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Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-11-05

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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-11

reason which appears to make this
proposition and a demonstration of
this spirit highly desirable. There
are among us many who, irrespective
of how falsely informed they may be,
sincerely believe that we are fighting
a war for the benefit of the rich, for
the munitiOn-makers who are sup
plying the allies, and for that reason
do not support the nation in this
war, or at least not whOle-heaTtedly.
What an irrefutable argument this
would be; it could scarcely help but
bring them over heart and soul
Martin H. Raymond.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-11
THE PUBLIC FORUM
CONSUMPTION OF INCOMES


What argument can possibly stand
against graduated income tax and
the CONSUMPTION of incomes above a
certain amount as a means Of raising
the necessary funds for war? Is it
not just as right and logical to place
the economic burden Of war upon
the shoulders of those best able to
bear 1.-THE economically strong
as to place the burden of military
service on the shoulders of those
best able to bear that - the young
and physically strong - rather than
place it Unfortunately on the
shoulders of all alike?
But looking at the proposition
from another point Of view, are not
the rich as well as the poor subject
to military service; would this not
be an additional discriminatory bur
den on them? Not if we accept as
just that the government. has the
right to ask from its citizens what
ever it is best in their power to give,
whether it is in the form of service
in industry, on the battlefield, on
the ocean, or in whatever form that
best is, even to life itself.
If a mans chief asset be a large
income, he should be willing to con-
tribute that, and, if he has talent
also, the nation might in all justice
ask that, too. Admitting the justice
of the proposition, the question is, is
it expeditions? Might it not create
a division; opposition from those af-
fected? Would some withdraw their
financial support from the industries
necessary in carrying on war? Hard
", for even if there were some so
selfish as to care for nothing but
their own gain, no other industry
would profit them more.
But does it not sound insulting to
the true Americanism of the wealthy
to even intimate that they would not
welcome this opportunity of demon
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-11

war, or at least not WQOle-QeaTJeQly
What an irrefutable argument this
would be; it could scarcely help but
bring them over heart and soul
Martin H. Raymond.
WATCH THEIR SMoKE.-Ac-
cOrding to a circular lately issued by
the Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America, signed by their
field secretary, the well-known water
apostle, Chas. Sickle, that body will
attempt to win labor votes for the
cause of the Anti-SaloOn league by
literally patronizing the labor press,
as already started in The Day Book.
OF course, the leaders in this move
care little for labor, yet they have the
Unmitigated gall to believe the rank
and file can be bought by the expen-
dituTe of a few hUnured dollars in
the labor press.
This is a copy Of a letter by Mr..
Stelzle to an employer Of labor in
New Jersey:
eff business men and workingmen
could be persuaded of the actual
facts regarding the liquor industry in
New Jersey there is no doubt that
they will be unalterably opposed to
the saloon.
eve are setting up campaign of
publicity on this entire question, to
be conducted through paid advertis-
ing in the labor press. This means
not merely in the labor papers pub
lished locally in the state of New Jer-
sey, but in the official journals of the
great international unions which are
sent without expense to every men,
Der of these unions.
This includes bakers, BARRIERS,
boilermakers, blacksmiths, bricklay-
ers. butchers-and / haven't even be.
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-23
Switch Case In Courts.

Although the State Utility B0ard
decided in favor Of the Mound City
Mill and Elevator Co., relative. to this
establishment being provided with
switching conveniences, the Burling-
ton Co. has carried the case into the
courts, and II will be tried In the Bu-
chanan county circuit court, Noyem-
her so. Judge John Kennish, OF Kan
sss City, and w. Z. Bissett, Of this
city. are attorneys for the Mil com
psny. The disputing parties are ne
rotistine With Q view to having q
s%assA SSms ,apstituon paii u " viii Ill not - Sandi
capped any longer, with the egnee.
ucnt that II the Mil company iosea
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-23
BENTON.
delayed Letter, Nov. l6.)

delayed Ietter, Nov io'D
Everyone is invited to our meet
%t;ale Emerson and family are set.
tied in their new home
Maurice Harrison Is the baby's
name, born to VIM. Murray and wife
Nov. 6.
Gerald Andler visited his brother
Ed, ut Wetmore, Kansas, the first OF
the week.
Mrs. Thomas Curry, Of Oregon
and sister, Miss Feigenbaum, OF st
Joseph, and Mrs. India Price, Of Ore
gon, spent the day at the Robt. Emer-
on home, last Friday.
The young people enjoyed q tacky
party at the Walter Staiey home, on
Halloween night. Appropriate re-
freshments were served, games play
ed, some music enjoyed, and an alto
ether good time was had.
The revival meetings, conducted
by Rev. Werner, beginning with pre-
paratory services last Friday evening,
md communion services Sunday morn
ing, have been well attended. Rev
Platz, of Kansas Ciy, preached three
good sermons, and then was obliged
70 20 to help with meeting at an
ther place. Mrs. Feitz, OF Newton,
Kansas, leads the singing, and is very
helpful in other ways. A number Of
the people of the Ebenezer church,
east Of Mound City, attended services,
unday morning and evening. We
were very glad TO have them with usl
VERITAS.
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-23
From DR.. Wood.

! Boston, Mass, Nov. Q, 1917.-Dear
Deacon and Tom: As l promised tn
write you Of my experiences, will en-
deavor to do so.
left Oregon, Wednesday, the 3lst
ult., via st. Joseph, which I left about
$3.50 p. m; arrived in Chicago next
morning. The first thing I noticed
was an ugly cold, half rain and half
snow, which was very disagreeable. II
hardly saw the sun while | remained
In Chicago, which was two days. NJ
sister-in'law, Mrs. Halle Browning
Jasper, chaperoned me over the city.
We visited Jackson park, the seat Of
the Columbian Exposition, and Lake
Michigan, during the afternoon. The
lake seemed to be quite as unsettled
Us myself, only IL seemed to express
itself more than ! did. After dinner,
we went TO see and hear Elsie Janis,
after which I felt better, for she is
ccrtainly a sure cure for the blues.
The next day we visited some Of the
main stores and streets. Marshall
Fields was among the stores visited.
II is almost a complete city within
itself, and very fine. II contains a
number Of cafeterias, parlors. loung-
ing rooms, reading rooms, smoking
rooms, etc. II covers an entire block,
on State. Randolph, Washington and
Wabash avenue. We later visited Ho-
tel Morrison, one OF the finest in the
city, and there had dinner and visited
the cabaret show at the Terrace Gar.
den (which Is in the hotel, and there
witnessed besides a very good show,
some most wonderful skating on the
ice. After leaving here we visitc'i
in ,bc world" and II certainly seemed
/ so To- mo. for / nearly vot run down
lby n coordination Of people. autos.
trucks and trollcys. I am now about
In icnvc. and II YOU want INV opinion
or lb,cago. n isl wo, 'dpt liy,
i ,ho,c on Inc, !" Fv, Ting md
eyc,ybodv arc in such n hurry. mud
liz newer reas,s do,, IL,
IIc,ns ,hcir merry, rron ,,,,,p,,,.
boar,lcd The Mich,yau IN, Al ,,..
ted nm esclusiy. Pullman tn. =.
The now Gad stree, Station. M b;b3 %.
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The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-23
Kidney Disease
Is Fatal
Kidn.ee u /. wsndsrfsi Protection.

is just as certain TO take . psrson OF ss
isprosy. unless II 10 checked before Il goes
too far. II .pople tust knsw. the danger
that iurksd In diseases Of thee dsliests
ss tSsy srs Of thsr syss. People Who have
sound kidnsys should know how % protect
and take care Of them; Kidnsce = : surs
remedy for .ssati.S lia.:y s'.sH:ss tsssss: .s:
Sicei thio.sh ths iasstiys iiinYs.
Jast 70 70 any .trvs store and 81 about Q
dossa kidnese TsSlsts. .Thu Are .inszyeasiys
IS s.s ~ ~ - Ks.. ~ s'ss g. sSssss -
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-23
t. 4. Long. Veterinary.

After an absence Of some SIX
years up in Exeland, Wisconsin, H. e.
Dewny, wife and son, John, have re-
turned to dwell among US. John,
while there, brought down 10 deer,
and thinks he Is something Of shot.
He went on to st. Joseph 10 enlist, In
some branch Of the Federal service
he wants TO 60 TO France.
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-23

Good Sorghum Molssses for sale.
Call on I. 8. Stull. Forbes. No.
English Walnuts, 25c per pound;
Gold Dollar Flour, $50. Be sure 70
come and see US before you buy your
Christmas Candies and Mixed Nuts.
We will Save You Money. Cash for
Eggs. J. WATSON.
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-23

There will be a program, box
supper and pie social at the Wilson
school house, Friday, November 10,
1917. Everybody invited.
MABEL COLWELL, Teacher.
Still gaddins around; Uncle MILF
Heron, ye flsherman Of renown, now
88 years old, has hiked out for ST,
Petersburg, Florida, where he will
spend the whole darn winter fishing
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-23
Bernhart's Art sways ss In Days Past

hardt, the marvellous; Bernhardt, the
truly "divine;" Bernharlt--the one
and only Bernhardt-again has passed
this way and gone. Perhaps II was
for the last time. And yet, again per-
haps, she may return to US for an
other visit before fnis Is written to
the life chapter Of this wonderful wo-
man. Who knows?
Sarah Bernhardt was at English's
yesterday. In the afternoon she
played "Du Theatre au Champ d'Hon-
neur" (from the Theater to the Field
of Honor) and the death scene from
"Camile." At night she appeared in
the trial scene from "The Merchant
Of Venice" and In "The Death Scene
of Cleopatra
What remains to be said Of the art
Of the woman who knows no limita-
tion and recognizes no age? or the
art Of the woman who plays N only
one tongue yet has been eNtolled in
all tongues! vi the art OF the woman
who after hfty-hve years OF contin-
uous appearance before the public
still triumphs and that over'physlcai
disability that would send q person
less courageous scurrylng from the
realms OF Thespis! VI the art OF the
woman who sways and grips and en-
thralls her hearers as does the art
Of no other playerg
II has been suggested that Nine;
Bernhardt's death scenes have gained
In majesty. as the sunset OF life
crecps over her. II may be so. But
that Is absolutely the only trace time
has left in its missing, The years
have touched Madame lightly. Gag
nms s S vpice !, is d;,Sicnit 10 credit The
ooc,,,a.v ,S az. s,aton,cn, tbat sbc
aas nas.eJ ,he ali"tted three score
ml 70 NJ ,ha To-, ,,a, .ho ,,oos
ano Yen anu" an" 'ns inc ,he sas s,ase s. S.. or
nv .' Snrmn,,on ,bo b,an,y ~
merry Is iorgo''en In 'he oeao'y o'
'" To % NV mind pcrnhard, as the NOR.
~ NY m,, ,,.,Isu w ~. y "n,,
tally wounded soldier ooy " M Du
,hea,'e "u Nnan,p ,.',. m"
the most acceptable. Written by
French officer at INC front ana . added
,o,rc only ,as, ycar' II bnsan in,ercs,
Tint il nil comnclling. In lis playing
bernhard, reflects the indcscribabl,
s",rorinv yc, uncona,,crablc spirit o,
her country. while her remnrknbl,
clacn,i"nnry powers nre given ful
n,oy In Tho ringing Indictment of 4
r,,Ii,'s enemy In IA PRAYER for Oul
rnnn,;os write, bv Iouis Pnycn
and which goes something like this
n % thou Who mr., sail 10 reward ever,
snrr;,ice.
Who knowcs, how 20 weigh and judg,
every idcal
or which a people makes itself th,
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-23
the suit they will pay for the worl

aIftauy done.
II seems to US there ought to be
some means Of compelling the railway
company TO provide this very much
needed convenience, especially as the
importance Of q maximum output by
the mills Is 80 evident at this time
News-Jeffersonian, November l5.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-14
WHAT is A BOURBON?

THE secretary-treasurer of the Penn
l. syvania Trade Secretaries seems to
he grieved because the EVENING LEDGER
has said there are Bourbons in this Com
monwealth. He says that he regrets
to find we have been historically inapt in
our choice of terms.
Well let US see. The Bourbon family
acquired it's political philosophy in the
Middle Ages. AS the world progressed
it attempted to apply that philosophy to
the changed conditions. Its standpatism
became so notorious that discriminating
commentator once remarked that the
Bourbons never learned anything and
never forgot anything.
In American history a Bourbon was
originally "a Democrat behind the age
and unteachable." The newspapers of
Boston We're the first to discover this
interesting historical parallel. By eX-
tension the term has been used to de.
scribe extreme conservatives and i'm.
movable partisans.
Here is a beautifully tailored coat,
ready for any one to try on who thinks
he is little enough to get into it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-14
REFORMS FREE FROM
FACTIONALISM

EoUR of the measurcs affecting this
city which Senator Penrose is under
stood to be urging upon the General As.
sembly have such undoubted merit that
IT will be unfortunate II their passage is
endangered by tying a factional label on
them.
Tho conduct of the Me gistrates' Courts
has long been a public scandal These
courts should be abolished with the least
possible delay and their functions trans.
ferred to some other courts The pro.
posed constitutional amendment would
provide that the Municipal Court should
take the place Of the Magistrates The
amendment cannot be passed without the
support of the members from the rural
districts It is important that they should
understand the conditions in order that
they may act intelligently. If the forces
behind this plan are acting in good faith
they will see to It that every legislator is
informed.
The merger of the county with the city
government has been delayed beyond all
reason. The existence of two govern.
ments in the same territory has been pro-
life of many abuses, not the worst of
which is dual oficehoding. If n con-
stitutional amendment is needed to con.
solidate the two then it should be put on
it's passage at once. II the merger can
be accomplished by statute, the law
should be passed before the General AS
sembly closes its work.
The desirability of equalizing assess
ments on real estate is so manifest that
no argument should be needed to per
suade the Legislature to provide for it,
if it is not possible under existing laws.
And the present Council system has
failed so completely that the plan to
abolish the present two.chambered body
and substitute for it a small singlecham.
bered Council of salaried Councilmen is
expected to meet with general approval
in Harrisburg.
The General Assembly should be made
to understand that these four proposals
are indorsed by virtually all Philadel-
phians who take an interest in public af.
fairs, that they are not factional meas.
ures in any proper sense of the word and
that efficiency in government here has
which have grown up under the condi.
tions which it is now sought to change.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-14
PEACE IN SPITE OF BRYAN

TT TURNS out that the move which
l. threatened to bring us out OF this twi
light zone into open war-the move more
dangerous than any other in ten days
was a peace move. The German Govern
ment is in a ticklish state Of mind To
suggest to it, as Mr.. Bryan did, that Mr.
Wilson might parley, was to invite it to
humiliation and wrath through an inevi-
table refusal to parley. The wonder is
that the spark Mr.. Bryan threw into the
rubbish did not start the blaze. The Gov
ernment has ordered Organism away
from the wireless transmitter.
! The Nebraskan is incorrigibly political
What he wants is very nnocent-simply
to have the word Bryan associated with
the word peace" just as he has been far.
seeing enough TO want 1t associated with
national prohibition" II there is a dry
wave coming. Bryan feels he might as
well get full credit for 1t; IL not, he has
nothing to lose. In the same way he has
nothing to lose by being for peace" For
whether we have the war or not we are
sure to have peace again some day--and
Bryan. It is as II he bet that what went
~ must come down.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-14
THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
Suffrage Leader Says Crisis
Should Not Stop Campaign.
Doctors and Immor-
tality
DOCTORS, GOD AND IMMORTALITY

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-Now that Doctor LeuL..s poll OF
material scientists has overthrown C) the
belief of God and immortality and the
Medical Review of Reviews poll or Well
known men and women, largely authors,
has resulted in largely favorable anu
even laudatory" comment upon the medical
profession as quoted in the Literary Digest
of February 3, why not poll the illlterates
of the southern mountain country as TO VINO
wrote Shakespeare?
Is the age so superficial that we are to
accept the ready-made philosophy of others
because of the appealing literary form OF
its expression or because of the dis
tingushed attanments of the utterer in
field wholly foreign to the subject OF his
utterance?
In spite of a popular idea to the contrary,
a patient who has had personal experience
with many methods of treatment may be
better qualified to express an opinion than
some of those whose need has not forced
them to undergo equally Illuminating
course From such a position the writer
offers the suggestion that much of the
criticism of the medical schools has arisen
because, after exhausting the possibilities
of drugs and reforming the general use of
harmful heart stimulants and nerve seda-
tives they have been obliged to select as
an alternative either psychological methods
or manipulative methods and for COM
mercial or other reasons have more gen.
erally adopted the former while the latter,
being physiological is more sane, more
natural and more logically within their
scope. II. MERR.
Atlantic City, n. j., February g.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-14
LAND AND TAXES
To the Editor Of the Euening Ledger:

To the Editor OF the EUening Ledger:
Sir-In my letter of January 30 / called
attention to the large vote for a single-tax
measure in the State of California. / mem
toned also the progress of this reform in
North Dakota and other parts of the West
In reply to this letter w. f. Beckett, of
Swedesboro, n. J says that all should be
served alike in paying taxes that a man
with $1,000 worth of personal property ought
to pay as much tax as one with the same
amount of real estate. He says also that
the single tax would discriminate against
land owners, il would depress agriculture
and enhance the cost of living. These are
very natural objections to those who have
not carefully studied this question.
Land value is the only part of real estate
that we propose to tax; not houses and
other improvements. Personal property may
be thine or ii may be mine. But il is not
ours. The land is neither mine nor thine /:
II is ours. According to justice, according
to nature and natures laws, it is a free gift
of the Creator. Just as truly as the air the
sunshine and the ocean are of His bounty
Read Spencer.
We can establish our equal right to the
earth by taking the rental value of land
for public expenses. This would not burden
agriculture. because there would be no tax
on improvements. The single tax would
tighten the burden on farmers who farm
their farms. but would increase the burden
on spectators who farm the farmers.
W. l.. ROSS.
Philadelphia, February IL. =,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-14
Submarine OperatiOn

w. II. c., Jr.-Submarine torpedoboats'
are roughly divided into three types-coast
defense, cruising and fleet submarines the
last named being the largest A cruising
or independent submarine has a length of
225-3O0 feet a submerged displacement of
SO0-12OO tons, a surface speed of 1920
knots, a submerged speed of 1914 knots,
a cruising radius of 4000-S000 miles, a sub
merged cruising radius of 50-10O miles, AS
torpedo tubes, a battery of 3-inch guns,
antl-aircraft guns, machine guns and crew
of 4O-50 officers and men. 1t is propelled
by electric motors when submerged and
by gasoline Ia few steam engines on the
surface. Storage batteries, recharged by
operation of the engines provide the elec
tricity. The boat is submerged by admit
ting water into the submerged tanks
emerging is effected by expeling the water
with compressed air or pumps. A submarine
can emerge completely in two or three min
utes, and in a few seconds when cruising
awash with only the coming tower ex
posed. The periscope, a series of mirrors
in tube. is the "eye' of a submarine when
it is submerged few feet 1t is useless
at night. The sudden shock and loss Of
weight at the bow in the discharge of
the torpedo Is overcome by ballast tanks
and horizontal rudders which also main
tain an even keel. The automobile for
pedo is started on its journey by a "push"
of compressed air. Cooking and heating
are done by electricity or waste heat from
the engines. Excess heat is a serious. nroh,
lem in the smaller boats which are cramped
because of the machinery and torpedoas
The larger submarines are said to be fairly
comfortable as to habitability
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-14

IN these parts IN the glacial period but
that was several hundred thousand, II not
million, years ago. The oldest inhabi'
tant" does not pretend that his memory
goes back that far. and we have to take
the word OF the men Of science for 1t. II
viii doubtless be cold again when the
world is as dead as the moon; but the
European war will be ended before that
time and there will be no inhabitants left
to worry about their coal bills. In the
meantime we might as well face the facts
and admit that decade by decade the
different varieties of weather repeat them
selves with pretty uniform regularity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-14

The man who advertised that for
81 he would tell farmers how to double
their production of eggs, and in reply
told them TO keep twice as many hens,
came as near to a solution of the high
cost of living as many of the commit
tees appointed to investigate the sub
ject. If we would only raise in this
country twice as much in foodstuffs as we
do now, and it is quite possible to do
so. the high cost of living would be re.
duced. Our unscientific, wasteful meth
DDS, especially in farming, are almost
criminal.