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Governor W. D. Davis of Idaho on the after deck of the U. S. S. Idaho, at Seattle, presenting a set of colors to the ship In the name of the state which sponsored It ‘1 War Prices Died Hard in Tampico Money Came Easily in Mexico’s Oil Metropolis and Was Spent With Lavish Hand.' flEBYTHIHB WENT SKY HIGH rrlty Continued After Meet Other Communities Were Experiencing Setback—City Is Now Under going Readjustment. Washington.—"Americans who saw prices skyrocket at home and who saw themselves and their neighbors nearly lose their sense of money values, would have felt thoroughly at home In Tampico, the great Mexican oil town, doling the last few years. 1 * says a bulletin Issued from the Washington headquarters of the National Geo graphic society. This was the port to which United States gunboats were sent recently when the closing down of American oil wells and refineries because of heavy Mexican taxes threw thousands of men out of work, and disorders were feared. Floated te Prosperity so Oil. “Tampico, long a port of no great Important-*-, has had a mushroom growth In the last fifteen years,".con tinues the bulletin. "Its population In creasing from leM than 1T.UUU In 1906 to welt over 1UU.0UU today. And the explanation for tills great stride for ward can be given to one word—oil. Tbe biggest 'gusher' the world has ever known was drilled near Tampico In 1908. and scores of other huge streams of oil have been opeued up In the same vicinity since. Hundreds of millions of gullous of oil have passed through Tampico, and the town has been the financial and business head quarters for fields many miles away. “‘Money flowed easily Into the pock ets of a large uumlier of American managers and technical workers who were brought In. and Into the hands of .Mexican landowners, merchants and day laborers. The World war ralaed the demand for liquid fuel to unheard of heights and It seemed that everyone In Tampico was becoming wealthy. Conditions closely paralleled those In oil towns of the United States, '^wlk shirts were not the vogue that they were among the loungers along \ every American Main street, but In their way Tamplcans became equally as proficient spenders. There was lit tle Inclination to ‘count the change.’ The cost of all articles of food and ap parel rose tremendously. Kents soared until ordinary accommodations ior Americans could not be obtained for much under $200 to $300 per, month. « “Because the after-the-war indus tries of the world required petroleum no less than did the navies of the fight ing nations during the war, Tampico’s prosperity continued after most other communities whose business was quickened by the war were experi encing a setback. Now, belatedly, the city is undergoing the readjustment that came to the rest of the world. Has Mora Freight Than Vara Cruz. ““Although Tampico owes Ita pros perity predominantly to oil. It has other factors that contribute to Its 1m- uiTBnrv. iTTHDn to 8 ranroaa rroin Monterey, connecting with the mining region of north-central Mexico, and to excellent harbor Improvements, the town la an Important port - of entry and export. It has surpassed Vera Crux In the balk of commodities han dled, though the latter city probably la the port of entry for products of greater aggregate value. “The city of Tampico la not direct ly on the aearoast, but la situated a few miles up the Panuco river, which Is broad and deep and affords anchor age for a large number of ocean-going ships. At the mouth of the stream of La Barra la a supplemental harbor. Near the latter place la one of the finest sea beaches to be found. “Until Tampico found Ita burled treasure and shook off Ita lethargy It was an exceedingly unhealthy place, often being subject to epidemics of yellow fever. Drainage and the appli cation of other modern methods of snltatlon have greatly improved tbe health conditions. The families of no- merous American and English employ es of tbe big oil companies have moved In. and a thriving English speaking colony exists In the higher western part of the city." Prehistoric Cave Yields Deposits of Phosphate Mlxnlx, Austria.—One of the most comprehensive of the many finds of relics of prehistoric man In Austria has been dis covered In a cave near this place. The cavern known as the "Dragon’s Den" is being exca vated for Its enormous deposits of phosphate in the shape of bird lima. In a aide cava some 1.000 yards from the opening the evidences of human occupa tion in ancient times were un covered. -Great quantities of quarts Implements and other utensils and human bones have been taken out. MULES DRIVE OUT CAPTAIN r <S> (Copy tor This Department Supplied by the American Legion New* service.) ’• IS LEGION LEADER IN PARIS Officer Resigns From Okie National Guard After 13 Yes re of Military tecvtes. — 0 Defiance. O.—After S3 years of mil itary service, CapC A. B. Da Kay baa resigned as commanding officer of the booornhlyTt tbe~rroe~t"^tb tbe ioral National Guard company becauas for tb# p arpoM * be doesn't Uke moles. ; th , memory of fallen Captain Da Kay has always bean an t oed furthering friendship an Famous New Orleans Aoa Heads American Volunteers of French Foreign Organization. Edgar John Boullgny of New Orleans, famous Ace of the Lafayette Esquadrille and scion of an old French family has been chosen to bead ad associ ation of veterans organised at I Paris and called “American Volun teers of the French Foreign Legion.” When Germany an* nonneed Ita Inten tion of meeting “all comers," Boullgny was one of the first Americana to volunteer . bla service* for France and waa decorated fonr times for bravery with the esqua- drllle. He la a member of Alvin Cal lender post, American Legion. Boullgny first served with the Second regiment of the French Foreign Legion. When transferred to tbe Lafayette flyera, bis tntrep)^ ma neuvering over the enmy lines, eager ness to engage any plana bearing the maltese cross, contributed many of the thrilling chapters which comprise the history of that heroic group. He was transferred to the American air forces when this country entered the fight and became an ace. Ha also secured numerous remarkable pboto- grapba* among them being one of enemy shells bursting over the Rhelae cathedral during the first bombard ment of this historic structure. The organisation of which Boallgay la president. Includes American volun teers who enlisted la the early days of the war, while their country was | still neutral, nod Is intended te Include "the boos fide American ritlxena who infantryman. Recently the guard here waa converted from company A, Second Infantry regiment, to a bowlts- er unit, and was issued a half-doaen mules to draw tbe light artillery. "When they began giving us howitz ers sod pistols and mule*.'* said Cap tain Da Kay. "1 knew I was through. I'm a rifle and bayonet fighter." surviving." BUSY FOR THE LEGION CAUSE FRENCH FARMERS GET PRIZES ^ , American legion. * * ——————— | | n Rewarded for Efforts to Restore 1 rhe c>nt, * n * of Anixy *n«i coney, who t<m. d. c. Mr* _ * o 4 were most meritorious. The first prlxa Neely later moved Farms to Prewar State. j Of SOU francs was won by an aged to the state of _________ couple named Thulllet, who served f«*r Washington where •K) years on the name farm nnd who she has been after the war, worked a year without active In club wages because their mHMfess could work of Spokane not afford to pay them. ^ end the entire Through the co-op^ratlon of ^Th* S* 1 * Is. in Head of Washington Woman's Aux. Illary lay* Workers Will Nst * Be Found Wanting. Mrs. John R. Nealy has been chosen bead of the Washington State Women’s Auxiliary of the Fifty Farmer* Are Now Owners of Agricultural Implements Donatsd by Two American Woman. Pari*.—Fifty farmers from the can- Frants) ae** today the owners of -agri cultural Implements given them as prizes by Miss Anne Morgan and Mrs. A. Murray Dike of the American com mittee for devastated France In rec ognition of efforts they have made to restore their farms to their prewar state. * • The prize winners were selected by a Jury of French agriculturists from 110 entries in two agricultural compe titions The first prize, a seed planter from Louisville, Ky., was won by Albert Delan and his wife, sixty-eight nnd fifty-eight years old, respectively, peasants from Allemont (Alsne) who, although their fields were classed as "Irreclaimable’’, by the government, returned to their farm, lived in a dug- out and after two years of hard labor succeeded In puttiW-their entire farm under cultivation'. ^ Cash' prizes totaling A000 francs were also given by Miss Morgan and Mrs. Dil|f to the a 30 farm hands in 1 police. their disposal. The two agricultural contests with prizes worth more than 20,000 francs Is one of the ways In which the American committee is stimulating the farmers to do their ut most. • • Burglar Eats, Drinks, Naps. St. Louis.—After drinking a quart of whisky and eating seven cans of salmon he found in the residence of C. E. Dodson, East St. Louis, a burglar carried a mattress, bed clothing and an alarm clock Ipto the cool basement for a nap, according to the East side police. The Dodsons are away for the sum mer. Neighbors saw tfiat a hole had been sawed through the cellar door of the Dodson home and they notified the COUNTRY'S TIMBER GOIN& FAST Being Cut Five Times Faster Than it Is Grown. Annual Cut afid DaatructTqh of Tim ber Amounts to 26,000,000,000 Cubic Feat —Growth is 6,000,000,000 Feet. The original forests of the United States have been estimated as contain ing 822,000,000 acres, which has been reduced by cutting, cultivating and burning to 137,000,000 acres; or, to put it another way, our virgin stands have » n reduced to one-sixth of their orlg- i area. Sixty per cent of the orlg- 1 timber stand Is gone, leaving us a balane# of approximately 2.214,000,600,* 000 feat of merchantable timber, says Norman W. Scherer, assistant profes sor of forestry. Ohhf State university. "Now that we know what our balance to, we may logically ask the sumption?” It Includes an average annual cut of 40,000,000,000 feet of lumber, somewhere between 100,000,- 000 and 126,000,000 railroad ties, 4,600,000 cords of pulpwood, and about 110,000,000 cords of fuel/ Un der normal conditions, our per capita consumption of timber amounted to between 900 and 626 board feet, but with the- pressure of war this was brought • down to approximately 800 board feet, and we are still suffering .from the economic curtailment.'-.The average consumption for Europe amounts to 00 board feet per capita, while for all other countries It is about four board feet. The average for the world population of 1,600,000,000 as saw material Is 40 board feet. Our tremendous consumption of lumber has been a most potent factor In elevating our standard of living, and it would not bq a happy solution at the problem to curtail our consump tion. Rather let us Increase our pro duct loo. * ^ The annual cut and destruction of timber amounts to 26,000,000^000 cubic feet, while the annual growth amounts to only 6,000.000,000 1 cubic feet. We are consuming timber, then, about five times as fast as we are pro* duclhg it. SURGEON’S FEE LIMIT, $1,000 Johns Hopkins Hospital Trustees at Baltimdr* Set Maximum for Operation. Baltimore, Md.—The trustees of Johns Hopkins hospital issued the fol* lowing dictum: “The maximum fee that any sur geon ought to charge for sn operation, no matter haw wealthy the patient may be, is - $1,000. The maximum charge that any physician ought to make for attending patients In a hos pital Is $36 a week." The dictum takes cm the force of an order to phyriclans and surgeons practicing in tbe hospital, Haitifoes to ha fought with the Ninety-first division, A. E. F. Another was with the Twenty- third engineers, A. E. F. A third was an aviation Instructor at Kelly Field. Texas, and Issodun, France. The youngest fought with the embattled Second division A. E. F. “My work in the auxiliary will be a legacy from our beloved sons, who, sleeping In the sacred soil of France, have passed It on to the women of the American Legion," said Mrs. Neely. "It belongs to us by ties of blood. It means s pledge of service to the service men In the name of those they left behind. In the holding of that legacy. God helping, we will not be found wanting.” ■■ ■■ 1,11 ,t IS LEGION LEADER IN SOUTH Florida National Committeeman Is One of the Most Active' Workers in tb* State. Dr. David Forster, of New Smyrna, Fla., who has been -re-elected national committeeman of the American Le gion from Florida, Is one of the Le gion’s leaders In the South. He has been s nation al committeeman since the first con vention In 1916. Doctor Forster la resident surgeon of the Forster sanitarium at New Smyrna. He was born October 24, 1870, at Fayette, Mo. He received his early education there and his medical training at St. Lonls, later doing postgraduate surgery In large fioepltala in the United States and In Europe. He waa organiser and first chief physician of the St Louis Maternity hospital at Sc Louis, Mo. Be served In the the wer. # * k*' • LEGION MEN ^VISIT FRANCE American Party an Tour of Fenner .Battle •actors; at Fllrey Monu- . meat Dedication. The new "A. E. F.” Is In France— cn a mission much unlike that of the A. & F. of 1917-1918. The new forces are only 260 strong. They comprise members of the American Legion who are touring the former battle sectors this summer as guests of the French government Every state and every branch of service Is represented in the peaceful new A. E. F. They sailed from New York on the George Washington. There was a noisy “bon voyage” at the docks as (he former presidential ship started on Its course. Flags of the United States and the American Le gion fiew from the roast Commanding or rather beading the pilgrimage was John G. Emery, the Legion’s national commander. For mer commanders Franklin D’OIler and Henry D. Ltndsley were present Arriving at LeHavre, tbe citizen ex pedition was received with great eclat after which it proceeded to Paris un der tow 'of French officials. From Parts the party set out by special train for Blots to attend the dedication of the Joan of Arc statue presented to the French city by tbe Joan of Arc Committee of New York. While at Blots, the veterans invades the old headquarters of tbe army rtz classification board, known better by the doughboy as the “benzine board." Here the Americans staged a burlesque of a benzine hearing during which a score of tb* pilgrims were "blooyed" as they used to say In the days of the fighting A. EL F. Every dty visited by the former de fenders has received them with arms wide-open. That France hae not for gotten la everywhere evidenced by the cordiality of the receptions, At Bor deaux. the Legionnaires received tb* “freedom of the dty" from the high officials From there they went te Tarbee te visit the birthplace of Gen eral Foch. They pieced a memorial tablet upon the house that first shel tered the famous genera l Iasi ms The former fighters were tmprsassd by the rapidity with which many of the ruined towns have been rebuilt Some Legionnaires have gone over the exact location whore they fought the battle of liberty nnd where many of their boddiae fell In action. Probably the moot hnpreaalve cer emony participated in by the Ameri cana was the dedication of the Fllrey monument This memorial la a tribute to the valor of the doughboy* who delivered the little town of German occupation. Fllrey la familiar ground to many American soldiers It la on the ridge which was tbe mala line of resistance of tbo old Toni ooctor. It was at Fllrey that tbe Eighty* nlath. from Kansas and Missouri, went Into conflict. Seventeen American divisions fought In the vtctnlty of tho llttlo town, which Itself was occupied by regimental headquarters of troops bolding the line. ’ At the dose of their tour the Legion men will go to -Paris where they will have three daya A. W. O. L., after which they will sail on their return voyage. The party la expected to re turn about September 15. i jr!i YOUNGEST AUXILIARY MEMBER tana”of An’lzy' and Coucy In the de-J American committee with the'fnrmer* vastnted area of the Aline (m.rthem'l acr r" t ^ „ at e L^lou aLx aged by the war have been re< lalrue*! * ,a l-« m 1 n *ux and are at present under cultivation. I head of the strong National TRe conuultt.. I,., or s . 0 lx^' K ^" n ’ •“ Illl *7' ,h '"r**"'"- AKrlcultural .yndlcuu. „m.m« the I” .a? ,K ^ « J LS 1 ' fanner, and ha. pl.cA 40 tractor, at ® h * '* ,h * 7' h ' r four sons and a daughter. One son Little Ruth Buell Thompson of Lewis town, Montana, Chosen Mascot of tho Stats Department. Her mother was a nurse and her father a doughboy, both having served In France. She Is Ruth Buell Thomp son, 31 months old, and tbe youngoet member of the Woman’s Auxiliary .of SCOUTS (Coa4eeU4 bjr National Connell of tbo Boy . t Scout* of America.) SCOUT LIFE SAVERS. ♦ From October 1920 to July 1921 the following boy scouts have been award ed medals for heroic services by the National Court of Honor: Gold medals—Dale CotUer, Bock Island, 111.; Joseph H. Mardls, East Liverpool, Ohio; George Noble, Char lton, Iowa. Silver medals — Myers Cbalrea, Spring Hope, N. C; Van Carmen, Kewanee, III.; Gordon M. Crowley, Pittsfield, Mass.; Frederick Doty, Plain- field, N. J.; Sam A. Fitch, Houston, Tex.; Walter Frick, Philadelphia, Pa.; Kenneth Gardner, New York; Marcus Glnsburg, Chicago, 111.; John Holllngs, Pleasantvllle, N. Y.; George J. Howell, Newport Newa, Va.; Robert R, Humphreys, Fresno, Cal.; Arthur T. Lee. Newark, N. J.; Leslie Lumbat- tis, Belleville, 111.; Robert McGaffln. Topeka. Kan.; Gerhard McKee, On tario, Cal.; 'Edward Moraves, West* field, Masa.; Charles Paaho, Syracuse, N. Y.; Austin J. Power, Brooklyn, N. Y.; C. EL Rosa, Wheeling, W. Va.; Arthur Sommerfleld, Chicago, DL; Elmer B. Walker, Mott. N. D n and Harold White, Lowell, Maos. Henceforth, there will be only one grade of medal awarded, made of gold and specially designed by Bel more Brown, the well-known explorer. The medal will be awarded only In case* of tlfb-aavtag Involving actual risk of life to the rescuer. For other serv ice In saving of Ilf* and first-aid let ters of commendation will he awarded. Dele Collier of Rock Island. DL win be the first recipient of the new de sign medal, which he oernef ly by a spectacular fast of tee last winter. BOY BCOUTi IN HUNGARY. Scouting la tan years old la Hun gary and. though tbe war stopped Its growth for a time, the mrrement waa reorganised and put oa a firm baste la September. 1919. la Its eariter otageo the Hungarian scant saaorta tlon waa, like the German, a aemi- saUltary organisation, but with Its ra- establishment It has rejected the mil itary element a the British and haata. The dlaoembermaat of gary was a sever* blow to the than 60 par cent of the Magyar are now la occupied territories. OA- cera, money and equipment am badly oauded. Home_of the boy ecouty hare no money even to purchase sboaa, much less scout uniform*. Moat of the leaders are professional men or clerks who have a hard enough strug gle to earn their own living and yet they devote time and often money to the cayee. “W* are all the i^ore proud," writes a Hungarian old scout, "that despite hardship* and sufferings, our scouts unfalteringly, with a strong soul and In a real scout spirit, follow tbe path which leads to our great goal—good citizenship and real humanity." The Hungarian boys are particularly anxious to be *uc 3 ted In the Inter national Broth* rho-xi of Scouts and offer and bespeak In torn good will, understanding and support la the spirit of “true scouting. VVMRN IN DOUBT ASK A •GOUT. Last April a letter from tbe state department of conservation and de velopment asking for data as to the number and spedes of trees In the city of Long Branch, N*. J., te said to have caused considerable consterna tion among the local authorities. Evi dently a tree census was wanted at once, but who could or would do the Job? The authorities didn’t know bat somebody else did. Hearing of the quandary of the city fathers. Scout Executive Ovenham came forward with the suggestion that thg scouts at his district could and would under take the census. If desired. They did, with excellent results to all con cerned. ^ . Ruth Buell Thompson. the American Legion st Lewlstown, Montana. When the state department of the American Legion of Montana held its annual convention at Lewlstown, Baby Thompson was unanimously selected to be the mascot. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Thompson, of Lewlstown. On Honeymoon Hike. Ernest JL Jackson, who m wed In the First division la Trance, and who was wouaded 14 times, has started with his bride oa a honeymoon hike across the continent from New York to Sen Francises. The pair stopped at Indiana pot Is oa the 29th day at (hair walk, and paid s visit to the at the SCOUTS AS LI Ft 8AVIRS. ! Hal Grant on, a thlrteen-year-old boy scout Of Newark, O., saved the life of a six-year-old child who was swept away by the swift current while wad ing tn shallow water and had gone down in a deep pool. Among tbe many heroic deeds per formed daring the Pueblo flood is the Story of the two boy scouts who,' ou hearing that several persons were stranded at the gas works and hang ing from trees, kittened out to Min eral Palace park, captured a canoe, which they carried 6ver to tbe swol len river, and paddled down In the fierce current, rescuing five persona. NEW HAMPSHIRE SCOUTS ACTIVE It Isn't only in cities that boy eeputs find community good turns to da - In Peterborough, N. H., the records show that, among other things, the scouts shoveled snow last winter and assisted at times around a here* far aged, found a lost child, guarded rot os ard did ma—mgsr end guide fer L Oi O. F.