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The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-24

critical attention, and at the close
his effort was warmly applauded.
Following a solo by Mr.. He'd
rick, the graduates We're present
ed their diplomas by the princi-
pal, Mrs. Edith Morton, who re-
ferred to the splendid spirit
shown by the class of II, their
loyalty to the school and the
friendships formed, which, tho
their paths diverged, would al
ways remain a pleasant memory,
a tie that could not be broken.
Mrs. Morton paid a deserved tri-
butte to Mr.. l.. Steen for his eff
Gent and kindly services, in
which the audience was in
hearty accord.
The closing number, "Barcar-
Ole" was well rendered by
Misses Dick, Reed, Phillips and
Harmeling.
Mrs. H. G. Ward, president of
the Parent-Teachers' Associa-
ton, made some timely remarks
complimentary to pupils and
faculty, and announced that light
refreshments would be served
following congratulations to
graduates and their teachers,
Observation-Disclosures press
ed forward and the eight young
people, Charles Gibson, Myrtle
VanOlinda, Paul Thorsen, Doro,
thy Goodchild, Willis Blekkink,
William Garvin, Roy Todd and
Allen Peyser. graciously submit
ted to a hand squeeze from each
one, accompanied by WORDS OF
sincere commentator for what
they had accomplished and with
we'll wishes for their future.
Then followed a social time
while the refreshments were be-
| inp djSDOSed of.
The class colors, green and
white, were prominently display
ed 4and the decorations were
beautiful and appropriate.
The program Throughout was
most excellent.
Will they "scoren or will they 'Die
on Third2n is question that recurs
to many each commencement when
gazing into the bright faces of a
class of graduates. If wishing could
get them anwhere, parents, teachers,
and friends would soon have them in
positions of aiiluence and power. But
success is not reached by any short
cut:n on the contrary they who would
succeed in the game of life must be as
Observation-Disclosures.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-24

For RENT Waterfront place at
Colvos. suitable for chickens,
etc. Small rent or agreement to
work on place, Herbert w.
Meyers, Pioneer Bldg, Seattle,
or Colvos, Wash. 30
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-24

Mr.. and Mrs. f. W. Gorsuch
and Mrs. E. j. Gorsuch and
children motored down from
Ferndale, Sunday, via the ferry
to look after Island property and
visit with relatives. MIR. and
Mrs. F.. w. Gorsuch returned to
Ferndale Tuesday.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-24
Church Announcements
LUTHERAN

LUTHERAN
Pentecostal services will be
held next Sunday afternoon, in
the Norwegian language, begin
ming at 400 o'clock.
PRESBYTERIAN
Morning subject, Lot, the
Lingerer;" evening, Aaron, the
Validating" G. b. at Z o'clock.
METHODIST
Morning subject, The Part
our Nations Heroes Have Play
ed in the Progress ofCivilization. !"
Evening subject, Jesus our
Counsellor All are cordially
invited to attend both services.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-24

WANTED Experienced straw
berry pickers. See JAS. r.
Chambers, ST., on old Pruit
place now. 20
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-24

For SALE-S200 launch, 16 foot,
for 1925. Herbert W. Meyers,
Pioneer Bldg, Seattle, or Col
yos, Wash. 30
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-24

For SALE 1215 acres at Ellis
port; 5 acres well improved.
Young mare, Jersey COW, i'm
plements, crop, household fur
niture. Price $4,000, half cash.
Gus Hedman, Ellisport, Wash.
0-31-4
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-16
Intervention That Mexico Needs.

From "a Brief Text from Isaiah" a
Story by Katharine Holland Brown,
in Scribner's.
Fright through his convalescence, and
ever since. he's been the loudest little
Upper for intervention. ever. Talks 1t
days. nights. and Sundays
"lnterVentiOn?'
intervention. yes. But not the kind
you're thinking of. lie wants rs to roll
up our sleeves, and dig Town deep into
our bank accounts. and. send an army of
reconstruction into Mexico An army OF
doctors and nurses and sanitation ex-
perts; a squadron loaded to it's gun deck
ports with flour and beans and blanket
and tools and machinery. He says we
can rebuild Mexico for her people as cas-
lily as we built the Panama canal. Easier.
Only trouble with us Americans, We've
got no spiritual imagination,' says Cory.
earnest and aglow. Take any of our
great movements for social betterment.
They're bully. as far as they go. But
why can't we carry them farther? Why
Look at the Y. Nj. 6. A.. and the splendid
work It does for our own boys. for Jimmy.
and Mike, and Heinrich. why not for
Luis, and Juan. and Pedro? Push 1t
why can't a nation be a big brother to a
weaker nation? Man. can't you see the
grandeur of this opportunity? Isn't it the
~drag,another country out of the pit?'
But the practical difficulties-
Practical Easiest thing
you know. Establish a Mexican loan, a
whaling big one, with nominal interest,
or none. Send down a regiment of trained
social workers. men and women who
know how to handle poverty and sickness
and crime. For a campaign like this will
call for conseclated lives as we'll as
blankets and grub and shoes. Ask Latin
America to cooperate with us in sending
our army of mercy
Blu such a campaign would cost a
barrel of money
Cost money? You're whistlin' it'i
cost Is,nee! And haven't we got the
money? Is there another nation on earth
that's got as much to spend? Can't we
afford to buy bread for those that starve
at our Kates?'"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-16
Drive the l. w. w. Out Of Minnesota!
From the Dulut Herald.

The public authorities of Minnesota,
from the governor and the legislature
communities affected, will have the most
thorough-going public support in using the
most vigorous efforts possible to drive the
menace of the 1. w. w. out of Minnesota
and to keep 1t out.
1t may be true that some of the activi-
ties of the authorities against this lawless
outfit go beyond the scope OF the law. It
among the workers on whose hard
earned wages the I. W. w. is fattening.
II so. more's the pity; but nevertheless
word go abroad that it tolerates such an
institution as the I. w. w.
II employers everywhere are careful to
treat their workers fairly and as gener-
ously as trade conditions will permit,
T. ine w. y. 10 ''S'0"'e"' 'es' 'ne
ever the wrongs of labor. the program
and practices of the 1. w. w. do not offer
a remedy for them. The I. w. w. is as
ployers. Socialism is too slow for them.
and they seek to accomplish their ends by
revolution. What happens to the men
seems to be the least OF their troubles. If
they can create d~issension between abor
and capital. il they can disturb the peace,
tn.'in n any lyman manne rI possible sab ~" they sy. are con-
tent SO long as the dues keep coming In.
There can be and there should be no
patience with such an OUTFIT. It is the
worst enemy of those whom it pretends
to benefit, because it brings discredit to
all reasonable efforts to improve the lot
Of the worker. and because the menace
of 1t is so.great hat in order to cope with
It thes trict rules Of law are likely to be
ignored: and that. even IL necessary. is a
dangerous precedent for which-and for
little else-we are indebted to the I. w. w.
There should be no room in Minnesota
for such activities as the lawless ones of
this organization Of anarchy and violence.
Every public official In Minnesota, from
the governor and the legislature down.
shout look upon 1t as his first duty to blot
out his law defying crew whose law Is
mot rule. whose sole aim is disturbance
not alone the employers but the workerS
and the public
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-16
MothsrsinIaw Not Guilty.

Chicago has a domestic relations court
to consider the terrible cases of family
disagreement and warfare that frequently
get beyond the walls OF the horne. JUS
why this court should make the announce
ment 1t has regarding mothersinlaw N, is not
known at this distance from it's bar Of
Justice. but the court is reported as de-
claring that mothersinlaw are responsible
for not more than one per cent of the dis
putes brought before 1t. One is almost in
clined in reply to the honorable court to
make use Of the old retort. Who said
they were?"
Joke was standard. These witticisms
meant nothing in particular. but they fire.
queEtly gave pain. Long since. the moth
erinlaw Joke died out. except among the
u%nthinking, but there remains a feeling
ia the public mind on the matter. The
name sometimes provokes a smile, even
though the long prosecuted butt OF joke
sters may be loved to distraction. and
may be. the mainstay of the family. No
humorous publication will accept q Joke
on the m%otherinlaw. not because these
papers love the motherinlaw, but because
the theme Is worn to rags. No aroma
OF humor any longer clings to II.
And now the Chicago court of domestic
relations finds that the lady concerned IA
not responsible for more than 1 per cent
of family troubles. She IL doubtless re.
spnnstble for many times l per cent OF
family Joys.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-16
INTERPRETATIONS Of Japan.

From the Chicago Evening Post.
Professor Henry b.. Mussey Of Columbia
university. in an article in the Survey,
contends that American views of Japan
belong in the realm OF mythology rather
han fact.
He notes two stages in our thought of
Japan. sharply conflicting. Before the
war with Russia. he says. we thought of
the japanese as a race of cunning little
yellow skinned artistic geninses. They
sat forever In the moonlight under a flow
ghostly but enhancing outline of Futiya-
ma. Mostly. they spent their time writing
poems to hang on their cherry tree, but in
brief intervals they created. for the pure
love of 1t. bewitching works of art that we
afterward acquired for a song
But Japan fought Russia, sank her
fleet n captured Port Arthur. The myth
was shattered. A new myth arose. We
saw visions of II nation wholly given over
to soldering n international intrigue.
China. the Philippines, Mexico, California
were all In desperate peril of conquest
annexation. The land of fairies had be.
come a land of furies.
Professor Mussey says the actual fact
IL the Japanese are much like other Feo-
ple-an Intelligent, Industrious race. fac
ting the same problems that We face in
city and nation: divided as we are divided
by differences OF opinion over domestic
and foreign policies: but at work under
the. IKE drive of economic necessity
national ambition to achieve their destiny.
IT - well to shatter he myths and to
picture reality. But possibly the myths
are not AZ firmly implanted In the minds
~ Americans Al Professor Mussey thinks.
49, nAL ~ MAHI 49, AE1 EtL 49,
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-16
PURE WAFER ON SHIPS.

About 10 years ago DIR. Cobb called
attention TO the fact hat fresh water
sailors had more than their Ehare of
typhoid fever. He ascribed this to the
Objectionable method of taking water
by ships. Either they filled their tanks
with water known to be polluted, or else
they waited until they got into clean
water to fill their tanks put pumped
the clean water through polluted sea
cocks and water pipes.
Agitation for control of the water
supplies of ships plying fresh water
was started by the Lake Michigan
water commission in 1909. Prior to that
m no traveller was safe unless he had
the habits of "a camel-filled up on
water before he started and her went
dry while on coats and trains. To
drink water on a fresh water boat is
not safe yet, but it is becoming so.
COBB. Williams, n I-etton, say that
muc the safest and best method of
PURIFYING water for fresh water boats
is the use of stills of the type used on
all salt water boats. The investigators
old not find any fresh water boat that
used the still system.
The next best method is a properly
regulated apparatus for p~asteuriZing
water. Thirteen samples We're taken
from lake vessels making use of heat
treatment. All We're free from colon
bacilli.
The third best method was proper
sterilization by means of violet rays.
TWO hundred and forty samples were
taken from vessels using his method.
f1ftyfour and threetenths per cent
was free from bacillus coli. Although
many of the ships are equipped with
this method of water sterilization the
results We're not good because of faulty
operation.
Treatment with bleaching powder
II with liquid chlorine were also
found to kill the bacteria, but, in OPP
Grafton. the method did moi work we'll.
Complaints of chlorine taste We're fire.
quent. The methods of mixing were bad.
About 80 vessels We're found equipped
with sand filters. These filters were
found extremely unsatisfactory.
Probably the best of all methods is
that required by the Toronto authori-
ties. All boats calling at Toronto are
required TO fill their drinking water
tanks from the city mains.
Owner and operators of boats plying
fresh waters can get this bulletin from
the public health service. The title Is
Drinking Water on Interstate Car
riers." by Cobb. Williams. and Letton.
The public can drink water on
lar passenger lake boats with moderate
safety. The danger is. say, 10 per cent
greater than from drinking Chicago
water. The public had better not drink
water on freight LAKE boats without
first learning that it is safe. The prob
ability is that is will not be. Since the
new regulations vent into effect it is
safe to drink water on any passenger
train anywhere.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-16
New York a Moral City.
Rollin Lynde HART in the Century Maya

1 recall the definition, "Character-What
o are In the dark" and its paraphrase.
''Character-What you are in New York
Yet impreeses me In New York IL
not her frivolity. 1t Is her decency, her
courage. her kindness. or all great cities
New York IL by far the most moral out
wardly. and who will fail to recognise the
social value OF even outward morality? E
OF all great cities she II by far the
pluclfest. She breeds fighters like Riis
and Rainsf0rd. Abbott and Potter. Jerome.
Roosevelt and Hughes. She has tanned
her police. She has taken q long. long
stride toward abolishing the feudal sys-
tenn that centers In Tamniany Hall. Big
buslneoD hehaves. or pretends to. Gam
blers have ceased collecting art treas
ures. District attorneys have outg1oWn
the habit Of bowling themselves in throu4h
the ceiling. Graft dwindles. Official come
plicity With satan 10 both difficult and
The tenement has improved. So has
"Coney.' Every advance costs Z battle.
and the end is not yet. New York real.
h~olocausts. race wars" Crime waves
and strikes. there are warnings in abund-
ance OF more Nights coming. Tammany's
striped beast Ia not dead. 1t sleeps. The
underworld IL not banished: every few
days Q sociologist unearths new miseries.
And. mind you this same New York
surrounded her municipal building Nth
q statue Of civic Pride.
Che does not like the -recrudescence or
evil. But. such 10 her pluck, she takee
u ~ q challenge. and reports: "After 4
hundred fights. the hundred and fTrff
Then lead me to IT." SO
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-16

Apprehension of Japan is not so much
based upon an exaggerated idea of her
military character as it is on very we'll
founded appreciation of her energy. in
modern aspects. a young and vigorous ma
ton for whom achievement lies in the flu
ture. She has expanding vitality. and
nrge toward expansion conflict almost GER
tainly follows. 1t is not necessary to
imagine Japan possessed of a malevolent
spirit toward the world to predicate the
possibility hat she may at some time
bring AN elbow in sharp contact with
American interests. Professor Mussey
admits that the militarist element is at
present in the ascendency: Precisely SO:
and Japan is watching "a process of ag-
grandizement in Europe that appeals to
emulation.
We may have the greater reason to be
on our guard because Japan is a realm
neither OF fairies nor of furies. but of In
tense, ambitious and very capable u1man
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-16
TWO i. w. WIS.

The New York city health depart
ment has organized a new II. w. w"
Theirs is called the j Walk to Work
club. They launched the movement on
ing their Open Window week This L.
w. w. is sponsored by good folks.
John Finley, New York commissioner
or education, got the walking bee
around Galesburg. III. He writes:
Il am delighted that you + taking
up the matter of walking. ! inclose a
bulletin which | put out last year to
the school children, and / am sending a
medal which l had struck a year or
w ago for award to schoolboys. l
shal be glad. to contribute 20 of these
in bronze and N in silver"
DR.. William A. How writes:
The energizing influence of walk
distance Should be walked
every day, regardless of weather condi-
tons"
MIR. Frank Gage. president of the
American Walkers association, advises
how to walk, as follows: Walk upright.
shoulders back. chest expanded: allow
arms to swing freely; step out with Il
snap; walk with the hips. not with the
knees. The slow. haphazard, often
slouchy gait of the ordinary citizen is
not walking.
Covering distances with little effort
that to the average person would he
quite impossible and at n gait that
surprises the casual observer. the prac-
tlced pedestrian finds his walking a
pleasure second to none. In addition.
he fills his lungs with pure, in%vigorating
air. send his blood pulsing through his
veins, carrying fresh life and vitality
to every part of his body.
Mr.. James Hooking. pathfinder of the
Walkers Club of America. says:
ITO walk correctly one must use a
heel and toe stride. The heel should
touch the ground first, then the ball
and the toes, to give the final spring to
ahead. not to the sides. The body must
be carried erect. the arms swinging
naturally. and the lungs taking plenty
of air"
The original w. WIS were the In
ternational Walkers band-to-wit: the
tramps.' But the tramps grew too
strong to walk and adopted the box
cars as Il means of transportation. This
l. w. w. band has now been taken over
by the ! w. WIS. and no man is allowed
to beat his way on a freight train unless
he has his l. w. w. card. Since the
floating worker and the tramp have
long since quit walking. this new rule
of the road may operate to decrease the
number of men who wander around the
country.
The death rate in cities always rises
III winter. The rise is principally due
20 deaths among men between 20 and
q. y eess old The number of men of the
Ca, Gal latssr class who crowd into any
lara. city in the winter reaches into the
tens of thousands. If h l. w. w. and
it's union card system will limit the
number of men who get ava from the
home base they may do some good.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-16
Unreliable.

On Jsmes y. Jinks you can't depend
he doesn't keep his word This is
.he punkest Recommend that any man
nown cant find much work to IN.
Wherever he appears in town, employ.
ers cry out Shoe" ! hired a youth
whose name is Charles. to help me bale
some hay; to bind the deal ! paid him
aries. he said he'd come next day. INT
never did that youth appear which
made my lifebiood boil: he went a-fi.h-
.hs IN the mere, and passed up honest
,oi. de comes to me when DAYS are
v aud hits me for "a job. the piker
anu tue sWab. He comes 10 me when
teinp.s Bows, and asks me for. a pie.
pul ! We no charity for those on whom
sennis Bird To ply the saw and sperthe.
Tor q whosdo not keep their word are
little worth. The down-and-ou
are mostly men vino this false system
played; who broke and broke. and hrok.
again the promises they made.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-16
NERVOUSNESS.

The first step to take IL to discover
whether yon have any organic disease.
Assuming That yon have had a thorough
physical examination and have found that
you are ~oyxanicaIly sound. your next step
should be TO work out why you are ner-
Vous. Then Won can proceed to remedy the
condition.
Soloinon describes a chain Of events Of
the following order. Read it and see If il
hts your case or parallels it:
A man under the influence of a mental
strain becomes afraid and develops wor-
iies. He Can not curb bis emotionalism at
night, and IN consequence he fails to sleep.
After "A lew mig hts of insomnia he devel-
OPS IN. ~ mpiotns which insomnia induces.
Amons thes. are the following: Head
ache. spots before the eyes. dazed feel
'i'ss. dIzZ:ness. sieepiness. loss of appetite.
iIy mouth. coated tongue. constipation
md general state OF exhaustion and IA
tisu.. There are chilly feelings. disturb
Aiess OF sensations. numb hands. tingling
81 N" nerves. foot or hands asleep. trem-
Us o. tht iineefs and o! the protruded
tensnr increased hnec Jerks. twitchings of
;ae limbs Il tired. worn ont expression,
NTH general aches. weak back. shortness
- breath. maybe palpitation of the heart.
thNrnpine or the heart felt in the abdomen.
ialio pulse. lowered blood pressure. and
'ack II strength and endurance.
Intellectually the patient begins to show
lack ~ concentration. inability to pursue
work for any length of time. emotional
INSTABILITY. Hrisabiiity. crankiness. gro,ich-
insss. pessimisrn.- Then come anxiety. APP
3HAH ~ ibN " GI1n-
Now ths patient begins to worry about
has own condition. He fears that he is
losing his mind. Auto suggestion begins
fa %urs and Oft of mis- worries there grows
Il fear Of heart disease. kidney disease.
.-a;sce7, 1T some other disease that he has
heAr0 about. -ead about. or talked about.
fls worry Keeps him from sleeping and his
lnssip1ss increases his list OF aches and.
--teN~ iii Inllfi3hrs mis- worry.
lrae Chance S HtHe oat Of 10 that the per
Sun 10y This .s:ss viii have forgotten ali
shs'ai IAs ~prsEsaTy worry which started
ie@ n SOPHIA.
sosnSlsoss says Efsat ali OF these cases can
lie cnrs~d Furthermore. that cure is rath-
81 easy u Il = scD. AT rightly and the
ail1iS f'tar~~su }tlds has complete support
ilrst- II Erass. te proven that the person
= crcsElcaHy sound Then he is made to
+ct hal d START toward a cure has been
spaat- Ne1l II * necessary 10 unravel the
-iistaft q he allrftnt for this patience
ind fsTlt are required The symptoms are
20 he sTs.x,t-i i,aeG to The insomnia. Next
tpe i'sst DRY Inl.st 9ead tssck Of The nSonnia
." M han mental HABITS which primarily
tideTias iht f.ise:sl Eia- The person must
I've nltsoe % set ths sequence of caEseS-tAe
Wan sh4 pIeloIs circle started.
Nsai, Tie inssJfnnia must he overcome.
= he patient mus ger plenty OF resiful
.'i'.tsi,. 3TeIi lat Isarsi learn 10 control his
Worrtes s-nd fears. 10 gain mental poise
and tAinl When he has 1earned this les
SOD it permanently throws off al tend
-nSy IT. uprVGl.gJres<
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-16
Kent sss 900 900 to Europe.
From III. Photographic Pubic Leds

fon ~ fili1sne-aphia fuphc Ledger
In the TWO years and five months which
have elapsed since the nations OF Europe
weut 10 was. the American people have
contributed approximately &5s, GOO. 600
toward the relief of the distressed VIC
ti,ns. accorSiilsf To figures available from
the Ftsd C>ruHs snd either orsaliza tons
af,o eumrn1tte&s 10 The larger cities of the
country
"A statement showing the amounts col
len1ed Throughout The country for war
charities and winch were distributed from
central committees in New York city alone