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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-29
WORKING GIRLS AND MORALITY.


with the wave of hysteria that swept
the country a few months ago, during
the inquiry into the wages paid girls
in the stores of the various cities, is
the sane statement of Miss Lois Corn
forth, investigator for the board OF
public welfare at Kansas City, that
morality should not figure in the de.
mand for wages. She says that when
the demand has such basis it casts un.
founded reflections on working girls
She gives it as her conclusion that
wages count little in the morals of
girls who work, her Investigations
showing that not one-tenth of the girls
who get into trouble are working girls
or were working girls at the time their
delinquency began.
Recent investigations of cases of de.
linquency among women in Chicago
support Miss Cornforth's conclusions.
The gathering of statistics on the sub
ject is attended with difficulties, for
the delinquent naturally seeks to deal
as leniently with herself as possible.
But even when the statements of delin-
quents are accepted without investiga-
ton of antecedents, the percentage of
immortality traceable to lack Of liv-
ing wage is extremely small. Love Of
finery and rich living is far more pro-
life cause of immortality. Hasty and
early marriages, with speedy separa-
lions, have made the descent easy and
swift to many young women. The
number of girls who have gone to the
cities from villages and rural commun-
tiles to hide their disgrace and save
their parents from embarrassment
must be large. The cities have this
supply added to their own normal pro-
duction of erring girls, probably larger
because of the opportunities in the city
to elude the vigilance Of parents and
neighbors.
The question of wages is economic
and the assumption that a low wage to
girls implies immortality is a gross in.
justice to thousands Of working girls
of spotless character. Two reasons Of
low wages are specifically obvious:
Many girls work for pin money and
live at home. while many others are
not efficient. The suggestion Of 8
minimum wage by statutory compul
sion offers no panacea, aside from the
legal difficulties. The inefficient EN-
ployes would not be paid more thar
their services are really worth. If they
were it would be tantamount to com
polling employers to contribute char
ity to employees. A partial solution
would be the increasing Of efflcfnc!
among employees and such readjust
ment as would better distribute thu
wageworkers. Some pursuits arr
crowded while others clamor for work
ers. The statistics of Chicago delin
quents showed the greatest number
even twenty times that Of forme
clerks, had formerly been domestic
servants. The domestic servant is sur
of living, but the life is not attrac
tive. For this fact there is division
of responsibility between employe
and employe, and the financial aspec
of it is the least significant. All tn
complexities Of human nature ente
into the problem. It cannot be solves
by passing law.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-29

The Lavery family suffered severely
the first Of the week as the result of
escaping gas from furnace. None of
the family were overcome but all were
considerable indisposed for a day or
So
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-29
CASH VALUE JUST $50.

The following story won second
place in the State Editorial contest
held in connection with the 1914 VAL
ley City ChautauQua. The facts were
furnished by the banks of Kensal and
the story written in Valley City, and
published as an editorial in the Ken
sal Journal: ... :
Introductory.
With other editorial writer's of
North Dakota we have been asked to
write a story pertaining to agriculture.
the story to be entered in the Valley
City Chautauqua Edhorial Contest.
The following is in response, and it
comes from a heart filled with graft
tude to the various influences which
were responsible for our lot being cast
In this great commonwealth; state
SO magnificently endowed by nature
for an agricultural paradise, where
even the man made laws show such a
marked evidence Of the influence Of
the hand Of the creator of all things
that are good and truly useful to the
human race.
A True Story.
In writing this story, which is based
entirely upon facts, as we have found
them after careful investigation, we
believe that we should make it almost
purely local-since we know of no
place in the world where there are
better opportunities for farming and
dairying than are to be found in this
immediate neighborhood and state.
We raise corn-not yet perhaps as
good as may be found in some parts
of the older settled states, but fully
the equal, If not. the superior, of theirs
when at a similar stage of develop
ment.
In support of this statement, and
among many examples, is the exper
fence of one of our most progressive
farmers, Mr.. John Hutchinson, who
for several years has been experiment
ing the seeds. Mr.. Hutchinson has
succeeded in harvesting seven thous
and bushels Of good corn from hun
dred acres Of his land.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-29

that cannot be impaired to anyone,
and anyone who wants to attempt 4
similar undertaking may have the ad-
vantage of their knowledge for the
asking. .
Alfalfa growing has claimed the at
tention of many farmers in this vicin-
ity in recent years with the result that
several fields, are yielding two and
three good cuttings this season, and
it has been demonstrated that this
splendid feed can be proftably and
successfully grown on Kensal soil.
Tame grasses of almost all kinds
have been successfully grown, but it
now seems probable that alfalfa will
be the staple grass crop for the dairy
farming of the future.
We have made no attempt to tell you
of the wonderful wheat and fax crops
which have been grown in North Da-
kota; of how one farmer Melted ten
per cent from wheat crop, basing his
land valuations at 100000 per acre;
of how another broke up quarter
section of land which he had purchas-
ed for $4,900,000, and planted it to fax
the crop bringing him $4,700.00, while
few weeks after his crop was thresh-
ed he sold the bare land for $5,600.00.
Such examples are exceptional, and
even were they not, do not represent
the greatest values which can be pro-
duced from the land.
1t is to the cattle-the dairying in
terests-the hogs, horses, and sheep
and to the crops which will feed them,
that North Dakota must look for her
wealth. The pioneer stage Of these
industries is passed, and a few years
will tell story which would have
been unbelievable to those who help
ed make the states earliest history.
Moral.
The men who inaugurated this A.
ricultural contest were wiser than
they knew. The still hunt by the
newspaper men Of the state has re-
suited, if in nothing else, bringing
them face to face with conditions that
are simply astonishing. Regardless
Of any prizes that may be awarded,
the knowledge Of what gigantic
strides are being made in agriculture
and dairying, heretofore unknown by
L us, although they existed in our own
neighborhoods, weighs in editorial
education, far more than any cash
prize, however valuable.
A step in the right direction has
been taken in the organization of the
Farm Boys Encampment, the Dairy
School and the Farm Girls Encamp-
ment and School, which was held at
Valley City during the Chautauqua,
and to which the eyes Of the entire
state has been directed.
We must have better farming meth
DDS. The soil of our state is the best
in the world, we have sufficient rain
fall, the climate is favorable, and it
only remains now for the farmer to
become educated to a point where he
Will understand that "as ye SOW, so
! shall We also reap"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-29

securing a better quality of corn each
succeeding year, the result of careful
seed selection, and increasingly thoro
cultivation. Corn has become one of
the staple crops here, and without
doubt, the day is approaching when
Kensal will be referred to as being in
the corn belt"
For some years the farmers have
been urged to raise more stock, but
they are just beginning to awaken to
their opportunities. The North Dako-
ia Better Farming Association now
Las representative in Kansas City,
Mo-, selecting mich COWS, and large
number of orders, have been placed
by our farmers, who are going into the
dairy business because theytare con-
WINGED that the real opportunity for
independent wealth lies in cattle, hogs
and corn. In the future they will un-
doubtedly bend their efforts in that
direction.
There is no disposition to rush into
debt to secure dairy herds, and but a
few COWS are being bought at the
start. Others will be added from
time to time, and with the increase
nearly every farmer will own a good
dairy herd within a few years.
In order to be a good dairy and
farming country it is essential that
the community should be desirable
for building a home, and in order to
build a home one must have trees
fruits and be able to raise gardens.
All of these things are being done in
the Kensal country: .....
Sam L. Ferguson, one of our sub
stantial farmers picked this year over
three hundred quarts of raspberries
and four bushels Of currants, from a
few bushes which he had planted for
family use. This is only one example.
Many others are raising every variety
Of fruit that can be grown in north
ern state.
J. H. Steel, Hugh Riebe, J. L. Hoo
yer and others harvested immense
crops of apples and plums as well as
small fruits, including Strawberries
this year, which indicates that we are
not living altogether in a wheat coun-
try, but where diversified farming
will pay as we'll as in other sections Of
the northwest.
Many fasteners and others who
have not visited this country look up.
on it as a barren wilderness where
wheat or at the most a few varieties
Of small grain can be grown. Dur.
ing a recent trip to Casselton, near
here, we found canning factory run.
ming almost night and day, canning
ripe, home grown tomatoes, as we'll as
corn and vegetables, and while we did
not investigate as to whether or not
raising tomatoes would prove a pro
fitable industry in North Dakota, one
cannot but believe that the trail has
been blazed for the canning industry
in the state.
Some people will insist that berries
will not do we'll in this state, and YET
at this years ChautauQua Assembly
in Valley City, we and several hundred
other campers were supplied with
strawberries grown within stones
throw of the grounds. On this par
ticular tract of a quarter of an acre
enough berries were sold to pay all
expenses Of growing and marketing
and there was still left over 500 pro
fit for the use of the ground.
This may have been an exceptional
ly good crop, raised under unusually
favorable conditions, by men who
made study Of this particular kind Of
a crop. Still, they have no secrets
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-29
ing tabulation is given:

Bloom attempts to collect by "
his own sworn statement
and personal signature. $40, 92S.49
The bill is finally approved,
as presented by a subordi.
nate Of Bloom at ....... $685.. 70
Net graf lost to Bloom. s. 1892. 70
On August 81 the Journal company
by Bloom, It's manager, presented an.
other bill for printing the Senate
Journals, in the sum of $S,245.31 itimiz.
ed In the same manner as that for the
House Journals. This also was deem.
ed to be excessive and the state ex.
perts again got to work, with the re.
suit that a subordinate again came to
the rescue with reduced claim for
$7,283.22. The tabulation shows as
follows:
Bloom attempts to collect by
his own sworn statement
and personal signature. i. .$8,245 81
The bill is finally approved, as
presented by a subordinate
of Bloom, at ........... 7,2Ss. 22
Net graft lost to Bloom. 5 1892. 70
Grand net result:
Saved to the state by experts
and lost to Bloom
Graft on House Journals . 81 1922. 70
Graft on Senate Journals -. 962. O9
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-29

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front
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17
FACE FULL OF PIMPlES

Ruffin, N. C.-"My face became full
of pimples and blackheads, and
would itch, burn and smart The skin
was rough and red. was really
ashamed OF my face. My arms and
back were affected almost as badly.
The pimples would tester and there
would come a dry scab on top. The
trouble caused my face to be disfig.
ured badly and the itching would both
er me SO could not sleep well nights,
especially during warm weather. y
The trouble lasted me tnree long
years without anything doing me any
good until friend told me about Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment and then
decided to try them. After the first
application [ could see some improve
ment. After using Cuticura Soap and
Ointment two weeks I did not look
like the same person; most Of the
pimples had disappeared. At the end
OF four weeks was completely
cured" (Signed) Miss Mamie Mitch
ell, Jan. 9, 1918.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p, Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura. Dept. l., Boston. ADV
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17
MOTHER! LOOK At
CHILD'S TONGUE
II cross, feverish, constipated,
give California Syrup
Of Figs"

A laxative today saves sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time from play to empty their
bowels, which become clogged up with
waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach
sour.
Look at the tongue. mother! II coat
ed. or your child Is listless. cross, few.
erish, breath bad, restless. doesn't eat
heartily. full OF cold or has sore throat
or any other children's ailment. give q
teaspoorful OF California Syrup OF
Figs" then don't worry. because It Ia
perfectly harmless. and in few hours
all this constipation poison. sour bile
and fermenting waste will gently
move out of the bowels, and you have
a well. playful child again. A thor
ough inside cleansing" is oftimes all
that is necessary. 1t should be the
first treatment given in any sickness.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask at the store for 50-cent bottle OF
California Syrup of Figs" which has
full directions for babies. children OF
all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Adv.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17
"CASCARETS" FOR
A BILIOUS LIVER
For sick headache, bad breath,
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
Get a t0-cent box now.


No odds how bad your liver, stomach
or bowels; how much your head
aches. how miserable and uncomfort-
able you are from constipation. indiges-
ton. biliousness and sluggish bowels
you always get the desired results
with Cascarets.
Don't let your stomach, liver and
bowels make you miserable. Take
Cascarets tonight; put an end to the
headache. biliousness, dizziness. nerv-
BUSINESS. sick. sour, gassy stomach.
backache and all other distress;
cleanse your inside organs Of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 10-cent box means health. happi-
ness and clear head for months.
No more days of gloom and distress
IL you will take a Cascaret now and
then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't
forget the children-their little In
sides need cleansing. too. Adv.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17

On December Ia, engineered and d.
rected by w. Woods White, philanthro-
phlst and progressive thinker, there
was gathered at Atlanta the most not
able and epochal meeting of the ne
groes ever held In the south, IL not
in America. Between 5000 and 1O,-
900 representative negroes OF Atlanta,
80 churches and pastors OF all denom'
nations, meeting for a common joint
religious purpose, assembled In the
great Atlanta auditorium and were ad-
dressed by leading preachers Of their
own race. by leading preachers OF
the white race of Atlanta, by Gov
ernor Slayton OF Georgia, by bankers,
business men and editors.
The object of the meeting was to
persuade the negroes, out of their own
means, to erect Y. M. c. A. building
at Atlanta, with the assurance that II
they did this thing the general public
would cooperate with them more lib
orally than it had ever done before.
The great objective lesson was to
persuade the negro to help himself
III lIlS lIdNltl, anu opNtNhbS "N'
of the best ever made in Atlanta in
many years Negroes themselves CON
tributed $4,000.
The most valuable result of the
meeting was the education of the ne
gro in the great policy of self-help and
of confidence in the good will of the
white race. The results have already
been remarkably inspiring
The Southern Baptist convention of
Louisville passed resolutions pledging
southern sentiment and to the help
of that new race.
The white preachers OF Atlanta fire.
quently leave their own pulpits on
Sunday morning to go out and preach
the saving grace of character, thrift
and self-help in the negro churches.
The effect of this better spirit is
widespread throughout the south. 1t
has almost revolutionized the feeling
between the two races. 1t has in
spired the negro to greater express
sions OF sacrifice and industry that
he has ever shown before, and he is
accommodating both property and pub
lie institutions in a gratifying way.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17

In making trip through the south
few weeks ago, ! discovered cases
where colored teachers we're not re-
ceiving more than $40 a month for
their service for teaching a public
school, writes Booker T. Washington.
This indicates the sacrifice that many
colored teachers are making through
out the south in order to give the ne
gro children some education.
1t is for teachers and pupils OF this
class for a number of years | have
made an appeal to the public for
Christmas cards, books or any other
gift that will remind these people, who
are doing the nations work under
such difficulties. of the Christmas sea
son. 1t is most helpful for them to
be reminded that there is somebody
on the outside who is thinking OF
them and cares for them.
should be very glad to serve as a
medium for the forwarding to such per-
sons whatever gift that may be sent to
me.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17

Chicago has a hospital In which
young Negro women are successfully
taught to become trained nurses. 1t
is he Provident hospital. at Dearborn
and 36th streets. Robert McMurdy
writes in the Survey: THE hospital
is really and distinctly a Negro enter
prise. Founded twenty years ago with
the purpose of affording colored wo-
men the nurses training. it was then
the only institution of its kind in this
country. except the government hospi-
tai Freedmens, at Washington.
Through its earlier years 1t was man
aged by colored people and even to
this time members OF both races are
on staff and board OF trustees. 1t is
supported largely by colored people.
Its endowment started from the pa
thetic bequest of an old colored wo-
man. who, dying, had just $50 to leave
after providing for her burial. Her
direction was: Give il to two chari-
ties established for my people, one
half going to Provident hospital To
this widows mite have been added
generous gifts from friends of all races
sympathizing with the aim of Provi-
dent and enthusiastic over its splen-
did record of achievement. II has
graduated over 11S nurses and has
now in training twenty-five colored
women"
After months visit at this hospi-
tai Sophie p. Palmer answered the
question of whether these Negresses
made efficient nurses. She said: From
the standpoint OF order dignity and
technical skill the nursing force OF this
hospital seems to compare more than
! favorably with hospitals of the same
size and class in other cities where
! the nursing service is composed OF
white women"
When the Provident students took
their training in dietetics at North
western university" adds Mr.. Nc
Murdy, their record was in no way
inferior to that of the white students!
in similar classes of the School of Do
mestic Arts and Sciences they took
the lead Recently graduate took a
civil service examination in Chicago.
Failing at the first test she passed
later at the head OF class of fifty
four. And these nurses not only main
tain their average but show in crises
the skill, endurance and devotion
which is rightfully expected from the
nurse. regardless of her color"
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17
Surely Is.

Redd-"We've got a girl in our set
who can tell the time of day by her
pulse"
Greene-"Nonsense How could she
possibly do that?"
she wears wrist watch. That's
by her pulse. isn't it?" e,
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17

spend during their training.
The Hampton institute Is properly
regarded as an educational force of ex
ceptional worth. The illustration
herewith is a picture of Hampton
student reading the Bible to the old
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17

The Hampton Normal and Agricul-
tural institute. Hampton, Va. aims to
tit young men and women to do well
and in an uncommon way the common
tasks of life. Students are taught
to handle their tasks like skilled work
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17

Thirty families and so guests at the
Perry hotel, Woodland avenue and
East Twenty-second street. Cleveland
Ohio, were driven into the street when
fire damaged three-story brick build
ing which housed the hotel. the Perry
theater. bank and several stores and
family suites. John Caldwell, negro
who was sleeping in the rear OF the
building. ran through the structure,
arousing the occupants. His brave act
in the face OF personal danger, result
ed In the saving Of many lives.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17

Any fool woman can catch hus
band. but it takes clever one to hold
him
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17

men. They have for their work an ex-
cellent equipment and they. are ex-
pected and required to take the best
They receive financial credit for their
work and they are required to keep a
strict account OF all they earn and
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17

According to the geological survey
there is good reason to believe that
Louisiana is underlaid By one of the
greatest natural gas fields in the
United States.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17
Somthina in Common.

Wen have to take a roomer."
Il hate to have an uncongenial out
slider in the house"
He needn't be uncongenial. Wen
advertise for one who plays bridge"
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17

Apparatus for coupling ordinary We
hicles behind automobiles, so flexible
that sharp corners can be turned, is
the invention of an eighteen-year-old
California boy.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17

1t is the part OF wisdom to treat an
old man with veneration and an old
woman with tact.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17

Women always say their husbands
coax them to go away for the sum-
mer-and sometimes this Is the truth.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17
Their ADVANTAGE.

Il see where the British militant
sufrragettes have noH added q sleep
strike TO the hunger one"
Yes, they are wide-awaKe ones"
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-17

The city OF London, Mo. lays claim
to the distinction of having the Oldest
public school pupil in Missouri. II not
in all the United States. Aunt" Mary
Long. negress, has startedNout to
acquire an education at the age of
eighty-three years. With score OF
other negroes. most of whom have
passed the half century mark, she is
learning the "A p C's" in a recently
organized night school class. Aunt"
Long is physically spry, mentally alert
and the star pupil of the class.