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OF ELK

A splendid summary of the true situation regarding wild
life, and especially the conservation of the elk in the Jacksons
Hole appears in the report issued by the Presidents committee
on Outdoor recreation, which made a trip to the West last year,
and in February of this year held an important meeting at
Washington which was well represented by Wyoming sportsmen.
The following paragraphs seems to strike accurately at the ac-
tual condition of the Wyoming elk, and is worthy of reprinting:
"1n this country the science of game administration should
be more clearly understood by the public 1t is not the mere
exercise of police power for the protection of numbers of game
Unhappily American game today is still largely in the era of
mere protection and dependent for existence upon inelastic
statutes which do not conform to changing conditions and
customs. Indeed, not infrequently, these statutes violate funda-
mental principles of biology.
Game administration includes rational protection of wild
life adjusted to changing conditions, and excludes unnecessary
and unmerciful waste. Overprotection, paradoxical as it may
seem. defeats it's end, and under its stimulus certain types of
game animals multiply beyond their means of subsistence and
cruel starvation ensues.
'The case of the elk of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is a strik-
ing example"
, 1927-09-14
What tliS think dbOutif]
"sELLING WYOMING,
Editorial, Wyoming Labor Journal
August 26, 1920

Each season scores of thousands
of persons motor through Wyoming,
enroute to regions beyond where
they expect to find Locations"
They are so intent upon their
detectives that they are blind to
the opportunities which abound in
this great state-onportunities far
more advantageous than those by
which they are lured to other states.
Wyoming should see to it that
these travellers are informed re-
garding Wyoming-that this state
is something more than merely a
region crossed in getting to some
where else.
Each filling station, each garage,
each store, each campground, each
hotel, each scenic spot at which
the argonauts pause should be the
scene of missionary effort in be-
half of Wyoming.
We have 'the goods but our
"sales force is inadequate"
The above editorial from the
Wyoming State Tribune-Leader
meets with the approval of the La
Dor Journal, and we have been and
are earnest advocates of Selling
Wyoming" but we thing that the
propaganda of Selling Wyoming"
should be inoculated into the rising
generation. Evidently this phase
of the question has been sadly neg
lected, as we find the student body
of the State University, who are
procuring their higher education at
the expense of the taxpayers of the
state, who procured their prelimin-
airy education in the grade and high
schools at the expense of the tax
payers of the state do not share
the feeling that it is the duty of
all citizens of the state to "Sell
Wyoming" The above thought Is
engendered by the fact hat the
student body has seen fit to have
THE Wyo" printed and all of the
engraving for the same done by an
organization that is not located in
, 1927-09-14
The Old Home Tovn Paper

When the evening meal is I'VE In the dishes put away
An you settle down to store your mind with the Happenings of the day
Comes a peaceful feeln' Ger you, brushin' from your face a frown
AS you scan the weekly paper from your old home town.
1t tells you all about who's sick n those who come and go,
Likewise the comm vendue at the farm of Jabes Stowe.
The burnin' of the older mill belonging to Hub" Brown,
Get a write-up in the paper from your oil home town.
There amt ar entertainment Or a meeun' where they pray,
But what 1 know about 1t tho I'm Twin far way.
If the chicken o is ragin', if the mumps is goin' roun'
I peruse it in the paper from my o. home town.
1 read the mornin' papers and the evenin' papers too,
An 1 sometimes pick a novel up and sort of skip it through;
But when want some pabulum, which nowhere else is foun'
L unwrap the little paper from my oil home town.
They say u good and bad deeds are recorded upon high,
So that God car classify Is when it comes u time to die
that be true u know a Ia who's going to wear a crown,
He's tn gen who runs the paper in my Oh home town.
john Kelley.
, 1927-09-14

Wyoming and whose sole desire is
TO take Wyoming dollars to help
build another state. This item of
approximately Sc, 100000 is lost for
V e to Wyoming, yet practically
every penny of this sum represents
the work of Wyoming citizens.
Do not misunderstood us; we are
not blaming the authorities of the
University of Wyoming, we are
blaming the system of education
that has not inoculated into the
students of the state the idea of
Selling Wyoming"
, 1927-09-14
1T is FALL

Lodges are getting their winters activities under way.
Young folks are woong Terpischore again. There is a smell
of camphor in many homes as nah jongg sets are being opened
up. New loud speakers are being installed for the radio. Study
circles are resuming. There is hot competition around the read
still played. There is some demand for corn-poppers. The ice
man looks a little glum but the eectric-ight meter reader wears
a smile like a split watermelon as he sets down the figures.
1t has been a wonderfully fine summer. But it will be fine
to have the nip of frost and the sheen of snow. Just as one
of the fine things about going away from home is to come back
there, so one of the fine things about summer is that finally we
come to its end and to normal change. Seasons lend variety
and prevent monotony. And each of them in Wyoming is en-
joyable.
, 1927-09-14
~PUNCTUALITY AT SCHOOL

School teachers would appreciate it if parents would take
a firm stand at the beginning OF this school year that their
children must get to school on time. While attendance is no
doubt reasonably punctual now, yet there is usually a chance
for Improvement. There are some youngsters who are natural
minute.
1t is a fine thing for a school when all pupils who are
not kept at home by sickness or other adequate reason, can be
an their regular seats at the moment of beginning. Such a good
start gives a teacher a fresh impulse of courage. Also, it gives
a kind of impression of military precision, and children ought
to work better under such conditions.
1t would seem as if a condition of frequent hardness
must affect the morale of a school unfavorably and perhaps
lead the children too be slack in their lessons.
, 1927-09-14
A JUDICIAL

One of the most glazing weaknesses of the American
civil court system is the ease with which persons of Interior,
often criminal, motives can institute suits for damages OF any
and no grounds. Persons in public life, or whose livelihood
depends upon public esteem, are times without number black
mailed by the INSCRIPTIONS. If they refuse to come across"
they are sued and allegations are made that, however ground
less they later turn out to be, lowers public respect for them.
Once in a while, of course, suits for personal or other
damages are wel-founded but to each case of this kind that
comes to trial, courts and juries waste endless days struggling
with cases that have no basis in anything except righteousness.
1t is a regrettable condition, but one for which no remedy
has ever been advanced.
, 1927-09-14

Arthur Brisbane-No great thing
is achieved without sacrifice. Those
distressed by loss of life in flying
may remember that the total num-
Der of deaths in transatlantic fly
ing Is smaller than the number
killed automobiling on any fine Sun
day. The thing is to keep on and
conquer"
, 1927-09-14

The boys who used to LOAF
around the village blacksmith shop
on Saturday night now gather in
the up-to-date filling station with
its red pump and tile roof.
, 1927-09-14

Many of the Powell farmers
shipped spuds last week which brot
them $3.50 per cwt. Although the
price is off at the present time po-
tato growers look for a strengthen
ing market later In the fall.
, 1927-09-14

A woman speaker talking to a
group of Cody men recently; made
tie statement that women spend
20 per zen of the worlds income
to which the married men in the
audience chorused, too low a
percentage
, 1927-09-14

Another park season about to
close 1t, like each season since
the automobile was admitted to
Yellowstone. has been a better and
bigger one than the preceding year.
Sometimes we ponder as how
long this condition will continue.
They say that the people of Am
erica are all riding on rubbe. tires
today. That is probably literally
true. but there must be a limit to
be reached and we wonder what
proportion of our population can
travel during the summer. without
any curtailment of our Industrial
activities.
, 1927-09-14
Bere and Cbsrs

The fool who has been parted
from his money always feels cheap.
, 1927-09-14

If you want to make omeone be-
lieve o tell them something they
want to hear.
, 1927-09-14

Experts think the old-fashioned
dance is coming back, but we don't,
, 1927-09-14
UpIift Worker

He-sYes, my father has contri-
buted very much to the raising of
the working classes"
Shells he a socialist
He-"No he makes alarm clocks.
, 1927-09-14

Women are wise in not taking
much time to reply to the chronic
criticisms of men.
, 1927-09-14

You no doubt remember the re-
mark, paying for a dead horse?"
Well, that is what somebody will
do If Casper gets that wild horse
packing plant.-Greybull Tribune.
, 1927-09-14

AS a county fair. the display and
exhibition given at Powell last
week was very good. Although
but few of the people of the coun-
ty have the fair spirit" the at
tendance was very good. and every
effort should be made to perpetuate
the event. There is still a very
noticeable lack of interest in fairs.
even by the rural people of the
county, and until this situation is
changed. the county fair will never
be the institution for good that it
should be. 1t is the rancher and
farmer. and only them. who can
make the fair a success.
, 1927-09-14

The toll of life which is being
taken in the development of air
craft seems APPALLING. but it is moth
ing in comparison with the death
toll taken by the automobile, nor
to go back some fifty years, to
the terrible loss of life sustained
during the days of '4g' when.
those great pioneers wended their
way toward the setting sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
Locusts AS Food.

TN the East, as elsewhere, since the
l. Biblical days of Johns "locusts
and honey" locusts have been DEEM
ed more or less edible. In Pales-
tine to this Day they ar considered =
luxury. They are fried in sesame
oil. sesame being the grain OF which
mention is made in the story OF
cali Baba and the Forty Thieves,
a fayorite tale in the Arabian Nights
Entertainment.
In Arabia Petrea locusts are dried
in the sun and then ground into a
sort of flour for baking and in Cen
trail Africa certain tribes employ
them for making a thick brown soup.
In Madagascar they are baked In
huge jars, fried in grease and then
mixed with rice, forming a dainty
much affected by the inhabitants OF
that big island. The Algerians have
much simpler method. They
merely boil the locusts in water and
salt them to taste. The Arabians
grind and bake the locusts as cakes,
roast them in butter and crush them
in a mixture of camefs cheese and
dates.
Locusts are also eaten in times Of
famine in southern Russia. usually
by the poorest of the poor, among
whom the insects are smoked like
fish. In the preparation of locusts
for food the legs and wings are in
variably detached.
1t is said that, while the flavor NJ
locusts is strangely disagreeable in
the raw state, this favor becomes
disguised and even agreeable when
the insect is cooked. Some of the
locusts soups are, We are told,
scarcely to be distinguished from
beef broth, and when the little in
sects are fried in their own oil and
slightly sailed they take on a pleasing
| nutty flavor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

THE travels of grains of sand have
l. long been a matter of scientific
record. Years ago it was established
that particles picked up on the coasts
of Pas de Calais had their origin in
the rocks of Brittany. from 100 to
$50 miles distant. Another standard
fact is the discovery on the coast of
Denmark of chalk dust which un-
doubtedly came from the cliffs of Nor
mandy.
Prof. Thoulet, the French oceano-
grapher, has determined the precise
manner in which these particles travel
such great distances. He finds that
the result is due entirely to the action
of waves and tides, causing the par
ticles of sand to pursue a zigzaG
course, which he likens to the teeth of
a saw, and having in the Channel and
in the North Sea a general direction
from east to west.
NJ. Thoulet calculates that each
grain travels at least 5000 yards up
and down the beach under the Inn
pulse of the incoming and retreating
waves for each yard that it is con.
veyed parallel with the coast line. On
an average about Is waves a minute
strike the beach, and these cause q
lateral movement of about one cent?
meter, or one-tenth of an inch, which,
however, is apt to be constantly re-
versed by winds, currents and OBJ
structions. Thus, allowing something
for the influence of the wind when
the sand is dry, the sand from Brit
tany found along the Pas de Calais
strand must have travelled something
like million miles to reach there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

the mountains, so decided to carry on
flying through them, keeping my ma
chine at a slight climbing angle. Sud-
denly they were upon me, and / could
not even see the tips Of the wings
of my airplane.
Now cloud flying, even with all the
latest instruments to help me and
to an experienced cloud flyer, is not
a very pleasant pastime, and l had
neither the instruments nor the ex.
perience. / just kept my rudder
straight and my nose slightly up, and
prayed for the luck to see me home.
Added to this discomfort, it COM
menced to pour, and tropical rain is
very heavy and it almost blinded me.
1 kept glancing at my compass to
check my course and at my watch
to time myself, and realized that
had about 20 minutes flying to do to
get home to my airdrome. After
further 10 minutes flying, and sud-
denly feeling all was not right with
the machine, / glanced at my COM
pass and to my horror found that
instead Of registering a steady course
it was turning north, south. east and
west in rapid succession.
You can imagine my terror when it
dawned on me that only one thing
could be happening, and that was that
/ was in a spinning nose-dive. and
rapidly diving to earth. 1 immedi-
ately shut off the engine, eased my
control stick forward. Strengthened
my rudder. and prayed that 1 would
get out of the spin before / hit
mountain top.
/ glanced over my shoulder to see
what my passenger was doing. Ina
CINE my surprise when I saw him
looking over into my cockpit, with a
large grin on his face, as though he
was enjoying a pleasure trip. while /
had perspiration pouring down my
cheeks, and was praying for all I was
worth to get to earth safely.
/ realized that he had no idea what
was happening, as he had no instru-
ments in his cockpit, even if he had
understood them, and that, owing to
the clouds enveloping the airplane.
there was nothing to show him that
he was doing anything but flying
straight.
Just as was about to pull the nose
of the machine up again and COM
mence flying, l saw a break in the
clouds, so decided to glide down and if
| possible discover where / was. Ina
CINE my surprise when I recognized
a river bed near the airdrome. was
within two minutes flying from my
resting place.
| / headed for home, and landed, feel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

1862, as determined by undiminished
value of the products Of the soil and
the undiminished wages of labor, was
not less than formerly. Indeed, in
both these respects it was greater,
since there has been a constant rise in
prices, both of labor and products.
The minutes of evidence taken by the
commissioners furnish sufficient data
to determine an actual value of
slaves, in many cases far greater than
the allowance Of compensation made
by the law.
MANY families derive their chief,
if not their sole, support from the
hire of their servants, while others are
saved q large annual expense by en-
ploying their servants at home. Yet
to make an actual appraisement of
5000 slaves upon such data as these
facts furnish, and in the absence of a
current salable value, would have
been an almost interminable labor,
and the commissioners felt that they
could not fulfill the duty assigned to
them within the time limited by law
by adopting that mode of valuation.
Every appraisement, whether of real
or personal property, has reference as
we'll to current sales as to intrinsic
value, the current sales furnishing a
convenient standard Dy Whlcn TO APP
portion the value of each object. But
in the case before them the commits
sioners had no such standard, and
therefore as a means of arriving at a
fair classification of the slaves, &C.
cording to their intrinsic utility to
their owners, and with a view to the
completion Of their labors within the
time limited by law, they adopted the
plan of first classifying the slaves
according to their value before the
commencement of the war, when sales
were frequent, and then reducing
these classfications to the average
compensation allowed by law.
ITO prevent all misunderstanding
it is stated distinctly that the values
assigned by the expert, Mr.. Campbell,
were by him referred back to the
years 1S59-1860. 1t is not pretended
by him that slaves on the 18th Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

would meet daily, except Sunday, at
the City Hall for the reception and
examination Of petitions for compen-
sation, in which specific directions for
drawing the same were given as well
as of the schedule required by the act
to be filed with the clerk of the Cir
cult Court. To facilitate the lnvestl-
cation under the act and as matter
of public convenience blank form
for the petitions was prepared by the
commissioners, which was printed and
sold by a publisher.
"In these preliminary arrangements
for entering upon their labors the
commissioners had the benefit Of the
legal learning and experience of the
Hon. Samuel F. Vinson, but hardly
were they completed when the relent-
less hand Of death by sudden stroke
severed a connection which promised
to be as useful to the public as it was
agreeable to his colleagues. He died
on Sunday, the 18th day of May, after
a brief illness. The vacancy thus
caused in the board was filled by the
appointment of John NJ. Brodhead,
who entered upon the discharge of
his duties on the 14th day of June.
by the terms of the act the claim
to file their petition within three
months from the date Of it's approval
This period expired on the 18th day
of July. The whole number Of petit
tons presented during this time was
966 and the number of persons held
to service or labor embraced in the
petitions, for whom compensation was
claimed, is 300. In order to secure
the Government against imposition, a
complete list Of the names of the pc
titioners, together with those of the
servants claimed by them, was made
out by order of the commissioners
and published in all the newspapers
of the city as a means of eliciting evil
dence TO rebut claims founded in
fraud, or emanating from persons
whom the law designed to exclude on
the ground of disloyalty. After a care
full investigation they have reported
favorably upon 909 entire petitions;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

along the edge of a canal, where the
plants can be fenced in by bamboo
poles and a network OF the same
material.
They are planted annually in the
Spring, growing best in five or six
feet Of water. The nuts take root
quickly and send shoot to the sur
face in an incredibly short time. The
nuts are formed among the leaves
of the plant on the surface and are
gathered in boats. A water chestnut
field of this sort resembles in ap-
pearance a field of water hyacinth in
the rivers of the Southern States.
The nut plants, in fact, grow under
similar conditions, pertaining to the
water hyacinth. and it is thought
probable that the nut could be cult
waited in our country in sections
where the water hyacinth is found.
The Chinese use these nuts in vari-
Gus ways. They are to be had. roast
ed, of street vendors in central China;
they are eaten boiled, tasting some
what like a Jerusalem artichocke;
they are made into various pastries
and buildings, some of the latter
being very popular among foreigners
In China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

cannot understand why or how it
flies.
The most unpleasant and dangerous
feature, however. is the climate dur
int. the rainy season. The clouds
suddenly appear and cut off the re.
treat to the airdrome, which means
returning over high mountains, fly
ing through thick clouds and judg-
ing by time when one should have
reached the landing ground. shutting
off the engine, gliding down. and pray
ing that you will not glide into the
side of mountain. which would mean
instant death.
once had this awful experience
myself. I was flying at about 10000
feet high, doing some aerial photog-
raphy over some high mountains
Nabout 100 miles from my airdrome.
When had finished / put my
nose in the direction of home and
made all possible speed to reach the
airdrome and get warm, my hands
and feet being nearly frozen by the
cold at the altitude l had been flying
while taking the photographs,
Suddenly / saw ahead Of me a long
line of heavy black clouds, hanging
low over the mountains, and rapidly
coming towards me. 1 realized that
it was useless to attempt to fly below
them, as I would then be on top of