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QUESTION BOX
Answers to last week’s questions.
An
(i) What Ambassador of the
U. S. coined the famous neutrality
echo of the State’s effort to give doctrine: “I have no prejudice ex
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cept in favor of my own country
(i) John Adams, first Ambassa
dor to England under George Wash
ingtons adminstraticn in 1879-
served also as Vice-President for
eight years with Washington and
succeeded him as President for one
term,
Adams represented the U. S. in
settling peace with England, and
was mada first Ambassador al
though he was elected Vice-Presi
dent. When he appeared before
CHAS. A. STALLINGS, Foreman. King George III. his majesty ex-
FRANK A. WIND Apprentice pressed pleasure in receiving an<
JOHN D. INGRAM Apprentice ) Ambassador irom America who
BARI’IELD Apprentice was not prejudiced in favor of
HINTON E.
EDWARD DIXON Office
Boy
Saturday, January 30, 1915
ANTICIPATION
January a movin
Rapidly along—
February's ready
And March is coming strong!
April, May and June time
Soon will wake the flowers—
Then July and August
Bring the lazy hours—
Oysters in September,
Then October gold—
Turkey m November—
The story s almost told,
“Start your Christmas shopping
Tis the same old cry—
And “Wish you Happy New Year.'
As in the days gone by.
—Selected
QUESTIONS FOR NEXT WEEK.
(1) What is the “Tweed Ring”
mentioned in political campaigns?
(2) What is the longest time any
one man has served as president
and vice president and whose ad
ministration was it.
(3) What was the issue over
which the civil war wa6 fought?
The war is over, but it is import
ant to know what was the main is
sue iu order to understand just what 1 Sawyer
France, the greatest enemy of En
gland. John Adams promptly 7 re
plied : “I have no prejudice except
in favor of my own native land”
It was a tactful piece of diplomacy
and though spoken on t he spur of
fhe moment, it established a prece
dent that is considered good neu
trality doctrine to this day.
Elbert Hubbard, has voiced a
different kind ol neutrality doctrine
in expressing his very cord'll cc n
tempt for the German Kaiser's pug
nacity: Says Fra Elbert us : “lam
neutral. 1 am, I don’t care who
licks the Kaiser.”
(2) What was Mark Twain’s
real name, and how did'he get the
name of Mark Twain?
(2) Samuel L. Clemens; he was
first a printer, and afterward a pi
lot on a Mississippi river steamboat
One of the commonest sounds heard
on his trips was the shallow-water
call of the man sounding the depth.-
of the water—“Mark twain,”
meaning mark two fathoms. This
call was dinned into the ears of
young Clemens and when he began
to write he adopted it for pseudonym
and made it famous in two conti
nents. He was humorist, philoso
pher and artist combined. His
writing are widely read. “'Join
and “Huckleberry Finn”
[Around The Exchange Table,
Among the appreciated education
al journals received on our exchange
tablea popular favorite is “Normal
Instructor and Primary Plana” is
sued from Dansville, N.Y. by F.A.
Owen Publishing Co. This high
class periodical is filled with good
reading matter and abounds in help
ful and inspirational articles. We
thoroughly appreciate the kindness
of this great publishing house in
sending this $1.25 school journal in
exchange for The Future Citizen,
and that without solicitation on our
part, except to mail them our paper..
Normal Instructor has a national cir
culation especially east of the Missis
sippi, but we doubt if it sends out a
copy that is more closely and repeat
edly read or more genuinely appre
ciated than the one that, comes here.
(3) A farmer offered to sell Mr.
Hale some white peas at cents a
quart. But Air. Hale preferred
to buy by the bushel rate which
was $3. Did he gain or lose by the
bushel rate, and how much?
(3) Mr. Male gained by accept
ing the bushel rate. A bushel con
tains 2150.4 cubic inches; a quart
contains 57.75 cubic inches. Theo
retically there is such a thing as a
“dry quart”, but it is never used
for practical purposes, and exists
only in the books and the imagina
tion, Nobody ever saw a quart
measure in actual use, except the
liquid quart of 57.75 cubic inches,
and the theory of 8 dry quart mak
ing a peck has confused the public
mind and led to the fallacy that
two gallons make a peck, or eight
gallons make a bushel.^ This is
not true. Our complicated tables
of weights and measures were con
ceived by designing tradesmen to
confuse the public mind. Some
day we will have the metric system
adopted with only one table for
each kind of measurement, and all.
based on the decimal scale; then
peopie can calculate their purchases
and sales without a college educa
tion, as under* that plan any buy
who knows the tens column of the
multiplication table can make any
kind of calculation.
11 you divide 2150.4 by 57-75
you will see that it takes 37^ quarts
to make a bushel, and at 8^ cents
each they would cost about 3.10, so
the actual gain by the bushel rate
is ten cents on a bushel.
questions were settled by the war. \ are the favorite* among the bovs.
The door ot Opportunity is labelled “Push", but some .war-sighted folks mis-read it “Fair*.