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Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-01-08
ROOSEVELT NOT
REAL SAYS TAFT

Taft has given an outline of his
views on the suggestion that
Theodore Roosevelt may be the
Republican Presidential nominee
in 1916, or may be in position
to influence the nomination of
man of his choice.
Gus ]. Karger, who secured the
interview, was closely identified
with Taft's cause in 1908 and
1912.
That any other man a real Re-
publican shall be the Republican
Nominee or have a part in de-
termining the choice of the Re-
publncan National Convention is
regarded as an absurd sugges-
tion," ridiculous proposal by by
Professor William Howard Taft,
former President of the United
States, and he is far from sympa-
thetic with the attitude of certain
leading Republicans in the United
States Senate, Republicans who
although not identified with the
Progressive detection, have been
playing to remain in the good
graces of both factional elements.
Mr. Taft has had but little time
while here to discuss politics, but
what he said was direct, emphatic,
aggressive and to the point. His
animadversions were directed
not to the spirit OF compromise
designed to bring back errine
brethren, but to the mere sugges-
tion OF any plan to conciliate so
called Progressive leaders at the
cost of surrender of Republican
principles.
Mr.. Taft was not discussing the
situation with view to publicity,
but he has no objection. | am sure,
10 have it understood that he
takes il as matter of course that
Colonel Roosevelt and himself
having been opposing leaders. j.
the quarrels of 1912, the Repubii
can party will not court another
defeat by the nomination of either
take the liberty of putting
what follows in quotation marks,
ioi the safe of sim:,iic ] nay
be acce",ed as reSen,,ry Mr..
Tai: opinions wit'1or, c c'inrni,
t,as fim to language:
Regular Republicans have
shown no disposition to make
themselves conspicuous in the po-
litical discussions of the day. AS
sured of the survival OF their par
ty and OF its rehabilitation and res
toration to position of aggress-
iveness and militancy, they have
been careful to throw no difficulty
into the path of returning breth-
rem. Their silence seems to have
been misinterpreted. Leaders OF
the old progressive movemen,
have taken advantage of it foI
purposes of self-aggrandizen-
Inent.
And some of the leading men
for congress, although not iden-
tilted with the Progressive defec-
tion, but anxious to remain in the
good graces of both factional ele-
ments, have been playing a game
of Good Lord and Good Devil
a game that can't be played sue
cessfully at this or any other time.
This attitude on their part has
encouraged Democratic-P Progress
i've propaganda to look to the
nomination of Colonel Roosevelt,
or to that of some candidate of his
choice and election.
But the Republican party will
be maintained as Republican
Republican parey. 1t will not be-
come the Progressive party with
fads and isms. Returning Pro-
gressives will have a standing in
he l. .
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-01-08
HISTORIC CNOA--
CITY OF PAST

county, established at Genoa in
1861, was moved to Minden New
Year day, in accordance with an
act of the Nevada legislature of
1915, says the Gardnerville Rec
ord, A fine $4,000 court house
has been completed at Minden for
the county officers and records.
Genoa has been a fated town
from its inception, and it is not
without pangs of sorrow and re-
gret that her residents witnessed
the removal of the seat of govern
ment to Minden.
History tells us the first public
meeting in what now is Nevada
of which there is any record, was
held at Mormon Station" now
Genoa, November II, 1851. The
meeting was held in the .old log
cabin which stod in that town un-
til destroyed by fire a few years
ago. The object of the meeting
was to organize squatter gov
ernment and to adopt local rules
for governing settlers and their
property. The meeting agreed up
on petition to the national con-
gress for territorial government
A second meeting was held No
vember l8 of the same year and
the next day local form Of gov
ernment was adopted.
The petition resulted in form
ing Carson County, Utah, in 1854
which embraced all of what now
is Washoe, Lyon, Douglas, Orms-
by and Storey counties, and the
greater part of Esmeralda and
Churchill counties and a part Of
Humboldt county. The county
seat was at Genoa.
An attempt then was made tc
get representative at Washing
ton to represent the territorial
government, and James w. Crane
was elected as delegate. Crane
having died, John J. Musser was
elected as his successor on No
vember II, 1859.
On June 6, 1889, mass meet
ing of delegates from the several
districts was held at Genoa, at
which meeting July IA of the
same year was the date set for
holding an election for the pur
pose of electing delegates to a
constitutional convention. The
SO elected met at Genoa
IN July Is and in a ten-day ses-
sion adopted a declaration of
rights and a constitution. The
constitutions was submitted tc
the people and adopted on Sep
tember |, 1850, and Isaac Rocp
was elected governor, along with
other officers.
The legislature met at Genoa
December Is, 1880, and adjourned
to meet in July, 1860.
John Cradlebaugh, one of the
United States District Judges for
the territory of Utah, arrived in
Genoa in the summer of 1889 and
impaneled the first grand jury
that met in the territory.
However, the shifting popula-
ton centered on Carson City as
the proper place for the capital,
and an act of congress on March
?, 1861, organized the Territory
of Nevada" and on March p of
the same year, James w. Nye Of
New York was appointed terri
torial governor by President Lin
coin.
Thus it was that Genoa was
the first capital of Nevada, anil
thus it was that the capital did
not remain at Genoa, but never
theless, this place hal its par; in
the history of the State. and will
ever be remembered, not only on
that account, but for the many
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-01-08
OPENLETTER FROM
Superintendent

Mr.. G. M. Deveraux, Clerk
Artesia School Board,
Artesia, New.
Dear Sir =
/ have your letter of December
10th in reference to various school
matters, which | will endeavor to
answer as follows:
| l. The blanks sent you are
prepared by the Public ScnooI
Teachers Retirement Salary
Fund Board under authority oil
law passed by the last legislature,
and were sent out to you ~ the
Executive Secretary of said board,
Mr.. HaiIy J. Coogar +; and ! trus'
you will Gully honor the order .,l
$3.50 when If comes :ime Tor u e
payment of the assessment, AS
this is your teachers contribution
and not the districts contribution
the amount named being a de-
duction from her salary.
2. | note what you say as to
the funds of your district. Under
the law of the State (see Sec. l,
page Is, School Code of 1915, sent
you under separate cover) the
school trustees of a district short
of money may levy district tax
of Is cents on the hundred dollars,
and then may ask the County
| Commissioners to aid them to
whatever extent they may need
aid to carry on their school. Ii
matters not how little property
there may be in the district or
how little the tax may amount to,
as it costs nothing to collect this
tax it is collected with the gen
eral taxes in June and December
notand is not extra expense to any
one. The levy made by the school
trustees in this manner is an ear
nest of the willingness of the dis
trict to help itself where it car
rea Sonably do so, and furnishes {
basis for the County Commission
ers to come to it's relief.
3. Some one is mistaken as to
the ability OF this Office to give re-
lief in the way of extra money
to any school. None of the money
derived from county taxes comes
into this office, nor from State
taxes. In the former case it goes
into the county treasury and in
the latter case it goes into the
State treasury, and all such mon
ey has to be proportioned by the
State Superintendent in accord
ance with precise provisions of
law. Your district was apportion-
ed in July last every cent OF mon
ey that it was entitled to under
the law, every cent that the State
Superintendent had any right to
apportion it; and SO was every
other district in the State. | am
saying this not in criticism of
your statement, but for your in
formation as you have evidently
been misled by some one in sup
posing that money can be given
out to district in a greater or
less amount.
4. / have looked up the APP
portionment of county school
moneys to Lyon county six years
ago 5000 and during the pres
ent year and find as follows:
Six years ago 5000 81, ,2OS.33
This year (l9l5). IL, ,5H.59
This shows an increase in six
years of $4,33o.26 given to the
Lyon county schools this year
over what it was six years ago.
This is just about half what you
informed you was the increase.
Permit me to say am giving you
the official record and not any
guess work in the premises.
In 1906 Lyon county had o4-
children and now it has 703 child
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year, or your county school tan
rate has varied. The increase in
school children and in districts,
of course, has been a factor also
The County Commissioners ol
each county, by law, determine
the county school tax rate each
year, and the State Departments
of Education has no power OF
authority in the premises.
AS to the money received BY
your district, | would say thai
there has been a considerable
decrease since 1909 in the school,
money apportioned annually from
State sources to the various dis
tricts in the State, as the follow
ing will show:
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-01-08

In 1909 it was S24S,677.S7.
In 1910 it was 9,56S.73.
In 1911 it was 2l4,33O.15.
In 1912 it was 217,514.52.
In 1913 it was 233,602.23.
In 1914 it was 216,957.6l.
In 1915 it was 213,Oo5.51.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-03-10

ti;y OF food, I. IN especially import.
ant, In tho oaso o. tho geden,Iry
worker, 20 choose foods which will
not eons,ipate. for owing 20 the very
limited exercise Of the abdominal
muscles the sedentary worker l.
very iinbis TO chronic eoas, ips ion.
Meat once a DAY IL sufficient, The
midday meal should be ligh; but
wholesome, Fruits, vegetables sal
ads, whole wheat OF graham bread,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-03-10

Many parents need to be reminded
/, 11sr n rs Seanoss .~s a4p.,. "a, -, -
| over.attentive to children as 1t n to
neglect them.
The neglected child. stunted phys
icaIly and mentally, is always likely
TO develop into a dead weight on
society-an incompetent. IL not a
criminal
The child whose parents have
paid him too much attention is also,
if in other ways. likely to turn out
badly.
Children overwhelmingly cared
for in early life usually develop
nerves in manhood and woman
hood At best they tend to be az
nicted with serious defects OF char
acter.
They are likely TO be lacking IN
the spirit OF initiative. This Is a
logical result OF the mistaken paren-
tai policy OF doing everything for
them. instead Of teaching and accus-
toming them TO do things for them
selves.
Also they are likely TO be conceit-
ed, their parents unrefective devo-
ton to them having filed them with
undue ideas OF their importance.
And, most Of all, they are almost
certain 10 be colossally selfish. BY
never requiring sacrifices OF them.
by yielding TO theff every within, the
parents have unconsciously trained
them to think OF themselves first.
last. and all the time
The idolizing OF children thus
makes for a bitter harvest in later
years. And. TO increase the bitter.
ness OF the harvest. the children
whose characters have been spoiled
by oyer-attention sometimes appreci-
ate their defects and appreciate also
the part played by their idolatrous
parents In creating these defects.
Then resentment is felt, though
perhaps overborne by filIal desire
to make excuses for the parents
mistakes. AS In these striking auto
biographical statements by the
daughter of a mother who had loved
her only child with unwise ardor:
"0f the selnshness Of which a
frank woman accused me. my par
ents were, up TO that time, quite as
unconscious a. l.
This woman had asked my moth
CT to drive with her to the home OF
friend In a neighborfng town.
where the two were invited TO spend
the night My mother declined. on
the ground that !. at that time about
nine. could only comb my hair and
pin my collar properly for school in
the morning. and az we then had
no maid. and my father could a;
best only have buttoned my frock.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-03-10
BY gibson GARDNER.

WASHINGTON, Mar 10.-war
prices are the next thing. Prices
are going up. The government 8
cost of living figures do not tell
the whole story. The facts are
around the corner in almost any
store. Little things tell the tale.
IL your clothes are tailor-made.
ask the tailor about the price OF
woolsns and he will show you a no
tice from the New York or Phil
adelphia jobber saying that an ad-
vance Of IL per cent. on spring
fabrics has been necessitated By
the war. The tailor will add that
everything in the way OF findings.
from sewing silk TO canvas stitfen-
ing has advanced from 10 to ~
per cent Two dollars has been add
ed to the material cost OF the aver
age tailored suit.
As TO women's wear. the same.
Friend wife reports that suits and
dresses ready made are higher. bu,
there In something moro serious as
to them. The shades run TO green.
The blues are not good. The sleeves
do not always match at the should
er. American dyes says the clerk
In a low voice looking to see IL the
head OF the department Is near. And
the Innings are different. They run
TO whites where before they were
similar TO the crepe or the net: also
they are not guaranteed. Nothing
IL guaranteed any more and stories
go OF waists which leave their reds
or greens on the lingerie or on the
skin II the day is damp or shower
Is encountered
Again, at the hardware store or
tinsmith's there Is the same story
OF advanced prices. The housewife
wants drain pan for window
box and learns that 80 will cost 50
cents instead of 30 az II would have
a year ago. Galvanized iron has
gone up 100 per cent. because gal.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-03-10
Pointed Paragraphs

All potatoes have eyes. and some
have specs.
Only fool has the nerve TO boast
CT his good sense.
A shanty on earth is worth more
than castle in the air.
About every 10 years an old joke
Is given a new lease OF life.
IL Is easier for some men to smile
in a saloon than after reaching
home.
Stepping on banana peel has
enabled lot OF men TO 40 their
length.
A mans intellect doesn't seem 10
have anything in common with his
happiness.
Don't blame a girl for assuming a
striking attitude when she's trying
10 make a hit.
Men can't understand why women
worry over trifies and women can't
understand why men do not
Even the man who is tired OF this
world is seldom in hurry to move
on TO the next.
IL is a fortunate thing that society
Is so shallow; otherwise half the
people who are in II would be
drowned.
When there Is asfamine in the
~A-.TcS- - -
goes y some otner town to study
arusic or teach. school.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-03-10

Gun CREED.
IL you have a little grudge.
Just forget It.
II YOU think you're others Judge.
Why. forget IL.
II you feel YOU have to cuss
And you want to start "A fuss.
Why, just think about the muss
And forget IL.
IL you know q putrid tale.
Just forget 70.
IL your Joke Is old aud stale,
Why. forget IL.
N you know OF anything
spoken of In scandals ring
That repeating OF would sting,
Just forget IL.
II you think OF good act,
Don't forget III
IL you know word 81 tact,
Don't forget IT
II your wish would right n wrong
~ you know little song
That would cheer some soul along.
Don't forget u.
VIII Lewis. In the Pittsburgh Post
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-03-10
War Prices Affecting the
Cost OF Bare Necessities

, vanizing is done with zinc and
speIter and these are demanded by
the war. The householder decides
perhaps TO paint or freshen up the
family auto. Cut out the red, says
the auto man. That little can OF
carmine that We sold for $500 last
year is no~ $500 and no more to
be had al any price when that Is
gone" Scarcity OF aniline dyes
since the German supply was shut
of. And the paint man adds 20
cents to the gallon OF green, because
u has to have part zinc with the
lead to harden IL, and zinc. as every
body knows. has gone up--far up.
And white lead costs more and lin
seed oil and turpentine and the can
in which II Is carried. for the Ameri
can Can company is now making
cartridge clips for the Russians.
And then there Is the wellknown
price OF gasoline.
II these seem .rifiing things, ask
the farmer or the gardener He was
reveling in prosperity a year ago.
but now he will tell about increased
cost OF fertilizer. what cost 5000
year ago now costs $500. II 1, Is
wheat or lemons he sells at the ad-
'ancsd prices. he fn6s that his
profit Is largely eaten mp in the in
creased cost Of phosphates. nitrates
or manure; $40 a carload for the
latter and not enough TO be had at
any price. The German nitrates are
cut of, and the Chilean beds are
not yielding: ocean freiehts have
mounted skyward and al any cost
vessels are needed 10 carry arms
and ammunition. food and clothes TO
the warning countries.
A plant IA being built on the
southern California coast TO use the
kelp from the Pacific ocean, but
that Is only a small beginning for
big need. And higher fertilizer
means higher wheat and higher
vegetables, higher meat and higher
cost o. food OF every kind. Pros
per'ty. q IL saii, Is always accom-.
parted by high prices. Prosperity
has arrived, industry has revived.
there a more work for labor. and
slight advances IN wages and a
marked increase IN the cost ~
everything that everybody has TO
have.
Tho cream q: prosperity IL skim
med by those who own the stocks.
The dividends or Standard OIL large
ly outweigh tho Increased cost OF
labor or the materials OF production.
Tho owners OF Standard or oven In
dependent oil stocks will no. feel
tho pinch Of increased cost Of living.
Neither will the man who owns the
railroads. Never were earnings big.
ger than they wore last month and
this II the story OF net earnings af-
ter all concessions have been made
In the way Of Increased pay or bet
ter hours of work, The same story
Is true ~ all industrial corporations
Regardless OF speculative values and
the gamblers winntnrs taken In the
stock market, the cream IL being
gathered In from the dividends
which range from IS 10 1000 per
cent, on the CAPITA,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-03-10

their children. and only one child TO
spend herself on.
LIT had not occurred 20 my moth
er, am confident. that her habit OF
minis;ering 10 me constantly va.
pampering. Nor had |. In going to
her for services which i might cas-
$40 = %
ss,, made demands. ~ ib.4. man amer tT
OF the arrogant. spoiled child
~Do you want your child. In later
life. 10 feel obliged thus TO make
excuses for YOU
There is middle path between
neglect and idolarry, a path with
common sense as its guide pos!
Only BY taking this path can safety
and success in child-rearing be as
sured.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-03-10
EDITORIAL PAGE
Honolulu, If You
Please, a Thriving
American City of 1916

Until very recently we had regarded
Hawaii as perhaps the one place in tn,
world least touched of the leaven of mod
ern progress.
Our impressions of Uncle Sans far
flung Pacific outpost had been gained
from a reading of Robert Louis Steven.
son, the perennial south sea tales In the
popular magazines, and more recently
from Richard Walton Tullys delightful
BIRD of Paradise and the wealth of
Hawaiian and near-Hawaiian songs
which followed in its successful wake.
We regarded il as a sort of tropical
paradise inhabited by beautiful native
iaidens. immaculate naval officers, and
plutocratic sugar planters.
We pictured the people as spending
most of their days reclining on the wide
aches and their evenings in dancing
and playing upon the ukalele.
In short, We thought of Hawaii as a
lotus land--a sort of modern Arcadia.
Therefore we read with interest a
bundle of Honolulu newspapers. sent us
by President Joseph W. Mauck, of Hills
dale college, now sojourning there.
And we received several shocks.
The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
didn't look in the least like an Arcadian
product. 1t had all the earmarks of a
live American newspaper published in a
hustling American community.
News of the European war screamed
at US from the first page.
Real estate. base ball, movie and the
atrical advertisements filled the interior
sections. An up to date society column
chronicles the doings of the elite.
A. big midwinter carnival was on, and
-ltwsc, te7ns szss rcel .oas .s...I ysc1Ie ~.-.-I
would do credit to the New Orleans
mardi gras.
The preparedness agitation was in full
swing, and the town was divided into two
factions as to the propriety of showing
''The Birth of Nation" in one Of the
principal theaters.
A few touches of the old glamor re-
NAMED in the exotic street names and
the atmosphere of army and navy life re-
fiected in the news columns.
But the climax came in an article de-
scribing an entertainment, featuring ma
tive music, tableaux and dancing.
1t was regarded as great novelty.
The rites and customs which We i'm
agined were part of every day life in
the islands were referred TO as ancient"
and quaint"
The affair evidently interested the citi-
zens much as pageant of Detroit in the
days of Pontiac would interest this city
.oday.
In the words of the article: THE Hula
vas once danced only for royalty. II is
now danced only for tourists"
It's a far cry from Honolulu of the
story books to the growing American
.ity of 1916.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-03-10
The Lure of Romance.

Tho other day n little boy in Missouri disap
neared from his farm home and was compieeiy
iost until the marshal Of village almos, W
rri,e. away stopped q dminutive tramp VINO
answered the description OF the los, IVY
autographed for an anxious father.
tn. hnv had walked for two days and slept
-. ntsht In n straw stack and another in
niie NJ railroad ties, but why he ran away he re-
Then father arrived and to him the little boy
.onfessed that he ran away to seek the cave
OF Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer-Mark Twain
worIdfamous cave at Hannibal, Mo-
Marx Twain wizard Of boydom. had woven
b,s sneiI again. a spell that caught little boy
ana carried him through hardship and Ioneli-
meas toward the land OF romance.
The hoy sensible to power long lost 10 men.
ran away because Romance took his hand and
he could not choose but follow
In older, duller days when child's one law
Vas obedience and his single watchword ito be
reen and not heard" the boys confession might
have mot with laughter or scorn. and he might
have been whipped and taken home. sullen and
bewiidercd.
Men are wiser now.
They have learned to apply horse-sense to boys
~ well ~ business.
They understand tho worth OF vision. the
sympathy.
The runaway boys father neither scolded nor
laughed. lilo took his son TO Hannibal 10
show him Huck Firms cave. too damp and
dark Cor everyday use, and the house where
Tom Sawyer real boy. and Mt the last, the
monument erected TO the wise and gentle man
who though gone, still wcaves his spells of Joys
for boys, old and young.
Then father and boy went back To the farm
both faces allght with happiness that comes
when people understand the proper mixing OF
sensibiity and sense.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-03-10

oatmeal should constitute On import.
art pert OF the diet.
Fully AS impc rtant az Diet and or.
ereisn. are tie drinking OF water
and the formation % regular hab!ts
with res.ect to keeping the system
free of was:s matter.
II - remarkable how completely
'hese megsufes suf'ce, even In stub.
born cares OF long standing, II will
also be found beneficial n the mid.
day rest period Of tho sedentsry
WORKER includes some form OF exer.
else IN the open air.