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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01
On Capitol Hill
William Jennings Price New Minister
to Panama is a Grape Juice Friend
Of the Secretary Of State.
Herbert Corey.).

Washington. Oct. There will be
large doings at Panama before long.
Water s%plashing. gold lace simmer
Ing. girls pirouetting, wine popping,
ships of all nations banging away
with guns. And in the midst of all
this honor and turmoil who shall we
see?
Who but our hero, William Jen-
nings Price. the new minister to
Panama. with q brimming glass of
grape juice in either hand. a cubeb
cigarette DEPENDING rakishly from his
lips, his clothes Of sturdy Danville,
KY. black. offering a sober contrast
to the shameless pongees and traus-
lucent ducks.
Price was appointed partly because
Senator Ollie James of Kentucky in
sisted. and partly because his first
two names are William Jennings
both he and Bryan throw back to the
old Jennings family of Virzinia-and
partly because of his grape juicery:
secretary Of state he did so in these
immortal words:
Here's another of your grape Juice
boys. colonel"
But mostly because he had earned
the place from a democratic point of
view. He was sturdy rather than
bilious. He is an intense partisan,
sounding a deep diapason when he
reaches our progressive democracy"
in his speeches. and inclining toward
reverent emotion when he speaks the
name Of w. ] b. When Governor
Augustus E. Wilson was elected in
only. in the state that increased
its democratic majority. He was the
campaign chairman. He was FIVE
times elected to Office in his own
county without opposition. and that
county is normally close. He would
have been the youngest congressman
in 1906 except for an unfortunate ILL
ness. Why shouldn't he be minister
to Panama.
slender, blue-eyed. and is beginning
to economic on hair. He has a
scrubbing brush of a red moustache
and a sound jaw. For eight years
day school at Danville. That has en-
%couraged a natural tendency to be
stiff and bookish in his talk. 1t
sounds sometimes as though he had
modelled his vocabulary on THE
Maiden's PRAYER" He can't let his
language down. Nevertheless
He was prosecuting a two-time
statement to the court Price turned
that killer inside put and shook him
over the fire. When he left cour
the SLAYER was waiting for him. bawl-
ing with rage. Price didn't know the
countercheck quarrelsome. but he
didn't propose to be annoyed by that
sort OF language.
Cease the use Of such epithets.''
said he. Immediately desist."
Whereupon the slayer desisted away
from there. feeling that he had had
a narrow escape. Price liz one Of the
Prices Of Lancaster. which is a hall
are democrats and many of them are
rich. When he graduated from Cen
trail. university he began practicine
law and running for office-his fist
stump speech was made before he
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1911;
HEALTH AND FINANCE.

This is. an age which places an ever
increasing emphasis on the relation Of
rood health to individual hygiene. to
social effectiveness, to general prosper
ity. The race is to the community
whose children thrive and whose
workers keep we'll. Human health is
a ~purchasable commodity. as has been
demonstrated in Cuba. Panama and
the Philippines. New York city, With
Its advanced health ordinances and
comparatively liberal supply of money
TO carry them out, is a striking ex-
ample of what an urban community
can do in the way of a radical reduc-
ton in infant mortality and in the
genera death-rate. Yakima county.
Washington. is another example show
ing The result of systematic health
work and liberal expenditure in a ru-
raj district. In Twelve months under
a full-time health officer. with a we'll
equipped laboratory and a crops OF
visiting nurses and sanitary inspectors.
the death-rate in h county from
typhoid fever was reduced from 1913
per hundred thousand to sixteen, and
b3s in 1911 to 3a3 in 1912. Other
Instances Of like effective work might
be cited.
The mayor Of Colorado Springs said
recently to the delegates of the Amer
lean Public Health association that
the problems of public health are even
more vital than those of individual
health. Appreciation of this fact
comes slowly. Money to purchase pub
lie health is given srudgingly by those
in charge Of the public purse. st.
Louis. the fourth city in the United
States in both population and manu-
lectures. spends annually only $780,
900 on its health department., whereas
1t spends 100000 annually on its
police department., twenty times the
public health. Larger appropriations
for health purposes will only follow
the creation Of public sentiment de
handing them. n in accomplishing
this the newspapers must play the
chief role. The st. Louis Republic
recognizing this. has applied itself to
the creation Of a public demand fol
better support Of the health depart.
ment Of st. Louis. and will present a
plan for making that city the health.
TEST in the United States. At present
the death-rate in that city is ccnsid.
erably less than that Of other large
cities in the same latitude. and almost
as low az that of Cleveland. New York
and San Francisco. cities more favor.
ably located geographically and eli.
m%atically: but it is believed that II
can be made still less. This commend.
able. object will require not only in.
creased appropriations for the health
department. but the sustained coop
Grafton Of all the citizens. and it II
this cooperation which, with an in.
telligent grasp Of the requirements
the Republic has begun a campaign
to secure
The newspapers and citizens Of ev.
cry community should awaken to tht
fact that community health Is a first
principle of effective local. govern
ment, and should adopt for their slc'
gan, public health is a purchasable
cdity.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01

POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Spot cash isn't always spotless casl

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Spot cash isn't always spotless cash.
Bachelor maids are spinsters who
haven't given up hope.
Lies travel fast and 80 keep from
getting nailed.
Every time a girl goes away from
home she has a perfectly lovely time.
If a man is always making new
friends it's a sign his old friends are
on to him.
What has become Of the old-fash-
Toned woman who had a bad omen
for every dream?
Before attempting to make a name
for herself a girl should learn to make
bread,
Some wives feel the need of an ex-
cuse for being married, and some
spinsters for not being.
It's up to you either to take thinu.
as they cOme, or r your back and
let them meander by.
1t sometimes happens that a bow
learns some very good habits by not
following in the footsteps Of his faith
er.
Nothing jolts a woman more, when
she tells: another woman something
that has been told her in confidence.
than to learn that the other oma
knows all about it.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01

her mothers married fate vas the
fate of many.
Il wear smoked glasses" she said
drearily, when Jasper Kearney FIRST
came wooing. Everything looks dark
to me. And marriage is the darkest
Of anything. I shall never marry"
Jasper went away. But in a little
while he came back again. He came
back three times and then he simply
waited. In the meantime the Prides
moved in next door.
Why in the world haven't you ever
married" asked Mrs. Pride in aston
ishment before she had known Har-
riet Very long. ut seems strange to
me-don't you ever intend to marry??"
"No, never"
Mrs. Pride laughed at the fnality
Of Harriet's tone You'll never know
what happiness is until YOU do marry
Look at me. Wentworth and I were
married six years ago last June and
we're still in our honeymoon. There's
only one thing that prevents our hap
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01
A BusHEL OF POTATOES.

What does it cost to raise a bushel
of potatoes? Probably each person
who undertook to answer the question
would arrive at a different result. The
result, of course, will vary with the
amount of labor performed, the guam
tity of seed used. the yield per acre.
and on the degree Of system which is
introduced into the work. The answer
Of one man who has wide experience
in this business will be interesting.
Charles Carson, Of Larimore, who
raises potatoes on a large scale. who
buys large quantities of them for ship
ment. and who operates a 100, 900
storage house in which he has handled
successfully large numbers of potatoes
for several years. says that under nor
nal conditions it costs a fraction over
10 cents to raise a bushel Of potatoes.
To most people that will seem sur
prisingly small. but, Mr.. Carson fur
nishes figures which appear to justify
his estimate. Here is his table of
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01
THE MUSE.
Modern Chin Music

Modern Chin Music.
Collars and cuffs for the militant girls.
Monocles. masculine. ties. -.
Socks. trousers, boots. How my In
tellect whirls. :.
Who is to make us our pies?
TAU a and canes-they may go
Cigarettes. too. for the bunch;
VIII they march up to the masculine
Eat the g%ratuitous lunch:
Taxicabs, clubs and swallow-tailed
coats.
Plated n stiff bosomed shirts,
Women will have since they're getting
the votes
Oh. how the idea hurts.
1t is abhorrent! Inhuman! The
worst!
Who will now sew on the buttons that
burst?
Who will cook what we shall eat ?
Gossip and noise! Gossip and noise!
Fighting and flirting and fuss.
"Out with the girls!" stead of "out
with the boys!"
Horrors! They'll emulate US:
Ruin is spreading her sable wings
wide
Alas! For my country ! weep.
Where is the missus She's sitting
Inside,
Rocking the baby to sleep.
And a woman is known by the &C.
QuAiutanCes she cutS
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01

Total cost Of one acre. 1880
Cost per bu. Of $50 bu..... ..13
These figures Mr.. Carson says are
not guesswork or estimates, but are
the results of actaul experience. and
are based On the present price Of la
Dor. The cost of blowing. digging and
planting is the price at which this
work can be hired done. The cost Of
seed il placed higher in the table than
Mr.. Carson believes is necessary. The
usual quantity Of seed used he says
- from 10 to IL bushels. He prefers
q little more, though he believes IL
,buShels may be a little high. while so
esets 4s-hiGhae than thu aysrasa price
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01
(By John w. carey.A

(By John w. Carey.)
Who's strong for far Alaska as
a money-making game. and paints
a rosy picture Of the future Of the
am Who's have us know that
Russia. when she cut us off a slice.
included several little things be-
sides the snow and ice? Who'd
ship the picks from Panama and
dig for anthracite. and lay a lot
of railroad tracks-and do the
thing up right? Who'd have your
Uncle San1l for a side. line take
on coal, and corner UP the bizness
in the region Of the pole? Who'd
have the senate pass his bill,
which same would tie a can abaft
the trusts that want 1t all? That
Miles. Poindexter man.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01

Husband comes in to find his wife
turning everything topsy-turvy.
Good gracious! Isabel. what are
YOU doing?"
Il just received a telegram from
Aunt. Jane saying she'll be here at
$3.50. and I can't find her photograph
anywhere"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01

A Colorado man has had his stom.
ach removed. He ought to be able
to get a job al a theatrical manager
in New York now.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01

Blind tigers had been numerous in
his county. but when he was elected
up. Down at Junction City some one
had been murdered every little while.
but in his last year in office there
wasn't eve an arrest in that dulle1
and muted village. Price is handi-
capped somewhat by n thing. He
has never learned to play.
II think" said this serious young
man. that the only things in which
! am at all interested are politics and
religion"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01

1t won't help to make a long face
when you are short.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01

And q woman is known by the ac-
quaiutances she cuts.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01

Total cost of one acre. 1890
NA~k AoA ha dEA III. q
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-01

men came in at tho gate. It was Mr..
Pride and some friend who was ac-
companying him home. She did not
like to step boldly. but and shrank,
back behind Mrs. PRIZES porch chair,
meaning al Dor as they had gone to
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-27

ton as well as of banking. then they should take
such action as their study and thought lead them
to believe is for the best for the whole country.
II. however. they have not done these things. II
they are merely pinning their faith to the ipse
dixit OF few big bankers. they should go slow
before taking any action whatever. Above all
things they should not come with their minds
made up to take certain action Just because they
are called together for that purpose.
The currency, bill now before congress does
not please everybody 1t does not please anybody
entirely. To paraphrase Lincoln, you can please
everybody with some features of bill Of this
kind: you can please some people with most OF
them, but you cannot please all the people with
all OF them. However the bill is the best pro,
duced for half century. and should pass.
It. win pass II the senate steer safe
course between the radicals on the one hand and
the ultra-conservatives on the other-between the
lineai descendants OF the greenbackers and the
special interests as was done in the house
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-27
How Virginia Makes
Money on Crime

On the first page OF this issue there will be
found interesting figures as to the cost OF 9he
saloon TO Virginia One of the items in the totai
cost of crime In the State is of 1904 persons
In the State penitentary s124,126.42 AS an
offset to this there Is in the estimate credit
of about $3.50, 900 for the lease of convicts thus
giving the penitentiary credit for net earning
of about $4,000. Another item of cost is for
395 persons at the State farm. ss6,462s6 In
the estimate credit has been given for about
SIC 600 made on the State farm. These two
amounts OF $4,000 and $4,000 as offsets
against the cost paid for the penitentiary and
state farm brings the net profit on the criml-
nails in these institutions to about $4,000 From
the standpoint OF mere bookkeeping this shows
that the State cleared about $4,000 upon con-
victs in the penitentiary and at the State farm
The More Horrible Side
When 1t is remembered that about IS per
cent of the cost of criminals is directly or in
directly due to the liquor traffic legalized and
fostered by the State does it not appear hor-
rible TO the conscientious citizen that State
with such a history as Virginia should be de-
liberately putting temptation in the way Of its
weaker citizens and then combining them as con-
vtcts In the pententlary working them under
guard upon the State farm? While the State
does clear about $4,000 its criminals from
the standpoint of mere money. 1t does so by
helping
about sl56, for their the State farm
and in the pententiary; then It leases some for
81 SO 900 and makes $4,000 on the labor of
others on the farm Such system in the last
analysis is nothing less than a traffic in crime.
1t Is a. burning shame for State to legalize
traffic which debauches men and makes crimi-
nails of them and then by process OF law con-
fines and works them to the profit OF the State,
Another point of view is in what their earn
ing capacity would be, and their productive
ability as undehauched citizens of the State
working for themselves and the maintenance
of their families AS 1t is the legalfzed liquor
system not only reduces the quality of the man,
but his earning capacity; 1T not only takes him
away from the proper support of his family, put
leaves the family often to be supported private
ly or In some State institution at pubic eX-
pense This infamous work is so insidiousy
done that the average citizen does not realize
the niuuty Of it, and our contention Is that II
IS per cent of the crime is traceable to drink
(and II even from a financial standpoint the
State makes a small showing of profit on its
convicts to say nothing of collateral expense),
II would be IA magnificent investment TO pro-
I hibit the liquor traffic and thus reduce crime
and It's consequences by the proportions ad--
mittedly attributable to it--Virginia issue.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-27

A para graph in an exchange claims that wo-
men should have their rights. All right about
that says another editor, but # we read Alright
the early chapters of the Bible. still good
thority we feel that the right of every woman
is to have a husband. Time was when this
seemed easy. but now the men hang off. J. j.
aill said once that ut not the high cost Of
living that made the hard times. and there Is
something in this.
But does not the main fault lie with the dear
girls after all? A boorish man of the world"
once said Never run after street car or a
woman; there'll be another along pretty soon"
AS fortunately true is the first part of this,
is 1t not, unfortunately, true Of the latter?
II the girls would stop scheming and conniving
to corral beaux and then boasting of their at
tentons. the men would wear smaller sized hats;
their vanity would not be so great and they
would pay court to the ladies In ye olden
time when gentle fennin:ty knew her royal
position and did not stoop to conquer
Year by year the streets of our cities are In
creasng with the throngs of females who pa
rade back and forth as so many show animals.
TO be sized up by the google eyed, spindle
shanked cigarette dude (who knows his advan-
tage from womanly eagerness) surveys the pass
ing show and vulgary comments on the good
and bad points--and the exhibits pass on, out
of his mind until he fit to improve OPP
portunities so freely offered him.
God made the country and God made our
sweet lassies, bless them; and we zee less of
such here. But Is II not to be deprecated. the
manner in which some of our charming country
girls permit coaticss striplings to amble with
them beyond the gates of privacy, or more often,
are seen strolling with a stoop- shouldered sap
ling-whose neck resembles goose pulling oc-
casion--and in the center OF mis- face the most
conspicuous object, is cigarette or weighty
pipe?
1t is not Rentlemanly to accompany ladies in
public In shirtwa;st attire, or while smoking
a cigarette, and lady should permit either.
If the man lacks gentlemanly instincts he should
be taught better by the gentler sext--Virginia
Citizen.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-27

of the oyster region outside Of the James. So
we should not be misled by disgruntled tongers
who have been disciplined, or designing planters
who want to bear" the market; nor yet by
the worker who always cries hard times" The
fact remains that Virginia has more oysters
than she knows what to do with. and 1t would
be almost criminal for citizen to Intentionally
discount her stock In trade and bring about
another depression in oyster matters, as was
unjustly thrust upon us few years back by
certain papers
If the good reports coming In from all other
sections-the Potomac, Rappahannock, POGO
moke and Tangier Sounds-through the press,
the workers and officials, were not so voum-
inous and In accord, might give some
credence to IAN oysterman here today who UNI
loads his crouch around Hampton or Newport
News.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-27
GETTING WHAT THEY ARE AFTER.

The Richmond woman who arrested and
fined for wearing a skirt that regarded
coming TO her. But 1t must be admitted that
she also got what she after. notoriety. This
Is a kind of publicity that nobody ought to
encourage 1t would have been best II the i'm
modest exhibitor had been allowed to go to her
home before the officer took her in charge. An
undramatic happening of that kind would have
been in itself a punishment to some sensualists
charlottesville Progress.
When indecent shows are assaied from press
and pulpit and when the authors are compelled
by the law to eliminate the Objectionable fea
lures the plays gain notoriety and advertisement
Recently the author of a coarse and vulgar book
was congratulated because Anthony Comstocx
had him arrested. 1t is just what writers of
sniacious books and plays want aud. as the
Charlottesville Progress remarks, arrest tust
what the young of Richmond wanted. Yet
what Is to be done? Must we allow these things
to be7
To our minds the right is being pur-
sued. Advertisement Is given. 1t is true and the
box Office receipts and royalties swollen. but
they swollen by people who want that kind
of stuff This is bad enough, but 1t is not as bad
as when decent people are deceived into observing
and reading indecent stun that is the last thing
they want.
The women OF the streets, the authors, the
playwriters and the producers get what they are
after, but then, so does the public
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-27
co SLOW.

Today the bankers OF Virginia meet ostensibly
10 consider the house currensy bill. but really to
condemn 1t almost unheard
How many Of them will attend the gathering
we have no means Of knowing, but IT Ia safe to
say that Of them all not tenth have carefully
read and studied the Class-Owen bill. Not tenth
of them could meet member of the house bank
ing and currency bill on the public rostrum and
hold their own In a free. unhampered discussion.
Not tenth Of them have studied the currency
question from the broad standpoint of the coun
try's need. They know something of what the
president of the National City Bank Of New
York has said about the bill Some of them
heard Senator Burton Of Ohio deliver his ad
dress before the American Institute OF Banking
here last week But how many Of them really
know the details of the bill and how many of
them have really studied it's effect on the coun-
try?
The bankers Of the country are part Of the
public and a great part They are above the
average in intelligence ana are familiar with the
mechanics Of banking But after all. they are
only part and they are not superior as class
TO those who have framed the bill which most Of
thanl oppose. Most Of the bankers OF Virginia
arc srnali bankers
De they see clearly the relations between them.
selves and tho big bankers7 Do they fully under
stand tho provisions Of the house bill as relating
to tne country banisss
+. tho bankers who assemble here today have
Studied the bill closely; II they feel that they
do know IT'S provisions to The smallest details:
- they orally are students Of currency distribu