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The Winslow mail., 1925-10-23
Toots From The
Round House
By Charles Erickson

Now that the Mail is only issu-
ing one paper a week news isn't
so scarce. However, | really regret
the move as the Meteor City should
be able to support semi-Weekly
paper for everyone wants the news
as soon as possible, but journalism
can't be carried on with Gust
news"
Well another week has passed
and business on the road remains
pleasantly brisk.
Mr.. Harry Lawrence was Wis
itor at the master mechanics office
yesterday, from the Los Angeles
auditing office while John Adams
was here earlier in the week. OF
course their report consisted only
two letters, 80. K"
With pleasure l report laborer
G. Martinez able to again resume
work after being under both med
ical and surgical treatment at our
Los Angeles hospital for almost
six months.
Victor Gonzales spent last Satur-
day in Holbrook completing deal
wherein he purchases a home in
Winslow A little coal and some
groceries and Vic won't have to
worry about a hard winter.
AS many as could possibly get
away among the office forces last
Monday afternoon attended the
funeral of Mrs. Butler, mother OF
our co-worker, Miss Alice Friend
to whom the entire mechanical de-
partment extend their sincere anc
most heartfelt condolences. Mrs
Butler had been i'll for quite some
time and passed away in the st
Mary's hospital at Gallup.
S. (Shorty) Okabayoshi returned
to Winslow last. week from thu
hospital in Los Angeles, where III
has resided for the past fou1
months on account of very badl1
broken arm. He is not yet o. K
for duty, but his break is mendin'
nicely.
On account of the absence 0
boilermaker foreman M. G. Single
ton. who is enjoying his annua
vacation in Sunny California, W
have with us J. M. L. Schmidt, gen
eral boiler inspector on the coas
lines, running the boiler gangs.
Glad to see Earnest Yasteya pro
NOTED to truckman in the vacanc
created by Isabel Manriquez, VIII
resigned and will leave for oil
Mexico.
After going down to the bottoI
of a coal mine at Gemerco, Harr
Kemmis says my but l was ce1
tainly glad to see the sunshine an
breathe fresh air again. Railroad
ing is good enough for me-" M
too Harry.
Last Saturday evening Miss Jess
Hitchcock surprised her man
friends by quietly slipping over
Holbrook and giving pull on wed
ding bell rope, said yes" to LIE
Murphy, a we'll liked young sales
man for the C. w. Post cOmpan!
of Albuquerque. COngratulation
newlyweds. Now you can serv
Post Toasties for breakfast ever
morning.
Mrs. Charlie Govern is gettin
The Winslow mail., 1925-10-23

Elks three day indoor carnival this
evening, I'd turn this junk into a
book.
12 to s was the score of the
Needles Winslow football game last
Sunday in favor of the first men
toned. See front page.
The Winslow mail., 1925-10-23
Women Planning Visit
To Petrified Forest

The convention of the Northern
District Federation of Women's
clubs will convene at Holbrook
October 30th and 31st. 1t is plan
ned by the Holbrook club to en-
tertain visiting delegates with a
motor trip to the Petrified forest
and other places of interest.
The Winslow mail., 1925-10-23
ORDINANCE No. 40

AN ORDINANCE TO RESTRAIN
AND REGULATE THE KEEP
ING OF LIVE STOCK WITHIN
CERTAIN DISTRICTS OF THE
TOWN OF WINSLOW.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY TIL e
MAYOR AND COMMON COUN-
GIL OF THE TOWN OF WINS
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-05-20
LOTS FOR SALE.

! viii sell any Of the following lots
and give general warranty deed.
II you have a lot adjoining and want
to buy, see me at once. IL you want
information as to lots in Ransom, see
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-05-20
Busy Ant by No Means
a Nuisance in Burma

Most people regard ants as a null
sance, especially In a garden or at o
picnic, but the natives of Burma have
found q use for them.
This country grows and exports
sandal-wood. one Of the most valuable
and beautiful timbers In the world
The greater part of every tree felled
Is useless, however, for only the
fragrant scented heart has any COM
nercial value. and to transport the
whole log would make even that not
worth the cost of removal.
SO the trees. after being stripped Of
their branches. are allowed to lie
where they have fallen. The soft.
sappy wood, which Is useless in COM
merce. attracts the billions of ants
who infest the forest. and to whom II
IL tit-bit- In helping themselves the
ants help the sandal-wood merchant,
for they leave the hard heart of the
trunk stripped Of all Its worthless In
tegument. and thus do for nothing the
work Of many human laborers.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-05-20
Norns in Mythology
Woue Fabric OF Fate

Norns were the fates of Scgndina-
Wan mythology. They were three
young women, by name Urth. Yer
dandt and SkuId-past. present and
future. They sat by the well of Or
darbrunnr under the ash tree Yggdra
sil, and there determined the fate of
gods and men. Every day they drew
water from a spring and with II
sprinkled the tree, that its branches
might not ret and wither away, says
the Detro4S News.
Originally there appears to have
been but one norn-Urth--and her
character was conceived In a gloomy
night, making her often equivalent to
death doom. Later two others were
added. Two of these gave the bless
ings, the third the Ills of life. In the
legend of Sleeping Beauty" the norns
are represented as thirteen women.
Usually they were conceived as spin
ners, weaving the fabric Of fate.
Besides these great norns there
were many inferior ones, both good
and bad; for. says the Prose Edda,
when a man Is born there is a morn
to determine his fate. and the same
authority tells US that the unequal
destinies of men in the world are at
tributable to the different dispositions
OF the norns. These lesser norns cor
respond to the genil of classic mythoi-
ogy. Women who possessed the power
Of prediction Dr. magic also bore this
name.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-05-20
HUGE BONFIRE TO BE LIGHTED
ON MOUNTAIN.

The Shenandoah National Park. in
the Blue Ridge, seven miles east Of
Luray, on the night of NAV 27 win
be illuminated for hundreds Of miles
IN all directions by huge bonfire on
top Of the Blue Ridge, only a short
distance from Skyland. the famous
summer resort. For weeks teams and
men have been working daily as
sembling an immense pile of wood
Tor the purpose. Hundreds Of cords
OF wood have already been placed
there. The scheme is for the mr..
pose. OF adding fame to the already
celebrated park areas. Washington
Roanoke and Richmond will have an
opportunity to see the fires re4ec-
tton in the sky. +.
IL is expected that the blaze from
TINS bonfire win leap hundreds of
feet into the air. and they win very
probably be plainly discernfble
throughout this section. Hundreds
OF residents Of the Shenandoah Val
ley viii be on the lookout Wednes-
day evening, TO see what win indeed
be an imposing spectacle.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-05-20
SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK
COMMISSION NAMED.

President Howard j. Benchof, of
the Shenandoah Valley, Inc. has an
nouneed the personnel Of the Shen-
andoah National Park Commission.
which viii direct the work Of raising
funds TO purchase the site in the
Blue Ridge mountains for the pro-
posed Southern Appalachian Noun
tain playground and look after
other activities involved in Winning
the park. /"
The Commission is as follows: w.
"A. Ryan. Of Winchester: Hugh E.
MAYOR Of Front Royal; L. Ferdinand
Zerkel, Of Luray; ID. P. Wine, of
Harrisonburg; and c. H. Hoover, Of
New Market.
Col II. l. Opie. of Staunton, and
Col. Benchoff, are ex-officio mem
bers Of the commission.
Before mapping out their park
campaign, members Of the Commits
sion will attend the Fifth Annual
Conference on State Parks at Sky
land, Va, May Is and rs, and there
they viii confer with the leading
park authorities of the country as to
the best ways and mems Of promot-
ing the Blue Ridge Mountain for the
park site. After this conference. the
machinery will be set for CARRYING
on the park movement.
This commission is named in re-
spouse of a resolution of the Shen-
andoah Valley, Inc, directors and
an agreement with the Virginia
State Chamber of Commerce, CO.
operating with the park movement -
said Col. Benchoff at was deem
ed advisable to select as members of
the Commission men connected with
the directorate and personnel of the
Shenandoah Valley, Inc. who have
been active in the national park
movement. These men are familiar
with what has been done in the past
and with what must be done in the
future.
"We have been advised that the
amount of funds the Shenandoah
National Park forces can raise to
help purchase the Blue Ridge site
must be made known to the South
ern Appalachian Park Commission
by December LIST when its report
goes TO Congress. That means our
share of the purchase price must be
raised by private subscription main
".
"The Commission will not confine
its activities to Virginia alone. It
will go into other states. The pro-
posed Blue Ridge park is to be a re-
creation ground for the millions of
people in the East as we'll as Vir-
ginia. The Commission intends TO
carry the park movement into the
big Eastern cities and there seek
what aid that can be marshaled to
help put the Virginia site over.
BY the first part of June we
hope to have our machinery set up
and functioning."
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-05-20
OLD COLONY LIFE INSURANCE
C. F WALL

OLD COLONY LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY, of Chicago, Illinois, of
fers agents wider field and in
creased opportunity by writing man,
woman and child from date of birth
to age 60 on the annual, semi-annual
or quarterly premium plan, for
amounts going up to $4,000 as re-
CARDS children, while for adults the
limit is $4,000. As the Company
writes also sub-standard risks our
agents have very few reflections. The
Company will give very liberal COM
mission contract (direct with Home
office) to a good personal producer.
April 29-2t'
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-05-20
Usefulness in the Business

The president of bank In Chicago
was telling some friends at his club OF
red-headed Office boy he had lately
taken into his employ
HE came TO me-" said the banker.
with recommendations from his "a
ther. who was a schoolmate of mine.
After read the note from the father,
! told the boy to take OFF his hat. sis
down In a chair and tell me why be
wanted to be a banker. HIs answer
was:
Because ! am good at multiply
ing
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-05-20

Will sell lots in Blocks from SO to
62, just west of the Norfolk & Wes-
tern station. with restrictions as to
building. See map of the NJ. NJ. & |.
Co. This is very desirable loca-
ton.
Williamson farm, 200 acres, fine
building. large brick house.
A number of desirable houses and
business sites in and around Charles
Town and Ransom.
C. F WALL
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-05-20
FOR RENT.
FOR RENr.

An Office building on Liberty
street. Apply to w. C. Clipp.
Mar. 25-tf.
Evening star., 1925-02-13

ing seated. We had to get I'D sew
eral times to allow late comers to be
seated.
The opera is long one, and it is a
pity that people who cannot stay for
the last act do not leave at the end
of the second act Monday night
after the third act started people be-
gan to go home. / never saw any,
thing like the contagion that seemed
to sweep over the audience, and some
one who, had charge of one of the
doors leading out of the auditorium
seemed to take delight in waiting for
a particularly beautiful passage to
occur, when he would slam the door
to add to the general confusion.
/ think the large majority of the
people who went to hear "Tanhauser''
did so because they love good music,
for the hall was stin quite full when the
performance was oyer, and il seems a
shame that we who do enjoy good
music must have our pleasure marred
by a few thoughtless persons who
ought to have better manners.
1t is to be hoped that the manage
ment can do something TO overcome
the confusion of Monday night. so
that future performances may be more
truly enjoyed.
ARTHUR C. GORBACH.
Evening star., 1925-02-13
curbing the sales Of pistols. which now

curbing the sales Of pistols. which now
are virtually free and unrestricted.
The question arises: Are the manu-
facturers of deadly weapons engaged
in an organized endeavor to prevent
any legislation on this subject? At
present there Is a large and doubtless
profitable trade in them. ,Bootlegsers.
hijackers and countless numbers Of
persons who are more or less identi.
fed with the Illicit liquor business. as
buyers and sellers, are buying them,
If not already armed Persons who
fancy themselves in possible danger
OF attack get them. Young men who
are leading idle lives regard the pocket
gun as necessary part of their equip
ment. 1t is a lively traffic.
The coroners are kept busy with in
quests, and the courts with trials, in
consequence of this widespread trade
In pistols. Many hundreds OF lives
are sacrificed annually. Families are
desolated. The pistol has become a ma
tional menace. Yet the law works
slowly, in the making and in applica.
ton.
Cut off the supply of guns and the
work OF police and courts will dimin-
ish. Why Is. this not done without
further parley?
Evening star., 1925-02-13
g
The Unclean American Stage.

Just at present a lively controversy
Is in progress among the dramatic
critics as to the propriety of certain
group of plays that have lately been
produced, and are now being given in
New York. They are frankly salacious,
brazenly dealing with the most un-
pleasant themes and all prospecting
fragrant in its presentation of the
manners and language of the under
world that open protest has been
made. Now its producer, confessing
that his play is vulgar and degrading,
declares that he is willing to withdraw
it ir the other managers who have
been specializing in filth will do the
same with their own offerings. He in
Inmates that he is merely engaged in
q competition for business with other
purveyors of foulness in the drama,
and that the way to stop the flow of
offal is to make all close the gates
through which it is pouring. This Ian
guage is not his own, but the idea is
what he seeks to convey
1t is something for a New York
mana ger producer to admit that his
play is degrading. Usually the dealer
in such goods contends that he offers
purity in the guise of offending lines
and scenes, that society needs the
moral lessons of salacity of plot and
dialogue, that he is benefactor rather
than a. mere commercial dealer in
box Office admissions. To have a pro.
ducer confess that what he offers is
simply an effort to outbid those who
are engaged in the prostitution Of the
public taste may be regarded as a turn
in the tide.
The present tendency on the Ameri-
can stage is utterly deplorable.
Themes are treated that are supposed
ly taboo in society. Language is en-
ployed that if repeated in drawing
rooms would cause evictions, and if
used in the homes of unpretending,
domestic, simple people would be
cause for divorce or severe punish.
ment,
Defiance Of all the canons of good
Evening star., 1925-02-13
More and More Cross-Wording.

Chicago's public library has just
bought a large new supply OF die
tionaries for the use of crossw word
puzzle solvers and has reserved a spe
cial room for them. The puzzle fad
says the librarian, seems to be gaining
steadily, and these new facilities are
necessary to meet the demands of the
searchers for unusual words.
Popular fads are hard to guess. II
took little time for the crossword
puzzle to appeal to public interest, but
when 1t began to spread 1t was like a
prairie fire. Nothing seems to stop it,
not even the devising of the most in.
tricate designs and the employment
OF the most technical and obsolete
words.
Puzzle fans are learning much in
their daily bouts with the blackand.
white squares and lists Of definitions.
They are acquiring many new words,
though 1t does not follow that they
are using them in their conversation.
They are getting acquainted with
their subconscious minds, which work
at the blank spaces from puzzle to
puzzle, and find solutions. They are
gaining a knowledge OF etymology.
They are acquiring possibly useful in.
formation about strange animals and
unfamiliar metals. They are cleaning
something Of information about chemi.
cal symbols and mythology. They are
accommodating quite a store OF Scotch
dialect and Biblical nomenclature.
Some say that those who devote
themselves to crossword puzzles
might be better employed. On the
other hand, it is urged that they might
be much less profitably engaged. II
Satan finds some mischief still for idle
hands to do surely the crossword
puzzle Is not one Of his resources.
Evening star., 1925-02-13

taste is. evidently the inspiration OF
authors and producers. There is ap
parently no limit to the extent to
which dramatic salacity will go. And
the evil is that if particular play is
chosen for denunciation in the name
of decency and morals the advertise
ment given to it crowds the theater
with people eager to see how bad II
is. to enjoy the forbidden fruit of filth.
Clergymen preach against the tend.
ency of the drama-and many of their
congregations go to see how bad the
situation is.
Managers point to the patronage
given to these plays as justification
for their production. They have Great
ed that demand for slime upon the
stage, and now quote their own prod
uct as warrant for going further with
each offering. A vicious circle is set
up. Nobody knows whether it can be
checked.
There is this that must be said:
Managers would not produce filth on
their boards if it did not pay. They
would turn as quickly as their Sc
verest critics desire if they found the
attendance tagging, to seek some
other form of amusement. For they
are statesmen primarily. and they are
governed by their market. Not until
the public sensibilities are revolted to
the point of refusing patronage for
the vulgar composites that go by a
variety of names and the dramas of
sex and profanity and acrilege will
there be definite relief from this
poisonous fetidity.
Evening star., 1925-02-13
Eastern National Parks.

A bill has been passed by the Senate
providing for a survey of three areas
In the Eastern part of the United
States which have been proposed as
additions to the national park system.
Under it the Secretary Of the Interior
is. directed and authorized to deter
mine their boundaries, to receive such
donations of land and money as may
be offered to the end of the creation
of these parks, and, Furthermore. to
secure such options for purchase of
additional lands as he may consider
Just and reasonable. He is then to re-
port to Congress. The areas designated
are. those of the Blue Ridge region,
already recommended by an unofficial
commission; the Great Smoky Noun
tain region in Tennessee and North
Carolina and the Mammoth Cave re-
sion of Kentucky.
p, All three of these tracts are worthy
of preservation in their present state
as national parks. They have been
surveyed roughly for this purpose.
Their attractions are varied They are
all in the main unoccupied and unde-
Veloped. Scenically they possess rare
6ttractiveness. In pursuance of the
policy of the Government to preserve
such spaces from spoliation they
should all be added to the national
park system.
The acquisition OF these tracts as
parks will not reduce the natural re.
sources for Industrial or agricultural
purposes. At present in none of them
is there any such utilization or de.
velopment toward use as to justify
their retention in private ownership.
IL taken as parks they will yield a
larger return to the people who seek
recreation in the wilder spaces Of the
country than they will ever yield as
farms or mineral lands. They possess
considerable growths of timber, which
should be preserved from private cut.
ting as a measure of conservation.
The combination in a single meas
ure of all three of the proposed parks
permits action at this session. The
urgently important thing is to get
them surveyed and the processes of
their acquisition started by the secur-
ing Of donations and options. The bill
just passed by the Senate is, in effect,
Q. declaration of intent. 1t coincidcs
with bill which has been already ap-
proved and reported by a House COM
mittee. Thus there is a prospect that
before the session ends this essential
the first step will thus be taken for
the preservation of these three areas
Of natural beauty as national parks.
Evening star., 1925-02-13
Campaign Funds and Costs.

In it's report to the Senate the select
committee named during the past ses-
sion to investigate the question of
campaign contributions and expendi-
lures recommends the enactment of a
new law on the subject, limiting the
expenditures of candidates for the
Senate to $4,000 and of candidates for
the House to $4,000, with a sliding
scale of increase based upon the num-
ber of votes cast at the last preceding
election. The committee at the same
time calls attention to the practice of
parties raising large sums in the more
populous States for expenditure in the
smaller ones, and suggests considera-
ton of this as an evil to be corrected
by future legislation.
These two recommendations run
along the line of proportionating the
finances of campaigning to the size of
the Commonwealths. The Walsh bill,
indorsed by the committee, would per-
NIT the expenditure, in addition to the
$4,000 and the $4,000 by candidates.
respectively, for House and Senate, of
further sums, the total not to exceed
in all cents for each vote cast in the
district or State at the preceding cleo
ton. Thus in a district where $4,000
votes are cast each candidate may
spend only the legal limit Of $500. If
10000 votes have been cast each may
spend $2,700. To enable a senatorial
candidate to spend more than $4,000
the total vote in the preceding cam
paign must have been 335, 900 or more
The other question involved is more
difficult. 1t is evident that any at
tempt to segregate the funds raised in
the different States, for use only in
those States, would entail great book
keeping system. Would the smaller
States in the final analysis Of the mat
ter agree to be kept strictly bound by
their own resources? 1t all depends
upon which side or party is raising
the most money.
Upon just what principle Congress
could act to restrict campaign ex-
penditures in the States to the moneys
raised within them is not indicated. It
is nice question. In national cleo
ton the Democrats Of Texas are az
keenly interested in the result in Penn
sylvania as in their own State. The
Republicans Of Massachusetts, are Just
as much concerned about the voting
in Missouri as in the Bay State. 1t is
the sum total Of electoral votes that
tells the story.
1t will be noted that the select COM
mittee did not recommend the enact
ment of State-limit contribution and
expenditure law, but merely suggested
its serious consideration. 1t would
have been interesting.to see in what
form legislation would be PROPOSED
had the committee gone 80 far as ac-
tually to draft a bill, as it did in the
case of the 3-cent margin proposal.