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The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16
PLAN TO EXCHANGE IDEAS
Conferences Are to Be Held to Dis
cuss the Best Means of Fighting
tuberculosis Plague.

How to munition and carry on the
wan against tuberculosis during the
coming year will be discussed at sec
tional conferences on this subject be-
ing called by the National Associa-
ton for the Study and Prevention of
tuberculosis, in indianapolis, Ind; Ell
Paso, Tex; Columbia, S. c.; Spring
field, Mass, and Albany, N. Y.
The Indianapolis meeting, to be held
September 10Th, goth and October LIST,
will be known as the Mississippi Val
ley tuberculosis Conference and will
take in the states of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ken
tncky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri,
Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska,
South Dakota, North Dakota, Mon
tana, Wyoming and Colorado.
At FL Paso the southwestern health
conference will meet September 9th
to October 1st and will discuss not
only tuberculosis, but other health
subjects. This conference includes
Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Ari-
zona, California, Nevada, Utah and
Colorado.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16
81. 677. S67,954. while this year It was
increased to 1884, 436,937.

$2.677. 867,954. while this year It was
increased to $2,s34,436,sS7
BY the state tax commission this is
taken as an indication that the local
assessing officers are making better
efforts to place all property on an
actual cash basis.
AS compared TO last years assess
ment by the local board OF supervisors
Bay county has been increased from
$45,S16,195 to $45,S17, 1876, Genesee
county has increased from $64,47S, 900
TO $66, $50, 089 Ingham has increased
from 63,421 ,033 to $65,263 $3.50. Jack
son has increased from $63,624,441 TO
$64,321, 045. Kent has increased from
$14S,S71, 1851 to $213 156,77S. Lenawee
county has increased from $56,363,-
SIC to S57,166,511. Muskegon county
has advanced from s27,729, APP te $685.
702,494. Saginaw has increased from
$S1, 7O3,O75 to sS3,25S,476. st. Clair
has been boosted from $33,752,355 to
1,005,272. Wayne has increased
from $500, 47S,97S to 1856, 989, 100.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16

Commissioner Winship has received
a query as to whether insurance COM
panies may have a minimum premium
rate whereby on a small policy, when
the premium is less than $500, they
can charge $500 as the minimum rate
for which the policy will be written
He has made ruling that companies
cannot have a minimum rate, as 1t
would not only be a violation of the
anti-discrimination law, but would also
be a violation OF Act No. 2S5 of the
Public Acts of 1913. which prohibits
the collection from the insured of any
lar premium charge made for assum-
ing the risk.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16

Owing to the fact that there are
comparatively few hotels in the state
where a room with bath may be OBJ
tanned for 800, employees of the
state dairy and food department can
no longer perform their morning abb
solutionary functions at state expense.
II inspectors of the dairy and food
department feel in need of a bath
while on the road for the department,
they will have to pay for it out of
their own salaries or take a plunge in
the river, unless they are fortunate
enough to encounter a hotel where
room and bath may be had for $1.00
per day.
Dairy and Food Commissioner
James Helme visited Lansing We'd
nesday for the first time in several
weeks and he Issued an order to his
employees that hereafter no expense
accounts would be approved where
hotel bills exceeded $1.00 per day. The
employees are also limited to fifty
cents per meal End are cautioned not
to eat more than three meals per
day.
In his order Helme says that he
never has any trouble in obtaining a
room for $1,00 and he is of the opin-
ion that the employees of the depart
ment should be able to live as econo-
nomically as their boss. He says that
the appropriation for the department
was cut by the legislature and it is
necessary to cut down expense items.
AS general rule state employees
are allowed $500 per day for expenses
while travelling on department busi-
ness in Michigan. The board of audi
tors has set $500 per day as a maxi
mum outside the state.
IL has been suggested that the in
spectors of the dairy and food depart
ment be equipped with portable bath
tubs so that they will be able to battle
regularly while on the road and at the
same time keep their hotel bills With
in the maximum set by Dairy and
Food Commissioner Helme.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16
FIRST TO SCALE HIGH PEAK
Party of University Students Make a
Record In Mountain Climbing In
California.

Fighting their way to the top of
Half Dome, the most inaccessible
point on any of the mountains about
the Yosemite valley A. c. Pillsbury
and II college students spent night
on the summit and made the descent
the next day.
This is the first time on record that
a party of tourists has ever scaled the
mountain and reached the top of the
dome. The summit is $500 feet above
sea level and. the last 1000 feet of the
climb was made with rope ladders.
The grade is said to average IS per
cent
The dome rises hundreds of feet
above a massive rock on the top of the
mountain proper. The rock itself is
1000 feet high. The overhanging rock
at the summit of the dome projects
out from the wall so feet and sticks
eight feet out into yawning space
There is a sheer drop of 5000 feet
from this point.
The party spent one night on the
point and built a huge bonfire that
lighted up the surrounding heights for
miles. to the delight of many tourists
on the floor of the valley who had oh
served the climbers through field
glasses during the afternoon At mid
night the bonfire was pushed over the
point, making the longest stream OF
falling fire in the history of the state
Six girls we're in the party. All OF
them are students Of Stanford nnlver
sity.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16
NO INDEMNITY ON
STEAMER ARABIC
IS BERLIN REPLY
Note to American Government
Expresses Deep Regret
for Deaths.
MISTAKE IS NOT ADMITTED
Belief Of Submarine Commander That
Liner Was About to Attack Him
Held by Germany to Justify
His Action.

Washington, Sept. 13.-Germany
note to the United States bearing on
the sinking of the White Star line
steamer Arabic on August 10, which
was communicated to the American
ambassador, James w. Gerard, for
transmission to Washington, is in the
form of memorandum under date OF
September Z, the text of which is as
follows:
On August 10 German submarine
stopped the English steamer Dunsley
about sixteen nautical miles south of
Kinsale and was on the point of sink
ing the prize by guntire after the
crew had left the vessel. At this mo-
ment the commander saw a large
steamer, as developed later, the Ara
bic She was recognized as an enemy
vessel, as she did not fly any flag and
bore no neutral markings.
When she approached she altered
her original course, but then again
pointed directly toward the submarine.
From this the commander became con-
WINGED that the steamer had the in
tention of attacking and ramming him.
In order to anticipate this attack he
gave orders for the submarine to dive
and fired a torpedo at the steamer.
After firing he convinced himself that
the people on board were being res
cued in Is boats.
According to his instructions, the
commander was not allowed to attack
the Arabic without warning and with
out saving the lives unless the ship at
tempted to escape or offered resist
ance. He was forced, however, to con-
clude from the attendant circum-
stances that the Arabic planned vio-
lent attack on the submarine.
This conclusion is all the more OBJ
vious as he had been fired upon at a
great distance in the Irish sea on Au-
gust 14-that is, few days before
by large passenger steamer, appar-
emily belonging to the British Royal
Mail Steam Packet company, which he
had neither attacked nor stopped.
The German government most deep
ly regrets that lives were lost through
the action of the commander. 1t par
ticularly expresses this regret to the
government of the United States on
account of the death of American citi-
zens.
The German government is unable,
however, to acknowledge any obliga-
ton to grant indemnity in the matter.
even If the commander should have
been mistaken as to the aggressive in
tentions of the Arabic.
II it should prove to be the case that
it is impossible for the German and
American governments to reach a har-
monious opinion on this point, the Ger
man government would be prepared to
submit the difference of opinion, as be-
ing a question of international law. to
The Hague tribunal for arbitration,
pursuant to article 9S of The Hague
convention for the pacific settlement
of international disputes.
In so doing it assumes that as a mat
ter of course the arbitral decision shall
not be admitted to have the impor
lance of general decision on the per-
instability or the converse under in.
ternational law, of German submarine
warfare.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16
LETTER FROM
STATE CAPITOL
SECRETARY VAUGHAN GIVES DE-
TAILS OF NEW LOAN
SHARK LAW.
PAWN BROKERS EXEMPTED
inspectors Of Dairy and Food Depart
ment Must Limit Expenses to
$500 Per Day for Room.
[By Gurd M. Hayes.l

Lansing Secretary of State
Vaughan has received numerous re-
quests for information concerning the
so-called loan shark law" passed by
the last legislature and which went
into effect August "a.
The bill, which exempts pawn brok-
ers, provides that in every city of TO-
900 population or over, every person,
partnership or corporation making
loans of $500 or less where an interest
rate OF more than seven per cent is
charged shall first obtain a license
from the city clerk in the city where
the business is to be carried on.
The bill provides that the fee for
such a license shall be $50 per year
and that a bond of $1,000 shall be
given by the loan agent or agents
before a permit to do business shall
be issued.
Every person, partnership or cor
poration licensed to conduct a loan
business is required to give each bor-
rover a card on which shall be writ
ten the name OF the person making
the loan, name OF borrower, amount of
loan, amount and date of each pay
men to be made, amount Of expense
charger exclusive of interest, time for
date when payable. Upon the back Of
each card must be printed in English
the words: IF interest or charges in
excess OF the amount fixed by the
laws Of this state are charged or re-
ceived, this loan is void and Of no eff
feet, and the borrower cannot be made
to pay back the money loaned, or any
interest, or any charges, or any part
thereof"
No licensed loan agent shall receive
any assignment of salary or wage in
blank, but all blank spaces shall be
filed in with ink or typewriter with
the paper names and figures, showing
the name of the person, partnership
or corporation by whom the person
making the assignment is employed.
If the borrower is married, the as
signment shall be void unless il con-
tains the signature of the husband or
wife, as the case may be, of the Dor
rover.
The law provides that where loan
does not exceed 500 the rate of in
terest shall not be more than three
per cent per month and not to exceed
two per cent per month is more than
500 or less than 5000. Interest on any
loan shall not be payable in advance,
and shall be computed on unpaid
monthly balances only, but without
compromising of interest. The agent
is not entitled to any examination
fee or to make any charge whatsoever
unless loan is actually made.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16

Michigan railroads are preparing to
follow orders of the railroad commits
sion literally, even If strict construc-
ton of the orders may be in viola
ton of statutes over which the COM
mission has no control.
Thus railroads would put the COM
mission in a position of promulgating
illegal orders.
The case over which the trouble &C.
ours Is that brought by the Lake
Shore company against the Pere Mar
quette and the Michigan Central in
volving the rate on gravel from Mus
kegon to Grand Beach.
Under the December, 1914, order,
raising freight rates, the maximum
rate on gravel was put at so per cent
of the sixth class rate. On a ship
ment to Grand Beach from Muskegon,
this class rate is lower than from
Muskegon to Holland, only half way,
on the same route. The gravel ship
pers set up that this was violation
of the INSTRUMENTATION law, but
the railroads both at the hearing and
in their briefs, set forth that they
would abide by the order and pay no
attention to the law.
On the advice Of the attorney-Gen-
eral, the commission will uphold the
order in so far as the law is not vio-
lated. but IL will insist that the Hol-
land rate be lowered.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16
DO NOT HESITATE
To Use Cutleura on SkIn-Tortured
Babies. Trial Free.

A hot bath with Cuticura Soap and
gentle application Of Cuticura ONT.
ment at once relieve, permit rest and
sleep and point to speedy healment
of eczemas, rashes, itching and irri.
tations Of infants and children even
In severe cases.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. Ky,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16

DR.. William De Kleine, who has
charge of the state wide tuberculosis
campaign announces that the first
county campaign will be started in
Wexford county within the next two
weeks. The county headquarters will
be at Cadillac. Following the Wex-
ford county campaign the fight will be
carried to Barry county.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16
Citv's Location.

A woman from the South visiting
New York for the first time was much
agitated when, after being conveyed
through the Hudson tube, she found
herself in another subway. Rushing
up to a knowing-looking individual.
she asked, in an agitated tone:
"Sir, do please tell me where is
New York;"
Lady" said he, with the utmost
gravity, tits right at the top of those
tairs."-Harper's Magazine.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16

Local boards of supervisors have
added $256.56S,9S3 to the tax rolls
since the assessment of 1914. accord
ing to reports on file at the Office OF
the state tax commission. The total
assessed valuation of all real and per-
sonal property in the state In 1914 as
fixed by the boards of supervisors was
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16
European News.

Got the paper, my dear?"
YES"
well, what's the Russian news
from Timbuctoo and the German news
from Tokyo?"-Louisville Courier.
Journal.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16

Every woman's pride, beautiful. clear
white clothes. Use Red Cross Ball Blue.
All grocers. Adv.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16

Despite what the dealers say, the
only way to save 5000 on a piano is
not to buy it.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16

kissing is dangerous; the result is
sometimes a wedding.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16

Prof. J. B. Edmonsor, university in
spector of schools, in his first annual
report, says there are 266 schools in
Michigan from which graduate may
enter the state university without TAX
ing an entrance examination.
In the year he warned "a schools
that they need higher standard of
scholarship; 13 that they need more
efficient teachers; % that they should
pay their teachers higher salaries;
nine that they need more specializa-
ton in teaching. and 3S that they
need to pay more attention to their
supervision.
Twenty-seven schools were advls.
ed to revise their program OF stud
les: the order to provide better II.
brary facilities has gone out to SO
schools and SO have been told to pro
vide better equipment in their labo-
ratories. Nine schools have been
warned that their buildings should
be better cared for and "a that they
must have new buildings or enlarge
their old ones, IL they would stay on
the university accredited list.
The Yale expositor., 1915-09-16

Handkerchief and Dress Goods etc. wishes representative
in each locality Factory TO consumer. Big protits
honest goods. Whole spare time. Credit given
Send particular FreepOr Mfg As Main ST. BrookynNT
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-30
AGRICULTURE IN THE SOUTH
sifcation idea-Attenton to New System of Farming.

Business plans are being made along conservative lines. and already there is impetus being given to spread fur ther the diyersification idea. Unless cotton this year rises to levels seen before the war, there will no doubt be further expansion of areas devoted to other crops. Even should the price mount chances favor much of the attention devoted to the new system of farming becoming permanent, says a Memphis dispatch to the New York Post. The cotton crop has been grown more economically than ahv in recent years and it's cGst is believed to be smallerr dalan ill at least a decade. Naturally this will be factor to be Considered in trying to determine at what level selling will be free.
 Still, the spread of diversified farming during the last year has been wonderful. and not only has the effort to grow other crops been the greatest ever made, but results are more satis- factory and the South will be more independent from the standpoint of what it will be compelled to spend than ever before.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-30
USEFUL FOR FRUIT PACKERS
Simple Device Invented by Georgia Man is Especially Handy When
 Picking From Low Trees.

A simple device that is of great help to pickers has been used in one or. chard in Georgia. It is especially help full when picking from low trees, as it allows the picker the use of both hands
 It consists of leather strap with hooks at both ends, with strap run ming through loops. and with holes at intervals so as to fit 1t to the in. diyidual picker. A wider band of leather with slits for the strap to work through provides the necessary pad for the shoulder.
 The picker snaps the hooks into staples ill the basket. and there it hangs until it is full of fruit. By. car rying basket in this way the pick CTS will not drop the fruit, las they frequently do if the basket is on the ground. With one hand tn hey can lift and turn the twig to ,/see if the peaches show the yellow cast on the under side. Two years, experience in this orchard has. shown that many less green peaches are picked where this device is used.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-30
m GAN FRUIT IN OVEN
By This Method Fruit Retains Its Shape, Color and Flavor to
 Remarkable Extent.

Cooking canned fruit in the oven Is easily and quickly done. while the fruit retains it's shape, color and fla vor better than when cooked in a pre- serving kettle.
 Cover the bottom of the oven with a sheet of asbestos, the same as used by plumbers for covering furnace pipes. This is very reasonable at any plumbing shop If it is impossible to purchase the asbestos, use large pan in which there is about two inches of boiling water. Thoroughly sterilize the jars and utensils Make the sirup of sugar and water as sweet as need ed. Prepare the fruit the same as for cooking in the preserving kettle. Fill the hot jars with this. pouring in sufficient sirup to fill the jar. Run the blade of a silver knife around the inside of each jar. (Never use steel knife.) Place the jars in the oven either on the asbestos or in the open pan of water.
 The oven should be moderately hot. Cook the fruit ten minutes. Remove from the oven and fill each jar with boiling sirup. Wipe and seal. If the screw covers are used, tighten them after the glass has thoroughly cooled.
 Large fruits may require pint of sfrup to each quart jar of fruit. The small fruit will require a little over half pint of the sirup.-Ladies' World
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-30
SOME SIMPLE FOOD TESTS
How Ptomaine Poisoning Can Be Avoided by Testing Contents of
 Can for Copper.

Ghicory is not harmful and some like it. but when we buy coffee we don't want to pay coffee price for chic ory. To find out whether you are buy ing the real thing, put tablespoonful of the coffee in glass, pour cold wa ter over it. and watch.
 If the coffee is pure the water will hardly be stained. If ehicory is pres ent it turns the water a deep brown color.
 Here is a good test for canned foods: Put a bright, clean steel knife in the contents directly you open the can. Leave for minute. If copper is present it will be seen on the knife's blade and you've escaped ptomaine poisoning.
 Fresh eggs will always sink in wa ter Stale eggs have smooth and glassy shells; fresh eggs have a lime like surface.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-30
Don l. pime-push,


 Policy is a poor honesty!
 Taxes do not have to toot a horn to make men dodge
 An idle acre means that some work ing acre must carry the extra bur den.
 Better colts begin with the choice of a suitable, not merely a good, sire.
 The one man in the world who thor oughly believes in hero worship is the hero.
 One can pitch a tent in half an hour; it takes half lifetime to build home.
 Unless a man amounts to a good deal, he should not say he has done his best.
 Any artist can make his model stand around. unless he happens to be married to her.
 A good neighbor is one who will re fuse to lend you the tools you ought to buy for yourself
 Even the people who stand up for their own rights might prefer to sit HI tut idp Ol
 The income tax doesn't bother the man whose principal holdings consist of castles in the air
 Ever notice that the people who are willing to share their last dollar with you never have a dollar?
 grouch stands a poor show of be- ing successful or even popular Gheerfulness makes the wheels of life run smoothly.
 It is very poor business policy to loan money without security Your friend may be strictly honest. but he may drop dead.
 To reach mountain top. the num- Der of times we fall does not count; It is the picking up and going on that gains the pinnacle.
 Suppose we put as much into com fort for others as we do into comfort for ourselves. wouldn't this be transformed and reformed world? Consider the hen. She lays most freely at time when eggs are cheap est. In that she exhibits the same wisdom as the farmer who jumps into all-wheat because everybody else is doing it.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-30
BIG GRAIN CROPS IN SOUTH
Remarkable Record Made in Crop versificaton-large Decrease
 in Cotton Is Noted.

Nothing published about the South recently has attracted so much atten- tion as the statement based on gov ernment figures that the volume of the South's grain crops this year would exceed the value of the great. est cotton crop ever raised" said J. S. Barton of Chicago to Birmingham AgeHerald representative the other day.
 Allowing for the fact that several of the states grouped as southern are big corn and wheat producers and raise little or no cotton, it is never theless remarkable record the South is making in crop diversifica.ion.
 T understand that Alabama will produce forty to fifty per cent more corn this year than it did last, and 100 per cent more wheat. That the sec tion generally known as the cotton belt should be able in single year to make such gain in food crops as is being made in 1915 is of vast i'm portance from an economic point of view. The low price of cotton last fall drove the South to diversification practice. What was something of misfortune in 1914 will prove a real and lasting blessing"
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-30
Gooseberry Cheese.

Wash and pick. say. six pounds of gooseberries, put them in large pan with about teaeupful of water, just enough to keep them from sticking: stir occasionally and cook till quite soft; rub through sieve. measure and weigh the pulp and replace in a clean pan with one pound of preserv- ng sugar to each pound of pulp; boil ,or about forty minutes until a little .ried in saucer will set quite firmly: put into small pots and cover.
 Damson cheese can be made just .he same, and these conserves, in which skin and seeds are rejected, are certainly more wholesome for little children