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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-04-13
the Night"

that fell until winter. A carload of
aid from central Kansas saved a hun.
bred lives in Fountain county that
year.
When the spring of 1893 opened,
Barringer looked ten years older than
he looked the spring before.
It was his habit to sit on the front
porch of the deserted hotel and look
across the prairies to the southwest
and watch the breaking clouds scatter
into the blue of the twilight. He could
see the empty water tower silhouetted
against sky. The frame buildings that
rose in the boom days had all been
moved away. He sat and waited, hop
ing fondly for the realization of a
dream which he feared could never
come true.
There were days when the postmas
ter's four-year-old child sat with him.
The old man and the child sat thus
one evening when the old man sighed;
IF it would only rain, there would be
half a crop yet! If it would only rain !"
The child heard him and sighed imi-
tatively: "Yes, If it would only rain
what is rain, Mr.. B%arringer?" He
looked at the child blankly and sat
for a long time in silence. When he
r arose he did not even have a pretense
of hope. He grew respondent from
that hour, and a sort of hypochondria
seized him.
That fall when the winds piled the
sand in the railroad "cuts'' and the
prairie was as hard and barren as the
ground around a cabin door, Barrin-
gers daughter died of fever. The old
man seemed little moved by sorrow.
That winter the postmaster left. The
office was discontinued. The county
commissioners tried to get Barringer
to leave. He would not be persuaded
to go. The county commissioners were
not inslstent. 1t gave one of them an
excuse for drawing four dollars a day
from the county treasury; he rode
from Maize to Aqua Pura every day
with supplies for Barringer.
The old man cooked, ate, and slept
in the office of the hotel. Day after
day he put on his overcoat in the win
ter and made the rounds of the vacant
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may lie at the bottom of even a COM
non street puddle.
He had never been dressed for play
ing!
And as his body grew he found him
self still more aloof from the other
boys he knew, still more lonely than
before. Growing out of Fauntleroy
suits is so much easier than growing
out of habits formed so young! Mar
bles would wear the knees out of his
trousers, just as the mud-puddle had
endangered the stiff white collars of
a year or so before! Always there
was something to prevent his joining
in the sports of other children of his
age.
And suddenly he was grown! A boy,
six feet tall, who had never known
the joys of marbles, football, swim
ming; a man who lacked the spirit
of friendly cooperation, of ready
judgment, of quick ~self-reliance which
strengthens growing boys for coming
manhood. And he was lonely, just as
he had been when but a child.
He had been grown up so long! He
had worn stiff white collars since he
was three years old, and he felt only
uncomfortable in flannel shirts and
old felt hats which are spiritual de-
light to the ordinary man! He had
been an onlooker for so many years
that he still feared the taunts and
mud-spattering of these men who
might have been his friends and COM
rades; and while they admired his
business skill they felt uneasy doubt
of the quality of his craftsmanship,
even in the line Of businessi
No wonder he's going to put red
strapped overalls on his baby son!
But if he does, he makes a stranger
of his son, unless, happily, he has the
sense to get out in the sand pile and
learn to play with the youngster,
which after all is what all fathers
should do.
In a recent address Sir Basil Thorn
son, former head of Scotland Yard,
said the records show that one person
in every 10000 in the United States
commits a murder while in England
it is one in each $4,000.
The time to form character is early
in life. The kindergarten gives spirit
ual, physical, moral, social and indus
trial training. If there is no kinder
garten in your public school, write for
information and advice to the Ma
tional kindergarten Association,
West 10th street, New York, N. Y.
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store buildings. He walked up and
down in the little paths through the
brown weeds In the deserted streets,
all day long. talking to himself. At
night when the prairie wind ratified
through the empty building, biOwinS
snow and sand down the halls, and In
little drifts upon the broken stairs, the
old mans lamp vas seen by struggling
travellers burning far into the night.
He told his daily visitors that he was
keeping his books.
Thus the winter passed. The grass
came with the light mist of March.
BY May it had lost its color. By June
it was brown, and the hot winds
came again in August, curving the
warped boards a little deeper on the
floor of the hotel porch. Herders and
travellers, struggling back to the green
country, saw him sitting there at twi-
light, looking toward the southwest, a
grizzled, unkempt old man, with a
shifting light in his eye. To such as
spoke to him he always made the
same speech: Yes, it looks like rain,
but it can't rain. The rain has gone
dry here. They say it rained at
Hutchinson, maybe so, l doubt it.
There is no God west of Newton. He
dried up in 80. They talk irrigation.
That's an old story in hell. Where's
Johnson? Not here! Where's Nichols?
Not here! Bemis? Not here! Brad
ley? Not here! Hicks? Not here!
Where's handsome Dick Barringer,
Hon. Richard Barringer? Here! Here
he is, holding down a hot brick in a
cooling room of hell! Yes, it does
look like rain, doesn't It'll"
Cattle roamed the streets in the
early spring, but the stumbling of the
animals upon the broken walks, did
not disturb him, and the winds and
the drouth soOn drove them away.
The messenger with provisions came
every morning. The summer, with its
awful heat, began to glow. The light
ming and the thunder joked insolently
IL the distance at noon; and the stars
in the deep, dry blue looked down and
Knocked the oid mans prayers as he
sat, at night, on his riekety sentry box.
He tottered through the deserted
stores calling his roll. Night efter
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night he walked to the red clay grade
of the uncompleted "Air Line" and
looked over the dead level stretches
Of prairie. He would have gone away,
but something held him to the town.
There he had riSked all. Here, per-
haps, in his warped fancy, he hoped
to regain all. He had written so often,
''Times will be better in the spring"
that it was part of his confession Of
faith-that and zone good crop will
bring the country around all right"
This was written with red clay in the
old mans nervous hand on the side
of the hotel, on the faded signs, Oh
the deserted inner walls of the stores
in fact, everywhere in Aqua Pura.
The wind told on him it withered
him and sapped his energy.
One morning he awoke and a strange
sound greeted his ears. There was q
gentle tapping in the building and a
roa that was not the guffaw of the
wind. He rushed for the door. He
saw the rain, and bareheaded he ran
to the middle Of the streets where Il
was pouring down. The messenger
from Maize with the days supplies
found him standing there, ~vacantiy,
almost thoughtfully, looking up, the
rain dripping from his grizzled head,
and rivulets of water trucking about
his shoes.
Hello, Uncle Dick" said the mes
senger. Enjoying the prospect?
Rivers risin'; better come back with
me-"
But the old nan only answered
johnson? Not here! Nichols? Not
here! 3emis? Not here! Bradley?
Not here! Hicks? Not here! And
Barringer? Here! And now Gods
moved the rain belt west. Moved so
far west that there's hope for Lazarus
to get irrigation from Abraham"
And with this the old man went into
the house. There, when the five days
rain had ceased, and when the great
river that flooded the barren plain had
shrunk, the ~rescuing party, coming from
Maize, found him. Beside his bed
were his balanced books and his legal
papers. In his dead eyes were a thou
sand dreams.
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ringer held on and lived, rent free, In
the two front rooms of the barn of a
hotel. His daughter, Mary. frail,
tanned, hollow-eyed and withered by
the droughts lived with him.
In 1890 the hot winds came again in
the summer and long and steady they
blew, blighting everything. There were
only five hundred people in Fountain
county that year, and they lived on
the taxes from the railroad that
crossed the county. Families were put
on the poor list without disgrace-it
was almost a mark of political distinc-
tion-and in the little town many de-
vices were in vogue to distribute the
county funds during the winter.
There was no rain that winter and
the snow was hard and dry. Cattle on
the range suffered for water and died
by the thousands. A procession from
the little town started eastward early
in the spring. W%hite-canopied wagons,
sought the rising sun.
Christmas eve, 1891, the entire vii
lage, fifteen souls in all, assembled at
Barringer's house. He was hopeful,
even cheerful, and talked bitterly of
what zone good crop" would do for
the country; although there were no
farmers left to plant it, ven If nature
had been ~harOoring a smile for the
dreary land. The year that followed
that Christmas promised much. There
were spring rains, and in May the
brown grass and the scattered patches
of wheat grew green and fair to see.
Barringer freshened up p~erceptibly.
He sent IN account of his Indebtedness
home-ruled MANILA paper-to his
creditors in the East, and faithfully
assured them that he would remit all
he owed in the fall. A few wanderers
struggled into Fountain county, lured
by the green fields and running brooks.
The gray prairie wolf gave up the dug
out to human occupants. Lights in the
prairie cabins twinkled back hope to
the stars. Before June there were a
thousand people in Fountain county.
Aqua Pura's business houses seemed
to liven up. There was a Fourth of
July celebration in town. But the
rain that spoiled the advertised fire
works in the evening" was the last
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-04-13
LIPKIN BUYS TWO MILE BEACH

Trenton, April 6.-The sale by
Frank D. Schroth, receiver for the
Cape May Real Estate Company, Of
1900 acres of land in Lower town
ship, Cape May county, known as
Two-Mile Beach, to William Lipkin,
of Philadelphia, for S45O,000, was ap-
proved by Vice Chancellor Backes
in the Court of Chancery today.
The offer for the tract was consid-
cred by the Court last Tuesday, but
at that time there appeared interest
ed parties who were of the opinion
that an increased price could be re-
ceived if the matter were postponed
until today. Former Secretary of
War, Lindley M. Garrison, appeared,
representing the interests of Nelson
2. Graves, of Philadelphia, and advo-
Gated the acceptance of the Lipkin
offer by the receiver. He stated that
it was a good one, and that the mort
gage and lien holders did not wish
to see it lost through delay.-Phila-
delphia Record.
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HOME EDUCATION
~THE CHILD'S FIRST SCHOOL is THE FAMILY

Issued by the National Kindergarten Association. s West 4Oh street. New
York City. These articles IRE appearing weekly in our columns.
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The Story Of
Aqua pura
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
Copyright, 1922. by the Macmillan Co.

OEOPLE who write about Kansas
as a rule, write ignorantly, and
sneak of the state as n finished
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-14

herewith instructs the executive
council to take the necessary steps
to form such party;
THAT in order to permit this
action, the A. F. of L. cOnstitu-
ton shall be herewith amended by
striking out Sec. s, Art. III,
THAT the delegates of the Chi
cage Federation of Labor to the
1928 convention of the Illinois
Federation of Labor and the
American Federation of Labor
stand instructed to introduce and
vote for the above resolution in
these conventions"
The meeting endorsed the re-
port of the executive committee
relative to organizing Chicago La
Dor in fight against the sweeping
injunction recently issued by Fed
eral Judge Carpenter against the
International Ladies' Garment
Workers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-14
LABOR AGAINST
DISCRIMINATION

Washington.-Objection to giving
veterans of the world war preference
to civilian positions in the navy or
the other branches of the service VIII
be made to President Coolidge by. rep
resentatives of organized labor short
", it was learned here today. Pro-
tests were lodged with President
Harding shortly before his death.
While the workers are willing to
have disabled veterans receive prefer
ence the blanket order that men
should receive preference because they
happened to serve in the army, even
though most of them neevr saw ser
vice abroad, is regarded as an unjust
discrimination against those who
served in civil pursuits during the
war.
Zones right to a job is as much
as ones right to property" 4. L. Ali
fas, representative of the Machinists
union, says. Preference to veterans
deprives a man of his right to work
There is no justification for this dis
elimination"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-14
TALK INJUNCTIONS
AGAINST MINERS
DAUGHERTY WILL REM AIN
WITH ADMINISTRATION LONG
ENOUGH TO CRUSH STRIKE.
Rv MARX LEWIS

Federated Press Staff Correspondent
Washington Attorney General
Daugherty, whose resignation was ex-
pected after the death Of President
Harding, will remain long enough to
place his experience in obtaining in
functions against strikers at the dis
posal of President Coolidge should a
strike of the anthracite miners result.
That an injunction may be sought
by the administration in the event that
substitutes for anthracite on which
the President is said to rely to pre-
vent a coal famine are found made
quate is believed probable by those
who are in touch with the coal situa-
ton.
AS seizure Of the mines, which is
recommended by the coal commission
as a possible solution to the strike
problem, cannot be undertaken with
out the sanction Of congress, which
does not meet until December, the
only other steps Of a drastic nature
seem to imply the use Of injunctiOns.
Use of the injunction against the
miners officials in 1919, which result
ed in the submission of President John
L. Lewis, is considered sufficient pre-
cedent for similar action now. Last
year the administration contented it
self with the use. Of military in the
bitumirous coal fields. The military
failed to produce coal at the mines.
Of the two methods, the injunction
seems the more desirable, since it
worked we'll once before.
If the injunction method is not ap-
piled in the event of a strike on Sept.
/, it will be because of the hope en-
tertained at the white house that sub
stitutes for anthracite will be avail
able in large enough quantities to pre-
vent a coal shortage, and to the belief
that miners officials will not be as
readily intimidated now as they were
in 1910
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TREASONABLE
THOUGHTS

The Worker-You say that it is
your capital that creates all wealth?
The Capitalist-You've stated my
contention correctly.
The Worker-How comes it then
that, when l strike, your capital IS
idle and unproductive; while you call
on press, governments and courts to
drive me back to work in order to re-
vive its creative power and produce
profits with it for you?
The Capitalist-Oh-ah-I beg your
pardon! You fail to grasp my mean
ing! I-er-I mean that if / don't pro-
vide you at the beginning with raw
material, machinery, management,
cash and credit, your efforts would be
futile.
The Worker-Ha, ha, hal ! That's
the best yet. First, you say it IS your
capital that creates all wealth. Then
when | show that without my labor
your capital is useless you take new
tack! Now you appear as the great
provider. Ha, ha, ha! ! /! But, IN all
seriousness, let, me ask you, where did
you get that raw material? Out OF
the earth, Ell? And the earth, die
YOU C1CSllG IL VINO Jug IlleeS Ia"
material? Did you? Who manages
your enterprise? Do you? Wht
evolves your cash and credit systems
You? Is not the earth dug, machln
cry invented and made, enterprises
managed, credit and banking systems
evolved, operated and maintained b!
the physique and brain Of generation
of wage workers and salaried subor
dinates? You take the results of Ia
boris cooperative toll and genius AM
call it all your own. And then whel
labor strikes stands from unde
your fiction-you shout Help! Pc
lice! Help, government! Help
courts! y You may not have
sense of justice and decency! Blu
you surely must have a sense
humOrl
The Capitalist-Stop! Stop! Din
4 blast you'll I shall apply for an in
junction against such treasonabl
thoughts. You are an enemy to Coz
| the country and the fag.-The Indut
] trial Pioneer.
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Who will be the princess?
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POLICE CORRO-
B0RATE FOSTER
SHOOTING
By CARL HAESSLER
Federated Press Staff Correspondent.

ChicagO.-Real bullets were fired at
VIM. T. Foster, according to the police
statement follOfing investigation by
Detective Sergt. Crowley Of the shoot
ing at the mass meeting of members
and synpathizers of the international
Ladies' Garment Workers called to
protest against the expulsion from
the organization of radical members.
Sergt Crowley, in an authorized
statement to The Federated Press, de-
MES that any police report has been
made branding the shooting a fake,
cOntradicting statements made bf the
Chicago Tribune on the second and
third days following the attempted
assassination. He located three marks
where the bullets entered the ceiling
of the hall, all in line with the emerg-
| ency exit where the gunman stood in
the doorway for a brief moment and
the platform where Foster was speak
ing.
From cur Investigation we have no
reason to believe the Tribune state
mcnt that the shooting was faxed, "
| reads CrOwley's statement. eve have
not caught the assailant, but are work
| ing on the case. There are three bull
| let marks on the ceiling at Garments
| hall about 40 feet from the side en-
trance where the shots were fired, that
is, about half way between the en-
/ trance and the speakers platform.
! No report differing from this has been
made by the police"
The bullet holes were plainly visible
to me. They we're evidently made
through hasty pulling of the trigger
while the gunman brought the revOl-
yer down forearm to level it at Foster
The first bullet narrowly missed a
| huge inverted electric light bowl, of
which there We're two in the line of
shots. The second shot wavered a
little to the right of the first, but
about feet nearer the platform. The
! last was In direct line and 10 feet
! closer to Foster.
/ The manager of the hall declares
| that he had noticed a number of inter-
rupters who were getting ready for
more pronounced action and he spoke
to them asking who they were. They
told him, he says, that they were mem
! bers of the International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers. Union. He advised
them to abandon their tactics and for
a while there was quiet Then after
Foster had begun speaking man in
the audience near the emergency exit
tapped loudly on the bottom Of q seat
Immediately afterwards, the door sud-
denly opened, a single gunman fired
masking his face with one arm, and
| fled.
Who will be the Princess?
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U. S. GRANTS
MEXICO RECOGNITION
TREATY CLOSES RELATIONS GAP
AFTER THREE YEARS.
Other Powers Expected to Take Same
Steps; Ends Long SquabbIe-Ques-
ton of Claim is Left to Commission
Select Enjoys Soon.

Washington, Sept. 6.-Diplonatic
relations between the United States
and Mexico were resumed Friday and
the breach existing for more than
three years between the two govern
ments was closed.
The action of the American govern
ment is expected by officials here to
be followed soon by recognition of the
Obregon government by Great Brit
ain, France, Belgium and Cuba, thus
restoring Mexico to its former position
in the family of nations.
Gives Enjoys Credit
The state department, through a
pre- encouragement with Mexico City Of
ficials announced the accord of the
two governments for President Cool
idge. A formal statement, issued at
non, gave full credit for the under
standing which made recognition pos
sible to Charles e. Warren and John
Barton Payne, the commissioners ap-
pointed by President Harding to the
recent Mexico City conference held
with a view to expaditing an arrange
ment for the restoration of friendly
relations.
A similar reference was contained
in the statement to the part played
by the Mexican commissioners in theil
effort to have the Mexico City officials
comprehend the American attitude
toward their government. 1t was I'll
view' Of the report and recommends
tons submitted by the four commits
sioners, the statement said, that tn,
] United States resolved to renew rela
tions.
1t YVES indicated in diplomatic quar-
ters here that France probably woul,
designate its ambassador to Mexic
on the same day the United State
filed its embassy port in Mexico (
Information, however, was lacking a
to the probable date Great Britain
Belgium and Cuba would accredit thei
diplomatic representatives.
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VII. viii be the ~Prineess"y
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.BROOKHART GLAD
MEREDITH OPENS
EXPOSE PATH
SAYS HE WOULD PAY HIM 80
CENTS IF EX-OFFICIAL WOULD
MEET HIS 1928 LOSSES.


Jewel, Ia, Sept. 5.-Declarlng ne
would be "only too glad" to go under
oath to tell the farmers of Iowa and
the United States what have learned
about the financial schemes TO drive
them back to peasantry, United
States Senator Smith W. BrOokhart,
addressing an American Legion PIC
mic here Friday, renewed his attack on
K. I. Meredith, former secretary OF
agriculture, with whom he has taken
issue on the financial condition OF the
farmer.
1t was Senator Brokhart's first pub
lie reference to Mr.. Meredith since
the latter announced his intention to
file suit for alleged libel against the
senator.
"Mr. Meredith, too, would be under
OATH" said the senator, and we VIII
find out from his own mouth whether
he made a fight against the detiatlon
of the farmers OF whether he sat mum
in the Wall street game"
Senator Brookhart attacked MI
Meredith's figures and statements on
war finance corporation loans to Iowa
farmers, and told his audience thai
'the time has come when the farmers
should kick the Merediths out over
the dashboard and figure their owl
business for themselves"
The senator declared he would like
to offer" Mr. Meredith the profits iron
! his 240-acre farm in settlement OF the
proposed libel damage suit. If MIR
Meredith should accept, under the con
dition that he pay the operating costs
interest and taxes said Senator Brook
hart, 81 would be several hundred dol
/ lars ahead"
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Who will be the Princess?
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Chicago Federation of Labor will
try to get the Illinois Federation
and the A. f. of L. TO declare for
an independent working class
party, it was decided at a meeting
of the federation here Aug. 10.
The following resolution was pass
ed:
''That the American Federation
Of Labor, in convention assembled,
declares that labor must form a
political party of its own, based
upon the trade unions and includ-
ing ali farmers and other organ
iEatiOns in harmony with the or
ganized labor movement; and
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ILLINOIS Az.
OIL. DECLARES
FOR THIRD PARTY

Wants A. T. of L. to Change Policy
of One Of Rewarding Enemies to
Active Participation for LabOr's
Causes.
ChicagO.-Deiegates from the