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CARSON CITY DAILY APPEAL, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1917 The Carson City Daily Appeal PUBLISHED EVERY EVENIXO, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE NEVADA PRINTING COMPANY Entered as Matter of the Second Class at the Postoffice at Carson City, Nevada, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 T. D. VAN DEVORT - - Editor and Manager TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One Year In Advance by Carrier - - 12.00 One Year in Advance by Mail ------ 9.00 Carson City Daily Appeal is the roal live advertising medium of this section as evidenced by its carrying a larger amount of advertising than any paper in the city MONDAY EVENING APRIL 23, 1917 LET THE WATER COMPANY SHOW A LITTLE PATRIOTISM In these days of retrenchment, when everylKdy, in view of impending danger and possible food shortage, is doing his utmost to save and conserve and also at the suggestion of state and government authorities is asked to put out every available foot of land to garden and fruit, is it not rather presump tuous for a water company, whose product and support are absolutely indis pcnsilile in the accomplishment of the things to be desired, to demand that their rates of service be increased? Yet this is one of the conditions that exists in Carson City today. The water company, which probably no single year has ever gone behind a dollar in giving service to the people of Carson, last year fell off a little in its average dividends because it spent quite a little money in making certain needed improvements. Taking that as its predication it has gone before the Public Service Commission and asked a very material increase in rates. Under normal conditions, in times when people were making money, when there was no danger as now of being called upon by government to pay tribute on hundreds of daily necessities, and when it appears there is a general inclination on the part of the people to plant and raise garden truck in order to cut down household expenses, but are prohibited from so doing by increased cost of water, there might be some reason for the company's action. But making their demand at this inauspicious moment, when a wave of patriotism is making its way over the entire country, and when the people generally are preparing for all kinds of sacrifices, it comes with ill-grace and poor judgment to insist on the demands made. STAYING AT HOME Jane Addams wants the professional pacifists formed into an exempted list, excused from war because they do not believe in war. When the Quakers held such views from religious convictions there was some reason for excusing them, as long as there were enough others to go. But the greatest of the Quaker poets, Whittier, did not scorn to use his powers of song to celebrate the deeds of those who went to the front and fought for human liberty in the Civil War. Jane Addams is fundamentally wrong. The pacifists should take pot luck with the rest, when it comes to the draft for services, and for that reason the draft is better than the volunteer system, for it makes it possible for all to render the services that may be required. Let it not be made true that the men of virile fighting blood, the true blooded patriots, do all the fighting to save the national household for the pacifists to enjoy its blessings. It is not well that they all stay at home and continue to breed their kind, for we might get too many of that kind for the nation to give virile expression to its life. We can endure a few, especially among the women like Jane Addams, but we do not want too many of them that is, if by a pacifist we understand one who is so meek that he would let a spiked heel be placed upon his neck without a protest and, may be, with a "thank you" to his oppressors. A virile human being should have only one cheek to be smitten and he should allow no one to smite that more than once hardly once. Goldfield Tribune. OYSTERS! OYSTERS! Eagle brand fresh oysters by the can; extra fine and large. Kelley & Lindsey. MIGHT BE FOLLOWED IN THIS STATE The state commissioner of education of New York has fixed April 26 as the day upon which President Wilson's war message to congress shall be read in the public schools. He has directed also that patriotic exercises, closing with the singing of "The Star Spangled Banner," be held in connection with the reading. He says : "It is peculiarly fitting that this day be chosen, for it is the anniversary of the historic day in the year 1777 when Lafayette embarked at Bordeaux to come to America to offer in a spirit of unselfish devotion and self-sacrifice his services, his fortune, and if need be his life, to the cause of liberty in our own land. It is essential that all keep clearly in mind and deep in their conscious ness the purposes, devoid of selfish motives or desires for aggrandizement, which have led us as a people to enter this war, purposes that have had noble expression through this message of our president, who was for many years himself a teacher." APPROVES OF APPOINTMENT The piesi throughout the state almost unanimously Approves of the ap pointments Governor Boyle made for the Tax Commission and in some in stances he is highly complimented for the judgment he displayed in naming the new members. Following is an extract from the H-.imbrblt Star, apptoving the appointment of Mr. Reinhart, and it is typical of the comment of other papers : "The appointment of Mr. Reinhart of Winnemucca as a member of the Tax Commission is an especially good selection. He is a business man and banker of large experience, thoroughly conversant with the conditions in this state, its resources and general property valuations. Practical, competent men are need ed on this important commission and no better selection than Mr. Reinhart could have been made. His appointment is also a long deferred recognition of the rights of this county to representation in official circles of the state." oo APPLIES TO NEVADA, TOO George H. Hecke, State Horticultural Commissioner of California, who is an eminently practical as well as shrewdly far-sighted man, sounded an appeal to the California farmers to "plant, plant, plant," after returning from a con sultation of the food committee of the state council of defense in Berkeley. Mr. Hecke predicts the most serious food shortage that the world has ever known and loils down the reasons to the few following lines which one need not be an economist to grasp: "Money will be the most plentiful thing we have, but we cannot eat money. The time is not far distant when the citizens will be able to buy only a few pounds of flour, sugar and other necessities of life. Europe depends largely upon the United States for supplies and the majority of the agricultural pro ducers of Europe have turned consumers as the result of the war. Little or nothing has been produced in Europe for the last two years. If peace were declared tomorrow the people of Europe would have to look to the United States for the next two or three years for food." oo AT WHAT AGE SHOULD THEY MARRY Authorities seem to be very divided as to what age men and women should be permitted to marry, judging from the manner in which the mariageable ages vary in different countries. In Austria a "man" and "woman" are supposed to be capable of marrying and conducting a home of their own from the age of 14. In Germany the age must be at least 18 years. In France the man must be 18 and the woman 14, and in Belgium the same. In Spain the husband must have passed his four teenth year and the woman her twelfth. In Greece the man must be at least fourteen summers and a woman twelve. In Portugal a boy of 14 is considered marriageable and a woman of 12. In Russia and Saxony a youth must refrain from matrimony till he is 18 years and the woman until she is 16. SOME THINGS MOVIES HAVE DONE They have given the residence section of the cities social centers that have promoted old time neighlorliness and actually made for better civic ideals. They have given the common people a state of good music. In fact they have been the means of furnishing the only musical entertainment worth while that hundreds of thousands have ever heard. They are the only means the poor can ever have to enjoy the sightseeing delights of travel. They bring the ends of the earth to a man's home and teach him of the world's wonders. They aid science, art, industry, education, lalor, and they have added largely to the well being of the masses and to the joy of life. They have created an absolutely new industrial art employing, inclusive of the distributing and exhibiting branches, hundreds of thousands of people, calling into being new vocations, new artistry, new professions. They are creating slowly but surely a new literature in pictures and they are 'calling back from the past the life, "manners and customs of nations long since forgotten of all men save alone the learned. They have sown less of iniquity and more of virtue than any other form of amusement and their appeal has been worldwide. A Patagonian savage can understand a picture story while he cannot begin to comprehend a painting or a group of statuary. They have rejoiced the heart of the prisoner and brought to his cell the wonders of the world and pictured lessons of a religious life. They have taught botany, surgery, horticulture, dairying, bee culture, biology, history, mathematics, chemistry, psychology and scores of other scientific subjects better than books or lectures. They have furnished the masses with the first form of amusement ever devised combining cheapness, excellence and universal appeal. 4 i iip HE EDGEWATER" Ad open rootiM. sew flding, kw furniture, hot and cold wilr and other modern conveniences. t Ocean Park, California (Wear Venice) MRS. C. FISHER, formerly assis tant housekeeper at the Waldorf Astoria. New York. Proprietor. Rooms $1.00 and Upward Quality Backed Up With Style You can have both, guaranteed, at a known medium price. StylcplusfiT Clothcsgll Tbe mm pnee ! mum ovcs All wool fabrics and expert tailoring make quality that cannot be denied. Volume and scientific manufacturing make it possible at the pric that still remains the same, $1 7, through out the nation. THE EMPORIUM IAN EVIDENCE That you are careful of your personal appearance is a CREASE IN Y01R TROUSERS For Your Cleaning, Pressing I and Repairing I COME TO US WM. BRUNN j The Tailor fcJhJh afc afc -fc A a. -- Jfa mmi A JU -m- -m- -m- -m- -m- - aata f TTTTTT V V VTTt TtTTTTTT VT V YOU read the Ji other fellow's ad You are reading thfis one. That should convince you that advertising in these columns is a profitable proposition that it will bring business to your store. The fact that the other fellow advertises is probably the reason he is getting more business than is falling to you. Would it not be well to give the other fellow a chance To Read Your Ad. in These Columns ? Virginia & Truckec Railway General Offices, Carson City, Nevada A. M. Ardery, General Manager. E. B. Yerington, G. F. & P. A. See Route No. 69, Candrian's Guide liOOAL Pass. p. m. 1:45 2:20 2:40 3:00 3:35 4:15 4:56 5:47 6:00 p.m. :00 4:. 4:35 No. 2 a. m. 8:35 9:00 9:16 9:27 9:50 10:00 10:35 11:07 11:17 a. m. 9:58 10-10 M:J8 a. m. Mis 0 11 17 21 31 31 41 50 52 Jan. 2, 1917 Leave Arrive RENO Steamboat Washoe Franktown A rrive CARSON Leave Leave CARSON Arrive Mound House Gold Hill Arrive VIRGINIA Leave 0 4 15 Leave CARSON Arrive Stewart (Indian School Arrive Minden Leave No.l p. in. 7:30 7:04 6:51 6:40 6:15 6-.05 5:40 5:11 5:00 p. m. 12:01 11:48 11:20 a. m. I-iOCAL Pass. a. m. 11:40 11:13 10:58 10:44 10:00 9:20 8:40 7:56 7:45 pan. 5:45 5:31 5:10 Carson Carson City Valley Bank j Nevada T Capital, hilly paid. .150,000.00 OFFICERS Ge t. Wingfield, Pres. F. M. Lee, Vice-Pre H. G. Humphrey, V-Pres. H. C. Ciapp, Cashier G. B.Spradling, Ast. C'shr. DIRECTORS Geo. Wingfield F. M. Lee H. G. Humphrey H. C. Clapp Chas. J. Rulison This bank will receive deposits, buy or sell foreign drafts, make loan i and do a general banking business. Interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum will be paid on time Certificates of Dy posits and Sav ings Accounts. United States Depository for Postal Savings Funds. Do You Smoke? If you do, of course you want the best to be had for your money. A cigar, a pipe, smoking tobacco, or cigarettes, the best of each, may be found at H. J. VAUGHAN'S SMOKERY OPPOSITE POSTOFFICI Billiard Parlor In Connection Fire Insurance James M. Leonard, Agent Caison Valley Bank Bldg. XT , parson, evana Phone 5-6-1 All trains run daily. Connecting at Reno with Southern Pacific Co., at Mound House with Southern Pacific Co., and at Minden with stages for Genoat Walley's Springs, Woodfords, Markleeville, Coleville and Topaz. 44 M444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 SPRING SUITINGS Our samples for Spring Suits are now arriving and we are ready to take your measure. Remember we are agents for two of America's standard clothing houses. Our line of gent's furnishings is as complete as ever. ;i JOS. SMYTH Company Leading Democratic Paper of Western Nevada mm n My Latent Telegraphic and Local news. Member of the United Press family, which furnishes all Domestic and Foreign happenings up to 3 o'clock every afternoon. Circulation all over the State. The Appeal publishes all Nevada Supreme Court Decisions in full: is therefore invaluable to the legal fraternity fM 11111