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The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
Not Recognized Before Civil
War as Government
Employees.

Washington. "A woman was recent
" elected mayor of Seattle. Another
announced her intention of accepting
the candidacy to succeed her husband
as governor. The mandate committee
of the League of Nations included a
woman delegate. In Washington, d.
c., woman is in general charge of APP
plying the law to .bootleggers.
Yet only little more than so years
ago woman, to procure employment
from the government, had to conceal
her sex. She had to apply for her
work, the copying of land warrants
for the general land office, in the
name of male relative. 1t was done
at home and she received $1,000 a
year, the salary received by men for
that service.
In 1862 woman was allowed a
clerks desk in the Treasury depart
ment-to substitute for a man. She
was accorded the privilege of replace
ing her husband, who had fallen i'll, in
order that the family might be sup
ported. She did her husbands work
and received his salary-not because
she was as competent as he, but be-
cause she registered as a man.
To the Treasury department also
belongs the distinction of first EN-
ploying women in their own right
Cen Francis Elias Spinner, appointed
United States treasurer by President
Lincoln, conceived the idea as means
Of saving the government money in
those expensive war times.
"a woman can use scissors better
than a man. he told Salmon P. Chase,
secretary of the treasury, "and she
will do it cheaper. want to employ
women to cut the treasury notes.
Women Flocked In.
Following the consent of the treas
ury chief, scores of needy women,
whom the war had left bereft of sup
porters, fiocked to General Spinners
little room in the nations bank. Here
he slept, to be within call in case of
trouble. Here every woman was sure
of a hearing.
She did not receive an official ap-
pointment nor had she any official
existence. She was merely handed a
pair of scissors and paid 5000 year
out of the fund provided by congress
for temporary clerks. Cutting treas
ury notes into quarters was considered
Tight work. but, as each note trim
mer discovered, a few hours Of 1t
wearied the shoulders and blistered
the fingers.
Approaching this opportunity to
support themselves, however, more
and more women beset fhe general for
Jobs. Believing that the, nimbleness Of
their fingers and their patience would
be assets in the manipulation of frac-
tional currency, he opened this field
to them and also the detection of
counterfeits.
The results pleased him. Speaking
Of women as counterfeit detectors, he
said: "a man will examine a note
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13

Tor $500 per annum, than some Of the
male clerks are able to do who re-
,eive a yearly salary of twice that
mount.
THE female clerks, with but few ex-
eeptions, are subject to greater risks
Of loss by reason of miscounts or by
passing counterfeits, for which each
one is pecuniarily liable and respon-
sible, than nine-tenths of the male
clerks, whose principal occupations are
books and accounts Right and fair
dealing, therefore, demand that their
pay should be assimilated more nearly
than it now is to that of the other
sex for like services and response
bilities."
A generation later, when the wom-
ans movement was progressing, Cen
eral Spinner wrote: 1.-THE fact that |
was instrumental in introducing wom-
en- to employment in the Offices of the
government gives me more real salts
faction than all the other deeds of
my life
General Spinner had started fertile
movement indeed Today there are
1893 women in the storehouse of the
nations billions, 500 more than the
male number. From the harsh en-
pIoyer of a handful of unrecognized
women, Uncle Sam has developed, in
little more than half a century, into
the bountiful boss of 1855 women,
and the chief of a woman's public serv-
ice that includes two governors, three
congresswomen, an assistant attorney
general, a state Supreme court judge,
many minor judges, three state sec
retaries, about $50 state legislators.
two diplomats and two state superin-
tendents of public instruction.-Ne
York Times.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
Rescues From Fire, Snow and Water
Basis for De Molay Life
Saving Awards

Kansas City, Mo- Heroism medals
FOR saving lives have been awarded to
three members of the Order of De
Molay by the grand council of that
organization. Those honored are Will
liam Fl. Elkins of Baltimore, Md; Ar
thur #. whitehead, Norfolk Downs,
Mass, and Samuel Pierce, Alameda,
Cal. Announcement was made by
Frank S. Land of this city, founder
and grand scribe.
EIkjns saved the life Of Mrs. Bar
bara Wagner, Baltimore, when the
excursion steamer Three Rivers
burned in Chesapeake bay, July A..
1924. With. the fire raging on all sides
he lowered himself from the top deck
of the steamer to the lower deck.
hand-over-hand down rope, with
Mrs. Wagner clinging to his waist
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
Uncle Sam as
Wonan's Boss


systematically and deduce logically
from the imperfect engraving, blurred
vignette or indistinct signature that
it is counterfeit-an be wrong four
cases out of ten. A'woman picks up
a note, looks at it in a desultory fash
ion of her own and says. That's coun-
terfeit.' 'WhyY Because it is. she
answers promptly and is right eleven
cases out of twelve
Many criticisms Heard
Notwithstanding the satisfaction of
the employer, criticisms were received
from indignant persons ali over the
country, individuals shocked by the
radical action of the treasurer. Even
at home he encountered opposition.
Hugh McCulloch, successor to Secre-
tary Chase, scorned the presence of
a tea pot on each window ledge.
'eThere are too many tea pots in the
treasury of the nation" he COM
plained-after which remark the inno-
cent kettle became the universal emf
blem of woman's unftness for govern
ment service.
Nobody ever heard that the costly
cigars and tobacco which filled the
man clerks incoming, to the exhilara-
ton of body and soul, was like sign
of his inability to perform prolonged
service without the aid of stimulants,"
said Mary Clemmer Ames in her book,
'"Ten Years in Washington, "but the
tea pots were ridiculed out and ceased
to distill the gentle beverage for the
woman worker at her MONDAY lunch"
Congressman. necessarily concerned
with increasing their constituency,
vented their eloquence in the depreca-
tion of women workers, so that the
males might be favored. Arguing that
a woman was not clerk but an en-
ployee. they decreed she could never,
regardless of her services. earn more
than 5000 year. On the other hand,
no man, were he only messenger ex-
ecuting the instructions of woman,
could receive less than $1,000
Defenseless, women dared not com
plain. AS one worthy official told
them, they were only here by suffer
ance and could all be turned out to-
morrow
A few appealed to the secretary of
the treasury, but his retort that "$40O
is enough for any woman to receive
for her work" soon siIenced them.
In the Department of the Interior the
secretary constantly denoted women
workers to make place for the men.
Ball Continued to Roll.
Even the women's friend in con-
gress, Representative H. L. Dawes of
Massachusetts, opposed all projects to
raise their pay because, by making
their humble positions desirable to
men. they would be compelled to leave
the government service altogether.
Despite antagonism, their first
friend, General Spinner, remained
their ally.
"The experiment of employing fe-
males as clerks" he wrote in his re-
port of 1868, has been, so far as this
office is concerned, a complete success.
The truth is that many of the female
clerks now do as much work, if not
more, and do it as WELL if not better,
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
ASTHMA?
His Probable Actor,

my least boy, Bearcat, went to
sleep on the hearth last night and
rolled into the fire." in Toadrock post
office related Gap Johnson of Rum
pus Ridge.
what did he do then?' questioned
old man Shabby, who was hanging
around.
st didn't pay no pertickler atten-
ton, but | reckon he rolled out
yaw-w-w-wn i-ag'in. Looks sorter like
rain, off to the southland, don't it?'-
Kansas City Star.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
After Flu and Colds
TanIaC Brings Back Health

After a bout with the flu, when
your knees are wobbly and your
feet like lead, when your back is
weak and your head swimming
tone up your system with Tanlac.
Note how you pick right up from
the first few doses.
Thousands of mem and women
are happy and vigorous today be
cause Tanlac carried them over
similar periods of weakness and
depression. It's action is perfectly
natural because its ingredients are
all natural. Roots, barks and herbs
long known for their medicinal
values, combine their tonic proper
ties and give to Tanlac its amaz-
ing power to revitalize the blood
and inyigorate the digestive organs.
1t snaps tie whole system into
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
But Sill

fighting trim.
If flu has left you just "half-
alive" don't delay in taking Tanlac.
So long as your system is weak
and rundown it cannot resist IA
tigue; it cannot throw off the at
tack of any germ or illness you may
be exposed to. Tone up your whole
body; enjoy the vigor OF natural
health and let Tanlac rid your sys-
tenn of all after-fiu impurities. Then
you'll feel ft. and be fit; natural
vitality and resistance will be yours
again.
Step into your druggists today
and get this amazing tonic. The
first bottle will convince you of its
merits. And as an added precau-
ton. keep your bowels open with
Tanlac Vegetable Pills.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
Tip 10 Flappers

Egham, England. Selma Fur
nival, who is one hundred years old,
attributes the lack of wrinkles in her
face to abstention from cosmetics.
She looks like her mother, ''the belle
Of Bath" one of the famous beauties
of her time.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
Laundries Boom

Fresno, Cal.-The laundries are
busy as the result of black rain. SCOT
from the San Luis Obispo oil fire, 90
miles away, fell with the rain, soiling
light clothing.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
Yearnr

eve get what we deserve in this
life"
"Think so? Well, wish some judge
would sentence me to a long term Of
prosperity. Philadelphia Inquirer
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
Sheer Luck

Pat-Say, Mike. did yez hear about
that big fiddler dying? He thought
so much of his violin he had it buried
with him.
Mike-No, yez don't name it? It's a
dom good thing he didn't play the
plano.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
Almost Defined

Harold, what is crisis2'
Sometimes when nobody knows
what to do in hurry"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13

The last January eclipse of the sun
was the first total eclipse to be seen
in the British isles since 1874.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13

When you hear man say that every
man has his price, he is looking for a
buyer
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13

In a disturbed mind, as In a body
in the same state, health cannot exist.
Cicero
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
Masculine Emotion

Men hate to display emotion, but
the brides father may be pardoned
If he sheds a few cheers. Life.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
Weaker?

Him How come the ringer?
Other Him-Aw, jes' ill argument
with one of de weaker sex.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
Time Yet

Time Yet
Waiter, when does the music start
here?p
I'm half an hour, sir"
Good; hustle up my order"
He that is down needs fear no fall.
-Bunyan.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
Inquiries

The cynic WORKS at i too much.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-05
TEMPE RESIDENT
dies AS RESULT
OF A GUN WOUND

PHOENIX, March 4.-Warren Chill
son, of Tempe 25 years old, died
about a o'clock this morning at his
Thome as the result of self-inflicted
gunshot wound believed to be acci-
dental.
Mrs. ]. C. Chilson, mother of the
victim, told Investigating officers that
her son returned home early yester-
day morning from dance and went
to bed The door separating the
bedrooms used by the mother and
sons was open and Mrs. Chilson stated
that she saw her son turn over on
his side just before the shot was
fired.
Mrs. Chilson is of the opinion that
her son was in the act of placing
the weapon, .32 calibre automatic
pistol, under his pillow, when it was
accidentally discharged. The bullet
entered Chilsons right temple and
he died almost instantly.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-05
WOMAN PUSHING
BABY LEADS BIG
STRIKE PARADE
1Rn nisnatch A. p. MireN

PASSAIC, N. j.. March 4.-Led by
a woman wheeling baby in a car
riage, 1000 striking textile workers
paraded from Garfield, through Cliff
ton and into Passaic this afternoon,
with no interference from police. The
lack of violence, contrasted with
Yesterdays clashes and arrests, was
hailed by the strike leaders as a
considerable moral victory.
Police lined the route through
Clifton and Passaic but made no at
tempt to do more than keep the
marchers moving.
Many of the marchers wore iron
trench helmets, and some carried gas
masks as a result of previous clashes
with police. There were many chill.
dren in the parade, but no other
baby carriage than that leading the
march.
A New York newspaper, whose re-
porters and photographers had suf-
fered yesterday when they said po-
lice attacked them, sent an armored
car to the parade today. 1t turned
over before the march started, and
two of the five men in it wers
slightly hurt.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-05
Interior Department Drafts a
New Reclamation Compromise
nRr nisnatch A. 2. Wirol

WASHINGTON, Mar 4-The de-
partment of interior today drafted
a bill embodying nomoromise agreo
ment between the department and
group of western senator's for IL
nancial support for settlers on rec
Iamation projects. The bill was pre-
pared at the request of the Western
Senator's, who declined to accept
the departments recommendations
for state aid for settlers until it
was shown that the plan was feast
BILE. Under the terms of the measure
S5OO,O0O will be appropriated out
of the federal reclamation fund for
a three year experiment in aiding
settlers financially. AT the end OF
three years the farmers Ngiven such
aid will be compared with those
not receiving financial support anc
these findings will form the basis
for a future policy.
The measure was the outcome of
conference at the capitol between
Secretary Work, Director Mead o.
the reclamation service, and sena-
tors from western states. After the
conference of several hours had
shown that the interior department
officials and the senators were far
apart Senator Smoot republican.
Utah, suggested the compromise pro-
posal and the conference ended with
the senator's requesting the sec
retary to have the solicitor of the
prepare legislative
draft incorporating the agreement.
The bill, as drafted by the de-
partment, provides that the settlers
selected for the experiment will be
confined to not more than two ex-
isting reclamation projects. although
seven projects had be&n under dis
cussion. The secretary of the inter-
ior would be authorized to advance
$4,000 for permanent improvements
and for the purchase of livestock IT,
an occupant of a farm of 160 acres
or $500 to the occupant of a smaller
tract The governments investment
Continued on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-05
Investigation
of Desm ond'S
Death ReUiUed
nv Dispatch A. P wirel

NEW YORK, Mar. Investigation
of the unsolved murder of William
Desmond Taylor, motion picture di-
rector, was re-openou today when
District Attorney Asa Keyes of Los
Angeles, held long distance con-
versation with Mary Miles Minter'
former motion picture actress and
friend of the slain director.
Keyes said Miss Minter, who was
questioned but not suspected when
Taylor was killed in 1921, called
him volutarily.
miss Minter wanted to know
what phases of the case we were
investigating and asked if she could
be of any help" Keyes assistant,
Deputy District Attorney Davis said.
Mabel Normand, who also was
motion picture star when the muir
der occurred and who also was ques-
toned is also living here, and II
was reported that Keyes would
question her.
You may say for Mr.. Keyes,'
Davis said, "that if Miss Normand
cares to get in touch with him he
will be very glad to talk to her.
AS to whether he will ask her to
see him, cannot state.
"Also, it would be Impossible to
give out any information as TO
reports that we have clue to the
whereabouts of Edward Sands, Tay-
lor's former valet, Really, we can
give out no more definite informa-
tion at this time"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-05
ALL-AMERICAN
CANAL MAY BE
WRONG MOVE
fRv D,spatch A. p. w,re)

by D1SpaLcn a. +. Wlrel
WASHINGTON, Mar. 4.-The pos
sibility of reprisaIs affecting land
in Texas and the Imperial Valley
if the United States should proceed
without reaching an agreement with
Mexico, to build an all-American
canal to utilize water of the Colo
RADIO River for irrigation was point
ed out today in letter from Com
missioner Mead of the reclamation
bureau, to Chester H. Rowell, of
Berkeley, Calf.
Rowell headed a commission which
prepared plans and estimates for
an all-American canal as part of
the lower Colorado power and ir-
rigation development project. A re-
commendation by Secretary Work
shat the canal proposal Should be
coupled with negotiation with Mex
leo, Commissioner Mead told him,
has much more vital relation
to the passage of the legislation,
(providing for the development) than
the people of Southern California
realize"
For months past, he continued,
correspondence has been going on
between this country and Mexico
relative to an international water
right agreement on the Rio Grande
and Colorado rivers.
ION the lower Rio Grande there
are 100000 acres of land on the
Texas side, irrigated with water
S5 per cent of which comes from
Mexico. Mexico can use all of the
tory on its own land. To save these
American farms and the millions
invested we must induce Mexico to
the rights of prior users
in this country.
"Over on the Colorado the situa
tion is reversed There are 100000
acres of land irrigated in lower
California with water that comes
wholly from the United States.
believe the prior rights in both
cases should be protected, but we
can only do that through an in
agreement by which both
of these streams will be dealt with
together. 1t is of the utmost inn
portance therefore, that nothing be
done to interfere with these nego-
te
ITO announce that the government
was going to build an all-American
canal, without, any consideration of
the rights of Mexico in the Colo
RADIO is, to say the least, lacking
in tact and courtesy. That all
American canal. connected with the
reservoir Contemplated in the pro-
ject) would enable all the water
to be taken out before it reached
Mexico.
Building it with no effort to
reach an understanding would be
regarded by Mexico as evidence of
Continued on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-05
MUMTAZ BEGUN
WEDS WEALTHY
INDIAN LEADER
tBy Dispatch A. P. wsre)

AMHITSAR, British India, March
4-Mumtaz Begun, dancing girl and
central figure in the sensational
scandal eliminating in the abdica-
ton of the Maharajah of Indore, last
Saturday was married here today to
Abdur Bahman a wealthy skin deal
er and municipal commissioner.
She expressed delight and no sur
prise at the news of the maharajah's
downfall.
Mumtaz Begun, Nautch dancing
girl, once the favorite of the power
full Maharajah of Indore, ran away
from him after, she alleged, he had
cast her aside.
She sought the protection of Abdul
Bawla, wealthy merchant in Bonn,
bay, who paid with. his life for pro-
tecting her. Her face was mutilated
by one of the assailants. They were
arrested and convicted Three were
sentenced to death and the other
four deported.
The Earl of Reading, viceroy of
India, keeping faith with his inaug-
ural proclamation to do justice to all
brought about the voluntary abdi-
cation of the Maharajah of Indore in
favor of his 18-year- r-old son.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-05
(By Dispatch A. P. wirel

DENVER, Colo, March 4.-After
making what officers said was a
frank statement of everything she
knew about the death February 1 Of
Mrs. Virgil A. Massie, Mrs. Rene
Devilbess one of four persons ar
rested Tuesday and held for investi-
cation, while Mrs. Massies body IS
exhumed at Carthage, Ills, the fam
,Aly home, WAS released from the
5efferson county Jail. Mrs. Devilbess
will be retained as a material wit
ness in the event murder charge
is filed against Massey.
Developments are awaiting the
autopsy at Carthage, where District
Attorney Joel stone and Sheriff Wal
ter Johnson Of jefferson county have
gone to uncover definite evidence re-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-05
Withdrawal of Recognition of
Mexico Is Demanded in House
ByN Y. Member on Thursday

try than we could with Russia. The
two nations are on q par as far
as their attitude toward fundamental
rights of humanity are concerned.
Mexico, not so much by constantly
recurring outrages against American
citizens and seizures of American
properties, as by adoption of a con-
stitution at variance with interna-
tional honor and the deepest in
stincts of civilization, has grieviouslv
offended against all those who sub
scribe to our constitutional guar
antees of freedom"
In statement inserted in the
congressional record, he charged
that under the Mexican constitution.
there is no such thing as religious
liberty, untrammeled culture, edu-
cation or freedmo of worship.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-05
j. S. DROPS ITS
NATIONAL FOOD
PRODUCTS SUIT
fRr nlspaten a. T. wlre1

WASHINGTON, March 4.-The suit
of the government under the Clay
ton antitrust act against the Ma
tional Food Products corporation
ended today when consent decree
entered in the federal court for the
southern district OF New York.
The decree which was entered in
lieu of an answer of the company
to the original complaint of the
government, provides that the cor
poration shall dispossess itself of all
it's interests in shares of voting
stock of various affiliated corpora
tions.
The decree restrains the corpora
ton from acquiring further control
of companies in similar lines of bust
ness. Officers and directors are en-
joined perpetually from making use
of their positions so as to lessen
competition between companies whose
stock is held by the corporation. The
suit against the company was in
stituted by the department of ustice
February 49,
United States Attorney Buckner
Clayton antitrust act, said that after
the decree was signed that the food
products corporation and individuals
interested in it had accepted peace
padlocks forever restraining them
from creating or operating a food
trust of any size or character"
An official statement from the
prosecutor in the case said that the
decree would make impossible any
combination among a great group of
concerns whose activities include the
distribution Of milk and other dairy
products in New York and Philadel-
phia, chain grocery stores in New
England, New York and other states,
the production of ice cream, par
ticularly in New York and Philadel-
phia, and the manufacture and dis
tribution throughout the country Of
(Continued on Page Three1
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-05
Tucson Bank Teller Has
Narrow Escape When He
Is Locked Inside Vault
fRu D.sna,cn A. P. WireN

TUCSON, Mar. 4.--Weakened by
fright and near to suffpcation L. j.
Felix, teller in the Southern Ari-
zona Bank and Trust company here,
was dragged from the vault by q
fellow worker after he had were
opened, Felix was lying, face to
the floor breathing tho slight al
lowance of air entering through a
hair line opening under the door.
The man was locked in the vault
at closing time by accident and Gid
not know he was imprisoned until
the lights were turned out from
the outside. He was rescued by
Raymond Jacobs another teller who
returned to the bank after the din
ner hour to finish some incompleted
work.