The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, July 6, 1923 Page: 2 of 8
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THE LANG
the long year* thereafter i
came a temporary depressiei
after the ^unpalgn known
a Ml historically-as the Bull 1
palgn of 1912. f 1 ;
Chief Justice Taft la a mas
or the streets of Washing
Barring Woodrow Wilson,
only one-time president of i
States who preferred to ke«]
ton as a residence after httvb
the duties of chief execU
Taft Is a near neighbor of A
both living, as perhaps is b<
an “eminence" from whic
Under an order issued by the Rail
road Commission Dallas has been ac-
corded transit privileges on peanut
shipments.
The County Picnic Campaign of thq
Farm-Labor Union is Under Way;
Meeting With Success.
Adopted a Set of Demands to Be Pre-
sented to the Coal Operators
for New Contract.
fELVE LINERS, BEARING 12,000
ALIENS, ENTER NEW
YORK HARBOR
REQUIRE8 LOTS OF RED TAPE
TO GET CLAIM8 BEFORE
THE PROPER COURT.
Saw mills and nitroglycerine plants
are to be required to observe the new
anti-pollution law, according to an
nouncement made by G. F. Simmons
Deputy Game, Fish and Oyster Com-
missioner.
Scranto'n, Pa.—After wild scenes
had resulted from the demand of
International President John L. Lew-
is that four alleged organizers of the
Communist party should leave the
hall, with two of the number being
handed a beating as they rushed for
their hotel, the tri-district anthracite
convention ratified- the new wage de-
mands as recommended by the scale
committee, and then adjourned.
Fort Worth, Texas.— Reconsidera-
tion of the proposal to move State
headquarters of the Farm-Labor Un-
ion to Dallas resulted in a decision
to retain the offices here, it was an-
nounced by Mrs. J. O. Smairt, State
secretary.
The proposed removal to Dallas
was for the purpose of having State
headquarters located with the sales
office of the organization, but it was
believed more expedient to retain
the offices h^re, Mrs. Smart: said.,
Oscar Adams has been selected
manager of the office at Dallas. He
comes from Hunt County and will
handle co-operative marketing and
buying of the F. L. U.
The county picnic campaign of the
Farm-Labor Union now is under way
and is meeting with splendid success,
according to Mrs. Smart. Picnics
are being held by county organiza-
tions throughout the State and at
each gathering the work of the or-
ganization is being done. The pic-
nics began June 21 and will continue
to Aug 20. They are dated to form
two circuits and speakers from many
sections are touring the circuits ad-
dressing the gatherings on the Farm-
Labor movement.
an “eminence” from tvhich i
least, of the capital city is «r
MUST HAVE SENATE’S 0. K.
tas Already Exhausted and
Island’s Facilities Are*
Severely Taxed
Walks to Wc
The chief justice is n
years old, bdt he walks
mlng avenue residence t
the Supreme court, thi
tant, every week-day ol
sometimes he makes th
ney on foot. When h«
takes a street car, ns
of the late Chief Justice
glas White. In fact,
riding habits of the Ji
Supreme Court of the
are pretty well fixed,
associate Justices were i
this means of transport!
pie of the presiding Ju<
likely it is the result c
to get away dally f«
solemnity of the atmoi
proceedings in the great
William Howard Taf
and then some. In fact
given the*degree which 1
nlfy by the universities
sylvaiiiu, Harvard, M|a|l
leyan, Princeton, McC
Baylor, Cambridge (t
Aberdeen (Scotland!-. C
he is n double D.C.L.t-£B|
New York, having giver
gree, an example wblei
followed by Oxford US
land. The chief jaatlee!
he wanted to, spare till
the initials of! the varied
orders which have beeiLl
hiip. He is probably tl
ferred and ordered" I Ivin
Washfagto?110?
The spring which hag
has made or record *:
the Capital pilgrimage
city expects that the iff
come to see” will not |
rlally in number until 1
tense heat lays Its hand
When congress Is notfi
of the pilgrims to this
country, t<h such it seen
the Smithsonian institn
National museum their <
point of Interest. Peoj
to Washington seem to
Concerning the two gtea
one known as the 8m
the other as the NaU<
They think they are on
are not, but nevertheles
closejg associated that
Is needless.
Founded by Engl
Compensation Claims Dating Back to
Revolutionary Days 8tfIf Are Before
the United State# Court of Claims—
Notod Case la Cited.
The Railroad Commission will hold
a hearing soon to consider the appli-
cation of Greenwood and Burnett to
drill four wells on the Fort Worth
& Denver Railroad right of way in
the Electra field in Wichita County.
Adjoining leaseholders are contesting
fork.—America’s pantry door
pen an inch or two at Ellis
sad 1,600 lucky European
of toil squeezed in breath--
i clutch at her shelves,
ar 14,000, racing shoreward
liners, or sweating in the
at the piers, or palpitant
immigrant pens, prayed in
i hope and despair that the
aid not be slammed in their
By EDWARD B. CLARK
Washington.—It seems that a mis-
take was made when recently It was
printed that no longer is the Court of
Claims of the United States called upon
to pass judgment upon demands made
for compensation fos losses to private
citizens due to action taken by the
government which existed in the revo-
lutionary days. There are, it is said,
a few such claim cases still pendiug
and which one day or another will
reach the decision point.
Readers of Mark Twain ought to re-
member his story of the great beef
claim, and of the course of the pro-
ceedings before the lawmakers in
Washington. In the ordinary pro-
cedure a person having a claim against
the United States government must get
the permission of congress to present
it-to the court. Sometimes permission
is not granted and then It-is under-
stood the cluimant has qj recourse ex-
cept to pocket his loss and to swallow
his disappointment.
8tranger Than Fiction.
When a man goes digging after truth
In the records of congress he finds
some thingk which are perhaps strang-
er than the romances of the fiction
writers. The tracing of the right to
a recompense from the government for
sacrifices made hy ancestors by pres-
ent-day people Is one of the hardest
tasks known to lawyers. The trails
get confused time after time, and so
it happens that some people who may
have legitimate claims against Uncle
Sam are unable t<^ collect them be-
cause somewhere fn*the chain connect-
ing the present with the past, a link
is lost.
It was pot long-ago that an adverse
report on a Revolutiomiry claim was
made by the senate committee which
has charge of such matters. The
claim was for the payment of thirty
loan certificates snid to have been ia-
sued h.v a Richard Ilatpb Randall May
IK 177Q >
State Superintendent MaTrs said
the State Board of Education will on
Aug. 10 make an apportionment for
the ensuing year and that it will be
$13 per capita, unless the December
textbook contracts are held valid by
the Supreme Court in the mandamus
case submitted, in which event it will
be $12, he declared.
fcl thousand prayed in vain.
* ag they still stared with
Smiles at their first Ameri-
set, adding unneeded glamour
wttap’s sky line, the dreaded
le understood quota law had
i t© make them losers in the
;e for the square meal which
Hght in the melting pot.
© steamers in all crossed the
he and were anchored in the
I calm with 5,971 steerage
era aboard and 5.511 in their
Usd first cabins. On five of
ISps were 2,074 steerage im-
| who knew that they, doe
uperior skill of their vessel’s
and speed of her turbines,
le the first to enter oto the
under which they had quit. The
present agreement, which was en-
tered -into last September, expires
Aug. 31, and it was announced the
new demands will be presented to
the operators as soon as possible.
The convention took no action on
a question of suspension in the event
the negotiations run beyond Aug. 31.
John L. Lewis, International Presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers,
who presided, tdld th© delegates that
it was a matter that could be left
to the sagacity ana good judgment
of the officers.
tThe morning session was marked
by a disturbance due to the presence
in the balcony of the hall of Joseph
Manley, son-in-law of William Z. Fos-
ter and identified v^th the Trades
Union Educational League, and J. f*.
McCarthy, representing the Labor
Defense Council, who were bitterly
denounced as enemies of the United
Mine Workers and other trades un-
ions and ordered to “remove their
carcasses from the halL” McCarthy
was accompanied by his wife.
Amid wild jeers and hoots the
three left the place, while a number
of delegates held back angry men
in the rear of the hall. A half
block from the hall Manley and Mc-
Carthy were attacked by a number
of women and In the melee McCarthy
was hurt Mrs. McCarthy was not
assailed, although tap a time she
pitched In and • helped defend her
husband with an umbrella.
The men were accused of being
back of a plot • of the Communist
party in the United States to set up
a dual organization in the coal fields
of the country for the purpose of
wrecking. the mine workers’ onion
and evpntually other trade union or-
ganizations.
W. W. Boyd, State Game, Fish and
Oyster Commissioner, says that he
will station deputies in all fishing dis-
tricts under the new law prohibiting
the sale of bass, crappie and satfish
in thirty-eight counties and in some
districts two deputies will be on duty,
to see that the law is not violated.
3 UNIVERSITY REGENTS
HAVE BEEN NAMED
Bureau at Dallas, and seven of the
force have been moved to Austin to-
gether with all records and files, to
become part of the division of the
State Fire Insurance Commission
which is to make workmen’s compen-
sation rates under the law which be-
came effective June 13.
Appointments Revive Rumor Neff
May Be Elected Institution
Head
r under the new year’s quota.
five winners in the drama t-
j-Atlantlc race of the imrni-
rmada were the President
carrying 438; the Wgshjng-
h 81; the Canada^ 707; the
603, and the King Alex&n*
Austin, Texas.—Three new Univer-
sity regents have been named by:
Gov. Neff, being Marshall Hicks of
San Antonio, Dr. Joe S. Wooten of
Austin and Cliff Caldwell of Abilene,
all three intimate friends of the ex-
ecutive. They displaced Louis J.
Wortham or ^ort Worth, W. H.
Foltz, Austin, and E. H. Kelley, El
Paso, whose terms expired lost Jan-
uary. Under the new personnel no
member resides at El Paso, where
the school of mines and metallurgy
is situated, it being a branch of the
University.
In 1921 Gov. Neff named Mrs. H.
J. O'Hair of Coleman, Sam P., Coch-
ran of Dallas and Frank C. Jones of
Houston as regents. .The other three
are Fred Cook of San Antonio, H.
A. Wroe of Austin and H. J. L.
Stark of Orange.
With recent appointments the
rumor Is revived that the Governor
may he elected president of the Uni-
versity. The regents’ next meeting
is, scheduled for July 10, a time
when the Governor will be absent on
the West Indian cruise.
* V .
Walter Lacy of Waco and P. L,
Downs Jr. of Temple were named
as members of the board of direc-
tors of the A. 4b M. College.- The
terms of F. M. Daw and J. P. Dick-
son of Houston were members of
the board whose terms expired.
Sam Sparks of Austin and Fred
Martin of Fort Worth were named
as members of the board of regents
for the State Teacher Colleges, dr
Normals, as they formerly were
called.
The so-called fifty-four-hour law
passed by the Thirty-Fourth Leglsla-
lature, limiting the working hours of
female employes at nine hours per
day in certain lines of business, does
not apply to county officers, accord-
ing to an opinion given by the Attor-
ney General’s Department to Labor
Commissioner J. S. Myers.
» descendants of Erid the
celand might tell the Saga
iking’s discovery of Amer-
10 doubt will hundreds of
{gangers some day describe
ight sprint across the three-
which made them Ameri-
ile their colleagues were
sail back to their mother
It has been decided to put lu qper-
atlon on Sept. 1 the two recent acts
separating the State Department of
Banking and Insurance into tWo de-
partments, one of banking and one
of insurance. The laws become op-
erative before then, but the new ap-
propriations will not become avail-
able until that date.
1 State Tax Commissioner Willacy
has certified the intangible tax val-
ues to the various counties and the
total Is $73,141,150, an increase of
6513,582 over last year. Intangible
values are based on a five-year aver-
age. Seven corporations showed in-
creases over last year and two have
decreased, all the others being the
same.
• mm
The State Board of Control has
awarded contracts to the Continental
Mfetal Products Company, Chicago,
for 700,000 motor vehicle seals, 300,-
000 pairs <M number plates, 12,000
pairs of dealers’ license plates and
100,000 commercial motor vehicle
seals, to be delivered next Septem-
oer and October for use in 1924.
CAPITOL UNO SUIT
NOT TO BE APPEALED
at Washington,
Smithsonian Inst
ment for the
of knowledge
& im connection with tfte
Stent that permanent head-
wili be opened at once in
temple building here,
aacil will not confine Its
to wheat alone, he said,
so-operate in all sound eco-
ekement# to promote the
nslfare o4 the fanner,
teat council, ha- said, will
r bring the control of th*
wheat market from Liver-
point in the United States.”
wman Anderson was chair-
Syndicate to Accept Affirmance by
Texas Supreme Court.
pervislon over
but the museum
whffch congres
year for Its m
which Smlthsoi
tlon named for
Austin, Texas.—It has been learned
that the Capitol Syndicate has ad-
vised the Attorney General that it
will not appeal Its land suit to the
United States Supreme Court, but
will accept the affirmance by the
Texas Supreme Court, which recov-
ered 63,289 acres of land to the State
out at the original grant of 3,000,006
acres in payment - for the Capitol
Building In Austin.
Under the agreement with the At-
torney General the Capitol Syndicate
will provide an area or two areas to
the amount of 69,289 acres and offer
same in settlement of the judgment.
The Attorney General will cause
name to he inspected, and If found
of the same average value as the
remaining unsold land, it will be ac-
cented in satisfaction. Theri Is un-
sold about 600,000 acres.
An original commission of three
members was appointed by the Dis-
trict Court when judgment was
awarded to parcel the land. The
expense of survey and division by
the commission will be saved if the
lands to be offered are acceptable.
The commission would pass on the
matter and make its recommendation
following the attorney General’s ac-
ceptance. This commission consists
of William Balfour of Vega, Frank
M. Tatum of Dalhart and CapL S. 8.
Dod of Alpine.
It will be next September before
the syndicate can make its offer and
the Attorney General pass on It.
When the land is returned to the
State it will be placed on the market
and sold a.--, other school land.
half a million
thorize a payment
terest on this sum
Gifts from Amene
doubled the original
The National mus
der the direction o1
institution, as has j
ported by annual m%
congress. The new
lng the treasures of
seum was erected
eently at a cost of
The building of th*
stltutlon proper wi
years ago. It is cal
ance and is const rj
sandstone. It is 1
production of some
castle. It is a pfet
and instantly comuu
tcotton.. ■ /
Various scientific
parts of'the world h
by the 8mlthsonlan
Under the root of
seum there la dtspl
.most remarkable «
nologtcal, archaeok
leal, and almost all o
terlal known to I
expression Is hack]
exhibitions well maj
less.
Because of Increasing literary inter-
est among students at the summer
session of the University of Texas,
the Scribblers’ Club, a writese’ so-
ciety, is continuing as an active or-
ganization this summer for the first
time in its history. There are thir-
ty-five students of the summer ses-
sion attending the weekly meetings
and taking part in the programs.
1,460 Bushels Oats Off 16 Acres;
Ballinger, Texas.—L. P. Wood, a
farmer living near this city, thresh-
ed 1,460 bushels of oats from sixteen
acres, and his entire crop averaged
a little more than eighty-two bush-
els per acre. The grain, both wheat
and oats, is making the largest yield
per acre ever produced here, and
the wheat is testing out heavy. The
first car of 1923 wheat received in
Galveston reached that point from
Ballinger.
J. D. Fountleroy, State Highway
Engineer, has been appointed mem-
ber of the executive committee of the
American Association of'State High-
way Officials. He has also been ap-
pointed chairman of the program com-
mittee for the December meeting of
the American Association of State
Highway Officials, to be held in New
Orleans.
Crops Better Than Was Expected
Valley View, Texas.—A busy sea-
son is on in this section, threshing
is well under way and the grain 4s
producing above expectations. Wheat
is making from 20 to 30 bushels,
while some oats have made as high
as 62 bushels. Cotton is in the best
of condition, while corn is flourish-
ing.
an Alstyne Prospects
latyne, Texas.—Prospects for
pbtton crop in this sectloij
a good. The cotton is be-
to bloom. There are verjf
is of boll weevils at pres*
jveral old-time farmers dot
t*at they have never seen a
Gov. Neff has approved and filed
the bill passed at the third called
session of the Legislature changing
the name of the Department ,of In-
surance and creating the ofice of
Commissioner of Insurance. It be-
comes effective Sept. 12. The sal-
ary of the Commisser of Insurance is
64,000.
Threshing at Pilot Point
Pilot Point, Denton Co., Texas.—
Threshing in this vicinity now is in
full swing. Wheat is yielding from
twenty to twenty-five bushels an acre
and is selling for $1. Oats are yield-
ing from fifty to seventy-five bush-
els an acre and are selling for 40c
sacked.
Kill Man and Wound Wife
prfeigfleld, III.—Two masked bam
\ entered a spft drink establish!
Bt at Henderson, a mining town
Iffaconpln county, and fired five
(•, killing thd proprietor, Marici
Hd© and seriously wounded his
a, Mary, who is in a Litchfield
State Reclamation Engineer Arthur
A. Stiles left for Wichita Falls to re-
sume marking the boundary line
along Red River. He will go to the
river near Bridgetown where are lo-
cated oil wells and where the Texas
Rangers were stationed at one time
to prevent the incursion of Oklahoma
claimants. There is a sharp conflict
in the boundary claims in this area.
Thsy Brought Frio
Two youths in an
wished to see the.800*6
dlanapolls and wrote n
city asking whether Mi
a convenient time Coir
guests. The* reply wng
five.
A telephone call at s
evening before the tl
the arrival of gUSStX I
They were told how to '
of their relatives^ j
“But we have friend*
the statement of the yo
Hiram Johnton to Return
London.—Senator Hiram Johnson
Who has been studying the political
and economic situation in Europe
for several weeks, will sail, for home
from Cherbourg on tbe Leviathan on
July 17.
Austin, Texas.—The Attori*sy Gen-
eral approved, the following bonds:
Roscoe waterworks $12,000, serials
6s;' Roscoe street improvement $15,-
000, serials 6s: Hose independent
school district $25,000. serials 6s.
1990,000 Award for Peaee Flan
!©v. York.—The American peace
04, amounting to 6100,000 and|
7ted by Edward W. Bok of Phil-)
1" 'lia to be given in its entirety!
tl.!* American who presents the
t. p'wetical plan by which the
ted States may cooperate with
Executive Offices Refurnished.
Austin, Texas.—Following the ad-
journment of the Legislature, work
was started on renewing and refurn-
ishing the executive offices, which
have long been neglected and which
had some time ago assumed a shab-
by appearance. New furniture and
mom draperies, in addition to new
pahstinga are being installed. Hand*
OOOto furniture and furnishings have
been bought for the offices by the
Governor Neff Off for Cruise^
Austin, Texas.—Gov. Neff has gone
to New Orleans, to sail on the West
Indian trip,* returning July 17. Lieut.
Gov. T. W. Davidson is expected at
once and will be acting Governor.
A number of additional appointment©
were made by the Governor, hat via
not be announced for a few dayil
Among them are the three member!
of the board to codify the laws, lU
State Textbook Commission wag no]
L. J. Polk, Jr., of Pharr has been
appointed by Gov. lifeff as Judge of
the recently created District Court
for Hidalgo county. Mr. Polk is a
graduate of the University of Texas
and the son of L. J. Polk, fromer vice
^president end general manager of the
kBanta Fe system, and who is still
Connected with that system in an of-
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