Image 6 of The St. Mary banner (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.), October 16, 1915

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rT c 7 P cLLy tLHlé hdLb Sr 1 Toi T w yj UJX By EDWARD B CLARK RON R NEWTON is an as sistaut secretary of the United States treas ury a newspaper man a watchman and a poet Foet comes last in the list hut as a mat r of fact it ought to stand abreast of the names of Mr Newtons other occupa lions and may hau later it will lead them all Perhaps some explanation necessary in connection with the word that Mr Newton is a watchman He helps to guard the interests of Uncle Sam which means that he has t hand in the work of seeing to it that r uncle does not spend his money oolishly or is not as the saying goes done out of it Every conscientious assistant secretary of the treasury is i watchman Business man was not included in the catalogue of Mr Newtons call tugs but if he were not a business an h rould t t 1 is to day Some day when the whirligig f time or of iitics whirls Mr Ne s ton out of his pr sent Washington late he may find i elf