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The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-26
Arkansas

On account of the critical condition which confronts them, the railroads of Arkansas de- cided few weeks ago to go to the people of the state in series of articles explaining situation which concerns the people of the state more than the railroads. The Senate did not look with favor upon the bill asking that the present maximum two-cent passenger rate law be repealed and that the Railroad Commission be authorized to estab- fish, after careful investigation, the rate that should be charged by the railroads, with the pro- vso that the rate would not exceed three cents mile.
 It is to be regretted that the Senate could not it's way clear to authorize the Railroad Commission to regulate passenger rates as they do the freight rates, and that the railroads did not secure the relief asked for The railroads believe, however, that they have won because they the dawning of day when the people and the railroads will get together on matters of such vital importance to each other.
 When a man seeks an office in the gift of the people, he goes out the platform and outlines the plans and policies which he advocates but the railroads have speakers, and, therefore, went to the people through the newspapers in paid ad- vertisements, openly and above board L1 these articles they asked the citizens of the state to write their senators and representatives to give consideration to the railroad problem, and the railroads take this opportunity to thank the peo- pie for their assistance in a cause which the rail roads believe and know is just. The response of the citizens through telegram, letters and peti- tions asking the members of the legislature to give consideration to the railroads claims was far beyond the expectation of those interested in this great public question.
 The public cannot evade the serious situation that sooner later must reach every citizen of the state but in going to the people with their case business man goes to another, the railroads have brought much nearer the day when the people and the railroads will work together in harmony thr ugh perfect understanding of the problems that confront each other.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-26
The Prescott Daily News
 o0RLG9HEo BY The News Printing Go.
Entered as second class mail matter November 4th, 1905, at the postoffice at Prescott, Ark, under the act of Congress, March 3. 1879.
THE DAYS QUOTATION

It is the fault of all of us, till we have duly practiced our minds, to be unreal in our sentiments and crude in our judgements, and to be carried away by fancies, instead of being at the trouble of acquiring sound know ledge. Newman.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-26
Classified Art.

This picture" said the artist, ''is my masterpiece.
 You told me last month it was a potboiler"
 T thought so. But potboiler ia something you paint merely to sell I can't sell it."
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-26
In case of illness, death or other trouble. any of the preachers of the town will be glad to help you.
You are not Simply Welcome; You are Needed!

tion strongly advises the public to de- mand the security of health that only well-ordered sanitary department can furnish. Our sea-shore and moun- tain resorts can no longer depend on nature and luck for a clean bill of health.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-26
The Railroads of Arkansas
 
PERTINENT QUERY.

What is the difference, asks an ex- change, in moral quality between keeping a saloon and running adver- tisements of whisky and beer?
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-26

The output of this community might be increased by half-might even be doubled-if everybody worked-work- ed hard-and kept on working.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-26
STUDY OF ALCOHOL.

In fourteen European universities in- struction as to the nature and effects of alcohol is a recognized part of the curriculum.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-26
PAY TAXES WITH MONEY.

Pay your taxes with money ssAA nsA with boys.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-26
ONLY THING TO DO.

If a drunken man can't get liquor, what will he get? He'll get sober.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-26

Read the clubbing offer on the last page of today's paper.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-26

"The newspapers has made presi- dents, killed poets; made bustles for beauties and furnished genius with crl- ticism. It has curtailed the power ot kings. converted bankers into paupers and graced pantry shelves. It has made paupers colleges presidents, 1t has educated the poor and robbed the philosopher of his reason; 1t smiles, cries, dies, but it can't be run to suit everybody, and the man will be crazy who tries"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28
Danger from Glaring Lights

They have been making arrests
Of motorists recently for having
headlights which are too glazing to
be used properly within the limits
of the city. II Is the cause Of a
great deal OF discomfort In driving
ut night that there il 80 much use
of unnecessarily bright lights on the
roads. To drive against a success
sion OF such lights Is to finish the
trip with a severe headache. There
always are chances too Of being so
daxzled a. to run the risk OF going
on the road into the ditch. Some
automobilists have hit upon a plan
OF switching on their lights when
they meet another car. That IL.
they switch of the big lights and
use the DINNERS or the side lights.
Those who do this nnd that the mo.
florists they encounter act with like
courtesy, or almost all do so. There
are. of course. cars without electric
headlights which can not accom-
plish this feat. but most all the cars
that have electric lighting go on the
1880 basis In the nonblinding act
New York Sun.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28
The Sorry of Sugar

Sugar cane was first introduced
into Sicily by the Arabs In 1903
whence II was taken to Africa, TO
Spain. and all along the coast to
the Mediterranean sea, as well as to
the islands and borders OF the In.
dian ocean. The crusaders found
extensive sugar cane plantations In
Tripoli, Mesopotamia, Syria, Anti.
och and Cyprus. and by the four.
teenth century the cane was beins
cultivated in every part OF the
known world where soil and climate
were propitious.
1t came to South America by be.
ing introduced into Brazil by the
Portuguese, who brought II from
Madeira, and thence IL spread to
nearly all the other countries OF
that continent. Columbus IL said To
have brought II to the Island OF
Santo Domingo. whence II spread
to Mexico and Cuba. II was intro.
duced into the other islands of the
West Indies as soon as they came
under European domination. The
first sugar cane came to Louisiana
by being sent to the Jesuits from
Ssnto Domingo, In 1851, some Eng.
lish authorities giving the date as
1881
Science has never determined
where the sugar cane originated.
and nowhere has II been found In
its Wild state. II has been under
cultivation for many centuries. In
the sacred books Of the Hindoos,
written long before the Christian
era, there Is this reference: IL have
crowned thee with q shooting sugar
cane. so that thou shalt not be
averse TO me-" In the train OF
Alexander the Great. during his Ash
attic conquests. were some individ-
uals who desisted from the slaugh-
ter of barbarians long enough TO
record q reed growing In India
which produces honey without
bees" Thus sugar was evidently
raised in that country as early as
800 b. C.-Wall Street Journal.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28
Pointed Paragraphs

Envy has torpedoed many a
friendship.
Most Of us are overloaded with
good intentions.
Many . chap with moral dyspep sia
thinks he has religion.
Sometimes patient, gentle
good-natured man is merely lazy.
A ripe old age Is sometimes az
agreeable a. a green persimmon.
And most people are willing TO dc
you . favor-when you don't need II
Trying TO be funny has made q
big dent In many a mans bank bal
ance.
A woman has faith in her husband
because she would be unhappier II
she didn't have.
The more girls photograph
doesn't look like her. the more she
tries TO believe IL does.
The wife OF a farmer never takes
her eyes of the scales when she Is
selling butter 10 n peddler.
Probably one Of the easiest ways
for a man 10 get wife Is 10 boast
that he is a confirmed woman hater
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28
Using Up a
Yard of Ticket
COUPON 2

A UNCONVENTIONAL special pulls
out of the Union station for the
coast on the next track. Must be
Unitarian. Another and another
section follows. You're right: Uni
versalist.
At Elgin. H., w. T. Radcliffe was
much interested in surveying the
great plant where all the watches
he turned back an hour In Detroit,
come from.
Conductor puts two holes In the
wrong end OF the yard OF ticket,
thereby cancelling side trip Los An
geles to San Diego. You can over
do this gospel OF punch.
The difference between the De-
troit city hall and seeing the Mis-
souri, river when you awake. Is that
You get your Council Bluffs in the
morning.
But you don't cross the bridge
over the Mdy Mo. even when you
get to It. The Union Pacific put II
I'D before the days OF prodigious en-
zines and mile-long trains. and one
at A time IL the rule. So we have
70 wait until the Universalists prove
they have the creed that carries
them over.
In the Omaha yards the depot mas
ter shows that he Is concerned In
knowing and doing one thing well
when he declares all the tracks are
full of these here university spe-
Gals"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28
From Another Point of Vie,U
BY C. T. 8.

We want to suggest to the investi-
gators that even though they may have
ascertained the Eastland was stuck in
the mud, they haven't gone to the bottom
Of it.
Golf is recommended as a cure for in
sanity. Which will explain a whole lot,
no doubt, for the average caddy.
What's become of the old-fashioned
fellow who liked to hear it rain.
Played the new auto game: Conger
says tops down. tops up.
A Detroit suicide was found to have
S3.15 in his pockets. Riches probably
had become burden.
We do not know whether the war has
anything to do with this weather, but.
honestly, we couldn't blame it if it did
not.
Those deponents in The Becker case
never seem to reach the stage of further
saying not.
Bourke Cochran. we note, has not vet
bolted Becker's side.
Probably rain.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28

During camp parade OF the buglers
OF an English regiment the other
day an Irish corporal was in charge.
He was asked by the c. o. II all the
buglers were present when he re.
Piled.
mo, SOFT: one man absent"
well, then" said the c. O., "go
and find him, and ask what he has
TO say for himself"
A few minutes later Pat came run.
ming back, and shouted: "Shure
SOFT, and weren't We pair OF duff
fers not TO know IL? II was meself
Bedad, sorr, OF forgot 10 call me
own name entoirely, sorr.'-Top
Notch.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28
A DULL DAY
~ On. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. By Frank Crans)

The sun may be shining when YOU
read this, but it was a dull daay when
1t was written.
The sky is an ugly, drab smudge.
There Is no sun, no rain. no wind,
nothing.
Across the street is house. II is a
stupid house, full of stupid people. I
know them. / wish / didn't. There are
many people you are sorry to have met.
It's too close to have fire and too
cold to do without one. Is anything
follower and drearier than a fireless
fireplace?
A bird is on a tree outdoors. He is
not singing. His head is all drawn down
into his shoulders. He is just sitting
there hating himself.
A number of people have passed by the
window. They are the dullest, homeliest
bunch Of human creatures / ever saw.
l hate them ALL
A crash-the hired girl has just
smashed one of our best plates, an
extra fine Sunday plate with gold on it.
The only reason l don't 60 out and give
her dressing down is because hate to
move.
Why move? Such day as this you
are no happier anywhere than where you
are. If you must be miserable, why
spread it around?
Old Mrs. Grumpet has just called She
has told the missus for the nth time
about her troubles. She has all the
diseases she ever heard Of. AS soon as
she hears Of a new one she goes and
has it. She has more symptoms than a
patent medicine almanac. And it's all
along of that blue mass she took just
before Austey was born. She's dread
full, vast, steamy creature.
She has left an aroma OF added
wretchedness in the house. We opened
the window to admit some fresh air,
and the flies came in. loathe flies.
chased them with a fly-swatter and
broke an expensive vase. All vases must
some day be shattered, as all men must
die. 80,
All women must die too, and all chill
dren. also all dogs, cats, horses, cows,
and grizzly bears. A hundred years from now
everybody and everything will be dead There
will be new crop. After awhile they. too' VIII
die What's the use g.
The gas stove Is out OF Tx TINS morhins ."
am l. SO Is the universe.
There Is no news in the paper. Newspaper
are all poor. SO are magazines and DOCKS WY
read. Aren't you miserable enough as you are
am irving to have vacation and enjoy my
self This morning | played game OF tennis
and was beaten by poor booo that piAyea
worse than l. Then play two games Oh so''
taire. Lost both. $50,
I went To the cupboard 70 SEQ No'h'ns
there but grape juice,
The weather is thickening It Is going to rain.
II Is hours and hours till bedtime.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28
: p1roRIAL PAGE

has shown that it is likely to result in
failure.
What we need is simplicity in our law
and flexibility in our government; power
to do as we please, as intelligent citizens
without let or hindrance from outside
and small efficient body of men entrust-
ed with this power. and responsible di-
rectly to the people.
Then, and only then, shall We have
good government
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28

THE TWO MYSTERIES.

THE TWO MNsTEUiEs.
We know not what II Is, dear. thi,
sleep so deep and still;
The folded hands. the awful calm
tbe. cheek so pale and chill;
rhs Ida that with not mt again
though We may call and call:
The strange, white solitude of peace
that settles over all.
We know not what IL means, dear
this desolate heart pain;
This dread TO take our daily way. and
walk In II again;
We know not to what other sphere
the loved who leave us gos
Nor why we're left to wonder still
nor why we do not know.
But this we know; our loved and
dead. II they should come this
shopid come and ask us. What is
Life 10 a.mystery as deep AS ever death
can be.
Yet. oh. how dear II Is to us. this life
we live and see!
Then might they say--thesc vanished
ones-and blessed is the thought
so death Is sweet 10 US, beloved
though we may show you naught
We may not to the quick reveal the
mystery OF death.
Ye can not tell us. II ye would. the
mystery Of breath"
The child who enters life comes no,
with knowledge or intent,
SO all who enter death must so Al
little children sent.
what has the soul TO dread.
And as life Is to the living, so death
10 to the dead.
Mary Mapes Dodge.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28

temperature to prevent 1t from be
coming a poison.
For the proper care Of food durina
the hot weather cleanliness Of the
vessels and ice box Is essential.
The box should be cleaned thor
oughly at frequent and regular inter
walls. The interior should be washed
nrst with cold water and soap and
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28
THE KEEP WELL COLUMN

then rinsed with scalding water. The
drainage pipes should be kept free
from slime. Where a rubber tube
Is used TO carry of the waste water
this can be boiled without damaging
II.
Economy and health will both be
served by placing the drinking water
In q receptacle next 10 the ice. This
will bring 1t to as low a temperature
as IL healthful.
Iced drinks interfere with diges
ton and are a menace TO health
They often arrest digestion and not
infreQuently produce death. Rec
meats should never be frozen OF
placed In contact with ice.
Stimulants such as tea and coffee
are best avoided during the evening
by those who do not sleep well.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28
Warned

They--the two-were sitting on
the rustic seat in the arbor. He had
been wondering IL he dared. Even
the moon had begun to pay atten.
ton. Just then the young enamored
edged up closer.
BE careful. Mr.. Jones'" said the
football girl. II will have TO penal
Ire you three feet for holding
Puck.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28
Without Legs

His little granddaughter came be
fore him. her face wreathed in
smiles. and said: Grandpa. ! saw
something running across the kitch.
en- floor this morning without any
legs What do you think IL was"
He studied for while. but finally.
What was it?" he asked.
Water" answered the little lady
triumphantly. Top Notch.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28

Benevolent Old LAdy-Did you
struggle against the consequences OF
temptation
Prisoner-Sure I did.
b. o. L--Ah. but you should have
fought q little harder. n you had
fought q little harder. you wouldn't
be In Jail now.
Prisoner-I done the best could
Teddy. II took seven cops to set me
to the station.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28

If simpler living could be built into
the ideals of people there would be
more happiness and less crime.
The simple life" cult which had its
run about ten years ago, is not the
thing.
| People cannot change in minute. and
| if they attempt to live in cottage on
the outskirts, after being accustomed to
steam-heated flat, life becomes for
them, not simpler but more complicated.
What would be a sound foundation for
simpler living would begin with the edu-
cation Of children.
They would not be surrounded from
their earliest recollections with confu-
sion of things and strenuous atmos-
phere Of rush and hurry.
They would have quiet, peaceful life
with peorle about them who had time
to answer their questions and attend to
their wants.
They would not be whisked about in
automobiles from the age of one month
on, nor hear the constant ringing OF tel
ephones and electric bells.
They would eat simple food and wear
simple clothes and be out of doors most
of the time.
When they were three or four years
old, they would not be introduced to the
modern methods of diversion, they would
need no diversion beyond bigger pile
of sand with which to make more elabor-
ate castles.
They would have beautiful fairy
- I'LL 20 of rch
peacefully asleep.
The children Of today are feeling the
pressure Of the times.
They are even developing nerves"
At it's root this pressure is the mad
endeavor of the minority to pile up mon
ey and the awful necessity Of the ma
jority to get enough to keep their heads
above water
The adjustment is so bad that this
condition is growing worse yearly, and
by all natural processes. must end IN
disaster.
Go through the Polish sections of the
city and you see thrift, content and
seeming prosperity.
No one is striving to keep up" with
someone else, but is satisfied to add a
little to his own small bank account.
He can get along without the super
fluities of life, as his grandfathers did
and never miss them.
Not so the American.
He must have everything there Is,
though he mortgages his home for 1t.
The spectacle of young mother steal
ing that her baby may have pretty
things to wear, is only an indication OF
the power of the trend of the times over
those without much moral stamina
Had she been away from all this
artificial display, her baby would have
looked beautiful to her in the plainest
slip she could make with her own hands.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28

and meat. Where
there are infants
and young chill
dren In the family
the proper care of
the milk requires
Ice In order that
II may be kept at
q sumciently low
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28
The Family Skeleton

Grandson--weil. Grandpop. I've
discovered that we are descended
from q foreign nobleman!
Grandpa Hardscrable-Wal, p'raps
ye're right, Jimmy--but tn familys
bin respectable ever since I kin re-
member!-Puck.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28
THE ICE BOX

The ice box is q necessity In hot
weather for the preservation Of milk
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-07-28
Home Rule and Freedom
Brom Outsiders, Detroit's Need


What Detroit needs. above all else, is
! greater measure of home rule.
The city should have power to reg
\ ulato its own affairs, regardless of the
state legislatuW and constant interior
/ ence on the part Of courts.
Many events Of recent happenings
have shown the city is hampered and
hindered on every side by constitution
drawn with too little regard for thick
\ ly-settled community, and laws passed by
legislature which has as little regard
for the states principal city as if that
city were doing the state an injury by
existing within its borders.
Detroit citizens have just learned
that they have been spending money on
their art museum for many years with
out legal right.
They learned, few days before, that
4 they cannot enforce the protection of
\ grade crossings within their own bound
aries.
The state has taken from the city, for
xation purposes, first the railroad
! I<ppsrties within its limits, and now the
Automobiles, returning to the municipal
Nv less than its proportional share of
sS eoe taxes.
What folly it ID to hold that city of
To SiSe and the intelligence of Detroit
{ ahouh not have complete authority to do
4 D 4 pleases with its own property!
Why should citizen Of Muskegon, or
~ alderman in far-off Ontonagon county,
cAv anything to say about how Detroit
kaN spend its money?
q Why should Detroit, manufacturing
oonter, have hand in the government
.of ffuit-raising Grand Traverse county,
HI mining Keweenaw?
The problems Of a large city are
4 Neither understood nor sympathized
3 with by rural community.
M New York city is FESTIVE under the
control Of New York state; Philadelphia
Y and Pittsburgh are angry at the domino
ton Of Pennsylvania; st. Louis cannot
abide the rule of Missouri; every two
a years, the cities of Ohio engage in 9
Legislative battle with the rural commu.
\ nifty.
The problem of the cities is how to Sc
i cure for themselves the power which the
Eppeople outside the cities WELD over them
II power which it is as illogical for them Il
have q for the common council of Tim
buctoo, If there is one, to dictate wher
President Navin shall start his bal
games.
TO prohibit Detroit from supportin,
its quasi-public art museum may be
great legal victory-but what good doe
It dot
Detroit will continue to enjoy its mu
scum; some way will be found, some lega
way will be discovered, by which tn
citizens will be authorized to spend mon
ey on their own property.
All that will be gained will be com
pliance with an intricate mass of la,
which, designed as a protection, is
hindrance and nuisance.
II is as If man built labyrinth +
\ guard treasure at its center, and dali,
Il rot lost in the mazes Of his own contri
i vance.
Detroit with $4,000 people, is large
I'D 13 Of the states.
y community without likeness
IcAigan. and 1t should not be treatet
~ ether Michigan community.
s. o1htless, under the law the Detroi
nay be amended to secure tn,
rers for the citizens, but this il
80 procedure, and experienc,