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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-20
FILLING Of D. c.
TRAFFIC JOB
DELAYED
Press of Other Duties With
Commissioners Holds Up
Appointment

Appointment of a Director Of
Traffic will probably be held UP
for several days.
A conference Of the District Com.
missioners to discuss the appoint
ment could not be held today be-
cause the Commissioners were
busy on the telephone valuation
hearing. Meanwhile, Commission
ers Bell and Rudolph are being
besieged by score or more per"
sons recommending their friends.
The naming of Colonel T. Harry
Stanton, former deputy police
commissioner of New York, is
being urged by New York legis-
lators. He is not considered a
likely appointee.
M. o. Eldridge, research special
list of the American Automobile
Association, is still considered the
leading candidate.
engineer and Ringgold Hart, AS
sistant District Corporation Coun.
sci, were definitely eliminated to-
day when they made it clear they
would not accept the position. The
field of possible appointees is now
said to include Eldridge, Captain
r. G. Klotz, and Captain Frank
Flynn.
Several other men are under
consideration, their application
having come in within the past
twenty-four hours.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-20
CAREER" MEN
GET STATE
POSTS
Existing Vacancies Expected
to Be Filled in Line With
New Policy
By LLOYD LEHRBAs.

The vogue Of professional diplo
mats has reached its highest point
yet as result Of the shifts and
changes In diplomatic posts by
President Coolidge and Secretary Of
State kellogg during the past few
days and with the expectation that
trained career" men will receive
appointments to the only existing
Observation-Disclosures to China,
Rumania and Albania, and diplo.
matte agent and consul general in
Morocco-the new policy will set a
record for all time.
The United States maintains
diplomatic representatives at fifty
one foreign capitals and as q result
OF the Rogers bill, which reor-
ganized the diplomatic and con-
sular services. and the promoting
or career" men by former Score
tary Hughes and Secretary KEEL.
logg, they now hold posts at five
embassies and fourteen legations,
MacMurray Favored.
Assistant Secretary of State John
V. A. MacMurray is still the
favored candidate for minister to
China. to succeed Doctor Jacob
Gould Schurman, promoted to be
ambassador to Berlin, although
William 8. Culbertson, vice chair
man of the tariff commission,
and Owen F. Roberts, famous at
torney who Is now conducting the
Governments prosecution in the
Teapot Dome oil cases in Cheyenne,
Wyo.. are said to be under con.
sideraticn. President Coolidge, how
ever. is reported to look favorably
upon the appointment Of Mac
Murray because Of his unquestioned
ability in Far Eastern questions.
Doctor Schurman was notified Of
his transfer by the State Depart
ment last night, and is expected
to leave for Washington, in the
immediate future. Secretary Of
Legation r. L. Mayer (of In.
dianapolis, Ind will act as charge
at Peking until a successor to
Doctor Schurman has been named.
No names have been mentioned
for the ministerships to Rumania,
and Albania, or for the Morocco
vacancy, but 1t is stated on good
authority that they will be filled
with men who have received their
training in the State Department.
Will Act As Charge.
Secretary Lawrence Dennis (of
Cambridge, Mass.) will act as
charge at Bucharest until a sue.
cessor Is named to succeed Peter
Augustus Jay. just named as
ambassador to Argentina, and
Secretary Merritt Swift (of Wash
ingtCn, D. CO will act as charge at
Tirana until a successor is named
to take the place vacated by
Ulysses Grant-Smith, transferred to
Uruguay.
The only nations which do not
have American diplomatic represen-
tatives now are Russia and
Turkey. Soviet Russia has not been
recognized by the United States
and no ambassador will be sent
there until recognition has been
given. Rear Admiral Mark D.
Bristol, represents the United
States in Turkey as high com.
missioner. A diplomatic represen.
tative cannot be sent to Constan.
tinople until the Senate ratifies the
treaties negotiated with Turkey.
The Senate failed to take any
action on the treaties in the last
session, postponing action until next
December.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-20
With The
|Alibi Artists
| Cross Section of the
Daily Grind in Judge
Schuldt's Court.
Read EN- and Weep.
BY DONALD McDOUGAL.
Tkunlr W., Vo,,u EIo,no.

1EI1u SOUL
Certain technical matters dis
cussed in his letter prevent us
from running the whole communi-
cation here-his recipe for stimu.
lating the age without arousing
suspicion, when you find two
strange queens at the post
peek, we can't allow to run at
large.
We might lose money by it.
He says two advantages would
arise from traffic regulation pro-
mulgated by us-they would
Withstand the objections of the
keenest lawyers, and they would
furnish entertaining literature
that would put the Congressional
Record out of running.
That last looks to us like
another advantage.
Jail Bent.
HE was running neck.and-
neck with q street car along
Georgia avenue. your honor, and
nosed out at Park road when the
car stopped for q passenger to
climb back on again pretty
quick.
The Defendant turned into Park
road and I followed him until he
got to the police station"
He was a model prisoner"
Eyes sir. He was headed for
the hoose.gow, and let him so
under his own steam. It makes
things easier that way.
Boob: 1.-THE way I was driving,
could I possibly have hit that
MANI"
''The way he jumped, I don't
think you could"
II went around to the station
about o'clock with collateral
for client, your honor He'd
been locked up since noon. The
first knew anything was wrong,
the desk man said there wasn't
collateral enough for both Of us.
A Polar Expedition.
HE told me could leave the
money for myself, which would
put me where / was when l
started out, only I'd be $40 be-
hind. or could bail my client
out and take his place in the cell.
Then my client could bring
some bail around Tor nae.
HE was still drunk when they
turned him loose. and / didn't get
out until half-past ten.
II don't know much about that
part Of the city. and I was look
ing for the stop point signs along
the sidewalk. It cost me $40 to
find out they're in the middle
Of the road, on the trolley poles.
cit seems to me that IL the
authorities care so much about
the street car regulation. they
ought to make it cheaper than
that for motorists to find out
where the stop signs are.
'In most places they're along
the curb, but they're on the troll
ley poles in the middle of the
street out there where / was, and
on Rhode Island. Wisconsin, and
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Connecticut avenues. If they're
that way anywhere else, it's go
ing to cost me $40 to find out.
These signs couldn't be any
harder to locate II they were In
card index, and you can't pick
'em out at Is miles an hour. 1
hope your honor will take these
facts into consideration when fix
ing the penalty"
'You seem to have been the
goat all along the line. but I will
take your personal bond not t.
be one any more"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-20
CROSSED WIRES CAUSE
$4,000 ELKS CLUB FIRE

WHEELING, w. Va, March 20.
The Elks Club today was the
scene Of a fire that is traced to
crossed wires. LOSS is placed at
$50 900. the lodge room on the third
floor of the 100000 structure being
Quilted.
Valuable lodge equipment was
destroyed. Tenants in apartments
Gdjoining the club building fled
their homes in scanty attire.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-20
Exhibit for churchmen

An exhibit of ecclesiastical fur
Eishings is expected to attract Clergy
men and church workers to the
Arts and Industries exhibit at the
Washington Auditorium, the week
Of March 81 to %.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-20
Dawes to Take Rest

Vice President Dawes viii leave
the Capital tomorrow for his
home in Evanston, where he will
take short rest before fulfilling
several speaking engagements.
, 1925-06-10
6. A. HOLM ENJOYS
PRESBYTERIAN MEET

G. A. Holm arrived home We'd
nesday from Columbus, Ohio, where
he went as a lay delegate from the
Presbyterian church to the Presby-
terrain General Assembly, which con-
vened there from May 81 to 81.
Mr.. Holm states that he enjoyed his
trip a great deal and found the
meeting, which was attended by
about one thousand representatives,
a very interesting one.
One of the most enjoyable fea-
lures of the occasion was the Eel
lowship dinner, annual event of the
Assembly, at which 1866 men sat
down to partake of a sumptious
meal in the Masonic hall at Column
bus. No less a parsonage than VIII
liam Jennings Bryan was toastmas-
ter for the occasion and the affair
was one long to be remembered by
the Cody delegate.
, 1925-06-10
CODY COWBOYS TAKE
SHORT END BALL GAME


The nine men of the Basin ball
aggregation proved too much for
the locals on Sunday and forced
them to take the losing end of a
Is to 4 score. Unfavorable weather
conditions, an emergency pitcher
and other breaks in the regular
lineup made excellent alibis for the
home team, which should be able
to get into shape and make a very
~presentable ball team.
Owing to the rainy season of the
past ten days the home boys have
been unable to practice. and with
better weather, and the addition of
some talent just returned from
school. the Cody lineup should be
one of the strongest in the Basin.
, 1925-06-10
MONITOR DEVOTES ISSUE
TO PROTECTION BIRDS.

The May edition of the Christian
Seience Monitor is almost wholly
devoted to articles bearing upon the
protection of Americas bird life,
and will no doubt be a great influ-
ence in starting a campaign for the
protection and conservation of one
of the worlds greatest blessings,
the beautiful birds which come and
go throughout the yea
Among the writers who contri-
buted articles to the Monitor for its
birds" edition e VIM. T. Horn
aday and DR.. Frank M. Chapman,
the latter curator of birds of the
Museum of Natural History at New
York City. The edition was filled
to overlooking with bird articles and
pictures of the little singers of
the nation.
, 1925-06-10
WATER AGAIN In THE
LAKEVIEW DITCH
Repair Crew have Finished Work
and Water is Flowing Through
New F1ume and Temporary
Ditch

Water is again flowing in the
ditch, and the farmers of
the Fertile Valley area are n
more happy with their growing
crops. No time was lost by the
ditch managers and the work was
crowded to the limit, that no one
suffer the slightest bit from
the breaking of the big flume near
several weeks ago. Thanks
to an unusually wet spring there
not been the slightest need for
water for irrigation purposes and
prospects are for the biggest crop
ever produced from this
area.
Plans are being made for a more
permanent Improvement of the
Lakeview canal another ear. and it
is confidently thought that the new
repair work will be serviceable for
this season at least.
, 1925-06-10
COMMISSIONER WILKINS
TAKES COLORADO BRIDE

w. C.. or "Bill" wilkins stole a
march on his Park County friends
recently and went down into Colo
and tool a bride. No hint of
the reason for his Colorado trip
had by his many friends and
neighbors down Powell way, and
last week when he told the editor
of The Herald of conditions as he
found them in the state to the
south he did not even then make a
confession of his recent actions.
Needless to say Mr.. and Mrs. Will
kins are receiving the ~congratula-
tons and best wishes of their myriad
of friends in the county, and Mrs.
wilkins is being given a warm well
come to the Powell Community
where she is to reside.
, 1925-06-10
WILL ENTERTAIN
WIN. T. H0RNADAY

DR.. VIM. T. Hornaday, one of the
best authorities on game life in
North America, and a man who has
taken a very great interest in the
conservation and propagation of bird
and animal life of America for many
years. will. visit in Cody the latter
part of June, and. according to B.
c. Rumsey, will arrive in Cody June
20, for a trip thru Yellowstone Ma
tional park. While here it is hoped
that the Park County. Rod and Gun
club will be able to give a dinner
in honor of this distinguished guest.
, 1925-06-10

vided for saints in heaven when
on EARTH moses advocated bird
protection and Soloman marked the
season by the time of the singing
of birds" And we in IL present
time are modelling our speedcraft
after the winged creatures. DR..
Chapman finished his address, 1.-THE
Bird as a Citizen before the Ma
tional conference on-Outdoor Re
creation at Washington, d. c., by
pointing our bird efficiency in gar
den, field, and forest. and pleaded
for this creature not to be hunted
in sport for his plumage, but to be
regarded as the most eloquent ex-
preston of beauty and joy.
AS our own thoughts become.
kinder toward our winged friends,
they will be reflected in u cat
and dog pets. Indeed. we have just
heard how our neighbours airedale-
TERROR, Brownie intently watches
and to all intents enjoys the song
of a canary in his masters tree.
Doubtless for the first time in all
history lue IOIuldn hhOI VI dihiy
"red tape was suddenly u when
Lieut.. O.. G. Kelly halted wrecking
operations of the landing field at
Vancouver when he discovered a
nest of robins. I'VE can't go ahead
until the young birds are big enough
to leave the nest, and we aren't
going to if we have to stop flying
here altogether said Lieutenant
Kelly. And Mr.. and Mrs. Robin
were left to their pleasure in rear
ing their tiny. ugly robins.
Miss Eva Larson's Campfire girls
have already built homes for their
bird friends, and a group of Cody's
future citizens, consisting of the
Misses Margaret Cook, Margaret
Tyler, Lelian Scholes, Louise Hoff-
mann, Joy Valli Norton, Marie Car
penter, and Master William Shrine
and Louis Hoffman, are giving spe-
cial thought to local bird protection,
in the conviction that words without
arcts are like clouds without rain.
Bird life is sacred and the time
has come for the following senti-
ment to be broadcast:
He prayeth pest who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all"
, 1925-06-10
Birds as Foresters
(Margaret Hayden


In making our pleas for the
horned creatures in their wooded
homes, are we giving due credit to
the winged foresters and extending
the practical love that is their due
and our own duty and privilege?
What more beautiful figure in all
the universe than a bluebird, the
symbol of happiness in all literature,
perched upon Wyoming sagebrush
at it's greening in the spring?
All flying creatures are symbolic
of risen thought, and Cody, as in
80 many other ways, is fortunate
in having the bluebird, and to many
a glimpse of this living blue is bet
ter than bear or bull moose.
To be sure, Master Robin CON
siders his song worth his leaf of
lettuce, but who would not share
this in return for the evening or
chestra of bird notes and their call
ingthe dawn to fresh activities. May
his faith in us continue so that he
may confidentially perch upon the
inanimate scareerow. Truly, he pays
his way as he goes and asks little
else thar weed seeds and the nox-
ious insects that threaten your gar
den and forest.
1t was a dove that was sent out
to see if the earth were safe again,
from which time the dove has been
the symbol of peace on earth. The
eagle symbolizes renewed strength
and on our coins under I'm God we
Trust it a power. Gene STRAIT
ton Porter. championing an unpop-
ular bird in her childhood, said: "If
God sees, sparrows he sees owls
too" What could replace for our
town the little flock of canaries
singing notes of welcome to our
transient friends and thinning rays
of sun across our mountain skies?
us give them all rent free with
all improvements before they be-
come rare and only to be seen as
stuffed specimens.
An appeal to our ems of beauty
should be their protection and peo-
pie are becoming more and more
aware of the aesthetic picture de-
rived from birds and bird study.
No child need ever be taught to owe
a bird. DR.. f. M. Chapman, New
York curator of birds. says the birds
have nothing to fear from them:
when the beauty of their plumage,
their songs, and their motion. is
fully appreciated, that is a suffi-
Gent guarantee of their protection.
Today it is the exceptional subur-
banite who hasn't build a birdhouse
or, at least, a feeding station, on
his property. DR.. Chapman gives
no pathological reason for his be-
lief. but says he is confident that
everyone is born with a bird in his
heart. Izaak Walton las written:
Lord. what music has Thou pro-
, 1925-06-10
CODY CAMP GROUND
READY FOR TOURISTS

The Cody tourist park is all spick
and span to welcome the 1925 tour
lists who are arriving daily, and
will come by the hundreds another
week, on their way to Yellowstone
National park. Tom Walters, who
has charge of the park this year.
has all the plumbing in working
order, and the kitchen as spotless
as it possibly could be. Only a
few visitors have stopped over so
far this year, as the park gate will
not open until the 18th or 18th.
Mr.. Walters has shown himself
considerable of a gardener and has
developed a very pretty flower pot
by use of the fountain basin con
structed in the center of the park.
This has been filled with rich dirt
and Mr.. Walters has one of the
most attractive flower beds in the
city.
, 1925-06-10
RECEIVES AID
SOUTHPORT ROAD WORK

1. H. Larom of the Valley ranch
was in Cody last week and attended
a meeting of the county commission
ers, with the result that several
hundred dollars are to be available
Immediately for use in improving
the Southfork road, which will soon
be carrying a YER heavy business
to the several tourist resorts on this
route.
Mr.. Larom estimates hat all the
money available will be necessary
for maintenance and light improve
ment, and that the road a be
made quite passable this season.
The portions most in need of care
and maintenance are located this
side of the forest reserve line.
, 1925-06-10
BALL LEAGUE
IS SHORT LIVED

The baseball league of the Big
Horn basin has blown up, and pres
n indications are that no games
will be scheduled after next Sunday,
at which time the Lowell team is ex-
pected to play the game at Elk
Basin scheduled to Cody.
Glenn T%rueblood, manager and
captain of the Cody team, is ar
ranging an Independent schedule for
the home team and will stage games
here during the mornings of the
Stampede celebration, and on other
occasions with teams at Meeteetse,
Powell and other teams near Cody.
, 1925-06-10
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY

Master James Mcdonald enter
tanned a group of his young friends
on Tuesday. June 8, in honor of
his tenth birthday. and the occasion
was a pleasant one for those at
tending. Refreshments. always the
big feature of occasions such as
this, were served in bumper guam
titles by Mrs. Mcdonald. Those
present were Barbara Jean Taylor,
Walter Clarke. Howard Marquadt,
Dixie Thurston. Geneva Shafer, DON
aid Jones, Ralph Hardin. Paul Hind
man, Mary Corder, Roy Corder, jay
Corder, Anna Loftsgarden. Ruth
L~oftsgarden and Bernice Loftsgar-
den. ~
, 1925-06-10
SECRETARY THERMOP
CLUB VISITS CODY

Chas. j. Bangert, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce,
is a visitor in Cody this week, and
was a guest of the Cody club on
Monday. MI. Bangert is a n hun
dred per cent booster and has a
great deal to say about the hot
springs and other attractions of the
town which he represents. AS a
part of the activities of his club,
he will publish a tourist paper this
summer for circulation in the camp
ground. This little edition will be
passed out free of charge and will
always be filed with interesting in
formation regarding Thermopolis,
the Big Horn basin and the state of
Wyoming.
, 1925-06-10
MOST SCENIC SEVENTY
TO HAVE NEW MARKINGS
Enameled Metal Signs to be Placed
by Forest Office on Yellowstone
Park Road

The U. S. Forest Service is sign
ing the commercially signless North
fork road. the most scenic seventy
miles in the world on the Cody road
to Yellowstone park. The new signs
which will point out the points of
interest in the forest reserve, are
enameled white with the lettering
and border in forest green. They
are very attractive and will be
pleasing to the eye of the thousands
of tourists who will have opportun-
ity to read them along the scenic
route.
There are eighteen campgrounds
in this forest between the entrance
at the twin mountain sentinels be-
yond S%hoshone canyon and the park
line. Nineteen creeks will be pro-
perly marked, including Fishhawk
creek. famous for the glacier which
is an attraction near it's source, and
up to which runs a very important
fire protection trail, the goal of
regular pack trips from Holm Lodge,
a popular resort. located about As
miles up the river: Golf creek.
haiheu diteT johnnie GOH.- m
guide of Col. Theodore Roosevelt:
Elk creek. so named because it has
long been a ~favorite winter range
for elk; Blackwater, at the mouth
of which Bob Rumsey has his camp
for boys, and numerous other creeks
which add to the scenic attractive
ness of the Northfork road.
The hotels will also be signed in
a uniform manner, starting with the
lunch station operated by Sherwin,
to Blackwater, Absaroka lodge, Holm
lodge and Pahaska tepee, the his
%torical resort of Col. Cody, which
is now welcoming travelling tourists
to and from the park.
Many of the remaining signs mark
the naturally s%culptured formations
so easily recognizable on the road
to Yellowstone. Among these are
the Laughing Pig" Henry Ford"
"The Bear" 1.-THE Camel,' Holy
City THE Goose "Mr. Punch"
Garden of the Goops," and "Chim-
ney- Rock pictures of which pro
claim mother natures mountain ar
tistry.
The signing of the park road is
a part of the regular forestry pro-
gram and Ranger C. c. Spencer will
superintend this work. The signs
will be bolted to steel posts which
will defy time and weather.
, 1925-06-10
ODDFELLOWS AND REBEKAHS
TO ATTEND MEMORIAL SERVICE

The members of the Odd Fellows
and those of Olive Branch
chapter Rebekahs will attend mem
orial services on Sunday morning
at the Methodist Episcopal church,
where the Rev. G. S. Upton will
preach a special sermon for the oc-
casion. The members of these two
orders are urgently requested to
turn out for this memorial day ser
vice.
, 1925-06-10

The decision of the town council
to grant a franchise to the company
receiving the certificate from the
state board was reached on Monday
morning, when at a special meeting.
Messers E. c. Bolten and c. R..
Hetzler. of the Rocky Mountain gas
Company, a subsidiary of the Ohio
Oil company, appeared and made
tentative proposals for a franchise
to bring gas for domestic and COM
mercial use into the town of Cody.
The council had also received a
proposition from Freeman and Han
lon. asking an option for a fran
elise, and these gentlemen are also
petitioners of the Utility board for
a certificate of convenience and
necessity. Should these latter gen
tlemen withdraw from the race for
any reason whatever, a hearing of
the board may be had Immediately,
otherwise a delay caused by the
required twenty days notice of hear
ing will be necessary before the
board can render a decision.
Messrs. Bolton and Hetzler are
very frank as to the plans of their
company, which is the same which
furnishes Billings. Montana, Powell
and many other towns in the Basin
with gas. They are financially able
to pipe the commodity to Cody, and
have the gas in ample quantities
in the Oregon Basin field, where
work has been going forward for
several weeks, sealing the gas well
which blew in on the rotary rig
last winter, and which has cost the
Ohio many thousands of dollars to
face under control. If a franchise
is granted to this company, it will
be for a period of six months, but
the representatives state that the
gas will be made available within
the shortest possible period, which
is likely to be about ninety days.
All, Cody is interested in these
gas prospects, and feel that the de-
cision of the council in going on
record as favoring the granting of
the franchise to the first concern,
which is able to proceed with the
work, was the proper one. L. C..
Freeman. who has been in Chey-
enne and Denver for several days,
is expected to return this week, and
will possibly be able to state at that
time what the prospects are for the
company he represents to furnish
gas to the town.