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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-01-13
MAXI ROACH GOVERNOR
Arthur Aull Says Secretary
State d the Man,

The following from the bolt
and fearless pen of Arthur ~Aull
editor of the Lamar Democrat, i,
tribute of which any Missouriaa
might well be proud:
Among the avowed can1i
dates for the gubernatorial nom
nation, Cornelius Roach is east
ly the most fit. and the best pre-.
pared by training. point of view
= and experience. Few men in
Missouri know as much about the
State at large as Roach. He
knows the people, he knows their
interests, their collective views
and their psychology. He is not
an orator, it is true, but he is eff
ficient, industrious. intelligent,
dependable.
"He will make good, loyal,
painstaking and serviceable Gov
ernor. He has made model
Secretary of State. The office
could not have been administered
better than it has been under his
charge. His enemies do not even
presume to question his official
honesty and singleness of pur-
pose. His record as Secretary of
State has been diligent, able,
faithful, efficient. /
"He would go into the Govern
or's chair knowing more about
the States affairs than any 9TH
er man now mentioned for the
office could possibly know. He
would make a Governor that
would serve us, and remain faith
full to his trust. He would not
neglect the office to glorify him
self, nor to get a brief place in
the limelight.
"We've known Con- as the
boys all like to call him, for a
long time, and we know he is de-
plain, unassuming and
faithful. We couldn't at the
present time, do better than to
make him Governor.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-01-13

\ Washington JAil: For ia,
vestigation and experimen III The
utilization, for coloring purposes
of raw materials grown u pro-
duced ii the United States; Con.
gress has been asked ~ Score
tary Of the Treasury McAdoo to
appropriate $2o; 900. it il be-
lieved this amount expended by
the Bureau Of Chemistry will re-
suit in discoveries important to
American dye users.
!. Investigations by the bureau
will be continued during 1916.
Among these are experiments re-
lating to the application Of chem
istry to agriculture; investiga-
tions of the character Of tests ap-
piled to American food products
in foreign countries; investiga-
tions Of present usage and the
best methods Of preparing poul-
try and eggs for market; investi-
cations Of handling Of fish and
shell fish; development Of new
sources Of food supply; investiga-
tons Of the action Of food and
drug products on the human or
ganism and the putting into eff
feet of provisions Of the pure
food and drug act. The general
expenses of the bureau are esti-
mated at $832,210 for 1917.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-01-13
HEALIH aU d

Diphthe!rial... !.

Il Olpnth0r1a ssa sssss
i Diphtheria is q contagious dis
ease, caused by the bacillns diph
| liberia Persons ia perfect heaitl
may get the. bacillus Ia thei!
throats many times and not tax,
the disease. On the other hand
no matter how weak or rundown
one may be, he will not have
diphtheria unless the bacillus il
present. The germ comes from a
person affected with diphtheria
or from one who, without show.
ing any signs of the disease. car.
ries the germ in the throat or
nose. Such is called diph heria
carrier.
The germs are found only in
the throat and nose of persons af-
fected and produce a toxin which
is absorbed in the blood, causing
the symptoms and effects 81 the
disease. The germs leave such
person IN the Sputum and IN
the spray from coughing and
sneezing. Even forceful talking
must cause minute droplets Of Sc
erection to be emitted.
The smaller droplets will float
for some distance in the air of
an average room. Well persons
are affected chiefly by getting
droplets and the contained germs
into their Threats. Children,
having little sense of cleanliness,
usually put playthings into their
mouths. If the children play to-
gether and one if affected with
aiphtheria, the others are likely
TO get the germs from the sick
one in this way.
School rooms and gathering
places where many persons are
assembled in a close, poorly-ven-
;ilated room aid in the spread of |
he disease. At this season of the
year, When many persons travel
m crowded trains and many get
ogether at celebrations and
Meetings, the danger Of getting
he disease is much increased. No
me with a cold or sore throat
hould attend public gatherings
my one getting a cold or sore
hroat should have the trouble
and treated by a ply
ician. Children complaining of
Odds or sore throat should have
medical attention at once.
If used in time, diphtheria tox-
n will quickly cure diphtheria.
The greater the time elapsing be-
ore the toxin is used. the less is
he chance for recovery. I'm
reated and late-treated cases are
cry fatal. Diphtheria toxin for
short time also prevents VII
ersons' becoming affected and
hould be used on every we'll
lember Of family in which
here is a case Of diphtheria.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-01-13
Merwin Consolidated School
Building Dedicated.

On Friday, Jan. Z. 1916. the
patrons and friends of the Mer-
2 win consolidated school district
met and dedicated our school
building. The success of our
meeting more than exceeded our
expectations. Everyone who was
present pronounced the meeting
a brilliant success. Many of those
who were most bitter'in the oppo-
sition to consolidation were pres
ent to enjoy the big turkey din
ner and most Of all the intellect
ual feast which awaited them in
the excellent addresses which
were to follow. 1t was time
when differences We're forgotten.
Narrow conception and selfish
ness were not present to exclude
the qualification at recent prep
aration to meet that great ques-
ton which is of comm IN interest
to all.
The education of the children,
of the community; the extending
to every boy and girl the priv
lege Of high school education,
not how great the cost, but how
excellent the facility was the
popular trend Of conversation.
School was in session until
noon giving everyone a chance
to see what their children were
doing. The state high school in
spector, T. c. Irwin, was present
and inspected the high school and
building in the forenoon and ex-
pressed himself as being highly
pleased with both the high school
and building.
Dinner was served from to
2 30. After dinner Mr.. H. O.
Maxey of Butler gave very iu-
teresting address in his most elo-
quent manner. He was followed
by Mr.. Irwin who discussed the
importance of high school educa.
ton. Rev. H. A. Wood of Joplin,
Mo-, closed the exercises with
very sincere and eloquent appeal
to old and young advising and
urging them to appreciate and
utilize the wonderful opportunity
ushered in by the new order Of
thinra
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-01-13
THREE KILLED IN STRIKE
RIOTS
Nineteen Others, Including
Woman Wounded at
Youngstown, o.

Youngstown, o., Jane T.
Three men were killed, nineteen
persons, including a woman, were
wounded, more than six city
blocks were burned, with a loss
estimated at 100000, and state
troops were called out to restore
order as the result of rioting in
East Youngstown following a
battle between crowd of strike
sympathizers and armed guards
at the plant of the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Company to-
night.
The trouble was the culmina,
ton of strike Of laborers, which
began at the plant Of the Repub-
lie Iron and Steel Company q
week ago and spread to the
plants of the tube company, the
Youngstown Iron and Steel Com
pany and the Brier Hill Steel
Company, all independent"
concerns. The men demand Is
cents an hour. The companies Of
fer an increase from 10 10 to a.
cents an hour.
The trouble started early this
morning when strike sympathis-
ers and workers at the sheet aud
fuho nlay,< nl.rhnd 2fnv,As ,u,nrn
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-01-13
State Normal School
WARRENSBURG

The State Normal School at Warrensburs ii.
now serving over 800 students In residence The
new buildings nearing completion and tt1es
outlook for the future Of the school IS exceleif
The winter quarter begins December and is ~
good time e enter Inquiry concerning the school
will be 0'adiy answered by the president. .
E. +. HENDRIX
Il 80 s' WA Nse1R0 Nl3S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

last yeer's dinner coat and nervous and ovver- rought sallery Menny peepul entur the sosia full of cheer and with lite and happy disposition, only to out of it with a yawning deffsite and disposition like peevish bulpup It is hard work not only finansially hard and trying-but fssicay we'll Yung and butifu debutantees have been tured in the sosal seesuh with everything in theere favuIbuty good clothes, talent and college educa
 sion-to out afur trying and hard campan, if the enammel removed, looking like fateegued grune, with nuthing te show for theere aging Leriense but moth eaten husband whose syllenders air full of carbon and fssical system shot to peeses with gin rickeys.
 Still we have to do it. Washington could no moor struggle through yeer without it's sosia seesun than the well known Jursey skeetur could fail to skeet when the unwarry traveller enturs it's domain
 The sosia seesun is part of fiscal system that hangs like visiting relasion offse seekur rum Oklahoma. Ovver in effect Urope wheere crowned heds and decayed nobility rules the sosa
 seesun for sevvere totturng dynasties, ontree into the best sircles is obtained only aftur submits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

it is callammity To the regulers who have enuff of the needful to choke elifant and who will im mediately hike out of Washington to the seeshore the mountains uther expensive phase wheere they recuperate and take tlA Keely cure, it is reeef, but to the guys who air in nerve alone it is sad blow, for they will go hungry till afternoon tees weekly dinner parties begin again they antssipate the return of the sosial like they look forward to the demise of rel lative who possesses a large bank account.
 The sosal set is also afflicted with grate army of snobs sycofants and toaddies. Of theese it is hard to desde which should be executed first-the snob the toaddy. Neether of them air necessary to the pease and welfare of the nasion and fill grater importent nich in the common community than the wart on dillpicke The snotNis usuely sum persun who has jerked out of nuthng by accidental upheavel of Provvidense, which will forever consti ute one of the unfathomabull mysteries of the pubck, and elevated to stasion in life far beyond his feebul comprehension and who is constinty gagged in trying forget the past, togethur with his wifes relasions. Or else the daughter of sum
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

pedigree that pennetrates sevverel centuries and legul execusions; but in the demmycratic west butt the sosial seesun decorated only with
 willing disposision and cast run nerve Sosiety is composed of sevverel different kinds of peepul
 There air lot of awfully mise peepul who mngul with the reguler sosiety set it is called in each city in this country becawse they air forsed to do by circumstances, uthers air forsed becawse of theere offisa posisons and still uthers air forsed to do so becawse of custum and then theere air lot of folks who break in with jimmy. That's what makes what is called sosety in this grate land of the free and home of newtrallity give of us pain. Theere air just oceans of folks who nfict sosiety who air ded frum the collar up. They got in by sum- boddy wishing lot of mummy on them and then pro- seeding to make noise like cash dividend evvery few momints While in presense of sum blew bluded twig of the sosial set who is long ansestry and short the needful. But theere air folks in what is turned sosiety who air getting away with absoootly ,nuthing in the wide wide world exsers
 good old fashioned run nerve than theere is of enny uther brand. When the sosal seesun closes to them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

that anyone would care to visit Seldovia at that time of the year. The Japanese re- piled that he was making the trip merely for the sea voyage and for pleasure.
 My scientific friend became fairly well acquainted with the5Japanese during the voyage, but not well enough to ask per- sonal questions. The Japanese did not volunteer anything further as to his business, but the scientist says that he had a camera with him and made nu- merous e photographs everywhere. He took snapshots of every bay and channel and kept notebook, in which he jotted down volunlinous memoranda in Japanese characters His notebook was evidently precious, for it was fastened to steel chain, riveted to "a leather belt, bucl1led about his waist, The lieutenant comman- der had the latest charts of our geodetic survey with him, and he made notes upon them as he went He was probably get ting full information about the coa st in case it might be needed by his navy at any time, in the future.
 By the recent developments on the bat tlefields of Europe the oil fields of Alaska have become of enormous importance. Gasoline is an absolute necessity for modern warfare. < It has to be used in motor car transportation, and is employ ed not only for the transportation of men, but also of ammunition, food and other supplies to the battlefields. The advantages of supply points of this fuel in the northern Pacific cannot be overesti- mated, and the oil fields of Alaska may become of great moment in the interna- tional complications of the future.
 It is not. generally known that. pe- troleum has been discovered in many parts of Alaska In a paper given last year before the American Institute of Mining Engineers of New York, Dr. AL fred H. Brooks, who is at the head of the geological survey of Alaska, described four localities, all on the Pacific seacoast, where petroleum is seeping forth from the earth. There are probably other deposits of oil in the interior. F. de K. Leffing- well, who for years has been exploring the north coast, found a petroleum residue 300 miles north of the Arctic circle, almost on the coast of the Arctic ocean, and travellers speak of other possible oil territories.
 I travelled the other day with a man who had been exploring in the Alaska range prior to the time when the coal beds were withdrawn from entry by the government He had photographs of coal veins of enormous thickness. He claims thatthe coal is of high grade, and says that there is a lake of petroleum 60 feet long and IS feet deep not far from the the shores of the lake, and that he has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Social Season
 Comes to Close

honnest Americon citizen of humbu but respectabuh origin who succeeded in acquiring few tuns of pietzas while the polise had theere backs turned, which releeved sed prony of having to work in the factory and gave them nsted ornimint to siety. The toaddy is snob with reverse English. They air persuns who immagine that the only way to make impression upon those who have stasions in sosiey polyticks above theere own is to throw series of abject contorsions, winding up by stand ing theere rite eyebrows while in the presents of the grate, and at no time or plase to have enny idears whatsoever of theere own, but agreeing ab- solooty and in detail to evvery idear advansed by those abovo them, mattur how silly or incense quensal.
 hey immagine by so doing they air making quite a hit, while as mattur of fact they establish repuiasion for being sevverel different varieties of a dclnphool. To theese peepul-and they air menny the close of the sosial seesun is indeed sad blow ito ali uthers it is grate boon To your humbull servant it makes no differense-he is an innosent Gystander Yours trooly
 BILL VINES. Washington D. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

conducive to .slumber unless slipped in great quantities.
 There again you disagree with me-the girl has no business doing the slipping and here again tell you this is New very far apart And, besides, how do you expect the thousands of slipping places to keep running unless someone buys their wares? However, it isn't even necessary for Jim to sip if she has a normal quantity of youthful enthusia sm, she will be happy enough without it, and she will not be worried about retiring when the clocks chime a. m
 After the conclusion of the ''frolic,' Thomas. feeling that life is worth living, and that there are better ways to live it than by merely. sleeping it away, sug- gests that they. dance awhile, at one Of the many all-ntght places kept open for just such couples. Soon they are there. On the way they saw thousands of people still on the streets, the lights were still burning, and New York gave no indica- tion that it was thinking of retiring for the rest of the morning-New York never does At-Healey's, for instance-they enter and find the lights as bright as they are at midnight, the floor is filled with whirling couples the music is lively and between dances there Is time for refreshment of any kind desired.
 $ But-there is no tete-a-tete possibility. There is no cozy corner where this couple of ours may hide themselves from the gaze of the curiOus-on the other hand am roptly tharaF o,rtin o,,d they may indulge in mild little flirta- tion, accompanied by guarded physical contact, in the presence of the assembled throng
 They remain here until the dawn. and after. if they so desire. Throughout the night they have not been alone together for . moment unless they rode from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

There is another oil field only a short distance from Seward, on the west shore of Cook inlet The steamers to Anchorage pass near it. It is almost under the shadow of Mount Hanna Z , not far from Iliamna lake, one of
 ost beautiful bodies of fresh wa
 Alaska This is the Iniskin oil
 so called because it lies on the
 .'e of Iniskin bay, which is a part
 the western coast of the inlet. The oil here is supposed to lie in a stratum of sandstone It is seeping out of the ground. No drilling nas been done there since 1904, and before that the field was only partially tested. One well was sunk to depth Of a thou sand feet. It was producing gas and oil when the water rushed in and shut off the oil. A second well was aban- doned at a depth of 15O feet and third struck oil and gas at ITO feet. The Iniskin field is easily accessible to steamships, although the harbor is sometimes blocked by ice floes.
 The fourth oil field on the Pacific sea coast is on the Alaska peninsula, that great horn of land about 300 miles long which forms the southwestern- most point of the territory, ending in the Aleutian Islands The oil has been found near Cold bay, distance per- haps of about 200 miles from the Kenai peninsula, and just across the way from the Island of Kodiak There are number of oil seepages in that fled and two wells were drilled there before the conservation scheme stopped further exploration. The seepages are flows out of the ground. There is a good harbor at Cold bay. which is open throughout the year. This oil field is the nearest Japan of those so far dis covered. t~.
 The fact that petroleum exists in Alaska is not new. The Cold bay field was known to the Russians as far back as 1865, but no attempt was made to investigate it; and IS years after we took possession of the territory oil was reported along the Pacific seacoast. It is. now about 20 years since attention was drawn to the Kata'la and Yakataga fields, and the first drilling at Yaka- taga was in 1901. A little later a sur vey was made for a pipe line from Controller bay to that field.
 The first drilines in the lnskin field were al about the same time, and it was two years later that the wells were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY--By Allen Griffin Johnson

but they however, comprise but a small part of our floating-and sinking-popu- lation. There have been many instances escort have returned to the apartment of the former after the sun had arisen over somewhere in the Bronx" and found mother sleeping peacefully, and not in the least worried about daughters whereabouts or howabouts.
 That, you may contend, is absolutely beyond the limit and many will agree in the case is not guilty. necessarily, of anything that would place her beyond the pale. And I shall explain to you in a moment how she probably spent the .seve- ning.' The answer is that New York is New York and it isn't any other place on earth-many of its inhabitants think there is no other place. in fact Telling these things to those who know nothing of them makes one feel rather hopeless. It seems so very probable that they will simply and promptly condemn the teller, that they will almost imagine they smell the fumes of iniquity. exuding from his soul as it is consumed in the fires of hades.
 Here is how the evening may be spent legitimateiy: John takes Mary--no, Mary isn't good Manhattan name-let's call her Jim. a lot of New York girls have names, or nicknames, like that. Well-Thomas takes Jim to see one of the big Broadway productions. He would not stand in well with Jim at all if he iott .,,,o lrc ,ly regular fellow he suggests some thing like the Midnight Frolic," just to prove that he thinks nothing of spending somebody's hard-earned money. The s'frolic' lasts about two hours. and while one is eating and watching it. one is ,in- cidentally sipping something that is not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

Hefe, where woman has almost as much liberty as man, she learns to look upon him very differently, and more than a few times has natural southern ardor. where the opposite sex is concerned, been brought up with the rude jerk of ridicule. against which sentiment has a hard struggle for victory.
 Everything inclined to naughtiness in New York city, advertises its naughtiest feature. Even the burlesque shows. put on their billboards. the naughtiest feature of the performance, and the audiences are frequently disappointed, because they took the picture to be but mild hint at the reality.
 But don't think that the New Workers are guiltiest in this matter of loving the appearance of evil. There is no one who seeks it more quickly and stays with it more consistently than your visitor to Manhattan. He has a doubly good ex- cuse-the second part thereof lying in the fact that he is visitor; that he is not here to stay and form habits, and that he merely wishes to indulge as sight seer.
 TO be thoroughly bad in Manhattan is to be thoroughly commonplace; there is nothing original about it. the glamour, if 1t ever had any, is worn off it is generally accepted as weakness and r not perhaps so much condemned--ur law is broken-as it is ignored after all, is there any better W ure man than to ignore hifn lie line is drawn, and New York hnaerstands just where. Going beyond it makes all ic Ia tl,a ii between sipping and gulping, vugarity and refinement, coarseness and culture. finesse and gauchereit simply doesn't go here. even among the great middle class.
 Appear naughty, if you will. toy with the flames that burn. gaze flirtatiously into the sweet face of danger" but