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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
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(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.