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The Washington times., 1924-12-03

circulating, glad handler, Secretary
OF Labor Davis, is going to go.
That puctilious politial perform
er, Secretary OF the Interior Work,
who at any time can leap a hun.
dred feet through the air from a
swinging political trapeze to a. sta.
ttonary political elephant without
losing a breath or a vote. has had
a deep personal. bereavement. and
Is not so much interested as he
used to be In staying in office.
Weeks Considering Trip.
That experienced habitue Of
conventions and conferences and
caucuses, Secretary OF War Weeks,
thinks more perhaps now Of TAX.
ing a trip around the world than
Of sitting any longer at an official
desk.
One by one the really political
members Of the cabinet depart or
think of departing.
AS they go, the un-political Mr..
Hoover and the un-political Mr..
Mellon and the un-political Mr..
Hughes acquire more and more Of
established prestige.
1t is possible to talk with Mr.
Hoover for hours without hearing
a mention Of politics. He will
tell you the percentage of the in
crease in electrical water.power
production during the last ten
years. He will tell you just why
the present time is splendid time
for having our national Government
and our local governments go in
for great new WORKS OF canal con.
struction and Of other construction
Tor the future physical welfare of
the country. He knows more
things about the economic life and
about the desirable economic de.
velopment OF this country and ~
the world than any other man
alive. He knows nothing,~and cares
nothing, about the professional
practice Of politics; and his depart
ment, the Department Of Com
merce, has almost no. politicians
Mellon Keeps Democrats.
Mr. Mellon, though he is now
called the political boss OF western
pennsylvania, is really equally UNI
political. Under him. IA the
Treasury Department, the great
and politically crucially important
Bureau Of Internal Revenue con-
tinues to exhibit scandalous
array Of Democrats placed there
BY the Wilson administration.
Republican politicians call it
scandalous. They point out, for
instance, that 1t is the Northern
States that pay the bulk of the
income taxes and they think It
cruel, even IL not unusual. thar
the persons hired by the Federal
Government under q Republican Ad-
The Washington times., 1924-12-03

Arrangements for the bazaar to
be given by Jessica Callahan Chap
ter, o. e. s., OF Potomac, are being
rapidly completed. The bazaar will
be held on Monday, December 8,
in B. Ezrine's store. Fancy articles
suitable for Christmas gifts, dressed
dolls, canned fruit and candy viii
be on sale. The bazaar will open
at o'clock,
The Washington times., 1924-12-03

The floral society Of Mary Wash.
ington Chapter. No. so, o. e. 8. win
Ineat tomorrow at the home Of
Mrs. Harry Angelo, in Aurora
Heights. Plans for the bake sale
10 be held on Saturday will be made.
The Washington times., 1924-12-03
SUBMIT BUDGET
FOR T0WNi0F
POTOMAC
Approved by counciIRe-
ceipts for Year Estimat-
cd at $25; 900

CLARENDON, va. Dec. 3.-The
town council of Potomac meet In
the, town hall last night with act-
ln% Mayor &. l.. Ad,iius, presiding.
William III. POsey was appointed
custodian OF the town hall
John Gary, chief Of the fire de-
partn1ent, reported that the re-
cent test Of the ten fire plugs
showed that two being supplied
with four.inch mains did not have
sufficient water supply.
The finance committee submitted
the budget for the year OF 1925,
which was approved by, the council.
The receipts for the year 1925 will
be about $4,000. it was estimated.
Roy Manley, who was convicted
at the November term OF the circuit
court of Arlington county on
charge Of forgery, and sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary, was
removed to Richmond yesterday.
Given a preliminary hearing be-
fore Police Judge Harry r. Thomas
yesterday, w. o. Pickett, NJ. J..
Burns and William r. Faulkner
were held for the action of the
grand jury on q. charge OF house
breaking. They are said to have
been caught stealing a tire from
car belonging to c. Nelson.
Charged with being under the In.
tfluence Of liquor, j. II. Tibbs; was
fined $2s.S5 in police court.
Clarendon Rebekah Lodge No. e
VIII serve a dinner in Clarendon
Community hall today between the
hours Of $50 and $40 o'clock. Mrs.
cara y. Niven and Mrs. Mary
OHalloran are in charge and will
be assisted by q corps of workers.
The fancy table will be in charge
OF Mrs. Rose Brooks, and will have
many articles suitable for Christmas
gifts.
Announcement of the successful
bidder for the erection Of the new
home of the Arlington Lodge, and
Rebekah Lodge Mo- %, will be
made tonight at a meeting Of the
board of directors in the office Of
the president, c. Eugene Doyle, in
the Clarendon Trust building.
In an effort to have more Of the
county roads taken over by the
State. William c. Cloth, common.
wealth attorney, left last night for
Richmond where he will appear be-
fore the State highway commissioner.
The Ballston Council No. 221,
Junior Order American Mechanics
will meet tonight at o'clock.
Marriage licenses We're issued yes
terday at the clerks office to John
T. Bunpass, of Potomac, and Mary
e. Roszel, of Del Ray, and TO
George r. Higgs, of 1881 l. street
southeast, Washington, and Ruth e.
Gcldsbough, of 733 Fourth street
southeast, Washington.
The floral society Of Mary Wash.
ington Chapter. No. so. o. e. g. viii
The Washington times., 1924-12-03
Plumber "SIaps Wife
Silly" for BObbing
Hair
TIMES STAFF PHOTO

NEW YORK, Dec. S.--Mrs.
Mary Flynn, a big, strong.
plumbers wife, had her hair
boyishly bodied to surprise her
husband, she testified today
in a magistrates court.
When he got over his sur
price, he chased her around
their house and slapped her
silly, she said, which was why
she had him arrested. The
magistrate, old fox that he 81,
fixed it all up by telling Mrs.
Flynn to let her hair grow.
She and her husband departed
the best Of friends.
The Washington times., 1924-12-03

ministration should so largely be
Southern Democrats.
Mr.. Mellon seems deaf to these
appeals. Quiet, cool. low4spoken,
sensitive, with a face like cameo
and with manner as unrevealing
as that Of a Japanese samurat, he
continues to write reports on the
economics of taxation and does not
seem to know whether the ,econo-
mists in his department were for
Coolidge or for Davis.
AS for Mr.. Hughes, this writer
once implored him to explain g
certain policy OF his to the Senate
because, as this writer thought,
Mr.. Hughes explanation of It
would convince the Senate that II
was a good policy.
Attitude of Hughes.
Maliciously this writer might say
that Mr.. Hughes has mind that
could almost convince anybody OF
anything
Seriously this writer asserts from
experience that Mr.. Hughes knowl-
edge of the situations and OF the
reasons which have led him to mis-
policies must be regarded by any
body who has listened to him in
his office in Washington as nothing
short of astounding.
Nevertheless, Mr.. Hughes usually
will not confide that knowledge
either to the public or to the Sen
ate. On being urged by this In.
trusive writer to go to the Senate
Mr.. Hughes simply replied: Il
should be misunderstood. That
was the end Of It.
Mr. Coolidge Is personally a
great politician. He is going to
have Cabinet largely and even
doninatingly unpolitical in its In
stincts and impulses.
Who could have predicted that
paradox?
What will be its consequences?
For the beginning Of the answer
we must turn to the House Of
Representatives and to the Senate
Tomorrow: An assertive House
Of RepTesentatives.)
(copyright. 1894. by Current News
Features Inc.l
The Washington times., 1924-12-03
Stone and
MELLON
CITED
Hughes and Wilbur Also Are
Causing oId-Time "Prac-
teal" Leaders Worry
BY WILLIAM HARD

President Coolidge seems to be
on his way toward having a Cabi-
net quite dominated by people of
an un-political temperament.
This fact becomes fact of the
highest Importance when it is re-
membered that events in Wash
ington are controlled not only by
the merits of the questions in
volved, but also extremely largely
by the personalities of the states
by the personalities of the states
their solutions.
Individualities are in fact,
weightier than arguments in de-
termining the course of history in
Washington.
The relations between President
Coolidge and Congress will swing
on Che Municipalities of his Cab
met members.
Stone Wholly UnpOlitical.
There is pertinence, then. ami de-
cisive pertinence, in the fact that
President Coolidge's Cabinet seems
to be headed toward being quite UNI
political in its personal tone and
tendency.
President Coolidge's own addi-
lions to 1.-THE Attorney General
and the Secretary of the Navy
are unpolitical in the extreme
Attorney General Stone, a healthy,
heavy, robust, courageous, Isarned
person, physically and mentally
powerful, is politically an altogether
innocent outsider.
On Capitol Hill, among the poll
ticiane, he is already regarded as
q sort OF monster Of innocence and
purity.
They say that the other day.
when he wanted to reduce the staff
in one Of his bureaus, he kip. all
the stenographers from tho Tia
Of Columbia, which does not vote,
and discharged stenographer from
a highly influential Republican
Northern State.
His blindness" Cited"
They say, moreover. that all eff
forts to get him to put that stem
ographer back were unavailing.
Such blindness to political reason.
ing seems to the politicians tosra,Irp
Mr.. Stone already as being of anolt
the age of twelve or thirteen poiiti-
cally.
1t also stamps him in executive
circles as being a noble grownup
The Washington times., 1924-12-03

Roy Manley, who was convicted
at the November term OF the circuit
court Of Arlington county on
charge Of forgery, and sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary, was
removed to Richmond yesterday.
The Washington times., 1924-12-03
PROBE FURNACE
DEATH AS
Staying
Final Report Of Scientists
Confirming Murder Theory
Awaited
BY International Nows Service,

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 3.-With
the unofficial report of scientists,
who aided Prosecutor King IN prob
ing the Bexley furnace mystery,
pointing to murder, indications were
today Chat further experiments
would be conducted before either
the murder or suicide theory is ac-
cepted in the death of Mrs. Addie
Sheatsley, wife of the pastor Of
Christ Lutheran Church.
Neither theory has yet been ac-
cepted by authorities, Prosecutor
King said today.
THE scientists report has not
been completed" the prosecutor ex-
plined. "and until 1t Is finished the
authorities must continue to mark
time in the investigation.
G. +. Long, chemist, who report-
ed he found no carbon monoxide In
Mrs. Sheatsley's lungs, indicating
she was dead when her body enter
ed the furnace. said the scientists
had completed their experiments,
but that the report was unfinished.
1t will probably be day or two,
according to Doctor H. M. Brund.
age, pathologist, before the written
reports are ready to be submitted to
the prosecutor.
While the prosecutor and his as
sistants refused to discuss the re.
port, 1t was understood the inyeeti.
gators would again visit the Sheats.
ley home for the purpose of de.
termintng whether It was possible
for. Mrs. Sheatsley to have crawIed
into the furnace, assuming the posi-.
ton in which her body was found,
When the body was discovered the
Woman's head and feet were in the
corners OF the furnace farthest from
the door.
Evening star., 1924-03-29

Cost of living dropped twotenths
of per cent in January.
Evening star., 1924-03-29
Britain's Official Hangman Quits
after % Years Without Excuses
Has Sprung Trap for Dozens of Criminals, But Had
Friends Wrink Necks of
His Chickens.
~ ..o .s.o,;.,aa p-.ss

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 29.-John Ellis, the
official hangman of Great Britain, has
resigned his job, but has not given
any reason for doing so.
For more than twentythree years
he had held the position and dozens
Of criminals, notorious and otherwise,
passed through his hands to their
doom, among whom were Crippen,
Roger Easement and Edith Thompson.
the last woman executed in England.
He is a student of criminology and
reads the accounts of murder trials in
Evening star., 1924-03-29
FATHER ACQUITTED
OF GIRL S MURDER
Jury, on One Ballot, Finds Him
Not Guilty, Despite Testimony
! of His Father.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BRIDGETON, N. j., March 90
Thompson Dickson, fifty-three years
old, last night was acquitted on
charge of numbering his fifteen-year-
old daughter, Emma, last September
in the rear of their Bricksboro home.
The jury brought in the verdict for
acquittal after a two-hour session,
which opened with prayer for divine
guidance. Only one ballot was nee
essary.
Thank God" exclaimed the defend
ant, with upraised hands, when he
heard the jury foreman humble the
words Not guilty"
Benjamin Dickson. the defendant s
aged father, who was the principal
witness in the states prosecution OF
the case, and who charged his son
with the girls murder. did not appear
at the courthouse yesterday.
The accused man was on the VIII
ness stand for nearly two hours. he
categorically denied all the charges
and stories related by his father
Thursday. When asked by his coun-
sci, j. Ray Oliver. whether he had
killed Emma. the gray-halred de-
fendant stood up, raised his rlgnt
hand and exclaimed: II did not XIII
my child" He also denied he had
seen the girl after she left the house
on the night OF September l5, as
sumably to buy milk.
Evening star., 1924-03-29

the newspapers with professional in
terest.
His fee for dispatching criminal
was 50 shillings and another SO shill-
ings for good conduct" The lat
ter amount was paid in consid-
Grafton of the fact he was forbidden
to stay at a public .house near the
scene Of an execution and earn a
commission for attracting custom, as
was the executioner's privilege in
former years.
Ellis is a breeder of poultry and II
Is said that he Is so devoted to his
birds that he gets friend to wiring
the necks of those he wants to Kill.
Evening star., 1924-03-29
STUDENT POLICEMAN
Is GUILTY OF SLAYlNG
Faces Long Term for Killing Theo-
logical Student-Had Been
Drinking Before Tragedy.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 29.-Paul A.
Henry, student policeman, last
night was found guilty of first degree
manslaughter for fatally shooting
Charles Rice, Roman Catholic semi
marian, last January 81. The charge
was second degree murder, but the
jury had the option of returning
lesser degree: its finding carried
sentence of from ten to twenty years.
Henry admitted he had been drink
ing before the shooting, but denied he
was intoxicated, contending his act
was justified since Rice ran when he
demanded that he submit to arrest.
Henry and Rice were on a subway
train, and Henry said he saw Rice
place his hands on passengers
pockets and that when the train
reached a station he started to arrest
the seminarian. The latter, however,
ran through the crowd and when
Henry reached the sidewalk he fired.
Cost of living dropped two-tenthS
Of nor cent in .Iannary.
Evening star., 1924-03-29

, aged man was exceedingly feeble and
advanced the theory that he fell
| across the stump and was unable to
| rise.
Mr.. Odum served in the Confeder-
ate army and was cited for bravery.
Evening star., 1924-03-29

whose burned body was found in a
solitary spot in field on his farm
Thursday. He had been burning
grass in preparation for spring plant
ing.
Members of the family said the
Evening star., 1924-03-29

clans said there was no cause Tor
alarm.
DR.. wishart was taken i'll while on
a tour Of churches. 1t was decided to
cancel his engagement for speaking
trip to the Pacific coast.
Evening star., 1924-03-29
FOUND BURNED TO DEATH.

SENOIA, Ga. March 2s.-A charred
stump with flames still flickering
served as a funeral pyre for w. NJ
Odum, eighty-five, civil war veteran.
Evening star., 1924-03-29
DIR. c. F. WlSHART ILL.
Presbyterian Moderator Has Mild
Form of Typhoid.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. March 20
Dr. Charles F. Wishart of Wooster.
Ohio, moderator of the General AS
sembly of the Presbyterian Church in
the United States of America, is suf-
fering from a mild form of typhoid
fever in Pittsburgh Hospital, it was
announced yesterday from the offices
of the general assembly here. Ply
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1924-06-12
HAS EVOLVED NEW BOROUGH"
Man Fond of Finding Fault Denounces
Tradition Followed by the Manu-
facturers of Quilts.

"The older 1 get" said the man who
finds fault, according to the New York
Sun, "the more convinced l am that few
individuals know the business they are
supposed to know. Every time start
out to buy something that really want
| am more than ever impressed with
this idea. Take the case of quilts and
comforts, for instance. They are al
ways made square, though the beds on
which they are used are oblong. 1t Is
as foolish as making square pegs for
round holes.
II am six feet and tri6e to spare.
The man who will make quilt foot
longer than the usual size can sell me
two.
when complain at the stores am
told that quilts have always been made
square. That style may have been
good enough for Adam, Solomon, King
George III, and the Pied Piper, but we
have improved transportation, the mail
service, haircuts and plumbing since
those men fourished, and 1t seems to
me possible to improve the bed cover
ing"
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1924-06-12
ALIAS SUMMONS

In the Justices Court of Payette
Justice Precinct, County OF Payette,
State of Idaho.
Before VIII Wells, ]. p.
e. B. Dorathy, Plaintiff, VS..
John Bosch, Defendant.
The State of Idaho sends greetings
to the above named defendant;
You are hereby notified that a
complaint has been filed against you
on a written contract account, in and
for the sum Of $4,000, due to the
above named plaintiff and for costs
OF suit and you are hereby directed
to appear and answer the said COM
plant within 20 days after the SER
vice OF this summons and upon your
failure to appear and answer, judy
ment will be taken against you as
prayed in said complaint.
Witness my hand this 10th day of
June A. D. 1924.
WILL WELLS,
Justice of the Peace.
L. M. LYON,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Residence: Payette, Idaho.
First pub. June,l last July 10.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1924-06-12
WOULD TEACH BOYS TO COOK
English Woman Physician Argues
That Such a Proceeding Would
Solve Many Problems.

"Should boys be trained in house
craft and coobery?' was the question
debated at a meeting of the Women's
Freedom league of London. DR.. Eliza
beth Sloan Chesser argued that the
teaching of housewifery and cooking
10 men and boys would help to solve
many social problems and improve the
health of the community, reports the
London Daily Telegraph. Housekeep-
ing she said, was much more arduous
work than journalism, public speak
ing and medical practice and, there
fore, men were more fitted for 1t
than women. Men excelled in execu-
tive work, and If they could create
better music, painting and poetry than
women, they could ALSO create better
savories and soups.
A. Clephan Palmer said women were
becoming more masculine and to hold
their own men must become still more
masculine. They did not do that by
cooking chops or busting ornaments.
Moreover, it was unnecessary, as the
modern idea was to be as homeless
as possible. Two rooms and a car
was the American ideal. He advised
men to follow the precedent of King
Alfred and let the cakes burn.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1924-06-12
REALLY ARE "G00D" INDIANS
Stories Of tho OJibways Hold to PROVE
That Old olbe ought to DO
Revised.

The old glbe that "the only GOOD IN
dian Is dead Indian" is disproved pI
more than one fact. Government pup
locations, for instance, declare that the
Seminoles are good Indians. ERE
quently In troubled times on the IRON
tier friendly Indians warned settlers
of impending trouble or sheltered them
until the emergency passed, writes
Alice L. Pearson In the Christian Her
aid.
Many stories of the Ojlbways show
that numerous individuals deserved TO
be classed as good The following
incident In the experience OF a gov
eminent surveyor suggests that good
ness" is not the exclusive possession
Of the white man. While the sur
veying party was in the field one of
the chainmen became Ill. 1t became
necessary to send to nelghboring In
dian agency for some one who could
speak English to take the place OF the
sick man. After working few days,
the young Indian who was chosen for
this purpose went to his employer and
asked for release. The surveyor, re-
luctant to give up a competent and
helper, questioned him as
to the reason for going. His answer
might give food for thought to many
who would regard themselves as his
superiors, II must go back to my
own people," he said "Your young |
men use bad oaths, and If / stay here
may learn them. There Is not an |
bath in the Ojlbway language"
The surveyor called his young men
together and told them the story. The
appeal was not lost upon them. They
1ad erred, as do so many boys, rather
through thoughtlessness than purpose.
The result was that profanity was al
most completely broken up In that
amp, and the Indian continued at his
york,
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1924-06-12
lAmtNlS CHANGE OF TlmEa
OId-Time Missouri Editor Tells Good
Story of Politics of Some Few
Decades Ago.

"Politics ain't what she used to be-
complained the old-tlme Missouri
newspaper editor. Take old 'Hurri'
cane Watts, for instance. Hurricane
was state senator for three terms. lie
was a hurricane for true, and blew
his way straight through so almost
nny goal he attained On one occa-
sion he had considerable travelling
about over the state to do, so he went
to the division superintendent of the
railsoad that ran through the terri
tory where he wanted to go.
at want pass on your road Hur-
ricane told the superintendent. !.
"The superintendent looked up ut
his visitor in establishment, too taken
aback to reply for moment.
"'You want a whatY he asked.
"a pass-p-a-double ST Hurricane
exclaimed impatiently. One that Is
good on your entire system In this
state
1.-THE superintendent cleared his
throat carefully, the while he parted
for time.
care you an employee of this rail
roadr
"'Of course I am Hurricane as
sured him.
"In what capacity?' the superin-
-endent demanded.
"'Capacityr exclaimed Hurricane.
| am member of the Missouri gen.
raj assembly, "-Kansas City Star.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1924-06-12
VIVA esese Blocked RalIroad,

Wild geese thronging the right of
way of the Sp0kane-POrtland railway
north of Wallula, Wash, interfered
seriously with the operation of trains
for about week. So numerous were
the big birds that several times it was
necessary to stop trains that the be-
wildered honkers might not be saugh-
tered by hundreds. Engineers tried
to drive the birds from the tracks by
tremendous blasts from the locomo-
tive whistles. When the great nocks
took wing to clear the way for the
trains the noise of their beating pin
ions could be heard for a great dis
lance.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1924-06-12
Big Saver of Labor.

In potato harvesting, by connecting
a loader to the rear Of a digger, both
being hauled by a tractor, the pota-
toes can be dug and loaded simultnne-
ously into horse-drawn wagon NOV
Ing alongside the combination. One
Of the two potato elevators of the
loader Is arranged to dump the pota-
toes into the wagon. These elevators
are constructed with separated steel
Stats so that any dirt left on the DO
tatoes VIII fall to the ground. The
elevators are driven by system Of
sprockets and chains in connection
with the wheels Of the loader.-Popu.
lar Mechanics Magazine.