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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-12-31

Monday from trip to eastern states,
where they they studied forms of
simplified government adopted in those
states.
w. L. Nolan, lieutenant governor
elect, and former speaker of the
house, is chairman of the interim
committee. He said he would call a
meeting of the committee at once to
complete drafting the reorganization
plan for early submission to the leg
islature.
The reorganization plans exact
form has not been approved by the
committee, but according to members,
it will contain these stellar provi-
sions:
A budget system with means in
corporated in it to control state ex-
penditures at all times.
Capitalization of government in
solar as consultations can be effected,
which would make possible the exer-
else of functions with which depart
ments are charged with greater eff
cheney and economy.
Placing in the hands of the COVER
SIcdIcI COHCIOl W oupPOlC hio
RESPONSIBILITIES to the citizens of the
state.
Governor-elect Christensen makes
plain his purpose of centering all of
his earlier activity and efforts on the
plan of reorganization of state gov
eminent, incorporating the budget
system.
I 81 shall make no appointments to
state office until after the legislature
acts on the reorganization plan." he
said. 81 believe that a plan will be
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-12-31

adopted which will make fewer ap-
pointments necessary. Meanwhile, l
shall not be able to consider appoint
ments intelligently, since / will not
know how many appointments will be
necessary. Other things are to occupy
my mind. I shall begin at once to
prepare my message to the legisla-
ture and to devote attention to pre-
paration of recommendations to the
legislature regarding reorganization
of the state government, which is the
duty with which our committee was
charged by the 1923 legislature. The
only immediate appointments l shall
fill will be those Of my secretary and
office staff and possible emergency
appointments where vacancies would
cripple the government and local Of
fees, which could not possibly be af-
fected by any change in the form OF
state government"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-12-31
Economy First
Then Jobs" Says
Christensen
NEW GOVERNOR WILL MAKE NO
APPOINTMENTS UNTIL AFTER
LEGISLATURE PLANS ENON-
OMIC CHANGES.

Minnesota's appointive state officers
whose terms expire early in 1925, will
remain in office without disturbance
by Theodore Christensen, governor
elect, until after the 1925 legislature
acts on a plan of reorganization to
be recommended by a house interim
committee, according to Fred w. De-
CURE of the Minneapolis Journal.
Mr.. Christensen states he will with
hold all appointments, pending legis-
lative action on the proposal for SIM
plified government, except those of
his secretary and office staff and pos
sible emergency appointments, made
necessary through vacancies, and To-
cal appointments, which could not pos
sibly be affected by the reorganiza-
ton.
Christensen, Norton Back.
Mr.. Christianson and Representa-
tive w. l. Norton of Minneapolis, both
members of the interim house COM
mittee on reorganization, returned
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-12-31
Trees

I think that | shall never see
A poem lovely as tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the sweet earth's flowing
breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me
But only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-12-31
Two Kinds of
College Goats

And now DR.. Richard Burton of
our own University of Minnesota has
joined the chorus of PROFESSIONAL voices
raised against the various blights that
are blighting away at Americas col
leges. In the pages of the American
Mercury, he says there are two great
classes of students whose exclusion
would help the situation-the sons
and daughters that go to college be-
cause their parents did, and the sons
and daughters who go to college be-
cause their parents didn't.
DIR. Burton's picking out of these
two great groups is worthy of serious
consideration. The youth who, de-
spite inaptitude, enters college just
because it is "the thing" to do, mere
ly because his forebears were college
bred folk, obviously is out of place,
especially at State University, sup
ported by public taxation. Perhaps
he is without earnest desire to absorb
the learning the institution offers.
Perhaps he is without native ability
to absorb this learning. Perhaps he
is without both desire and ability.
Now we come to the second group,
the children who go to college be-
cause their parents did not go. Pitt
full is the plight of the family where
the parents, denied college advant-
ages in their own youth, harbor the
folly that some magical influence,
some educational abracadabra cloist-
| cred in college halls, can make intel
lectual giants out of any sons and
daughters. regardless of whether those
children have the natural facilities
for receiving and utilizing advanced
learning. Son or daughter is packed
off to college. The results may be
all that had been hoped. Then, again,
the results may be tragically disap-
pointing.
Most of US can remember ambitious
/ youths of the long ago who were toll
somely working their way through
college and burning the well known
! midnight oil while packing hodge.
podge of stuff into poor overworkeo
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-12-31
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-15
Home Town Coolidge
Club Organized
At Plymouth. vt.

Plymouth, VT, April Ito fur
Their the presidential campaign of
Calvin Coolidge as "the Vermont far
mer Boy" the Home Town Coolidge
Club of Plymouth was formed here
tonight by the presidents boyhood
friends with the cooperation of ma
tioral and state party officers. The
presHent of the organization is Clar-
encen. Keith of Plymouth. who went
to school with the president. The
officers are all Plymouth men, but
the executive committee includes
Governor Redfield Proctor Of Yer
mont and National Republican Com
mitteeman Earle s. Kingsley.
The meeting was held In the little
hall in this village above the room
in which Calvin Coolidge was born.
Chairman John Paddock of the state
Republican Committee, presided. The
club decided to canvass the entire
country for members. The nucleus
of its mailing list will be the many
thousands of names on the register
kept at the home of President Cool
idGe's father here since he admins
tered the oath of office to his son IN
the little farmhouse last August.
A Coolidge club was formed here
some time ago. limited to Plymouth
residents. Recently national and state
party leaders requested that wider
scope be given the Vermont far
mers boy" movement and tonights
meeting resulted. Contributions to
the club will be limited, 1t was de-
cided, to small amounts, and each
members will be given a certificate
with panorama of Plymouth in 1t!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-15
Senate Battle
Renewed Over
Coolidge Message

Washington, April 14-Administra-
ton senators were again in fighting
mood today in resisting the Pinchot-
Heney onslaught at Secretary Mellon
by way of the internal revenue bu-
reau investigating committee.
Through senators Watson. Repub-
lican, Indiana, committee chairman.
they gathered new support from con :
ferences with President Coolidge and
Mr.. Mellon while Senator Edge. Re-
publican. New Jersey. raided the
Democratic side with a prepared
speech defending the presidents &C
ton in the controversy.
The challenge was taken up
promptly by Senator Hef1in. Demo-
crat, Alabama, who trained his guns
on the white house and Republican
leaders generally. charging an attempt
to strange senate investigations. The
word battle on the senate floor was
interrupted at its height, however. by
an unexpected motion for an execu-
tive session to consider Japanese
exclusion made by Senator Lodge, the
Republican leader
The armistice Is destined to be brief
II leaders on both sides make good
their promises to air further the
three cornered political combat that
has come out of the presidents spe-
cial message to the senate last week
on the investigation with Secretary
Mellon figuring as the storm center.
Senator Watson brought private
word to his colleagues from the white
house early today after conference
with the president and Secretary
Mellon that his statement on the floor
last week that the president was con-
cerned only with the internal revenue
bureau INVESTIGATING committee and
the attempt to bring Francis j. Hen
ey into that work as committee coun-
sci, stated Mr.. Coolidge's position
CORRECTLY
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-15
Brunswick Village
CORPORATION Meets
Especial to Kennebec JonrnaO

tSpecial to kennebec JournaD
Brunswick. April 14.-The Bruns-
wick Village Corporation held It's
annual meeting this evening and
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: Moderator, Edward w.
Wheeler; clerk. John W.. Riley: as
SCISSORS. Samuel w. Kurdish, Emile
A. Cendreau, William G.. Booker:
treasurer, William Fl. Farrar; col.
lector of taxes, John X. Standwood:
auditors. Franklin c. Webb, HARRY
+. Thompson: appropriations to tho
amount Of $9.225 were made which
Is 5000 less than last year.
These appropriations were as fol-
lows: Payment OF corporation bonds,
$4OOO: interest, $41O0: contingent ex-
penses. $500; temporary store on
Coffin street, $3.50; automatic flush
tanks at the end of Main street sewer
500: abatement of taxes, $75. The
corporation voted to prove and ratffy
the debt incurred by the Offices dur
ing the past year in making repairs
on the village sewer system and All
thorized the raising of $4,000 by
bonds or notes to pay the expense of
these repairs. It was voted that taxes
come due August first and that In
terest from August first be added. TO
taxes unpaid November first. The
corporation finished the year with
x3.21O.52 in the treasury. -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-15
Plan to Interest
Many Organizations
In Outdoor Project

Washington, April 14.-President
Coolidge's special cabinet commit
tee created yesterday to work out d
co-ordinated plan for national use
by the people of the recrational rae
i,itirs of the country lost no time to-
day in beginning its work.
The first meeting was called by
Secretary Weeks in his offices at the
war department and it was decided
that the committee would enter I'M
mdiately upon a cempaign to inter
est all national organizations in eff
forts to expand under a national pol
lev all recreational opportunities and
means for their full enjoyment, by
the people.
Among the organizations whose
aid will be solicited are the Boy and
Dir, Scouts of America, Forest and
other associations. Park commits
sions. and recreational agencies gen.
Only preliminary plans to- put the
work in motion throughout the
country were discussed at the meet
ing. 1t was foreseen, however, py
several members that the task before
them necessarily would have to be
divided in it's many phases between
subcommittee comprising govern
ment and civilian representatives.
It was evident that the members
intended as soon as possible to de-
wise a broad plan for the placing OF
every facility of the federal govern
ment. including the national parks,
wild life reserves and forests. with
in easy reach of the people for re-
creational purposes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-15
HALT SPREAD FIRE
At EVERETT, MASS,
WITH $4,000 LOSS

Everett, Mass, April 14-Blazing
broom corn blown by strong wind
over thickly settled district from a
burning broom factory today set fire
to the roofs Of nearly fifty houses.
What threatened to be a serious con-
flagration was checked by the local
fire department and apparatus from
Boston and other nearby cities aft
er two factories and dwelling had
been destroyed and many dwellings
damaged. The loss was estimated at
$4,000.
Embers from burning rubbish on a
dump ignited the broom factory Of
John Conrad & Company on Tileston
street and the infiammable contents
or the two-story wooden building
made it burn rapidly. The adjoining
bottle factory of Israel Saperstein
and the dwelling of John Miloski
were destroyed and the roofs of a
score Of houses were ruined.
Water curtains raised by the Bos-
ton firemen finally stopped the spread
of the flames. Lieutenant William
B. Parker of the Everett fire depart
ment sustained broken arm when
he tripped over a hose and Fred
Peterson, a hoseman, and John J.
Sullivan, volunteer fireman, were
slightly hurt. A child was injured
when struck by a piece of apparatus
fastening to the fire.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-15
HOLD BROTHERS /!
FOR THEFT FISH
NETS AT BELFAST
Especial to Kennebec JournaD

\opcCldl 10 heuleUeC JOUfudl)
Belfast, Me-, April 14-Held under
one thousand dollar bonds for the
grand jury which sits tomorrow, Ar
thur Gray of Camden and his bro
Their Amos of Cape Roster are in the
Waldo County Jail charged with
stealing cod fish nets owned by Cap
tain Edward Bracket of Portland.
Capt. Bracket came to Penobscot by
weeks ago and put out his nets
near Jobs Island. He was threatened
, at the time he alleges, by the two
men who claimed he was infringing
on their rights and who said he
would lose his nets. Next morning
his nets were gone. Seeing the men
in their boats he gave chase, follow
ing them to Camden where they went
ashore and he lost sight of them. He
returned to Portland and on Friday
came to Belfast and obtained a war
rant for the arrest of the Gray bro
Tiers. With Deputy Sheriff G. Maur-
ice Littlefield, he went down the bay
last night in his power boat. Early
this morning the men were located
and chase lasting several hours
ended in the arrest of the two men
in Camden Harbor. They were
brought to Belfast this afternoon and
a hearing was given them before
Municipal Judge Carleton Doak.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-15
BONUS WINS RIGHT
OF WAY IN SENATE;
PASSAGE PREDICTED

Washington. April 1.-THE soldier
bonus bill won the right Of way over
the tax measure in the Senate by vote
today Of the finance committee and
will be brought up for consideration
before the end Of the week.
Senator Jones, Democrat, New Mex
leo. Joined Republicans in approving
such program. while other Democrats
did not vote, Chairman Smooth said.
Senator Curtis of Kansas, a Republic
can member of the committee, will re-
port the bill formally to the Senate to-
morrow and there were indications to-
night that the legislative calendar
would be cleared FIR it by Wednesday
or Thursday.
Passage of the bonus measure will
be n the proposal Of Senator Sim
mons. North Carolina, ranking minority
member of the finance committee, to
incorporate an option for full cash
payments. The bill as agreed to by the
finance committee is practically the
same as approved by the House and its
passage in this form would assure a
speedy report from conference to the
president.
The bill provides for 2o-year endow-
ment life insurance policies and cash
payments to veterans not entitled to
more than $50 in adjusted service COM
pensation. Some Republican leaders
have indicated the belief that in this
form 1t would pass both houses over
the veto of President Coolidge, who
has declared opposition to a soldier
bonus.
Democrats of the committee indicat-
cd today that no determined effort
would be made to upset the program
for consideration Of the bonus bill
ahead Of the tax measure.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-15
Example to Others

ITO the preservation. the guard
ianship, and the gradual perfection OF
this system. the American people may
well be summoned. From its earliest
establishment, our government has
been an example to other peoples,
wherever they might be. seeking the
way of enlightened freedom 80 1t
is for us. so to direct the processes
of our public life that our institutions
shall continue worthy of the admira-
ton and imitation of other communi-
ties, and the sure defense of our own
liberties, in this We shall render our
greatest service to humanity.
I'VE shall succeed, IL we keep nj
ways before us the high purpose
which presided ut the beginning of
our government. We shall need at all
times, and we need particularly I'm
this current troubled period, to keep
clearly In our thought the conception
or our system as the most nearly
perfect mode of guaranteeing the es-
sentials of freedom. Under It we have
enjoyed liberty without license. I'm
der 1t we have been saved from the.
excess of partisanship or of section
alism. Under 1t we have grown in
strength and wealth and moral au-
thority. But we have never seen. and
IL Is unlikely that we ever shall see
the time when we can safely relax
our vigilance and risk our institutions
TO run themselves under the hand
or an active. even though well-inten-
TONED, minority, Abraham IfncoIn
said that no man Is good enough to
govern any other man. To that we
might add that no minority Is good
enough to be trusted with the gov
eminent of a majority. And still fur.
Their, we shall be wise II we maintain
also that no majority can be. trusted
10 be wise enough. and good enough.
at all times. to exercise unlimited
control over q minority. We need the
restraints OF a written constitution.
Each DO His Part
TO prevent the possibility of such
things happening. we must require
all citizens who are entitled to do
SO, to take their full part in public
aHairs. We must be sure that they
are educated, trained and equipped
10 do their part well. We must not
permit the mechanisms of govern.
ment. the multiplicity of constitu-
tional and statutory provisions TO
become SO complex rs to get be-
yond control by an aroused and in
formed electorate. We must provide
Continued on Page 5-Coi. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-15
SENATE ANSWERS JAP THREAT
WITH rs TO z VOTE AGAINST
"GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT"
SEARLES FIGHTING
SUIT OF COUNSEL IN
CONTESTED Will

New York, April 14.-Counsel de-
Tending Victor Albert Searles in the
$4,000 suit filed against him by
Judge Harry c. Curtis of Warwick, r.
l., told q Jury before Supreme Court
Justice Proskauer today that his client
would lose the 100000 gained by him
from the estate of his uncle. the late
Edward +. searles, If the IL lawyers
associated in the case were to be paid
on the basis demanded by the Rhode
Island jurist.
Judge Curtis was one Of the dozen
attorneys who had something to do
with the settlement Of the younger
Searles' suit to break his uncle's will.
He also represented the nephew when
Mrs. SearleS obtained a divorce. He
received $4,000 for his services, but
believes he should have been paid
$780, 900, and the suit he filed to collect
the difference went to trial today.
The elder Searles died at Methuen,
Mass, in 1920, bequeathing all but $4.-
100000 Of his $35, 100000 estate to his
secretary, Arthur E. Walker. To his
nephew he left but s250,000. He sued
to break the will and eventually OBJ
tained a compromise settlement Of $4,-
100000.
Judge Curtis, one Of 12 lawyers re-
tanned at different times by the young
er Scarles during the litigation. claims
to have been largely instrumental in
forcing the settlement. Colonel Will
liam Hand. counsel for Judge Curtis,
told the court today that his client S
discovery Of letters which had been
written by the elder Searles to a youth,
Michael Angelo Ellison, had turned the
tide in the nephew's favor, Walker
agreeing to the compromise. he said.
rather than submitting to their publ
cation.
Max D. Steuer, attorney for the
nephew, told the jury that Judge Cur
tbs had had little to do with the COM
promise, which, he said, was effected
by others Of the IL lawyers, and that
the $4,000 paid the Warwick jurist
by his client had been a liberal fee.
He belitt1ed the significance of the
letter from the elder Searles to Eli
son, and said the eventual compromise
was well on It's way before their ex-
istence was known.
Attorney Rand told the Jury the
Searles fortune had been left him by
Mrs. Searles, who was the widow of
Mark Hopkins, pioneer railroad builder
of the west. Searles married her. he
said, while in her employ as an inte-
rior decorator in 1888, when she was
67 years old and he 40. She died in
1891.
The trial will be resumed tomorrow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-15
Leaders Change Votes

This action Is preliminary to
adoption by the senate by an over
whelming majority of the house Jap
anese exclusion provision. Whatever
the result would have been without
the incident of the Ambassadors let
ter. that communication served to
change the votes of q number OF ao-
ministratiOn leaders. including Sem
ator Lodge. of Massachusetts, chair
man of the foreign relations COM
mlttcc.
The Republican leader informed
the senate in open Eession that he
regarded the Hanihara letter as a
"veiled threat" and declared that in
the face of that threat he could not
support the immigration committec's
proposal to recognize by law the
"gentlcmens agreement"
Aroused Over Threat
4 number of other senators TOOK
the same view and only one voice.
thai of Senator Sterling. Republican.
South Dakota. was raised in defense
Of the ambassadors action. Senator
Colt. chairman of TIE immigration
committee, joined Sterling In the
vote, but did not speak.
Senators generally threw off the
usual restraints in dealing with In
ternational questions. They were
blunt and outspoken in their declara-
tons that in view of the grave con-
sequences" warning in the ambassa-
doris letter there was nothing Tor
them to do but make 1t clear once
and for sll that immigration -
domestic question in the handling oil
which no Independent power couio
ave its sovereignty questioned.
Confer with Coolidge
While the debate proceeded, Secre-
tary Hughes, who transmitted MT.
Hanihara's letter to the house ana
senate immigration committees ias!
week. twice conferred with Pres1deh!
Coolidge. He declindi to say VIVA,
the nature OF tho conversations mao
been and no information was rortn-
coming from the white house.
After the vote which eliminated
tho language framed by the com
mittee to legalize the gentlemen
agreement" Senator Reed. Rpubii'
can. Pennsylvania, who Is actively In
charge of the immigration Dill, gave
notice that an exclusion amendment
would be drafted overnight IN the
same language as that employed IN
The bill which the house passed ias'
week by a majority of more than
four TO one. This insureS that what
ever difference may arise on othel
points between the two houses IN
completing the immigration bill; the
Japanese exclusion provision VIII 81
TO the president.
Coolidge Views Not Known
No indication has yet come IRON
the White House as to the course
President Coolidge will follow. 10
days developments in the senate
however, seemed to indicate ina.
there would be sufficient votes ~
both houses to repass the bin over
CONTINUED on Page 5-Col. ~
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German Reply on
Experts Due Today

Berlin, April IA (By A. Po-The
German goernment's reply to the
communication of the reparation
commission regarding the experts
report will be sent to Paris Tuesday.
Political circles are informed that
the Marx Str.s mann cabinet will
second the action of the reparation
commission with respect to the lat
ter's adoption of the report as ba-
sis for negotiations.
The formal Draft Of the German
reply, however. was deferred until
tomorrow owing to the late adjourn
ment of today's extended conferences
between the central government and
the premiers Of the federated states.