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Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-06-14
Soma Instances

"Was there any convincing proof OF
the mans Insanity?
swell, when he went on a fishing
party he always said he had the poor
est and smallest catch of the lot, and
he never said anything about his
child except to remark it was excep-
tionally dull and rarely said anything
worth quoting"
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-06-14
GOOD ROADS ARE NECESSITY
Add to Joy and Comfort OF Country
and City International Prob
lem for Everybody.

Good roads will add to the JOY ana
comfort of country life and city Ire.
They are public necessity. The prob
lem is a township problem, county
problem, a state problem. national
problem for men and women or all DUST
ness and industrial life. 1t deserves
united cooperation.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-06-14
TRAINING of an Expert.

During an air raid we overheard
this priceless remark: ooh, I've been
several things. I began as an insur-
ance clerk then was an actor: now
am a labor expert. Re-
view.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-06-14
Where She Was Sick.

A school physician was examining
the pupils of the firsts grade.
He looked at one child's throat and
asked her the usual line of questions,
first saying:
"Where were you sick?'
The little girl naively answered:
"In bed"
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-06-14
Deadly.

Fond Parent-Did you hear my
daughter sing?
Returned Soldier-Yes.
Fond Parent-What did you think Of
her range?
Returned Soldier should say she
ought to kill at three miles.-BOston
Post.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-06-14
HOW MRS. BOYD
AVOIDED AN
OPERATION
Canton, Ohio.-"I suffered from .
female trouble which caused me much

suffering, anu TWO
doctors decide d
that l would have
to go through an
operation before !
could get we'll.
" My mother, who
had been helped by
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vege table Com
pound, advised me
to try it before SUBJ
hitting to an opera
ton. Itrelieved me
FROM yyoy frp,1bloo
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-06-14
Very Much of II.

''Is there any human interest in this
drama?'
Human interest? I should say so
There is square meal in every act"
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-06-14

Beauty is on the surface, IKE stove
polish; good looks is from the core
outward, like the flavor Of an apple
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-06-14

Wealth and religion have practically
nothing in common,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07
THE FIRST TEST

WHOEVER is in doubt as to the senti-
nent of the voters on the league-of-
nations idea should study the returns
from the special election in the Twenty
second Congressional District held on
Tuesday to choose a successor to the
late E. E. Robbins.
Mr.. Robbins, Republican, was elected
to Congress in 1916 by a plurality Of
$500, and last November he was re-
elected by plurality of 5000. The dis
trict, comprising Butler and westmore
land Counties, has been Republican since
the founding of the party.
In the special election John Fl. Wilson,
Democrat, ran on platform pledpinp
his support of the league of nations.
John M. Jamson, his Republican oppo-
nent, did not commit himself on the sub
ject beyond promising to follow the lead
of his party. What some of the Repub.
licsn leaders thought the attitude of the
party should be was disclosed on Tues.
day morning by the publication of the
Lodge resolutions with the names of
thirty-seven Republican Senators as in
dersers, including the two Republican
Senator's from this state.
Mr.. Jamison was defeated and Mr..
Wilson was elected by a plurality of
about 400 votes, with so per cent of the
normal vote polled. This change from
5000 Republican plurality on the issue Of
the support of the Democratic party in
1918 to 400 Democratic plurality in 1919
on the issue of support of league 10
make war difficult ought to be instruc.
tive to, Senator Lodge as we'll as to Sena.
tors Penrose and Knox.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07
HAVE WE \ JIM COuZENS?

WE BEGIN the publication on this
page today of series oF articles by
James Couzens, the reform Mayor Of
Detroit, who has led the citizens Of that
community in their campaign for better
government.
Mr.. Couzens is one Of the most sue
cessful business men in the West. He is
vice president of the Ford Motor Com
pany and has other large financial in
terests. He was public spirited enough
to accept the Office of Police. Commits
sioner and he cleaned up the city. In
the municipal election last fall he was
candidate for the mayoralty on non
partisan ticket, provided for in a new
city charter in the framing and adoption
Of which he was largely influential.
Detroit, under the lead of this man,
has developed civic conscience. In his
campaign for Mayor last fall Mr.. Cou-
gems devoted himself to urging the men
to vote and to attacking the man who
votes selfshly for grinding his own
az" He was chosen by an overwhelming
majority and he is, therefore, justified
when he says that the way his city reor-
ganized its government was by firing
the man with the ak to grind"
= We commend what he has to say to
the attention of the voters of this city.
It is extremely pertinent at this time
when we are all thinking of the changes
that ought to be made in the charter and
are talking of the number of officers who
ought to be elected and of the size of the
Councils and of the general purposes for
which charter revision is sought.
There is nothing that this community
needs just now more than a Jim Couzens
who has the vision and who has the busi-
ness equipment and who has the will
ingness to devote his time and his ener-
gies to lifting the city government to the
plane of Detroit's.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07
AMERICA GETS IT'S FIRST GALE

A CALIPH, or as the spelling REFORM
- ers would have it. calf, is pri-
mariiy a successor of Mohammed and
secondarily any Mohammedan chief or
religious ruler.
The Californisns have persuaded the
Postoffice Department to order that the
oeicial abbreviation Of the name of their
stats shall hereafter be Calf, instead of
Cal, for the reason that Cal. is fire.
.epegtiy misread for Col. and mail goes to
Colorado when it is intended for places
ia the coast state.
So California becomes Calf. And; with
some appropriateness, too, for there is
Z greater variety pf religions Hospitality
entertained within its boundaries than
<rithin those Of any other American
humonwealth. It is next-door neighbor
~ Orient and receives an overflow of
tnnedans. Buddhists, Confucianists,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

through him in that land where Nature
writes her benignant lessons so plainly
that all must draw their own conclusions.
He told me of sunset fiushes over long.
purple waters, and of lying on sand beaches
wrapped in sunshine. all the problems OF
human intercourse soothed away in a
, naked and unquestioning content. What
he said was very little, but watching in his
eyes ] could guess what had happened.
He had found more than sunshine and color
and an arc Of violent sea. He had found
a new philosophy, new strength and
realization Of the worthiness of life. 4 .
TT is strange that men should have to. be
l. reminded of these things! How pa
tiently, how persistently, with what dogged
and misdirected pluck, they have taught
themselves to ignore the elemental bless
ings Of mankind, subsisting instead on pale
and wizened and ingenious substitutes. 1t
Is like man who should shoulder for
place at quick lunch counter. when
broad and leisurey banquet table was
spread free just around the corner. The
days tick by, as busy, as feeting, as full
of empty gestures as moving picture
film. We crowd old age upon ourselves
and run out to embrace it, for age is not
measured by number Of days but by the
exhaustion of each day. Twenty days lived
at slow pulse, in harmony with earth's love.
illness. are longer than two hundred
crowded with feyerish. appointments and
disappointments. Many, man has. lived
fifty or sixty hectic years and never yet
learned the unreckonabe endlessness of one
days lettering, measured only by the gra-
cious turning Of earth and sun. Some one
often asks me, why don't you wind the
clocks?" But in those rare moments when
l am sane clocks do not interest me-. .
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07
What DO You KnOw?
QUIZ

1. How many Presidents OF the United
States have there been?r' 50
., Who was "Ik Marvel? s..- = =; -"
8. What are ember and rogation days?
4. OF. what city was Edwin Forrest the
celebrated American tragedian. 4
native? = 80. '.'.' 80
. s''.,. '' -
s. Where is Luray Cave? - .....,... =,
6. How many kings of England were man,
ed James? ..
Z. What wicked queen was known as the
"She-wolf of France? o.. .'. -"
s. What is an equerry? -, .. H.,
.. What are carnivora? 't... e. 80 e.
10. What part of the land surface of the
globe lies the most below sea-levelf
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

1. Little Rock is the capital Of Arkansas,
2. Edith Cavell was executed by the Ger
mans In october, 1915. r''' = -
3. Admiral Sims was commander of the
American feet in European waters
during the war.
L. The vernsl equinox begins on March 81
at IL :i9 a, m. ,.s.-i : -.-..
s. The Nobel peace prize In 1917 was won
by the International Red Cross OF
Geneva, o..
6. Richard Loyelace, the English poei .
wrote ITO Lucasta on Going to, tho
Wars" -. -. =.
Z, Palm Sunday. this year. falls on April 10.
8. BENJAMIN Franklin was born In Boston
0. Maarten Martens was the pen-name, OF
j. M w. van der Poorten- Schwartz,
nineteenth century Dutch novelist
who wrote In English.
10. Nine Presidents Of the United states
Derved more than one term In ONCE. J.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

Parsees and the like, and its climate at
tracts the American propagandists Of
numerous new and strange cults. AS
the religious leader, if not ruler, Of
America it stands supreme.
Hats off, and hurrahs and vivas, but
no hochs, for the first American calf.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

As the eminent historian, Demosthenes
McGinnis. once remarked concerning the
Roman general, Wilsonius, "a strong chin
is sometimes indicative of indifference to
chin music"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

The desire of the Spartacans to effect
a junction with the Bolsheviki Is the desire
OF birds of feather to flock together-but
the proper focking place for jailbirds is
behind bars.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

graph? Can you keep your heart young
IN row Of pigeonholes? VIII you forgo
the surf Of ocean rollers to be serf to a
rolltop desk?
TITLE by little, and in haphazard ways,
- wisdom comes to man. No matter
how resolutely he shuts his ears. Truth
keeps pricking within him. What fu.
tility, what meanness and paltriness of
living this is that would send us hence
with all; Life's great secrets unearned. her
ineffable beauties unguessed. her great
folio only hastily glimpsed. Here Is this
spinning ball for us to marvel at, turning
in an ever-changing bath of color and
shadow, blazed with sunshine. drenched
with silver rain, leaning through green and
orange wells of dusk, and we creep with
blinkered eyes along narrow alleys of un-
seeing habit. Here Is the great book
spread before US day by day. Chapter Six.
teen: How the Surf Comes Crumbling In; !;
or Chapter Ninety: Birch Trees by Moon.
light; or Chapter Three: April Rainfall In
City SqlMre-for this authors volume
circulates> aae about us. and may be found
on the hdrffblest STALL Transcribe these
p"oSa6Sc va VIC poSSS VI youl WItTe
you have found space I'll warranty fol-.
much more irrelevant matter. What will
it profit us to keep balance at the bank
if we can't keep a balance of youth and
sanity in our souls? OF what avail 10 ship
carloads OF goods north, east, south and
west, II we cannot spare time to know our
own dreams, to exchange our doubts and
. .yearnings with our friends and neghbors?
Tn EVERY mans heart there is a secret
l. nerve that answers to this vibration of
beauty. / can imagine no more fascinat.
ing privilege than to be allowed to ransack
the desks Of a, thousand American business
men, men supposed to be hard-headed, alb
sorbed in brisk commerce. Somewhere in
each desk one would find some hidden be-
trayal of that mans private worship. 1t
might be some old newspaper clipping, per-
haps a poem that had once touched him.
for even the humblest poets are stout par
tisans Of reality. 1T might be a; photo
graph Of children playing In the surf, or a
little box of fishlhooks, or a soiled old time
table Of some queer backwoods railroad or
primitive steamer service that had once
carried him into his land Of hearts desire.
T. REMEMBER friend OF mine, a man
L much perplexed by the cares of earth
but slow to give utterance to his inner ana
tenderer impulses. telling me how he first
grasped the meaning and, value OF these in
scrutable powers Of virtue that hurl the
whole universe daily around our heads I'm
an unerring orbit. - For some reason ,or
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

The world has the choice Of two inter.
nationalisms-that Of the league of nations
and that of the Bolsheviki. And there is
no place to sidestep.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

A study of the income-tax blanks con.
vinces us that Uncle Sam deserves the
money for having thought OF such a won.
derfully complicated way of getting it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

Maybe it gratihes the short.s-ghted
thirty-seven to realize that while they have
not helped their own cause they have, at
least, hampered the President.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07
Let Cut
the Grapefruit

The Washington res.
Let's Cut taurateur who tried
the Grapefruit to tempt the appetite
of William Piggott
with grapefruit at seventy cents an order
may have started something that will
eventually curb his profits Mr. Piggott,
who is representing Seattle at the con-
ference of Governors and Mayors, says
he can buy an acre of grapefruit land in
the West for that price, The Seattle man,
in the exuberance of his humor. may have
exaggerated the cheapness OF western
land ever so many people would be will.
ing TO pay seventy-five cents an acre. but
he strikes a popular chord when he assails
this particular brand of profiteering
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

Officers and departments that failed
to create perfection: out of chaos will be
virtuously arraigned for judgment and
sentence will be pronounced upon them
by men who stayed at home and escaped
the Nightmare realities of French battle
fields and, in the end, shouted down the
league of nations.
Americans, British, French, Italians
and Russians and the Germans and the
Austrians-all Jared in the war as men
fare in tempests. We were more for
tunate than the others. Still We have
Brest TO complain Of.
There are disturbing reports of brave
men caught in poison-gas waves in the
Argonne forests and of men in other
actions who were slaughtered because of
a failure of artillery support.
The British have Gallipoli and Lens.
French units were trapped many times
and wiped out for reasons that no one
ever can explain. What will the Ger
mans say if ever they sit down to in
quire into the Verdun campaign and the
100000 casualties suffered by the Crown
Princes army in that futile adventure?
And what of the 100000 Russians who
o:ed like flies before the revolution?
To organize solemn and elaborate in
quiries into what it will soon be fash
ionable to call the mistakes of the war
is to imply that war can be waged with
out mistakes and without cruel waste.
Yet war Is in itself nothing br- an Or
ganized process of waste and sacrifice.
With modern weapons it il a confusion
of forces so vast as to defy the human
intelligence appointed to control it. II
is for this reason that war must be
stopped.
One of the tragic intervals of peace
will come when Senator'S Reed, Poin-
dexter and Sherman and the rest of the
critics sit down, like the Reeds, Poindex-
ters and Shemans of every Allied coun-
try, to question and accuse the army
men who returna broken from abroad
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

The frequency with which the Boil.
sheviki are repulsed at Archangel would
seem to indicate that the Allies are unable
70 insult 'em.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

Well, it's an III wind, etc. The fill.
buster put a crimp in the Gore bill to
repeal the daylight.saving law.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07
Pity
the Blind

that their belief in the ultimate realiza.
ton OF league OF nations is as slender
as their belief in eternal peace. In this
they are perfectly logical. Their block.
fitting mentality forbids them to believe
what their imperfect morality makes them
unable to understand.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

Whatever happens to the railroads, the
Republican Senators have given them
selves the privilege of shouldering the
blame.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

The junkers desire TO save the Kaiser
is simply another evidence that the Pam
Germans need an extra panning,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

Would it be just too terrible for any.
thing to wonder IL II was the woman vote
that made Vermont wet? ...-.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

There is possibility of trouble at the
peace table at the substitution OF Japan
ware for China.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07
IL on fellow and
Whittier and Whit
man." says John Gals.
The
Modern Child!

on American and Briton," which he is
to read at the Bellevue-Stratford tonight,
can be read by the British child as simply
as Burns and Shelley and Keats" The
excellent British child is undoubtedly far
more emancpated than the juveniles Of
Philadelphia IL he is permitted to browse
unchecked over the somewhat virile
strophes Of the Camden bard.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07


turn accuser on his own account he could
make out a magnificent case against
some Of the members of the United
States Senate who will have places
among his prosecutors.
when you accuse me Of wasting lives
or Of letting men die because couldn't
relieve them," he might say, "you are
playing the part Of hypocrtes. There
was no man on either side Of this war
who was not at some time asked to do
impossible things and suffer intolerable
pain. The accusation rests not against
me, but against you and against every
one who is reconciled to war, as war Is
fought in these days.
1T was you, gentlemen. who sneered
at the efforts and hopes that may bring
peace in the world. You are ignorant,
but your ignorance doesn't excuse you.
Men who died of gas and disease; those
who were slaughtered because they
couldn't be helped; the wounded who
died without attendance; all the men who
endured the cold inferno of the trenches
have you-not me-to blame. Because |
have seen war and hate it. You are
reconciled to war. And to be reconciled
to war is to be guilty!"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

because, when they were caught In some
particularly bitter emergency, they were
not so great as God.
Minds that dwelt sereneIy in silk hats
at a far distance while hell was loose
over the earth are best qualified, Il
seems, to render judgment in such in.
stances. ...
There will be something infinitely sad
and at the same time largely humorous,
about the war probes everywhere. They
will mislead public opinion at a time
when clear thinking is essential TO the
present and future safety Of the country.
No one will question their wisdom and
authority. Army officers are disciplined
to accept punishment in silence. They
will take their medicine, doubtless, and
believe themselves guilty. 1t is safe to
assume that none of the soldiers to be
accused will ever establish a precedent
by rising in his chair and blasting his
inquisitors with a pronouncement Of
those simple truths that everybody seems
afraid to utter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

There is at least sin,
cerity in the proc.
lamation OF the Pan.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

TAKE care Of the city's soul and con-
l. science and everything else takes care
of itself, is my conviction.
OF course. Detroit has been aided not
only by the unity which the war engen
dered, but also by state prohibition. How
ever, the rest Of the nation is to have pro
hibitior and, as remarked before, American
cities have the opportunity OF generations
TO raise their political morale.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

graph? Can you keep your heart young
IN row Of pigeonholes? Will you forgo
the surf of ocean rollers to be serf to a
rolltop desk?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
Sheriff's Office to Move .


For the first time in about twenty
five years the offices of the Sheriff of
New York County will be located in a
public building on and after December
20. On that date. Sheriff David H..
Knott and his staff will move from
their present quarters at 81 Chambers
STREET and travel few yards east to
the Han Of Records.
This move will save $4,000 a year
in rent. When the present Offices were
rented it was for term of five years
at $4,000 a year.
For long time the Sheriff asked of
fees in public building, so the county
could be freed from the payment Of
rent. He finally succeeded in obtain
ing Offices on the sixth floor of the
Hall Of Records where his staff will
occupy the same floor space as at
present.
The Sheriff's Offices used to be in the
County Courthouse. They were moved
from there about twenty-five years ago
to 2S0 Broadway, later to 2Se Broad
way and then to 81 Chambers Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
Marks Asks Voters to
Save ssDaylight'' Law
Fight to Repeal ''Saving" Meas
ure Expected at Next Ses-
sion of the LEGISLATURE

Marcus M. Marks, president Of the
National Daylight Saving Association,
last night appealed to the voters of
New York to oppose the expected
efforts to repeal the state daylight saw
irg bill. According to Mr.. Marks. a
small, but we'll organized, minority
aims to wipe the law off the statute
books at the coming session OF the
Leg stature. He said:
THE public should realize by this
time that it is necessary for them to
speak up if they want the benefits OF
daylight saving continued. Although
outnumbercd ten to one, opponents Of
daylight saving. because they were
we'll organized. we're able to repea!
the Federal extra hour Of light law.
"We have received information that
they are laying their plans TO war on
the New York state law Therefore it
organization thai realizes the mental,
moral. physical and economic benefits
of daylight saving to notify his state
representatives that the daylight law
must remain or the statute books"
Nh. Marks said that the daylight
saving movement is sweeping the
tate of New York as we'll as all sec
tions of the country. He continued:
After New York City affirmed the
state law unanimously, Yonkers fol
lowed suit. Then other cities, through
their civic organizations, went on
record for it,
munities have Endorsed daylight say
ing and local ordinances have been
adopted in Pianfeld, Jersey City and
HObOkeno