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PAGE SIX YOU ALWAYS GET AN ANSWER WHEN YOU WRITE TO CONGRESSMAN MONDELL ON ANY PROBLEM Receives More Mail Than Any other Congressman and Renders Real Service Scattered over every section of Wyoming are hundreds of settlers, surrounded by improved homes as fine as to be found anywhere in the west, who owe their occupancy of the lands in large measure i not entirely to the efforts of Congressman Mondell. Many a Wyoming homesteader, threatened with the loss of his land either through some technical viola tion of the law or the undue officious ness of a public official, has saved his home by appealing to the Congress man from Wyoming. Every year, as Government bureau exactions become more strict and field agents more suspicious, the Wyoming Representa tive finds occasion to use his good offices in behalf of the settler. And never is the appeal in vain. If the case has any merit, and the settler can convince Mr. Mondell of his hon est intentions to make the land his home, the Wyoming Congressman never lets up until the last possible avenue of relief has been exhausted. Mr. Mondell receives more mail than any other member of congress. His correspondence, frequently reach ing 100 personal letters a day, must be answered as fully as the circum stances warrant; no letter may be slighted; no thought of the writer’s politics or standing in the commun ity; every correspondence must have as complete and full a reply as is possible to give. Many of these letters require hours of personal research through the records; others several calls on Department heads and other officials; call for the ex ercise of legal knowledge of the high est order; others for extended writ ten and oral arguments before the General Land Office or the Secretary of the Interior. The public land cases particularly, are of such in tricate nature as to require expert knowledge of the law and rulings of the Departments. Many Congress men decline to take up these cases, and turn them over to land attorneys, writing their clients that as Congres smen they “are not permitted to take cases in which the Government is a party.” Mondel! never uses this subterfuge; his long experience in land matters has made him the best posted man in or out of Congress on these matters, and in some way he finds time to give the case the attention it warrants. It is his pride that every letter is answered, and its recipient told to write again if there is anything further about which he can help in any way. In handling this tremendous correspondence, if anyone is to be put off with a short answer, it is never the homesteader or the man of small means. He is given the most complete information possible, and urged to write again if what is sent is not fully clear. It is not surprising that Mr. Mon dell’s activities in behalf of the home steader should have given him the sobriques, hereabouts, of "The Home steader’s Advocate,” for the Wyoming representative was himself once a homesteader. Raised on an lowa It Is A Pact We sell RELIABLE hardware. We sell at POPULAR prices. Nearly everybody buys here. Everybody is well pleased. They all come again. COME YOURSELF. New Car of Round Oak Cast and Mon arch Malleable Ranges Just in Brundage Hardware Co. “The Efficiency Store” frontier homestead, and doing farm and railroad work for many years afterward, and always since inter ested in agricultural development and associated with the work of its improvement and extension, he knows the needs as well as the hardships of the homesteader, and an appeal from this class enlists his greatest endeavors. TRUE INWARDNESS OF THE VERA CRUZ INCIDENT. In the Spring of 1914. occur red the capture of Vera Cruz. Men from one of our ships had been arrested at Tampico and had been discharged with an apology. But our Admiral de manded a salute, which was re fused. Thereupon the President went to Congress, asking au thority to use the armed forces of the United States. Without waiting for the passage of the resolution. Vera Cruz was seiz ed. It appeared that a shipload of ammunition for Huerta was about to enter that port. There was a natural opposition to this invasion and a battle occurred In which nineteen and over a hundred Mexicans were killed. This, of course, was war. Our dead soldiers were praised for dying like heroes in a war of service. Later, we retired from Vera Cruz, giving up this noble war fare. We had not obtained the salute which was demanded. We had not obtained repara tion for affronts. The ship with ammunition which could not land at Vera Cruz had soon landed at another port and Its cargo was delivered to Huerta without Interference. Recently the naked truth was admitted by a Cabinet officer. We are now Informed that “we did not go to Vera Cruz to force Huerta to salute the flag.” We are told that we went there “to show Mexico that w* were In earnest in our demand that Huerta mnst go." That Is. we seized Vera Cru* to depose Huerta. The question of the salute was a mere pretext.— From Mr. Hughes’ speech of ac ceptance. DEEDS, NOT WORDS Men who can turn their hands to any sort of a job that needs doing! are very useful as husbands. Mr. Pickles was one of these useful gen tlemen. His amiable wife once ask ed him to hang a picture she had pur chased for the parlor, and he said that he would do it “in a jiffy.” “You just get me the cord and a picturehook,” he said to his wife, “and tell the servant girl to run down into j the cellar and bring up the step lad- j der and carry it into the parlor, and where’s those two little screw thing umajigs that go into the back of the frame at the sides to put the cord through? Look them up for me; | and I shall require the gimlet to bore a little hole for the screws. Somebody get the gimlet; or maybe I can drive them in with a hammer. Johnny, you run down into the cel-1 lar and get the hammer. Perhaps j a chair would be better than a step CW a “My Good Min, Don’t You Ever Forget Anythin*?*' CUT!I •In IcA lee ladder. Somebody go out in the kitchen and get me a chair. I don’t want to use one of the parlor chairs. Got that cord? Just measure off about the right length and fasten it to these little things at the side. "There, now; there’s your picture hung up, and no fuss about it. The difference between us men and you women is that, when you have any thing to do, we do it, and don’t talk all day about it.” PROMISE TO REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING NOT KEPT. Our opponents promised to reduce the cost of Ivlng. This they have failed to do; but they did reduce the opportunities of making a living. Let us not for get the conditions that existed tn this country under the new tariff prior to the outbreak of the war. Production had de creased. business was languish Ing. new enterprises were not undertaken, instead of expan- I aion there was curtailment, and our streets were filled with the unemployed. What ground is there for expecting better con ditions when the unhealthy stimulus of the war has spent Its force and our industries and working-men are exposed to the competition of an energized Eu rope? It la plain that we must have protective upbuilding policies, i —From Mr. Hughes’ speech of I acceptance. PRAISES CAVENDER | Cheyenne Tribune: Splendid work has been accomplished at Camp Kendrick by Major Joseph W. Cavend er of Cody. He is a fine officer, court eous and popular. It is always hard to meet easy payments. NORTHERN WYOMING HERALD WOMEN PREPARE FOB J1 BATTLE 1 Colorado Springs Conference s o Determine Attitude in Campaign. WOMEN ARE ACTIVE Plan Energetic Campaign; Sup port Dependent on Course 1 of Big Parties. The part played by the women in the forthcoming president ial campaign in the movement for equal suffrage, promising the most active participation of women in national politics in American history, will be planned when women suffrage lead ers, militants and pacifists, meet at Colorado Springs for a three-day conference of the National Women's party, August 10 to 12. The confer ence will consider what policy the new suffrage party, organized last June at Chicago, shall adopt in the coming campaign to secure submis sion to the state by Congress of a national suffrage constitutional a mendment. Dr. Frances Lane, county chairman j of this county of the Woman’s party I left Tuesday for Colorado Springs where the conference is to be held to determine which political party shall receive the support of the more < than million voters who have pled n ged themselves to vote for the party . that will declare itself for the Anth . ony amendment. Will Determine Course Whether these campaign forces y will be thrown for or against the nominees of existing political parties ■ or whether an independent ticket will be formed is the decision to be made at the Colorado Springs conference. The status of the national suffrage amendment in Congress also will be considered at the opening session August 10. It is expected that by that time Congress will be on the point of adjourning and the fate of the Susan B. Anthony amendment probably known. Should the Demo crats in control of Congress fail to act upon it, leaders here declared, that will be an important factor in the probable decision regarding sup port of or opposition to the Demo cratic party by the Woman’s party. “Suffragists will judge the Demo cratic party by its deeds anti not by its promises, since being the party in power it has had and still has the power to pass the federal amend ment,” was the statement of Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the Congres sional Union. MISSIONARY CONFERENCE Under the direction of Mrs. W. G. Pitkin, county superintendent of mis sions of the Park county Sunday school association, the Sunday schools of the county will hold a missionary conference at Powell on Saturday and Sunday, August 19 and 20. The assistance of Rev. F. H. Throop a missionary of Soochow, China, who is in the United States on a furlough, has been obtained and he will speak Saturday evening, Sunday morning and evening. Both Rev. and Mrs. Pitkin are on the program for ad dresses based on their experiences while missionaries in India. The Powell band has been engag ed to furnish music. Entertainment will be furnished all delegates and each school in the county is expected to send as many as can possibly attend. IQl£ A NATIONAL l“lu PARK SUMMER Join the August vacation throng in the Black Hills, the Big Horn* or the Absarokas, Estes Park, Colorado, or the Rocky Mountain National Parks, Yellowsone or Glacier. There is room for all in the thousand-mile stretch from Colorado to the British boundary. You can quickly reach any of these mountain localities by the Burlington and I can help you to plan a sweeping circuit tour of the West’s magnificent out-of-doors that will include several of these localities on very low fan’ ticket. BB The Cody Way, with its ninety-mile auto mobile ride over Sylvan Pass, is the crowning scenic adventure of the Yellowstone tour. T. F. KLINC A (rent L. W. 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Western Drug Company. f 9^ t^‘t^emo^ern trm3, the nWrrn ammunition I 'wi mU IJMC C a^°° P u^‘c today is centering upon ■ Men who are after remits, are changing over to Remington UMC Guna ■ and Ammunition, famous for superb shooting qualities. ■ Remington UMC Autoloading Skit Gun—Five shots, simply press the trigger I for each shot, solid breech, hammerless. safe. ■ Remington UMC Pumfi Gun (Slide Action) -Six shots without reloading, ■ bottom ejection, hammerless, safe. ■ Remington UMC Stee / Lined Shot 5 A rtfs—“Arrow" and “Nitre Club"—i* B sportsmen's vernacular, the “Speed Shells" everywhere. I _ _ the details—go to the dealer who displays the Red RpJJ Marh of ■ Remington UMC % the Sign of Sportsmen'? Headquarters in every town. Sold by your homo dealer and 23< other leading merchants in Wyoming and oil your gun toitl REM OIL. tht combination * ° U S° ,vrnt ' lubricant an J Ruit Prtrtntatns T>m Ramiagtao Arms Uniae Mata Hie Cartridge Campany Ij U Largsst Manufacturers of Firtarms and Ammunition __, , in ths World Woolworth Building New York THE LINKUM HIGHWAY This from an lowa man: When completed the Lincoln high way will stretch 3,000 miles. At pres ent they are trying to make about 400 miles of Lincoln highway stretch 3,000 mileß. PARKS INLANDER Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Parks Jr., are in Lander this week visiting and look ing after business matters. Mrs Parks has a brother at Du Boise and they will visit him. Lander is the former home of the Parks family and it was from there they came to take FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1916 up their residence in Cody. On the plains about Lander Mr. Parks learn ed the sheep business from the sage brush up and it his thoro knowledge of the business that makes his advice valuable here in the handling of sheep and the marketing of wool and mut ton. He is interested in the First National at Lander of which his cou sin, S. Conant Parks is president. The trip was made in the Studebak& and while in places the roads were mere trails it was greatly enjoyed. A good plodder is better than s cheap genius.