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The Nenana daily news., 1920-04-08
SURF IS COMPLETING
 EMDEN'S DESTRUCTION

SYDNEY, Australia.-The hulk of the German raiding cruiser Emden in the Cocos islands in the Indian ocean is reported to have been de- molished by the surf. The Emden was beached after being defeated by the Australian cruiser Sydney in November, 1914. Some of the Elm den's guns were salved by the au- thorities and one is a trophy in a public place in Sydney.
 Nenana. Alaska's Interior Fuel Depot
The Nenana daily news., 1920-04-08
Those Girls.

Mayme: q have so many callers pestering the life out of me I hard ly know what to do with them all.
 Grayce: Why, how long have you been a telephone operator?-Balti- more American.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
GETCHELL PRAIRIE

Mrs. J. H. Rogers, Mrs. Jay Rogers
and daughter Dorothy, Mrs. Luther
Brown and Mrs. Chas. Whitcher, call.
ed on Mrs. CRUDE, Mrs. Stull, Mrs
Tom Marsh, and Mrs. j. H. Whitcher
Wednesday afternoon.
The Ladies' Aid met with Mrs. "
W. Harper last Thursday afternoon
After spending very pleasant after
noon, delicious refreshments were
served by the hostess.
Mrs. Chas. Whitcher and Mrs. Luth-
er Brown spent Tuesday afternoon
visiting Mrs. j. II. White and daugh-
ter Gussie.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bond entertain
ed Sunday at a six o'clock dinner
Mrs. Bonds sister and husband. Mr.
and Mrs. Posey Of Courtenav, N. D..
and Mr.. and Mrs. Bachman of Grand
Frairie.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. M. Langemo and
Oscar and Peter Langemo of Fmgal
and Miss Ida Holcomb, who is teach
ing there, autoed to the Holcomb farm
Sunday to spend the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Cetchell were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. White
and family Sunday for dinner.
Varlyn Ayres WIS a guest Of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Whitcher and fam
lily Sunday afternoon.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13

A certain Westerner - name not
giVen--was asked to contribute to
the Technology Endowment fund. He
responded in two ways. First by
sending a good-sized check and, sec
ond, by writing the following letter
now reprinted in the Voo-Doo, the In
stltute's humorous magazine:
For the following reasons I am
unable ia send you the check you re-
quest:
Il have been held up, held down,
sandbagged, trodden on, sat on, fiat
tened out and squeezed. First by the
United States governments income
tax, federal war tax, excess profits
tax, Liberty loans, thrift stamps, cap
ital stock tax, and every other tax the
mind of man could invent to extrac
money.
Next by the Society of John the
Baptist the G.. A. r., the w. r. c., the
Red Cross, the Black Cross, the Pur-
pie Cross and the Double Cross, the
Dorcas society, the Y NJ c. A., the
Y. W G. A., the Boy Scouts, the Jew
ISL Relief, and every hospital in town.
''s ~ otl COp VI Gil CIIcSc CAN'T CHc HS-
sociated Charities.
''ihe government has 50 run my
business that don't know who owns
it. am inspected, suspected, exam
med. re-examined, informer, required,
and commanded, 80 that don't know
who | am, what l am. or why l am
here. All know is that am suppos-
ed to be an inexhaustible supply of
money for every known desire or
hope of the human race, and becaue
| Will not sell all have and go out
and beg, borrow or steal more to give
away. | have been cussed, discussed,
boycotted, talked to, talked about,
lied to, lied about, held up, hung up,
robbed and ruined and the only reason
l am clinging to life is to see who or
what in b is coming next"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
QUITE EQUAL TO OCCASION
Female "Heck'er" Who Tackled Lady
Astor Get a Good Deal Of
a Surprise.

"Lady Aston" said New York
clubman, drought more popularity to
the Astor name during her election
fight in England than either the old
viscount, William Waldorf, or the new
viscount, Major Waldorf, ever sue
ceeded in doing.
"She'S a clever woman, a witty wom-
an, and we Americans may be proud
of her though she has deserted us.
''On the election platform she gave
many a striking proof of her ready
wit. Thus one evening sour-vis-
aged female rose in the audience and
asked with kind Of prim irony:
"1f ViscOuteSs Astor is elected to
parliament, will she work to make d.
Vorce as easy for us in England rs it
is in American
'This was a mean blow. a foul blow.
a blow below the belt, so to speak.
for Lady Aston, through no fault Of
her own, IS a divorced woman. She
countered brilliantly. however, and the
blow didn't land. Looking at her ques-
TONER in conmiSerating way, she
said:
"Tm sorry, madam, you are in trou~
ble.'
"And the house roared with laugh
ter"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
HAVE PUT UP BRAVE FIGHT
Sumatra Natives for Centuries Car
ried on Warfare With Their
Conquerors, the Dutch.

Sumatras war-decimated population
amounts to less than 3,20OOOO most
OF which is not available for labor,
the island. therefore, barely beginning
to attract attention, despite its riches
in natural resources. Sumatra Is i'm
mcnse In area and between its differ
ent sections there is little inland com
munication, that which exists being Of
a treachrrous and wurlikc character.
Much Of the island remains unex-
plored. Other parts such AS the
whole of Achin, are still in a Stnte
Of warfare, which seems destined to
end only with the eventual extcrmina-
ton Of the resisting tribes.
The first hoStilitieS Of the Achinese
date back to 1899. but for the last
forty years fighting has been cOntinu-
GUS, costing more than 2UOWD lives in
the AchineSe war alone. A guerrilla
warfare of surprises and ambuShes
has been going on In the jungleS, the
determined resistance Of the AchineSe
cntinuing undiScOuraged. although
their government has been dcpoSed,
and all their towns and strategic po
siions occupied by Dutch troops.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
GOOD EXERCISE is MOTORING
Physician Seems to Have Made Out
Good Case for His Side Of
Argument.

Or. Henry Williams, in an article
In Motors conbats the theory thai
motoring is reducing our opportunities
for exercise. He says it's benefits are
thrcefold-physicaI, mental and 20
litiUnal. The bulfeting of winds and
the Inhalation of large quantities OF
oxygen stimulate digestion, assimi|a-
ton and eNcrrtiOn. This is true Of
the person who merely sits. as well
as of him who drives. The latter, how
ever, benefits directly. Doctor Will
liams SAYS: "W'htn you drive q car
40 or so miles over average American
roads. or fraction Of that distance
in any city. you give your arms and
torso a course Of purposefuI raaisthen-
les that rebounds directly to the hen'-
fit OF your muscles and arteries and
heart. and Indirectly, but no less sig
nilic;,ntly. to the benefit OF your digeS-
tive organs Of elimination as we'll as
the nervous SyStrm.'
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
FREIGHT CAR BROKE AWAY
Peculiar Happening Hailed as Some.
thing Particularly New in His
tory Of RaiIroading.

The Erie railroad has demonstrated
the practicability Of a theory that a
freight train may lose car from It's
midst and keep to it's schedule with
its crew in ignorance of their loss. and
Ed Mott. of Goshen, the local histo-
rian, is happy.
For Il generation Mott has been tell
ing folks Of an Erie train that left Sus-
quehanna in the winter Of 1855 with -
ears of cattle. At Port Jervis one ear
was missing. 1t had disappeared from
the middle Of the train without leav-
ing broken couplings or other traces
Of the manner Of It's ejectment. Two
days later the missing car was found
in field near the track at Shohoia.
1t was empty. The cattle it had held
were recovered in Sullivan county.
New York. They had freed themselves
from the car and crossed the Delaware
river on the ice.
Engineer Albert O. Roberts was
driving train to New York last Sun
day morning. At West Tuxedo air
brake trouble led to the discovery that
the fourteenth car was missing. The
thirteenth and fifteenth cars had re-
coupled themselves. Search led TO the
discovery of the missing car alongside
the track mile to the north.
The accident of Sunday was exactly
the same rs the one which Mott de-
scribes as of sxty-odd years ago. ex-
cept that the modern form Of brake
caused the loss of a car to be discov-
cred more quickly than was the case
in the old days, when the couplings
were Of simple design and the brakes
We're operated by hand.--Ncw Haven
Union.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
No More Pups.

A little friend Of mine who lives
next door has been teasing his mother
for puppy. Knowing the destructive
habits Of such animals, she has firmly
refused to let him have one. At last
ne persuaded her 10 let him borrow
one for half day to show her that
a puppy knew enough to properly be-
have himself. Being warned that he
must watch the puppy every minute
It WAS in the house, the little chap
for a time was careful to keep his eye
on it; but, finally firing OF such vigi-
lance, he relaxed his attention only to
give the puppy the chance 1t had been
waiting for. 1t improved it to the full
by chewing to pieces one Of his most
cherished Christmas toys. This was
too much for the Young host. Good
night" he exclaimed, mo more pups
for me; I'll get me a 10 wear old dog"
Exchange.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
Another Statue,

With the unveiing OF the figure OF
Gen. William Shepherd in the commu-
nity of Westtield. Mass. a worthy fig
ure is added to the American p"r'lla-
ton Of revolutionary heroes whose
memory is prrpetuated by public
statue. General Shepherd. before the
Revolution. had taken part in tn" "Nld
French war;" which justified M"cau-
lay in saving that because Frederick
the Great had decided to rob a neigh
Dor, cred men scalped each other by
the great lakes of North American He
began as Il private soldier and rose
to- the rank of lieutenant colonel under
Washington, and later commanded a
brigade under Lafayette individuals
have sometimes questioned the utility
of pubic statues: yet in this case. as
In many another the statue defeats
the common fnrgetfuineSs Of past
deeds that has found expression IN the
old saying, "Out Of sight out Of nind.'
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
Inside lnforma alton.

"Every little day." said the Slang
stcr "a wise guy gets hep to some new
idea"
"JuSt--ah7-what do you wish to
convey?" the Social Scamp inquired.
Ever notice how some Of these
baby vanl,s mask their ears with seal
lops Of h,ir?'
II cawn't say as I have, old dear"
''Wcll, the hair COMES down over the
listeners like part of Il waterfall. and
is tucked up underneath or in the
back
my word."
"rve just found out how they do It,"
"How do they do it. tell me-
'"They make the bay windows stand
out by stutting little gobS Of false hair
inSide.'
"How did YOU learn that?"
II know Il lady who helps to sweep
out q department store Mornings
"My word!'
"And she says the gohs fall out and
clog up the vacuum cleaners -
Youngstown Telegram.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
and who say something pleasant such

and who say something pleasant such
as,
"'Finc day, isn't it?
"Or perhaps they say,
allow is tho family? How are
your sisters and brothers. and how is
your papa and your mammal
"Or perhaps they say,
Dear me. it is a long time, long,
long time since l last saw you. This
is pleasure. l am very glad to sec
you again. And they will shake hands
and won't have a fight at all.
eyes, it does seem very strange to
me-. Really and truly. there are Great
ures who don't understand how to
smile. They smile for others and nov
for themselves All. how much bet
ter it is to smile for oneself
ave said that several times already
but I could go on saying i, and then
saying it again, for DO most thorough
ly agree with myself"
81 suppose" said the snake-necke ed
turtle. ''that most creatures dn agree
with themselves"
swell, that shows they're sensible
when they do" said the MAtumata.
'That makes me feel better about
creatures. feel sad about crea lures
when they haven't the sense to b" dan.
gerous for it makes me feel they're 2
weak lot
'Rut when they agree with themselves
and won't listen TO any one else. when
they're cross and say no one except
themselves have rights to any opinions
ut All, when they say that they must
fight and fight until everything is done
their own way and should quarrel
those are the creatures l like.
II like the kinds others wouldn't
like, the dangerous kind, the kind who
smile and who then 60 out to be as
dangerous and fierce and ferociols and
wild as they can be!
I'm fact, most creatures wouldn't
like me, for most creatures are pleas
ant and like each other and want other
people to have different opinions and
think It's nice to all have their own
rights.
''But am different, and / am honest
about it. I am honest and bad, or hon
estly bad, or whatever it would he
called"
"Youre not honest when you smile
and when you only feel bate in your
little turtle heart, sRid the snake
necked turtle.
ooh well, no bad person, no mean
crea ture. 40 one who is dangerous aud
fierce and mean can he altogether bon
estfy had even, 80 l must have my
smile and my dangerous ways going
together
"Ah. you're bad one, Matamata."
you're not as gentle as some I've
known" said the Matamata, Though
1t is true YOU don't tell as much about
yourself as I DO"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
SPREADING Joy.

The JOY You give others will return
to you with interest. TO be sure yon
do not help others for returns. That
would be mercenary and where it is
practiced men soon learn to read the
motives that prompt it. The result is
a lonesome man in a short time. You
will give your Joy for the JOY it gives
You to give it, You feel rewarded a
hundredfold in knowing you have
helped somebody. Their grateful hearts
respond with overlooking gladness and
gratitude. It's no wonder you're glad
Yet it's merely the action of the old
law that rewards the altrustc spirit
with blessings.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
The Artistic Temperament.

The landlady announced that we'll.
known humorist and cartoonist WAS to
Join us at our boarding house and we
all had expectations of meeting jolly
good fellow who would drive dull care
away. When he arrived he insisted
on having small table by himself,
and instead of drawing his chair up
to the table always drew the table to
him. eating facing the wall. with his
back to the guests, and declined to
meet anyone. All in all he was sad
character to gaze upon and a grea!
disappointment to the guests.-Ex-
change.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
Baby's New Papa.

While on a train Il woman sat Oppo-
site ME accompanied by chubby
yOungster that was just learning to tod
die around At one of the stations the
woman requested me to watch the
child while she sent telegram. The
conductor assured her there would be
plenty Of time.
Imagine my CONSERVATION when the
train pulled out and the woman did
not return. With the NOW screaming
child in my arms and beads Of per-
SEPARATION trickling down my desper-
ate cOuntenance, searched the entire
train In vain endeavor to f1Dd "manl-
lnA"
At the station just ninety miles fur
Their the overjoyed conductor came
running into my coach with a telegram
from mamma addressed to haby's new
papa" And at the next stop, baby's
uncles aunts, and cousins were there
to receive it.-Chicago Tribune.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13

Washington, May 10-The fight for control of the
democratic party in full swing today with President
Wilson determined to get expression from the people
ratification of the treaty without reservations.
This the Interpretation politicians here today put
President Wilson's letter to the democratic organza
ton Of Oregon, made public at the White House.
The president demanded that the party make itself
the uncompromlslng champion OF the nations honor
which ne construes going record for unqualified
acceptance of the Versailles treaty.
A quick response expected from the Bryan group
which wants to keep the treaty out of the campaign
The letter to the Oregon democrats is the first to force
nomination OF a Wilson man. in the San Francisco
venton According to information here it is considered
certain President Wilson will send the treaty back to
the senate but will put the question before the American
voters to be settled at the polls
President Wilson wrote his letter in reply to a tele-
gram from G. E. Hamaker chairman of the Multonmah
county democratic committee who asked whether it
imperative that delegates favoring treaty ratification
should be sent to the convention.
The reply of President Wilson in part follows:
Il think it imperative that the party should at once
proclaim itself the uncompromsing champion of the
TONS honor and the advocate Of everything that the Unit
ed States do in the service of humanity That should
therefore endorse and support the Versailles treaty and
condemn the Lodge reservations utterly inconsistent
with the nations honor and standing the worlds leader
which had been established and which all the free peoples
of the world including the great powers themselves had
shown themselves ready to Welcome.
II IS time that the party should avoW means to try
to apply moral and Christian principles to the problems
OF the world to accomplish social political and nterna-
tiona reforms and is not daunted by any Of the difficulties
it has to contend with Let prove to league
ciaes in that anyway the great majority party of the
nationhe party which expresses the true hopes and pu
poses Of the people Of the countntends keep faith
with them in peace as well as in war;
They gave their treasures and best blood and every
valuable in order not merely to beat Germany but to affect
settlement and bring out arrangements of peace which
they have tried to formulate in the treaty. They are
entitled to support in this settlement and in arrange
ments which they have sriven for The League of Ma
tons is the hope of the world enabling the great fighting
nations of the world to say to the enemy that their
object in proposing peace to establish general assoca~
ton Of nations for the purpose of ording mutual guar
anees of political independence for territorial negrities
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
DADDY',} nFNNG
E3EARY ALFU
%r1ARY @AHAnl BONNER
O. 40 AUTHOR
DANGEROUS TURTLES.

"rll have you know that l am q
dangerous turtle said the Matalnata
turtle. when I smile it means that
I'm really to attack some creature.
There are some silly people and ami
nais who smile and who mean 1t to be
very pleasant
"That to my mind is utterly foolish.
Why bother to smile unless it's for
something worth while something
dangerous and dreadful and fierce"
"Gracious." said the snake-necked
turtle in the ZOO, "you'rc fierce one,
but | have a neck which can reach out
-ah, can't it reach out !"
"What does it reach ont fof' asked
the Matamata turtle.
"Whatever I wish 1t to get, or what
answered the snake-necked turtle. 81
come from Australia but find ZOO life
is all right
'"rhr thing that I cannot under
stand" said the Matalnata turtle. "and
I don't suppose I ever will be able to
understand it. is that creatures who
smile do so to be nice ] do SO in one
way to be nice.
ayes, when l smile l am nice to my
self. for love to be dangerous and
wild. So, there is some sense in being
nice when one smiles. But only to
oneself. only to the Matamata turtle
in truth.
"Ah, I've heard Of creatures who bow
to each other and who smile SWeet}y
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
Test of Civilization,

The civilization Of q state is esti-
mated by the way it treats it's chill
dren. The people woo ignore the rights
of the little ones IRE today reckoned
as savages. and the higher up in the
scale we go, the more important is
childhood regarded. You girls should
be thankful from y ur hearts that you
are living ia a 80 untry which leads
IN this respect, rs In many others, in
the care of its ch.1dPen.- Girls Com
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
What Did He Mean?

She-lrnmiSc me that when we
marry we shall live somewhere near
mother. so that she can slip over.
He-Nell. we might take that
house on the edge of the cliff, and
then l should love her to slip over.
London Opinion.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13
"Mark Him Duty"

Wealthy Patient-Oh, doctor, have
such bad cold. can't &c to the Office
this morning. Can't you do something
for it?
Ex-Army MedicO Gust out)-Get out
of here Don't you see I'm busy? There
isn't anything the matter with you,
you gold brick.-The Home Sector.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13

Major D. S. Richie and I. j. Moe
will leave tomorrow morning for Mi
not to be on hand for the big anti
Townley convention which meets in
that city Wednesday. Other delegates
will 20 Tuesday night.
Arizona republican., 1920-02-26
ASKS DIS|NTERESTED PEOPLE ID CONSIDER
 Us. DRINK PROBLEM

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Feb. 25.- '-The drink problem must be considered anew in all it's bearings by some en- tireiy disinterested body" said Hugh Fox. New York, secretary of the United States Brewers association, f1l an address to the members of that or ganization, meeting here today.
 "Such a body" he continued. should be non-partisan and unsectarian. It should be given definite authority by the president of the United States or by congress, or both, to study the queS- ton in all its bearings and in the light of experience in the most progressive countries. not for the purpose Of nnak- ing an academic report, but to decide what is the most practical temperance method.
 Such a body should include em- ployers of labor. representatives of labor, men of affairs, together with some of the ablest lawyers, psycholo- gists and physicians. Under competent and disinterested leadership. such a commission should be able in very short time to develop a plan of acton which would appeal to the common sense of all reasonable people"
 c. w. Fiegenspan, president of the association in an address, said the brewers would use every legal and constitutional means to keep that lib- erty and that property tha* is guaran- teed to us by the constiNtion. In the meantime, he said, the so-called eighteenth amendment will be obeyed faithfully as long as it is accounted part of the constitution.
Arizona republican., 1920-02-26
Non-Partisan League
 Has Tri-State Plans

GREAT FALLS. Mont. Feb. 25- Plans of the National Non-Partisan league for the coming national cleo tions provide for entrance into Wash ington and Idaho, A. c. Townley. presi- dent of the league. announced here to- day in an address before the annual convention of the Montana state fed eration of labor.
 He declared the league will carry Minnesota this fall.''
 The cards are stacked in Minnesota and we stacked them he said. T don't know whether we shall carry Montana or not this year. but if not this year we will at the next election"
 The Non Partisan league is at the head of a national movement, MT. Townley said. pledged to a law pro viding that the war debt of the United States shall be paid "by conscripted wealth he declared.
Arizona republican., 1920-02-26
PAGE TWO

Major Dalrypmle had left they Will
 e dug up again"
 Iron River was quiet tonight, after ne of the most hectic days in it's his ory. The federal officers left Tor -hicago at 6:30 o'clock this evening. 5ut few persons were at the station O see them off.
 Major Dalrymple announced before .eaving that he would return with Mir. Gaylord if he learned the assist ant prohibition commissioner already vas en route to Iron River.
 Otherwise Major Dalrymple said he would continue on to Washington and ,ay all the facts concerning the cases here before MT. Kramer. He denied hat he intended to offer his resigna- lion unless the support ke had asked Tor was forthcoming
 Prosecutor McDonoUgh made no effort to have his warrant for Major Dalrypmle's arrest served He de- clared he was waiting for the arrival of District Attorney Walker. when will demand full and complete in Nestigation of this affair and of Major Dalrymple's part in giving the United States the impression that Iron county is in revolt and is inhap- ited by Savages'