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Show MEAKIN LANDS GOVERNMENT PLACE Patience and persistency, coupled with much meekness and suavity, has1 again been rewarded. John P. Meakin, erstwhile Salt Laker, and self at vied "true fraternalist," haa a government position. Mr. Meakin has been appointed appoint-ed a member of the capital park police force, Washington, D. C. Meakin has worked long and' hard for recognition from the powers that be at Washington, and now, even though his insignia of otttce may be but a nickel plated star and a night stick, his fondest fond-est ambttioa, a government "position," has been realized. Meakin got his name in the papers recently when he attempted to obtain an appointment as chaplain in the army, even though his ministerial qualifications qualifica-tions amounted to just a pious smile and a supplicating gesture and pose. In order to qualify himself for the chaplain appointment Meakin tried to get an appointment ap-pointment as a Unitarian minister, the army regulations requiring that a chapi lain must be a regularly ordained minister. min-ister. The Unitarians would have none of him, however, so he was disappointed again. . His police appointment was given him as a sort of "minister to Dahomy" balm. |