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The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01
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by artificial boundaries. The effect of Intolerance,
worst in Greece bad enough everywhere. WAS to
drive out of each nation all who belonged to the
wrong language or religion. | do say race, for
they all of the same general stock, even the
bulk of the Turks" and Greeks This has filled
the region with refugees, men and women whose
fault is that they lived the wrong side of the
boundaries made for them in the treaty of
Bucharest.
Passing down the long highway which leads over
200 miles from Sofia to Samokov and Dubnitza in
old Bulgaria then across the border of Macedonia.
down the Struma river past DZumaa to Petritch,
we found everywhere the Bulgarian refugees from
the Saloniki district in Greek Macedonia. These
have been roughly estimated at $4,000 in number
Some of these have been given farms houses
abandoned in Macedonia by Turks who followed
the Turkish army away. Others received farms
left by Greeks when the Greek army went back
after the treaty of Bucharest The government
grants each person some fourpence day. Some
find work but after the there few employ
ers. The cost of living has doubled, the means Of
living has fallen. At Petritch, the present
boundary of Greece, there were hundreds Of these
waiting about on the stone sidewalks day by day
They were waiting for the powers to revise the
treaty OF bucharest and give them back their
homes in the region above Saloniki. Some local
journal had said that this revision was coming
soon. 1t was my duty to assure them that 1t would
never come. The phrase In Sofia Europe exists
no more, is the truth 30 far Balkan affairs are
concerned
The reason for that is clearer now. Europe was
paralyzed by the great terror which has since
come on 1t in an unthinkable catastrophe. There
were some In the concert Of powers" who were
striving to bring on this catastrophe The war
of steel and gold" was about to give place to real
war, which would end. they hoped. In speedy VIC
tory and world power 1t has not ended In that way.
1t has not yet ended at all But those who most
looked forward to war were the ones who had
least conception of its certain consequences.
In the whole length of the Struma valley In
western Macedonia. towns have been burned In
whole or part by the Greek army which pursued
the Bulgarans as far the old border Of Bull
garia. In Greek Macedonia, at the hands Of some
one or all of the three successive armies-Turkish
Bulgarian and Greek-most Of the towns between
Salonh and Drama have suffered the same fate
Each OF these towns has its share Of Greek
refugees from Turkish Thrace. These have been
estimated by Greek authorities as numbering 3OO-
600. They have come by railway from Adrianople
In box cars belonging to the Greek government
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01

These cars are left at the various stations dozen
or more at each. In these the people keep their
bedding and their scanty effects. The government
of Greece allows them two or three sous n day.
with rice which they cook on fires OF thistles and
other weeds
In Turkish journal, vigorous complaint was
made against the Albanian refugees In Thrace as
more proficient with the Mauser than with the
pillow. and skillfu only cattle thieves plea
was made for bringing back the Bulgarian farm
ers 5 far more desirable neighbors. THE Bull
garians now our friends"
In the larger towns Salonik and Kilkush, the
refugees ranged In tent cities ten Thousand OF
more in one encampment. There we're perhaps
10000 Greek refugees little more than a year
ago along the road from Drama to Saloniki.
When was at Salonki the Turks were leaving
in great numbers: 212.OOO took steerage passage
for STEAMBOAT in one month Salonikf (Thessa-
lonke) beautifully situated in full face OF MOUNT
Olympus and with a noble harbor, should be one
of the great cities Of the world In the aftermath
of the second Balkan war 1t lost half its popuia'
ton 1t is no better of today than in the dmes
when St Paul called out for help In Macedonia
Harsh and often terribly brutal operations
In Serbia and Greece result from the unchecked
operations of the military element. The SOLDIER
as such, considers neither economic CONDITIONS nor
the soul of man. 1t was claimed that the two wise
ministers Pashitch In Belgrade and Veniselos In
Athens were both opposed to the policy Of repres-
sion. Both would. II they could. have proclaimed
religious linguistic tolerance In those parts OF mac
edo1ia turned to them by the treaty OF
Bucharest But the fact Of victory, and especially
victory over their sister state Bulgaria intoxicates
the military, and nlls the mob with the east
wind" In such times the civil authority cannot
hold its own against the military.
Bulgaria recognized better the value of toler-
ance. Greek church and school stand undis
turbed In Sofia. In the Bulgarian national assem-
bly, there are about dozen Turkish deputies, rep
resenting Thrace. These Turks supporters all OF
the king hold the balance Of power against the
combined democrats and socialists, the group op-
posed to all war The spirit OF hate Is still very
strong among the people Of Bulgaria. They hate
Roumania as the robber-state who has done them
the most harm. They hate Greece.
There can never be settled quiet in the East
until the Balkans belong to the Balkans" until
civil authority everywhere dominates the military
and until customs unions and other unions cause
these people to realize that ose fate befals them
all and that the welfare Of each state IL boand up
in that Of ID neighbof.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01

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The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01
David Starr Jordan, noted ed
ucator and pacjist, teAs-~tubat
frghHuh1essba has beenDrougbt
by conflict in the little coun.
tries of Eastern Europe :: A
qrave problem still unsolved
,e problem, still I'm
COURTESY American Museum Jou1aU

|. MAS ms fortune, not long ago,
with three good friends and two
soldiers, to follow in kings
automobile along the trail of
war. This was In Macedonia.
The line of an army'S march is
not pleasant to look upon even
though the people along 1t had
not much to lose. The pinch of
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01


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The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01

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The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01

SeuIInI KdTA west luulchte tnat tney
have been giving some nocturnal vocal
exercises in Central park. H. Strow-
bridge, guest at the Hotel Majestic,
was awakened at four o'clock by what
he supposed to be the cry of lost
soul.
1t was the pirate leader, evidently
striking the key, for, by the time Mr..
Strowbridge was thoroughly aroused,
the entire band of pirates was singing
In Catonese, "Yo, Ho and Bottle Of
Rum !" He looked out the window and
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01

CTe"S HuIHUeTeu HIUTe tHdH -,OVV, Uut
these have dwindled to less than 500
The men have drifted away. Some of
them have been admitted as emigrants.
Since the liners have been berthed
in East Boston the officers and crew
prepared for a long stay and have
worked hard to make their sojourn in
Boston as pleasant as possible under
the circumstances. There in their
miniature village they have surrounded
themselves with many comforts and
many things to remind them of their
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01

in the elephant yard a keeper took
stiff-backed brush and scrubbed the
slate-colored sides of Minnie, Oldest of
the herd, until they almost shone.
Two children, a boy perhaps eight,
and beribboned girl who could not
have been more than seven, passed,
then stopped, and with big eyes,
watched the keeper.
oh" said the little girl. and
pointed chubby finger. "Oh, Tommy,
look at the pretty elephant"
Minnie raised her trunk and
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01
FIattery Wins Minnie, Washington Zoo Elephant

sINGToSFom Venus to the Black pining behind the mud
What which with the hung the Out
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01
East Boston Has an Attractive Bit Of Germany

osToNTheres little bit Germany East Boston where
y liners
ships valued 200O0 When
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01
Wang and His Pirate Crew Invade Central Park

New YoRKwng taiess Formosa and his
Light
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01

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Presently
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01

the consciousness of Jimmy" Waldron,
who Is nine years old and lives at
1923 Frontier avenue, and Sylvio Lom-
oardo, who is six and lives right
handy by.
horses lost their zip. and military at
fairs fell away to mere drudgery.
They debated between going far West,
where they shoot up the chaparral
and lasso the chaparajos. and skipping
OF to the jungle. where hartebeests
and wimjiks scamper DER vorlooper.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-01
Chicago Lads Start Out to Be Real Bad Brgands

while spirits Robin Hood and OF Cap
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Of
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-01-14
WHAT AlLS THE BOYY

If the average father who wonders
why his boy hates to go to school,
would pay a visit to that self same
school, he would understand perfectly.
Why should the boy care to go to
small country school house that is un.
comfortable? Why should the boy be
anxious to attend a school where the
teacher is underpaid and overworked?
Why should he be interested when his
parents are so little interested that
they never darken the school house
door?
Make the school attractive, arrange
matters so that the teacher is neither
underpaid nor overworked, show in
terest by visiting the school occasion
ally, and the average boy will not
strive to stay away.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-01-14
PROTECT THE FUTURE.

There is only one way in which Ken
lucky can protect herself in the future
from "possum-hunting, tobaccobed
scrapings and other acts OF lawlessness.
That safe and certain way lies through
he careful upbuilding of every rural
school in the state. Giving every child
an education is not enough; make
every child take an education, and the
future prosperity of the state is abso-
lutely secure. Allow even a small per-
centage of the children of to-day to
grow up in ignorance and they become
The law-breakers of the Common
wealth.
Protect the future welfare of every
community with better school houses,
with all the children in them, and
peace, happiness and prosperity will
become a trinity of power in Ken
lucky.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-01-14

Nat. r. Sewell, State Inspector
am Examiner. after a conference
with Gov. S,snlev, announced that
his office force will be former Cir.
cult Clerk Alvin Stegar, of Owen
ton, succeeding Lawrence White,
now Asst. State Treasurer; former
Sheriff John M. Grove. of Nor.
garfield. succeeding G. w. Castle.
of Louisa. and N. M. Elliott, of
Laurel county, who will succeed
Miss Alice Hobson Monday. MIR.
Elliott is an attorney of London,
and was Gov. Stanley's campaign
manager in Laurel.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-01-14

planning and spending for the chill.
dren's pleasure tomorrow"
We'll, don't you think that's all
right?" he asked her as he put his
hand over hers where it rested on the
arm of his chair.
"Oh, yes, of course do. l want to-
morrow to be the happiest day the
children have ever known; but there's
a bigger thing than Christmas that we
have forgotten, and that's the school.
house where they go day after day"
What do you want for the children
in the way of a school?" the man
asked.
The woman did not answer the ques-
ton, but went to the mantle and pick
ed up a small electrical toy above her
ten-year-old sons stocking. For a mo-
ment she held it in her hand and then
asked:
/ why did you buy this for Jim?"
Il bought it because he's wild about
electricity and it's the newest cleo
trical toy l could find"
That's just what l expected you'd
say. The parents in this neighborhood
have bought their children up-to-date
toys, even if they had to borrow some
money with which to do it. They want
tomorrow to be a real Christmas for
the kids"
What about the school, little WON
an? 1t seems to me you're doing lot
of beating around the BUSH"
mo, I'm not, I'm trying to get you to,
the point where you'll see that, while
we are dressing our children in goth
Century clothes, giving them goth Cen
fury toys, and goth Century fruits and
candies, we haven't provided a 2Oth
Century schoolhouse, nor a goth Cen
fury school system. / mean that these
preparations" and her gesture took in
the bullying stockings and the toys on
the mantle, come but once year auf
Go not have much of an effect on tn
child's life. What we need is to give
our children, especially those that live
under the blue skies that cover GU.
farms, real schools, no matter what
they cost. If parents would only use
some Of the Christmas-giving spirit In
developing our country schools, the
country would be so much happier for
the women and the children from one
years end to another"
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-01-14
SHE HAD A REAL VISION

The fitful flames in the crate under
row of well-filled stockings lighted
the faces of the young farmer and his
wife. Both faces wore the Christmas
smile, the smile which tells the story
that
Christmas comes but once a year,
But when it comes it brings Good
Cheer"
Gradually the smile died in the wom-
ans eyes and the curve of her lips
Strengthened into a hard line. Her
glance left the Pickering flames to run
over the row of grotesquely fat stock
,ng along the edge of the mantle Slow
~ she arose, walked into an adjoining
'oop, and looked at the rosy fat
;heeks of her brood of youngsters who
we're dreaming of the glorious morrow.
When she again dropped on the stool
by the mans side, he turned to ask:
They are all snug an sound asleep,
dreaming of Christmas Day, amt they,
little woman?"
Putting his hand under the woman's
chin he lifted her face to look deep
into her eyes before he said:
Something's worryin' you. What is
It? Don't let's start out the night be-
fore Christmas with any worry on our
minds. Have you forgot to get some
present for one Of the children, or
what"
She nodded her head emphatically
and explained:
"Yes, that's it exactly. We've for
gotten all about the best present of
them all and one that lasts all the
year."
well, but what is it?"
Its the school"
The man began to laugh and then
,hecked himself as he saw the pain
a his wife's face, so he merely said,
quietly:
60 ahead, little woman, an tell me
what's on your mind"
Here it is. I've been sitting here
thinking of all the thought and love we
lave put into the children's stockings
40 that Christmas may bring them
good cheer I've thought of all the
parents who love their children, as you
and / love ours, and have sorter pic
tured everybody in this neighborhood
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-01-14

In this good year 1916 a man with
out an education is practically help
less. In 1915 his position will be
worse and with each succeeding year
it will grow even more difficult for
him to earn a good living. The child
that will grow into a man in 1925 is
in school or out of school today. How
many will there be in this helpless
plight in 1925 will depend upon the
schools and the school system of the
state now
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-01-14

From time to time business in
terests of the country are being
admonished to build as wisely and
as soundly as possible under ex-
listing circumstances and to guard
against tendencies toward initiation
and overexpansion. In other
words, stop, look and listen. =
Only last week Ebert H. Gary,
chairman of the United States
Steel Corporation, in statement
dealing in detail with prevailing
prosperous conditions in the iron
and steel industry and the war in
its world wide application to eco
nomic affairs, predicted an early
ending of the war and drew the
conclusion that 1--WE ought to stop,
ponder, reason. We shall be all
the better for it. Legitimate en-
terprise and progress will be ben
Gifted if we read all the signs,
consider the past and reflect upon
the future"
Such admonitious are timely.
The country has advanced to Its
present state of prosperity not on
ly under the influences of just
such warnings every once in a
while, but under the influence of
acute international complications
from time to time and a host of
other developments, which ordi.
narily would have been regarded
as almost insurmountable to bust.
ness progress. Therefore, our
prosperity is not as house built
upon the sand, susceptible to ev,
erY i'll wind that blows.
The experience of this country
since the outbreak of the war has
brought US to a realization of our
wonderful resources. We are
vastly richer than we ever dream.
ed of; We have proven that we can
adapt ourselves to new conditions
in shorter period of time than
had ever been thought possible;
all told, we have been impressed
by the folly of getting panicky,
and the futility of prophecy. We
would still be in the slough of de.
spondency if predictions made at
the beginning Of the war had
come true.
Opinions as to how long the
war will last are worthless except
for the steadying influence they
may exert on general conditions.
The past year saw a widening of
the field of hostilities and the in
Movement OF additional nations.
The war may last a year longer
and again 1t may go on for years.
But we know that we are making
strides as World Power as we'll
as in our domestic affairs land that
our horoscope is promising, be the
war long or short. We are estab-
fishing not only close trade rela-
tons with our ueighbors to the
south, but feeling of brotherli,
Mesa disposition to stand to-
gother against foes. We have the
capital to help them and soon we
shall be making all the things they
have been buying from the ma
tons at war and We shall be TAX
ing in return their surplus prod
ucts, such as coffee, sugar and
rubber. And then after the war.
the probabilities would seen-to be
that we shall be called on to help
rebuild and rehabilitate the
wrecked industries and railroads
of Europe 1t is alright to be care
full but there is no occasion to
become uncasy.-Crhe Louisville
Times. louisville Times.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-01-14

If every small community in the
State of Kentucky is able to buy and
run half dozen autos, each one Of
them can afford a good school. The
money paid for the machines is spent,
but the money put into the schools
would be invested in the future pros
perity of the children and the state
itself.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-01-14

No one objects to giving money to
build a fine church. Why should the
building of a fine school house be
different proposition?
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-01-14
When Group Comes
Treat Externally

The old method of dosing delicate little
stomachs with nauseous drugs is wrong
and harmful. Try the external treatment
-Vick's "Vap-O-Rub" Salve. Just rub q
little over the throat and chest. The va
pors, released by the body heat, loosen the
choking phlegm and ease the difficult
breathing. A bedtime application insures
sound sleep. 25c, SOC, or Sl.00.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-02-28
Politics and Diplomacy.

One of the striking evidences OF
President Wilson's purpose to mix
diplomacy and politics to the limit is
the purpose, with, of course, Mr.. VIII
sons approval, of Ambassador Gerard
to return from Berlin and stump this
country for Mr.. Wilson, probably be-
fore the Democratic national conven-
ton.
incidentally, it is noteworthy that
Mr.. Gerard is convinced of the force
and accuracy of the Republican con-
tention that the tariff should be re-
vised before the war ends. as he has
discovered evidence Of a purpose to
( flood this country with cheap products
in an effort on the part of the Euro
! pean nations to recoup themselves on
Z the losses OF the war.
All of the belligerents have con-
tracted huge debts in this country and
will, no doubt, float further loans In
A.. the United States, condition which
7 will render it imperative, from theil
; standpoint, that they sell immense
quantities Of manufactures in this
country to pay off their debt to thu
United States.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-02-28
Mr.. Wilson Confesses.

With what amounts to a confess
sion of all the charges made against
his Mexican policy, President Wilson
has taken humiliating refuge be-
hind the phrase incompatible with
abe public interest" to deny to the
Senate the data on which he has
based his Mexican policy. The presi-
dent has refused to give to the Sen
ate the information which, by ror-
NAL resolution, it demanded regard
ing our relations with Mexico. the
reasons for his violent hatred OF
Huerta and for his recognition OF
Carranza with no substantial guar
antee from the latter for the protec-
ton of American lives and rights,
thus confesslng that he would rather
subject himself to we'll founded and
merciless criticism than expose to
the public gaze, or even to that OF his
political opponents in the Senate, this
disgraceful chapter IN American his
tory Of which he is himself the au-
thor.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-02-28
Lending the Banks Money.

If the bank confined itself to receiv-
ing money offered for deposit and pay
ing it out again on checks, it would
render very great and necessary SER
vice to the Individual and the commun-
ity, but it would soon cease to exist,
because the life blood Of all business
Drofits) would be lacking The opera
ton OF u bank Is expensive, and to hire
clerks, pay rent, buy stationery and
build vaults, merely TO protect money
and handle checking accounts, without
some source Of income, would prove a
costly undertaking.
Therefore the bank must seek some
steady source Of revenue, and finds 1t
in lending the money of Its stockhold-
ems and depositors to those who can
use more than they have, and arc will
ing to pay for the accommodation. And
only as it loans its funds, and gets
them back with interest can it long
operate as a going concern,
The peculiar fact Of the matter is
that a dollar in the bank will do as
much work as from four to five dol
lars elsewhere. In n technical sense
the banker does not loan money, but
credit. He does not want your money
10 loan, but to use as basis Of credit
and one dollar to him Is as good as
four for business purposes. This may
seem an impossible proposition. Let
us prove It.
Experience has proven that every
body does not want all their money
at the same time. If one hundred peo
pie were each to deposit one hundred
dollars in a bank, the banker could
safely assume that not over one
quarter of them would call for theil
money at one time. AS matter o.
fact, less than fifteen per cent woult
do so; therefore, IL out Of every dollar
deposited. the banker keeps fifteer
cents in money, he can meet every or
binary demand for cash. When al
unusual call arises, it is called
bank run" which merely means tina
more than the usual number OF people