davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-22
ALCOHOL NOT A sTIMuLANT.

Fifteen years ago, it was believed
by competent scientific authorities that
alcohol to some extent stimulated res$
piratiOn because it seemed to cause
an increase in the volume Of air pass.
Ing through the lungs, which was
thought to increase the absorption of
oxygen. In the interval, it has been
learned that the mere amount Of air
that goes into and out of the lungs
does not necessarily measure its value
to the tissues and the cells where
gases are exchanged. The air must
not only pass into the lungs, but II
must get out into the tissues beyead
the "dead space" in the lungs. Some
new careful experiments in the nutri-
tional laboratory of the Carnegie insti-.
tuition Of Washington, lately reported
by Harold L. Higgins, show that after
taking into consideration all the fac
tors of respiration, alcohol, when given
in way to exclude other factors such
as activity or the digestion of food,
In amounts of from one to one and
one-half ounces, indirectly acts upon
respiration as q depressant, not as a
stimulant. There is not much, if any
thing, left of the old stimulant theory.
and 1t is time that everybody stopped
using the term "stimulants" as a syn
onym for alcohol.-The Union Signal.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-22
It's Some Word Now.

The recent vogue of the word
some as an adjective, in a sense for
which there is absolutely no synonym
In the dictionary IS been the despair
of many a parent and pedagogue, ac-
cording to Harold Goddard In At
lantic. 1.-THE language is being llauper-
ized." they cry.
Nonsense. 1t would he nearer the
mark to say it is being pitalized,
Watch a healthy schoolboy when bs
tells you he has just come frop
some ball game, and you will per
ceive that the offending word has
ceased to be mere linguistic sign and
has become lsinetic current within
the body, movement Of the spirit,
Some word, it A true superword, ir
fact.
Philosopher on it--and on the kin
dred subject Of slang you mas
discover why, when a mans vocabu.
larry begins to expand, his powers Of
expansion are generally On tha VAN .. ~
Newark News.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-22
! Temperance
A''s!NOfesB
Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)
FOB EACH OTHERS SAKE.

A grizzled Scotch banker in New
York was bidding goodby to his son,
a young lieutenant, ordered Overeas.
Dad" said the boy, you could give
me something I'd rather have than
$4,000" "What's happened to you,
my boy, that a big bunch of money
like that seems a triheT Nothing,
father, but there's a thing you could
do that I'd rather have than all kinds:
of money" "And what might that flnS
thing be?"
Then the young man with the single
silver shoulder bar looked his gruff-
tender father straight in the face and
said, as if he meant it, dad, I wish
you'd promise me to cut out the whis-
ky while I'm gone" The father bristled
up. "Why, boy, you know never take
too much. You know how little drink
here at home, and I don't booze in
business hours. What's got into you,
boyW
But the boy persisted until the mar
said, "Son, you're going into tempta-
tons you never dreamed of over there.
You'll need all the stiffening you can
get to keep straight. I'll promise you
to be prohibition if you'll promise me
not to forget your mother and your
covenant VOWS"
And father and son shook hands on
1t.
When the bankers friends down
town see him refuse to Soin them in a
MONDAY cocktail or an evening high
ball, they wonder what has come over
him. He is thinking Of the lad who is
with Pershing, and he will keep faith.
There are many American fathers
and mothers in these days who are
living nearer to the level of their
better selves, for the sake Of the
knightly sons who have embarked on
the great adventure overseas.-The
Christian Advocate.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-22
BEER CHRONOLOGY.

A woman physician, Dr. Mary F.
Cushman, Of Maine, writes as follows:
eff anything has ever demonstrated
the evil Of beer drinking, it is surely
the present war. Years ago, when
specializing in mental and nervous
diseases, / was taught that alienists
had proved the crimes for which dis
titled liquors were responsible, are
crimes of passion unprecedented and
often horror to the perpetrator when
he RECEIVERS from the effects Of his.
drink. The habitual use Of malt
liquors. however, so affects the moral
sense as to lead to deliberate crimes,
carefully planned, coolly executed,
without conjunction or remorse.
Germany, the great beer-drinking ma
ton, has simply illustrated this in O
war conducted along the above lines
of beer criminology. What does our
nation want OF the drink that makes
men capable Of the atrocities perpe~
trated by GermanyT"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-22
HOW HE IS HANDICAPPED.

The drinking man is the first man
to get sick, and the last man to get
well, says Rev. M. A. Landing in the
Pittsburgh Observer.
He is the first man to lose his
friends and the last man to apprecl-
ate them.
He is the first man en- the toboggan
to poverty and the last man to get ON
his feet to find his way out.
He is the first man to get hit by
accident and the last man to recover.
He is the last man to get a job and
the first man to lose 1t.
He is the first man to die and the
last man to provide for his family.
The Pioneer.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-22
Bank Up the We'll.

LIS the well banked up so that surface
water does not find its way in? Sur.
face water running into wells is the
prevalent cause of typhoid fever and
various other fevers. A little work in
time may save a serious spell of sick
ness later.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-22

British women have invaded and
conquered another field Of industry.
Their latest accomplishment has been
In the line of veterinaries. One is very
likely to say when looking at the pic
ture that their work is dangerous, but
what is that to the brave women Of
England who are periodically looking
after the horses of the army? This
photograph shows the women giving
horse medicine.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-22
HELPING the and

II you want to make your soil better
year by year you must cultivate well.
drain well and in the most economies,
way add humus nnd plantfood.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-22
cackeraIs to Keen.

Keep over till fall and winter only
such young cockerels as will be used
or sold for breeding next winter.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-22
Watch RaI,v chicles

Watch over your baby chicks and all
young stock to keep the flock free of
any that are runts or weaklings.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-22
WHY NOT?

WHY NUTY
"Why don't the saloons put their
finished product in their windows? A
merchant win put his best goods In
his window, but the saloons call po'
liceman for their finished product
have him carted off to jail out of sight
of everyone, and have him returned
after he has sobered up to refinish the
job."-W. ]. Bryan.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-22
Motherino Faults.

IF a chicken hen is used for moth
er to poults, keep her housed until the
poults are old enough to be weaned.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-22

God gives us abundant material for
food to sustain life. Man turns mill
lions of that material into drink that
destroys life Help stop 1t,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-05

prosidencies be required TO furnish
military detachments to preserve or
der during the execution OF the plebis-
cites.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-05
WORLD IS CLAMORING
FOR FORBIDDEN DRUG

| BERLIN, Nov. 5.-While the out
side world clamers for the German
drug, salvarsan. the nation has for
bidden its export. This has led to a
smuggling business of unprecedented
proportions, and to the manufacture
of fake salvarsan to put into the ex-
port business.
The smuggling of this drug is a lu-
crative business. 1t can be bought
cheaply in Germany and can be sold
for 50 to 100 times that figure, in the
outside world.
An instance of the extent of this
smuggling was recently offered in the
case of AN American woman, married
to a German. She asked a newspa-
perman if he could put her in touch
with an American officer or soldier
who would take out package of the
drug for her.
I'D be willing to pay him WE'LL" she
said.
I'm sure you can't bribe an Amer
can officer or soldier" replied the
We'll, l don't know, maybe I'm
dead morally, but I'm so desperate
that I'd do almost anything. and if
could only smuggle out this one box,
I'd have enough money to go back to
America" she replied. I'm an Am
srican even if I am married to Ger.
man and have lived in this terrible
country a long time. And you can
bet that I'm going back home"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-05
SENATE BILL IS STEP
TOWARD INTERVENTION

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.--Senator
Kenyon, chairman of the senate labor
committee today introduced a resolu-
ton calling for n commission of three
members to attempt to settle the coal
trlke. -
The commission, under the Kenyon
resolution, would be empowered to
use ''all lawful means to bring min
ers and operators into agreement.
Members would be appointed by the
president. Fifteen days would be al
lowed the commission to direct the at
tempt to negotiate settlement. If no
progress had been made at the end of
that period the commission would
make its own investigation of the
strike and issue public recommended
tions as to what it thinks Sair terms.
The measure was Immediately re-
ferred to the senate labor committee.
1t is the first attempt by congress
to end the strike.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-05
USES OF ASPIRIN
TOLD BY ''DAYER''
Bayer Company, who intro
duced Aspirin IS Years
ago, give advice.

When the Bayer Company intro
duced Aspirin over eighteen years age
physicians soon proved it marvellous
help in relieving rheumatism, Colds
headache. Neuralgia, Earache, Tooth
ache, Lumbago. Neuritis. Aching
Joints, and Pain in general.
To get this same genuine, world
famous Aspirin, you must ask for
''Bayer Tablets of Aspirin marked
with the ''Bayer Cross" You will
find safe and proper directions in
every unbroken package.
Handy tin boxes of IL tablets cost
only a few cents. Druggists also sell
larger "Bayer" packages. Aspirin is
the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture
of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of Salisylica-
cid.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-05
"SOCIAL PRISONERS" IN
S. A. CAUSING STRIKE

BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 5.-workers
throuhout Argentina are preparing TO
declare a general strike if the govern
ment refuses their demands. for lib
Grafton of all social prisoners" the
radical socialist newspaper Lamontana
declared today.
Social prisoners include many
who were arrested during the general
strike last January. Shoemakers.
ship coalers and other crafts in Buen-
os Aires are already out, the paper
declared, predicting the strike will
spread to other crafts tomorrow.
a man can't be as wise all the time
as a woman is some of the time.
He Is a wise man who signs no
mans note-not even his own.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-05
FlNNS ASK SEVENTY
MILLI0M MARKS A DAY
FOR AID TO RUSSIA

LONDON, Nov. 4.-Bermondts Rus
so-German forces re-attacked Muhl-
graben, Friedrichstadt and Donangen
but Lettish defenders repulsed them
with heavy losses. according to Riga
dispatch today.
Finland, a Helsingfors dispatch re-
ported today, finally replied to Yu-
denitchs' request to aid his Russian
army. The Firms ask cessation of the
entire Kola peninsula and seventy
million marks a day while fighting.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-05
Doing TYne.

Dick, whose father drives an auto
mobile. is much interested in the OPP
Grating of the car. especially the po-
sition OF the gear SHIFT lever. one
day when some one asked him how
his little sister, who was sick with the
flu. was getting along, he replied: 20
she was getting along fine; her fever
was down to neutral this morning,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-05
WOMEN PICKETS EMPLOY
BRlCKBATS AND LIVELY
FREE-F0R-ALL FOLLOWS

YOUNGSTOWN, Cd, Nov. s.
Women. pickets employed brickbats as
arguments against employees of the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
going to work today. The result was
one of the biggest free-for-alls since
the steel strike began. Deputies set
tied the fight by arresting three wo-
mn and seven men,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-05
Sufferers Should Realize That
Il Is q Blood Infection.

Doubtless like other sufferers.
you have often asked yourself this
question, which continues TO re-
main Unanswered.
Science has proven that Rhcu-
matism is caused by a germ in
your blood, and the only way TO
reach it is by remedy which
eliminates and removes these lit
tie pain demons.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-05
What Is rheumatism?
WHY Suffer from It?

s. 5. 5. has been successfully
used for rheumatism for more
than fifty years and many volun-,
tary testimonials are on fle from
those whom ii has benefited. Try,
il to-day. and you will find your
self at last on the right track to
get rid OF your Rheumatism. For
treatment OF your individual case.
address Chiei Medical Adviser,
Swift Specific CO., Dept. 43, A.
lania, Ga.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-05
TANKS IN EQUIPMENT
OF NATIONAL GUARD

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.-Tanks will
be part of the equipment of the Ma
tional Guard under the plans of reor-
ganization now under contemplation
by the war department. 1t has four
tank battalions-one to each corps of
four divisions.
These battalions will be constituted
of three companies of 20 tanks each.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-05

1t is announced that the tanks are
available for issue to those states TO
which allotments have been made.
The war department suggests that
there should be included in tho esti-
mates for the year beginning July /.
1920, provision for the personnel OF
these units and for equipment other
than tanks.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-05

The strength of a battalion will be SO
officers and 456 men. Apportionment
of the tank units will be apportioned
SO that they may be utilized to the best
advantage in training with the infan-
try. II is designed that when united
the companies will form complete
battalions at the rate of one battalion
corps for each corps of four divisions.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-05
PLEBISCITE PRESlDENClES
ARE ASSIGNED BY COUNCIL

PARIS, Nov. 4.--The supreme coun-
Gil oday assigned the presidency of
four plebiscites as follows; England
Tor Allenstine. Italy for Marienworder,
france for Upper Silesia, and the
United States for Teschen. Should the
United States refuse the presidency
OF the Tcschen plebiscite, it win be
assigned to France, the council decid-
ed Nations accepting the pleblscite
The Coconino sun., 1919-06-13
STATES FUNDS LOW AS TAXES ARE SLOW

With the bulk of the tax money still out there are any number of state funds that are all but depleted, ac- cording to the official statement for May filed by H. s. Ross, state treas urer, with the governor and state au- ditor.
 The university maintenance fund, for example, can boast of but $620; the university improvement fund has $24.49 to it's credit, and the coopera- tive agricultural extension fund has 31 cents. Many other funds of the state industrial school, the pioneers home, the state prison and asylum and other institutions are in similar condition.
 There is nothing unusual in the status of state finances for this time of the year, says Ross. May is all ways a low-ebb month. The receipt of quarter of million dollars from Cochise county a few days ago did not help matters materially as this
The Coconino sun., 1919-06-13
GILLESPIE, THE NEWEST
 TOWN IN THE STATE

Work is to be started at once on laying out the town of Gillespie, 12 miles westward on the Southern Pa cific, in the heart of the 72,000-acre tract lately secured from the Santa Fe Co. by W. s. Gillespie, of Tulsa, Okla. Ten thousand acres along the railroad near the new town are to be plowed and prepared for irrigation and cultivation just as soon as water can be sent down the canal next spring.
 The town will be equipped with graded streets, cement sidewalks. business blocks and a hotel, many residences, water and lighting systems and all other modern conveniences. in all expected to cost about S1 100000, provided by the millionaire owner be- fore any lots are sold Save three lots, the 160-acre Gila Bend townsite also has been bought by MT. Gillespie.
 There is local expectation that the Gila Bend-New Cornelia railroad will be extended soon from Ajo to tide water on the Gulf of California. a distance of about 100 miles, giving Arizona and its mining industry a deep-water port for bringing in tim Der and fuel, and exporting copper bullion.
 Sherer & Crowley, of Los Angeles, have the contract for the new dam across the Gila. 20 miles north of Gila Bend, compensation $695,000. Plans for the structure have been made by W. NJ. Ledbetter & Go. of the same city. The structure will be 20 feet high of concrete, and 1880 feet long Extensive repair work will be neces- sary on the canal, 40 miles long. The canal now terminates at the Painted Rock range of hills, "A miles west of Gila Bend. Surveys show that it could be taken through the range by means of a cut not over 25 feet deep. thus giving access to hundreds of thousands of acres to the westward along the southern side of the Gila valley. as far as Yuma, but the water available at the dam hardly would be sufficient for such an extension.
The Coconino sun., 1919-06-13
JUSTICE, AS AN ACCOUNTANT,
 SUBMITS REPORT TO UNCLE SAM

$15 to $50. 1t must not be forgotten that that previous rate of $15 was one that did not interest any but a very small percentage of the men of the country--those who wished to join a standing army in time of peace rather than enter the industrial life. Indeed we had then class of profes- sional soldier that was attracted by the idea of adventure in foreign lands, albeit in some cases it must be ad- mitted that the men who entered the service then preferred life in the bar racks to work or labor of any de- ! scription.
 The old rate of $15, therefore, was i not proper basis on which to make any calculations whatsoever, in deter mining compensation for the millions of young men who were taken out of industrial life and sent upon the serv- ; ice of their country. Precedent, no doubt, had it's influence in determin- ing the rate of $30. Congress was reminded whenever it examined the i figures of compensation paid the con scripts of other countries that it was dealing very literally, indeed, with Americas conscripts.
 But, sir, the Spirit of Justice and the Spirit of Liberty know nothing of precedents. The Spirit of Justice and the Spirit of Liberty can not look upon the record of European conscrip- tion without heads bowed in sorrow. America sent neither conscripts nor soldiers to the battlefields of Liberty in France. She sent the best and noblest of her young manhood And i in striking the balance on your books of equity, sir, as between those who stayed at home and those who went to i camp or trench, we must only ask: Were the services of our soldier and sailor boys as important in the winning of the war as the services of us who stayed at home?" And if the answer comes Yes" then we must admit at once that they are entitled to return to their home communities those who do not lie beneath the little crosses in France-just as we'll off financially as we who remained at ! home.
 They should not find themselves handicapped when they return be- cause they gave their time and we who stayed at home gave nothing without full commercial pay therefor. They should not be returning pau perized by the hundreds of thousands after the magnificent service they have performed.
 am reminded, sir, that it was these young men at Chateau Thierry, at the Marne, and through the forest of Ar gonne, who put the spirit and the dash in the great final battle that broke the enemy's resistance at least one year ahead of all calculations; brought the war to speedy close and inci- dentally enabled the departments of the government to turn back into the treasury some fifteen billions of ap- propriations that would otherwise have been used during the current fiscal year. Not to mention soma thirty billions probably saved through the termination of the war one year ahead of the earliest date previously hoped for.
 Ever at your service,
 JUSTICE.
 In ''Playfair," soldier paper pub lished at Denver, Colo. t
The Coconino sun., 1919-06-13
A CATECHISM OF THE STATES

Question-Which is the best state for fresh pork?
 AnsweT-New home, sure.
 (Which is the best for an early summer hotel? A.-May inn. Q.--In which should surgeons live?
 A.--Connect-a-cut.
 Q-In which should laundrymen prosper?
 A.-Washing done.
 Q-In which do impudent people dwell? A.-Can sass. (Which is the best for deer hunting? A.-Collar doe.
 (Which is the best to steal q walking stick in?
 k.-Cane took, eh.
 (Which is the best for the lock- smiths? A.-New brass key.
 Q.-In which would you look for a morning attire? A.-Day coat, eh.
 Q.-In which is one likely to fail in getting good drink? A.--Miss-a-sip. Q.-In which could you find a red letter? ~
 A.-Florid A. Q-In which does the hustle make one sick?
 Am O noise.
 Q-In which is one likely to use his farming implements A.-Td a hoe.
 Q.-In which can one acquire an estate by marriage?
 A.-Mary land
 Q-In which is one letter of the alphabet taller than the others? 40 higher.
 Q.--In which are bodies of land sur rounded by water given ride?
 A.-Rhode Island. Q.-Which is called to your mind by holding two $5 bills? A.-Tenn 1 see.
 Q.-Which would woman rather have if she can't get new sealskin sack?
 A--New Jersey.
 (Which does the farmers wife mention when she asks you to partake of apple sauce?
 A-Take sass.
The Coconino sun., 1919-06-13
IN DRY OHIO

Oh, me! Oh, my, oh! Ye shades of Clio! Now here's Ohio Has gone hone dry, oh! Ones heart goes pitty-pat For Cincinnati. No more the clink of stein Is heard across the Rhine. Now MT. Wilson, As Prince of Pilsen, Can save the seeker For a beaker. Abs! Alas!
 The foaming glass Must pass All flesh is grass!
The Coconino sun., 1919-06-13

sum was checked out on the same day it was received in taking up state cer- tificates of indebtedness, it is ex- plained.
 That the state is still long ways from being "broke" is indicated by the fact that MT. Ross has balance on hand of $1,l73,767.54 in all funds. This is evenly distributed as deposits in the several banks of the state.
The Coconino sun., 1919-06-13
MISTAKEN IDENTITY

Lightning knocked over three men who were sitting on boxes in front of Sawyer's store yesterday. One of them was knocked senseless; the other two exclaimed, "Leggo! Pm comin' right home" Milltown Banner.
The Coconino sun., 1919-06-13
AND SPEND HIS MONEY

Daughter: Marry that old Mir Rox- lev? Why, I'd die firstW
 Mother: Nonsense, child! You'd survive him forty years at least"
The Coconino sun., 1919-06-13
THOSE GIRLS

Jack complimented me on my complexion last night"
 Sort of a powder-puff, eh?"