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in many laws being passed which give to the schools large

in many laws being passed which give to the schools large
That school authorities themselves are beginning to
realize that Wyoming schools might need something other
than money is to be seen from the following article clipped
from our issue OF The Branding Iron, the Wyoming Uni
versity publication.
James r. ( oxen, state director of vocational education,
spoke about school problems necessitating legislative action
lin Fridays administrative meeting Of the Better Schools Con
ference.
Mr.. Coxen explained about the oil royalty as now divided,
fifty per cent goes to the school fund, forty to the good roads
fund and nine to the University building fund. The rural
schools receive $4,000 per teacher from the oil royalty, $500
from the County fund and $4,000 per school. Many rural
school boards are running their schools with this fund with
out a special tax levy. In the past year one-thlrd OF the rural
schools voted no special tax. This removes local financial
support from the schools and often local interest as well.
The oil royalty was meant to better local conditions, but
t has not done so. By way of illustration Mr.. Coxen cited
one place where an old granary is being used as a school
building. This building is ten feet square and is seven feet
and is occupied by eight pupils and a teacher: Another build
ling was an abandoned stable, where six pupils and a teacher
are crowded into a space ten by fourteen feet. These build
ings are not exceptions and they are located in one of the
four counties that rank first in the better schools.
Mr.. Coxen believes that this money should not be used
for running expenses, but for a permanent fund for buildings
and equipment.
In order to obtain the best use of this state aid by the
rural schools, MI. Coxen suggested four needed changes in
school legislation.
l. That larger amounts Of state aid go to districts that
maintain a standard school.
2. That the school districts be reorganized into larger
units for the purpose of equalizing taxation.
3. That the district treasurers be bonded according to
a newer system, which places the school money In bonds, In
bonded banks.
A. And finally increasing the term of the rural school
rom eight to nine months.
These are school problems necessitating legisIativc|
action. Another matter brought to the attention of those
present was the necessity for additional inspection of schools.
The preparation of the state syllabi for the teaching Of the
various subjects in the school curriculae was also emphasized
All of those present were given food for thought until the
meeting of the State Teachers Association in Kemmerer in
October.
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BEING A FIREBUG NATION

News reports of the recent million dollar sawmill fire at
Hoqulam, Washington, say covered by insurance. Every
body breathes easy, for there is no actual loss.'
But a million dollars worth of property has been destroy
ed; a million dollars worth of labor and material is lost that
had been available for making men more comfortable, in wages
profits, freights, in structures that the lumber would build.
Every stick of timber, every days wage, every item of
comfort that a million dollars can buy, is first paid in insurance
rates. Whether you have never had a fire of your own, or
whether you have been a regular fire bug in setting forest fires
or carelessly burning your own property in city or town OF
country, the loss on every scrap burned must be paid by some
one.
Unless restored by insurance, every item of property de
stroyed by fire is gone forever, and the nation is that much
poorer. Estimating a human life by the wages it would earn
life comes terribly high. Anyone of the 5000 lives destroyed
annually by fire may be worth tens or hundreds of thousands
of dollars. So with property; estimated by its usefulness, even
though its physical value is covered by insurance.
Insurance only spreads and equalizes fire or death losses,
so that the few do not go bankrupt while the many go I'M
scathed. Most of the 100000 900 annual fire losses of the
United States are preventable. They need never occur. If
normal business and home life could have the proportion of
that sum that is paid out for preventable fires every year the
United States would soon hardly know itself in its new era
of decency and prosperity.
Being a frebug nation is hardly decent. The majority of
fires are preventable. It's time for Our Country to save
property that is utterly, foolishly wasted, that is so wrong
fully said to be covered by insurance"
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H. s. FOOTBALL
TEAM HAS GREAT
POSSIBILITIES

This year will be the first time
that the Rawlins High School has
eve had a football team and con-
sidering all the drawbacks Of teach
ing the game to relatively green
players, no established and close
football field as we'll as many other
things Coach Bolkan will have to
contend with. the prospects for this
years looks especially bright
and Rawlins for the first time will
have the chance to see two good
games on the home field.
The line this year will average be-
tween 145 and $50 pounds. This
is considerably over the average OF
most highschool teams. in fact 1t
approaches some OF the college
teams In the country. However, the
secret of this years success does no,
wholly lie In the weight OF the mer
who are to play-the calibre Of the
men Is a much more important fac
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on him. There are several other men
who should make excellent players
and make a hard team to beat.
The players who are lining up for
the team have another added re-
quirement which is absolutely neces-
sary before any football team can
ever hope to win-these men have
fight in their system, grit and en-
%durance. When they go into a game
everyone knows that they will give
the best that is within them or will
not hope to play at all.
Another fortunate feature for this
year is that Rawlins High School has
secured the services of an excellent
coach, Coach Bolkan. He comes to
this city highly recommended and
from all appearances and indications
he knowns the work from beginning
to the end and should turn out a
wonderful team. He has an en-
thusiastic bunch of men with which
to work, has their respect and should
have their complete cooperation.
In the first nights turnout about
81 men appeared for practice and
there are four or five who are still
to- report. One big item which IN
d%oubtedly the coach will have to
contend with Is that many Of these
men do not realize it takes a good
second team to have a good first
team-if there is competition for
the positions every man will work
to hold his position and at the same
time the first team must lave a sec
ond team to work against. Thus in
order to have a good team the men
must not become discouraged if they
DO not make the first team and they
must stay out for practice for there
are other years to follow.
AS another big item, the city as a
whole should get behind the team
and support it in every manner
possible. There will be several
heavy expense items connected with
the starting Of a team, the team
needs the moral support of the town
and its cooperation. The citizens of
Rawlins cannot expect too much from
the team the first year but it can
greatly help to give the team the
necessary confidence. The first game
is scheduled for September goth at
Laramie between the Laramie High
School team and the Rawlins team.
Last year the Laramie team were the
state champions and it Is expecting
quite a bit to expect the Rawlins
team to beat them, however the city
does expect the team to make a
very good showing and at a later
return game on October 18th at
Rawlins the city will have a chance
tc see just how much the Rawlins
team has advanced. On September
27th Rawlins will play the Rock
Springs High School team at Raw
Inns and on October 10th Rawlins will
play Rock Springs at Rock Springs.
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DR.. and Mrs. ALI Stratte arrived
in Rawlins from Casper Sunday and
will spend several days in this city
visiting Mrs. Stratte's sister, Mrs.
Henry Larsen. Henry Larsen and
John Schwirtz made the trip to Cas-
per overland and DR.. and Mrs.
Stratte returned with them. The
new visitors are en- route to their
home in Fairbault, Mimi, after
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One of the principal questions that comes before each
legislature is that of school legislation. In past sessions school
representatives have been on the job with a quite complete
program and in practically every instance this program has
been carried out.
Many members of the legislature have believed that the
schools were devoting too much attention to the matter of
proper financing and not sufficient attention to the question
of improving the schools in other ways. This has resulted
, 1924-09-11

Miss Alice Johnson returned to
Rawlins Sunday evening from a
weeks visit in Denver.
Miss Katherine Hopka who has
been visiting for the past ten days
at the Bair Oil Camp returned to
this city Sunday evening.
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west

having made a trip on the west
coast.
Evening star., 1924-01-19
of Child Mind
Held Ruinous to Boy Wizard

nothing" though. the circumstances
are dramatic. they are not significant
for the reason that Sidis himself is
an eccentric; furthermore, many of
the men who have achieved remarka-
Bile things in literature and in science
have been precociously developed
and Sidis, too, eventually may justify
the early hopes Of him." because "his
present lapse into mediocrity may not
be taken as proof of the failure Of
In this connection the Boston Trav-
despaired Of" for "he is going
which may end with his becoming
a useful part of the social order
ready to face life squarely and to
bear UP without bitterness under the
burden which natural precocity and
an overproud parent laid upon him"
The Sprin gfleld Republican also re-
fleets that 'he still is only twenty
six years old and may yet get his
second wind" After all, the New
Haven Register reaches the conclu-
sion, 'it is no new discovery that
the prodigy disappoints the expecta-
tion Of some persons, for again and
again the college valedictorian has
been discovered to be the weakest of
white collar men. 1t has been shown
that the mathematical prodigy fails
of some practical essentials, which
are required in good grocery clerk,
for instance. Full many an early bud
of seeming mental promise is disap-
pointing. There Is nothing new in it."
Evening star., 1924-01-19

ing at Salem Church, which some his.
torians class as a separate battle and
others as part Of the battle Of Chan
cellorsville. Americans who know Of
the civil war are familiar with the
story Of the struggle between the
Army Of the Potomac and the Army
Of Northern Virginia and Of the ex-
ploit of Stonewall jackson In crushing
the right wing OF Hooker's army at
Charlottesville. jackson was NOR
tally wounded there and the Confed-
eracy lost one Of the great soldiers Of
the world.
The spring of 1864 brings one to the
Wilderness, which included part Of
the field of Charlottesville. Grant
had taken up the work Of hammering
his way to Richmond, overlapping
Lees army and threatening to en-
velop it in one battle after another.
After the Wilderness came Spotsylva-
mia. and there is no clear line between
these fields, some historians counting
Spotsylvania as phase Of the Wilder
ness campaign. From Spotsylvanta,
mile by mile and from river to river,
the armies fought until Richmond
fell in April, 1865, and the sur
render at Appomattox came a few
days later. The fields around Frede-
ricksburg and near the old city be-
tween the Rappahannock and the
Rapidan are worthy Of being marked
SO that pilgrims may know something
of the history that was written there.
Evening star., 1924-01-19
Colliding With Traffic Signs.

Traffic signs and semaphores, which
are sometimes called silent COPS" are
being run down, bowled over and seri-
ously injured by motorists. II one of
these signs had q life to lose it would
lose 1t. Standing in the street is
known to be dangerous to man, and
the police say that a sign in that posi-.
ton does not last long. On Pennsyl.
vania Avenue near the Treasury a
silent cop' has been knocked down
and dragged three times in one week.
Inspector Headley says that the chain.
signand-stanchion device weighing
500 pounds at 7th and X streets was
knocked out and dragged twelve
blocks. The white buttons at street
intersections to warn against cutting
corners are run down without mercy
and displaced. 1t must be that real
and sentient cops standing at street
crossings take risks, and that they
sometimes avoid injury by jumping.
Knocking down traffic signs is one
indication that not every driver is as
careful as he might be. It tends to
show that many drive too fast, are
too much interested in conversation
with some one on the back seat, that
they need glasses or that If they wear
them they do not fit, or that they have
been drinking. There are drivers who
do not spare lamp posts, and as for
trees that stand on the sidewalk, there
are motorists who think them obstruc-
tions to traffic.
The destruction Of traffic signs shows
that for the regulation of traffic we
need more real policemen in blue coats
and white gloves and carrying clubs.
Evening star., 1924-01-19

McAdoo supporters 'are unafraid OF
10 New York convention because
everybody knows that delegates. not
galleries. do the nominating. II
noise counted for anything. Harding
would have been showed under at
Chicago in 1920, and either Lowden'
Wood or Johnson chosen. Herbert
Hoover's name aroused vastly more
enthusiasm than Hardings, but the
demonstration in his honor was love- 8
labor lost. At San Francisco, II de-
lirium swayed conventions. 'tAl''
Smith would have been the anointed.
Bourke Cochran had placed him In
nomination In speech of torrential
tunes until Convention Hall was
plunged into a bedlam of JOY. But
when the paroxysm was over and the
roll calls set in. delegates recovered
| their equilibrium. Men and women
"hard-boiled." New York's frenzy
for anti -McAdoo candidates will be
Impressive, but of itself 1t will have
little to do with a McAdoo defeat.
Il X
Senatorial investigation of the Box
lpeace plan prize award is not likely
to put an end to the national guess
ing contest regarding the $4,000
beauty who will get the money.
Washington hears daily of a new
candidate for the stakes. Or. James
BroWn scott, famous authority on
world affairs and secretary of the
Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace, is rumor's latest ia
vorite. Prof. Manley o. Hudson. of
the Harvard law school Is also per-
sistently mentioned. Senator George
a Wharton Pepper Of Pennsylvania is
tnder lndlctment In certain quarters,
TOO. Even Woodrow Wilson has been
named. Mr.. Box himself processes
unlatnomable ignorance as to the
identIty OF the person who is to get
2ov.oVo and perhaps 100000 from the
BOX bank account.
President Coolidge, next to his own
candidacy, is concentrating his in
terest on the candidacy of his cam
lpaign manager, William NJ. Butler.
for the United States senatorship
from 'Massachusetts. Mr.. Coolidge is
admittedly anxious to have a close
friend of his own in the Senate.
through Secretary Slemp. the Presi-
dent feels that he possesses a useful
link with the House. in which Slemp
so long sat. Coolidge, of course. is
not devoid of supporters and conf
,dantes in the Senate, yet there's prob
ably not a member of that body who
can be described as close" to the
President When Coolidge took of
fice in August, 1928. the Washington
horizon was scanned in vain for men
entitled to be known as his COM
rades. The intervening five months
and a half have failed to develop
them. Butler will not have an easy
time defeating David /. Walsh for
the Senate. John w. Weeks tried ii
once, and failed
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This observer had occasion in
Philadelphia a day or two ago to
Isound various leaders Of public opin-
ion regarding Smedley Buffers ac-
tivities. Many men who commend
them are skeptical as to the wisdom
iof Buffers "theatricals" An emil
Inent citizen remarked: "A good vac
Iuum cleaner raises no dust" Phila-
ldelphians are overwhelmingly be-
Evening star., 1924-01-19
Electrocution for the District.

For a good many years efforts have
been made to change the mode OF ex-
ecution for capital offenses in the Dis
trict Of Columbia from hanging to
electrocution. The latter method was
adopted in New York, and proved to
be successful in that it took the life
OF the condemned person without the
certain of result. Other states fol-
lowed suit, and at present electric
execution Is the rule throughout the
United States with very few excep-
tions. Despite frequent recommenda-
tions to that effect, however, Congress
has not yet proceeded to change the
law in this respect until on Thursday,
when without discussion and without
dissent the Senate passed a bill to
substitute the electric chair on
July 1. 1t now goes to the House
for the approval which, it Is hoped,
will be promptly given. With this bill
enacted into law the electric chair will
on that date replace the gallows, and
the District will be spared the shame
of seeing that mode of execution ap-
piled.
AS long as capital punishment pre-
walls for the crimes for which the
death penalty is prescribed the process
of taking the life Of the convicted per-
son should be as humane as possible.
Long ago the public execution, intend
ed as a means of frightening potential
slayers and other violators Of the laws
from such crimes, ceased to be Of ef-
feet to that end. 1t may be questioned
whether this parade Of the laws ter
rors ever checked crimes. But whether
public or otherwise, the infliction Of
the death penalty by hanging is a
survival of barbaric spirit. Many
times the most shocking spectacles
have been enacted upon the gallows.
Tortures have been inflicted there,
due to Academia.
The tendency Of the times is toward
greater mercy for the lawbreakers in
respect to their punishments. Classi.
fication Of murder into several de-
grees has given juries a range Of
penalties for that crime. Yet in most
Jurisdictions the death penalty re.
mains as the supreme punishment.
and it is needful to apply the 1ethal
strokes as mercifully as possible. That
is the purpose Of the pending measure
Just approved by the Senate. When
it has passed into law the District will
at last be in line with other communi-
ties in this respect.
Evening star., 1924-01-19
The Teachers Paw Bill,

The District Commissioners, having
properly and gracefully yielded from
their efforts to amend the teachers
pay bill by adding to it a provision
changing the method of appointing the
members of the board Of education,
that measure now is before the budget
bureau on its merits as a means of
securing a higher and more equitable
salary scale for the teachers of the
Capital. The hope is that neither the
recent controversy over the question
Of board appointments nor any un-
necessarily bitter wrangling within
the board itself will in any way mill
tate against the success Of this bill
In whatever shape it may be presented
to Congress.
The bill is now in its right situa-
ton, dealing solely with the salary
scale. 1t can be considered by the bud
get bureau as a substantive measure
and put before Congress in that re-
lationship. There are naturally diff
ferences Of opinion as to the relative
scales of the teaching force. There are
differences between the board of educa-
ton and the Commissioners on the
score Of the total addition to the Dis
trict's budget. The school board quite
logically and commercially wishes the
highest possible scale Of pay for the
teaching force. The Commissioners,
who are charged with the RESPONSE
bility for the entire District budget
and the welfare of the personnel of
all the municipal departments, must
modify their liberality in respect to
this particular branch. Their reduc-
tions in the scale which have been
submitted to the budget bureau are
actuated solely by that necessity, and
do not in the least reflect upon the
value of the services of the teachers.
The hope of the community is that
a bill embodying substantial advances
In the basic salaries and in the scales
Of the teaching force of the District
will go to Congress and secure it's ap-
proval. There is urgent need of such
q measure. The present teachers
salary scale is a patchwork of occa-
sional provisions made from time to
time to meet emergencies or to effect
adjustments rendered necessary by the
development and growth of the school
system. 1t is full of inequalities. It
is not adapted to present day condi-
tions in the schools or the present cost
Of living. The average teacher is
woefully underpaid. especially con-
sidering the responsibilities and duties
and the required qualifications.
Submission of the bill, with the pro-
posed amendments of the Commission.
ers, to the budget bureau insures it's
presentation to Congress in the best
circumstances for enactment. It should
be rated as one of the major items in
the District legislative program of the
session.
Evening star., 1924-01-19
COURAGE
Il am the master Of my fate,
l am the captain Of my SOUL"
HENLEY.
LLOYD GEORGE. THE POOR BOY.

In a meager home on a mean street
of remote Manchester, in then down.
trodden Wales, Lloyd George was
born, the son of the sickly school
master to rough workingmen's chill
dren.
The boy was three years old when
his father died. and he saw the home
and the furniture sold out soon after
ward. Reared in the abode of his un-
Gle, the village cobbler, for whom his
mother kept house, the lad constant
ly felt the grip of poverty and denial.
Law was studied from old books at
night. Artidced at sixteen to a So
licitors' firm, he did not have, when
admitted to the bar, the SIS to buy
robes, without which he could not
practice in court.
Then for years a country-town
lawyer, living on his earnings-and
earnings were small.
When he aspired to parliament the
tories sneered that he had been born
in a cottage" his life was threatened
frequently and many of his meetings
were raided.
A member of parliament, he shared
a bed with a fellow countryman in
the attic Of g. London inn and often
went hungry. English was like a
foreign tongue and had to be mas
tered.
In parliament he fought Joseph
Chamberlain and withstood Gladstone
for Wales. When England went into
the Transvaal, he risked his career,
revolted against his party leaders and
braved death threats in his campaign
for the Beers and peace.
When chosen president of the board
of trade many gasped at the idea of
the mob orator being intrusted
with England's industry and COM
merce7-and he made a record Of sue
cess.
.As chancellor Of the exchequer he
was the advocate of measures OF
great benefit to the people as a whole
as minister Of munitions during the
war, he turned England's weak muni-
ton supply into an arsenal: as pre-
mier he was one of England's strong
war leaders OF history and world
power.
His life has been a constant battle,
IT do not care what office / hold
just 50 get things DONE" he said.
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