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Evening star., 1915-11-27
Constructive Science.

From the Philadelphia Record.
The contrivance of new means of de-
stroying life and property has lately
gone forward by leaps and bounds
under the solicitation and moneyed
backing Of the warning nations now
engaged i'll a death struggle; but as
yet the fighters have no monopoly of
scientific effort. A party of st. Louis
scientists has just set out for a vow
age of discovery in Central America
with a view of gathering frst-hand
data in the disease breeding regions of
that part of the continent for more
successfully combating and curing the
Infectious diseases that have their
origin i'll the malarial swamps of the
tropics. There is no little personal risk
attending the execution of this life
saving service. Peace has its heroes as
well as war.
The discovery of a practicable means
of eNtinguishins oil fires by Engineer
Walker is another forward step in the
future saving of life as well as mill
lions of dollars worth of property. The
general use of oil and its products
throughout the civilized world for pur-
poses of lighting, heating and the pro-
duction of mechanical power has been
attended with serious fire risk. \
means of insurance against this risk
is a great boon to the whole industrial
world.
Evening star., 1915-11-27
Removal of Weeds.
lOre.l Telegram.

From the Portland (Ore.l Telegram.
With all the talk regarding the bene-
fit to be derived by the poor, and the
big possibility of potato crop to keep
the wolf from the door next winter,
comparatively few of the vacant lots
within the corporate limits of the city
of Portland have been cultivated this
summer.
It is safe to say that not one-tenth
of ! per cent Of the total number
has been cultivated and many lots.
where some sort of an attempt has
been made, are a sorry sight. Indeed.
Now the weed nuisance is upon US
again in all its fulness, and the city
has not the funds to pay for cutting,
nor the power to make the cost OF
cutting a lien upon the property and
enforce it's collection.
But new tactics are to be tried this
wear, and as they have worked well in
other cities, they are expected to do
the same in Portland. Failure to cut
grass or weeds, or to remove rubbish
or garbage from a lot within five days
after notification by the police depart
mont will constitute a misdemeanor
and the owner of the lot may be hailed
into court and fined. Nor does pay
nent of the fine free the owner OF the
vacant lot from the required task. Five
days more of neglect and the fine may
again be imposed, possibly doubled
Evening star., 1915-11-27
Street Crossing Dangers.
IN the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
Some persons on principle will cross
a street at a point elsewhere than at
the regular crossing. Their argument
is that at the intermediate point in
the block they need look but in two
directions to avoid vehicles, while at
the intersection of two streets, where
most crossings are placed, they must
look in four directions, lodging
vehicles as they veer around a corner.
The argument seems logical But It
is not borne out by experience.
Statistics published by the committee
on street safety in the Police Bulletin
show that 40 per cent Of fatal street
accidents, in cases where the cause is
given. occur by reason of the victims
crossing the streets not at regular
crossings. 1t appears established. there
fore, that the added care displayed by
drivers when crossing intersecting
streets, or, rounding corners, conduces
to safety. At other points pedestrians
are in danger.
Evening star., 1915-11-27
Way Not to Oil a Road.

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
Monday the Wooster pike, south of
Milford, was treated to veritable
deluge of oil. Instead of leaving one
half the width of the road free, the
contractors spread thick coating of
the slippery liquid over nearly the fun
width
This method of oiIing roads is anti
quated and barbaric. Only one half
the width of a highway should be
treated to oil at q time. At least a
week should pass before the other half
is sprayed This gives the public d
chance to continue traffic with some
comfort. At night road with a thick
covering of freshly applied oil is a
real danger; it is nuisance night or
day.
Contractors who are overburdened
with zeal for economy in time and
effort may find it easier to oil road
all at one time. The convenience and
safety of the public, however. deserve
some consideration. AT present the
public frequently feels as if it would
enjoy giving some contractors a dose
of their own oil.
Evening star., 1915-11-27
APARTMENT IS TRADED
Building at 2543 18th Street North
west Figures in Two
Transfers.

A deed was placed on record during
the past week transferring the owner
ship of a three-story apartment at
c54S 18th street northwest. containing
six suites of rooms. from Reddeld
Proctor to Jesse NJ. Shreve. The con-
sideration was in the neighborhood of
$4,000 The sale was negotiated by
II. N. Taplin.
Mr.. Shreyc later traded the property
to Josephine f. Prather for three houses
a I ol-05-05 NJ street northwest, and a
house fronting on 4th street at the
corner of NJ street. Mr.. Shreve then
transferred the properties which he
acquired in the exchange to ]. Walter
Moulden, who in turn transferred them
to s. Duncan Bradley.
Evening star., 1915-11-27

Milton H. Smith. president of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, was
operated on yesterday at Johns Hop
kins Hospital in Baltimore. He was
reported in a favorable condition.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-05-20

pen between now and July to reduce the size of the crop,
but it is significant that with a planted area II per cent
above the highest previous record, the loss during the win
ter has been less than any crop has suffered in the last ten
years. Last years crop was, of course, much larger than
the average, but government statisticians believe that this
years crop will be larger by $4,000 900 bushels, which is
10000 bushels above the highest previous crop. With
the exception of last year, the crop is in better condition
than any crop since 1901.
If some turn in the war situation should make it i'm
possible for this country to dispose of its wheat in foreign
markets, there would be a flooding of the domestic mar
ket which would drive prices to new low records, for the
domestic demand for wheat is increased only by the nor
NAL increase in %poulation. This is the possibility which
provides about the only uncertainty which the farmer need
feel. And even in the face of late developments, it seems
that a way will be found to transport wheat to the bellig-
erents. Apparently the complications in the far east have
been settled amicably, in which case China may be depend
ed upon to take the 100000 bushels of American wheat
which has been her annual average for some time.
Figures showing crop prospects in Europe are lacking,
but it is quite certain that less wheat will be raised in En-
rope than was raised last year. This throws the warning
nations into a state of greater dependence on this country
than ever before and the effect should be seen in good
prizes. In fact, at present the outlook for large produc-
ton and high prices is extremely favorable. There re-
mains, however, the chance that adverse weather condi-
lions will reduce the size of the crop, or that freedom of
transportation will be restricted to the extent that a
glutted domestic market will reduce the price. Neither
of these probabilities dangerously imminent. but they
are well worth bearing in mind, for in the event of re-
verses, caution will prove valuable, and in the event of a
full realization of present prospects the experience will
not have been without it's benefits.-Capital News.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-05-20
HUERTA AND MEXICO.

Tint old r%uffian, Huerta, occupies a page or more of a
great eastern daily explaining that if his countrymen are
engaged in a little revolution, still they are a patriotic peo-
pie and no outside power has a right to intervene.
His article is singularly ingenious. He forgets to men,
ton that if about one thousand of the malcontents that are
playing hades down there were taken out and shot the rev.
olution would be quelled. He forgets too, that for a hun
dred years, except when Jaurez and Diaz held the vaga-
bonds level their revolution has been a continued perform
ance and the world is tired of the play.
Again ne tells how his whole people would, were their
lands invaded, fight for their homes, which is grandelo-
quent, but does not conceal the fact that the homes of nine
tenths of ~them-though theirs is one of the richest lands
on earth-are not, on an average, worth thirty dollars
apiece.
Then we know Of no power, unless it be Japan, that wants
their country, but all the world would be glad to see the
bandits that are playing smash there put down and a de-
cent and just government inaugurated.
And this is liable to come before so very long, for Mexi-
co has many foreigners within her boundaries that are in
vited there and promised full protection. And while "the
mills of the gods grind slowly" after the power is turned
on, they grind exceeding small"
Huerta tells how the whole people would fight were the
land invaded. The statement can be largely discounted.
A people of whom quite fifty per cent do not certainly
know who their own fathers were, cannot be depended up
on when real war ~confronts Coos Weekly.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-05-20
U THE FIGURES.

Attention is directed to the school tax statement on an
other page. The trustees are getting ready to build a new
school building. Whether it will be built by a bond issue
or by direct taxation is a matter which the board will sub
NIT to the taxpayers themselves for decision.
In order to inform the property holders and others in
terested in the welfare of the schools, a statement showing
just how every taxpayer would be affected has been made.
Study il, find your own name and be prepared to act intel
llgently. The work has made it necessary to figure the
taxes OF more than $50 taxpayers, and time enough was
not allowed to check the figures, so it will not be strange if
some errors are found. With the addition of a very small
fractional part OF a mill in order to simplify the calcula-
lions the total Of column No. 3 is only SIPS more than the
amount which would be required to pay interest on a $2O,-
600 bond issue and to provide a sinking fund to pay it off.
1t can be assumed that the figures in the main are correct.
~This estimate does not take into consideration 100000
of neTNproperty that will be on the rolls this year. The
figures were fHade on last years valuation, and at last
years levy This makes thetaxss OF each individual a lit
tie higher than they will be-about Sf.1t N every $500
shown. That is, the new property will bear about enc
people should be able to act with intelligence in the matter
The Press takes the view that the erection of a building
by direct taxation would be unjust to the heavy property
owners. Note the middle column in the statement, and es-
pecially note the Oregon Short Line, the Phibrick &
Greenwood and the Evans interests, and others. There has
been some talk, If bonds do not carry, of making the levy
so that it will pay for the building in two years instead Of
one, and issuing warrants for half the cost of the building.
Advocates of this course should not forget that such war
rants would bear a higher rate of interest than bonds, nor
Sthat contractors would not bid as low where they would
have to take warrants for half their pay. Taxpayers
would lose should this course be adopted. 1t is the inten-
ton of the trustees to take action at their meeting next
Monday evening and all who are interested should advise
with them prior to that time.
When the preparation of this statement was undertaken
it was not known what amount of bonds the trustees would
ask for, and $4,000 was fixed upon for the purpose of
making the comparison between the burdens of a direct
levy and a bond issue. The proportion will remain the
same whatever the size of the issue that may be decided
upon.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-05-20
SOME SATISFACTION OF BEING RIGHT.

President Wilson, in his recent Philadelphia speech,
said that there was such a thing as a nations being so
right that it did not have to go to war to prove it.
The Press takes great comfort in the thought expressed.
It will be recalled that during the recent bond election un-
pleasantness the Press stated that the bond interest would
not be burdensome, and not more for the average citizen
than the cost of a trip to Pocatelo, the cost Of a few dance
tickets or a few cigars. The statement was fatty disputed
and much stress laid upon the great burden" that some
body was trying to impose on the people. The following
shows just how much a $4,000 bond issue would increase
the taxes Of a few average citizens. From it the public
my judge whether the Press was right.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-05-20

joyed a period Of rest from normal activity, it has a new
energy awaiting the return of Republican opportunity.
And certainly there has been something new in the variety
Fortunate it is that American industry never loses hope
and the American people never lose the right to VOTE
Goodwin's Weekly.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-05-20
WHEAT PROSPECTS

The governments second estimate of the probable size
of the wheat crop comes at a time when the outlook is very
favorable. Weather conditions have been good, and win
ter wheat has done well. A great many things may hap
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-05-20

There is much satisfaction in being so right that oppon-
ents in their calmer moments must admit it.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-05-20
TWO KINDS OF INVENTORS.

An event on national interest occurred the other night
in New York, when the Civic Forum presented a gold med
al to Thomas A. Edison.
The world is full of inventors. But comparatively few
of them are able to translate their ideas into a thoroughly
practical form. They are ~typically a tribe of creatures
something like artists and poets. One thinks of them as
wearing long hair, living in squalid t%enements, dreaming
over half-made machines, meanwhile their families live on
their relations. ~-~--
The inventor is not apt to be a practical business man.
He may get the idea into a practicable and workable form
But ne is as the babe in the woods when he gets down in
the market among the business men. With child like inno-
cence he trusts the plausible promoter. With faith that
humanity is as kindly as he has found the laws of nature,
he subscribes to involved contracts In later years he
wakes up to find that the traders and the factories have
gathered the cream leaving him but the meagre leavings of
skim milk.
1t is rare that diverse gifts are concentrated in one man.
When nature gifts a person with genius for creating new
appliances she is apt to leave him bereft of common sense
in every day relations. The world is full of Instances of
inventors who conferred inestimable benefits on mankind
yet who died amid scenes of poverty.
Mr.. Edison is not of that kind He has the supreme gift
of taking the scientific dreams of the age and so realizing
them that they fit into the kitchen and the picture theatre
and the factory. His humming factory with 5000 people
depending on a regular payroll from his steady product,
shows the many sided nature of the man.-Logan Repubi-
can.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-05-20

There was something akin to provision in the statement
of Woodrow Wilson in a public letter of October 10, 1912,
when he said that under the new freedom american in
dustry would have a new ~bouyancy of hope, a new energy,
a new variety" How true the words have proven to be-!
Where American industry formerly had the ~bouyancy of
prosperity, it now has the ~"bouyancy of hope" Having en-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-12-23
THOMSON, GA, DECEMBER %, 1915.
DIR. William III. Smith Makes
Another Attack ON Your
Uncle T. E. w.

N the Alabama Baptist, nv beloved
Brother, w. II. Smith, of the costly
Richmond Board, draws painful picture Of
missionary travel in China.
He says:
"In his itinerating, Of achich he has to do
a great deal, the missionary piles his bed
ding and baggage on top of a0heez601voqU,
and, with one man In front to pull and an
other behind to hold the handles and push,
he is trundled over the narrow, rock-filled
paths, achlch constitute the roads for the most
part IN China"
My My that's sad picture
Think of fat missionary perched on top
Of his bedding and baggage, on a wheel
barrow, while two hefty heather push and
pull, conveying him from one moral vine
yard to another
No roads in China? Nothing but narrow,
rock filled paths, navigable by wheelbarows?
How ridiculous! DR.. Smith seems to have
deuded himself with the idea that the mis-
sionary Baptists are the most gullible folks
on earth.
Time and again, / have put before our
readers the pictures of missionary life as
dr0a0n By themselves, and have copied the
photographs of their palatial homes, their
horses, their house boats; and their descrip-
tons Of journeying by railway, by boat, by
ordinary vehicles, etc.
have not said that practically every mis-
sionary Of the Richmond Board had an au-
tomobile. In fact, my discussion of the sub
ject has not been limited to our church and
our Board.
On the contrary my criticism has been
Ievelled at the general system, as q whole; and
/ have carefully avoided the mistake of
criticising any particular denomination
DR. Smith was particularly Stunp bV nv
statement that conversions to- Christianity IN
china had not Kept pace q0ith the increase
Of p0pu2atjon
Why should he take this 50 mucl to heart,
when ii is q seemingly admitted fact that
Christianity is not keeping Face with popu-
lation, IN oar 0a0n couratTyS
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-12-23
THE .JEFFERSONTAN

so much to immigration, and it may be
doubted whether the Christian Churches
retain the natural increase of their own mar
ried members
This is an appalling thought, and it ex-
plains why there are $4,000 dead and de-
serted Protestant churches in the United
States.
And this everlasting belly ache about China,
and the persistent neglect OF our own people
by our church workers, is one of the main
reasons why our people have either quit 60
ing to church, or go as mere matter of cor
rect social behavior
According to the Bartholomew tables
Edinburgh, Scotland) there are 630,0OO,000
Chinese in the world.
A1ter 100 years of immensely expensive eff
fort, how many are Christians?
Dr. Smith alleges that 100000 Of these
yellow men are converts"
Is he any nearer the truth as to the num-
Der of converts, than he was when he said
that the missionaries could not live on
Chinese ham, eggs, chickens, ducks, mutton,
beef rice, fish, etc., but had to import all their
food from America?
Does he suppose that the people have for
gotten the absurd table of prices which DR..
Graham published, in his efforts to bolster
up the unfounded statements of Dr. Smith?
Does DR.. Smith suppose that the people
have forgotten how he tried to defend the
500 year, paid extra for each missionary
baby, on the ground that it was to educate
said baby?
Didn't I prove that the English mission
aries get no such bounties, and that their
salaries are about one-third the size of those
paid American missionaries!
Dr. Smiths own words we're:
The Foreign Mission Board allows every mis-
sionary family 500 annually for each child under
ten years of age and $3.50 annually for each child
between ten and eighteen years OF age This
allowance has been the custom Of all foreign mis-
sion boards since the beginning of modern for
eign mission work Some of the boards make
much larger allowance than our board.
This custom grows out of the desire of the
boards for economy in their foreign mission work.
The salaries of the missionaries are put on the
lowest basis which single missionary Or
and his wife can live.
Didn't I then prove from the books of
Lafcadio Hearn, Clarence Poe, Angus
Hamilton, and others, that living was
cheaper in China and Japan than anywhere
else on the globe?
Have they denied the evidence Of Miss
Emma Lester, the missionary, who wrote to
the Missionary Voice that a Chinese woman
supported herself and family on one dollar
and seventy-five cents month? Have they
disputed the missionary postcards, wherein
are printed appeals for China, and statements
are made that 500 year will support a
native pastor and his family? Do they want
to impeach Clarence Poe? And Miss Emma
Lester? And their own official post cards?
The Richmond Board, of which DR.. Smith
is the highly salaried Boss. sent out mis-
sionary tract in which it says:
The Foreign Mission Board has for several
years past been greatly blessed in it's work. We
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-12-23

can spend In Foreign fields, the more
E'workers" they can hire, and the more "Rice
Christians" they can subsidize.
Think of our Baptist Board Dragging about
having $50 sap-suckers on the tree, all paid
fat salaries, supplied with luxurious homes,
and baptizing less than three converts to each
missionary.
saying in substance, that the Chinese produce
children in larger proportion than the mis-
sionaries produce converts"
The birth rate exceeds the conversion rate.
Think of our Baptist Board Dragging about
spending your money on 900 sick Chinese,
when the sick people among the Of our
homeland die like flies from wan, / neg
lect!
DR.. Smith himself published Hallelujah
tract in 1910, in which he gloried over the
expenditure of 1914, 613,O75 of your American
money, on 49, 100 missionaries and workers,
who managed to persuade 1874, al "souls" to
join the church.
These are missionary figures It's the best
showing they can make.
And by their own showing, one concert to
the missionary, is the sum total of years
harvest.
While $4,000 missionaries we're convert
ing $4,000 Chinese how many babies were
porn TO the U,UUU,UUU Cn1n0Se!
Allow 6 to family-a large allowance
and you have more than 1O0,000,000 Chinese
families Allow that one babe year is born
to each family, and you have 100,OO0,O00
babes If half these die in growing up, you
still have 100000 Chinese added to the
worlds population every year. Of course,
wars sickness, famine, etc., sweep away many
millions, but the net addition to the Chinese
race yearly, must be more than million.
What about it, Brother Smith? Your $780,
600 converts are not a drop In the 1T;
and, if you didn't hire $4,000 shepheI,s to
constantly Craze these sheep, you wouldn't
have single lamb, eve, or ram left, in 12
months-omd y0W knoa0 1t!
Now, let DR.. Smith face the people squarelY
and answer some fair questions:
(D Do you deny that your noard fur
nishes the missionaries with elegant man.
sions, free of rent; pays their travelling ex-
penses; gives them yearly vacation of three
months on full salary; allows the wives the
same salary as the husband, despite the
fact that the wife may not be able-on &C.
count Of collaborating and embarrassing, to
do any missionary work?
~ Is it not fact that practically all
of the missionaries keep several servants who
do all the work about the house and lot?
81 Is it the truth, as stated in official
appeals for mission money, that Chinese men
werk for five cents day, and therefore,
live on IS cents week?
Is it true, as stated in missionary appeals,
that Chinese student can be lodged, boarded,
and taught on $50 year at the mission
school!
az Do you deny that the highest salary
paid to a japanese professor in the imperial
universities has been fixed at somewhat less
than $1,000 year? and, that the average
salary of judge is less than $1,000?