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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-05-14

specifications of her future home, in
terror and exterior, specifies every ar
ticle and gives the price of such ar
ticle. She is taught the cost of fur
nishing every room and the grand to-
tai of her future home. She is taught
to be kind and courteous and the rules
of etiquette. If stranger were to
pay a visit to the industrial school
without knowledge of what it was,
they might readily guess they were
visiting a select ladies' seminary. 1t
is the home of economy and efficien-
cy.
"The mother of the institution is
Mrs. Fannie Morse-one of the most
remarkable women in the United
States. She is busy woman. She
came into the reception room of the
administration building a. cadence
of about 100 steps per minute. For
the close observer it is not hard to
see that Unnecessary and uncalled for
antagonism to this grand little women
by bonehead legislators and others
has had its effect. One hundred and
seventy-five girls are depending upon
this woman to pilot them over the
perilous shoals of temptation and de-
velope them into home makers, viz
tuous wives and loving mothers.
Every child in every home is different
likewise every girl in this institu-
ton is different. Only one per cent
of the girls who have left this insti-
tuition have failed to make good. Do
you get this? Unconsciously and
without words, she tells you that if
you have business there you are well
come and her time is yours, but that
every minute is taken up with her
girls. She has the whole school at
the very tip of her fingers.
"Mrs. Morse is working her head
off for the state of Minnesota and
needs, and is entitled to the support
financial and otherw,se-that she
asks for. The time to look over this
school is not at the end of a fierce
legislative session when all are spar
ring for appropriations. The women
of Minnesota should request the leg
islative candidates from their resrec-
tive districts to pay that school a Wis
it.
"How much are It's good girls,
made such by the school, good to the
state of Minnesota? Minnesota ore
deposits and state lands as resources
sink into insignificance when compar-
ed with them. They are going to be
devoted wives and are goin to rock
the cradle of future men and women.
Others have come and gone before
them-and are making good. Others
are to follow them to be moulded into
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-05-14
OUTSIDE INDORSE-
MENT OF School
EDITOR SCHEERS OF AKELEl
PAYS TRIBUTE TO GIRLS
HOME SCHOOL.
STATES BEST INVESTMENT
BUT FEW PEOPLE REALIZE FINE
WORK THAT is BEING AC-
COMPLISHED.

Charles Scheers, editor of the Ak
eley Herald-Tribune and president of
the Northern Minnesota Editorial As
ISOLATION, spent half day recently
inspecting the Home School for Girls
and studying the work being accom-
plished by Mrs Morse, the superin-
tendent. Like all other strangers who
visit the school Mr.. Scheers became
an enthusiastic supporter of the
school. Upon returning home he pen
ned. the following splendid endorse
ment of the institution which appear
ed in the Herald-Tribune April "a
1914:
"The Girls Industrial School at
Sank Centre under the mothership Of
Mrs. Fannie Morse, is beyond ali
doubt, Minnesota's greatest and best
investment. The words economy
and efficiency" so popular at this
time among the politicians and so lit
tie understood when applied to mat
tiers of state-and matters not OF
state-are most wonderful and sat
isfactorilly defined at the Sank Centre
school for girls. The place should be
designated the Home of Economics. y
''The school is located one mile from
Sank Centre on most imposing, as
well as ideal site, the center of which
is high, with gradual slope to the
shores of a pretty lake and to the
banks of an ever attractive river at
fording Nature its best opportunity.
The home is composed of an admin
istration building, hospital, chapel and
several modern cottages, each OF
which afford accommodation for %
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-05-14

beautiful womanhood. How much are
they worth to Minnesota?
when that little woman asks for
an appropriation next winter the SOL
on who will not come across should
blush with shame and 1ngratitude.
Nine states are now urging Mrs.
Morse to come and help them perfect
such an institution. One South Amer
lean country is also after her service
but her heart is in Minnesota"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-05-14
ANYBODY Can Get Your Position

That is the bugaboo of the untrain-
ed. The work anyone can perform
without special training is always low
paid work. The further you push
yourself ahead in knowledge, the
smaller the group of people with
which you will have to compete. When
you have taken your course in the
Little Falls Business College, we put
you in work that is better paid and
offers the finest chances for advance
ment.
Evening star., 1914-04-12

the expense of guarding adds to the cost
of the work over 20 per cent more than
that of feeding. This throws into promi-
nence the economic advantage of the
honor system. This substitution of a
mans word and his conscience for gun
was at the first a makeshift. But has
since become necessity saving in
every sense of the word.
The prison and the highway depart
nlents should have joint supervision over
this work. the representatives of the
prison department having charge of the
men and acting as foremen, while the
engineers of the highway department are
responsible for the construction work.
This joint supervision has been found,
according to the experience of the diff
ferent states, to yield the most salts
factory results
The prisoner himself benefits most OF
all by his work on the roads. The
healthful outdoor labor. the better food
the incentive of the honor system and
above all. the wage increasing in pro,
portion to the profits of the state, al
combine to make him better fitted te
re-enter society. The investigation prove:
conclusively that the building of gooc
roads can be made a definite factor II
the upbuilding Of men.
Evening star., 1914-04-12
New York Eliminating Fire Horses

In four years the last of the horses
now remaining in the New York fire de-
partpent will be eliminated, if Fire Com
missioner Adamson's request for $4,000
for motor apparatus is granted. This
appropriation is to pay for thirty trac-
tors to draw steamers and ladder trucks
now in use. twenty motor tenders now
using forty horses, FIVE motor hook and
ladder trucks and three motor fire en-
sines. The commissioner reported that
the motor fire appara tus now owned by
the city has proved more efficient and re-
liable than horse-drawn equipment during
the recent snowstorms and that they
would save $4,000 this year in horse
feed
Evening star., 1914-04-12
King Car Purchasers.

Purchasers of King touring cars last
week included Charles s. Boston, l. B..
Bush, l. H. Buchanan, c. H. Meade.
DR.. H. NJ. Dixon, DR.. T. B. Ellsworth.
L. O. Lucas o. p Ledbetter. r. c. Ring
gold Bellaire Motor Car Company. Bellaire
Ohio (three); Seventeenth Street Garage.
Parkersburg. w. Va. (three): Thompson
Garage Company. Clarksburg. w. Va.
(three): Potomac Automobile and Sup
ply Company. Shepherdstown. w. Va.
(three); Standard Automobile Company,
Wheeling w. Va (three), and the
Pullman-Ktng Distributor Company,
Norfolk. Va. (three).
Evening star., 1914-04-12
PLAN SOCIABILITY RUN.
Under Auspices of Washington Au'
tomobile Dealers Association.

Irving J. Henderson, chairman of the
sociability run committee of the Wash
ington Automobile Dealers Association
has announced that the run will take
place Tuesday. May next. The starr
viii be from 9th street and Missouri ave-
nue. northwest, opposite the old site oi
the Pennsylvania depot. at IL o'clock
From there the route will be up Capitol
Hill. around the Capitol building and
thence west on Pennsylvania avenue to
the speedway.
Leaving the speedway. the motorists
will continue past the War Department
and west on Pennsylvania avenue and
up the Conduit road to Cabin John. En-
try blanks will be issued Tuesday and
final details arranged for the run 1t Is
contemplated to give hill climb during
he latter part of May under the auspices
of the association.
Evening star., 1914-04-12
Warming a Car "Thermosly.'

This time of year the heat that per-
meates the front end of an inclosed car is
generally desirable although in spring
and summer motorists complain about it.
To hold the heat for foot warming it is
well to screen over the car-to stretch a
covering taut over the laprobes that cover
the driver and front-seat passenger. Also
make sure that the ventilator Sits are
closed In this way the heat is largely
saved
Evening star., 1914-04-12
Help Tourists and Each Other.

New England Studebaker dealers have
banded into a formal association to pro-
mote mutual welfare and to provide sys-
tematic service for the owners of Stude-
baker cars who tour the region in the
summer. Joseph S. Donovan. Studebaker
distributor in Boston, is president
Evening star., 1914-04-12
Purchased Pullman Cars.

Nineteen fourteen Pullman light "Sixes.
equipped with electric gear shift and wire
wheels. were purchased during the past
few days by w. L. Baker and l.. NJ
Wheeler and the Pullman-king Dis
tributer Company, Norfolk. Va.
Evening star., 1914-04-12
H. A. Brooks Addresses Local
Section of the Electric ve-
hicIe Association.
STEREOPTIcON VIEWS AND
MOTION PICTURES SHOWN
Questions of Efficiency, Durability,
Resiliency, Cost and Weight
Interestingly Discussed.

The Tire Question as Applied TO
Electric Vehicles" was the subject of
an address Thursday evening by II. A.
Brooks before the Washington section
of the Electric Vehicle Association of
America at a meeting held in the offices
of the Potomac Electric Power Com
pany. 213 14th street northwest.
The meeting was presided over by E.
S. Marrow. chairman of the Washing
ton section, with c. NJ. Marsh as sec
retary. New members were elected as
follows: Abner C. p. Shoemaker. II. a.
Hall and Alfred Young. It was an
nounced that the next meeting OF the
association would be held May IA at
$40 o'clock. Attention was directed to
the fact that hereafter the meetings
will be held at $40 o'clock.
Stereopticon views were displayed at
intervals in Mr. Brooks address, at the
close of which motion pictures of cleo
tric vehicles in use by various brew
cries were shown. In this Connection
it was stated that over $6,000.o00 was
invested by breweries in the United
states in electric vehicles for delivery
purposes
Popularity of Electric Vehicles.
Mr.. Brooks, in speaking on the tire
question. said:
The steadily increasing popularity OF
electric vehicles for the past ten years
has been a constant source Of sur
prise to those who have not given
close study to the underlying causes
and a source of deep satisfaction to
those who have long been connected
with this particular field Of work and
have ben far ahead of the wonderful
future of the industry and have
realized that the problem OF city
hauling belongs to the electric vehicle.
The principal causes of the recent
rapid rise in popularity has been due
to the fitness Of the electric vehicle for
city work and to marked Improvement
in essential features as ball and roller
bearings instead of plain: batteries
with largely increased capacity and re-
duced weight; reduced maintenance
cost; reduced cost of electricity and in
crease in number of charging stations;
better and more efficient motors and
types of gearing: and last but not least,
greatly increased tire life and. in addi-
ton. Increased effective quality Of the
rubber.
The items affecting the cost Of oper-
alton of electric vehicles have within
the last ten years undergone changes
approximately as follows:
Evening star., 1914-04-12
Care in Charging.
Standard Electric Owners.

A Standard electric coupe was deliv-
cred last week to Interstate Commerce
Commissioner D. H. Meyer and Mrs.
]. H Curtis.
Evening star., 1914-04-12
Efficiency in Tires.

Efficiency" said Mr.. Brooks, lis de-
scribed in mechanics as being the ratio
Of effect produced to energy expended,
and with tires the most efficient tire is
the one that will roll along the road and
offer the least resistance to rolling. The
effect Of the efficient tire 10 to reduce the
power required to propei the vehicle
over the road.
"As all Of the items Of frictional losses
as we'll as bearing and motor losses are
fractions Of the tire loss. 1t can easily
be seen that the item OF tire effcfency
Is Of as much consequence, II not more,
than other items which are selected
often at great cost.
"a we'll designed truck with good tires
will show a current consumption OF say
thirty-6ve Watts per 1.o00-pound mile,
and of this total Of thirty-five Watts.
from twenty to twenty-five are absorbed
in the tires alone. leaving the remaining
fifteen to twenty distributed between
bearings, gearing. motor loss. wfndage,
etc A change in tires on this same
truck could easily increase the current
consumption to fifty Watts per 1.0O-
pound mile or in comparison In miles on
the first case would cover say fifty miles
on one charge of the battery. as against
thrty-five in the second case
The question of durability is I'M
portant," continued the speaker, AS
the cost Of laying up truck to have tire
changes made involves considerable ex-
pense as well as Inconvenience For
this reason a high-priced tire that VIII
run 10000 miles is a decidedly better
proposition than a tire costing % per
cent less which will give only 5000 miles
of service.
Evening star., 1914-04-12
GOOD ROAD BUILDING
HELPFUL TO C0NV|CTS
University's Test Proves Joint Work
of State and Prison
Beneficial.

Road building by convicts has stood
the test of the scientific investigation
made for Columbia University through
Its graduate highway department, by Sid
ney Wilmot. road engineer. recently an
advanced student in that university and
attached to the staff of the national
committee on prison labor which is also
located at the university.
The investigation into the costs of
convict labor on the roads emphasizes
clearly the economic advantage secured
by this joining of the problem of the
convict and the road This advantage
reverts to the taxpayer and also to the
can be paid for his labor.
The Academy Of Political Science has
undertaken to make this study available
because of its broad social and political
significance. When each state and county
is engaged, as at present. in the reor-
ganization of its prison system, and is
endeavoring to do away with crude
methods of torture, scfentic methods of
successfully employing the convicts with
advantage to all parties become of public
interest.
The findings of the investigation show
that the work performed by the convicts
In the different states ranges in value
from S1S0 to $50 per day, with a profit
to the state by the use of this labor of
from 80 cents to s4.0e per day. In short
the contention Is we'll sustained that
at present going to the state by the use
Of convict labor for road work over
the cost of other methods of construc-
ton, this saving being quite Independent
OF locality and types of construction, al
though influenced by the size Of the gang
Evening star., 1914-04-12
0r-You Know!

When you drain your radiator do MOI
have rear of car lower than the front.
Evening star., 1914-04-12
CARE IS NECESSARY
FOR IDLE BATTERIES
Injury May Result if Left for Long
Periods Without Being
Charged.

The owner who put his car away dur
ing the recent snow period should not
neglect those necessary precautions OF
taking care of the storage battery used
for starting and lighting 1t is not good
for such a battery to be left for long
periods in a totally, or nearly totally,
discharged condition. Rather, the bat
terry should be taken out and fully re-
charged at once. A storage battery is
different from a gasoline tank or radiator
in car gasoline tank can be left
empty all winter and no damage is suf-
fered A radiator can be left empty all
winter without any damages, but a stor-
age battery is different. 1t is not an
empty vessel which is filled occasionally
with electric current. as is the gasoline
tank with fuel or the radiator with water.
Rather, the storage battery is a chemical
unit, and not merely a receptacle.
The storage battery must be CHARGED
human being to eat regularly. If hu-
man beings do not eat they starve, and
if storage batteries are left for long
periods in highly discharged conditions
they, too, literally starve and permanent
damages may result from such neglect.
Precautions of Makers.
Many makers of late have realized the
necessity of having the storage battery
given every attention and when shipping
the battery to the dealer in the car the
electrolyte is left out: in other words.
the battery is dry The precaution is
taken Of sticking over theA filler in the
gasoline tank notice to the effect that
the battery is dry and cannot be used
until electrolyte is added. this notice be-
ing so posted as to be read before gaso-
line can be put into the fuel tank
In this way the battery is protected
from any possible injury. What the car
| maker avoids by this precaution the car
owner must avoid during the winter sea-
son, and while those whose cars have
| been in dead storage all winter have taken
all OF the necessary precautions it fire.
quently happens that many who put their
cars away for a month or six weeks suf-
fer considerable battery damage by their
carelessness. This Is particularly so
| where the battery is IN a nearly dis
| charged condition.
Care in Charging.
| 1t is not enough to know when the bat
| terry requires charging. for one must
also know how properly to charge it.
Just as mans body is injured by over
eating. so battery plates are injured by
overcharging. The excessive heat gen.
Grated during the overcharge period is
enough to cause the positive plates to
| buckle, and a. severely overwrought bat
! terry is hopelessly beyond repair.
Just as a child requires watching while
| it is eating, SO battery must be exam
ined from time to time during the charg-
! ing period. The child unknowingly may
eat too quickly. The current going
| through the battery may generate too
much heat, which means the battery must
be taken off charge to cool.
Evening star., 1914-04-12
Feature Of the Study.

An interesting feature of the study is
the comparison of the cost of subsist-
ence and Of guarding. The average cost
of subsistence is found to be 10 cents per
man per day. while the expenditure for
guarding in those cases where costs
could be secured averaged 4S 2-5 cents.
The striking thing of these figures is that
Evening star., 1914-04-12
Absorption Of Vibration.

"Resiliency is elasticity, and although
frequently used as referring to tire ef-
hciency, indicates the amount the tire
will depress under a given load and its
value is in the cushioning effect.
THE amount of cushion which the tire
interposes between the wheel ana the
road is an important factor in the value
of the tire as measuring the amount OF
Injurious vibration and shocks which are
absorbed In order to determine this ef-
feet tires were given various loads and
observations taken Of the compression OF
the tire; also Of the area In contact with
the road.
The question Of weight is usually
given consideration by the vehicle manu-
facturer but the tire manufacturer and
Importance of reduction in weight. as Is
evidenced by the fact that practically all
of the tire manufacturers in producing
their hard base designs have applied an
intermediate band to the wheel, simply
for the purpose Of securing the tire. al
though the added weight from his band
on a set of wheels for fire-ton truck
amounts to approximately 400 pounds,
and the cost of hauling this 400 pounds
which is approximately 2.5 per cent OF
the weight of the truck carrying average
load-around for one year amounts to
$40, which figure is arrived at by taking
the cost of tires, battery and current for
one year, so that no further argument is
needed to emphasize the Importance OF
keeping the tire weight down and elm
mating all unnecessary weight In the at
fachmpntS
Evening star., 1914-04-12

wear three to half-dozen sets of pneu-
matte tires.
They don't bump the occupants or shake
the delicate parts of the Electric as do solid
tires. The shock-absorbing cushioning
qualities Of these tires is indeed unusual
They are the only tires, except pneumatics.
which possess ample resiliency.
Note, too, the anti-skid construction.
Double treadswith notches. Nothing could
be more effective on slippery pavements
About 70eo of all 1914 Electrics are
Motz-equipped. This gives some idea of
their popularity In some localities one
scarcely sees any other Electric Tire.
Evening star., 1914-04-12
Other Speakers.

Others who spoke during the evening
were ]. J. Haas, ]. ]. Bartram. Joseph
McReynolds. H. B. Hart, R, Bruce Emer-
son, W. B. Robinson, government print
ing ONCE, and Otto Jacob
Those present at the meeting included
f. s. NARROW. c. NJ. Marsh. Otto jacob,
H. B. Hart, J. ]. Bartram, II. A Brooks.
Waiter Woodward. Harry Ward, Joseph
NJ Stoddard. j. c. Kennedy, Jack Ster-
rett. r. Bruce Emerson. George A.
Weaver. W. B. Robinson, Howard s.
Fisk. William Ullman, Joseph Mercy
nolds J. ]. Haas and Barry Mulligan.
Evening star., 1914-04-12
Cost Not Controlling Factor.

1T has been brought out in what has
been mentioned before that although
the cost should be considered, the cost
of tires should not be taken as the con-
trolling factor. as 10 or even 20 per
cent difference in tire cost can easily
be Offset in other items of expense.
Tests were made to determine the
effect of temperature upon tire efficiency.
with the somewhat surprising result that
the efficiency is materially reduced in
concluded Mr.. Brooks.
Evening star., 1914-04-12

Motz Cushion Tires are of rubber which costs 5OS
more than the usual And there are 46S more
pounds of rubber than in other tires of equal carry
ingeapacity They have double treads with patented
slantsvise bridges and undercut sides This insen
ious construction. together with unusual quality
and quantity Of rubber. affords a resilency hereto
fore known to pneumatic tires only
A written Guaranty Of 10000 miles, years, ac-
Evening star., 1914-04-12
SO Motz Tires Cost More
Than Any Other Kind?"

Ordinarily. yes But. at my request the
maker of my Electric included them with
out extra charge. He seemed perfectly
willing to pay the additional seventy-hve
or hundred, himself"
Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1914-03-27
SOLDIERS OF
FORTUNE At
THE CHARLES

In keeping with the standard which
the All Star Feature corporation set
in the matter Of production Of photo
plays. comes the latest production of
that company, a six-reel adoption of
Richard Harding Davis great story IF
revolution and adventure "soldiers of
Fortune" In which Dustin Farnum the
foremost of Americas portraHers Of
the rugged young American Westerner
appears in the leading role Of Robert
Clay.
Under the personal direction of Au-
gustus Thomas. the eminent playwright
who is also director general Of the All
staf Company. and Richard Harding
Davis, the author Of the book con-
pany of more than 25 Broadway play
ers were quartered in Santiago, Cuba,
for more than month and there ac-
lively engaged in the production Of
this exceptional motion picture amid
those historical spots which inspired
Mr.. Davis in his writing.
The loyalty Of the Cuban people to
Mr.. Davis proved to be Of great bene-
at in the making of the picture and
in honor Of their friend, Richard Hard
ing Davis. the entire Cuban amy was
placed ait his disposal. The o. 8.
navy also cooperated by loaning the
revenue cutter Itasca and the gunboat
Osceola and the blue jackets which
man them.
"soldiers Of Fortune'' will be shown
at the Charles Theatre on next Mon
day and Tuesday. A special matinee
will be given for the school children
on Tuesday afternoon at 4 O'Clock.
This will give all the pupils an OPP
portunity to see one Of the greatest
stories ever produced in motion pic
tures. Il