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Evening journal., 1911-12-16
pErnRM nm PHmADELPHIA.

7rF THE election of the fusion ticket in Phadel-
i phia needs any justification, the recent award
ing of the garbage contracts supplies it. For this
year the Penn Reduction Company receives SolO,-
600 and a bid for the new year was made to the
Reyburn administration at the same figures last
month.
Revburn tried to have the bid accepted and per-
emptorily dismissed Director Harry A. Maekey
when he held up the bids and when the director
declared that he would readvertise for them.
The other day new bids for doing the work we're
onened and the same concern, the Penn Reduction
COMPANY. made startling decrease in its bid
from $4,000 to S27S, ,5Ss. This is tremendous
drop from what the city has been paying for the
same work for the last five or six years under
the gangs administration, and it is an inking OF
what the new administration intends to save to the
city
Ii is said that the reduction in part was caused
bv a war between the contracting companies and
that the new bid may be too low to be profitable,
but it is certain that the Blankenburg admins
tration will be able to save the city thousands upon
thousands of dollars on the garbage contracts TOT
the figures, making allowance Tor the preSump-
ZION that the present bid may be too low Will not
again reach the high water mark that prevailed
during gang rule. And is it not more than possible
that in other contracts under the new administra-
tion there will be a great saving?
II would be interesting TO know just what the
cost would be of a busineSS-like administration oil
the affairs of Philadelphia, and the Bankenourg
administration has a splendid opportunity to make
such a demonstration.
If the Bankenburg administration Shoulo prove
70 be successful il is highly improbable that Phil
adelphians will again consent to wallow in the eN-
travaeance and oppression of gang rule. The Gay
IS surely not far distant when the intelligent tax
navers of a community will realize the utter folly
of msrule in municipal government
Evening journal., 1911-12-16
:: Personal and Pertinent ::


The various Greek letter fraterntes Of America
have 100000 members today i'm the colleges and uni
versities of the land They all derived from
eret fraternity organized in 1850 by the students of
William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Va. and
called the Flat Hat Club Among the members OF the
f. II. c. were st. George Tucker, Thomas jefferson
and Edmund Randolph.
.-.-.-.
Philo Scott, known through the whole Adirondack
region as Uncle Eide and of the best guides that
ever followed trail died the other day after an ill
ness of several weeks. The old guide was II years
old. Uncle Eide born In Jefferson county at the
family home. not far from Watertown When he was
boy his parents moved into the foothills of the big
North Woods From there he enlisted in the Sxtieth
New YORK volunteer. On his return from the Civil
War he began his career a guide and hunter He
established camp at Lost Lake and during the later
years Of his life entertained many prominent public
men. Among these was Irving Bachelor. who on ono
occasion made hunting expedition with the old guide
and the poem written by him entitled Eide and Me"
appeared soon afterward Uncle Eide always told his
friends that the proudes moment i'm his life the
time he went to Albany the guest Of former leu
tenant-GOvernOr Horace White He admitted to
the floor of the Senate and asked to make a speech
Eide picturesque figure. He was invariably clad
in woodman's Earb, wore closely flannel
shirt suit of heavey woollen clothing and a black
cap.
Evening journal., 1911-12-16
SATURDAY, DEC. I6, 1911
A NOBLE WORK.

IN ONT forget the red cross stamps during the
IL holiday season. The American Red Cross
Society is doing humane work. Ia is one OF the
outposts of Our civilization one of the things that
distinguish MS from the past, the brutal past, We
were almost tempted to say.
The banner of the Red Cross society is the ban
ner of humanity. During war its nurses follow
The armies caring for the sick and wounded, re-
lievng much possible the distress caused by
the way have of settling international disputes,
war, inherited from the past, something
which President Taft and the others who are work
ing for higher civilization are trying to change
by means of arbitration treaties.
In storms, floods, pestilences, famines, destitu-
ton by fire or earthquake in any other disaster,
the Red Cross looms up with food clothing, sup
plies and medicines doing its glorious work.
One branch Of the work of the Red Cross is
represented by the red cross stamp. The dollars
gathered from the sale of the stamps go to the
fund needed in the campaign against tuberculosis.
The Red Cross has taken the lead in the fight to
stamp out the white plague And its funds Tor
.this purpose are largely dependent upon the sale
Sf these stamps Even the humblest can assist IN
this noble work by purchasing the red cross
stamps. The stamp is a form of the widows mite
Evening journal., 1911-12-16
PLEA FOR OLD SOLDIERS.
Veteran COrrects Some .Nisstatements
About the New Pension BiII.

Veteran COrrects Some .Misstatements
About the New Pension Bill.
Editor. of THE EVENING JOURNAL
VIII you give an old veteran a space
in your paper in which he may correct
some of the misstatements in some Of
the papers in regard to the Pension
Bill that has just passed the House?
In the first place, it is not going to
cost the Government S75,000,00O; in
the second place it is a service pen
sion bill, and the men who served go
days will get $500, instead of S12.
The men who served nine months
will get $40; the men who served one
year, $25; the men who served over
one year will get dollar day. After
this bill becomes a law, If il ever
does, all old soldiers who go to the
Soldiers Home will have to pay their
board, and all old soldiers whose in
come is $1,000 a year, are not benefit
ted by this hill. To my mind, il is the
fairest bill that has come up at Wash
ington, and why such a paper as the
I Morning News should come out with
such a statement as it did this morn
ing is more than I can understand
Now you see if ! have this bill cor
rect, as l believe ] have, it is not go
ing to cost the Government one-half Of
what it is claimed it cost and if it did,
what of it? II it had not been for us,
we would not have any Government.
The Homes are a good place fer cid
soldiers. Some care more for drink
than they do for their homes and to my
mind there ought to be a way or a
provision made for the wives of the
soldiers. It is good plan for land
sharks to get around these homes and
get the old soldiers money before
pension day comes around and charge
unreasonable rates.
Yours truly.
John w. Hayden, 1880 Reed ST. City.
Dec. 10.
Amend Civic Association Meeting.
Editor Of THE EVENING JOURNAL.
As member OF the Wilmington
Evening journal., 1911-12-16

haven't put it upon the market" was
the reply. But / suppose that if
responsible person were acting in good
faith and were to make me a fair Of
fer, ] might be disposed to look It
over"
What would you regard as a fair
offer, Mr.. Jones?'
We'll, / couldn't say, off-handed. 1
would rather have a definite PROPOSE
tion from you"
The fact was, Mr. Jones answered
in this way so that he might learn who
II was that was anxious to buy The
Times. His strategem succeeded. A
few days later a man called upon him
whom he at once recognized as a con-
fidential representative of Jay Gould.
This agent said
"Mr. Jones, | am authorized to offer
you two million. five hundred thous-
and dollars for the New York Times.
including the building Would you con-
slider proposition of that kind?'
mot until l know whom you rep
resent"
well. confidentially. / represent
Mr.. Gould. He is willing to pay as
much as two million. five hundred
thousand dollars to buy The Times. He
Evening journal., 1911-12-16
PEOPLES COLUMN

Civic Association, which is devoting
its energies to an educational cam
paign for the betterment of our citi-
zens to the end that a satisfactory
.orm of government may be adopted
under a new charter, / wish to appeal
to the citizens of Wilmington to take
one hour out Of their busy lives to at
tend the meeting in the High School
building tonight.
Mr.. Foulke, We are told is an ex-
ceedingly interesting speaker and has
devoted years of his life to this sub
ject. No matter what our personal
views are respecting the proper form
a city government should have may
We not unite for the good of the city
in an educational campaign that will
teach us how TO intelligently lend
our influence and vote upon this i'm
portant question.
Very truly yours,
Member of Wilmington Civic Associa-
tlon.
Wilmington. Dec 16.
Evening journal., 1911-12-16
REGULATION.

A LOCAL newspaper remarks that the Will
mington and Philadelphia Traction Com
pany increased its passenger rates because it found
the six-for-a-quarter fare Improbable The impIi-
cation is that the alleged fact that the six-for-a-
quarter rate was Improbable is a sufficient reason
Tor advancing the rate and that it is mpertnent
on the part Of the city to inquire into the why's and
wherefores of the advance.
The public however, is not likely to accept this
cool and compacent view. When a city grants
valuable and exclusive franchises 10 a public SER
vice corporation, it surely has the right to regu-
late the corporation exercising such privileges Ii
it has such right the city is simply at the mercy
of an exploiting corporation which may make in
definite increases in its charges on the ground
that the present rates are Improbable. With un-
regulated monopoly the public is in an absurd
position.
Evening journal., 1911-12-16
:: With the Paragraphers ::


The report that John Paul Jones the crack Cornell
runner, is descendant direct collateral of the ma
val hero Of the Revolution is probably not correct The
original John Paul never ran-Boston Transcript
Pottstown CPa) clergyman who has served forty
years and preached 5000 is retire Maybe
ne wants TO practice some of his preceps before he
dies.-Cincinnau Commercial Tribune
casual inspection Of the market lists leads us TO
suspect that those Cincinnati girls have been liv
ing on seven cents day not eating fresh eggs
oftener than five six times a week-Springdeld
Union
In behalf of the clerks particularly the saesladies
We take the liberty of going the extreme Of adys-
ing everybody TO do their Christmas shopping early
Charlotte On. O. Observer
Don't blame the man who wears whiskers He has
seen his Noriginal face and you havent-AIilwaukee
Journal
Evening journal., 1911-12-16
CREDIT WHERE CREDIT Is DUE.

GONE of the Democratic newspapers of the
- state find fault with everything the Republ-
can representatives of Delaware do at Washington
or do not do. One Democratic newspaper IS eriti-
cising the Senators and Representative Head aleg-
ing that they are not ardent supporters" OF the
parcels post bill. This is in reply TO the commen-
dation by the master of the State Grange OF the
Senators and Congressman Head.
During the session of last year Mr. Head was
a staunch supporter of the progressive railroad
legislation, the long and short haul provisions of
the law and all that, something for which the
grangers and others in the rural regions have been
camoring, and yet very little credit was given the
Delaware Congressman by the critical Democratic
newspapers.
When the fight was on before the last session
Of the Delaware Legislature for Public Utilities
law to apply TO the state, there was little real
active support of the measure by newspapers in the
lower counties which are now clamoring for pro-
Evening journal., 1911-12-16

One man in New York city at least is not al
ways after the almighty dollar. Mr. Theodore B.
Connolly is the highest paid assistant corporation
counsel and the other day he asked that his salary
be reduced from $4,000 to $4,000 year. Mr.
Connolly explained that because of his impairment
of health he not able to stand the strain of the
special work he has been doing and he asks for
less exacting labor. A man who makes so frank
confession should certainly be retained in the
citys service and his request should be granted.
Evening journal., 1911-12-16

gressive legislation, and as consequence of that
lack of support, bill was passed providing for a
Public Utilities Commission for this city alone.
1t did not take long TO show that such a COM
mission was needed in this city for hardly had the
law become operative when the Wilmington and
Philadelphia Traction Company increased its pas
senger rates, and had it not been for the commits
sion the people would have been in no position
to make effective protest
The conduct of some of the Democratic news
papers in regard to progressive legislation is rather
queer.
Evening journal., 1911-12-16
"BEST ON FARTHs

This is the verdict of R. J. Howell,
Tracy. o.. who bought Foley's Honey
and Tar Compound for his wife. Her
case was the worst I have ever seen,
and looked like a sure case of con-
sumption. Her lungs were sore and
she coughed almost necessarily and
her voice was hoarse and weak.
Foleys Honey and Tar Compound
brought relief at once and less than
three bottles effected a complete
cure" n B. Danforth, Market and
Second streets.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1911-12-16
EDITORIAL OPINION

$7500O,0O0 year; just how much
nobody knows. nobody cares Swap
pensions for votes, look out for re-
election; the dear people can't re-
member anything anyhow.
Very like; still the dear people, so
very dear at campaign season. 50
negligible the rest OF the time, may
be puzzled to understand how you
are going to swell the free list and
reduce tariff if you keep adding TO the
appropriations which the tariff must
In large part defray.
Is tariff reform like economy -
mere political birdlime?
Evening journal., 1911-12-16
SHORT STORIES OF THE DAY

Some gift of gold and lace.
That's why pas working overtime
Down at his business place.
There's Uncle Joe and Aunt Louise,
Who must not be forgot,
And Cousin Nell, who's soon to wed,
Would take a house and lot.
And other cousins, too, of course,
Jane, Dorothy and Grace
That's why pas working overtime
Down at his business place.
There's upstairs girl and downstairs
girl,
The butter and the cook;
The chauffeur and the garage man,
Who all for something look.
They have no use for Christmas cards
With wreaths and Santa's face.
That's why pas working overtime
Down at his business place
Tom w. Jackson in the New York
Press.
Evening journal., 1911-12-16
ANOTHER BUNCO GAMEl
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
About everybody on salary or wages
or of moderate means mas been and IS
pinched sharply by the high cost Of
living. Our Democratic brethren or
many of them are or were going TO
reduce or try to reduce the cost OF
living, save "the peoples money.
shave the robber tariff
And in the House of Representa-
tives those tribunes Of the people and
knights of economy nave just voted
for a gift distribution Of $40 600 900 to
Evening journal., 1911-12-16
THE MANLESS PANTS.

The following conversation was
overheard between two little girls
who We're not yet old enough to go
to school:
What makes a horse act naughty
when he sees an auto?" one asked.
TITS this way" replied the other
Horses is used to seem other horses
pullin' rigs and hey don't know what
to think of 'em goin' along without
a horse. l guess if you was to see
q pair OF trousers waikin' down the
street without man in 'em you'd be
scared too. "-ChIcago Rams Horn.
Evening journal., 1911-12-16
IT'S UP TO PA.

Now mother wants a sealskin coat
And John would like a car.
Fair Gladys wants a diamond brooch
A locket and a star.
Grandpa and grandma both must have
Evening journal., 1911-12-16

Amend Civic Association Meeting.
Editor of THE EVENING JOURNAL.
As member OF the Wilmington
Evening journal., 1911-12-16

TERMS SUBSCRIPTION
By mail postage prepaid $500 rs cents monh
payable IN advance. By carrier ok cents week
Evening journal., 1911-12-16

Advertising rates application.
No attention paid 20 unsigned communicate iionE
Evening journal., 1911-12-16
t TheEvening Journal
FOUNDED 1sss.

Chicago once. iaa South Michigan Boa,sv.ra
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-05-29
GOVERNORS SALARIES.

A refusal on the part of the Former,
governor b. B. Conner of Alabama 10
approve a bill TO raise the salary OF
Emmett ONeal, soon to succeed him
as governor of that state. caused a
New York newspaper TO go into the
question OF the salaries of governors
Upon investigation, some rather re.
markable facts were brought 10 light
Some of these follow:
Alabama sought to raise the govern
Or's salary from 5000 10 $7.5J0.
Sixteen other states pay their chief
executives $1,000 year. Three states
pay S4.500; seven, 1000 and eight
pay $4,000. Wyoming, Vermont and Ne
braska are content to pay their govern
Ors $500. Thirteen STATES pay sal
aries higher than s. 900, and only one,
Illinois, pays as high as sI2. 2.0G0. Five
states pay $l0,000 each The govern
Ors of Hawaii and Alaska, both ap-
pointive. get $4,000 apiece, while the
governor of Porto Rico receives s.. 900
a year
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-05-29

Continued on page 81
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-05-29
BEAR STEALS HOBBLE SKIRT
Tracks in Snow Show Animal Visited
N. Y. Woman's CIothes-line.

MONTICELLO, y. Y.-Farmcrs are
searching the woods in the vicinity OF
kiamesha Lake, near here, for Il bear
wearing hobble skirt. the property OF
Miss Amelia Ycoman of Brooklyn.
Miss YeOman went to her summer
home al the lake To get some winter
clothing, and while there. hung a skirt
on the clothes-line TO give ii an airing.
When she went TO get il the skirt was
gone, but not being familiar with
bears or their tastes for feminine at
tire, she attached no particular sig
niiicance to the tracks she saw in the
snow, believing them to be those of
a two-legged thief.
News of the theft was al once car
ried to neighbOrs, who. with loaded
rifles. arrived OH the scene. 1t took
but Il moment for the men to learn
that something besides Il man had
been prOwling about the place and
they started in pursuit OF brIIin and
the missing hobbIe skirt. The beas,
is still in the lead.-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-05-29
ON THE FOURTH OF JULY.

The Columbia City Council has
asked the merchants of the town not
TO lay in a stock of fireworks this yeaI
for the Fourth of July. This is ap
preaching the subject of sane cele
bratiOn in the right manner
There is no use asking child moi
10 celebrate. He will do it anyway
Ii is unreasonable TO expect him not
to have what he considers a good
time.
The merchants do not make much
profit ont of fireworks. They should
be glad not TO have the trouble OF
handling this line of goods this year,
Everybody wants different kind
of observance of the day, celebration
that means something besides an op-
pOrtunity for the children to have
some fun. In the past they have been
so busy seeing the pretty fireworks
they have not realized the significance
of the day.
If no fireworks come into Columbia,
the day can be observed i'm some man
ner fitting and proper and there will
be no meaningless booming of cannons
and firecrackers and no hospital bills.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-05-29
CITY LIBRARY NEEDS
CH|LDRENS' BOOKS
Only $50 of 1000 Volumes
Are Especially Interesting
to Youngsters.
NO NEW READING MATTER
Turn to Other Stories When
: Proper Literature Can
not BE Found.

The Columbia CiIy Library is badly
/ in need of childrcns books. Fewer
than $50 of the 900 books in the Co
! Iumbia City Library are children's
books and children are practically tho
only persons who patronize the Ii
brary.
Saturday morning 100 volumes or
ione-renth of the whole library are ak
Ell out by the chindren. Most of these
children have read all the books in
The library Interesting 10 them. When
there is nothing else left, they begin
TO look for the cheap novel. Ii il is
not in the library, they get il II the
news stand
This library was given to the city
by the county. Ii occupies a room on
the third floor of HE courthouse and
is open two' days of the wcck. Its
SUPPORT is dependent on charity. prac
tically no new books have ever been
added to the library, certainly ma new
hoohS NAV" com" III recently.
ia" library Is ihiS"r'ply Inadequate.
for city like Columbia said Mrs r.
W. MiGli I'M iInrariil' inns morning.
ne tuesday 'i'ib hh" been looking
after il. bat il is not able 10 do much
toward us support. several times
4.
the buSih'S" men nav" been hShtd
10 coh'rIbuI" I" 1t. som" "I tn" men
rtplI"u lhh' thtT" Is 100 much r"LdlhS
III 'oiiilipia now
Hrs. MasIil mas been III charge ol
ia" library on" year. S!L" gave oui
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-05-29
THE KINDERGARTEN.

The kindergarten. which is now a
part of the public school system of a
number of cities. was Introduced into
this country fifty-three years ago The
first kindergarten was founded at Co
lumbus, Ohio, by Miss Caroline Louise
Frankenburg Ii was not until twelve
years later. however, that The first in
stitutiOn of this sort was opened in
connection with the public schools
This later development was started in
Boston
But the kindergarten movement did
not originate in America In 1897
Friedrich Frobel established the first
school of this sort AT Blankenburg.
Germany
One of the criticisms of the kinder
he increasing in number and popular.
while good in some ways, it unified
the child for the more sober work of
public schools. This argument against
the system has perhaps not entirely
disappeared but il is nOt SO common
now as formerly. Some educators
have argued that children who had
attended kindergarten under the di-
rectiOn of competent teachers learned
more readily than did those who had
received no such training
At present kindergartens seem TO
everything subOrdinated to their ref
ity. While still in its infancy, the
system promises TO continue 10 ad
vance
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-05-29
HE MUZZLED THE HATpIN.
Architect Used Pair of Pinchers o
Deadly "Weapon."

CIIlCAGO-N Niels Buck, an archi
tect, has found an antidote for the pro
truding hat pin. II is a pair of pinch
ers. He told of his practical demon
Staration in a Northwestern elevated
train.
"A long hat pin in a woman'S hal
scratched my chin" he said. The
car was crowded. We both were
hanging TO straps.
Il took a pair of pinchers and bent
the pin, pointing the point skyward.
he woman didn't know what | had
done. but the people in the car
laughed uproarouSly. Every man
should carry pinchers"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-05-29
Four Of the Six to M. u.

Five young men and one young
woman were graduated last Friday
night from the high school in Hopkins.
Mo. OF the six four expect 10 enter
the University of Missouri next. fall
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-05-29

Ii cleanliness is next to GOdliness,
to-?
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-05-29
Members OF Student Organizations

Below are the lists of members of
used by the Committee on Statistics in
its report for the second semester Of
1901. Any corrections in the lists
should he reported at once to Pro
fcss0r W. G. Manly, Chairman Of
COmmitte" on Statistics, No. 40
Academic Hall