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The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

y wish, Mrs. Goldrock, you would
come over some time and see my api.
ary." Thank you. Mr.. Alfalfy. but
really monkeys never interested me. I"
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

Il can't find any old clothes to put
on the scarecrow," said Mr.. Ramah.
You might use some of the fancy
duds Jim brought home from Denver"
suggested his wife. I'm tryin' to
scare the crows-Pm not tryin' to
make 'sm laugh" responded he.
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

The Western Colorado Power Company
Announces Big Reduction in Rates
for Electricity for Cooking by Wire
effective on June list.
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23
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Prof. Artt of the Eckert schools, lost
valuable COW last week.
Charlie Rule, of Eckert, has gone to
Pueblo for an indefinite stay.
The Gamma Alpha, Rogers mesa.
met last Tuesday with Mrs. Harold
Greenwood.
Mrs. H. X. Ferguson entertained the
Searchers last week at her pleasant
home near Eckert
Children's day was observed in fit
ting style at the Eckert Presbyterian
church last Sunday.
Mrs. D. L. Gardner, Cedar mesa,
and her daughters are at Gunnison at
tending the normal.
Tom Bowers is working on the gov
ernment ditch south of Delta. He re.
sides on Cedar mesa.
Mrs. Fred Hamilton has moved onto
Cedar mesa and will reside with her
mother during Mr.. Hamilton's alb
sence.
Miss Blanche Linn, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Linn, Rogers mesa, is resid-
ing in Delta for the present vacation
of school.
Earl Douglas, of Hotchkiss, who is
now at Netherlands, writes that the
new camp is still prospering in the
activity
Miss Ruth Greenwood Arthur Slack /
and James Armand, Rogers mesa, who
have beeen away to school have re-
turned to their homes.
Miss Tufley, Miss Andrus, Miss
Stanton, Miss Halle Wenger, and /. e.
all of the Surface Creek
schools are attending the Gunnison
normal.
According to q letter received at
dotchkiss from Mr.. Lady, superinten-
lent, who is now at Boulder university
he Hotchkiss school has been placed
IN the accredited HIST.
A pig roast was one Of the pleasing
'orms Of entertainHent for Yssidents
IN Rogers mess, last week. Mrs. VII
son and son Gene Of that mesa eAap-f
,roDed the young SoEks.
Haying is in progress in full blast
IN Surface creek A large number are
work The women folks
assisting each other in providing
meals for extra help by exchanging In
like manner
The little child Of Clyde Reed met
! serious accident last twsek near
when the youngster fell
tut of the buggy, striking between the
wheels Of the vehicle. The child was
endered unconscious, however. he 10
eported to be now recovering.
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

Prof. Artt of the Eckert schools, lost
a valuable COW last week.
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

The little child OF Clyde Reed met
serious accident last week near
Cedaredge, when the yoiIngster fell
out of the buggy. striking betveen the
wheels Of the vehicle. The child was
rendered unconscious. however. he 10
reported to be now recovering.
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

rs the soil rich out in this coun-
try?' inquired the $50 tourist. "Is it
rich?" came from the ranchman. why
say. the soil is so rich out here in
Colorado that when the kids make
mud pies they can't eat EN-"
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

ELECTRIC COOKING MADE
cAEAPER-NEW RATES
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

Half an inch, half an inch,
Half an inch shorter,
Whether the skirts are for
Mother or daughter;
Briefer the dresses grow,
Fuller the ripples flow,
While fleeting glimpses show
More than they oughter.
How much gasoline will the tank
in your auto hold?" Il don't know
I've never been able to afford more
than five gallons at any one time"
Now Willie. what are asteroids ?''
Il know, teacher. They're the things
the doctor cuts out of your nose when
your folks want to make a good boy
out of you"
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23
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The Delta independent., 1916-06-23
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The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

TROTTIN0 AND PNCxWe BRED
STALLION BY AcToNsvAR0 2:1sN
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23
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The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

Charlie Rule, of Eckert, has gone tt
Pueblo for an indefinite stay.
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

Haying is in progress in fun blast
on Surface creek A large number are
exchanging work. The women forkz
assisting each other in providing
meals for extra help by exchanging In
like manner
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

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The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

A pig roast was one Of the pleasing
forms Of entertzinHent for residents
on Rogers mess, last week. Mrs. WI
SON and son Gene Of that mesa chap
eroned the young SoEks.
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

According to a letter received a
Hotchkiss from Mr.. Lady, superinter
dent, who is now at Boulder universit
the Hotchkiss school has been place
on the accredited HIST.
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

The Gamma Alpha, Rogers mesa,
met last Tuesday with Mrs. Harold
Greenwood.
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

Miss Tufley, Miss Andrus, Mis-.
Stanton, Miss Halle Wenger, and l. E
Williamson all of the Surface Creel
schools are attending the Gunnisor
normal.
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

Mrs. H. X. Ferguson entertained the
Searchers last week at her pleasant
home near Eckert
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

Earl Douglas, of Hotchkiss, who is
now at Netherlands, writes that the
new camp is still prospering In the
tungsten activity.
The Delta independent., 1916-06-23

Tom Bowers is working on the gov
ernment ditch south of Delta. He re-
sides on Cedar mesa.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-01
Journalism "As ,Is."
(Hartford Ttnes.)


 We have our editorial cOntrover- They have them in New York. also Witness the time. not long ago, when the Tribune and the World had a hot contest as to which was the more un- patriotic during the Civil war; also the recent feud between the Sun and the world anent the virtures and de- fects Of one Charles E. Hughes
 But It IS down south. in the Blue CTrass country and realms adjacent, that the journalistic cudgels are Welded most lustilys often to be fol- lowed by the brandishing of the edi- torial pistols at dawn on a. blasted health. The most recent examn1e of this form of warfare is afforded hv the Louisville Courier-Journa1 uero we are:
 The Nashville Tennesseean ouo+es g. Chattanooga editor as sayinp +bot "since Wilson refused to consent +o Q candidacy in 1912 personally con ducted by Thomas F. Ryan, Harvey and Watterson, he has not stood very well with the Wall street organ" and adds on its own account "that Wat terson's treatment of the president is something between a caress and q blow"
 r The Courier-Journal desires to say that the Chattanooga editor lied like a dog and that the editor of the Ten resseean ought to be ashamed of himself. @r-.
 And as the Courier-Journal us- ually says just what it desires, who shall stand in its way? It has evil dently said mouthful. That is Journalism of the old order-"as is''
New Britain herald., 1916-11-01
THE WAGES ARGUMENT.

would seem futile at this stage
 campaign to discuss the tariff jw of the fact that President Will has repeatedly affirmed he will Int a non-partfsan tariff com Spn whether he Is reelected or Ned. Yet, his opponents, ever in 3sof bait with which to catch the 8 of workingmen, cry from the #tops that if the Underwood tariff # repealed the great army. of Ing men must go back to the
 line. The hard times of 1913,
 many students of political hny trace directly to the
 hations of Wall Street, are held 8st a tariff which was revised &ward to follow the dictates of $eople of the nation no matter to \ political party they belonged. @hree. parties of 1912, Democrats, Eress1ves and Republicans, went Ee the people and sought cleo on promises of a lower tariff < that embodied in the Payne Seh bill. The Democratic party ! been elected kept it's promise < at score and, further, took the k power away from the special ! sts by enacting what is now #h as the Federal Reserve Law
 distributes the peoples money
 twelve regional banks through e1he country. It was because of #Naen impending law that Wall Il became peeved and before the fEas enacted reaped it's vengeance
New Britain herald., 1916-11-01
When Mother Sings.

 There are times when I pause on the harrassing round Of the day in a reVerent hush, To be foiled in melody rare as the sound Of note of a sky-hermit thrush. She Is singing old hymns when she thinks no one hears, Out of tune and off pitch, it is true, But feel all my worries dissolving in When she quavers. I'm praying for you" From the country of youth she has journeyed afar; She Is turning aweary and wan; And they rest by the way who with hope for a star Were her mates in the roseate dawn. I can fancy, at moments, 8 strong, tender face, And some golden heads flashing at play Interningle with thoughts of the heavenly grace, While she sings Happy Day, Hap py Day."
 
 thinking most now. Are its portals of pearl swinging near? There is light, not of sun, on her pale, placid brow, And it may be her loved ones can hear; They may troop through the gateway to press near their own; They may smooth her soft, silvery hair As she sings-dear old mother-in wistfulest tone T shall soon be at home over there' Perkins in Capper's Weekly.
 Staging a Speech. Louisville Courfer-JournaD All fixed for my speech % inquired Congressman Wombat Yep. You'll find the laughter and applause in the correct p1aces.' Better arrange for some fellows, too, to ask few questions. And I'll have the answers ready"
New Britain herald., 1916-11-01
A POLITICAL ROORBACK.

Baron Munchausen was the direct ing genius behind the story dished out by Senator Lodge for the purpose of discrediting this administration in the last days of the campaign. The Presi- dent of the United States has branded as false the assertion that he at any time wrote a postscript to the Lusi- tania note, four of his present cabinet officials affirm his stand, and two erst- while members do likewise. From the American people branded it as balder- dash. The manner in which it came about was too flimsy. The learned Senator from the Bay state got the story from one Grafton Cushing, who got it from a Professor of medicine in Tufts college, man named Bailey, who in turn got it from young Henry c. Breckinridge of Kentucky, former Assistant Secretary of War, who, al- though he was not a member of the Presidents cabinet at the time, is sup 
 secret to an absolute stranger while riding in a smoking car on a train running between San Francisco and Omaha. According to the version of Senator Lodge who is making ado about nothing MT. Breckinridge de- pended upon hearsay for his story And, according to MT. Breckinridge, the man who reports having heard such a story on 9 smoking car last J,1lv is a "scoundrel." Having dis posed of that end of it, the Republi- can National headquarters, through it's Chairman, MT. Wilcox, now comes to the fore with a new version, in which a man named George g. Warren of New Jersey is supposed to have heard some such similar story from a cabinet officer; but MT. Warren, after repeated attempts by the cabinet off cials and the Republican National
New Britain herald., 1916-11-01
Wcighty Reasons.
Springfield Republican,

Some weighty reasons for defeating Wilson might be summarized for bus mess men in this style:
 During his administration, approx imately speaking, the population of the United States has increased from ,000 to 101, 100000. The na- tional wealth has been increased by $41, ,000, 100000, or 21.9 per cent The American debt to Europe has been reduced from s6, O,O0O,0O0 to s3,- O,O0O,000, a decrease of 51.4 per cent. Gross annual bank clearings have mountel upward from $166,4O8,- 100000 to SPA, ,33s. 900, 900, a gain of 34.9 per cent. Total bank deposits have increased by about 6 F billions of dollars, an increase of over 33 per cent. The stock of gold in the United States has risen from $1,S1S, 900, 900 to S2,4S9, 100000, a gain of 34.1 per cent.
 If more reasons for defeating Will
New Britain herald., 1916-11-01
D. MCMILLAN 1sS-2O1-7O3 MAIN STREET.

son be desired, they may be eound in the following facts:
 Tn this administration the total for Dign commerce of the United States has increased from $4,278,0 ,000,00O to 6,531, 100000, gain of 52.7 per cent. The balance of trade in favor of the United States has bounded up from $551.000,000 to S2,136.000,000, a gain of 2S?.6 per cent. Manufactured ex- ports have risen from $1,020, 900, 000 to s2,000, 100000, an increase of l55 per cent.
 If the foregoing reasons for de- feating Wilson are not enough three more may still be adduced:
 Wages paid in manufacturing in- dustries have increased during this administration from $3,760, 000,000 to $5,320, 100000, gain of 41.5 per cent. The value of manufactured prod ucts has been augmented by no less than $9,400, 0,000,000, an increase of 41.2 per cent. Capital employed in manufacturing industries has risen from $21, 900, 100000 to $32,200,000,- 900, a gain of 30.9 per cent
 Every business man.. farmer and wage-earner will see the point. Every thing Wilson does is wrong. What ever happens under his administra- tion is a national calamity Down with Wilson.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-01
A Good Resolution.
(New York Evening Post.)

(NeW Ork EVenlng POSt.)
 One resolution every conscientious citizen and man of sense who ex- poets to go to the polls next Tuesday should imm ediately frame and adopt. And 1t is that today. at sunset. the hearing of evidence shall be closed so far as he, the individual voter, is concerned. His decision may remain open until the very last moment be- fore this date, and shall dismiss every thing brought forward after it as in competent, irrelevant and in all prob ability a fake.
 The voter of sense will this day highly resolve that his action on elec- ton day will not be affected by any story of Wilson having accepted a million dollar bribe from Carranza, or of Hughes having entered into an g agreement to make Jeremiah O'Leary the next secretary of state; to ab- stain from reading any startling s document" emarating from the dem- ocratic nationo! committee or the re- publican national committee; 10 pay ro attention to criminal d{scloSufeS made at railway stations or III Full man smokers; to make the next elght days, in short, a closed season TOT roorbacks, canards, mares nests and cock -and-bull stories. .
New Britain herald., 1916-11-01
BETWEEN THE DEVIL
 AND THE DEEP SEA
Dr. William Heinecke, Well Known Publicist, and Native Born German
 Analyses Political Situation.

Editor of the New Britain Herald: The politicians of the German American Alliance notice with d1smay that Germ an-Am erican citizens ale turning away from the candloate oA the making of the German A1llahce' They are now frantically appeaAhs 'o German-American voters 10 soaliu oy Hughes. An appeal in the New orh Staatz-Zeitung, bearing the heaolilie
 .Sho11d YOU vote for Wilson /! De- gins e, o7,
 "After German Americans from all + f tho country at the invita- t;oo of the Centralbund of Pennsyl- >-ania had met in Chicago on May 2S and 29 1916, to define their attltude toward the coming presidential elec- +ion and had appointed conference committee for the purpose or Ior- n,u1ating a declaration of principles as well as a statement, later on to
 be published, setting forth which one l of inc presidential candidates would
 he deemed worthy of the support ot 1 Cnrnoan- American voters, etc.
 After they had selected a candidate 1 after. their own heart, as they 1 thouebt and had asked all German
 American voters to support their can- didate they experienced a most pain
 ful shock when they had to see all
 their nice little political program up-
 set bv the allegiance of "their' can- l didate with Roosevelt and the viO- l lently pro- British elements of Amer l ica. Theirs is the most tragi-cOm | ical position that people who wanted l themselves to be taken seriously,
 could find themselves in.
 They had attacked President Will
 son for his alleged "anti-German'
 and British" attitude. They had
 tion' and solemnly issued a "declara-
 ton of their principles measured by l which President Wilson had been l "going too far'' in his foreign policies,
 concerning Germany Now they find
 themselves in alliance with a party
 which has as it's only issue the accu-
 sation that Wilson has mot gone far enough" because he failed to declare
 war on Germany after the invasion
 of Belgium and the torpedoing O | the Lusitania.
 They wanted to see Wilson 'beaten l to a frazzle' because he had failed l to place an embargo on munition- | exports as they demanded of him. | Now they find themselves fighting l shoulder to shoulder with the party
 and for a candidate, who not only ap- 1 prove of the munition exports (being the party of Morgan & Co.,, the finan- cial agent of the Allies), but accuse
 Wilson for having violated his
New Britain herald., 1916-11-01
COMMUNICATED.
THE PAPER MARKET IN CANADA.
And Some Things Pertaining to the Underwood Tariff and the Short
 age of NeMsprint in This Country

And Some Things Pertaining to the Underwood Tariff and the Short age of Newsprint in This Country
 New Britain,
 Oct. "A, 1916. To the Editor of the Herald:
 Recently I read in the Record a statement to the effect that the manu- featuring industries of United States are in danger under the Underwood tariff law from the flood of imported foreign goods from our northern neighbor, and more especially the paper pulp industry. According to the statement, nine tenths of the product of the Canadian mills find market in the States. s10,O00,00O of paper pulp reached the States from Canada in 1914, increased to $15, 5,00O,- O00 in 1915, while in 1916 unknown quantities are still on the way. Mean time I would ask, is that the cause of the present scarcity of all kinds of paper and the abnormal high prices at which all paper products are held at tho present prices? Undoubtedly it must be the importation of cheap, foreign made goods that has sent the price of shoe leather and all kinds of wearing apparel away up into the "nineties'' during the last fourteen mcnths Meantime, how about the paper market in Canada? In 1915, nine-tenths of the product of her pulp mills, $15, 100000 worth, was ex- ported to the States, which leaves con- siderabIv less than a million and half dollars worth to be consumed at home. Newspaper acreage must have had an abnormal shrinkage since the European war has been In progress.
 ~ E ,SHFT DON,
New Britain herald., 1916-11-01
THE DEBATE.

Ire should be more debates like he held in Waterbury last night
 United States Senator George Lean met his political opponent s. Cummings and discussed sues of the present presidential hign. If there were more of
 and voters were given a chance ar both sides of the questions hted by such brilliant debaters, lections would be determined
 by what people think than by
 influence party managers can
 At the ordinary political rally, Republican or Democratic, there be wild assertions and no one efute them. But in public de- where each side Is watching the
 and looking for ulisstatements kt the questions will come very being presented in solemn truth. would seem, too, that candidates lice would welcome opportuni-
 meet their opponents in public 5, especially when the decision
 to the public as in last nights
 Everyone who attended that knows who won it, and who he better of the argument. There b need for judge The audience tuted itself the jury, and the
 It Is in the mind of every honest who went there willing to listen lively to both sides of the argu-
 The facts and figures were
 ced, the cards were thrown on
 .ble, where all could see. The bf 1t is that the entire state of kcticut could not have attended. he voters can read the reports
 newspapers of today and, if the et matter is handled by various hls with any degree of impar-
 and accuracy, as will probably m the majority of cases, they lame a fair decision. And such 4ision will not be applicable
 to the debate, but to the fun nhtal issues which were presented ze speakers of the evening.
 Ns to be regretted that the time A the elections is so short as to Int Senator Mclean and Homer 1nlmings from meeting again in 8debate. Originally 1t was the lion of MT. Cummings campaign 2ger to draw the Senator into 1great debates, to be staged in Principal cities of the state. Be- of the Senator's pre-arranged hm it was impossible to carry his plan; and last night will H the first and last appearance of # two brilliant speakers on the z stage, at least during this cam
 If the debate of last night As a custom that was prevalent B political campaigns of old when 8pf the various parties met each ! in the public forum future gen. aas will owe much to the energy Bmer S. Cummings who was the Nal challenger. They will owe a Hof gratitude to Senator Mclean ecepting the challenge and nak- Possible one of the most brilliant HricaI battles ever staged in this
New Britain herald., 1916-11-01
LAUGHTER,
Serves the Purpose of a Corrective
 and Means of Self-Disciplme.

Serves. the Purpose of Corrective and Means of Self-DiscipIine. (New York Tribune.)
 The story of the young man out in Minnesota who killed himself because | his associates made fun of his ridic- ! ulous personal appearance reveals a trait of human nature which is more or less common to us all. We hate 1 to have people laugh at us. We usu- i ally know how to defend ourselves ] against an assault upon our persons l or an attack upon our possessions. 1 Most of us know how to come back when any one seriously criticises our i conduct or questions our integrity. But against the shafts of ridicule we are helpless.
 Bergson says that laughter has sur vival value to society as a corrector ] of abnormalities It helps to preserve 1 the average or mean type by making all variations uncomfortable. Laugh ter, he says, signifies a withholding of sympathy from the object or person ! regarded as comic, with the result that its victim is made to suffer by feeling excluded from our gregarious- ness. Hence, laughter has always been used by great reformers like
 
 blow ct what they regarded as social abuses.
 Bergson also says that laughter Is purely intellectual exercise-a point l which is open to dispute, onsidering most of us are with our jokes and 1 jibes; also considering the fact that almost every great truth and new discovery from the days of Noah to Charles Darwin has been received i with hoots of popular scorn and de- rision.
 Laughter is a mark of intelligence only. where one Is able to laugh at himself, to smile with others at his own aWkwardness, whtms, shortcom- ings and personal peculiarities. One needs certain amount of wisdom in order to know when he is making himself ridiculous. He must be big enough and wise enough to put him. self in another's place and see him self as others see him. It is then that laughter serves the purpose of corrective and means of self -disci- pllne
 But this requires a certain breadth of vision which not every one pos sesses Lincoln had 1t, and with all the sadness and tragedy of his life this ability to laugh at himself kept him sweet and human, saved his wit from irony and cynic!sn and en- abled him to laugh, not at people, but with th em. It Is this trait of quaint se1f-ridicu1e and aloofness from that petty sense of dignity which spurns self criticism which constitutes the true sense of humor. All the great hun1orists from Aristophanes to Mark Twain have had 1t. Half the fun of life must be enjoyed at ones own ex- pense.
 A man may be dead in earnest in his devotion to some great cause, as was Lincoln, yet keep his faith in himself and his ideals and say with the smiling Emerson: Why so hot, little man?'' It is this sense of hu- nor which preserves balance and saves a man from bigotry and fa- nattcism. For want of 1t among good people and reformers many a noble cause has failed and many a moral ideal has been dendered almost unen- durable.