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Show ; . THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH MTIOMLF (MMAFTAM r-;- ' : . LIU the Tariff Sheep, Wool, the Senate and arose and ? TI17 ASIIINGTON My, but Senator Caraway of Arkansas did raise a rumpus In the senate the other day when he tried to introduce a resolution providing for an Investigation of charges that senators with large financial interests in the wool growing industry have been guilty of a serious breach of propriety in their efforts to boost duties on wool. He presented a resolution providing for an inquiry by the senate committee on judiciary into tbe financial connections of all senators with industries benefited eitlter by the pending tariff bill or the emer' gency tariff law. The resolution was broad enough to cover all Industries affected by the tariff,- but a debate of several hours, which followed its presentation, related entirely to the activities of a group of western senators in connection with the wool schedule. Three senators under fire, Senators Gooding (Idaho), Bursum (N. M.), and admittedi Stanfield (Ore.), their interest In the wool growing in-- ; dustry, but defended their positions.! Senators Smoot (Utah), Oddie (Nev.),i and Jones (N. M.), denied they now. own any sheep. The resolution technically was not) introduced because of an objections by Senator Wadsworth (N. Y.) to unanimous consent to present it out; of order. Senator Caraway gave no-- ; ticp that he would Introduce It at' the earliest opportunity. Senator Gooding, In denouncing the resolution as politics, declared that, if it could be shown that he had viq-- . lated any law, by the eternal gods,' he would resign his seat. Senator Warren of Wyoming, who during the debate on the Payne-Al-- : drieh bill In 1909 was referred to by; the late Senator Doiliver of Iowa as the greatest shepherd since Abraham, denounced the resolution as a, d n fool resolution, while Senator, Bursum of New Mexico, who said he, too, was a sheep owner, characterized it as ridiculous. Senator Robert Nelson Stanfield of Oregon, who is described in the Con-- ! gressional Directory as being Americas largest producer of wool and mut-- . ton, argued that the very fact he is interested in wool fits him, in his own, opinion, to vote more Intelligently than some senators who stand in the senate and oppose the protective tariff principle. Army Board's Record Plucking Job rTf HE board of general officers to undertake the biggest wholesale plucking job ever initiated among the regular army officers corps has begun its work, with Maj. Gen. Joseph T. Dickman, retired, presiding. Its job is the elimination or demotion of, some 2,000 officers. swro er KVrr?r zrar Q. Why should one masticate tl$ir food properly? A. The process of mastication is an aid to digestion, bit it may be suggested to Mr. Edison that if one attempts mastication of their" food the damage which Is done to the Book of Elementary Grammar is even more serious than the damage done to the stomach when one neglects to masticate his food properly. Q. How was the planet Neptune discovered and by whom? A Neptune was discovered through its action upon the planet Uranus, before it had been actually observed. Sir. William turned the trick. Q. Why did Mme. Curie lately come to America ? A. To receive a gift of $100,000 worth of radium from her American admirers. Q. Francs, marks, thalers are worth only a fraction of their former value in terms of United States money. Is this an advantage to this country? A. Yes and no. It's a great .arrangement for American who are buying things from Europe, but It hurts export trade. How come he aint seen you was not Q. h6me? Write this in correct English. A. How did it happen that he failed to see that you were not home? Q. You are a salesman making every effort to get an order from a big manufacturer who is married to an unusually jealous wife. One evening you see tills prospective customer dining in a restaurant with a chorus gill. What would you do? A. Nothing. Q. Name two of the principal localities of the United States? A. New York, Michigan. Q. Do you know approximately what a membership in the New York stock exchange costs? 4 HOMAS A?EDlSON'ls getting to a regular sphinx the Greek not the Egyptian. Nobody, appears, has yet discovered purpose of the Egyptian But the sphinx of sphinx. Thebes, in Beotia, according to the legend, was wont to propose and to a riddle to all passers-bdestroy them if they failed to give the answer. Still, Mr. Edison Isnt just like this Greek sphinx. To be sure, hes been asking puzzling questions of all who read, but Instead of destroying anybody he gives jobs to those who answer provided they are college graduates. And Mr. Edison and the sphinx are different in another way; the sphinx asked this easy question: What creature walks in the morning upon four feet, at noon upon two and at evening on three?! Thats easy compared with some of Mr. Edisons questions in his second questionnaire. Here are two questions, for example: You have only $10 In the world, and are playing poker with a man you have never seen before. On the first deal lie holds a pat hand. You have three eights after the draw. There is 50 cents in the pot. He bets a quarter. What are you going to do, and why? What is spiegeleisen ? Now, its easy to give an exact answer to the second, because the substance mentioned is white cast-irocontaining manganese. But whats the answer to the first question? Is there any answer that can be upheld as better than any other answer? Probably fourpoker players would give as many answers. The New York Tribune answers the poker question and says the reply is probably as good as any to be found anywhere. It is one of the few questions to which expert knowledge was applied. The answer represents the refined judgment of the .foremost poker players of the Tribunes staff. Heres the answer: If we had only $10 in the world, Mr. Edison would never catch us In a poker game, even with our own blood relatives. Assuming that the question is not to be answered this way, it seems obvious that no poker player in such a position should pay a quarter to call a pat hand with only 50 cents In the pot. We would remark casually I believe you, brother, and wait to see what the next deal would bring forth." j Well, the question now is how much do the foremost poker players of the Tribunes staff know about poker? The Tribune, however, appears to be more successful In answering questions that can be answered. A good many inquisitive persons, including a considerable part of its staff, devoted hours of valuable time to answering the 150 questions In the second questionnaire, though It is specifically stated that no guarantee goes with the answers. Here are some of the other questions, together wh the Tribune's informative and otherwise Interesting answers: Q. Suppose a certain low form of animal brought forth a single offspring once each hour and that the offspring reproduced at the same rate as the parent, starting as soon as It was one hour old, how long would it take to get four In the fourth generation 1. e., four of the parent? (The parent counts as the first generation and the first offspring comes at the end of the first hour. All the animals live.) A. Four hours. Page Mrs. Sanger. Tbe . y Her-scli- . n A. $100,000. . Who discovered the radium ray? A. The Curies, of Paris, in 1S98. Profev'or Becquerel the rays of uranium salts in 1S96. A. Grunada, Q. Where is the Alhambra? Q. Spain. ' . Q. Who wrote the story "The Murders in the ; Ilue Morgue"? , A. Edgar Allan Poe. Q. In what mountains 600 miles from New York are there some 2,000 Indians? A. The where the five tribes of the Iroquois live. Q. What Is black ink made of? A. Ferrous sulphate and nutgalis, combined with gum. and . water. A. Lima. of Peru. Q. Name the capital A. John Q. Who built the first steamboat? Fitch. q Where do we get most of our asbestos? A. Quebec. What materials are used on the sides of boxes containing safety matches, by means of which the matches are ignited? A. Phosphorus and sand. The match heads contain chlorate of potash. q. Name the elements of which our atmosphere is composed. A. Oxygen, nitrogen, argon, krypton, helium, neon, xenon. q. who Invented the telescope? A. Hans r, In 1658. Llppershey, a Dutch spectacle-makemllk-- . is the cow of breed greatest What q producer? A. Holstein. Q.What liquid is used in fire extinguishers for putting out gasoline fires? A. Carbon dioxid. q. Name two northern states that grow large quantities of tobacco. A. Wisconsin and Penn-- , . syl vania. q who was Kit Carson? A. Hunter and (guide. Served under Fremont." Q Is the president of the United States elected Q. j i ' : : Members of the board, which is representative of all arms of the service, were greatly concerned in their preliminary discussions over the probable effect upon the morale of the army of the suspended sentence now hanging over the head of practfcally every officer in the service, with the exception of General Pershing, and a bakers dozen. Congress, in directing that the officers corps be reduced by Jan. 1 to 12,000, did not include the general officers of the army In fixing the number to be retained In each grade. by popular vote? A. No, he is chosen by the The War department, In preparing electoral college. board, . Q. Of what use Is a swimming bladder in Instructions for the plucking fishes? A. Enables them to maintain equilib- did not include the general officers in so far as retirement of any of the rium. ; How is It made? major or brigade generals for physQ. What is liquid air? A. Atmosphere reduced from Its natural gaseous ical disability would create vacancies state to a liquid condition. It is made by forcing and permit the appointment of colonels to general officer rank, reducing compressed air into a triple copper coil and rethe number of surplus colonels to that the ducing the surrounding temperature to point extent. , of liquefaction. There was also much concern A. Magnetic Iron Q. What is a loadstone? among board members as to tbe view ore; magnetite. A. of What is the form Q. lowest life? The ameba. State briefly the necessary requirements for Q A. A, thorough a manufacturing executive? knowledge of Ills product, a complete acquaintance with the market for his product and for the raw materials of which it is made; ability to direct his employees to efficient effort, and to1 make rapid and accurate judgment in emergency. Name four comQ. What is an antiseptic? monly used. A. An agency which destroys the d microorganisms of disease; carbolic acid, lime, corrosive sublimate, mercuric chlorid. Q. On what part of the western hemisphere did Columbus land? A. San Salvador, or Watllng island, off the coast of Cuba. 'T' HAT there are between 800 and Q. What is 212 degrees Fahrenheit on the cen1,200 lepers scattered all over the tigrade scale? A. 100 degrees. United States was set forth in a senQ. iHow did the name America originate? A. From Americus Vespuclus, an Italian explorer. ate debate the other day which reWho wrote the following books: Vanity sulted in the passage o t a bill for the Q relief of these afflicted ones. Senator Pickwick 'Papers, Huckleberry Finn, Fair, Fernald of Maine, as chairman of the The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? committee on public buildings and A. William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickgrounds reported the bill (S. 3731) diens, Mark Twain, Vicente Biasco Ibanez. recting the secretary of the treasury Q. What three letters occur most frequently to have erected additional suitable in tbe English langunge? A. E, t and a. buildings for the National Leper home Q. What is a Soviet? A. A labor organization at Carville, La., at a cost not to exadministrative powers. holding political ceed $650,000. It appears, however, A. According to Q. Who are the Igorotes? the bill does not actually, make the Encyclopedia Britannlca the correct spelling that the appropriation, but simply authorMr. Edison, is Igorots. They are negroid inhabiizes the committee on appropriations tants of the Philippine islands, who originally were immigrants from Malaysia. Q. What was the spark that started the World war In 1914? A. The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, at Sarajevo, Serbia. PHAT Washington may soon win Q. Can you name four localities where civilizathe title of Convention City is C.? A. China, Crete, the tion existed in 3000 B. prophecy of some' old Inhabitants. Egypt and Mesopotamia. , They say that convention meetings in Q. What is a shooting star? A. A small methe national capital grow in size and uumber every year. teor, caused by a conglomeration of meteoric matter coming into contact with the earth's atmosNo one keeps an official record of phere. the organization and their delegates Q. Why is it necessary to rotate crops? A. To that visit the city, but according to avoid extracting from the soil the elements necesstreet car conductors. White House sary to the growth of any single crop. guards and watchmen In the government buildings, this year has been a Q. Who was Humboldt? A. A celebrated Gerr to date. So New York, man scientist, naturalist and author. Chicago, Denver and such ambitious Q. A man goes to a lake with a three-gallotowns should get busy WashingtonU n measure. How could he measttr-ouand a no on marks git em If they dont watch out ! th four (using gallons exactly can. Empty tb Its the style, nowadays, for organcan)? A. Fill the three-gallo- n n can. Fill tl can into the izations of nation-wid- e scope to have three-gallocan again. Fill the ca headquarters in Washington a fact can. One gallon is left I "hat will bring many annual convenfrom the three-gallo- n can. Empty the tions hero as a regular thing. This Is cat the three-gallo- n can into th me of tlie things the Pour the contents of the three-galloare n can again counting on. can. Fill .the three-gallon can and pour the. contents Into the There is no season of the year when can This gives you four gallons In the Washington is not entertaining visQ. Why is It necessary for us to brntbel itors who have gathered from the ends A. In order to .supply oxygen to the blood. of the country to discuss and . National one-celle- d Lepr Home at Carville, La., chlo-rate- Washington army officers might take of the boards, action in recommending any officer for; honorable discharge. Preliminary in-- j vestlgation indicates that probably, more than 1,700 officers now on the rolls must be separated from the active service in this way. The board, It is understood, will seek by every means to Impress upon the army and upon the general public, the view that discharge under these conditions in no way reflects upon the character of the service a discharged officer has rendered, and that in a; majority of the eases, at least, the would much prefer to retain these officers services. Board members are understood to feel that there Is little prospect of, finding many officers now on the rolls who merit discharge. The army recently cleaned house in this regard on' its own motion. the to make the appropriation next December if it sees fit to do so. Senator Fernald said, among other things: Mr. Fernald. First, let me say that for some years it has been known by the medical fraternity of the country that there are somewhere between eight and twelve hundred lepers scattered all over the United States. The State of Louisiana was the first state to move in this matter. Soma, eight or ten years ago that state mada provision for getting those people in! the state together and building a hos-- : pitai, which was done. In 1917 the federal government found that It was necessary to move in the matter. They purchased that hospital at Carville, La., made an appropriation of $250,-00and provided for 200 beds. The hospital was immediately built, and the rooms immediately taken, so that we have, the hospital entirely filled and 100 applicants from all over the country asking for provision to take care of them there. This bill is ap-- . proved by the public health service and by the secretary of the treasury. It is very Important that this appropriation be authorized immediately. 0, Convention City? - record-bri'ake- n t five-gallo- three-gallo- n five-gallo- five-gallo- n n five-gallo- n n ' n five-gallo- five-gallo- n by-la- election of officers, and to take a lool at the government in action. But spring is the most favorable time for seeing Washington, and therefore spring always brings an unusually large assortment of convention followers. The capital with Its trees bursting into pale grgen, Its cherry blossom drive along the tidal basin, and its gay flower beds is at its best. Sightseeing is a serious business for the visiting delegate. There Is a combination exposition, circus, state fair and liberal education perpetually available in the government talldlsgs. v t'. |