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, 1923-06-07

Mrs. Daisy Brady returned from
Iillsdale, and other points in Nebras-
ka, where she had been visiting for
several weeks. She Is again residing
on her homestead near the Want
ranch.
, 1923-06-07

Mrs. Pauline Dixon and daughter,
Miss Beatrice, were visiting in Sara
toga II few days this week. Mrs.
Dixon has spent the past several
months in Encampment, where she has
been assisting her sister, Mrs. J.. j.
~Fulkerson, in the Bohn hotel.
, 1923-06-07

j. f. Crum. the contractor who in
stalled Saratoga's water works system
last fall, was here this week and load
his ditching machine. which will be
on an excavation job ut Cheyenne.
, 1923-06-07

Mrs. j. NJ. Scoville is preparing TO
leave the last of this week for Chey-
enne and Denver, for "a few weeks
visit with relatives.
, 1923-06-07

Mrs. w. II. Harden has had the in
terror OF her home on River street re-
modelled this week. The work was in
charge of 4. G. Huston.
, 1923-06-07

The Want school district, No. %, on
Monday began n seven-months term of
school. The district was fortunate in
procuring the services Of Mrs. Robt.
Corpening AS teacher.
, 1923-06-07

Mrs. Rach l Dunnan, accompanied
by the Bert Lee children, left Friday
for Salt Creek, Wyo., where she will
be employed this summer by Mr.. Lee
who has n construction contract ON the
North Il South railroad.
, 1923-06-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Ryan were in
from the ranch to attend the school en-
tertainment and dance last Thursday
evening.
, 1923-06-07

Robt. Greig returned to Rawlins
Monday evening, after spending sew
eral days here for n course of baths.
, 1923-06-07

Mrs. Fred Nickel and children have
moved here from Encampment this
week and win occupy their home ON
River street this summer
, 1923-06-07

Mrs. Albert Nixon was over from
Rawlins last Saturday on Il business
mission.
, 1923-06-07

Louis Gunst came up Saturday from
McFadden, the oil town near, Rock
River, where he has spent the past
several months. He spent n day or
two in the upper valley loking after
his property interests.
, 1923-06-07

Frank Jones of Calf Creek attended
the dance in Saratoga last Thursday
evening.
, 1923-06-07

+ SARATOGA CHIPS. +
i + +

III. l.. Kuykendan was n business
visitor here Saturday from Rawlins.
, 1923-06-07
WANT ADS.


FOR SALE-Good work team. per-
fectly gentle and wen broke; mare
and gclding. q and I years old weight
Zoo; mare has good colt by her side.
OR will sell larger team of geldings.-
Inquire j. W. Alden. Saratoga.
, 1923-06-07

FOR SALE-=Three burner Perfec-
ton oil stove. In good conditiOn.=In-
quire Sun Office. 6-7-it
, 1923-06-07

SURETY BONDS ARE BETTER in
every ease than personal bonds. IL in
need OF a bond, see NJ. Ii. McKinip.
, 1923-06-07

wANTED=Man and wife on
ranch man to do ranch work and wife
TO cook for hands.-Inquire Sun Office.
, 1923-06-07

FOR SALE=Young pigs-InQuire
r. IL. Pearson. Saratoga. II
, 1923-06-07

FOR SALE-Four telephones.
Call phone 46. or see Dave Richmond
at Saratoga Garage. 5-31-2t
, 1923-06-07

FOR SALE Three registered
Hereford bulls; "a months old=In-
Quire Sears X McPhail. Saratoga. II
, 1923-06-07

FOR SALE.-A Ford Runabout with
commercial body in extra good condi-
ton practically as good as new.-In-
quire E \. Gross, Saratoga. 6-T-3t
, 1923-06-07

FOR SALE-we have a few good
work horses and saddle horses for
sale. Would be pleased TO have inter
ested parties call and see them.
whether they purchase or not. Prices
viii be right to move them-Brown
ranch. H. l.. Hampton. Mgr. (4-31-4)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22
Poor Boys Who Succeeded
By FREDERICK HoUK LAW
chs.tsr A. Arthur, President

Every immigrant who lands in the United
States has the right to walk proudly from
the boat with the consciousness that he or
his children may become the means of con-
ferring happiness upon great people. Inc
number of those who have found America
the land of opportunity is exceedingly large
Among such people was an eighteen-year-
old Irish boy, William Arthur, who used his
native wit and little learning and finally
became New England school teacher, and
then a preacher He found not only oppor-
tunity in the United States, but also capa-
BILE and honorable wife. Their son, Chester
Alan Arthur, was the twenty-first president
of the United States.
The father moved about so much from
church to church, none of which paid really
good salary, that the family had little sta
bility in anything except character The ia
Their valued education and saw to it that
Chester attended school and studied at home.
He sent his boy to Union college SO we'll pre-
pared that he skipped the entire freshman
year. That alone was triumph for the
Irish immigrant-teacher-m minister father.
emulated his father by becoming teacher
likewise. Chester not only taught school,
but he also studied faw, resolved to escape,
if possible, the vicissitudes that he had seen
in his boyhood home. He was admitted to
the bar and won great honors. In the civil
war he was for time state quartermaster
general, position that he filled with high
credit. Later on he was collector of GUS
toms at New York, and became involved in
controversy that attracted national atten-
ton. He held his ground bravely, but was
removed from office.
Always active in political life, he became
one of the most prominent men in his party,
and was strong supporter of General Grant
when it was proposed to nominate Grant for
a third term. James A. Garfield was nomi-
mated for the presidency and Arthur for the
vice presidency. On the assassination of
Garfield Chester A. Arthur became presi-
dent and served the country honestly, eff
ficiently and with great dignity. He justi-
fled all the sacrifices that his father made.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22
THE HERRIN DECISION

The acquittal of five defendants, charged
with murder committed during the Herrin
riots, is not surprising. 1t simply bears out
predictions previously made that it would
be difficult, if not impossible, to obtain con-
victions. The first trial was conducted in
an atmosphere of prejudice and resentment
against legal authorities who were perform
ing their duty in trying to bring to justice
the men who took part in the brutal massa-
ere of workmen. Witnesses were unwilling
to testify. The prosecution faced obstacles
at every turn and there are grounds for
suspecting that some of the evidence intro
duced by the defense was biased. Perhaps
the prosecution did not make out strong
case, but that may be attributed not so much
to any lack of zeal or diligence as to the
difficulties encountered. There must be a
number of people in Herrin who could throw
light on the riots, if they cared to do so and
would come into court for that purpose.
That there was little inclination to cooper
ate with the authorities was evident from
the start.
The prosecution, having lost the initial
battle, may find it even harder to obtain
convictions in the trials that are still to fol-
low. 1t is discouraging to think that these
acquittals may be the fore-runners of others
and that full justice may never be done at
Herrin, scene of one of the worst crimes in
the history of the country. Few dsinterested
observers will agree with the statement of
the chief counsel for the defense, who said:
at was the only righteous verdict which could
have been rendered and it ought to be the
birth of new era in the industrial disputes
in America and the adjustment of the use
of hired gunner in controversies between
capital and labor" None of this justifies
murder.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 21.-
Especial. Essen, whose name is
known around the world because of
its association with the Krupps and
the building of the old Germany's
great engines of war, and to which
the French marched because repara-
ton payments were not made, is the
subject of the following communica-
ton to the National Geographic So
ciety by Frederick Simpich:
Boom towns of mushroom
growth are not peculiar to America,
as the startling rise of Essen plainly
proves. Though founded away back
in the ninth century, it slumbered
along for hundreds of years, an OBJ
scure, unimportant hamlet. Even as
late as 1850 it had hardly more than
10000 people. Then the Krupp
boom-the rise of the greatest ma
chine shop the world has ever seen
struck it, and today the city houses
half million. Set in the heart of
the coal fields, crowded with endless
industrial plants whose tall CHM
neys BEECH eternal smoke and fumes,
the great workshop fairly throbs
with power and energy. The roar
and rattle of ceaseless wheels and
the din of giant hammers pounding
on metal seems to keep the whole
town atremble.
Here every form of iron and
steel article is made, from boys
skates to giant marine engine shafts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22
PRACTICAL WATERWAY POLICY

Acting on sound business principles, the
house increased the budget appropriation
for rivers and harbors from $1,000, 900 to
$4,000, 900. This was the practical thing
to do, because if improvements already I'M
der way are not continued and adequately
maintained, the nation does not profit to
the fullest possible extent from the projects
on which the government has spent millions
of dollars. A half-completed waterway pro-
ject, or one that is allowed to deteriorate
after it is finished, is a waste of public
funds for which there can be no justifiable
excuse. Certainly, the plea of economy does
not hold good The decisive fashion in which
the rivers and harbors "bloc" overran all
opposition in the house showed a COM
mendable determination to forward devel-
opments of vital Importance to the nations
welfare.
In matters of this kind the opinion of ex-
pert engineers should have more weight
than the. views of members of congress, who
are not always disinterested in their criti-
cism and do not possess the technical in
formation and training required to estimate
accurately the financial needs of the harbors
army engineers, whom he charged with
preaching that sufficient funds had not been
provided, was unfair to these men who have
no political purpose to serve in urging ap-
preparations. Chairman Madden's assertion
that General Taylor had .fviolated the law
when he urged an appropriation of $56,o0o,-
900" is typical of the kind of opposition
offered in congress to the expansion Of the
nations waterways.
The increased appropriation will give en-
gineers funds with which to make necessary
improvements and maintain government
projects in Alabama The federal govern
ment's contention that the states should do
more to supplement federal appropriations
for the waterways does not apply to Ala
bama, which proposes to spend $10,ooo,o00
on the Port of Mobile, only about 100000
less than the total amount spent by the gov
eminent on the Warrior river.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22
THE LAWLESS FLEET

Rum-running craft, lurking off the North
Atlantic seaboard, are said to constitute a
new peril to navigation. Like the burglar
engaged in his nocturnal labors, these ships
are unwilling to show light at night for
fear of attracting the attention of the dry
patrol, which might prevent them from es-
tablishing communication with the shore by
small boats. Lying in the sea lanes, under
cover of darkness, they seem to prefer the
risk of being run down by a freighter or a
liner to capture by federal officers. The
captain of the Port Victoria says there were
twelve schooners and Canadian steamship
off the coast last week when he left New
York. Since most of these vessels are small,
they are in greater danger than the legiti-
mate liners which might sink schooner or
two and be none the worse for the expert
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22
GERMANY'S INDUSTRIAL HEART

tons of the world to buy at Essen.
The daily roar of artillery at the
proving grounds, where each new
gun was tested, added to the din
of whistles, rushing trains and rat
Ting gears, made pre-war Ruhr
probably the noisiest place on earth.
1t is noisy enough now, but the
great guns are silent; Krupp makes
them no more. The big lathes that
once made guns for every nation,
from Chile to China, now turn opt
shafting for marine and other en-
gines. Box cars for Belgium, car
wheels for South America and whole
tram line systems for the Dutch East
Indies were some of the orders be-
ing filled when | saw these giant
works few months ago.
'You can picture the size and
scope of this colossal plant when I
tell you that, literally, the coal and
iron come in at one end of the flock
of factories and emerge at the
other in the form of finished loco
motives, with steam up for testing,
or as plows, all painted and ready
for the farm, or as the finest nick
eled instruments and tools. Aside
from its truly amazing industrial as
poets, with its singularly adequate
welfare institutions for aged and
crippled workmen, Essen is only an
somber and smoky. 1t is the sort of
overgrown German factory town.
place YOU like to see-once."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22
WHERE GREEK REFUGEES CROWD

"The finest remains of the city
are the % churches which somehow
survived the turbulent middle ages.
There they stand, turned back into
churches after 500 years of use as
mosques. They illustrate the story
of Byzantine architecture more
beautifully in certain ways than do
those of Constantinople. One es-
pecially interesting fact in connec-
ton with these churches is that they
make among them museum of the
lost Byzantine art of mosaic. No
where else are such beautiful exam
pies of mosaics of this period seen,
save in Constantinople and Ra-
VIENNA. The finest of mosaics in Sa-
loniki, and one of the finest IN the
world, is in the dome of the Church
of st. George. Once ruled and built
by Rome, and later by Venice, and
numbering among its inhabitants
Greeks, Serbians, Albanians, Bull
garians and Turks, Saloniki's atmos-
phere may be said to have been
compounded from that of every ad-
jacent nation. But it reaches stu
farther afield, and has an impor-
tant contact with Spain. One of its
largest racial elements consists OF
Spanish-speaking Jews whose ances-
tors were driven from Spain by Co
lumbus' royal patrons. One must
not think of Saloniki as a new
Grecian acquisition far from the
heart of Greece; for just across the
bay. ever in sight from its hills, tow
ers Mt. Olympus, inspiration of the
life and literature of old Greece"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22
WORTH INVESTIGATING

Appointment of a committee of the OPP
tmist Club to investigate the ACCESSIBILITY of
seeking merger of city and county govern
ments is a pubic-spirited movement and in
harmony with the legitimate mission to be
performed by dinner clubs or any other
aggregation of citizens seeking the good of
the community through associational forms.
There is a world of difference between parti-
san politics and that broader politics which
aims at the fundamentals. There is greater
difference still between the politics which
seeks to advance personal fortunes and that
which seeks the adoption of measures that
render the burden of government easier on
all. While dinner clubs and other such or
CARNATIONS would do well to avoid any step
that savors of partisan or personal politics,
it is eminently proper that they should take
and express interest in such matters as tax
ation form of government and economy in
administration of public affairs
There has been too much cant about who
has right to be in politics and who has
not AS matter of fact, every citizen has
a right to be in politics, because he is af-
feeted by politics and member of the COM
munity which is affected by politics. 1t is
better for community that its citizens, who
seek the public good rather than public
office. take live interest in public affairs
than that these citizens, as is far too often
the case, delegate politics to the profession
ais who operate for their own selfish ends.
The city of Birmingham, according to the
report of Comptroller Taylor, pays salary
bill of two and half million dollars year.
The larger part of the county's salary bill
is also paid by the city. Advocates of the
merger system, under which such cities as
Denver, Los Angeles and Baltimore operate,
claim that the consolidated government eff
fects a greater saving by avoidance of du-
plication of salaries in such departments as
that of the public safety and tax assessment
and collection, etc. The 0ptimist Club Is
right in deciding to study how merged
government would affect this body polite.
The matter was a live issue several years
ago and is one fully worth the same serious
consideration now.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22

Curiously enough, even some of the
smoke, or the fumes from the
smokestacks, is caught and convert
ed into a gas that furnishes more
power to run the mills! And to the
10000 or more men on his pay roll,
the name of Krupp is above that of
kings. And indeed no industrial en-
terprise anywhere has ever shown
a more astonishing development, re-
Elected more dramatically the result
of human concentration, or achieved
a wider notoriety among the ma
tions of the world. More than 100
years ago the first Krupp set up
his small, crude shop and began to
make by hand the tools, the drills
and chisels, used by tanners. black
smiths and carpenters along the
Ruhr and the Rhine. He also made
dies for use in the mint of the gov
eminent. Within 80 years, due to
the old ambition for expansion,
Krupp tools were known and used as
far away as Greece and India. Here,
about this time alsos spoons were
first rolled from one solid block of
metal by an odd-looking machine
invented for that purpose.
"Then came the great era of mass
production in steam engines. ham,
mers, steel tires for railway cars,
cast steel shafts for river and ocean
steamers, and finally that astonish-
ing output of guns and armor plate
which brought the militaristic ma
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22
RENTS IN SKYSCRAPERS

Some interesting facts are revealed in a
survey by the National Association of Build
ing Owners concerning the costs and profits
in operating office and mercantile buildings
for the past year. The report covers one
hundred and fifty-two buildings in forty
seven cities, among them New York, Chi
cago, Cleveland, San Francisco and Seattle,
and shows that rents are from eighty cents
per square foot to four dollars. The latter
figure represents the average for office
buildings. Space in many of the sky
scrapers comes much higher. 1t is further
shown by the report that while the average
increase in operating expenses was % per
cent, there was increased income of 1914
per cent. So it seems that the landlords
are not suffering. But what is not so APP
parent to those who do not own skyscrapers
is that the expense of operating them in
creases with the height, while the income
decreases correspondingly. The law of di-
minishing returns begins to work on invest
ments at certain point from the ground.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22

the season, and it is, therefore, gratifying
to learn that the Texas cooperative market
ing system has apparently more than met
that criticism and further indicated the
plan of the cooperative marketing sys-
tenn. 1t is the overhead that counts for
veal or woe in all business enterprises, and
that is where the Texas association has APP
piled its ingenuity with good results. The
better terms with warehousemen wero
doubtless secured on account of the amount
of cotton which the marketing association
handles. These associations are conducted
on the same strict business principles as any
other business is and, so long as they are
conducted in that manner, they will prove of
the benefit to the farmer that the system
does in the other lines of human endeavor.
1t always pays to watch the overhead
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 21.-
Especial. )-Saloniki, safely outside
both Eastern and Western Thrace,
but near enough to those troubled
regions of Greek and Turkish rivalry
to be in easy reach of refugees, has
had tremendous problem thrust
upon her, dispatches state, by the
tens of thousands of Greeks who
flocked there both by land and sea.
"Saloniki does not stand at a
great world crossroads, and its
name, therefore, is not so familiar
as that of Constantinople," says a
bulletin in regard to the city, issued
from the Washington, D. G., head
quarters of the National Geo
graphical society. "In past and pres
ent Importance, however, it is sec
ond only to its great sister of the
straits. Saloniki, too, reaches far
back into the past. Cities rose and
fell on its site more than half a
millennium before Christ; and the
present town was founded 800 b.
Z. Its rather queer name repre-
sents the last three syllables in the
name of Thessalonike, ha1f-sister of
Alexander the Great. 1t became a
Little Rome during the height of
that empires power; free city,
capital of the surrounding region,
and the home of many Roman colo
nists. Cicero lived there for a time
in exile; Nero and Trajan decorated
the city; and it was the temporary
home of the Emperors Galerius. Ii
cinius and Theodosius.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22
NOT ACCORDING TO HOYLE

The lates of the sensational robberies in
New York, that of Mrs. Schoellkopfs' three
hundred thousand dollars worth'of jewelrv.
sets something of new pace in poker par
ties and also, it seems, in financiering. To
have as guest of honor lady whose gilt
tering gems have caught your covetous eye,
as is alleged, and then separate her from
them by strangulation is not, as far as we
know, according to Hoyle. OF "sandbag-
ging" in poker parties we have often heard,
of course, but that is not the same as
strangling. However, there are many meth
DDS in Hoyle with which we are not familiar.
But the other thing, the cashing in of the
loot, seems to open new vistas. It is said
that long before the lady was robbed, plans
had been laid by the hooters to return the
jewels for large amount of money, said
money to have been paid by the husband,
who was out Of town at the time. The
scheme, if carried out and found out, would
probably have changed the legal status from
theft to mere kidnapping of jewelry and
would have greatly reduced the Jail sentence,
if any Perhaps Dumas could have made
much of this plot.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22
RAIL TONNAGE GROWS

Exclusive of coal the railroads of the
country transported more freight by sixteen
per cent. in 1922 than in any previous period
of their history. In spite of the prolonged
coal strike the decrease in coal haulage was
only seven per cent. The railroads are
making better financial returns also. They
have instituted variety of economies that
are reducing the operating expenses, includ-
ing more watchful and careful freight
handling service, reduction in the coal bill
through application of fuel-saving devices,
heavier loading of cars and less mileage OF
empty car haulage. On a smaller gross
many of them have earned greater net
Before the year is half over they will have
received large number of new locomotives
cars and rails. Their general condition is
the best in several years and a continuity of
the policy of economy and care in overhead
will serve to maintain good conditions