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Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-29
DISTINGUISHED
GUESTS VISIT
Ak.SAR.BEN DEN
Two Are Initiated While Pres
idents and Long Is List
Of Those Visiting
the Show.

The roll of distinguished guests
who have been entertained at the
Ak Sar-Ben den is a long one. For
eign countries from almost every
corner of the earth, as we'll as al
most every state in the union have
contributed to the roster kept in the
strong box out at the coliseum.
The list includes guests from
every walk of life. Presidents of the
United States, candidates for the
presidency, members of presidents
cabinets, governors of states, mayors
OF cities, ambassadors from foreign
countries, private citizens from all
corners OF the United States and
from abroad, besides every man of
prominence in Omaha. have either
been entertained by the den show
and have spoken from the den plat
form, or have been guests of the
city during the fall carnival and
have viewed the Ak ar-Ben pa
rades.
Ride the Goat.
Colonel Roosevelt and William II.
Taft have been perhaps the most
distinguished men in the life OF the
country to become regular members
of the order. Both men were presi-
dents at the time OF their visits. Mr..
Roosevelt cried Bully" after he
was initiated and Mr.. Taft expressed
his appreciation in his customary
genial fashion.
President and Mrs. Wilson visited
Omaha during the semi-centennial
celebration in the fall of 1916 and
viewed the historical parade from
the reviewing stand, but his visit
came too late in the season for him
to visit the den.
William Jennings Bryan has been
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-29

spent $500 of my own mo.
such purposes since I came
but l know an American man W
will be glad to help out and T.
written him for aid"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-29

porting this order, which only looks
to bring closer the bond of fellow
ship between city and state and ad
jacent territory to promote the
prosperity OF the Middle West.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-31
Meeting Of
Campaign Officers
Monday Night

A meeting OF the directors. team
captains and lieutenants OF the United
War Work drive in Canon City was
held at the Y. NJ C. A. Monday night
at which plans for the campaign to b.
conducted during the week beginning
November 10. were discussed There
was present at the meeting A. NJ. Ne.
Lain, county chairman; Mis-. T. NJ
Harding. chairman OF the district
woman's committee: c. w. Van Pat
ten, district director: Rev. Don Frank
Fem, chairman of the publicity com.
mittee for Fremont county: Harry r.
Bowen. city chairman for Canon City:
Rev. Guy E. Konkle, representatives
from South Canon. Lincoln Park and
East Canon ard others.
A. II. McLain presided at Monday
evenings gathering and gave an out
line Of the campaign and OF the means
to be employed in making II sue
cess. Mr.. McLain reported progr ~
in the organization OF the various PEI
cincts under his supervision and pc
dicted that Fremont county's quo \
OF s25.000 would be subscr bed il
spite of the Influenza which, II Is b.
lieved. will be over before the drive
begins. Mr.. McLain's address was
highly optimistic in character and IN
dicated a strong. systematic organ.za-
tion to carry on the work 10 be done
Word comes from westcIiffe thai
the campaign in Custer county is In
the hands OF an energetic. eAectiv,
committee and that II wi not be sat
isfied until the subscriptions there y
sufficient TO meet the apporfionment.
Information from salida and Buena
Vista is to the effect that cbaffec
county will do Its full duty in the
matter.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-31

"a .
state OF Colorado il IN dtrs need of
fiscal reform without going further
into the matter. and it is up to the
voters to bring this about. 1t mat
ters little whether you. have a Re-
publican or Democratic governor.
if you do not have the right stun in
the Legislature, you can acmomplish
little As regards this. it need but be
recalled that both the Republican and
Democratic parties stood for fiscal re-
form at the last election. Both the
outgoing and the incoming governors
in their messages recommended fiscal
reform in the nature of a budget bill
to the Legislature. The majority of
the legislators, too. was in favor of
such a measure. But for the obdu-
rate reactionary ideas of some of the
members of the finance committee. of
the senate the first step toward fiscal
reform might have been accomplished.
The matter is squarely before the
voters. Are they going to permit a
handful of politicians to thwart their
desires or are they going to insist on
fiscal reform?
ARCHIBALD II. STOCKDER.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-31
Farm Bur,eauNews.
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FARM BUREAU NEWS.

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8 The county farm bufeauaat its last
meeting decided 10 nadopt the Better
Seed project as recommended by the
State Agricultural College.
Twenty-nine other cbunties in the
state having county agents have adopt
ed and are working under this Better
Seed movement This project is an
effort to get the farmers to tfeat-test
and clean all seed before it is planted.
The loss from not being careful about
the seeds planted is enormous. The
State Council OF Defense realizing the
great increase OF crop production that
would come about through the testing
treating and cleaning OF seed recon-
mended to all the County Councils OF
Defense that the movement be given
all possible encouragement. They also
asked the farmers to see to 1t that he
KNOWS what can be expected of the
seed he plants.
The farm bureau intends to carry on
an educational campaign on the meth
ods of treating, testing and cleaning
seed Most of the farmers do one or
all of these things but there yet re-
mains large number who do not for
some reason do any testing-treating or
cleaning.
Pledge cards will be sent out by the
bureau asking that the farmer pledge
himself to treat or test or clean all his
seed. II will be more than pledge
card for II will serve as a survey OF
the kind and amount of seed that is
being planted. The office OF the coun-
ty Agricultural Agent will be equipped
to test seeds for the county farmers.
The State Agricultural College will al
so test seed for farmers free of charge
The per centage termination purity
and noxious weed seeds will be given
in the college test.
A pure yiable seed is the fundament-
al for crop production. Every farmer
who wants to take the gamble out OF
farming win see that he knows his
seeds
All farmers club meetings have been
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-31
ONLY TWO SCHOOLS
IN THE COUNTY OPEN

According to Miss Anna s. Garwood,
county superintendent OF schools. only
two schools in Fremont county have
not been closed down on account OF the
influenza epidemic. They are In the
Cramer and Upper Beaver districts.
where no cases of the contagion have
been reported. There are 81 school
buildings in the county and forty-nine
of them have been unoccupfed since
the appearance OF the "nu' In this Sec
tion OF the state three weeks ago.
There are three OF four log school
houses in the county, the survivors Of
pioneer days. The salaries Of school
teachers Il not effected by the shut
down Of school work; the statutes pro-
vide that II shall be paid under such
circumstances:
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-31
War Work Campaign
Being Set Up

1t is interesting TO note that. at the
September "a. of the general wartime
commission of the churches, repre-
senting over 80 protestant denomina
tions in America. the following reso-
luton was passed:
THE wartime commission of the
churches recognizes with grateful ap-
probation the varied. extensive and
Indispensable service which is being
rendered to the American soldiers and
sailors at home and overseas by thess
trusted auxiliary agencies of our
churches, the Y. NJ. c. A. and the Y.
w. C. A.
I'VE have learned OF the United
War Work campaign. in which. at the
request OF President Wilson, these
two organizations and other agencies
at work for our army and navy have
combined their efforts TO secure dur
ing the week beginning November II
the sum of s255.75o.00O TO cover their
respective budgets as approved by the
ar Department. and in view OF the de
.cision Of the President with which all
good citizens should Loyalty comp y.
and In view OF his clear abatement that
his request implies no surrender of its
integrity and Independence ON the
part of any OF the agencies Involved
and no compromise OF their convic-
tion or their work, and in view OF the
importance OF providing whatever IL
necessary to promote the weiLbeing
our so diers and sailors. we urge upon
all churches the most earnest sup
port Of the effort to be made Noyem.
Der II TO IS, to provide the funds fol
the Y M. c. A, and the Y. w. C. A.
and the other agencies minisfering to
the comfort and the welfare OF the
army and navy. We believe our
churches should taken the lead in all
proper effort to make the proposed
campaign an unqualified success
The societies comprised In the
United War Work campaigE are the
following: Y. NJ. c. A.. Y. W. G. A..
National Catholic War Council. Jew.
fsh Welfare Board, War Camp Com.
munity Service. American Library Al
sociation. Salvation Army.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-31

A call for 6.0s7 men OF class Of the
September draft registration has
been made upon Colorado by Provost
Marshal General Crowder. and Gov,
Julius G. Gunter. in announcing the
receipt of the call. stated that he had
telegraphed the provost marsaI gen.
eral that Colorado has 1000 OF these
men ready for entrainment the NOM
ent the influenza epidemic subsidies TO
the point where such action win be
advisable.
The call is the largest yet made up
on Colorado. No specific dates for en-
trainment or camps to which the men
win be sent have yet been announced.
The number called is approximately
IL per cent of the states total OF new
registrants between 1s and 36.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-31
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING

Canon City. Colo. Nov. l. 1918.
Notice is hereby given that the reg
ular annual meeting OF the stocknoid-
ers of the Lincoln Park Crooked
Ditch Company will be held at the.
Lincoln Park school house on the End
day OF December. 1918. at 7:c0 p>mf
for the purpose of eiecting five direa
ors for the ensuing year. and for max
ing an assessment as required by law
for the purpose of maintaining and
keeping in repair the bitches and
other property of said company and
for the transaction OF such other busi-
ness as may properly come before tho
meeting.
tSigned} T.. c. KfBBE.
President
A L. SPRINKLE. Secretary.
First pub. Oct. 81.
Last pub. Nov. 81.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-31

Yale Law School. A-.
He came TO Denver in 1882 and three
years later was appointed librarian o;
the public library of Denver. which
position he filled with credit for rs
years -1SS5-1911.
He was first elected regent OF the
State University in 1880 and has been
reelected three times and has served
22 years.
His record has been above reproach: :
his duties have been faithfully dis
charged and no better candidate is
presented. He is qualified by expert
ence and executive ability TO continue
to serve the people of the state as re
gent of the State University.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-31

Iessed the development OF the state
from its inception
He has always been active in Re-
pub ican politics. He Was elected re
gent of the State University in 1902.
and again in 1910. serving the state II
years in this capacity. Until four
years ago he was engaged in the drug
business at Villa Grove, Saguache
county. Coo Eminently qualified,
both by education and experience. the
Republicans present him as a most
worthy and estimable candidate for
the position.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-31

postpobed until after the influenza ep-
idemic,s The only meeting scheduled
in the near future IL the fruit school
FOR four days to be held in Canon city
December II to 20. Please note this
school has been changed from Nov
ember 1922 to December II.
County Agricultural Agent.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-31
Chas. r. Dudley for
Regent University

Charles r. Dudley. one of the two
Republican candidates for regent of
the State University. was born in Eas.
ton. Conn. and is graduate from the
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-31
]. King for AZ.
Regent u University

William J. King was born In iBos-
ton, Mass. December Is. 1854. and re-
ceived his education there. He came
to Colorado in early days and has wit
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-31

Daily Thought
Nothing endures but personal quait
tfes---wait whitmar,.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-13
The Government Responsible
For Telephone Burdens
Also the Government Realizes Offers Control
Of the Telephone Company, Offering Service
and More o Il for LESS Mercy.
By EARL WIN.

The Government is at least six times more response
bic than you for the heavy telephone burden laid upon
the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
And yet the telephone company asks the Public Uti-
merchants and business and residents Of Washington
The telephone company is giving hundreds of thoE.
sands of dollars worth of service to the War Depart
ment the War Trade Board the Shipping Board the Navy
Department and other Government Offices 1t is GIVING hia
service and In order to make showing in dividends to
its private owners it asks that YOU be charged MORE
Between March 1, 1916, and December 1, 1917 the
Government private branch exchange stations increased
100 per cent and the commercial private branch exchange
stations increased only the normal 70 per cent
These are the figures of the Bureau of Standards
which looked into the telephone problem here with
to grind and with thought except to ascertain the truth
In scientific
The number of Government private branch exchange
stations increased In the period mentioned by 5661 while
the commercial increase Oil.
cit therefore appears that while the growth of the
commercial private branch exchange stations only 70
per cent during the period mentioned the growth of such
100 per cents and that the number of increases in Govern
ment stations compared with the increases In
cia stations in the ratio of than to l." This
is what FRANK A. WOLFF and GEORGE A MACON
Der, of the Bureau of Standards say in OFFICIAL
report.
The merchants of this city should NOT be unduly
taxed by this telephone monopoly The Public Utilities
Commission should NOT allow the monopoly to put this
thing over the city.
The United States Government KNOWS who is re-
sponsbe for the burden and offers to take the entire e
phone system and it better give more service and
charge LESS MONEY.
If the Public Utilities Commission allows the telephone
company to charge heavier rate the commission viii be
working AGAINST the interests of the public
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-13

girl and every hopeful, happy lad
! could manage to know and love
and understand.
wouldn't forget what life
meant to me when | was sixteen
I'D remember, and I'd try to
give Sixteen some of the good
times / had myself and some
more of the good times missed.
I'd forget the sad things and the
dreary things and the bitter things
in my own life, and I'd keep right
on remembering everything that's
sweet and pleasant and kindly and
encouraging, and I'd think of them
for an hour a day, if ever found
myself getting bitter and cynical.
Expect tn Best
And if people didn't invite me
to their pan ties and more,
wouldn't be cross about it and
think it was because / wasn't
pretty or didn't have enough jew
els. I'd watch myself and find out
what was the matter-not with the
party and not with the people who
gave it, and not with the pretty
girl who was the belle of the occa-
sion, and not with the men who
flocked around us-but with my
self! And when | had found that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-13
By Winifred Black

you are and how you live and
whether you are good or bad,
selfish or unselfish, fine or igno-
bic, but how much money you
have, what was your mothers
first cousins maiden name, why
your Aunt Belinda never married,
how many times you have worn
your prettiest party dress, what
rent you pay, how many times a
year you have your bedroom cur
tains washed, and-how old you
are.
But people like this don't
count. No one cares what they
think, anyhow. So I'd let the age
question drop-if l were forty
one.
And l wouldn't be Jealous of
every young, fresh, pretty girl
and every blooming, joyous, young
beautiful matron, and ever gay,
attractive, interesting belief /
were forty-One.
I'd remember my own youth
and my own joy in it, and I'd
borrow a few years and a little
fun and a .ot of gayety, and some
faith and some trust and some
belief in life from every young
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-13
From the Public to the Editor

ing the police and fire departments.
will be entirely removed, and Major
Pullman and Chief Wagner will be en-
abled to not only hold their present
very efficient forces, but will expert
ence very little difficulty in securing
material Of a high order with which
70 bring their respective departments
TO the very highest standard Of eff
cheney, condition made imperative
by the demands on the departments
as a result Of the war.
Hoping that you will continue your
good work in behalf OF the underpaid
members of the police ana fire de-
partments. until you succeed in ac-
complishing this very worthy OBJ
ject, 1 am.
Very truly yours,
L. D. WALTER, NJ. D.
1884 G street northeast.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-13
WHAT WOULD YOU Do AT Al?

out I'd have the key to the puzzle
and wouldn't have to look for the
answer another minute.
And | wouldn't expect my friends
to be perfect. I'd get over that on
the day | saw my first gray hair
and felt like sitting down in a cor
ner and crying about it.
But | wouldn't cry about it. I'd
laugh, and I'd say:
Welcome, Wisdom. Good-day to
you, good friend Experience. Step
into my heart. dear Tolerance.
Bear me company the rest of the
way, sweet Patience. Sing In my
heart for all the long years to
come, kind Memory. Here's the
first leaf in my chaplet Of laurel. &"
Then Id pin a rose in my hair,
right where it was beginning to get
gray, and Id laugh when people
spoke of 1t, and the first thing
knew they'd be laughing with me,
and all the world would turn into
a sweet and reasonable and tenn
pered place for a sweet and rea-
sonable and tempered being to
live.
And it wouldn't be a bad thing
at all TO be forty-one, but a sweet
and beautiful and powerful and
joyous thing-and that is what all
life should be, and what all life is
just as soon as we learn to make
II so.
Copyright. 1918. by Newspaper Feature Sery
ice. Inc. Great Britain Rights ReseryedJ
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-13
Muzzle the Germs.
1904 Park place northwest.

SSO4 Park place northwest
Washington. d. c.
June 10, 1918
Editor The Times-Those were two
excellent editorials in The Times re-
Gently on the dangers from disease
germs.
War Stays its thousands. aIcohol
its tens Of thousands, and preventabIe
disease germs their millions.
OF far greater danger to the health
and safety Of the people and their
children than unmuzzled vicious dogs.
though they are bad enough, are the
careless persons suffering from a bad
cold or worse who on street cars and
in other crowded places unthoughted
~ cough and sneeze without putting
their handkerchiefs up TO their faces,
and thereby spray disease germs nf-
teen or twenty feet around them. II
the dog bites one, to the pound he
goes. H. killed-or muEzled ever after
ward-but the careless person keeps
on spreading for many the germs Of
bad colds the FIRST symptoms OF many
contagious diseases
II such persons. for the sake Of
others, will not be careful. they. too
hguratiyely speaking, should be muz-
sled By the Law or some scientist
should invent disease germ masks
uith which on a moments notice tho
unufandinE public can protect them
selves uhen these thouEhtleBa ones
Huoons AMI cough.
AuUrtrlatltelr. y
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-13

telling what you'd do if
- you were twenty-one, but
how about some of the other ages
Take forty-one, for instance
what would you do if you were
forty-one, and, what is quite as i'm
portant, what are some of the
things you would not do, If you
were forty-one?
II 1 were forty-one l shouldn't
try to pretend that / was just
sweet sixteen or even only twenty
five.
No one ever believes you when
you do that, and it is such a waste
Of energy to try to make them do it
l wouldn't carry around a sign
board saying 81 am forty-one,"
either, and l wouldn't always muir
muir things about "at my age"
Forget Your Age.
Who cares how old you are, or
how young you are, except the doc
tor and the directors Of life in
surance company? 1t only bores
people to think about it, people
who are Of Importance and intelli-
gence, l mean.
There is, of course, a type
which always wants TO know what
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-13
Struggling With Debt
A Dangerous Game. 1t Means Ruin for Many.

If you have son or an empIoye given the bad "lend
ten habit show him this picture There thousands
of old for whom the picture has most bitter meaning
But it is little late to show it to them.
Borrowing, like gambling, is bad, because it is sub
Borrowing is vicious because it develops sycOphancy
and it that the borrower instead Of using his
strength Of will gratfes sefindugence and counts on
friends to pull him out.
Neither borrower nor lender be-" said wise
Polonius But you must be either be the lender For
the who lends and does not get back only loses his
MONEY
Whereas the man who borrows and does not pay it
back loses his character-and the money does him no
good
At Monte Carlo where the great gambling horse is
they always had one rule-"Lend money to nobody
It dad form in the Prince of MOnacOs gambling
natural reply would be- 'Why should lend you money
gamble; prefer to gamble it away myself"
The owners of the gambling house-the famous Blanc
fsmilymade just one exception to the antilendng rule
When gambler lost and blew his brains out they
would advance the money to bury him.
And when man said, 81 have lost everything and
an going to commit suicide they would lend him enough
to go home they did not want copses lying around the
grounds to spoil gayey But they would make that
he went home with the money. THEY would buy the
ticket
Many men that are failures hopelessly behind might
have been successful they had been able to borrow
cent their friends had said to them 81 shall be glad to lend
you money-when you need it to buy grave, but not
before"
N6SC6SS 10 DebWeSu
rowing that expresses weak will and extravaganza and the
wise borrowing ON SECURITY that enables to buy
house and pay for gradually expand his business and
develop 1t more rapidly.
There is wise borrowing upon which commerce and
success are built.
And there is a FALSE, poisonous borrowing swamp
into which reputation and sink and disappear
The money that is borrowed security at fair interest
used proftaby and repaid is like the borrowing of spade
with which digs in the ground afterward returning
the spade, paying for its
The borrowing for personal indulgence from habit or
lack of character for would be like borrowing
the spade taking to the pawnshop borrowing money
and leaving the owner of the spade to get it out
When man tries to borrow from you, you know how
and why he is borrowing.
There of sickness and DEATH when friend
bTows from another and the friend lends gladly duty
But in the case Of the average young borrowing
prove yourself his friend Show him that you have the char
acter that he lacks and when he says 81 will give back on
pay day." say to him, wait until pay day and you will
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