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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27
Bleam on the Job.

Harvey Bleam, a quiet, effective
worker for the good Of sandlot base
ball, has been leader Of the War.
wick A. G. since it's organization
three years ago. and now is getting
things in shape for the clubs fourth
baseball campaign.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27

lie" AlCrOck1an
b o w lers who
rank with the
Leading perform.
9SAlHjs.,i aslli5:sta
selections are
made. the Ter.
minal Ice Com
pany star in.
variably lands
in the lineup.
re was a mem
Der OF the last
Wa $ h | n G t o n
team that trim
med Roanoke
two seasons ago.
He rolled with
Curb Cafe in its
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27
HameI in Demand,

Pick Hamel, brother Of the we'll
known Gatey Hamel. who il a mem
Der OF the Louisville Club, Is being
sought by no less than seven sand
lot teams.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27
He Seeks Berth.

Socks Harrington, Of the Interior
tootnall team, wants a place in the
outfield OF some local baseball team.
he can be reached at 20S Bryant
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27
Ready For Bookings.

The Mt. Rainier Juniors are ready
to book games with junior teams.
Manager Don Bellman may be
reached by phone at .Hyattsville
A7Q.R
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27
Easterns Gain Fans.

Judging by the fact that the East.
ern A. c. at recent meeting &C.
cepted thirty-two new members, the
new, club Is winning quick popular.
ity in the Northeast section.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27
Cardinals Meet.

A special meeting of.the Cardinal
A. c. will be held tonight at the
home Of President Sylvester Breen,
at 1922 King street, Alexandra. Va.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27

We've exhausted half OF our ball
players" said Tiny Tessie, land
we will be entirely out of limerick
subjects If Manager Bucky Harris
continues to swing heavy ak as
he did in the case Of ,Shad Roe"
Never mind" demonstrated Skill
let" who can't possibly see the
gloomy side Of anything, we've still
got plenty of veterans left, veterans
like Roger Peckinpaugh, whom we
all hope won't be traded to Chicago
for Mostil; Walter Johnson, Sam
Rice, Joe Judge, Memo LiebOld and
all SUCH"
Be that as it may, the last half
Of "Skillet's". ticket handicap is go
Ing to be just as lively, if not more
SO, than the first section. In fact
it is more likely to be even more
spirited, for AS the hour for the
opening game arrives there seems
to be a bigger demand for these
precious admission cards carrying
the privileges OF reserved seat
right there in the old grandstand.
At least "SIxiIIet's" increasing
daily mail indicates that the base
ball fever has just ABOUT taken
possession of Washington fandOm
and hundreds and hundreds OF
baseball bugs are trying their
very best to secure their opening
day reservations through, the linn.
erick source.
Skillet" heard today from one
Of his old friends for the first time
during the present contest Perhaps
many Of you remember the Clever
acrostics submitted a year ago by
c. Russell Riordan. Well, Russell
is back in this contest. A. little late,
true, but back just the same. with
the same old vigor that brought
him success a year age.
Now to get down. to the winners
of the limerick last line skirmish
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27
NOVEL LINKS COMPETITION


A pew game was introduced to
the sporting world at Wellington,
England, a few months ago.
Two men played the local course.
one using golf clubs and a ball and
the other using a casting rod with
2H ounce weight affixed to the line.
The golfer won with score Of 81
against the fsherman'S 102. The
anglers best cast was lO6 yards
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27

"Weu, if tempus doesn't fugit, I'll be consumed"
Such the verbal outbur Of Skillet today
little Miss Sylvia Sedgewick who has been giving him lift in han
ding the
exactly half today and beginning this suspicious
hour competition truly be said to be turning into the home
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27
WORKS. IS ONLY.
SOUTHPAWO ON
CITY. QU|NT
Al Shows Class as Bowler in
League and Independent
Competition,
By r. ID. THOMAS.

Al Works Is the only southpaw
member Of Washington's all.city
duckpin squad. He is one Of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27
FIFTY-ONE ROUNDS

Jimmy Dundee Goes the LONG
Route.
Experts agree that the 6fty-one
round finish battle held last year in
Mexico City between Mercy Monies,
of San Antonio. Texas, and Jimmy
Dundee, of New York, breaks the
worlds record for long fights under
Queensberry Rules
The fight, which gave the light
weight championship Of the Mexican
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27
Eastern Juniors Meet.

The Eastern A. C. Juniors will
meet tonight at 1870 o'clock at 321
Fifteenth street northeast.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27
viii Assist Greer.

Carl Newman, who managed the
Naval Hospital team last season
~ now assisting Buck Greer
manager Of the Petworth Club.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-27

Agnes Nj. Hampton, 9l7 b
street northeast, carries away
third prize and two tickets with
the following:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-11-13

erative commodity marketing of
farm products successfully. With
out better education and better
marketing, the people of the
farm communities will slide down
toward peasantry. The losses
through tenantry, mortgages, ex-
cess tax and the deprecated dol
lar will increase. The more able
young people will desert the
farm. The average of intelli-
gence will fall in rural commune
ties and the possibility of improv-
ing conditions in rural life will
grow more remote. A fair profit
to the farmer would enable the
tenant to become a land owner,
to pay off the farm mortgage, to.
meet his taxes when they have
been properly equalized. and have,
something left to make better
home, better church, and a bet
ter community.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-11-13

farm mortgages, unequal taxa
ton, and the depreciation of the
farm dollar take over $3.50 of the
income from the sale of farm pro-
ducts, leaving about 41@o to sup
port rural life, too small a share
to provide good rural homes,
good rural churches, good schools
in rural communities and other
things that improve rural life.
A farm does pretty well nova
days to support a tenant, a land
lord, excess taxes, and to do it
with deprecated dollar. Farm
peasantry is inevitable unless bet
ter education and better organi-
cation are able to stem the tide.
Cooperative commodity market
ing offers the best means known
for securing to the farmer fair
profit from the sale of his pro-
ducts. Inequitable taxation can
be relieved by income taxes and
business tax. Better education
of the rising generation is needed
to make them willing and able to
carry out the big job of coop
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-11-13
ASKOV SCHOOL COLUMN

Mrs. Nelson returned to her
work Monday morning.
Are you keeping in mind the
next p. T. A. meeting, Dec. S?
Elmer Morgensen, Viggo Peter
sen and Wagner Jensen entered
school this week.
During the last week end the
janitor treated the basement
floors to a new coat of paint.
School was dismissed Tuesday,
Armistice Day. II seems the law
making Nov. IL a legal holiday
by dismissing school defeats to a
large extent the purpose of the
day.
Among the outstanding speak
ers at the Minnesota Education
Association meeting held in St.
Paul last week were William
Chandler Bagley, professor Of
education, Columbia University;
Livingston c. Lord, President
Eastern Normal College, Illinois;
Macy Campbell, head of Depart
ment of Rural Education, Teach
ers College, Cedar Falls; Charles
Allen Prosser, Director of Will
lam Hood Dunwoody Industrial
Institute, Minneapolis; William
Lowe Bryan, President of Uni
versity of Indiana; Norman Gale,
international publicist of Eng
land. All of these are very wide
ly known in their respective
fields and their word usually car
ries much weight.
Following is summary of one
address given by Macy Campbell
of Teachers College, Cedar Falls,
Iowa, on the subject, The Eco
nomic Background of Rural Edu-
cation: Better education is
needed for the rural child in or
der to meet the economic situa-
ton of the present and future.
In the past nearly all the great
leaders in America were born and
reared on the farm; but this con-
dition is changing too rapidly.
The economic future looks too
disappointing to the ambitious
farm boy so he leaves the coun-
try. One cause for this is ten
antry. Farm peasantry in Ameri-
ca is inevitable unless better edu-
cation and better organization is
able to stem the tide, Absentee
landlordism is so great that 1870
of the farm produce value is paid
to the absent landlord as rent.
Another cause is the loss to the
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-11-13
By l. r. Van Zelm
Q western nswspspsr ulisa

rural dweller through interest on
farm mortgages. Thirty-eight
per cent of the farms are now in
the hands of tenants. The farm
mortgages total $8.000,000, 1000.
This means that 1870 of the an
nual value of the products of the
farm of Minnesota is lost in the
form of interest on these mort
cages. Then, a study by the Ma
tional Industrial Conference
Board shows the present tax sy-
stem is inequitable, the farmer
pays more than his share, as 1879
of his income goes for taxes
while other economic groups pay
about 1870 of their income. Thus
the farmers pay an excess of
over 40 of the income as taxes
over other economic groups.
Again, a study of pre-war prices
shows that during the war as
compared with 1913 the index of
industrial prices was 243% while
that of farm prices was 216%o.
In 1922 the index of industrial
prices was 155, and of farm
prices 125, a shrinkage of 20@o
in the farmers dollar. That is,
the farm dollar is worth only 80
cents in exchange of goods be-
tween the groups. The economic
losses of rural communities
through tenantry, interest on
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-11-13

n DaDy girl came 10 glauueii
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Chr.
Sandahl Sunday.
Henry Hyldahl returned home
Monday having worked at thresh-
ing in North Dakota.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Christen-
sen went to Minneapolis on a
business trip yesterday.
Miss Anna Laursen of the
American force, has been i'll
since Saturday with neuralgia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Swan Monson en-
joyed a few days visit of their
daughter who returned to St.
Paul yesterday.
Mrs. Grant DeMaris returned
home Saturday from Duluth
where she had spent a week
visiting her sister and family.
Jens Nielsen returned Saturday
from business trip TO Cedar
Falls, Iowa. He reports some
snow in parts of Iowa also last
week.
Mrs. Jens j. Jensen and son
Erwin, left Friday for Boswick,
Nebr., TO visit her parents and
other relatives. They expect to
be gone until Christmas.
Mrs. Oscar Lundgren and son,
Leonard, of Salem, S. ID. came
here last week for a visit at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Carl Sa-
muelson, northeast of town.
Chris Silkensen of Sheridan,
Wyoming, visited here from Sa-
turday until Tuesday at the home
of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Carl Thi-
nesen, south of town. Mr.. Sill
kensen is a carpenter foreman on
the Burlington railroad.
Svend Petersen left Saturday
in company with Valdemar Ege-
kvist and two other Minneapolis
men on a deer hunting trip to
Grand Marias up in Cook county.
Miss Susie Sorensen is working
in the post-office during his
absence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis McCray
Of st. Paul, who have been spend
ing the past couple of months at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Johnson, northeast of
town, returning Saturday from a
weeks visit in st. Paul where
they also registered their vote in
the General Election. Little Miss
Gunhild Samuelson accompanied
them on the st. Paul trip. Mr..
McCray is building a new home
for the aged Johnsons.
A platform or elevation has
been built in the rear of the To-
cal church for the organ and
choir. While the human ear is
made TO receive the sound from
the front and therefore more
proper TO have the song leading
in the front part of the building
1t will likely remain permanent
ly in the rear now that a plat
form has been built there. The
singing in the church plainly
shows that the choir is not
placed where it will do the most
good in creating uniform singing.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-11-13
ASKOV

Social for ID. b. S. members and
their families Saturday evening,
Nov. 18th.
Miss Delphia Iverson who
teaches at South Haven this year,
visited here Monday and Tuesday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. G.
M. Nelson. Miss Gladys Johnson
who teaches at Sandstone, was
here together with Miss Iverson.
Mrs. Chas. Bridge and her five
year old son. Henry. returned
Wednesday to their home at
Keline, Wy, after spending five
weeks here at the home Of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jens M.
Larsen, northeast Of town. II
was Mrs. Bridges first visit with
her parents in seven years.
Arnum Nedegaard, IL year old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. N. p. Nede-
gard, figured in an accident on
the road last Thursday forenoon
which laid him up for a few days.
He was riding on a bicycle and
was on his way TO school when an
automobile driven by p. Simons-
gard tried to pass him and in so
doing struck the boy. Luckily he
was not severely hurt. but suf-
fered three cuts on his head, a
cut on the left leg and one knee
was bruised. The bicycle was
smashed. He was in bed three
days but was able to return to
school yesterday and also cele-
brate his 18th birthday, yester-
day.
Chris. Frederiksen recently
completed the erection of a very
substantial combination root eel
lar and machine shed on his farm
and now has il well filed with
four or five carloads of rutabagas.
Chris figures that if the prices Of
roots are high in the spring Of
the year he might as we'll have
the advanced prices as the specu-
lator and rightly so. If anybody
is entitled to good prices it is the
producer-the one who labors
with the product, and with a lot
of good root cellars scattered
over the farming country the
Spectator would have no advan.
tage over the farmer in that re-
spect. The resourceful farmer
will not complain about high
prices in the spring and then say
that now the product is all in the
hands OF the Spectator, but he
will tend to have some Of it in his
own hands. Mr.. Frederiksen's
root cellar and machine shed is
built alongside Of his barn and is
l6x42 feet, the top floor for farm
machinery storage and the base
ment for roots, Matthias Stende-
vad. who attended the Danish
folk high school at Solvang.
Calf, together with Mr.. Frede-
riksen, 10 years ago is now help
ing him with the farm work and
has been there the past three
weeks.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-11-13
ASKOV MARKETS

Butter, creamery, per ID. so. 49,
Eggs, per doz. ............ AT
Chickens, under 4 lbs. per Id. 90
Chickens, over a lbs, perlb. .15
Broilers-
No. 1, IL lbs. and up. -. .15
Leghorns, per h.. ...... IL
Rutabagas, per ton. $3.50. 500
Phillips County herald., 1924-03-06
The Great Manner of Poets.

At the end Of the Vita NuOya Dante
announced his hope 10 write OF Bea-
trice such things as had never been
written Of any woman. Not TO write
new kind Of book. for women had
heen praised before, as he implied, and
there had been poems OF vision and
pilgrlmages through he'll but his hope
WIS to excel. He determined TO speak
no more OF his blessed lady until he
could praise her worthlly. and TO
praise such woman worthily would
he TO write such things ms had been
written Of no other. In the same mood
Milton promised his great eplc-in
passionate love OF the best before him.
and In the assurance OF doing us well
or better-"l began thus TO assent
both 10 them and divers Of my friends
here nj home. and not less To nm In.
ward promging. which now grew
daily upon me. that my labor aud In.
tense study. which take to he my
portion In this llfe, Joined with the
strong propensity ot nature, might
leave something So written TO nfter
tines rs they should not willingly let
II die" This is the great manner Of
the poeis.-John Ersklne.
Phillips County herald., 1924-03-06
ODD FISH OF SOUTHERN SEAS
Torpedo or Electric Ray Has Nearly
Circular Body and Weighs
Eighty Pounda

The torpedo or electric ray. nsh
In the Southern seas. grows to largo
size, sometimes weighing seventy or
eighty pounds. This peculiar fish has
a nearly circular body. short tnli
and very small mouth. The back
Is brownish In color. and the under
meath parts are white.
The torpedo obtains Its name from
Its power OF giving violent shock.
similar to an electric shock. to any
thing with which II comes in contact.
Whenever an enemy approaches the
fish emils from its body kind OF cleo
tricity which incapacitatss the attacker
Immediately. In capturing its food
the torpedo finds this power OF use.
Being very inactive, II cannot pursue
the small fish which form It's diet. So
II Hes In wait until they swim close
by and then throws out Its powerful
shock. which instantly renders them
helpless. II person touches this
strnnge fish he Is attacked by cramp,
which nfrects the stomach. producing
kind Of convulSion. For this reason
the torpedo Is sometimes known as
the "cramp fish"
Phillips County herald., 1924-03-06
PAINT ACTS AS DETECTOR
Designed to Warn Meehanieians When
Engine Parts Become
Overheated.

Designed to warn mechaniCians when
engine parts are oyerheated, there is
new paint, which turns from its light
red color to deep brown nt 40 de-
grees c., and to almost black at S5
degrees. When the overheated part is
cooled. the paint turns back to its
normal color. The changing color at
tracts the attention OF those about and
hence gives the opportunity Of apply
ing y little nil AT the critical moment.
Tile machine itself can he thus
saved from complete destruction and
all danger OF fires from overhcated
machinery eliminated. The chemical
properties of another paint. acalorin,
stop the heat rays OF the sun. so that
when applied to roofs. the rooms below
are kept from II to 30 degrees cooler.
II is light blue and cen be applied
To windows where the sun beats down
and causes extreme heat. without ap-
preciabiy diminishing the light. II is
especially adaptable To corrugated iron
roofs, which often make the interior OF
factory or storehouse an unbcnrable
oven in the summer. Even applied to
factory walls. II reduces the tenpera-
ture Of the Interior. II viii go far In
reducing the temperature OF the attic
rooms of the summer cottage which are
asua,ly uninhabltnble.
Phillips County herald., 1924-03-06
ahEATssT BOOK VERY BRIEF
New Testament Has Been the ins2ira-
tion CT Sublime Master
pieces.

Jesus Is as supreme in literary arl
as He is In ethics. The short stories
from His lips In the Gospels are su-
perior to anything written BY Guy de
Maupassant, Chekoy, Poe, Bret Harte,
Rudyard Kipling, Nathaniel Haw-
thorne or o. Henry The narrative
style of the four evnngeists has the
dignity of simplicity; the letters of
Paul, James and John are better Illus
trations of epistolary skill than any
thing TO be found in Horace Walpole.
Thomas Gray or William COwper.
Mystical beauty In language has never
reached such an altitude as In the
fourth Gospel and in the Revelation,
says William Lyon Phelps,
In addition TO being itself the pin
nacle of literature, the New Testa-
ment has been the inspiration of sub
lime masterpieces in other forms of
art--in architecture, paintings. music
One has only TO think of the medieval
Gothic cathedrals, the paintings of
Raphael. Leonardo, Andrea del SArt",
Michelangelo. Correggio, Murill".
the music of Handel's Messiah and
of wasuer's "Parslfal." Out of that
slender book flowed creative Inn
pulse, the effect of which can hardly
he exaggerated,
The complete sayings of Jesus can
be read in three hours; hut il will
take more than 5000 years to record
the results of His few words. That Is
what is meant by the last verse of the
last chapter of the Gospel, according
to John: "And there are also. many
other things which Jesus did, the
which, II they should be written every
one, suppose .hat even the world 1t
self could not contain the books that
should be written. ladies Home
Journal.
Phillips County herald., 1924-03-06
KITS coTY HOUSE MONUMENT
Ancient Pile of Stones in Wheat Field
in England Marks Battlefield
of ass.

In the year 1927 n citizen OF Lon
don spent a holiday at Hollingsbourne
in Kent He wrote in his diary that
the principal object which arrested his
attention was large pile of stones In
a wheat field by the roadside and on
Inquiry found it was Kits Coty house.
Antiquarlans tell us that in the year
i55 Il battle took place between tho
Brit0ns and Danes on the banks Of the
Medway at Aylesford, and the stones
now remaining are supposed to be
part OF monument then erected.
There are two immense stone slabs,
each nine tons weight. fixed on the
end In the ground and incining toward
each other. Another slab is between
them for support. and one great stone,
OF more than twelve tons, lies as roof
transversely over all, making kind
of cell about seven feet each way and
the same in height.
To-Day Kits Coty house stands MS II
did when the writer of the diary 80
carefully described it 96 years ago. In
all probability. however. this crom-
lecl had its origin long before the year
455. and II may even date back to the
Stone age. As to its name, II Is pos
sible that this monument was styled
Kits Coty house" during the Middle
Ages. A Kentlsh rhyme OF medieval
origin refers 10 Kit" going to Canter-
bury. and ii is not at all improbable
that Kit was a popular name among
the pilgrims who would travel along
the Pilgrims Way Ian old track run
ming from Winchester to Canterbury,
few hundred yards down the hlli.--De-
troit News.
Phillips County herald., 1924-03-06
Another "Indoor snort.-

The pretty girl was being conduct
ed round the prison and occasionally
she paused 10 give u few words Of com
fort to one or other OF the more miser-
able-looklng prisoners.
4 case ~ melancholla." announced
the warden, who WIS acting MS guide.
rs they came 10 one cell.
"How sad :" murmured the visitor. "I
suppose she remarked to the inmate
Of the cell, that the singing Of the
birds relieves the monotony Of your
weary lifei"
The singing Of The birds, miss1" re
piled the convict, nonplused.
Yes said the visitor. "the little
jaIlblrds, They must be such a com
fort to you '''-Pai,sdelphis Inquirer.
Phillips County herald., 1924-03-06

Are we thinking OF what we may do
for our country. or OF what our coun-
try may do for US?
Our duty to ourselves and our
country requires positive as well as
negative action. We must be con-
structive. AS citizens of our country.
do we fulfill ths obligations !ncum-
bent upon us? Do We exercise our
right to vote-and when we do. do
we always place intelligence. eff
cheney and patriotism in government
ahead of every other consideration?
The message which wish to en-
phaSkss.,is a simple truth. one easily
Id, but one of great impor-
tanc2,sperhaps more important today
than ever before: Vel. as an indi-
vidual-must be responsible for our
goyernment-my government.
We cannot delegate our responsi.
biIity in government to someone else.
There 10 no substitute for individual
interest In government and individual
rssneeslbility for government.
Re said to bankers that the great.
est duty OF the banker today is not to
loan money. but to loan. ihimseif---te
the service OF his community.