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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-07-26

premiums offered may be obtained
by writing to the state fair for one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15
Wonderful Metal.

A THOUGH the existence of tanta-
Ium has been known for a CEN
tury or more, 1T is only within the
past few years that the metal has
been prepared in pure state. This
is effected with the aid of an electric
furnace. Tantalum combines extreme
ductility> with extraordinary hard
ness. When red-hot Ii is easily
rolled into sheets or drawn into wire,
but upon being heated second time
and then hammered 1t becomes so
hard that it has been found impossi-
BILE, even with a diamond drill, to
bore a hole through shees >~sy
millimeter thick. Such n drill. work
ing day and night for three days. at
5000 revolutions a minute, made a
depression only a quarter of mflli-
meter deep, and the diamond point
was badly worn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15

you will know how il looked when
I entered Parlor with my brain con-
tanning what l had read from that
Etiquette. All society was there in
clumps, making words.
Was downhearted? Not yet.
With Hat in my intense right hand
and Cane in my respectable left
sonter through the door. / could OBJ
serve Hon. Mrs. Bottle in central cir
Gle, surrounded by her Grandmothers.
What did Etiquette say about that?
l must go after that Lady and pick
out her hand. Therefore I dive
through Society. knocking it down in
my speed.
on one of my fearless feet hold out
all my fingers to her
What to do?" she ask peevly.
| Il am on time for T. like you re
quire." is bright word I sent back.
Missy" she bark. What in Saml.
| Hill is the translation of your be-
| havfor?'
Etiquette" l nafrate while holding
her cross hand. II have learned How
| to Enter Room"
All Society turn at me with hooting
| looks.
so ha." she growl like a snake.
And perhapsly you have studied How
to Leave Sameo"
II did not got that far | dib. but
that was useluSs.
Hon. Husband & 3 pianna-movers
arrive on the scenery and act quite
strong. Crashes. That was I. Break
age of window-pains followed by fur
niture smoat the spot where I arrive
on lawn with 5 cracked elbows & col
lision of the spine while awaiting
ambulance gong with memories of
how Etiquette look pretty estranged,
by golly, when standing wrong side
up.
Hoping you are. the same
Yours truly
Hashimura Togo.
Copy right. 1928. U: S. and Great Britain, by
North American Newspaper Alliance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15
Facts About Dynamite.

CUNPOWDER, one of the great
~ factors in the growth of the ma
tons. has come down the ages from an
unknown source, and the old black
granulated material reigned supreme as
as explosive until the middle of the last
century, when mysterious dynamite
came to occupy the formers place al
most entirely. Since then scores Of va
rieties of far more powerful and smoke
less explosives have been compounded.
Chief among the many features of the
modern explosive is that curious prop
erty OF blowing up with such ire
mendous force and suddenness. The
layman marvels at that. Scientists ap-
pear to derive a great deal OF satisfac-
ton from the facts and apparent expla-
nations with which they have described
the phenomenon. Yet there is always
something behind the apparent cause OF
a thing, and so the matter of research
goes on all the time.
Nitroglycerin. clear, colorless. oily
LIQUID too "touchy" to handle until
mixed with a queer earth called kiesel
guhr. forming a substance resembling
heavy brown sugar and thereafter call
ed dynamite, and all the decorating ex-
plosives going off, with extreme sud
denness upon receiving a pronounced
jar This dynamite does in something
like one twenty-fourth thousandth of
second. All this is quite similar in &C
ton to that strange thing called the
ruper drop. little globule of glass that
has been solidficd from the molten
state into form much like that OF the
pollywog, by precipitation in water. BY
simply breaking the tail of rupert
drop, the balance of the mass flies into
a myriad Of fragments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15

Wrong beyond reckoning" she
decry. etiquette are more difficult to
obtain than Gin or any other form of
prohibition. To get Gin you must
merely know policeman. But
Etiquette do not grow in the leg of
boots"
stand ghast for that phenomenal.
II have Etiquette Recipe Book
she say for sweetly smiling. by
reading those recipes carefully even
the most uncoothless clodd can learn
how to enter wealthy residences with
out attracting attention"
THAT would be nice to know, il
i was Burglar" / negotiate. "Sippos-
ing / was entering the home of 1st
MI. Bank. AT instant when / reached
out to snatch diamond reckless from
burro drawer Hon. Mrs. Banker would
income dressed in her lace nightly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15
-JUsT A FEW WORDS TO THE EDITOR"

This Book she romp. ARE en-
| titled Ten Thousand Easy Blunders
a Day"
with so much work in Hon.
Kitchin," l incorporate, Il could not
have time to make SO many
Il have faith in your ability she
say-so. Take. this little volum &
study we'll. This pm. at 4.Society will
meet at my home for tea-drunk. You
will serve that beveridge to all, and
1 shall aspect you to know Sufficient
American Etiquette to carry YOU
through from 1st to last"
Ten Thousand Easy Blunders a
Day. I set that book on my lapp &
by weight it resembled making love
to the German indemnity. I turn to
hanson front page where there
stands a portrait of Dinner. One (D
Society Lady is using a hairpin to
pick the MUSHROOMS out of her soup
while her Husband Uf married) is
: combing. his musstash with a slice
, of toast.
What Is Wrong With This Pic
ture?" require Hon. Editor who wrote
the Book.
I axamne that portrait and ask to
know. What is. Maybe 1t was
drawn with a fountain pen. Other
wisely 1t was too good to be truth
full. That Lady had very sweet eye
brows and I admire her for the
patient smiling which, she showed
while her husband arranged his mus
stache with toast How many women
would endure that without shrek and
toss of tableware? And yet her hus-
band was equity kind. He remained
sweetheartedly looking pleasant and
talked about his nuralgia while Hon.
Wife ate MUSHROOMS her own way.
Were that not picture of happy home?
ask to know.
Therefore set turning pages with
my skillfull thumbs. From time to
time 1 find what Is wrong. Every
thing. 1t was like reading the Life
of Trotsky by Lenin. Persons should
not enter a room in front of Lady,
even IL she is leading in crocodile.
II you are President and the train
gets wrecked you should shake hands
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15

The would know how to meet her.
=. tuld not stand such a shock in
your conversation she tell off. How
could an Etiquetter meet Mrs. Bank
er in her robe de nightly"
''Ah. But l would quickly cover
her with my revolver" i renig.
You are talking garbage" she
snarled. Therefore L shall show you
my Etiquette Recipe Book
X * i x
DRETTY soonly she came back with
/ lib. Book which weigh more than
Outlines of Hystericks' but less than
How to Play Getting Well" by DR..
Coo of France.
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every American remain SO umpolite
yet Keep studying Etiquette books
all time.
How can they help being rude?" he
snagger. so much study of Eli
Quette~ give them no time for mere
kindness" -st-
And so forth to suit yourself and
your printer.
Yestday; Mr. Editor. my life col
lapsed with great vigger, and I shall
tell you about this in my study of
Etiquette.
Mrs. C.. w. Bottle, for who l was
then working, approach to Hon.
kitchin where she find me bathing
the dishes. From the enraged ex-
preston Of her eyebrows 1 knew she
was thinking Etiquette.
Togo she whop out your man.
Iners are gorilla in the axtreme. Unless
you patch your ways you must leave
me and make place for an insane Fin
nish cook which am thinking Of"
20 sweethearted Mrs. Madam OBJ
ject, what could do to oil my be-
havior?"
"You should learn Etiquette" She
say. that.
L faint away slightly before my
next questionable.
what is Etiquette?" / ask to
know
Sometimes one thing, sometimes
something else" she dictate school,
ishly. etiquette are a variety of
Science which teach persons where to
put their feet, hands, faces. hats, &
etc. when meeting with ladies, sena-
tors and others of weaker sex than
what they are at that time. 1t gives
you lessons in standing up, laying
down., expressing your legs"
ct have read the DAILY n DOE by
Hon. Walt Camp" corrode. lis that
the /. D. you are shooting at?"
mo. tMultiply this by 1oooooo)" she
amputate. Hon. Camp merely teach
you how, to, get q backache at home
without instruction. Hon. Etiquette
are something valuable which you
can carry in. your pocket to make you
welcome ut houses of refinement" !.
"Ah!@ Then it is Gin." ] narrate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15
What Is Etiquette?
\ o EDITOR STAR, celebrated
printer, whose head is fat
with rich ideas,
nAarAst Sir.

Because L am in North America to
obtain. college education in dishwash-
ing, sweeping and Gen. Housework
I wish know everything possible and
often impossible. ! have learned all
to know about Baseballing, Divorces
Murders, Tariff and other publish
evils, but sometimes I meet ideas
which make my brain curl up SO 1t
does not seem to At my head. I ask
to know. Yet there is no answer.
For instancely:
What is Etiquette?
My cousin Nogi, who are learning
poetry-writing by mail from the
University Of Marion, Ohio. say there
is no such object as Etiquette. II Their
was, he require. how could Col. Har-
vey remain 50 long in the Court of
St. Jas: To prov what he say he
show me following hand wwritten
dog rhyme:
Old King Tut
Was a jollif1ed Mutt
Till Egypt voted dry.
Then he hired room
In a stylish toom
And started to mummy
He was satisfied
With the way he dried
For a million years or more
Til the British Museum
Broke into his dream
With an ak on his big front door.
They hired a man
With a moving van
And never said Accuse
They was kind of curt
When they took his shirt
& his throne &/his pants & his shoes.
shoes.
They took his chair
And his kitchenware
& the whole of his bedroom set.
1t was all so quaint,
But yet it amt
What l call Etiquette
X + * y
WHEN Cousin Nogi come to see me
w last Wednesday morning am. he
show me this Japanese Sonnet, which
should admire. but / knew it was
just another accuse to bora my cigar
again. l ask him how it was that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15

with the fireman but not with the
Engineer axcept in Presidential
Years when you must shake hands
with everybody. Who would think
that?
THEN | commence turning pages
J. with wetter & wetter thumbs, be-
cause time was soonly to arrive when
Society would come to Mrs. Bottles
expecting tea. At lastly come to
where l was looking for:
How to Enter a Room.
'If it is in the Afternoon it will all
depend on what Sex you are if any
Please decide rapidly, then knock to
front door. II you are a Lady keep
your hat stuck to your hair as usual.
Look careless and enter by walking.
Pretend to be pleased.
But IL you are a Gentleman ar
range it so that you can be told from
a Lady at first glimpse. Enter room
with pictures of Jno. Drew in your
mind. Wear your Hat in one hand,
your Cane in another. Take care to
bora a Cane with a hook in it so it
can be attached to something when
trouble comes.
'1st shake Hands with the Lady
who rents or owns the house. After
this you may shake hands with
Grandmother. if alive. to show
reverence for wrinkled people. Nextly
you are permitted to set down be-
side LADY of Wealth e Fashion If
you are disabled to think of any
thing. as usual say the following
canned dialogue:
"Question-How jaw do?
"Answer-How jaw do?
"Question-Is your Father still suf-
fering?
"Answer-I have no Father.
"Question-Accident will happen.
And how is your Grandmother Aunt
or Ailing Sister. is the case may be?
"Answer-pon't you read the news
papers,
"Question-Wnl you have a cup of
tea or
toptionaD
COCOA
b-Milk
c-Gooseberry wine?"
I read this intelligence with OPP
pressed elbows. not missing plenty.
Then come most important knowl-
edge of all:
How to Shake Hands:
.1-Select the Hand you wish to
shake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15
How the Sun RotateS.

Guides at the Yerkes observatory
- have determined the varying Pc
RODS of the solar rotation, in zones
five degrees wide. from the equator
to latitude So degrees. Within Ave
degrees of the equator, on either
side, the period OF rotation Is 9 triie
more than twenty four and a half
days. The length of the period grad
uaIly increases toward the poles, be-
coming about twenty-five and half
days between latitude Is degrees and
latitude 90 degrees and nearly TWEEN
ty-five and a half days between iati-
tude 80 degrees and latitude IS de-
grees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15

from social standpoint and needs
I, more intelligent treatment.
* *x
/ SSrT$HE federal woman prisoners of
i which we have standing
average of about 800. may be classed
as follows: Bootleggers-those who
! bootleg themselves, those who act as
| camouflages in automobile trans
portation of liquor and the wives of
bootleggers who assist their hus-
| bands: violators of the Mann and
| Dyer acts; accomplices in bank de-
] falcatons, usually the stenographer
of the absconding cashier; bank
! thieves woman accomplices or sweet
hearts: woman bank cashiers who go
| wrong; woman postal-law violators,
clerks who piifer the mail and blue
| sky operators who use the mails to
defraud; violators of the anti-narcotic
law and narcotic drug addicts. who
ask to be imprisoned in order to get
away from the drug.
These last mentioned are particu-
Iarly of a better class of women, and
need special treatment to help re-
CuDeraue from LIE uIoS- ieh oo1
few exceptions. however, the jails to
which the government has been
forced to send them have no hospital
facilities to handle such cases.
Recently the warden of one OF
these ill-equipped jails wrote the De-
partment of Justice: Can't you, as
the federal government. do some
thing to prevent sending us federal
woman prisoners who are dope ad-
diets? 1t is not only inhuman to put
them in cells without treatment to
bridge them over the intense suffer-
ing following the lessening OF the
drug, but it has bad effect on prison
morale = -. IT, w. -, ....
Another warden wrote: We have
tried to get. you to- take away these
woman prisoners. Now, inasmuch as
you are faced with an. emergency,
we are going tosdouble the price
"At the present time we are pay
ing out .$95. 1000 year to states and
counties for caring for federal
woman prisoners. The method has
been to make contracts with the
wardens at go much a day, the
women to be subject to the penology
laws of that state. Some of these
laws are good, but some are extreme
~ bad and work a hardship and in
justice on the women subjected to
them.
with hardly enough room to take
care of their own prisoners, however,
state and local Institutions that for
meriy accommodated federal woman
prisoners have now closed their doors
to more of them in every instance
except two-the Caldwell jail, in New
Jersey, and the Sonoma Farm for
Delinquent Women, California. And
even these have recently advised that
they are able to take only twenty
more.
I'VE have oombed the country to
make. contracts with local institu-
tions for women who are now In Jail
awaiting designation to proper place
Of confinement. But, with the excep-
ton of the two places mentioned,
have been unable to find any accom-
modations whatever"
How about the federal prisons at
Atlanta, Leavenworth and McNeal
Island? Could not some provision be
made there. for women?
These penitentiaries were estab-
lished for men only. To place women
there would only intensity the prob
lem of dealing with each sex. Be-
sides, there. IL hardly enough ground
toy admit OF necessary enlargement
for men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15

Pin preparation put your Hat
anywhere axcept on your Head
"3-When you see the Hand ap-
preaching stop it by strong seizure
between thumb & End joint
"4-Push away. jerk up. drop. )
times Is too much.
Stalk about something else"
Mr.. Editor. might of got to New
port by reading this Book, but at that
instant Hon. Mrs. c. w. Bottle in
croach into kitchin with very mad
hair.
will you serve tea or elsewhere?
she derive
Il shall do it most etiquettishly." /
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15

| generally of a higher type-a club
scientious about her jury duty.
Whereas the business or professional
man will do everything possible to
get out of serving"
| If justice is to be equally dis
| tributed among the sexes. will it not
be apt to bring about sentiment in
favor Of abolishing capital punish
ment altogether rather than sentence
mothers and potential mothers to the
chair or gallows?"
L wouldn't say that woman's en-
] tering the criminal picture has any,
| thing to do with this phase of the
| problem. There has been a growing
| wave of humanitarianism for some
| time in favor of abolishing capital
punishment and If poll of public
opinion were taken today this would
| no doubt be clearly shown
DO you believe that women are
answerable for a large amount of
crime In meno'
That theory is as old as ADAM"
laughed Mrs. Willebrandt, throwing
back her exquisitely coiffed head. II
don't subscribe to it. But do believe
that women play far more impor-
tant part in crime than appears on
the surface.
"A case In point is one in New York,
recently discussed in the newspapers.
Without two women prohibition en-
ployes who were in collision with the
defendant, he could not possibly have
obtained blank permits and operated his
scheme. One woman, older than he.
acted as his accomplice; the other,
much younger, fell in love with him
and was therefore an easy dupe.
BY turning informer the older
woman saved her skim. and the
younger went scot free. The man was
given twenty years in the penften
| tiary. Yet women were the important
factors in the crime. Neither one will
| be any better of by reason of escape
from punishment"
i recently saw an interesting claim
by a criminologist that the" female
criminal is more callous and indifrer-
ent than the male What is YOUR
opinion about this?" ....-
I'm my experience, I have not found
this to be. true. And have talked TO
| several thousand woman prisoners.
accused of murder on down. In Los
Angeles, whereI practiced law, we
have what Is called a public defender.
to aid prisoners without funds and
prevent their falling into the hands
of INSCRIPTIONS lawyers. The bar as
ISOLATION sponsored the office as an
experiment, and 1t grew into. some
| thing so fine 1T. was eventually estab-
lished rs a part of the city govern
ment.
II assisted the defender in the ex-
animation Of the young girls and
women who drifted through the DO
lice courts, and from this experience
cleaned something Of the tempera-
ment. of sex. In many cases, would
be told, oh, she IL hardened, Mrs.
Willebrandt.' But she isn't I would
insist. And oftener, than not would
ind her quick to respond to the
woman's understanding approach. =
ITO be sure, the larger part Of these
criminals were social offenders.
women Of the streets, with little edu-
cation or refinement. In the case of
the federal prisoners, we have a diff
ferent type from the uneducated po-
lice court type Of criminal OF course,
there are some habitual criminals and
mental detectives among them who
will never be. anything but a menace.
but the average is more intelligent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15

Assistant Attorney General Declares Judge
and jury Are Increasingly Willing to Hold
Woman Who Has Violated the Law Respon-
sible for Her Act-"Woman's Security From
Death Penalty for Killing Too Long Taken for
Granted Juror Factor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15

velidrome. She slamdoor. / only
await 4th. glimse at How to Enter a
Room. Then obtain my derby &
cane.
X
NER. EDITOR, have you ever seen
lVl an emotion picture showing Paris
receiving Gep. Hindenberg? II so
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15

Engineer, axcept in Presidential
Years when you must shake hands
with everybody. Who would think
that?
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UIIAVE women in the jury box had
IL something to do with this?''
1 inquired. "out in your state, in
the famous hammer murder case, for
instance, a mixed jury convicted the
defendant in short order
Yes. with women on juries we will
get more correct analysis Of. fact.
Naturally, women are not susceptible
to the wiles and weaknesses of
woman as are the other sex, and are
more able to get beneath the surface.
For them, the personal equation
does not enter in as it does for men.
who see in nearly every woman pris-
oner their own mother. wife or
sweetheart. 49,. go. -,
'"Then. too. the woman juror : is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15
Maudlin Sentiment Banned When Women
Now Face Court, Says Mrs. Willebrandt

There are two plans to meet the
emergency-one to establish a sep
arate prison, or reformatory. for male
first offenders and the other to es-
tablish n federal reformatory for
women. Bills providing for the same
were introduced at the last session
OF Congress, but on account Of local
opposition which developed and the
short period of time before adjourn
msnt.- final action was not had.
There are two classes OF criminals
that should be taken care OF differ
ently-the male first offenders and
the women. When I came to tho De-
partment Of Justice realized that
these were the two propositions that
needed first attention. .s..s
Tho government has had no con-
structive method of segregating
first-offenders from hardened GRIM
mails. There has been no such thing
as federal reformatory. The re-
formatory class Of prisoner was
either farmed out to state rerorma-
tories or sent to federal prisons
along with the long -termers and
habitual criminals.
THE way in which the government
handles its prisoners. in truth, is so
far behind the way in which practi-
cally all the states handle theirs, we
cannot avoid the conclusion that our
prisoners. in all likelihood, are prov
ing the greater menace to society
when they are released. The federal
prison methods are archaic, belonging
to the most unenlightened penal ideas
1t is national shame.
Evening star., 1923-04-17

among buslness men then advised:
Our job right now IL TO keep an even
keel and to steer a straight course.
Business most be kept on a firm foan-
dation."
Mr. Gary, in his speech at the an
nHal meeting Of the United States
Steel Corporations stockholders, pre-
sented vivid Ver71Al picture Of
prosperity in the steel industry. He
said the corporation gross earnings
in 1922 were $4lo. 900, 900 in excess OF
1921. Then he announced that the
total value of the corpofationS hold
inSs exceeded by a billion dollars their
value when the corporation ~Ns
formed twenty years ago. Mr.. Gary
is recognized es also ore OF the chief
supporters of policy Of conservatism
in business at this tiEse. but he could
not restrain a sense of PROFOUND
qualification at the happy signs FOR
the future. while 'Ais next thought
would be one of caution.
Let everybody be grateful for the
way things are going in business and
industry, but be careful Of overexten-
sion. Things. indeed, look too good to
let them be threatened by rash infia-
ton