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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-11
HE SAW NO REASON

HE SAW NO REASON
It is the custom for the stage
manager of all travelling theatri-
cal companies to go to the theater
Immediately upon the .company's
arrival in town and lay out on a
sheet of paper a list of the dress
ing rooms to be assigned to the
various members Of the company.
The stage manager Of this par.
ticular company repaired to the
"opry house" as soon as the
troupe had landed in town. He
made inquiry of an old man
whom he found sweeping the
stage, and who proved to be the
manager, about the number of
dressing rooms, so that he could
lay out the list for the actors.
1--WE have two dressing rooms,
said the old man.
But" said the stage man
ager, Il have a star and thirty
ladies and gentlemen in my com
pany. How can I put them into
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-11

two rooms
well" replied the old man,
you can put the star in the little
room and the thirty people in the
big room"
you don't seem to under
stand, said the stage manager.
Besides the star there are thirty
men and women. How can they
dress together ?"
Whats the matter?" asked
the old man. Amt they
speakin'?"
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-07-31

ThsruF Lehman. purvsyor to the people of Nome.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-07-31

servo t. No man h deliberately guilty of being a father unless for hit own benefit or pleasure. There il some sense In honoring the mothers of the country becaus. to the care of the mother is due the proper upbrfng- ing of the kids who will be the futurs manhood and womanhood of the na-
 ton. Their example Is the light which guides the boy or girl right or wrong but the example of the fathers usually leads only in one of those
 directions.
 While the mother is engaged In mending the pants the father is busy making . steamship funnel of his or iace while the youthful hopeful who
 sits around forgets the hyphenated garments which his mother is laboring on 90 that he might devote all his at tentlon to the adept methods of blow ing smoke on the part of the old man. While the mother is mixing the exact amount of tea leaves for the evening meal she wouldn't dare tell the future defender of the fatheriand what the paterfamilias is he wing mixed down the street as an appetizer.
 Senator Lewis Is undoubtedly fla ther and very proud of 1t but 1t is hard to see why he believes he should have a day laid aside to do him honor. He must think he deserves a lot of credit, and if he does not think so how can he come to the conclusion that all fathers collectively deserve it7 Does not Senator James Hamilton Lewis remember that when the taby was bowling during the long reaches of the night he was either playing solo at the club or sleeping peacefully in some distant room in which he had taken refuge at the first sign of the storm?
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-07-31
Official Paper
NOME, ALASKA, JULY 3i, 1918.

The vaidex Commoner in a recent issue comes out with O very strong attack on Governor Strong for hay ing appointed as his private secretary . man who was private secretary to Governor Clark, a former employee of the Guggenheims and the TreadweIl. and a republican. The Valdez Com moner is a sheet that can only exist by attacking and cannot exist long at that. The man who conducts 1t is one who is "agin" everybody but him. self and who tries to eke existence by catering to the depraved taste of those who consider a newspaper "alive" because it says impertinent and offensive things. especially about those who have any money or any position. The owner of the Commoner was the eleventh man" in the demo- cratic convention at Valdez and will be the eleventh man until he slips away tnnoticed to make cheap and vulgar comments on the lucky ones in the beyond if he ever gets chance.
 There are lots like him and there are enough of a certain kind of peo- pie provided to support him for we must have all kinds in this old world of ours.
 The truth is said be that Cover nor Strong has appointed his present secretary temporarily so that no hitch may occur in the conduct of the once. It has also been said that the governor appointed Q territorial treas urer who is not n democrat after hav- ing taken a leading part in having no one appointed by the President to ofice in Alaska unless he belonged to the democratic party. but it has been found that the new treasurer is really a democrat although not one who en- ters deeply into politics
 Lots of democrats have. if must be confessed. been heard to say that the governor did not adhere to party lines in making appointments but this can hardly he said when all the facts are known.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-07-31

The inability of a mere court decis. ion to cope with great predatory wealth was never more clearly sliowr than in the American supreme courts decision to dissolve the Standard oi company into its original component parts. What is generally known as the Standard on company Is really a holding company. the dividend earn ing companies number thirty-four in all, being combined under that name. and stretching across the United States from Maine to California.
 The courts decision to dissolve the holding company was intended as blow at Standard oil. It was thought that the Standard oil had too much | power; 1t practically dictated the oil prices of America. With the thirty | four companies under different man. | agement, this would not happen. This was the courts idea
 When the courts decision was an l nounced Standard oil sold for Se75 a
 share. A panic occurred and the 1 shares fell to a shade below $40o. But l the panic was a thing of a day. A | few months later. when the reorsani- xation was still under way. Standard oil was quoted at about nine hundred dollars a share. This. according to American financial writers. was di- rectly the cause of the courts deci- sion. The six or seven old men who manage the Standard oil made some two hundred millions of dollars as result of this court decision which was intended to crush them.
 When the Standard Oil-which
 everyone knew by name-was dis solved. what happened? A man who had one share of Standard OH was given proportionately his share of each of the thirty four oil companies. which the term Standard oil repre- sented. The man with one share re- ceived a certificate telling him that now he owned 2s3.s3s.00o of. say. the Maine oil company. whose market value was twenty-five cents. And so on. in the other thirty three instances he was given a fraction share in some company of which he knew noth- ing, for some absurd amount. Instead of having one share of stock. he had thirty -four fragments. which together represented what he had before. only scattered across the continent. and In three dozen pieces.
 Small investors fin a panic threw their fragments of shares on the mar ket. Rockefeller and his associates picked these up at far less than their real value. And. not to go into de- tails. the result was as stated above that Rockefeller and his associates gained two hundred millions as the result of an adverse court decision which the small investors lost most of that amount.
 When an adverse decision against an American multi millionaire's com pany gives that man and his associ-
 ates a bonus of a couple of hundred miilion-Canada's income for almost q couple of years-one hesitates even t' imagine what a favorable American court decision would mean to one oi these great companies.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-07-31

We print everything and anything in iob printing line at the Nugget.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-07-31

Copy for regular advertisements must be in by 10 o'clock on the day of publication.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-07-31

We print everything and anything in job printing line at tho Nugget.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-07-31
PHONE MAIN NO. e

Entered as second class matter. Feb e, 1907. at the Postoflcs at Nome. Alaaka. under the Act of Congrss cf March [. 1s7a.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-07-31

When Senator James Hamilton Lewis introduced Q resolution asking for the setting aside of special day to be dedicated to the fathers of the country-that Is to the fathers of the boys and girls of the country-he ia siving honor to those who hardly de-
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-07-31
FIRE ALARM sioNALs

Engine House. Phone Main s7 T whistles water. Three nrs out
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-07-31
Ant YOU FROM MsssouRi.

ARk YOU FROM MissouRi. If 60 we will be pleased to show you our new line of woolen goods for gen. tlemen, tailor made suits We repre- sent Strauss Brothers. of Chicago known as master tailors. These suits are all union made. they are guaran- teed to be first class in quality and workmanship. We guarantee all suits to be as represented. We also do d. terations and cleaning. pressing and repairing. Yours to please.
 NOME TAILORING co.
 We print everything and anything
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-26
FAIRGROUNDS.
Davenport Democrat. ]


I The onward march OF the public
playground is splendidly summarized IN
an article in another column, In which
the Louisville CourierJournal notes
that the park commissioners of thai
city have gone on record in favor OF
Fairgrounds. and that in the past year
over 500 American cities were added to
the list of those which have definitely
shown their interes, in the subject.
Money spent for Fairgrounds pays
dividends in better citizenship" says
Colonel Watterson's paper. which has
said many striking things but none
that We're more true than this.
Dennis Mccarthy put it into verse
once. when more cities than now an
swered TO his description:
Plenty of room for dives and dens (glit-
ter and glare and SIM:
Plenty of room for prison pens (gather
the criminals I'M,
Plenty of room for jails and courts
(willing enough to pay);
But never place for the lads to race
no. never place - play!
Davenport should be in the list of
cities with properly supervised play
groun DIS We have more than our share
Of the other good things Of life. and
are supporting as large share of good
causes as most cities; bu: we, are be-
hind the times in having made no pro-
vision for places for the lads to race
and play bail, work off thsir surplus
energy and get all the fresh air and
exercise they can, under proper super-
vision.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-26
Try QuI ALFALFA.

The farm experts the bulletins from
the agricultural colleges. Professor
Kennedy in Iowa, all say alfalfa can be
grown IN Iowa.
Alfalfa is the one crop that comes
nearest filling the whole bill. 1t is
good for everything on the farm from
breakfast food for the family, down
past the horses and the hogs and the
cattle to the chickens. 1t is most
profitable crop TO be sold as il is to
feed on the farm.
A considerable number Of good Iowa
farmers should start an alfalfa field
this spring Their success Will en-
courage others. Iowa should raise al
falfa. There's soil repair and big money
in ii. Try it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-26
ADVERTISING THE TOWN.

One of J;1e 5es. advertisements Mar
shalitown ever gave out Is the unde-
niable fact that the water supply in
this city is not surpassed by that Of
any other town in the United States IN
its healthfulness. 1t has no disease
in It. When other towns are fighting
epidemics Marshalltown goes on draw
ing water from inexhaustible natural
from the taps unafraid.
Years ago MarsnalltoWn had her re-
current epidemics Of typhoid. She was
q marked town then. The travelling
men avoided the city as a residence
location. 1t required the balance of
large business opportunity to overcome
the fear of Marshalltown as a typhoid
town. When the new conditions and
the absolute purity and safety Of the
water supply were assured it was the
best advertisement possible. Men de-
sire safety for their families first Of
ali.
Marshalltown was a wide open towr
once. Saloons and brothels and gam.
ing places ran wide open against thu
majority sentiment of the town and il
the interests of easy money and tht
graft which always attaches to tn'
liquor traffic, white slavery and oper
gambling. Conditions like these at
tract certain classes and drive ava.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-26

others. 1t requires az great business
opportunity to bring men with families
to take their chances against the wide
open town as against typhoid. They
didn't take them unless the bet was
big Among those whom the wide open
town attracts is the bunch" OF
sports" who sit into a poker game of
nights and never have the desire or the
coin to buy stock in a factory.
When Marshalltown drove out the
saloons and the brothels and the gam
bling houses she wrote even bigger
advertisement across the sky than
epidemic was done forever in Mar
shalltown. The response was immedi-
ate. The influx of population began
with the attained result and has never
faltered. 1t brought wise business men
who know that sales are bigger and
collections better in the dry and decent
town. 1t attracted employers who
know that the labor of dry and decent
town is worth a premium over that
procurable under reverse conditions.
1t brought the man who buys or builds
the better home. who rents the better
residences until there isn't a good
house to be rented. True enough it
raised rentals and boosted residence
and business properties but the COM
paint on this score is from those who
would buy or lease. When Marshall
town announced the decent policy she
won. Those who, fearful of it's effect
on business opposed the change,
acknowledge it, 1t was Marshalltown
biggest advertisement. 1t got Mar
shalltown more than the Des Moines
Booster Club ever got for Des Moines.
II wasn't hot air but the real thing.
II was there on examination. II looked
better than II sounded.
II is here still, the decent town and
the pure water supply. 1t would be
as sensible to shift the intake of the
water mains into the polluted Iowa
river as to bring back the wide open
policy. 1t would be the hardest knock
Marshalltown ever had turnout the
state, the reverse Of good advertising
as i, would be the climax OF bad
policy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-26
11fns-REPUBIICAN, MARsHAILrowN, IOWA, MARCH

4 T
water powers for the citizens Of the
future and ret aside forests In reserve.
In those twenty years the precent-
nga of illitesacy everywhere has de-
| clined and 10 in way of being wiped
wholly out. The common man has
come to q realization OF his own power
and discovered that in the ballot IL
the means to redress every grievance
OF which he justly complains. The
chains Of party rest lightly upon the
shoulders Of men and they no longer
view parties as things to be worshiped
but to be utilized in the advancement
OF society. The vision that was the
radicals Of yesteryear ras become the
vision Of the nation and the arch
demagog" of them all is the premier OF
a progressive democratic cabinet.
Surely there has been progression
Surely democracy has travelled at
rapid pace. and yet without error. Men
twenty years ago jeered for their
views. finding themselves today In
company of the wholly respectable,
fear for their virtue and conscious OF
how right they were when others de-
clared them wrong wonder now If they
can be right
To take pause for review of the past
twenty years is to seem to waken from
a Rip Van Wrinkle sleep and doubt the
evidence before ones eyes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-26
THE WIDE OPENERS.

The wide openers, like the buffalo
and the Indian. are on the verge Of
passing or conforming TO modern con-
ceptions Of decency. Not only the wide
open town is disappearing. but the
wide open state is on its way. Iowa
state. 1t restricted the booze vendor
and has kept on restricting him. II
turned out the red lights when the
Coson law made the real estate subject
to severe penalties when leased or used
for immoral purposes. And other
states watching Iowa as all the states
ership are doing what Iowa has done
very much as Iowa did and because
Iowa showed them how. California
came across the Rockies and borrowed
Iowas Moon law. The California
measure goes deeper and cut the ratio
of saloons to one 20 500 population,
but the enactment will probably COM
promise on the same ratio as Iowa's.
Washington passed a red light law
modelled after Iowas. 1t was sad
day in the rotten cities when the gov
ernor signed it but he simply had to
sign it He had his choice between
facing the reprisal of the red light
bunch from white slavers up 10 dea-
cons who draw high rents from vice or
the anger Of outraged decency and like
d wise man chose the better way.
There are two western states, min
ing. numbering. wild and woody and
western states following the footsteps
of Iowa in the paths of progress There
is the congress of the United States
seeking for a controlling lax for vice
in the capital of the nation turning 10
the Iowa law and considering il as the
most effective in force in the United
States.
Decency is the best advertising. Il
attracts the class of population most
needed and most desirable L is as
true Of nations as Of cities and il is
essentially and undeniably true Of
cities that enforced decency drives our
nndesirables and draws their oppos.res.
No vide open town IS . good town
TO I've in-e~pr for those who seek
':ae:- profits and pleasures thru the
depreciation Of others. That IS a gen
e-al conclusion based on The facts and
i be!ns accepted e'@fs where, east and
west north and south.
The state and Town which rids itself
Of thc vide open policy and the wide
openers is doing tiae best Kind Of boost
ing. Il is getting publicity that couots.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-26

plans q the League u provide . food
supply.
Mn. Heath wired to Arthur q. Leon.
ard. president Of the Union stock
Yards company. In Chicago. asking the
cause tor the increase in the prices OF
meats. Mr.. Leonard wired back:
For the period since Jan. l ~ compared
with the came period Of ls1s there has
been total decrease in the receipts at
Chicago o. 646.6cO meat animals OF every
type. amounting to an aggregate OF 100
oooOoo pounds.
Mr.. Leonard further explained tho
shortage on the ground that Q large
amount OF range country was annually
being cut into small farms and made
unsuitable for the raising of cattle.
He said the annual shortage had been
increasing for seven years. and 1t
would take a similar period of time to
build the cattle industry up to a point
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-26
TIE WAGES OF PASSION.


How endless are sometimes the
consequences OF a ms !nent OF nom
restraint! Thomas A. Wits. known TO
his neighbors and friends as a good
fellow. now has another mans blood
upon his hands as a result Of sudden
anger over a trivia, cause. Only be-
cause couple of hunters without evil
intent borrowed an old fat bottorned
boat, he lost his self control to the ex-
tent that he now stands liable. if his
victim dies. for the crime of murder.
When shall the consequences OF that
simple act be ob!i:erated from the az
fairs cf his life? One small but terrible
word IS the answer-never.
The lesson enforced al such fear
full expense should not be lost upon
this community Men should medi-
tate on this misfortune, this loss OF
temper, which might indeed nave
come 10 them. They should guard
against that day when the sun rises.
as at other mornings, upon an innocent
man, 70 sink upon him possible rnUr-
derer. Boys particularly need the bene-
fit of this lesson. for youth is hottest o.
head ard most reckless of consequence.
Parents should carry the significance
OF il TO their children.
The precepts of christianity may be
too big. TOO inclusive TO enforce In
moment. But this horrible thine-!ook
a, il, It's warning is blunt, brutal. pi,i-
less. 1t can not be escaped CT eVaoeo.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-26
homeward Bound.

There's a pine built lodge in craggy
mountain glen
In the shag- breasted motherland that
bore me:
And the west wind calls, and I'm turn
ing home again
To the hills where my heart is gone
before me.
Where a lake laughs blue when the
dipping paddles CLEAN,
Where the wild geese are following
their leader,
Where the trout leaps up from the sill
yer of the stream
And the buck strikes his horn against
the cedar.
Arthur Gutterman In Golfers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-26
TWENTY YEARS.

Dubuque 1tlES!d pa t1Ci az
Where are the radicals OF Eestef
year? Where are those who STOOD
their ground the while the unctuous
and the sacrosanct hurled invective
at their heads? Where are the nell
brood OF humanity. the anarchists
the hewhiskered Pops, the rainbow
chasers," the "stirrers OF class strife,
the "envious Of the successful? Some.
lis true and pity It's It's true, are
sleeping the long sleep II the mario"
house They were taken before Inc!
should become respectable under the
laccepted standards Of modern society.
They we're men OF vision, strong OIL
mind, courageous pioneers in reform
/ who bore serenely when they could the
taunts and jeers of the favored OF
! fortune and the suspicious OF the ls-
norant dupes Of privileges. They were
! the sewers who were TO be denied view
Of the harvest Yet we shall not pc
lieye them unhappy dead for they went
10 their graves with the faith that
moves mountains sustaining them ana
serene in the conviction that one day
the nation would know the truth and
50 be freed.
Theirs were proposals dangerous and
| untried" They struck at the founca-
/ lion Of government They were
| wild reformers'' who knew
nothing Of the intricacies of business
and even less about the balances OF
! government" Never successful them
selves" they prescribed rules OF sue
cess" rules whcih must work havoc.
Brave fellows, they needed the
strength that martyrs must have, Tor
.hey- we're branded with the stigma OF
social ostracism and even their own
families frequently doubted them.
Eighteen ninety-two is only twenty
Years ago. What changes have come
in our government since. How radi-
cally altered the point OF view. In
that year Gen. James B. Weaver polled
900 900 votes as the populist party s
candidate for president. Weaver is
gone and the populist party is gone.
but what both stood for in government
has been written into the laws and the
nation and the states are greater and
stronger today then ever they have
been. In the interim the Australian
ballot has been adopted and improved
upon, the primary system OF nomina-
tons mas become almost universal the
nation has asserted effectively power
Of control of railroads, the initiative
and referendum have been adopted in
more than half the states and the re-
call in many others. The courts in
ijunctive powers have been modified
tho not enough; an income tax amend
ment to the federal constitutions haa
been adopted and another amendment
for the direct election Of United States
senators today is lacking the ratifica-
ton of only three states to become
part Of the organic law. Means hal
. been found in the Sherman law OF con-
troll the lawless trust, public owner
ship has invaded the field of the ex-
press monopoly and physical valuation
iof the railroads, To afford proper
basis for rate-making, has been pro-
vided for. The national government
mas retained for itself the minera
j wealth in public lands. safe guarded
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-26
here 3 t !. I could r. : REDUCTION e

where thsrs could r. : seduction 6
prices.
Mrs. Heath said:
IF we can persuads the farmers 10
raise enough meat animals 10 supply
the local demand then the dealers
could procure their whole stock iron
local sources and would b free from
the influence Of the packers. and the
dealers would b glad 10 do this II
they could feel assured that . sun.
cient supply would b. forthcoming.
The farmers should be glad to cooper
ate because Of the profit which would
accrue to them. and the Housewives
league would cooperate By buying
none but home raised meat"