White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-08-07
Worlds News

| DAYTON, Tenn-The Commoner is
dead. At the very height of stormy
career that kept him in the public
eye for more than 80 years, William
Jennings Bryan died suddenly here
last week. The man who had won
and held the title, 1.-THE Great Com
moner" passed peacefully in his sleep
from heart trouble. The final clash
of Bryan's eventful life was the relig-
ious debate with Clarence barrow, de-
tense counsel for John T. Scopes, in
the evolution trial here. By an odd
coincident, his last national utterance
bears the title ''The Bible Is Good
Enough for Me-" 1t is an article n
Golfers, and a part of a debate with
Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Oar
win, on the issues of the Dayton evo-
luton case. Bryan is survived by his
widow who has been an invalid for
years and a son daughter He was
IS years old on March 10, 1925. He
was a remarkable orator and three
times was the Democratic standard
bearer for president only to be de-
feated in each campaign.
WASHINGTON. - Employees of the
Interior Department do too much sit
ting down, clock watching and stumb-
ling over surplus office furniture to
suit Secretary Work, 80 he has given
orders to strip the departments Of
flee for action. The first move was in
the general land office, where 25O
chairs were removed, most of the
clocks dismantled and two van loads
of stools, wardrobes and desks, valued
at $6,264, turned over to the govern
ments general supply office.
PORTLAND. - Employment which
two weeks ago reached the high peak
of the year in the Pacific Northwest
is holding steady and there is even
shortage Of help in few districts, &C.
cording to reports from Al employ
ment service offices in various North
western cities received at Al head
quarters here. The labor shortage Is
reported firm the Inland Empire.
MARSHFIELD, Ore - Employ
ment conditions in the Coos Bay dis
trict are good. All resident labor is
employed. Activity continues in
building highway construction and the
government jetty work, with quarries
for jetty fills in full swing. Coal
mines are working at capacity and
the dairy industry is using a large
force of men. Logging is at go per
cent and numbering at IS per cent of
capacity
AMES, IoWa.-Bottled carbonated
beverages, because of their carbon
dioxide content, are purer than the
average drinking water and the safest
of beverages from archaeological
viewpoint declares Charles Il. Nc
Kelvey, of the A. B. C. B. Research
Fellowship staff at Iowa State Col
lege. This information, which is of
particular interest at this time when
the consumption of water and bever-
ages is at peak, is given In a report
just made by Mr.. McKelvey who Ia
one of a group of scientists working
under an endowment made by the bot
tiers national trade association, the
American Bottlers of Carbonated
Beverages.
DETROIT.-Seventy boys have left
here on an educational trip through
the Canadian Rockies on the way to
Alaska. Nearly every year George e.
Buchanan, Of this city, once a poor
boy, takes a party of boys who have
earned one-third Of their expenses.
about $125, with him to Alaska. The
boys earn their one-third by selling
pencils. coal baskets-in fact, any
thing-after school hours. Any boy
in any town can participate in this
| Lllp ycdIly. lAlb, WI. DuCudAdA COu-
tends, gives the boys self-reliance,
thrift and responsibility. One-third OF
the travelling expenses is advanced by
| the boys relatives, and the other one
third is provided by Mr.. Buchanan
and can be paid back by the boys
after the trip, thus enabling him to
| Il Go, al
| Chambers of Commerce and business
men en- route will entertain the boys
during their trip, as usual.