UNCLE SAM'S NEW PAPER MONEY
Uncle Sam's New Paper Money THE new paper money to he issued by the U. S. Treasury will be 6 inches long and 2 1/2 inches wide, instead of 7 inches by 3 inches as at present. On the backs there...
...The rural traveling libraries are conducted through what is known as the state library commissions, bodies which have been authorized and created and organized by acts of legislature...
...Hoag asks the simplest kind of questions, with astonishing results...
...In the case of a voter who is blind or unable to mark his ballot for any other cause provided for in the general election laws, "he may have the person before whom he makes his affadavit assist him in marking his ballot, and such person so assisting shall endorse and sign on the ballot a statement of such fact...
...Again the black mirror in its impartiality sets within its somber frame, one after another, with bewildering abruptnss of change, a girl of the street with young face repulsively painted and powdered, a policeman guarding a crowded crossing, a postman stooping far forward to balance the heavily-loaded bag at his back, a newsboy with his bundle of crisp papers, a white-garbed street-cleaner struggling with his broom against the defilements of the gutter, a fruit-vender's pushcart gay with oranges, apples, peaches and bananas beneath fluttering leaves of peach-tree branches thrust upright among the luscious heaps, and finally a baby-carriage with the infant's chubby arms under protective white netting, waving an unconscious salute of new and lusty life to the vehicle of death as it silently withdraws from its intrusion on the city's crowded scene...
...There is the rural free delivery, the better roads which have been the result of automobiles, telephones, and now comes the traveling library...
...The children in the country are generally plentifully fed, Dr...
...Hoag, "nearly all the children arise...
...The voter, wherever he may be, must go personally before a justice of the peace, notary public, town, city or village clerk, or any other officer authorized by law to administer oaths...
...The company's bookkeeper, Bobbitt, was killed, and another man, Vance, wounded...
...These are the main points to be gained...
...It has been tried out in actual election in two cities and counties of Wisconsin, ft is claimed for the Coupon Ballot that it furnishes the only possible absolutely fraud-proof, simple election system which is cheap enough to be available everywhere...
...Lillian Porter, who stood fifth in the race and led all the girls, killed 861,400 around a group of suburban food supply stores, and Annie Liston, who came in sixth, with 637,800, worked around fish shops.—I...
...Arthur L. Murray, the federal district's health officer, who was backed up by the government entomologist, L. O. Howard, and the Washington Star, which offered fly extermination prizes, the city got after the fly...
...Month No...
...Teachers in the Minnesota schools are provided with a "health survey" containing simple but fundamental questions about health, by means of which they keep informed as to the condition of the children entrusted to their charge and are able to point the way to healthful living...
...For the killing of Bobbitt more than a hundred strikers were arrested and Mother Jones and forty-eight men were placed on trial...
...Briefly stated, the Sommerfield plan guards the secrecy of the ballot as follows: Only those voters who make application for ballots to be voted through the mails will be permitted to vote in this way...
...Here it sends back to a group of schoolgirls at the curb the reflex of their slender figures, and laughing faces momentarily sobered by the unexpected sight...
...So there you are, and what are you going to do about it...
...For the face of the new money, only the one-dollar denomination has as yet been accepted...
...The Black Mirror By ELIOT WHITE AS A HEARSE noiselessly moves at the head of a funeral proces-sion through the city street in the hot summer morning, the fold-less black curtains within, which shield the casket from view, make the long plate of glass at the side a black mirror to reflect the vivid life amidst which the somber vehicle passes...
...The Provost Marshal frowned...
...of her children suffer from eye strain...
...Sometimes people are anxious for libraries, in other cases they have to be persuaded to take them.—From an address by George B. Utley, Secretary of the American Library Association, given at the sixth annual meeting of the Playground and Recreation Association of America, * * * Where the Big Killings Were Made IT WAS last year that Washington really began to realize the enormity of the fly's presence—and the fact that it should not be where really highly Civilized people live...
...I made the discovery that I am no Christian martyr...
...Sommerfield's idea that the process of casting a vote by mail should not be made so easy that the way would be opened to corrupt practices...
...Miners and guards clashed...
...The affadavit of the person marking the ballot for such incapacitated voter immediately places the responsibility upon that person for performing his assistance in the manner desired by the voter...
...H. H. Hopkins...
...Well anyway nobody is likely to see him stamp it except possibly his employer and the ward boss...
...of the country school children suffer from earache, and 4 per cent...
...Ernest B. Hoag, of Minnesota, in a personal visitation of the rural schools of that State...
...It is Mr...
...They lived in tents...
...No contests...
...I talked with many persons...
...4,429,800 11.9 Totals...
...To find exactly what health conditions in the Minnesota rural schools are, Dr...
...These are some of the things that have caused the country to lose its reputation for good health as compared with the city...
...and that 19 to 23 per cent, have frequent headaches;—these are some of the surprising facts brought out by Dr...
...Assemblyman W. S. Sommerfield, the author of this measure, maintains that honesty and secrecy may be preserved under the system he propcses, with just as much certainty as now exists under the system of voting entirely in person...
...Now we are beginning to see that it is a legitimate use of public funds to refresh people as well as to instruct and to inspire...
...Why...
...Portraits of other presidents will be used on the other notes...
...Hoag finds, but they do not eat the right kind of food...
...Flies Flies May...
...The miners set out to capture the operators' gatling gun near Mucklow...
...Frank Funk, whose catch was 1,510,600, worked around the southeast market...
...I did not know I was under arrest...
...When I ask those who drink coffee to stand up," says Dr...
...Here it gives an old man a sudden vision of his white beard, bent shoulders and bowed legs, as he hobbles, cane in hand, ever nearer to his own rest behind the dark tapestry...
...The commonest principles of hygiene are frequently neglected...
...3,195,300 7.8 July...
...The pictures on the new money represent America enthroned between Peace and Prosperity, with Labor bringing his products to Prosperity and Peace dispatching Commerce to distribute America's commodities to the world...
...In the old times the only function of a book was to instruct, and then they came a little closer to the understanding of a book and began to realize that its duty was also to inspire,— the literature of power as well as the literature of knowledge...
...Lawrence Fitzgerald, who worked practically alone and rolled up a total of 7,089,000 flies and is probably the champion individual fly killer, caught his flies, for the most part, around two city markets and around food-supply stores...
...The officer before whom the ballot is marked must subscribe to the following oath in the affadavit printed upon the envelope containing the ballot:"I hereby certify that the affiant marked and enclosed the ballot in my presence and in such manner that I or any other person could not see the vote...
...In one school visited by Dr...
...I was welcomed by the landlady...
...Those living in one-story houses told of low wages, wretched dwellings situated in cesspools, docking, "Pluck Me stores," companies' private police, until it was strike or starve...
...I told him the truth...
...Sommerfield is designed to surround mailed ballots with just as much secrecy and protection as is now given to ballots cast in person...
...Every State has a library worker to go out into the country among the people, to learn the needs of people of all conditions, and to study how to meet them...
...Mark Trice, who came in fourth with 3,190,900, rather made a specialty of beer gardens and particularly those where they had crab feasts...
...Hoag...
...my husband asked me one morning...
...Everybody will vote and he interested in government...
...I asked, bewildered...
...Unless it included all voters would it not be class legislation and therefore unconstitutional...
...After he has written his name and address on it they may even be kind enough to seal and mail it for him "as he is busy...
...Great saving in expense...
...Thus there will be on file in the clerk's office the signature of the voter making application for the ballot to be compared, in case of challenge, with the signature on his ballot...
...P. Shaw...
...So I started from San Francisco to find out...
...For the "shooting up" of Holly Grove no one was arrested...
...have discharging ears...
...From 12 to 14 per cent...
...These figures were drawn from life by the artist, Kenyon Cox, a professional model serving for America and the artist's fifteen-year-old son for Commerce...
...But I was able now to answer the question which had brought me across a continent...
...They use state funds and are a part of the state machinery...
...I was released on good behavior...
...Adenoids, earache, discharging ears, deafness: that's the order we find over and over again," says Dr...
...Further safeguards that may be devised to insure absolute honesty in elections may be applied to mailed ballots as well as to all others...
...There seems to be no doubt but that voting by mail may be made as free from corruption as personal voting is at the present time in any community...
...and the conduct of election officers may be reached through corrupt practices acts quite as effectively in this matter of handling votes by mail as it has been in handling honestly the ballots cast under the present system...
...Honesty in the conduct of elections is another question...
...that 40 per cent, of them suffer from almost constant toothache...
...Hoag an old-fashioned unjacketed stove had sent the thermometer to the sizzling height of 90 degrees, while it was 10 below zero out-of-doors, a difference of 100 degrees...
...They struck...
...Editor La Follette's: I WAS very much struck with an edi-torial in La Follette's oh February 1, 1913, entitled "Making Voting Easier," and advocating the adoption of a system of voting by mail...
...Nobody did I say...
...People in the country do not breathe pure air, because with abundance of it all about them, they carefully exclude it from their houses by keeping the windows tightly closed...
...Editor La Follette's: IN REGARD to voting by mail some questions are suggested pro and con...
...Following the move of Massachusetts to carry library work into smaller communities came New Hampshire, then New York with a fine system, then Wisconsin with one of the best commissions we have, and then Ohio, until now we have thirty-one states with these State library commissions doing work with funds appropriated by the legislature...
...Again it shows, as in a kinetoscope's flashing glimpses, the brightly-painted delivery wagons of markets, department stores and dairies, open surface-cars full of passengers in summer attire, and gorgeous automobiles madly rushing as though their drivers would hurl themselves and their lolling riders in the tonneaus many miles away in a few seconds from the suggestions that sight of the austere conveyance forces upon their heedless pleasure...
...Of course in such case the secrecy of the vote is lost just as it is lost now in the case of individuals who must be assisted in voting at the polls...
...The same design is to be used for the backs of all denominations...
...The slaughter record of flies on which killing prizes were given was as follows: Bu...
...The point is this: that under the system suggested, any voter who so desires, could sell his vote and deliver it to the briber with perfect immunity from detection...
...There is the "Coupon Ballot," for example, originated by Moncena Dunn, which is under legislative consideration...
...Four or five per cent...
...First, note the places of the big killings...
...It is Mr...
...Fremont OldeR, in Collier's...
...The government should not stop until it has guaranteed both...
...Answering a Question MOTHER JONES and forty-eight men were on trial before a military court in Paint Creek Junction, West Virginia, charged with conspiracy to murder...
...opening envelopes in which ballots are contained...
...a striker, Francesco Estop, killed...
...N. Lewis in the Indianapolis News, * * * Health of Children in Country Schools THAT 80 per cent...
...but one point, and that a vital one,' does not seem to be covered by your editorial...
...S. A." under the central figure...
...503,300 1.2 June...
...I am a sybarite hopelessly prejudiced against bull pens...
...One of the principal functions of the State library commission is to establish these rural traveling libraries...
...In self-defense some men armed...
...they would not admit that the military court had jurisdiction over civilians...
...Sommerfield's contention that by furnishing ballots for voting by mail only to those who make application for them this method of voting will be used only by those who really find it difficult or impossible to vote in any other way...
...How about those who are unable to go to the polls by unforeseen causes as storms, high waters, sickness and stress of work...
...Why incur the immense expense of elections as now conducted when all votes could be received and counted by the county or city officials and thus avoid the mistakes of inexperienced election officers and also make the returns unreviewable...
...altering, changing, or tampering with ballots...
...11,873,200 28 August...
...Hoag found that by simple questions about the children's eyesight, the teacher, without any optical tests at all, would discover that 20 per cent...
...Quick and official returns...
...And now "ferninst" the plan...
...At present about forty-five per cent, are reached by these libraries...
...When I ask how many have a toothbrush, nearly all say they have, but when I ask 'Did you use it this morning?' there is little response...
...Won't you please tell me, at your earliest convenience, how, in your proposed system of voting by mail, you expect to deal with these two situations...
...In order to remedy conditions, thorough medical inspection is desirable where it can be had, but much can be done by the teacher herself without any elaborate medical methods, according to Dr...
...The strikers fled from Holly Grove and took refuge in Hansford...
...The Australian, or secret ballot, is intended to prevent bribery by rendering it impossible for the vote seller to deliver the goods and bulldozing by preventing any employer from forcing his employees to vote any given ticket by making it impossible for them to make known how they voted...
...and making false affadavit...
...A woman, Mrs...
...The oath is a matter of record...
...Why don't we get news from West Virginia...
...The work began in Massachusetts in 1890...
...When this is done he places the ballot in the proper envelope and seals it...
...The heavy penalty provided for violation of the law will guard the honesty and secrecy of the mailed ballots...
...How is it possible to guard the secret ballot...
...The Provost Marshal WAS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CORRESPONDENT...
...That is one question...
...Of course the matter of counting the votes honestly and secretly depends upon the inspectors...
...Mother Jones and five leaders refused to plead...
...If this will secure a true expression of public sentiment let us agitate "votes by mail" as well as "votes for women...
...27,868,800 68 "These figures need analysis," said Dr...
...Any tampering with that envelope before it reaches the hands of the election inspectors of course is subject to heavy punishment...
...Included among the misdemeanors are "any person who having received a ballot under the provisions of this act shall permit or allow any other person to mark such ballot," except as above stated in the case of blind or otherwise incapacitated voters...
...The only way or,t that I can see is to have the voter sign an oath printed on the ballot that he stamped it of his own free will and without any consideration of personal gain or favor of any kind...
...of the children in country schools drink tea and coffee...
...Hall, was wounded...
...There is no background, and in the expanse of clear white paper the new money will display, it will resemble the paper money of European nations...
...Layton Burdette, who led the contestants and was declared to be our champion fly killer, though he had a great company of boys pooling with him, did his big trapping, poisoning and killing around the markets and the city dumps of filth...
...I wondered about the "bull pen...
...Martial law was declared.— Mrs...
...7,429,800 18.1 September...
...Many of the children assumed that headache, earache, and other ailments were perfectly natural things, and seemed surprised that anybody should be curious about them...
...Every voter has a free hand with bis ballot and nobody to see how he stamps it...
...Mother Jones occupied the parlor of a small white cottage...
...William Steiner, who brought in 4,027,150, worked around the markets and butcher shops...
...Led by Dr...
...That such system would equalize the opportunities for voting, and would thereby tend largely to increase the base of our popular Government, is undeniable...
...We were chatting in the kitchen when, without rapping, an officer entered and said to me: "The Provost Marshal wants you at headquarters...
...They may be good enough to help him "so that he make no mistakes...
...Then, to quote from the bill, he shall "mark his ballot in the presence of such officer and in such manner that neither such officer nor any other person shall see the vote...
...of the children simply do not hear what is going on and are therefore put down as stupid when they are not...
...Why, I always have headache," they would say...
...There is an effort on the part of all good, serious-minded people to combat the tendency of people to live in the cities, and to make people contented with the country...
...The advantages which country people have now make it more worth while living there...
...If it is a good thing for those whose business keeps them from home is it not also good for everybody...
...On the backs there will not be a sign of a dollar mark or any figure of value, and no lettering except the "U...
...I fumbled in my bag and brought forth an engraved card...
...A system of voting by mail such as that proposed by Mr...
...ABILL to provide for voting by mail is now pending in the Wisconsin legislature...
...Hoag...
...Murray, who was found "up to his eyes" in preparations for the 1913 "spring city cleaning" and the fly extermination campaign...
...Where corruption exists, improvement should be made in the manner of conducting elections that affects all ballots alike...
...Treasury officials expect that practically all the notes now in circulation will be replaced by the new ones within two years.—Popular Mechanics...
...Can Votes by Mail Be Safeguarded...
...and women voters who for various and good reasons could not leave home...
...Their camp, Holly Grove, was "shot up" in February by a C. & O. armored special train carrying Quin Morton, the largest coal operator, the sheriff, a score of armed guards and railroad people, and—two gatling guns...
...The Rural Traveling Library THE LIBRARY is trying to help people in three different ways,— to instruct, to inspire, to refresh...
...Through the main street, past armed sentinels, up a flight of stairs to a large room filled with empty benches and stacked guns, we went to the Provost Marshal...
...All voters should be given the opportunity to vote, and to vote secretly...
...Your plan has so many things to recommend it that I should like to see it completed by some means of securing the secrecy of the ballot so as to prevent the evils against which the Australian ballot has been devised as a remedy.—C...
...It will bear the portrait of George Washington in a medallion in the center and no other engraving except a simple scroll-work border and the value in each corner...
...They were evicted from their homes...
...Stern, unsmiling as justice, he asked me to explain my presence and my existence...
Vol. 5 • April 1913 • No. 17
