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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23
Teachers Column
By County Superintendent and Teachers

ssIt doesn't pay to put anything
over the people, seemed to be the
deep conviction of the educators and
politicians at the meetings held in
Topeka last week.
We always knew it. Education and
not laws, is the solution TO the vari-
Gus problems confronting us. All
laws passed no matter how beneficial,
cannot be successfully enforced unless
the majority of. the people under
stand tbs conditions demanding them
and the manner in which the remedy
is to be sought.
We had the honor of sitting at our
representatives desk last Thursday.
The house adjourned leaving the use,
of the hall TO the meetings of the
Kansas state board of agriculture and
the educational council.
The Educational Council endorsed
the following school legislation in
which our county is interested: New
institute law, new certificate laws,
free text book law-at option of
board of feducation-and law providing
for free supplementary text books.
Every teacher will be glad to hear
of the supplementary text idea. We
have been seriously hindered in our
work by the lack of suitable reading
material both in quality and quantity.
Good books furnish the child with
world full of noble companions. He
learns TO love them and loving them
grows to be as they are. Happy the
child, fortunate the parents that live
in District where plenty of good
reading material may be had
Have we read ''The Eyes of the
Worlds'' Yes. and we are sorry.
Well never do it again We fear
Mr. Wright has committed the very
crime of which he accuses one of his
principal characters Or perhaps
the book, like Mark Twain's "Deuble
Detective Story" is meant to be
joke and we are taking it seriously
At the County Contest Meet Febru-
airy 20, the county superintendent
will give full account of the educa-
tional proceedings at the meetings OF
the council in Topeka last week.
Lack of space does not permit US
giving it in TINS column.
Remember the county contests in
s9elling, reading and music February
20. Every school has an opportunity
to win prize An all day session is
being planned. Send representative
from your district and come with the
whole neighborhood to help him win.
All school reports will be published
next week. The teachers are to be
commended for the accuracy and
promptness with which all reports
are made and forwarded to the office.
Home credit blanks and cards may be
had now = a new supply has just
reached us this week.
This column acknOw lodges the
receipt of $500 for the Belgian fund
from an anonymous School Friend. .
The letter was mailed in Collyer.
Thank yoa-and we wish you may de-
eide to give us your name. Your
name may prove an inspiration to
others and so, further, aid the cause.
However, the above donor may send
us the reply Physician cure thyself, y
as the county superintendent has
been, and is being criticised for not
signing her name to articles written
outside of the Teachers Column and
so giving the opportunity for the
wrong person to get the ''credit"
Yes. We know. We recall one cass
in particular where we spent some
time and thought to fittingly express
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23
Stop the Child's Colds They Often Re
suit Seriously

Colds, Group and WhooPing Cough
are children's ailments which need
immediate attention. The after-ef-
fects are often most serious Don't
take the risk-you don't have too.
DIR. Kings New Discovery checks the
cold, soothes the cough. allays the
inflammation, kills the germs and
allows nature to do her healing work
soc. at your druggist Buy bottle
to-day.-Astv-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23

our appreciation and give merited
praise to certain speaker who had
won the special regard of our teach
ers. Someone sent the copy OF the
paper containing the article to the
speaker and just because it was not
in this column the impression was
made that the sender was also the
writer. And the speakers gratitude,
doubtless, is with the senderl Well,
what's the difference. In the
language of Whittier:
What matters it. l or they2
Mine or another's day2
Just so the right word be said
And life, for someone. the sweeter
made.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23

Possibly the next most urgent and
important duty of the daily papers
may be to announce the arrival of a
mess of kittens at the White House
barn. and if so be the newly arrived
should set up a ''lusty" yowling it
will only serve to add length to the
item.
DICK TAGRAPH
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23

Should you or your child need
medical or surgical treatment of the
eye, ear, nose or throat, or require
glasses, make date with DIR. M.
Jay Brown, (Watson building,) Sa-
lima, Kans., or see him at the Ameri-
can House, February 8. 1915
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23

II there is money in the public
treasury it is pretty good evidence
that the people have been paying
their taxes-a thing which many of
them have not been able to do before
for three or four years. Credit where
credit is duel
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23

A young Hoosier broke his arm the
other day, trying to get away from a
pretty girl who wanted to kiss him.
Well, there are other Hoosiers who
are different. That is to say, there
are some who are in no danger, at
least.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23

Three thirty per hundred weigh
for flour is not SO awfully high-only
the price of unsifted corn meal just
after the civil war. Flour sold for
seven cents per pound in those days.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23

In at least three school districts in
this county the local school tax
(which the people of the district
voted upon themselyes) is more than
all their other taxes combined.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23
w Gather Report

Maximum and minimum tempera
ture according to the government
thermometer at Wa-Keeney for the
week ending Wednesday noon
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23

Forty years ago Uncle Heck helped
TO pack box for the relief of desti-
tute Kansas, but now it is Kansas
relief for the BeIgians.s
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23
Dictagrams

Theregoes another Ford. And yet,
more than two million buggies were
sold in this country last year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23

tax is the highest-in nearly every
district in the county.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23
BELGIAN FUND
Anon, $500

Anon, $500
District Il, s. Glencoe, Miss Hit,
teacher. 25 cents. Pupils: Albert
Stegman, John Flax, Theodore Steg-
man. Hilda Scbaus, LiddIe Schaus,
Edith Schaus.
Forty peace petitions have now
been sent to Miss Blake, chairman of
peace committee, New York City.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23

The state wide storm of last Satur-
here.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23

1t sounds like paradox but it is
true statement that our High school
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23

DICK TAGRAPH.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
MORE MONEY FOR WARsHIPS
Naval Experts Think Annual Appro-
priation Will Have to Be In
creased to 5000, 100000.

Washington, ID. C.-Naval ex-
perts figure that it will require an
annual naval appropriation of $780,
100000 instead of the present aver
age of $140,0 O0. 900 if congress decides
to add to the present type of Ameri-
can naval vessels a suitable proper
tion of battle cruisers such as have
played so prominent a part in the re-
cent naval engagements in European
and South American waters. This esti-
mate is based on the theory that there
will be no interruption in the per-
manent plan of naval increase which
contemplates the addition of two
dreadnaughts each year.
If the naval experts were required
to choose between building dread
naughts or battle cruisers, they would
unhesitatingly turn to the dread
naught type. They maintain that
nothing has occurred in the naval bat
ties of the present war to change their
original belief regarding the superb
GRITTY of the dreadnaught type.
These experts believe that if the
German fleet which was driven to
cover in the North Sea after the loss
of the Bluecher had included even
n or two dreadnaughts there might
have been a different ending, for it
is believed that no battle cruiser
would have cared to come within
range of the guns of such a dread
naught.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES
VILE BE IN LIN ELIGHT.
Industrial Relations Board Announces
Testimony Will Be Taken
LIN Chicago.

New York, N. Y.--Frank P.
Walsh, chairman of the federal COM
mission on industrial relations, an
nounced that the commission would
conduct in Chicago an investigation
into the entire transportation condi-
tons Of the country, the relations be-
tween railroads and their employees
and conditions among the workers.
This investigation, Walsh concludes,
will be begun within a few days after
the commission concludes its hearings
here, probably the latter part Of next
week.
Before proceedings began Austin
r. G~arretson. president of the Order
of Railway Conductors and member
of the commission, said he thought
both capital and labor had been bene-
fitted by the testimony of Rockefeller.
MIR Rockefeller" said ,Garretson
proved that he was not the kind of
man laboring man thought him to
be. And | think Mr., Rockefeller has
found laboring men not what he
thought them, | am sure he learned
more about Colorado and the working
men in the three days he spent on the
witness stand than in all the previous
years. Both sides were materially
helped by the Testimony of Mr.. Rookie
Teller"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
AMERICAN CAPTAIN ARRESTED
Falls Afoul of Some German Law
When He Docks His Ship
at Bremen.

New York.-Capt. Edward Pin
chin, who piloted the American
steamer FL Monte through mine
stwen waters into the harbor of Bre-
men on New Years day, has brought
his ship back to this port. Although
Capt. Pinchin's feat was regarded with
amazement at Bremen, he was ar
rested before his ship could discharge
its cargo of 5000 bales of cotton, ques-
toned at length and finally taken be-
fore a German admiral who cross
questioned him and released him.
Because of the double distinction
OF guiding his ship through the mine
fields and of bringing the American
flag into Bremen harbor for the first
time in A years aboard a merchant
vessel, Capt. Pinchin was royalty en-
tertained.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
UPR1LDS DJaATIOHs
SAYS INFLUENCES ARE ALWAYS
TO THE GOOD.
Tells Industrial Realtors Commission
He Doesn't Favor minimum
Wage Law.

New York Rockefeller dona-
tons to Educational Institutions
have influenced the policies OF presi-
dents OF universities and colleges in
many Instances. but the Influence al
ways has been good, said Charles w.
Eliot, president emeritus OF Harvard
University, yesterday ct the federal
industrial coaImi5sicl's inquiry into
philanthropie foundations and the
causes OF social unrest.
These donations, Dr.. Eliot said,
were made BY the general education
board. a. an instance. he cited John
ID. R%ockefener'5 offer in 1903 10 fur
nish Sl,OOG, Geo to Harvard University
ii the university could raise $S75, 600
additional.
This was before DR.. Eliot became a
member Of the board of managers of
the general education boord. The wit
ness said he applied TO the elder
Rockefeller for aid in the mainten-
ance of new buildings erected for the
medical school of Harvard University.
lie thought the general
board had given $4,000 0 900 to educa-
ton since 1902.
Stockholders in a corporation, DR..
Eliot thought, were not responsible
for labor conditions unless their at
tention was called forcibly to some Pc
culiar wrong.
He said he believed that legislation
providing for uniform minimum wage
schedules and working hours was a
bad thing.
One reason why workers found it so
hard to make their wages go far as
they should, DR.. Eliot declared, was
because they bought and ate too much
meat.
The witness said he would like to
see a general law prohibiting the en-
ployment of children under is years Of
age in industries where the children
would have to work indoors at ma
chimes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
POLICE GET Jobs For IDLE

New York City.-The reports of po-
licemen sent out to canvass for work
for 10000 unemployed men with fam
lilies were received at police stations
here. The patrolmen went from
house to house in the residence dis
tricts and from store to store in
business sections asking men to prom
Use to pay 10 cents a week or more
to unemployed men who would sweep
sidewalks and do other odd jobs.
If enough subscribers are obtained
so that the weekly revenue from the
four streets surrounding one block
amount to $40, a jobless fomily mar
who lives in the neighborhood is as
signed to the job. In this way one
police inspector found so jobs and
expects to have several more.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
CAPITAL in state of Terror.

Washington, d. C.--Anarchy and
terror grip Mexico City, according to
reliable reports. Departure of Proyi-
sional President Cara suddenly, while
not unexpected, plunged the city again
into a state of desperation. Frightened
inhabitants are quitting the city. $50
lated robberies and some general loot
ing have occurred. 1G
Looming above all is the specter of
famine. Food prices, already abnor-
NAL, have taken a sudden jump to pro-
hibitive figures. The needy are suf-
fering and threatening rebellion.
AS predicted when Cara assumed
office, his rule apparently is doomed
to be short lived, and be probably
will be succeeded within a few days
by Gen. Felipe Angeles.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
ROADS TO RAISE RATES
PASSENGER INCREASE TO BOOST
REVENUE $~15,ooo,ooo.
Applies to All interstate Fares West
Of Chicago to Rocky Mountains
Become Effective March /.

Washington, d. C.-The railroads
have a plan which will add another
SIS, 0 ,000 to their treasures annual
ly. Twenty-Five companies, operating
$4,000 miles of track west Of Chicago,
were ready to file new tariffs with
the interstate commerce commission
increasing their passenger rates from
9 cents to ~ cents per mile.
The new interstate fares will be-
come effective on March 1 and will be
filed by the roads of the Western Pas
senger association territory at this
time, so complaints against them may
be investigated by the commission
during the freight rate hearing which
will start in Chicago on Feb. Is.
Similar advances have been made
by the railroads in Central Freight as
ISOLATION territory without any action
by the board and the commission has
advised increases in a former rate
decision to the 214-a-mile basis.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
TAX FALLS ON CONGRESSMAN
Treasury Department Does Not De-
duct Campaign Expenses From
Incomes.

Washington, D. C.-Many mem
bers of congress, who expended l:.5er-
ally of their salaries to obtain re-elec-
ton, are now hard hit by the income
tax law they enacted in 1918. They
are not permitted to deduct their
campaign expenses in figuring net in
comes. To all inquiries as to what
should be done about deducting con-
gressmen's expense accounts from
their net incomes, the treasury de-
partment says:
in reply to your verbal inquiry, you
are advised that the expenses incurred
by a member Of congress in conduct
ing a campaign for reelection are re-
garded by this office as purely per-
sonal in character, and, therefore, not
deductable in a return of your income
under the provisions of the income
tax law"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04

Chairman John NJ. Atkinson Of the
Missouri public service commission
has completed the draft OF TIE com
missions second annual report and
transmitted it to the general assem-
bly, through Gov. Major. The report
covers the full operations of the body
for the year ending Dec. 81, 1914
The commission makes the follow
ing recommendations with reference
to the public service commission law
and the railroad statutes of Missouri:
The commission has prepared and
will present TO the legislature a mum
Der Of amendments TO the public serv-
ice commission law. which go TO clari-
fy and make more definite certain
provisions thereof.
The commission Is recommending
that said public service commission
law be amended by adding thereto
what is known as the underestimate
permit law" similar to the n now
in force in Wisconsin. relating to gas
corporations, electrical corporations,
water corporations and heating COM
panies.
The commission, as pointed out in
its first annual report, has found it
necessary to prepare and recommend
a complete revision of the railroad
laws of Missouri. Such an act has
been prepared and will be presented
to the legislature.
The commission further econ
mends the submission of a constitu-
tional amendment providing that all
appeals from orders and decisions of
the public service commission shall
go direct to the supreme court, and
providing the procedure OF such ap-
peals in such court. Such a constitu.
tional amendment has been prepared
and will be submitted to the legisla-
ture for its consideration.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
SEEKS DAUGHTER, LOSES LIFE
Fire-Had Learned She Was
Married and Rich.

Kansas City, Mo.-A few hours
after learning that his daughter,
for whom he had searched over
the greater part of the country, was
in Muskogee Ok, married and
wealthy, Thomas M. Nall, a construc-
ton engineer, was suffocated in a
burning hotel here. ,Firemen found
his body.
Nall, IN registering, told the hotel
attendants he had just located his
daughter fter a separation of three
years. He expected to start for Mus
kogee. He had been employed in Pan
ANA three years. Nall had no ac-
quaintances here and it is not known
where he formerly lived.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
WILSON PICKS MEN
FOR TRADE BOARD.
SELECTIONS COME FROM WIDELY
SEPARATED PARTS OF
COUNTRY.
TWO PROGRESSIVES ON LIST
Republicans Ignored by President
When He Chooses Men for Most
Important Positions in His
Power to Give Out.

Washington.-Presiden Wilson has
decided upon the men he will name
for the federal trade commission.
Joseph {. Davies, Wisconsin, Demo-
crat.
E. N. Hurley, Chicago, Democrat.
William J. Harris, Georgia, Demo-
Graf.
George L. Record, New Jersey, Pro-
sressiVe.
William H. Parry, Seattle, Washing
ton, Progressive.
Mr.. Davies is the present commits
sioner of corporations and is slated
for chairman of the board. His posi-
ton was abolished by the bill creating
the trade commission.
1t was said here that Record and
Parry were both Progressives in the
last presidential campaign, and so
far as is known neither has joined
the Republicans. Their selection was
commented on as indicating that
President Wilson has decided to ig-
more the Republicans in patronage
matters.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
Public Service Aided.

The new public service commission
act was introduced in the house by
Representative Correll of Randolph
county, and provides: That stock
yards are to be public utilities and re-
quired to file with the public service
commission schedule of rates of all
charges for handling stock for the
shippers OF this state.
BY far one Of the most important
amendments contains what is known
as the indeterminate permit statute,
similar to the one which has been in
force in Wisconsin, Massachusetts
and Indiana several years.
This indeterminate permit statute
as proposed gives the authority to any
municipality in the state to condemn
and take over any electric, gas, water
on heating company when the city de-
cides to operate such utility.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
PREACHER ADMITS PERJURY
Witness in Frank Case Testifies
That He Is Guilty Of Making
False Affidavit.

Atlanta, Georgia.-Testimony be-
gan in the superior court at the
trials Of D. s, Lehon, C. c. Tedder
and Arthur Thurman, indicted for
subornation Of perjury in the Leo
NJ. Frank murder case. They are
charged with procuring false affida-
Wits from Rev. G. B. Ragsdale and R.
L. Barber, saying they overheard
James Conley. a negro. acknowledge
the murder of Mary Phagan, a fac
tory girl, for which Frank stands con-
victed. Ragsdale and Barber repudi-
ate the affidayits. Lehon is manager
Of a detective agency which took up
Franks defense.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
Raise Age of Consent.

Raise Age of Consent.
That the age Of consent be advanced
from Is to 18 years in Missouri is
one of the chief recommendations
made in the completed report on
illegitimate births which DR.. George
B. Mangold, director Of the School Of
Social Economy of Washington Uni
versity, its author made public.
DR.. Mangold also declares matern-
ity homes should be subjected to
state supervision.
Copies of the report have been
mailed to each member Of the gen
eral assembly. Il
In the last three years there were
2,095 illegitimate births recorded, ia
Of which were in 1918. In the tabula-
ton of the occupations of the moth
ers, homework is recorded as leading
with 6O.3 per cent. Factory work is
second with 1855.
In the tabulation of the ages of the
mothers, the age of 1S led in all three
years recorded. In 1918 a birth was
recorded for a mother Is years old, as
well as one for a ~12-year-old mother.
Extreme youth of such large num-
bers of the mothers of illegitimate
children is the argument that DR..
Mangold urges in favor Of advancing
the age Of consent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
Auto Bandits Get $4,000.

New York City.-Between $4O,-
600 and $4,000 worth of diamonds
were stolen from the pawnshop Of
Adolph Stern on the Upper East
Side by four men who drove up to
The store in an automobile, held up
the three clerks with revolvers, bound
and gagged them, threw the jewels
into three suit and escaped in
the waiting car.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
HAAGLEDM MEMBER
USED IN ARGUMENT
holds UP 5ANDAeED HAND TO
SHOW NEED OF coMPEN-
sATioN ACT.
MEETSwITHM UCHOPPOSITION
Manufacturers Claim Amounts Al
lowed for Disability Are Too
High = viii Put Them
Out of Business.
Jefferson City.

A roughly clad man removed a
bandage and held up a mangled hand
just as Senator A. l.. Cooper of Kan
sas City had finished a speech in
which he declared that the compen-
sation bill prepared by Senator Alroy
Phillips and his associates was a
"Utopian dream
The man then wrapped up his hand
and left the room.
Business men and representatives
of labor organizations in st. Louis
and Kansas City attended meetings
of the committee The industrial feat
ure and the appointment of a COM
mission were the chief points dis
cussed.
Charles A. Houts Of st. Louis OPP
posed the proposed schedules, declar-
ing that the maximum of SIS is too
high and that Missouri industries
could not compete with those of other
states should the bill become a law,
Senator Cooper opposed the pro-
posed industrial commission to admin
lister the law on the ground that it
had too much authority to inquire in
to private business.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04
Slain TESTING PatroIman.

Portland, Ore.-After Sergt. r. H.
Stahl recovered a stolen automobile
for which the entire police force had
been ordered to search, he drove
slowly by Patrolman Klingensmith to
see il the latter would recognize it.
The sergeant did not stop promptly
when Klingensmith called to him and
was shot through the head.