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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-10
WATCH CHILDREN.
URGES DIR. DIXON
Health Chief Says This Is the
Season of the Year When
They Fall Ill

State Commissioner of Health
Samuel G. Dixon urges parents and
teachers to exercise the greatest
vigilance in looking after the well
fare of children now since school has
reopened and to be on the alert for
any sign of illRess. The commits
sioner says that the youngsters are
back in school rooms after having
been living in the open air.
This is the season that weighs
heavily upon the conscientious health
officer. Experience has taught him
infallibly that the congregating of
the sick and the we'll will again cause
the annual increase of children's dis
eases. Increased deaths will occur
in spite of all that can be done by
the Health Department in conjunc-
tion with our educators to safeguard
the health of our children.
This work to increase safeguards
over the health and lives of our
schoolchildren is only in it's infancy.
Until it is full grown we must appeal
to the parents and guardians of the
children to help us. We all love our
children and would sacrifice our lives
sufficient study of how to care for
them.
'The first thought in the morning
should be the child. We should not
content ourselves with greeting our
sons and daughters with an impul-
sive and affectionate kiss and hug,
and then rush to other duties that
the day has brought with it. In
stead, the first duty is to tarry with
the child sufficiently long to deter
mine whether or not 1t seems well.
Without letting the child appreciate
that there is a suspicion of its be-
ing sick, get to see the tongue, no.
tice how 1t swallows, look for any
spots or rash on the skin, for con-
gested eyes, for a hot skin, for want
of usual good cheer.
"If the child shows any indication
of sickness it should not be permit
ted to associate with the other chill
dren in the house, and under no cir
cumstances should it be permitted to
go to school. Its life 10 first, educa-
tion second.
"While it does not do to be pes
simistic, it is better to consider any
sign of illness the possible forerun-
ner of some one of the diseases that
children are so susceptible to.
"For the child's sake it should be
kept away from other children, as
has been suggested, and unless the
conditions clears up in a very short
time medical aid should be called
in. A stitch in time saves nine.
Such precautions as mentioned may
not only save your own child's life,
but an epidemic of measles. scarlet
fever, diphtheria or other commu-
nicable disease, not only in school
but maybe in a whole community.
What is asked of mothers and guar
dams of children is so little and
means so many human lives that
certainly the warning is worth TAX
ing"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-10
WON'T FIX PRICE
OF RETAIL COAL
UNTIL WINTER
Consumers Flood Commits
sion With Protests Against
Cost of Pea Size

Washington, Sept. 10.-Judged by
the attitude of Henry A. Garfield, coal
controller, the prices OF retail coal
will not be fixed for several months
and then only after a committee rep
resenting each community decides on
a proper commission or figure Tor the
retailer. This necessarily Will occa-
sion such delay as to bring the time
until the early winter months before
a price on coal to the consumer Is
arrived at for each community.
While Mr.. Garfield declared on the
first day that he assumed his new po-
sition that the retail price would be
quickly fixed, developments in the last
week go to show that this is the most
difficult part of his Job and the only
one in which the public is vitality in
terested.
PENNSYLVANIA coal consumers have
been flooding the commission with
protests against the increase In the
price of pea coal through the Presl-
dents proclamation over the prevailing
trade price before the fixing. While
the Federal Trade Commission has de-
clined persisently to offer any detailed
statement for such a procedure, the
general explanation is that pea coal
comes in competition with soft coal
and, accordingly, the President had
10 increase that price commensurate
with soft-coal prices.
Mr.. Garfield. before he left on his
weekend vacation to Williamstown,
Mass, said that some prices might be
adjusted finally. He would not say
that the price of pea coal would be
knocked down.
President Wilson had a confidential
report from the Federal Trade Com
mission as to coal consumption and
coA of production before him When
he fixed the prices on hard and soft
coal. The commission refuses to give
out this report or make any comment
upon il. About the only valid objec-
ton which has been raised against
the prices of hard coal, 1t is said. is
on the pea size.
Within a few days Mr.. Garfield, with
President Wilson's approval, will ap-
point a coal administrator and a citi-
zens' coal committee for every state.
The latter will appoint local commit
tees for every county and each city
with more than $500 inhabitants.
Mr.. Garfield will fix retail prices
after local committees make a survey
of coal supply, retailers costs and
profits.
Coal operators appear satisfied with
the plans. Skepticism is displayed by
officials who have been working for
lower prices to consumers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-10
Plan Extensive Speaking
Campaign For This Week

An extensive program has been
mapped out for this week by the
Workingmen's Non-Partisan League.
Meetings will be held every evening
at o'clock with the exception of a
meeting at Seventh and Broad
streets, which will start at 7.30.
The meetings will be held as fol-
lows: Tonight, Sixth and Emerald
and Seventh and Verbeke streets;
Tuesday. Race and maggie and Fourth
and Woodbine; Wednesday, Eleventh
and Market, and Thirteenth and
Market; Thursday, Third and Harris
and Calder and Capital; Friday,
Third and Lewis (Riverside), and
ket Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-10

of the construction, road buildings,
railroad construction. sewerage, water
works and clearing. now has a bigger
quota of workers than at other times.
The shifting of officers at camp
goes on constantly. Now many Mary
land men from Camp Lee, Va, are ar
irving, and Pennsylvania men from
the Pittsburgh region are going to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-10

Camp Lee. This movement is in re-
sponse to individual requests for
transfers.
The Y. M. c. A. and knights of CO.
lumbus are having work rushed onI
their buildings, so these recreationI
and religious centers will be ready
selected men arrive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-10
FESTIVALS AT MARYSVILLE

Marysville, Pa, Sept. 1O.-To-
morrow evening the Ladies' Aid So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal
Church will hold chicken corn soup
supper and ice cream and cake festi-
val on the church lawn. In case of
cold weather, the event will be held
in the Sunday school room.
The Ladies' Mite Society of the
Trinity Reformed Church will hold
a similar affair in the church build
ing in Verbeke street, on Thursday
evening.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-10
YEARS U-BOAT
TOLL IS ABOUT
100000 TONS
New Construction Reduces
Net Loss on Tonnage to
100000

London, Sept. 10.-In view of the
American popularity of being able 10
put forth the best effort when the
people know what they are up
against, certain facts about the sub
marine campaign, which now con-
stitutes the most menacing phase of
Germany's attack on world civiliza-
ton, are herewith given. They can
be relied on as accurate.
1t is not thought necessary to deal
in figures below thousands. The fol-
lowing, in terms of tonnage, are
monthly sinkings by German subma-
rineS from January to August, inclu-
sive, the figures being 70 rthe Allies
and neutral aggregate, but not in
Guiding raider losses and ships dam
aged or beached but not sunk
Weekly averages are given for pur-
poses of comparison:
Total tonnage
Month. sunk. Weekly.
January a weeks). $4,000 $4,000
February "a WeehSD ffo,UUU IGU,UuU
March (5 weeks) :. 100000 10000
April a weeks) =. 7SS,O00 $4,000
May a weeks) -. $4,000 $4,000
June 6 weeks) -. 758,000 $4,000
July a weeks) -. 463,000 10000
August 6 weeks).. $4,000 $4,000
Net loss 100000 tons.
Against the loss of about four mill
lion tons in eight months new con-
struction is estimated at less than q
million tons, leaving the net loss TO
the Allies and neutrais' shipping at
about 100000 tons.
The loss to American shipping is
said to have been less than half of
one per cent. While the decline in
the shipping loss in July and August
was substantial, it cannot be re-
garded as satisfactory, and the stu
alton continues to call for the kind
of activity demanded by a great
emergency. Americas opportunity
for service lies more Immediately
and urgently in the direction of put
ting down the submarine menace
than even in sending soldiers to
France, all-important as that is
In fact, these two matters are in
separately connected. AS the sub
marine attack and defense are reduc-
ed to business, good deal of mys-
terry surrounding the war under wa
ter is clearing up, anu commonplace
facts are becoming known.
Few Submcrsibles in Service
The popular mind pictures the wa
ters off the British boast as swarni-
ing with submarines. 1t is a matter
of general knowledge in navy circles
now that the number of German
submarines in the Atlantic ocean
never exceeded twenty, and that the
number operating in the North At
lantic, off the British coast, does
not exceed ten. These figures do not
include submarines engaged exclu-
sively in mine laying.
1t is estimated in the best British
naval circles that Germany has not
built as many as 800 submarines, al
together, and that about $50 of all
conditions are in existence to-day.
The U-boat is of very delicate mech
anism, and needs frequent repairing,
which, in the main, explains the
small operating in the Atlantic and
elsewhere. Most of the boats are re-
pairing or replenishing constantly,
and are out of commission.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-10
HOME-READING COURSE FOR
CITIZEN SOLDIERS
ssued by Department rights reprint

This of thirty daily lessons is offered the
selected for service in the National Army practical help
in getting started in the right way 1t is informal in
and does attempt give binding rules directions
These contained in the various manuals regulations
of the United States Army to which this Course merely
Introductory.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-10
Camp Meade Pushes Work
to Finish by September 19

Camp Meade. Md, Nd. Sept. 10. =
A great push Is now on to get the
cantonment as nearly finished as pos
sible by September 10. Every branch
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-08

First published September 1, 1910
PUBLICATION NOTICE
In the District Court of Ellis County
Kansas.
A. D. Goetchius, Plaintiff,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-08

Learning to do some real thing as
boy, is the reason the boy puts away
childish things on reaching maturity
and is able to do mans job. Educa-
ton in the truest sense is gotten in
the days of youth. Not many founda-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-08

Put on the new man, which after
God is created in righteousness and
true holiness. Eph. 4 "a.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-08

f Ellis County,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-08
MEETINGS
and OTHER THINGS

Put on the new man, which after
God is created in righteousness and
true holiness. Eph. 4:24.
Let US cleanse ourselves from all
flthiness of the flesh and spirit, per
fectng holiness in the fear of God.
2 Cor I'll.
s'I am not cut out for it," is a
towards excuse for not doing a CIV
en- task. find men saying if we had
the right kind of food to eat we would
succeed. Remember this: Men who
can do well at one thing can do well
at many other things. So if you do
not find what you want to do, get
busy at some thing you can do. "Cut
out" this notion that you are social
misfit for it is an excuse of a whim-
pering coward.
Most failures are caused by want
ing to get-rich-quick" without being
willing to pay the price of getting
ready to get-rich-quick. knew man
that worked sixty years to get ready,
but when he died at the age of eighty
two his estate was valued at 7,0OO,-
900 but at the age of sixty he was
not worth $4,000,
Since little things count what is
your stock of little things made up of
is the vital question.
If you confuse the word "details"
with "trifles," you may find you have
a poor "stock" on hand to make a
success from. Details never hurt you,
but "trifies" are the "dry-rot" of sue
cess.
ET say just what I think" is one of
the poorest rules that ever came into
a mans life. The reason is the man
that uses it takes it as a rule to. ex-
plode by before he thinks. Thinkers
are not just wrath and indignation
exploders.
You are responsible as to how you
think and what you think. To think
right, is the greatest capital you can
have. If you let your thinking be
dominated by spite and hate thoughts,
your energy will ooze out and your
moral strength will form into peck
cts of vice and hate. This makes you
short sighted, and you become what
is known as a 'rag-chewer," and
from this you spend your time in
think how E'to get even," to ego
him one better" and after the mental
fog has cleared away, you find you
have been distanced.
You may not have thought of it.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-08

but your thoughts determine what
you are to your community. You can
not afford to be cheap. An old teach
er of remote ages passed this observa-
ton to the world, "As a man think
eth in his heart, so is he," the Master
of all humanity said For unto every
one that hath shall be given, but
from him that hath not shall be taken
away even that which he hath" Now
here are the rules that will lead you
to success and will help you to meas
ure your present place in society and
tells you what your future place will
be. If you think, it is what you think
make you; but If you refuse to think
you become worse off than when you
started because what you refuse to
use you lose.
Your part of success is ''being rea-
dy." Grant spent forty years in
getting ready. Many pointed their
fingers at him as failure, but op-
portunity came along, Grant twas
that che was ready" but the 'slow
pokes" of his day have been spending
the last fifty years Hrising to ex-
plain" his unprecedented success. 1t
is explained by saying he was equal
to the emergency" in other words
che was ready" Remember Grant
was a success before he won the bat
tie of Fort Donaldson, Or the Cam
paign of the Wilderness. These only
illustrated his READINGS.
Childhood is the time to develop
common sense and clear judgment; to
learn to think quickly and to decide
instantly; and this cannot be done
unless the child is placed in a posi-
ton where he is forced to think his
way out. Our modern school system
is organized around the thought of
making boys think. If you take him
out of school, or neglect to start him
on next Monday, you have so crippled
him that when you do force him into
the schools he will be called ''dum-
N.Y. and in little while will fall be-
low his class grade, and then he drops
out and in the years to come he will
be a 'good-for-nothing." Parents
make arrangements for the children
to be in school on next Monday-take
no excuse-or remember you are
placing handicaps in the race of life
your child can never get away from.
The boy that is not forced to do
something's for himself while. just a
kid will grow up to say mamma
this" and mamma that" and will
have a mamma boy tone running
through his life. He has had placed
upon his life the black mark IF fail
ure. Doing chores is boys salvation.
The days for school are now here and
the mother that keeps the boy out of
school because he has studied up some
excuse-such as I have job, l can
make up the lost time, it is too hot
to study or many others, has given
the boy lesson in slackerism that
will ruin him in the future IF you
will study the Stacker today you will
find that in childhood he was "mam-
mas little dimpled darling" her
dearest little tootsie wootsie," and
was relieved of childhood response
bilities.
Learning to do some real thing as
a boy, is the reason the boy puts away
childish things on reaching maturity
and is able to do mans job. Educa-
ton in the truest sense is gotten in
the days of youth. Not many founda-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-08
To Dam The Draws

lam O1dMS-
That is the slogan which has been
used for a number of years by ]. G.
Hooper, the Ness City banker who re-
Gently purchased the controlling in
terest in the Central State bank and
is to move from Hutchinson from
Ness county, and he expects to con-
tinue hammering this idea here. Just
because he is leaving Ness county is
no reason that he should give up his
plan, though it is not applicable to
this vicinity as in the more arid coun-
ties of Western Kansas.
Before leaving Ness City, Mr..
Hooper told US of his thoughts while
travelling on the train from Hutchin-
son to Ness City, and of the many
places he saw where by damming up
the draws and impOunding the water,
farming conditions, the soil and other
conditions could be changed for the
better. Mr.. Hopper says:
Neglected Opportunities
81 want to tell you, that when / saw
that farm Just east of Great Bend,
few days ago, overlooking with water
from Ness, Lane and Rush counties,
water that should have been kept
untitled, I thought, if the people of
these counties could see it and real
ize the damage being done, there
WOOiO OS NOOSIAO1l3 OAN OAAO
counties would provide for the dam
ming of the draws upon public high
ways as the law provides; the preju-
dice of officers would not rule, that
would be a certainty. When l think
that more than half tn taxpayers
of Ness County signed up petition
to the commissioners to make dams
ON the public highways and they re-
fused to make any it seems that laws
of authority can sometimes be too
strong"
Nevertheless one must study it
from angles, and, riding back and
forth on the railroad as do, tends to
strengthen the belief, that damming
success that will sometime be a real
ity. We not only lost the water, but
lose some of the best soil that we
have, and we cause our country to be
ditchedand have deeper draws, and to
be more cut up by allowing this wa
ter to go away. It is hard to estimate
the value of two-inch rain, in time
of need, when we see it go by.
For Summer Following
Summer following is one of the
means whereby this rainfall can be
held. l will be surprised if this lesson
we are learning this season will not
| multiply the nufnDSI Ol SuIIlIuSI Id
| lowed fields, and l will also be sur
prised, if the same lesson will not
cause a multiplicity of dams.
''In my business in central Kansas,
1 am among new people, that is they
are new to me. A great many
of them are old settlers and
hardly any of them have come
into our place of business in
Hutchinson, but what have mentioned
the subjects that are near my heart,
| and l yet have the first man to meet
| who condemns them. Perhaps he is
there, but if he is, mum is the word. .
Hutchinson News.
1t is universally considered that if
the rainfall was properly distributed
there is enough moisture to produce q
crop each year and to conserve the
moisture, danlfning the draws would
undoubtedly help and possibly might
be the solution of the problem The
cost would be very small to give the
| prospect a trial.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-08

port nothing. Persistent pointing out
by advocates Of the American system
of Protection that Germany will at
tempt to dump here has been treated
with lofty contempt by the low-Tar-
if apologists. In a moment Of mad
vertence, perhaps, their. principal
Manhattan organ let slip an admission
of the certainty.
Of course the German dye trust
neutrality-suspicious. here at less than
the cost of manufacture in Germany,
and the cost of manufacture in Ger
many vii be unprecendentedly low.
Nothing but a high protective tariff
can possibly save our newly establish
ed dye industry from destruction by
the German trust after the war
BroOkly, IN. " Standard Union.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-08

tions are laid for future building in
the busy twenties. Many may think
differently but, reader, ninety-nine
persons out of every one hundred are
thought that was made in life before
the first twenty years of life were
past. If our future civilization is to
amount to more than the past land
oh the wrecks in it we see during the
past three thousand years will de-
pend upon the honest constructive
thought that will be given to the chill
dren of school age. A universal edu-
cation must be thought out or we will
continue to repeat our history.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-08
FAMOUS YACHT NOW IN SER
VICE OF US. A.
'NOkomis,'' Owned by H. E Dodge,
Detroit Motor Car Manufacturer
Given Over for War DUTY

Given Over for War Duty
DetrOit's conception of what war
means has been considerable broad
ened by the departure of the luxur-
ious- steam yacht 'tNokomis,' owned
by II. E. Dodge, motor car manufac-
turer, for duty on the high seas in
the service of the United States ma
Wy" Heretofore the '-Nokomis'' has
been looked upOn-and was-a pleas
ure palace afioat. Now she becomes
an instrument of war-and the pub
lie mind begins to grasp the signifi-
canoe of the transformation.
The "NokOmis" considered one of
the finest yachts afloat, was offered to
the government shortly after Amer
ica's declaration of war. Less than
two weeks ago Mr.. Dodge was nOti-
fed of her acceptance and prepara-
tions for the more serious business
of fighting as compared with the de-
lights of the smooth sailing on the
lakes, begins immediately On May
Is, she cleared from her coaling dock
in Detroit, bound for the st. Law
renee River, the gulf and New York
At the latter port she viii be formal
" taken over by the government
although a naval officer was nominal
" in command from the moment she
left Detroit. Exact plans for the fu-
ture of ''NokOmis" are withheld by
the government, but 1t is known that
her name Will be changed and that she
will soon appear in full naval attire
The departure of the vessel was
signalized by a farewell reception Civ
en- aboard her by Mr.. Dodge for a
few friends who had been his guests
on frequent cruises.
The ''Nokomis'' is a 3O3 ton yacht
of steel construction, $50 feet over
all and with an extreme breadth of
23.7 feet. She is equipped with trip
pie expansion, four cylinder engines
and is easily capable of Is knots per
hour. She was built by the Robins
drydock, South Brooklyn, New York
and launched in December 1913.
Since June i, 1914, when she made
her first trial run, she has cruised 49,
600 miles, which 81 said to be the
yachting record for the great lakes
during a period of this length The
value of the ''Nokomis" Is approx
mately $4,000.