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CARSON CITY DAILY APPEAL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1919
The Carson City Daily Appea
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PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE NEVADA
PRINTING COMPANY
T n VAN DEVORT Editor and Manager
Entered as Matter of the Second Class at the Postoffice at Carson City, Nevada,
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879
ington, Nashville, San Francisco and Kansas City. The influenza ; end. We are hearing the economic
death rate for forty-six chief cities, as shown by government reports, cataclysm. I hope the conditions to
was 5.9 per 1,000, and if it is assumed that, the same rate prevailed i be imposed upon us will not go be
in the towns and country districts, the epidemic caused the death in'yond what are just. The people are
the United btates ot approximately 500,000 persons. . ! ignorant of their crime, and would not
That is to say, bpanish influenza has killed nine times as many
Americans as were killed in the war, and during the comparatively
brief period of its ravages it has exterminated a population equiva
lent to that of one of the country's great cities one larger than
Wflshinsrton and less than Baltimore. As rnsn(ito Wo virnldncp and
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its baffling nature, not only has it proved fatal in greater degree to
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One year by Carrier - - goo! the robust, but the death rate in the array, as stated by General
Gorgas, has been nearly five times as largo as among civilians in New
York City.
Everything considered, Spanish influenza has been the most
virulent and mysterious visitation of disease that has ever afflicted
the modern world. It has had all the aspects of an old-time plague.
Before the end of its second decade the twentieth century has had to
endure not only the most destructive war m all history, but also one
of the most disastrous of epidemics.
One year by Mail
Carson City Daily Appeal is the real live advertising medium of this section
as evidenced by its carrying a larger amount of advertising than any paper in
the city.
MR. WILSON'S TRIUMPH
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exaggerated punishment."
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TONOPAH OUTPUT
From the New York Times
Americans who regretted the president's decision to absent him
self from the country in these days of domestic need and urgency,
and the Times was one of those which regretted it, will not only
cheerfully admit the greatness of his achievements at the Paris con
ference, but will reioice in their recognition of his now amply dem
onstrated fitness for the work he undertook. Mr. Wilson's presence
at the conference has not been a cause of discord or of jealousy; it
has not been resented. It was seen from the beginning that he went
there not to dominate, as his critics said, but to unite the nations. lie
has been marvelously successful in bringing into agreement men who
represented interests that seemed to be conflicting. His influence in
this work has prevailed because all the other nations represented
looked upon him as a wise and impartial friend, interested only in
making justice and the welfare of peoples the basis of the decisions
reached. His triumph in securing unanimous approval of the league
of nations constitution is one in which everv American may take
pride.
Mr.AVilson has a dreadful wav with his critics. lie does not
reply to them, he does worse. They rail at him as an idealist, a vi
sionary, a man without practical objectives, or if he have them, that
thev arp impossible of acceptance: and they obligingly point out the
things he ought to do. Mr. Wilson calmly continues his great labors,
and presently lays his critics flat and leaves them helpless either by
doing the very things they had proposed, and doing in a manner
better than they ever dreamed of, or else by attaining his ends in a
way that robs their objections of every point. We are confident
that Mr. Beck, for instance, must regret the violence of the language
he used in his Lincoln Day address when he said that Mr. Wilson's
foreign policy throughout "has been ti black stain of dishonor upon
the American people"; that "his principles have been a crazy patch
work of contradictions," consistent only in one idea, that the Avar
"must end in a peace without victory." If this be just criticism,
then Mr. Wilson has as his accomplices in dishonoring the American
people, in constructing "his crazy patchwork of contradictions," and
in bringing the war to an end without victory, some fourteen nations
of the earth, including the greatest civilized nations. Such criticism
recoils disastrously upon him who utters it. Not even the natural
desire of a great political party to find or create "issues" for the
coming presidential election can give lodgment in the minds and
hearts of the people to this estimate of Mr. Wilson's distinguished
service.
The day when the project of the covenant of peace was approved
unanimously in Paris was one of the greatest in the world's history.
The people of all the nations understand that; the people of Amer
ica, with their horror of war, cannot be fooled about it, they cannot
be misled into any small and narrow view of its momentous promise.
In bringing the plan of the league into form and acceptance, Mr.
Wilson has played a master role, every American feels that in his
heart, every American understands that he brought great abilities,
extraordinary qualities of tact and persuasion and a profound un
derstanding of the need of all the peoples to the performance of his
task. The American people will be impatient of any petty or parti
san .obstruction put in the way of the acceptance of this covenant of
the nations as their public system of law and justice.
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THE GERMAN PEOPLE AT SCHOOL
TIMES HAVE CHANGED
A press dispatch from The Hague, showing how the "mighty
are brought low," follows:
Baron von der Lancken, former German Civil Governor of Belgium,
waited in line two hours with a group of unwashed refugees to obtain
his food cards. Upon his application for them at the police station, he
failed in his efforts to obtain the preferential treatment of a "distin
guished visitor." It was von der Lancken to whom Brand Whitlock de
livered his vain appeal to save Edith Cavell, the English nurse, from
execution in 1915. When governor of Belgium it was necessary to give
two days' notice for an interview, after which one had to struggle
through a bodyguard of haughtily suspicious underlings.
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The Tonopah Belmont sent to the
mill 418s tons, Tonopah Mining 1,050
tons, Tonopah Extension 2,136 tons,
West End 819 tons, Montana 357 tons.
Tonopah Divide 210 tons, MacNamara
210 tons, Midway 53 tons, North Star
55 tons and miscellaneous 55 tons, mak
ing the total production for the week
7,130 tons, the estimated value being
This valuation is calculated
on the gross milling value of the ore.
Miner.
After Gov. Henry Allen of Kansas, the eminent Y. M. C. A.
stratagist, had finished explaining the military mistakes of the Battle
of the Argonne to the senate committee. Senator Kirby asked : "What
is the purpose of these disclosures? We won the fight, didn't we?"
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been talked clear back to the Rhine.
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DAILY HEALTH TALKS
Where Most Sickness Begins
and Ends
BY FRANKLIN DUANE, M. D.
It can be said broadly that most human
ills begin in the stomach and end in the
stomach. Good digestion means good
health, and poor digestion means bad
health. The minute your stomacn tails to
properly dispose of the food you eat,
troubles begin to crop out in various forms.
Indigestion and dyspepsia are the com
monest forms, but thin, impure blood,
headaches, backaches, pimples, blotches,
dizziness, belching, coated tongue, weak
ness, poor appetite, sleeplessness, coughs,
colds and bronchitis are almost as common.
Tlierj is but one way to have good health,
and that is to put and keep your stomach
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take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
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alcohol so that these remedies always
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If piles are torturing you, get ana use
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Marshal Foch's successive hardenings of the terms of the armis
tice as it is extended, says the New York World, are at last begin
ning to convince the German people that they have been beaten in
the war and thoroughly beaten. Maximilian Harden at home is now
instructing the German people that it was not the Entente which
started the war, but their own government and kaiser, who in par
ticular is responsible for the "methods of war for which the world
will never pardon him.''
Mr. Hardin's scheme of instruction is less forcefully persuasive
than Marshal Foch's, but it is likely in the end to have effects almost
as salutary. The German people were deceived from the start and
systematically deceived. . Their government, he says in effect, lied
to them about the invasion of Belgium as in anticipation of what
France and England would have done. It lied to them when it told
them that Germany had been attacked and was aeting on the defen
sive. It lied to them in every step taken to keep alive their hatred
of peoples in resistance to their government's wicked aggressions.
Thirty years of. militaristic teaching had poisoned their youth and its
spirit had soaked into the whole body of them, and a mind to the
truth was no longer in them.
It is a hard school in which the German people are now being
compelled to learn. The instruction is becoming painful. But it is
an instruction in truth and no more in lies, and a false philosophy of
life, and it is truth alone and a full realization of it that can set the
German people free.
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. ABOLISH THE PRIMARIES
The following, in line with suggestions recently made by the
Appeal, is taken from the Tonopah Bonanza:
This is the time for the legislature to once more revamp the old
convention form of nominating candidates for political offices. The
primary system has proved one of the most cumbersome forms of ex
pressing the wishes of the electors and the result has been that some
of the best material for candidates has not come to the front for the
reason that the most capable men for office have frequently declined
to allow the use of their names on account of the expense involved.
Under the convention system the candidates are placed on equal
footing and, when the party choice is made there is no further deter
mination within the party. The race lies between the men chosen by
the respective parties and a single tour of the county or state, as the
case may be, will suffice to establish the popularity of the contenders. .
Idaho has gone back to the convention system after giving the
-primary system a ten-year trial -and there is no repining over the
change. The primary instead of helping to the nomination of men
favored by a majority of voters has been made a machine for the ex
clusion of first class political timber.
A MODERN EXAMPLE OF A MEDIAEVAL PLAGUE
Further official data showing the ravages of Spanish influenza
in this country are contained in the report of the chief actuary of
the New York Life Insurance company. Due to the epidemio, the
company's ratio of actual losses incurred to expected losses rose to 95
for the year 1918 and to 188 for the last three months, as against an
average ratio of 72 for the five-year period, including war losses
during three and one-half years.
The highest death rate for cities' was in Philadelphia, which lost
eight persons out of every 1,000 of population, and the cities next
in order of mortality were Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, "Wash-
The 1918 registrations show a total
of 5,945.442, or one car to every eigh
teenth person in the United States. This
means that one-third of the population
of the United States could ride in
automobiles while the others looked on.
This means that 25,000,000 of the people
of this country could be transported
100 miles in a single day. Every per
son ought to be glad that they live in a
country where such a feat as this could
be. possible, because this condition
broadens the mind, educates the child
ren and creates prosperity.
If the government or any individual
or corporation would set out to buy all
the cars in the United States he would
have to gather together $11,890,884,000
or -more than was raised in the last two
Liberty bond issues.
If he were to pay this money out in
silver dollars he would have to have
74,300 five-ton trucks to transport it
from one place to another.
One seemingly unimportant part of
the motor car, or in fact two, are pis
ton rings and spark plugs. Neverthe
less 200,000,000 piston rings were made
and sold in this country in 1918, and
along with these went 8,000,000 spark
plugs.
To produce the 1,124,666 motor ve
hicles made in this country in 1918, ex
clusive of accessory and tire manufac
tures, there were required 649 manu
facturing institutions, or a total of
more than 75,000 employees.
And, to sell this great volume of
cars and accessories 47,883 dealers
gave their time and money. This
branch of the industry required the
services of over 200,000 individuals
which, combined with those employed
in the manufacture of motor cars and
accessories would be able to fully equip
20 divisions of the American army.
The total industrial power developed
in this country in 1918 for manufactur
ing purposes was 11,000,000 h. p., quite
a few horses to be sure, but small when
compared to that developed by automo
biles in this country, which is conser
vatively estimated at 100,000,000 h. p.
Instead of hay to feed these horses,
2,378,176,800 gallons of gasoline were
consumed through the carburetors of
motor cars in 1918, at an approximate
expense of $500,000,000.
We look at the tires of an automo
bile and think of the four or five only
on each machine, but when you con
sider that last year 29,727,218 tires
were used the figures prove almost
staggering.
These tires if placed side by side
would form a tube 32 inches in diam
eter and 1100 miles long, or one long
enough to extend along the whole
coast of California.
When you review these figures you
naturally feel a good deal the same
as when you stand out under the
bright starlit heavens and feel how in
finitesimally small you are compared
with the whole world and the billions
of stars in the sky above it.
The automobile industry has risen
from obscurity to second of import
ance in size, capital and employes
amongst the great industries of the
world today.
There is practically nothing in the
organic or inorganic world that does
not enter into the manufacture of a
motor car. For besides iron, copper
and aluminum there are numerous sup
plies of sulphur, chrome, nickel, van
adium, tungsten and in fact innumera
ble metals.
There are leather, cotton, hair, wood,
celluloid and coal and vegetable dies
of every description.
There is perhaps no one other com
pletely manufactured article that in
volves so many individual elements as
does the motor car. Its manufacture
draws these supplies from every part
of the civilized world.
ECONOMIC DISASTER
IS SEEN BY HARDEN
LONDON, Feb. 27. Ernest Smith,
correspondent of the Daily News at
Brussels, publishes an 'interview with
Maximilian Harden in continuation of
a series of articles entitled '"Germany's
new view of looking at things."
Harden said: "Germany was slowly
turning toward a more constitutional
regime. I do not think if the war had
not occurred we should ever have seen
a republic. Still what has happened
shows how shallow were the roots of
our monarchy."
"Is there a chance of its restora
tion?" asked the interviewer.
"It is not impossible! I think, how
ever, it would only be as the result of
very grave disorders that such restora
tion would be possible."
"What will be the sentiment of Ger
many if the Allies demand the extra
dition and trial of the kaiser?"
"I think the Allies would make
mistake. The kaiser's present punish
ment is so cruel as his worst enemy
could desire. ' Further, in a question
such as responsibility for the war, it is
very difficult to establish sufficiently
the precise facts to obtain a convic
tion. 11 is the thirty years of the reign
of William II. which will carry respon
sibility for the war. The kaiser in the
end was drawn into it himself per
haps against his own sentiment. But
once in the war, it was he who kept
alive the. national hatred; it was he
who authorized the methods of war
for which the world will never pardon
us. Believe me it is terrible painful
for me to have to admit this."
"But no real protest against these
methods was ever raised in Germany,"
persisted the interviewer.
"Poor people," sighed Herr Harden,
"they did not know, and don't know
now. They believed in a coalition
against Germany. They did not un
derstand that England, France and
Russia had no other object than to pro
tect themselves against , the adventur
ous designs of the kaiser.. They afe
still certain that if Germany had not
invaded Belgium,' England and France
were ready to do so. Personally, I
do not think that France ever thought
of such a thing, and if she had, Eng
land would not have permitted it. But
it was the old idea of the kaiser's. In
one of his outbursts he once said to
Leopold II.: 'If there is a war I shall
go through Belgium. If she resists,
Belgium will not exist any longer.'
"The future is menacing," concluded
Herr Harden, "the fall is so great,
that I do not see where it is going to
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PRICES IN RENO HIGH THEY SAY
Copied from Reno Gazette of Wednesday, February 12, 1919
CARSON CITY, Feb. 12. What some members of the joint com
mittee on ways and means and claims of both houses assert is a surpris
ing condition relative to the enmnarative msr -f frw-.H rr-.H,i-tc in Rvnn
and Carson was presented by the committee's investigation of the cause
of the deficiencies existing in various state departments, to take care of
v which a uiu carrying an appropriation- ot over S- MMMI ic nH,nT in tht
assembly.
When Warden Henrich appeared before the joint committee to ex
plain the deficiency existing in the prison fund he produced data show
ing that cost of material used in conducting the affairs of the prison
had advanced 40 per cent during the two-year period for which the ap
propriations made by the legislature of 1917 were made. The unrHm
s purchased his supplies from Carson City merchants.
f Dr. T 1 .Sullivan ciinprititpnHnt r( ' tti Qtito Ur:,-.! f.,- Vf t
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Diseases, was before the committee Monday and proved to the satis
faction of the members of the committee that prices on supplies for his
institution had increased 100 per cent during the last two years. Dr.
Sullivan explained to the committee that he purchased his supplies in
Reno.
"I cannot see any reason forthe difference in prices in Reno and
Carson on the same commodities," said one member of the committee
yesterday. "If anything prices in Reno should be a shade lower than in
Carson. In all probability the prices charged the 'invkidual consumers
in Reno would be somewhat higher than those charged Dr. Sullivan be
cause he buys in bulk, while the individual consumer buys at retail
prices."
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