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cages and helping himself to the
canaries and finally Patrolman MUIR
ply lifted Ralph Gtippe. ten years
old, and lowered him through the
kranaofn.
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SOUTH AMERICAN Filler
REACHES HONG KONG

HONG KONG, Sept. 2s.-Major
zanfi. Argentine round.the.wo
flieF, who was held up at Hanoi
several days on account Of plane
repairs. reached this city safely yes
terday.
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green, the order of the Baramiyan
dervishes. and White, that Of the
Kadiriyah dervishes.
THE CONNOISSEUR,
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Interesting Of American tMdGstyiss
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JOsephus Daniels
He Recognized This Nations Power.

Strange how in charge Of Government property some
OF them emneny respectable and all bribeakes or
otherwise criminal fail to recognize the power Of United
States Government.
They always tell you that private individuals can do IL
better-no matter what it is.
Josephus Daniels who Secretary Of the Navy during
fhe war; took different view Of it. When he had charge Of
the naval oil reserves they to him said You had
better lease those oil lands to private individuals Private
owners viii sink their wells right your line and draw
all the Government oil out while you are holding on to IL
That didn't brighten Daniels His reply was LET them
go ahead and drill their wells For every well THEY dri
on the Government line, THE GOVERNMENT WILL DRILL
TWO ON THEIR LINE and take out all their oil The Gov
eminent is not a baby or bankrupt"
would be good thing if there more men in office
who realize that the Government spend million dollars
Tor every dollar any individual spend and the Govern
that can undo all rascay the right Of Eminent Domain
Inc private individual that wants something belonging to
the has to arrange with official steal it,
on bribery basis But when the Government anything
NV; wants 1t simply takes it, paying what it considers fair
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Various Things

Many Americans have stepped from one
high position another but Aviator Loom of Texas holds
record He stepped from apane another to let the
pilot Of the other plane parachute jumper
tangled beneath it. The thing done mile above the
ground
We who are all here physically ought to
be able to stand feet Stanley Mcbride who
foot in France play ball well enough to stand chance
to become catcher Of the University Of Michigan baseball team
Henry Ford made his railroad, the Detroit,
Toledo 1oncn pay last year In 1920 when Ford bought
It, finished with deficit of two million dollars but in
1923 it came through about ST. 7s6,924 to the good
Ford repaired old locomotives electrified
parts Of the ne and has constantly cultivated closer
cns with his He lets them buy special per cent
certificates in the road and the employees give the best there
Is in them, for they working for themselves.
The clothes worn by Abraham Lincoln
when he assasnated have been sold auction for
This several times much Mr. Lincoln spent for his
wardrobe throughout his entire life.
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ALL Bad Women 1t is true of that meek drab little wife
Of yours Henry Brown-who about full of thrills
of custad All these accepted her and
paronzed her and quite often ped yourself because she
didn't understand what hghpirited devil you were Don't
fool yourself, Hem She understood! She had a few
devils of her locked away which would have yours
look like trained feas if she let them Do you know
what kind of Hero she visioned when first she entered
womanhood? Perhaps you ar yourself that you were the
embodiment Of her dream. Then get it, You weren t.
He large and dark and wicked and utterly ruthless
when to making love- And she going to eope
with him to scented isle in golden and live happily
forever with never thought of marriage license That's
the sort of dream meek little dove had before you
along could read her heart you find that she
still having that sort Of dream, although there's gray film
it now You've longed for colorful life with
fercer intensity than she has longed for it. Through all
these years she has lived stranger your side And all
the time you thought that you the Johnny with the
Surging Soul!
syndia
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DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Pay By Check

NE Of the best ways to stop crime is to change the
4 conditions that make crime easy.
The arc light the street is better than
policeman.
Securely fastened windows good locks on doors may
not make breaking impossible but at least they
der that sort of crime difficult.
The who carries handbag stuffed with money
through the crowded streets is inviting the pickpoeket
Hardly day passes without its record Of one
hodups Of payrols These payroll robberes could easily
cash.
It is hard to understand why business managers
insist having lot of cash carried through the streets
and why they have such aversion to the OF checks
Few individuals carry a large amount Of actual cash
their person Why should business houses insist
hghwayi
It said that there opposition by the Unions to the
plan OF paying wages by check 1t Is difficult to under
stand this The Unions ought emphasize thrift They
ought to the wage to directly from
the paywndow to the bank to deposit part Of his weeks
savings account and to have individual budget
Unfortunately the Unions have not always encouraged
thrift In fact in spite Of all the preaching Of thrift that
has been DONE the campaign against thrift has been
siStent and stubborn
The saloon enemy thrift encouragement
to waste sendugence and every bad habit that leads to
perversion And the movement to abolish the saloon
ceved considerable assistance from the Unions.
All Boshevism, Socialism and other theories that draw
their enthusiasm from the envy of the have nos for the
''haves' campaigns against thrift.
Only too much of the bitterness expressed against Cap
ital and against criminal wealth and that sort of thing
is but smoke yelling antagonism toward thrift
and the thrifty.
More and more however, the sense of the
mon people Is coming 10 appreciate the advantages OF
saving money and of banks which but institutions to
for saved money.
The large number Of labor banks that have been estab
lshed various States show that serious portion Of the
wage earning community at least realizing that what
is known Capital not necessarily composed of large
fortunes owned by few, but may quite well be large
aggregatons of the savings of many In other words the
LabOrers of the country very easily become the Capt.
talists.
Intelligent employers engage in better thrift prop
uganda than by adopting the plan Of paying all wages by
check and abandoning the practice of transporting large
of cash through the open streets
The country will be lot better off and the Of
the wage become familiar with the path that
leads to the bank door, when the realizes that
roll of bills in his pocket is and sign Of vani
ty and weakness while bank book in his pocket is pro-
lection and indication Of manhood and self respect
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one hour ahead, or one hour be-
hind, that Of the other. When it
is noon for the first it will be
either II a. m. or p. m. for the
second.
When sea navigation became
common 1t was found all the more
necessary to have a fixed merid.
ian for the starting point or zero
point, of time, because this fur
nishes q means of calculating the
position Of a ship on the ocean,
and its distance and direction
from unseen land, and from ports.
observations Of the elevation of
sun or stars would indicate lati-
tude, but only time comparison
would reveal longitude.
It would take too much space
to detail the steps by which the
meridian Of Greenwich was fl
nally selected, by almost unani-
nous choice, for the common
prime meridian. Other meridians,
as that Of Washington, that Of
Paris, that of Berlin, ETC., are
used as prime" for certain pur-
poses, but for navigation II is
practically the universal practice
to refer to Greenwich as zero.
There ought to be no variation
from this. for it is foolish to let
national prejudices play any part
in such a matter. You will find
many details of great interest in
a recent book on "Time," by
Prof. w. I. Milham.
It Is true that one could, II
he chose, make any meridian
whatever prime for himself, but
If he did, 1t would be Of no use
to him unless he regerred 1t to
Greenwich as a base, or to some
other recognized meridian, like
that Of Washington, for which
regular ephemerides, 1. e., as
Economical tables, are annually
prepared. Our standard time,
first used in 1884, is based on
Greenwich, the seventy.fifth meri-
dian west of Greenwich, which
corresponds to five hours differ.
ence of time, being the standard
for Eastern time. The nineteenth
meridian gives Central time, etc.
Our time signals are transmitted
from the Naval Observatory In
Washington, but they give the
time of noon on the seventy
fifth meridian.
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consideration respect from the lords whom they amuse
They were born Bad and remain Bad until the end of their
days This was doubtless kindly provision of Providence
whereby might work off his worthy urges without
consequent qualms.
On the other hand Good Women are as distinct from Bad
Women as taffy is from pomane Good Women know none
of the impulses which animate Bad Women Good Women
find their JOY in serving men, tending babies watering
flowers making JAM reading books and listening to
Before marriage a Good Woman may enjoy dance or a
movie but once hogied with the glorious fetter of Mans
these varant desires drop from her and she develops
the psychology Of thoroughly reliable eggbeater In
case she does not marry her mission the same Her life
revoves around father brother boss or pastor She lives
but to
This the average Males cosy estimate Of Good Women
Thanks to that estimate countless Good Women have spent
lives which nothing less than respectable
servtude Well here's where those snug analysts begin to
be enlightened:
In the first place, women are not divided into
CcopyrGh
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GARRETT P. SERVISS ON TIME
AND IT'S MEASUREMENT
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
b Meridian Taken as Zero Only So Seafare
May Determine Exact Position
Omer ard writer on Scientific Topics Of Popular Interest

FAMOUS AStFOnOmcr 8Eu WF1t0T On
II should appreciae informa.
ton as to when tim was first
used. Did all countries use the
same kind of time? If not, what
was the difference? Is our time
taken from Washington or Green
wich? A friend says that since
1875 our standard time was taken
from Greenwich, which Is zero.
He says also that it Is not essen
tial to use Greenwich, meridian
as a starting point, but that any
meridian could be taken to start
with, and that all vessels using
the ocean as a highway do not
use Greenwich time.-F. c. c."
MKAN must have had a con.
M ception Of time as long as
AVA he has had the faculty OF
memory. Last night" "yester-
day. are expressions testifying
to a consciousness Of the passage
of time. Like hunger, time proves
it's existence by its effects, though
in itself it cannot be seen or
touched.
To measure time we must have
some regularly recurring pheno-
menon, like the ticks Of q clock.
The natural and only accurate
measure of time is based upon
the earth's daily rotation on its
avis. as shown by the apparent
movement of the sun or the stars.
That is furnished to us by nature,
hut the subdivisions that we make
of it are artificial, though nu-
noerically exact. The hour has
no basis except as the twenty
fourth part of a day. Arbitrarily
we divide the hour into min
utes, and the minutes we divide
into seconds.
II is plain that this subdivision
could only have been made by
people who had reached a certain
intellectual development. Savages
had no hours or minutes, but they
had day and night. Smaller
lapses of time they measured by
their actions, for instance the dis
tances that they could travel.
Reasonably accurate subdivisions
of time only came with the inven-
ton of sundials and clocks.
have read that the hill people OF
Assam reckon time and distance
by the number Of pieces OF betel
nut chewed. That manifestly de.
ponds on the force and regularity
of jaw action.
AS soon as men began to travel
far, east or west Of their regular
homes, they found out that some
fixed meridian (north-and'south
line) was needed, in order to COM
pare the hours Of the day as OBJ
served at different places. The
sun appears to go around the
earth once every twenty.tour
hours. AS the distance around II
$50 degrees, the sun advances
westward Is degrees every hour.
II, then, one man is is degrees
east or west of another, on the
earth's surface, his time viii be
The Washington times., 1924-02-25
Pullman Motor Bodies
When Will Pullman Flying Cars Comet

Mr. Carry head Of the Pullman Car Company has gone into
The automobile the extent of making
mobile bodies If he will put in those bodies the kind Of glass
that doesn't SKATER doesn't break off into big pieces
cut your throat in Of collision the bodies ought
popular It Incredible that people should ride about
forty or fifty miles hour entirely surrounded by heavy
glass that would shatter at mpacespecay when PER
EECTLY SAFE GLASS CAN BE MADE.
How long will it be- by the way before the Pullman Com
pany viii be making bodies for flying machines carry people
from New York to Florida from Chicago to California and
from all over the United States to Seatte-whch says
Seattle is worth all the rest Of the country put together?
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Once-Overs
Copyright 1924 by Feature Service Incl
TAKE A LIVE INTEREST IN YOUR JOB

Stop hating your job and learn to like it
When you become interested in thing you find pleasure
In and have tried to be interested in the work
BY which you your bread.
You do not give sufficient thought to the work you do
every day is of the you do care for tit
seems too much like routine
Can you not create something than you do out of
your daily servicef
your production was better, something to be proud Of
you would like to think Of that
II you could introduce radical change into the
method Of doing you might get satisfaction out
Of it, Wv
interest enough to effect changes for the better might
result in promotion for you and incidentally more
for your family
Men who are making out of their work seem to
be absorbed in il, as you have frequently noted
Even as much interest the business belonged to them
rs you have often said, you wondered why
Ism TINS the reason they getting and on up
higheri - -
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Wise Royalty Bends
That's Better Than Breaking.

British royalty reminds you of the little in La Fon
tanes fable lie Chene lerOse0u the tempest blew and
the great oak that tried to Withstand its power uprooed
The dainty little plant beside it, bending to the ground
survived the storm saying to the PROSTATE oak II bend
that don't break
King George and his Queen Mary Of England have officially
ent The labor men and their wives may come to court
without knee breeches for the gowns trailing
feet the floor for the women Bending but not breaking
q the specially Of wise British monarchs.
Poor Louis XVI Of France tried it, sticking the trcOOr
In his hat but it too late then He lost the head
wore the hat.
The Washington times., 1924-02-25

This is true of ALL Good
The Washington times., 1924-02-25
By ELSIE ROBINSON

good and bad classes any more than men
are divided into such classes
ALL GOOD WOMEN ARE A LITTLE
LITTLE BIT GOOD
Good women want exactly the same things
which bad women want, only they want them
with different intensity. And sometimes the
intensity isn't as different as you might
think They want adventures and excite
ments, temptations and dangers, the flicker
of scarlet through the gray wrap of life. And
bad women want exactly the same thing
which good women want, only they don't
want them hard enough. They want safe
homes and quiet loves and gentle fun, and
all the good will of their neighbor.
nG
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LISTEN, WORLD!

COME day, when I've saved up enough
money so I won't mind if lose my
job, am going to write story. That
story will tell the truth about the hearts of
good women and, unless I'm greatly mis-
taken, it will give the shock Of their lives to
the males who read it. They need shock.
Ever since Adam woke up from his first
afternoon nap and asked Eve why in heck
supper wasn't ready, the masculine element
Of society has been regarding women as but
one step higher in emotional development
then china door-knobs. For the average man
there are only two types of woman-Good
Women and Bad Women. Bad Women are
delightfully."-, or revoltingly, naughty creatures
according to age, shape and complexion.
They are amusing companions but merit no
The Washington times., 1924-02-25
SAP AND SALT
4 M REQT NEnCrC

Rich relatives live long.

Rich relatives live long.
The kind Of genius that pays
the biggest dividends is the kind
that can decide the right thing to
do, and decide quickly.
Hez Heck says: mo theory viii
ever accomplish so much an jist
spittin' on your hands and diggin'
In"
Copyright. 1884. Premier Syndicate. Inc.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-24
LaU0 Bear No Myth

Lava bears are no myth, declares
the Portland Oregonian. A couple OF
years ago Irwin Cobb came to Oregon
to hunt the lava bear. He didn't see
one, and he was advised by many Ore
gonians who have spent outdoors many
years of their lives that there was no
such animal. However, Cobb met one
chap at Fort Rock who informed Cobb
that If he met lava bear he needn't
shoot the creature. "Just kick 'em to
DEATH" was the advice.
Well, there are lava bears in Ore
gon, They're not very numerous, but
they do exist. One reason why few have
been seen is that they live in the lava
beds where a man dare not penetrate
more than couple Of hundred feet for
fear of being lost and perishing.
Dan Godsil, game warden for Lake
county, who is in Portland, says that
he has seen two lava bears. One was
trapped year ago by an agent of the
government biological survey. The
lava bear is about the size Of house
cat and is mostly head. 1t looks ex-
actly like the regulation bear, except
for its small size, and as the old-timer
told Cobb, the lava bear doesn't have
to be shot, for If the hunter can get
near enough he can boot the bear to
death. The bear caught last year was
In the lava field northeast of Fort
Rock.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-24
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Sun'afran Dance Copy
of Actual Knife Duel

EVERY man among the Karo- Bataks
IN northern Sumatra is trained in the
famous Dance Of the Knife" since
the movements are the same as those
In actual knife duels.
In the one we saw two men-one
small, with a pugnaoious little mus
tacne, the other tall and lean and
graceful as greyhound-took theil
places at opposite ends of. the dancing
mat Each drew knife with a scorn-
Iui gesture and threw 1t into the CEN
Ter OF the circle. The music took a
defiant, Growing note. 1t sounded as
Ii two cocks were challenging each
other, writes Edward A. Salisbury in
Asia Magazine. Musicians and dancers
seemed to initiate some familiar AMI.
NAL Of field or forest. In a wonder
rully timed series Of steps and ges-
lures the men rushed forward back
and forward again; then, with fierce
gesticulations. they snatched up their
knives and fell to.
The steel glittered in the sunlight
as the fighters circled about each
other, nostrils distended and eyes
cleaning, until, with sudden motion
as swift as the spur thrust of a BAN
tam cock striking for the kill, the little
man, grasping the knife arm of the
tail one and wrenching 1t sidewise and
down, forced him to his knees. Then,
Just as the aggressor swung up his
weapon for the death blow, the man
at his feet broke loose and flung away
In desperate whirl. They closed
again and this time each managed to
grip the knife wrist Of his opponent.
They stood. breast heaving against
breast, knives forced high in the air,
as their bodies swayed back and forth.
Then both knives fell to the ground
and each man fought for the others
throat. Now the big man suddenly
caught his game little enemy by the
neck and waist, hurled him to the
ground, and. grasping knife, APP
peared to plunge the weapon into his
breast. Then he proudly placed one
foot on the seemingly lifeless body
and swung his blade high in the air
In triumphant gesture.
We applauded, for at no time dur
Ing, the dance, which was as scientific
as a fast-fought boxing match or saber
duel, did the performers for a single
lose time with the music.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-24
Army of One

The Mount Everest climbers, max
ing their second attempt, had at last
accounts reached Sikkim frontier, with
good. weather and favorable progress.
The report in the New York Times
tells much of interest concerning the
country and its peoples. The follow
ing is an incident:
"At the frontier, on crossing into
Independent Sikkim, we were met by
the guard, single policeman. When
we had finished the necessary official
documents, "right-hand salute !" roared
the guard at himself, and duly sa-
luted with his right hand. left
turnl" he beloved, and turned to the
left. "Quick march !" he shrieked. and
straightway took himself off. He was
a Gurka, and all Gurkas love drilling
themselves If they cannot get anyone
else to drill them"
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-24
love nv COTTAGE"
BELONGS TO PAST
Modern Maid Not Willing
to Take Chances.

A large class Of girls In aa Americau
college was asked the other dav If any
OF them would marry man whose in.
come was but $1,000 year. Not a
single hand was raised. Ii was only
when salary of s., 1000 was mentioned
tnat any enthusiasm was shown. while
many held out for higher figure
The opinions of most girls the coun-
Try over obviously have undergone a
remarkable transformation In the mast
few years.
IL Is significant that the class In
tnis case had taken a course In house
mold economics and was familiar with
tne science of devising household
budgets.
Inc president of southern college
recently advised his students not to
consider matrimony on a salary of
less than $4,000 year. The students
In this case were not drawn from large
clties, where living costs are at their
highest, but from the country and
small towns or cities. They were re-
cruited, however, as a rule from we'll
TODD families.
1t naturally might be expected that
the youths of the large or so-called
fashionable colleges would consider
marriage unjustided except on much
larger income.
The conclusions reached by the stu
dents of household economics In this
respect win be read with interest by
the great mass of housekeepers With
characteristic academic thoroughness
the cost of maintaining home Ia the
country or city has been calculated to
the penny.
The rent Is set down as fixed per
centage Of the income. Allowances
are duly made for food, clothes, edu-
cation and amusements. The figures
automatically are correct.
According to these students of eco.
nomics, marriage is not justified on
salary Of less than $40 q week and
few In some colleges would take
chance at less.
1t is interesting to note In this con-
nection, however, that more than IT,
100000 marriages took place Ia Amer
lea last year.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-24
Canada,s Mineral Output

A preliminary report on Canadian
mineral output for 1923 shows an adj
vance in value of 1871 per cent over
1922 and record production for sew
eraI items, such as coal, lead, zinc
asbestos and cobalt. The value of
minerals produced in. 1923 totaled
$214,O19,S32, compared with $1S4,297,
f242 in 1922. and approach the record
value Of $227, S59,665 established IA
1920. Copper produced amounted to
approximately SS,0O0,OO0 pounds, more
than double the tonnage mined In
1922. Nickel totaled 62,450,o00
pounds, as compared with 17,5OO,OOO
pounds in 1922. Gold and silver, which
were produced in lesser quantities
than in the previous year, were val
ued at $B6.S00000.