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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
THE REGULAR.
WAnd Tommy ain It bloomin' fool,
you bet that Tommy seesl'O

I IN one of the Regular army men, en-
listed before the war,
When fifteen per was the pay we got
an learned to be soldiers for
I joined in the days when Olive Drat
was lackin' in real eclat,
An it wasn't often q doughboy found
"welcome" upon the mat.
I'm a hero now, an the ladies bow
an it's pleasant enough, an ye,
It's worryin' me how long twill b.
till the people again forgetl
"Only common soldier"
That's what they used to say,
Tho they must Of seen I was straight
and clean
The same as I am today.
I looks at tho flags a-wavin',
I thinks Of them times that's past,
An I'm sayin': eyes, it is fine, ]
How long is it gonna lasti"
The National Guard comes homeward
from fightin' the ugly Teuts,
The drafted men get their papers an
put on their civic suits;
They all Of them done their portion,
we regulars done the same,
But we gotta 90 on playin' the steady
old army game.
They finished their bit, all right, an
quit; their glory will not be lost,
An the regular force gets cheers, of
course. butt have my fingers
crossed
"Only a common soldier"
It used to be said with sneers,
An still recall every slight an all
The scorn of them byeone years.
Just now I'm a social lion
Enjoyin' it while I can
Till the graft goes bust an they says:
"He's just
A Regular Army man,
A roughneck brute in khaki suit,
A Regular Army man!".
-Berton Braley.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
TIMELY CONSIDERATION
FOB SCHOOL TREASURY.

Director Knight took q progressive
step and did a public service when he
showed the board Of education the
ease with which trade discounts could
be secured from business firms to
which the board Of education extends
patronage.
The members Of the school board
are entitled to credit for readily fall
ing in with Mr.. Knights proposition
and for not raising objections to it.
Although it does not appear that bus
mess superintendent HARDWOOD ever
has made any serious efforts to secure
trade discounts, he probably is correct
in his opinion that securing them will
save the board at least $4,000 year.
While former boards did not demand
and secure trade discounts, all the d.
rectors Of former boards must not be
blamed for not making an effort to
secure them. While Mr.. Knight and
the present board are entitled to cred
it, the idea is not new one and other
members, at other times, have had the
idea well in mind and have wished to
demand and secure the same eonsidsra-
ton for supply houses a. the smallest
Of retailers secures.
But, In the past, there has been
some bundle carrier for tho Big Inter
ests On tho board, or the head Of some
department Of some big local wholesale
or manufacturing firm who threw cold
water on the plan and effectively dis
couraged Il.
Director Proved, for example, has
favored the idea Of demanding trade
discounts from the houses that are 70.
vored with heavy orders from the
board Of education. Ever since he be
came member Of the board, any such
idea was talked down and killed by
former director McGiffert. The &C.
lions Of that willy, Mephistopholean IN
diyidual ever have supported the be.
Lief Of the commoners that he wa
there to support the welfare Of the Big
Interests in general and the Nazshall'
Wells company in particular. It wa
. grand day for the school treasury
when McGiffert became 20 scared at
public opinion that he refused to run
again.
4 stzict system Of competitive btdl
and then . successful demand for thu
customary trade discounts wm hsll
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20

the sick, lame and limping school treas
ury very greatly. The patient, long
suffering and heavily burdened tax
payers know that the dear old treasury
needs much more consideration than
it has been getting under this Hokian
regime.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
\ HOKE'S ADVENTURES WITH
Eo THE SCHOOL MONEY.

Even Il Kremer J. H0ke does 1eel
confident that he can hold his sinecure
q superintendent Of the public schools
% long as he wishes, there Is limit
beyond which he will find it danger
Gus to 90 In his extravaganza In ex-
penditures. There viii come time
when East End society snobs cannot
save him from getting kicked out Of
his soft snap.
Supt. Hoke and business superin-
tendent Harwood recently bought .
Dodge car, 1T cost Of over 81 1000, for
use Of the vague, indefinite Hoke,
without the knowledge and consent Of
The chairmen Of tho three committees,
Who were supposed to handle the mat
ter. This is q typical illustration of
the high hand with which these car
pet-baggers work their selfish system.
One who ever has gone half starved
- apt to play the glutton when given
the keys Of pantry. An improvi.
dent, impecunious person is prone to
extravagance when given the freedom
Of q fat treasury. A man without
heavy business experience and with
limited natural capacity usually makes
ducks and brakes Of q big business
when given its control.
These are abnormal and troubloua
times Extravaganza, less warranted
than in normal times, seems to be
walking hand in hand with irresponsi.
b1lity. Now Is the time to proceed
slowiy, cautiously and economically
rather than to engage In high speed
and Wild waste.
Duluth's public school treasury Il
fully $780, lsaner today than 1,
should b Tor tho best good Of thu
schools, While no hugely Wild and
wastsful schemes have been sprung Of
iste, any number Of small, needless and
draining extravagaaces steadily An
permitted -
6upt. Hoke already had an automo'
he Of his exclusive disposal good
enough for any educator IN . city ID
this siSe and far better than he had
bofere he was wished onto Duluth
There u just a. much excuse for buy
ing this carpst-bagger . 1900 car q
there would be In putting red cushion,
On al the seats in the public schools.
Let supt. Hoke see anything new
novel or shiny and his first impulse 1,
20 buy It. Instead Of taking care Of
and using the great supply Of thing
10 already has, he ever wants some
thing new and expensive.
At expense Of time and money, biz
hatch Of reading tests were printed
1hsy have bean stored away some
where by supt. Hoke himself and new
q can be used, for thsy were repro
auctions Of copyrighted tests. Imo
rance, caxelessness and inefficsncy
cost the treasury . pretty penny.
When the Hokian imbecility was sx
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20

ceive and need not leok for one kindly
word from the Duluth Evening Herald.
That publication, by the way, is the
same paper that shamelessly admitted
recently that the Nonpartisan league
was defeated in Minnesota last year,
not on the merits Of the issues it had
raised, but on side issue Of disloy.
atty.
The dear old News Tribune, that STA
mese twin Of the Herald in predatory
journalism, has . living Tyre, 20 to
speak, who recently awoke to ecstacy
by some process Of auto-into1cattsn
and rendered . puer1le and misleading
editorial, telling how the assessor
would shade the taxes on . Nve-year-
old house because Of its ago but would
have no excuse for levying less than
tho full cost on house built this year.
This was In spite Of tho fact that
houses twenty, thirty and forty PEARS
old are taxed today moro than ever
before. Truth compels the statement,
too, that these old houses and their 10
calities have sadly decreased in value.
Not only does the dear old morning
paper print such misinformation but
charges seven cents for the Sunday
edition.
There is q strong feeling In the city
that the most thoughtful, intelligent
and determined Of Duluth's taxpayers
should counsel together at this time
In regard to the situation that con-
fronts them, The following article
from Forbes Magazine well might
have been written for Duluth and st.
Louis county, viz:
"The next uprising Of the public
will unquestionably be against reck-
less expenditures Of public money and
the consequent crushing Of taxation
Ievies. War breeds contempt for econ
omy. Billions are spent without thought
for the pockets Of those who have to
provide the money. America was
spending more money per day than
any other belligerent when the war
ended. Something akin to pride was
felt over the magnitude Of the sums
we poured out. Taxes Of unprecedented
severity were paid by the public with
out demur or protest.
''But the time has come to call
halt to reckless expenditure Of the peo-
ple's money. Those who have access to
the federal treasury must sober up.
The patriotic fervor created by war
has subsidized. We are entering the
cold, gray dawn Of the morning after.
The cost Of living is being found most
burdensome. On top Of this, griev-
ously heavy taxes have to be met. The
politicians, as a rule, have little regard
for saving, but q weakness for gran
dose spending. The larger the pork
barrel the happier they are. The public
temper is rising to the point where it
will boil over unless it is demonstrated
convincingly that those in charge Of
our public affairs are striving with
might and main to do away with
wasteful methods and to curtail taxa
ton to the lowest possible minimum.
1.-THE necessaries Of life would not
be SO impossibly dear as they are to-
day were the exactions imposed in the
form Of taxes less onerous. Every Bill
Lion Of governmental expenditures
means the imposition Of an additional
cost Of q billion on the doing Of bus
mess Of some form or another
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20

THE SADDEST WORDS.
OF all sad words Of tongue, Of pen,
Typewriter or victrola,
The saddest are these: "Let's have
anoth-
En- swig Of cocanola. Life.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
NO ROOM BELOW.

"Do you think airships win ever
come into common usef0
"Most assuredly. If Ford 10 going
to flood the land with $3.50 automo-
biles lot Of Us will have to take to
the air. ''-Detroit Free Press.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
eAruRDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1919.

from hook.worm land vented . rat-dke
venom on Q faithful employe Of the
board, who was not responsible, but
who lost . position he had held tor
many years.
Having secured his new Dodge
"cah," in which to dodge around IN
Duluth, Doctah Hoke now wants player
pianos for the schools. The school
rooms are crowded with victrolas and
nearly every building has . piano. But
those old pianos are not the fad and
vandals are being permitted to smash
them up. While the Hokian gang has
kept very mum about It, q perfectly
good piano was demolished this sum-
NOR at the Munger school.
Out at the Cobb school, tho state
law is being violated because Of an
overcrowded room. There Is vacant
pupil space, but no teacher has been
provided. AS q result, pupils suffer
while Hoke dallies.
A prominent professional man COM
plains that his little girl is being herd
ed at the Endion school without seat,
proper teaching or benefit. Complaints
come from other schools to the same
effect. This vague, indefinite pedant
had an entire summer in which to plan,
prepare and even provide for emer-
gencies. He went to sleep at the
switch.
Instead Of compelling this victim Of
tho hook-worm to stand on his own
feet and to walk alone, the complacent
board Of education, covering under the
East End social lash and, possibly, the
heavy hand Of Big Business, shields,
minimizes and even winks at ineffi-
cheney. The wobbly Willie is surround
ed with heavy and expensive squad
Of experts, supervisors, advisers and
supernumeries to do the supervisonal
work, to hold up the Hstless hands and
to back up the weak brain Of q man
who may be book-worm but, Ger
tainly, is not a real educator.
Night schools have been started six
weeks earlier than usual and q high
priced supervisor put in charge. We
believe in night schools and helped
popularize them In Duluth, but there
is rhyme and reason in all things.
So long as one American child, born
Of American parents, is without seat,
teacher or proper educational environ
ment, there should be no money wasted
on night school frills, fads or fancies.
When every child In the kindergarten
or grades has seat, teacher and skilled
instruction, then viii It be time TO
talk about teaching adult aliens how
to weave baskets, model in mud or do
art jewelry work.
Along with the many comparatively
small extravagances, the clerical force
is being steadily augmented. School
election debts are quite easily paid by
giving . sinecure to the impecunioua
kinsman or impoverished retainer Of
some society dame. It Is not impos.
sible that even treasurer Colman has
the "crust" to grab another raise in
salary. The time to grab Il when
grabbing Is good.
ALI this must be endured, in pa.
thence, If not equanimity, until this
Hokian misfit in this Northland city
toddles back to the sunny, somnolent
Southland, with carpet-bag lined with
long green and sagging with doubloons
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
REAL HOME COMFORTS.

REAL HOME COMORTS.
81 want to buy q safe for my pri-
vate residence" said the customer.
eyes, SIR" answered the clerk;
"we've just gotten in some little
beauties in the twelve-quart, home
size.O
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
THE HUMOROUS PRIVATE.

~ understand that you were treated
like dogs overseas" said the reporter.
Can you give me an instancei"
"Well," replied the humorous pri.
vate, "sometimes they put us in pup
tents''-Ex.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
HE RAN TRUE TO FORM.

he RAN TRUE TO FORM.
"What has become Of Flubdub, who
did everything he could at tho last
session Of congress to handicap the
armyf"
"Oh, he's out for the soldier vote"
kansas City Journal.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-24
Suffragists Plan
W Oman's Party
At Convention

Continued from page !
New-York tribune., 1919-03-24

may be- called the council of women
Commentaries First Victory
More than five hundred women. ron
resentlng all the twenty four states
where women have the vote, and. il
Is expected, all the twenty-four states
where they have not yet obtained the
vote, will attend the convention. II ia
called the jubilee convention. becauss
women won the vote in the first suf-
1rage state, Wyoming, fifty years aro.
=, preliminary meetings were held by
the executive council to-day and by
the national board of directors last
night. Mrs. Gait, of New York, presi
dent of the association and of the In
ternational Woman Suffrage Alliance.
and DR.. Shaw, honorary president. and
chairman of the National Women's
Committee Of the Council of National
defence, were the leaders in the pre-
convention discussions among the dele
gates.
Mrs. Raymond Robins, Of CHICAGO.
president of the National Woman's
Trade Union League, will preside at
the industrial session of the women
voters council. Mrs Percy Pennyback-
er, of Texas, will lead the child well
fare discussion in the council, and Mrs.
Catherine Mccullough, of Chicago, will
discuss the legal status of women.
Mrs. Ellis Meredith, of the National
Democratic Womans Committee. will
MI the chair during the consideration
OF the women voters part in the i'm
proVement of election methods.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-24
Fresh Proof Germans
Sought War Revealed

PARIS, March 23-President Poin-
care, speaking to-day at the reopen
ing of the Higher Normal School, said
Austria and Germany, before declar-
ing war on Russia and France, created
an irreparable situation by the ultima
tum to Serbia and by systematic refus-
al of any intervention or any con-
ciliation.
"Further discoveries have just brought
complementary, if superfuous, proofs"
the President said. "Telegrams dated
July 25 and 26, 1914, show that Berlin
had pushed Vienna to place Europe in
the face of an accomplished fact At
the present moment another proof has
fallen into the hands Of the govern
ment of the republic.
"On July II, 1914, the Austrian Am
bassador in Paris was informed from
Ballhausplatz (the Austrian Foreign
Office) that the two Central Empires
had reached an entire accord 'on tho
political situation resulting from the
Sarajevo incident and on all possible
consequence
IAN accord on all consequences,
mark you Not only did they declare
war, but they sought it, wished it and
precipitated it,"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-24
Messengers to Arbitratc

A committee Of the striking mcsscn-
ger boys Of the Western Union Tcle-
graph Company will present their
grievances to their employers to- day
Miss Frances Perkins, Of the State IN
dustrial Committee, will act as mcdi
ator.
Officials Of the company said ycstcr-
day that the Sunday business was
handled as IN normal times, in spite Of
the strike. Business was Iieht and
picket activity was suspended until
to-day. N'''''
New-York tribune., 1919-03-24

lyn, last night, told the following story
Of the war:
"A young soldier abscnted himself
without leave from his regiment for
three days.
"Some Of his companions in the
guard house, with the cruelty that
sometimes characterizes men toward
their fellows, told him he would be
shot for deserting his country.
He talked with me, and told him
it was nonsense. But his fellow SOL
diers insisted upon it, and it preyed
upon his mind.
Zone day bottle Of formaldehydc
was left within his reach He swal-
lowed the contents.
~ found him writhing with pain
He looked at me and said: You like
me little bit, don't you, chaplain .
assured him l did. Then he fairly
shouted out: I love the United States!
love the United States! | love my
country!'
"Then he died"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-24
Contributions Pour Into
Suffrage Lobby Fund
Mew York Tribune


Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. March 23.-Ample
funds to make possible the campaign
to Interview all members of the incom-
ing Congress on suffrage have been
assured, the National Woman's party
announced to-day. Between 500 and
$1,000 are being received daily in sums
ranging from five cents to $500 in re-
sponse to the appeal sent out by Mrs.
Lawrence Lewis, Of Philadelphia, chair
man Of finance
POLITICAL .questionnaircs sent out by
the lobby chairman, Miss Maud Young.
er, concerning the political records,
business and social connections Of in.
coming members of Congress, to be
filled in by state representatives. Of the
party and returned to national head
Quarters, are attracting the earnest at
tention Of members themselves.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-24
international Conference
On Children Opens Nav +

WASHINGTON, March 23.-Experi-
ences from the war regarding minimum
standards for the health, education
and work Of children will be considered
at a conference Of American and Eu-
riopean authorities to be held in Wash
'ngton, beginning May 6, under the
of Labor.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-24
Found
Not Guilty of
Conspiracy

Continued from page I
New-York tribune., 1919-03-24
ILove My Country Cries
'Deserter,' Facing Death
Youth Whom Fellow Prisoners
Chaffed as Unloyal Takes
Own Life

The Rev, Herbert Shipman, late sem
Tor chaplain Of the 1st Army. A. E. F.,
speaking in St. AIMS Church, Brook
New-York tribune., 1919-03-24
Switzerland Grants Asylum
To Former Emperor Charles

COPENHAGEN, March %. - The
Vienna correspondent Of "The Berlin
"Vossische Zeitung" says Colonel
Struts, no wwas stationed at Ekart-
sau by the British government to
watch the treatment accorded former
Emperor Charles, had doubts as to the
safety of the onetime monarch and
obtained the assent Of Switzerland to
grant him asylum without consulting
Charles
New-York tribune., 1919-03-24

Our aim was to reproduce
a fabric that would be
unique not only in looks
but in wear.
We went researching.
Back to 1920.
The sturdy stufs of the
Puritans '"Forefathers
Cloth"
Woods from the same
source that supplied the
Pilgrims-County Norfolk,
England.
Shades, plain and simple.
Ideal for twentieth CEN
tury business suits.
No handsomer garments
in our stores.
Overcoats of most at
tractive fabrics. Among
9th ers, wonderfully soft,
rich Scotch "velours" and
cheviots. Also fancy Shet-
lands.
Fine quality blacks and
oxfords, too.
*"Composite" D erbies.
Built on the law of aver
ages. Become 80 out of
every 100" men. Conform
without conforming.
Shoes. An all-leather
standard!
AS fancy or plain as you
like.
Closed tomorrow so we
all can join in the cheering.
Welcome Home, men of
the eth!
'Rcotstcred Trademark.
ROGERS PEET COMPANY
Broadway Broadway
at 18th st. -Four at 34th st.
Convenient
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave.
at Warren at 4lst St.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-04-17
Tho Victory Loan.

Wichita, April 15.-That the guns
will be heard on the Western Front
again before another year is over un-
less the Liberty Victory Loan is sup
ported by every man and woman In this
country, is the opinion of Lieut.. c. c.
Nash, Canadian officer, who wounded
and blinded in one eye from gas at the
battle of Vimy Ridge, is touring Kan
sas in the interest of the coming loan.
Germany does not believe that she
was beaten" declares Lieut.. Nash.
s'Hindenburg has told the people that
If the political parties had left him
alone he would have led a victorious
army into Paris. Germany and some
other European Countries whose names
I shall not mention, are watching the
United States. They know that Eng
land is war weary, Belgium is bled
white and France broken, physically
but not spiritually It is up to Us, the
people Of this country, to let them
know that the United States is not
tired. They will gauge the spirit and
temper Of the American people by the
manner in which the coming Loan is
supported. -
Lieutenant Nash has been engaged
by the State Victory Loan Association
to tour Kansas during the next three
weeks.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-04-17
Methodist Church

Easter will be observed at all SER
vices of next Sunday.
Special Easter sermon by the pas
tor at II a. m. The music will be
appropriate to the day. Miss Mitchell
will sing at the morning service.
The Epworth League will hold a
Sunrise song and praise service at
$50 a. m. and another Easter ser
vice at 700 p. m.
The large High School class of
girls will give the Annual Easter pro-
gram at p. m.
The church and Sunday School will
give and egg shower to Bethany Hos
pital Sunday morning. Bring eggs. A
committe will receive the eggs at the
door. Bring eggs Saturday afternoon
instead of Sunday if you prefer.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-04-17
Famous Castle of Durnstein.

The ragged towers of the castle OF
Durnstein, in which Richard OF Eng
land was imprisoned, still rise by the
Danube, and there is a NapoleOnic le-
gend that, as the French emperor rode
by in his Wagram campaign, he point
ed to them with horror as a reminder
OF a barbarOus incident. Seemingly
his revery was untroubled by any pre-
vision of the far harder fate in store
for him.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-04-17
Novel Exrerienees

Did you ever chance to see a sword
fish, a bottle fiy, stone fence, a cat
nip, bed spring, mill race, corn
prick up its ears or a potato wipe its
eyes? Or have you ever had the novel
experience OF hearing a birch bark, a
pillow tick, or tree top hum7 asks
Gas Logic.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-04-17
.Mateh Scratcher.

Save tie strip of sandpaper that
comes on the match boxes and tack
on jamb of door with .tiny Swede
tacks; or strips of sandpapersmay be
cut five inches long and three-eighths
inch wide. Place a tack at each end
and one in the middle. This will not
interfere with opening and closing Of
door, and will save steps in running
back to get another match.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-04-17
Mothers Poor "Rememberer."

Mother had been searching fer her
purse. Having found it she shortly
afterwards mislaid her eyeglasses and
asked Doris, who was playing nicely
with kitty, to hunt for them. Doris
poutingly Obeyed, but said: "Xou is
always losing sOmefng, muvver I wish
to GOODNESS you had as good a remem-
berer as aunty has,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-04-17

Ginnis of Parsons.
Grand, Outside Watch. T. Hays
of Fort Scott.
Grand Trustee-H. K. Benneson of
Clay Center
Grand Trustee-Bert L. BeGroff of
Kansas City.
Grand Trustee-Wm. Moore of
Hutchinson.
The next meeting of the Grand
Lodge will be held in Topeka.