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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20
Holidays Defer "Gas" Tax Bill Action
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RAGRAPHOLETTES.
Doing the Christmas shopping
early has the advantage of giv-
ing one more time for Christmas
home brewing.
One place left for a motor tour,
where parking space is plentiful
and traffic regulations do not
e1ist, Is the North Pole.
The "scrGtch sheet" seems to
gain in popularity because so
many are etching" to place bets.
Those aViLd ducks which dashed
themselves to death on a aOet
pavement which aUGs illuminated
By the shine of the moon, think
ing it UGS aUGter, are not the
only Victims of mOOnshine. It
has caused the dOtVnfGH of many
human ducks.
HANK HAWKINS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20

OUR OWN DICTIONARY.
UNDERSTANDINGS the boss
thinks Is and the clerks think
AMT.
BRIDGEPORT.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20

Whether women add anything to
q mans life Is another matter. but
they do subStract plenty from his
bank account.
Anyhow q married mans life In
divided as fOllOwS: hours for
work. eight hours for sIoop, eight
hours for explaining. r. NJ. Il.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20

Miss Alice Spade II ono Of the
llvelleSt girla In this village. Moth.
ing In q social way IL complete
without her attendance. Tho Same
IL true alGO Of the Misses Frances
and Georgia Spade.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20

GREETINGS, EVERYBODY.
Dear Bill, the Fans and office Goat
Offer These Greetings, Please Take
Note: A Merry Christmas, q Bright
New Year, Ne Contributors of Good
Cheer.
PAUL L. COMPTON.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20

THE SPADES ARE TRUMPS.
(Erom the MercyYIlla. Iowa. Banner.
, 1923-06-03
Children Get Medals

WASHINGTON. d. c.. June a.
Wyoming results in the last national
safety campaign were announced to-
day by highway education board.
which was engaged in mailing medals
and checks to the winners.
Edwina Hull, Kemmerer school.
Frontier. won first honors for the
state. a gold medal and check for
fifteen dollars. and her essay will
represent Wyoming in the national
competition, It was said. A silver
medal and check for ten dollars. rep
~resenting second state honors, went
to John w. Leazenby. Jr.. Wyoming
school. Laramie. Tho third state
prize. a bronze medal and check for
five dollars. was sem to Frances
The best lesson submitted in a
competition held simultaneously with
the pupils contest was by NJ. X.
Tschirgi, a teacher in Linden school.
Sheridan, while honorable mention
among teachers was accorded the
papers by Mrs. Alma Leach, Lara
mic. and Mrs. Rhea Tillard. Tillard
school. Douglas.
Selection of essays and lessons was
made by a committee appointed by
Mrs. Katharine A. Morton. state SUI
pe~rintendent of public instruction.
The Judges were Miss Seraflna
Facinelli, deputy state superintend-
ent. A. s. Jessup. city superintendent
of schools. and w. NJ. Horne. state
rural school inspector. all Of Cheyenne.
, 1923-06-03
MARINE
AND THE
NEW

When the new congress convenes,
next December, it will discover that
the merchant marine problem did
not expire when the filibuster in
the last congress defeated the ad-
mi%nistration's plan and offered
nothing in its place. 1t is an
nounced from Washington that,
early in the next session, the ship
ping board, will ask for an appropri-
alton of $24, 900, 900 to build two
Atlantic liners of the Leviathan
type. The choice lies between the
building of two new ships and re-
conditioning of the Agamemnon and
the Mount Vernon. To put the
two old liners in condition for serv-
ice would cost nearly as much as
the building of new ships, the ship
ping board says. Furthermore, new
ships patterned after the Leviathan
would receive much larger patron.
age than the Agamemnon and the
Mount Vernon. The shipping board
will argue hat the Leviathan alone
will not meet the demands made up
on that class Of liners. If the Unit
cd States does not have more ships
of the same type, the business will
go to the large ships from other
countries.
The new congress will have to
adopt some kind of a merchant ma
rine policy early in its career. Tho
ultimate solution Of the problem
may be costly; but no one can deny
that the %unsolved problem also Is
costly.
, 1923-06-03
L BLESS
INGS IN

For many months, according to
government reports, there has been
a general shifting of the population
from farm to city. The attraction
in urban districts has been an
abundance Of employment at good
pay. The federal government says
two million persons turned from
agricultural pursuits and moved to
towns and cities last year. This
was not the net loss, however, for
some 900, 900 urban dvellers moved
to the country during the same
period.
OF cours the movement from
farm to city indicates \ lack of ag-
ricultural prosperity. On the other
hand, the reduction of the form
population will eventually operate
to restore prosperity Ito farmers
who remain at their work. There
fore, the statement that farmers
are moving to town may be regard
ed either as good news or as bad
news according to the point Of
view.
In the south, there are many cot
ton growers who are rejoicing that
higher prices were brought about
by reduced production. Some of
them have decided that the widely
advertised distress which followed
the war was really a blessing. En-
terprise, Alabama, may very proper
~ be awarded the gold medal along
that line of reasoning. This Ala
bama town has erected a monument
which bears the following unique
inscription: "In Profound Appe-
citation of the Boil weevil as ths
Herald of Prosperity, This Monu-
ment Is Erected by the Citizens of
Enterprise, Coffee County. Ala
bama." The farmers Of this com.
munity decided that the boil weevil
was more Of a blessing than q pest
because It compelled them to turn
to diversified farming which they
found more profitable than the rails
ing Of cotton exclusively.
Farmers in all parts Of the
United States should not be dis
couraged. Many natural forces
are working to restore their pros
perity.
, 1923-06-03

.e MAKES n remark 20 IL in nj. IN
use Inc nrst guy says Adam makes
the efnark originally. and that he ia
tne n has the Idea of Using ~
Wen Reader. If you ever see two
Humorists which is Shy Of Thoughts
hghtns over One Idea between them
(which is more than they will Aver.
age at thatD you will know what I
mean! "Na l
These babies are at 1t Teeth, and
and are hollertnx Their
heads on about what a Fine Idea this
sand do you ask me 1t will not net
mem both together two inches of
Intelligent Peaces in the public
Prints' let alone Funny Ones: but
moan. 1 think) so quick IL will make
Humorists will Grasp Mt a straw"
n Drowning Man seem Indifferent
These are both guys of a Few Thou.
sand Sillables and no Punctuation
and does either of them every have
10 Eat his Worsd he will never
starve to death, believe mel
wen. finally they both talk each
other out of the Idea, and neither of
them VIII use 1t because no is afraid
the other guy will Cross him and
also use 1t; Inc as I am leaving the
place 1 hear them saying that this
expression is no good anyway, and
is not used. and can not be Strung
out into a Cloumn lensth-and 1 say
to myself quietly
So?"i and I hurry right
back to my orace.
am sometimes short of Idea, nv.
self. Reader. and I happen to be RIM.
hlhg something which is supposed 10
pc a funny column myself. then.
, 1923-06-03
Unite National Forests

KEMMERER. wyo.. June 2.-An
order from President Hard
ing concerning the Wyoming Ma
tional Forest combines this forest
with h Bridger National Forest.
These two forests have been under
tho Jurisdiction of the Kemmerer
forest office for many years. neces-
sitating h keeping of two complete
sets OF books. to complete sets OF
correspondence, contracts, permits
and all other official business. Other
wise they have both come under the
one onice. The duplication OF work
mas been somewhat expensive and at
times confusing in keeping of rec
r The entire transfer of the
TWO into the one forest will probably
not be completed until about the first
, 1923-06-03
THE "SEVEN GREATEST
AMERICANS"

DR.. James Harvey Robinson Sc
lects the "seven greatest Ameri
cans and tells US about them In
the current number Of the Amer
can magazine. The list may satisfy
him, but it certainly would not be
able to stand up under a referen-
dunn. DR.. Robinson is conscientious.
He gives plausible reasons for his
selections, but no more plausible
reasons than could be given by any
other clever writer advocating the
claims of a thousand persons. No
one of the fathers" is included.
Not Washington or Franklin, or
jefferson, or Hamilton; nor Morris
or either of the Adamses; not an
administrator or a soldier who
helped to create America.
Lincoln is the earliest of his
"great" men, and perhaps the only
one upon whom a majority of his
readers would agree, although Ed
ison, who is in his list, might be
selected by a vote. The other five
are Theodore Roosevelt, John D.
Rockefeller, Mark Twain, William
James and Professor John Dewey.
Now, if DR.. Robinson had set out
to select the greatest Of our literary
men, Mark Twain would be not only
eligible but a ~favorite; or of the
ablest of our Psychologists little
doubt would be left about John
Dewey, but that is not his an
nounced purpose. He designates
the seven greatest" Americans.
Mark Twain was great; a genius
but he was not great" as Wash
fngton was-and Hamilton.
We are ready to accept Edison,
although he has very crude ideas
upon some vital subjectsEthe char
acter and function of money,
for instance, and Lincoln tops the
list without exciting argument. But
the other five are not. in our judg-
ment, five of seven greatest"
Americans.
, 1923-06-03

ends of the snow sheds, completely
blocking traffic.
Railway officials have observed
that wherever trees occur along the
right Of way, snow drifts are not
so deep and the force of the wind
is much lessened. In the Dakotas,
the Northern Pacific, Canadian Pa
cific, and 500 Lines have planted
tree windbreaks along their lines,
which have proven most effective in
preventing snow from piling up on
the tracks.
Learning Of this, the D. & R G..
W. R. R. officials solicited the as
sistance Of the United States Forest
service and a cooperative plan has
been worked out by which $500
trees were reserved at the Monu-
ment nursery and will, this season,
be planted along the railroad right
of way OF Cumbres Pass
The experiment will be tried out
with Engelmann spruce, Douglas
fir, and yellow pine from the Monu-
ment nursery, and aspen and ever
greens dug up from the Rio Grande
National forest, in that locality. The
most effective system of planting
to prevent snow drifting, according
to Fred R. Johnson in charge Of
planting in the Rocky Mountain dis
trict Of the United States Forest
service is to plant three or four
rows, then leave q space of 20 feet
as a snow trap, then plant three or
four more rows. The greater bulk
of snow will accumulate in the trap
and the right Of way remain fairly
free from deep snow.
General Manager J. Russell and
Supervisor Of Agriculture W. II.
Olin of the D. & R. G. W. R. R.
were instrumental in arranging this
cooperation, and Division Superin-
tendent Deuel. of Alamosa and Mr..
Johnson Of the Forest service will
handle the planting.
, 1923-06-03

kenzie. and converting the hospital
into a 5oo-bed unit. were issued today
by Colonel Charles A. Barlow. medi-
cal officer in charge of the hospital.
The bids are to be received June Is
and the contracts, in all probability
will be awarded by July 1. The
specifications call for immediate con-
struction.
When the hospital is converted into
a 500-bed institution. it will rank as
one of the largest veterans hospitals
in the country. Colonel Barlow said.
Colonel Barlow also is making n
recommendation to Washington for
the installation of a central heating
, 1923-06-03

Wen. these two Cuckoos are very
Tough, as I am saying. and are as
Sour AS Home made wine. One of
them is a great Circulation setter for
his Rag, or Pape, because the public
keeps on reading his stuff to SEQ can
IT possibly get any Worse. and every
day they buy tho paper they find
that It can and are very Artonished
and Interested! The other n In n
bird which always wear Climbing
Irons and a Spiked Hat, and is
around making himself famous pull.
ing wise Cracks about other guys
mistakes.
I sec these two birds together be-
fore several times, but I never sec
them such Sore Butchers as they are
Just then, although always very Sad!
course II ia obvious TO n Observant
bird which is wise to these Humorists
that neither OF these babies has got
a Idea in the world to write up in
his column for the next day-and
1 makes them mhdder than everl
Wen, they sit around Gcma time
6nnrlinE at each other like tho 8nari.
ing Children of Dissatisfied France
which we hear 80 much about in tho
war. and finally n says something
TO no other-or Mt least he lots
Words come out OF his mouth, and
tho other n says "Izzat So7" and
tho nrst guy then says A fine Come
back that iH-it IL Americas ono
sure-nrs Reparteei
, 1923-06-03
Guy Sometimes Runs
Out of Ideas Working on
A Paper, Hey Reader?
BY JOHN HANDSHAkER
special Casper Correspondent.
(AliAS Weed Dickinnonl

DEALERS:
LII Well. Readers. this "Izzat so."
is a Hot Skitch as q Conversational
Bon Bon, as we French has II; and
will state to all md Sunday hat 1 do
not know what the world will do
without 1t! 1t is the Great American
Comeback. all right. and 1t is n very
Tough Argument to win against I
am a great hand for giving this
phraze a play once in a while myself,
but 1 do not ever realize what n hold
1t has got on n guys vocabulary and
how good 1t can be used until one
time back in New York.
Well. 1 am sitting around ut my
tipe writer, wondering how is it that
a magazine editor can never think
up my Original Ideas when he re.
jects your stun. and can not tell you
why 1t is mo available but must
always bounce it right back at you
with a little printed slip saying that
the Return Trip it is making does
not imply lack of merit and n lot of
Bunk like that which nobody believes
that can spell his own name.
A magazine editor is a man Of a
very few words and about half that
Hiuch ihteiisence' 10 you ASK me. II
would be a great world was all guys
to adopt magazine editors waze of
doing things, hey? Guys will be
sending back the Tough Steak to the
Butchers Shop which tries to sell It
to them with a Note saying 'the
steak has been carefully considered
by the family and is not available for
present uses; but this does not neces.
sarily imply that this lump OF Porter.
house a~hoe-leather lacks merit"
, 1923-06-03
Graduate 1O1

SHERIDAN. wyo.. June 2.-Ex-
ceeding by 81 and 80. respectively.
Casper and Cheyenne, the second and
third largest graduating classes in
the state. 1o1 students received diplo.
mas from h Sheridan high school
last evening. concluding tho 30th
year Of that institution. This is the
largest class ever graduated from a
Wyoming high school and surpasses
by one the record of an even hundred
established last year.
The exercises will take place at s
o'clock at the Orpheum theater,
Chancellor I. B. Schreckengast of
Nebraska Wesleyan university de-
livering the address.
, 1923-06-03
D ANNIVERSARIES

1S0s-Jefferson Davis, president Of
the Confederate States of
America, born in Christian
county, Ky. Died in New
Orleans, Dec. 8, 1889.
1s4<-Commodore Alexander ].
Dallas, whose shot fired at n
British vessel precipitxted
the war of 1912, died at Cal
lao. Peru. Born in Phila-
delphia, May 10, 1871.
1s4e-Gen- Stephen W. Kearney
was directed by the secre-
tary of war to occupy New
Mexico and Upper California
and establish civil govern
ments therein.
1s63-"Peace Meeting" held IN
New York City, called by
leading Democrats to devise
means for ending the civil
war.
1S73-The Grand Pacific Hotel In
Chicago was first opened.
1887-Emperor William laid a
stone to innugurate the Kiel
canal to connect the North
sea with the Baltic.
1S94-Six hundred men were slain
in the defeat of the govern
ment troops In Salvador.
1921-Pueblo. Colo, overwhelmed
by flood resulting from n
cloudburst.
, 1923-06-03
Ready to Reorganize

GILLETTE. wyo.. June 2.-state
Byron S. Huie has returned
to Gillette after attending to bank
ing business elsewhere in the state
and expresses the opinion that con-
ditions are bright for reorganization
of the Bank of Gillette within a short
time.
The surety companies present the
biggest problem connected with re.
organization" said Mr.. HUE in an
within a few days we
will get the depositors together at tt
meeting. and various phases of the
work will be discussed"
, 1923-06-03
TREES AS

Snow, every winter, causes very
serious trouble along the D. & r. C.
W. r. R. between Alamosa and Du.
range, the U. s. Forest Service re-
ports. This is especially true at
Cumbres Pass, in the Rio Grande
National Forest, lying at an att
tude Of slightly more than 10000
feet. Here, snow piles up to n con-
siderable depth, driven by severe
winds lasting for days at a time and
causing cessation Of all railroad OPP.
erations. Snow even drlfts into tho
, 1923-06-03

1t will be n 1ne life II everybody is
around giving babies which sell stun
the Work this way-it will be I do
not Think Ambassadors and coun-
sells md magazine editors, fortunate.
ly. r the only people which say
what they do not mean SO regularly
Some day 1 will like to see a maya
zine editor which dares to Seem as
Dumb as he is INT sends a note to
the Woodworking Author saying This
Story is very Punk and he can not
see 1t at all! Only. Of course. 1t will
be just my luck that the first guy
to try this scheme will work it out
on me-and I do not deserve It. writ
ing Unpublished Classics mostly!
However. this is moro or less besides
the point I guessl
Well. Reader. az I Am saying, I
take It out OF the ofacs on the Hasty
Lam pretty soon. and no down to a
Tea Dump in the Furious Forties-
which streets Ia as full of Tea-rooms
as Ireland is of Fight Fans-and
am not there very long before in
come q couple of Humorists which 1
know slishtly, nj sit down at the
table right next to me. Well, these
two birds is always so Sad that they
make a Three Ring Funeral look
Amusing; but of course guys which
is naturally Light Hearted and Happy
when born get hat way after they
are writing funny columns on news.
papers for 4 few years. I think II
would be a great thing would some.
body organize a Club where PROBES,
sional Humorists could 10 and get
Cheered-up-only most of these guys
would not want to admit what they
are doing for a living.
, 1923-06-03

Then both Of them suddenly get
hold OF a bunch at the same time,
and n says / can use that to work
out for My Column, / viii work up
tho dsansology of "Izzat SOY" tho
great Comeback, he says, with that
the other Egg Adde'S badly and says
he was going 70 use ii himself, inc
, 1923-06-03
ONE YEAR AGO D

Greece amended constitution TO
givo civic rights to women.
United States agreed to Join In In
vestigation of Turkish afro
cities in Anntolla.
, 1923-06-03
Start Road Work

GREYBULL. wyo.. June Paul
Sawyer Of S~cottsbluff. Neb.. the con.
tractor to whom the construction Of
the mint miles of highway between
Greybull and Emblem bench was
awarded by the state highway com.
mission. has arrived here with four
carloads OF horses and equipment Z
Meet me at The Smoke House.-Adv.
, 1923-06-03

of July. as there LIS a considerable
amount of work to be done in com
bining the two records.
, 1923-06-03
To Enlarge Hospital

SHERIDAN. Wyo., June 7.-Calls
for bids for ~remodellins two large
buildings at the Utined States Vet
erans' hospital No. So at Fort Mac
, 1923-06-03

plant and other Improvement, at tn.
post
, 1923-06-03
Fairness Rewarded

One of the most binding obligations of a
utility is to regularly make investments that
insure customers the best of service.
We assumed that obligation when we be-
gan installing $3.50, 100000 worth of addition
al equipment. ~
Naturally, the people have an equal obli-
CATION. The bills they pay are not enough to
permit the company to make extensions.
Additional money must be borrowed. But
lenders will not lend to companies whose fu-
ture Is uncertain because of unfair treatment
or lack of income with which to pay off loans.
We are happy to say our customers appear
to realize this fundamental, else we would
not now have under way our big improve
ment project.
Fairness, like virtue, is its own reward.
~%1NW1~o~
Natrona Power Co.
, 1923-06-03

One Of the most binding obligations of a
utility is to regularly make Investments that
insure customers the best of service.
, 1923-06-03

Meet me at The Smoke House.-Adv
, 1923-06-03

Meet me at The Smoke House-Adv
Evening star., 1923-03-20
WEST BIDS WINTER GO.
Ry tte Associated Press.

Ry TIE Associated Press.
CHICAGO. March 2o.-wtnter, the
oretically ending three months alb
solute sway over the weather today
surveyed the effects of one of the
worst March storms eve, known to
the great lakes region and the Mis-
siss!pp; valley and prepared to vacate
reasons, spring. due to arrive tomor-
row.
While the grizzled old man Of cold
weather, billiards and snowstorms
checked off the property damage toll
that came with his display OF power.
gentle spring hesitatingly announced
It's nearness by genial sun that yes
terday tempered the blasts OF tho
friEid wave.
The storm that swept into the Mis-
sissippi valley Sunday and yesterday,
shattering all weather records for
this time of the year as far south as
Texas and Florida, the weather bu-
reau said, has moved into Canada
with increased intensity.
Warm Weather Due.
With that disturbance now hurt
ling toward the Atlantic coast the
weather bureau reported warm
one OF wide extent, coming down out
OF the northwest to be attended by
rapidly rising temperatures in the
Missouri valley, plains states, Rocky
mountain and plateau regions, and
precipitation from the northern Paci-
fic coast eastward to Minnesota.
The rising temperature viii con-
tfnue for two days, the weather re-
ports said and will be noticeable in
the lower lake region, the Ohio valley,
Tennessee, the east gulf states and
the Atlantic states.
Evening star., 1923-03-20
IDENTIFY BODY FOUND
BEHIND BRICK PILE
Found to Be George Shorr of Bal
timore-Autopsy Not to
Be Held.
s,ecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
HYATTSVIILE, March 20.-The
body Of the white man found early
Yesterday morning behind pile of
bricks on the ngton-Baltimore
boulevard. College Park, was late this
afternoon identified as George Shorr
of so15 ODonnell street. Baltimore.
He was identified by his brother-in-
law, who stated that Shorr left his
home about three weeks ago.
He had, on several casions. stated
that he intended to commit suicide.
owing to this fact the autopsy or
dered by County Prosecuting Officer
A. Wilson Ryan was not performed.
1t is believed the man was mentally
defective. The body will be taken
TO Baltimore tonight. He leavs a
mother and two sisters. The fact of
the mans neck being broken is ac-
counted for by officer Thomas II.
Garrison, who believes Shorr climbed
upon the brick pile and lost his
balance
Evening star., 1923-03-20
Declares Civilization of Mayas
Antedates Tutur,khar1en's Time
DR.. Marshall III. SuriLIe Tells Local
Psychologists of Excavations
in Tucatun.

\ written history rivaling that Of
the ancient Egyptians and treasures
of antiquity that may even surpass
the wonders of Pharaoh Tutankh-
amen's tomb are believed TO lie buried
under ages OF dust in the ruined
temples of the lost Maya civilization
IN Yucatan. DIR. Marshall H. Saville.
one OF Americas foremost archie
ologists. told n brilliant meeting OF
the Archaeological Society Of Wash
ington in the Pan-American Union
building last night.
The speaker, fresh from an extend
ed tour OF the ancient cities aban-
doned by the lost May%s;Aheld his
audience sh, bound by
his description Of an aboriginal CIV
ilization in southern Mexico. which.
long before the dawn OF the Chris
alan era, had perfected system Of
writing that enabled them to leave