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Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-02-26
% --that Day Is
Germany's Doom"

There is simple, easy way by which every family
IN the United States stand up and be counted-by
which every man, and child enlist in the hun
dred Million allAmerican army which the Germans
dread. ...
One of the most significant utterances made during
the entire made by prominent German official
when America cast her lot with the allies:
eve do not fear the American soldiers, because they
cannot arrive IN tme what fear is the intelligence and
devotion of hundred million Americans trained to
faith in individual initiative. The day that those hundred
millions act as one, that day is Germany's DOOM"
Today Germany is fighting with a new and more
desperate energy because she fears that the American SOL
dlers will arriver in time.
But Germany still refuses to believe that our hundred
million people will "act one"
How prove it to her? How can we strike to
the heart of the Hun? How convince the kaiser
that the day of his doom approaches?
That way is to lend our money to our country.
By War Saving Stamp; costing you until February
l, 1918, $412, worth So on January l. 1923.
If you cannot pay for it in immediate cash buy U.
S. Thrift Stamp for 25 cents and keep on buying them
until you have 16 Then add few cents in cash and ex
change them for the War Saving Stamp.
Begin to do this now. Save every cent you can and
put it into these stamps.
The money will be used Immediately to provide guns
ammunition food clothing and other supplies for our SOL
dierS and sailors.
This will be bad for the kaiserthe worst he has
ever heardfor will prove to him that are ready to
act as one. 1t will prove that not only our men, but
every dollar have is behind country 1t will prove
that we are in the to win, and that shall stay in
1t until we do win 1t will prove that we are thorophv
unanimously determined that country our homes and
our loved shall longer lie under the dark menace
OF German domination and enslavement.
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THE HONORED
PROFESSION

Attorney and Counsellor at Law! A
deep and resounding phrase, breath
ing of things deep, dark, mysterious,
and yet the name of a member of the
honorable profession. A lawyer
stands for many things in a commu-
nifty, according to his particular lines
of activity; he may be an ideal, he
may be n laughing stock, or he may be
the preferred practitioner. Just well.
respected, well-liked private citizen
who goes about his daily affairs with
out fear, favor or prejudice. There
are millions of lawyers in the United
States, did we say lawyers? Most Of
them lawyers, some of them, Just as
appear in other professions, unscru-
pulous, dishonest crooks. The lawyer
has been made the butt of many a
joke; the profession has suffered the
spume OF public that at times has
writhed under the application of set.
screws frightened in tine tine hands of
those of It's members who have no re.
gard for the blindness of Justice nor
the spirit of right But the major
portion of the profession goes on,
UNFOLDING the mercy OF right, the
beacon carriers of justice. Who
gives more faithfully. more ungrudg-
inGly, than the legal profession? Not
only of it's worldly goods but of it's
Iife's blood? You in this little city
of ours, have you seen the silken scr.
vice flag that hangs Immediately be7
hind the Judges chair in the district
court room? That flag signifies the
presence of four of the members of
the bar from your city, now offering
their life's blood in this world earn.
age, that you may go on safely en-
folded within the banner Of democ-
racy. DO YOU remember the very first
Red Cross drive and that the lawyers
OF this city contributed $500 as a
profession to that fund? Do you re,
member the second Liberty Loan cam
paign, when the lawyers as a body
took $1,000 worth of these bonds? Dc
YOU know that more lawyers are go
Ing to the front from here, gladly,
, willingly, for you? Do you know that
every man Jack of them is as chuck
full OF patriotism as n sausage skin
full of meat? II Is the history of the
profession the world over. II does
not apply to this city alone. II Is
world history. The shvstors. sharks
and robbers who exist I'm tho profes.
sion exist just as does barnacle on
tho keel of stout ship, by sucking
their nutrition from the name of an
honored profession. As n class OF
themselves let us accord the attor
neys their due. And we visualize
those boys OF ours. tho four stars on
that silken service flag hanging lust
beneath the stars and stripes in the
temple of justice that is ours. as VIC
sec them in the long line Of khaki that
passes briskly up the street TO the
/ strains Of military bands, ne we sec
them hurl forward in the victory
winning charge that routs the occurs
"a Hun let us thank God that We
I have n profession that gives us such
mon rs these. men who will sacrifice
their all that they may fight for q
principle. not for themselves. but foi
their posterity and their loved ones
at homo. Hats off, II Is The Ionored
Profession
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$500 REWARD

One brown year-old Gelding
branded on left hip with TBench
Lost between Eureka and Duckwatel
on or about January 6, 1918 from my
sheep camp. Said horse was IL
charge of my foreman. Domingo GAGS
at the time.
] will give $25 for his return
either to me or Domingo Gaca.
BALBINO ACHABAL,
Tuscarora, Nevada
First pub. Feb. %. 1918.
Last publication. March 9, 1918.
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ditch. pipe. tiume. tanks or reservoirs.
and there used for mining and milling
purposes. Water to be returned to
stream at point whence to 4 Corner
OF Secs. 6 and T. AZ N. R So E. N.
d. B. & NJ, Bears S. So E. 2430 feet.
SEYMOUR CASE.
State Engineer.
First publication Feb. s, 1918.
Last publication March Is, 1918.
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OF the State OF Nevada, In and For
the County of Elko.
Golconda Cattle Company, q cor
plaintiff. VS.. Central Nevada
Livestock & Land Company, q corpor.
alton. J. A. Conley. James E. Walsh
and Joseph Quay. surviving directors
and trustees of the said Central Ne
vada Livestock & Land Company.
The Nevada Land & Cattle Company. a
corporation, the German Savings &
Loan Society. a corporation. and all
unknown surviving directors or trus-
tees and stockholders OF each and all
OF said corporations above named as
defendants herein, Robert N. Graves
and Graves, his wife,
Thomas A Parkinson and ---
Parkinson his wife. James Mark Barr
and --- Barr, his wife, Thorn
as d. Parkinson and Robert N. Graves.
doing business under the firm name
and style OF Parkinson & Graves
sometimes called Graves & Parkin
son. w. Z. F. Deal and --
Deal his wife, Archibald w. Allen and
- Allen his wife, John Sib
bald and -- Sibbald. his
wife, Patrick Crowley and
Crowley. his wife. r. N. Graves and
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UP IN A
BALLOON BoYst

VIII there ever be such q thing as
n permanent politician" viii we ever
have such a thing as man in state
or federal berth who will ever be so
good that the people Of tho state
won't stand for his removal? VIII Il
ever happen that just when we get a
good man and begin TO become nc
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WE KNOWS, BUT WHAT Is 1T

MILWAUKEE. Feb. 26.-Miss An
no Grosskopf, nurse, sent judge and
attorneys scurrying to the dictionary
in her suit for $500 against the cleo
trio company for injuries. She ell.
leges she was thrown to floor when a
car started suddenly bringing on an
attack of transnatic neurasthenia.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-02-26

wife. Patrick Crowley and
Crowley. his wife. r. N. Graves and
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SUM MONS

In the Fourth judicial District Court
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\ City of Books

CONTINUED fromF First COumn)
these reading would spread until every
would be in easy reach of reading room with Always
Welcome over the door.
This is DIR Bowerrnans ideal the map shows it and
suggests it. But unless Congress permits Is vain thing
Worshlpng VAN things mere ''laolatry
Unless all of US who believe in such ideals help our
idealsm" also will be idoatry So you oeneVe IN TINS
sort of an ideal do something and do Say something
Write a Iettar. ''I1ake a kick Necessary. Or 1nd
word may be better But do something, at any rate
The Washington times., 1918-01-15
By EARL GOODWIN.

The only American right resting with the voteess resi-
dents of the National Capital the right of petition We
allowed to ask for what want Or President Taft
said in muchdisgused language: People who live
Washington have the right of petition and if they don't
like that they can live somewhere else
lnasmuch we have the right of petition it the
part of wisdom to exercise this right cautiously baby
exercising his right of petition cries for the but the
looks into the proposition before he begins
to below
We exercise right of petition through the citizens
associations the trade bodies the community organizations
Congress knows this It, therefore, behooves to be
full about the resolutions adopt, and the proposals
ndorse We can resolute until the home and
will get nothing if petitions empty and resou
tions the result of chuckeheaded wisdom have been
present at citizens association meeting where they re
soved subjects ranging from archaeology to the National
Government the speakers all being spattered with the mud
of the kempt street which the meeting place stood
Had they resoved" to get sidewalk that street they
would have been doing the country service.
We Endorse the petition of some good fellow who
LAYS hitherto uneard of proposition before the meeting
We sometimes ego record in matters do not under
stand
Let us prepare ourselves for the vital things will
face when we have here One way to prepare Is to
be sure we right then adopt the indOrsng resolutions
Otherwise we are nothing more than puppets.
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Gambling Is Learned in
Childish Games
By William A. Nick eever
One of the nations foremost authorities problems OF
childhood and sociology.

One of the company, who entered
the game with only twenty dollar
bill, came out with thirty cents,
apparently not much rufled. He
was good loser.
Now, the point is this: The three
groups are all alike in spirit and
meaning. In all there was the same
hot passion for winning. The in
dividual was striving to defeat his
fellows. There was a premium on
cunning. polite trickery, shady de-
vices for winning. The winner re-
ceived all the favors, all the ad-
vantage. The loser must suffer
all the disadvantage, the embar-
rassment
So with cards and other games
where the interest practically all
centers i'll L passion for winning.
Children who engage in them unre-
strained by a very conscientious
chaperOn will practice more or
less deceit, and other forms of
fraud SO conspicuous at the skin
game" in the rear of the saloon. II
is all u first direct step to gam
bling. We shall have gambling
among men-and some wUmen-so
long as we permit our children TO
engage in these gambling games.
Big Business Begins.
Instead of the indulgence of the
passion to win there must be more
of the passion to play. The inter-
est must center more in the act
and less in the end. Group play,
team work. and all those games
wherein the chance, the applause,
the climax o. interest is in the
immediate stroke or movement
here We have the right idea or
the honest game. NOlley ball. ten
mis- and golf are very good eN-
amples of what is meant here.
Il spy" Charades' and run,
sheep. run" are the more childish
examples.
lust now the national Govern
ment is more than ever engaged IN
running down the big gamblers,
those who by trick, fraud or cum
HluS utttll al - dLlldSNlAH "NN4N'A
through the exploitation OF the
busy masses. those who would
gamble in stocks. bonds, fOOdstuffs
or public necessities or utilities OF
any nature.
Now. these gamblers higher up
Of today are the matured and I'M
ished product Of the juvenile card
table of Yesterday. In the game
of childhood they learned to win
by tricks. They found out how tn
exploit their fellows, how to get
something for nothing, and they
are still i'm the game To win.
The way to stop this gambling
higher up is to cut it of lower
down. as stated above. And, as
usual. this important task must he
checked up to the ordinary parent
OF the ordinary child.
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From the Public to the Editor

each day is to read the first column
on the first page OF The Washington
Times.
In reading over some history OF
ancient Greece the other day 1 found
the following paragraph that might
interest you. and it contains an ex-
ample that many OF the present-day
rulers would do well to emulate:
After the death Of Cimon, Perfcles
rose to the summit Of power: he gov
erned Athens with almost arbitrary
sway for near forty years: he adorned
the city with masterpieces OF archi-
lecture, sculpture, and painting, pat
ronized the arts and sciences, cele-
brated splendid games and festivals,
and his administration forms an era
Of spIendor and magniicence in the
history OF Greece. In all his public
acts he displayed the greatest moe
Grafton and prudence. and the end
Of all his projects seems to have been
the glory Of his country. and the
bappiness of his fellow citizens. He
died OF a plague which ragged in
Athens = little before his death,
hearing some of his friends speaking
~ his achievements. he said: You
have forgotten the most glorious ac-
zion of my life. which is, that | never
caused a single citizen to put on
mourning.
H. C. h.
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All of US have ideals of some kind They are good
things to have They bad things worship as idols
We begin making idols of them conclude that
they elevate high above times afford
to rely on them to take of US and themselves.
DR.. George F. Bowerman librarian of the Washing
ton Public Library, is not that kind of an ideast
He has ideal. He has made map of it, The map
Is hanging the wall of his Office in the library.
It shows the city of Washington, it ought to be-
ga ideal city for self education self elfdevelopment and
sethslp
In the world today, help depends much having
the right book at the right time that without may
almost helpless until we get the book.
In Dr. Bowermans ideal city, would always be able
to get the book in any part of community which has
virtually covered and half square miles of terri
tory In this immense area Dr. Bowerman would distribute
his thrtyfour branches of the main library Finally
CONTINUED in Last Column.)
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Sticking Up
for Yourself.
Once Overs

Copyright, Inter News Service
you tmd rights will not get
far on the ladder of
Fame brings, always, a certain number of enemies
what of it? A with enemies Is worth more
than to be shrinking failure trying concae everybody
point beyond which you should not 90 III
your efforts TO your own ground
that who differs from
holding other directly bearing down on you
the point where will not listen to advice nor act
suggestions.
your ground block advancement
around with chip shoul
things arbitrary hand order to command at
should make realize the difference be
being showing wholesome independence OF
spirit when it running your own AFFAIRS
The Washington times., 1918-01-15
Facing This Storm Is An
Easy Task
By Winifred Bla k

wv HEW! how il blew-the
" wind last night.
1t wanted US to know,
once and for all. that winter had
come, and no doubt about it. We
knew 1t all right.
The rain beat against the win
dow. The leaves that had chung
hopefully to the tree in the garden
fiuttered at first and then sailed
through the air like wistful little
ships OF yellow and brown start
ing on long voyages into the un-
known.
The needles from the dark pine
trees shivered and shook, but they
could not leave home-yet. And
the vines that glorified the house
even till now sighed and said
"Good-by"-and we knew that in
the morning even the last chrys-
anthemum would be gone.
"Hurrah," cried the wind. I've
been resting a long time-l'm
tired of it. Huzza. I'm free at
last, and I'll give you all such a
shaking that you'll remember it
as long as you live
And he did. The windows rat
tied. the doors trembled. and even
the roof shook a little, as If 1t
thought that perhaps 1t wouldn't
he such a bad idea to break loose
with the leaves and go sailing
sailing.
And the fire leaped on the
hearth. and we laughed together,
and we're glad. for shelter and
warmth and human companion
shin is never so good as when the
wind shouts and roars in the
chimney.
II Bent and Lived.
But in the garden the eucalyp-
tus tree stood at the end of the
walk, close by the lower gate. He
always looked strange and alien,
and so he was, for no one thought
that he could live away from his
native cline. But he did, and
grew and thrived, until the scimi-
tar and the green of his strange
leaves shone bright and polished
in the driving rain.
Poor fellow" | thought, "he is
so tall and so slender he will
never outlive this storm"
But | was wrong. And in the
night when the rain had ceased
and | looked out of the window TO
see the moon riding calm and Sc
rene high in the clouds that were
fast passing away, there stood the
eucalyptus as firmly planted and
as perfect as if there had been no
storm at all.
The wind was still blowing in
great gusts, as if it couldn't make
up its mind to be good all at once,
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CIX children sat in a parlor
- group playing a game. There
were four boys and two
girls OF the ages ten to twelve.
During the hour required to play
the game through, there was lib
eral use of the tricks by which the
gambler wins his stakes. Lying,
deception and various cunning
schemes were resOrted to for the
sake OF winning.
In the beautiful upper lobby Of
large city hotel sat one hundred
women, the wives and daughters of
better-class business and profess
sional men. They were grouped
about tables and enjoying an after
noon card party. We who were
guests at the hotel we're privileged
to sit In the alcove above and
watch the course OF the games.
The members of this happy club
seemed to be playing for "favors."
They were an interesting study in
human nature. Some Of them were
more alert and eager to win than
others. Two tables were special
centers Of excitement, the game
being red-hot there.
A Good LOsr.
II seemed to be known through
out the company that the final
stakes would be won at one OF
these tables. There was the same
excitement, cunning. shrewd de-
ception, just-a-bit thickness that
was SO much in evidence at the
children's card game.
At the rear Of pool hall behind
a screen we came upon four men
smoking and engaged In lunch
card game. This time the "favors
we're good American dollars. The
money was stacked about the table
and it was changing places fast.
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Empty Resolutions

We Meet and Read the Minutes Meetings Cry For the Moon
Adjourn.
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GWash Him."


or course. it was MR. DICK and
not MR.. GEORGE. who made the
famous remark about David Copper
field, which has been borrowed by
JUDGE HARDISON, of the Police
Court.
| am caught in this grievous err
ror by my mother, by the ghost OF
Charles Dickens, who plagued me all
night, by the unseen but ever present
frown on the face of JOHN MILLER.
of the Creel Committee, and Dick
ensian; by EDWARD S. FRANCIS,
and by JAMES W. BERRY, Of IA
Third street southeast.
MR.. BERRY charitably suggests
that | may have confused Betsy
Trotwood's adviser with the hero OF
our national motto: Let George Do
It" Thanks for the alibi; that's
JUST it.
also received several daring at
tacks from gentlemen who evidently
live in dark alleys. They fail to sign
their names. One of them says l am
irving to delude people into the be-
lief that am a reader of Dickens
What real Dickens LoVer iCoUtd
attack a tUedk mortal like myself
and fail to sign his name!
I have a letter giving some inter
esting alleged facts about rent
pirates and apartment profteers. The
person writing it says You don I
dare publish this" If the modest
author of the communication Will
quit sulking in his tent and get out
IN the omen he may really accomplish
some good. His letter is a dandy
and ought to be published but it's the
waste basket for him if he doesn't
show his face.
Wood at $50 a cord seems to be
rather steeD in view of the waste
of wood going on all around US.
Advertised wood at $50 a cord
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and every time a great sweep OF
the wind came, the tall tree flung
out its arms and bowed before the
blast. To the right, to the left, to
the north and to the south he
bowed and swayed and swung. as
light as a feather and as MALE
able as a willow wand-and so he
stood.
But dark evergreen across the
walk from him was broken and
torn-it would not bend-and so it
paid the penalty of its pride.
I'm glad l saw it, the battle Of
the wind and the trees. learned
something from the eucalyptus.
After this, when the storm
comes close to me in my quiet and
sheltered life. ] am not going TO
resist; I'm going to bend and bow
and live.
The Philosophy Of Life.
For this the real philosophy Of
life, after all - accommodation,
adaptsbility, flexible mind and a
willing heart.
The tree did not stir from the
ground, and my will shall not bend
from its stern accountability,
either: but the little things. the
whimsies of the moment. the fan
cies of the hour, the wish Of a
vagrant thought-these that are
like the branches of the great
tree-these must bend to the
storms of circumstances let
the tree live on.
"WhewI" said the wind; I'm
free! Pm free!" But, after all,
he could only blow so long, and he
could not really conquer anything
that had the wisdom and the grace
To bow till his fury had passed.
Copyright 1917, by Newspaper Feature Ser
vice. Inc. Great Britain Right Reserved)
The Washington times., 1918-01-15
Driving Out the Money Changers

New York. DeCemOeT u i'A''
Editor. Editorial Section Washington
Times.
near Sfr-In your great illustra-
,ion. "Christ Driving Out the Money
changers" you strike the key "hE
the world-situation is as II Is, anu
NAV I not tell you that l delight IN
many Of your editorials giving
knowledge and education.
II Jesus had not found the TEMPE
Of God fIled with selfish money anu
glory seekers, it would not have oeeh
necessary for Him to drive anyoouS
out. Instead He would have Joiheu
them and helped them poor human
ity. anxious to rest from their strug-
giles and strifes and seeking to the
holy place in the presence OF al
mighty, just and charitable God 10
receive strength to do after HIS Will
God visited His temple through
his Son. Jesus. He visits II today
through the war. May he succeed IN
driving the money changers out OF
His house of prayer. Yours respect
fully. SNENp INEbIEN.
I5I East Eightieth street, New York.
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HEARD AND SEEN

arouses the ire Of Wharton Moore,
Of Bethesda, who says you can get
pine wood from coal dealers at
Bethesda and Chevy Chase for S12,
sawed in stove lengths. while the
same farmer will deliver cord
lengths at IS a cord, IL you'll do
your own saving.
Saving wood. l fear, has gone out
Of fashion, but 1t would do a lot
Of us a world of good. Nothing
gives you exercise like a buck saw
and a cord Of hickory.
EDWARD H. JONES, Of the Fuel
Administration, calls my attention
to the fact that P. B. MOVES. chief
Of the conservation division. Is ask
ing all State fuel administrators to
guard against waste Of timber.
JOHN l. WEAVER probably got
one of these letters. and | commend
to the attention of everyone in WASH
lngton this sentence:
Call to the attention of the street
and parks department of al your
cities the need of saving rood. Get
them to practice forestry intensive
H.; remOUe and cat up all old trseS,
aud ia cases of damage to tress bH
severe storms urge them to sotUdqS
everything possible