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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMES ). MONTAGUE
MARCO POLO's MIsTAKE


When Marco Polo tried to tell
His tale of travels in Cathay,
His hearers listened for a spell
And then they grinned, and turned
away.
Chagrined and baffled and upset,
He told his story far and wide
To all and Sundry, but he met
Disdainful looks on every side.
"He gabbles like flock of geese"
The cynical VenetianS said
He might have got as far as Greece
But travelling has turned his head.
Such majesty as he describes
No mortal ever looked upon;
There are no such Mongolian tribes
And no such king as Kublai Khan"
Today we know that. Marcos tale
Was based on what himself had
seen
In any wide and far flung vale
Where Kub la held his proud
demesne.
And Venice might have rivalled Rome
In ponp and power and pride and
glory
If, when the traveller came home
Shed given credit to his story.
Yet after some five hundred years
Though it was told with art and
skill
The old mans narrative appears
A little tough to swallow still.
He didn't just exactly lie
But added here and there touch
And being quite as you or
He dolled his story up too much,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
Plucked From the Plains
Song To Be Sung BY a Flapper
Enrfv Wars Ernnn Nnru

Song To Be Sung BY Flapper
Forty Years From Now
How dear to my heart are the scenes
of my childhood,
The night clubs, speakeasies and
hangouts I knew,
The hooks where we petted while
parked in the wildwood
But, dearest OF all, through the
decades 1 view
The old cocktail shaker,
The gold cocktail shaker
That popped up the parties we fre-
quently threw.
The old cocktail shakers now covered
with tarniSh,
1t rests in the bin on junk
Uttered board,
The liquor that tasted and acted like
varniSh
No more from its spout is ecstatic-
ally poured
Poor quart model shaker,
Poor sport model shaker,
Abandoned, neglected and calmly
ignored
Arthur L, Lippmanr.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15


the Fall-Sinclair trial turned the spot
light on more peculiar situations and
circumstances than any incident in
Washington since the Teapot Dome,
Doheny and Daugherty scandals were
first uncovered.
Tor instance, it brought that most
astonishing person, William j. Burns,
back into the stocks of notoriety.
Only one brief sequence of events is
needed to show that the Burns career
has been without parallel
In 1912, it was revealed that Burns
had been involved in the picking OF
a jury which convicted a man named
Jones. In pardoning Jones, President
Taft accepted the conclusions OF At
torney General Wickersham abou t
Burns activities and referred to them
as sEthe most barefaced and unfair
use of all the machinery for drawing
a jury" which he had ever encoun-
tered
Yet, when Harding became presi-
dent and Daugherty was named at
torney general, Burns was put in an
extremely important position of trust
as head of the investigation bureau
of the department of justice.
Now we have Burns, again a private
detective, involved as an employer OF
men, whom the government charges
were used in plot to influence the
Fall Sinclair jurors.
Burns never was a reSpecter OF per-
sons. The attempts of his bureau to
'get- something on senators who
sought to expose corruption in the in
terror and justice departments should
be recalled. Investigation of depart
ment of justice files during the SEN
ate inquiries revealed some hair rrais-
ing SidelightS on methods and results
Of the justice departments attempts
to ''get something on" others, little OF
which was ever publicly exposed be-
cause of the prominence OF persons
concerned.
Now, as grand jury investigates
the Fal1-Sinclair trial fiasco, the gov
ernment reveals that Burns man
shadoWed and reported on an assist
ant attorney general of the United
States while his comrades were try
ing to establish contact with jurors.
It is charged that one of Falls coun-
sci used another department official
to Investigate this assistant attorney
general! A4
The question continues to be asked
why as many as 16 men were trusted
with the very delicate job of jury
shadowing, with apparent disregard
of the possibility that one or more
might spill the beans 1t seems OBJ
vious that if anyone was trying to
tamper with the jury, such method
would indicate either sheer despera-
ton or indifference as to whether or
not mistrial were declared.
Your correspondent talked for half
an hour with Henry Mason Day, now
under $4,000 bond as an alleged
fixer, before he went before the grand
jury. Day is a tall, almost swarthy,
apparently powerful and sartorially
immaculate man of the world, not
cultured but suave. He seemed alter
nately steely or penetrating and boy
ishly naive. One felt that one would
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
With Other Editors
WHERE'S HUGH DAGGs' CUT?
(Coconino SUM

OF money
has notice the bill introduced
Maddox engineer
the Arizona
100000 recently appropriated for use of the
introduced
the reimburse Maddox
Of the river commissions 1928
believe should be recompensed but it
would Dagg
a
Then would burning shame overlook Senator Fred
bottom
miles
eighth legislature will down in
history penuou overlooked the opportunity life
generations
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15

Care should be exercised in thinning
the farm woodlands that the open
ings in the crown cover of the stand,
made by removing trees, are no larger
than may be closed in from three to
five years by the growth of the re-
naming tree tops. The best-informed
and most healthy trees should be Sc
lected to remain, and the crooked,
suppressed, weak or diseased ones re-
moved.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
PSALM OF TRADE

1-s.s4 s(Fre "A Local.
forth his place of business
bottle
adveiseth
hath apples? powder
old that tteth like
that knoweth the of printers
his earth shall
be the main n
acting indfferent
n
adyertseth ceaset to advertise to him
cleaning pluckng
wholly abiding those who
blaze they something SELL selling
stuff,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
ABE MARTIN

Next t. an eastbound tramp ther's
few things as busy as an Indianny
grand jury. No matter what she's
dOin', how she's dressed, or even if
she's in bath tub, woman should
never allow anything t detain her
when she sees her estranged husband
comm up tn walk.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
NO WONDER

The marriage rate has overtaken
the divorce rate in New York City,
New Workers having found it more
expedient to get the majority of their
divorces in Paris.
Copyright, 1927, Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15

Gullies rich in agricultural soil are
perfect examples of waste land. That
erosion can be stopped by tree plant
ing is illustrated by farm gully in
west Tennessee which was planted to
trees seven years ago The gully now
is yielding returns from grazing and
is producing trees for fence posts.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
WAsHBoARD EGYPT,s GIFT

CHICAGO-The furrowed wash
board was originated from a design
found on an ancient Egyptian tomb,
says Mrs. May L. Grady, director OF
service and sales of the American IN
Stitute of Laundrying.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
WHAT PRICE GLORY?


Well might the shade of Serrano
of
die with all the nonhaance the
have different of generous
of military glory.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
OF GUILT


they Buckeyes in Indiana gHooiers
n n Arizona,
Also what a be
eighties Arizonan
born year?
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
CHEERING PROSPECT

There may soon be an arnistlce be-
tween Harvard and Princeton Mem
bers of the two alumni associations
have been caught fraternizing.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
He: Do you know, DEAR that star
is 16 billion miles away!
She Well, I'm not!
But They Win


Women do not make good poker
players, declares Franklin P. Adams,
the Well-known humorist, asserting
that in all his experience he has
met but one woman who played like
a man.
"She will raise to the limit" says
F. P. A., ION what she considers
good hand; but if a man raises
back, she says she thinks he's a
mean thing, and that he's taking
advantage of her She continually
asks the value of the poker chips.
and she is inaldroit in making change.
She tells stories, anecdotes, bits of
gossip, when it is her deal or when
the whole table is waiting for her
to declare her intentions whether
she is going to raise, call or drop.
when her attention is called
this annoying discourtesy,, She says,
Tn not a professional gambler; I
play for the fun get out of it."
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15

Better Investment
When John d. was a kid, which
was very long time ago, he wanted
"a dog. His father, to test the lads
desire, said one day: John, if were
to give you hundred dollars to
buy dog would you spend it all
for dog or put some in the bank?"
"Well," replied the precocious John
D., fif you leave it to me, I'll Guy
100 dogs for dollar apiece"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15

Gather your kisses while you may,
Time brings only sorrow,
For the girls who are so free today
Are chaperons tomorrow.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
The Nnntial Knot


Chaotic conditions existing in some
parts of the south at the close of
the Civil war thrust into office men
poorly fitted for their duties. A North
Carolina mountaineer sheriff who had
never attended a formal wedding
found himself called on to marry
young couple. This is the way he
did it,
"You, John Marvin, do you solemn
ly swear that to the best Of your
knowledge and belief you take this
yer woman ter have and ter hold
for yerself, yer heirs, exepyerters, adj
ministrators an assigns, for your an
their use an behoof forever?Y
II do" answered the groom!
"You, Alice Ever, take this yer man
for yer husband, ter have an ter
hold forever; an you do further
swear that you are lawfully seized
in fac-simple, are free from all in
cumbrances, an have good right to
sell, bargain, an convey to the said
grantee yerself, yer heirs, adminls-
traitors, an assigns?"
'I d." responded hte ride, doubt
fully.
addressing Cle groom the SnSrlII
said, 'Thatll be about dollar an
fifty cents"
"Are we married?" asked the latter,
eager to be away.
Not by a burned sight, but the
fee comes in here
The fee was forthcoming when the
sheriff concluded the ceremony.
Know all men by these presents,
that I, Sheriff x, being in good
health and of sound an disposin'
mind, in consideration of a dollar and
fifty cents to me in hand paid, the
receipt is herewith acknowledged, do
an by these presents have declared
you man an wife :lurin good be-
havior, an until Otherwise ordered
by the court" III
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15


Coconino
Logic
Dispatch
Gentlemen question
is called Arzona?"
the
NJ
year or
former newspapers
person might called pioneer but all pioneers
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15

IT sprained my knee when was
in Germany"
"Danzig?"
mo, I was jumping"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
SURPRISING

The announcement that young peo-
pie are crazy about the radio indicates
that they must stay at home OF an
evening now and then
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15

They told him to come forth but
he came fifth, and escaped pyorrhea.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
SIXTEEN YEARSAGO

City Engineer Ben Norton, Post
master Fred Caldwell, w. H. Reno
and Frank Douglas have gone to
Wilcox and have promised to
bring back full quota of ducks.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15

Twenty-three births were re-
corded with City Health Officer
Greene during the month of Octo-
Der
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15

A supplementary hose house will
be built this week by the firemen
at Seventeenth and D.. Another
will be built in the vicinity of
Third street as soon as a site can
be secured.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
TerrjbIe Possibility

DR.. George A. Gordon recalls a
sermon of his in which he said he
"was inclined to think Christians
were sometimes among the most
foolish people that the Almighty ever
made
The mother of family who heard
it, in repeating at the dinner table
"this wilG utterance Of the minister"
was greeted with the suggestion from
her young son:
Mother, dear, that was most un-
tactful of DR.. Gordon; there mighC
have been q Christian in his con-
gregation."
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15

Rev. John E. Fry of Bisbee,
was in the city last evening to
assist in the installation of j.
MacLaren Brown as pastor of the
Presbyterian church.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
Better Investment

Arthur L. Lippmann.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09
FLYING FIELD

If present plans are carried out an
aviation field will be established in
the northwest portion of the old
grounds at Fort Ridgley, which will
provide an ideal landing and take-off
field for planes. 1t will require con-
siderable effort to place the grounds
in shape, as the ground must be lev
eled in many places.
In order to draw the pilots atten-
ton to the field, if he desires to make
a landing, rocks painted white will be
placed in the center in a circle, thus
giving the aviator definite knowledge
to locate his landing. At the top of
the flag staff will be placed a sock,
the airplane field sign. This is to in
form the pilot that the field is in
shape to land and in what direction
the wind is blowing. Also that he can
get oil and gasoline for his plane, if
he desires. 1t is intended to keep a
supply Of high test gasoline and the
required quality of motor oil at a
nearby farm house.
To make this field available for this
purpose the park phone line will be
removed to enter the park from under
the hill to the east. This field will be
indicated on all charts as an emer-
gency landing field.-Brown County
Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09
REV. r. L. SMITH TO TALK AT
TEN THOUSAND LAKES MEET

Rev. Roy Smith, pastor of the
Simpson Methodist church of Mime
apolis will be the principal speaker
at the annual meeting of the Ten
Thousand Lakes Association which
will be held at the Curtis Hotel, Min
neapolis on Friday, December 16, and
when resort owners and businessmen
from all parts of the state will gath
err to review the work Of the past
year and make plans for 1928.
Rev. Smiths talk will be given at
the luncheon which will be held IN
the main dining room of the Curtis
Hotel. In addition to Rev. Smiths
talk number of state executives and
businessmen of statewide and nation
al prominence will talk on subjects
vital to the development of Mime
sofa. Various problems of the tour
list business will be discussed and
work will be started on the program
for 1928.
H. C. Hotaling, state tourist COM
missioner and secretary of the Ten
Thousand Lakes Association will
make a report concerning the accom-
plishments of the association for 1927
and there will be display of public
ity obtained for Minnesota during the
past year.
New motion pictures taken during
the past summer by the Ten Thous-
and Lake Association to be used in
giving publicity to the state of Min
nesota will be shown for the first time
at the annual meeting. These pic
lures, according to Mr.. Hotaling, are
the finest ever taken in this state and
should give Minnesota some splendid
publicity. To obtain them, the as
ISOLATION has a photographer travel
throughout the state during the sum-
mer and secure not only host of
scenic material but views that will
set forth Minnesota's agricultural and
industrial advantages as well.
The business sessions will begin at
the Curtis Hotel at 10 o'clock and will
continue throughout the day without
interruption, except for luncheon
when Rev. Smiths talk will take
place.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09
COUNTY SCHOOLS
TO RECEIVE. $l9,72O
REDWOOD COUNTY SCHOOLS
HAVE AN ENROLMENT OF
1880; ALLOTMENT MADE ON
BASIS OF $500 PER PUPIL.

A $2,041,276 melon was split among
1880 school district of Minnesota last
week by J. NJ. Mcconnell, commission
err of education, who certified the
semi-annual apportionment of the
state current school fund. Hennepin
county, with S9,41O pupils, will re-
ceive S357,64O.
Redwood County, according to the
report of Mr.. Mcconnell, will receive
$19,720.00 based on the 1890 pupils
in school,
1t is the first distribution of state
funds to schools this fall. Allotment
is made on the basis of number of pu-
pills at the rate of 81 each, with
510,319 school children enrolled in the
last school year.
The October distribution will be fol-
lowed soon by certification of several
items of special state aid to schools
totaling S6,75O,OOO, according to
Christopher Lindahl, accountant for
the state department of education.
? Funds will be available to the dis
tricts when the November tax settle
ment is made to the state.
Tabulation of the October appor-
tionments is as follows:
Num- Amount
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09
DAIRY SCHOOL IN
RENVILLE COUNTY

H. R. Searles, Dairy Specialist from
the Extension Division at University
Farm, will conduct Dairy Feeding
School in Renville County the coming
winter. The work will consist Of four
lessons given one day in each of four
different months.
The first meeting will be held on
December 9th and the following meet
ings during the months of January,
February and March. The meeting
will require practically an entire af-
ternoon in giving. These meetings
are free, but members are asked 20
enroll in advance in order that a suf-
ficient attendance is assured to make
possible successful school. All in
terested dairymen are asked to send
in their names to the county agents
office to be enrolled.
The school will probably be con.
Quoted in Olivia unless the location
Of members enrolling make possible
more central point. Mr.. Searles
has met with great success in his
meetings in other counties, and GER
tainly every Renville county dairy.
man can learn something of advan.
and thecmfwpy shrdlu etaoin shr Ct
tage to him by attending this course
Dairying is a complicated enterprise
and the feeding end is not the least
important.-Renville County Journal
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09

A real estate deal of considerable
size took place Thursday when Ed
ward Adams traded his residence and
blacksmith shop property in Morgan
to VIM. Muenchow for the farm known
as the Kuebler place located four
miles east and two miles south OF
Morgan. The place has no buildings
but Mr.. Adams has rented the place
east of town owned by the John Tau
er Estate and will operate both farms.
Stewart Adams has rented the prop
erty in town from Mr.. Muenchow so
there will be no changes here as a
result of the trade. The Muenchcw
family reside on the Herman Otto
farm in Eden where they moved this
fall.-Morgan Messenger.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09

Sunday morning the Tony and Carl
Bethany families figured in rather
miraculous accident, while enroute to
spend the day with the A. Bethany
family. The sedan ran off five-foOt
grade, upsetting, all landing under
meath, but luckily escaping injury, al
though all sustained minor cuts and
bruises. The car was badly wrecked
and rather than repair it, Mr.. Bel
fanny traded it for an Imperial Landau
Chevrolet.-Lamber Light.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Christ Olsen, Mr.. and
Mrs. Casper Olsen and family of Red
wood Falls were over Sunday to hear
the Missionary speaker at the First
Evangelical Luth. church at Belview
Rev. B. M. Schroeder, one of the
Lutheran missionaries to Madagascar
delivered the sermon at 800 in the af-
ternoon. The meeting was largely at.
tended.-Belview Independent.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09

Average numbers of days each pu-
pill attended school increased from
144.2 in 1926 to 1853 in 1927, &C
cording to the number of pupils over
the previous year was All.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09

The Rev. E. C.. Reineke went to
Redwood Falls Wednesday and re-
manned over Thursday to attend the
Methodist Ministerial Rereat of the
Marshall District.-Marshall News
Messenger.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09

Despite the sales talk of aviators
about the thrills of flying, they can
not point to any outstanding enjoy
ment such as the motorist knows m
chasing a pedestrian back to the curb.
Exchange.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09

A deal has been closed whereby
Anton Eisenbarth of New Ulm pur-
chased the farm known as the Ernest
OFT farm in Eden township from Mrs.
Augusta Ball. The farm consists of
ISL acres and is located four miles
east of Morgan.-Brown County Jour-
nal
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09

Green Lake in Kandiyohi county
and Lake Koronis in Stearns and
Meeker counties will be closed for
netting whitefish and tullibees, ac-
cording to the State Fish and Game
COMMISSIONER Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09

The use Of airplanes, power-boats,
sailboats, and other floating devises
for the purpose Of concentrating,
rallying, or stirring up migratory
waterfowl to improve shooting condi-
tions has been prohibited by Fed
eral regulation.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09

Mrs. Augusta Ball, who is paying a
visit to Minnesota relatives, came
down from Redwood Falls Thursday
for a weeks visit here.-Morgan Mes
senger.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09

At least 100,000,000 laying pullets
have to be raised in the United States
each year to replace that number of
yearling and older hens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-28
Births


" Raymond and Ellen Rein, st. vincent's
:, John and Nellie Walsh, st. vincent's
?, Dwight and Norma Dunlop, st. vincent's
w. william and Marjorie Boothly. st. Vim
>, Wilbur and Betty Hynes. st. vincent's
George and Marian Ferguson. st. Vim
Sydney and vala Webb. s7s W. wal
- Roy and Nettie Pile. 7Ol E. Twenty
Maurice and Gladys Williams. Metho-
:, Edwin and Gertrude DAILY. Methodist
Loui and Sarah sondin. Methodist Hos
James and Bessie Hall. 1909 N. De
Edward and Mary Henry. 5l24 Baltimore.
Marion and Quella Stump, 642 E. Fifty
Fourth.
Boys
80 Bernard ard and Ida Timberman. st. Vim
>, Paul and Suzanne Seward. st. vlncent's
Louis and Arthalinda Bernatz. st. Vim
William and Hortensc Thomas. st. vim
cents Hospital.
Alva and Florence Lawless. 2311 Massa-
Herman and Lois Hartman. Methodist
Harry and Toba Grossman. Methodist
Hospital.
Julius and Gale Korstenson. 1Ils w.
Thirty-Fourth.
Carl and Maude Lautz. ut Livingston.
Joseph and Lavalette Schoen. Clark
leroy and Bernice Fuqua. ESQ w. TWEEN
ty-SiXth.
Preston and 1nez Nichols, So N Colo
Charles and Marget Jersey, s2e N
James and Lillian Hargett .177S Morgan.
Clifford and Mabel Helms. l706 Brook
James and Alma Griffin. 1916 Tabor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-28

Since his present office eliminates
the necessity of his exercise of eX-
ecutive power, he will be free to
concentrate his ability on his gi-
gantic international banking bust
ness, for which he is more exactly
fitted.
Farrell Active Head
At the same time the man whose
knowledge of steel is said to be, I'M
equaled, James A. Farrell, will be in
direct charge of the entire corpora
ton. He has handled~the routine of
this end for years under Judge Gary,
his duties increasing as Gary be-
came older, until at the latter's
death he was fitted to carry on the
entire duties of the former chair
man, together with his own.
Myron c. Taylor's banking eX-
perience fits him admirably for the
position of chairman of the finance
committee of the corporation. In
cidentally Taylor is considered a
favorite of the veteran bankers and
fnancierS. George F. Baker, whose
power as a steel director is believed
responsible for Taylor'S appoint
ment.
Altogether Wall Street considers
the elections happy ending to the
suspense which has hung over the
financial community since the death
of Judge Gary last August. 1t also
untangles what was believed to be a
snarl within the corporation.