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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24
Life Saving Service.

One hundred and twenty-nine years
ago today the Massachusetts Humane
society built it's first hut on Lovell's
island. near Boston. to succor the
STRANDED mariners along the danger
Gus and desolate Cape Cod coast. From
that little dark red hut. the first house
OF mercy OF the sea to be erected. arose
n score of like huts along the coast
that had been bleached with the bones
or sailors tor two centuries. In 1907
the first life boat station was organ
lied. at Cohasset. and out of that
sprung the most efficient life saving
service OF all the seven seas. AT first,
ii the wrecked and frozen sailor We're
lucky enough to land at one of these
huts. he found dry clothing and food
and bedding and wood and the old flint
and finder to kindle a fire. This new
haven of refuge lacked only the voice
of a human brother to welcome him.
1t was on a stormy March night in
1907 that the first life boat on the
American coast battled through the
raging surf and picked up a half dozen
sailors from a stranded schooner. In
lS4S congress recognized the work OF
this society by granting it an appro-
priation of $4,000. Their the govern
ment organized a small service of it's
awn on Cape 90 But not till the win
ter of 1871 did it put it's heart ardently
lllO Il udllOIlal NE Saving service.
Today there is a little army of 1000
superb but silent heroes who nightly.
for eight months of the year, patrol the
longest and one of the most dangerous
rOaSts in the world. If one could be-
hold the scope of the work in a single
glance, one could see that these 1000
meet at a thousand stations on dark
and lonely shores and exchange brass
checks. and bring these checks with
Them on their return to their life sta
lions. as evidence that they had pa
troled the coast. Never has one of
these faithful servants failed to come
back promptly with the check of the
patrol. unless halted by IL case of dis
.ress. and even then his fellow patrol
zones on to meet him. Scores of men
give their lives to the d%evouring sea
10 save life and millions of property.
There are o go stations on the
sea and lake coasts of the United
States. There are men in the service
that have saved as many as 800 lives,
Ind literally every man in the service
has been an actor in one or more of it's
10000 hero stories. In 1912 rescue
.ervice was rendered to 1.671 vessels.
carrying $500 passengers. the total
7alue of these vessels and their car
yoes being $11. 900. 900.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24
How Do You Like This?
BY G.. II. Norris

To my mind. the greatest human yir-
tue is being good to the young and the
old. Ii l We're a rich a | would
build and endow a home for old peo-
pie and children. Then l would take
a great delight in educating children in
the many ways they would like to
grow UP; some for farming, some for
a business life and some for "a pro-
fessional life.
l once a the pleasure of going
through a children's home in New
England. built by q very wealthy man.
and he told me the greatest pleasure
was in developing the mind. After
they We're once started, in this home
some 300 children We're fed, clothed
and educated and their bright, clean.
intelligent faces made me feel better
by seeing them and to know that a
rich man did all this for the love of
humanity.
Sometimes l feel we give unjust
criticism to the wealthy and able men.
for many of them are exceedingly
good and thoughtful of the poor and
needy, as nearly all rich men were
once as poor as the rest of us. 1t is
much easier as a rule to AXE care of
the young. for the reason that the
young are handsome and innocent.
and the care of them affords pleas
ure, while the care of the old is a
hard task and many times a Disagree
able one.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24
Generals and Baggage.
From the Chicayo a,

49, - TIUM TIC OTlICUSO NeTNIu.
It may be laid down as a military axiom,
that a generals ability is not measured
war.
It is said that when General Sir John
French embarked to take m of the
was contained in a single suitcase.
When Stonewall ackso started out ON
q campaign he took along no personal
baggage except a wttheredN carpet bag of
ancient pattern. and even this modest re-
ceptacle was but half filled.
COntrartwise. when Napoleon III, en-
perOr OF France, left Paris in 1870 to take
command OF the armies which. he said,
were going straight to Berlin, III took
along IS trunks. besides a most voluMinous
mans got every scrap OF 1t all at Sedan.
His son. tle prince imperial. escaped from
Sedan and the b~eleaguering Germans with
his personal effects. which filled a special
train Of five cars.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24
What Rockefeller Did Not Know.

(Revtew OF John ID. ROCkefeller's Testi.
mony Before Federal Industrial Rela-
tions Commission. by George
Creel. in the st. Louis
Dispatch.)
He was unable to name the counties in
which his Colorado properties were To-
Gated. to tell within several thousands''
how many men worked for the Colorado
Fuel & Iron Co., wages they re-
ceived. what rem the company charged
for ito houses. or to refute the charges
that his mine superintendents were in the
habit of deporting such workers as be-
trayed sympathy with unionism. =.
He could not say what percentage of his
employees worked seven days a week the
year around and Judged that it would be
a hardship. He could not recall the cap
italization OF the subsidiary corporation
that operates the mine stores and did not
know that it paid % per cent on the in
yestment; neither did he have knowledge
that the company built special structures
for saloons, charging q SO per cent rental.
that these saloons were often in direct
contract with the public school and that
church meetings in some cases were COM
PEELED to be held in the room over the
saloon.
He expressed equal ignorance Of the fact
that his superintendents claimed the right
to choose preachers and school teachers
for the comEantes exercising the privi-
lege OF discharge in event OF any adj
versely critical attitude.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24


running through all these recorded hap
psiihss. unless INSTRUCTED by events
winch are not now anticipated, will do
much to overcome the racial and senti-
mental antlpathies which nave held back
.ne developmcnt of the relations which
should exist between the greatest dernoc-
'acH ana those other governments which
OR own.
Tn policy which Mr.. Wilson has laid
Gown is destined to be regarded as re-
lnarkable in the history of in~ternational
poht'cs. 1T is based on a new precept-
.nat IL Is possible for great n%eighboring
powers to continue prosperous and great
Mllhout attempting to overload one am
p.her. He has advanced the idea that the
. MT ! States. In order to carry to the
rules. contamination its destiny of politi-
ral and commercial prosperity. need not
become the suzerain nation of the west
Slm heInisphere. His is a precept that has
peen entirely absent from the diplomatic
fna /, OF the United States as we'll ~
take a considerable time for it to per
Ileate the minds of those controlling the
dcstinles and friendships of the Latin
American republics.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24
An Attack on Ham.
From the Kansas City Star.

What can a person eat with safety,
anyhow?
A man connected with the government
in Washington has written a book. weigh
ing at least a half pound. to prove tina
white wheat bread is almost as fatal as
poison. Wheat flour would be all right
were ground whole, outside shell and ali,
but flour made of the wheat berry de
natured" by first husking its coat off. is
responsible for nearly all the infant NOR
tality and many of the diseases of grown
ups.
The same with rice. and corn. The way
corn is ground nowadays makes it dan
gerous as food. he says.
Soup? Never eat soup. another food
reformer advises us; it is most Injurious.
Potatoes? Too much starch. the food
faddists tell us. Beware of potatoes.
And corn. on the cob and in the can.
1t ought really to be labeled poison
1T has caused so many cases of pellagra.
lence: it helps to cause Bright's disease
and rheumatism.
We nave read all of this with more or
these fulminations. against our favorite
foods seriously, and half starved ourselves
as a result.
But now comes the last straw. A food
sharp in the east has written a scathing
denunciation of smoked ham and bacon.
He declares that they are little better
than slow poisons. He warns you. in all
s%olemnity. to never let a morsel of smoked
ham or bacon pass your lips if you wish
to keep we'll and live long.
Why, this country was pioneered and
settled on a diet of smoked ham and ba-
con. And the most stalwart husbandmen
the world ever knew are tilling the farms
of America on the same diet.
Danish the smokehouse from the Ameri-
can farm and you would take away it's
chief source of ~sustenance and strength.
and destroy the most toothsorne. health
giving morsel on the national table.
The freedom of these United States was
won with ham and bacon as much as with
powder and ball. History tells us thai
the principal ration of the Revolutionary
army. when 1t had meat at all, was bacon.
The armies of the civil war lived and
fought largely on ham and bacon and salt
pork.
The first pioneers who came out from
the settlements Of the east to the plains
and forested hills of the west lived on
bacon and johnnycake on the journey.
were the staff of life of the early settlers
of all this western country.
When Daniel Boone started on horse
back from Kentucky to Missouri he
chucked a side of bacon into one saddle
bag and a sack of corn meal into the
other. to balance the load.
The backbone of every grub stake of
every prospector. of every voyageu of
every pioneer who blazed the way into
pan went along with it.
Fried bacon. brown and crispy; ham
and eggs. sizzling in the pan: boiled ham
hook and cabbage-are these thing to
go? Not II all the learned doctors on
earth denounced them. Not even ii they
were forbidden by law. We stand on our
constitutional rights as American citizens,
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24
BY G. loves Dickinson.

The impression America makes
on me is that the windows are locked
up. 1t has become incredible that this
continent was %colonized by the Pilgrim
fathers. That intense. narrow. unlove-
ly, but genuine spiritual life has been
transformed into Industrial energy. and
this energy. In it's new form. the
churches, oddly enough, are endeav-
oring to recapturc and use to drive
their machines. Religion Is becoming
a department of practical business. The
churches-orthodOX andr l~northodox.
old and new. Christian. Christian-Sci-
%entific, thcosophic, higher thinking
vie with one another in advertising
goods which are all material benefits:
Follow me. and you viii get rich"
"Follow me. and you Will be cheerful,
prosperous. successful
Religion in America is nothing if not
practical. III does no concern itself
with a life beyond; it gives You here
and now What YOU want. "What do
cess? This is the shop, Health? Here
you are. Better than patent medi-
cines, The only part of the gospels
one would suppose that interests the
modern American is the miracles: for
the miracles really did do something.
This conversion of religion into bust
ness is interesting enough. But even
more striking is what looks like "A con-
version of business into religion. Bust
ness is SO serious that ii sometimes as
sunles the shrill tone of a r%eviyalist
propaganda.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24
THE RELIGION OF AMERICA,
BY Gerald Stanley Lee

.-' N''' CIV tdih' &C
Letting the crowd be good, all turns
in the long run upon touching the
imagination Of crowds,
In the last analysis, the coming OF
the kingdom of heaven. as it has been
called. is going to be the coming slowly.
and from unsupported quarters Of "A
into the forefront of modern life-saints
who can attract attention, saints who
AN make crowds think what they real
ly want.
Using the word in it's more special
sense the time has come when ii is be-
ing keenly realized that If goodness liz
"a be properly appreciated by crowds.
ii must be properly advertised.
ir ] were a minister wondering how
to work i'm for my religion a fair chance
at men. ! should often look over the
edge of nay pulpit to the head of IS
department store sitting at that still.
empty looking desk of his i'm --
street. He has "A parish behind his
counters of $500 men and women. He
is M the business of determining their
religion. the way they make their re-
ilglon work. eight hours ii day. six DAYS
a week. He is really getting at people
with his idea of goodness. If he can
not open up Il clerks imagination IN
the Golden Rule with one line of goods
ne does II with another. II he cannot
make him do as he would be lone by
with one kind OF customer another is
moved IN front of him and another and
another. The mans inner substance is
pelhs attacked every minute every
day.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24
Our Forthr;qnt President.

ST. -. FiOiib ttS III Slly olitI
The statesman is concerned with con
structive policies looking to the public
welfare for the future as we'll as the
present. The politician is Interested
merely in the concerns of the day.
VT 1t the Statesinanlike qualities of Presi-
such q great state paper as his address at
indianapolis yesterday. Every policy that
he advocates is part of a far-reaching and
comprehensive program to open oppor-
tunities to men, to promote a larger JUS
tice and thus to advance the ommon
good.
Tariff revision was the first step i'm this
program. Its purpose WAS to remove arti-
fetal privileges and make a flank attack
on monopolistic conditions. The currency
legislation supplemented the tariff legis-
latton by helping financial establishments
and making the way easier for the small
business man. Then came the trade COM
mission bill. to make a beginning in larger
control and direction of big enterprises.
Now the president is urging a bill to
make available in larger measure the I'M
used natural resources of the. west. AT
the same time he is considering means to
cope with the pressing question of unem-
ploy,nent, and to correct the grave inius-
tees of court procedure which play into
the hands of the rich.
In all these measures he is seeking to
make the democratic party an instrument
for serving the country--to make it eff
fectively progressive. To an extraordi-
nary degree he has won the confidence OF
the country in the sincerity of his inten-
ttons, In his intelligence and In his prac-
teal ability to get his views enacted into
law.
The president is politician enough to
understand that his party must be pro-
man enough to enjoy making 1t progress
8ive..
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24
The Worlds LARGEST Gun.
From the kansas CITY Star

tTIc NdISdS CTIy SLaf.
Inc king of guns" a huge and highly
ornamental cannon. stands in front of the
man facade of the krennlin Barracks in
Moscow. 1t is one of % old-fashioued
cannon.
The cars cannon was cast in the reign
OF Theodore Ivanovitch 15S6) by Tcho-
khov. 1t weighs 3Sl2 tons and is of too
large calfber and too weak metal ever to
have been used as a weapon.
Ihe cannon is 171a feet long. Its bore
ls about 40 Inches and the ball weighs
nearly two tons.
h cannon has always been consid-
cred highly ornamental by the Russian
people, and when. after the battle of Mar
bells to be cast into new ordnance his
cannon was spared.
In point of size 1t outranks even tho
terrible 42-centimeter howitzers of the
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24
Tho Annual Moving Habit.

From the Country Gentleman.
Already In local ~ewspaper are appear-
ing announcements of the thousands Of
farm sales that occur each year as tenants
make their annual or biennial shifts. If
the facts were known it would probably
be realized that the cost in shrinkage OF
values brought about by such sales
amounts each year to millions OF dollars
n sum the tenants can i'll afford to lose.
with many this annual transfer is pure
~ habit. They go from one farm to an
otner, year after year. apparently chas-
ing a vain nope that sooner or later they
VIII strike a place where they can succeed
with less labor than they have put into
their work in the past. hi moving pre-
venus their accommodating equipment. ia
mliiarlty with a particular soil and local
ity. and capital that they need to become
farm owners To the moving tenant a
little more attractive tha the one he is
now operating: but the deception is just
az positive as the mirage that the traveller
Pursues In the desert. Observation-Disclosures
Is a decided asset to the tenant Ewho will
carefully cultivate hat attribute. and ten
ants who have become prosperous farm
fact. S
There is plenty OF evidence to show that
tne FARMER who sticks succeeds, while he
VINO moves usually fails.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24

quite as much as of arms. When the
VARS s,; history is finally ready to- be writ.
certainly be found that greater things
We're accomplished in cabinet and council
during this winter than on the fields of
France. Belgium and Poland.
The government of Holland a few days
ago warned the legislature that condf-
lions absolutely necessitated maintaining
to defend the country. But from whom?
He did not say; the record In Belgiun's
case suggests that Holland is most likely
concerned over the possibility of German
aggression.
Switzerland is holding her forces in
trality.
The allies have perfected arrangement
70 loan S25. 600. 600 to Rumania to buy war
materials.
The Germans and Austrians are reported
plllze troops on the Austro-Italian from
tiers; but at the same time it is declared
mat Germanly and Austria are sending
WINGED that Italy will be in the fighting
before long.
Portugal has been fighting for a num-
per or weeks in Africa. though she has
made no declaration of war.
Greece is ready ITO the last gaiter but
ton for participation that seems certain
10 be forced upon her.
Spain and the Scandinavian countries. of
an Europe. maintain insistent neutrality
that thus far has m%inilnized the proba-
fllct.
How long can Denmark and Holland
keep out Of complication with the war
ring powers? Through the territory of one
Or the other of these is the natural route
by which the allies could outflank the Ger
man empire; Military authorities have
recognized this from the very beginning.
III kltchener's next million. plus perhaps
Il half million from Japan, could be hurled
against the north of Germany by way of
Danish territory. the war would have a
alfferent aspect in a day. That very thing
Is talked about in London. is feared in
Berlin. is urged i'm ST. Petersburg. But it
can not be accomplished without violating
the neutrality of Denmark. AS Germany
violated that of Belgium. To do it now
would be for the allies to fling to the
winds all the public sentiment that has
wrought powerfully on their side. II Ger
many could by Diplomatic processes be led
70 adopt an aggressive attitude toward
enmar the excuse would be produced
easily enough: but the Germans have
realized their danger. and their disposition
toward has been, by all ac-
counts exemplary.
The. diplomats of both sides are right
now devoting themselves to the wire-pnll-
ing that will produce the new lineup OF
powers that the spring campaign is likely
to bring.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24
Taxation That Succeeds Too Well.

XXI eAiS II JOUII
equality and utter failure of the personal
property tax by the latest figures of the
tax commission. They show that in 1911
In DC per cent of Wisconsin tax districts.
not a dollar of money or credits was as
sessed. Millions and millions OF dollars
course. fell on those who paid. such an
inequality led directly to the income tax.
Many persons. knowing its history in
other states. believed the income tax must
ran. But under a law carefully drawn
and providing for state administration
with sufficient power. it proved a success
from the start.
Taxdodgers never approve a successful
tax law. The moment it was seen that
the income tax would succeed, in putting
men on the books who had never before
Of protest went up. The first effort to
wipe out the tax before the people even
knew whether they wanted it failed.
Ihen came a wave of protest against ex-
genuine and a great deal of it stirred up
to win n%olitical control for men who didn't
like to pay any share of the taxes.
Now on the ground of saving the state
q few thousands, it is proposed to urn
the collection of the income tax over to
local assessors. This is just what made
income taxation a failure in other states.
But 1t not so bold a plan as it appears:
for many persons honestly believe that its
object is economy. If the economy mask
can only be kept on, the fellows who don't
sAAAS w ~ ~ AAoS SilC
object by indirection.
For the first year. the income tax yield
ed $l.6SO.000. against $4,000 from the per-
sonal property tax In other words. the
income tax was four times as effective
as the personal property ak. under which
@>per cent of the towns and villages of
the state yielded less than 800 each and
estates worth s2,0Oo,OOo We're appraised as
low as $4,000.
No wonder there is every effort being
made to emasculate the income tax. II
reached people who didn't want to pay
and they squealed. Its success made foes
for 1t and very real foes.
question squarely, with the idea that men
should pay the expense of government in
proportion to their ability. wants to see
the ginger taken out of the income tax.
And these honest persons. on whom the
tax burdens are unloaded when there is
inequality. need to realize that a very deep
game is being played against their inter-
ests. They need to act and act right
away.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24
c%entennials of Many Historic events.

FROM tne Boston transcript.
The year 1915 will be a period abound
ing in opportunities for the qualification
of those who like to put the history book
down and speculate on what might have
meditation Thackeray thought amusing
and profitable. Throughout the greater
part of its course. 1915 will be domi-
his escape from Elba will fall on i'ebru-
AIRY 26; of his arrival at Paris on March
20, and Of Notwithstanding Waterloo on
from October u. 1915, when the exiied
made the discontinue of his nemie
But Americans have AN interest in the
VII. IT was 100 years on january
. since Andrew Jackson won the battle
Of New Orleans and-eventually-the
small affair compared with Wellington's,
both battles exerted great influence
on the future OF the countrymen OF the
victors. In the century which has passed,
Americans have seen so many and fought
SO many greater battles that perhaps to-
day they do not realize that jackson by
his courage gained with an improvised
army a victory which entitled hin to "a
perpetual place in our hall OF fame and
ueIeated a daring attempt to convert the
Guii OF Mexico into Il British lake. Jack
son Fought In good. time. for the treaty
or peace etwee the United States and
later.
The events of 1915 are impressed upon
our imagination because they have be
hind them trenchant personalities; The
OF Napoleon's luster is stiIl reflected on
the shield Of Wellington. his conqueror.
Waterloo was Intended to be the tri-
umph of reaction, and for a time the
winners could make good their inten-
ton, but the world ultimately returned
to the lesson which Napoleon had UNI
Willingly taught. Popular progress, halted
at Waterloo. esumed it's march. With a
war now going on greater than any Ma
no prospect for a great centennial cele-
bration at Waterloo, more especially as
that famous field is within the arena
of hostilities. When the day comes
around. June IS. 1915. we can observe
by reading Thackeray or Victor Hugo, as
our individual tastes may dictate.