Tillamook headlight., December 13, 1906, Image 3

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intelligible. Among the hundreds of
such which she received the other day
was one addressed to "Ygnac Lech,
Combryja Co, brot stryt no 803^
LEGISLA TION HEEL Y REQUIRING
I SAM’S DEAD LETTER EX- Sxanony Pan.”
How many, or rather how few, peo­
PUBLICATION OF ALL LARGE
I GUIDES STRAY CHRIST­
ple would have known how to go about
CONTRIBUTIONS.
MAS GREETINGS.
locating this person. The letter was
postmarked Florence.
Mrs. Collins’
Many Presents to Children own store of Information told her that Such a Bill, Introduced Last Year,
a Remarkable Memory and the Cambria Iron Works of Johns­ was Looked upon as a Crank Meas­
Deciphers the most town, Pa., was employing a large num­ ure-Will be on a Different Baals
ber of Italians and she sent the letter This Session.
on. Sure enough Mr. “Yanac Lech"
Exposure of the practice of the
away in a little corner of
there and received the letter great life Insurance comisinies and
Poetofflce Department at Washing- was
which, without Mrs. Collins’ assist­
behind a desk which has held a ance would never have fallen into his other corporations, ol making contri­
interesting stories sits a hands.
butions to political campaign funds
white haired woman who is
A facetious student at the University and of devoting large amounts of
length and breadth of the of Virginia wrote to a young society
money to influence legislation will
as "Mrs. Santa Claus.”
girl in Washington and addressed the
woman to whom this suggestive- envelope entirely in Greek. It takes bring before the next session of
dear name has been given is Mrs. greater obstacles than that to balk congress the question of the passage
Mrs. Collins and the young woman re­ of a bill similar to that introduced at
reived her letter as promptly as it the last session by Representative
it had been addressed in the most Bourke Cockran, of New York, and
legible English hand. The list of such familiarly known as the “Corrupt
letters is almost unlimited in length. Practice” bill. It may not be that
A Spaniard sent a letter to “Sr. Fer- this bill will be taken up and given
nado Maya, Fuerte galen Colo" and it the serious consideration which it
was promptly forwarded to Mr. Maya was denied at the last session, but
that a bill containing provisions of
at "Fort Garland, Colorado."
Mrs. Collins is a charming woman the same general description as those
of
the Cockran bill will be introduced
and occupies a tiny apartment in one
of Washington’s fashionable apartment and pressed to a vote is a moral cer­
tainty.
houses.
The Cockran bill provided that
every contribution of more than $50
Senator Harris Balked.
to a national campaign fund should
Henry Clay Evans, late consul gen­ be reported to the Clerk of the dis­
eral at London, was once In Congress trict court of the United States,
IKS. SANTA CLAUS.
POLITICAL TAXATION.
to the republican committees in the
last three presidential campaigns,
and John A. McCall, president of the
New York Life Insurance Company
admitted that he had contributed
1150,000 of the company’s funds to
the same committees. In fact the
big companies have frequently been
contributors to both political parties.
Public May Demand Legislation.
There are two questions involved
In any fair consideration of these dis­
closures. The first is the desirability
of corporations taking such an active
and induentlal part In political cam­
paigns and the second is the moral­
ity of corporation officers making
contributions on their own initiative
out of funds that are really trust
funds.
Of course a law can be made pro­
hibiting campaign contributions by
insurance companies or other corpo- 1
rations. This may correct the abuse
or it may not. Laws are not always
obeyed or enforced. There, for exam­
ple are the laws of Moses. The world
has been violating them for thou­
sands of years. It might be consid­
ered fair if the directors of every in­
surance company, savings bank, trust
company or other corporation hand­
ling the people's money, would adopt
a rule forbidding absolutely all such
contributions and holding every offi­
cer financially and morally respon­
sible for Its observance. Second, po­
litical candidates and committees
could announce that they would
neither solicit nor receive contribu­
tions.
Public sentiment is rapidly crystal-
MUS. “SANTA CLAUS ”
I Patti Lyle Collins, head of the “Open-
I Ing and Unmailable Division” of the
Postoffice Department.
Each holiday season brings to
_ ___
her
desk thousands and thousands of
“Santa Claus” letters and were she of
the ordinary type of clerk, thinking
only of the salary she draws twice a
month, these letters might go into
Uncle Sam’s waste basket without so
much as a thought for the writers.
Not eo with Mrs. Collins. Through
her generous heart, her love for chil­
dren and, possibly, with a memory or
two of her own when she, too, believed
in the real existence of the children’s
patron saint, this lovable woman at­
tends first to her duties of returning
the letters to their writers if this is
possible and then she plays “Mrs.
Santa Claus" to her army of little
friends.
Christmas Presents to the Children
When such a thing is possible Mrs.
Collins finds out the addresses of these
children, sends them some little thing
they have asked for and gets her
friends interested in them until she
has now earned the title which came
to her so long ago merely through her
associations with this part of Uncle
Sam’s postoffice.
This is rather the sentimental side
of Mrs. Collins’ work, but there is an-
. — phase
.
whiCh
other and . scientific
of ,
_________ to , the Gov-
has made her Invaluable
She” _ is ____
the’ _____
official
ernment. ___
'_ chlro-
graphical expert of the Department
*nd through her efforts each year
ninety per cent of mall matter bear­
ing manifestly indecipherable ad­
dresses finds its way to the person to
■whom it Is addressed.
Mrs. Collins is a linguist and a deep
student. Added to this she has stored
•way in her brain a fund of general
NE IT PONTOON BRIDGES.
Collapsible Boats of Canvas Which
Can Li Carried by One Man.
The soldiers of the United States En­
gineers* Corps seem to have solved one
of the greatest problems which has
confronted generals In command of an
army when on the march. Small un-
fordable streams are often encountered
by the army and these must be crossed
in the shortest time possible. In fact
large rivers often confront an army
when about to give battle to the enemy,
and it would take weeks, if not months,
to construct even temporary bridges
to allow the men with their heavy
armaments to cross. The pontoon
boat, of course, is well known to qxery
reader of history, for this most useful
WHITE HOUSE XMAS DINNER.
THE ROOSE VEL T FAMILY CELE­
BRATES IN THE GOOD OLD-
FASHIONED WAY.
Always Have Huge Rhode Island Tur-
key Which Is not Spoiled by French
Cooks. — President Himself Does
the Carving.
Old fashioned cooks and old fash­
ioned cookery hold the tort in the
White House kitchen at Christmas-
tide. When the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt give one of their great state
dinners to eighty or. one hundred
guests, they usually entrust all the
preparations to professional caterers,
but when it comes to the dinner which
THE PRESIDI
auxiliary came into great use during
the war of the Rebellion. The pon­
toon train, however, is a very cum­
bersome affair when the ordinary flat
bottom boat with the necessary tim­
bers and accessories are packed on to
what is known as the "pontoon train."
The German army recently adopted a
sort of sectional pontoon boat which
allowed of greater mobility to the
train.
However, the soldiers of the United
States Engineer Battalion have been
drilling in the use of pontoon boats
made of heavy canvass stretched over
a wooden frame. These boats are wa­
ter-tight and when assembled are cap­
able of supporting six or more men.
A boat may be taken apart and packed
into a small bundle light enough to be
carried by one man. Upon arrival at
a small stream all that is necessary is
for each man to unstrap his bundle,
quickly put the boat Into shape, and
launch it Into the water. The wagons
which must necessarily carry the tim­
bering and flooring of the bridge to
be, can be sent forward with a much
smaller guard than is necessary when
the cumbersome pontoon train wagons,
each carrying a boat or section, are in
motion.
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Un tba fini Cbriatma* Dar-
ua
Ob Baby, Baby, mar tby Ut* te aweet;
May Cod.*ant aneti* snida tbr “tUa latti
May avery day to coma ba a* compiate
d* tby firat C beiti mas dar-
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lenteja, &
from Tenness.r and knows all ths emL
^“Äno^Ue other night of CoL
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com
iod . TDey were
> thpv sat in
knowledge which enables her to solve pajamas
--- canle
ame in. dgbted a cigar.
problems which would puxsle a bun-. man
m n
nnthin«
They did not recog-
dred other heads. Her knowledge or,
,
ir kept on talking about
streets in various cities of Europe lea "7.
nice — him
bim. «ra
th«ir
to her compilation of a street directory the miserably
, pity."
State had in
B grate’ like
of Its countries.
.
The value of Mrs. Collins’ work in “id °^,id have au^h Poor worthless
ferreting out addresses is all the more our. ^0“« ha«
our tenator. are
notable when it is considered that eat “*"_!LtWoWI Harris to played out and
no
good,
old
Harri»
r
f
postoffice in all the large cities baa a
division especially set apart for a -
ciphering illegible and otherwise p -
sling addresses. So after this has been
done letters which are still MclMmed
,
are sent to ths pcstoffice at Washing invective Md ab«»w"
-It to «bout U»« J be yelled and went
ton.
tbli conrenration, “ * thing* to th«
Known All Languages.
onto tell • few «rm^ln^ he
astonished part?
of
Mked,
Mrs. Collins has made such a
had subsided a Mt on
about
of thia rather psychological work t
she knows just what section of tne • But wbo are you £ «*
country, even to the cities, in * *'b nF* -Who am ■
>B)J ( have much
various national ties have settled-
can pat her finger on the Japan«*,
the Chinese, Greeks. Spaniards. Da'1
aad all ths rest of them.
-aud
Criminal penalties were provided tor lzlng Into the convictlou that corpo­
rate contributions should either be
violations of the law.
made impossible or else required to
Looked Upon as a Cockran Oddity. be made in such public fashion that
The bill was treated with derision they would be robbed of their bane­
_________
last winter, both by the daily press ful effect,
and by gentlemen of the House of
Foote’s Farrago.
Representatives,
the
Senate and
Foote, the comedian, when a young
Third House. It was worth a laugh,
people said. There was very little person of either aex applied for a po­
corruption, they averred. The idea sition, seldom refused outright, but
that corporations employed legisla­ gravely handed them the following
tive agents and disbursed huge sums lines, and asked thsm to commit and
of money for or against certain bills repeat them to him correctly in ton
was moonshine doled out by sensa­ minutes. If repeated with no error,
tionalists to gratify tbe morbid fancy he promptly took them for triaL
That there could be no collusion
and the appetite for scandal of a pe­
with those who applied later, he fre­
culiar class of people.
Tbe legislative inquiry into tbe af­ quently changed the order of the lines
fairs and conduct of the Equitable
Life and Mutual Insurance companies
at New York seems to have placed
the matter of campaign contributions
and
legislative
dlabnr-ements in
other than a humorous tight It mat­
ters not whether tbe corporations
come forward voluntarily with their
contributions to csmnalm funds or
whether they are solicited and bound­
ed by campaign collectors until they
contribute—the result Is the
Vice president Gillette of the Mu­
tual Life Insurance Company testi-
Bed that his company contributed J
fP2JX» of tbe policy boUertf mosey i
One Good Use for Millionaires.
Regret has been often expressed re­
garding the threatened extinction of
many species of wild animals.
Of late, however, some of the world's
millionaires have begun to devote their
attention to the task of preserving
them, and numbers of wealthy men
have established or endowed parks
and private soological gardens, in
which buffaloes, antelopes, giraffes,
gnus, and other dwindling species are
carefully cherished. In some cases
herds of bison are kept, after the fash­
ion of deer, on the estates of great
landowners.
Nor are Europe and Asia behind­
hand. Large preserves of big game
are to be found in France and Ger­
many, and in England the Duke of
Bedford has made a wonderful colleo-
tlon of wild animals at Woburn Park.
It somprises many rare animals. In­
eluding waterbusk, gnus, sable ante­
lopes, and some almost extinct species
of doer.
Strong on Details.
"’Rastus, where’s that rake?"
“De rake’s wld de hoe, Marster.
•'Well, then, where’s the hoe?”
“Marster, de hoe’s wld de rake."
"Well, 'Rastus, confound it, where
are they both?"
“Dey’s boff togedder, Manter. ’Pears
like youse pow'ful tickler 'bout details
dis mawnln’. You leave do reculatln
of all dot to mo, Manter, and I’ll took
oat tcf ref Interests."
is pre-eminently the home meal of tbs
year the French chefs have to give
way to women who know just how to
prepare the generous wholesome
dishes that an American citlsen looks
forward to finding on bis dinner table
on the joyous holiday.
President
Roosevelt also shows a fondness for
carving the turkey himself.
A good old fashioned Christmas din­
ner, moreover, with all the essentials
from turkey to plum pudding Is a reg­
ular institution at the White House
during the present administration.
Perhaps President Roosevelt, with
bis assertive good health and his fata­
lly of lively young folks, are partica-
ly well qualified to appreciate a route
Ing yule-tide feast but whatever bo
the reason certain it la that during the
Roosevelt regime the Christmas rte
past has become one of the most im­
portant as well as one of the jolllest
meals of the year.
To Be Family Reunion.
President Roosevelt and his family
follow the general policy of all pre­
vious occupants of the White House la
observing Christmas as a family 1 es­
tival. This year It will have especial
significance as a reunion, since of lata
months the junior members of the
Roosevelt household have been scat­
tered as never before, by reason of
their attendance at different schoola
and colleges. The Roosevelt Christ­
mas, while a family affair, Is by no
means confined to the Immediate
household. The Roosevelt children
have long been allowed to entertain
their numerous cousins on Christman
and other relatives are likewise ih at­
tendance, while the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt usually ask a few per­
sonal friends to also join the party.
Christmas dinner at the White
House is served in the evening and the
President arouses an appetite for it by
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