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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-06-28
MADISON SQUARE Garden has

MADISON SQUARE Garden has
now become the center Of the ma
TONS interest as the hosts Of Democ-
racy assemble there for their nation
al convention Democratic Senators
and Congressman have flocked to
New York in a body, for they will
have a real voice in their cOnven-
ton, something that their Republican
colleagues did not have at Cleveland.
One Of their number, Senator Thos.
J. Walsh Of Montana, the relentless
oil Investigator, is slated to be per-
manent chairman Of the convention,
and reports are also heard here that
Senator Pat Harrison Of Mississippi,
the Democratic keynote orator, may
be the dark horse who will get the
Democratic presidential nomination.
BASCOM SLLEMP, astute Vir-
ginia politician and secretary for
the past ten months to President
Coolidge, is the first casualty of the
Republican campaign. Not liking
the way things were being run in the
Republican party by Chairman Bill
Butler Slemp kicked to the President
and demanded a showdown, threat
cnirg at the same time to resign as
the White House secretary. Coolidge
made him promise not to resign, as
that would have looked bad at this
time, but Slemp has been relieved
Of all duties at the Executive man
sion He is secretary in name only,
and Butler reigns supreme as the Re-
publican cheftain.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS are
greatly Interested in the trial in
New York Of Castor b. Means, the
famous detective who is charged with
conspiring with others to bride
Harry NJ. Daugherty while the latter
was attorney general. Means chief
defense is that what he did was at
the direction of the late President
Harding, who wanted to find out if
Daugherty and Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon could be trusted
where liquor matters were concern
ed Attorney General Stone has or
dered the trial specded up, and the
outcome is awaited with some ankle
IS i'm certain quarters, for it is never
known what CASTOR Means might
have up his sleeve.
SECRETARY OF STATE Hughes
Is stumned to know what to do about
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-06-28

China. Almost weekly he gets re-
ports of American citizens being
slain by bandits in that country, and
the protests of this government have
passed almost unnoticed at Picking,
Now comes the crowning blow, the
Chinese government having denied
that the nited States has any right
in the CHEESE Easter Railroad, in
which American investors sunk S5,-
100000 shortly after the war.
China has turned the road over to
Russia and told the United States
that the American claims are of no
value. It is a perplexing problem,
but at this writing it appears that
the five million is lost forever.
Some idea Of the extent of federal
prohibition enforcement operations
is given here by the announcement
that fines collected in cases involv-
ing conspiring to violate the Vol
stead Act have totalled fourteen
million dollars during the past two
years. The Jail sentences melted out
to offenders, if placed end to end,
amount to $50 years.
DEMOCRATIC SENATOR'S who
got together here to talk over the
platform plank on the League of Ma
tions found out that there would be
a row over this declaration before
the platform was finally adopted
by the New York convention. One
faction, embracing the so-called viii
sonia Democrats, wanted straight
out and out pledge for American en-
trance into the League of Nations,
while the other wanted plank that
would pledge the party to work for
world peace and international under
standigs without mentioning the
League by name The platform dis
cussions went on here until 48 hours
before the time set for the opening
of the convention in New York.
FREDERICK MARTIN, the Army
aviator who jumped into sudden
fame when he was named to head
the flight around the world, has sunk
to obscurity since his plane was
wrecked in Alaska and he was forced
to return to the United States while
the other filters continued the epoch
making trip. The Air Service want
ed to send Martin to Europe with an
other plane to lead the filters across
the Atlantic on the return trip, but
Secretary Of War eeks objected and
Martin has been assigned to ordinary
military duties down in Virginia.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-06-28

another.
Crime increases directly a. me
lessons which prompt application ~
the law would teach, fail to make an
impression on the public mind
The nations criminal element ,,-il
be encouraged or discouraged ac
cording TO whatever course this case
takes.
On account of the social position
and wealth of the defendants psr.
ents, the Importance of the outcome
of the trial of the two boys is great
because of the far-reaching effect
it will have in influencing people ~
respect the law.-Ex.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-06-28

statement that expenditure Tor
search by one OF the large mal-l-N
turing groups during the nez' Is
viii exceed the amount OF tae
sales just four years ago ,ss
The industry is 50 new taas -
Government has been unabis e
a census 20 determine It's raaA o -
portions. Congress has DOL o9a p,
to frame legislation resuatine II
past events have been kaieia'.',l' \
and the Industry now Is desc'..- a
some as In a state Of huA 49, -. 4
there are growing indications - ~
viii settle down For. with tie - e
ing phases. there Is a dtstae' 49, 80.
ment In the direction Of s'sal9 -
tion.-American BankFrs Assss
Journal.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-06-28

my laughs are thrown out by a flexible
diaphragm hung on a hair trigger. |
laugh and cry so easily that I've given
up ever being a good critic. I'm not
sufficiently cold, practical and phelg-
matte to take mans discourse apart
and calmly analyze it. IS Sol Smith
Russell was wont to put it, get filled
up with my feelings" and can't see
things exactly as they are. l was won
derfully impressed with the potentiall-
ties In young Bale. liked him unani-
mously and inside of me ! howled
'hallelujah" when he hooked up with
one of the eastern circuit chautauquas
and went through Il gruelllng season of
a dozen weeks with superintendent
and committees rating him as running
"one-two-three" with a master pro
gram Of veteran artists and lecturers
never lower than third and more
than half the time leading the process
sion. / began to feel some confrma-
tory evidence backing my impression
able judgment.
Now comes the cllnching, cOnfrma-
tory evidence of the truth of the first
proposition. Last summer, at Farm
ington, Iowa, young Bale had In his
audience no less a critic than Sir
James L. Hughes for twenty-five years
Director General Of the Dominion
School System DR.. Hughes has spent
his lifetime The Is now approaching
seventy in the pursuit of a hobby
that of getting square deal for the
child. Welcome the eminent Canadian
to the ranks of the impressionabIe
cusses! He laughed and Wept and ap-
nlauded as Bale hammered home his
pfle-driylng arguments for the con
servation OF child life. Then, filled to
the brim with his feelings, he went
home and wrote a touching poem on
ben" Uhe hero of one of Bales strik.
ing Incidents of the Inherent worth of
the boy), which he has included In his
Christmas booklet of poems, a labor OF
love which he has prepared for a few
fast friends. With a copy Of the book
Let came the following note of appre.
citation TO Bale:
81 have known practically all the
great lecturers Of England and Amer
lea during my time. assure you |
was profoundly impressed by your
earnestness and your power. Your lee
ture was along the line Of one Of my
supreme eenters of lnterest-giylng
childhood and youth a square deal
Keen at #! If I were organizing
company Of five members TO transform
society would make you a member.
This is sir james Hughes speaking.
not myself. | yield the palm as a Bale
booster to my ubler ally from Toronto.
Keep your eye on this man Bale. He
Is destined to stand with the finest
products Of the present-1ay platform.
why? Because he speaks of vital
thInes-and he believes what he says
University of Minnesota goods have
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-06-28

Getting up with the chickens no
longer expresses what it once did, be-
cause the human flappers don't get
up till noon.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-06-28

University of Minnesota goods have
dec.lei that In men, looks are pre-
ferable to riches. but a handsome
bank roll need not be considered en-
tlrely out Of the running.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-06-28
Surrey Farms From Air

Measuring crop areas at the rate of
mile a minute is the latest achieve
ment of the United States Department
of Agriculture. says Popular Science
Monthly. The fields are photographed
from airplanes OF attitudes of from g.
500 to 1900 feet. BY means Of a plant.
meter, an instrument for measuring r.
regular areas in photographs, the &C
tual area of each field is determined
G.. = -. -. -. -. -. ~
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-06-28

Say it with an al IN the News
Evening star., 1924-03-09
"The Galley"

WHEN the yacht puts out to sea
or the dining car starts on its
run, it is nowadays able to cook more
and better food in less space than
formerly because Of the ingenious al
cohol range in the galley. The range
has a vertical boiler which heats to
a temperature of $50 degrees and
which will broil thick steak in ten
minutes. A thermometer on the out
side tells when the temperature is
high enough to do the required work.
Each unit of the stove can be used
separately. so that the camper or the
automobilist can take as large a stove
as he desires, and the yacht can be
equipped with one that will just fill
the space devoted to it in the galley.
The Pullman stove, as adopted by
one road. has five compartments. in
cludfng plate warmer, and occupies
a space in the galley of eighteen by
twenty-seyen inches.
The burners make the alcohol into
gas before it is lighted and the fuel
consumption is reduced from % 70
40 per cent below that of ordinary
alcohol stoves. Heretofore prac-
tically the only way steaks could be.
cooked in such LIMITED quarters as
those Of a dining-car galley was with
q hot plate over an alcohol flame.
and that was never satisfactory.
e
Evening star., 1924-03-09

aid to good stomach condition-fol-
lowing this tit-bit by yanking a
couple of trunkfuls Of his favorite
.dish from an elderberry bush. That
little turn of exercise had brought
again the old. the fulsome appetite.
He wandered through an orchard,
stripping the limbs of Juicy apples
and crowding them down by the
/ 'trunkload. He saw a light and
moseyed to the window, there to
stare Within, while a family sud-
denly departed by the openings on
the other side of the house and
squawked for assistance.
Beelgie ignored the action. H
didn't know what il was all about
and he was thirsty. He wandered
through the farmyard. leaning against
a fence, then going on through. The
thunder had begun to rumble by this
time, but BeeIgie ignored that also.
He had smelled something.
Something he had smelled before,
back in those good old days on the
Hame and Howard, before they gave
paregoric to an elephont when he
got the collie, dosing him instead
with a quart or two of Old Crow to
help him out of his misery. There
were the beginnings right now of
that condition which an elephant
hates worse than anything else.
. Those apples-and that elderberry
bush! Evidently they hadn't mixed.
Beelgie was beginning to swell.
He needed something to heat up
his stomach and he halted in the
midst of a mass of barrels and cop
per utensils and coiled tubing dimly
revealed in the remains of an out
building. Beelgie unfurled his trunk
and dipped il uncertainty into a bar
rel of corn mash. He tasted and
rolled his eyes. Then he tasted again.
Down went the trunk, deep into the
barrel-food and drink at once!
For fifteen minutes he pulled hard,
absorbed thoroughly, and then, un-
mindful of wind or rain or storm or
circus or Mr.. Greer or anything else,
he moved a bit uncertainty, wiggled
his trunk as though to assure him :
self that il still was there and, a
queer blankness about his actions,
looked about him for new fields and
newer accomplishments. .
Far away. excited animal-nnen secured
the countryside and strove to fol-
low a trail of wreckage. Back on
the circus grounds drenched workmen
shattered through the mud of bad
gumbo lot, while superintendents
groaned with the knowledge that the
performance was only half over and
that, long before the big top could be
lowered, every wagon would be hub
deep in sticky, hack clay, especially
since the first section, carrying the
elephants, had departed before the
storm broke.
Telephone calls were travelling
frantically over singing wires, as the
blank-eyed Mr.. Greer strove. half
dazcd. to find out just where his loose
skinned investment had gone. and
Evening star., 1924-03-09

care. Nature was getting in it's
work. Dimly. hazily. but, neverthe-
less, certainly, a great truth was be-
ginning to sink in. What Beeigie
needed and wanted and must have
was exercise.
Stronger and stronger the urge
krew. From the dressing tent came
the warning for tournament. The
boss bull-keeper and his assistants
hurried forward, decorated Beelgie
with his ostrich plume crown and
loaded his back with the howdy.
The bullkeepers rushed TO the other
side Of the tent, there to hitch the
twin baby elephants to their rose
entwined cart. and then help out the
lion tanner, who'd been clawed up a
bit and who couldn't get into his
uniform. The Queen of Sheba saun-
tered in from the ladies' dressing
tent, chatted a moment with the
giraffe keeper, borrowed a cigarette
and hid behind a lions cage for a
,couple of inhalations. Beelgie didn't
care. Beelgie had made a tremendous
discovery.
his picket chain was attached-and
found that with the strain there had
como a certain unwonted feeling of
looseness: the fastening seemed to
sag on his ankle. Beelgie tried it
again-and the defective link bent
farther. For a third time-then,
crown, howdy and all, Beelgie
slaunched back and pulled
1t was enough. A clink and Beel-
gie's bonds dropped from place. Five
minutes later. when the Queen of
Sheba moved forward to take her
Usual place, she discovered she had
been left fiat-Beelgie was gone!
Gone, trotting joyousIy. happily
toward the open country, The night
was dark, with the exception Of the
first faint flashes of threatening
lightning-but that didn't worry
Beelgie. He. wouldn't have gone
around fences any way. NoV, his
crown tilted in a rakish manner, his
empty howdy bobbing, he crossed the
railroad track. slid down the en-
sloshing through the marsh and then,
half his howdy. hanging on a too
low limb, frolicked onward in the
glorious knowledge that. once again
he was in the wide-open places where
an elephant could be an elephant,
!: ): x
MILES passed-for an elephant is
a far swifter beast than the
ordinary person imagines. Horses
and cows, doing in dreamy pastures,
came out of their lethargy to find
something akin to seven-room
house approaching from the distance
and to fly, snorting and bawling, out
Of its path. Pigs squealed. Chickens
squawked and fluttered as Beelgie
passed through their domain, TAX
ing most of it with him. Farmers
poked their heads out of windows
and phoned for the aid of neighbors.
Beelgie went blissful1y on, while the
more frequently recurring flashes of
Evening star., 1924-03-09

since he had come into the great.
rushing universe of the Worlds
Greatest, where everything ran on
schedule, where tremendous cars
formed the night abode of himself
and score of other elephants, where
his legs had taken on a sort of fiabby
weakness, where his back ached, and
where he was afflicted with spots be-
fore his eyes. dizziness on. arising, bad
taste in the mouth and general slug
giAhness. Beelgie knew. he was miss
ing something. But what? That was
beyond Beelgie.
So it was not long before the ele-
Evening star., 1924-03-09

but he had abided him. But now,
after all he had suffered, to be goofed
on the proboscis! 1t saddened his
whole day. 1t was hot day, sultry,
with the threat of storm.
All afternoon the sidewa1ling was
raised, that the menagerie might
have the benefit of every breeze. All
afternoon, as Beelgie looked into the
distance, something stirred uneasily
within the.heavy armor of his skull.
Evening came and. with it the
chant Of the guying-out crews. pre-
pairing the tent, against the possible:
havoc of night storm. Beelgie didn't
Evening star., 1924-03-09

his work as the personal representa-
tive to an elephant. =
But day by day. In every way.
sBeelgie grew worse instead of betr
ter: each morning found his trumpet
call more piteous. Day by day-then,
new element entered, the old man.
Clearing a lot of { kicks on
Beefgie..', he announced shortly one
morning, as he and Mr.. Greer stood
In. review before the disconsolate
hulk.
"In-in what way?" =
] Every kind of way. Woman stop
Evening star., 1924-03-09

lighting disclosed beautiful path
of wreckage.
Ten miles and ne began to tire
bit. His ostrich plume crown was
cooked at full Bowery angle and
his howdy, where once the Queen of
Sheba had shown her fourteen-karat
teeth, little more than mangled
platform on his back. His pace
slowed; he stopped to eat few
pecks Of soft ,dirt-there is nothing
that an elephant loves more as an
Evening star., 1924-03-09

how high the damage was running.
Down in his private car the Old Man
rummaged wildly in his safe for a
certain contract, that he might read
it again and set his mind at Fest.
* * X
DEELGIE paused in his rounds Of
- the deserted farm, realized dimly
that he was getting wet, and moved
toward the vague, outlines
Of a long. shed, open on both sides.
1t was Just high enough to admit
Evening star., 1924-03-09


and grinned. \ week later"
:: :: :: =
TT was dawn. The steel runway
OF the Worlds Greatest had clat-
tered to the ground half hour be
fore, while the door of an elephant
car had opened and a tremendous
hulk, whose sides already were be-
ginning to fill out at the request of
an enormous appetite. slid forth
trumpeted a greeting to the morning.
bowed his head for the adjustment
of a rope harness and then snuff1ed
down the line of flats to the loading
out ways. There the pull-up teams
had placed six wagons i'll a line.
while hurrying skinners, or team
sters, had chained them in position.
Beelgie one-stepped into place.
Mule up" shouted the boss bull
man, and Beelgie obeyed. squealing
as he strained at the getaway, then
shambling happily as the wagons be
gan to trundie behind him. On the
curbing young man in horn-rim
med glasses turned somewhat anx-
iously to his companion.
"Er-er-boss. have you thought
over that proposition"
Me-" The Old Man grumbled, as
was his habit. ''Yeh-too deuced
high, the way it stands. The dam
ages were ten thousand"
Mr.. Greer of the Worlds Creates
swallowed hard.
Yes, OF course, l realize that But
then, we've really to do some
thing. l saw a lawyer. like you
wanted me to do, and the contract
all smashed to pieces"
"Huh?" The Old Man turned with
sudden interest. Mr.SGreer went in
nocently on:
Yes, that line where it says that
the Worlds Greatest agrees not to
work Beelgie or to in any manner
endanger his statc'of health, Nov,
if you work him, you break the con-
tract, and if you don't work him you
endanger his state of health. So"
Well" the Old Man cleared his
throat. what's the answer? That if
don't take him at your figure, now
that you've found out how to keep
him in shape. you'll go over to tho
American Mastcdon with him? 'Spe-
cially since 1 was the one who got
hep to what was wrong?"
Mr.. Greer pursed his lips.
well. 1 want to do the square
thing, boss. You'd leased Beelgic.
The lawyer says you'll have to be re-
sponsible for the damages. So I
thought I'd be a regular fellow and
knock off for that-and just make
it forty thousand
The Old Man cleared his throat
and young Mr.. Greer halted i'm
mediately. For long moment the
Old Man stared at the receding form
Of a big elephant dragging six circus
wagons to the show lot. Far into the
distance the early morning caval-
cade progressed, to round corner
and disappear. The Old Man turned
back to his companion.
TOO much," he growled. "Give you
thirty-five. Take it or leave il
Check by 10 o'clock if You say
minute later the Old Man stood
alone. A young man was running
wildly down the street to telephone
exchange. to scramble up the stairs.
then to lean. somewhat frantically,.
toward the waiting long distance
operator.
Get me st: Louis" he painted.
"Kinlocl eight oh, eight six six
Miss Margery Calhoun And for the
love of Pete. rush it,''
Copyright, 1921
The Washington times., 1924-08-16
Bank CIearings

A smaller volume Of bank clear.
ings is reported to Dun's Review
by leading cities of the United
States this week, the aggregate Of
$7.4S2, 02S,0o0 being about s per cent
less than that Of last week. A
decrease Of 10 per cent at New
York city, where the clearinrs
totaled $4,645, 900, 1000, probably re.
fleets the reduced activity in the
stock market. At outside centers.
this weeks clearings of $2,7S7. O2S..
600 are approximately 4 per cent
below those of last week. In view
Of the fact that the returns for
a year ago included figures for five
business days only, an exact com.
parison cannot be made with the
clearings for that time. The daily
average for August to date, how.
ever, is 35.7 per cent in excess OF
that for the corresponding period
Of 1928.
Average daily bank clearings for
August to date, and for preceding
months, are compared herewith for
three years:
The Washington times., 1924-08-16
Record of Weeks Failures

In contrast to the recent tendency
failures in the United States this
week show an increase, numbering
373. This Is thirty.two more than
was reported to r. g. Dun & Co.
last week and is sixty-one in excess
OF the 312 defaults Of a year ago.
More failures were recorded this
week than last week in all sections
of the country except the East,
where there was a small decrease.
Comparatively few defaults again
occurred in Canada this week, the
number being twenty. seven, against
twenty.nine last week, thirty-three
two weeks ago and fifty in this
week Of 1923.