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French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-02-10
congressional committees by selfish

congressional committees by selfish
interests.
But the commission will be sure TO
have its troubles. A commission maxi
ing recommendations, presumably in
the interests of the United States as a
whole, will not find all its conclusions
Hospitality received by a body so.
largely dominated by sectional infln-
ences as is the congress of this coun-
try. Local and sectional Influences
have always been potent in our ma
tional legislature-too much so for
the general good at times. 1t is al
together probable, that sectional and
local considerations will continue TO
exercise a greater influence than is
proper or. healthful for the country at
large until we create a body of public
opinion strong enough to demand and
insist that congress shall treat ma
ticnal questions in a broad and nation
al spirit.
It is a formidable undertaking t.
create such a body, but until it is
done and it's facts arrayed behind the
contemplated tariff commission Ire
effect of the latter's recommendations
t.. congress may not be all that could
be hoped for.
It is comforting to believe that the
start has been made and this paper is
optimistic enough to predict and ex-
pect the fruition of President Wilson's
hopes during his second term in Office,
embracing what today promises to be
four OF the most prosperous years In
history.
President Wilson has been talking
mighty good sense in his swing around
the country and the arguments he pre-
sents in support of his preparedness
program are unanswerable. He
frankly tells the people why changed
make necessary the defen-
sive program now proposed. The
has been doing some serl-
Gus thinking since congress adjourned
last spring and is not seeing things
through glasses darklJ. His convic'
items upon the question or prepared /.
are deep and sincere and, while
the defense program has appeared to !
be tagging for some weeks, the masses
of the people are coming around to his
way Of thinking. The Presidents re
sDeeches show him to be patriotic :
who places country first IN
the. discussion of worldwide prob
lens. He very appropriately sug-
gests that while this country has sue :
in staying out Of the European
so far, It may yet be drawn
into the vortex and WOULD therefore. '
adequately preparedifor any emer-
yency.N Indeed for who knoweth that
Indeed, for who kwoweth that the !,
he morrow may bring forth? Better
De safe=than to be sorry." e
&?R, - IS :,
In q lengthy communication TO tte
Greensboro News Marion Butler ~takee
! fall out of National Committeemanli
. Carl Duncan, wnom the former
dubs as a Simmons Repub-1
lean " He mentions no name, bu:
dr. Duncan Is the man he is after
md a blind man can read between
he lines. -
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French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-02-10

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French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-02-10

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French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-02-10

The persistence Of an element of
the Republican newspapers in advo
eating the nomination of Justice
Hughes of New York, nolens volens,
is still abroad in the land, while the
fntimation of Purser Perkins to carry
out the apparent intention of T. R. to
force the nomination of Teddy by
beth wings of the Republican party
III the two Chicago conventions daily
becomes more visible and picturesque
on the political horizon.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-02-10

Navy Ann Butler admits that he is
coming back to North Carolina this
year to save +he State from demo
cratic misruIe and to assist in pre-
venting another democratic admins
tration from getting control of nation
al affairs. Come right along Marion:
No better luck could befall the demo
Gratis of North Carolina than your
presence in the State next fall.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-10-26

burden where it belongs, and fror
the public health viewpoint, stint
late the cooperation of all concern.
ed to prevent disease. In many Ell
ropean countries the problem ha
been met by providing for health in
surance systems supported and con
trolled by employers, employees, anC
the government
Under these systems medical ser
vice together with a continuance o
substantial part of the wages i
provided during the sickness of tn
wage earners, 50 that he can afIor'
to stop work when sick without leay
ing his family destitute Maternit,
benefits are provided to conserve tn
health OF the mothers and babies.
The joint contribution 10 tn
health insurance funds by tire
groups gives to each group a fnar
#eiaI incentive to reduce TINS expeEs
by preventing sickness"
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-10-26
URGES ENGLAND AS
ALLY IN CASE OF WAR
Between Japan and This Coun-
try, Does DR.. Ukita.
(By International News servicel

(6y International News SerVice)
Toxic. Oct 26-Great Britain
must be Japan's ally should thel at.
err become involved in a war with
he United States. DIR. X Ukita ur.
yes in the magazine Taiyo
The article takes on added import
nee because Dr. Bkita is recognized
S one Of the most moderate and pa
fife OF Japanese public writer's.
The present treaty of alliances be
ween Great Britain and Japan eN-
,luda England from Japanese quar-.
-e1s with countries with which Eng
ana has general arbitration treat
es OF which The United States is one.
TIE sac. th# this clause removes
Auare9 from the scope of the An
l8=Japaases alliance has ioue been
sore point with the Japanese crit
cs of he British pact
Dr. Aaitas scheme is ehat in r..
urn for the retention of She clause
providing Tor japanese support In
ea=a India IS attacked. ENGLAND shall
ANGEL the clause excluding from Che
cope Of Che alliance nations with
whom ENGLAND has treaties Of geapr
al arbitration
He admits that cancellation of fh.z
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-10-26
WARDEN WHITE WAS
ELECTED VlCE.-PRES.

At the recent meeting OF the Pria
oh Congress in Buffalo. y. Y. Warden
NJ u White of Moundavlle .was
elected president The address by
Warden White. on prison discipline,
which appeared The same day IN tho
journal. made a profound impression
and waa unanimously declared one
Of the abcst ms well as practical ones
That has been made before the aaPo-
citation Mi White has been a mem
her Of tho congress- but two years
md friends predict that he viii ho.
tome is president neNi year
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-10-26

ucadonal work. $alooo orphans
home $4,000 and miscellaneous
600 rlans for forward work along
bcneyoiaHces aud other causes. $751;,
these limos VII be discussed and
adopted al tho present meeting.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-10-26
S. S. MEN TO MEET

*a /
I'M semianuual session OF thc eN
ecutiye committee of the West Nir
sina sunday school Association will
be held in Whecling The proposed
removal of the associations head
quarters from Wheeling 10 either
GErkaburg Parkefaburg or Hunting.
ton VIII be among The matters con
gidered.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-10-26

NJ and Mrs CM Custer
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01

neighborhood and sells at from S12 to SIS
cord. The plant is success and it keeps
the houses perfectly comfortable, although
the temperature drops at times 40 or so de-
grees below zero. The houses outside this
heating arrangement are warmed by large
stoves and their fuel is wood. When the
railroad is completed the people expect to
have coal at cost of about SIS ton.
The most picturesque feature of Fair
banks is the homes of the people. The resi-
dences are chiefly log cabins, ranging in
size from those of two rooms TO some of
dozen or more. The cabins are built of
cyprus and birch logs with the bark on or
off, at the taste of the builder. The logs
are chinked with arctic moss, and their cor
ners are joined, now in notched shape, now
dovetailed and now with the logs extending
out like dollhouse built of corn cobs
Nearly every home has its porch; and on
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01

try there is red-top of the height of your
waist and there are other native grasses,
the names of which I do not know. Along
the roads to the mining camps, where hay
has been hauled timothy seed has fallen
and sprouted. 1t seems to grow we'll
Most of the people of this cold part Of the
world are dollhouse gardeners, and there is
a Strife between families as to which shall
have the best and earliest of vegetables. l
called upon lady last night who showed
me one of her dollhouse tomatoes, weighing
three pounds, and a caulifower from her
garden whose head was as big around as the
largest dinner plate. She had lettuce as fine
as any raised in the south, and rows of peas
six feet in height, with pods as big around
as a mans thumb This woman has the
earliest potatoes in Fairbanks. She told ME
how she raised them Said she:
II start my potatoes in the kitchen week
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01

or so before the frost goes out of the ground.
l take store box and put layer Of earth on
the bottom, then layer of potatoes cut as
for planting, and over that another layer OF
earth to the depth of three inches Then
comes another layer of potatoes and another
of earth and so on until the box is FULL The
potatoes sprout and grow roots. At the
time for planting I separate them carefully
and put them out in the garden. The vines
keep green all summer long, and the frost
comes before they are dead. Our peas keep
bearing until the first frost, and our sweet
peas bloom until then. Rhubarb and horse
radish only live throughout the winter"
Leaving the garden, went to the chicken
yard AS we looked at the fowls the woman
said: 81 expect to freeze 20 chickens for the
winter, and shall have 20 or 80 to put out
to board They will cost me a dollar apiece
from October until spring The 20 I keep
will be killed, scalded and picked. I will
then lay them outside, and within night
they will freeze as hard as stone and keep
until April AS result, / shall have fresh
chicken on tap at any time in the winter.
They are not bad, assure YOU"
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01
RUSSIAN WOMEN IN PROFESSIONS

Orchard washburn Child. In Century,
From the middle of the last century
the women of Russia have asserted
their eagerness for professional train
ing. Teaching. surgery, medicine. and.
government service have attracted the
greatest number. When the medical
schools were closed to them, they went
to Switzerland and other foreign coun-
tries A Russian girl took doctors
degree at Zurich in 1867.
In the early seventies the admission
of women to medical courses became a
settled practice in Russia. In 1875,
women surgeons in numbers distin-
guished themselves at the front In the
Serbian Turkish war; the same dis
tinguished service has been given by
them in the Russo Japanese war and
In the present conflict.
Today women physicians are as
prominent as men, in some cities there
are many more female than male dem
lists More than So per cent of the
teachers in tho zemstvo schools are
women
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01

windows of timber on the edge of the
water. The Tanana is navigable for some
distance above Fairbanks, and its valley has
millions of acres of agricultural land. 1t is
in this valley that Fairbanks lies.
The place is also in the heart of large
areas of gold-bearing gravel. The country
about is gulleyed by creeks, from which
more than eighty million dollars worth of
gold has been taken, and where they are
now washing out four or five million dollars
a year. The gold all comes from gravel and
earth that has been frozen for thousands of
years, and it has to be thawed and dug up
to get out the metal. This requires fuel,
which will be brought in by the railroad at
such cost that the output of the mines can
be greatly increased. The railroad, now
building, will tap coal fields near Fairbanks,
and the cheap fuel will make revolution in
mining, both placer and quartz OF these
shall write in detail in the future.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01

the smaller ones the low ridge roofs extend
far out at the front, covering the lounging
place of the family, during the hot summer
days. Some of the houses are half log and
half frame Some are rooted with boards,
some with galvanized iron painted green,
and others with poles covered with earth.
The latter have grass and flowers frowing
upon them Most of the houses have cellars,
and all have their walls set deep in the
ground and banked up for warmth. Some
are of bungalow shape and in the larger
houses there are living rooms with wide
windows artistically set. They are quite as
spacious as our rooms at home.
MANY of the log cabins have conservato-
ries or hothouses, and some have pretty
lawns of green grass with beds of beautiful
flowers All have gardens and nearly every
one has its patch of potatoes and turnips.
Hedges of sweet peas, the vines of which
grow to the height of man, may wall one
side OF garden, and great beds of peoples
line the walks through the center. Nearly
every home has its pansy bed, and many
have geraniums nasturtiums and other bril-
lant-hued flowers. have never seen any
where flowers so large, SO fresh and OF such
velvety texture and | may add that have
never visited any town where the people
seemed to love flowers SO much and where
they have so many for themselves and their
friends
The only places that compare with Fair
banks as to its luxuriant vegetation in sum-
mer are the towns of southeastern Alaska
and the Puget sound region. The short, hot
summers give Dame Nature seven-league
boots, and you can almost see the grass
grow The arctic poppy is of great size, and
the pansies are twice as big around as silver
dollars. Our pansies have stems three or
four inches long. The pansies of Alaska
grow to height of eight inches and in such
profusion that wide sheets OF many colofs
may line walk from the gate to the front
door. Some of the Fairbanks homes have
lawns of thick sod shaved like that of the
White House grounds in summer time Blue
grass grows in the streets, and white clover
is found in many places. All over the coun-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01

Let me give you some pictures of the
Fairbanks OF today. You know that it is to
be the terminus of the new railroad, and you
may have had dreams as to what it looks
like Whatever they are they cannot rep
resent the reality Fairbanks is like nothing
in the heavens above, in the earth beneath
or in the waters under the earth. 1t might
be worshiped without breaking the. first
commandment 1t has municipal entity OF
its own and a delightful individuality. 1t is
combination of the picturesque and the
plain, of the shabby and the sumptuous, Of
the old and the new, and in all it is different
Take look at the main business street
1t is a wide dirt road with plank sidewalks,
from which rise frame buildings of one and
two stories. The front walls of the stores
extend high above the roofs and are cut off
horizontally to make them look taller. The
sky line is a Jagged saw. The stores are
wholesale and retail They have plate glass
windows and the assortment within them is
of every description. They carry stocks as
large as similar establishments of several
times the size in the states Fairbanks is
the trading center of interior Alaska and
goods from here go to the mining camps OF
the Tanana, the Yukon, the Koyul<uk and
the Innoka rivers, on the last of which is the
Iditarod gold camp. The town has large
warehouses of galvanized iron and some of
its wholesale firms do a business that runs
into the millions. 1t has machine shops and
a sawmill 1t exports and imports, and
steamers are always lying at anchor just off
the main business street.
Fairbanks is typical of its surroundings.
The goods in the stores are of their own
kind. There are establishments filled with
mining machinery, and stores carrying all
sorts of goods for miners, including macki-
naws and the khaki suits used in the wilds.
They sell boots of white rubber, which
reach to the waist, and hob-fiailed shoes fit
ted for tramping over the rocks and making
your way through the brush. They have
also silks and broadcloths and shoes of fash
ionabe makes, such as are worn in New
York, Paris and London. They have moe
casins beautifully beaded. There are FIVE
dry goods stores, six hardware stores, eight
clothing stores and eight retail groceries.
Entering .the banks you will see them TAX
ing in gold dust at one window and handing
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01

Stores That Sell Everything From Rubber
Boots to Silks and Satins-Motor Trucks and Jit-
ney Buses 5000 Miles From Seattle-A 75-Cent
Haircut-A Community Steam Heating Plant
Hothouse Gardening Near the Arctic Circle.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01

! it would go on through Russia 800 miles
north of Petrograd, and through Norway
and Sweden at about the same distance
north of Christiania and Stockholm. 1t
would run through the center of Iceland
and cross Greenland several hundred miles
north of its southern boundary. 1t would
go through the upper part Of Hudson bay,
and over the widest part of the Dominion
of Canada, crossing the international boun-
dairy not far from where it is cut by the
Yukon.
! I have come to Fairbanks via the Yukon.
There are three routes by which the town is
reached from the outside. The first in
wolves thousand miles by ocean steamer
from Seattle to Skagway, 10 miles by rail
over the White pass to the head of the navi-
cation of the Yukon at White Horse, and
from there just about 500 miles down that
river and up the Tanana to Fairbanks. An
other route is from Seattle to Nome and 81.
Michael, at the mouth of the Yukon, across
the Pacific ocean and Bering sea- This IS
200 miles long and one has to travel 100
miles more up the Yukon river before he
the second, with the stoppages necessary,
from two weeks to a month, and both must
be made in the summer when navigation is
open. The third route is by ship from Puget
sound to Valdez or Cordova, on Prince Will
liam sound, and thence here across country
by dog sled or by automobile The last
route is the shorter, but much more expen-
sive. When the railroad is finished the trip
to Fairbanks will be made in four or five
days and the cost will be greatly reduced.
The town will then be one of the traffic
points on the map of the world.
Fairbanks is at the junction of the rail-
way and river navigation OF the territory.
This does not mean that the town lies on
the Yukon. Alaska is land of great rivers
and the Yukon has many large navigable
tributaries. One of these is the Tanana,
stream more than 600 miles long 1t is on
branch OF the Tanana that Fairbanks is To-
Gated. and that within 280 miles of where it
flows into the Yukon. 1t took me two days
to come up the Tanana river from Fort Glib
bon to Fairbanks The stream is wide all
the way and its current is such that it tears
the trees from the banks and makes long
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01

navigation will center and join. The town
might be called the hub of Alaska. 1t is al
most equidstant between Boring sea and
the international boundary and very nearly
half way between the Pacific and the Arctic
oceans 1t lies we'll up on the globe and its
latitude is 65 degrees north. If you should
draw line through Fairbanks running
around the world, it would cross the Seward
peninsula about a hundred miles or more
north of Nome. would go through Boring
strait and cut Siberia almost in half. Thence
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01
Copyright 1916. by Frank G. carpenter)
FAIRBANKS, Alaska.

AIRBANKS is the Chicago
of Alaska, the future me-
tropolis in the heart of the
territory. 1t is to be the
terminus of Uncle Sans
new railway, the poin t
where the river and rail
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-26


HOPELESS AN
do you know, Margie, you have
not danced with me tonight" asked
Jim.
eff you will take my thoughts
away from my troubles and concen-
trate them in my feet, Jim, I'll bless
you forever more"
you may be able to do that,
Edie," said Mr.. Holmes. 81 have
found that Mrs. Waverly's mind is
too big to give way to her little feet"
Every neat-very neat, Holmes"
answered Jim, suaVely, 'but Pm go
ing to show you how Mrs. Waverly
can dance when she has some one
who is real partner to dance with"
But as soon as whirled me away
Jim demanded: "Margie, believe
you are going crazy"
81 think l am, Jim," I acquiesced
meekly.
what do you mean by letting that |
pig of a Holmes try to dance with |
you and all the while make him |
think you are interested in him."
L HdS luIO1OOGCuJ JILL anu AlOAO |
than all that, 1 am going, from now
on, to be interested in everybody. |
Oh" l said impulsively, 81 wish 1 |
could tell all women not to concen-
trate all their interests in their hus-
bands"
''But, my dear woman" asked
Jim in a surprised tone, where
should wife's interest be concen-
trated if not in her husband?"
Eyes, Jim, her interest, but not all
her interests. You see in me how
she becomes so absolutely bankrupt
when he fails her"
els it so bad as that, Margie?"
''Yes-if you call it bad to lose
faith in everything and everybody;
to suspect my own sex and to de-
spise yours; to say when l get up in !
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-26
CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE
HOPELESS AND HEARTSICK

the morning, What is the use of it
alp and when go to bed at night,
oh, that l might go to sleep and
never wake up To have hours when
reckless mood makes me think I'll
do the most outrageous things, and
to realize Immediately that can
never be other than l am. To grieve
not for the loss Of Dicks love"
''Margie, you have Dicks love-"
interrupted Jim.
"* but for the knowledge that
have lost not only faith and trust,
but hope" 1 continued as though he
had not spoken.
Just a little while ago, Jim, you
were taking me to task because /
was so seemingly frivolous, and now,
when you have surprised me into
Showing you little of my real
heart, you are still Mortified.
However, don't let's talk about it,
let's Dance" and, little book, dance
we did, doing for the first time in
many weeks the old familiar stunts
until every one left the floor and adj
miringly watched us do our exhibit
ton dance.
After a little I did forget, little
book. l gave myself up entirely to
the rhythm of the dance, my brain
was lulled to sleep and my mind was
centered in my feet.
THANK you, JIM" said as he led
me over to Dick while our audience
applauded with great vim.
Sometime I'll expect to see you
and Margie in vaudeville" remarked
Dick rather sarcastically.
81 hardly think would care to
make dancing a vocation" 1 said.
cit is too great a pleasure. l think
if 1 should even go to work again 1
would go back to school teaching"
Dick looked up quickly. Evidently
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-26

incompetent the people will have the
right to recall them. We all believe
in trial by jury and the recall is
trial by jury composed of the whole
people.-Max Ginsburg.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-26

body of supremest Importance it
should not only be elected by the peo-
pie, but some means should be de-
vised to make it responsive to the
peoples will. Why should not the