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Evening star., 1916-04-30
You Wouldn't Be Seen ,uit. a Dirty
Collar: Why Live in Dirty To,Un?

LOtLdT: Why LIUe IN q DIrty IOlUn!
I HAVE in mind two towns.
I Entering one, the railroad runs between two rows
of dirty back yards filed with tin and rubbish
Entering the other, it passes houses neatly painted
back yards with flowers in them and swept clean
These two towns had the population five years
ago.
But recently two new factories have moved to one of
them; real estate values have advanced; houses are
being built; everybody is prosperous and happy.
And the residents of the other understand
their "bad luck"
This year 5000 cities and towns in the United States
will set aside week Clean Up and Paint Up Week
II plan has been made for such week in your town.
it is because the town needs with gumption
enough to start it.
Why not be that one?
By merely writing to Allen W. Clark, Secretary of the
National Cleanup and PaintUp Movement, Knloch
Building, ST Louis you will be supplied with big pack
OF literature telling what other towns have done and
hoU 1t has paid them to do 1t.
Ask MIR. Clark to send similar packages of literature to
the editors OF local papers and the president of your
Chamber of Commerce
Many men go through life without ever starting any
thing.
Here your chance to start that will bene-
fit every man, woman, and child in your community
and you can do it for the cost of a twocent stamp
The greatest miracles of modern times have been per-
formed with bon-ires drain-pipes soap, and paint
The Philippines have been made a healthier place to
live in than the average American town.
Typhoid has been stamped out of Serbia.
The Panama Canal zone has been transformed from
dismal unhealthy swamp to a wholesome place for homes.
The French, with force of 100000 lost $4,000 lives
in their effort to build the canal deaths were
out of an average force of $4,000.
Our record there nothing short of miraculous
and cleanup campaign did it.
Last year Cleveland in its Cean-Up and Pant-Up
Week, disposed of refuse sufficient to fill train three and
half miles long.
Another Middle Western town gathered its boys to-
gether, and by offering reward for each 100 tin cans,
abolished its unsghty back yards in a single day.
"Help us Clean Up Philadelphia" the slogan that
banshed the dirt in that city.
1Don't Lot nd bod GraD
OF Rochester's battle cries
A Clean-Up and Pant-Up Week means less sickness,
fewer fires, better children, and higher property values
There was Old Roman named Crassus He
trained band of slaves to be fremen, masons and
painters Then he made it his business to buy up houses
fire, and put the fire out Also he bought houses that
needed painting and painted them.
And his houses increased much in value that he be-
the richest man in Rome.
"There is better test of the civilization of
munity than this: How much paint does it use?"
wise said that.
1t is not given to you to found religion make
great invention discover continent.
RutyO tcu,,, n cIoo hotfo r>Io
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21
NEW PLAN FOR
CITY CARRIERS
DAILY REPUBLICAN WILL BE
SOLD TO CARRIERS WHO
WILL SELL TO SUBSCRIBE
ERS

Starting With the New Year The
Mitchell Daily Republican, will be de-
livered under what is known as the
Independent Carrier System.
This system which is universally
used in larger cities, where it has
proved a great success, provides that
the carriers be placed under bond
They will buy their papers from the
Republican, paying their bills each
week and selling them to subscribers
at the regular subscription rates.
The carriers Will have complete
charge of the collections, although
subscribers who have been in the
habit of paving annually Or semi
annually in advance at the Republi-
can office may continue to do so.
Statements will be mailed to these
subscribers promptly on expiration
and they must be paid promptly since
the carrier pays his bill every week.
Subscribers who have been paying
weekly Will continue to do so.
improved Delivery Service.
The big feature of the new system
will be improved delivery service. In
other cities complaints have been
ieuuSNu w d hiiiiiiii UNI ny tHlS SAstelli
and Mitchell should have the same
good delivery service. Under the new
system the carrier can we'll afford TO
devote more time and attention to
the business of delivering the Daily
| Republican.
Any complaints on delivery prompt
ness or courtesy. however. will
/ still be received through The
Republican office where they will
be given immediate consideration.
The subscription rate will remain
the same $500 year payable in adj
Vance OF loo a week.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21
FIND FORTUNES
IN DEAD LETTERS
MORE THAN S2,25o.oOo WORTH
OF MONEY FOUND LAST
NEAR-M OST OF NALU-
ABLES REACH OWN
EKS

Washinst ID. c.. More than
two and quarter million dollars
worth of checks, drafts, money order
and other valuable paoers We're :ound
in unbelievable 'Gltcns w the dead
letter office during the last year and
practically all were restored to their
owners. First Assistant Postmaster
General Daniel G. Rnper in his an
nual report announces that the dead
letter division handled 10,S3a,S $50
letters and parcels during the year,
IA slight increase over the previous
year. One-thirl of these letters and
parcels. or 3,677.lDt was delivered;
101 ,4S5N contained things If Nalue
without clue to their scnders and
We're held for claimants; 7,019,4 IS
had to be destroyed ard 41,175 We're
still being investigated.
In addition to the valuable papers,
with face value OF $2,303. 119,
found in unbelievable letters, many
contained stamps and some currency
was found loose IN the mails. The
stamps and currency unclaimed to-
gether with proceeds from the sale
OF articles of merchandise removed
from unbelievable letters, aggregat-
ed $50 .665 and $1,000 was realized
from six months operation of "a new
postal regulation requiring collection
OF one cent on advertised letters,
making the total net revenue $64 665
MIR Roper says that the revenue es-
timated under present conditions for
a year would be approximately $75,-
600. which would make the dead let
ter division self-sustaining.
To prevent the unnecessary ac-
emulation of letters containing valu-
able Enclosures. a provision was con-
tanned in the ! asst postal appropria
ton law reducing the limit OF time
that such letters shall be held await
ing reclamation from four years to
two years. The Postoffice Depart
ment has decided to discontinue the
final disposition of dead parcels by
the postotfices at Pittsburgh and
Cleveland. Such matter formerly go
ing to Pittsburgh will be sent to
New York City, while that in Ohio
formerly going to Cleveland will be
sent o Cincinnati, and matter from
the Southern peninsula of Michigan
will go to Chicago.
On account of the large growth in
the parcel post business. experience
has demonstrated that the accumula-
tion OF this matter at the points de-
sisnated for handling dead parcels
has become so large as to make it
difficult to find space for its accomo-
dation. Regulations provide. in the
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21
SEARCH ON FOR
"YOUNG BUDDHA"
MONGOLIAN PRIEST LOOKING
FOR BOY In WHOM SOUL OF
OLD HUTUHkTU HAS BEEN
REINCARNATED.

Picking, China.-One of the i'm
portant living Buddhas" OF Mongol
ia, the old kanchurwa Hutuhlltu, re-
Gently died and his senior disciple,
Lama Akewangyenlinpuleh is now
in Peking preparing to make a pill
grimage into Tibet in search of
young boy in whom the soul of the
old Hutuhlstu has been reincarnated.
The Chinese government has grant
ed the Lama the use of a private car
to the end of the government rail-
way in Mongolia. and from that point
he will proceed by carvan into Tibet,
where he will search for a young
Buddha to replace his old Master.
Inquiries will be made by him in
Tibet for boys born in miraculous
way, with divine signs, such as a red
light or other forms of supposed
divine manifestations, at about the
time the old Hutuhktu passed away.
All the boys thus secured will be
then carried to Lhassa, where their
names will be written on slabs of
wood and placed in golden urn.
The boy whose name is first drawn
out after due ceremony will be de-
clared the rembodiment of the dead
Buddha.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21

case of insured parcels, that claims
Tor indemnity must be filled within
six months, and it has been found
there is very little call for lost par
cells after the lapse of that time. Ac-
cordingly an order will be issued
amending the regulations SO as to
reduce the time for holding such
parcels prior to sale from twelve
months to six months Last year
395,161 parcels We're found unde-
liverable.
Dead mail received by the Division
of Dead Letters during the year con-
tanned 677,700 misdirected letters,
l 15,766 unaddressed letters, 22S,
700 letters held for postage, 440,-
200 letters written on hotel letter
paper by persons unknown to the
hotels and 1o4,7O0 letters bearing
fictitious signatures.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21
CAPTURES
RUNAWAY INDIANS

Harrisburg. S. D.-Two Indian
boy pupils who fled from the govern
ment Indian school at Flandreau, and
Who were attempting to make their
way overland to their homes on one
of the Indian reservations of western
South Dakota. We're captured in this
city by City Marshal Hansen, who
was paid the amount of the standing
reward offered for the capture of boys
or girls who flee from Indian schools.
The runaway boys now have been
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21

Egan, S. D.-George A. Stom-
baugh, a prominent old soldier of this
city, has been officially notified of his
appointment as an aide-de-camp on
the staff of the commander-in-chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic
of the United States. Mr.. Stombaugh
is the first member of the local G. A.
r. post to receive such an appoint
ment He has wide acquaintance
among the old soldiers of South Da
kota. who will be pleased at his APP
pojntment and the recognition thus
given the old veterans of South Da-
Enta
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21
he Brute.

What's the matter With young Mrs.
Gadler?'
Shes borken-heartcd ald says Mr..
Calder 10 longer loves her
why does she think tI.at?"
"She wrote letter 10 Santa Claus.
asking for n set of furs and gave it
to him to MALL
"Well?'
and he mailed it,"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21

turned over to an attache of the
school and taken back to Flandreau.
II Is believed they became homesick
and watched an opportunity to fee
IRON the school in the hope of being
able to reach their homes more than
one hundred miles away.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21

p. S. Eebert, assistant city engin-
ecr left last night for his home in
Lacrosse. Wis, to spend the holi-
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21

He'll Make 1t u Saint.
Detroit Free Press: The devil
fish may not know it, but he is about
to be reformed. T. r. is on his trail.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21

But 1t Missed a Mark This Year.
Brooklyn Eagle: The Nobel peace
'rze is 100000, or 10000 marks.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21
A Popular Book.

a Popular BOOK.
Church-Have you given much at
tenticn to the books in evidence dur
ing this season?
t;othala-Oh, yes.
"And which do you consider the
most popular this Chrstmas?"
"Oh, the pocketbook, by all means.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21

That's What They VIII Be.
Mrs Yeast-Gong to do the stock
i!e act this Christmas, dear2
Mr.. Yeast-Oh, Christmas stockings.
be hanged!
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21

Money to loan ON city property
On monthly payments. Investigate
Mitchell Savings and Loan Associa
ton w l., Rathbun, Secretary.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21

Henry Ncoliil, of ST. Paul, a form
er resident OF Mitchell, was here yes
terday on business.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21

Adults and youths books for the
kiddies, Bobb S.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21

L. j. sullivan, of Mason City, Ia,
is in Mitchell today ON business for
the Milwaukee, road.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21

Everything new in ivory. Bobb's
Drug Store.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21

Sioux Falls Argus Leader: Mr. and
Mrs, Gus Helgerson, of Mt. Vernon
arrived today for a few days visit
with Mrs E. NJ. Cone and daughter,
Myrtle. Mr. Ilelgerson is the newly
elected state treasurer and is spend
ing a few days here prior to leaving
for his new home al Pierre.
The Morgan City daily review., 1916-09-06
OUR BOYS

Now boys" said the school
teacher, Il want you to bear in
mind that the word stan at the
end of a word means in the
place of, as Afghanistan. the
place of the Afghans. also Hin
dustan, the place of the Hin
dus. Can you give me another
example.
Nobody appeared very anx-
ious to do so until little Johnny
Snags said proudly:
"Yes sir, can. Umbrellastan,
the place for umbrellas. ."-Phili-
delphia Record.
The Morgan City daily review., 1916-09-06

Continued from yesterday
Thus the tonnage actually
carried through the year-the
saving in tonnage per day by
the new type bags being about
175.6O0 pounds-the net result
per annum would be 64,O94 900
lbs, or 32,O47 tons. AS the av-
erage cost of carrying equip
ment and mail matter is about
two cents pound, the total an
nual saving in this particular
will be over a million dollars
to be exact S1.281,OOO. While
this great showing made by
economical administration will
commend itself to every
thoughtful reader, it is by no
means all that will be accom-
plished. Between four and five
thousand needlessly heavy mail
locks used within the last IL
years will be substituted by
others weighing three ounces
less each, representing an ad-
ditional saving in money an
nually OF over 100000. As late
as 1907 the weight of equip
ment carried almost equaled the
weight of mail matter. conse-
quently nearly half of the ex-
pense incurred for transmission
of the mails was due to the
weight of equipment. burden
OF cost unnecessarily borne be-
cause expert attention wisely di-
rected would surely have dis
covered methods for preventing
such tremendous loss. There are
still over three million sacks of
one class in service which will
be replaced as rapidly as pos
sible with others weighing from
3 to 8 ounces less.
When the general scheme of
substituting lighter for the
heavy equipment previously in
use is cOnsumated. the total an
nual saving in transporting the
mails will be approximately
On item of mail locks S4O1 800
On item of mail bags 6,4O9. 400
these figures being based on a
comparison with conditions ex-
listing July |. 1913.
The Morgan City daily review., 1916-09-06
kindergarten Opens Thursday

kindergarten Opens Thursday.
Miss Mizzie, who has lust re-
turned from a vacation visit to
OpelOusas. is preparing for the
opening of her private kinder
garten school for the coming,
term. The little folks may get
ready by Thursday Of this week
as that will be the opening date.
The Prohaska building on Sec
|ond Street, Just in the rear of
the post office will be used by
Miss Mizzie as her class room
and she is now renovating and
making it ready for the instruc-
ton of her little pupils.
The Morgan City daily review., 1916-09-06
UNCLAIMED LETTERS


List OF unclaimed matters
advertised at Morgan CITY, La.
Post Office, week ending Sept
,, 1916.
Allen. Emora
Booker. Gus.
Brown. lreal
Breno. Raii
Block. tny
Clark. 7. (.
Nal!'o"N. Henry (2l
Del,eon. ". +.
DarkeS. Jim
ltyions. Marry
Franceware, Danul
Gaudi'I, Stanley
Ganuncy, Lilly
Horton, John
Hark Pal
Harris Louise
Johnson, Lanners
Jackson. Cob
kyles. Mary
kelter, Louis J.
Lee. Jonny
Lyon. Jno. B.
Lewis. Charley
The Morgan City daily review., 1916-09-06

October IL and 13 have been
appointed for the days on which
the ground breaking for the
Centennial Exposition II Gulf
port. Miss. will take place.
The Morgan City daily review., 1916-09-06

The incidence of hookworm
is rapidly becoming less and less
Whether it was as important
a disease to the South as 1t has
been made to appear Is ques-
tionable, certainly under pres
ent conditions of lie IL is rel
atively inconsequential.
Pellagra still exists. but our
knowledge of the disease has
widened and discoveries made Ill
the last year by the Pubic
Health Service Lead IL
to believe that the condition is
distinctly durable as well as en-
tirely preventable. With the bet
dissemination of knowledge con-
|cerning its prevention and cure
lit is confidently expected that
|pellagra will soon be relegated
to the same position that yell
low fever now occupies.
A factor of Importance in
producing widespread miscon-
!ception of the healthfulness OF
the South on the part Of those
unfamiliar with conditions has
been the presence of the negro.
1t is well recognized that the
mortality among negroes is nat
urally much higher than among
whites, in some instances being
almost twice that of the white
race, but many people fail to
consider this point wheE making
an analysis of health condi-
tions. Were the subjec, viewed
with this fact in mind an en-
tirely different Interpretation
would be given to the mortality
figures of this region and a
much correct opinion would be
formed as to the healthfulness
|of the South. That this is so,
can. | believe, be demonstrated
in very few moments
Wherever the accurate ,ig-
u:c:, can be obtained. the cOlored
!..1:th rate in the United States
IL !,gher team the white death
rate, this being true without
e> option f. every section ri
the country. During the year
1913 the last period for which
we have the complete returns.
the death rate among whites
for the entire registration area
was 1877 per 100 of population
while that among negroes was
1919, difference of over so PR
cent. In certain sections OF the
country the disparity was even
more pronounced. Necessarily,
then. those areas having a large
percentage of negroes will show
a high death rate, the figures
for the general population being
distorted by those for the negro.
For this reason any comparison
/ of crude and uncorrected death
rates of Northern and South
ern communities is an unfair
comparison. If the people are di-
Ivided into two classes, the
whites and the blacks, the COM
parison becomes entirely legiti-
mate and should lead to much
more correct conclusions.
The Morgan City daily review., 1916-09-06
HEALTH CONDITIONS
IN THE SOUTH
Extract Of Speech of Senator
RansdeIl Before the U. 5.
Senate.


during the past decade has been
effected through sanltatlon-a
change which is perhaps more
noticeable in the South than IN
anv other part of the nation.
The South has hygienic reha-
Dilitation, and from a CONDITION
Of sanitary chaos has moved tor
ward to the front rank OF the
vanguard of modern countries.
The work has been performed
quietly but thoroughly, until
today, life expectancy with us
is the same as in the northern
states and the incidence OF dis
ease is no greater than else
where. This is because the South
has learned the lesson OF dis
ease prevention and has put it
into actual practice.
In spite Of this wonderful
advancement-an advancement
that is fully conformed by our
mortality tables, much miscon-
centiOn still remains concern
ing the healthfulness of. the
South. This misconception is
due to number of causes falla-
cies which the general public
know nothing about and which
they do not thoroughly investi-
gate. Erroneous impressions
still prevail as to the healthful-
ness of this region and many
still suppose that our climate
and other natural conditions are
conductive to the development
of disease, whereas, quite the
opposite is the case. Many SINH
lar erroneous impressions have
arisen, most Of which are based
upon ignorance Of all facts. 1t is
my desire to invite your at
tention in a general way to what
has been accomplished in the
conservation of human life, pre-
senting certain comparative
mortality tables and leaving
you to draw your own conclu.
sions therefrom.
The fact that epidemics Of
disease have in years gone by
swept over the South is reason
enough for many to suppose
that those diseases are still pre-
sent. This is a decided mlscOn.
ceptiOn. 1t is true that the South
has been visited in the past by
many frightful epidemics--epi
demich which the Older resi-.
dents still recall. These vista.
tions Of disease often came upor
us without warning and VIC
we're helpless before them. fol
we knew nothing of their causes
and their means of prevention
Now all this is changed. We
have definite knowledge of the
means OF dissemination of prac.
tically all the infections to which
We are subject, and their pre-.
vention is based upon the most
simple facts-facts which the
children master in their lessons
at school. These principles have
been put into practical and al
most universal application, and
as a result. the South is freel
today from the presence of cpl
demic disease than any other
section of our country.
1t is true that certain infec-
tions still exist, as, for instance,
measles, diphtheria and whoop-
ing cough, but their incidence is
far less than in many other sec
tiOns of the United States and
they are not attended with
nearly the mortality of the same
diseases in colder climates. For
example, measles in the South
is a comparatively mild and
harmless affection. usually un-
attended with complications,
whereas in the colder portions