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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-06-19

your pride's sake. This the picture.
Then the Moral Application (which
every one has seen coming all along).
Now. good friends. isn't this just
what we are trying to do? Are we
not playing the foolish chauffeur. and
wearing out our engines needlessly,
when we attempt TO take all life's
roads upon the high speeds? Shift
your gears before II is too latei"-
K. p. Frost, in the Atlantic.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-06-19
Shift Your Gearsl

III were going to attempt a sermon
tand who does not feel himself capa-
BILE OF ut least a coupleO my first
text should be upon the theme: Shift
ing Gears. should begin with a per-
tinent illustration. IL would be the
picture OF motor-car and long hill.
You size up the hill from the bottom
and attempt II on the high gear. The
grade proves to be sleeper than at
first thought The engines begin TO
pound. But you have vowed to make
the top on the high gear. BY simply
shifting over. with whatever reluc.
tance. all would be we'll. Instead. you
let the engine fret and throb perhaps
stall itself OF wreck something, for
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-06-19

One OF the militant suffragists who
attacked the gates OF buckingham
palace struggling in the grasp Of the
Boobies" that frustrated the raid.
The women have so exasperated the
authorities In London that the police
now handle them as they would male
offenders.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-06-19
A Cheering Effect.

What influence has cubist art had
on civilization?
WELL" relied the eminent alienist.
1T has had a refining influence out
at our asylum. A number OF rooms
THAI used to be referred to as ceHs
are now called studios."
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-06-19
ParadoxIeaI PreealItIon-

There is one queer thing about q
coal trust"
What Is that7"
when II limits production, Il nev.
er has coal to burn
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14
GOING SOME.

After recommending pork barrel
to the amount of SO
million dollars for rivers and har-
bors in these days of lean income
from tariffs, the democratic congress
now proposes to levy a war tax on
freight shipments of three per cent
of the value of the goods. Please
note, not three per cent of the freight
bill, but three per cent of the value
of the goods" What has become OF
the boasted economy of this admin
istration? While the revenues are
100 million short why not let the
pork barrel go empty for a season?
Every other business in the country
has found it necessary to curtail ex-
penses to meet the depressed times
occasioned by the war. Not so with
congress, however. No matter how
depressed business generally may be,
1t has been long time since the
democratic mule has been at the crib.
He Is hungry and must be fed, no
matter If it is necessary to levy this
onerous additional tax on depleted
and struggling business.
That's going some.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14
THE DAYS OF PROPHECIES.

Every time a war breaks out or
an earthquake does something a lit
tie erratic there are those to rush
for the libraries and dig up the proph-
ecies of men long in glory. Just now
they are printing what alleges to be
prophecy of Tolstoi, and the chances
are he never wrote such a thing as
they say he did. The man who reads
his Bible finds in Revelations plenty
to prove to him that this great war
now on in Europe was foretold-but
all other wars have been foretold by
the same authority. The prophets
haven't called the turn on anything
of the future. They may predict and
when they miss it thousand times
and guess it correctly once we seem
to recall only the one time.
War has always been, and war will
always be so long as nations prepare
for it and teach men to fight. Behind
u ali 10 Nlt DOlldi' lHal ID IiC CduSS
of war-has always been and will al
ways be. We hatch up some plausi-
BILE excuse, often, but the real reason
for all wars in these days is money.
There was a time when men fought
about religion-killed their millions
but those days have passed, and We
are fighting for money--for power
to protect interests" or add new ter,
ritory.
Unless the present war is ovel
within ninety days the chances are i
must run its course-like a spell o
I fever-and that means three years /
il means a day. And naturally ther'
are those who have prophesied war
In fact, 1t has been freely predicte'
that some day there must be a wa
between Labor and Capital-and
may happen. When 1t does you vii
find the fellow with the prophecy al
ready to turn it in and say 81 toll
you So"
For fifty years this war that is o
today has been predicted. Men finaI
ly thought that 1t was too big an ur
dertaking. But 1t came. And othe
J wars will come until the end of tim,
We talk of peace-but there will b
no universal peace. Not so long q
J man remains the same kind OF deceit
; full animal that he is today.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14
A LITTLE WAR OF OUR OWN.

To say the people of the United
States have no vital interest in the
European war is stretching the truth
into a falsehood, for while the pow
ers are struggling for physical su-
premacy the citizens of this country
are at war with the greedy power
that would make capital out Of a
neighbor's misfortune and make
Americans pay in cash for the sup
plies that Europe fails to take, says
the Eugene Register.
The war is with the food gam
blers, the men who would fill their
pockets with gold regardless of the
suffering that is sure to follow un-
less they are checked in their diabol-
ical schemes. All over the country
there are uprisings because of the
unreasonable advance in the prices
of goods. Investigations are under
way, conducted by the federal gov
ernment, the states, the counties, the
municipalities, commercial organiza-
tions, women's clubs and other or
ganizations of public spirit. 1t is an
uprising and may result in a revolu-
ton in the business methods of the
country such as national Legislators
have not as yet dreamed of.
Already evidence has been pro-
duced that there is no justification
for the advances in the price of SUI
gar, of meat, of flour and other ne
cessities. 1t has gone so far as to
show that the packers at the begin
ming of the European war advised
farmers and stock raisers to hold
their livestock in order to create a
scarcity of meat, which would give
the packers an excuse for raising the
prices. The sugar trust with its
mighty machinery has been attempt
ing to justify itself by means of
printed matter by the wholesale sent
out to every part of the country, but
the nicely worded and attempted pa
triotic utterances have little weight
beside the facts.
To offset the greed of the shy
locks New York and other cities are
planning to open municipal groceries
to be guarded and protected by spec
ial policemen. The Housewives
League is growing in strength, which
is being followed by the Buyers
Club, the farm-to-family movement
All these things have tendency tc
eliminate the jobber and build uT
the community spirit. 1t may be So
cialistic, but it seems to be a neces-
sity for the purpose of protection.
The people of the United States
are interested in the European wal
because of the effect that is being
forced upon the nation by the greedy
food gambler and the human hog
The fight should be kept up unit
that spirit is eliminated.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14
is IN POVERTY NOW.

A few years ago--time is fleeting
but back in 1884 and 1885 Mrs.
Belva Lockwood was out over the
country making speeches-appearing
before big audiences at good prices
giving a little talk about women in
public life and especially telling
about her campaign for the presi-
dency-she being the only woman
who ever attempted to run for that
high office.
Mrs. Lockwood afterwards enjoyed
good law practice; she made money
and had the ability and opportunity
to lay aside little kale seed for the
rainy day that comes into all our
lives, according to licensed poets and
others.
But we see the pathetic news in
the papers that the gifted lady is now
in her eighty-fourth year, and desti-
tute. Friends pay the rent in a
home for her, and other friends are
now busy trying to interest Carnegie
to establish a $1,000 fund so that
she can live comfortably from the
interest of it, Mrs. Lockwood s
work for years in the cause of peace
is the reason for appealing to Carne-
gle. Mrs. Lockwood was one of
three foremost organizers of the Uni
versal Peace Bureau in Berne, SwitZ-
erland. While it seems just now the
Peace Bureau isn't running full time,
it does seem sad to know that a
woman of Mrs. Lockwood's talents
should be suffering.
However, thousands of persons
who forget to lay aside some of their
earnings, who drink, eat and are
merry in their youth, find Age con-
fronting them without the where
withal to provide against want.
Mrs. Lockwood can look back to
the days of her glory-to the days
when the papers were full of heT
and she was full of herself-the days
when money came to her in blocks
big enough to do about as she
pleased.
All of us will be willing to hope
that the gifted lady will not be
obliged to go to the county home
that would hardly be right in g
world filled with charitable and ap,
preciative people.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14

Phone news items to the Tidinss.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14
NO TIME FOR WASTE.

Compared with many folks, Ameri-
cans, even those who have little, are
wasteful. 1t has been said that
French peasant could subsist on what
an American worker throws into his
garbage can. He certainly could on
the waste in the average American
home.
Europe usually has to import 600,-
100000 bushels of wheat. She could
eat corn, but Europeans are preju-
diced against it. Now in all the
world there aren't 600,0o0,O0O bush
els of spare wheat that Europe can
get, at any price.
Thanks to a bumper crop, Uncle
Sam has 3O0,000,000 bushels that he
can spare, if somebody will arrange
to carry it across. The rest of the
worlds surplus this year probably
won't amount to 100,000,000 bush
els.
With 100000 Europeans engaged
in killing each other, hunger, grim
and dire, must soon press heavily on
that war-mad continent.
Humanity as we'll as business
should prompt us to be ready with as
much food as possible for Europe's
relief. 1t is sinful as we'll as foolish
to waste food while millions of other
folks, our brethren, are famishing.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14

After years of active experience
in newspaper work and with news
paper men, am more than ever con-
vinced that a newspaper cannot af-
ford, any more than an individual,
to be without character; and that as
a mans character is summed up from
his life, from the good he has done,
the evil he has prevented, the homes
he has frightened, and the hearts he
has gladdened, just SO will the mex
orable Judgment of posterity, and Of
the greater public, to which no pas
sion nor prejudice OF the day can APP
peal, measure out merciless justice
TO the journal whose sole object and
aim It has been to coin the woes of
the human race into grist for its
owner.-John A. Cockerill.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14

1t is we'll known that almost every
person is sometimes disposed to
speak evil of others; and tattling is
a sin from which very few can claim
to be entirely exempt. But the OBJ
ject of this article is to call atten-
ton to that distinct class of tattlers
who make tale-bearing the constant
business of their lives. Fortunately
we have but few such in this COM
munity, but no community is entirely
free from them.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14
while the tight-fisted ones are strug-
Cling for the necessities of life.

The latest fad in society is the tub
cure. In this the patient arises just
as the crisp air of the morning is
mellowed by the first sunbeam. An
ordinary washtub is then filled with
hot water and soapsuds, into which
various articles of linen are thrown.
After they are thoroughly saturated
the patient takes them up one at a
time and rubs them briskly up and
down on a washboard placed in the
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14

No town in this state, or in any
other place for that matter, can ex-
pect to thrive and prosper without
the concentrated effort of its citizens
and the judicious expenditure of
money. The towns in our state to-
day that are prosperous are the ones
that have donated literally to enter
pris IS which employ labor. Thus it
is and always will be that the liberal
and broad-gauged town will thrive
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14
THE LAST ONE.

Sunday as we sat in our gold-p1ated
sanctum reading a few exchanges
printed in fourteen-point war news
type. a fly lowered over our dome
OF thought and sat down by the side
of us. The fly looked pathetic He
looked sad. He looked thoughtful,
and as it was the first fly we had seen
for long time we adjusted our glass
es. laid down the paper and concluded
to ask few questions. We said,
You are quite a stranger here"
Yes" replied the fly. Il am the
only one left. have seen my broth
ers and sisters and my aged parents
swatted to death. ! have viewed their
lifeless remains. l have sat by their
death bed and had tanglefoot in my
own feet. have heard their groans
and dying shrieks. / have sorrowed
with them, and cried out my tired
eyes. To know that all my race is
gone; that alone, once honored
among ten million, have stood in tan
glefoot up to my knees and seen them
all swatted-all go down to dusty
death-has been a terrible strain.
You might think that | think life
holds something for me, but it does
mt. do not want to commit suicide,
but many times ! am forced to think
it best. We were here warning
against the germs of disease and as
sisting in our God-given way to do
a part-a part given up by our Gre
ator, and without reason, without
warning the swatting campaign came
on. 1t was force. We could not go
up against the swatters. We could
not get out of the anglefoot-there-
fore we had to die. 1t seems hard.
But the war was waged by those with
greater power than We possessed. 1t
was in no way our fault. We were
placed here to kill invisible germs.
You see we have powers of percep-
tion-our eyes are stronger than your
most powerful magnifying glasses.
We were scavengers in the invisible
world-we had our part to perform.
We killed the War Germ. The mo-
ment we stopped the War Germ liter
ally took possession and swarmed.
The east attracted the first swarms
and they alighted across the seas.
Presently they will be infected and
war will be universal. The War Germ
is like any other germ. 1t is catch
ing. Had we not been swatted there
would have been no war. 1t is terri
BILE to think that man, who is power
ful, imagines when he finds bolt
and no place to putt It, that the bolt
was made in vain. The same theory
would work we're a man to be going
along and find in the road wagon
wheel. He would conclude, If he had
never seen a wagon, that the wheel
was some useless ornament But
when men make things they are Tor
a purpose. When God makes things
they are for purpose. am not
complaining-bu ! regret that the
War Germ has been given opportunity
TO spread. Yes. we killed millions of
them. We ate them alive. But since
my people have been swatted the
Germ is unrestrained and the con-
tagion must spread throughout the
world" And the old fly after show
ing us how he pulled his toenails out
OF his feet releasing himself from the
sheet OF tanglefoot went out the dool
on wings that bespoke weariness and
worry.
After yparS Of active pXDeriencl
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14

Don't grumble. The most unfor-
tunate class of people living upon
this green earth are the grumblers.
They rob home OF its joys, society of
its dues. and themselves of the best
things of life. From the days the
children of Israel "grumbled" and
were sent on their tedious wander
ings for forty years in the wilder
ness" up to the present hour the
world has been full OF grumblers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14

tub. This is kept up until the hands.
arms and face are a glowing pink.
The patient then goes into the open
air and hangs all the linen articles
on a line stretched for that purpose.
The one completing the task first an
nounces the time to the others over
the telephone, and is entitled to a
prize. 1t is exciting sport and also
invigorating exercise.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14

You have something you do not
need. Somebody else needs 1t and
has what you want. Twenty-Five
cents puts your proposition before
two thousand people through the
"For Trade" column OF the Tidings.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14

Fifty cents invested in a Tidings
For Sale" ad often sells a $1,000
property. Did you ever try it?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14

Don't be kicker. Lend helping
hand to every enterprise having for
its object the progress of your COM
munity or the betterment of your
people. Say word for every man
who manifests public spirit. Don't
growl when you ought to lend en-
couragement. If you can't help,
don't hinder Some men who have
very little money to put up do a
great deal of good to their commun-
ity by words of kindness and good
cheer concerning public-spirited men
and movements. Some men who
have money are a handicap upon
progress and prosperity through the
exercise of a disposition to cast re-
proach upon their neighbors general
ly, and heaping criticism upon the
endeavors of public-spirited men. If
you don't feel like pushing things
give the town a chance by keeping
off the backs of men who work fol
general progress and prosperity
Again we say, if you can't help, don't
hinder.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-09-14
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
A Modern Necessity.

The value of advertising is felt at
three ends-the merchant, the con-
sumer and the publisher.
Through the medium of his adver-
tisements the merchant acquaints the
consumer with the wares he has for
sale, with their values and their at
tractive features, and is himself con-
stantly in touch with the consumer.
The consumer reads of the goods
he wants, learns where to find them,
and saves the time of fruitless hunt
ing from place to place.
The publisher is the go-between,
the medium of communication be-
tween the buyer and sNller, a sort of
public convenience. Strange as it
may seem, he, too, has his uses.
1t is a modern necessity, made so
by the constantly increasing de-
mands of a discriminating public.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-15
COUNTY WILL SPEND
S348,992.18 IN 1914
First Budget For Dauphin Com
pleted by the Commits
sioners Yesterday
MILL RATE FIXED AT FOUR
Various Sources of Outlay and
Income Are Set Out;
Some Items Higher

Dauphin county's estimated expendi-
lures during the coming year will total
s34S,ss2.1S, according to the first bud
get completed late yesterday afternoon
BY the County Commissioners.
The mill rate, as had been expected,
was fixed at four mills.
The budget contains twenty different
times and the larger of these include
the $50, 900 for the Poor Directors and
$4,000 for the Prison Board. AS Il
rule the expenses for the coming year
will be much the same, although some
pf the items will be larger.
OF the S12,79s asked by the County
Commissioners. $4,000 goes for the SAL
hry of three clerks, and 500 is al
lowed for travelling expenses OF the
E4,161 to be allowed the County Con-
lroller, s2,500 is for his own and $1,320
For his deputy's salary. The remainder
Is for stationery, telephones, a contin-
gent fund of SIS. and so on. The Cor
oner is allowed s2,690, with an allow
ance OF $500 for physicians and $50
for jurors. To the District Attorney
appropriated sS,697, including $4,000
Tor the county's attorney and $4,000
for the two assistants. The Office of
County Inspector of Weights and
Measures is allowed S1,26O, 500 OF
which is provided as salary for Inspec-
tor Harry A. Boyer. The items of ex-
penditure and the receipts follow
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-15
PUBLICITY THE BEST
WEAPON IN VICE FIGHT
[Continued From First PageJ

lowers, but poor leaders-effective as
rear guard. but worthless for scout
duty. The Judge has some favorable
opportunities to excite @ lethargic
public conscience, but to avail himself
of them is to earn a reputation as a
sensationalist-a result extremely dis
tasteful to the judicially minded I'm
memorial usage, the obligation of
Judicial decorum. a conservative en-
vironment and the inflexible letter of
the law combine to discourage judicial
initiative. There Is little to be hoped
for in this direction except that the
courts may be depended upon for gen.
erous responses to a well-defined pop
ular demand for a thorough going en-
forcement of the law"
When Virtue Sleeps
Judge Carter, further along in his
letter. after discussing the admins
tration and enforcement of the law.
says:
In state Of political quietude
with no pronounced pressure for law
enforcement, the considerations that
make for a course of conciliation
toward influential lawlessness are ir-
reslstible to the average public official
The inevitable result Is that the sur
face is CLOSED over and that vice and
crime flourish underneath. There is
nothing more natural than this evo-
luton of protected vice. 1t has it's
genesis not SO much in the corruption
as in the timidity of public officials;
but, once rooted, graft inevitably re-
suits. The primary responsibility for
such conditions attaches to indiffer
ent, somnolent virtue. Virtue sleeps;
vice never does. Virtue awake is the
stronger and can always command
official allegiance; asleep, political do
minion is lost to her weaker adver-
sary.
In the darkness of public indiffer-
ence society has been corrupted; in
the light OF awakened conscience she
must be purified. Publicity is the
remedy. Insistent, persistent, relent-
less publicity. Every soul that loves
its fellow and hates the enemy of
humankind should delve for the truth
and proclaim it from the housetops
The Church should wake from her
dreams of peace and enlist in the holy
war. To free society from evil domi-
nation 1t Is always necessary that the
truth be made known. This was
abundantly demonstrated in the cam
paign of publicity by paid newspaper
advertising recently conducted in At
lanta, Ga.
Upon the sheer reason of the thing
as well as from the results accom-
plished in Atlanta, I am persuaded
that everything in the way Of law en-
forcement and the suppression of legal
lied vice that is possible Of accomplish
ment through human agency may rea-
sonably be expected to result from the
application of this one remedy-pub-
licity. In it is the alchemy that will
transmute the base metal of public
Indifference and official delinquency
into the pure gold of active virtue and
efficient public service
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-15

Il Feel Like / Am in Jail, q Am So
Ashamed of These Pimples'
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