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The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-23

Upton Sinclair, novelist and propa-
gandist, said at q banquet in Los
Angeles.
"The World war did one good thing.
1t enabled the poor to come int their
own.
THE poor were in a dreadful state
before the World war. They knew il,
too.
"a lady was lecturing in Boston
slum one night on tasty dishes for
the masses.
my next dish. she said, is boiled
Gods head. It's very appetizing. Take
a Gods head of good size and quality,
place 1t in pot with pepper and salt
to taste, and onion
await a bit, ma amP
"a gaunt chap had risen. He was
pointing his finger at the lady and
scOwling.
Wait a bit, ma'am,' he repeated.
What we want to know ls-who gets
the codT"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-23
Jester Paid Dearly
for Fun He Enjoyed

Joseph Sadler was one of the most
picturesque rogues Of the Seventeenth
century, time when competition in
the rogue business was keen. He was
neither courageous nor daring-far
from Il, In fact-and yet there was a
style about him that made him an in
dividual For example, he once stole
the beaver hat Of gentleman who was
praying In the Temple church and in
extentuation pleaded that we are en-
Joined ito watch as well as pray"
Sadler's GROWING achievement, says
a writer In Discovery, was his theft Of
the purse and mace of the lord high
chancellor of England. How he dis
covered In what strong room they were
secured is not known, but he not only
took the baubles from their lurking
place but marched with them publicly
displayed through Lincoln's Inn fields.
A confederate bore the purse before
him, another the mace, and Sadler
brought up the rear, hat cooked and
strutting grandeur.
The little daughter or SadIerS land
lady discovered the theft. While she
was playing in his apartment during
the great housebreaker's absence she
found a pearl and a piece of tinsel up
on the carpet. Anxious to know wheth-
er there were more of the pretty play
things concealed about the room, she
succeeded in opening the cupboard
door.
'Motheri Motherl Come up here!"
cried the child excitedly. 1.-THE gentle
man has his majesty's crOwnl"
What she beheld, in point Of fact,
was the coronet OF the mace detached
from It's stock. The landlady warned
the watch, and an ambush was laid.
Loud was the laughter when the
facts became known and Sadler con-
1essed TO having figured as the lord
high chancellor in that extraordinary
harleQuinade In Lincoln's Inn fields.
Loud was the laughter. but poor Sad
Ter was condemned to death In sober
earnest. 1t is hard for jester to be
taken quite so seriously Youths Com
panion.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-23
ST. Louis ''Fool-Proof''
Reserve Bank Opened

St. Louis Every modern safety de-
vice for protection Of the vast sums
handled daily has been Incorporated
IN the massive new $S,5OO.0OO Federal
Reserve Bank building. headquarters
of the Eighth Federal Reserve dis
trict, which opened its doors here.
Equipped with vault which re-
CURED approximately 800 tons of steel
in its construction. automatic safety
signals and various other protective
features, the new bank is not only
virtually thief-proof but fool-proof.
Two years were required to con-
struct the building, which was the last
home to be completed by the IL re-
gional reserve banks in the United
States. Built along the lines Of an
immense Egyptian pyramid symbolical
of its strength, the exterior il impress
sive for its simplicity.
The huge blocks Of Bedford stone
are relieved only by the banks own
seal and by the seals Of the seven
states In which Its business Is carried
on-Arkansas, southern Illinois, south
ern Indiana, eastern Missouri, west
ern Kentucky, western Tennessee and
northern Mississippi
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-23
Deaf Mutes in Restaurants.

ain less than two minutes after a
deaf and dumb person sits down at
restaurant table every other person
in the room who speaks his language
finds out he is there, and all resolve
themselves into kind of brother.
hood" said the head waiter. IF they
talk they want to help him give his
order. Their assistance is not at ali
necessary. The customer is no fool
and the waiter is no fool. Both know
how to read and write, and if left to
themselves they would get along to-
gether like old friends. But those
folks who know the sign language
must butt in. When two deaf mutes
dine together the self-appointed in
terpreters are extraordinarily trouble
some. Maybe the friends want to
talk the bill of fare over. Every item
they mention from oysters to cheese
is noticed by their guardians and re-
ported to the waiter.
When was a green waiter took
all those orders seriously; thought
my customers really wanted them.
Well, one day / had an experience
that cured me O. that childlike SIM
plicity. Two mutes who were not
used to eating in restaurant talked
over the menu with their fingers, ami
Meddlesome Matty near by repeat
ed everything they said for bona
flde order. The men ate it all, but
when l presented the bill they re-
fused to pay for anything except
what they had ordered for them
selves. They said they thought ali
the extras | had showed at them were
side dishes that went with their din
ner free. 1t would have been poetic
justice for the man who had got me
into the trouble to have to settle, but
you don't meet much poetic justice
in restaurant The extra cost came
out of my pocket. and since then
take no orders from deaf mute ex-
cept what he writes down in black
and white"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-23
Panama Camel Revenues

The Panama canal has not as yet
completely paid for itself. The cost Of
construction including payments to
Panama and France, Appropriated
$375, 100000. The total amount of tolls
collected from 1915 to 1922 aggregated
$75, 100000 Three years ago, for pur
poses OF accounting, part of the total
cost Of constructing the canal was
written off to national defense. This
left, June 80, 1924, balance Of $685.
684, 1852 as the investment in the canal
proper and an additional sum of $4.-
017,642,46 invested in equipment. In
1924 the net income Of the Panama
canal was $16.3O7 ,94S.50, and the net
profit on auxiliary business operations
was 1901, 624.12
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-23
Registers $50 BelOsU

A new thermometer, which measures
accurately temperatures as low as $50
degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, was
described to members of the American
Philosophical society in session In
Philadelphia by DIR. w. A. Moves, pro-
lessor Of chemistry at the University
Of Illinois. AS mercury freezes at
such temperature, bulb connected
with very narrow tube containing air
Is used. AS the air expands and con-
tracts with variations in temperature
q small globule Of mercury, kept at a
temperature above Its melting point,
moves back and forth, thus serving as
an index.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-23
t,nxImo THERMOMETERS "


The thermometer is about three
centuries old as an invention, but It
has been in general practical use less
than half that time. The first Their
mometers for special uses were man
ufactured in London in 1926 and were
from one to four feet long. Within
the last fifty or seventy-fve years
the number of special types, designs
and uses of thermometers has grown
to be limitless. There are certain
types regularly manufactured now
which register as high as 1000 de-
grees, while others go as low as ~
below zero.
Any chance passerby who stops to
examine the line of cheap instru-
ments exposed for sale on a street
stand cannot fail to be struck with
the variety of temperatures they
record. These instruments are made
without any especial care and are
designed to get only within five or
Fix degrees of the actual. In making
accurate thermometers the glass tub
ing is first drawn out to greatlengths.
frequently exceeding 400 feet. These
lengths are then cut into pieces about
four feet long, known as canes. Not
more than four or five out of 100 of
these canes are found perfect. The
rest are destroyed, and that is why
thoroughly accurate thermometers
cost so much. The bore of a Their
mometer is finer than the diameter
of hair, but looks much larger than
it really is on account of the magni-
tying lens front Of the tube. To mako
the bulb one end of this slender glass
rod is heated in a blow pipe and is
formed by expanding the molten
glass by blowing through the open
end of the tube.
The size of the bore determines
the capacity of the bulb. The rule is
thai the capacity of the latter must
be 1000 times as great as that of
the former Getting the mercury in
to the bulb is the next process and
is comparatively simple. The bulb
is heated so as to expand the air it
contains, and then inverted with the
end of the tube in dish of mercury.
AS the expanded air cools 1t con-
tracts, forms a partial vacuum, and
the mercury is drawn into the tube.
The operation is continued until the
tube and the bulb are filled to the
proper point. Thea the tube Is roast
ed in hot sand to expel every particle
of moisture. When it has thoroughly
cooled the bulb is plunged into
cracked ice to 1riye the mercury to
a low point, and tAen the finishing Of
the tube begins by blowing flame
across the point near the stop where
it is desired to cut it off. 1t is drawn
out until very thin, but minute hole
is left in the centre. Then the bulb
is heated again until the mercury
fills the tube and drop of 1t is
forced out, thus displacing all the air
originally in the tube and the bulb.
The top is then sealed and the hook
drawn which secures the bulb to the
scale.
Making thermometer is all hand
work. They have never been able to
make them by machinery. One of
the largest manufacturers of Their
mometers in America said recently:
eff all thermometer tubes could be
made with the sarle size bore; If all
could be made with the same capacity
bulb; If all could be made without
taking into account the personal
equation of the yorkmen- thon, anu
then only, could the operation OF
thermometer manufacture be made
mechanical"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-23
Queer Northern Folka

'While was In Savannah some
years ago." writes T. M B., 81 stopped
a colored man and inquired the time
SO as to regulate my watch. Does
you mean de railroad or de Mediter-
ranean time. sahY the old fellow
asked.
The what
"'De Mediterranean time. sab.
which am de city time. de same as de
sum-
eve call 1t meridian time up north,
i said
81 reckon dat may be 80, sab: de
nO'thern folk am a tribe Quare in
what dey calls things, dey have quare
ways. sab. dey shorely do boston
Transcript.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-23
Alien Women Ton Men

Alien women seeking American nat
uralization in the United States usually
meet the examination in naturalization
court better than men. The percentage
of women successfully passing the test
in the eastern part of the United States
Is said to be considerably larger than
that Of the men.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-23

Goodness, Maria, why are you
hiding all the music so carefully"
'Well. John. the Pufrers are calling
on us tonight and you know Mrs. Put
fer never plays without music"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-23

brought
will
held for
thrills the which will
in Chicago
the aid Btiher
III Championship Austin Wmbey
recently,
ia
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-23

(Copyrgh by R.
Pitching the the bronchO
decision daylight
hmselfa and his saddle,
will
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-23

J. G. SqHires, British poet novelist
and essayist, makes the study Of an
eiant buildings his hobby.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-23

Investigation shows that girls have
worn shirt waists upon every oc-
azaion excent be- hurried In.
Evening star., 1925-05-08
MINE WORKERS WIN
CONTEMPT DECISION
Peaceful Persuasion of Men
to Join Union Is Held
No Violation.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WHEELING, w. Va. May S.-A de-
cision upholdinG the contention of the
United Mine Workers of America that
peaceful persuasion of miners TO join
the union in the West Virginia strike
zone was not a violation of an injunc-
ton of 1918. was handed down today
by Federal Judge w. E. Baker.
After announcing his decision in the
contempt proceedings instituted by the
West Virginia Pittsburgh Coal Com
pany against II international and dis
trict officers of the union, Judge Baker
declared in open court that he would
grant no further injunctions until he
had heard arguments on the merits of
any such case.
The court set next Monday as the
day for a hearing to decide whether
the union officers had violated provi
sions of the 1913 injunction against
acts of violence.
The 1913 injunction, granted by
Judge A. G.. Dayton to the coal COM
pany, restraining the union, its Off
GERS and members from organization
activities in the Panhandle coal field,
where a general strike was called by
the United Mine Workers on April
16 last, was modified by the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals to
permit peaceful persuasion" These
notifications, the union contend. were
contained in Judge Bakers order of
1928, perpetuatins the original in
junction. Counsel for the union
claimed that the defendants were not
guilty of contempt, because the
charges were brought under the 1913
injunction, and failed to take into
consideration the notifications.
Attorneys for the company cited
similar Injunction granted to the
Hitchman Coal CO., in which the
United States Supreme Court re-
versed the Court of Appeals and rein
stated the 1913 decree. This deci-
sion of the Supreme Court. they
claimed, would also apply to the
West Virginia. Pittsburgh Coal Co.
case.
Among those named in the con-
tempt proceedings were John l..
Lewis. international president of the
unions: international organizers and
Ohio district officers, who are con-
Quoting the Panhandle strike.
Evening star., 1925-05-08
Error Places L. S.
In Role of Saying
Humans Eat Cats

The Department of Agriculture
has prepared a printed bulletin
saying:
The cat crop ranks third in i'm
portance. Cats traditionally con-
stitute the banner horse feed of the
world and 8 per cent is used for
human consumption. The cat crop
is subject TO several diseases, chief
of which are loose and covered
smuts. stem rust and crown rust"
Then follows discourse on
wild cats, tame cats. broken cats
and wilted cats. The main Varie-
ties in the United States are given
as Swedish select, Silver Mines and
White Tartar.
The trouble was that the linotype
operator consistently hit the letter
&C" instead of the letter 90 and
had turned a treatise on oats into
one on cats.
Evening star., 1925-05-08

since, Dut the WnOle SITUATION mas uHucI-
gone an important change, as from informa
tion coming both from Russian and foreign
sources the end of the Bolshevik rule in
my fatherland is approaching. This naturally
must heighten the interest of the whole
world in the questions connected with the
Third International and her return to
freedom and independence as a national
power.
1t is with a feeling of joy that l observe
the rising development of this interest
everywhere and l am ready again to state
my views about the future of Russia,
especially as in doing / am confident that
1 am also expressing the ideas and desires
of a crushing majority of the people in
Russia and of those who for the right OF
free thought have been deprived of what
they cherished most-their fatherland.
But no one predict the future and
foresee all possible contingencies. One thing
above all others is clear and evident, the
necessity of liberating the country from
communstic rule, otherwise the many
millions of my countrymen are doomed to
certain destruction. We who are living and
waiting here, far from homes, cannot
take upon ourselves the establishment and
settlement of the fundamental questions of
Russias political constitution, for these
questions can only be solved on Russian
hopes of our people.
The first ray of light of the new era
must shine upon the pacifcation and the
ce, order and legality must replace arbitrary
tIr-n hCf1, he 1f.ay hniF~
Evening star., 1925-05-08
ORATORY F|NAL|STS
GRID FOR CONTEST
BEFORE PRESIDENT
District Winner Is Hostess to
Rivals in Tonight's Con-
test at Luncheon.
DAY SPENT INFORMALLY
BY SEVEN CONTESTANTS
Eastern Division Winner Last to
Arrive-Tests Auditorium
Acoustics.
ORATORICAL PROGRAM.

Introductory.
John Hays Hammond
Address -. President Coolidge
Musical selection.
Miss Asenath Graves.
Washington. d. c.
The Constitution"
Miss Flora Longenecker,
lion. n. Y.
THE Constitution"
Robert Sessions.
Birmingham. Ala.
THE Constitution"
Musical selection.
Eugene f. McElmeel,
Los Angeles, Calf.
Marshall and the Constitution"
George Stansell, Chicago. Ill.
The Constitution"
Philip Glatfelter, Columbia. Pa.
Lincoln and the Constitution"
Max n. kroloff,
Sioux City, Iowa
The Constitution"
Musical selection.
Awards.
The program starts promptly
at pm.
Evening star., 1925-05-08
BootIeggers to Be Placed in Stocks
And Paraded Through Des Moines

with appropriate placards. and
parade them in trucks through the
city as an example of what the
bootlegging business produces"
Police cars also will be equipped
with signs warning the public "of
the evil of illicit liquor"
For some reason" Chief Cav
ender declared, liquor cases are
not taken seriously enough by the
courts. Time after time bootleg
gers whom the police arrest are
brought into court, only to be re-
leased on some technicality.
AS a result, the tendency of the
public is to wink the other eye
and overlook the bootlegger For
the police there is but one thing to
do; to inform the public of the
bootleggars true standing in 80
ciety." .--
Evening star., 1925-05-08
Florida House Kills Moue to Place
Grants Likeness on Stone Mountain,

House killed the resolution by an
almost unanimous vote and then
by a similar vote expunged all
reference to it from the records.
Regret that the matter had ever
been introduced was expressed by
several speakers, many of them
stating that to make such a re-
quest would be an affront to the
mothers, sisters and daughters of
the men who fought and died Tor
the Confederacy, -
Evening star., 1925-05-08
BUTLER PROPOSES
To MAKE HAWAII
GREATEST OUTPOST
House Naval ~ Committee
Members viii Visit Islands
for Study of Defenses.
By the Associated Press.

Chairman Butler of the House naval
committee said today he would urge
legislation at the next session of Con-
gress to make the Hawaiian Islands
the strongest military outpost in the
world"
Members of the House naval COM
mittee, he said, would leave early in
June for the islands to obtain first
hand information on what would be
required to accomplish this purpose.
AS chairman of the naval commit
tee. Mr.. Butler has asked Secretary
Wilbur in writing to arrange for the
trip, which the chairman said would
be an entirely official one"
Mr.. Butler revealed his intention in
reply to a question asked by the AS
sociated Press as to whether he de-
sired to make any statement regarding
the recent joint Army and Navy war
maneuvers at Hawaii.
Navy Officers To Go.
The naval committee, he added. will
be accompanied on its trip by high
naval officials, and a thorough survey
made of the needs of the islands, with
particular reference to Pearl Harbor.
Mr.. Butler declared that for some
time he has thought that the
Hawaiian group should be more thor
oughly fortified.
Il am still of that opinion" he
continued. THE proposal to fortify
the islands does not mean I am op-
posed to the World Court or disarma-
ment. 1 hope these things may be
brought about, but l am beginning
To Ia,,I ~ L, l. a.
earnest about disarmament. l hope
am wrong"
Mr.. Butler said the recent maneu-
vers had in no way Influenced his
views as to fortifying the islands, be-
cause "all know about the maneuvers
is what l have read III the press"
British Move Unknown.
Il know nothing" he added, about
what the British propose to do at
Singapore. This matter has not en-
tered my mind, but we always have
built by comparison.
THE committee is going to the
islands because L asked 1t to go. |
made this request last Winter.
want the members to see for them.
selves what is needed and the way to
prepare for it.
For some time it has been my opin.
ion that the Pearl Harbor fortifica-
tions needed more attention. l want
the islands to be made the strongest
military outpost in the world l
would build Pearl Harbor to make it
impregnable. The harbor should be
made to hold the whole Pacific fleet,
and it should have sufficient subma.
rines, air equipment and coast-defense
works to keep an attacking fleet away.
Then If a hostile fleet goes by the
islands, it will be between our fleet at
Hawaii and the Pacific coast. MANY
years ago Admiral Dewey told me no
fleet would ever attack our Pacific
Evening star., 1925-05-08
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. May s.
Representative Byrd introduced
resolution today in the Florida
House calling on the directors OF
the Stone Mountain Memorial As
sociation to carve a likeness of
Gen. Ulysses IS. Grant and his
comrades on the Confederate mon
ument being chiseled on the
mountain.
After considerable debate. the
Evening star., 1925-05-08
JAP PANESE BACK is.
PROPOSAL TO CURB
USE OF GAS IN WAR
Envoy to Traffic in Arms Par
ley Commits Nation to
Burton Plan.
By the Associated Press.

GENEVA, May 8.-Japan went on
record today as favoring a strict in
terdiction of the poison gas in war.
D. Matsuda. Japanese delegate to the
League of Nations international con-
ference for the control of traffic in
arms and munitions, made this
declaration in a speech ardently sup
porting the proposal made yesterday
by Representative Theodore E. Burton
of Ohio, head of the American dele
CATION, that all export of poison gas
for use in war be prohibited
The American proposal was referred
to two subcommittee, military and
judicial; the Polish amendment con-
demnipg the use of disease bacteria
in warfare was referred to the same
committees.
Mr.. Matsuda said that Japan al
ready is a party to the poison gas
agreement made during the Washing
ton arms conference and declared that
in prohibiting the expectation of
poison gas for war purposes it also
should be understood that such
methods of warfare are forbidden by
international law. He urged the
legal committee to take up this aspect
of the problem thoroughly.
Turks Offer Amendment.
The Turkish delegation heartily
supported the American proposal, but
agreed with the Hungarian delegation
that the rights of states that do not
manufacture gas to employ gas II
they are so attacked should be re-
spected, and their opportunity for de-
fense should not be removed by too
rigid a ban on expectation.
The San Salvador delegation offered
an amendment providing that arms
may be exported to any government
that has been duly constituted in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the
constitution in force in that country"
This. it was said, is intended to
prevent civil strife by restricting the
facilities for securing war supplies.
The Chinese and Rumanian delega-
tions opposed the amendment. The
Chinese said it afforded an oppor-
unity for discrimination because If
any manufacturing country disl1ked
new government in any other country
it could argue that 1t was unconstitu-
tionally organized. The Chinese said
this would be dangerous to interna-
tional relations The Rumanians de-
clared that the league covenant recog-
niZes the right of all countries TO
procure means of defense.
British Plan COnfuses.
1--WE are confused" was the COM
ment of one delegate to the confer
ence today, regarding the British pro-
posal that warships be omitted from
the list of armaments subject to con-
troll
This feeling of confusion was ap-
parently shared by many of the other
delegates, who learned only this
morning of the sensational develop
ment at last nights secret session of
lCnntinued on Page 4, Column %
Evening star., 1925-05-08
BY the Associated Press.

DES MONIES, Iowa, May S.-A
weekly motor truck parade of cap.
tured bootleggers, confined in
stocks, reminiscent of old Puritan
days, is planned by Chief of Police
James Cavender ito inform the
public of the bootleggers' true
standing in society"
An announcement to this effect
followed a parade through the
streets of wrecked automobile
containing policeman disguised
as Death and holding aloft a
bottle labeled "hootch."
Chief Cavender said today he was
arranging to build large stocks
such as were used in Puritan days.
He said It was his plan to place
al Sootleggers arrested in stocks