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The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1915-10-22
Senator fPittman Gives
Advice to Farmers
Must Make Strong Fight in Congress For
Appropriation to Garry Out the Carson
Valley Reclamation Scheme

Saturay afternoon United States
Senator Key Pittman addressed a
gathering of Carson Valley farmers
at this place on irrigation matters and
principally upon the proposed Caron
Valley project, now being considered
by the government. Senator Pitt
mans visit was mainly for the pur-
pose of getting first hand information
to be used by him in working for the
necessary appropriation when the
matter comes up in congress.
He stated that originally the
Truckee-Carson project was compos-
ed of three units-the Upper Carson,
Alkali Lake and the Fallon project.
Whenthe army engineers made their
estimates of cost of the three project
they failed to report on the Carson
Valley project and later when this
project came up from consideration
by the department some were of the
opinion that the fact that the army
engineers had completely ignored
the Carson Valley project, that it had
been eliminated from the original
project Senator Pittman and New
lands then took up the matter with
Franklin X Lane of the Department
of the Interior and he'd ecided that be-
cause the army engineers had failed
to do their duty, did not eliminate the
Carson Valley unit from the original
project. Then finding that the de-
partment looked with favor upon this
project, the Senators made a request
for the preliminary work and which
was ordered and carried through this
spring. He declared that in organiz-
alton of the Irrigation District, the
real work had just commenced and
that the hardest undertaking was yet
to come. Then he explained the diff
ference of getting a bill through the
Senate where there are but so odd
members and in the House where
there are 800. He urged that a COM
hiit'0o NC appoihted W SdlHeI udld
bearing upon the productiveness of
thes oil of Carson Valley and Just
what is being accomplished here, and
placed in the hands of Nevada's rep
resentatiyes in congress. enabling
them to be better equipped To fight
all opposition that may come up re-
lative to the appropriation for the
Carson Valley project
He further stated that many of the
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1915-10-22
ROADS COST
MUCH MONEY.

The great interest that is now mani
fest throughout thee ountry in the
good roads movement is clearly shown
in the increasing activity of the state
governments in the work. At the
present time all of the states with the
exception of Indiana, Mississippi,
South Carolina, and Texas have en-
acted laws providing for state aid in
road work
The accompanying table, which is
made up from a circular recently pub
ished by the department, gives the
expenditures for state highways to
January /, 1915. This table shows
that from 1895. when Massachusetts
and Connecticut enacted state-aid-
laws. up to the present year 80 of the
states expended total of S211 S59, 163
in road work AS showing the grow
ing interest in road building, II may
be motel that 3S of the states have
made available s54 1884 ,007 for use in
1915, or more that % pr cent of the
total appropriations for the past 20
years, also the total expenditures In
1914 from state funds, joint funds, and
local funds, amounted to $3.50, 797 I'll.
According TO the circular there
were January /. 1915. 2.273,131 miles
of the public roads in all the states,
of which 247.490 miles. or l0.9 per
cent, We're surfaced. The total mile
age of all state-aid roads built to
January |. 1915, was 35477, of which
6,S05 miles. or nearly 20 per cent.
were built in 1914.
II Is seen that while two states
New York and California, exceed In
diana in the amount Of money ex-
pended in road work last fear. yet In
diana because of the wide distribu-
tion of excellent gravel. is second in
the mileage Of surfaced roads. with
2S,32l miles. while New York Is third
with 22.39S miles. These three states
contain nearly one-third OF all the
surfaced roads IN the United States.
Only . states have 20 per cent or
more of their highways surfaced. and
OF these Rhode Island leads. with 5S.S
per cent; Massachusetts, is second
With 51.5 per cent and Indiana third
with l2.3 per cent
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1915-10-22
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
October "a. 1915

10: A. M.-Sunday School in both
Gardnerville and Minden. The
Rally Day program which was
formally announced for this week
has been postponed until Sunday,
evening, October 81.
500 A. M.-Christian Endeavor meet
ing in Gardnerville. The topic for
the evening is liner ease and Effici-
ency: Two Permanent Christian
Endeavor Ideals."-- Eph 4:1-l6.
A. Ratcliff will lead.
Rev. Hornaday will hold services
at the Minden school house this eve
ming. One week from toninght he
will hold services in Gardnerville at
which time a me tion picture enter
tainment will be given.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1915-10-22
SNOW SHEDS BURN; LOSS Is
OYER QUARTER MILLION

Eighteen hundred feet of snow
sheds were demolished when fire
caught in the sheds last Saturday
night AT the time of the loss the
sheds were filled with trains and the
big Mallet engine No i0i1 was de-
molished. Trains were delayed in
both directions. Extra crews We're
ruhed to the scene and the fire
trains kept in constant service hut
could not save the property. The rails
were warped and twisted nesessitat-
wei over a quarter of million.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1915-10-22

No services will be conducted at
the Lutheran Church next Sunday
morning owing the absence of the
pastor, who is attending pastoral
conference held at Berkeley, Cal
The Lutheran Sunday School meets
as usual at $50 a. IN.
The Genoa Lutheran Sunday School
will not meet Sunday.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1915-10-22

Rabid COWS have now appeared in
Elko county, miner near Divide be-
ing attacked this week by bovine
frothing at the mouth, and nostrils
distended. The man beat it lively,
having no weapon with him.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1915-10-22
TonOpah Has Volcano

Tonopah has real volcano not far
from the business section of the camp
This "Vesuvius of Nevada" has long
been dead, although scientists declare
that Mount Brongher, on whose side
Tonopah is built, is the crater of an
volcano.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1915-10-22
Merchants Form Association

The merchants of Fallon have form
ed an association for the purpose of
mutual benefit, safeguarding their in
terests and promoting the welfare of
the entire town.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1915-10-22
BORN

DEMPSTER-At Billingsley hospital,
Haywards,C al. October 18th. 1915.
to the wife of Robert Dempster
(nee Sofena Jepsen). a son, (still-
born.)
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1915-10-22
CARD OF THANKS

| desire to extend my heartfelt
thank to all those kind friends who
so generously gave assistance during
my recent bereavement Especially
do | with to thank the choir and those
gave floral pieces and flowers.
MRS. +. GAuMANN.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-18
The Once Rather Frivolous Duchess of
Westminster, Who Is Conducting a
Soldiers Hospital Near Paris.

tolerable. Physical courage is seldom
lacking either in men or women who arc
well-bred, and it may be freely granted
that a certain measure is demanded OF
the butterfly nurses, but there is no re-
demption in this. To SAVIOR the full sense
OF life without courage is impossible; one
might as readily make an omelette with
out breaking eggs In this case it is
courage misdirected, energy misspent.
I feel very strongly about this scandal,
SO strongly that have not hesitated to
write what is bound to offend some Of my
own friends, but there are times when 1t
is impossible to be silent If one would live
on tolerable terms with oneself. l feel
that in these days woman is called upon
to make supreme sacrifices; that what she
Is giving even now Is less than will be
required Of her later on; that her war
record and her record when peace is about
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-18

be unkind to oiler a protest hut the GER
cral opinion is that they do more harm
than good. They subvert discipline, they
are n law to themselves, they arc too
highly placed or protected 10 be called to
order promptly, they have neither the in
c!inatiOn nor the capacity for sustained
usefulness. To sit at the end of bed and
smoke cigarettes with wounded officer
does not develop the efficiency of a
hospital
One hears repeatedly that this girl or
that has gone to the front and one
imagines devotion. sef-sacrfce self-re.
straint and dozen kindred virtues. I'm
fortunately it is chiefly in the realm of
imagination that these virtues exist For
the rest, the interlopers want limelight,
and plenty of it.; their pictures flood the
illustrated papers, and to read what is
written Of them the experienced person
might imagine that they are bearing the
neat and burden OF the day, the solitude
and anxiety OF the night, while in very
truth they do no more than search for
fresh sensations in AN area that Should he
sacred
The type Of mind that can seek refuge
from self and boredom in such surround.
ings cannot be stricken into serious ess
tragedy cannot reach it, To do n very
minimum of work, to attach themselves to
the most attractive" cases, - carry small
talk. gable and gossip into places where
so many come to die, these are the main
efforts Of the young society nurses, and
all these outrages are being carried on
from day to day
The real nurses and sisters are. am
told, bitterly indignant They ask no more
than to be left alone to do their best. but
they know how hard it is to make IN
effective protest and they have little or no
time to do so. They recognize by reason
of their training the full motive OF t
excursion into the region OF suffering, the
Copyright 1915. by the Star Com
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-18

whom war is little more than ii new sensa.
ton. They are not old enough to under
stand OF young enough to be restrained.
In normal times they must be "in the
movement" however foolish that move
mcnt may be, and n war that staggers the
Old World and the New leaves them vcry
much where they were before. Under the
rose they have not diminished their afore-
time gaicty; dances and dinner parties
have been the order of the Winter season.
They have been trumpeted By the
section of the presG that delights in re-
cording vain things, but those who view
the currents Of London's social life know
that am writing the simple truth. There
is nothing To be said let those laugh who
may and can at such a season; their
laughter proclaims them what they are.
Unfortunately the people have in mind
have not been content to devote them.
selves to hrainless frivolity, because they
must sample every sensation that the sea.
sons provide--they have invaded the
sanctuary of the hospital nurse Scores
have found their way to the great London
hospitals IN town to face what they are
pleased to regard as training. | have
known some who have danced till 3 a. m.
ana have presented themselves at the hos.
pital at S o'clock,
Everybody knows that the training of
real hospital nurse is a very serious mat
ter; that IL makes full demand upon phys.
zeal and mental capacity, and that q long
period is required to bring the seed OF
efficiency to flower or fruit. The social
butterflies have made no such sacrifice
They have acquired & trifling and superfi
cial knowledge OF a nurses work and have
then set their social influence to work in
)rder TO reach some one Of the base hos
pitfalls where they may sample fresh eS.
perience.
II they were really useful there 1t would
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-18
The Princess of Pless, Sister of the Duchess of
Westminster, with the German Wounded
She Is Nursing Near Berlin.

to return will be scanned closely and
critically by generations OF really free
womo!. yet unborn.
To know OF blot upon woman's war
time service record, and to make no at
tempt to erase it, is impossible. The rec
ord OF the real nursing sisterhood Is
brilliant in the extreme. Why should it be
obscured for the sake Of a few highly
placed and foolish young women who seek
with the minimum labor to make the maxi.
mum of effect? 1t Is unjust ungcnerous
and altogether unworthy of the repre-.
sentatives OF families that in many cases
have earned their ample honors legitimate.
ly enough
Great Britain owes more than it can ever
repay to the nursing sisterhood, and It is
intolerable that while their silent heroism
passes with so little recognition. any girl
of good family who assumes a uniform
she has not won the right to wear should
pose as the representative of a sisterhood
she is not worthy to associate with, OF
whose tradition she is ignorant, of whose
high discipline and complete restraint she
is intolerant.
There are three classes Of women in our
mast. The first earns reward and claims
II, the second earns reward and does not
claim 1t, the last claims reward and does
not earn 1t. or these classes the real nurse
belongs to the second and the butterfly
sisterhood to the third. At such season
as this there is no room in our midst for
the last and it would be well for us all
II authority could spare a moment from,
manifold activities firmly and ruthlessly toI
suppress 1t. The hardship involved would
be OF the slightest, the benefit serious and.
lasting.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-18

to think | have overstated The case or
traduced the young women who are at
present somewhere in France" let them
find out from their particular heroine how
much time she gave to training, how she
received her appointment. and how much
real hard work she does day by day.
That few have strivcn ard and nobly
! would be the last to derry, but these are
not enough either to leaven or purify the
mass or to elevate the action of a class
that might be better employed. Let us
remember too, that suffering is always
with rs and that even when war is over
there will be far too much in all the great
centres Of our own country.
Are these butterfly nurses prepared to
remember in the future the profession they
have invaded to-day? Will they respond
to the calls that are made to help, not
young. attractive and valiant men, but
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-18

craving Tor -.
element, and, in
bad cases, tn"
erotomania that
is the motive
power. They find
their work i'm
peded by the sis.
terhood OF i'm.
posters that re-.
spends so readily
to a fashion Of its
own making. an!
their chief hope
is that this scEsa-
ton may pass as
so many others
have passed. and
that the brain
less, chattering,
t n ou 6 h [ ! G S s,
empty company
tired OF blood and
wounds, may find
some paramount
attraction nearer
home.
II there are any
who are prepared
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-18

They have made many
friends and no enc
mics; the hero Of the
trenches and the as
saulting party has not
given more TO his
country. for both have
given their all: the
man his strength, the
woman her practical
sympathy, and both a
high degree OF physi.
cal and moral courage.
Unfortunately there
is in London today
n very large company
OF young women to
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-18

MEN, women and
children in every
phase Of helpless
ness and hopeless
ness? | do not
think so. There
is neither noto.
riety nor lime
light in the sober.
Jerious life of the
hospital nurs 9
and sister; above
all, there is a
hard and neces-
8 airy discipline
t h a t calls for
much moral cour-
age to render 1t
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-18
"The
Butterfly
Sisterhood
Who Seek
Sensa~
ton and Gossip
and Sit on the
Bed Smoking
Cigarettes"

1-fHE Countess Of Warwick. who is uni
versally regarded as the foremost
II woman leader of England has writ
ten 4 remarkable article for this news
paper criticising the horde OF society and
theatrical women who have taken up war
nursing for the sake OF notoriety or in
frivolous spirit
The Countess does not give names, but
many people in England know to whom
she refers Some of the war nurses" at
whom she is aiming are so highly placed
and influential that It would be difficult
for the authorities to remove them. Prob
ably the Countess expects that by her
severe criticism she will shame them into
retiring or reforming.
Nevertheless, much Of the war nursing
done by prominent women appears to be
giving satisfaction. While it is OF course
outrageous that woman should be
frivolous in the presence of suffering, it
is n positive benefit to the wounded SOL
der if an attentive nurse is handsome and
tractively dressed.
The handsome Duchess of Westminster.
who WIS rather frivolous before the war
is conducting pretty hospital for wounded
soldiers at Lie TouQuet, near Paris. Strange
10 say, her sister, the Princess of Pless.
who is married totone Of the richest noble
men Of Germany, is conducting an equal
~ successful hospital for German soldiers
near Berlin.
adored by Gabrielle d'Annunzio has estab.
lished hospital in Paris There she
Sratihes her dramatic instinct by wearing
her nurses uniform most effectively, while
she cheers up the wounded soldiers by her
graceful poses.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-18

Mile. Greuze, "the Daintiest Beauty
IN Paris" Only One of the Horde
Of Society Women and Actresses
Who Have Rushed Into the Nurs.
ing Profession to Torment or
Cheer Up the Wounded Soldiers.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-18

OF love and pity that cheers the wounded
and comforts the dying, as "The LADY
with the Lamp" taught them to do in rho
far-off days of the great Crimean s,rucc,a
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-21
JEWS MEET TO DEMAND EQUAL
RIGHTS IN EUROPE

Amass meeting to interest Jewish
workingmen in the movement to Sc
cure for the Jews the fullest possible
national political and civic rights in
European countries viii be held at the
West Side Auditorium, Taylor and
Racine aV., Sunday, at 2 p. m. It will
be held under the auspices of the
Chicago National Workingmen's Con-
ference on Jewish Rights, Speakers;
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-21

MY DEAR, SHE WAS SUCH A REAL
PIGGY ABOUT LOVE
Preference of some wives for a
night-shirted husband instead of one
in pajamas; how widows have solved
the problem of remaining always
young; how lifting rhyme is shown
to be an infallible symptom Of love;
the scandalOUsness of young couples
in scant bathing suits being permit
ted to bask at the beaches in the hot
sand-these are some of the prob
lens discussed philOsophicaIy in let
tiers that Mrs. Olga COOmbs said she
found in her husbands old coat
pocket, She has filed suit for separ-
ate maintenance. The letters filed
as exhibits bear the signature of Cora
V. Hill, a Los Angeles widow.
'Apropos of nighties," reads the
letter, land pajamas - some wives
prefer their husbands wear the for
meF, while some prefer the latter. It
is all a matter of individual-ah-
preference. 'ScUse me, do"
In another letter the writer dis
cusses the secret of keeping ones
blood running warm despite age. She
argues:
81 am such real piggy about loves
Just want to climb in with all four
feet. Oh, you probably will be great
" pitied when get you in my clutch
es-and believe me, have some
clutch.
cit is this that keeps folks young.
Those who remain young and attrac-
tive longest are those who don't
freeze out of their systems all their
red blood and sweet, warm, human
desires"
-O-O
JEWS MEET TO DEMAND EQUAL
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-21

VI lie SOCuGIy.
DEAD SLUGGER REFUSED PAY
SAY UNION MEN
Chas. Victor, who life was stop
ped by a bullet at the Painters Dis
trict Council meeting, Thursday
night, was a student of the news
paper sluggers. He learned all of his
little tricks of violence from the grad
uate thugs who were employed by
loop newspapers during the press
mems strike to MAIN and murder
union men.
His kind has nearly disappeared
from the ranks of labor. The few
instances of vandalism on the part
of labor men have mostly proven to
be the result of the perverted thought
of individuals, not the wish of a labor
body.
Victor knew how the newspaper
plug uglies worked during the press
mems strike. He knew Of peaceful
pressmen being beat up, severely in
jured, at their hands. He knew of
deaths resulting from the violence Of
the sluggers who drew their pay from
the trust dailies. He knew, too, that
some of these sluggers are still on
the payrOIls Of the papers, mostly to
brighten or beat up news peddlers or
circulation men of other papers.
Victor, it is said, tried strOng-arm
methods during the recent painters
strike. The union heads have been
fighting this kind of stuff and said
to have taken a vigorous stand
against Victor. When he did not get
money, Victor threatened the life Of
Frank Gardner, trustee, it is said,
and drew a gun on Gardner at the
meeting the other night.
NO DANGER
Myrtle-Won't that parasoI fade in
the sun?
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-21

Clarence Darrow, Seymour stedman.
Perez Hirschbein, DR.. l. Markus, M.
Bakall
mo duties without rights; no
rights without duties" is the slogan
of the society.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-21
NO DANGER

MyrtIe-Won't that parasoI fade in
the sun?
Ethel-No matter. My new hat is
big enough to keep the sun OF Of it
Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1915-09-02
POOR SEED CORN
MEANS FAILURE

Surely we all know that.
A dead kernel of corn will fail
to grow, even if planted. Plant
ing dead corn means failure.
And yet, some people will plant
dead corn.
Surely, the reason many peo-
pie plant dead corn, is because
that is the kind of corn for
seed they happen to have.
They have it because they GO to
the crib in the spring to get it.
The result is failure or par
tial failure. Note the fields,
that were planted last spring in
South Dakota with poorly Sc
lected and untested seed. Look
again at those planted with
field-selected, dry-cured, ear
tested seed corn. Are not the
latter more promising than the
others.
We have a corn crop in South
Dakota this fall-Jack Frost per-
mitting. And the fields that
yield mature crops will be es-
pecially the ones that were
planted last spring with the
kind of seed above mentioned.
This is the year when corn blood
is going to tell.
But more than that. the seed
corn picked in South Dakota
this fall, and tested next spr-
ing, will determine next years
crop, very largely-and next
years crop, will determine the
future for some years. Ii we
happen to have some soft corn
this fall and fail to pick seed
this fall on that account, and
as a result, plant southern seed
next spring, we are due to lose.
Look the seed corn situation
right i'm the face this fall and
take it by the ears. Don't
wait till freezing weather to
pick seed corn. Throw a sack
over your shoulder, and 60 to
the corn field in time to pick
the earliest ears that become
well glazed. The best ears are
likely to come from the best
stalks.
Store these early ears where
they will not freeze. They
may shrink some, but test them
in the spring; they will grow.
They are for next year. crop.
But they have to be picked
this fall.-By A. N. Hume, AgrO-
nomist and Superintendent of
SubstatiOns.