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, 1924-10-08
THE COMMON SENSE OF WOODRUFF

Honorable J d. Woodruff of Fremont county. old pioneer of
Wyoming and a former member of the Legislature in both House
and Senate, always illuminates any subject he discusses. He has
been a Wyoming stock man for forty years and knows all of the ms
and outs of the business. He has watched our political affairs since
Wyoming was a part OF Dakota. He looks upon the election of
United States Senator this year from a purely business standpoint.
IA a statement to the voters of Fremont county and the state, Mr..
Woodruff says: =
allow me to say just a few words in reference TO our coming cleo
fnn, not at all from u political standpoint. but as a strictly business
0opositionL
We are all vitality interested in the Riverton Reclamation Pro.
~ other It seems TO me that we should all do our level best to re
turnS senator Warren back to the U. S. Senate. by the bippest major
dy thaf "a ever poned for a candidate in the history of Wyoming.
Senator Warren, a s we all must admit, is the life Of tina, pro.
position. 1t IS through his efforts. and due 20 his position and m
tge that 1t has been kept alive. The Senator has fought for IN, ,,.
preparations to keep it going, against much opposition II il. a veil
known TACT that the Senate has been and is opposed 10 ~ =,
@rge appropriations Tor Western reclamation propositions. for the
good reason that not one of them has ever paid out or m II, ,y;,h
II representations estimated on reports of the engineering de,ar,.
ment. ~ spa"
we hear it said that the Senator is too old. that w.. shor,d
have new blood, in-the way of younger men. Nov, of co,rs. -
'og'c nhgnt apply II we were digging post holes, or choppinp cord
wood but in the case OF Senator Narren. it has no mean;n, ub,,
ever or n reason that the only way any one gain PRESTIGE
influence, and power in the u. S. Senate is through long co. 90
faithful service. Senator Warren has achieved ali os ,Ls.. -.
I'M through his exalted position as Chairman of the An,ro,rio,aa,.
committee is m a position to help us in a way that no m else nos
sibly could. ~"
"The Riverton Reclamation Project is one o, the senator. ~.
measures and, If he is allowed to carry it through 10 ,,t.,;o
WIN D c another oi the many monuments of his endeavor. and a great
credit and source of income TO the people OF Fremon, CONT nd
the State OF Wyoming V "'
What am trying To say il IN no sense political, ? dor, ,.u.
ponues ! nave about lost all faith in politics and respect for poii.
Neiansi but this seems to ne To be a vital business proros,;an
natter OF dollars to us. and the progress and buiLi;n, .n ~ a.
turhl resources of our community.
""sssns tstessop to say ono word adverse to the sevAtasgs
, 1924-10-08
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
ADVERTISEMENT

Sealed proposals. will be received
by the Bureau of Reclamation at
Powell. Wyoming. Until 2 O'Clock p.
m. October l6, 1924, and will 1t that
hour be opened, for earthwork Will
wood Division, shoshonc Project.
Proposals will be received for separ-
ate schedules. Bonds will not be re-
quired with contracts amounting to
less than $2,5eo In csses where con-
tractors sErce 10 perform all the work
with their personal labor and equip
ment, but bond will be required
, 1924-10-08

There are today 100000 radio re-
ceiving sets in the United States.
An almanac that is three thousand
years old is in the British Museum.
1t rs written on papyrus and was
found on the mummy Of an Egyptian.
"One thing that stamps a man as
being really among the unedueated
is the fact that he has a contempt
for the illiterate."
.
Oil is extracted from the bodies of
, 1924-10-08
FOR PRESIDENT COOLIDGE.
AND THOSE THAT PAY.
1000 FIGHTING PLANES.
FOR ONE DREAD

President Coolidge recalled
Secretary Wilbur, Of the Navy, to
Washington to discuss with him
"the relative value Of battleships
and flying machines in war"
This means, of course, that the
President will LISTEN to others,
and TAKE COUNSEL with him
self. It means that, with all his
work, he has found time for the
serious problems Of air defense,
and does not intend to keep this
country among the backward ma
lions, as regards real preparation.
Facts alone will influence the
President, and they are not lack
ing. For instance:
One b~attleship Of dreadnaught
class cost forty-hve million dol
lars. For that sum the nation
could build and mobolixe TWO
THOUSAND FIGHTING AIR
PLANES. Does the President or
any other sane man ask Whist
chance . ba*tl(ship would have
against 1000 fighting air machines
dfopping INT from the caoudsf
The French have come through
. Feal war, VA invaspa~ so-tke-
vssy eatss Of Paris, millions KIDD,
ot4Df mfllione wounded. THEY
know somsthing ahout hgKtiAg.
What has France doas - brspeTe
aeeinst danger acsoss her 6ordarf
Francs hss . Arvt line Of ar
1R-~A ~~c~i-<A~ IT,
, 1924-10-08

POLITICAL opponent, but no man. no matter what his qualifications
pre-, can take Senator Warrens place to represent us and our inter-
Fsts in this particular matter.
1T is my honest opinion, and that opinion is based on excellent
|easons, that if we fail to return Senator Warren to the U. S. Sen
Fe, the Riverton Reclamation Project will die a natural death.
$50, l appeal to you to give this matter due consideration when
lou go to the polls next November, and not allow party prejudice, or
false sentiment, to cause you to commit financial suicide. We GER
lave got"
, 1924-10-08

locusts in Germany. The oil is used
in airplane motors, because it cong
calls at a very low temperature. The
refuse from the hopper is used as
fertilizer.
The Missing Iguana. = giant marine
lizard four feet long, exists only or
the Galapagos Archipelago off the
coast of Ecuador. 1t lives about the
seashore and feeds on seaweeds, sleep
ing in a burrow of the earth or in a
lava crevice at night.
, 1924-10-08

M. Mege-M ourees, q Frsach scien-
list. invented margarine rs a sub
stitute for butter, b. cAsraing beef
fat with nilk. Thu was h the year
Of 1868.
, 1924-10-08
WV

Representative John Phillips Hill, of Baltimore Maryland. made the
apples from his orchard into cider and when it had a alcoholic strength of
more than 275 per cent he gave a party, inviting everybody to be present
who did not mind being arrested. Then he told Prohibition Commissioner
Haynes to come and get him" Something like 1000 guests cam to his
party, and he il to be tried for violating the Volstead act. PEI
, 1924-10-08

We continue spending nillisns
practice. they also Win soon b.
elasssd among museum cuziosi-
ttes. pssd to make . loud noils b
The Presidential salute, o. t3eit1
the vanity Of some admiral rstuyn-
mig to his ship.
A sixteen-inch gun costs -
much a. two fighting airships. II
lasts only long enough to IRE ono
hundred and twenty shots. Thee
II II burnt-out scrap iron. The
life Of a fighting plane, costing
half a. much a a single big gun.
Is equal to that Of an ordinary
forty-hve million dreadnauRht.
Mr.. W. ]. Davis, Of San Diego,
earnest advocate Of air defense,
says truly, "The nation foremost
in the air will win the next war
at the drop Of the bomb, and be-
fore the world wakes up the next
morning amid the fumes Of phos-
phorus or Of bombs Of some other
kind, if 1t does wake up at all, the
war will have been Won"
-. "
Battleships, besides being obso-
lete, are frightfully expensive,
soon out Of date, worthless Ia
peace. Flying machines, enough
Of them to make this nation safe
against attack by e or land,
could be built without burdensoms
taxation, kept up with slight az
psnse, and they would pay their
way in peace, twiee over, In ~
, 1924-10-08

AShtins planes that spell seeur-
ity for France, cost, In Europe,
less than half the cost Of one first
class dreadnsught here. No won
der France insists that Germany
shall build no fighting planes.
, 1924-10-08

hs two thousand first line
, 1924-10-08

We read with interest that the cost of crime in the United States is
now the highest in its history, Is much as the annual budget of the nation
or more than three and one half billions of dollars Holdups have nearly
doubled and forgeries may reach 100000 900. while bank burganes amount
to $6OO0OOo.
Evening star., 1924-06-19
Fight to Saue Famous "ShOt TO,Uer,"
Cherished Landmark of Baltimore
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, June 19.-Save the
shot tower! That's the cry here to-
day, following the announcement that
the old shaft had been offered Tor
sale by the oil company which owns
the ground on which it Is located at
Fayette and Front streets.
Sentiment in favor of its preserva-
tion began to crystalline Immediately
and steps are being considered by the
Incorporate it into small public
park.
NO definite action has been planned
and the subject will have to be given
thought" said Mayor Jackson today.
But we know that Baltimoreans who
heart would be dismayed to see the
old structure sold for commercial
purposes and torn down. 1t is fitting
that the city should acquire the prop
erty for a park"
Civic and patriotic societies are also
of 1912 said today that If it was
found that the city could not use the
money for its purchase, the organi-
zation would undertake to raise the
funds by popular subscription and
present it to the city.
as a historic landmark" said Miss
branch. and if the city has no funds
available to buy it our organization
will raise the money and buy it,"
w. M. Ellicott. president of the
city-wide congress, and Josiah Pen
nington OF the Municipal Art Society.
also said the landmark should be
preServ ed.
The tower was built in 1S2S by the
Merchants Shot Tower Company, and
Charles Carroll of Carrolltown, sign
er of the Declaration of 1ndepend-
ence, laid the corner stone.
The tower. which is one of the only
three left standing in the United
States, is the oldest in the country
and contains over one million bricks,
all of them handmade and wood
burned. of uniform size and color
From a. base of forty feet in diam.
eter the shaft rises to height OF 24o
feet The column taperS as IL
ascends, so that the diameter at the
top is only twenty feet.
Evening star., 1924-06-19

countries respecting the status of
the ercentJon ~ Rmssia vhers tha
Communist party has increased from
10000 members to soc, 900. the strength
of the organization in most Of the for
eign countries has decreased.
Drop In u. 8. Members.
For instance. 1t is shown that the
membership OF the party in the
United States dropped from 10000 to
5000, while Tn England 1T decreased
from 10000 to 5000; in France, from
10000 to 100000, and In Germany,
from 400, 900 to $500 The figures
from South American countries were
equally disappointing. Zinovieff coun-
seled the delegates, however, not to
lose hope.
we were mistaken in our judg-
luent regarding the speed of the
Evening star., 1924-06-19
COMMUNISTS LOSING OUT,
ZENOVIEFF CONFESSES
Declares Cause Hit Especially Hard
in West, But Warns Followers
to Retain Hope.

BY the Associated Pre0.
MOSCOW, June 19.-In a speech re-
markable for its candor, G. S. Zino-
vieff, chairman of the fifth congress
of the Third Internationale. yester-
day told five hundred delegates of
that organization that there was no
reason to feel discouraged over the
fact that the Communist Interna-
tionale has failed to obtain victory
in the majority of western countries
or that social revolution has not been
developed with the rapidtty antici-
pated in the early days of the Rus
sian revolution.
While he gave no definite figures
on the membership of the Communist
party in the various countries of the
world, most of the delegates had be-
fore them statistics from their own
Evening star., 1924-06-19
DRY RAID NETS STUDENT.
Amherst Junior Pleads Guilty to
Bootlegging.

AMHERST. Mass, June 19.-Lucien
A. WaddeH, junior at Amherst Col
lege, was arraigned in court at
Northampton today as the result of
liquor raids last night by the Am
1erst police. Waddell pleaded guilty
TO charges of keeping and exposing
liquor with intent to sell and main
tanning liquor nuisance. His case
was continued. Six other men were
arrested.
A policeman testified that more than
tour quarts of white mule" were
found in WaddelHS room in the Phi
Gamma Delta Fraternity house.
Evening star., 1924-06-19

world revolution" said he. "and
where we had to calculate upon
years we have been calculating upon
months. But time works in our favor,
and we are now witnessing the
strengthening of the Communist
movement In practically every coun-
try of the globe"
Evening star., 1924-06-19

body Of Manuel coucoulas. also be-
ueved to have been drowned. has not
been recovered Boats are searching
for the body.
Evening star., 1924-06-19

Warsaw Sound shortly after Tuesday
! midnight, was found yesterday in the
| Wilmington River, several miles
from the scene Of the accident The
Evening star., 1924-06-19
GIRLS BODY RECOVERED.

SAVANNAH. Ga. June 1s.-The
body of Miss Marjorie Jones, who was
drowned when = batteau capsized in
Evening star., 1924-02-27
s4,3OO,O00 Paid Euery T,uo Weeks
To u. S. and District Workers Here
Certainty of This Great FloW OF Money Assures Capi.
tai Against Financial instability,
Seymour Declares

ment and District employees every
half month.
SiXty-five thousand government en-
ployes and 900 employees of the Dis
trfct government receive money paid
out by the government every fifteen
days. With the money. paid out to the
more than 100000 field employees, or
government workers outside the Dis
trict of Columbia, Uncle Sam is the
payer of probably the largest pay roll
In the world.
Base Pay and Bonus.
The S1O6,00G000 which the govern
ment pays out annually here in sala-
rise includes the base pay and bonus;
pay for the fire. and police depart
ments of the District of Columbia, of
Army, Navy and Marine Corps officers
and men. and for the army of federal
employees here. Vastly greater amounts
We're paid out during the war, of
course, when the federal pay roll here
approximated 100000 persons.
Washington's busines houses and
financial institutions need fear no
panic or short-mohey period with this
tremendous sum being paid out /by
the government every half month, in
the opinion of Mr.. Seymour.
Money quotations on larger ex-
changes naturally find their reflection
amount of liquid capital flowing from
the government to it's employees here
and from them being paid out in
great degree to the bushes houses
and deposited in financial institutions
in Washington ipsures stability that
no other city has, in Mr.. Seymour
ODiniOn
Evening star., 1924-02-27
DIRECTOR SOUGHT
TO SUCCEED KIRBY
Present Printing Bureau Head
Only Loaned to Treasury
Temporarily.

Already the Treasury is understood
to be on the lookout for q director OF
the bureau of engraving and print
ing.
The present acting director. Maj
Wallace w. Kirby, United States en-
gineers, was loaned by the War De-
partment for the, purpose Of straight
ening out affairs at the plant, restor-
ing the employees ousted in March
1922, and placing the entire opera
tion on harmonious basis.
With speed Maj. Kirby has already
installed ten men and women of the
ousted group and expects to place
six more early next week. Officials
of the Treasury feel that the new
acting director is performing the
task for which he was appointed in
an excellent fashion, and are pleased
with the progress at the bureau.
The only two employees to resign
so far at the bureau in the changes
which are reinstating the ousted
group have been Louis A. Hill. di-
rector, who succeeded James L. VIII
meth. and John A. Perry, assistant
director. 1t was freely intimated
that there may be further separa-
tions in the course of the restora-
ton program, either through dis
missal or resignation.
Evening star., 1924-02-27

Uncle Sam pays out approximately
$4,000, 900 to federal and District EN-
ployes in Washington every fifteen
days. according to Treasury figures
made public today.
Very much more than two-thirds
of this money, or about So per cent,
is spent in Washington, according to
an estimate made by A. Z. Seymour,
secretary of the Chamber OF Com
merce. Payment of and use of this
money in Washington is one of the
chief reasons why financial panics
and general financial instability do
not affect Washington in a major
degree, according to Mr.. Seymour. for
Uncle Sam is a consistent paymaster.
1O6 Millions Annually.
Treasury officials estimated today,
on the basis of semi monthly pay
rolls, that about s106.000,0O0 is paid
out annually to employees of the fed
District of Columbia. Two and one
half per sent of this money goes
into the federal employees retirement
fund. Approximately $4,410,O00 would
be paid out here every pay day, on
the 1st and 18th of every month
if the az per cent were not deducted
from each federal jobholder's salary
to meet annuitieS when he is retired.
Deduction of the money for the re-
tirement fund leaves well over $4,-
100000 actually handed to govern
Evening star., 1924-02-27
RENT ACT EXTENSION
ASKED BY CITIZENS
Thomas Circle Association Holds
Law Is Benefit to All
Concerned.
WANT OYSTER RETAINED
Declare Rudolph, However, Has
Served Long Enough.

The extension of the Ball rent act
for two more years was requested
in the form of a resolution adopted
by the Thomas Circle Citizens Asso-
citation at a meeting in the Luther
Place Memorial Church last night.
Edward N. Parker. secretary of
the association, stated that he was
in the real estate business and that
the Rent Commission. created under
the act, helps the real estate owners
about as much as it does those who
are renting from them, but stated
that the rent act and the commission
should be done away with. Others
argued that If tho act were a benefit
to all 1T would be best to ask for
its extension.
the executive committee requesting
the reappotntment Of Mr.. Oyster as a
District Commissioner, but expressed
-disapproval of the reappointment of
Commissioners. Rudolph. The reason
given for being in disfavor of the re-
appointment of the latter was that
'he has served two terms as a Com
missioner and that a change would
be good" ..A-.,
A resolution was adopted to ask
that in considering proposed changes
in a bill for compulsory education in
the District the bill be drawn
so as to make it lawful to punish
parents instead of the children for
the latter missing school.
Another resolution was adopted "to
challenge the Commission on Child
Welfare Legislation to resume pub
lie hearings and to call upon them
especially to hold a hearing on the
Board of Children's Guardians.
DR.. Starr Parsons, president of the
association presided.
Evening star., 1924-02-27
FORMER POLICEMAN
HELD FOR BIGAMY
Prescott E. Haskell, Indicted Here,
Arrested in Home of Sec.
ond Wife.

Prescott E. Haskell, former po-
liceman, was indicted today by the
grand jury on a charge of bigamy.
He was on the police force three
years and resigned December Is last.
when he is alleged to have contract
ed the second marriage. He was
arrested at the home of the second
wife, Margaret NJ. Dooley, twenty
three, SIC F street southwest. Has
kelI had been married at Center
Hall, Pa, it is alleged, in 1920, to
Bertha NJ. Miller, and had never been
divorced from her. There are two
children by the first marriage, 1t is
said
Others indicted and the charges
are: Paul E. Evans, larceny after
trust; Cameron Burroughs, assault
with dangerous weapon; Edward D.
Boiling. larceny after trust; Albert
Crutchfield, robbery; Elwood Henry,
breaking and larceny; John H. Wash
ington, joyriding; Lloyd Elliott, re-
ceiving stolen property; Douglas A.
Seeley, larceny after trust; Lee Dut-
law, Joseph L. Mason and Roland
7. Fauntroy, grand larceny, and Ed
ward Wallace, assault with danger
Gus weapon.
The grand jurors ignored charges
of assault against William i. John
son and Nathaniel Galloway.
Evening star., 1924-02-27
100 Quarts aboard
$4,000 Roadster
Seized by Police

Motor Cycle Policeman Leo Muir
ray of the ninth precinct yester-
day afternoon seized a roadster,
valued at $4,000, that contained
10 quarts of champagne and $50
quarts of Scotch whisky. Lester
Blackwell Simmons, Petersburg,
Va, owner and driver of the ma
chine, and Peter W. Stewart, Rich
mond, Va, a companion, were ar
rested on charges of illegal pos
session and transporting intoxi-
cantS.
1t was reported by the police
that the Tirginians were touring
home from trip to Canada and
the machine was on Bladensburg
road northeast when the police
man gave a signal to stop. 1t was
because of Simmons alleged fail
ure to obey the signal that he
was arrested and the liquor and
automobile seized Bond was
given for the appearance of the
men in court.
Evening star., 1924-02-27
PERMIT TO WARDMAN
FOR GARAGE UPHELD
Court Declines to Enjoin Issue of
Construction Authority by the
Commissioners.

Justice Stafford of the District Su-
preme Court yesterday refused to
enjoin the District Commissioners
from issuing a permit to Harry Ward
man to erect "a garage at 110s-I114
Vermont avenue northwest. Opposi-
tIon to the garage came from a num-
ber Of property owners In the vicinity.
The court found that the regula-
tlon In question is susceptible of two
In Interpretations. and that the Com
miSsioners, constituting a majority of
the Zoning Commission, have placed
an Interpretation under which a per-
NIT has been issued in similar cases
the justice did not feel that he could,
in equity, direct them to adopt the
other Interpretation, on which coun-
sci for the property owners based
tteir contention.
The evidence showed that the rear
fall of the proposed garage would be
within thirty-five feet of an existing
garage, which has been in operation
since 1909, and which was located
with the consent of IS per cent Of
the owners in the vicinity. Attorney
Wilton j. Lambert, for some of the
property owners, noted an appeal to
the Court of Appeals. Attorneys
Daniel Thew Wright and Philip Erch-
Ter appeared for Mr. Wardman.
The proposed garage will represent
an investment of 100000 it was dis
closed by the testimony.
Evening star., 1924-02-27
CITY SCHOOL FUNDS
DOUBLE IN five YEARS
Census Bureau Gives Expenditures
in Seventy-Nine Cities Between
$4,000 and 100000.
$12.77 PER CAPITA COST
Total of SOL, $4,000 Provided by
Entire Group.
,opyright by Underwood & Underwood.

Seventy-nine American cities hav-
Ing an estimatd population in 1922
of between $4,000 and 100000 each
spent s91,344,000 for educational pur-
poses other than libraries in that
year. Statistics issued by the census
bureau today show forty-four of the
seventy-nine cities spent more than
a million dollars each and that four
Of them spent more than $4,000, 900
each. The average per capita ex-
penditure for saarieS of teachers and
other expenses of maintenance and
operation, exclusive of. costs of out
lays and permanent Improvements,
amounted to s12.77 for 1922, tas COM
pared with $5.55 in 1917.
Sacramento had the largest total ex-
penditure, with s2,95e, 900, of which
s1,770,000 was for permanent improve
ments. Canton, Ohio, spent S2,194, 900,
including s1,072,000 for improvements
Schenectady. s2,174. 900, including $685.
900 for improvements, and Hoboken,
s2.111 900. including s1,031. 200 for inn
provements.
Waterbury led in expenditures for
teachers salaries and, other expenses OF
operation and maintenance, exclusive
Of permanent improvement outlays, with
s1.525. 900. Oklahoma City was secono
with s1,479,000, and Tulsa third with
s1,2s0,ooo. Other cities. which spent
more than S1,000,000 for that purpose
were:
Jacksonville. Fla. s1,hs2,000: San
Diego. $1,274.000; Bayonne, S1,271, 900
Wichita, s1,087,000; Sioux City, s1,1SS.-
/ 0o0; South Bend. s1.03s,000; Rockford,
s1,010,000; Terre Haute, S1,045, 600;
Berkeley, 81. 1.14S,00o; Fresno, $1,146,-
| 900, and Pasadena, $1,223, 900.