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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-11
DO 1T TODAY
the Blanket WAY

We write a policy single animal
number by name description, paying losses
in of death for each. or all. but our very
best policy is Blanket or Herd policy 1t
enables you to take out insurance on all your
stock. You don't know-you can't guess
which animal will die tonight. The blanket
policy will protect them all. We also write
special policies for registered pedigreed stock.
Here is just
January 1915. the registered stallion. Juro,
belonging w. /. Price. of Salna, Kansas. died.
he Insured $3.50. dollar of which
paid promptly o Price. This is the way
do business Isn't it worth while?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-11
Don't DiIIy-DaIly

Do it now. You can't afford to risk tn.
precious lives of your animals. No time
like the present. There is no tomorrow
when the hand of Death reaches out In
]
sure today. Every days delay is gam
bic with death. Can you afford to take
the risk? Decidedly NO. Just
because you have been lucky
in the past does not mean that
you are immune. Grim Death
don't wait. Wise men won't
wait Sign the coupon now.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-11
We Insure Against \
Death From Any CauSe =

policy protects death
disease fire lightning tornado sunstroke and when
animal herd condemned the
ference between the face of policy and what the state
liable for.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-11
CAN YOU AFFORD TOO
Gamble WITHDEATH.

Remember. out of every twenty animals you
this year-according past records,
statistics the s14. 5000 stock loss
sas last and s1O.0O0.0O0 the year before
For every dollar lost by fire $50 lost ac-
death of live If house
barn burns. your live stock will help you build
live stock dies, house
won't replace n single animal-unless you sell or
mortgage
Horses mean more to Kansas than houses; cattle
than At blowing time harvest
time. planting time, market time-ALI TIL E
TIME-keep your live stock insured.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-06

NoRTHcLlFFE REMAkEs
BRITISH JOURNALISM I

From the North American Review.

From the North American Review.
Lord Northcliffe has been a power in
British journalism for now nearly 20
years. 1t was on May 4. 1896. that the
irst issue of the Daily Mail was sold in
The streets of London. It's advent marked
! revolution in the press not merely OF
ne metropolis. but of the whole kingdom:
Up till then a certain ponderosity had
been the hallmark of most British news
papers. They were extremely respectable.
Heighty and dull. They had. one might
nVeIiness as something dangerous and en-
sharing; Verbatim reports of everything
-eportable. long winded and eminently
sen'entious editorials. and stodgy columns
of parliamentary debate. filled their
pages. Occasionally some journal OF I'M
usual enterprise would send a special
stan, would dive deeply into the profun-
dities of European politics. would open
: subscription list for some semi.public
reform.
1t was a decent press and a we'll in
Formed press; II was wealthy. pontifcal,
extraordinary limited range. From the
every day interests of normal men and
women IT stood serenely apart. 1t made
pie who had grown to maturity since the
lett1ng up OF a national system of educa-
!ion. 1T was curiously out of touch with
s sas ramm tha appe l1de OF Of t fae B sGi1nfry pre ia
N those days was mainly to the educated
md the f%astidious. !
Into the easy going and self satisfied
world there burst 10 years ago the Daily
Nail. Mr.. Alfred Harmsworth, as he then
vas. Its originator and chief proprietor,
aad already shown as 81 producer OF news
apers that he had ideas. keenness.
courage and initiative. But this was by
.ar the biggest venture he had yet es-
s m;Efsd;i Over ; aao.ooo was spent on m the
:Wo solid years We're devoted to the pre-
paratory work. and the paper was issued
Tally. complete in every respect, for near
y three months before a single copy was
sold to the public.
Its success was immediate. Small where
Is rivals were unwieldy, compact where
hey were diffuse, published at ! cent
while they sold for 9. sacrificing every
hing to presenting the events of the pre-
Else a form as possible. and with a news
service far beyond. anything that had
hitherto beer even attempted. It umped
instantly into popular favor. The daily
circulation at the end of the first year
WAS over 100000. and at the end of two
md a half years had passed 100000. dur
ng the BOer war 1t reached the 1.0OO.OO
mark. and is now, 1 suppose, somewhere
between 100000 and 100000.
From the first it has been q paper WIN
! real individuality, going clean outside
The humdrunl game of politics, tackllng
the questions that interest it with a di-
Aoncommittal fashion affected by most
papers. suggesting rather than echoing
5r criticising. and never content to heW
TO the hackneyed line. The Daily Mail
became a national newspaper to a unique
1eGree.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-06
A RACE WHICH STILL
wi BY THE SWORD

turns the owner out of a selected house.
His tent is of black, homespun goats
hair, and its furniture is mats, quilts and
cooking pots. His children go naked and
sour milk.
Chiefs Are Dianified.
When by chance he builds a winter
home, it consists of a hole in the ground
with a fiat roof Of waffle and clay-air-
tight, smoke tight, light tight. There ara
small smoke vents in the roof, but the
whole effect is that of a prairie dogs
dwelling. Within, it is as light and airy
as a low level coal mine
To be of "Ashirat'' blood, in Kurdish
estimation, is to be really worth while.
The Kurds lave a conscious superiority
which gives them a certain bearing OF
noblesse and dignity. A Kurdish chief is
an impressive, often an affable Individual.
These people are not inclined to settle
down. and they do not seem to want
others to settle. In some districts, how
ever, they have taken lands wholesale
from the A%rmenians. massacreing the
owners, and have become rich landho6ers.
Occasional Kurds attempt civilization.
Liberal in Religion.
Officially, at least. the Kurds are Mo-
hammedans. They reject the custom Of
yelling their women: reverence fire, and
are, on subjects of religion, altogether
liberal. Many of them are Kizilbashis.
hereto Moslems. and some few are Chris
tians. Their little feudal organizations
are their nationalities. and their patriot
ism is a devotion to the privilege of be-
ing able to live at the expense of others.
They are medieval, with all the head
strong Irregularities of medieval times.
1t was not until 1913 that the first Kurdish
newspaper appeared. This was published
at Constantinople. AS, however. there is
no such thing as a definite written Kurd-
ish language, this paper is carried on I'M
der some difficulty. There was something
called a "kurdish movement" before the
war, but its labors seemed hopeless. The
latest reports from the haunts of tho
Kurds tell of the massacre of many thou
sands of Armenians.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-06
WHY AMERICA is
FRIENDLY TO ENGLAND

was increased. The natural tradition of
the American people for more han 100
years was instructive hostility to England
ana instructive friendship for Germany.
All American sympathy was with Ger
many In the Franco-Prussian war of 1870
N. The old emperor and the Emperor
Frederick were admired and beloved gen.
orally In America, and Won Moltke and
fsoon took their places beside Grant and
sherman In the popular mind. The PRES
ent emperor grew continually and gener-
ally in the admitting affections of the
American people. Such was the condition
up to the very close of the Nineteenth CEN
fury.
More and more American professors
had studied in German universities. Few
men commanded a greater affection of all
our public men than Carl Schurz.
Are the American people idiotic victims
OF an insidtous propaganda on the part
OF Great Britain. and is the talk of the
American press stupid and venal?
England and the English press were re-
garded by the American people with q
calm and contemptuous hostility. Tha
change came at the time of the Spanish
american war. One morning New York
city was amazed to read a short editorial
in the New York Sun speaking Of England
in an admiring and friendly manner
Gradually this feeling of friendliness
grew, until much of the traditional hos
tllity disappeared. Public opinion in the
United States in regard to the war was
created by the unfolding sequence of
vents.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-06
Kind Of Preparedness. Wanted.
the Pueblo (Colo.) Chiefta

From the Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain.
The. people Of the United States do not
want a preparedness that will put upon us
the burden Of milftarism under which Eu-
rope mas been staggering for the past 70
years.
We do not want a preparedness that will
encourage the growth of military ambf-
lion, and that will stimulate hatred or
jealousy Of other nations.
We do not want a preparedness that will
build up a group of contractors and man.
ufacturers selflshly concerned in increas-
ing the expendituresto of government with
put a close, regard for national neces-
sites.
We dc not want a preparedness that
will 'detract in any way from the strength
Of our position in support of the principle
that war is supreme folly and supreme
waste, and that the rights of peaceful
Industry are superior to the alleged rights
Of military necessity.
We do want a preparedness that will
give a reasonable assurance that this
county will not be wantonly attacked by
any nation Jealous of our prosperity or
covetous of our wealth.
We do want a preparedness that will
give us a defensive strength compatible
with our Importance as one of the great
nations of the world, and consistent with
the duties we owe to ourselves. to the
people of other nations and to the adj
vancing cause of civilization and human
progress.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-06

s. S. Mcclure in the New York Mail.
1 am departing from the good and al
most universal custom by writing a signed
editorial. I am doing this because 1 need
20 draw upon my own observation to a
certain extent.
In a letter to the Times. b. Horowitz.
associate professor in Columbia, says:
that so many Americans are ardeNA sup
%2.orters of the allies. we may answer that
The primary reason Is the existence of q
common bond of sympathy for England
and what 1t stands forts people, its his
tory. its culture.
Where was the common bond Of tradi-
ions. history. literature, ETC., in this coun-
:ry In 1861 as between the northern and
southern states? Such a common bond
rs Professor Horowitz refers to did not
prevent one Of the most terrible wars in
alstory-the American civil war. Further
more. every generation of American youth
was brought up to regard England as the
enemy. The war OF the revolution was fol-
owed by the war of 1872, and, to still fur
Their embitter our people. the acts of Eng
land during our civil war brought feelings
OF hostility to a white heat. How every
body felt then many of the oldtimers feel
now. Ask General Horace Porter. Our
history textbooks implanted these feel
ings year after year in our country schools
and city schools.
n response of the people to Cleve-
lands Venezuelan message was indicative
OF this unanimous feeling. During the
Boer wal the feeling of dislike to England
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-06
Lonae.t street. in World.
From Harper's Magax1ne.

from f1aTpeT magazine.
In the world as known to Baede,xer
there are only two streets that =
compare with Fifth avenue, and these
are Doth on Manhattan Island. From
its source in the asphalt bottoms Of
Washington Jus to where It loses
itself In the coal-middens Of the Harlem
r1ver at 1880 street. the avenue runs q
course Of almost exactly v miles
It runs true to the North star. without
q turn. with only a single pause,
gr1miy bent on its business, in q way
calculated to make the dowager me-
tropolises Of Europe lift their eyebrows
n say; "How Americana" It's rivals
IS Eighth avenue. a half-mile to the
west. which may be some nine hun
dred feet longer; and. still farther Weef.
Tenth. or Amsterdam. avenue, the
titan OF all urban highways, nine miles
up MIL and down as determined IN the
primeval blue print shaped by the city
fathers some time about the year ~.
All these streets have character as wen
as length. but Fifth avenue alone has
Significance. 49,
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-06

7 the fixing by the congress of an actual
maximum of rental for officers quarters.
and the almost unanimous drawing of
.nls by officers, regardless of
thc real rent paid. In other words, it is
saio 10 be customary and is regarded as
lelhlcal for an officer to rent a house for
NV charge the government $50 and put
.he difference in his own pocket.
vi course, not every officer in the army
or any other branch of the service is sus-
pected OF such a course. but the investi-
gator says the custom is general.
Rooms Were lmaqinary.
announcer case cited by the same %investi-
gator was thai of two nurses, who, under
the law, We're entitled to the rent of two
rooms each for their quarters. Leases
were submitted from these nurses, IN
says w that each had taken two
rooms IN a Washington house and actu-
ally giving the dimensions of the rooms
SO many feet long, so many feet wide and
SO many feet high. Yet, when the investi-
gator called he found, it is said, that the
TWO nurses rented only one room between
them and that the other apartments were
entirely imaginary.
In still another instance n sergeant in
the army was found to be drawing his
lu'i allowance for coal. although he lived
III Il boarding house. Again, the investi-
gator learned that a man was paying his
board in COAL, which wa supplied by the
government.
why, some men even in the ranks are
buying houses on the installment plan and
Uncle Sam is paying for Them said this
Investigator.
Autos Shipped as Books.
Another indirect source Of 'augmenta-
tion of income," as William Jennings
Bryan put 1T, is said to be found in the
law which provides for the paying of
freight on an officers goods when moved
from one post to another. Besides trans
portation at z cents a mile, he is allowed
to take 5000 pounds of chattels and al
most an equal amount of books and pa
pers.' Scrutiny of such accounts, says the
investigator, will show that almost in
variably the chattels run to $500 pounds,
and that even automobiles are shipped
as books and papers,"
P~erchance, the investigator may be un.
duly suspicious, but at all events he at
tributes the laXity of management largely
to the matrimonial alliances between army
and navy men with the fair daughters OF
members of the congress in both branches.
Watch the society news" says he, land
note how many congressmen's daughters
marry army and navy officers. So, wheD
the Irregularities are brought to light,
all efforts to correct them are futile: Its
all In the family-and, there you are!"
And on this same line he deplores the
custom Of having officers in either branch
OF the service entertain members of the
House committees having supervision of
the appropriation bills. This custom. he
concludes, is general and costs Uncle Sam
hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-06
Graft Among Army Officials
Annually Costs U.S.. Thousands
]. F. Hornaday, Washington Correspond
ent i'm IndiauanoIis News

J. F. Hornaday. Washington Correspond
emit, in Indianapolis News.
Tales of alleged graft in a government
department rave come into circulation
since the transfer of George T.. Downey.
of Aurora, Ind., from the office of con-
trOller of the treasury to the bench of the
court of claims. in the form of stories of
some of his achievements in bringing
much of this graft to an end. In fact.
1t is said that his promotion was cheered
In more than one department.
BY a man on the inside the responsible
ity for most of the alleged graft is laid di-
rectly at the doors of the congress-, whose
laxity and carelessness, as he describes 1T.
in framing the army, navy and other APP
preparation bills give tremendous oppor-
tunlty for an enormous variety of irregu-
larities. In fact, he AYERS, much of graft
actually is lawful and some has been sup
pressed only by announcement that the
controllers office proposed to expose the
entire situation to the House committees
and the House of Representatives itself.
Demanded Fuel Allowance.
In one case, for instance, 1t was said
that IN army officer assigned to a post in
the tropics and living in a torrid cline de-
manded his "fuel allowance of $b a
month for ''heating his home,'' and threat
ened all sorts of dire consequences for the
controllers office when 1t declined to hon.
or his bill. AS a matter of fact. it was ex-
planned. this officer was entitled by law
to such fuel allowance" without %restric-
tlon or qualification as to whether or not
he might need II. Still. he did not get 1t
I'm Downey's incumbency. but he may nave
better luck with come more complainant
Watchdog,
Another evil. explains q man who has
made personal Investigation Of many cases
OF alleged Irregularities, prevails in the
system OF government leasing of homes
for army officers and others In that SER
vice. Imposition on Uncle Sam in this
line is said to be so general as to be vir-
tually q recognized custom and accepted
as a p%erquisite Of service In the rank and
hle as we'll as higher up
In going over various leases, says a man
who served under Downey, he was struck
N many cases by the similarity in the
name of the lessor and the officer for
whom the premises were rented. and an
investigation was ordered. The first case
up was that of Captain Blank, for
whom u house was leased from a Mrs.
Blank.
Wife Leased House.
On following up the trail the investiga-
tor found that the house was rented by
the officers wife from the real owner of
the property, at $40. so q month and by her
was leased to the government for her
own family's occupancy at $50 q month.
In other cases. 1t was said, the actual
owner put In a bill to the government for
twice the amount of the real rental value
and turned the difference over to his ten
ant. although it was explained, the owner
IN such instances seldom demanded any
part OF the 0vercharge for himself.
This procedure Ii made possible through
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-06

Squank.' she said, quietly whirling her
spinning wheel.
WHY. soon after 1 reached the
Man Land" said Suuank. hopping his
brow. heard a mighty roaring and
saw a gigantic serpent 10 times as
long as a giant rushing along at
frightful speed. without wings or feet.
It glistened in the sun. and from its
frightful nostrils set in front of its
terrible black head it spurted smoke.
l tried to hide. blu as it roared clatter-
Ing past it waved a long white plume
from it's head and uttered a frightful
shrek. / fled in terror. hut hardly
had the serpent gone from sight be-
fore l heard above me a most horrible
chattering. and. looking up. 1 saw a
huge bird. larger than 1000 eagles fly
ing faster than a swallow. 1t flew past
and suddenly 1t whirled and dipped, and
skimming close to the ground. lit right
where / was trying to hide. More
frightened than ever. 1 ran as hard as
! could. The awful bird rose and fol-
lowed fast. and at length I fell, faint.
ing with terror. on the banks Of a great
river.
II was brought to my senses Nv a
horse below like that Of 10000 bulls.
When / l saw 1t was night, and,
looking around to see whence that
sight that froze my goblin blood.
Swimming with a rush through the
river Wa6 q monster hSh, Such as nc
one In fairyland yer dreamed OF,
huger than an ogre's castle, with 3
great horn on It's back. from which
spouted 1000. 900 fiery sparks. Along
Its sides from head tt tail, there
cleaned rows OF myriad blazing eyes
Crawling over it were men creatures
and ! think thew were torturing the
monster fish. for suddenly 1t com.
menced to below again in that terrible
voice.
Then l turned and fled homeward
while my teeth chartered In terror.
Suddenly. az I came into an open road
II seems as thought all the stars Of
heaven had fallen about me. some
the all. I did not stop again. but
came running home. all frightened out
Of my wits. 10 you zee. And oh, Tn
90 Elad to get home safe: after all
those terrible things. with their awful
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-06
sQuANK's VISIT TO MAINLAND.

paper Syndicate.)
Now little SQuank. who was the
small pet goblin at the court of the
Fairy Queen ~Emereselda. longed to go
and to see strange lands. So he said
to the queen:
-Oh. queen. 1 wish to go to the land
where the men creatures live."
'sThev are wise. the men creatures
ara" replied the mother spider, whirl-
ing her spinning wheel. "And wisdom
- more wonderful than magic. Stay
home." But little Squank was head
strong. And so next morning he start
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-06

one Of the first towns in the west to own
its electric light plant. and municipal own
ershiP, OF waterworks was not very popu-
lar when Webster City embarked in that
field. And Webster City is going to show
the towns of Iowa that the city manager
plan Is better than the old council method
that has been on duty in this country for
the past 100 years. Really city govern
ment and court procedure are about the
only things that AVE stood still In the
Washington and BENJAMIN Franklin.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-06
YOUR CHARITABLEPRoGRAM
Copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)

paper 0y lOACaSSsJ tH.s
No matter how economically run.
charity is a part of every households
expense. Perhaps the mount of actual
MONEY given away is necessarily very
small. but there is exercise of charity
Just the same. The feeding of tramps
at the kitchen door is a form of char
ity-misdirected. says some, but justi-
fled according to those who think that
want. wherever 1t is found, should be
to eat the kitchen door meal. say these
persons. 1T should not be refused to
him.
So whatever form 1t takes. all Of us
have some pet charities. The trouble
just now II that there are so many calls
on U sympathies that it is difficult
to know when to stop; and some OF us,
fearing that all these calls will empty
our pocketboOks. spend all our time in
thinking about them and never really
given anything worth while.
Economy and charity go very rightly
hand In hand. For IL we would be truly
charitable we will not waste what we
have to give. So the household that il
run economically will plan out q course
Of charity along with the other depart
ments Of its budgets. II you believe
in p-romiseuous giving, always nave
money In the pocketbok for the chance
unfortunate-and then. each week. put
the surplus toward a little fund to be
given to your pet charity. whether IL
be a dog hospital or the Red Cross. or
Il don't believe in giving each
chance unfortunate who asks for IL
what Q can spare. plan to give a def
mite amount to q definite cause.
With q little planning, your charity
will becOm well ordered, less expen-
sive to you. because. knowing whar WI,
are giving. o will not waste.