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The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04
DEUTSCHLAND IS IN WIDE OCEAN
 OPEN COURSE

NORFOLK, Aug. 4-The German submarine Deutschland is now steam ing Out on wide ocean course. Of ficials feel certain that the subma- riue will have litI!e difficulty in reaching home safely. The Amerl- cans ou watch to see that Ameri- can neutrality WAS not violated, reported that no allied cruiser was visible when the merchantman sub marine passed thru the caDes and if is supposed that by this time it Is safely in the broad Atlantic ocean.
 Upon receiving the news that the Ge. man boat was thru the 'capes and out on the Atlantic there was a general celebration amongst the interncd Germans in this city. With shouts Uf joyous laughter they tossed their hats in the air over rhc safe get away of the boat.
 Naval authorities at London ex- press 3ltle hope for it's capture. They say that there is little chance of snariug the vesse! in nets owing to the wide expause of water of ferred in which 10 submerge and escape, and that the chances Of sighting the submarine and making target os her is still more remote Nctning more than a 'rumor has been received here that the Brem- en has been reported as being within i safe distance of tEe American port, yet many vessels and marine men are on the lookout for the vessel believing that t will soon show up past Virginia Capes.
 The transportation of submarine freighters pioneered by Germany is looked upon as something to be reckoued with even should peace be declGred sine submarines, it is pointed out, may submerge and avoid the surface storms which sometimes are so disastrous to shipping.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04
BIS BATTLE NOW
 IN PROGRESS

PARIS, Aug. 4-Repolts are arriving at the war office telling of the French capture of several Ger man positions in the VerduH dis tricf. Subsequent counter at Jacks made early tbls morning by the Germans has wrestled some of the lost territory back. It seems to be see-sawing from one side to the other. A heavy battle is now in progress with She French ou the offensive.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04
TORRENTS POUR
 THRU HEAVENS

MIDLEBORO. Aug. A big cloud burst caused the death of thirty six persons iu this district late iast night During the day the weather was hot and sultry, Later it clOuded un and began to raiu-a wind sprap6 Up and before the r,CpIe we're aware, torrents of water began to descend from the skies. Before those who were caught cut in the storm could reach a point of safety they were drowned or killed by floating logs and blanks. Many were injured but rescued in time @ prevent drown ing.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04

Mrs. Louis NJ. Zesch of Fair banks Is stopping in the Garden Civ for a few days.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04

The Mariposa Is due from tho Westward on the 7Ih
Evening star., 1916-12-09
HIGH COST OF LIVING HITS
INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF
Increase Of 81, 500 Asked for Food
Supplies-Instructor in Type
setting Wanted.

The high cost Of living has hit the
Columbia Institution for the Deaf and
as a result Congress is asked to ap-
propriate an increase of $500 "to pro-
vide for the continued increase in the
cost of food supplies" in the annual
report of President Percival Hall, sub
mitted to the Secretary of the Interior
today.
An additional $500 is asked for
an Instructor in typesetting and for
necessary current expenses of operat-
ing a first-class printing establishment
1t is stated printing is one Of the stand
ard occupations Of deaf men, and a
number of deaf machine operators are
now earning good salaries in various
parts of the country. 1t is declared
that by giving frst-class instruction
In the operation of -typesettfng and
printing machinery to those of the stu
dents who have already mastered part
of the work in the state schools a
useful occupation will be at once
opened to them which affords as good
or better salaries than those offered
in many avenues now open to graduates
of the institution.
July / last there were 163 students
under instruction in the institution, of
which thirty-six are beneficiaries of the
District of Columbia.
Announcement is made in the report
of the comforting of the degree Of doctor
Of letters upon DIR. Edward Allen Fay.
vice president of the college, In recogni-
tion Of nifty years OF service as q mera-
Der Of the faculty. The degree was
conferred It the commsuosmsnt
exercises.
Evening star., 1916-12-09

like to see that house OF yours. went
you show 1t to me?" said he.
Danny thought it over for . few nsin-
utes. Here he was in q strange place.
think much Of his cousin Kibbler. but
there was nothing to be gained by quar-
rellfne with him. On the other hand.
Nibbler might be able to help them .
lot.
"All right" said Danny. I'll show you
our house If you will show us your
house.
To this Nibbler agreed. In his heart
he felt sure that these country cousins
couldn't possibly have much of q house
and that when they saw his they would
be hlled with envy. Danny led the way
up through the cornstalks to the snug
so much pride in the heart of the Germ
shock in Farmer Browns cornheld. and
which had been brought all the way up
to Farmer Browns barn with them in
1t in the last load of corn. Il was o
well built. stout little house. and ie had
suffered very little harm in the Journey.
When Nibbler saw 1t his respect for
Danny and Nanny increased tremend-
ously. 1t was a much better house Than
his own. In fact. he began to he rather
ashamed to show his own. He hoped
they would forget that end OF the hAr-
gain.
But they didn't forget When Nib
bled had examined their little house
outside and In and admired II until
Danny's heart swelled with pride, and
he had begun to think that his cousin
wasn't such a bad fellow after all he
reminded Nibbler that they wanted TO
see his house. Nibbler did his best to
change the subject, but at last saw
there was no way out OF It
1T is quite a climb to my house"
said he. Perhaps you are tired and
would rather wait until another day"
We're not a bit tired" declared Dan
ny. "Just show us the way and we'll
follow. We don't know how long We
may be here and We want to see all
there is TO see"
So Nibbler led the way and Danny
and Nanny thought 1t was the queer
est journey they ever had taken in all
their lives excepting. of course, the
strange ride which had brought them
from the cornfeld. There were q great
many ups and downs and little secret
ways behind things and under things and
around things BY and by they reached
a long timber back of the hay up in the
NOV. 1t was fun to scaInper along this.
At the end of 1t they came to Nibblers 9
house. 1t was in a corner Of the barn
where several timbers came together and
was very cleverly built in between them
1t was made of hay and was lined with
bits Of rags and paper. which Nfbbier
had torn into tiny pieces.
| 1t wasn't nearly as nice or stout q
house as that stout round little home
of cornhusks which Danny and Nanny
! had built, but they were too polite to
say so.
Evening star., 1916-12-09
PROGRESS OF THE INDIAN
TOWARD SELF-SUPPORT
Commissioners Inclined to Take
Hopeful View, Despite Many
Discouragements.

THE hating progress of the Indian
toward self-support and full citizen
ship is developing into a more assured
advance" according to the annual re-
port OF the board of Indian commits
sioners to the Secretary of the In
terror. just made public. The report
continues: There are not lacking
strong evidences Of definite results in
the aided and unaided efforts Of the In
dians to have and to hold the better
part of the white mans civilization.
There seems to be on the part of
Congress. the government, and in the
country at large a better understanding
of the so-called Indian problem even
though there are administrative and
legislative sins of commission and
omission which tend to discourage dis
interested friends of the Indian.
while the review Of the boards year
which follows may carry note OF
optimism. it must not be understood
that we are blind to many conditions
which oughe to bring shame to the
white people OF this, country and which
would oet - tolerated II every Amer
acan whlto ee1lSen recognized and &C.
cepted hfs Individual responsibility in
Indian GoArooaoship."
Evening star., 1916-12-09
EpWORTH LEAGUE DISCUSSION.

publication that has advanced rapidly
in the last fifty years. There Is PROB
ably not q single denomination IN the
country which does not nave q recog-
nized organ. and the Importance OF this
branch Of the church work is recog-
nixed by placing the very ablest men
available in charge Of the church pub
licatfpns. Many churches have score
or more Of these counting tne1r oaaiIes,
weeklies, monthlies. quarteraies ana
annuals. The Methodist Church has al
ways laid great emphasis upon the
value Of her religious publications and
maintains several large puoiishine
houses. from which are lssueo not OILY OILY
and ali other forms Of publications. use
ful in the work of the church There
are some devoted to the interests OF
the whole church. and others restrlct-
ment Of the church has it's official
organ, that of the Epworth League
being the Epworth Herald. weekly
newspaper issued by the chicago pup
fishing house. which not only carries
throughout the world. but much ma
terial that is inspirational and instruc-
tive, and otherwise helpful in produc-
ing the highest grade OF efhciency
among the various chapterss. :. ,,.,
Write the vision and make 1t plain
upon tables that he may run that read
eth it." said the Lord to Habakkuk.
Tho common expression. that he who
runs may read" II 1t was derived from
the passage of Scripture cited. Is badly
twisted, not only IN form, but In mean
ing. from the original. The modern
expression merely emphasizes plain
ness or lucidity. while the message OF
the Lord to the prophet was to make
the vision 60 clear that he who reads
shall act upon it-shall be so impressed
that he will run to perform the duty
it indicates.
This gives us a strong hint at the
function of the religious newspaper,
and SO applied may be interpreted to
mean that the vision-the clear-eyed
understanding of the events or the
present-should be so described and
interpreted that the reader shall be
reused to action. And this Is the aim
of not only the newspaper which we
call religious, but of the religious de-
partments maintained by a large num-
Der of the metropolitan newspapers.
which exercise such mighty influence
over such vast numbers Of people.
Only 4 Newspaper! quick read, quick lost.
who sums the treasure that 1t carries hence7
Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost.
Stareyed Intelligence!
To serve thy generation. this thy fate;
.sWritten in water" swiftly fades thy name;
But he who loves his kind does. first and late,
work too great for fame.
The JourBalist-Mary Clemmer.
Evening star., 1916-12-09
&,175,OW Was Expended After
Army Was Ordered Into Mexico.

Tho annual report of the quartermas-
ter general Brig. Gen. Sharp. shows
that $2,175.o00 was spent by the army
on motor truck equipment alone after
the expedition was ordered into Mex
leo last June in pursuit of Villa. 1t
states that difficulty in supplying
clothing equipment for guardsmen sent
to the border was in part due to short
age of funds supplied by Congress for
reserve stocks.
The estimates Of the quartermaster
general over q period Of. eight years
while appropriations were little more
than t4.000,000.
Evening star., 1916-12-09
q. S. AIDS ALASKAN NATIVES.
Fosters Co-operatives Stores, DR.. P.
P. Claxton Says in Report.

How the government is helping to
keep the "cost of living" for the natives
in Alaska from becoming unnecessarily
exorbitant is brought out in the annual
report today by DR.. Philander P. Clax.
ton, United States commissioner of
education.
I'm order to protect the natives from
those traders who charge exorbitant
prices for food and clothing and pay
as little as possible for native prod
ucts," he says. the bureau fosters CO.
operative stores owned and managed
by the natives. under the supervision of
the teachers. The most successful of
these stores is the one at Hydaburg:
other stores are in operation at Kla-
wock and Klukwan, in southeastern
Alaska; on Atka Island, in the Aleutian
chain; and on st. Lawrence Island, in
Bering sea. These enterprises have been
aided by the policy Of securing by ex-
ecutive order reservation for the exclu-
sive use of the natives of tracts of land
within which they are conducted"
Evening star., 1916-12-09
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
ANNOUNCES CHANGES

Tho following changes in the person
mel Of the Department Of Interior were
announced today:
Probationary appointments: Patent
ofiice-La Rue J. Smith, District OF Co
lumbia. $42o. Geological survey-Miss
Catherine A. Scanlin, Pennsylvania
$3.50; Rudolph P. Masertck. District OF
Columbia. assistant map printer. II per
day while actually employed Bureau
Of mines-E. Bruce Cotton. Massachu-
setts. $1.e2o; Douglas ]. Scruggs. Ten
nessee. $40.
Temporary appointmsnts: Genera
land ofIlceSDavid w. Eaton. Missouri,
$1,000. Patent oface-Bernerd GosnelL
District of Columbia, $1.eoo. Geological
survey-Mrs. Reba J. OBannon. Onio.
50 per day while actually employee
s75 per month. Bureau of mines h.
Moran. Pennsylvania. $3.50 per day
while actually employed.
Extension OF Temporary appoin,menMi' sssI NJ
Wilde. North Dakota, s. per day while
actually employed.
Reinstatements: Patent oface-Mrs.
Nina Pickrell: californis, $500; Geolofi. n !.
Of Columbia. $1,000.
Promotions: General land oh1ce-
Isaac II. Germany, Maryland. $1,000 to
$1,000; Miss Eta Stone. Kansas. $500 to
$1,000; Miss Nellie V. Payson, Maine.
5000 to $1,000: Miss Josephine S. Sim
mons, California, $720 to 5000;
Ernest B. Brown. Kentucky. $3.50
to $7e0. Indian offlce-Alonzo NJ. Glenn.
Mississippi. $120 to $500. Patent once
Benjamin r. Rauber, New York. $1,000
to $1,000.
Transfers to other departments: Cen
erai land office-Michael r. College
ment Reclamation service-Lewis NJ
Hammond, Wisconsin, to Navy Depart
ment.
designations: Indian office-Michael
Johnson. New York. Patent ,office-Earl
D. Brooke, District Of Columbia Blu
reau of mines-Maurice A. Mcdonnell,
District Of Columbia
Evening star., 1916-12-09
n1ILg n1IILEgoRlEs
&rBEDTInE
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright. 1915. by T. W. Burgess)
Danny, Nanny and NibbIer
Visit.
It's good for mice and good for you
A little visiting TO do.

The very best way in the world to
become really acquainted with people
Is to visit them in their own homes.
You may meet people day after day and
not really get to know them. But visit
them in their own homes and you see
them as they really are. 1t was just SO
with Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse
and their cousin. Nibbler the House
Mouse. When Nibbler discovered Danny
and Nanny looking as II they were quite
lost in Farmer Browns barn he had felt
very much superior to them. That
means that he had felt that he was
better than they. He had looked down
on them. had been scornful of them be-
cause they were from the country. and
had laughed at them. But when Rob-
Der the Rat had appeared Nibbler had
run away while Danny and Nanny hadn't.
Right then respect for them had been
born in Nibbler and he had begun to be
a little bit afraid OF Danny.
Then had come the sound of heavy
footsteps outside the barn door. Nib
bier had cried Run and Danny and
Nanny had run. There was something
fearsome in the. sound of those foot
Evening star., 1916-12-09
By Robert D. Burbank,
President of Washington District Epworth Leas

President of Washington District Epworth League.
1.-THE newspapers! Sir. they are the
most villainous - licentious - abomin-
able-infernal-not that ever read
them-no,-I make 1t rule never to
look into a newspaper" This fine bit
of sarcasm, spoken over q hundred
years ago by that famous Irish poll
tician and dramatist. Dick Sheridan.
satirizes the attitude of an amazingly
large number of people OF today to-
ward the newspaper IN general: ana
that of a much larger proportion OF the
This, however. is the age of pub
licity. and the great instrument OF pub
licity is the newspaper. The press is
the fourth estate Of the realm. said
Carlyle. and this truth Is recsiy-
Along with the other remarkable ad-
yancements of the nineteenth century.
advancements which have not been
paralleled in any other period OF equal
length in the worlds achievements.
came the advance Of the newspaper,
its rise being so rapid and its evolu-
ton so great as to be scarcely con-
ceivable. In fact the rapidity OF Sc
curing the news, editing and sending
it forth to millions OF readers almost
as soon as it happens. is marvellous
to contemplate, and could hardly be
believed did we not observe it every
day in the week.
The newspaper, aided by the post,
telegraph. telephone, cable and wire
less. brings to every portion of the
civilized world all the current happen
ings of the day. The rapidity OF Sc
curing the news Is scarcely more Won
derful than the great variety OF news
from every portion of the world that
daily finds it's way into the columns OF
every newspaper. The great metro
politan paper has become almost q
university in scope and in power. 1t
is one of the most potent influences
in modern thought, and apparently 1t
has not yet reached the limit of Its
remarkable growth and advancement
The religious newspaper Is form OF
Evening star., 1916-12-09
Would Aid Alaska Natives.

Encouragement Of the development Of
industries by the natives of Alaska is
urged DR. Claxton, in referring to this,
says:
THE time has come when the natives
in all parts of Alaska should be assisted
and directed in the establishment and de-
velopment of industries Of their own.
which will give them remunerative en-
ployment through much of the time in
which they are now more or less idle and
by which they may make for themselves
a better support and gradually take over
the larger part of the cost of their own
schools and medical attendance
The success of the reindeer industry in
the northwestern part of the territory and
of experiments in other industries on a
smaller scale, in other parts of the terri
tory would seem to justify the use of a
few thousand dollars year for this pur-
pose for the next ten or fifteen years. The
sooner these people are made wholly self
supporting the less will be the final cost
of their support and education to the
government A few thousand dollars judi
ciously expended for this purpose now
will save hundreds of thousands of dol
lars later"
Evening star., 1916-12-09
Topic:
THE MISSION OF THE RE-
IIGIOUS NEWSPAPER.
(Hab.. 2:2.)

Here shall the Press the Peoples right maintain,
Unawed by influence and unbribed BY gain:
Herr Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw.
pledged to Religion, Liberty and Law.
Motto Of the Salem Register" Story.
Evening star., 1916-12-09
HIGH COST Of LIVING
By Sheldon S. Cline.
No. 10.
Waste in the Home and on the Farm.

1t has been said that the average
American family wastes enough to feed
a family in France. That. probably, is
an exaggeration; but there is no doubt
but that Americans are the most waste
full people in the world. The American
housewife hasn't gotten away from the
cooking habits of her mother and her
mothers mother. who learned their
cooking in days when food was plenti-
full and cheap. She doesn't quite real
ize that never again will food be suf-
ficiently plentiful and cheap to justify
waste in cooking. An economist has
asserted that in any large city enough
food is carted away out of garbage
cans to relieve all cases of actual want.
Even in large hotels and restaurants,
where cooking is supposed to have
been reduced to a science. the waste is
appalling.
Nor is the waste in American homes
represented alone by the food which is
thrown away. An even larger waste
results from lack of knowledge of food
values. There are few families which
could not be better fed and better
nourished at less cost IL housewives
understood the properties of food and
step toward reducing the high cost of
living will have been taken when every
housewife has obtained and mastered
standard work on home economics and
food values.
j. !:
Waste on the average American farm
average American home This waste
results largely from ignorance and
carelessness and improper equipment,
but no inconsiderable part of it is due
to the fact that city markets are un-
willing to take second-grade stuff. If
an apple day keeps the doctor away,
enough apples rot on the ground every
year to put all the doctors out of busi-
ness More apples go to waste, prob
ably. than are sent to market. They
and because the trees have not been
properly pruned and sprayed the apples
Will not grade up to market require
ments. Many Of them are wormy and
most OF them are gnarled. but they are
good for cooking. They would be a
good buy" in any city at half the price
OF ordinary cooking apples: but the
farmer can't sell them for enough
through established channels to pay for
picking them from the ground
1t is the same with peaches and other
fruit, and to a still larger extent with
vegetables. In many localities truckers
feed their second-grade vegetables to
hogs. because they are unable to find a
market for them. They are, in most
cases. as good as first grades except
for appearances. The trucker would be
glad to sell them for half price, but
dealers will not handle them. And the
reason dealers will not handle them is
because people will not buy them TAX
ing the country as a whole, one-third
of the potatoes grown, probably are
below market size. and are thrown
away or fed to stock Yet there is more
food value in a peck of small potatoes
than in a peck of large ones, for the
most nutritious part Of the potato is
just beneath the skin.
Evening star., 1916-12-09

Pending the time when native Ameri-
can housewives learn to utilize these
seconds" from the farm, about the
only market for them is in the foreign
quarters of large cities. And they are
not marketed there to any great ex-
tent, because the cost of transportation
and handling eats up so large part of
the saving.
There isn't farmers boy anywhere
who wouldn't be glad to pick up wind
fall apples II he could get 10 cents a
bushel for his work. Fifteen cents a
bushel ought to cover the cost of carry
ing them In cheap containers to the
nearest city market. Yet go to market
today and you will find apples only a
trifie better selling at 10 cents per
quarter peck.
Evening star., 1916-12-09
Home EDUCATION,
DR.. C|AXTON'S PLEA
Favors Thorough Investigation
to Obtain Better Training
for Children of U. S.
SCHOOLS HELD SECONDARY

Careful and thorough investigation as
to tho means of better education OF
children in their homes and the dissem-
nation of information as to the best
methods for the early physical. mental
and moral education of children in the
home and for the better cooperation
Of home and school in the education OF
children Of school age is one OF the
recommendations made in the annual
report of the United States commits
sioner of education. DR.. P. P. Claxton,
today. DR.. Claxton sets forth that chill
dren of the United States are in school
less than I per cent Of their time from
birth to twenty-one.
1.-The homo is the primary and fun1a-
mental educational institution" says
the report Schools and other agen-
cies are only secondary. If education
in the home fails no other agency can
make good the failure. With our
changing civilization and social and In
dustrial life, there is need for more
careful study of education in the home.
The bureau already has made begin
ming in this work. but there is need
of far more than it can hope to do
without much larger equipment for It,"
Evening star., 1916-12-09
The Anti-Japanese Campaign.

The anti-Japanese campaign in Amer
lea is characterized as cause for
shame and solicitude," in the report of
the commission on relations with Japan
presented to the council. This cam
paign, says the report. tends to es-
tablish a deep-seated suspicion of ia
nan among our own people. animosity
against us in Japan. and spirit of
mutual hostility that upon some rela-
lively slight occasion might easily re-
suit in serious consequences. Merely
because men happen to belong to this
nation or that race. God does not re-
gard them with special favor or disfa-
vor. True Christianity knows neither
east nor west"