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fell, Vandenberg showed great
pluck as It required almost ber-
1 culean effort to pull the fork out.
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. Dawes was talking so fast when
Congress ended he hasn’t stopped
yet. More millions for prohibi
tion. Our coast line is a cost line.
as prescribed by the "ritual” of
this strange club.
The three who attended the
meeting were Peter Hall, Atwater,
Minn'.; Charles Lockwood, Cham
berlain, S. D.; and John C. Oaff,
St, Paul Minn.
The ‘Last Man's Club’ was or
ganised in, July, 1885, by 34 vet
erans of gallant company B, Min
nesota infantry. Several years
its membership remained intact
but gradually as the years wore
on some of the comrades were tak
en by death.
Yesterday there were" three.
Next year there will be— ?
000 taken on American farms may he reduced were
worked out by the Agricultural Committee of the Na
tional Fire Waste Council, ,in collaboration with the In
surance Department of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States which held its initial meeting at -A'bi
cago on July 14.
Insurance company officials, members of the staff of
the National Chamber, agricultural publishers, farm bur
eau representatives, agricultural engineers, representa
tives of the Department of Agriculture and others con
stitute the committee.
A study of the possible safeguards against tire on
farms was made.. It has been found, for exam
ple, that thç maligned lightning rod, when properly in
stalled, reduces the hazard from lightning to a minimum.
BY CHARLES P. STEWART
On^ insurance company reports only a sjnglç loss in forty
NEA Service W riter
years under such conditions, although lightning is the
W ASHINGTON — Trust as ex
cause of many farm fires.
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■ ; f traordinary a senator a s Jam es
Methods of stacking hay and grains to prevent spon A. Reed of M issouri to have an
taneous comhnstioij,. construction o£.farm buildings and extraordinary secretary.
The fact is th a t Hidklin Yates-
houses to retard fire? ways and means of fighting fires on
is far m ore than a m ere secretary,
the farm and similar subjects were, considered, by tltc or even su per-secretary. H e conics
committee. Fire losses on farms it is believed. nun
pretty close to bein g an a ssista n t
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m apping ou t broad general pol
icies.
Y ates, as vice-president
and general m anager, is in charge
of -the com pany’s actual opera
tions.
For instance, everybody w on
dered how in th e w orld Rer d m an
aged to push that in v estig a tio n
in to the late P en nsylvania R epub
lican sen atorial prim ary electio n
and keep up w ith h is regu lar S en
senator. Indeed, there are qnlte ate work a t-th e sam e tim e.
a few fu ll sen ators who a ren ’t as
The in v estig a tio n
alon e
ran
Im portant as A ssistan t
Senator
three session s d a ily and far into
Y afes.
th e n ight. By Itself it looked as
Reed is very proud of h is sec- ,
if-lt wa3 enough to keep th e Mis
rotary, ar assista n t, and h e has
souri senator m ore than fully
reason to be. Y ates is a unique
occupied w hile It lasted . Y et he
possession and extrem ely v a lu
alw ays w as on hand in th e Sen
able.
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ate cham ber w hen th e so lo n s w erj
R eed has so m any in terests tran sactin g busin ess, m ixin g into
and such strenu ous ones, h e’s on everyth ing, d eb atin g and discuss
so m any S enate com m ittees and ing and oratin g. Just as if he had
su b-com m ittees and »special com n oth in g else on h is m ind.
m ittees, he con d ucts so m any in
How did he do It?
v estig a tio n s. he m akes so m any
The answ er is— H icklln Yates.
speeches, h e’s Involved In so m any
W hen R e e i w as
appointed
fig h ts, h is tim e is so occupied and chairm an of the slush fund inves
over-occupied that there sim ply tig a tin g com m ittee, Y ates, as his
isn ’t enough of him to go around. secretary, a u to m a tica lly becam e
A s th e sayin g Is, he ou ght to be the’ com m ittee’s secretary.
incorporated.
H e w orked up the w hole Inves
W ell, In effect, so h e is, with tigation.
h im self as p resident, engaged in
It w as his case, so to speak, pre-
OUT OUR WAY
STILLW ATER, M inn., Ju ly 21.
— Three to tter in g veteran s of the
Civil W ar, la st su rvivors of M in
n esota’s fam ou s ‘L ast Man’s Club'
cam e here yesterd a y to attend the
annual m eetin g — a m eetin g w hich
aray be »heir last.
The banquet table w as set Just
as it w as se t som e 10 years ago
when the club w as organized, but
ihstead o f 31 la u g h in g com rades
gathered around th e t^ble three
only were there. The other 31
ckairs w ere in place— 30 o f them
»dvered w ith flo w ers and one of
tljera draped in black in m em ory
of E m il G raff of St. Cloud, F la.,
w ho died sin ce the la st m eeting.
In th e cen ter of th e table sat
the b ottle o f rare old burgundy
w hich Is n ot to be opened u ntil
tl,ere are on ly
tw o
survivors.
That m ay be next year if
one
m ore veteran is "counted out" and
if so the tw o rem aining w ill drink
a to a st t o t h e i r fa llen com rades
pared b y him as an o ffice law yer
prepares a case, t,o turn over to
the cou rt room sp ecia list w ho de
velops it, through th e exam ina
tion and cross-exam in ation of w it
nesses. su m s up and dem ands a
verdict on th e evidence.
By Williams
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THE EPHEMERAL STORE KEEPER
The ephemeral «tore keeper who has been n thorn in
the side of business has been elevated to the dignity of a
civic problem, it is found by the Civic Development De
partment of the Chamber of Commerce of the United
States.
“ ’Mie ephemeral merchandiser is attracting attention
all along the line,” it says in a statement ou the sub
ject, “ because bis failures affect not ouly *lus coiiqietitor*
who know the costs of doing business, but.also the manu
facturer and the wholesaler.
‘‘The widespread a* ¡option of zoning regulations —
there are now 435 zoned cities and towns, with a popula
tion of more Ilian 27,500,000 —- lias given us a new method
of .studying this problem that the retainers themselves
have found uusolvuble. The practice in adopting a zon
ing code is to assign’*vciy generous areas to eouuuercv
so that there may, be no hindrance to legitimate expan
sion. In hundreds of instances there has been rezoning
l o t in spite of sueii rezoning expeneuce is showing that
many of our comnieriial districts are too large. The result
is a fragmentary, disorderly development which gives a
general impression of cheapness ap<l shabbineMg There
is not enongli legitimate business demand for more than
a fraction of the frontage. Consequently cheap buildings
are put up or too many old dwellings art; partially con
verted in the hope that their ground floor« will attract
tmall retailer«.**
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sorter« from the marine corps at
Ban Diego, were arrested here to
day while drtrtng an aptowobtle
. whlnk they: admitted steeling in
1 morning.
Alone in the bay field when he
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How much of the estimated national fir« O okh of
$570,000,(MM) for 1925 is due to fira and liow much is due
to water is a question raised in the latest fire prevention
bulletin of the National Fire Waste Council issued through
the Insurance Department of the Chamber of Commerce
of the Uuited States.
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No one knows what the water lo&s is but the Council
concludes that it is considerable. For this reason it di
rects attention to .possibility of redueiug it. by organized
salvage.
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Fire chiefs in a number of-cities are now directing
thfeir efforts not only to extinguishing fires but to pro-
ttt’ting property from water damage. The city of Los
Angeles, for example, ha$ orgtuiized two salvage eoiflpan-
QUBSNBL, B. C., July
Severely and painfully ^ in ju red
when >» stumbled and/fell upon
a pitchfork which penetrated his
body clear througb ln the region
of his grata, B. D. Ysndenberger,
a rancher of Mud river, «« miles
northwest of here, was taken to
the Quesqel -hospital early this
TACOMA, V »-, JuIX 1 <—Fk)jrd
Sqjrers, Sumner, Wn., and Der-
w w Bernard, Sen Praeeieeo, Ae-
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bat die banks and insurance companies also
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