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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-18
THE TIMES RECORD
GREENWOOD & HOUGHTALING
Appreciation Week Special Number
November Is, 1915
Boostinf punched

r~7HIS week the editors and publishers of
Il North Dakota have a chance to show
RSlH their loyalty and love for the state-and
Cd that they are grasping it with earnestness
and desire to make good, goes without saying
The proposal of the president of our state
press association to have an appreciation week.
time to make the booster welkn ring-1net with
general approval over the state and was adopted.
Governor Hanna issued proclamation, many
of the papers are getting out special editions, and
the state as whole and piecemeal is to have the
greatest spell of advertising in its whole history
Copies of these special editions will travel far
and wide, and throughout the country. Patrons
and subscribers will mail papers to their friends
here, there and everywhere The tldlngs about
the wonderful productions and performances OF
our soil and land will be forwarded to many
people who will give them favorable considera-
ton if they are planning to select place tor
home.
Obviously, this is the very best possible adj
vertisng that could be obtained, and its effect in
upbudng the state will be of the greatest inn
portance. Its value in dollars and cents cannot
be estimated as whole, because it is the kind
of advertising that is not to be purchased
These special editions will be read with pleas
ure and profit. They should inspire us with
pride for the accomplishments of our remark
able commonwealth They should bring respect
for the newspapers striving with every effort to
make Booster Week for North Dakota" sig
nal success However, this line of work is not
new, the loyal newspapers are doing it all the
time.
The concentration and punching of effort into
one week is unusual, and gives the affair pic
turesque setting. This simultaneous expression
of faith in our state and its resources and pos
sibilities will help tremendously. 1t will help
because this advertising and publicity is not an
exaggeration Every feature is underlaid with
solid facts and reasons. The result can only be
told by the harvest. May it be plentiful
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-18
Hiiher Education in North Dakota

C~1HE makers of our state constitution de-
/ clared that high degree of intelligence,
TNIN| patriotism, integrity and morality on the
- part of every voter in a government by
the people is necessary to insure the continuance
of that government and the prosperity and the
happiness of the people. They therefore com
manded the legislative assembly of the state to
make provisions for the establishment and main
tenance Of a system Of public schools for the
children of the state; and provided at the first
session for a complete and uniform system OF
public schools beginning with the primary and
extending through all grades and up to and in
Guiding the normal and collegiate courses
From these statements it is obvious that a.
complete system of education is enjoined upon
the state and that that system includes the nor
NAL and collegiate courses, as are usually COM
prised in a system Of higher education.
The legislature at once provided for the state
university and agricultural college, two normal
schools and the industrial school or school Of
manual training. Later there has been added
of science and the school Of forestry and third
normal school, All of these eight institutions
are at present fully developed and conducting
their prescribed work under the administration
of the state board of regents.
It would appear that North Dakota has been
very liberal in the encouragement of education.
The benefits derived therefrom are clearly shown
in the very low percentage of illiteracy and the
high intellectual and moral standing of her
young people.
North Dakota has supported higher education
literally, not too literally. Had it not been for
her pioneer conditions and low debt limit,
which has compelled her to build these insttu-
tons out-of-hand she might have treated much
more literally, them that are doing so much for
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-18

of depression as we had in former years when
capital was scarce. Accordingly we all look to-
ward the future with renewed confidence. Our
future production will be increased by the little
that we have already learned and the much more
still to be learned Of the advantages OF sclenthc
farming, also by the certain increase in the num-
Der engaged in agriculture, which will result IN
an increased average yield per acre. We are in
fact only at the beginning Of our real broad inan-
cial development There is in store for us meas
ure Of prosperity much greater even than the
magnificent advance already made, which fur
nishes foundation for unbounded optimism as to
the magnitude of our material advance in the fu-
ture. Optimism, however, will not suffice We
must improve our business methods, whether our
efforts be applied to farming, merchandising,
banking or any other line of endeavor. And
above all, we must as far as possible keep Barnes
county money in Barnes county, and turn deaf
ear to the outside promoters to whom in the past
so much of our money has been paid for things
of little or no value. These srnooth-tongued fell
lows have already heard of our abundant crops
and if they are not already headed this way they
will soon arrive to connect with some easy
money which was produced here and which
should remain here for the benefit and improve
ment of Barnes county
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-18

H11 age man? Wyoming has had equal SUI
~ frage for 46 years and contains the small
est proportion of unmarried women, to the en-
tire population, of any state in the Union.
Does an interest in politics lessen wonans
interest in her family? New Zealand has had
equal suffrage for number of years and has
the lowest infant mortality in the world! In
Australia where women vote, the infant death
rate has decreased from Ill per 1000 to u per
1000. In every one of the suffrage states laws
have been passed for the protection OF infant
life, and for the better care Of the Children
Does the presence of woman at the polls prove
undesirable? In all the equal suffrage states,
including the rough western miners, the Mon-
tana ranchers and the sluln districts of Chicago,
experience proved that contemporary with the
extension of the franchise to women, the poll
ing places were cleaned up and order, sobrlety
and decency prevailed.
Do women really accomplish anything in poll
tics? Read the digest of laws passed by men
and women in the interests of children, women,
men, health and morals in the suffrage states OF
California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Oregon,
Utah, Washington and Wyoming. This digest
is succinct and convincing. 1t was printed in
the Saturday Evening Post Nov. TO- 1913. The
newer suffrage states are making similar rec
ords.
Woman's place is in the home? Yes, most
emphatically yes This is one of her strongest
reasons for needing the vote But-"lhe home
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-18
Where the West Begins

/ Out where the. handclasp's a little
stronger,
But where smile dwelfs little longer,
That's where the West begins.
Out where the sun is little brighter,
Where the SHOWS that fall are a trihe
whittier,
Where the bonds of home are wee bit
tighter,
That's where the West begins.
Out where the skies are trife bluer,
Out where friendships a little truer,
That's where the West begins.
Out where fresher breeze is blowing,
Where there's laughter in every stream
let flowing,
Where there's more Of reaping and less
of sowing
That's where the West begins.
Out where the world is in the making,
Where fewer hearts with despair are
aching
That's where the West begins.
Where there's more Of singing and less
Of signing, M III. s.55.
Where there's more of giving and less of
buying IN.
And man makes friends without half J
trying
That's where the West begins Vi
Arthur Chapman. ]
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-18

L
= - mainly Not since the days of the dis
covery of printing had there come to hui
man beings such boon as was launched in Eng
land on May 6, 1910, when the first postage
stamps were used. That date in history marked
the beginning of popular communication, placing
within the reach Of the poorest peasant, the
means of writing to relatives and friends. 1t put
the people of the world into closer touch, it en-
couraged the art of writing as no other agency
had done But greatest of all, it spread civiliza-
ton.
It was in 1910 that Rowland Hill, an English
schoolmaster, stirred all Europe to laughter by
declaring that James Chalmers and himself
had devised a system whereby two-sheet let
ter could be sent from London to Edinburgh for
cents and yet leave the government fair profit
on the transaction. At that time the fee was "a
cents for that distance for tWosheet letter Such
an idea seemed ridiculous to the public, which
had looked upon the sending of communications
as an expensive luxury And 50 the joke went
around, and the poor laughed with the others at
the idea Of any means that would place them on
par with the aristocracy
diligently on his schedule and when the time was
ripe he flashed the system on parliament and the
public.
The postage stamp came into use in the I'm
tied States in 1847, seven years after Great Bri-
tain had adopted it. Five and 1O-cent stamps
were the first American postage stamps, and they
carried the heads Of Franklin and Washington.
Four years later the letter rate was lowered to
3 cents, and in 1883 to 2 cents. Before the post
age stamp was adopted, the postal charges were
more moderate in the United States than in Eng
land Our rates were cents for 80 miles or less;
12 1-2 cents I'D to $50 miles; 18 ga cents up
to 400 miles and rs cents for every distance over
that
F1i the discoverer Of postage stamps, was
knighted and received a gift Of $45000, raised
by public subscription.
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Givinf Thanks

For the hay and the corn and the wheat W.
that is reaped,
3 For the labor we'll done, and the barns
that are heaped, .
For the sun and the dew and the sweet
honey-comb, T. ~e#>
For the rose and the song, and the har-
vest brought home
Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving
For the trade and the skill and the wealth
in our land, ~
:, For. the cunning and strength of the
... working mans hand,
For the good that Our artists and poets
have taught,
For the friendship that hope and affec-
:, ton have brought
Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving
For the homes that with purest affection
are blest,
For the season of plenty and well-de-
served rest,
For our country extending from sea
unto sea,
The land that is known as the Land Of
~ the Free
Thanksgiving Thanksgiving!
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-18

f01NE reason and one only can be given why
IN this special edition is not bigger and bet
(n1|| ter, and that is because Of our inability to
~ ~ - do more in certain length Of time Our
shop has been swamped with other work while the
edition was being printed, our force was increased
and worked overtime but it had to be curtailed in
order to come out on time.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-18
Votes for Women?

y noes the power to vote make woman
Id undesirable in the estimation of the aver
Sdak7 age man? Wyoming has had equal SUI
- frage for 46 years and contains the small
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-18
Homade to the POSTAGE Stamp

~lHE civilized world today pays homage to
! the postage stamp, the little friend of hui
3 ~ mainly. Not since the days of the dis
= covery of printing had there come to hui
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-18
A Financial Inventory

GY7T is the usual custom of merchants man
Ell ufacturers and other business men, in
|6a96I GLIDING many farmers, to take an annual
ksze9 inventory of all property which they own
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-18

.1HE makers of our state constitution de-
/ clared that high degree of intelligence,
MIS| patriotism, integrity and morality on the
- part of every voter in government by
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-18

~HIS week the editors and publishers OF
North Dakota have chance to show
n their loyalty and love for the state-and
= that thew are grasping it with earnestness
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-03

MAKING LESS NOISE.

At the last concert In city park there
was an absence of the offensive honk-
ing of auto alarms which had brought
complaint at former concerts because
Of the proximity of hospital The
attention OF the people was called to
the irritation the unnecessary noise
caused the hospital patients and the
noise ceased. People are willing to
discontinue an unnecessary practice
which causes others irritation and dis
comfort, If only the matter is called
to their attention.
There are still several varieties Of
noises that could easily be eliminated.
One of these is the running Of autos
through the business part of the city
with the mufflers cut out. This is q
violation of the state law. as well as an
irritation to all within hearing. Like
wise, autoists should make as little
noise as possible In running east on
Second street in the vicinity of the
Ottumwa hospital. The roar of an
open exhaust is anything but soothing
to the nerves of the patients at the
hospital
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-03
JAP CABINET CRISIS.

News dispatches tell US that Japan
Is having some trouble In the highest
ofi1cial circles where there are charges
of graft. The Japs have shown in the
last forty years their ability to meet
governmental and political emer-
gencies and doubtless they will take
care of the present crisis in their usual
capable manner. At any rate the
crisis is purely Japanese matter and
not one for the United States to worry
over. Premier Okumi who felt that
his resignation was necessary because
of the charges against one Of his min
listers. is very popular in Japan and
will in all likelihood be in the new
cabinet even If no longer at the head.
Okumi's popularity is a good indica-
ton of Japanese sentiment toward the
United States, for Okumi is distinctly
friendly to this country. In fact a
study of Japanese statements and
policies is convincing proof that there
is no basis for the agitation of a
limited few in this country who are
proclaiming the Oriental peril" A
glance at the map verifes the jap
claims that they have enough room for
expansion in Korea and Manchuria to
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-03
WHAT PROTECTION DOES.

The protective tariff on moving pic.
tura films, which prevents foreign
manufacturers from invading this field,
has practically given the American
film producers the British field as well
as the American field A London cor.
respondent Of The Associated Press
writes:
American film plays depicting Amer
lean life in purely American settings,
have largely monopoly on British
moving picture theaters. A writer in
one of the London dailies complains
that out of about nine films in each
show seven are likely to be American.
He concludes that while a number of
excellent films have been put out by
British companies based on well
known novels, the public prefers the
American, and the proprietors find
them cheaper.
One reason for the success of Amer
lean films, it is pointed out, is econ
onlic. While American films enter
Great Britain duty free. British films
are taxed heavily not only In the Uni
ted States but in Canada and Austria
liza. Having the monopoly of an enor-
nous home area by reason of the pro
tective traffic. the Americans are able
to export cheaply and undersell the
British on their own SOIL British pro
ducers, moreover, pay heavy local
taxes.
British firms can not afford to sell
films at less than eight cents foot,
with reasonable profit In view. The
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-03

americans charge seven cents, and
could drop another cent without dis
comfort. They could almost 60 down
to the cost price of three and one-half
cents foot for the printed positives,
since their local American sales alone
pay large profits on the production of
the original negative. The most the
British competitors can get in the
states Is six cents a foot, and out of
this he must pay duties, which amount
to three cents on negatives and one
cent on positives.
The above simply shows the posi-
biltties that grow out of protective
tariff policy which permits the high
est development of an industry. II
the fold Of the American film manu-
facturers was open to the world many
Of them would have to work only part
time to supply the limited demand. But
q wise policy which gives them the
whole field without foreign competi-
ton, has allowed them to develop to
an extent where they can keep their
plants running full time by selling
their excess productions abroad. BY
selling cheaply abroad, they are build
ing up prosperous factories here. That
is the policy that has made Germany
great. The American people are COM
ing to see that firm which manages
to keep its factories running the year
round by selling its excess product
abroad at possibly less than it
charges in the home field, is a builder
of prosperity, instead Of heartless
trust" such as it has been termed In
the past.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-03

length of q corps Is about fifteen miles.
and when the front detachments be-
come involved in battle 1t will be five
or six hours before the mon In the
rear go into action to assist them.
Before this war began 1t was generally
assumed that a single corps would Oc-
cupy about two and one-half to three
miles Of the fighting line; but in actual
experience it has been found that the
average front of a corps Is consider
ably broader, namely, three and one
half to Ave miles. An army of ten
corps is not very large, as armies go
III this war; but even such an army
would fight on front o8 some thirty
seven miles, and the man who under
took to walk from one wing to the
other would require twelve to fourteen
hours in doing it.
The shipment Of IN army CORPS by
rLil is no small undertaking. The
troops along require sixty-seven trains,
while the artillery, commissary and
other belongings call for forty-one
trains-a total of about 10 trains.
The feeding Of = corps appears to be
big problem when the matter is
worked out upon the basis of the daily
consumption Of each man and each
horse. The daily average ration OF q
soldier in the German army weighs
about 3.6 pounds, while horse gets
his 10 pounds Of oats, and the large
draueht horses considerably more.
These figures work out at about 1000
pounds of food for the men and about
1856, 900 pounds for the horses, as a
minimum. There is thus nearly 800.
900 pounds of provisions to be moved
forward every day, not to mention am
munition, Under the most favorable
conditions, therefore, it calls for q
train Of $50 wagons to bring up the
food for each day.
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Dr.D.E.Graham
Hours-e TO 12 .. M; q q .. m
Ennis ONCE Bldg, ottumswa. lows.
Original Notice.

Original Notice.
In tho District Court Of Wapello coun-
ty, Iowa, August term, 1915.
Rhoda A. Baker. plaintiff
W..
j. l.. Baker, Iona D. Baker, ]. U. Baker,
May Baker, Nellie M. Eby, John Ely,
s. p. Baker Edith Baker, w. w.
Baker. Pearl Baker. Ellsworth G.
Baker, Eva j. Bowlin, Cliff Bowlin.
S. E. Baker, Bessie Baker, Warren 8.
Baker Ada Baker Noel G. Baker. r.
s. Kelsey, B. Friedman and Wade
Kirkpatrick, administrator Of the -.
tate Of L. D. Baker, deceased, defend
ants.
To you and all Of the above named de-
mendants:
You and each Of you are hereby noti-
August. 1915. the petition Of the above
named plaintiff will be on file in the
office of the clerk Of the district court
Of Wapello county, Iowa, in the above
entitled cause, asking for the partition
Of, and claiming and praying for decree
establishing and the shares of the above
plaintiff and defendants in and to the
following described real estate situated
in Wapello county, Iowa.
The east one-half OF the northeast
one-quarter Of section II; the south
west one quarter Of the northeast one
quarter Of section IT; the northeast one
quarter Of the southeast one quarter Of
section 81; the north one half Of tho
northwest one quarter of section Is:
the southwest ono quarter Of the north
west one quarter Of section 2e; the
northwest one quarter Of the southwest
one quarter Of section rs; the east one
half Of the southeast one quarter Of
section %: and the south seven acres
of the southeast one quarter Of the
northeast one quarter Of section %;
all being in township 70, range IS and
subject to the right Of way Of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad a
now located.
Said petition further alleges that the
said real estate cannot be divided in kind
and that the same should be sold and
the proceeds divided in accordance with
the respective shares Of the parties in
terested, and for such other and furth-
er relief as may seem equitable in tho
premises.
And that unless you appear thereto
and defend before noon Of the second
Gay Of the next term Of court. being the
August term, which will commence at
Ottumwa, Iowa. on the 23d day Of Aug
ust 1915 default will be entered against
you and Judgment rendered thereon as
provided by law.
Dated this 10Th day Of July, 1915.
James j. Jennings, Attorney for the
Plaintiff.
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The Great Wars High Explosives
Their Powers Exaggerated, But They Are the Deter
mining Factor in Battle Today
BY HUDSON MAXIM
Famous Inventor of Explosives

High explosives had been pretty
completely perfected before the out
break Of the great war. Nevertheless,
we have received reports OF most
astonishing effects produced by the
French turpinite and the Austrian
skoda she'll It has been reported that
so dreadful is the conclusion produced
by the detonation Of the new high ex-
plosives that troops are killed by the
mere conclusion even to distance OF
a hundred yards.
Such results are impossible, for 1t Is
impossible to make high explosive
which will develop more force than re-
suits from the volume of gases liberat-
ed and raised to high temperature by
the chemical reaction of defamation.
Picric acid and nitrogelatin come
very near to the limits of the possible
in power of high explosives. Turpinite
is probably picric acid or a picric acid
compound, but on account Of the scare
ity of picric acid at the present time,
it is probable that the more easily
available trinitro-toluene Is largely
used instead
Tri-nitro-toluene, although not SO
powerful as picric acid or nitrogelatin,
| is yet exceedingly powerful. 1t Is also
so insensitive that not only may pro-
jectiles charged with 1t be fired with
perfect safety from cannon at high We
locity, but also projectiles filled with 1t
may be fred through armor plate with
out being exploded by the impact, SO
that they will pass to the interior Of a
war vessel to be exploded by a delay
action decorating fuse.
It is not at all strange when a body
of men is stormed with high explosive
projectiles such as are employed In the
destruction OF trenches, in the present
war, that many may be found in sitting
posture without any visible injury, who
have been killed merely by the concus-
sion of an exploding shell. This may
be accounted for as follows:
The velocity of flight Of projectile.
given to 1t by the propelling charge OF
gunpowder in the gun, may be from
two thousand to three thousand feet a
second, while the fragments of pro-
jectile exploded by high explosive
bursting charge, are not hurled with a
velocity anything like as great as this.
When shell explodes in flight, the for
ward velocity of the shell being SO
Copyright, 1915, by Nat