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Arizona republican., 1917-01-30
THRIFT DAY
 HERE FEB. 3
Bv C. Y. CLEMENT


 Maybe you have been thinking oe Thrift Day and planning to take ad- vantage ot it.
 How far have you gone?
 Possibly you have noticed that when the neighbors ashes next door are hauled away there are only cin- dcrs and ashes in the can, and you have decided that, starting on the morning of February 3 your ssh can henceforth will contain only cin- ders anG ashes instead of that large proportion of 'blacl. diamonds" that Nou have been wasting for such a long time. Ycu have just been put : ting the matter off, but now you haEe decided that Thrift Day will start future in which the alarm clock is going 10 be set for fifteen minutes earlier SO as to save that coal.
 On the other hand, your decision to start a thrift habit on Thrift Day may be that Of being more thrifty vita vOur health ard takirg that exercise in the morning before you start the period of confinement at your desk for the long day,
 Your thoughts of Thrift Day may incluGe thrift for others You. have come to a realization that one should start young the Darctice of thrift
 Knowing that Thrift Day is soon to be here. you have been encouraging that little fellow in your home to seQuesteT ten cents out of his 25-cent allowance each week so that on Thrift Day he is going to have a celebration by starting savings account of his own. He has been busy with his planning It has been all figured out
 You have determined that you are going to carefully nourish his mind early in life with practical thrift-a thrift influence the benefit of which you failed to receive.
 Yes-and your wife has become in- terested through reading the papers and listening to the thrift plans of others. Mother" has decided that on Thrift Day Februarv 8, she is going tO start that household eost-accOunt- ing book that she has put off for these several years. She says she is going to know just where the money goes
 You know. and everybody knows. that there are thousand ways to practice thrift Tn every direction that one turns. there is opportunity for efficiency, ard that's just what thrift is.
 Thrift brings people together in better understanding: and if better understandings are the result of Thrift Day, what wonderful institution it is.
 When everybody registers one little action in the way of thrift habit in the aggregate for OUT whole country 1t runs into such stupendous figures that we all stand aghast
 For every American to start on Thrift Day a thrift habit that might represent only one dollar saved either through the reduction of waste in creased conservation, saving of time or whatnct it would mean an az greSate of at least one hundred mil lion dollars added to our resources.
 There is a lot of inspiration in join ing the multitude, especially if all are going to benefit
 Have you decided on your thrift action for Thrift Day?
 It will make every day thereafter more thrifty. The best habits we ever form have small beginnings.
 Thrift Day will stand out as a red-letter day in the lives of many individuals
 Thrift Day is day for thought and action.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-28

brated smokeless coal of West Virginia. The Government, see ing in this possibilities for the establishment of Naval coal re- serve, is bringing all pressure to bear for It's development. The U. s. Bureau of Mines reports that the Arkansas semi anthra- cite produces for TOO pounds the equivalent in heat units of 2400 pounds of Kentuckey coal
 It is pointed out that by reason of river transportation, the rail- roads can be relieved of much of the strain. St, Paul and Minne- apolis alone will take four mil lion tons of the Arkansas coal if it can be delivered there.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-28
Make The Boy A Partner

Let your boy have some pigs or share in a few acres of corn. Divide the profits of his labor with him and let him join pig or corn club of. your county. These things will do much to in terest the boy in the farm and keep him at home At this time when the new draft law will make good many vacancies in our towns and cities, our farm boys can easily find plenty of work and good pay. Regardless of what their parents think, many of them will no longer be willing to work for their living alone. Show the boy that he can have more at the end of the year if he stays at home. Give him a chance and you will have less difficulty in keeping him on the place. You surely will need his help before the year is over.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-28
Town Life Real Drudgery

Why not encourage the boys to familiarize themselves with town life to some extent? Our word for it, they would soon lose many of their illusions, says the Natchitoches La) Times. Let a boy go among the young men who are filling positions in the town. Impress upon him that these men. instead of living like millionaires, are in reality worse .drudges than he; that while he sometimes must work early and late for a very short season, these young men must frequent ly be at their work before he is out of bed, and must remain there until he is back in bed again; and that as to the matter of fine clothes, frequently the suits he sees on their backs com prise their entire wardrobe and bought on the plan of S1 % down and S1.00 week. Let him also learn that while ftfflfs- >fsequeroiy handle much money very little of it sticks to their fingers except with ugly results to them selves.
 Let the boy come to town. Let him bave taste of town life and make the acquaintance of town boys. Let him hear, as he is bound to do, that not by any means-i is all gold that glitters. Thus, with the right surround ings and conditions on the farm, and in the country tow n an occa- sional dose of town life will not, hurt him. and he will soon growl to see that his own life is inf. nilelv to be preferred to that of any town boy of his acquaint- ance.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-28

were placed in every community in the United States, in cities and in remote country districts m mining towns and manufactur- ing centers, among farmers and country merchants as well as city bankers and large commer- cial and manufacturing houses.
 It was a agreat educational cam paign. Readers of their county paper in their country homes, and new American citizens from papers printed in their own Ian guage, and others just learning our language, who in the eve ming spelled out the news in the great daily papers, were infol m ed of the purposes and objects of the Liberty Loan and instruct ed in the nature, value, and terms of Government bonds, es- specially the Liberty Loan Bonds of 1917. The whole Nation has made long stride forward in h. nancial education through the Liberty Loan campaign of 1917 as conducted through the press of the country.
 The country press which with out compensation gave literally
The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-28

of it's limited space is equally de. serving of praise with the larger papers. In their respective spheres all classes of publica- tiOnS. in the country covered their field thoroughly and we'll The press of America can look back on tue work it performed for the Liberty Loan as a great public service, ably, thoroughly, and unselfishly perfcrmed.-Liberty Loan Publicity Bureau.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-28
The Patriotism Of The American Press

The service rendered to the Government of the United States in the sale of the Liberty Loan Bonds of 1917 by the press of the country is record evidence of the generous patriotism of the news paper men of Amerlca. It is re- corded in the pages of thousands of American newspapers, many of them printed in foreign Ian guages, from the largest daily to the smallest country weekly. The newspapers of the country
 came acrosso with liberal dona. tions of space in news, editorial, and advertising columns.
 Newspaper men have observed with deep and peculiar pleasure the whole-hearted activity of the men of their fraternity in pro noting the sale of the Liberty Loan Bonds. The influence and assistance Of all publications in making the loan a success are simply incalculable. Their efforts greatly contributed to making it double success in that it was Tot only largely oversubscribed but the Liberty Loan Bonds
The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-28

Do you get up at night? Sanol is surely the best for all kidney and blad- der troubles Sanol gives relief in 24 hours from al backaehe and bladder trouble. >anol is guaranteed remedy 35c and Sl % bottle at the drug store Adv. 52-tf
The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-28

works are to be tabooed, and the day is to be devoted to patriotic demonstrations. All communi-. ties are requested to undertake programs of this character, in cluding addresses by prominent local or visiting speakers, ex- plaining the cause of the war, and why the United States has become involved Tn it; the read ing of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, the Presidents War Message. Flag Day Address, and other patriotic papers, with pa triotic music, and an appeal to men of the state to enlist in some branch of the federal service.
 Little Rock June 26-The State Council of Defense has un- dertaken to direct the registra tion of the women of the state in the Food Administration volun teer forces, under the plans that have been formulated by Her bert c. Hoover. The registra- tion will occur from July to 15, and in that time it is hoped that at least 25,00o house wives and others who are interested in the conservation and distribution of food in the state will sign the pledge cards that are being printed. obligating themselves to do everything in their power to revent waste and teach rigid economy in the use of food products, Frank Pace. member of the Council, is the chairman in charge of the distribution of the cards, and the plans for the registration which are being carefully worked out. The wom en's organizations of the state will probably have the direction of the work in hand. Mrs Joe Frauenthal is acting chairman of the women.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-28
Arkansas Council Of Defense

Little Rock, June 25-This is recruiting week, by proclama- tion of the President. The State Council of Defense has adopted the following Appeal to the Men of Arkansas.
 The President has designated June 23-30 as Recruiting Week for the regular Army. He has called upon the unmarried men between the ages of Is and 40 years, /" who have no dependents and who are not engaged in pur- suits yitally necessary to the prosecution of the war, to pre- sent themselves for enlistment during that period. It is hoped that the full quota of 70, ,000 need ed to complete that arm of the service can be secured. It is an opportunity for the eligibles in Arkansas to come to the front and do their part in answering the Presidents call Arkansas has fallen short of it's allotment for the regular army. The Reg ular Army is our first line of de- fense, and in this hour of Nation al peril that line must not be weakened for want of men. The call is urgent. It must not go unheeded.
 The proclamation has been scattered broadcast through the state, and has been posted on ev cry Postoffice Bulletin boa I'd Tn Arkansas.
 Little Rock, June 25-The State Council of Defense is advo- eating the first really safe and sane celebration of the Fourth of T,,lx, %l
The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-28
For Sale or Trade

One Sorghum mill to run with belt. evaporator and pan. One six horse gasoline engine all in good shape.
 Henry Ellingsworth, 5-4tp Ga rlisle, Ark.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-28

Little Rock, June 26.-A Con ference of the County Councils of Defense has been called to meet with the State Council of Defense at headquarters in this city, at 2 D. m. next Thursday, June 2S. Many of the counties have reported the completion ot their organizations and that they will have full delegations pres ent. At that meeting plans will be considered for the co-ordina- tion of the work of the various com mittees of the council. There will be a preliminary meeting of the State Council at 10 A. M. for the purpose of outlining the work for the afternoon.
 Little Rock, June 26. = The State Council of Defense has been in correspondence with Government authorities relative to development of the coal fields on the Arkansas River west of Dardane le, within a hundred miles of Little Rock. There is a wonderful deposit of bunker coal equal in quality with the cele-
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-06-07
Sunday Farming.

From the New York Times.
Under suspension of the rules both
branches OF the great and general court
OF Massachusetts have passed this bill:
b cultivation OF land and h
raising, harvesting, preservation,
and Transporting OF agricultural
products shall not. be unlawful on
the Lord's day while the United
States is at war or until the first
day OF January following the cessa-
Anybody who knows how strong is the
tradition of the Puritan f~heocracy. the
blue law" spirit in the Massachusetts
Legislature and in Massachusetts in spite
Of its great admixture Of more liberal
populations. will praise this concession q
the necessities Of the war.
Not q worthy or painful preacher 81
all the divines recorded in Cotton Matherss
AMagnaliaS would. IL now aljv object
TO this ..Sabbath. farming. They were
practical and patriotic men. those wise
and pious ancestOrss in 18th century New
England. They would not have efuse
TO night Indians on the Lords day. This
Bay state Sunday farming lis a branch Of
fighting. q
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-06-07
a FAIR ADVANCE h@pRicEs.

Sioux City, Ia, May 3, 1917.-To the Edi-
:o.-ss HHhhesT IibtI Il whole lot mas been
written in criticism of the late increase
seen At to put into effect. and, in order
that all may know the why and the
wherefore of the instance, j would like
to ask that you publish this letter.
Shops In other cities gradually began the
advance In prices on hair cuts, shaves,
shampoos, messages and the like more
than q year ago.. Sioux City shops,
generally, did moi put this increast into
effect until after nearly every other city
shops We're charging the graduated price.
ON barber supplies have advanced more
thar an average Of IS per cent. Laundry,
acquainted with the conditions under
which BARRIERS have been doing business
during The last few years knows that q
slight advance In prices, such as have
been put into effect here during the past
few months, is not a hold up" 1t IS only
fair. Charles Wilson.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-06-07
NEGRO MORTALITY.

In h pamphlet gotten up by the ne
groes for use in their schools is a
primer of health information. Most
OF the statistics given relate to the
south. From these figures one is apt to
draw the conclusion that the negro is
in bad shape in the south only. This
would be incorrect. The bad condi-
tons under which negroes live prevail
IN the north just as they do in the
south, and maybe a little more so.
Whenever a northern city is disposed
10 sheer at southern cities for their high
death rates it will be well for them to
consider what would be their death
rates II from o~ne-third to t~wo-thirds Of
their population We're negroes. When
ever any northern community feels like
haunting the south with injustice to
negroes it is we'll to remember that the
PROOF IS conclusive that the northern
sense of justice for the negro only
works at long range.
The New York City health depart
ment finds that the death rate of ne
groes in that city is almost twice G.7)
that OF the general population-white
and black combined. The d%ispropor-
tons are shown by the following table.
Inc death rate of the general popula-
tlon IN each instance being /, the death
rates of negroes are as follows: From
all e of the heart, Is; Rright's
disease, l8; pneumonia,2: typhoid fe-
49, ~ tooSICuiOSIS, d.. Line DaOy
death rate is 1914, as compared with a
rate for all babies Of 81.
what your neighbor does to you is
for much heart disease.
Nh1le your neighbor may break your
heart In a sentimental sense, when it
comes to the physical sense individuals
break their own hearts. When it comes
70 Brlght's disease the same thought
noids true. individuals earn their
nights disease. 1t is ones fellow man
VINO gives him consumption and typhoid
fever and who takes his baby's life.
One reason. not the only one, why me-
groes nave an excess of consumption is
becarse they live in poor houses. That
Is true IN Chicago and New York and
everywhere in the north. OF course
they could ventilate those houses much
better than they do.
One reason why they have yphoid
fever is because they get the poorest Of
a Q milk supply and they live in
houses with poor toilet facilities. The
sewage pipe sometimes leaks into he
water pipe in poor homes. In certain
sections of Chicago, and many negroes
llve in these sections, there are times
when there is no pressure in the water
pipes and leaky drains can and do
empty int them.
II a flat building for negroes has an
ice box it is a cheap one that will not
keep a baby's milk fit for a baby to
drink.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-06-07

Al TIE SEA BOTTOM.
Fishes Frightened by Whist!ing
OF Air From Divers Suit,
Says Diver.


Arthur P. Mayfield, of the United
a SiEsf c,a navy = W va honor mar Of the
deep sea diving school Started by tbs
navy department last September.
Here Is how it feels to go down to the
floor OF the ocean with life dependent
on a slender hose, as related by Mr..
Maytield:
WheR they let you down from the
side OF a boat into deep water, the first
impression is like going out of a brill
liantly lighted room into a dark one, for
your eyes are slow in getting accus-
toned to the gloom. After a while You
begin to see the phosphorus in the wa
ter, and that helps a bit, and later,
when You are used to the difference,
You lind thst You d see things dimly
by means of the light that has filtered
down from above. However. that is not
enough to work by. You take an cleo
trio light for that purpose.
BY the time you get down around 80
feet, the oxygen supplied through your
air hose. gets in its work, and you feel
wonderfully eNhilarated-its almost
like having a jag on. You descend
gradually. and the feeling of exhilara-
tlon wears off a bit, and then you begin
TO realize the dangers about you.
There are all kinds.o of anger First,
there is the danger of carbon dioxide
poisoning which hits a mar if he
doesn't regulate his air supply properly
and breathes Initiated air over again.
Its Just like being in a closed room
without any ventilation. The air pres
sure is regulated to some extent from
above. but you lave got to do most of
the regulating yourself by mean of the
valve IN Your diving suit. Then, at
great depths, wnen the pressure is half
q dozen or more atmospheres. there is
danger from oxygen poisoning. and this
Is extremely hard to overcome.
Contrary to the general belief, there
IS little danger from sharks or other
big jewellers down in. deep water, for
they are afraid Of divers. You See the
air PUSHES out of the divers suit with a
shrill. whistling sound: he carries an
electric light, and his ooks are enough
to brighten off worse things than
sharks
A diver stays down from 20 to. D.
minutes. on an average. 1t wclId be
dangerous to stay down too long. for.
In addition to the chance of being
poisoned. there is the cold to be reck-
oned with, to say nothing of the tire
mendous pressure.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-06-07

MEMORIAL DAY


tH1SE'INE" faIE'
shortly after the civil war the beautiful
and appropriate custom was inaugurated
of selecting the Soth of May of each year
rs a day devoted to strewing the graves
OF the soldier dead with the fragrant flow
ers or spring, In the north this occasion
took the name of Decoration day" While
in the south it was known as Memorial
day, and as this latter designation APP
ieared TO be the more appropriate it is
the one now generally used in both sec
tons
While uie trewing of the graves of
those who wore the blue and those who
Wore the gray IS usually accompanied
by SOME formal ceremonies under the aus
piceS or the organizations of which Their
former comrades are members, the origi-
nal purpose of the day has ~broadened
into one that has made it a day for the
~remeInbering of the lead generally, and
IN this way it has come to gain a new
significance, which IN no wise detracts
from the original purpose Of its ~naugura-
ton.
This large purpose insures its perpetual
ton, even after the last remaining mem
Der OF either of the great armies that
faced each other in our civil strife, shall
have passed away, and it will be contin-
ued as a day when all our dead shall re-
ceive a tribute of flowers and of tears,
IN memory of the days, few or many,
that marked their journey from the
cradle to the grave 1t will not be 90
many years before those of us who in
our young manhood, followed the fife,
the drum and the flag, will be sleeping,
the sleep thai knows no waking again
in this world, and it is pleasing TO know
that this beautiful custom will fall into
the keeping of those who will regard it
as a priced and valued heritage.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-06-07
savins Potatoes by Dynamite.
FrOEf the Scientific Amerfcan

Al resourcefuI farmer has f.a.nd a new
way to use Dynamite that saved a nearly
matured crop OF potatoes in a badly hood-
the neighboring drains and bitches so
there was no relief for the flooded field;
and m this emergency the owner PIT
q number OF holes S to IL feet deep
with = post auger, and EMPLOYED a charge
OF dynamite In the notion OF each. This
opened UP passages into the sandy sub
Hon through which the surplus water
drained rapidly. and the crop was saved.
although many nearby crops were ruined
BY the excess water standing In the fields.