WATER CARNIVAL
' (By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO. March 16. — A
tentative program of the great Seat
tle water carnival to take place on
July 5, 6 and 7, has been prepared
and plans rapidly are maturing. All
manner of craft from every section
of the country will be Invited to par
ticipate. The feature will be an Alas
kan cruise, the fleet to depart from
Seattle on July 7, the last day of the
racing carnival. This cruise is said
to be the longest ever attempted by
a combined flotilla of pleasure craft.
The entire program is in the hands
of the Seattle Yacht Club.
Among the events listed are cruises
through the Lake Washington canal.
On Lake Union, Lake Washington and
the sound there will be warship, hy
droaeroplane and submarine maneuv
ers; speed boat racing for cash prizes,
races between airplanes and speed
boats; sailboat races for the Sir Tho
mas Lipton trophy between boats
from European and American yacht
clubs against the Sir Tom, the Seattle
boat, at present holder of the trophy,
and many other events.
The first challenge for the Sir
Thomas Lipton cup has been received.
It comes from Captain Fritz Olsen,
Jr., of Christiania, Norway. His boat
will be shipped to Puget sound. The
deed of gift of the Sir Thomas Lip
ton trophy bars any boat not a mem
ber of a Puget Sound or Pacific coast
yacht club. Captain Olsen plans enter
ing his boat under the colors of an eli
gible American yacht club.
For the accommodation of those pre
sent who do not care to brave the long
Alaska cruise on the smaller pleasure
craft, reservations will be taken on a
large excursion steamer, which will
accompany the yachts. Applications
for accommodations already are com
ing in.
Approximately 150 men have an
swered the call for track and field
competition at the University of
Washington. Coach Vander Veer has
been putting the candidates through
only the lightest kind of work to start
and it will not be until he can get
his men out on the new track that he
will be able to determine the quality
of his new aspirants for athletic hon
ors. Several of last season's veterans
are lost to the team ,and unless some
of the new man develop into varsity
calibre, the early season prospects for
a winning team are said to be discour
aging. The new running track which
still is under construction rapidly is
being completed, and is expected to
be in shape when the weather per
mits of the regular outdoor work
outs.
With two weeks of the preliminary
training season behind them, the six
clubs of the Pacific coast baseball j
league are beginning to take on form.
As yet there has been no time to de
termine with any certainty just liow
good the candidates for the various
teams are, and there has been no radi
cal change of opinion as to the rela
tive merits of the teams as they have
already been figured out on paper by
critics. Little opinion is being ex
pressed as to the playing qualities of
the new men in the various squads,
because it is well known that prelim
inary practice forms no criterion of
a player’s worth after he gets into
the regular schedule. Youngsters,
who, in the past, have shown up well
in the early season training have gone
to pieces before the crowds, and in the
excitement of a pennant race.
The Los Angeles squad continues to
hold its place as the first choice and
is generally expected to enter the
playing season as the most formidable
combination in the league. With the
Portlanders warming up in Honolulu,
only meager knowledge of their pro
gress is available, but it is thought
not unlikely that Manager McCredie
will pick up an island player or two
before he returns to the mainland. He
has a reputation for being able to pick
out promising material among the
youngsters.
Fred "Dutch Schroeder, captain
elect of the Washington State College
baseball nin^, will not participate in
all contests this season with either
conference rivals. Schroeder intends
to enter Notre Dame next autumn in
order to be eligible for the 1918 nine
there. His absence from the state col
lege lineup this spring, together with
that of Pitchers Moss and Hartmann,
means the loss of the battery which
last year was considered by many as
the best in northwestern collegiate
circles.
SAN FRABOThILOREN
SAVE LARGE SUM
(By Associated Press) .
SAN FRANCISCO. March 16. — The
school children of San Francisco are
thrifty. Their savings accounts in
the Public School Savings Bank totals
$323,289, which was deposited by a
youthful army of 18,761 in 86 grammar
and primary schools In the 3lty.
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Wastefulness One of the Great Weaknesses
By WILLIAM C. REDF1ELD, Secretary of Commerce
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E are the wasters of the world. It would not be untruthful to take
the initials I. W. W., with which we are familiar, and attach
them to ourselves as meaning the INDUSTRIAL WASTERS
OF THE WORLD.
This wastefulness is one of our great industrial weaknesses. We
cannot, compete and we ought not to expect to compete with a nation
like France or Germany so long as wo are wasteful and they are thrifty.
It is not a question of law. It is a matter of character. We usually
ignore science in industry and are apt to talk about a practical man as
better than a scientific one.
Meanwhile Germany builds up great industries wholly based on sci
entific research, and England organizes a special government committee
on industrial research. Many, indeed, of our individual concerns do the
same. But I am sorry to say they are the exceptions rather than the
rule. There are pitiful examples coming to our knowledge constantly of
losses through lack of knowledge of the truths science can teach.
INDUSTRY MUST BE WEDDED TO SCIENCE IN THIS COUNTRY IF
IT IS TO COMPETE WITH NATION8 WHERE SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY
GO HAND IN HAND.
The worker by the rule of thumb who does not know, but merely
thinks he knows, cannot compete, ought not to compete, with the man
whose knowledge is precise and accurate.
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♦ SAVE THE BABIES. ♦
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♦ (By United Press) ♦
♦ These are authentic quotations ♦
♦ from the pamphlet on babies by ♦
♦ I)r. L. Kmmett Holt of Columbia ♦
♦ University and Dr. Henry L. K. ♦
♦ Shaw of Union University. ♦
♦ Add to the list of things that ♦
♦ are bad for all babies these: ♦
♦ sleeping on the mother’s breast ♦
♦ while nursing, sleeping In bed ♦
♦ with the mother spitting on hand- ♦
♦ kerchief to remove dirt from the ♦
♦ baby’s face, sneezing and cough- ♦
♦ ing in the baby's face, allowing ♦
♦ a person with a cough or cold ♦
♦ to hold the baby or allowing any ♦
♦ person with tuberculosis to care ♦
♦ for the baby. +
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CLUBS EARN
(By Associated Press)
FORT COLLINS, Colo., March 16.—
Boys' and girls’ clubs in rural com
munities of Colorado earned a net pro
fit of $5,807.39 in 1916, according to
reports received at the office of the
state leader of the clubs here. Two
hundred and twenty-two acres were
planted In corn; ten and one-half acres
in potatoes; thirty-three acres in gar
den truck, 21,156 chickens were raised,
107 pigs, 2,378 quarts of canned fruits
and vegetables put up by the girls,
6,300 dishes cooked for family use
and 2,700 articles made by the girls
In the sewing clubs.
The total value amounted to $17,
506.55. The cost was $6,399.16 to the
boys and girls and $5,300 to the state
and federal governments, who co
operate in the work, leaving a net pro
fit of $5,300, or almost fifty per cent.
ANCIENT PEAR TREES IRE
INSECT BREEDERS
YALETA, Texas, March 15. — Mod
ern scientific horticulture condemned
the ancient pear trees of this old In
dian village and these trees which
were planted by the Franciscan fath
ers in the sixteenth century, accord
ing to local tradition, have been chop
ped down and burned in the earthen
ovens of the Indians as fuel. The
coddling moth was responsible for the
destruction of these ancient pear
trees. A state inspector discovered
that the trees, which are scattered
through the Rio Grande valley near
here, were breeding places for the
insects which have been destroying
pear orchards in the valley. ->
RICH COST VEGETABLES
CAUSE WOMEN TO TILL
(By Associated Press)
M1LL1KEN, Colo., March 15.—Mem
bers of the Women’s Club of Mllliken
are arranging to take advantage of the
high prices Of vegetables and farm
products to raise money for the pub
lic library fund. Next summer the
club wpmen will farm the unused
streets and alleys in an unimproved
part of the town and raise vegetables
and other crops suitable to the land,
the proceeds of the sale to go to the
library fund.
An effort will be made to get per
mission from owners of vacant lots
to use their property for the gardens
and the women have arranged a sche
dule of hours for their members bo
the work will be fairly equally divided
and each member will have a certain
period during each week which she is
expected to devote to the farming op
erations.
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Of course you want the war new%
and the Daily Times furnishes it to
you at 91 per month, or six months
for 96.
THE HELL OF THE YUKON.
(With Apologies to Robt. W. Service)
By D. A. Hoonan.
The Pevll In Hell, we are told, was
chained,
Thousands of years there he re
mained.
He did not complain, nor did he
groan
But determined to have a hell of hie
own,
Where he could torment the souls of
men
W'itbout being chained in the Bulphur
pen.
So he asked the Lord If he had any
land
In a cooler clime, that a devil could
stand.
The Lord said: “Yes, but It's not
much use.
It’s a place called Alaska, as cold as
the deuce;
In fact, old boy, the country’s so bare,
That I don’t think you can make a
good hell use there.”
But the devil said he couldn’t see why
He sure knew his business and would
like to try.
So a bargain was made, a deed was
given,
And the Lord released the devil from
prison.
We next meet the devil far up the
north.
Exploring Alaska to see what It is
worth.
From the top of McKinley he viewed
the truck.
And said: “Though I got It for noth
ing, yet 1 got stuck.
But, oh. It Is fine to t>e out In the
cold.”
Then the wind blew a gale the devil
grew bold,
And there on the height of the moun
tain he planned
To make of Alaska the home of the
damned.
A place somewhat dlfforent from the
old fashioned hell,
Where each soul burned In a brim
stone cell.
And he knew all the arts that a wise
devil needed
To make a good hell — and you bet
he succeeded.
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He filled the air with a million knats.
Spread the Yukon river over the flats.
Set a line of volcanoes near Unimak
pass,
Bred clouds of mosquitos In tundras
grass.
Made six months' night when Its sixty
below,
A driving wind, and a blinding snow.
Six months’ day, with a spell now and
then
Too hot for the devil though fresh
from the pen. *
He loosed the wolves to ravage the
land,
A worthless set and a ruthless band,
That, crossed with the dogs makes a
savage pack.
But of all the peats that the Imp could
devise
The Yukon mosquito is the devU'B
prise.
It baa the rattlesnakefi bite, the scor
pion's sting
And measures 'steen Inches from wing
to wing.
The devil said, when he fashioned
these,
“Each one will be worse than a mil
lion fleas.”
And then, over mountain and valley
ana plain.
He scattered, wild flowers. Just for a
bluff,
Old Nick sure knew how to peddle the
stuff.
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Then to show you how well he knew
bin game,
Satan next salted his new hell claim.
He pvt nuggets in all the streams
To hire men on to foolish dreams,
And hid the gold ’neath the glacial Ice
As a reformed city hides its vice.
He bid Dame Rumor spread the news
That there waa gold in piles and
Piles,
I" all the colors and all the styles.
Then he grinned a grim sardonic grin
And said: “Now watch the tools
rush in.
Thfjy’U fight for gold, and steal and
slay.
But In the end it's me they'll pay."
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Qh, a fine land this that the devU
* ow“' k ..a J
It's trails are marked with good men's
bones.
As you travel over the barren ex
panse.
The north wind blows big holes in
your pants.
The Northern Lights shine clear and
bright
O'er the blood red snow, though it
looks pure ar.d white.
To men who are crazed by jimpish
tunes
In the frosted air where they see
three moons,
So the wild wind moans o’er the black
chapparal.
'TIs a hell of a place that he has for
his hell.
And now you know, should anyone ask'
you.
What kind of a place is our Alaska.
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ARGENTINE NAVAL OFFICERS
RECOVER FROM DUEL WOUNDS
BUENOS AIRES, March 16. — Rear
Admiral Juan A. Martin and Captain
Diogenes Aguirre, of the Argentine
navy, who have been nominally ill
but who are reported really to have
fought a duel with one another, are
recovering.
It Is understood that the fight was
with swords, that it was over a pro
fessional difference of opinion, that it
occurred in the patio, or courtyard, of
a house in the Buenos Aires suburb of
Belgrano, and that both the princi
pals were wounded.
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If you have a property of meritor
ious character, close to transportation,
communicate, giving price and terms,
together with such other information
as Is procurable. Address,
3-5-Gt DR. W. H. CHASE,
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Of course you are reading the Daily
Times. Why not save a dollar by pay
ing six months' subscription in ad
vance; $5 will do the trick.
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TEAMS LEAVE CHITINA
FEBRUARY 5
MARCH 15
Baggage can be left at the
Chitina Hotel, Chitina, or Alas
kan Hotel, Cordova.
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