plan in principle,
but the French withheld assent to some
OF its provisions and the Japanese re-
served judgment, pending communication
with Toxic. The subject will be taken
up again tomorrow. Instructions from
Toxic concerning the Notifications cues.
ton have reached the Japanese Delega-
ton, it was said tonight by Japanese
spokesman, but certain phases of the ad-
vices required e|lucidation and therefore
communication with Toxic was under
way, Japan has no desire to control the
mines in S~hangtung Province, the same
spokesman explained tonight in dis
cussing today's Shantung meeting, but
merely wanted a joint Chino-Japanese
enterprise on a business basis.
London, Jan. 19th.-The West India
Committee state thai an Indian coionisa-
ton deputation com Uprising Messrs Keat-
ing, Pillai and Tiwary will leave for
British Guiana this week. They expect
to remain in that Colony abouttwo months
they will also visit Trinidad.
Calcutta, Jan. 18th. A new method of
civil disobedience adopted by the native
provincial Congress of Bengal, resulted
today in the arrest of more than four
score persons by the police. The method
adopted was the summoning of a public
meeting in the prohibited area, thus
drawing Oul a large crowd. which was
addressed by members of the volunteers.
The police dispeI sed the audience and
arrested "a persons.
London. Jan. 18th.--The Bye-election
in the TamWortb division Of Warwick
shire, which was caused by The death Of