The Ringwood Recorder (Ringwood, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1922 Page: 4 of 6
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THE RINGWOOD RECORDER RINGWOOD OKLAHOMA
SEALS FOR PRESIDENT
Oil Wells Pay AD of Long Beach’s Expenses
Girls Form Club
Despairing of Achieving Wedded
Bliss They Unite to Accom-
plish Their Purpose
FIND COMPETITION IS KEEN
Wearing of Green Ribbon la Sign Girl
la Quite Serioua and Wanta to
Get Married— Muet Obey
the Rule
Paris — Among the hundreds of thou-
sands of surplus women In France a
small group of Paris mldinettes have
formed a murrlage club Their insignia
Is a small bit of green ribbon on the
coat so that any man seeiug a girl
decorated in this way knows right
away that she Is quite serious and
wants to get married
The marriage competition is keen
among the girls and the lonely oues
have taken to this form of advertise-
ment to settle down In life and have a
chance to leave the sweatshops Due
to the facilities of life in Paris there
are numbers of bachelors many of
whom would like to get married only
up to now they never seemed to meet
the right sort of girl
Fear to Make Break
Serious girls have hitherto met at-
tractive young men on their way to
work and have seen others dally where
they lunch but they have never dared
allow the men to speak to them nor
tllrt with the men because they were
afraid of being taken for something
they were not The girls never could
tell the intentions of the men and the
men always suspected women who no-
ticed them Mow all this has been
changed
The man who wants to get married
wears a bit of green in his buttonhole
but he must not take advantage of this
by going up and accosting the first
girl he meets with a similar bit of St
Patrick's color According to the un-
written laws of the clnb he nlust wait
until he has 'seen some girl member a
number of times Then If their dally
paths cross be can finger his bit of
ribbon In a suggestive manner If she
approves of him she will smile and
then be can Introduce himself
Holds First Meeting
The club had Its first meeting the
other day In the crowded ueighorhood
between the city bail and the Bastille
but the members failed to reach any
agreement on how to get married One
suggestion seemed to carry weight
That was to give a number to every
bolder of the green ribbon but they
have to prove themselves worthy of
this and pass a medical examination
Then if a man’s affections turn to some
attractive damsel such as XYZ-21S9
ho can go to the club and fill a form
New Plan to Prevent Forest Fires
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Fire tool boxes containing tools sufficient to equip five ten and twenty-
five men or more are placed on a pack mule and stationed throughout the na-
tional forests by the United States forest service to fight forest fires This
photograph shows a ranger and a mule loaded with a fire box which Is to he
placed In a strategic position
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Buys Church to Have t
$ Place “in Which to Cuss” j
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I Los Angeles— Henry Singer I
1 came to Venice from New York
with $230noo In cash and bought t
a church In the beach city so
that he could “have a place in !
v which to cuss" This his wife t
2 testified in Judge Hahn's court I
t In defending a suit brought by j
Ben Letter against Singer no J
J $1300 note Singer has been t
4 declared incompetent and the ?
wife Is now his guardian
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Sets World Record in Potatoes
London — Whet is claimed to be
worlds record la potato growing Is
reported from llkton In the presence
of a large number of people a farmer
named F Reel weighed potatoes to-
taling 324 pounds i ounces all 'of
hloh were produced from one pr und
f seed
professing his affections and giving a
full account of himself which will be
submitted to the girl he has decided
on It Is predicted that this sugges-
tion wilt not prevail for It is too slow
and complicated for Cupid But there
will be frequent dances and excursions
so that the young people will have an
opportunity of knowing each other
well
They say the men will have a good
time due to the natural surplus of
women In France which the war has
accentuated
PUN COLLEGE FOR OLD BOYS
Oxford University Project Would
Take in Octogenarians Who
Want to Study
London— Jolly old chnppies of four-
score years and ten' frolicking on
the Oxford playing fields and dodder-
ing septuagenarians lolling in cush-
ioned punts on the upper reaches of
the Thames may become realities If
the plan for the entry of the old as
well as the young to the famous Eng-
lish university Is carried out
The suggestion Is that a college be
established for adults as Kuskln col-
lege was established for the education
of men from trades unions Such s
college It Is pointed out would be a
haven of refuge for extra-mural ac-
tivities of the university and would
enable many adults to carry on stud-
ies which they started under the ex-
tension course idea and which they
have been unable to complete-
Pranks Played
by Mark’s Fall
Fluctuating Exchange Rate
Sometimes Works to Advan-
tage of German People
MINER NOW MULTIMILLIONAIRE
St Louis Man Leaves Brother In Ger-
many $30000 and Long Hunt for
Beneficiary Multiplies
Fortune
Berlin — Freakish pranks played by
the fluctuating exchange rate are writ-
ing a colorful chapter In the life of
Germans While the low value of the
mark In most cases is spelling grief It
sometimes works to advantage of the
native
THIS BONIFACE
:
Hctc’keeper in Vermont Village
Has Two Kinds of Guests
Steel-Barred Entrance Stands Grim
and Foreboding Across From Hos-
pitable Paesageway Into Com-
fortable Hotel Lobby
N’ewfsne Vt — The county Jail and
the local hotel are combined under one
roof In this town and the functions of
keeper and landlord are performed by
one and the same Individual The plan
has its advantages and as a matter of
practical experience works perfectly
The Windham County hotel as the
sign over the main entrance reads Is a
long two and otie-ba If -story edifice
painted white m-tb green shutters
after the conventional northern New
England style The northern or main
portion of the building Is built of
When little Sally Le Fevre dough-
ter of Mr and Mrs Charles 11 Lt
Fevre of Washington knocked on the
President's window at the White Bouse
executive offices she was greeted with
real Harding smile The President
purchased the first tuberculosis Christ-
mas seals from her and wished her
and all her little helpers success Is
the work
College Raises Drug Herbs
Seattle Wash — In connection with
the college of forestry of the Univer-
sity of Washington the department is
also engaged In growing drug herbs
This has been demonstrated In the
case of Seimar Meyrowltz a Berlin or
chestra leader who regrets that he did
not receive a heavier fine than was
meted out to him last summer for at
tempting to take cigarettes across the
Czech border Meyrowltz was motor-
ing to Marienbad and having a num-
ber of acquaintances there he went
well supplied with cigarettes which
he purposed to distribute as gifts His
Impression that the frontier customs
control had grown lax was dispelled
when the Czech customs authorities
fined him 10000 marks
Cut Fine in Half
Repented pleas for clemency failed
Meyrowltz even after he had pictured
the sorry straits of the intellectuals of
nowadays Finally however the
Czechs decided to cut the fine in half
and Meyrowltz has now received a
check for more than 440 kronen the re-
bate being reckoned according to the
rate of exchange at the time sentence
was pronounced Four hundred and
forty-six kronen today are equivalent
to nearly 60000 marks
A Bochum miner named Bagenski
living In humble circumstances and the
father of six children became a multi-
millionaire In marks overnight through
a legacy of $30000 received from the
estate of his brother a St Louis hotel
owner The brother went to the United
States some thirty years ago and hnd
been believed dead many years The
miner after his brotheVg death had
changed his place of residence and
during the time he was being sought
that the bequest could tie given hlin
Its value computed in marks meantime
hud multiplied many times
Inherits Millions
A young woman habitue of one of
Berlin's dancing places has fallen heir
to 70nnQ0UO marks left l er by sn aged
American who died of heart 11 setae
while vfstting Germany The old man
met the girl casually in the dance hall
several days prior to his death Busi-
ness called him to Westphalia lie lie-
came 111 w hile making the Journey The
girl was Informed and reached Ills
bedside Just before the tnd A few
days later a notary delivered her a
sealed portfolio which her acquaint-
ance had willed her because she bad
brightened his last days on earth It
contained Jewelry $13000 and consid-
erable other foreign currency the
mark value footing up 70000000
RUNS THE JAIL
brick while the long extension Is of
wood
On one side of the passage facing
the visitor as be enters the building
Is a door which stands hospitably open
It gives seres to the office with Its
desk register hat rack and the usual
collection of armchairs On the other
side grim and foreboding 1 a
door closed tight and only to he un-
locked by the keeper's big key leading
to the jail part of the establishment
II B Osborne who performs the
twofold Job of raring t ir guests who
come to him of their own free will and
accord and tboaa who are committed to
his keeping by the county authorities
say be d ea not see anything very ex-
traordinary In the combination and
find his dual duties all a part of tho
day's work
Existing coal mine la the United
State can produce from 700000000
to 9u000000n tons a year
Because Signal Hill Cal- bought by Us neighbor Long Beach recently for public purk purposes has become an oil-
producing territory yielding Long Beach royalties of $40000 monthly the city of Long Beach Is now taking steps to do
away with taxation of its citizens It doesn't need the money This Is a view of Signal lilll und Its oil wells
Muscle Shoals
Ready in 1925
Work on Project Is Resumed as
Word Is Given U S Engi-
neers to Finish Job
$7400000 MORE IS NEEDED
Gigantic Dam and Other Sections of
Construction to Furnish Work for
2000 — All tho Big Machin-
cry Has Been Bought
Florence Ala-r-The roar of con-
struction work on the great Wilson
dam ut Muscle Shoals Is again sound-
ing through the valleys and over the
hills along the Tennesee river The
government has stepped In to rescue
from possible decay the huge war-
time nitrate and power projects In-
volved In the building of what will be
the world’s largest water-power dam
United States army engineers Just
furnished with $8100000 In congres-
sional appropriations are once more
proceeding with the work of harness-
ing the mighty waters of the Tennes-
see under a government program
which provides for the completion of
the Wilson dnm the Installation of
power-generating machinery and the
distribution of electricul “juice" by
late 1923 or enrly 1926 1
The army appropriation bill to be
Introduced In congress December 4 la
to ask $7300000 additional for the
work of the fiscal year 1923-1924 It
Will require but $7400000 more after
that before a finished Job at the dam
and power house will make It possible
to send out the electrical current
The Engineers Task -The
army engineers do not vex
themselves with the question of what
Is to become of the electrical energy
to be taken from the waters of the
river It makes no difference to them
whether nitrates or fertilizer Is made
there whether the power Is to move
the street cars In distant New Orleans
drain the swamps of Florida run an
up-to-date electric hulr-curling Iron
for a girl In Mobile or whether the
farmer In Mississippi Tennessee or
Alabama Is to light his hotise and
barns pump his water or drive his
machinery with the electrical energy
to come from the harnessed waters
Whether C'hnttanooga Memphis I’en-
sacola or other communities are to
use the electrical energy for cheaper
power for manufacturing gives the
army engineer dam builder no con-
cern His concern Is that the work has
been halted since April 13 1921 by
lark of money The dam was ore-third
completed then and the air (tegnn to
be filled with the mar not of the
dam building but of who should final-
ly use the dam
The darn was projected In war time
to furnish nitrate for explosives for
the army
Now with the construction resumed
about 1200 men are at work on the
dam Soon 2000 will be at work and
the call Is going out for a small group
of able civilian engineers to asalsL
POSTOFFICE NEAR NORTH POLE
Canada Has Most Northerly Mail
Station in World
Mounted Pollc Squad Is New Sta-
tioned 830 Miles From North Pole
— More Pests to Be Added In
Far North
Ottawa Ont — A tlie result of recent
voyage of exploration In the North
Canada now claims the most northerly
post office in the world— Craig Harbor
on Ellsmere Island only 830 miles
from the pole
Ancther new post office In the north-
land is at Funds Inlet oo Baffin is-
land Beth were established by the
Canadian explorer Captain Bernier
during the latest tour of his schooner
the Arctic
An inspector and six men of the
Royal Canadian Mounted police are at
Craig Harbor where they have estab-
lished a pod UJ four representa
In war days the government had a
payroll of 55000 men on the dam
project The men at work today are
being paid at the base rate of $2110 a
day but as this Is a government pay-
roll and congress has granted a bonus
to government workers they actually
receive about $320 a day
Machinery BoughL
All the big machinery for the power
Installations was bought long ago It
consists of four unit 30000 horse-
power turbines capable of generating
a total of 120000 horse-power It Is
on the ground ready to be Installed
Construction equipment on the dam
works has already been Inventoried at
$3000000
Col W J Barden Corps of Engi-
neers U S A la In charge of the dam
const ruction He has retained during
the idle period a small nucleus of the
civilian engineering force and Is now
searching for a few more high class
engineers but Is unable to locate them
probably because the government does
not pay very high salaries
The work will go on all winter be-
cause there usually Is no Ice In the
Tennessee In 1917 and 1918 there
was something In the nature of an
Ice-Jam at Muscle Shoals' but as a
rule the winters are open
The dam builders expect to finish
the foundation work In the north
channel by Janunry 1 They expect
to finish the foundation In the south
channel by January 1 1924 They
expect to close the openings under the
dam and create the “pool’ by January
1 1925 -This
“pool" as the engineers de-
scribe It will In reullty be a lake
eighteen miles long formed by the
THE BOLSHEVIK
But Things Are Not Yet
Normal in Moscow
Quite
Prisoners Are Released After Long
Term Behind Bars — Peasants in
Volga Region Dividing Land
and Mapping Farms
Moscow — The Bolshevist terror has
greatly slowed down In Moscow but
things are not yet quite normal Only
a few weeks ago a whole gang of Greek
mid other foreign peddlers who had
Imprudently crossed the Russian fron-
tier for trading purposes were ar-
rested at the Nikolaevsky railway sta-
tion and sent to prison by the Cheka
or G P U (government political de-
partment) as it is now called They
have since been released
The assistant German representative
at Tlfils was arrested at the same time
nnjl also two British subjects since re-
leased On the other hand some foreigners
long In prison are being released One
was the Chinese cook of Colonel John-
son a British railway officer In Siberia
In 1919 captured by the BolslievlkL
tives of the famon police corps rep-
resent law and order at roods InleL
Fergeant Joy of the “Mountles" has
been In the district a year Investigat-
ing an Eskimo murder
The Bernier expedition waa sent for
the purpose of taking first steps In
ap extensive program calculated to
maintain efficiently Canada's sover-
eignty In the vast northern empire
known to be rich In mineral deposits
The vessel carried naterlals for the
construction of houses and provisions
for the maintenance of posts
According to a statement Issued by
the Canadian department of the Interi-
or It Is the intention of the govern-
ment to establish additional jxmt year
by year and to continue scientific and
exploratory work A patrol ship will
visit the new northern posts annually
taking In supplies and mall to the men
left there A representative of tbs air
board accompanied the expedition and
will report on the possibilities of aria
tlon In the North with particular refer-
0
Snow Melts From Cross
for First Time in History
lted Cliff Colo— Snow has
melted from the cross which
gives the Mount of the Holy
Cross Its name for the first t!m
within the memory of the old-
est inhabitant here The out-
lines of the cross are still dis-
cernible however from a dis-
tance of 20 miles
water backed up by the dam The
“pool" ready the electrical machinery
will be- Installed and then the electri-
cal current will be ready
’ The construction plant cofferdams
and temporary structures were de
predating at the rate of $400000 a
year when congress voted the new
funds
JAP WOMAN HOLDS CITY JOB
Educator Is First In Nippon to Gain
This Distinction— With Educa-
tion DepartmenL
Osaka Japan — Sirs Hldeko Yama-
moto who has been appointed sec-
rotary to the Osaka education depart-
ment Is the first woman In Japan to
hold a municipal Job She has been
engaged In primary education for
twenty-eeven years and Is an advocate
of European dress for Japanese wom-
en She Is also Interested In' physi-
cal culture and has served as secre-
tary of the l’hyslcal Culture Society
for Women
Car Hangs on Tree After Long Fall
La Crosse SIo — After plunging ore
an embankment a motorcar came to
rest In the top of a tree Five passen-
gers In the machine climbed to safety
without a scratch The car was
owned by Eugene Hammes of La
Crosse
TERROR ABATES
This cook though unable to spenk n
word of Russian or English and abso-
lutely Ignorant of political Intrigue
was kept In prison by the Bolshevikl
since December 1919 and released
only recently Ills case Is typical of
many equnlly Innocent
An extraordinary movement unnoted
so far by the outside press Is going on
throughout Russia particularly In the
Volga region That Is the division of
land among the peasants and the map-
ping of every farm thus making Rus-
sia the greatest peasant state In the
world fundamentally opposed to BoP
shevlst principles The soviet govern-
ment at first Intended dividing the land
Itself but recently It found It could
not bundle such a big proposition so It
said to the peasants: “Divide the land
yourselves" The movement began on
the Volga and many students knowing
something of surveying have gone Into
the country to carry out the order A11
these students are getting good food
for the first time In many years
Thus the muzhik becomes complete
master of hit farm which can never be
nationalized as even Lenin capitulat-
ed to the peasant and a man stronger
than Lenin Is not likely ever to appear
again In Russia
Firemen Extricate Head
of Infant From Bowl
Chicago — BoIIce and firemen
were railed out to extricate a
baby boy who had wedged his
head In a galvanized Iron bowL
The firemen greased the boy's
head and pulled off the bowL
— : — —
ence to patrols and exploratory an
survey work
Rusa Condemn Grafters to Die
Moscow— Eleven directors and de-
partment chief of the government
textile combine have been convicted
of mismanagement and fraud on thn
state and sehtenced to be shot They
were accused of Illegally disposing of
products at less than their cost ut
manufacture causing a lose of more
than $1000000 to the state They bad
been on trial for one week
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