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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-04-01
u. S. Efficiency Expert Cuts Red Tape
To Save Money for the Government

personal touch from Brown, himself
carried down from boyhood expert
ence in his fathers paper mill Up
Iowa. Paper bills were wearing out
faster than they should, and the
treasury department wanted to give
them longer life. Brown took a long
close look.
They are beating this paper to
DEATH" he declared.
Beating is the process by which
the paper pulp is chopped up into
fine bits. The longer the pulp is
beaten. the shorter the fbers become
and the finer the texture of the pa.
per. Brown ordered the paper mill
to beat it's pulp IS hours instead Of
"a, and the resulting paper was
twice as strong as before.
ideas are the big factors in eff.
cheney" says the expert. THE SMALL
est and simplest idea sometimes,
when multiplied by the 6 1000 govern.
ment employees in Washington, will
produce tremendous saving.
One Must Relax
zone can't always get an idea by
seeking it directly or working over
time for it. Usually if I try to put
in extra hours after night, it re"
suits in clipping off that time from
productive work the next day. Ones
subconscious mind often will carry
on a difficult problem and deliver
the answer correctly if you will just
relax and give it a chance.
quite often we get ideas for eff.
cheney and economy by giving u
men a rest after hard work. We
send them off to visit some private
industrial plant. or some other city
They are not required to bring back
anything or do any work while awas-
But they always do bring back ideas
which attached themselves while
they were relaxed.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-04-01
"Ny brother has spoken
about you so Often.'

from Joan Endicott. The wonderful
Tim had arrived. and apparently all
was sunshine.
II haven't really time to write at
ALL" so she began her letter. Tim
is ndgeting round. begging me to
20 out with him. but I thought |
ought lust to write you a note ana
say how happy ! am. / am wearing
the pink blouse you made. and Tim
says he has eve seen me LOOK so
pretty. The time is hying-a whole
day gone already, Nan-Tim says
that he thinks the war will be over
this year, but 1 can't help feeling
hat he only says it to comfort me l
| think of you a great deal, and o
der how you are getting on. and If
you have seen anything Of Peter
| Lyster or Mr.. Arnott. You know,
| Nan, / think Mr.. Arnott was just
a little taken with you! He looked
at you such a lot, and the day he
came here after you had gone to
Leavenden, he was most absurdly
| disappointed. l should love to see
! you settled down and happy, Nan
| after all, Peter isn't the only mar
in the world. l told Tim about what
had happened, and he was very SYM
pathetic, but he says that life is
too short to spend it in grieving,
and that if anything happened to him
he would rather know that / had
found some man to look after me
and be kind to me, than to think
of me being unhappy all my life . .
Isn't it sweet and unselfsh Of him?'
Nan tossed the letter aside. It
was so like Joan-full of little aim
less trivialities. She wondered APP
prehensively if the day would ever
come when she would have to go
back and live with her again.
She resented Joan's very obvious
hint about John Arnott.
LAS if 1 could ever care for an
other man." she told herself passion
ately.
Nan was changing her frock up
stairs in the afternoon when she
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-04-01
A s1200-A.YEAR clerk In a govern
N ment Office went to the boss

$4IUO.A-IE AR clerk IN a govern
~ ment Office went to the boss
and said:
"In transferring the figures for
those tabulations, I can show you
how to do it in three operations in
stead Of seven and you will save half
the work"
"You We're hired to be a clerk"
snapped the boss, land not to tell
me how to run the office"
"All right, if you won't listen. I'll
go on higher until I find some n
who WILL" the clerk answered.
That was more than 90 years ago,
and the petty dispute started the fed.
eral bureau of efficiency, the official
red tape cutting machine in Wash.
ington, D. c. The clerk was Her.
bert D. Brown. He did get some n
to listen to him, and for II years
ever since the bureau of efficiency
was ~started-he has been its chief
Often Cussed, Kicked
I'VE are a sort of Happy Hooligan
among government offices-tryinS to
be helpful but often getting cussed
and kicked for u efforts" admits
the chief of the bureau.
Thousands of clerks will join in
throwing brickbats at the bureau.
considering it an enemy of their
Jobs. On the other hand, Brown
offers proudly to show that even in
it's poorest years, his bureau has
savad the Government at least ten
dollars for every one dollar it has
cost.
The bureaus first big efficiency OPP
Grafton was for the treasurer of the
United States, In room were 1874
clerks-mostly dignified men in
white boards and alpaca coats, stand
ing at high desks. - The bureau
showed the treasury how to do the
same work with so employees. The
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-04-01
TO BE COntinueO

Of stone-chopped dates, one-half
cupful of finely chopped pecan
meats; season with a pinch Of salt,
moisten with the ginger strip, or or
ange marmalade chopped. Spread
on saltines or thin slices of brown
bread spread with creamed butter.
Serve with hot chocolate or cocoa.
Hot Toasted Cheese Sandwiches.
Cut white bread into thin slices
and toast lightly on one side, cover
the untoasted side with a thin slice
Of soft cheese, sprinkle with salt
and cayenne. Set into the oven long
enough to melt the cheese. Serve
with head lettuce and French dress
ing.
%, 1925, Western Newspaper Union.)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-04-01

TO have quleted; her face looked very
young in the pale light.
Lyster came a step nearer.
TELL me-" he said again.
II can't" said Nan. "Oh, / can't
:" Their eyes met.
you mean that you won't?' Lys-
ter asked.
Nan laughed then-a little reckless
laugh. -,
"Perhaps-some day." she said.
"Perhaps-some day"
Lyster took off his cap and
brushed the hair back from his fore
head. :,
Il shall hold you to that promise"
he said.
Thn morning brought Nan a letter
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-04-01

Here is a very charming frock OF
beige crepe for travelling. II IS
longer than usual and is shirred up
the center back. giving the waistline
a draped effect. 1t has a unique
cape collar. The sleeves are long
and tight. 1t is worn here by Patsy
Ruth Miller, movie actress.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-04-01
ADJuDGED INSANE

Joseph Kirk of C~ulbertson was
adjudged insane by the county
sanity board at a hearing Tues
day afternoon. He was taken to
Warm Springs by Sheriff J. H.
Anderson the same night.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-04-01

1O4 who were displaced--Brown
makes it clear in telling you-were
given work elsewhere and not cut
off the payroll.
Beat Too Much
The bureau last year changed the
manufacture of paper for paper
money, by which 1t is expected to
save s4,0O0.0 goo a year This was a
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-04-01
P[NP0|NT[RS

The exact number OF saxophone
players In the United States is said
to be many more than enough.
A pugilist lie one who lives sort
Of a hand-to-mouth existence
To be a finished expert in mes
chosen trade he must learn at the
bottom. unless. of course. he strives
to be q swimmer
A baby's cry more often is less OBJ
~jectionable than the singing of Its
parents trying 10 make it stop
This is the time OF the year when
sportsmen pay no attention to mo
Fishing signs
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-04-01

n HOT sandwich may take the
"A place of a main dish and fur
nish a most satisfying one. There
are any number of them which are
very appetizing. We all know the
hot-dog and the hamburger sand
WITCH which still hold the popular
taste wherever served in the open.
Beef Steak SandWiches.-Have
round steak cut three-fourths Of an
inch thick, trim off the fat and cut
IN uniform pieces to serve as sand
witch filling. Pound with the edge
of a saucer until in shreds but not
separated. Cook in a kissing hot
pan that has been creased with the
Evening star., 1926-10-07
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, October United States
department of Neutrality-suspicious.
Receipts. Il 600 head: desirable butch
ers mostly 10 to Is lower than yester-
days average: average weight AT 200
pounds and under. II TO 25 lower:
packing SowS mostly Is to 25 lower:
top. 1905; bulk desirable 100 to 200
pounds. l3.00al4.15: most ol0 10 $50
pound butchers. 13. 65a 90: bulk 800
TO S25 pound weight. l3.50a 1915. most
packing sows, 1i.50alo.25: strong
weight slaughter pigs. upward TO
1850: heavy weight. I2.75al4.05: me-
dunn weight. 13.40al4.03: light weight.
l3.00a13.90; light lights, 11.S5a13 40;
packing sows, 11.00al2.50; slaughter
pigs. l1.c5a12.50.
Cattle-Receipts, $4,000 head: prac-
iically no market early for fed steers
and yearlings: supply excessive: buy
erS indifferent; few sales OF yearlings
and medium weight unevenly lower:
prospects of a liberal holdover: she
stock weak to 25 lower: bulls steady to
strong: vealers mostly IS lower: large
~ 1900 down 10 packers: few choice
selected TO outsiders. 1850.
Sheep-Receipts, - 600 head: active;
TAT lambs mostly 25 higher than yes
terday: bulk both natives and western,
14.o0al42S: choice natives and rang,
ers held around 1875; culls strong TO
% higher: 10.o0al0.50 mostly: sheep
steady; bulk desirable fat ewes. 600a
SIS: feeding lambs steady TO strong
at 1S.00a13.50.
Evening star., 1926-10-07

installation of transformer and get
ting their service at moderate rates.
In Wisconsin farmers applying for
electrical service have a survey made
Of their locality. If the cost of install
lation is found to be less than $400
a subscriber, the utility company
builds the line at it's own expense,
provided the farmers agree to expend
as much in electrical equipment as
will equal the estimated cost of con-
struction to each. Electrical experts
say this entails no hardship on the
farmer, as 1t requires at least $400
worth Of equipment to make the use
of electrical power economical.
Saves Much ManpOwer.
Figures on one Wisconsin farm,
show that the use of electrical appli-
ances saved 20 hours of manpower
labor a week. Even at as low a cost
or 40 cents hour. including cost of
meals, this would mean a saving of
$96 a month. Farm electrification has
made greater progress in the last nine
months than ever before. This has
opened a new sales territory for the
electrical equipment industry. In ad-
dition to heavy sales of refrigerators
vacuum cleaners, stoves and lighting
~ tIiCiC llC1o OVCi
a keen demand for water pumps, milk
ing machines. ensilage cutters and
other general utility machinery. AS
result the sales of the four large
equipment manufacturers are ex-
pected to total between S540 900 900
and $3.50. 100000 before January l.
Motor trucks have made possible the
raising of live stock and subsidiary
crops. Many farmers have turned to
fruit and grape growing with the
opening of new canning and preserving
plants in their neighborhOOds. Even
fur farming has been made a profit
able side line. Everything but the
jack rabbits hop is utilized on North
western rabbit ranches. Rabbit skins
are cured and shipped to be dyed in
imitation of more costly furs. The
peltS average 10 cents apiece. Rab-
bit meat is marketed locally at % to
IS cents pound. Flesh of old rabbits
is made into biscuits to feed silver
foxes. while other portions are ground
into fertilizer.
Evening star., 1926-10-07
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Ohce

quite a fair amount of activity &C
compa nying the price changes. White
Sewing Machine again made d disap-
pointing showing. 1t had left off the
day before at 2434. and it faded away
with very little resistance to just
above %.
Public utility shares were unsettled
and some of them were weak. Com
monwealth Power dropped well below
40. where it was off nearly a point.
There was active trading at declin-
ing prices in Electric Bond and
Share. Mohawk and Hudson was
down over a point from its recent
high. United Gas and Improvement
gave way abruptly and so did North
western Power and Light. On the
other hand. Public Service Of New
Jersey. Southeastern Power and Light
and United Light and Power "a
were steady. and Associated Gas and
Electric appeared to be well sup
ported when it dipped below So.
Evening star., 1926-10-07
Unstable Dollar
Picking Pockets
OF BOndhOlders
By the Associated Press.

PROVIDENCE, r. l.. October Z.
The dollar today is worth only IS
pre-war cents. DIR. Irving Fisher Of
the economics department of Yale
University declared in an address
before the convention of the Amer
lean Grocery Speciality Manufac-
turers.
people who do not really want
to be humbugged must not accept
the dollar at It's face value, They
must translate it into purchasing
power before they can properly
compare figures" he added. Our
unstable dollar has picked the
pockets of the bondholder for the
benefit Of the stockholder. When
prices are rising. the stockholder
wins from the bondholder. and
when prices are falling the bond
holder wins from the Stockholder.
The bondholder's Steady income
is a delusion and a snare, so long
as we do not stabilize our dollar"
Evening star., 1926-10-07
COTTON HAS RALLY
FROM EARLY DROP
Overnight Selling Orders Are
Offset by Covering and
Trade Buying.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. October Cotton
futures opened barely steady; October.
1880; December. 1919; January. 1928;
March, 1884: May. 1874. The mar
ket opened barely steady today at a
decline of to 25 points under over
night selling orders from the South
and other selling inspired by relative
ly easy Liverpool cables. favorable
weather map and the continued trend
toward increased estimates of the
crop.
December sold off to 1919 and
March to 1888 at the start. but offer.
ings were comparatively light and
prices steadied up on covering and
buying attributed to trade or specula-
tive interests. December rallied to
1929 and was holding a point or so
above yesterdays closing quotations
at the end of the first hour. October
was relatively easy at the start, but
recovered part of it's loss on a very
small volume of business.
New Orleans Market.
NEW ORLEANS. La. October Z
P.-COtton futures opened easy. Oc.
tober. 1911: December, 1920: January,
1928; March. 13.42; May. 1889. The
market opened easy today. owing to
lower Liverpool cables. and first trades
showed losses of 6 to s points. On
reports that Liverpool interests were
selling in that market and buying in
the American market prices rallied,
December advancing to 1927. Janu
AIRY to 1898 and March to 13.47. Two
private reports were issued today, one
making the crop 1885, 900 bales and
the other 1850 900 bales.
Liverpool Quotations.
LIVERPOOL. October Z R.--Cot-
ton-Spot. fair demand; prices barely
steady. American strict good mid
ding. S.12;; good middling, ~; strict
middling. 7.52; middling. 7.12: strict
low middling, 6.71; low middling, 6.17;
strict good ordinary. 5.62; good ordi-
nary. 4.97. Sales. 5000 bales. includ-
ing 6.1O0 American. Receipts, 1000
bales: American. $500. Futures closed
Evening star., 1926-10-07
WESTERN MARYLAND'S
CAR LOADING GAIN BIG
Has Biggest Increase in Traffic in
Allegany Region for Two Weeks,
Ended September IL.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
BALTIMORE. October - The
Western Maryland Railway. for the
two weeks ended September II, show
ed the largest percentage of gain In
car loadings Of revenue freight In the
Allegany region and ranked fourth
among the carriers of the Nation. fig
ures just made public reveal.
The Western Maryland handled a
total of 21,SS2 cars. an increase OF
3.54-, or 1875 per cent, compared with
the corresponding period In 1925.
The number of loaded cars moved by
the Baltimore and Ohio in the same
period was 144,262. a comparative in
crease of 1899. or Sc per cent. The
Seaboard Air Line Railway reported
a falling off of 917 loaded cars. or
90 per cent, the total being 34,417
cars.
Evening star., 1926-10-07

NEW YORK. October I'm the
stocks which were most actively
traded In on the Curb Market TODAY
prices were for the most part lower.
me selling was more or less syrnpa-
thetic with that going on upon the
STOCK Exchange. Du Pont was the
most active Of any, going through a
vide range Of fluctuations. 1t had
closed yesterday at 1921, had opened
TINS morning at 10, then jumped to
III "a. From this high the stock broke
under a violent selling movement un-
I'll it was far below where it started
from.
Warner Bros. Pictures offered much
hetter resistance to the decline. 1t
went up from a previous close of 487s
TO 81 II. and. despite the reactionary
drift in other directions, it continued
10 hold most of the rise.
Gillette Safety Razor started in a
half point down, then rallied, with
NEW YORK. October 7.--Follow-
ing is a list of bonds and stocks
traded in on the New York Curb Mar
ket today:
Evening star., 1926-10-07
GET JAPANESE ORDERS.

NEW YORK. October ! CP.-Ameri-
can tinplate manufacturers recently
have received fairly large orders from
Japan, including 1900 boxes from
the Kyoto Oil Co. and 1000 boxes from
the Japanese army. Smaller scattered
contracts involved about 5000 boxes.
An order for 140.0 900 tie plates booked
by Suzuki & Co. for the Imperial Gov
ernment Railway of Japan. is expect
ed to he distributed in this country
shortly
Evening star., 1926-10-07
BUYS METAL RESERVES.

PARIS. October { (P).--The Bank
Of France during the last week issued
0.5S4 900 paper francs S.S95. .70m IN
exchange for French gold and silver
coin and foreign currency. the weekly
bank statement shows. The amount
of each category purchased is not
given. The purchases arc made unler
the new law aimed at increasing the
banks metal reserve.
Evening star., 1926-10-07
PORT TRADE GROWS.

PORTLAND. Oreg.. October (Spc-
ciaD.-The total commerce out OF this
port so far this year is estimated to-
day at a third of Il billion dollars In
value, far surprising all previous rec
ords for a similar period. The total
tonnage to enter the port SO far this
year was 3.256.S9S as against 2.743.
155 year ago.
Evening star., 1926-10-07
MONTGOMERY WARD.
Monthly Sales Figures Show Steady
Increases.

NEW YORK. October )Speciap.-
At its highest today Montgomery
Ward was several points above its re
cent low figures. Since the report
came out "a while ago that the com.
panys earnings have declined nothing
except monthly sales figures have been
published. These have shown further
increases. as compared with 1925. Sell
ing around 60 a short time ago, Mont
gomery Ward certainly looked long
way from a dividend. but Wall street
Is as much in the dark on this score
as the others.
Evening star., 1926-10-07
Washington Stock EXCHANGE

SALES
20 u ~ az W. ~ dt
Washington Rwy. Eler COMIC at
100it
Merchants, Transfer e. storage pfJ-5 at
Mergenthaler Linotype-:} al rO6
Natlonal Mtge. Invest. pfd.--5O at s..
AFTER CALL.
9 Washington Gas 6s 33-S300 at lO3,
500 AZ 1903 -0''
%, Washington Rwy. & Elec $500 at
Money--Cal loans 3 and per con.
Evening star., 1926-10-07
BANK CLEARINGS.

NEW YORK. October Special
New York bank clearings. s1.l3l. 900
600; New York bank balances. Sis
10000; New York Federal Reserve
Bank credits. $94 900, 900
Evening star., 1926-10-07
PIG IRON ADVANCES.

NEW YORK. October CP).--PiS
iron prices have been advanced 80
cents O ton in the Pittsburgh district
No. 2 foundry grade is now quoted at
ats.s0 q ton. and Bessemer. $l9.
Evening star., 1926-10-07
PRICES ON PARIS BOURSE.

PARIS, October Z R.--Prices i'm
proved on the Bourse today. Three
per cent rentes. AZ francs. so centimes:
exchange on LoDdon, 1863 francs. 10
ccntimes: ) per cent loan. SO francs,
20 centimes. The dollar was quoted
at 81 francs. 50 centimes.
Evening star., 1926-10-07
Are You a Sucker:

Too many people put their money
IN day dreams and wake up broke.
Never put your name on the dotted
line until you have inquired of some
one in your bank what he knows
about some stock issue that Is of.
fered to you privately.
Evening star., 1926-10-07

steady. October, 6.e9; December 7.12:
January. 7.1S: March. 7.27; May, 7.35;
July, 74o: September. 743,
Evening star., 1926-10-07

The 1l00th anniversary of the con
version of Denmark to Christianity
was celebrated i'll the ancient town of
Ribe with great pomp.
Evening star., 1926-10-07
POULTRY PRICES EASY.

CHICAGO, October (R.--Poultry.
alive, easy: receipts. i cars; fowls.
251o: Springs, %; turkeys, 81; roosters,
is: ducks, %; geese, 20
Evening star., 1926-10-07
SILVER QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK. October H).--Bar
silver, 56ls; Mexican dollars, 1925.
Evening star., 1926-10-07
FARMERS PROFIT
ON DIVERSE CROPS
Power Spread Squirting Sales
of Electrical Equipment in
Rural Sections.

Special Dispatch to The Star.

GpcNidi IicpdbcIi w Inc oval.
NEW YORK, October 7.-Farmers
of the United States are better forti-
fed today against extreme fiuctua-
tions in the prices of their products
than ever before. This has come
about through widespread crop di-
versification and the utilization of by
products in the same manner as is
done in manufacture. Costs have
been cut by improved machinery and
by, the introduction of electric power
on the farms.
Striking evidence of this is report
ed today in dispatches from the South
east. Each cotton-growing State in
the South has suffered an economic
loss. which far exceeds the damage
done by the recent hurricane, from
the sharp decline in cotton prices.
Notwithstanding this fact. jobbers
and retailers report that their sales
in the last month have been above
those for the corresponding period of
last year. Five years ago the farmers
would have been in acute distress
and their plight would have been re-
f1ected Immediately on other lines OF
business. Now their other crop; are
pulling them through.
Drift Away Believed Checked.
In the Northwest the drift of farm
population away from the soil. which
reached a high peak between 1920 and
1925, is believed to have been checked
and the movement turned the other
way. according to Department of Ag-
riculture officials. The extension of
electric power to the farms has grown
steadily. with a corresponding reduc-
ton in costs. In some of the sparse
l., A1@I H. a,,e,&
had to bear a part of the cost of in
stallation of power lines. AS custo-
mers along these lines grew. rebates
have been made to the original sub
scribers. Even the sparsely settled
districts Of North Dakota have been
covered with a net work of power
lines supplying farmers. The latter
usually get their current from high
voltage lines. group paying for the
Evening star., 1926-10-07

Cake has 25 per cent more calories
than bread.
Evening star., 1926-10-07
Bid and Asked Prices.
BONDS.
PUBLIC UTILITY
MISCELLANEOUS

Chestnut Farms Dairy, Is las. l0l
y. e. Paper Co. Mfg. IS. S5
Pot. Joint stock I'd Blk. 5s.. loi
southern Bldg. 6i2s. s....
Wash Mkt Cold Storage 5s.. %
" ardm3n Park Hotel ) i2s. qSi,
Evening star., 1926-10-07

A beautifully made
set, IN q handsome ma
hoguny cdbinet-d real
masterpiece!
The wonder Freshman
set is built in a massive,
solid mahogany cabinet,
with a beautiful two
tone finish. Combines
every feature demanded
by the most ardent en-
thusiast in the perfect
receWer-distance, selec-
tivity, tone quality and
simplicity of operation