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The Elk Mountain Pilot
C. T. RAWALT, Publisher
MATTIE L. MILLER. Local Editor
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at
Crested Butte, Colorado.
Advertising rate cards furnished on application
Subscription $2.00 per Year
ESTIMATES < f the gasoline needed next year are now
being made. We are r.ot yet informed as to what the
estimates are on the prices they will extort.
DENVER is going to enforce compulsory vaccination
in an attempt to stop their epidemic of black small pox.
Our private conviction is that Denver is a good place to
stay away from for a season.
IN the county shake-up now going on we cannot see
where the people stand to lose anything. In fact it will
be hard lines if they do not make something, or perhaps
we might put it, save something.
THEY are talking of establishing a school to teach
marriageable girls how to kiss, assuming that proper
osculation is an aid to matrimony. We would not mind
securing a professorship in that school.
IT looks as if this Frenchman, Clemenceau, came to
America to see if he could not induce us to get into the
European mess once more. Here’s hoping he does not
make good. The more we let Europe alone the better
for us.
THIS week we are printing an essay read by Mrs.
Hards before the I. T. C. It has such historical value be
sides being so well prepared that we consider it well
worth space in our papers. Give it a reading and you will
know more about early days in Colorado.
ONCE more we want to caution our republican news
paper friends that they are reckoning without proper
study that all the republicans elected to the legislature
will be reactionary. Several of them were elected be
cause they were more progressive than their democratic
opponents.
THE announced appointment of Rev. Lackland to the
Industrial Commission is quite encouraging. It indicates
that Governor Sweet is not in any way alarmed at the
wild assaults of his enemies. He hews right along accord
ing to his own plan and gives not the slightest heed to
the enemy. Really it seems as if we had a Governor com
ing up at last.
APPARENTLY they will start the Moffat Tunnel at
last. The supreme Court has decided the measure valid
and work is said to begin by January Ist. This decision
opens the door to state and community aid to railroads
by the bond route, explicitly denied by the constitution.
Apparently no clause of the constitution is proof against
treasury looters.
WHO says the Rangers will not go? Nine resigned
the other day, Captain Dennis of silk lingerie fame, lead
ing the cavalcade. Guess there is considerable bluff in
the widely published statements that Gov. Sweet cannot
carry out his program. The rangers seem to have con
fidence that he can carry them to the dump and they are
going a la Newberry.
THERE are almost encouraging indications that our
friend Ferril of the Rocky Mountain Herald, is arriving at
the age of understanding. He now thinks he knows that
the standpat republicans threw down Griffith. Analyzed
more carefully he would comprehend that the progressive
republicans voted for Sweet. Griffith lost his progressive
support when he endorsed Shoup’s rangers.
ANOTHER mine disaster, this time in Alabama, has
entombed and killed somewhere between one and four
hundred miners. This was in an iron mine and but shows
the extra hazzard of working under ground. Henry Ford
went into a coal mine recently and when he came out de
clared that coal mining was an unfit allocation for a hu
man being. Still many think the coal miners are over
paid.
IF President Harding was half so anxious to find a
way to pay the soldier bonus as he is to provide for a bo
nus to the shipping trust we imagine he would have se
cured results a Hong time ago. It is truly wonderful how
stoutly the interests and their elected officials stick to
gether. Make a note of it you toilers and producers. You
can learn a valuable lesson by observing the doings of the
other clhss.
NOTHING is clearer than the fact that the President
can force his ship subsidy through the house in rag time,
but in the senate he is going to have a mighty hard fight
and may lose the battle. The intellectual giants of the
senate are opposed to giving the shipping trust money
from the treasury and the senate rules give them plenty
of latitude for expressing their opposition. They can
point to the lute elections as an example of what such an
act will mean. Never has an administration received
such a rebuke as this one and senators who have to stand
for re-election two years hence are not going to feel like
further affronting the electors.
UNDER the heading “Refined Highwaymanship” we
reprint an article from the Dearborn Independent which
shows to what base uses the Federal Reserve system has
been degenerated. In the beginning the Federal Reserve
system was a great boon, capable of becoming the very
bulwark of the people’s financial system. But under the
manipulation of big business it is now the hand-in-glove
tool of the banking ring and an engine of destruction to
the very class it was supposed to serve. Thus are so very
many splendid enactments made to do injury where they
should do good. The initiative, referendum and recall
measures are other people’s measures made to be the very
opposite to their real purpose. The Direct Primary too,
is being manipulated to destroy its efficiency.
MAKE Eurppe pay what they owe us, shrieks the
papers and then half of them favor passing a tariff law
which makes trade, the only possible means for paying,
impossible. If we are to fence out imports for the ben
efit of our manufacturing highbinders, then Europe can
not pay and we might just ns well cancel the debt. But
on the other hand our own people must pay it if they do
not, and when impoverished by the most iniquitous tariff
ever known, our people are in a bad way to assume the
European debt. And, by the way, does not a situation
like this make for wider demand for communism, bol
shevikism and all the other isms that strive to take from
those who have and give to those who halve not? Verily,
we believe the most potent bolsheviki propaganda is the
inequalities so ardently advocated and instilled by the
present ruling class. All the I. W. Ws. in creation cannot
promote discontent more effectually than the late re
publican tariff bill.
THINGS ARE BEGINNING TO DO
“THE mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind
xceeding fine.”
The Empire has made many suggestions that tax pay
ers generally should look more closely into the ways in
which their money was expended by county officials. As
t rule this advice has been ignored. Without moral sup
port at least, there was no reason why we should persist
in the campaign.
Since election a row has begun between those who
were elected and those who either were defeated, or
greatly inconvenienced by the defeat of others.
A board of private auditors' have been secured to go
over the books of the County Clerk and Recorder, Mr. Mc-
Williams. They are now attending to that duty and much
temper is being displayed thereat. Following closely on
this examination it is promised that the regular state
board will, on request of Mr. McWilliams, check aver the
doings and misdoings of the Board of Commissioners.
What a check will disclose is not known generally, but it
is not to be presumed that they would have been called
on were it not the intent of the Clerk to disclose things
that from his position he deems subject to inspection. In
the general] clean up some benefit should accrue to the
unfortunate citizen whose sole duty for a long time has
been to pay the bills and say nothing.
Just how taxes have gone up 400% in four years has
not been explained to our satisfaction as yet. Where the
vast expenditures on roads have been placed to produce
such pitiable results, is another matter upon which we
have an abiding curiosity. We note in the Montrose Press
that a new county garage in this county has been pro
vided for, same to cost a mere trifle of $15,000. They say
a small mill levy was approved by the county commission
ers for that purpose. The taxpayers will doubtless con
sider the building of a garage each year as a rather heavy
burden to be placed on them annually and maybe will
make objections and inquiry.
We congratulate the general public on the breaking
loose of what looks like a general! investigation of county
affairs. We pledge an impartial report on the doings.
“REFINED HIGHWAYMANSHIP"
IN an effort of the the Federal Reserve Bank of
Cleveland to coerce the Farmers and Merchants Bank of
Catlettsburg, Kentucky, to affiliate with the Federal Re
serve System, the maneuvers of the Cleveland institution
have been branded as “refined highwaymanship” by Fed
eral! Judge Cochran, of Covington, who has granted the
Catlettsburg bank an injunction agaginst further inter
ference by the Federal Bank or its agents. The restrain
ing order will be made permanent unless the Cleveland
directors make a better showing than in the preliminary
hearing.
According to the Mid-Continent Banker for Novem
ber, Judge Cochran’s review of the case relates the fol
lowing facts:
The injunction is granted as a result of a suit filed
July 15, 1921, by plaintiff, alleging methods to halve been
resorted to by defendant and its agents in seeking to
have plaintiff enter the Federal Reserve System and to
adopt the par collection plan.
Plaintiff continuing its refusal to accede to the de
mands of defendant, the latter was charged with employ
ment of collection agents at Catlettsburg, and that an
agent from Cleveland came into the plaintiff bank and in
“domineering, dictatorial, boisterous manner,” created a
disturbance; that another agent of defendant came to the
plaintiff bank in a gocart and with a gun “for self-protec
tion”; that the latter was frequently accompanied by dogs.
Defendant was also charged with espionage from a
store across the street, with holding checks on plaintiff
bank until a large amount could be presented at one time
and with discrediting plaintiff bank in other ways. This
resulted in loss of credit by plaintiff bank, in humiliation
to its officers, and necessitated the maintaining of an ex
traordinary cash reserve, entailing loss in earning power.
In granting the temporary injunction, Judge Cochran
declared the methods of the Cleveland Federal Reserve
Bank were those of “refined highwaymanship and a hold
up,” according to the magazine quoted.—Dearborn Inde
oendent.
SHOULD BE MADE A CRIME
G. F. STEVENS, “Farmer-Labor” candidate for gov
ernor received 211 votes in Denver while other candidates
on his ticket received an average of nearly 1200 and this
Overage holds good in other counties and is the cause of
the defeat of a portion of the Democratic state ticket.
Every two years the Republicans finance this bunco
steerer and he circulates a petition among Republicans
ind among loafers in the lower part of Denver, where
most of his signers are not even voters and in this way
nominates a complete state ticket to be put on the ballot.
The ticket is composed of some who get a few dollars,
and others who know nothing about the fake and dummies.
This year forged acceptances were filed with the Secre
tary of State. As for Stevens, between elections, he is
always promoting some questionable proposition and
comes at times dangerously close to the pen. As for his
ticket it is compoed of those who never worked a day in
their lives or ever saw a farm. The name “Farmer-Labor”
«s what fools the thousands of voters who vote that ticket.
The legislature should make promoting and financing of
these fakes a criminal offense and stop confusing the
voters in order to elect a certain ticket.—Denver Dem
ocrat.
IN EXPLANATION
DURING the past week, owing to the publication in
the News-Champ of a rumor as fact, many people have
formed the opinion that this editor had sold his news
paper business. The fact is that certain negotiations
were conducted looking to that end, but no satisfactory
deal could be made. Most people knew as soon as they
*aw it printed as n fact in the News-Champ that it
could not be true. Some few trusting individuals might
believe something printed in that sheet, but most people
appreciate the slogan, “If you see it in the News-Champ
it is not true.” To quiet all inquiry and settle it for
certain we will say that the developments of the past
few days are such that we would not sell out for spot
'•ash at an even higher price than was involved in the
past negotiation. We want these papers for the next two
vears any wny, maybe longer. Running the Empire, Pilot,
and Miner is going to be very interesting for a while.
banger tears down sweet pictures
ONE of those delectable “law enforcers,” located
here, is reported to have entered a Little business place
on Sixth street the other day. The proprietor had one of
Wm. E Sweet’s pictures tacked on his wall. This ranger
is said to hnve ripped the picture down and then tore it
up. That shows the calibre of the bunch the Republican
leaders would force on the people at a cost of hundreds
of thousands of dollars a year.—Walsenburg Independent.
LIFE-SAVING CAMPAIGN
IN SOUTHWEST DIVISION
American Red Cross Organized and
Trained Many Corps in Thle
Section Last Bummer.
More than 34 chapters have been
visited during the months of May. June
and July by Captain Norbert E.
Raacke, first aid and life saving repre
sentative of the Southwestern Division.
While visiting these various chapters,,
Capt. Raacke gave first aid demonsi ra
tions before Rotary. Lions and Klwanls
Clubs, as well as life saving demonstra
tions and Instructions at Y. M. C. A.,
Y. W. C. A. and many outdoor pools
and lakes. At the majority of the pools
and lakes visited, the Captain has not
ed particularly that practically little
or no life saving precautions are taken.
A large lake at Nevada, Mo., Is owned
by an old Indian, who believes that if
a person were drowning someone near
at band would come to the rescue.
Many letters of commendation have
been received from chapters visited by
Capt. Raacke. Salino, Kan., was par
ticularly well pleased with his demon
strations at the Country Club outdoor
pool. The following Is an extract from
a letter recently sent in by the life
saving examiner of that town:
“Capt. Raacke’s clever work at
the large outdoor pool of the Coun
try Club was watched In breathless
silence, only to be broken by wild
cheering at his many extraordinary
feats of swimming and life saving.
Capt. Raucke, to us, is a marvel of
efficiency and his crawl stroke is
still the talk of the town. He not
only has been a great help In the
Life Saving Department, but has
given even greater Interest to the
Red Cross in Its other lines of
work.”
There are several well organized Ufa
saving corps In the Southwestern Di
vision. Kansas City, Mo., has an ex
cellent women’s corps. At the annual
banquet, held in May, life saving
badges were awarded to more than
forty women, service medals to two
and the life saving bar to one.
On July 30th the river patrol of the
St. Louis Chapter gave an exhibition
and races at Llhcoln Beach, on the
Meramec River. This exhibition was
witnessed by probably the largest
crowd ever gathered at Lincoln Beach.
More than 500 canoes fringed the sand
when the first event, the canoe singles
race, was announced. Capt Raacke
had charge of the life saving demon
stration. showing the various methods
of breaking death holds encountered
in rescuing a drowning person.
Eight life guards, after his demon
stration on the barge, struggled vicious
ly with each other In a practical Illus
tration of life saving tactics.
The Galvesion, (Texas? Life Saving
Corps have frequently exhibited their
skill in first aid and life saving. Owing
to the prompt and efficient first aid ad
ministered by three members of the
Galveston Life Saving Corps on June
4th, the life of John D. Wheeler, 20
years old, of Houston, Tex., was saved.
Mr. Wheeler was overcome while bath
ing In shallow water and was found
floating In an unconscious condition.
The three members of the life saving
corps succeeded In reviving Mr. Wheel
er through the application of the
Schaeffer method of resuscitation. He
was taken to the hospital In a very
weakened condition. As Mr. Wheeler
was found In comparatively shallow
water, it Is believed his mishap was due
to a fainting spell.
RED CROSS ROLL CALL
AND CHRISTMAS SEAL
SALE ARE DISTINCT
At a joint meeting of the Nutlonal
Committee of the American Red Cross
und the Nutlonul Tuberculosis Asso
ciation, held recently, an agreement
with regard to the campaigns conduct
ed annually by each organization, which
follows each other only a day apart
this year, wus reuched. The American
Red Cross will conduct its Roll Call
from November llth to November 30th.
The Natlonnl Tuberculosis Association
will conduct ItH nation-wide sale of
Christmas Souls from December Ist
to January Ist.
A statement Issued Jointly by the two
organizations says that undoubtedly the
effectiveness of the mutual understand
ing depends In large measure upon the
extent to which the local workers of
both organizations adhere to the agree
ment. Overlapping of effort will be In
jurious to both causes, the two nation
al organizations believe, and It Is of
great importance that this idea be thor
oughly understood by the local workers
In both, according to John Barton
Payne, chairman of the American Red
Cross, and Dr. Alexander Miller, presi
dent of the National Tuberculosis
sociation.
The official statement of the two or
ganlzatlons follows:
1. There is no official connection
between the cuinpalgn of the Na
tional Tuberculosis Association and
that of the American Red Cross.
2. There Is to be no use of the
Red Cross emblem by the National
Tuberculosis Association.
3. The title of the American Red
Cross is not to be used In the sule
of Tuberculosis Seals.
4. The dales of the American
Red Cross ltoii Call ure to be No
vember llth to November 30th, In
clusive ; and tiie Nutlonal Tubercu
losis Association's sale of seals
Degtiis December Ist and continues
jntll Januury Ist
Continuation. Edwyl Redding* Letters
Continued from Page One
terncon tea. One eats on the side
walk and enjoys others promenading
—all classes of people. Or one can
eat sti'll further out in the square in
the open. There are many tourists
here, so the shops are rather high.
We went to the Venetian glass fac
tory this morning. Also have been to
two art galleries (one an Internation
al exhibit) out in the public gardens
where there is a really truly park
with grass and trees, and a marvelous
hand—one of the best I ever heard.
We have also been to the famous “Ri
alto Bridge” which Shakespeare writes
of, and near which Shylock lived. We
were much surprised to see stores all
the way over the bridge—both sides.
We went into the dungeons below the
Dues Palace—saw where secret execu
tions took place, also the dungeon
where Byron slept to get the impres
sion, and walked over the “Bridge of
Sighs’* of which we have always heard
and read about, where prisoners were
taken to be tried. We have passed
several times the palace where
Browning lived and died; also Titan’s
home.
There is a great long bridge which
connects Venice with the mainland,
built right in the Adriatic like a pier.
It is about 2*/2 miles long, quite a
wonderful piece of work. The canal
in front here is so deep that large
ocean vessels come in. There were
four or five there today—just a few
yards from the square.
Do you remember my mentioning
the Cleveland couple in our compart
ment going to Munich? We met them
again at Oberammergau, and last
Monday as we were getting off the
train here in Venice, some one called
to us, and there they were—had been
on the same train. Later the same
day we met them in St. Mark’s
square, and the next day again. • It is
strange how it so happens. We had
some nice times together after that;
went out two evenings in a gondola,
which we couldn’t have done by our
selves. He is a Prof. Moore of West
ern Reserve, Clveland. She is very
nice and jolly company. We met
them this a. m. to go to the glass
warehouse—then they left for Flor
ence. We may see them there the
last of the week. One evening after
we had a gondola ride by moonlight,
out in the cana\ they asked us to
have some ice cream in front
ians so we could sit and hear the
band play. They had put a tempor
ary stand in the middle of the square,
and played there all evening. The
first evening a friend of theirs from
Cleveland was with us—a Mr. Milli
ken, curator of the museum.
One of the most interesting things
is the host of pigeons which live
around St. Mark’s square—hundreds
of them. They .have never been
harmed, so are very tame and are fed
and taken care of by the city. We
can buy little bags of corn and feed
them too. They will fly up and sit on
your hand and eat as long as the corn
holds out—first one and then another
—while there are dozens around your
feet hoping you will throw some
down. We are going to take pictures
of them tomorrow.
I wonder if you received my two
letters from Bozen with pictures and
post cards. I hope so. I told you in
my last card how good it was to get
your two letters. I could hardly wait
to read them. Now I am looking for
ward to more in Florence and Rome.
The papers didn’t come. I’m sorry.
I guess they are not particular about
second class mail in Europe. I also
only got one on the Minnedosa.
So you received our cable Satur
day, Sept. 9, at one o’clock? Well, I’ll
have to tell you we didn’t send it
from Antwerp until 6 o’clock Satur
day afternoon. Doesn’t that seem
queer? (Of course it is simply that
we are hours ahead of you in time)
but it does seem interesting to think
it. I think altogether we put
our watches about five hours ahead
on the ocean.
My, but aH those fruits and things
sound good! I’d like something good
to eat right now. Food here doesn’t
satisfy one—no salads and bum des
serts. However, their hors d’ ouvres
which are served first, if we get a la
carte, are the grandest assortments
af relishes, salads, fish and sauces,
etc., that you ever tasted.
GUNNISON RUG SHOP
and FURNITURE STORE
Comforts from $ 3.25 to $ 8.76
Mattresses from 8.85 to 26.00 »
V Springs from 4.26 to 18.00 W
Dressers from 18.00 to 65.00
Rockers from 1.66 to 45.00 |
All other Furniture from a Kitchen Cabinet to a Parlor
Lamp. We have the Goods and Prices for each Home’s Pocket
book. Come in and let us prove our Statement.
SUSIE MILLER WIESE, Prop.
It seems strange never to see an
automobile. We miss the noise, but
it is sort of restful, too. It seems
strange to think there is a city of
this size today, where probably many
children have never even seen a car.
You see there are no streets in Ven
ice. The streets are really walks, an<f
one has to go up steps over a bridge
wherever they cross a canal.
We shall only be here one more day
then we go for a day at Padua and
then on to Florence for several days,
then Rome and Naples. Will write
again soon.
P. S.—l forgot to tell you about our
beds here. We each have a net can
opy which hangs from a circle in tho
ceiling and at night we have to let it.
down to keep out the mosquitos while
we sleep. They are of soft, heavy
net with weights around the bottom.
They reach the floor. The “animals”
mentioned are vicious. We never see
them in the daytime, tho. We saw a
church today which was bombed by
the Austrians—all the dome is en
tirety new. Isn’t it a shame?
THE LONG CHRISTMAS GIFT
There are many good gifts that
one can choose at Christmas, but for
lingering satisfaction, long-drawn-out,
what is there after all, that can be
named in the same breath with Tho
Youth’s Companion? The fun is only
begun with the first Christmas num
ber. Thereafter through the 52 weeks
of the long, long year, it is constant
ly supplying fresh sources of amuse
ment and information. Now it is the
beginning of a new serial, then it is
a contribution of vital interest to
the youth interested in sport or
science, next it is a brand-new story
by C. A. Stephens or A. S. Pier, or
a tale of wild adventure in the old
Indian days, by men who have actual
ly lived among and powwowed with
the redskins. But why say more? No
other Christmas gift is welcomed
with so much pleasure. Try it and
see.
The 62 issues of 1923 will be
crowded with serial stories, short
stories, editorials, poetry, facts and
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THE YOUTH’S COMPANION
Commonwealth Ave., & St. Paul St..
Boston, Mass.
A Boy’s Essay on Girls
The girl are the sister of the boy
an’ has long hare, wares dresses an*
powder an’ are stuck on actir men.
The first girl were called Christmas
Eve.
Most every fambly haz a girl anr
some of the moar unluckie wunz has
two or three. We hafue a girl in our
fambly an’ she is my sister. She har
a bow, an’ my father Hennery Brown r
says he hopes shell fule him into
marrying hur. Girls kin grow Older
an’ git younger. My sister haz bin
twenty-three fer four years an’ sum
day we may be twins.
Fat girls want to be thin and visus
versa.
They is three kinds of girls: bru
nette girls, blond girls an’ them that
haz money. Girls is afraid of mice
an’ bugs, which makes it fine to put
these little reptiles down they’re
backs.
If I couldn’t be a boy or a bulldog
an’ had to be a girl I wud be in
blamed hard luck an’ soe wud you.
HER CHOICE
Inexperienced Young Bride: “I want
some lard.”
Grocery Clerk: “Pail?”
Bride: “I didn’t know it came in
two shades!”
A freshie from the Amazon
Put nighties on his Gramazon
The reason’s that
He was too fat,
To get his own Pajamazon.
SO HE SAID
Peggy—“ Dick proposed four times
before I accepted him.’
Patty—“To whom, dear?”