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The Glenwood post., 1924-05-22
METHODIST EPISCOPAL oHuRon

10 a. m.-Sunday school.
11:00 a. m.-Morning worship.
p. m.-Junior and Epworth League.
8 p. m.-Evening worship.
This is Memorial Sunday and the
pastor will preach sermon in memory
of those who served our country in
time of need. We extend hearty
welcome to the veterans of the Civil
war, the Spanish-American war, and of
the World war. The choir is prepar-
ing some fine music for this service.
SIT is for us, the living, rather to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work
they have thus far so nobly carried
on" If we carry on in this same
spirit of service and devotion, then
fthese honored dead shall not have
died in vain.'' We welcome you to
this service.
There will be no evening service at
the church as the pastor will give the
Baccalaureate sermon at the Junior
High school.
PHILIP D. NoRvELL, Pastor.
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The Second Fiddle

The Frenchman had been presented
to the mayor Of Puddlebury, to which
town he had come to reside.
"Ah. sir. permit me re honor OF
giving you my felicitations, and to
your talented family likewise. Ze mu-
sic 1t ees beautiful gift, and hope
to have re honor of barking some day
to your performance"
"Pardon, m'sieur," said the mysti-
fed mayor, you are mistaken. ]
know nothing whatever Of music"
"Ah, but Eat ees vat you call your
hang-back-you are modest. have
hear eet several couples of times Eat
your wife plays re first violin, and Eat
you plays- ze second fiddle to ERR
The Glenwood post., 1924-05-22
ROMANCE OF
THE TELEPHONE

d. G. Belden, local telephone mana
ger, recently gave an address at the
Garfield County High school on fThe
Romance of the Telephone" and
awarded five dollar gold piece to the
student writing the best article on this
subject. Miss Lura Day, junior in
high school, won the prize, and we are
printing her article below:
The Romance of the Telephone
Times have changed and people have
changed, but it must be said that since
the original invention of the telephone
forty eight years ago the idea of ro-
mancing has never changed. Every
story demands a hero and heroine as
well as plot. The hero of the first
telephone romance was Alexander Gra-
ham Bill and his heroine was Miss
Mabel Hubbard.
Mr.. Bell and his assistant, Mr.. Wat
son, were, as it happened, deeply con
cerned with an invention which Mr..
Bell called the Musical Telegraph. The
story carries us back to the day when
Mr.. Watson was sent to search for
trouble when the telegraph went
wrong. By some extraordinary occur
renee his voice was transmitted tele-
phonically to Professor Bell. The day
was June Q, 1875. Nine months later
through Mr.. Bells unceasing efforts
the first sentence was transmitted over
want you.'' The result was inspiring,
and our hero worked and labored in
cessantly for many months on the idea
that he should produce an instrument
which would pick up the air vibration
and transmit voices from one end of
wire line to another. The work was
finally completed and the most valua
BILE single patent ever issued, number
174465, was given Professor A. G. Bell.
But the best was yet to come. Two
months later the Centennial exposition
was planned to be staged in Philadel
phia. Friends and relatives urged him
to display his invention, so the tele-
phone, a very crude affair then, was
sent to be exhibited. On account of
poor financial conditions Mr.. Bell did
not plan to attend the exposition. He
escorted his fiancee, Miss Hubbard, to
the station to see her on her way. OF
course, manlike, he failed to tell her
his intentions of staying home until
the last minute, and she, womanlike,
rcsortcd to tears. He went. And it
was much to his credit that he did
1t was late afternoon when the
Judges finally reached him and his
telephone. They were hungry and
tired SO naturally they paid only re-
spectful attention to the efforts of
Professor Bell to display his telephone.
The Glenwood post., 1924-05-22

Tney were just preparing to leave
when Don Pedro, emperor of Brazil.
and an interested party in Bell Is
works, entered tie room attended bv
other mobiles. He went directly to Mr..
Bell and greeted him enthusiastically.
The judges were not too tired to open
their eyes in amazement at the strange
occurrence, and instantly they gave
their fullest attention to the telephone.
When Professor Bell returned home he
carried with him an approval by the
exposition judges.
At first the value of the telephone
did not impress the people of the time.
After long persuasie Bell finally in
stalled telephone in one home. In.
side of ten months he had succeeded
in installing twenty-five hundred tele.
phones, and all without a switchboard.
so first class engineers were summoned
and they began the development of a
better Telephone system. The result
was the Switchboard. By 1890 two
hundred fifty thousand telephones
were in use. In 1910 there were five
million eight hundred telephones in
stalled and today fifteen million are
in extensive use.
LIN 1878 Theodore n. Vail was made
general manager of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph company. He an
nounced the policy, 81 believe that we
can SO develop system that we can
place telephone in every city in
United States and Canada.n This
was accomplished some time ago. To-
day this company handles thirty-seven
million connections a day. One mil
lion five hundred thousand toll calls
are received daily. The Telephone COM
pany handles three hundred fifty mil
lon more tolls yearly than kilograms
and six billion more telephone com.
munications than written ones,
When someone tells you to count the
telephone poles around your neighbor-
hood and then informs you that there
are fifteen million such poles erected
in telephone districts, you would be in
clined to believe that the amount was
small. Suppose, then, you place every
pole in an upright position, you would
see before you a dense forest eight
hundred miles square. On the fifteen
million poles is stretched thirty mil
lion miles of wire. If one single cir
cult was extended into straight line
with wire trouble at the end, it would
take the trouble man, travelling at the
rate of fifty miles an hour, eight hours
a day, two hundred and fifty-five
years to reach the end of the line. But
electrical current does not travel so
slowly. If this same man wished to
send word to his wife that he had ar
rived safely she would receive the call
in two minutes and forty seconds.
The most important thing concerning
the telephone is its use and the map
ner of talking. With the telephone
four inches from the mouth the wire
length has had two hundred miles
added to it; two inches adds one hun
dred thirty-eight miles and one-half
inch gives the actual distance and the
sound is clearly carried.
Since the beginning, the telephone,
The Glenwood post., 1924-05-22
Cautious

The day before she was to be mar
ried the old negro servant went to her
mistress and handed her life-insur-
ance policy.
"Why do you want me to keep 1t.
thought you were going to get mar
ried," said the mistress.
$50 l is, mistress, but do you sup
pose want that strange man to know
All got my life insured?"
The Glenwood post., 1924-05-22
The Maid's Text

1t was the rule at the vlcarage that
every one should repeat chosen text
of Scripture before breakfast every
Sunday morning.
It came to the turn Of very timid
little housemaid to repeat the chosen
text, which was II am fearfully and
wonderfully made"
In her nervousness the poor girl
blurted out, II am fearful and won
derful maid"
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Foolish Question

The fussy old gentleman was watch
Ing gang Of men engaged in piling
Into heaps the snow from street in
& Derbyshlre town.
"What do you do With all these
heaps?' he asked.
Burn them," was the reply.
The Glenwood post., 1924-05-22
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Preaching services at IL a. m. and
1880 p. m.
Christian Endeavorer, one-half hour
commencing promptly at p. m.
Midweek meeting on Thursday u
1880 p. m.
We extend cordial invitation to al
to worship with US.
j. P. CLARK, Ministe,
1912 Cooper Ave. Phone 1s1.
The Glenwood post., 1924-05-22

roast chestnut has become Injury
Meanwhile the proportion Of worma
has increased. After emptying bal
of chestnuts the other day, 1t was dis
covered that the worms had cost nearly
a nickel apiece.-New York Times.
The Glenwood post., 1924-05-22
OPPORTUNITIES

We may not at first see IT. but al
most always opportunities are hiding
back of the difllcultles-and 1t pays
to hunt them out.
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&1lageh qs8,!!I
SunndB Schools

Copy for notices undsr this heading
must be in this office by wednesday
Noon.
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FIRST CHURCH OF
CHRIST sCIENT1s7

90 Cooper Avsuue
Sunday school 10 a. m.
Sunday services II g.. m.
Subject for next Sunday morning
'Mortals and Immortals.''
Wednesday evening service p. m
Reading room open on Wednesda!
afternoon from 2 to 4 O'Clock.
The Glenwood post., 1924-05-22
Speaking the Truth

1t is better to hold back the truth
than to speak 1t ungraciously.-St
Francis de Sales.
The Glenwood post., 1924-05-22

UNITED srArRs sI1yAroRs
q. q. Senator. 80. Lawrence G. Phipps
u. g. Senator. .Alva B. Adams
The Glenwood post., 1924-05-22
The Tongue

The tongue Is the neck's worst en-
emy.-Arabian Proverb,
The Glenwood post., 1924-05-22
UoNoRESaAGHN

First District ..... William n. vaile
Second District. Charles B. Hmberlake
Third District. Guy q. Hardy
Fourth District. !. Edward T. Taylor
The Glenwood post., 1924-05-22
! local pOSTOEFltE
FL INFORMATION

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Lobby doors open from s q. m. to
$3.50 p. m.
Postoffice windows open from q.
m. to 8 p. m, daily, except Sundays
and holidays.
OUTGOING MAILS CLOSE
For the East
No. 16...... ............... $40 p. m.
No. 4................. $500 p. m.
No. 2-is not a mail train.
For tho West
No. I....... ......9:00 p. m.
No. Observation-Disclosures. ....9:00 p m.
No. 15 (daily ex. Sunday 11:oo .. m.
Aspen Branch. ............ 7:1O =. m.
Train No. Is carries closed pouches
for Silt, New Castle, Rifle, Grand vaa.
ley and Grand Junction, only
ARRIVAL OF MAILS AT
POSTOFFICE
From the East
NO. L.. .0:UU B. m.
NO. 5........ ..6:SO q. m.
No. 10. ..1l:3O .. m.
From the West
no. 4'............. .o:JO .. m.
NO. lo...... 4:1O P. m
No. 2 is not mail train.
Aspen Branch. $40 p. m.
Burial carriers / and leave office at
. .. m. except Sundays and holidays.
City carriers deliver and collect mail
In city district three times daily; in
resident district twice daily, except
Sundays and holidays.
Federal building corner Ninth and
Grand. Phone 1876.
OLE THORSON, Postmaster.
JOHN B. Schultz,
Assistant Postmaster.
The Glenwood post., 1924-05-22
Official DIRECTORY

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LESSON TEXT-Jer. 26.
GOLDEN TExT-"Amend your ways
and your doings, and obey the voice of
the Lord your God."-Jer. 2s:1S.
PRIMARY TOPIC-God Saves Brave
Prophet.
JUNIOR roP1c-rhe Story of a
Brave Prophet.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC-Standing Bravely for the Right.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
IC-Jeremiah's Message to His People.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-16

and disease that was due to the drinking
of alcoholic beverages. And this awful
calamity of death and disease has also
been greatly reduced as the insurance
statistics demonstrate. The Spectator,
the greatest insurance publication of the
country, issues an annual statement
showing the percentage of actual death
rate as compared with the expected death
rate based on the American Experience
Table and in the table issued for 1923.
"The Spectator makes a showing of the
death rate of - of the leading life in
surance companies OF the United States
and these tables show that the average
actual death rate from 1y13 to 1917 was
OF per cent of the expected death rate,
and the average death rate for 1918 to
1922 was 65 per cent. thus showing a 2
per cent decrease in the actual death rate
in the second fve-year period, although it
includes the awful death rate of 95 per
cent for the year 1918 when the insur-
ance companies suffered enormous losses
by reason of the influenza epidemic. The
Spectator also makes the showing that
for 1920, after we had substantially es-
capped the influenza epidemic, and also
escaped the scourge and plague of the
saloon, the death rate was 61 per cent,
and for 1921 it was 81 per cent and for
1922 it was So per cent.
Says Figures Are True
"In addition to these reliable figures
and facts furnished by The Spectator, the
experience of the American Insurance
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-16

increase of 1,111,43l new depositors in
these savings institutions amounted to
$648,778000, or a total in building and
loan associations and savings banks in
crease of assets amounting to the gigan-
tic sum of 81, 467, 393,9S2"
How Fanatics Are Helped
"Nor does this mountain high accumu-
1ation of capital and resources now owned
by families of modest means begin to ex-
press what the people have in their pos
session since by law they were trained
to do something else with their earnings
than merely guzzle them down thirsty
threats in the form of whisky and beer.
Millions of families of men, women and
children are now enjoying themselves
and profiting by the educational means
OF the movies and are also enjoying the
recreation and inspiration of the open air
and excursions in million and more of
automobiles that never would have been
possible for these same families had the
bread winners been permitted to con-
tinue spending SO large a percentage of
their earnings in the quarter of million
wide-open saloons tempting them to come
in and waste their hard earned dollars
after each pay day
Nor do these facts and figures begin
to present all the good that has come to
these United States Of America as re-
suit of the Eighteenth Amendment and
the Volstead Act which reduces the per-
centage OF alcohol to such low degree
in our beverages as to prevent the death
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-16
BEER ARGUMENT CAMOUFLACE FOR MULTIPLICATION
House Committee Hears Constructive Testimony Passing
Cent Measures Methodist Church Five Representatives
From It's General Conference to Hearing Washington

Five persons representing the general
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, in session in Springfield, Mass,
appeared, May 8, before the House jul
dietary committee which is conducting
hearings on number of us per cent
beer bills which have been introduced by
the vets, and gave constructive testi-
mony.
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel
and legislative superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League of America, and
Mrs. Ella A. Boole, vice president of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
also were witnesses who gave reasons
why no such bills should pass.
One of the general conference repre-
sentatives, DIR. Clarence True Wilson,
also is general secretary of the Methodist
Episcopal church's board of temperance
and morals. He declared that prohibi-
ton had made the powerful liquor trust
an outlaw in four years.
eff you allow beer with a kick in it,"
said DR.. Wilson, you open breweries
and defeat the purpose of the Eighteenth
Amendment. The one-half of per cent
standard was first set by the liquor traf-
fc which wanted protection against all
illicit sellers"
DIR. Wilson declared that under the re-
gime of F. c. Harley, chairman of the
National Liberal Alliance, as mayor of
Astoria, Ore, there was "a combination
of Sodom, Gomorrah and perdition."
Bishop Adna w. Leonard, another gen.
eral conference delegate, asserted that
efforts to change the enforcement law in
California are not meeting with success.
He said foreigners are taking the lead in
the agitation to break the strength and
dignity of the laws of this country.
Enemies Of prohibition use these bills
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-16

Union, of which am proud to be the
President shows in substance an exact
parallel of the figures quoted from the
Spectator"
The facts and figures I have set forth
above demonstrate that every man who
is drinking man, every man who advo-
Gates in any such way as President But
Ter is advocating, the restoration of the
saloon, is in substance a public enemy.
The increased assets of the savings
banks and the building and loan associa-
tons, the life insurance data and statis-
tics, the increased comfort and happiness
of millions of families with their multi
piled facilities for education and recrea-
ton due to the tens of thousands of NOV
ing picture shows and the millions of
automobiles, all stand conspicuously
forth to proclaim the fact that the boot
logger and the apo1ogist for the boot
logger are both public enemies
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-16

as camoufagc to make impossible the en-
forcement of the Eighteenth Amend
ment," Wheeler said.
why should Congress favorably con-
slider us per cent beer when three
fourths of the states forbid it? This is
another species of notification. Beer
caused much of the crime, insanity and
pauperism of the saloons patrons in the
the past. Brewery-owned saloons were
centers of vice and corruption. When
we stopped the legal sale of beer the
death, poverty and crime ration fell to
the equivalent of $4,000 fewer deaths,
100000 fewer arrests for drunkenness
and "a per cent drop in poverty re-
sulting from intemperance."
Tactics of the vets seemed to have
covered nothing but personal attacks on
dry workers and dry organizations.
When Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Chi
cago, president of the Ant-Saloon
League and one of the general confer
ence representatives, was before the COM
mittee, Representative Per1man, Republi-
can of New York, asked him is the
League not financing a fight to release
William H. Anderson from prison.
Bishop Nicholson replied that so far as
he knew no fight is being made.
Perlman also clashed with DR.. Wheeler
concerning Wheeler's recorded statement
before the committee, but was overruled
by Chairman Graham. He also injected
into the hearing reference to League sal
aries, and other queries to which Con-
gresham Summers of Texas objected
successfully.
Francis c. Harley, chairman of the
National Liberal Alliance, told the COM
mittee that he spoke for 100000 per-
sons who had voted through referen-
dunn of his organization.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-16
DRYS WIN IN ST. PAUL
Reflect Mayor Newton Who Drew Fire
of the Vets

Dry voters of ST. Paul won a notable
victory last week when Mayor Nelson
was reelected. The mayor attracted
nationwide attention some time ago when
he dismissed his police chief for failure to
enforce law. At that time and since,
Mayor Nelson has declared emphatically
for strict enforcement of the dry law.
In the election last week Mayor Nelson
was opposed by the wet forces who
massed back of the labor candidate who
also had the support of all classes who do
not like the attitude of Mayor Nelson. 1t
was non-partisan contest in which dry
enforcement was the principal factor.
Mayor Nelson won by 5000 majority and
the drys are happy.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-16
GOMPERS MAKES DEMANDS
Machinery of A. F. of L. Makes Demand
for Legahzing Beer

The executive committee of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor has announced
its legislative program. The committee
is dominated by Sam Gompers and there
fore it is not surprising the program in
cludes declaration for beer
The Volstead act is assaulted as an "im-
proper Interpretation of the Eighteenth
Amendment, a social and moral failure"
and dangerous breeder of discomfort
and of contempt for all laws" It's modih-
cation to permit us per cent beer is
asked.
This attitude is resented by thousands
of workers who know from experience the
blessings which have come to labor be-
cause of prohibition. The attempt to
make organized labor a part of the brew
cry outfit will fail so far as the rank and
file of the workers are concerned
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-16
OLD FEDERAL LAW INVOKED

A new angle in the war on Kansas City
bootleggers developed last week when
several indictments were returned by the
federal grand jury charging the defend
ants with violating the old federal revenue
law that demands tax for all whisky
manufactured. Ordinarily manufacturers
of whisky are charged with violation of
the Volstead act. Under the old revenue
law violators may receive sentences as
hight as fifteen years in addition to being
fined
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-16

Hon. John J. Lentz, of Columbus, for
mer Congressman and now President of
the American Insurance Union, one of
the big fraternal insurance orders of the
country, has written a letter to DR.. STRAIT
ton d. Brooks. President of the Missouri
University. congratulating him upon his
reply to DR.. Nicholas Murray Buffers
New York speech in behalf of beer and
notification. In his letter Mr.. Lentz,
who is an authority on economic matters,
discusses the material benefits under the
Eighteenth Amendmen t. This is done in
such a mastery manner that the Amer
lean Issue is glad to quote some of the
facts and figures presented by Mr.. Lentz,
as they constitute an unanswcrable argu
ment to the wet claim that prohibition
is injurious to the country. In part, Mr..
Lentz says:
"One of the manifest results of the
Eighteenth Amendment in every COM
munity is the fact that in county after
county where prohibition prevailed and
saloons were closed, savings banks and
building and loan associations increased
their assets and increased the number of
their depositors and members and the
families of the former frequenters of sa-
looms began to wear better clothing, eat
better food and live in painted houses in
stead of houses showing neglect and in
difference. In my study of the economic
conditions of the whole country, | find
a decided improvement in the showing
made by the building and loan associa-
TONS as we'll as the savings banks of the
entire country.
Interesting Facts
From 1898 to 1918, a period of 20
years, there was an increase in the num-
Der of building and loan associations
from 5,5o3 to 6,42o, or 831 in 20 years
In the two dry years from 1920 to 1922,
there was an increase in the building and
loan associations from 1858 to 10000,
or | ,374, in round numbers so per cent
more in the two years following the go
ing into effect of the Eighteenth Amend
ment and the Volstead Law than was
made in the 20 years from 1898 to 1918.
"The membership in the building and
loan associations increased from $780,
437 in 1893 to 2.S36,453 in 1913, or l.
486,996 in 20 years. The membership in
the building and loan associations in
creased from 1862. olo in 1920 to 1884,
IA in 1922, or 1,901,22s in two years.
Approximately one and a half times as
many members were added to the build
ing and loan associations in the first two
years under the Eighteenth Amendment
and Volstead Law as were added in 20
years under the riotous and ruinous reign
of King Alcohol.
But Part OF Record
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But Part OF Record

This increase of 1922 new MEM
bers in the building and loan associations
in the two years from 1920 to 1922 is but
a part of the record of progress, for dur
ing the same two years from 1920 to
1922, depositors in TIE savings banks of
the United States increased from II 49,
500 in 1920 to 1885, o7 in 1922, making
a net increase of 1,111,431 new depositors
in the savings banks.
"Nor does this complete the showing
of the magnificent improvement in eco
nomic and welfare conditions of our Re-
public as the result of the Eighteenth
Amendment and the Volstead Law The
increase in the deposits corresponding to
the increase in the new members in the
building and loan associations from 1920
TO 1922 amounted to 1922, 6ls,982 and for
the same two years the increased deposits
IN the savings banks corresponding to the