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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16
What Constitutes Greatness?

learned college president that the world boasts
great naturally the query OF what
constitutes greatness and greatness achieved
against background OF
great
Greatness always ably met situations
people, ambitious who sought to create
through which greatness might be achieved
Washington problem propounded by
King his intrinsic greatness
an a government
by the seceonsts OF
provided through which his great MIND ana
souwa given an opportunity function at its best
middle aged viewed by his friends as alre
until necn permitted exempaon qualities
required at the lime preservation of the Union
military to be developed
peace abilities be admitted in
peace prosperity qualities of great
of history.
largely quantity achieved by
through opportunity than by intent
appears eminent college president in stating
the world today was considering only hat
emergencies with man dramatically meet
solving them
Colonel Iindbergh by flying
to accomplish that feat should
of the
for aviation what he
the present
Henry industrial Of
of pminene as that OF
Napoleon a
John Rockefeller billion dollars for
accomplished that which other
greatness
James oliver curwood recently in prime
life heretofore shouded 1t
probable postey of
of century otherwise might been lost
inspiration human dramas
by peoples combating nature and each other
measuring greatness most inadequate
AS wesley
grasp SOUL the minds
of man.,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16
Faith That Moves Mountains

For the benefit of those who being occupied
follow the trend the times and the tide Of
in
marie things which coming to toward the greater growth and
prosperity of this city.
million dollars enterprises entirely
smelling fields this city brought from people the question:
completely meter the addition of
building which includes
remodeling Of the citys lead
hosey, magnificent
the finest
smaller enter
prses the
something all this expenditure
with figures for the
great this list that during the past six months than four
million dollars contracted expenditure in the Douglas dis
ha spent in business at any lime
all profess
spite the that
report build
available still
there justification
excluding smelling interests based altogether the
theory that people great numbers will Douglas the
very future
Object nothing against
things
little would that
foresight emgratd southwest in
business mining smelling
people
They
atmosphere respecabHty being
founded
many
city The faith people who have that
the finer things the
cities of the the faith
difficulty concentration dwindes them
past grasp
things that founded this
future the question
believe that
Douglas.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16
OIL AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE
(Chicago Tribune)

nbor the Rapids Herald calls attention the prediction
of president of the Petroleum institute Edgar
oil
producing that
interesting
in quantities will tempting they will need
they
should srked policy of drift will trouble the
Venezuela relations have been friendly for Her people have
confident
capital
development this certain establishment
standing the protection the interests its
not in this desirable would be likely eXorbt
transactions creation legac nequt
later shall
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16
With Other Editors
THE WHALEMEN
(N. Y. Herald -Tribune.)


of
the great whaling arstocacy of New Bedford
fishery her
garets.
Lihfeld
most intact possible
the the But the
Nantuckes the
fantastic Saltonstas
another though well the
beyond them the in the
moment be nohed by the white
sails of a homew a cruise
fishery
generations
cowboy had
their labors
bubber
justified
cotton mills
ITSELF Bedford wha
there splendid monument of another sort in
Clifford Ashley set definite
of the heroic
has faded the interval but before
the history
things adnng
probable
many which historians writer's will
chronicle
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16

Dear me, it's all so confusing. read somewhere
that some Harvard professor had anayzed testi.
mony and he says it failed to establish their guilt
Il guess that Felix Frankfurter. He claims the
case wasn't proven"
But here II. G.. Wells Galswortny and
Arnold Bennett all protesting against the execution"
They're all socialists and sentimentaists-t1ree
four thousand miles They couldn't be expected
to know much about 1t the jury that heard
testimony If courts yielded to all the outside canor,
they might well go of business
"And all these big massmeetings in Europe and
South America, strikes and protests and allare they
all fomented by the radicals?'
Mostly, but partly by lot of people who don't
like the United States and glad of chance get
us in bad all the world"
Dear me, and all this bombing and threats Of
bombing It's terrifyng-one doesn't know where it
will spread"
cit won't get any place The governor won't
stampeded into yielding toy that kind These
men aren't being rushed to conviction. They've had
seven years"
"What! Did this murder happen years ago?"
Sure. The case has been dragging on all this
time"
"For heavens sake! Why have they waited all
these years if they guty?"
20, delays and things. That's the way Of
Justice work."
But doesn't that indicate they weren't sure of the
fairness of the verdict
Not at all. 1t indicates they've given these men
every chance in the world"
But if they execute them and all these protests
are disregarded. won't that increase radicalism?"
"WeI have to wait and find But we can't let
outsiders dictate how shall courts"
: 30. dear, it's confusing"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16

Henry what does all this stuff about Sacco and
VanZett mean? The papers are full Of it,
They're couple of radicals who killed a couple of
men in pay roll holdup place near Boston The
court has found them guilty and they're to be eec
trocuted Thursday"
Well, If they guilty why all this hullaballoo?
- haven't followed the very closely but guess
they had fair trial and the jury found them guilty.
Now all the radicals in the world claiming the trial
unfair and that the Judge preudiced and that
the innocent. They're raisiug awful roar
= But did they get fair trial? "
'' Sure. The governor reviewed the and he
says the men proven guilty. Also committee of
three prominent citizens. including the president of
Harvard has gone the records and they say the
Judge gave Sacco Vanzett fair, impartial trial
and that they guilty"
But read place something-I don't know
where-about the Judge being prejudiced."
Not the bench, my dear. Only off the bench.
said he had been guilty of a grave breach of official
decorum off the bench"
Does that mean he was fair the bench but pref
udiced off the bench?"
guess so--I'm not very clear that point"
:" 1t doesn't consistent. How could he have
been both at the times?
Say, 1 told you hadn't followed the case very
closely only know that the jury found them guilty
and they heard the testimony and they ought know
They were in position to know about it than
outsiders"
But then why all this dreadful stew about it?"
The radicals all over the world are making the
stew. They claim the aren't guity-that they're
being executed because of their radical leanings..
They're simply raising heaven and earth to prevent
the execution"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16
BSAABB8

An 82-year-old woman in Tennessee
has never seen an automobile. No
wonder she lived so long.
Almost every day the cables bring
word that Charles A. Levine has
started another flight across the At
lantic.
"A woman recluse in California
wrote her will on a corset and it was
found to be binding. The garment
still slaves off obscurity.
An advertisement reminds folks that
the saxophone was invented almost a
hundred years ago. Yes, the evil that
men do lives after them.
It's such relief to hear that the
Einstein theory of relativity is to be
changed. We never could understand
why they thought the old way was
right.
Usually, the first thing that strikes
a visitor to this country is a motor
car.
All that women's clothes leave to
the imagination is what makes them
SO expensive.
Italy has put tax on bachelors.
In this country, only their ingenuity
is taxed.
Queen Marie wants to attend an
American political convention. If the
republicans can't decide between Hoo-
yer and iIaWes and Lowden, they
might draft Marie as q dark liCr!e.
Mussolini has ordered that there
must be no more adenoids in Italy.
Bless the old demagog'S heart. Next
thing he'll be ordering Vesuvius to
cease rumblings.
The Missouri bacteriologiSt who
found 10000 germs in single powder
puff may have overlooked the fact
that the puff is used in place of a
wsshrag today, to remove dirt, and
not put it on.
The old-fashioned Tom Boy who
used to do everything the boys did
is now replaced by the flapper who
does things no boy would think
Of doing.
A telescope machine to take NOV
ing pictures of microbes and other
low forms of life is hailed as a new
discovery, but we've seen lots lower
life than microbes in so-called So
ciety dramas.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16
DOUBLE ADOBE ROAD
NOW OPEN TO TRAVEL


The Double Adobe road leading into
the Sulphur Springs valley is now
completely finished as to grading and
general repair work accomplished dur
ing the summer months.
Considerable repair work and grad
ing has been accomplished, making
the highway now one of the best in
the county, and the Bisbee Wash
bridge has been opened to traffic
Many days were spent in repair of
the road in which every stretch of
the route was gone over and necessary
fills made in the road bed which had
been washed out by excessive rains.
Numbers of cars pass over the road
each day. Farmers come to the local
market to bring their products from
the valley, and tourists visit the beau
tiful valley while passing through the
state.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16
WASHINGTONM
LETTERMs'
ALE 81
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer
WASHINGTON-Probably Dawes.

HINGTON-Probably Dawes.
Perhaps Hoover
/ Possibly Hughes.
That's a tabloid lineup representing
q consensus of the best political
WciSenheimers as they consider the
strange situation in the republican
party which has developed since
President Coolidge threw the little
red apple out on the lawn and left
the boys in a quandry whether to
scramble for it or to hold off lest
it be coated with paris green.
Without definitely eliminating Mr..
Coolidge, it may be said that Mr.
Coolidge may have eliminated him.
self whether he meant to or not
Most of the republican politicians
are we'll pleased with what the
president said and few tears are
being shed among them over the
LIKELIHOOD that he will check out
Of the White House. Coolidge be-
came president through accident, was
reelected by force of circumstances
and has since built up no personal
political following.
That's where Dawes, Hoover and
Eughes come in.
Hughes would have the backing
of powerful interests banking and
OIL for instance. But he does not
hold the imagination of the people
as do Hoover and Dawes. He would
be vulnerable because of his recent
law connections, even more so than
was John w. Davis in 1924. In the
last three years, ne has represented
many of the very biggest corporations
in cases where his arguments, if
held up to analysis in a campaign,
would not appeal to the average
voter.
Hoover Sitting Pretty
| Hoover is sitting prettier than he
ever sat before. He has the best
organized personal machine in the
country. Chambers of commerce,
! manufacturers associations, Rotarians
and Kiwanians, as well as the trade
! journals are roofing for him. He
is often regarded as a Morgan man"
/ by those who pretend to know the
inside of things, but he certainly
is not offensive as such to the
ordinary citizen. The financial groups
behind the public utilities like Hoover.
Early in the game Hoover made some
pronouncements for government op,
GRAFTON of Boulder dam, but lately
| he has soft-pedalled on that issue.
/ The farmers haven't any love for
Hoover. He opposed the McNary
Haugen bill and the farmers accuse
him OF fixing grain prices during
the war while others we're allowed
/ to profiteer
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16
More Truth Than Poetry
BY JAMES ]. MONTAGUE
THE AVERAGE CITIZEN

He grumbles and growls at the grocer,
He says the butchers a thief
Who charges him twice the legitimate
price
For chicken and mutton and beef
He walls at the wages of servants
And the terrible service they give
He says by and by things will all be
so high
That a man cannot possibly live.
But he thinks ninety dollars is just
/ about right
For case of old Scotch that is
aged overnight.
p, ~ - -F 9rv.ess
Ills landlord, he says, is pirate,
The most of ones earnings are
|. spent
For a house or flat, and for bad
ones at that
In the way of eXOrbitant rent
He grouses at water and gas bills,
I He knows that the companies cheat
But he has to come through just
as soon as they're due,
} For his family can't live in the
street.
And besides it will cost forty dollars
or so
To go Monday night to that musical
show.
He means at the cost of his clothing,
And accuses his tailor of loot
"Ten dollars" says he, "you can take
it from me
Is enough for a good winter suit"
He says buying shoes for the chill
dren
Is taking good years from his life
And he suffers with chills at the
dressmaker's bills
That are run by his daughter and
wife.
But he cheerfully paid fifty dollars
last night
For a seat on plank at second
rate fight!
CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT
There are never any neutrals at
prize fight.
IN. THE INTEREST OF ECONOMY
: Crime is getting so hazardous that
tne bandits '~,l soon be holding dis
armament conferences.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16
POLICE USE "WAR MAP"

BALTIMORE.-A' ''war map" is used
in campaigns against accidents and
crime by Police Commissioner Charles
D. Gather, former army man. The
map is stabbed with vari-colored pins,
each color denoting type of crime or
accident. If pins representing "hold-
ups" are clustered on one part of the
map additional police are detailed to
that section, of the city. When two or
more fatal accident" pins are found
at one corner, a policeman or an au-
tomato traffic signal is placed there.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16
Hotel ArriUalS

R. Matheson, Chicago, F. E. Chase,
Dallas; v. A. Moore, Ell Paso; r.
O'Leary, Ell Paso; G. M. Bassett; c..
M. Burlington; j. T. Helms, st. Louis;
Joseph Sloan, Los Angeles; Lee Bueh-
man, Tucson; M. E. Stone, Providence,
r. l.; F. H. Mclaughlin, Nacozari;
N. G. Bobher; Tom Gibson, Ell Paso;
L. r. Mitchell, Phoenix; D. L. Four
nier, Phoenix; Dan Hultz, Phoenix.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16

Things are never as bad as they
are painted. Believe it or not, there
are still several girls at our school
who have never been through a
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16
SIXTEEN YEARS. AGO

A camping party composed of
Misses Latham, Eleanor and
Neala Seeley, Matte Taylor, Eetta
Allison, Elvis Barnes and T. L.
Seeley returned last night from
Cajon Bonita in Mexico
Mrs. A. G. Lockwood and chill
dren leave this morning for
Redondo, Cal.
Miss Cleo Tinker, nurse at the
Calumet hospital, left yesterday
for Los Angeles to spend three
weeks.
Mrs. jeanette Davenport left
yesterday for Portland, Ore, to
join her brother.
John Stuppi left yesterday for
Los Angeles to spend the next
few weeks for the benefit of his
health.
H. D. McVey has been promoted
to the management of the BisOee
district for the Mountain States
Telephone company.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16

An American missionary was re-
Gently very perplexed about the ad-
visibility of accepting the following
invitation from cannibal chieftan:
WED like to have you for dinner
Sunday"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16

First student: Say, what have you
got that part in your hair for?
Buddy; To make it look better,
First student: Nav, you don't.
Every block has an alley.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16
ABE MARTIN

Lots o. people would be alive tday
if they hadn' waited till they got
money enough Z take life easy. "When
you eat bread don't eat no p'taters,
an when you eat p'taters don't eat
no bread, fer eatin' EN- both is jest
like sayin' free gratis" says DR.,
MOppS, whose rcducin' Mrs. Pat Pusey.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16
NOT SURPRISING

NOT SURPRISING
Vice President Dawes continued to-
sleep when his train was derailed
He probably gets used to sleeping
through disturbances while presiding
ever the senate.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16

'Are you married?"
mo, 1 make my own living!"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16
Plucked From the Plains
Introduction TO SALLY

Dad" said little Sally, "I've been
a pretty good girl since I've been
going to Sunday school and in the
sixth grade and all, haven't ~"
Eyes, Sally" answered Dad.
"And you trust me, don't you, Dad?"
Instanter the answer again came
back, eyes"
"Then," demanded Sally, "why do
you keep your cigars on the top
shelf?"
Sally is now being rushed Theta.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16

sally is now being rushed Theta.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16


Kindly old lady: My good man,
FRAY, what has caused your sad
plight?
Former collegiate: 1 have been
Gaunted by the dangling dogs of
destiny, scorned by the scurvy skunks
of circumstance, foiled by the frosty
finger of fate.
IL Is Nut So!
Teacher: Willie, name three kinds
of nuts.
Willie: Chestnuts, peanuts and
ferget-me-nutS.
What Price Dynamite
No. /: Why are Scotchmen such
determined people?
No. 2: I'll bite.
No. 1: Because they hate to give in.
(No. 2 can't whip out his gun be-
cause he has no whip.l
We always have wondered who the
fellow was that makes the paper
panties that go on lamb chops.
"Xanopholia, why are people read
ing this?"
"They think this is joke, Paraxi.
teles."
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16

'My daughter is studying in Paris"
Il don't care what mine does
either
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16

An 82-year-old woman in Tennessee
has never seen an automobile. No
wonder she lived so long.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16

A telescope machine to take NOV
ing pictures of microbes and other
low forms of life is hailed as a new
discovery, but we've seen lots lower
life than microbes in so-called So
ciety dramas.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-16

IN. THE INTEREST OF ECONOMY
! Crime is getting so hazardous that
tne bandits III soon be holding dis
armament conferences.
Evening star., 1927-11-18

Of all the large vessels moored at
the Washington Navy Yard quay.
the storm yesterday singled out only
one of them, the destroyer Allen,
training ship of the local Naval Re
servists, and gave the officers ana
men a chance to display all their
seamanship. The Coast Guard cutter
Apache, moored Just astern of the
Allen, was not touched. nor were tho
presidential yacht Mayfiower, or the
Secretary of the Nays yacht Sylrh.
The Allen took the hrunt of the
hlow as it crossed the river from the
Naval Air Station. When the wind
started, in accordance with naval
custom, all hands were called ON
deck. First the wind started press
ing the ship hard against the dock
to which she was moored with fonr
1-inch steel cables, and then sud
denly it whipped around on the other
side of the craft and the four cables
parted like cotton strings, according
to men aboard.
The ship then started moving up
stream. and in n freakish manner 1t
so steered the stern of the Allen that
it cleared the cutter Apache as accu-
Evening star., 1927-11-18
Navy Yard Destroyer Battered About
By Tornado; Mast Crashes to Bird &c

, rately as though a seaman was ham
ding the wheel. AS the vessel passed
the Apache a line was thrown aboard
her and scamcn aboard the latter
Vessel caught il aud the Allen was
moored alongside.
During the maneuvcring the wind
cut down the fore topmaSt sending
it crashing To the bridge. on which
were standing Capt. NJ, l.. Hersey,
commanding the vessel. and some of
his men. 1t tore Off all the awnings.
awning stanchions. strong backs and
other similar gear on deck,
This morning the crew was en-
deavoring TO extricate itself and take
survey Of the damage preparatory
to making necessary repairs.
Evening star., 1927-11-18
Hindenburg's Sister-in-Law Dies.

LUBECK, Germany. November is
R).-Adele Won Hindenberg. wife of
the Presidents younger brother. Bern
hard. died today at the age of So. The
President thus mourns the loss of two
siSters-in-law, Lima Won Benecken.
dorff und Won Hindenburg having died
at Neudeck Yesterday.
Evening star., 1927-11-18

bers of the board will be the guests
of Mrs. Alfred c. Whitton and Miss
Florence Colford at luncheon in the
Mayfiower, while tomorrow night at
a o'clock, the District of Columbia
Chapter of the federation will enter
tain them at a banquet.
/, Board members from throughout
this country and Canada will attend.
The federation is functioning in AZ
States. in provinces of Canada and
i'm several European countries. The
membership is composed of over 10000
graduates of Catholic high schools.
Evening star., 1927-11-18
SCHOOLS ESCAPE
SERIOUS DAMAGE
Glasses in East Washington
Institutions Are Resumed
sssassA
After Storm.

Classes in the schools of the storm
area in East Washington are in
session as usual today, examination
of the buildings having disclosed no
serious damage which might enda niger
the1hves of the pupils, DIR. Frank w.
Baliou, superintendent Of schools, de-
clared i'm q statement issued from the
Franklin Administration Building
shortly before noon. on his return
from personal tour of the schools.
Not a single injury to pupils or
teaching staff had been reported to
sclfpoI authorities in the survey. DIR.
Baflou asserted. and this is taken as
an Indication that no injury of any
consequence was suffered by any
persons in the schools when the storm
struck shortly before dismissal time
yesterday.
Repairs Quickly Made.
Tribute was paid by DR.. Baliou to
the District Repair Shop. whose force
was at work last night making minor
repairs before the storm had COM
pletely run it's course. Repairs at the
Henry T. Blow School, Benning road
at Nineteenth street northeast, includ-
ing work done on the buildings ven.
tilator, were completed before the
pupils arrived for class this morning.
While the minor damage TO the roof
ridge of the Bryan School. B street
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets southeast. was repaired last
night and this morning. the Repair
Shop Workmen today are rebuilding
the roof of the frame portable struc-
ture adjoining the main building. TEF
portable roof was badly damaged and
a section of it ripped completely from
its moorings in the blast
"The manner in which the school
Jared can be described very briefly. y
DR.. Ballou declared. There was no
serious damage to any building and no
injury to personnel reported. Repairs
have been made and are being made
and classes are in session as usual.
When the storm broke yesterday
and rumors of severe damage TO sew
eral of the school buildings in the
storm zone reached the Franklin
Building, Raymond l.. Haycock, as
sistant superintendent in charge of
elementary schools, drove in his auto
mobile to each of the structures re-
ported in trouble. He visited the Ben
ming School and those nearer in sat
tsfying himself that pupils and teach
ers We're not injured.
Get Damage Reports.
Mai. r. 0. Wilmarth, assistant SUI
lerintendent in charge of business af-
fairs. was busy throughout the storm
period telephoning to the various
school buildings and agencies for adj.
vices as to the needs of the school per-
sonnet
Mr.. Haycock. Mai. Wilmarth and
stephen Il. Kramer. first assistant SUI
perintendent. toured the storm area
this morning. making minute inspec-
ton of the schools and receiving at
nrst hand the reports from the teach.
ers in charge.
Evening star., 1927-11-18
CATHOLIC ALUMNAE
CONVENE TOMORROW
Executive Board of International
Federation to Meet at
Mayfower.

The executive board of the Inter.
national Federation of Catholic Alum
nae will hold n two-day executive ses-
sion in the Mayfower Hotel. beginning
tomorrow morning at . o'clock. To.
morrow and Sunday at 1 o'clock, mem.
Evening star., 1927-11-18
Placed on Retired List.

Warrant Officer Elmer \. Spence,
has been placed on the Army retired
list on account OF disability incident
TO the service
Evening star., 1927-11-18

colleges and universities. Right Rev.
Edward A. Pace of Catholic Uni
versity rs the president.
Evening star., 1927-11-18

In 1883 .lanan had fewer than 100
factories with machinery.