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The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18
TRAINING 7ODAYS
BOYS AND GIRLS
They Should Be Taught the
Meaning of Thrift.
FROM A NEW POINT OF VIEW
Child Must Be Encouraged to Think
Of Cost in Terms of Human En-
fort, Rather Than of
Price.
BY sIDoNIE M. GUTENBERG.

" HATEVER benefits may flow
w from the training of children,
they are supposed to have some rela-
ton to the future; but the training
itself is founded upon the experience
of the past. That educating children
to live tomorrow according to the wis
dom of yesterday is not always a
sound procedure is illustrated by the
prevailing attitude toward thrift"
Everyone, nearly, pays formal homage
to the supposed virtue of thrift, and
everyone, nearly, resents in his inmost
heart the niggardliness and narrow
ness suggested by the word.
In this country thrift has tradition
ally meant the scheme of savings
worked out under pioneer conditions
during Colonial times. 1t applies, of
coui Sc, to the whole economic outlook,
but it is especially prominent in con-
nection with the idea of saving. The
early settlers found plenty of land and
plenty of timber; but the products of
labor were to be attained only with
much effort. Raw materials that in
volved labor, such as wool and linen
and all Of the metals, which had to be
brought from Europe, were carefully
boarded. Clothes were mended and
patched until they simply could not
hold together any longer, and then
the rags were saved for carpets and
quilts, or for making paper. A patch
was an evidence Of thrift" and thrift
was commendable virtue.
But the cultivation of land was car
ried on In most wasteful manner,
and good timber was burned and de-
stroyed with wanton disregard for the
future needs of the country These
facts only emphasize the fallacy of
the common notion that we may teach
such an abstraction as virtue" and
then expect it to perform it's function
in the regulation of human life. Thrift
was very earnestly cultivated, but it
had no meaning except in relation to
particular kinds of commodities. Fire
and fat had to be saved, but what
ever was plentiful was disregarded as
carelessly as the present generation
disregards matches and paper.
Yet every generation has to teach
it's young the best that it knows about
the handling of the material basis of
life. The difficulty lies in not recog-
nizing that economic changes are con-
stantly going on, and that it is neces-
sary to readjust past experience to
new situations. A little boy who had
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18

was given an opportunity to exercise
neighborhood stores to buy as much as
possible for the household. His fa-
Their, thinking to combine the business
of learning with the pleasure of spend
ing, suggested that the child keep
record of all that he bought for his
mother. "When l was your age" he
said, "I kept an account of all OF
grandmother's household expenses"
The childs mother was at loss. She
approved of the boys writing and add
ing but she also realized the difficulty
she had in making her husband I'M
derstand that the prices with which
he became familiar as boy were no
longer current. She wished that he
had never been so thoroughly drilled
in the prices Of the early SOS of the
last century.
This father, like so many others,
continued to think Of cost and saving
in terms that no longer apply. In the
same way, every family cultivates It's
pet economies-and its pet extrava-
gances. In certain family sugar Is
looked upon as the index of frugality |;
whoever takes two or more Jumps of
sugar to thescup Is extravaganza, and
whoever takes one or none Is thrifty.
In this same family are trunks full OF
old clothes that no one will ever use,
and the rental cost of storing them is
euuivalent to more than n tenth of the
total cost of the dwelling. Yet these
people think nothing Of spending sew
eral thousand dollars a year on motor
cars-because motor cars came into
their lives after the standards Of thrift
had become established.
We shall have to teach thrift, or its
present-day equivalent, from a new
point of view. We have learned that
materials of all kinds have value In
proportion to their contribution to hui
man welfare. and not 10 proportion to
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18

their prices. On the OLher hand, we
have learned to think of cost i'm terms
of human effort, rather than in terms
of price. The children can learn TO
think of their surroundings in the
same way, although ii is almost impos-
sible to escape the idea of price en-
tirely.
A teacher once observed child
crumpling up piece Of paper that she
had spoiled" by few slight pencil
marks. On being reproved. the girl
affected an injured air-it seemed TO-
her rather small to make fuss about
Il cheap piece of paper. The teacher
got the attention of the class and set
before it new problem in arithmetic.
There are SO many sheets OF this KIND
of paper in pad and the board OF
education pays so many cents pad
The little girl who precipitated this
problem curled up her lips triumph
antly-the sheet she had spoiled cost
n very tiny fraction of Il cent! But
the teacher continued, there were sew
eral hundred thousand pupils In the
schools of the city, and the average
attendance was about 175 days n year.
What would it cost the city to give
each child an additional sheet of this
paper each day?
The fraction of cent is not worth
considering; but the wanton and I'M
necessary waste Of materials Is worth
very seriously considering. Instead.
however, of fixing the child's attention
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18
Mexican War NezCS

Three bandits have been put to
death at Chihuahua City, on orders Of
Gen. Jacinto Trevino. They are be-
lieved to be members of the band
which clashed with United States
troops near Fort Hancock, Tex.
Formal announcement was made at
Washington by Acting Secretary Polk
of the acceptance Of Geenral Carran-
commission to seek solution of bor-
der disputes. Secretary Lane will head
the American commission, supported
by Justice Louis ID. Brandeis of the
Supreme court.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18

President Wilson has sent to the
senate at Washington for ratification
the treaty with Denmark for the sale
of the Danish West Indies to the
United States.
w, r. G. Harding was designated by
President Wilson as governor of the
federal reserve board at Washington t.
succeed Charles S. Hamlin, and Paul
Warburg was named vice-governor to
succeed Frederic A. Delano.
The crisis in the news print paper
situation, which already has cut down
newspaper profits enormously, will not
be reached before late October, when
contracts come up for renewal, accord
ing to reports received at Washington
from many sources by the federal
trade commission.
John Il. Kinnana was confirmed by
the senate at Washington as United
States district attorney for the eastern
district of Michigan.
President Wilson sent to the senate
at Washington the nomination of Com
mander Leigh Palmer, u. s. NJ, TO be
chief Of the bureau of navigation OF
the United States, succeeding Rear
Admiral Blue, resigned.
without debate the senate at Wash
ington agreed to the conference re-
port on the army appropriation bill
carrying S267, 597 900 for maintenance
of the recognized regular army and
National Guard.
The child labor bill was passed In
the senate at Washington, 81 to II.
The bill prohibits the shipment In in
terstate and foreign commerce of the
product of the prescribed child labor.
Children under sixteen are prohibited
from working In quarries and mines.
The total yield of the leading cereal
crops OF the United States this year
will be nearly LOO. OOO.OO0 bushels less
than last year. The government esti-
mates OF the crop issued at Washing
ton showed sensational losses In the
spring wheat crop In the northwest.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18

~ was learned M washington thut
President Wilson practically has de-
cided to make speaking trip across
the continent.
nominated Theodore Roosevelt for the
presidency AT the Progressive ma
tional convention I'm Chicago, has de-
clared himself in favor of the re-elec-
ton Of President Wilson.
first campaign speech in behalf of the
candidacy of Justice Hughes in Lewis
ton. Me-, on August 81. This was an
nounced at New York
Prompt action on the part Of George
w. Schneider of st. Joseph, Mich. a
member Of the Michigan state pardon
board, saved the lives of three st. Jo-
seph girls from drowning.
establishment of a school for teach
ing girls motherhood is provided TOR
mer, filed at Detroit. Mich, for pro-
bate. Mrs. Palmer was the widow
of former United States Senator Pal
mer. Probate court officials say the
estate amounts to upward of 81, 600 900.
Ida Torkelson. twenty-one years old,
OF Newark. ILL.,, was shot twice and
probably fatally wounded by Guy
O'Brien, Il young farmer who lives near
Helmar.
Leaping Is stories from an office
building in st. Louis, George X. Smith,
secretary of the Yellow Pine Manufac-
turers' association, was Instantly
killed.
Acceptance by the railroad brother
hoods of New York of the proposal for
mediation by the federal board of
mediation and Cancellation averted a
strike of 100000 railway employees
Announcement of the acceptance of
the offer was made by A. Il. Garrett
son, head of the conductors brother
hood.
Matthew Hale Of New York, acting
chairman Of the Progressive national
committee, came out for President Will
son in statement in which be de-
clared he would support the Progress
sive electors In all states where they
are put In the field, but would work
for the reelection Of the president in
all other states.
Statements made by Charles E.
Hughes, Republican nominee for the
presidency, In speeches at Detroit
were characterized as false as to
facts and of misleading substance" in
kilograms sent by administration Off
Gals at Washington after discussion
of the subject by President Wilson and
his cabinet. The charges related to
changes in the coast and geodetic sur
vey and the census bureau.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18

Following the evacuation OF Mush
and Bitlis. Turkish Armenia, Russian
troops under Turkish pressure. have
Withdrawn from Hamadan, Persia.
says II dispatch from Petrograd.
The Fridays battle which resulted
in the capture of Gortz by the ltal-
ians cost the Austro- Hungarians TO-
600 men In killed and wounded, not
counting the prisoners, 1t is estimated
in dispatches received from the front
London reports n heavy battle rag
ing near the Graeco-Serblan frontier,
with the allied troops from SalOniki
attacking the Bulgarlans. Already the
allies have captured the station of
Dolran and the high ground near by.
Stanislau, the Acknowledgements
base In Galicia, was captured by the
Russians, IL was officially announced
by Petrograd. The capture Of Stanis-
lau gives the Russians another gate
way through which they can march
toward Lemberg.
Two hundred and sixty-eight Aus
tro-German officers and $4,000 un-
wounded men were captured by the
Russians In battle on the Sereth river
(Galicia) between August and Au-
gust 10. the war office announced at
Petrograd.
Gen. Alexis Kuropatkin has been re-
lieved Of the command Of the Russian
armies on the Riga front. The man
who was defeated by the japanese In
Manchuria has been appointed gov
ernor general Of Turkestan. a Central
News dispatch to London from Petro-
grad states.
The capture by the Russians Of the
railway station Of Kryplin. on the
Stanslau-Nadvorna railroad. was an
nOunced officially at Petrograd.
With King Victor Emanuel and the
duke of Rosta, commander Of the ltal-
ian third army, established In head
quarters In the capturerd Austrian city
of Goritz, the sweep Of the Italians in
to Austria continued for a distance of
more than five miles beyond the for
tress.
The Italians captured the villages of
San MARITIME and Boschini, according
to Rome.
"a French torpedo-boat destroyer
torpedoed an Austrian submarine north
of the Island of Corfu" says dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph COM
pany at London from Athens.
Turkish troops captured from the
Russians tho Armenian towns of Bitlis
and Mush. 1t was officially announced
by the Turkish war office at CONSTANT
nople,
The Echo Beige of Amsterdam re-
ports that allied alrmen have success
fully bombarded the German aero
drome at Etterbeck, near Brussels.
The Italians have captured Goritz.
Official announcement Of this victory,
the greatest won by the Italians since
the war against Austrla-Hungary was
begun, was announced by the war Of
fee at Rome. The Italians captured
10000 prisoners.
The Russians broke the Teutonic de-
lenses and drove the Teutons back on
the entire line from Tiumacz to
Ottynia. An advance averaging more
than two miles on front of approx
mately five miles was made by the vic
torious Slavs. Berlin admits re-
treat before this Russian onslaught.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18
Unable to Learn

There wemeanng people, utterly incapable of learning am
taught by history utterly incapable of understanding Alright what
gone their very eyes during the last year who
this country into occidental Chnah kind of
China which every intelligent Chnaman of the day seeking to
abolish. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18
United States Can Be Invaded

But the United States be invaded? 1t canand
with modern military progress knows though there is
something startling about the thought receive the crednce the
average sits his gdd cakes in the morning.
Frederick Palmer
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18
WORLDS EVENTS
IN SHORT FORM
BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED
DOWN TO LIMIT.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE

Notes Covering Most Important Hap
penlngs Of the World Compiled
In Briefest and Most SuccInct
Form for Quick Consumption.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18
Aeroplane as a Life Saver
Proposed Aerial Coast Patrol Will Be
OF Greas Value IN Time Of Peace
as Well as in War
By ADMIRAL ROBERT E. PEARY
Chairman National Aerial Coast Patrol Commission

Although it has taken the spectacular exploits of
the greatest in history to focus the minds of the
people the marves of the acceptance the great value
of this latest wonder of the world will be agency
of peace. 1t will prove itself more of fe-saver
than ie-waster. The aeroplanes field of usefulness
is expanding daily.
1t would be criminal misuse of human genius acd
the very debauchery of science if the only purpose OF
the aeroplane to skulk through Gods blue sky in
search of prov
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18
Domestic

william ii. Blanchard. special agent
for the state for the Wells-Fargo Ex-
press company. was drowned when an
automobile which he was driving
plunged into the river at Milwaukee,
Wis.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18

Miss Helen Stewart, teacher and
prominently connected. shot and fatal
ly wounded DIR. J. G. Barnsdale. N
well-known physician and surgeon at
Superior. Wis. She claims that the
doctor mistreated her.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18
Washington

President Wilson has sent to tn
senate at Washington for ratification
the treaty with Denmark for the SAL
of the Danish West Indies to tn
United States.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18

Returns from Ohio primary elections
show that both the Republican and
Democratic state slntes headed by
Gov. Frank Il. Willis and ex-Gov.
james M. Cox. respectively. carried
practically without n break.
That federal investigation OF an
alleged conspiracy formed month
ago between n number Of big milling
interests with number OF grain OPP
erntors to manipulate the wheat mar
ket has been under way for four
weeks became known at CHICAGO.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-18
European War News

Following the evacuation Of Mush
and Bitlis. Turkish Armenia, Russian
withdrawn from Hamadan. Persia.
says II dispatch from Petrograd.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-07-05
BRYAN COY MAKES FINE RECORD

The many friends Of Mrf. p. Ray.
sor. son of DIR. p. N Hysor. and an
old Bryan boy. wik>6e reJoiced to
learn Of his fine record in Harvard
University. In recent examination
In perhaps the hardest course offered
in the university. Higher English.
Mr.. Raysor made four AS. His work
throughout his course there has been
exceptionally fine. and has called
from his teachers special mention for
It's excellence. Mr.. Raysor's whole
course In school has been brilliant
one. He graduated from Allen Acad.
emy. taking the senior scholarship
medal. He then entered the Univer.
sity OF Texas. whore he soon won
special mention for the excellence OF
his work. In the University OF Chi.
cago he did the same high class work
that had characterized his courre In
other schools.
He has recently been awarded
scholarship In Harvard. He will re.
main during the summer. doing spe.
cial work, and will graduate next
year.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-07-05
fBy Associated Press,


Washington, July 5.-The Mexican
reply to the demands Of the United
States, coneiIiatory In terms and Civ.
ing a desire to reach a friendly ad.
justment Of the difficulties between
the two countries, was delivered to
the state department today. Until
President Wilson an d Secretary Of
State Lansing confer, there will be no
formal comment.
Some state department officials did
not attempt to conceal the fact that
they considered the note most salts
factory and likely to remove all war
dangers.
The note cites the release Of the
carrizaI prisoners as proof Of the sin.
certify Of the Mexican government to
reach a pacific arrangement Of the
present difficulties and then makes
veiIed suggestion that mediation or
direct diplomatic negotiations be.
tween the two countries would quick.
ly solve all problems.
The note. 40 fG.eeasted, asks for
the withdrawal Of American troops
on the belief that their presence 10
conducive to border hostIIities and
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-07-05
GERMAN AMERICANS
To WAGE CAMPAIGN
Resolutions Are Adopted Urging All
German Citizens Of Texas to Vote
Against Submission.
tBy Associated Prcss)

Austin. Texas. July e.-German.
Americans OF Texas have decided to
wage an active campaign against sub.
mission In the July primary election.
At meeting held here recently of
the Texas branch of the German.
American alliance. resolutions were
adopted urging upon all citizens OF
Texas OF German descent TO vote
against submission In this election.
This organization also denounced
the use OF the term "Hyphenated
Americans" and went on record as
opposing any candidate who is not In
sympathy with the views entertained
by that body.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-07-05
Think of Something
Good to Eat
and call No. % or 2O1
Hardy Hewton
DRIVE Of ALLIES
STILL SUCCESSFUL
New Territory Being Captured and
German Losses Reported
Heavy.
tBy Associated Press.)

London. July 5.-The French cap.
tured a line OF German trenches east
OF Garlu In the English-French drive
and also captured Sermont Farm, fac
Ing Glory. Paris says today. This in.
dicated the French are moving east.
ward along the north bank Of the
Somme River toward vronne. Thus
far the French have taken nine thou.
sand prisoners. A Reuter- dispatch
from the western front says the Ger.
mans made counter attacks on the
new British positions at Thiepval az.
ter heavy bombardment. but were
easily repulsed. Prisoners are quoted
as saying German units are being
rushed to the Somme front from as
far as verdun to the east and Lens
to the north. Heavy fighting con.
tinued throughout the night in the
neighborhood OF the Aisne and the
Somme rivers. says a London state.
ment timed at O'Clock. Further
progress at certain important points"
was also made.
Berlin announces violent fighting
between the Germans and ententes
on both sides OF the Somme River
since last night. but up 10 the pres.
ent time the official statement says.
the allies nowhere obtained serious
advants-ss.
The Russian troops are again at.
tacking the German line from Zirin
70 Baranovich. Lithunia. According
to q statement from Berlin there
was stubborn hand to hand fighting
In which De Russians sustained
losses.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-07-05
DANCE TOMORROW NIGHT.

The regular weekly informal dance
given by the Elks will be held tomor.
row night at their club rooms. The
entertainment committee requests
the announcement made that all Elks
and visiting brothers check narie
and be present. This affair has been
In progress now for several weeks
and Is very enjoyable.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-07-05
TRA|NMEN ARE IN
SESSION At DALLAS
Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen
Discussing Conditions Now Ex.
istIng In tho United States.
(By Associated Sress.)

Dallas, Texas. July 5.-Texas rail.
road men OF the brotherhoods OF train.
men. firemen. engineers and conduc.
tors are meeting in Dallas today to
discuss the situation now existing be.
tween employees and roads OF the
United States. General chairmen Of
the brotherhoods will hold an exten.
sive session here. and Texas chair.
men have been asked to attend a gen.
eral meeting OF all state representa-.
tives In New York. July 81. when the
vote on the proposed strike OF all rail.
roads will be tabulated and an.
nounced.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-07-05
PR0H|B|T|0N|STS
ADOPT THE CAMEL
National Prohibition Party at Chicago
Adopts the Dry Animal ass
Their Emblem.
tBy Associated Press,

Chicago, July 5.-The camel was
adopted today as the campaign emb.
lem Of the prohibitionist party. This
was the announcement made at the
national headquarters this morning.
The emblem will consist of small
gun metal animal in button form
and is to be worn in the lapel Of the
cox,..
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-07-05
HOLE STOVE IN
AMERICAN LINER
Ship Ryndam Leaving New York In
January Arrives at Rotterdam
With Hole IN Forepeak.
tBy Associated Press.)

Rotterdam. July 5.-The Holland.
American liner Ryndam, which left
New York City on the 18th day Of
last January. arrived here today with
a large hole In her forpeak which was
caused from hitting a rock near Kirk.
wall In dense fog. There were no
casualties when the accident oc.
Cured.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-07-05
ATTEND COLUMBIA ONivgeslrv.

MIssos.w .winifrod rAep%s md wesa
Weddington left yestsrdsy for New
Orleans and will sail for New York
City. where they will enter the sum.
mer school OF the Columbia Univer.
sity. These ladies' wiz be away the
remainder OF the summer.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-07-05
Peace Prospects Continue to Grow Brighter
tension At WASHINGTON
IS GREATLY BELIEVED

The Carranza Reply Was Received Todayand
was as Mild in Tone as Forecasted TUESDAY,.
Washington Made no Official Comment
Pending a Conference Between the Presi-
dent and Secretary Lansing. Some Off.
cials Believe the Note Removes All Dan
ger of War. The Note Asks for the With.
drawal of Our Troops and There Are Indi-
cations the Request Will Be Granted. All
Are Agreed the Crisis is Passed.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-07-05
DEATHS HOURLY IN
NEW YORK CITY.
InfantiIe Paralysis Epidemic contin.
ues to Take Toll Of Baby Lives
In New York eorouehs.
tBy Associated Press.)

New York. July 5.-The range Of
death has been hourly maintained to.
day and yesterday by the infantile
paralysis epidemic that has gotten
such headway In the different
boroughs Of this city. There we're
ten deaths between the hours OF 10
o'clock last night and 10 this morn
Ing. All efforts to control the dread.
ed disease have been futile.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-07-05
COTTON TAKES Lap

The future cotton mafxet today re.
gained all that 1t lost last week when
the conditions report came in. The
market broke 30 points Immediately
after the government report was
made and today 1t regained what 1t
had lost. Middling cotton is worth to.
day In New Orleans 10 cents per
pound basis middling.