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The Washington times., 1925-07-23
.R.O.T.C. YOUTHS.
BREAKING
CAMP
Georgetown Students Praise
Training As They Prepare
to Return Home

CAMP MEADE, Nd, July a. :
Today is the last day of the camp
for the students of the Reserve
Officers Training Corps here. To.
day they are breaking camp, pre-
paratory to leaving for home.
1t has been a great camp, &C.
cording to the students from
Georgetown University. Most of
them have benefited from the
training and camp life.
Candidates, of the Citizens Mill.
tary Training Camp are to hold a
maneuver here July %, one day
before the camp breaks up. Flank
ammunition is to be used by the
men. The two forces will be di.
vided into the Reds" and the
Blues"
The Citizens Military Training
Camp contingents are today firing
on the rifle range. It is necessary
that the students make q certain
number of points, out Of q . total
number possible, in order to quail.
~ as marksmen, sharpshooters,
and expert riflemen. The First
battalion of the Twelfth Infantry
is on the range.
Those in the Third battalion.
The Washington times., 1925-07-23
Tnlck Driver Rankrupt

George Paul Diederick. who says
he is 4 truck driver. has flied Q,
petition IN the District Supreme
Court TO be adjudged a voluntary
bankrupt, listing his debts Ct
AZ 947. 20 and his assets at $4,000.
ATTORNEYS Rooney e. Toomey ap.
near for the petitioner.
The Washington times., 1925-07-23

REVIEW the troops cf the regular
ARMY stationed here, and the
students Of the Citizens Military
Training Camp. Colonel George ~
iThorne commanding officer OF the
Twelfth Infantry. will be In com.
mand Of all troops.
The Washington times., 1925-07-23
Problem OF AtoInical
Power Is Believed
Near Solution
BY international News Service.
s.a& .e an

BERKELEY, CAL, July "a
Intensive study of the problem
Of releasing the energy ct the
atom. which is being carried on
in the laboratories of physics
and chemistry at the University
of California, is near solution,
scientists believe.
The solution Of this problem
will increase the power of man
over the elements and permit
the operation of airplanes and
dirigibles over any distance de-
sired, according to G. N. Taylor,
instructor in chemistry, who is
working on the problem in CO.
operation with T. S. Bracket,
assistant professor Of physics,
and j. J. Hopfield, instructor in
physics.
The Washington times., 1925-07-23

The first review of the Citizens
Military Training Camp will be
held tomorrow afternoon here.
Brigadier General La Roy s. Up
ton, commanding general Of the
summer training camps here, will
The Washington times., 1925-07-23

A pamphlet put out by the
Young Workers League Of America,
Ills w. Washington boulevard,
Chicago, was distributed in the
camp here yesterday. The paper
urged boycott on the C.M.T.C.
The Washington times., 1925-07-23

which includes companies I, k, L
and M, are receiving instructions
today in the school Of the company,
and other drills Of the soldier.
The Washington times., 1925-07-23

and slightly hurt at Thirteenth and
Corbin place northwest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
JEWELS MINED
IN MONTANA ADD
TO STATES. FAME

HELENA. Mont.-Widely known for
its mineral resources, its immense
grain fields, its wool and oil, Montana
is acquiring additional fame for its
gem deposits Charles B. Hubbschmidt
of Lynbrook, N. Y, recent visitor,
said the in his travels he had found
Montana famous for its sapphires
among New York jewelers., Antwerp
lapidaries, and European aristocracy
Records of the state board of equal
ization show. that two sapphire mines
in the state produced gems valued at
nearly 100000 during the last seven
months of 1924. One of these produces
the Yogo stones and, according to the
state department of agriculture, is
said to be the most valuable of its
kind in the world. 1t is worked in
the manner of a quartz mine.
The other deposit produces industri-
al stones. There are two other known
sapphire beds lin the state, which are
not being worked. The output is
shipped to London and most of the
cutting is done in Switzerland.
Other gems and stones listed by the
department of agriculture as native to
Montana are octahedral diamonds,
moss agates and mocha stones of fine
quality, black tourmaline, yellow and
smoky topaz, rhodonite, azurmala-
chite, Jasper, and garnets.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
Gerard Sees Throne
for Ex-Kaiser's Kin

NEW YORK-James w. Gerard, for
mer ambassador to Germany, in an
address forecast that the grandson of
the former kaiser would be called to
the throne of Germany. Mr.. Gerard
made the prophecy in answer to a
question.
"The former kaiser never will re-
gain his throne" replied Mr.. Gerard
"He ceased to be kaiser when he hid
behind the skirts of the queen OF
Holland. But son of the former
kaiser may be called to govern Ger
many, and a grandson certainly will. -
In his address, which dealt with
European conditions in general, Mr.
Gerard said England is going to
pieces because of alcoholism and the
caste system" He said England's
commercial supremacy is being
threatened by the dole system and
that Germany is forging ahead.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
CHICAGO TO SING
CRIME AWAY ON
CHRISTMAS EVE

The sawed of shotgun, automatic
Aivver squad and tear gas bomb hav-
ing failed to suppress crime and drive
criminals out of Chicago, an appeal
is to be made to their finer instincts
through the medium of music, it was
announced Tuesday night.
Music, long reputed to have the
charms that soothe savage breasts,
will be turned loose on the Knights
of the Cat and Barons of the Beer
Trucks in full force on the night of
Dec. "a in the form of Christmas car
OILS.
The committee behind the movement
plans for the singing of Christmas
carols throughout the city on the
largest scale ever tried anywhere in
the world.
God Rest. You Merry, Gent emen,"
and other carols will be sung by thou
sands of persons in the street., hotel
Hobbies, schools, theaters, jails and all
public institutions. Opera stars,
church singers and concert vocalists
will lend their voices to the task of
banishing crime. The carols will be
broadcast by radio.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
Big Coal Users Now
Watch SmOkestacks

On the roof of an East side build
ing in New York city is a small OBJ
servation tower in which man sits
all day before a desk on which are
mounted eight little electrical switch
es. One watching him would soon see
that he spends his time gazing out
the window, toward battery of eight
smokestacks Smokestacks they are
called, but they come fairly close to
the point, where, by comparison, they
might almost be called smokeless.
If the discharge from one of these
stacks begins to show an objection
able color, the observer in the tower
knows just what this means. Down
in the boiler room someone in charge
has been a little careless about main
tanning the proper admixture of air
with coal, and imperfect combustion
is the immediate result. Fuel is be-
ing wasted and the atmosphere is
being needlessly soiled by the in
crease of partially consumed matter
carried through the stack.
The "f1ue gas observer" in the
tower Immediately throws the switch
that bears the number corresponding
to the number of the offending stack.
A red light similarly numbered at
once flashes out the news in the
boiler room, warning the engineer in
charge that correction of the firing
under that particular boiler is needed,
and within minute or two the i'm
provement in color and density of the
discharge from the stack shows that
the needed adjustment has been made.
The Edison company has pointed
the way that all great coal-burning
plants will eventually follow not only
with actual financial gain to them
selves, through the large saving in
fuel which more perfect combustion
will permit, but also with great i'm
provenlent in the health and comfort
of those who have to breathe the air
in the neighborhood of these plants.
We will wonder, before many years
have passed, why such contamination
of the air was ever permitted at all.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
The New Minister

The new minister is shy plant
which is torn up by the roots every
three or four years and located
among total strangers. Sometimes
this is done at the request of the min
lister and sometimes at the request OF
an irate body of parishioners.
Whenever a minister is transplant
ed as the result of insurgency in the
church it will usually be found that
the leading insurgents are those who
never attend divine worship except
on Easter Sunday, but who contribute
heavily from front seat on the plat
form. Their criticism of the minister
always is that his sermons are not in
teresting.
The first thing the new minister is
called upon to do is to revamp the
Ladies' Aid society and reorganize
the choir, whose members stay away
from church in order to show their
respect for their old pastor. Some of
the heaviest contributors express a
deep sense of disappointment by cut
ting down their contributions to $3.50
per quarter, payable in garden truck.
AS soon as the new minister lands
in town he is taken to the home of
biased pedigree of the membership.
This task is usually confined to some
brother who is wholly free from
notes and beams and who aims to be
sound asleep when the collection box
is being circulated.
After the new minister gets ac-
quainted, he finds that there isn't
much of anything to do except dig
out two sermons week, heal up a
large, resonant split in the church,
keep UP the finances, collect his own
salary, make few thousand pastor
ial calls, reconcile some of the war
ring brethren, and act as janitor. 1t is
no wonder that the average commun-
ity looks upon the minister as a pam
pered pet of luxury, with nothing to
do but fit around in Prince Albert
coat and serve mixed metaphors
twice on Sunday.
If some of the caustic critics in the
pews could exchange places with the
minister for a week, there would be
less clandestine yawning at the even
ing service and fewer care-free COM
ments on the morning discourse.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
BRING BIG GOLD
HAUL FROM NEW
CANADA FIELDS

WRANGELL, Alaska-The last boat
of the season to come down the Sti-
kline river from the Cassiar gold re-
gion in northern British Columbia ar
rived here with a capacity puassenger
list including miners, engineers, and
prospectors Coarse gold and nuggets
taken from the new gold fields, valued
at $500 were exhibited by several
placer miners. William Grady, dis
coverer of the gold district, brought
out 242 ounces of the yellow metal af-
ter spending f1fty-three days on his
claim. Many of the gold hunters an
nounced that they would return to
their claims early next spring.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
Two Men and a Woman
Beheaded i'm Swamp

NEWCASTLE, Pa.-State and coun-
ty troopers, who set out Monday to
clear up two mysterious murders, are
confronted with a third.
A skull, believed to be that of the
skeleton found late Saturday in the
marshy lands near West Pittsburgh,
was found Monday, and in the search
for it, another skull was unearthed.
Two weeks ago the headless body of
man was found in the same marsh,
and his head was found nearby.
State police express the belief that
fiend with an obsession for behead-
ing his victims chose this musty, hid
den backwoods either as the scene
of the crimes or as the cemetery for
his victims.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
ENGLAND SPENDS
DAY OF SERIOUS
THOUGHT ON RUM

LONDON-With the United King
dom Alliance convention preaching
local option" as an entering wedge
for prohibition and David Lloyd
George counseling sober examination
of American prohibition as possible
model to England, the nation today
was giving unusual attention to the
wet and dry problem.
Both the alliance and Mr.. Lloyd
George held that Britain's drink bill
is a menace in view of the economic
situation of the country. Mr. Lloyd
George supplemented his remarks with
a kind word for the American move
ment.
He declared there ought not to be
here indiscriminate condemnation of
prohibition which has been carried by
ITO 900, 900 people" And, he added, no
political party in the United States
dares now to ask abolition of the dry
law
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
WHEN OCTOBER CALLS

There is something in the autumn
that is native to my blood
Touch of manner, hint of mood;
And my heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and the purple and
the crimson keeping time.
The scarlet OF the naples can shake
me like a cry
Of bugles going by,
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like smoke
upon the hills.
There is something in October sets
the gypsy blood astir;
We must rise and follow her,
When from every hill of flame
She calls and calls each vagabond by
name Bliss Carmen.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28

Nor grandly view, with hauteur like
czar's,
The short and simple flivvers of the
poor.
The boast of shiny paint, the pomp of
power,
And all that charms the motoristic
fop
Await alike the inevitable hour
The paths of touring lead but to the
shop.
Can streamline hood or silver-plated
hubs
Back to it's mansion call the missing
spark?
Can plush upholstery foil the clumsy
dubS
Who back into your tenders in the
dark?
Full many boob of purest ray serene
Succumbs each summer to the tour
list itch;
Full many car is doomed to blush
unseen,
And waste it's sweetness in a west
ern ditch.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
THE TOURIST

with Apology to Cray
The klaXon sounds the knell of part
ing day.
Some late arrivals through the dust
clouds creep,
And three hours after we have hit the
hay
The noise Gains down so we can get
to sleep.
Save where, from FOUNDER pennant-
clad sedan,
The radio set emits its raucious
squeal,
And, underneath nearby light, a
man
Pounds until daylight on busted
wheel.
Beneath those tattered tops, and shell
tering tents,
Where falls the dust into each sun
burned pore,
Each on his folding bed of slight ex-
penSe
The rude explorers of the highway
Snore.
Let not ambition mock their creaky
cars,
Their khaki cloths, of vintages OBJ
scure;
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
BelOit Party Finds
Stone Age Necklace

CHICAGO-Finding of a necklace
made up of dentalium shells and cave
bear teeth on an paleolithic site at
Les Eyzies, France, was announced
recently by the Logan museum of Be-
lott college. DR.. George L. Collie, cur
ator of the museum, said the necklace
was the only cave bear tooth necklace
of which he had knowledge The neck
lace, of magdalenian type, is believed
to be about $4,000 years old. 1t rep
resents, according to DR.. Collie, the
work of the last people who lived in
the paleolithic age. The dentalium
shells are supposed to have come from
the Mediterranean sea.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
Chicago Crime Bill
$6OO,OOO,OOO Yearly

CHICAGO-Chicago could afford to
give each of its estimated 10000
crooks an annuity of $4,000 and still
be somewhat ahead of the game, Chas.
R. Holden, president of the Chicago
crime commission declared Monday.
The citys annual crime bill is far
in excess of 6O0,0O0,000, Holden de-
clared in a speech, including the cost
of jails and courts. Approximately
1 per cent of the citys population of
100000 is engaged in criminal pur-
suits, he said.
Crime has increased 100 per cent
here since 1900. The stage, movies
and newspapers are partly to blame
for the increase in crime, he said, be-
cause of the manner in which crook
plays and banditry are featured.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
FORD CAN'T SELL
MACHINERY OF
SCRAPPED SHIPS

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Under the
terms of the contract between Henry
Ford of the United States shipping
board for the purchase of 1919 steel
ships for scrap, now made public for
the first time, the Detroit manufac-
turer must take possession of the
ships on or before Dec. II or pay the
shipping board the cost of their main
tenance in layup and must scrap all
of them by Feb. 4, 1927, except those
he intends to fit with Diesel engines
and operate himself.
The terms of the contract have been
the topic of much speculation because
of rumors that Mr.. Ford would be al
lowed to sell some of the machinery.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
'POORHOUSE' FOR
ERSTWHILE RICH
HAS 81 GUESTS

NEW YORK-New York's poor
house" for former millionaires, known
as the Alexander Freedman home af-
ter it's founder, has rounded out its
first year, with fifty-seven guests"
These have twenty eight servants to
wait upon them. They live in beauti-
full furnished home free of expense to
seventy persons selected by the adj
mittance committee, quests" being
limited to that number, although the
building is larger than many institu-
lions that house 1000 inmates" a
word that is tabooed in the Freed
man home Applicants must be not
less than sixty nor more than eighty
years old, and preference is given to
those who are husband and wife.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
The Waning
PrOgressiVes.

Following the recent election fiasco
the Herald privately registered an
oath to lay off political editorials. Our
views are well known and as far as
we could do so, have been plainly
stated. It would seem that sincerity
at least would win few converts.
Yet Judging by the fetishism Of the
voters mind, all our pen pushing,
typewriter pounding and typesetting
ayailed not a jot or title. The voter
serenely follows his bent or preju-
dice, undisturbed by attacks from plat
form or press. So we said: Whats
the use?" We quit.
That is we thought we quit. In re-
a1ity we can no more refrain from
offering political comment than vii
lage gossip can stop talking about her
neighbors. An editorial writer Is Bit
ten with a virus which runs the
course of a lifetime. He quits at
times-until soreness wears off. Then
he goes at the pounding again.
So here's the subject-the waning
Progressive movement Our late SEN
ator, it seems, was a true progressive
when he stayed in state politics and
worked to fruition the ideas PROFOUND
ed by University economists. These
men dreamed of model government.
La Toilette equally jealous, equally
idealistic, carried these ideas out.
Wisconsin became known all over the
world as a forward commonwealth.
This is So
Time passed. La Toilette entered
national life. More and more he con-
cerned himself with national prob
lens. Less and less he concerned him
self with state affairs The running
of the state was left to lieutenants.
The organization, bound together as a
Progressive force, remained as strong
as ever but merely to carry out the
plans of an office holding machine.
In time these lieutenants, self
dubbed "Progressives," became MORT
bund as far as forward movements
were concerned. The principal object,
past and present, merely machine en-
trenchment and political advance
ment. More jobs have been created,
these posts being plums handed out
to the henchmen.
The movement has waned. The ma
chine is cracking. Young La Toilette
won but must still show he can wear
his fathers spurs The leading lieu
tenants, Blaine, Eckern, Zimerman,
fight for their dead leaders mantle as
the leader of the machine.
AS a progressive movement "The
Wisconsin Idea" is no more. How long
will it be before the machine itself
breaks?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
The New Ministers Wife

The minister's wife Is bunch of
energy, optimism and courage who is
never appreciated at her full worth
until she and her husband have been
lifted into an adjoining county by the
annual conference. She is then used
as an object of comparison for the
benefit of the new minister's Wlfe.
The beauty of the life of minis
ter's wife is that she gets a frequent
change of scenery and cook stoves.
If she has good luck, she will be in
troduced to a new parsonage every
two years, where she can wrestle with
open plumbing and elaky roof to her
hearts content.
The chief duty of the minister's
wife is to serve hot meals at all hours
to visiting pastors who have financial
scruples against going to the hotel.
She is also expected to keep her chill
dren looking like Lord Fontleroy at
the Christmas tree, and if cobweb
creeps into the house the next caller
will make a few casual remarks about
tidiness in the home and the house
keeping ability of the former pastors
wife.
The minister's wife gets all the
family history in circulation in the
parish, together with some which is
about to be circulated. She forgets
this as fast as it is handed to her and
thereby disappoints several worthy
and disinterested sisters who would
like to see it weaved into a sermon.
The minister's wife is often mis-
judged. If she goes down town to
buy little bar of soap she will earn
an imperishable reputation as CAD
der. If she stays at home and COM
munes with the darning egg, people
will say she lacks sociability. Moth
ing but genius could manage it and
come up smiling.
The minister's wife is not allowed
to have any temper or nerves, and the
first display of either will raise grave
doubts as to whether she was con-
verted. Her religion is usually not
noisy but she will be at the head of
the class in the great day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
Love Justifies Itself,
Rose Pastor Asserts

NEW YORK-Mrs. Rose Pastor
Stokes sat alone Sunday in an I'M
heated fiat in the Bronx, pulled a
heavy coat tighter to ward off New
York's chill, and wrote of the warmth
of love- On battered portable ma
chine she typed her commentary on
the interlocutory decree of divorce OBJ
tanned from her Saturday by ]. G..
Phelps Stokes. The keynote of it all
was that 'love is always justified,
even when shortlived, even when mis-
taken"
The woman who came out of the
etto 20 years ago to wed mil
lionaire in a romance that ended
with charges that she had been I'M
faithful, grew bitter as she wrote of
her case. She attacked New York's
divorce laws, insisting that "the
mantle of shame" should not fall on
her, but on a state which made scan
dial necessary for divorce. And, she
went on, the real scandal in such
cases lies not in love, but in man
and a woman living together without
love, whether with or without benefit
of justice of the peace.
She would not answer questions
she typed her statement and sat ST.
lent. Whether she will appeal from
the decree is not known.
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