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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-03-31

doing away with breeding places OF
mosquitoes, flies or disease germs, b
planting and trimming of trees and
hedges, planting of flowers, and the
liberal s of paint on everything
that needs it.
In many instances last year the
planning and experimenting Of the
work has put entirely in the hands
Of some efficient women's organization
in the city or town. The files at the
national "Clean Up and Paint Up
campaign headquarters in st. Louis
are full of records of just such cases.
Assistance in starting a campaign
in any community in the United States
will be given free of charge by the ma
tional bureau. Mr.. Clark explained,
upon receipt of q request from any
woman or women's organization. Aid
can also be secured from Mrs. Clar-
ence Baxter, chairman of the WOm-
ems committee Of the national bureau,
or from any of the other civic leaders
constituting the bureaus advisory
committee.
Be PerpetuaIly at II.
Mrs. Baxter and Mrs. Senseney are
helping women's clubs everywhere to
accomplish in their towns what was
accomplished in St. Louis last year.
The women's clubs conducted the 9
tire campaign in St. Louis, Boston
and many smaller cities last year and
In thousands of other places they are
aiding the men effectively. The open
ir~ "o11rcp IN roonv r1oNo0 will ho
only the beginning Of perpetual Clean
Up and Paint Up" campaigns. 'They
will be of immense value" wrote Mrs.
Baxter recently. Tin arousing civic
consciousness in practical sanitation
and conservation and in actual bust
ness activity in the community. Many
people spend hundreds of dollars fur
nishing their homes and only an occar
sional caller gets to admire them. A
of paint for the exterior, q general
cleaning up of the premises and a few
flowers would give pleasure to thou
sands of p%assers-by and their friends
as WE'LL"
Both Of these women are in daily
correspondence with leading club
women. In several thousand women's
clubs, in the effort to make the local
"Clean Up and Paint Up" campaigns
the foundation upon which to build
and conduct various other community
betterment activities in which serious
minded club women everywhere are
SO interested.
Newspapers Give Help.
Editors OF newspapers from coast
| to coast have taken up this work OF
the women and are aiding them in
both the news and editorial columns
and most Of them are unanimous in
declaring hat the chief value Of the
work is that it aims at permanent re-
form and continued effort.
Ministers are also aiding the women
in their work by preaching appro
pirate sermons on civic cleanliness
and kindred topics. The wife of one
earnest, hard working clergyman in a
southern town, in which the campaign
was in progress, wrote in a letter tC
the national bureau that if more PEG
pie were as sincere in their religion
as they are in this "Clean Up and
Paint Up" movement the world would
be a much better place in which tc
live.
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CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP!

MELLOW CITIZENS: Let US get together and
make this town of ours the most healthful and
most inviting in the State. To do this we must
organize our forces, map out our plans and get to
work. Other cities and towns throughout the United
States are finding the efforts along these lines are
bringing excellent results.
If we would have a healthful town we must clear
our attics, cellars, stables, sheds, yards, streets, alleys
and vacant lots of trash, dirt, junk, filth, garbage,
rags, cans, bottles and weeds. We must empty toilets,
cover manure heaps, drain barn lots, fill up mudholes
and Shiny, il-smelling ponds, open cutters, repair
streets and burn rubbish.
Then we must use soap and scrub brushes, brooms,
rakes and shovels. We must throw lime freely about
toilets and stables. Why? Because disease germs
and germ-carrying insects, especially flies and mos
quitoes, breed in filth and spread typhoid and con-
sumption when they enter our living rooms, alight
on our food, or bite US while we sleep.
After the dirt is gone we must repair our buildings
and fix our fences-and then lay on the paint!
Paint everything that needs it, inside and out, for
paint is the best known preservative and its brighten
ing influence will make the dullest town in the world
look spick and span.
OF course when we buy paint and lime we put
money into the paint-dealers and lime-dealer's
pockets. But if we get sick and die the doctor, drug
gist, undertaken, sexton and tombstone man take our
coin. Most folks would sooner spend theirs on
paint and lime-take your choice.
Como on, now, folks. Let's call a meeting, form a
Clean Up and Paint Up Club composed of men,
women and children, and get on the jobl The prize
is worth it-health and happiness.
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WOMEN HELP TOWNS TO
CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP
They Have Done Much tt Make National
Campaign for Civic Betterment
Successful Everywhere.

~EE United States is entering up
on an era of vastly improved hv-
ing conditions, both physical and
moral, due almost entirely to the
efforts of women workers in the Ma
tional Clean Up and Paint Up" cam
paign, according to Allen w. Clark,
chairman of the national campaign
bureau, in st. Louis.
It is estimated that during 1915
more than a million women took part
in the campaign for civic progress and
human uplift which frightened the
lives and homes of millions from Ban
gor. Me-. to San Diego, Cal. The
growth and development of the ma
tional Clean Up and Paint Up" cam
paign, has been in leaps and bounds
since it's inauguration" he said.
Individual women, women's clubs
and women's organizations of all kinds
for civic and moral improvement have
joined forces in this great work which
reaches into practically e phase
of life. Letters have poured in by
the thousand at the bureau headquar-
tiers from women inquiring how to
start the work in their communities.
Many Of these indicated that the old
fashioned 'parlor' variety of woman
civic worker was dying a sure and
natural death, and that serious-minded
were coming to realize more
and more every day the big work that
is before them.
Women Led tho Way.
est Jo~pt holiou4 nv ~1o1{1ol <ho For
reaching extent of the work we had
undertaken until the ONE showed
u.s." said Mr.. Clark. "The permanent
features of tho "Clean Up and Paint
Up" idea were what seemed to gain
their immediate Endorsement. Their
old idea OF a spring housekeeping,
which I believe, originated in New
England, seems to have been dropped
entirely, and the women's organiza-
tons OF the New England states are
among the very hardest workers for
an all-year-round policy"
1t would be an impossible task to
name in person even a small percen-
tage Of the women who have done &C
tive and efficient work since the ma;
tional bureau inaugurated it's system
in the spring Of 1913. Some few of
them. however. are such women as
Mrs. Clarence Baxter Of Kirksville,
Mo-, vice chairman of the civics de-
partmeat of the National Federation
OF Women's clubs; Mrs. E.. T. Sen
seney, chairman of the pure food CON-
mittee of the Consumers league of st.
Louis; Mrs. w. r.. Chivvis, president
of h Missouri Federation OF Won
ems clubs; Mrs. Philip N. Moore of
st. Louis, past president Of the Ma
tional Federation of Women's clubs,
and Mrs. Thomas Sherwin, chairman
of the department of streets and al
leys Of the Women's Municipal league
of Boston.
Much Work This Year.
The work Of the bureau as planned
for this year will be more comprehen.
sive in its scope than before. 1t will
include everything that will beautify,
improve sanitation and tend to the
health OF the community. Some of the
things to be done are the cleaning OF
streets, alleys, front and back yards
cellars and stables, removal Of ashes
carting away of tin can and all rub
bish from vacant lots, burning OF
hauling away all garbage. filing in OF
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keep PLACE clean
SO FLIES WON'T
BOTHER YOU

If you want to be rid OF the fly evil
this summer get tho habit Of keeping
your premises clean. Once you get
the habit it won't be much trouble to
do so.
Drain your garbage, wrap it in pa
per and put it in 6 metal bucket with q
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-03-31

away.
II you keep q horse, don't have
a manure pile or bin. Put the ma
nure is a small receptacle-say.
tin tub or a barrel which can be kept
covered from flies. Have this taken
away and spread on a field oftener
than once a week.
If you have an outdoor toilet, see
that the vault is closed up tight where
the house fits over 1t. Use sod to make
1t so If you cannot get cement. Use
plenty Of lime on the sewage and keep
cover on the seat holes.
Keep your house screened, keep q
swatter handy and keep your eye
peeled-for during cold or rainy
weather a few flies almost surely will
wander in. Vigilance and action on
your part will SO discourage the flies
after n or two aso that they
will keep away from your premises.
Tell this to your neighbors and urge
them to join you in the campaign
against the fly pest. Pretty soon 9th.
ers will see the advantage of santa
ton, and If there's any "g1t-up-and-git"
in the neighborhood it will not be long
until everybody in YOU end of the
town will have the sanitary habit.
It is not expensive to get rid OF
flies. There r people who may feel
they cannot afford to buy a garbage
can or other little necessities of clean
| premises. Where there's a will there's
a way. If you cannot afford today to
spend any money. set your mind on
cleaning up the place and do the best
you can. Use such extra tubs and
buckets as you have at hand. Above
all, don't be lazy. Clean up right!
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sand men imprisoned for terms vary
ing from I'VE years to . lifetime
Mount Olivia, winch IL 1900 feet high.
and the highest mountain In the island,
oveF7ocks the town: It II never entire
II tree OF SNOW. Tor eight months d
the year hard sheet Of Ice covers
the ground. on which the only vehicles
to be see ara sleighs.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-03-31
INTERNATIONAL
LESSON
By e. O. SELLERS. Acting Director 81

(By q. O.. SELLERS. Acting Director 81
Sunday School Course OF the Moody
Bible Institute. Chicago.)
copyright, 1916. Western Newspaper Union.b
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-03-31

fy-proof lid.
Every day or
two burn or
bury this gar
bage or have
it hauled
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-03-31

Since the order Of last October for
darkening London streets went into
effect 3O7 persons have met death by
accidents at night.
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it under his arm; while he ate he sat on it.
The train was crowded, but through
two changes and until late in the after
noon Biggs was not molested. Toward
evening he was in an old, worn-out coach,
evidently put on in emergency. 1t had a
narrow corridor, but each of its compart-
ments also had a door opening outward
opposite. These doors and the windows
ratified continuously. People would come
along, stare at Biggs and his many bags,
and pass on to more congenial quarters.
Gradually the train grew crowded, and
people began to frownat Biggs and his bags.
FINALLY an officer boarded the train.
When he saw Biggs all alone in COM
partment, and all the seats and the racks
filled with mail-pouches he stopped and
scowled. A flush rose slowly in his cheeks
and his eyes snapped. He snatched one
of the bags from seat, threw it into the
narrow corridor, and sat down. Biggs
waited until the officer stepped out at a
station; then he called the conductor and
paid for all the seats in the carriage. To
gether they lifted back the bag that was
lying in the corridor.
When the train started the officer re-
turned. The guard explained to him in
whisper that Biggs had paid for the whole
compartment.
"So?' said the officer, with stony
stare at the conductor, who shrank back.
The officer pushed by him, threw two
bags into the corridor, and sat down OPP
posite Biggs.
Biggs turned red and his hands began
to tremble He showed them in his
pockets to hide them.
big stiff he said to himself over and
over again, his watery blue eyes fastened
on the officer. "Great big stiff
1t seemed to him that they travelled so,
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few dilapidated taxis that still had an
allowance of vile-smelling benzol for fuel.
Only Schmidt the Office runner, factotum,
and general handy man, was there to meet
him. Schmidt piled the great leather
bags, eight of them, into the cab and on
top of it, then he climbed on the running
board, and they were off for the Friedrich
straSse.
At the station Schmidt saw that Biggs
was very nervous. He asked him in
broken English if he spoke no German.
Biggs shook his head.
Schmidt, looking very grave and num-
bling, got his ticket for him, reserved his
compartment, and piled into it the bags.
listen" he said "Spend money and
you'll get through. You have no right to
this compartment. If any one objects,
you must pay two, three, four passages.
See? You change at Brunswick and
L6hne and Munster; but sometimes you
up against the window, so. The porters
all watch for you. They will run to the
bag. Pay them plenty plenty. 1t is the
only way. Good-by."
Schmidt went off. Biggs had still ten
minutes to wait Just as the train was
starting, one of the embassy secretaries,
carrying small fiat canvas sack, came
hurrying down the platform. He caught
sight of Biggs
"Here," he said. "Take this. It's a
rush letter from the boss to the Ambas-
sador in London. Don't let it get away
from you, not for minute"
'.'he train was already pulling out
Biggs took the bag and felt it carefully
1t held single letter. He folded the bag
and buttoned it under his coat; but
presently he felt it slipping down. He
took it out and held it in his hands for
. hours. When he went in to lunch, he put
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the Association won't lose cent. can
cover it adjust about"
There was heavy step at the door,
They all turned, and saw an old, bent
figure at the entrance,
"Mr. Eadbrook?" asked a cracked voice
"An old fellow from the other side of
the mountain, explained Eadbrook. twill
you excuse me moment while see what
he wants?"
The man surely was picturesque fig
ure. He was ragged, dirty, and his
whitened beard fell below his neck. Out
side was rickety wagon, to which were
attached two starveling oxen that had
dragged him painfully over the mountain.
AS they watched the queer figure they
saw him tumble in his pocket and hand
Eadbrook slip of paper. They saw
Eadbrook glance at it, and then display
eager emotion. The young fellow came
running back with the slip of paper in his
hand, and showed it to Starr. The writ
ing was in pencil, and was indistinct.
But Starr could make out:
Dear Mr. Eadbrook:
The money ought to be in one of the shoe
boxes over the safe. If it is there, all right .
the old man will tell you what to do.
Your FRIEND.
Starr read it aloud. Then he said to
Eadbrook:
81 don't see-what does it mean?"
Eadbrook ran to the safe, which re-
manned shattered as it was found on Sum
day morning. Over it was shelf with
a two-deep line of shoe boxes upon it.
They were mostly empty boxes, or boxes
containing printed matter and station
cry. He seized them, one after another,
and lifted the covers. He had looked into
four of them, when he staggered back and
let the fifth one fall from his hands. AS
it went to the floor there was flutter of
yellow and green bank-notes. And when
they looked down they saw several bum
dies of bills, fastened together with manila
bands, just as they usually are counted
and made up at the bank
dts here! It's the money-the Asso-
cations money" choked Eadbrook.
To be concluded nert ,ueek
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dicial any more, or any more to give adj
vice, or to reason, or to search for the
right words to say and the right things
to do, Katherine Burbridge laid her face
upon STAIRS shoulder and trembled in
his arms.
Half an hour later Starr was writing
note to Ezra Nudge. But before he
sealed it he handed it to Katherine.
Dear Mr.. NUDGE:
You were right. Women are the pery
depH. I'm very sorry to disappoint you,
but I've got marching orders from one of
them. Will let you hear from me later.
Confidential. j. BRADLEE STARR.
They laughed over that. But suddenly
Katherine's face became serious. She
came over to Starr and took his hand
"Jim," she said, "I'm so happy, it
doesn't seem right-and that's the New
England in me, Jim, you know. But it's
poor Walter Eadbrook and Louise | was
thinking of. Don't you suppose there's
something we could do?"
"lf it were question of money" be-
gan Starr.
"That's the trouble. Walter Fad
brook is going to take sort of ghoulish
onVioi"Spioh III Tying w uou
he says he'll go to work for Joel Tibb,
driving a grocery wagon, he means it,
He'd no more touch cent of Ezra's
money than he would rob church. And
Louise will have to suffer with him."
"If he wouldn't take old Ezra's money,
do you suppose he'd listen to some other
proposition that would let him go on
with his store?" Starr asked her. "A
good stiff argument might make him see
how foolish it is to throw everything over
board. Shall we go down there?"
WHEN they arrived at the shoe store,
Eadbrook was alone. He had pad of
paper in his hand and pencil, and was evil
IDENTIFY roughly figuring his stock His face
was drawn, but he greeted them heartily.
dts mighty good of you to come down,
Miss Burbridge, he said. Then he turned
to Starr, with smile of something like
satisfaction on his face, and said: "As
near as l can figure it out, Mr.. Starr,
Douglas Island news., 1916-08-25

Newspaper men all over the North will extend to brother John w. Troy, owner and editor of the Juneau Daily Empire, fratenal condolence on the sad death of his brother, Hon. David S Troy. which occurred at his home near Port Townsend, Wash. last Friday as the result of an automobile accident It was our privilege to know the deceased quite intimately, having resided in the same town for several wears. He was an massuming, honorable and upright man, leader among men and an influence for good. Of Dave Troy it can be truthfully said: The world is better for his having lived He was an ex- member of the Washington State senate and declined the nomination for governor four years ago. naming the present incumbent. Both morally and intellectually he was a big man.
Douglas Island news., 1916-08-25
SUBSIDIZED PRESS

Subsidizing the press is vicious practice which should be drowned upon not only by newspaper men, but by readers.
 Self respecting newspaper men will not allow themselves to be subsidized, no more than self respecting voter will allow him self to be bribed.
 The editor who has certain political be- Iiefs and accepts money from the party in which he believes for bona fide advertising cannot be accused of being subsidized if he quotes the same rate for advertising to his political opponents, reserving the right to maintain his editorial policy according to his own dictates. In fact, subsidizng a paper does not consist of buying its adver- Using space.
 But the paper which accepts money to color its editorials and news, or to reprint items from other publications as bona fide exchange matter, is-well, it behooyes the advertiser and reader of that paper to think over the question of whether or not he cares to support a.bribe toker
 Such papers will print false news about mining schemes-foraprice suppress news for consideration, and do most of the other things to which bribe takers stoop.
 The Post is referring in this editorial to those papers in Alaska which accepted money small piffling amounts at that, to reprint articles concerning the possibility of prohibition in Alaska So far as the evil results from this kind of bribery are con- cerned. it doesn't make any difference which side of the fence these articles take so no reference is made to it.-Seword Post.
Douglas Island news., 1916-08-25

Presidential Candidate Charles F. Hughes is proving distinct disappomtmentto to those who few weeks ago were honest in the be- lief that they admired him. In fact, during the time that intervened between his nom ination and his opening speech, the lack of interest which attended the former at Chica- go had given away to considerable enthus- asm in certain quarters, but with his first few speeches, that began to wane and leading Republican papers now reluctantly admit that the masses refuse to be euthuscd by him.
 The cause is apparent Mir. Hughes has lost no opportunity for assailing the admin istraton of President Wilson, but not in a single instance has he suggested a policy to better the evil complained of or for the ann of what he is pleased to designate as unfavorable conditions. His failure to do so has caused many who were preparing to take him to their hearts as the nominee of their party to look aslince at him as being inferior to the man his education and former prominence in affairs justified them in be- Hcving him to be.
 The day is past when indictments without mraignmcnts without substan- tiation. charges without evidence, complaints without suggested remedies will stampede the American people as in the Spread Eagle" periods of the past If evils exist today. the people know of them without be- ing told by Mir. Hughes or anybody else. What they want are remedies for the evils, and not one has Candidate Hughes suggest ed. True he is flirting with the woman suffragists, but several of the very states he hopes to carry repudiated woman suffrage two years ago and will do it again. He is also flirting with the hyphenoted Americans, but he will. experience difficulty in getting American, endorsement of his European made Americanism.
 On the whole, and up to date, Mir. Hughes is a distinct disappointment to those who had sincerely hoped they would have every occasion to admire and support him. It is sad that one of the great parties should have made such a glaring mistake in its seI- ectiou of a candidate for the presidency of the greatest republic the world has ever known.
Douglas Island news., 1916-08-25

According to statistics compiled by the chief of police of Cleveland, Ohio, nine tenths of the criminals are unmarried. He finds that conditions in unmarried, life tend to make men crimnals-ether that, or men criminally inclined are not of the marrying kind. Two thirds of the men jailed in Cleveland during the past year were between 2l and 30. Few of the married men arrested had children and many of them were separ- atcd from their families. Women criminals are usually either single or separated from their husbands. The officer says he is con viuced that the best way to lessen crime Is to advocate. early marriages Good home en- viroument is the best safeguard a man or woman can have
Douglas Island news., 1916-08-25

We acknowledge receipt of a Congress sional Record extract containing the speech of Hon. Bertrand H. Shell of New York, on Mississippi River Flood Control What we want to see and what will most interest this part of Uncle Sam's domain is some thing on Gastineau Channel Flood Control. Floods in the Mississippi valley do not ap- peal to us. We have floods of our own.
Douglas Island news., 1916-08-25

When Wilhelm Erickson, former mild hammered youth, became whisky-crazed at Juneau Monday night and almost committed murder. he delivered a more impressive tenn pcraucc lecture than will come from any of the speakers at the W. C. T. [, convention now being held in the same city.
Douglas Island news., 1916-08-25

Down in Oklahoma a candidate even buys cigar for am old constituent forfeits his candidacy Such freak legislation is really protection to the candidate but it is a body blow to the voter.
Douglas Island news., 1916-08-25

For the reason that Anchorage and Sew ard baseball teams played a game in which but total of six runs were made, the papers of their respective towns are wondering if there are two such teams anywhere in the North. Those editors should visit Douglas Island if they desire to see real baseball \ game here in which six runs were made would not be called baseball, but a sprintng contest