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J i \ Ir*. THE PEOPTiE. BARNWELL, S. 0. mo AMERICAN •LEGION* fvopy for luia U«p*rinu«ni Supplied by tb« Amtrton L»y|nfc N»w dTvlo^.) THREE MEN LEAD IN MEMBERSHIP CONTEST During 1923 honor* for *ecurln| members for the American I/egion Wen about evenly divided -between thre« men. These, John A. Smith of Sloui City, lu., a member of the Monahac post; IIhiis Hdnsdorf, a disabled man now patient In a Minnesota hospital] and John Kass of Detroit, led all others in securing applications. Smith obtained his members in t father unique manner. He worked out a schetqc^tnown as the “Cudahy plan” by means' of which ho caused the big industrial firms of Sioux City to pay up the dues for ex-service employees, utilizing a “checkoff” for repayment. His record approximated nearly one member for each working day of the year. Hunsdorf obtained his members by personal contact, particularly in Vet erans’ Ilureau hospitals, and wherever veterans gathered and rolled his record up to nearly 2W). Kass, a member of the Charles A. Learned post In Detroit, made an earnest campaign for his applicants, and is said to have Interviewed more ex-service men than either of the other two "champs." Ills record ap- . proxiniated that of Hunsdorf. But to do this, he faced severe competition from one Theodore Kolbe, now depart ment adjutant of tho Legion in Mich igan. Kolbe's record was near enough to that of Kass that it took ft board of Judges to determine the standing of the two. Kass has already made a start toward-a 1924 record. On February 29 he hnd collected dues and applica tions from OB veterans. His method John K is*. Of enrolling the veterans as Liyion- nalres Is simple but iffHcient. "I ask them,'" he says. Kass acbohiplishment was completed within 18 days, the du ration of the post-iprmbership drive. In addition lie added f icmbers to other Wayne county posts. — Mis approach is nucli the Legion officials in Michigan believe that he must use more salesmanship than do either Smith or Hunsdorf. Smith's plan for reaching th,» industrial oon- eerns is sort of an i.dvantage, while Hunsdorf gets men who are daily en joying benefits of i tie ; Legion, they argue. And Kass ge l out and lands the members by hard work, according to their idea. The three-have on n triangular race for membership honorr this year. The Learned posters It ive challenged Omaha post for th< greatest mem bership during 1924. a record here tofore held by the Nt ihrnskans. Kass is one of the main reliances oJ the Detroiters in bringing this honor to his city. Hunsdorf is avowal to better his record by nt least a hundred, z.zi while the men of Monahan post in Sioux City are depurdent on Smith to handle the recruKing alone, it is safe to say that his re lord will approx* imate that of 1923, ^ . . Aid in World War Invented by American Army Officers—Two Impor tant Parts. l_L.Ct 0 g Ol ,p showing great gash made In famous Fire Is4and lightship hy collision with a freighter which almost nk the lightship. 2—Automobile highway at Hancock, Md., Inundated by the Potomac river flood. 34-Will ter Hin- radlo expert, who have started on au extensive exploration of sank the lightship ton, famous aviator (left), and John Swanson, the Amazon region. NEWS REVIEW OF GURRENTEVENTS Harlan Fiske Stone of New York Is Selected to Be Attorney Tieneral. By EDWARD W. PICKARD P RESIDENT COOLIDGE’S selection for the new attorney general to succeed Hurry Daugherty may not please the more “progressive’* of the western Republicans, hut it Is likely to' meet the approval of the party gen erally and probably of the country. Harlan Fiske fitone of New York Is the man chosen, and in him Mr. Cooi- Idge believes lie liai* found what lie required for tho place—an authority on law and an able executive. Mr. .Stone and the President are lifelong friends and both are graduates from Amherst. For fourteen years Mr. Stone was dean of the Columbia uni versity law school, and he is a director of many corporations, including the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line rail way. He is a big, forceful and able man, and Mr. Coolidge relies on him to give the Department of Justice a thorough houseelcaning. Politics, geography and factions were disregarded in tills choice of a new chief law officer, hut the Coolidge campaign managers believe it will prove to have been good politics. They call attention to the President’s sym pathy witli the Ideas of the western progressives as evidenced in his offer of the navy portfolio to Judge Kenyon, and it ‘Is now asserted In Washington that the Coolidge supporters would he more than willing to have n western progressive nominated for vice presi dent. The men most talked of for that place are Judge Kenyon, Senator Borah and Senator Capper. More over. It Is_ said Mr. Coolidge wants one of that group named for tem- (nimry chairman of the Cleveland con vention to make the keynote speech. Mr. Stone visited the executive office Wednesday ami was Inlrodtieed to the administration leaders. the elimination of the increases in rates on estate taxes in the house measure and the'elimination of the gift tax. ills recommendations were followed, and new excise taxes were added »»n radio and mail jongg sets. T!.; twice that given Mr. Coolidge. The President, however, will get several delegates from that state. In the Democratic primaries Gov. A1 Smith of New York defeated McAdoo. Smith says ills name was entered without his consent < r knowledge. HOUGH public Interest in the carious investigations in Washing ton died down somewhat after the resignation of Harry Daugherty, the /‘probers" werlt right on with their inquiries. The Daugherty committee Mtalned some evidence from H. M. Peck of Oklahoma City, a former spe cial assistant to the attorney general, supposed to Indicate that Daugherty and Fall aided the Miller brothers of the 101 ranch in defrauding the Ponca Indians of land and possible fortunes In oil. Then came Cnpt. H. L. Scaife, a former Department of Justice agent, who has been once before heard and frequently mentioned in the inquiry. He told a long story about war-time graft, especially in the aircraft in dustry, and Implicated Secretary of War Weeks, Daugherty. Guy D. Goff, former assistant attorney general, and p Charles Hayden, a Boston banker and director o' the’ Wright-Martin Air craft company, all of whom, Scaife- declared, should be indicted for "con spiracy to obstruct justice" In falling to prosecute the aircraft company for alleged graft. lie also denounced former Attorney General Palmer and T. L. Chudbourne, a New York lawyer, both Democrats. Captain Scaife bol stered up Ids accusations with numer ous letters and 'documents. He said lie worked up these war-graft cases but was called off by the higher-ups. Thomas F. Lane, former legal ad viser t*> the aircraft division of the War department, testified that ids copies of reports on aircraft frauds had been taken from bis desk and lie hadHieen discharged because he was going YiKoppear before the committee. Captain Voiandt of the air service ad mitted taking the papers and said Sec retary -Weeks hnd them. Thereupon, Mr. Weeks, was subpoenaed and went before the committee Friday to explain his connection with the prosecution of the aircraft graft cases. S 1 The "Man from Michigan’’ has al ready been proclaimed champion of the Wayne county cour.ril membership campaign, and his acyimplishment re quiring less thnn-,thi«e weeks would apparently put him i ati»-4he ^national championship class w th good chance* In the final outcome. 'ft Left Part of Es'ate to Aprei icon Legion One-fofrrth of the mtate of u dis abled World wm* veteran who died in Kansas City, Mo., was inherited hy the American Legion. .The veteran. Ear] Mason of Indlai npolis, provided for the bequest in ids will, which named the head of the Legion dis trict hospitalization committee as exe cutor. The estate amounted to ap proximately $350. “The will recite* tltat "every con sideration and Kindness" had been shown to Mason by Uie Legion, and that he made the gl'". as a token of gratitude, and to ast.'st in providing aid for other disabled veterans. Mason went to Kansas City several month* ago broken In health uhd without em ployment. The Vela** assisted him In securing comp* SaGm and hospital •arvtce. HAllI’ admonition to the major!t;. leaders in the senate and house by tin* President brought bn an access of 1 .'l* activity in pushing vital legislation to ward enactment. In a series of con ferences wirh those leaders* be made known Ids ' ftttltniji*. which was re flected in a 'statement hy Senator Wat son o7 Indiana ; "Now that Attorney General Daugh erty lias seen tit to resign." Mr. Wat son siiid, “a new situation presents Itself in the senate, it seems to me that it is the duty of the Democrats to Join with the Republicans to tiring the senate hack to its legislative func tions. “it has been regrettable, although unavoidable, that four months of this session—with - the most Constructive -legislative program before J.t of •■the reconstructum.period folio-wing the war —have been devoted almost entirely to the endless discussion of personal ities Involved in the oil leases and ai-;fioftrtis Oohcny himself bad said, leged misdoings In public office. "The senate mutft devote Itself untir ingly if it hopes to conclude consid eration of the -legislative program and. udjifijri? by June, which we ought to do. 'The general prosperity of the country y;rtyld be aided by congress en- nctlng W s . program without delay so business can adjust Itself to new con ditions called for in new laws..’’ The senate finance committee worked day and night on the tax reduction hill, on which the lenders of Roth pnr- tlcs profess to wish speedy action. Early in the week the committee unani mously approved the house provision for « retroactive reduction of 25 per cent in nixes on 1923 Incomes paid In 1924, ind it is considered certain that the Semite will accept this. The tax payer will pay one-half of the next installment, due June 15, and three- fourths of each of the Inst two install ments. If the tax has been paid in full a refund of one-fourth will he JENNINGS’ sensational story bout Jake Hamon and the Re publican nomination of 1920 having ' * en shot full <»f boles, the Teapot i » committee did not find a great d< last week. . J. E. Dyehe, who v; s a confidential man for Hamon, said .lehnincs’ tesrimonv was "bunk." lie said Hamon was not in Hie habit of giving away bis money but was a great “kidder” and "might havp told tiie stories of huge expendi tures whciit talking to Demo-ruts. I lyehe's evidence, by. the way, did hot shed much lusjer on the purity, of Oklahoma polities. George White, former chairman of the Democratic national committee, was on the stand Wednesday and Sen ator Spencer, Republican, Insisted on getting from him testimony concerning the Democratic campaign fund, though Senator Walsh contended it was Ir relevant. They bickered over this for a long time and then White was per- ndfted to—srry rbrrt Edward !>nbt-Tiy's contribution was $34.900,.and not .<75.- The committee adjourned for the week, awnIting tbe. presence of William Boyce Thompson, chairman of the Re publican finance committee In 192CL Harry Sinclair was Indicted by the grand jury for contempt of Hie senate A S WAS expected, General Luden- dorff was found nut guilty of treason in connection with the Munich "beer-cellar putsch” of last Novem ber, by the Munich court. Hittler, Kriebel and Weber were convicted and received sentences of five years in prison. Their actual time of service will be short. Ludendorff protested the sentences of his comrades. He was greeted with vociferous cheers and will be elected to the reichstag by the radical nationalists known as the Ger man People's Party of Liberty. F RANGE, which persists In consider ing Germany the loser in the World war, and insists that Germany should carry out her pledges in tho treaty of sallies, was not unnaturally peeved by a note delivered to her lust week by the German government. It was “in reply to the demands of the allied council of ambassadors that the allied military control mission he pen- mttted to resume its activities in Ger many to check up on these five dis armament promises by Germany: _ Pass laws prohibiting the import and export of war material—make re cruiting for tiie army conform to treaty provisions rind suppress tiie prewar general stalT, demobilizing all excess officers. Surrender all documents relative to war material on hand and the produc tion of war factories at the time of the armistice. Deliver the balance of war material not authorized by the treaty, especial ly equipment and uniforms. Transform factories manufacturing war materials Into plants making pence products. Reorganize the state police (.the srhupo) Into local police forces, with Thero are five fundamental meth ods used to obtain louder signals: (1) Regeneration; (2) Super-regen eration; (3) Radio frequency ampli fication; (4) Audio frequency am plification ; (5) Super-heterodyne. The limitations of each scheme are as, follows: (1) Regenerative cir cuits, when permitted to pselllate, act as small transmitters and create Inter ference for near-by receiving sets; (2) Super-regeneration is not selective and It is difficult to control; (3) Untuned radio frequency amplification by means of transformer coupling docs not do Justice to all wave lengths and tuned radio frequency amplification requires too many adjustipents to lune the various circuits; 14) Audio amplification is limited t4> two stages; (5) The super-heterodyne is free from the liinifations possessed by other methods of amplifying, but Is complex in construction. Tiie super-heterodyne is sensitive to weak impulses. It Is a sharp tuner, but not critical. It is easy to operate, as it has only two controls, ——^ A super-heterodyne consists chiefly of two parts, a frequency changer and a long wave receiving set. It is based on this reasoning: A radio frequency amplifier will operate easily on long wave lengths, hut not so on short wave lengths. It was imperative dur ing the World war to devise a method capable of picking up feeble short wave signals used by the Germans In trench, submarine and other commu nication systems. Tims the super heterodyne was invented by Maj. E. H. Armstrong while in France. He studied the problem and decided to receive the short waves and then change rtiem to long waves, making it possible to use efficient long-wave radio frequency amplifiers. Tiie wave changer can be built in iwn entirely separate unit and be as distinct from the ordinary receiving set as an audio amplifer unit. A wave changer consists of a detector tube having two frequencies supplied-to it; tiie frequency of the'incoming signal picked up by the antenna; and second, a frequency furnished by a vacuum tube oscillator, called the “hetero dyne,” which feeds the detector by means of a suitable coupling. The output of the frequency changer has a frequency equal to tiie difference between tiie signal frequency and the frequency of the heterodyne oscillator. Tills difference can be varied by ad justing tiie heterodyne frequency. For example if an incoming signal lias a wave length of 400 meters or 700 kilocycles and the heterodyne tube is adjusted to oscillate at 800 kilo cycles, tiie difference between the two frequencies wift be 100 kilocycles. The heterodyne could be adjusted to oscillate at 600 kilocycles and the dif ference would still be 100 kilocycles. It makes little difference which way it is adjusted. The difference in the -two frequencies Is impressed upon the Intermediate frequency amplifier. The super-heterodyne cun be controlled by two adjustments, one for the wave length of the incoming signal and tiie other to control the frequency of the oscillator tube. One is called the wave-length control and tiie other the SPRING TIME IS TONIC TIMEs ■ ¥ The System Needs “Sprinjt^^ Cleaning/’ Just as the Home Does. TAN LAC Has Been - Called tho World’s Greatest Tonic by Over 100,000 Persons, Who Have Testified That Tanlac Has Helped Them Regain Their and Health. DON’T GAMBLE WITH YOUR HEALTH; DEMAND THE BEST the policemen riot receiving military instruction and not living together in frequency changer. The super heterodyne is designed to overcome all difficulties of radio fre-. barracks like soldiers. Berlin’s ans^ver Is a refusal to let the mission ascertain wind lief these pledge i have been carried out. a state- ipqntv that tiie allies and Germany should negotiate an accord covering that, and a proposal that the League of Nations liamTle future questions concerning • the disarmament of Ger many in its gener.nl d-nllpgs with world disarmament.. Tiie note ron- tains ~ii direct challenge to France/s right to maintain a large army. The committee of experts on Ger man resources in foreign lauds estl- niates that 8.000.000,000 gold marks (S'J.OOO.OOO.OOO), has been bidden by* Germany in other .countries. Tiie Dawes committee’s report has been given to tiie reparations commission. Ghnncellor Marx of Germany has- warned the world that •ft is not certain Germany will accept this report and Premier PolnemV has gone no further quency amplification at short-wave lengths. It converts the frequency of the Incoming signal to a value that can be amplified without difficulty. To operate a super-heterodyne tiie signal is tuned in just as with any receiving set. Tiie' incoming signal is then mixed with a signal coming from tiie !ocal 0 oscillator tube or heterdyne. The result is a signal of much lower frequency equivalent to a high wave length. This''low frequency signal is passed through an lntermedlate fre- quency amplifier designed especially for long-wave amplification. The sig nal is then passed on to the loud speaker and audio frequency artipli- 1 tier or phones. Each -stage »f m i ed, preferably In a metal compart- ; ment. It is not necessary to have a ! top bn the compartment. All grid Tanlac Has Benefited Thou sands of Persons Suffering From Stomach Trouble, Indigestion, Rheumatism, Nervousness and Kindred Ailments—Tanlac Is for Sale by All Good Drug gists—Accept No Substi tute—Over Forty Million Bottles Sold. PAINS ACROSS . BACK AND SIDES* Many Severe Change of Life Symptoms Relieved by the Use of Cardui, According to Florida Lady. Grand Ridge, Fla.—"I have used a great many bottles of Cardui," say£ Mrs. G. W. Wester, of Grand Ridge, "a medicine I consider above all others for weak women. “I used Cardui during ... I got so weak and run-down I was a mere shadow. Some one, at the time, told me of Carduif 1 began and kept up Cardui and was so pleased with tiie results. . . . "For some time, then. I did not need Cardui,” Mrs. Wester goes on, “but later, when change of life came on, I hnd pains across my back, and sides. My head ached down into my shoulders ... I was weak and run down, nervous, and did not eat. I couldn’t rest well nights. "My husband, who was a groat bo- llever in Cardui, having seen what it did for me in former years, went and bought six bottles; insisted I take it steadily, which I did. It helped me. I did not suffer -so^iglUi my head and hack. My- limbs tlurt had felt weak and shaky grew stronger and Cardui helped me through this period. * I feel It did a great deal for me.’’ For over forty years grateful women have been writing, ns did Mrs. * Wester, to say that Cardui had bene fited them. It should help you, too. Trv it. At nil druggists’. ftw Take svvv * CARDUI; S TheWoman'sTonic S MOTHER! Clean IChild’s Bowels with “California Fig Syrup” than to express the hope, that the coip- lea{ j g nmst y )0 * {lK short as possible, mittr-e would lie able to offer “ele ments of a aotution." A FT r\ r.r a 1! night sesstmt *The ritlsh house of^commons reject ed the policy of a capital levy, which was the chief plank of the Labor party In tiie recent I elections. John Robert Clynes, government leafier in. the house, admitted tiie lahorites could Small Soldering Iron made the taxpayers. Of course numer ous changes in the, bouse hill were 1-tion lias been taken on it. made hy the committee, mainly for the purpose of raising ujldltfnnnl revenues. Secretary of tiie Treasury Mellon read to the committee a long argument for tfo testify. He olebdeA not rM—hope for the passage of such a measure, in the present parliament, hut maintained the country would ulti mately he forced to It by its crushing burden of debt. The government evad- ed Inevitable defeat in connection with the recent bill by consenting , to Re vision of an eviction clause: r in refusing t guiltv aim gave bond of $5,000. S’ OME Democrat* In the senate start ed a move to try to force the resig nation of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon on~the ground that he is a stockholder In various concern*, but Senator Ueed of Pennsylvania vigor ously defended the secretary and Senator ^Robinson and other Demo crats Kelln tunlly collapsed. Senator Dill of Washington then came to hat with a resolution calling for the resignation of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy. This did not seem a very popular move, even yvlth Democrats, and nt tills writing no ac- RGENTINA began on April 1 a most extraordinary experiment In s declined to support Senator Me- the form of a law hy which everyone nr, who led the attack, so It vlr-. In W ISCONSIN’S Republican pri maries were easily won by Sena tor LaFollette, whose vote was about the coutTtrr,~rttlzen or foreigner, who has worked for 25 years, for him self or others, is retired on a pension amounting to his present salary Those with years yet to servj mAst liay 5 per cent of their salaries Into a national pension fund, from which the rewards to the elder workers are paid Employers must augment the genera 1 fund by contributing another 5 per cent of their pay rolls. Salaries of workers are to continue during sick ness or other dlsabURj. Made of Copper Wire By GEORGE H. HUMPHREY A short time ago I chanced to be miles awhy from a soldering-iron and greatly, in need of one. I produced a makeshift from a piece of No. 14 elec tric light wire which was rubber cov ered. Four Inches of the insulation was removed from one end and 1V4 , Inches taken off from the other, and a unrrAee mute C»r- loop was formed of the covered pan to make a handle. On the long, bart end I wound a bunch of No. 22 copper wire to hold the heat. This, heatei over a gas flame, was found to be verj handy and useful for soldering tlx wire to taps on the varlocoupler. L wlU reach into places where a com mon soldering iron will not enter.— Radis Digest. Hurry Mo.ther! Even constipated* bilious, feverish, or sick, colic Babies and Children love to take genuine “Cal ifornia Ftg Syrup.” No other laxative regulates the .tender little bowels so nicely. It sweetens the Istomach and starts ,the liver and bowels without griping. Contains no narcotics or sooth ing drugs. Say ‘‘California’’ to your druggist and avoid counterfeits. Insist upon genuine ‘’California Fig Syrup” which contains directions. Green’s August Flower, The remedy with a record of fifty-eeven years of serpeeuing excellence. AU who •offer with nervous dyspepsia, sour stom ach, constipation, indigestion, torpid liver, dinkiest, headaches, coming-op of food, wind on stomach, palpitation and other indications of digestive disorder, wiU find GREEN’S August Flower an effective and efficient remedy. For fifty-seven yean this medicine has been successfully used in millions of households all over tho civil ised world. Because of its merit end pop ularity Green’s August Flower can be found today wherever medicines are sold. 30 end 90 cent bottles. PATENTS i: taokim rain. r.