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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-27
QUESTION OF FACTS.

Man starts out with a flourish to
state facts. What labor organiza-
lions grew from single tax, then dis
appeared? "Single tax does not mean
confiscation." No Socialist platform
demands confiscation. But single
tax does demand confscation of I'M
earned site rent. Henry George "be-
longs to the past" yet we have
dozen single tax congressman; the
Socialists none. Nearly 200 single
takers in British parliament; Social
lists very few. Nearly half a million
voters have voted directly for single
tax in few of our states; the rest,
uncounted, ought to make a million.
If single takers oppose unions
it is because they oppose all monop-
oily and union is an attempted mo-
nopoly of jobs. 1 champion the scab
because \he is man, though maybe
not able'or willing to join a union. He
is condemned by name, just as
other men have heretics, in
fidels, ETC., useless words. We are
advised to read Karl Marx. ! have
already quoted him on the effect of
land monopoly. Those who comply
with request to read Communist
Manifesto" will learn that. Marx is
single taxer. His first demand in that
pamphlet is: Abolition of private
property in land and the appropria-
ton of land rent to public purposes"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-27


HOW OLD MUST THEY BE?-
Women don't respect man, so why
should a man give woman his seat
in a street car. l lived in Chicago
five years and never saw a woman
that l thought l should give up my
seat for, unless she was exceedingly
old or crippled. am salesman. A
year ago this fall l was not regularly
employed. l took a position with a
bank. as a solicitor of savings ac-
counts 1t required me to canvass,
house to house, part of the time. 1
noticed that large per cent of the
women won't come to the door, and
of those that do, half of them slam
the door in your face before you
have a chance to tell them what you
are there for.
. To get to this bank from where l
lived took an hours ride. One even
ing on returning home / got the last
vacant seat. The next corner a wom-
an got on with a child about a year
old in her arms. l remembered her
as one who had slammed her door in
my face. She remembered me too
from the way she looked at me. l
could just read her mind from a
glance into her eyes, but if she
would of had dozen kids she would
never of gotten my seat. paid for
it and man is a fool to give his seat
to the average woman. There is
probably one in a million that is de-
serving and who knows what one
she is?-C. A. Patrick, indianapolis.
SHUT THE DOOR. - I'm a new
one in The Public Forum. 1 want to
get in just one time. I ride to and
from work on the surface cars, and
every time I notice that while riding
some people have lapse of memory
by leaving the front door open when
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-27

THE DANGER DASH.-The ely
phenates" of 1915 are as dangerous
to the U. S. as were the Copper
heads" of 1864 and you know it. >"
1 mean all brands of "Hyphenates."
Freeman.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

center stick c several inches into the
ground, pivot the spool hub to its top
with a nail.
For the Ferris wheel shown in Fig.
7 you will need four sticks 80 inches
long for cross arms (A), two sticks
"a inches long for supports OBJ, a pair
of spools for bearings CO., four sticks
ten inches long for connecting braces
CD and four berry boxes.
Cross the sticks A at their exact
c%enters, in pairs, and drive a nail
through the a center, as shown
in Fig. s. Use a long enough nail so
the point will project about one inch
and one half, as shown at E. To keep
the sticks at right angles, bind their
centers with string passed diagonally
around them as shown in Fig. Z. On
the face opposite to that on which nail
e projects, drive 2-inch nails into the
cross arms near their ends, as shown
in Fig. s, on which to hang the cars.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

then, after slipping spools C over
nails d. bind them to the tops of up
rights B.
The form of merry-go-round shown
in Fig. 8 is sometimes called the fly
ing airships.' The toy requires four
sticks about "a inches long for cross
arms "a, Fig. 81, q spool for a hub
OBJ, a stick "a inches long for a CEN
ter upright (C), four berry boxes for
cars, and some strings and nails.
First bind a pair of the cross-arm
sticks A to the sides of the spool
Zig. g., placing the spool at the ex-
act center of the length of the sticks,
and wrapping the string tightly around
the sticks so the spool cannot turn.
Then cross these sticks with the 9TH
er pair, and bind this second pair Sc
curely to the first, as shown in Fig. 5.
Drive a nail into the end of each
cross arm. Then, after driving the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16
orIulnaI Forms of line.

1t is believed that the original forms
of life began in the ocean many million
years ago. and at no time since has life
there ceased. Many of the earliest
forms r now extinct; others have
gradually increased in number and
variety from their beginning to the
present time. How long ago life began
no one has definitely determined; but
it is known to have been many mil
lion years ago. for the remains of ex
tinct animals and plants are found in
the Oldest sedimentary rocks.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16
Metric system.

The fundamental unit Of the metric
system is the meter, the unit of length.
II is 39.s7 inches. The prefix mill
one ~thousandth. cent?. one-hun
dredth, deci, one-tenth; deka, ton;
hectic. ono hundred; kilo, o
sand. where miles are used in Eng
LAND and the United States for meas
uring distance the kilometer (l,0Oo
meters) is used in metric countries
The kilometer is about 5 fnrlongs.
There are about 1900 meters in a stat
ute mile, 20 meters in a chain and 3
meters in a rod. The meter is used
for dry goods. merchandise. engineer
ing construction, building and other
where the yard and foot are
used. The meter is about a tenth.
longer than tho yard. The centimeter
and millimeter are used instead OF the
inch and its fractions In machine con-
struction and similar work. The cen
timeter. as its anne shows. is the
h%undredth OF a meter. 1t is used in
cabinet work. in expressing sizes Of
papers. books and many cases where
the inch is used. Tho centimeter is
about ~two-6fths of an inch and the
miiiimeter about one tw~enty-ffth OF an
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16
HUNTS FOR BIG GAME AT SO
"a DON'T Take Water From Any of
These Young Fellows" Says
Spry Veteran.

Portland, Ore.-Jeremiah Paulsell,
ninety-nine years old, has taken out
a license to hunt big game. He
claimed a free license by reason Of
his being a Civil a veteran.
81 don't take water from any of
these young fellows" said Mr.. Paul.
sell.
He was born in Hamilton, Ind, o.
tober 10, 1915. He enlisted in the reg
ular army in 1884 and saw service
through the Mexican and Civil wars.
He expects to go hunting alone.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16
sensltIzIna Rlue.Prlnt Pager.

In an attempt to engineer around
the difficulty encountered in moist eli
mates where special care must be
taken in storing quantities Of unex-
posed blueprint paper, a simple appa-
ratus has been built which allows an
individual User 70 sensitize paper as
1t is needed. In operating It, a roll
of blank paper is fed into the machine
from a point neal the base. AS this
is drawn upward 1t is passed over a
coating cylinder which is supplied
with a chemical solution. After the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

German aeroplane is there to direct
the enemy's firing. We have been
seen-this time we have to go through
the shells-they will finish us now.
Our only hope is speed. One shell
has burst so yards from the car. An
other is sent ahead-it has struck a
farm, and the farm blazes up in pill
lars of smoke and fire. My chauffeur
drives right through ton and on
like a flash of lightning.
Have they ceased firing? | shall
hear those shells for days and days.
| am too tired even to be tired. All
along the road the troops are moving.
They are so covered with dust they
might be Asiatics, and the u has
Drowned them to a manliness a wom-
an cannot fail to admire.
1t was a curious visit. | was glad
went. But how strange they look.
these jewellers in the bowels of the
earth. In one trench is a roof of hur'
dies. covered with leaves, which opens
and shuts like the fairy-book trap
door; there is a mud and hurdle seat
on which letters are being written to
those loved ones left behind.
And they are all so well and happy
and confident, these soldiers, and sc
courteous and so manly. Can it be
possible they are the Parisians We
knew only a year ago? The ordering
out of the pale, understood males, who
lounpe along the b~ouleyards: the tax
ing from the cafes, drawing rooms ant
theater wings the idle youth Of thu
country, and turning them into dwell
err of the forest and plain. with
sense of danger and duty, is not thi
the only side of wal that is ,olerable
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

A knowledge of the law of immunity
teaches that when u health is at its
best our restraining power is at its
best. Hence we say we are immune
to disease. While It is wise and nee
essary to avoid. control and destroy
disease producing germs wherever
found. 1t is very necessary TO render
the body as nearly immune as possible
and then keep It in that condition.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

cent creatures, like shining bronze
statues, with blue-black hair and won
derful eyes, the men are splendid OF
body and keen of mind. They
weave a kind of coarse native cloth,
and into this they Irvine the feathers
of the macaw and fashion for them
selves most marvellous cloaks, aprons,
headdresses, necklaces and wristlets
in which green's, blues, colds and scar
lets blend exquisitely and which they
so model as to make tho wearer's per
son thus adorned resemble the glori-
ously plumaged bird they have raw
aged for material.
When it is the season of loving and
mating, their springtime, they adorn
their bodies and dance-the Maxixe!
1t is really the Maxixe, and it is called
by them the masheka, or peanut vine
dance. This, which is a rite among
all Indian tribes in this corner Of the
globe, was picked up by some Brazil
ians and taken down to Rio Janeiro,
where its teachers developed it into a
crude and %unlovely dance, largely cug-
| gestive.
Legends Sound Familiar.
Legends of these tribes greatly re-
| semble some Bible stories. In the be-
| ginning-so at least say the Wai-wai
there we're two gods, Tuminkar and
his brother Duwid. Tuminkar 1t was
who created men and women, and aft
erward the animals. Duwid brought
men and women food. But. having
nothing to do, the first men and wom-
en- amused their idleness by watching
the animals. At length they noted
that all these were in the habit of pass
ing in one direction in the morning
of each day, and returning toward the
other in the evening. So they said:
Let us go with the animals and see
where they go and what they do"
They followed, and came with the
animals to a great tree bearing OH its
branches all kinds of fruits and vege-
tables.
Thereupon they told Duwid next
day that he need not bring them food
any more, for they knew where to get
it themselves.
1T shall be as you WISH" replied
Duwid, but henceforth you must
work to obtain the food to eat. To
morrow the tree will be cut down, but
in order that you may not starve,
will tell you this: If you will break
off a branch bearing each kind of fruit
and plant this in the ground, water II
carefully every day, tending and pro
tecting it, it will grow and produce
each seed after its kind. Thus you
may continue to eat of the fruit OIL
the tree. But you will have to work
for it,"
Following the instructions of Duwid
the first men set about breaking of
branches from the great tree and
planting them, selecting those which
bore different kinds of fruit and vege
tables. Presently, however, they grew
tired of labor and stopped. Hence
when the tree was cut down only 9
few of the many varieties of food
which it grew had been saved fol
mankind, and so there are today only
a few species of edible plants in the
world. If the first people had beer
more Industrious these would have
been found in greater plenty. More
over, to this day it is necessary &c
work in order to make the cassava
grow.
Tho stump of the tree endures. II
is pointed out in the form of a steer
rock, which indeed resembles the
trunk of a great tree.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

We cannot all go camping in the
woods, but there is opportunity for ev-
cry one of you boys to build a camp
in the back yard or a nearby lot.
Best Of all, the n~ear-to-home camp
requires no equipment other than
what o can prepare with materials
that can be picked up around home.
There is the tepee shown In Fig. 1,
for example, made of clothes poles,
clothes line and old pieces Of cloth.
You can likely borrow four clothes
poles for the purpose, as you will in
no way destroy them. Stand these
poles on the ground with their lower
ends spread five or six feet apart, and
their upper ends crossed as shown in
Fig. 2. Then, taking pieces of clothes
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16
TEN MlNNIEs CLAIM HOARD

Marshall, Mo.-Ten Minnie Reau-
beaus already have made claim to tho
$4,000 in gold coin and nuggets dug
up at the home of Charles Reaubeau,
a recluse, whose viii left the treasure
to Minnie Reaubeau, a niece. /.
It raj believed Reaubeau had Com
siderable money. but no trace OF IL
could be found until the recent nooa
washed away the old house and en-
posed a corner OF an iron box puriea
under II. :
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

paper is treated, it is passed across
a roller in an electrically heated dry.
ing oven and is then wound, The
paper is AZ inches in width and may
be used within an hour after the SEN
sitizing operation. The machine has
an output varying from 1850 to 200
yards an hour.-Popular Mechanics.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16
WARE FRISCO HORSE DEALsl
Man Who Bought Dying Mare at City
Sale Now Wants Money
Sack.

San Francisco.-David Harum had
nothing on the city Of San Francisco
in a horse deal. at least so thinks 10
seph Nj. McKevitt.
The following letter was received
from McKeyitt by Mayor Rolph;
Dear Mr.. Mayor: At a recent
municipal auction of horses pur-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16
GETS LEGACY AND WINS BET
$500 From Germany In Spite
of the War.

Akron, O.-Charles Quasi of this
city has received a bequest of IS, 700,
a share OF his parents estate in Ger
many. He has thereby won a no
bet.
Since the death of ri5 parents Sew
eral months ago Quasi has been en-
deavoring to get his share of the es-
tate. A friend. John Ritzman. bea
him $40 that he would never get the
money because of the war.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

South America, and the petri-
fled stump of the Tree of Life"
still stands on its site. DR..
William C. Farabee, curator Of the
American section of the University Of
Pennsylvania and leader of the Anna
zon expedition, which sailed from
Philadelphia on March 10, 1913, and
is still forcing its way through hither-
to u~nexplored South American regions,
has found both it and several differ
ent tribes of Indians so isolated, so
remote from the rest of the world that
they are essential primitives living
in their stone age and handing down
from father to son in the way of all
prim.tives, myths and legends that
have an oddly familiar ring, says the
New York Sun.
These tribes live in the Businesses
of the mountains on the border line
between British Guiana and Brazil,
and their small settlements are about
ten miles apart.
When the expedition set out from
Philadelphia in it's own vessel it was
most completely equipped for every
exigency that might arise in the prose-
cution of its project. Later it was
deemed inexpedient to travel with so
much impedimenta and the load was
lightened that the party might not be
restricted to the water routes.
Arriving at Para they proceeded by
commercial craft up the Amazon, its
northern affiuent, the Negro, and from
the Negro into the Branco, arriving
From thence they travelled indie
pendently by canoes or overland. The
way became exceedingly difficult when
they tried to get through the Urara-
Guerra river, as it wound further up
the mountains, and the explorers
turned back eastward on foot through
British Guiana.
Three New Tribes.
On this trip Doctor Farabee discov-
cred three news tribes-the Porocatos,
the Ajamaras and the Zapacas-who
were primitive men never before Wis
tied by twentieth century whites.
Like most of these primitive In
dams, their bamboo houses are Inn
maculately clean and not unat-
tractive, nor is a woman averse to
posing in her home, as may be seer
from the illustration.
The return of this stage of the ok
petition was accomplished without
mishap, and late in October they
reached the southern outpost of Brit
ish Guiana at Melville's ranch, where
they sought the cooperation of the
British magistrate. II. P. C. Melville,
and his able associate, John Ogilvie.
Doctor Farabee persuaded Mr.. Ogil-
vie to join the expedition in the ardu-
GUS task it now proposed-an invasion
into the Tumac-Humac range of noun.
tains which divide Brazil from the
Guianas and which up to that time
never had been penetrated.
AS they advanced deeper into the
wilderness they found tribes who
knew nothing of white men or of civ
~ilization. These tribes-the Pari.
kutu, Wai-wai, Wai-me, Chikena,
Katiawan, Toneyan, Diow, Kumayenas
and Ukukwanas-are simple people
They are like children. beautiful
children, with a love for color and en-.
joyment, and they are happy, as only
children can be. They have no metals
or gems of any sort. They hew
everything they use out of solid
granite, and they have few utensils
The women of the tribe are magnih'
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

The teeter Zig. y requires a stick
"a or 80 inches long and two inches
wide, for the teeter board "a, Fig. y,
two short sticks for supports (B. Fig.
u, a spool bearing for the top of each
upright (C), and a berry box for each
end of the teeter board.
Locate the center Of the length Of
stick A, upon each edge, and then
drive a nail into both edges at this
point ID, Fig. p. Drive uprights B
into the ground three inches apart,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

chased from the city. one gray mare
price $15. paid three dollars to have
the horse shod In the street Superin.
tendent Sweeney OF the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty TO Animals
told me the horse vas in such condi-
ton 1t must be destroyed, | sent the
horse to d chicken rancher. The hal.
ter has not been returned. ask that
l be reimbursed the SIS | spent. Kind.
ly give this matter your attention"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16
storm.soared. Admits Fraud

Houston, Tex.-His conscience
aroused by the recent Galveston hur-
ricane, an unnamed Missourian has
made restitution of s2.40 obtained at
the time Of the storm of 1900. when
he falsely stated he was a victim and
so obtained free transportation from
Palestine to Longview. Tex.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

formed. placing the frames in line
with one another and about eighteen
inches apart. The covering material
must be made long enough to extend
sufficiently beyond the framework to
inclose it in the name shown in
Fig. 3. Drive a stake into the ground
about eighteen inches away from each
end of the framework, to fasten the
covering to.
A small campfire can be built with
safety in the back yard if you make
a fireplace like that shown in Fig. 5,
with earth banked up on each side to
keep the fire within a confined area.
Bank up the earth in the form of two
ridges, with four or five inches be-
tween the ridges at one end, and
about twelve inches between at the
other end. A coffee pot and other
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

line, or any other heavy rope, tie
them to the upper crossed ends of the
poles, and run them down and tie to
stakes driven into the ground halfway
between the poles, as shown in Fig. 2.
Figure 1 shows the framework o
cred with odd-sized pieces Of cloth.
The torpedo-shaped shelter tent
shown in Fig. 3 is a new form that
have devised for you boys. Four bar
rel hoops and eight two-foot stakes
are needed for its framework, and
enough cloth to ove this.
Open the barrel hoops where their
ends are Joined, and nail each end OF
each hoop to one of the stakes. Then
drive into the ground the other end
Of each stake of the frames thus
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

Our idea of a natural and unassum.
ing person is one who eats his water.
melon harmonica fashion.-Springfield
Union.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

inch. The millimeter is divided for
finer work into tenths, hundredths and
thousandths.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

A maxim silencer; Children should
be seen and not heard.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

Then, after driving the supports B
into the ground about ten inches
apart, bind the spool bearings C to
their tops, slip the nails E of the
o arms into spools C. and brace
the framework by binding the strips
d to them as shown in Fig. Z. After
the braces have been put on. all that
remains to complete the Ferris wheel
is ths cutting of holes through oppo-
site sides of the berry boxes. large
enough for the nails in the ends of
cross arms A to slip through.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

small utensils can be stood ver the
fire at the narrow end, and larger re-
ceptacles at the wide end. Pots may
be hung over the fire by fastening a
wire above II in the n shown,
and bending pothooks similar to that
shown in Fig. 6, out of wire, by which
to suspend the pots.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16
FOR BACKYARD CAMPING.
DOLLS TEETER, MERRY-eo.
ROUND AND FERRIS WHEEL.

by A. Nicely Hail)
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29
Efficiency Must Come First.

We usually think of revolutions as
revolts against despotism, and as max
Ing for liberty. That isn't necessarily
so. The great Roman revolution was
a series of upheavals by which the Ro
man republic was transformed into an
empire The reason was that the re-
public failed in efficiency. That is why
all persons with the historical sense
feel that politicians who sacrifice eff
cheney to politics are in very deep
sense enemies to the republic.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29
EVANSVILLE CITIZENS
GIVE CITY A CLEANUP

Evansville, Ind, May IL Six
weeks were required to haul away
the trash and rubbish unearthed
in this city during the Negro
Health and Cleanup Week inaug-
urated by the Negro Business
League under the suggestion of
DIR Booker L. Washington. The
week of March 81 to 81 witnessed
the work of getting ride of unsan
itary conditions, and more than
five Thousand people were actively
engaged in setting things straight.
All the Negro organizations of
the city united in the movement
under the direction of the local
business league, and the city au.
thorities co-operated willingly by
supplying wagons and men to re.
move the Hnbbish.
The officers of the league, Logan
H, Roberts, president; James Il.
Roberts, secretary, and Isaac
Coffee, Chairman executive COM
mittee, have submitted a compre-
hensiye report covering the week S
work, of which the following ex-
tract is given:
This Health Week was first pre-
sented in Evansville to small
gathering at meeting of the Ne
gro Business League last February
a committee of three being ap
pointed. March 81 was decided
upon as date for Negro Health
and Cleanup Week in Evansville" "
Six weeks were consumed in
hauling away the piles of rubbish
from over all parts of the city and
more than one thousand loads of
insanity matter were moved to the
various city dumps as direct re
suit of the Cleanup Week.