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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-10

The women of st. Patrick's
Altar society will hold a Christ
mas sale, Dec. Is, in the church.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-10

the Women's club at her home to-
day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-10

Muriel Ostriche
will make her
Equitable debut
in "A Daughter
of the Sea.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-10

We shall be glad to cash pay checks for
smelter employes-without obligation to
buy. We appreciate the business of these
friends and wish to be of service to them
In return.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-10

tainment will be given this after
noon in the Y. w. C. A. rooms
by the st. Cecilia club. Mrs. W..
@. Osborn will read a paper and
a musical program under the d.
rection of Charles Lacourge will
follow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-10

The entertainment which was
to have taken place tomorrow
night at Annie Wright seminary
has been postponed indefinitely
owing to the illness of several of
the participants.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-10

A matinee Christmas enter
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-10

Damaged Goods will close
Saturday night at the Melbourne
with the record of drawing the
largest houses of any film ever
brought to Tacoma, it is said.
More than $4,000 people have
seen the remarkable photoplay
during its IL days showing in the
city. Charlie Chaplin in "A
Night in a Show" and "A Poor
Relation" will follow Damaged
Goods on Sunday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-10

Daisy Air Rifles, the 500-shot rept
ers, saves reloading on hunt
trip; a dandy present, q
Sootih8 VII
Marbles, one of the most accepta
gifts you can choose for little fellow,
all prices.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-10

Roller Skates, for boys and gin
Union Hardware Co. s make, ball-be
ing and adjustable as the child gro,
Have steel or leather heels, W
leather straps, q q
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-10

Ask for and get S. & H. Stamps with
every purchase you make here. Visit
the premium parlor on third floor
and you'll see so many things you
want that you'll decide at once to
become a stamp collector and get
pretty things free of cost.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-22

cate Of hot rooms, stunt parlOrs and
closed windows believes in protecting
us more than nature ever intended
II. Allen Steven, 2528 N. California.
DEBATE: REDLlGHT DISTRICT
For A. Gee Bee
Against-Arthur Burrage FarweII
A B. F. accepts the challenge to a
written debate in The Day Book and
states in part, But to make a red
light district is not one of the ways
to correct the (social) evil"
We must have confines for any cor
receive measures-witness, penal in
situations, houses Of correction, asy-
lums, hospitals.
To study the best and most lasting
remedies we corral or cOnfine our
patient
The reason for so few cures or cor
rectiOns made in our existing So
called corrective" institutions is
that the cOEectors are devoid of abil-
ity in these lines, being political ap-
pOintees or Gin it as a biznis."
If we had such conscientious and
able workers at the helm of these
institutions as are, undoubtedly, Mr..
FarweH and Rev, Alice Philips Aid
rich, we would today begin to witness
the results of 1000 years of preach
ing of the gospel of brotherhood.
Not to digTess, but truly, Mr.. F.
lays the ak at the root in naming
money as the ruling factor.
To get back-the prostitute is
made, not born. It is a direct result
of environment, chiefly lack of broad
enlightenment or education. The
woman prostitute needs our help.
She is unable to extTicate herself.
The man prostitute, or the being
who lives on the wOman's earnings,
is just as insane, just as criminal,
Just as much a menace to society,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-22

of July 20 some one quotes a few
lines from a paper called Our Sun
day Visitor and signed the article
&C. H"
wish c. H. would please give his
Interpretation of these lines so that l
may understand him.-A. D. Holden,
2420 Warren aW
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-22
Melted RRAINs-A farmer n

MELTED BRAINS farmer not
far from Chicago some years ago was
most contentedly caring for his gar
den, trees and crops at the ripe old
age of 70. He breathed the fresh air
of nature and brought to the house
three times each day a most glorious
appetite. At night he laid down to a
most heaIthful sleep. Never had a
sickness worth mentioning.
His brother, two years older, also
had a farm very much the same.
The world was beautiful to brother
number one until his wife insisted
that he move to town with his family
and leave the good old farm. She
insisted that he needed a rest in his
reclining years. He did so. With
nothing to do but sit by the hot fire
year after year he became peevish,'
irritable and hard to care for, until
at the age Of 76 he had melted away
his brains and died.
Farmer number two stayed close
to the soil, taking outdoor duties each
day as they came along and at the
ripe old age of SO is still alive and
practically no care.
To wear out is better than to rust
out or melt away the brain in a close
room with the idea that elderly peO-
pie are thus benefited.
The modern baking process in a
steam-heated fiat turns out product
-
disease and short lived. Compare if
you will the healthy cheek Of the
farmer boy as he visits the city to
the paIefaced, dried up variety found
in our offices.
What a lesson to those who have
never left the soil What a store of
health is in waiting for the man
whose physical condition is poorly, if
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-22

he will but give kind nature a chance.
The gymnasium, while Of great
benefit to the man inside, will never
be a good substitute for the wOOdpile
or other outdoor exercise. The advO-
cate Of hot rooms, stunt parlOrs and
closed windows believes in protecting
us more than nature ever intended
H. Allen Steven, 2525 N. California.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-27
The Fight Has Just Begun

/ THE plans for a demonstration In Harris-
| i burg in favor Of local option are progress
! Ing favoraby The committee expects to
make arrangements for 5000 voters to leave
| this city on April to accompany petition
| demanding tho passage Of a local option law
! But the number of voters who can find time
to go to the State capital is no measure of
the number favorng local option. For every
man who can go there are probably 30 who
have to stay at home. The active demand
for county control OF the sale Of liquor Is so
widespread that the General Assembly Will
fail in its representative duty II 1t refuses to
consent Bargains that party leaders may
make with the abhorrent interests in politics
are not binding on the free legislative agents
in Harrisburg Every man who owns his
own conscience will vote as his conscience
dictates. But those who are bound, body and
foot, by obligations to political leaders, who
have sold their influence to the liquor in
terests in return for the support Of the liquor
machine will be compelled to respond when
the whip is cracked
The fight must centre on the Senate, be-
cause the plan is to let the bill go through
the House and bury 1t in a Senate com
mlttee. And the fight, to be successful, must
be such as will demonstrate to the Senators
that they cannot afford to disregard the
overwhelming public sentiment of the Com
monwealth. The march on Harrisburg by
the local option forces on the first Tuesday In
April is part of the demonstration, and its
significance will not be lost those Senators
who have their ears to the ground and
hear the tread of the multitude of voters
willing to follow the conscience lead of the
Governor. Every report from the State Capt.
tol indicates that the local option fight has
only Just begun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-27
what Would You Do with $50, 900?

AN EVENING LEDGER reader has $50 900
"A which he wishes to use in providing a
suitable memorial of some dead friends. and
he does not know how to spend 1t. An elab-
orate tombstone, in the form either of mar
bic monument or of granite chapel in ceme-
terry, apparently fails to satisfy his sense of
the fitness OF things.
The Mayor has suggested that he put the
money in trust with arrangements for the
use of the income in supporting some society
engaged in the relief of the young, and the
Socialist National Committeeman from this
State thinks that 1t should be used to endow
a public forum devoted to the exploitation of
the truth about economics. Neither of these
men likes the idea OF investing the money
in brick and stone. One wants it invested
directly in humanity, and the other proposes
that II shall be used to disseminate know-
edge for the good of humanity. All other
suggestions that made will probably come
either under the head of benefting humanity
or Of clarifying the persons in whose memory
it IS to be spent, although some one may pro-
pcse that 1t be used for preventing cruelty to
ANNALS.
If any one who reads this page has any
suggestion to make that will assist the in
quirer he will be glad to get it, And it is
possible that some man or woman who never
owned $500 may be able to think of a better
use for $4,000 than those who have never had
to think of the value of dollar since they
began to srend their riches.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-27
The Spanish Trade Commission

ETlHE Commercial Museum is the most fit
i ting headquarters for the Spanish Trade
Commission now in this city. 1t is possible
TO get more information there about the ex-
port business of the United States and other
countries than anywhere else in the United
States unless it be at the Department OF
Commerce in Washington. Spain produces
things that we need and we produce things
which Spain would be better for buying and
using. If she had our farm machinery for
example, her fertile fields would become still
more fertile. Spain, a whole, is one of the
backward Industrial countries; but she is
awake now, or she would not have sent six
distinguished business men here to seek TO
enlarge her foreign trade.
The Spanish commissioners are most well
come. They will find this city Hospitality dis
posed both toward them and toward every
proposition intended to bring about closer
relations between Barcelona, for instance,
and Philadelphia. While they are here they
will doubtless study the water front with
view to recommending the establishment of
new steamship lines between Philadelphia
and the Mediterranean ports of Spain We
cannot help them without helping ourselves,
and we stand ready to give them assistance
to the extent of our ability
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-27
A "Hnll" Lot of Optimism

II REPRESENTATIVE HULL. who assumes
lN responsibility for the income tax law,
with all it's incomprehensible intricacies, is
confident that the tax will produce $500 0,O0O
This is the kind of optimism that is delightful
to contemplate. Hull is proud of his law
and he is sure that it will be the most ef-
fective deficit remover that ever con-
structed. If he were ashamed of his progeny
he ought to be drummed out of Congress.
The pride of Mr.. Hull. however will be
small in comparison with the satisfaction %
the whole country IL his optimism shall prove
to be well founded. If there have been tax
able incomes enough to produce SSO,0OO,OO
revenues this year there is no longer reason
for encouragement The dsgruntled state
of the doing a poor business will be
offset by the content of the man who has
increased his earnings enough to counter
balance the losses OF his less fortunate neigh
Dor; and we shall have it demonstrated that,
while 1t is not possible for all of the people
to be prosperous all of the time. 1t is possible
for all of them to have prosperity some of
the time. And when mans turn comes he
can rejoice that 1t was delayed no longer
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-27
The Luxury of Grand Opera

THE presentation Of grand opera is not a
i business. but an extravaganza. No grand
opera company employing the great singers
pretends to give performances unless it is
backed by a group of capitalists willing to
pay several thousand dollars apiece each year
TO cover a deficit The reason for this ap-
pears in the list of salaries paid to the sing
ers in the Philadelphia Chicago company
now in the Illinois bankruptcy court. The
sum of $4,000 was paid in salaries to four
of the managers, one Of whom received
$780, 900. The singers received from $1,000
performance down There were several who
got $1,000 for each time they sang.
Grand opera as at present offered is an
expensive luxury. 1t cannot be put on a
paying basis until the salaries given to the
singers and to the managers are computed
with some reference to the possible income
from the sale of seats and boxes. But per-
haps the hackers of the opera season would
rather have grand opera remain an exclusive
luxury than to make 1t show an even balance
sheet.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-27
We Eat Too Much Disease.Iaden Dirt

NTHEN women enough refuse to patronlze
w a grocer OF provision dealer who leaves
his stock exposed 10 the dust of the street
and the mnistrations of stray dogs, the
dealers will protect their goods from con-
tamination whether the law requires it or
not. Some of the members Of the women's
clubs are already interested in the subject
and they are buying no food which has not
been kept in a place free from the disease
germs that are blown about by every breeze
They are also using their influence to induce
the General Assembly to pass a bill intro
duced recently which requires all dealers TO
protect their wares It will apply TO the ven-
ders OF pretzels who sit on the street corners
and sell their dust and germ-covered stomach
stayers to those willing to risk eating them,
and 1t will apply also to the corner grocer
who spreads his lettuce and celery and
spinach in attractive display before his door.
1t may be necessary to eat peck of dirt
before We die, but few Of us want to have
the peck made up Of germs Of consumption,
diphtheria, bronchitis and no one knows what
else
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-27
COMPULSORY VOTING

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-With amusement the writer notices your
editorial against compulsory voting-owng %
the fact that you believe In ''votes for women
You know II is one of the main arguments win
the SUITS that women won't have TO vote un'
less they want to-" The suffs are perfectly Will
Ing to do all the voting; but this compulsofY
voting: Gee Whit 1t will kill the sun agttaton
deader than Noahs menagerie II the State ac-
tually makes the glltterlng right TO vote =
duty, with a fine attached.
Do you know that with woman suffrage thsy
have to pass compulsory voting laws to gs.
the women out? Australia did, you know ana
Oregon Is trying II now, too.
or course, that 50 rebate would have muca
greater attraction for some of our bareelh-
loving ladies than il is estimated to have los
your fisherman; but as Jefferson, whom we WIN
concede TO have been something of Statesman,
said: THE interest of the people can be noss
easily awakened by appeals to their pockets
1t is my humble opinion that Governor brlw. w.
baugh's measure would prove effective Win ws
men also,
But the best thing it would do would be =
kill the agitation for votes for women " ~
women don't want votes-they only wan. ~
talk about them If they really wanted wv.
they would go out and colonize some OF 49,
Western woman suffrage States, because ~ W.
syYania Is one of those sane communi1ss-
which will never indulge In this iolly' ~
Seems to me the "antis' ought 10 use ~
their indirect influence to make II ellui'tt W NJ
offense for any qualified elector TO nesleo, -
duty of voting. II they did you'd need msiy.
scope at some future exposition to discover
relic called the woman yoter-actuahy = =
large in Chicago, Iceland, Cheyenne ana os.s. -.
places about the year 1916, after which the - "
ces became extinct, due to the dlscoYey i
the duty instead OF the fun of casting sa., DenO'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-27
THE DEPARTURE OF SUNDAY

To the Editor Of the EUeHiH0 Ledger:
sir-"BiIly' Sunday has gone! Whether he
has done good remains to be seen; at any
rate. there Is not unanimity Of opinion on this
point But this seems to me TO be the most
certain fact at which one can now arrive; Mr.
Sunday remained in Philadelphia three weeks
too long.
Until the beginning of this month. Mr.. Sun
days supporters stood solidly behind him; In
the last few weeks he lost some OF his
stanchest adherents. striking example OF
this Is the Rev Dr. Alexander MacColl. OF the
Second Presbyterian Church. The Presbyter-
ians and Methodlsts, as Is usually the case In
reViVals OF the nature such as Philadelphia has
Just witnessed, have been Mr., Sundays most
ardent supporters But feeling not only OF
distrust, but OF wonderment at how they could
have been "bamboozled," one might say, into
advocating Mr.. Sunday and his methods made
It's appearance toward the end Of the evan
gelsts stay.
Doctor Maocol. In speaking at a Ienten sery-
ice OF the dangers which lurk IN great reviyals
said that many OF Mr.. Sundays teachings sare
breaches OF Christian courtesy ana against the
spirit Of Christ" The sermons had become in
creasinsly more bisoted and unchristlan A
growing spirit OF intolerance for those who did
not approve Of his creed Or methods eharac-
torized Mr. Sundays utterances, These out-
bursts ana Doctrines Hefz 4i against the Word
aat Hfnz - HaIezz< = understand = Ehat
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-27
ACCIDENTAL POISONING
iitOr Of the Evening Ledger:

To the Editor OF the Evening Ledger:
Sir-A poisoning of patient today by nurse
who administered in mistake tablets. probably
of bichloride of mercury, suggests the unwis-
dom of physicians using that disinfectant or
antseptic one may wish to call it, for any
purpose connected with the treatment of the
sick. l have given up entirely the use of this
deadly poison for external use, and employ
other antiseptics less capable of doing harm,
but which equally efficient. Many eff
forts have been made by manufacturers of
pharmacists to guard these tablets of mer-
curry" as to make unintentlonal poisoning a
negligible quantity. but no matter how guarded
they are they will be mistaken for lozenges, etc,
and poisoning, even TO DEATH will occur.
Therefore, | never order patient nurse
to use these mercury tablets, and I my
self never use this form of antiseptic, not only
because of the danger of poisoning, but also be-
other antiseptics are preferably more
efficient.
II physicians will using bichloride OF
mercury, or corrosive sublmate," 1t is
popularity called, II will not be long before the
manufacturers will cease TO make them, which
viii not be loss to medicine or surgery
GORDON NJ. CHRISTINE, NJ. ID.
Philadelphia, March 25
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-27
WHEN THE SUN DRAWS WATER"

From the Pathfinder.
When the sun is tn the east or west of us on
a cloudy or hazy day, beams are often seen
radiatng from IL toward the horizon; then
many people say the sun Is drawing water
They actually believe that the lines of light
and shadow appearing to converge In the sun
are great shafts of water and vapor that the
sun is drawing up into the air to be precptated
later the earth rain or snow These
shafts, matter of fact. are generally in
dlcat!ve of coming rainy weather, but they
cannot be counted nn as infallble signs.
The idea that the sun is drawing water"
however. is entirely erroneous. for the lines
seen are the result of the passage of light
through openings In clouds already formed. The
lines that appear dark shadows of clouds,
while the light lines rays from the sun are
made visible in the air by the presence therein
of dust watery vapor just the dust I'm
the air of a room makes visible the light that
enters 1t through small apertures. Although
as an effect OF perspective the shadows and
bars OF light appear to converge In the sun,
they are really parallel. Usually the condition
of the atmosphere which makes 1t possible for
the beams and shadows to be seen Is indicative
OF the active condensation of moisture, so that
when the draws water" rain may be ex-
pected with some degree OF certainty, although
like all local signs 1t is far from infallible.
Sometimes when the sun is below the horizon
a phenomenon, almost the same. is obseFved-a
group OF beams spreading fanlike upward from
the sun. in lines of blue alternating with lines
OF pnk-in the western sky I'm the evening and
in the eastern sky In the morning
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-27
To tho Editor Of the Evening Ledger:


Sir-I can answer the question: do I be-
lieve that the State should kl?' with en-
phatic no" This does not mean that have a
sentimental view about crime and criminals.
J believe In punishment, but not in revenge.
do not believe in maudlin sympathy, but in
genuine reform. Capital punishment is relic
of barbarlsm and should be abolished.
/ am opposed to 1t, first, because it does not
act as a deterrent to crime. When men COM
NIT murder they do not pause to remember
the long list of executions which blacken the
history OF punishment We have more execu-
tions now than ever have had-and more
murders.
Second. capital punishment is an abrogated
law, contrary to the higher standards of Chris
tianlty. The ground taken that ought
to be killed because he has killed another is
the old covenant principle of revenge, "An
eye for an eye, and tooth for tooth" If
there is any ground for killing a man, it is
that that man may not kill another. That only
Is the defense of capital punishment.
If the end of punishment is reform, man is
not reformed when he Is electrocuted. Destruc-
tton Is not reformation, The meaning of chas-
tisement is in the original, to make clean and
chaste, linen is whitened and cleaned in the
laundry. a man is not cleansed when he is
electrocutcd. Nobody is helped least of all the
man himself.
Again, when the State kills man it lessons
the respect for human life and cheapens the
value of human being 1t feeds the spirit of
the mob and brutalizes public opinion.
Apart from the barbarlc fact itself, capital
punishment in it's method IS an inhuman prac-
tice.
l am opposed to this form of modern saw
agery perpetuated in penal institutions which
still continue the bloody customs of the past.
The last hour of doomed hours of
abject loneliness. His friends disappear. Often
his body is unclaimed and the punishment
which he receives before his death is inde-
scribable
I do not believe in capital punishment and
hope that the time will come when the people
of Pennsy lvanla will stop this inhuman custom.
HENRY KELAiAN
Philadelphia, Pa, March 16.