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NEWS REVIEW OF I
CURRENT EVENTS
Wages of Rail Employees Are Reduced
by Board and Big
Strike May Result.
HOOVER SETS GOAL PRICES
Germany Yields to Allied Ultimatum
and International Bankers Plan Reparation
Payments and Loans ?
War Fraud Investigation Begins?
British Warn Ireland.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
ANOTHER great strike Is threatened,
this time of the railroad
workers whose wages have been or
are to be reduced by the United
States railway labor board. Already
the board has made public one deci-i?
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the annual wages of the maintenance
of way men. and before this reaches
the render It Is almost certain another
decision wHl have been published
slashing between $50,000,000 and $75,000.000
from the yearly pay of the
shopmen. Either ruling Is sufficient
to bring on a walkout If the men re
main In their present state of mind,
and still dthe-? may follow soon.
The first decision announced orders
a reduction of 13.2 per cent In the
prevailing pay of maintenance of way
men, effective July 1. It affects about
400.000 workers, and their new wages
will range from 23 to 85 cents an hour.
It was signed by the three public
members and the three railway members
of the board. The three labor
members signed a dissenting opinion,
holding that the new pay does not
constitute the "Just and reasonable"
wages guaranteed under the transportation
act and that In fact It does Dot
represent a living wage. The majority
report however, points out that
common labor on railways, even after
ihe reduction, will be better paid than
similar labor In most other Industries.
Edward H. Fitzgerald, president of
the railway clerks' organization, took
the lead In planning for the prospective
strike, Inviting sixteen chiefs of
rail unions to meet this week in Cincinnati.
He was forestalling an ex
pectea decision Dy tne ieaerat oouru |
cutting the pay of the clerks, telegra- |
pliers and other smaller clnssea There
is a possibility that this conference
will result In a defensive alliance between
the railway workers and the
miners. Such a compact really was
formed several months ago, but failed
1<> provide for aggressive action unless
each step was approved by referendums
of the various organizations
involved. This lack may be supplied
at the Cincinnati meeting.
The six federated shop crnfts are
concerned not onty In wage reduction.
They accuse twenty-two roads of violating
the transportation act by letting
out shop work to contractors not
within the boards Jurisdiction, and
their president, B. M. Jewell, has demanded
that the board assume Jurisdiction
In theae cases and compel the
rail roads to restore conditions In effect
previous to the alleged violations.
He said that unless this were done
' strike ballots would he sent out, regardless
of the wage Issue. The hoard
already has sIiowd that it sympathizes
with the attitude of the shopmen in
ibis matter.
Wages of train service men are not
involved in the present and Immediately
prospective rulings of the labor
Foard.
J JNOFFICIALl.Y hut authoritatively
w 11 is announced mm me govern)
lent Is raking no action to end the
- trlke of coal miners and that It does
not look for any decisive turn In uf
alrs before the middle of June or the
first of July, when the shortage In
coal may begin to be felt. Secretary
of Commerce Hoover however, does
not propose that the consumer shall
suffer unjustlv If he can prevent It.
He held a conferem-e last week with
the representatives of more than 500
producers of bituminous coal whose
1 mines are In operation In the nonunion
fields, and told them that he
GERMAN BEGGARS IN "UNION" I
Are Said to Have Made the Occupation
of Mendicancy an Exceedingly
Profitable One.
Berlin.?Although public mendicancy
Is forbidden by law, the streets of
^ Berlin are full of beggars who. especially
after dusk, Importune pussersby
with harrowing tales, some of
which may be true.
Mutilated war victims, who exhibit
k of the fonner vice president, pho ti
Istrlbutlon station. In St. Louis, for pa;
lu of Baldwin Locomotive company jsUi
stone, Pa., to southern California.
would assume personal responsiDinty
for fixing minimum prices at the mine,
In order to prevent profiteering. He
asked, however, that the operators
agree among themselves on fair prices
In order that the anti-trust laws might
not be Infringed. Mr. Hoover then
announced what he considered fair
prices In three districts. These ranged
from $2.20 to $2.00 a ton for the Alabama
district; $8.50 a ton for the
smokeless coal districts of West Virginia,
and $3.50 a ton for the Harlan
and Hazard fields of Kentucky and
the southern Appalachian fields of
Tennessee and Kentucky. The maximum
for the Alabama district Is 25
censt a ton below the final Garfield
war-time scale, while the maximums
proposed for the other districts are
somewhat above the Garfield prices.
The prices are to apply only to spot
coal.
GERMANY'S reply to the ultimatum
of the allied reparation commission
was near enough to complete
acceptance to sutlsfy that body, which,
after a day's Intensive study of the
note, telegraphed to Berlin Its approval
of the German promises to balance
the budget and to stop the Issue
of paper money. The commission then
turned over to the committee of international
bankers In session In Paris
the entire question of German finances
and payment of reparations. Those
hnnlrora nmnni? whom Is J. Plernont
Morgan of the United States, are now
studying the questions of Germany's
capacity to pay, the guarantees she
can give for the series of huge loans
that will be necessary, and, In connection
with the latter, the possibilities
Involved In the Russo-German pact.
The German proposals were drawn
up by Finance Minister Hermes and
are not at all liked by some other
members of the Wlrth cabinet and
many members of the relchstag. The
Stlnnes group especially attacked
them as a surrender of sovereignty
that will bring on catastrophe. The
relch6tag refused to pass a vote of
lack of confidence In the government,
but the cabinet Is believed to be In a
shaky condition.
Lloyd George made a statement on
reparations In the house of commons
In which he strongly intimated that
Germany would be granted reductions,
postponements and revisions when
these appeared necessary, and this
was greeted with cheers. France,
naturally, Is not pleased with developments,
but Is not In position to object
strenuously.
SENATOR M'CUMBER'S bill for a
soldier bonus was approved by the
Semite finance committee by a vote of
9 to 4. and he announced he would be
ready to make a favorable report on
the measure to the senate within a
few days. He hopes to induce the
senate to sidetrack the tariff debate
long enough to pass the bonus bill, but
as the latter does not go into effect
until January 1 next, many of the Republican
leaders are opposed to this
idea. The Democrats will support
McCumber's plan for immediate consideration
of the bonus. The bill as
approved by the finance committee is
almost identical with the bill passed
by the house. The Democrat! are not
satisfied with it. and Senator Sraoot
will try to have his insurance measure
adopted ae a substitute, so the debate
in the senate is likely to be a long
one.
INVESTIGATION of war frauds now
is under way in Washington, the
first of the government's series of
cases, dealing with contracts for disposal
of surplus lumber, having been
presented to the special federal grand
Jury by United States Attorney Peyton
Gordon. Attorney General Dougherty
Issued a statement saying that at
no time during the grand Jury Investigation
would any information be given
out as to its activities or the nnmes
of the cases presented.
Meanwhile Senator Caraway and
others continue their attack on the
attorney general untiuggingly, with
the avowed intention of driving liini
out of the cabinet* because of ids connection
with the release of Charles \\\
Morse from the federal penitentiary.
It is stated In Washington that President
Harding has full confidence in
Mr. Daugherty's honesty and integrity,
which of course means that he
will not usk him to retire from the
cabinet.
genuine scars, are always sure of public
charity, but many others of the
fraternity resort to more or less transparent
tricks to excite compassion.
They hare established a "trade
union" in a suburb where, according
to reports, about 130 lenrners are being
trained in the art of begging. Including
"making up."
The theoretical part of this course
alone takes six weeks, and is followed
by a practical course at race meetings
and at doors of churches, theaters
and cafes.
igruphed in Washington where she
nnent of Missouri's state bonus to
irting the "Prosperity Special" of 20
THE delectable Senator Tom Watson
of Georgia Indulged In another
outburst In the senate because Senator
Lenroot Intimated the Georgian
had made an untrue statement concerning
the Hoover relief fund accounts.
Watson yelled that he was
not afraid of "the Insolent Junior senator
from Wisconsin" on the floor of
the senate or unywhere else, and that
he defied him. Some day one of the
husky senators will take Tom Watson
at his word and "knock his block off."
OVER In England short shrift Is
usually given criminals. Horatio
Bottomley, member of parliament, editor
of John Bull and professional
hater of America, has been found
guilty of fraudulent conversion of
$000,000 In connection with the victory
bond clubs he organized among
poor people, and was promptly sentenced
to seven years' Imprisonment.
He announced he would appeal but
was denied ball nnd locked up In
Brixton prison. Bottomley will lose
his seat In parliament If the conviction
stands.
IRELAND has about two weeks In
which to establish a government In
accordance with the treaty creating
the Free State and to restore order to
a measurable degree. If she falls the
British trooDS now In Ulster and oth
ers to be sent over will be used to
suppress the republicans and the Sinn
Felnere and put an end to the border
warfare. Such Is the warning given
In the house of commons by Winston
Churchill, who added that the British
cabinet still has faith In Michael Collins
and Arthur Griffith. The Irish
elections are to be held on June 10
and Churchill said that If De Valera
and others who have rejected the
treaty are elected to the Irish parliament
they must publicly announce
that they are bound by the treaty,
otherwise the pact will become worthless
and will be automatically violated.
Collins and Griffith heard
Churchill's statement and afterward
said they believed they could work
out the affair If they had timet Sir
Lamlngton Evans, minister for war,
has complete plans ready for military
operations for the reduction of Ireland,
one of the preliminaries being
the full occupation of Bublln.
Along the Ulster border the fighting
goes on merrily and every day a
number of persons are murdered. In
many localities the Free Staters and
republicans are making common causa
against the Protestants of Ulster.
Bloody conflicts between the military
and constables and gunmen take place
daily In Belfast.
OBSERVANCE of Memorial day
wus made especially notable by
the dedication of the beautiful Lincoln
Memorial In Washington, now
virtually completed. It was turned
over to the nation by Justice Taft as
head of the memorial commission and
was accepted by President Harding In
an eloquent address. In the great
throng that witnessed the ceremonies
was Robert Tqdd Lincoln, son of the
Great Emancipator.
ONE of the pledges of the Harding
administration and a prediction
made early In the year by treasury
officials was fulfilled last week. All
issues of Liberty bonds sold at par or
better, for the first time. The trading
In them on Wall street was very
heavy. At the low quotations of last
year most of these bonds were yielding
from 5 to almost 6V6 per cent. On
the present basis of values the 3%s
net exactly 3% per cent and the 4s
and 4Vis from 4 to 4% per cent
TWELVE balloons started from Milwaukee
Wednesday In the national
race, and at this writing six have
landed, In Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and
Missouri. The others probably were
traveling northeast. One of the great
bags, belonging to the navy and therefore
a non-contestant, is filled with
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device from which much Is expected.
The three balloons that travel the
greatest distances will he America's
entries In the International race In
France Inter In the year.
PLANS for the unification of Chlnu
are moving forward. Uuon the
meeting of the old Republican parliament.
bucked by General Wu, the
President. Hsu Chlh Chang, resigned
and was succeeded by Former President
Li Yuan Hung. Overtures huve
been made to Sun Yat Sen.
The city Is divided Into districts by
the "union" which places a certnin
number of certified pupils In charge,
changes shifts weekly, and collects
and distributes the proceeds.
These beggars are keen Judges of
human nature. Wealthy Russians are
said to be their best patrons, Americans,
on the other hand, are a puzzle
to them. Sometimes, they say,
Americans are extremely generous and
hand out five, ten or twenty mark bills
with princely liberality, but others
r?fuse to give anything
S FAILS
HOSTS CARRYING BANNERS IN
WASHINGTON DON'T ACCOMPLISH
THEIR AIMS.
BARRED FROM WHITE HOUSE
Latest Gang of Marchers Sought Release
of Those Who Tried to Undo
United States During the War?
Pacifist Women Busy.
By EDWARD B. CLARK
Washington.?General Coxey's army,
which inarched over the mountains
from Ohio and descended on the capital
about thirty years ago. is looked
on as the progenitor, if that he the
word, of all the be-bannered hosts
which come here to attempt In
a spectacular way to force congress
or the administration to do something
which the parading ones want done.
Washington is a hotbed today, and
has been a hotbed for some time, of
propaganda of this, thnt or the other
kind. Much of the effort is expended
in typewriting nnd much in parading.
The paruders seldom get anywhere
nnd the typewriters fall or succeed as
their cases happen to appeal to the
powers that be. If a Washington correspondent
were moved to write In
behalf of this or that cause by the
stuff which comes to his office every
day he could do little else than constitute
himself a plender, pro or con.
for a hundred different endeavors.
The latest street demonstration has
been In behalf of prisoners who today
are where they are because they attempted
to undo the United States In
the time of trouble. A procession of
men, women and children has tried
several times to make Its way Into
the White House, carrying banners
of various kinds. In order to Induce
the President of the United States to
set free men vho did their best to
jeopardize the liberties of their coun- |
try when It was in the throes of war. ;
Sentimentality That Falls.
President Hnrdlng refused to meet
the paraders In behalf of the so-called
political prisoners. One of the banners
which has appeared, and at this
writing still Is appearing, nt the head
of the column of paraders, Is borne by
the side of a child who holds one hand
upon the staff. The banner Is Inscribed:
"I never have seen my father."
It was believed by these paraders
In behalf of the seditious that this
banner certainly would win the day
with the President and the people.
There are some hard-headed patriotic
ones In this town, however, who know
that there are a good many American
children whose -others died for their
country In France some months before
the little ones were born and who
probably would not have died If the
prisoners of today whose release Is
sought and the thousands of persons
who escaped Imprisonment for like
talk and like deeds, had not by their
Influence prevented the United States
from preparing Its men fully for the
battlefield, giving them adequate
means of personal defense and adequate
means for defense against batteries
of artillery and ships of the air.
Judging from the present-day capers
of persons akin In sympathy and
In doIIcv to those who are parading
In behalf of the imprisoned ones, there
Is to be no ceasing from the endeavor
to propagandize In America In behalf
of un-American policies.
Women Who Would Be Disloyal.
Recently In this city there was held
a meeting of women who form the
American section of an International
league which declares Its object to be
to secure lasting peace In the world.
At a meeting of representatives of this
International league In Geneva not
long ago )t was voted to be the sense
of the gathering that In the years to
come no woman of any land should
raise her hand to help her country In
case It was called upon to take up
arms against another nation, or even
If the call was to arm Itself for purely
defensive purposes against Invasion
and tyranny from without.
Any amount of printed propaganda
material was received by the Washington
correspondents from the representatives
of the American section of
this International league. The Intimation
was that the American women
who were to meet were to pledge themselves
to refrain from all war work In
case the United States should become
Involved In a conflict.
What would this mean? It would
mean simply that If this country
some day should find It necessary to
defend Itself against foreign aggression
the women members of the
American section of the International
league and all the women they could
Influence to follow their own course,
would refuse to do works of mercy for
Amerl . n wounded, or to do those
other things which woman knows how
to do for the comfort of the soldiers
fighting In the field for their country's
sake.
Three foreign women, It Is announced,
will travel through the
United States to speak in behalf of
the objects of this international
league. One of them Is an English
woman, another Is a French woman
and the third Is a German woman.
They all have the nonreslstance Idea
and their endeavor probably will be to
| attempt to bring American opinion to
the point where It will be willing to
make a second ltussia out of the
United States.
Senate's Tariff Bill Changes.
The finance committee of the senate
Old Babylon
The city of Babylon, when built
by Nebuchadnezzar, formed one of
the greatest and moAt magnificent the
world has ever seen. Ancient historians
can find no words to describe
the grandeur of the pulaces, the
splendid edifices, large gardens and
pleasure grounds, especially the hanging
gardens, a sort of lofty terraced
structure supporting eurth enough to
grow trees.
I
maue -,o->i cnauges in the lurllT bill
as It wus formulated und passed by the
house ol represematlves. Figures occasionally
tell a story. Seemingly
they ilo so ir this case.
With more than two thousand
amendments proposed by the senate
tor the house hill It Is easy enough to
understand why the debate on the
measure is expected to run along until
tired nature calls u halt. Any stumper
who desires to discuss the turiff bill
Intelligently during the coining congressional
campaign must sit up late
nights and burn much oil in his student's
lump.
The tariff measure Is a formidable
looking document. Just how much of
u tigure r' e bill will cut in the coming
election nobody as yet knows. Virtually
every day the Congressional
Record gives some thirty-five or forty
pages of print to the speeches made In
the senate on the day previous. The
tariff Is one thing apparently that
cannot be talked to death.
Occasionally there Is some humor to
be found In the customs laws or In
their preparation, or In their enforcement
or non-enforcement. During the
hmtrlnirtt In tlio flnnriCP Committee Of
the senate on the I'ayne-Aldrlch bill
the provision of the measure affecting
chemlculs was under consideration. A
New York man representing the manufacture
of celluloid In New Jersey was
on the stand. The committee was discussing
the question of the duty on
things which enter Intc celluloid manufacture.
Suddenly Senator Kern of Indiana,
who since that day has died, turned to
the witness and said sternly but with
something of a glint In his eye, "Are
you responsible for the celluloid collars?"
"Yes, I Invented them," replied the
witness.
"Well," said the senator, "my
search Is over. I have been trying to
locate the responsibility for celluloid
collars for years."
John Wilkio's Tariff Story.
John E. Wllkle of Chicago, one time
and for a long time chief of the United
States secret service, wrote a tariff
or a near tariff story some years ago
which, like Charles Reade's "Hard
Cash," was a matter-of-fact tale. The
story lingers In the memory of WashIngtonlans.
A prominent American woman was
visiting In China. Just before she was
to set sail for the United States a
friend presented her with some specially
grown Chinese teu, worth, It was
said, something like $25 a pound. The
gift was received, and then the American
womuu knew the beginning of a
hard fight with conscience. She did
not want to pay tariff on the tea
when she took It Into America and yet
she knew that to smuggle It In was
something like a crime. Taking the
tea she put It Into small, separate
packages and hid It In various places
about her personal belongings.
On the way from China to Honolulu
where the vessel stopped the American
woman dreamed nightly of men
In uniform boarding the ship at the
Hawaiian port, discovering the smuggled
article and lugging her off to Jail.
She slept more uneasily than a
crowned king. She was wretched day
and night, but her determination held
to get that tea home without paying
the government anything.
Her Conscience Conquered.
From Honolulu to San Francisco
her conscience and her fears Jointly
kept her sleepless, but she hung on
grimly to the determination to get her
spoils In unobserved at any hazard.
Her baggage was examined at San
Francisco and apparently the customs
officer discovered nothing dutiable.
The danger over and with her tea
safely in her trunk and with no further
fear of detection, the American
cnorl tn Wnshlncrton
After arriving In the capital ahe
found that her conscience still
troubled her and that sleep was not
wooed as easily as In the days of her
non-smuggling Innocence. She Invited
her friends to partake of the delectable
tea, but she had little gladness at
her five o'clocks.
Finally conscience conquered her
and she went straight to the Treasury
department, to the proper official
thereof, and tearfully told hlra of her
guilt, saying that she was willing to
pay the duty thrice over to get back
the Innocence that once was hers. In
her mind she reviewed the terrors of
the voyage Including the sleeplessness
of her nights.
"How much duty shall I pay on the
tea?" she asked. "And please don't
send me to Jail."
The official looked at her with
amused kindness. He said:
"Madam, there Is no duty on tea."
Telepathy.
The word "telepathy" Is said to
have been Invented by the society for
Psychical Research about 36 years
ugo to describe the supposed process
of transmitting thoughts at a distance.
It means the communication of inluds
?thought transference?without any
means known to science. Telepathy
might be compared with wireless
telegraphy, which also transmits Ideas
at a distance.
Dog Knew Too Much.
"I once possessed a splendid dog,"
said Percy. "He could distinguish between
a vngubond and a respectable
person."'
"What became of him?" asked
Grace.
"Oh, I was obliged to give him
away. He bit me."
Crime of the Future.
When we note the large number of
automobile thieves now In evidence,
we wonder how long It will he before
airplane robbers will be lifting things
through the skylight.?Boston Transcript.
Plants Harmful
Do not have flowers or plants In the
bedroom, particularly overnight. Poisonous
gas Is evolved from the colored
parts of flowers both by night and day,
and from the green parts in addition
at night. It Is pleasant to have flowers
In a guestroom, but for the reason
just set forth they should not remuln
In the sleeping chamber. The way to
get around the difficulty Is by the use
of a window box.
TO SEND HOME TOWN PAPER
American Legion and Auxiliary Endeavoring
to Supply News to Disabled
Men in Hospitals.
There are 30,000 young Americans
who were wounded while fighting during
the World war or who have become
sick following their service In
field and cunip, now confined to hospitals
over the United States. Most
of them are hundreds of thousands
of miles from their home town,
friends and relatives. Many of them
can do nothing but read to pass away
the time.
The American Legion auxiliary,
tuiupuscu ui nit: wives, iiKHiitrs nuu
sisters of service men. is endeavoring
to have personal, cheerful letters
written to these men. Now the Legion
is trying to have people in the men's
home towns send the home-town
newspaper to them, either every day
or every week.
There are not more than five or six
ex-service men from any average-sized
town in hospitals, the Legion estimates,
and asking newspaper editors
to send free copies of their papers to
their home-town boys in hospital is
not ask'ng too much, nor more than
citizens would be willing to do. The
Legion Is forwarding to Its*officials In
each state lists of names of men from
that state in hospital, and asking that
local newspaper editors send their papers
to these men. Newspaper editors
who are Interested, the Legion announces,
are asked to signify their
willingness and to request lists of
names of men from their towns, from
national headquarters, Indiunapolis,
Ind.
AIDS STRANDED EX-SOLDIERS
Bill Franklin, Washington (D. C.) Port
Commander, Assists Men Seeking
Claim Adjustments.
Every stranded ex-soldier who drifts
Into Washington, D. C., in hope of
getting a com*
pensatlon claim
adjusted,
by Bill Franklla
/ gpBB local post com'
mnn(ler of th
ft* fWK ,JJ American Legion,
i ^||These men are
mental red tape
sometimes In the
"WjaMfflBj | broke while waitWffiSJUKBwMSE.
intr. Hill Franklin
hunts them up and If their compensation
claims have a chance of settlement
they are tided over by Franklin
and hir unit, the Vincent B. Costello
post of Washington.
Taking care of these men stands the
post an average expense of over $5 a
man. If men come in with hopeless
claims they are helped In getting home.
The District of Columbia has recently
taken over a large share of this work.
EXPERT ON ARMY PAPER WORK
"The Walking Encyclopedia," Unofficial
Army Title of Marion E.
Pollock of A. E. F.
"The Walking Encyclopedia" Is the
unofficial army title of Marlon E. Pollock
of the A. E.
F. and the Amer- /RRjv
lean Legion, now
chief of the per- '
sonnel division of MB* ^
the United States
Veterans' bureau
and colonels, and
even second lieutenants addressed him
with deep respect.
1 Pollock served In France as chief of
the orders division of the adjutant
general's department. After the armistice
he could quote practically word
for word every order Issued from general
headquarters during the war.
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j Carrying On With the j
j American Legion
The famed "blue devils" of France
have been chosen to occupy the Rhineland
areas now being evacuated by
the American forces.
To receive a compensation check
for $2,500 on a $250 claim was the experience
of David Phillips of Dover,
0., an ex-soldier. Phillips refunded
the $2,250 at once.
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Japanese tenants on farms of the
Yakima (Wash.) Indian reservation
have been ousted In favor of service
men, official Washington has Informed
the American Legion.
Nebraska posts of the Legion will
report directly to their state headquarters
by radiophone. They also
project community entertainments all
over the state by radio.
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The nggregate insurance now carried
by ex-soldiers on the government war
risk policy amounts to $3,o0O,fHX),<X)0,
according to Charles It. Forbes, director
of the United States veterans'
bureau.
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One year more has been decided
upon by congress for the granting <>f
medals for gallantry in the World
war. Army officers contend that many
deeds of valor by enlisted men have
not yet been recognized.
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"Because he was kind to me In camp
and in the hospital," was the reason
why Emery Bankston, World war veterun.
who died in an Oteen (N\ C.)
hospital, left his $10,000 government
insurance policy to a Y. M. C. A. secretary.
So many women and girls who form
an American Legion post of war
nurses in Minneapolis, Minn., are getting
married, following war romances,
that a men's auxiliary, composed of
husbands of the fair Legionnaires, U
being considered.
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SCOUTS I
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(Conducted by National Council of'the Bojr
Scouts of America.)
A MODEL RURAL TROOP
The following letter from H. H.
Kurtz, scoutmaster of Locustdale,
Troop No. 1, Honeybrook, Pennsylvania,
shows that the scout program
is equal to any situation in the hands
of a devoted scoutmaster:
"This is strictly a rural troop. The
borough of Honeybrook, of less than
w/vrv '-I.-UI,-.,. "O />nlw in eonllfs.
iuu lmiuimums gdcs uo u.i.j
Tlie remaining 28 come from little
hamlets or distant farms; 18 are farm
boys?boys who live, perform work on
farms. Nearly all are, in a greater
or less degree, active tillers of the
soli.
"The country Is admirably adapted
to scouting with wide and fertile valleys,
long ranges of wooded hills, '
clear streams. We claim as our territory
a section of about 200 square
miles. Boys live from five to ten miles
from scout headquarters. This fact
makes certain arrangements necessary
which will be explained.
"We set up a high Ideal. We determined
however we might fail In other
things, to place the chief emphasis on
the oath and law. Scoutcraft was ,
distinctly secondary. After four yea*
we still keep the Ideal in view. No
boy may enter the troop unless we are
satisfactorily assured that he will do
his best to do his duty to God, his
country, and obey the scout law.
"Every boy Is In a patrol and knows
his number. Each patrol is properly
officered, the officers being chosen on
the ground of worth and merit. There
are no elections. The two senior
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patrol leaaers, uus si*. iiauui
and their six assistants form an 'offl'cers'
council,' which administers discipline,
outlines the policy of the troop
and advises with the scoutmaster.
Nothing of importance is decided (except
in emergency) without the council.
"Every scout Is uniformed, and every
scout procures his own uniform. A
poor boy will receive aid from the
troop treasury, which he may make
good as he is able. Insignia Is provided
by the troop. Each scout is
given his proper badges, shoulder
knots, service stripes, etc., and it Is
required that these matters be In place,
and that they be correct The troop
is governed by a point system. This
Is rigidly adhered to, and each boy
reports his 'points' on honor, at the
business meeting. The system governs
the 'good turn' and all the matters
of the oath and law, and attendance
and inspection. In uniform, or
out, and at any time and place the
scout salutes his superiors, once in the
day. Strict and unquestioning obedience
is required as well as regular attendance
at tfll of the business meetings.
"The scattered condition of the troop
forbids a weekly meeting; so the business
meeting, held once a month, is
to he attended. No boy may go else
where on that evening.
"In addition to this business meeting,
each patrol holds a monthly meeting.
Here the Indoor scoutcraft work
Is done, and boys are examined as to
tests, or prepared for the court of
honor.
"Several features peculiar to this
troop, have proved valuable. Each
boy, entering the troop, undergoes a
partial physical examination. His
record Is kept, and he Is examined
periodically, and his development
noted. The records show a splendid
physical standard In the troop.
"Every boy who reports, on honor, a
perfect score of points for three consecutive
months receives the *100 per
cent duty shield. Four such periods
entitle him to the Maltese Cross ,
award. We have a boy, of unimpeachable
rectitude, who has won the award
for perfect score for two unbroken
years.
"The patrol that gains the greatest
number of points in a month is entitled
to the custody of the flags?the
Troop Flag and the National Ensign.
The patrol whose efficiency is adjudged
the highest for the year, receives
a medal.
"Official hikes are conducted at frequent
Intervals. No winter hikes are
held. The country boy has his fill of
winter experiences In his long journeys
to and from school. But when
spring conies we hike. The patrol
most fully represented In the year's
hikes receives a medal. So also does
the individual scout who Is present at
the greatest number of hikes. Each
hike Is conducted by a leader, usually
a troop officer, who Is responsible for
the welfare and behavior of all scouts
who are present. No Sunday hikes,
no tests passed on that day, and attendance
ut Divine service required of
all."
SCOUT SAVES KIDDIES
Two small children were playing in
a Manhattan street when a delivery
wagon horse suddenly frightened starting
down the street at a gallop?all
the ingredients of a possible tragedy!
But. a scout was at hand, Emil Kozel
! onzek, by name. Instantly taking in
! the whole situation, mentally awake,
as scouts are trained to be, Emil
darted into the street, snatched the
children to safety from almost under
the feet of the runaway. Prepared
again!
PINCHOT PRAISES SCOUTS
Oifford Pinchot, state commissioner
of forestry for Pennsylvania, recently
announced that the department had
been making rapid strides in eliminating
fires from the state forests, and
adds:
"Much credit for this is due to the
Boy Scouts of America, and especially
to the scouts who are enrolled as Pennsylvania
forest guides. It is only right
that the unseflsh interest of these
guides and their loyalty should be suit*
I ably recognized."
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