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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-22

thing Is to keep the collar of the
fabric.
what Is known as the marine tie, Is
popular note. 1t IS black or colored
when worn with a white shirtwais,
The Washington times., 1917-12-06
VALUE OF POVERTY no THE WORLD
Continual from First Column.)

CONTINUED from First Column)
department Of an righteousness How fortunate that
that would only make him useless and enrich few unscrupu
lous dealersl
Joseph Jefferson actor did great good for the
world BE filled hundreds of thousands of young and old
hearts with kindly sympathy He set good example to
If Joseph Jefferson had had great fortune he would
have spent his life painting pictures for he believed that
he was meant to be painter.
He not meant to be painter; If his life had been
devoted to painting it would have been wasted.
How lucky that he was not rich enough to be able to
waste his life!
Often the world that the sons of great and sue
cessful men accomplish little.
The world foolish It should marvel that the sons of
the rich accomplish anything at all
For genius has truly been called the capacity take
infinite pains It is the splendid fruit that grows the
Infinite pains and hard work are dstasefu to human
beings They avoided by those who can avoid them
lucky for the world that the number of those who rk
is limited.
Dryden tells you in four lines what the actual would
amount to if he had his way.
my next desire is void of care and strife
To lead soft, secure, inglorious life.
country cottage near crystal flood,
winding valley and lofty wood
Every who could afford would live for himself
indulge some useful little tenthrate part of his brain activity
The world progresses because the wisdom of the uni
verse compes every man to work directly indirectly for
every other man.
If we had our way if hard necessity did not compel us
should all live for ourselves should all be mere human
sponges absorbing personal gracaton-the progress of
the human would STOP
Let this fact console you when you contemplate with
bitterness the few who accumulate great fortunes.
You disappointed drop in great of useful
human beings The interest Of the whole demands
that you and the vast majority of all other drops should fail
to get what you crave
THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE USELESS
The Washington times., 1917-12-06
Food Preparations That Save
Labor
Labor
Real Economy, Real Help in War Time.

Few realize the service rendered to the public and the
Government by those that undertake big scale the
careful scientific economical healhul preparation of suit
able foods.
Dozens of preparations essential life and health can
be- and prepared economically hygencally and thor
oughly COOKED AND PACKED FOR DELIVERY
nothing to do but eat cold, and serve
Millions of women have time to devote to work i'm
porant and pressing because of these valuable preparations
that save time AND PREVENT DISAPPOINTING
FAILURES
Millions of tons of coal saved because is longer
necessary have big coal fire to boil bake for hours
Scientific seasoning scientific blending of food values
and, above ALL scientific cooking and preparation of pre-
pared hours vegetable and meat foods save time worry
labor, coal, and anxiety
This work. accomplished within recent years. spread
the whole country by energetic merchandising and in
egent advertising announcements of the great and
unapprecated economies and achievements of this indus
trial age.
And to this may be added the following important
faet:
When concern has invested millions in plants and in
tests other millions IN ITS NAME you have the sasfac
Zion Of knowing with absolute certainty that that NAME
honor and reputation of the house its most valuable
assets.
The man who has put his intelligence his reputation
and millions of dollars into advertising afford
to his quality regardless of increased prices than he
could afford to set fire to factory worth millions
You make your factory over again, buy
chinery; but you cannot remake NAME, damaged
Therefore, name built upon costly and thorough ad
Versng not only asset for the owner but what is
more important, GUARANTEE FOR THE PUBLIC.
ASK FOR THE NAMES THAT YOU KNOW AND
INSIST UPON HAVING THEM.
The Washington times., 1917-12-06
The VaIueOf POvertytO the World
SIX Your Friend What He Would Do If He Had Million.

II majority of men long for a great deal of money
- Each man will tell you that he is struggling along in
uncongenial employment that he had his way his life
would be arranged very differently
Put to any friend this question
''What would you do if you had million dolars?'
You will learn that first of ALL he would get rid of the
useful daily podding that occupies him Instead of living
to work he would live to enjoy himself.
majority of usefully employed because they
must work to live.
If we all had our way should do as we chose, and
there would be progress Fortunately, the wisdom of
Providence keeps the great majority of poor and
fully busy.
This writer asked an able business man, who manages
the material Of great newspaper what he would
do if he had million dollars He replied without hesitation
Isl would 90 abroad and spend the rest of my life collecting
artistic things and enjoying them"
By his newspaper work which helps to disseminate
truth and to fight privilege this renders the greatest
possible service the world He head of the commssariat
Continued at Bottom # Last COumn)
The Washington times., 1917-12-06

JAMES L. wILMETH, eh
The Washington times., 1917-12-06
Increase Telephone Rates?
Better Taste for the Telephone Com
Until Service Had Been Perfected.
By EARL GOODWIN.

The telephone company asks for an increase in its rates
Perhaps has asked for just increase but nearly
VINO mas experienced the trials of getting telephone
Der under the present conditions will welcome the suggestion
that before such request made the service should be
fected. - p'-
In some instances the company asks for hundred per
cent increase In the public telephone booths the
would make local calls 10 cents What will effect possiby
more people than any other single increase would be the
abolition of the unlimited call" contract in private resi-
dences
Fortunately for the PUBLIC the telephone is PUBLIC
utility enjoying monopoly and regulated by the PUBLIC
UTILITIES Commission This particular monopoly has never
mad serious obstacles put the way of full enjoyment of
single bessedness in the field because the policy of the e
phone company always to keep ahead of the procession
and to give splendid service.
But at present it gives poor service They blame on
the war; along with everything else The Government has
taken baaons of trained operators; the company claims
swamped under construction troubles and that confusion
worse confonded has fallen upon the whole system which is
struggling under war time load greater than any thought
possible.
This load is reflected the poorest service Washington
has SEEN Anecdotes of telephone inecieney take prece
dence now comments the price of food and the lack
OF coal DOCTORS whose patients cannot reach them,
LAWYERS whose clients may have millions hanging
telephone call MERCHANTS whose customers want to buy
by telephone and canno-these and of others viii
agree that it matter of bold bad taste for the te
phone company to ask for raise rates at time which
seems to mark historic epoch in the history of poor
service
The Public Utilities Commission will give full ear to the
request Of the telephone company and perhaps the public
will learn considerable of the telephone companys troubles
at that time The company hears of the pubc's attitude
several thousand times dayno doubt 1t night be wise
for the company to be extremely careful in its presentation
because the public is educated only side of the prob
lem That is the side of the problem which shows
phone operator telling subscriber The line is busy when
the line not busy and has not been busy for hour
So the suggestion is made to the telephone monopoly
and to the public bear with another and to the tee
phone company given the suggestion that better service
would be thoroughly appreciated by the public at large
The Washington times., 1917-12-06
= OMETHING mildly amuses
- US, and we smile.

- US, and we smile.
Something amuses US still
more, and we laugh. II we are
intensely amused we laugh aloud
always remembering, 1t is to be
hoped, not to laugh too loudly!
All this seems TO US among the
most natural things in life. We
love to laugh. We have always
laughed. To encourage our laugh
ter, we cultivate amusing persons;
we read amusing books; we go to
see amusing plays.
Suddenly disaster or sorrow
touches the household and we
cease to laugh. And behold, the
atmosphere Of the house has chang
ed from summer to winter. All is
gray, bleak, and austere.
The faces we love show unfamil-
lar lines-lines formerly smoothed
out by smiles and laughter. With
the silence that settles over the
house a chill strikes the hearts Of
its occupants. For the first time
we seem to realize the place Of
laughter in life. 1t is TO the heart
what sunshine is to a garden.
Then, perhaps, we begin to think
seriously of laughter-to specu-
late about it, and about its infiu-
ence on individuals, and on the
world at large.
Looking around US We see men
and women who do not laugh, VINO
seem never to have laughed. The
faces show what their lives have
been-grim, colorless lives, that
match their unresponsive features.
We are sorry for them. Life has
been hard on them-but We do not
forget that they have been hard
on life.
Cruel Laughter Stlngs.
Occasionally we see the man or
woman who laughs much. but al
ways sardonically-always at the
expense of others. Such an indi-
yidual, we realize, is not a nice
person-is indeed a cruel person,
whose cruelty finds its expression
in his laughter. We understand
then that laughter is not always
good-that it can cut and wound
as words alone cannot do.
Even in childhood we have had
more than a hint of this truth.
As children we have been laughed
at, and have suffered under the
laughter.
We recall stories of those whose
hearts have been broken and whose
lives have been wrecked by the
laughter of the world. We remem-
ber that one of our famous ac-
tresses was driven into years Of
nervous prostration by q series of
earicatures of her published in a
The Washington times., 1917-12-06

Western newspaper. The public
laughed at these caricatures,
which were very clever. The ac-
tress was haunted by them.
She became convinced that she
looked like them-that their eff
feet was the effect the public got
when it saw her act. For years
this delusion remained in her mind.
Her health was wrecked and her
career permanently ended.
Every playwright knows the an
guish of being laughed at in the
wrong place-of having some line,
seriously written, chortled over
by his audience. Such instances
occur in almost all plays.
In one play, / remember, the
heroine said, in speaking Of her
husband:
when l came to New York he
gave me a check book and told me
to have a good time. He said /
could go to Europe if wanted to-"
Every audience that saw that
play laughed over that last SEN
tence. 1t was meant to illustrate
the husbands generosity and his
big way Of doing things. To each
audience, however, it meant Just
one thing-that the man was tired
Of his wife, and wanted her as far
away as possible.
The laughter OF audiences, by
the way, is a study in itself. The
audience laughs as one person. 1t
seems, always, to be one great,
human, waiting intelligence, re-
The Washington times., 1917-12-06
Elizabeth Jordan Writes on Laughter

The essence of laughter is beyond
definition.
The subject still interests us,
and we 90 into it further. We
find that leading minds have given
themselves to serious considera-
tion of laughter-of the why Of It
and the wherefore.
Darwin, for example, found in
it "the expression Of mere Joy or
happiness" Boris Sidis declares
it result of the play instinct in
US. eve laugh in plays his
summing up. The Russian writer
Gogal believes, with many think
ers, that laughter is principally
aroused by a sense Of deficiencies
in others.
As an Educator.
We discover that laughter is edu-
cative. We find Aristophanes laugh
ing at the pompous expressions Of
certain Greek philosophers: Scho-
penhauer light-heartedly ridicul-
ing the fiamboyant German style;
Voltaire laughing at the wornout
institutions of France and all Eu-
rope; while the world laughs and
learns with each of them.
Kant, however, coldly repudlates
the entire institution Of Laughter.
Laughter" he remarks gloomily,
is the result Of an expectation
which suddenly ends in nothing"
Other writer's, almost as gloomy,
declare that the real source Of
laughter is the laugher's sense of
superiority-that without this
sense he would not laugh.
Most writer's agree that a bless
ed thing about laughter is the re-
Taxation it brings with It. 1t Is
recognized fact that in times OF
great stress and danger persons
will laugh on the most trivial pre-
text. Their nerves demand the re-
Taxation laughter holds.
Leaving the authorities to their
wrangling there is this to say for
laughter. At its best 1t is a gift
of the gods. True humor reaches
from the heights to the depths and
plumbs the very soul. True laugh
ter may include not superiority,
but sympathy, tolerance. under
standing and the human love that
follows them.
As to the place Of laughter in
life, its place is almost every
where. II laughter does not dwell
in us we must learn to laugh-first
at ourselves, then at our failings,
last Of all, at our troubles. For
until we have learned to laugh
well and wisely and at all but the
sacred things in life. we have not
mastered one of our biggest les
sons. q
The Washington times., 1917-12-06

spending to certain impulses in
certain ways.
But one never knows when or
at what it will laugh. The play
wright's best lines are often re-
ceived in silence; some obscure
line in which he has perpetrated
what he considers a very mild
joke may be roared over from
Maine to California.
What, then, is laughter? Ac-
cording to the Century Dictionary,
it is something so highly impress
sive that one falters before it.
For some time after reading it,
one almost hesitates to laugh.
Take, for example, this defini-
ton:
Laughter: A mode of express
sing mirth, consisting chiefly in
certain convulsive and partly in
voluntary action of the muscles of
respiration, by means of which,
after an inspiration, the expulsion
Of the air from the chest in a Sc
ries of jerks produces a succession
Of short, abrupt sounds, accom-
panied by certain movements of
other parts of the body, and, when
excessive, by tears"
You wouldn't think laughter
was all that, would you? The dis
covery sobers one for the moment
makes one disinclined toward
those abrupt sounds" and those
muscular movements"
Then one realizes that such a
definition is merely the poor effort
Of words to express that which
cannot be expressed by words.
The Washington times., 1917-12-06
Once-Overs "Isss Bis GPtT in the
Copyright, 1917, International News Service.

Copyright 1911, International News Service.
Often the from small town fails to make good the big
city the homesness the wife
The partner Of his and around sadeyed
planning because social life she enjoyed at
gets discouraged his incentive make home is IN
be place of depression lament there is little to be from
The struggle supremacy the large city energy
and ability the small pressing for the
goal.
Therefore man who plunge and work ont
his fate big city REQUIRES the moral helm
he get.
Many dsappotmens which he can nave no control lie
Dozens day confronted with staggering problems
His position and success depend how he solves them.
He needs mind unoubd by thoughts Of discOntend
should he he omnesd 70 labor the additional which
Grumbhng wife brings about
The Washington times., 1917-12-06

W. 7. GALLIHER, president
Of the American National Bank,
win act as treasurer for the
Christian Endeavor Milk Station
Fund. This fund Is the result Of
organization of endeavorers who
have found starving children in
the schools and on the public
Fairgrounds.
The Washington times., 1917-12-06
Stop the Bleeding
The Blood of the Nation in the Veins of It's Routine
Workers

The increased cost of living is tax. It is tax for
winning the war 1t paid by the ultimate consumer
The ultimate consumer is the greatest patriot in
America hence he is now the most important person in the
country
. Do you know him? Feel in your pocket and find out
your pockets jingle with profits you have made by adding
your part OF the cost of the increased be paid
by some one else then you not the ultimate consumer"
fou may be great you may be eloquent you may feel
tensey patriotic but you not paying the of the war
Routine workers with fixed salaries which ''stay fxed'
when everything else rises ultimate consumers The
routine workers of the Government in Washington were
ultimate consumers When, with salaries averaging $948
year it cost 80 for the average family live in 1916
before prices went up another 80 per cent!
we are fond OF eloquence. When grow eloquent we
like to talk of the life blood of the nation" That is the
sort of blood which flows in the veins of the ultimate con-
sumer. When he bleeds white the nation bleeds white
Stop the bleeding Help these workers who cannot help
themselves Instead of beginning to economize with
them put up their pay until it gives them the price of
living
The Washington times., 1917-12-06

VOOnCnueu !rorn First VoumnJ
department of army righteousness How fortunate that
he cannot abandon his useful work to collect artistic trash
that would only make him useless and enrich few
lous dealers!
The Washington times., 1917-12-06
HEARD AND SEEN

clerk of the Treasury, appointed to-
day to the post of chief Of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
is probably as efficient and capable
an official as there is in the United
States Government; and furthermore
uniformly courteous to the last de-
gree. am glad to have this oppor-
tunity to say so.
The Washington times., 1917-12-06

Among the prominent citizens in
the audience at a motion picture
theater at Eighteenth and Columbia
road last night were c. C. ROGERS
and BEN ADAMS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-02-20
BILLY,S TOGGERY
VIII Move to Larger Quarters on
Third Street, in the McCrossen
Block.

w. F. Weinkauf, of "Billy's Tog-
gerry" has closed lease for the store
formerly occupied as a cafeteria, one
door north of Burlingame's billiard
hall and pool rooms, and opposite the
National German American bank. Mr..
Weinkauf is now charging and put
ting the store in condition to accom-
modate the most modern equipment
for his special line of business to serve
the men and young men in a way
which is entirely new to this part
of the west. 1t is Mr.. Weinkaufs
ambition to make his store not only
a pioneer in the modern methods Of
clothes selling. but leader as well.
He will move just as soon as the
new quarters, can be placed in readi-
ness, which will be about April 1st.
The store now occupied by W. F.
Weinkauf has been leased to H. E.
McEachron.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-02-20

Otto Fehlhaber and family now oc-
cupy the residence at 700 Grand ave-
nue., having moved there on Saturday
from the Mehl flats on Jackson street
The Pilot is in receipt of the 1917
mining edition of the Tucson Citi-
zen, through the kindness of Mrs. A. B.
Murray, who is spending the winter
in that city.
A program of music, readings, reci
tations and drills was given by the
children of st. Mary's school in the
auditorium of the new school building
Sunday evening.
A fire at Cranmoor Sunday night re-
suited in the deaths of w. H. and J. w.
Fitch, and the domestic employed by
the family. 1t is said that the deaths
were caused by asphyXiation.
Lake Superior is frozen over. This
is the first time this has happened in
twenty-five years. This indicates a
pretty cold spell of weather up in that
country. Some think that it has ex-
ter ded to Wausau.
The weather has been quite moder-
ate the past week. Wednesday showed
fourteen below, the balance of the
week was from 25 to 80 above. This
morning the north winds sent the
mercury down below zero again.
The address of Burton Hanson of
Chicago, on Benjamin Franklin" be-
fore the Mems club of the Universalist
church on Thursday evening, in Cyrus
Yawkey hall, was attended by nearly
100 members. The speaker was in
troduced by Judge A. H. Reid. 1t
was an eloquent address and it was
immensely enjoyed by all who heard
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-02-20
BURIED AT BANGOR

The remains of Walter NJ. Crandall
of Wittenberg, arrived in the city yes
terday and were taken to the home of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Gran
dali. corner Sixth and Washington
streets. The funeral services were
conducted at st. James church this
morning by Rev. FIR. ]. ]. Brennan.
The body was taken to Bangor for
burial. Mr.. Crandall had been in fail
ing health for the past four years,
pulmonary tuberculosis being the
cause of his death, which occurred last
Saturday. He was a former resident
of Wausau, but for the past five years
had lived at Wittenberg, where he was
operator in the Northwestern rail-
road office. The deceased was born
in Bangor, thirty-one years ago. He
came to Wausau with his parents and
for some time was employed in the
Northwestern depot as telegraph OPP
orator, and later went to Wittenberg.
He was married to Miss Anna Yost OF
this city, October 81, 1909, who sur
wives with two sons, John and Joseph
Crandall
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-02-20

Miss Blanche Armstrong, Special
magazine Representative. Subscrip-
tons taken for all magazines at low
est clubbing rates, SIG Mcclellan st.
Phone 16s1. nz<6
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-02-20
SHORT ITEMS

Only eight more days till March.
Winnie & Justesen of this city, who
haye been doing concrete work, have
gone into bankruptcy.
This evening the regular monthly
meeting of the Federated Charities
will be held at hte court house.
WatcheS-We repair any kind of
watch Only skilled workmen en-
ployed on these goods. G. F. Dunbar
Go. adv.
Harry Sisson had the misfortune to
break his leg above the ankle while
playing with boy friends at school,
On Thursday
The DawIey Lumber Co., of this
city has recently established retail
lumber yards in Marathon City, Fen
wood and Caroline.
Mrs. Baker, wife, of DR.. Baker, of
.Birnamwood is in St Mary's hospi-
|taL where she is recovering nicely
from an operation
Miss Bonita Shatto was operated
upon Wednesday at St. Mary's hospi-
|tal for appendicitis, and is now well
on the road to recovery.
T. O. Kellogg. who has been laid
op with the grip and complications
connected with that illness, is able
10 be around again as usual.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Conklin. who
Pave been living in Minneapolis. will
|Fenrn to WauSau next week and make
lhis city their future home.
Last evening two games in the Y. NJ.
\. tournament were played on the
floor. The High school played
Ae Business college, resulting y to
IN favor of the college boys. The
'tagogues and Seniors played, the
'sre being Al to Is, the Pedagogues
winning