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The Cordova daily times., 1917-05-22
ALLIES TRADE CONGRESS.
(By United Press)

ROME, May P. - The economic un- ion of the entente allies, for trade CO operation during and after the war, will be frightened by the Inter-parlia- mentary Commercial Congress, sche, duled to hold it's first session here today. American cooperation in the plans under way will be considered.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-05-22
PReMiER's ASSASSIN
 WILL FACE TRIAL
(By United Press)

VIENNA, May 22. - Adler, assas. sin of Count Karl Stuergh, premier of Austria, is scheduled to stand trial tomorrow, a commission of physicians having determined that his plea of insanity was groundless.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-05-22

George A. Parks, of the land office was passenger for Cordova on the steamer Alaska
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-19
SUGAR SCARCITY
DUELARGELY TO
CARSHORTAGE

Sugar scarcity on the mainland dur.
ing the last month has been generally
due to a lack of cars to get the pro-
duct where needed, according to Hor.
ace Johnson, consulting chemist with
c. Brewer & Co., who with Mrs. John
son has just returned from a visit as
far east as Chicago.
There were times" says Mr.. John.
son, when small parcels of sugar
would be deled out to consumers, but
no sugar cards were used in the Sec
tons We visited. The distributing
was taken care of by the grocers
themselves at the request of the au
thorities. At the time We left matters
were adjusting themselves as the
transportation facilities had again
come into play.
~ Business throughout the West
seems to be boonling," continued Mr..
johnson. Industry is moving stead
lily along and no one seems to be out
of work. All through the country peo-
pie are looking for long war and
are making their plans accordingly"
Mr.. johnson viii be in the city for
several days preparing to take up his
work. Mrs. Johnson will return short.
ly to their home at Hilo, accompanies
by the children, Ralph, Paul and Eve.
Ign, who have been in school here
while their parents were away.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-19
ACQUISITION OF
FISH RIGHTSBY
TERRITORY,PLAN
Child Fayors Taking Fight to
Congress Direct; Would
Cost S150,0O0

Condemnation OF the fishing rights
Of the islands and turning them over
to the territorial government for ad'
ministration is the latest war measure
OF J. +. Child. federal food commits
siCner. in his efforts 10 conserve the
food supply OF the territory.
Mr. Child has already list Of all
the fishing rights which are Al IN
number, With a full tabulation as TO
their ownership, valuation and income
derived. 1t is estimated BY Mr.. Child
that it will cost in the neighborhood
Of $780, 900 to condemn the properties.
Just what method will be employed
to have the rights condemned has not
been definitely decided. but 1t is felt
that the quickest and surest way
would be to take the matter direct to
congress as already several similar
measures have been before the local
legislature and failed to pass.
1t is the present plan if the project
is put through to have fish commits
sion which would formulate fishing
restrictions and issue fishing licenses
similar to the hunting licenses now in
vogue, the fees for licenses to cover
the cost of an inspector. The COM
mission itself would serve without
pay.
At present the fishing rights are
owned by persons who lease them to
fishing companies. Under the proposed
plan anyone may fish who takes out a
license.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-19
IL. UPHELD BY
SUPREME court
in RATE FIGHT
Decision Holds That It Can In
crease Rates: Utilities Au-
thority Curbed

That the Inter-Island Steam Saviga
ton co. has authority TO increase its
! freight and passenger rates in accord
ance with the new schedule which Was
| to have gone into effect October l.
but which was held up by an injunc
| ton suit brought by the public util
tiles commission, Is the finding Of the
supreme court in a decision handed
down late yesterday afternoon.
The supreme court holds that the
public utilities commission has no
| Jurisdiction to regulate the rates and
charges of a common carrier by water
in interstate commerce for the trans
portation Of persons and property
from port to port in the territory OF
Hawaii
On September IS the commission.
in a decision, ordered the shipping
company TO return to the schedule Of
rates in effect in 1915, whereupon the
company Immediately announced an
increase in its rates TO take effect
October !, declaring that this new
schedule had been approved by the
federal shipping board and that the
company did not have the authority
to reduce or otherwise change them
without the consent Of the board. At
this time the company filed an appeal
from the commissions decision and
order
The commission then brought an in.
junction suit against the company to
restrain it from disobeying the order.
and the company also took this case
to the supreme court on appeal.
AS regards the authority Of the fed
eral shipping board, the supreme
court decision says:
The shipping board established by
act Of Congress Of September 7. 1916,
has sole and exclusive Jurisdiction to
regulate rates and charges of a com:
mon carrier by water in interstate
commerce"
In this connection one Of the four
contentious upon which the steamship
company appealed was that the pub
lie utilities commission had no juris-
diction over the reasonableness of the
freight and passenger rates charges
by the company, but that this juris-
diction was vested solely in the fed.
eral shipping board.
The decision continues. in part:
There is no question that the ap-'
pellant, under provision of the ship
ping act, is a common carrier by
water in interstate comperce.' 1t is
engaged in the transportation of pas.
sengers and property from port to
port in the territory of Hawaii.
Congress has the exclusive power
Of controlling and regulating foreign
and interstate commerce and plenary
legislative power in the territories. 1t
has the power to place all shipping
on the high seas in the territory on
the same plane as interstate COM
merce and to withdraw the control
thereof from an local board or com.
and place the same in al
board created by it, and we are salts. |
field it has done SO in the shipping |
act"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-19
BONDS
DROP TO $50

Russian government 81 per cent in,
ternal bonds have reached a new low
level on the New York market, drop.
ping from $101 for a 1000-ruble bond
to $S6, which caused considerable
quaking among local investors, who
hold several million rubles' worth of
these securitie j. The drop is the out.
come of the declaration by the Bolshe.
Wiki repudiating Russia's national
debt. TIE news of the drop was re.
ceived yesterday by the Bishop Trust
Company.
5 No quotations were given on the I'm.
perial Russian 61s per cent externals
nor on the Imperial Russian 515 per
cent externals, but there is no doubt
that these two securities fell at the
same time as the Intervals.
Although the bonds are very low,
the par value of the Intervals being
$51450, both the financial men on the
mainland and the local investors are
not pessimistic, but appear to be pos.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-19
KURTISTOWNIS
SOLDFOR$I0,0OO

Kurtistown, II miles from Hilo on
the Volcano road. and the store, store
building and store site, has been sold
to T. Dranga, Crescent City bust
ness man, for approximately $4,000,
according to reports reaching Homo
lulu today.
The transfer was made last week.
after A. G. Curtis, the owner, returned
from the mainland. 1t Is his merCan-
tile business which Mr.. Curtis has dis
posed of. but he still retains much Of
his cane land, from which he has
made an independent fortune in the
last few years.
Kurtistown was named after Mr..
Curtis, who was one Of the early day
coffee planters who tried to wrest
wealth from the Olaa lands. This ven
ture proving Improbable. Mr., Curtis
started a general store after which a
postoffice was allotted to III miles,
as Kurtistown Is colloquially known on
Hawaii.
Mr.. Curtis is now bound again for
San Francisco where he proposes
starting a purchasing agency for is
land patrons.
The buyer of kurtistown was for
merly engaged in the plumbing bust
ness in Hilo, and more recently has
conducted a second hand store there.
Tive that the Bolsheviki will shortly
be ousted and the new government
will cancel the reputation of the ma
tional debt.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-05

at the close of the session tor the re
mainder Of the year, his natural life,
If the subject matter then could an
swer the demands of the child's natural
impulses; if he could feel he had some.
thing to offer for the good of all con.
cerned, school would be an entirely
different process Of learning than that
which we are teaching in the present
day. 1t would serve us a means to an
end, not tend to make us lose sight of
the individual in our maze of averages,
the work would then be rightly mott.
waited.
Well, then, how long in the primary
grades? 1t is always easy to criticise
the work of an institution, but one
scarcely has thought right unless he is
able to suggest some way out. The
fundamental thing that undelies all
this is to have a system of examina-
tons for entering, children should
show six years of mental efficiency or
age before being admitted to school.
Children of this type will not need so
much sense training and language
drill as the average. Secondly, is to
eliminate from these grades content
work, and make room for stimulating
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-05

work which would give a stimulus for
more thorough work in the form of
studies. Thirdly. after the pupils enter
the school there should be a flexible
grading system applied from the very
first.
The question then arises as to what
can be done to change the status of
public opinion and raise the standard
of u common schools? Occasionally,
we hear of the trail blazer" in pro-
motion, advancing the pupil into the
grade in which he does not belong. If
you do not think he belongs in the ad-
vanced grade, do not let a board mem
Der influence you to pass him there or
any other party concerned. Some say
condition him" to the next grade, this
will only be a fair trial. Johnny ought
to make his grade, this Is an injustice
to the child and his parents when this
thought is prevalent. Sometimes when
the pupil refuses to study he is con-
sidered bad or deficient and is sen to
a lower grade, or conditioned, not
meeting his every day sltuati rs of
school life. The teacher considers it
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-05

the way from change Of teachers, alb
sence on the part Of the pupils, nee
essary and otherwise failure of the
teacher to comply with the course of
study as she should do.
We must not deal with our seventh
and eighth grade pupils as we would
like them to be. No, we must take them
as we find them, good, bad and indiff.
erent, and make an effort to carry
them through to a successful examin.
alton. Years ago we read in the Pop
ular Educator a little poem or jingle
the burden of which was: Ram it in,
cram it in, any way to get it in" But
this will not do for our pupils, we must
prepare them for life.
Beginning with the fifth and sixth
grades, our potent work will be to test
the weak points and provide a remedy
for same, not saying it is essential to
neglect work before this because it
would be poor pedagogy TO do SO. We
need strong teachers in these grades.
Passing by the reading, for we must
presume that pupils are intelligent
readers before they reach the sixth
grade, is this always the case? | shall
beg to ~differentIate with you; in my
estimation, it is the weak point in
which pupils are passed to the next
grade, not being able to comprehend
their subject matter for this reason.
How much better if pupils should
come to the high school able to eX-
press themselves in such a way, that
others will have no difficulty in under
standing them w though they know
very little about technical grammar,
than to come through the grades able
in a perfunctory manner, according to
set rules and definitions to parse many
words, and not be able to write re-
spectacle accounts of how to raise
corn. sheep, hogs and cattle. Have the
puptlS W Nillt dDOul Tie tIlllSS lIlty
know if you expect to get results.
The pupils in these grades are in the
should spend most of their time in
gathering facts rather than in trying
to develop the power to reason That
will come in due time The concrete
must precede the abstract, if the child
is to develop normally
The fault of our teaching lies largly
in the method of approach. Our point
of attack is wrong. We work on the
outside and around the edges, but do
not probe to the core. We think in
terms Of pages, grades and standings,
instead of mind, body and spirit. The
result Of this attitude causes our corn
schools to turn out unawakened,
Indifferent, citizenship.
1t is just such training that establishes
aimless, l~istless, u~ninteresting mem
bers of society. For these reasons !
urge you not to pass a pupil beyond
capabilities. If you do it will ulti-
prove detrimental to his men
tai growth.
l often wonder just what the child's
of school is, a place of which ne
must report at 8 o'clock, a place in
the teachers authority is 10 he
observed, a program of passing lines,
opening and closing of books, carrying
out directions, studying his lessons,
and if he is good, he is allowed to go
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-05
STREET CAR WORK
Motormen and Conductors Find Il Attractive

Any street railway trainman will tell you that
there is something fascinating about street car work.
His explanation may be that it broadens a man. e-
perience; or that it offers q fine field for advancement:
or that the pay is good; or that the new situations
constantly arising give it variety and interest. What
ever the explanation, and it may lie in a combination
OF these and other reasons, the fact is undoubted. There
Is an added attraction In street car work to the young
man who has spent most Of his life on the farm or in
the small town, because it offers him q chance to en-
joy the busy life of a big city under the most favor
able conditions.
Throughout the United States the street railway
system Of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, popularity known
as "Twin City Lines is considered one Of the most
progressive and np-todate street railway systems u
the country.
The cars themselves are Of the most modern type,
equipped with the best devices, 80 that they are COM
Portable both in winter and summer.
The accompanying picture shows the North Side
Station, one OF the Company 3 modern car barns. Here
are stored q large number Of cars when not in service
on the lines to which they are assigned. Here, also,
trainmen assigned to those same lines make their head
quarters. The Company has provided in this, as well
10 in tho i've other ear stations, club rooms for the
benefit and use Of trainmen during their leisure hours.
The equipment Of these club rooms includes pool
tables whichfthe trainmen may use at slight expense.
barber shop where Arst class work ID done at reduced
prices, gymnasium apparatusy reading room with books
and magazines, and rest room supplied with cots and
blankets where trainmen may rest when off duty, and
svenspend the night Il they should % desire.
At each station . committee Of motormen ana com.
duetors arranges tor parties at frequent intesvals. the
sxpsnss of which . borne By the Company. The
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-05

tralnmen at the several stations have organized among
themselves orchestras and bands which furnish much
OF the entertainment for these parties. During the
winter months a pool tournament is carried on at ali
the stations. BY a process Of elimination. the cham.
Plon at each station is determined, and he receives a
medal paid for by the Company. A series Of games
between the several station champions is then plaved
and the winner of the greatest number Of these games
IS declared the ''System Champion and to his station
Is gwen the large trophy cup which the Company has
or the station which wins it three times.
Aside from providing wholesome amusement for -,
tra,nmen, the management of "Twin City Lines'' has
undertaken to provide for the material welfare of its
employees, through an organization known as The
employees Mutual Benefit Association. The payment
OF very small monthly dues guarantees the EMPLOYEES
a certain weekly payment for so weeks in case Of
ILLNESS, the payment Of a large portion Of the phvsi-
clan's charges II an operation is necessary. and Of
several hundred dollars in case of death. Furthermore
the company endeavors to provide for an employed
In his old age by granting him a pension, when he No
longer is able to work.
minneapolis and Saint Paul are beautiful cities IN
which to live. The climate is healthful and invioorat.
ing. Both are progressive, growing cities requiring and
receiving up to-the-hinute car service. An idea of tho
volume OF business done by ssTwin City Lines'' NAV he
obtained from the statement that in the wear iq16
nearly S1o,OOO,OOO passengers were carried on its ears
Irainmen TOR the system are hired by the EmnIov.
ment Bureau, at the Company's Snelling Station. I53e
University Ave, Saint Paul. Inasmuch as = new car
station 10 to be built in the near future, il is probahIa
tnat . number OF additional men will soon be abie ~
nnd employment ~ trainmen.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-05

Is il true that the air inside Of the
tire travels IN a direction opposite to
that of the tire7
The impression that the air inside an
automobile tire travels In the direction
opposite to that which the tire Is fol
lowing Is entirely erroneous. The air
Is In a compressed state inside the
casing, and when the casing travels
the air within it tends to go In the
same direction.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-05

Cont ,nued on 7age Nine)
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-05

! have had some trouble with clip.
ping out Of high while going down
erads and could probably remedy 4 N
! know what 60 look for. What would
you susesstf
It IL very likely that the lower end
Of the control lever has been lifted
too tightly against the shifting bars In
the gearset BY removing the control
lever and reducing the diameter Of
TIE bose which enters into the shifting
gsazs your dimculty should y slimi-
nlted.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-07-25
WOOD MAKES PROTEST

Charleston, S. c., July 28.-Maj.
Gen. Leonard Wood, U. S. A., COM
handing the Southeastern depart
ment, today sent letter to the war
department in which he protested
against dropping of Fort Mcpherson,
Ga, and Fort Logan, H. Root, Ark.
as officers reserve training camps.
Gen. Wood holds that none of the
places substituted are as good as Ell
Their of these dropped and that it will
be a mistake. He argues that the
South is the proper place to train the
men who will be sent to the battle
fields of Europe
Not only men training to be officers
but men being trained for the rank
and file should be in Southern camps
If the country is to get the highest ef-
hciency out of the men of the new
army. 1t will be a mistake to train
men in sections where winter condi-
tons will interfere, Gen Wood says
in his letter.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-07-25
SLAMS ENTRANCE INTO WAR
TO INFLUENCE CELESTIALS

New York, July 23.-The announce
ment that Siam has declared a state
of war with Germany carries greater
significance than might at first be
supposed, according to a statement
here today by John Barrett, director
of the Pan-American Union, and for
merly United States minister to Siam.
Slams chief Importance in the
present war crisis is that it is practi-
cally the rice granary or source of
food supply for China, and its action
must have direct effect upon China S
attitude toward Germany" said Mr..
Barrett. at also gives the allies now
for the first time, an unbroken ia
vorable coast line all the way from
China to the Mediterranean, for Siam
was the only neutral territory in that
entire distance of many thousand
miles. 1t also possesses an excellent
little navy, adequate to patrol the Gull
OF Siam coast line of nearly 2,O0C
miles"
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-07-25
HARDWICK CAST VOTE
AGAINST FOOD BILL

Atlanta, Ga, July 24-Legislator
and others are commenting with much
interest on the votes of the two Geor-
gla senators, Hoke Smith and Thos.
W. Hardwick on the food control bill
and the aviation bill in the senate last
Saturday afternoon when both of
these important measures passed the
upper house of the national congress.
1t begins to look, as they are point
ing out, as if the two senators from
Georgia are not SO absolutely har-
monlous in opposing the war meas
ures of the Wilson administration as
some commentators have been en-
deavoring recently to show
The friends of Senator Smith are
very much gratified to note that M
cast his vote in favor of both of tn
food control and the aviation bill
while Senator Hardwick voted against
the food control bill and demanded
that the provision authorizing the
President to draft men for aviation be
stricken from the aviation bill
Cotton was stricken out of the food
control bill as the result of Senator
Smiths efforts. while the draft pro-
vision of the aviation bill was retained
by an overwhelming majority.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-07-25
FOR MISS SHAW.

Tuesday afternoon Miss Emmie
Mashburn was hostess to number OF
the young ladies with an informal
party at the home of her sister, Mrs,
Aubrey Culberson, on Roanoke drive
which was given in honor of Miss
Irene Shaw, of Gainesville, who is the
attractive guest of Miss Rhea Wise.
Two cars conveyed the party of young
girls to the pretty bungalow and the
afternoon was spent dancing and Wis
iting and partaking OF delicious water
melon and Chero Cola.
Those enjoying the frolic were
Misses Irene Shaw, of Gainesville
Ella Wilson, Of Leslie Ga; Helen
McAllister, of Arcadia, Fla, Rhea
Wise, nellie Frazer, Ida Mckay, Mary
Eva Martin, Helen Osborne, Esther
Osborne, Mrs. c. c. Persons. and
Mrs. Mack Pryor and Emmie Mash
burn.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-07-25
WILL PUT NEUTRALS ON
RATIONING BASIS

Washington, .. c.. July 23.-The
American governments control of ex-
ports has resulted in an absolute en-
barge on cargoes destined to the
Northern European neutral countries.
Since the control was made effective a
little more than a week ago not a
single cargo, it was learned today, has
been licensed for shipment to these
stations.
The policy enforced is described as
temporary, to be changed as soon as it
is possible to put the neutrals on a
rationing basis. Despite submission
Of much information by neutral coun-
tries through their diplomats, the gov
eminent considers that it lacks CON
vincing evidence regarding exports
from these countries to Germany and
it wants to take no chances of per-
hitting American goods to go through
to the enemy.
Goods destined for the allied coun-
tries are licensed without question, as
are commodities that go to most other
neutrals. Some shipments have been
permitted to forward to Switzerland,
but not until the character of the con-
signee was established beyond ques-
ton.