WOULD OBVIATE
LONG SUSPENSE
IN ELECTIONS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23 (by
mail).—Signal success of "double elec
tion board” laws in Kansas and West
Virginia in making returns available
to the public has quickened interest in
efforts to enact similar legislation both
in California and Washington. Meas
ures aloLg these lines now are pend
ing before the California and Washing
ton state legislatures. In the Califor
nia legislature the bill was introduced
in skeleton form by Senator Frank M.
Carr of Oakland, while the measure
was submitted by Representative John
D. Bassett of Spokane, in Washington.
The measure is hailed as one that
will be appreciated by the general
public to a greater extent than is real
ized by those not familiar with the
present incumbrances which surround
ballot-counting. The success of the
experiment in Kansas should attract
attention in other states as a possible
relief from such uncertainty as the
whole country labored under for sev
eral days after the last presidential
election.
Kansas, considering its difference in
time as compared with the Eastern
states, was the first of all states to
begin to return figures on the last
presidential erection. This was a sur
prise generally to other states until
it was discovered that the secret of
Kansas’ promptness was a system
known as the double electron board.
This system does not in any sense
revolutionize present methods of'vot
ing, but simply makes it possible that
the ballots may be counted almost sim
ultaneously with the casting of them,
with the result that the vote is known
immediately upon the closing of the
polls.
The Kansas law provides that at all
general elections the national and
state tickets shall be printed upon
one ballot and the district, county
and township tickets shall be printed
upon another ballot, and that at (each
voting precinct five separate ballot
boxes shall be provided, two boxes
in duplicate for the national and state
ballots, and that there shall be two
boards of election officers, one to be
known as the receiving board—to re
ceive ballots and guard their proper
placement in the boxes—and the other
to be a counting board.
A few hours after the opening of
the polls the national and state bal
lot boxes are removed from their des
ignated places, and duplicate boxes
placed in their stead, while the count
ing board retires under proper safe
guards, empties the first set of boxes
and counts the ballots. After another
interval the boxes are exchanged again
and the counting is proceeded with
in this manner of simple relay
throughout the day.
inThn method’ which still obtains
" ! *he 8tates except Kansas and
West Virginia, reauireR
before any counting is done, and this
involves in some places from six to
forty-eight hours, delaying a still
greater time the compilation of a state
or national vote.
The act of the West Virginia legis
lature in following the Kansas exam
ple is called the Wier bill, after James
W. \\ier, a newspaper man who is a
member of the West Virginia legisla
ture and who deemed some of the
erica! and mechanical handicaps of
election reporting belonged to the
lays when folks depended upon the
stage coach mail for their news, in
stead of the present era of the tele
phone and wireless telegraph In
Sl6 ellininia' f°r 6Xamp,e’ at the
1916 election, it was a week before it
was known positively how the state
had gone, and it was six weeks be
fore the exact figures were compiled
and published.
What little opposition was met with
'W“ in
tion of the Kansas method was to
the effect that the double election
board involved additional expense, but
b»l H argUment of ‘he author of the
Ss of?*8 lnexpen8lve work two
sets of men one day as it is to work
one set of men for two days.
California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and several of the Middle and
Western states have for many years
been particularly slow in completing
their returns, and it is such condi
tions. that have handicapped the As
sociated Press in announcing the defi
nite results in the presidential elec
tions on the night of election day. The
seriousness of such delays as were
encountered in 1916, when various
newspapers announced the result be
fore it was known, impressed Itself
upon Governor Cox of Ohio. In an
address before the members of the
Associated Ohio Dallies at Columbus
the governor suggested the adoption
of a'law similar to that of Kansas, so
that the general result might be known
early in the evening of election day,
instead of, as he said, "about Christ
inas time.”
In the view of election experts the
uniform adoption of the double board
system in all the states would ob
viaie such doubt of the presidential
vote os obtained in. the last election.
AMERICAN DISAPPEARS
AT MEXICAN BORDER
JUAREZ, Mexico, Feb. 21 (by mail).
—Another name has been enrolled on
the American consular register in this
"port of missinig men.” Cashier T.
J. Stafford of an El Paso bank disap
peared early in January and nothing
has been heard from him since. His
accounts were in order at the bank
and no reason is known for his dis
appearance.
After searching the mountains and
plains near El Paso, the search was
continued to Juarez and the country
south of here without success. Staf
ford’s name is only one of fifty regis
tered with the American consulate
here as having crossed to Mexico and
disappeared.
Some were executed by various rev
olutionary chiefs, including Francisco
Villa. Others were killed during the
fighting in the Mexican towns. Still
others died fighting with the rebels
on the battlefields which dot the north,
while many disappeared after cross
ing the border without leaving a clue
to their whereabouts.
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WIFE OF BANDIT VILLA
DENIES POVERTY STORY
EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 21 (by mail).
—Mrs. Luz Corral de Villa, wife of
Francisco Villa, says she is neither
very rich nor very poor. A local paper
recently printed a story that Mrs.
Villa, who is making her home in San
Antonio, Texas, was in destitute cir
cumstances because Villa was unable
to send money to her from Mexico.
In a letter to the paper Mrs. Villa
denied the report and said she was
living in moderate but comfortable cir
cumstances in San Antonio, and was
taking no part in border political af
fairs.
Francisco Villa has joined the army
of wrist watch wearers. When Jose
Haurrieta, his secretary, returned to
Villa’s camp after a confidential mis
sion to the Villa junta here he wore
a large, square silver wrist watch,
with the initials "F. V.” engraved on
the back. It was a present to Villa
from an American friend.
COSTS
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The Filipinos have sent a delegate
to the United States asking for com
plete independence from this country.
The bone-dry law that affects Hawaii
and Alaska does not have anything to
do with them, but they are not taking
any chances and want to be free be
fore the law is extended to their part
of the country.—Douglas news.
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The Daily Times job plant is
well equipped for all classe of com
mercial printing.
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Cadet Aviators, Delayed, Say Things of St. Louis
ST. LOUIS.—If you were an aviator In the habit of taking little trips at the
rate of, soy, 120 miles an hour; and If Uncle Sam handed you a two
weeks’ Christmas leave, Just sufficient for a dash home half way across the
mnfinpnt • 11 nH If
go faster than 30 miles an hour, there
by missing connections for home, what
would you say?
That Is exactly what 200 officers
and cadets from the School of Military
Aeronautics In Austin, Tex., said the
other day when their slow train from
the South puffed into St. Louis too
late for eastern connections.
Three Chicago cadets, Jack Gib
bons, Paul M. Becker and Ralph F.
TTotr.pl RnrintoH *• <f nn<1 +
last home train. They won the race against time by an eyelash, but they won.
Really, you know. It was quite undignified—the way they ran for that
train. They seemed to have an idea that to stop over night in St. Louis was
something to be regretted. It looked as 11J they preferred to be on their way.
Their flight through the streets and depot and train shed was positively head
long. Everybody got out of the way except those who were too astonished
to move.
Those who got left appeared to be disgusted with life. St. Louis ap
parently did not appeal to them at all. They got together and expressed their
opinion of things in general and St. Louis in particular.
What did they say?
Uh-huh.' Well, that can’t very well be printed in a newspaper, especially
in a St. Louis newspaper.
Of course in Chicago people run to cross the streets ahead of street cars
and automobiles. They act as If they were going somewhere. In St. Louis
such frantic haste is not considered good form.
Chicago "hustle,” on the other hand, has become a byword.
“If Wishes Were Horses, All Beggars Might Hide77
LYNN, MASS.—Free trolley rides for all under a form of public ownership
of public utilities is proposed by ex-Mayor Ralph S. Bauer, following a
conference with Peter Witt, traction expert. ‘‘I propose,” said Mr. Bauer,
Liml L*i“ vuy 01 i^ynu yurcuust; uuui
the Bay State Street Railway company
the entire track and overhead feeding
wire equipment and car barns within
the city limits of Lynn.
“This can be done by a 20-year
bond issue, which should be large
enough to permit the purchase of 120
one-man operated, front-entrance cars,
giving the people in Lynn a service
with not over a ten-minute wait during
the rush hours, and extending this
service over every track in Lvnn. In
eluding the belt lines and other abandoned sections. I propose that the entire
service in Lynn be operated by the city, making absolutely no charge for car
fare anywhere, the operating expenses to be met by the tax levy.
“The entire cost of operating could be met by one-half of 1 per cent on
our present valuation from the tax levy. Free rides In street cars over every
part of the city would, in my judgment, In five yean build up every vacant
lot within the city limits. We would have within ten years 200.000 people in
Lynn.”
Smith and
McConaghy
Plumbers and
Steamfitters
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| Has been removed to Kenny
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best of service will be given.
Two chairs, with Frank Cun
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formerly of Fairbanks, always
on the job.
A untie Keating’s
Wee
Shop
has outgrown its original
location, and has removed
into the
WILLIAMS BUILDING
First Street
with a complete line of
Men’s, Women’s and Chil- j
dren’s Goods.
Come In and look my
stock over.
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Rocks—Sulphurous Waters—Oils
—just as they come “Hi
Press” takes them on and
beats them. There never
was such a boot for wear.
The most heart-breaking
service merely brings it
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they do not have to attach
leather hob-nailed soles to
IrCrasw their boots. Those White
‘Hi-Press” Soles actually 1 I V
outwear the steel itself. I I M
Cut down bills—keep your feet 1
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I with “Hi-Press” — the ONE *
PIECE Rubber Footwear. Sold