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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-31
Sue Uncle Sam for the Sioux

Sioux Indians of North and South
Dakota, Nebraska and Montana have
started suit against the United States
government, seeking 100000, 900 for
land in the Black Hills district. Here
are their attorneys. From left to right
they are: Maj. Ralph III Case, VIII
fred Hearn and Col G. q Calhoun.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-31
He on Your Guard.

The ordinary employment OF artifice
is the mark Of petty mind; and it al
most always happens that he who uses
1t to cover himself In one place uncoy-
ers himself IN another. Rochefou-
oauld.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-31

Father Ricard, the eminent astro-
nomical scientist OF the University Of
Santa Clara, and better known as
Padre Of the Rains, has branded Elm
stems theory of RELATIVELY as an insult
to common sense. Father Ricard also
declared that the starlight photo
graphs taken by Professor Campbell
Of the University of California dur
ing recent Australian expedition
were very rickety and not conclusive.
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doors. Let's toss off the necessary
housework in the very shortest time
possible, and then put on our fresh
est spring frock. take the baby or
our best friend, or the dog, and go
out into the park. if we live in the
city, or out through the garden and
the winding road, if we are subur
banites or country folk, and give our
selves up. to the charm of the day.
AS | go back and forth in the
pleasant ambling suburban train
which takes me to my home, l see
very often youngish matron whose
house is close enough to the railroad
so that l can get a fun view of her
side and back yard. Her simple lit
tie home is pretty and tidy, with a
closely shaver turf. some beds OF
flowers, and neat brick walks. but |
have never yet seen her doing any
thing butt shaving, with soiled ging-
ham apron, a discontinued face, and
an air of eternally grubbing. Her
clean little child sits indoors. with
face to the pane. looking dreary.
| I've never yet seen that young moth
! er wandering about in a pretty frock,
| looking at her flowers. with her baby
tumbling at her heels.
How much she misses, Home Is
to her a place to scrub. hang out dish
towels and take them down again,
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Dorothy Dir
There's No Room In Any Household For Wet Blanket
A Carping Critic Or A Constant Obiector
Don't Be a
KILL oy

Don't be one of those who skim all
the cream off the milk of life. Surely
there isn't so much joy in the world
that we can afford to be robbed
needlessly of any particle of happi-
ness, yet all OF us have daily contact
with people who seem to consider il
their sacred duty to spoil our pleas
ure in everything we do and take the
fine edge off every delight.
In vain We send up in their pres
ence our little painted balloons OF
rosy hopes and gay anticipations
With deadly aim they hurl at then
some carping criticism, or dark fore
boding, and-plunk, the poor little
gas bag is punctured and comes flop
ping down to earth, a worthless little
mess of the stuff that dreams are
made of, and of which achievements
are also sometimes made.
These joy killers are nearly always
members of our own families. and
why they take secret delight in be-
ing spoil-sports is one of the things
that, as Lord Dundreary said, mo fell
Ter can find out" Perhaps they dc
not known themselves why they do
it. They only know that they are
never content until they have made
everybody around them as dull and
spiritless and pessimistic as them
selves.
Sometimes this domestic nest takes
the form of the constant objector.
Before you can do the simplest thing
you have to have such a fight over
it with him or her that you say, "Oh,
what's the use?" and give it up.
You think you will take little
trip. and you come home with your
heart singing with joyous anticipa-
ton. There is not solitary reason
on earth why you shouldn go and
have good time and come back
rested and refreshed. But the minute
you mention your plan, the constant
objector goes to bat, and by the time
he or she is done swatting your plan,
you are ready to give 1t up and stay
at home Every bit of enthusiasts SIN has
been taken out of you. Every antic-
ipation of pleasure has Vanished into
thin air, and, as we all know, the
best part of any journey is the joy we
have in thinking it over and talking
about it before we go.
1t Is the same way about building
a new house, or buying a new car, or
doing any one of a million things that
make up the sum of our pleasures in
life. The constant objector is always
on the job, and finds so many faults
with every location. and every design
for house, and SO many defects in
every car. and our souls are so rasped
and aggravated trying to please those
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BY HELEN Kendall
MAY DAY

1t is May Day-a day to conjure
with, If the skies be fair.-apd ! hope
for your sake that it is warm sun
ny morning, with the smell of lilacs
In the air, carpet of vio1ets and
daffodils under foot. and the trees
fun of birds
No one ought to do anything the
first week in May but wander about
out of doors. 1t is duty we owe
ourselVes-"to loaf and invite our
souls Let the dishes wait until
after we have washed our minds In
the pure, fragrant air and dried them
in the sun and the wind. This is the
time of year to shirk. If ever there
was time and not to shirk the
work of building up our sense OF
beauty. either.
During the first week in May. let's
s-nend 80 little time as possible in
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lN|TIATIVE?
BY RUTH.LEIGH

How, under the sun, did he ex-
pect l was going to know that he
wanted the order shipped that day."
remarked the sales managers as
slstant In most injured tone.
1t was just after an office blow
up'-one of those occasions tina.
happen in any office-when an i'm
portant order has been neglected, ain
important customer injured, and five
or six responsible workers in the
office have been called on the car
pet and severely reprimanded by an
Official. Any worker knows that
these "bust-ups" happen OCCASION
ally. particularly when the boss gets
really angry.
Certainly. Miss Clancy. He didn't
tell you that it was an immediate
shipment. You're not supposed to
look after orders unless he tells
While I don't know all the cireum-
stances in that particular office
"blow-up," I am willing to wager
one thing: that Miss Clancy's in
3ured tone disguised a guilty con-
science. She realized that while she
had not been told about this i'm
portant order, it was a matter that
she should have handled on her
own initiative-without being told.
Miss Clancy had been assisting the
office manager for two years and
knew what orders were important.
She is merely an example. how
ever. Of many office workers these
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Lambasts the
Spoil Sport

whom God Himself has not been able
to please that all our pride and joy
in our new possessions Is gone.
Another favorite weapon with the
joy killers is criticism. They take a
fiendish pleasure in destroying your
pleasure in your belongings, and in
trying to make you dissatisfied with
the thing that you have got and have
got to keep.
They point out wife's faults to
her husband, and call her husbands
attention to the fact that his wife is
a poor manager. They tell a young
mother that her baby is sickly look
ing, or that 1t resembles her mother
in-law. whom she hates. They tell a
fat woman how much weight she has
put on, and that she looks simply
silly in her new hat. They always
discover that your antiques are fakes,
and your diamond paste, and that
your oriental rugs were made in New
Jersey. They never fail to make
everything you are and have dust and
ashes in your teeth.
Still another lethal weapon with
which the kill-joys do happiness to
death is disbursement They are
black ravens that forever croak fail
ure and despair in your ears You
have your bright ambitions. your high
hopes, you have energy, and deter
mination, and youth, and strength
These count as nothing to the KILL
joys. They assassinate your very soul
They never rest until they have un-
dermined your faith in yourself, and
Slapped your strength, and paralyzed
your energy, and you have no more
pep left in you.
God only knows how many kill joy
act. 1T
or disaster, and their pessimistic
preachings, keep their husbands hob
bled and bound at the foot of the lad
der instead of letting them mount to
the top of it as they had the ability
to do. God only knows how many
gifted boys and girls have lived and
died poor and obscure instead of
achieving brilliant careers. because
their kill-joy parents crushed their
spirits with their direful prophecies
or the disaster they would meet if
they attempted to do anything be-
You'd making bread and butter.
NOW. husbands and wives do not
otten' with malice aforethought,
make each other miserable. Nor do
parents willfully ruin the happiness
Of their children.
But all the same these kill -joys on
the earth. from whom we cannot es-
S"Pe, cASePe W oiVOrCe or death, do
more TO spoil our lives for us than
battalions Of malign enemies could
accomplish.
For happiness Is made up of little
things, of little plans, little hopes, lit
tie aspirations. little comings and
eoings. little belongings, and IL you
TAKE our pleasure out of all of these,
there Is nothing left to US.
Therefore. watch yourself and see
tnat you are not q kill-joy. Wet
oiankets are cold and cIammy propo-
sitions, and no one likes to have one
about.
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like nice sunny day, with the birds
singing and everything CHEEKY and
happy! It's whole lot more fun
than being gruff and grumpy"
Il know it is, Grinny Bear" Rag
gedy Andy laughed, And l hope you
never, never are disagreeable or ILL
hammered again."
80 do L." Grinny Bear laughed,
Indeed, i shan't let myself get
grumpy. If / feel the grumpyness
coming on. / shall run and jump in
the brook, That's what l shall do,
Raggedy Andy"
You won't have tG' do that to get
rid of the grumps and gruffiness!"
laughed Raggedy Andy. "All you
have to do is, just give your heart a
sunshine bath by saying, L love
eyeryone,"
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Asphalt from the western coast of
America was laid in New York
streets in 1895.
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days-who have to be told to do
everything.
But he didn't tell me to do it,
is the eternal cry of the worker who
would protect herself.
Girls, if you want to succeed in
business today, why don't you keep
wide awake enough in your office to
do things without being told? Have
you ever stopped to realize that it is
the worker that an eX>:Itive can de-
pend upon to do things of her own
initiative who is usually invaluable
to any concern? That's what bosses
like-people who have initiative
enough to take a job in their own
hands and take care of it intelligent
ly and capably.
Don't be one of the many me-
chanical workers who must be given
directions and orders for every lit
tie move You have brains and why
not use them-to tell YOU what to do
next. Initiative is simply the abil-
ity to use your own judgment, to
make your own decisions and to act
with individuality and confidence in
difficult situation. Don't depend
on someone else to make decisions
for you. Make some for yourself oc-
ca sionally.
There are so few workers today
who can do this. that rest assured
any employer will appreciate an en-
ploye who really has initiative. What
about you?
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How would it sound for you to
call me Grinny Bear instead of
Gruffy Bear? You see my initials
begin with G, so l must have a
letter."
Il believe 0rinny Bear will be a
pleasant name, Gruffy Bear" said
Raggedy Andy.
"Naw. you see herew Grinny Bear
laughed. Just you call me
Grinny Bear. Raggedy Andy and
leave off the Gruffy, because
don't care to be gruff or
grumpy any more, 1t makes you
feel inside all the time just like it
was going to rain or snow or some
thing, but since / am not, gruff and
grumpy, it makes me feel inside just
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Richard Rankin's thoughts were
busy. 1t was evident that this girl
did not know the value of money
He was in ignorance as to who was
managing her affairs, but it would
lie a mistake to encourage her to be
extravagant in her ideas. Such
recklessness might put her advisors
on the guard.
I'VE might talk of this while we
are driving he said gently. II .hink
the apartment is mighty pleasant, II
that is what you want to know"
Il am glad you do" the girl said,
moving towards the front door. Yes,
we can talk over the matter of fur
niture later"
AS she reached the street floor she
turned to the superintendent. Il
Shall probably decide tomorrow about
this place. | expect now to be here
with Mr.. Muir to look at it again"
The superintendent face lighted
''oh--with Mr.. Muirr' he said HE
telephoned me while ago asking
me about the rooms whether the
heating, plumbing, etc. were salts
factory. | thought perhaps he was
thinking of taking the apartment for
himself. he was so anxious about
everything.
The girl suiled at the thought of
Muir's care for her comfort. After
all, he was not an dealist, and po-
etcal and handsome-like Richard
Rankin. OF course, Richard was lots
more interesting-but Donald Muir
was certainly dear old convenience.
Richard was silent as the car car
ried him and his companion up River
side Drive. At last he spoke, hesl-
tatingly. almost timidly.
Mr.. Muir is your advisor mean
he has your affairs in charge"
Yes" Winifred replied with a
frankness that showed him she had
no sentimental feeling about this
Muir fellow. Mr. Donald Muir was
my fathers most intimate friend. He
is also executor of the estate-and
my guardian for d year to come.
Il See" the man murmured
So Donald Muir, a shrewd man OF
business. would have the handling
of her money, Would that mean that
he would hold the purse-string very
tight?
perhaps" Winifred was saying
you would care to hear how | nap
pen to be selling the house-and just
how / am situated?"
Yes" Richard replied, suppresslns
the eagerness that threatened to pc
tray itself in his voice. Il am IN
terested in all that concerns you.
Ito BE COntinued.)
ASphalt from the western coast of
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sweep and dust, and drudge in, with
mussy hair and soiled garb. She
needs a May Day spirit--to walk out
with her face 20 the sky and her eyes
seeking loneliness instead Of dirt.
How much more easily the work
would go after a few hours spent for
getting 1t, Her all-day drudgery
isn't a necessity-it's a habit. | wish
1 could be sure she would see this
and turn her face towards May.
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Ra ggedy Andy
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agreed
And that is just it," Mister Bear
said. THE water washed away every
speck of gruffyness and grumpiness"
"Oh, goody" Raggedy Andy said.
"Raggedy Ann and Little Neepy will
be so very glad. l came to take you
to the strawberry favored ice cream
spring where the candy covered
cookies grow"
"Whee" old Mister Bear cried with
happiness. That's just what l like
best! Candy covered cookies and ice
cold strawberry Favored soda
water!"
And we will never call you Gruf-
fly Bear again." promised Raggedy
Andy.
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Old Mister Gruffy
Bear rode the two
little shiny red magi-
cal bicycles through
the woods away
from the brook
where Gruffy Bear
had wrestled the
Snoopywiggy.
You wrestled him
fine" Raggedy Andy
told Mister Gruffy
Bear, Il watched you
all the time!!"
Il wasn't going to
let the Snoopywiggy
take your two little
shiny red bicycles"
old Mister Bear
laughed. That's why
| wrestled him :"
Il know it," Rag
gedy Andy replied,
but what l can't
understand is why
you thought it was
wrong for the
Snoopywiggy to take
our little bicycles,
but you didn't think
it was wrong for you
to try to take cream
puffs away from
Raggedy Ann ?"
wv ell, don't you
see, Raggedy Andy"
Gruffy Bear laughed.
when you threw me
into the brook two
times 1t washed me
all off nice and
clean?"
Yes. sir, you are
a whole lot cleaner"
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Fauorite Recipes
of Famous Men
BY CHICK EVANS
Famous Golfer
TOMATO sOITP

l have fondness for tomato SCUM
and steak without grissles. Since
almost anyone can broil a steak Iii
pass that UP and tell you how to play
m-of-tomato right around the
kitchen course in par.
You can take ripe tomatoes, cut
them up. and put them through a
strainer. You can add bit of soup
and seasoning and all that but the
easy way is to take some of Mr..
Campbells tomato soup and add milk
instead of water-only use more soup
per person. than the can label calls
for.
Don't boil it-but when the soup
is good and hot give it a bit of in
formal seasoning and then stir in
lot of stiff whipped cream Keep
back enough of the whipped cream
to put big spoonful of it in the CEN
ter OF each plate.
Use the can opener at the first tee
and with luck you'll be on the dinner
table In an easy three. Play out of
the soup plate with good sized
spoon for a par four-and there you
are!
You'll be able to whip the cream
without detailed directions: The i'm
portance is choosing the right egg
beater or cheam- whipper or whaever
you use.
The next important thing in whip
ping cream is stance. You'll gradual
ly acquire that, after you've spatted
the front of your vest a time or
two, and hooked few long ones on
the wallpaper. l believe that there
are some safety devices for whip
ping crem. but they take all the sport
and excitement out Of the thing.
, 1923-10-27
Search BEGINS
Fur MAN LOST
IN MOUNTAINS
Snow Deep and No
Shelter in District
To Be Secured.

Ranchers OF Deer Creek park. on
the Muddy range. this morning or
gan'zed n search and rescue party
to hunt for an unknown man. be-
lieved TO be demented, who is lost
somewhere on the mountain.
The man stayed over night at the
ranch house OF Grover Ford Thurs
day. Yesterday morning he start
ed in a northerly direction after re-
fusing to tel Mr.. Ford his destina.
ton. As the snow is n foot and n
half deep and there is no shelter
within 10 miles north OF the Ford
ranch It is thought that the man
may have persisted. He was scant-
i'y clad for cold weather with a
pair Of overalls. an overall Jumper
and a light coat. He also had no
shoes inside his overshoes.
Mr.. Ford. who came to the city
this morning. with a load of pota-
toes. gave the following description
OF the man: age as years; weight.
$50 pounds; height five feet seven;
dark hair, with considerable grey;
eyes, grey,
, 1923-10-27
CHARGE AGAINST BOB
REESE IS DISMISSED

Complaint filed by Carl Rifles
against Robert Reese in connection
with the smashing of a window by
Reese to get his 11-month'o'd baby
girl from a house which he was
vacating and which had been locked
by Rifles was dismissed in court
here last night after the circum-
stances in the case had been fully
established. Reese cut his wrist
badly in breaking the window but
after receiving medical attention is
able to be about.
The Incident arose when Reese
started TO move and was ordered TO
stop by Rifles. Although Reese de-
clares he had previously rendered
Rifles rent money which had not
been accepted, Rifles locked the
house in his absence with the infant
child inside.
, 1923-10-27
PREPARATIONS FARLEY ASSURED
Western UNION TO Move into
NEW HOME This AFTERNOON

without n minutes interruption
of service n complete removal Will
be made at 8 O'Clock this evening by
the Western Union Telegraph com
pany from its present crowded of.
fec in the Henning hotel to new
and spacious quarters in the build
ing on North Center street formerly
occupied by the Palace Inn.
This efficiency OF transition will
be due to the fact that in its future
location every part of the equip
ment is now installed. Switch
boards and other apparatus are OF
the latest design and arc capable of
performing with a greater degree
OF expediency than has been pos
sible with the equipment now in
use.
Three times the present floor
space is provided at the new loca-
ton. This means much in afford
ing adequate facilities for the i'm.
mense amount of business that is
daily transacted in Casper by West
ern Union service. Every device
that will aid in carrying on its work
has been procured. Conveniences
that will surely appeal to patrons
are n series of writing tables with
chairs. The cost OF these up.to-date
installations amount TO about s15.-
900. This work has been skillfully
done under the direction Of two
Denver officials of the company.
w. ]. Lloyd and A. s. Hunt.
Excellent provisions have been
made for the comfort of employees
Both men and women will now have
pleasant rest rooms and lockers. In
the rear of the office a suitable
storeroom for supplies has been
fitted up.
These new combined features of
improved services make tho Casper
office of the Western Union superior
10 any other in the Rocky Noun
tain division. This does not mea
larger. but it does imply the best OF
everything that goes into a COM
plete telegraph office.
Casper will now be well taken
care of by the Western Union.
Under the competent management
of w. f. Murphy. assisted by his
chief operator. W. L. Beck. the
service has been maintained by n
high standard. and these two local
officials should receive the con
gratulations of the entire commun-
ity upon the enthusiasm they have
displayed in assuring the people
mere of the fastest and most ac-
curate wire service.
Coming from Denver today to
witness the opening of the new Of
flee and to inspect its plant will be
the following Western Union Off
clals of this division:
A. b. Cowan, general manager;
C. ]. Ince. district commercial su-
perintenGent; r. p. Cowardin. divi-
sion traffic superintendent: G.. f.
Colt. division traffic supervisor; Ben
Hitchcock. division wire chief.
To indicate the necessity Casper
has had for the enlargement of
Western Union facilities, the rec
ords of the company show that this
city stands third in the entire Rocky
Mountain division In amount of re-
ceipts. In this list Denver is first
and Salt Lake City is second. Trail
, 1923-10-27
SEPARATISTS
CLAIM VICTORY

DUREN. Oct, 27.-By tho Associ
ated Press)EThe separatists in tn,
north Rhineland say that they have
successfully established their posi-
lions Mt AK La Chapelle. Crefeld
Bonn and other points. 1t now Is
possible. the leaders assert. to ex.
tend the republican lines whenever
such operations are deemed oppor'
tune. The separntists especially
claim progress at Coblenz, where
Joseph Matthes has been Installed
as chief of the provisional govern
ment. 1t is asserted that he has been
virtually recognized by tho inter.
allied Rhineland high commissiln.
The military leaders talk openly
of plans to storm the town halls
at Neuss. Gladbach and other places.
including Dusseldorf. They pre-
dict that the republican colors will
be hoisted over the rathaus at Duis.
burg today.
In Duren, which is in the French
zone. the separatlsts have dug in
so thoroughly that their leaders be.
movement is passed" 1t is con
tended that the same situation Is
true at AK La Chapelle and Gre.
field.
The republicans boast of the
guarantee Of their safety at Bonn.
pointing to tho establishment of a
French guard post in ono of the
rooms OF the rathaus.
Ono of the setbncks encountered
by tho republicans was the capture
by the Neuss police Of their military
commander in chief. Herr Leitner.
who was taken M he was passing
the edge OF the town. The repub.
leans threaten to capture Neuss
and rescue him.