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THE LAGRANGE REPORTER...
Friday morning, sept. it. 1914.
GERMAN FIELD ARTILLERY
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Why You Should
Be Cheerful Now
Every day brings us nearer the end
of the war.
Every day sees America draw to
the foremost of the world’s indus
trial nations.
Every day helps to strengthen our
international financial tangles.
Every day carries us forward to
ward the position of a merchant
marine, worthy of our 14,600,000.000
annual foreign commerce.
Every day witnesses the setting in
motion of American brains to make
the nation more self-supporting.
Every day the movement for
“Made in America” goods makes
splendid progress.
Every day lays the foundation for
the ultimate employment of a vastly
greater army of skilled workers
than this land has ever yet known.
Every day paves the way for the
resumption of normal mercantile
credit facilities.
Every day increases Europe’s
k need for our foodstuffs.
T Every day entails heavy consump
tion of cotton goods by Europe’s
20,000,000 men-at-arms.
Every day emphasizes the blessings
of peace enjoyed by America and the
horrors of war now devastating and
bleaching Europe.
Every day thins the rank of our
unhappy fellow country folk stranded
abroad.
' Every day strengthens the national
resolution, “Sec America First.”
Every day intensifies the patriot
ism of Americans and gives them
fresh cause for loving their own
land.
Every day steels mankind in its
determination to forever slay the
hell-bred monster War.”
Why the War Means
Prosperity for Us
There has been much discussion ov-
• er the probable effect of the Euro
pean war on American prosperity.
Indeed, it is a pertinent household
theme. Some are alarmed over the
outlook; others profess to see a great
era of booming business for our na
tion. The big producer and manu
facturer is as vitally interested as the
small consumer whose concern is with
the high cost of living. Shedding
light on this subject is the opinion of
Sir George Paish, editor of the Lon
don Statist, and without doubt the
most distinguished European econ
omist. Writing several weeks before
the war actually begun, he said:
“A great war in Europe wn. enable
the United States' to sell its crops in
places which will give a much greater
income than if there was no war. Al
most every industry will derive more
or less advantage Should the
American people take advantage of
the golden opportunity afforded them
by the outbreak of the war, it will
mean not diminished but increased
prosperity for the United States.’
With such words as these to en
courage us, it is not becoming for
Americans to surrender to the gloomy
preachments of hard times. The cot
ton situation is well in hand, thanks
) to the prompt and splendid action of
/ the southern banks, and the other
southern crops have every likelihood
of being marketed at reasonably fair
prices. Under such circumstances, it
is more seeming in us to be cheerful,
to look to the future with confidence,
and to accept the war as in reality a
blessing in disguise for our com
mercial affairs.—Macon News.
See America Before
Crossing the Ocean
Atlanta, Sept. 16.—A party of At
lanta folk just honm from Europe
tell a story of horrible suffering on
board an Italian immigrant ship, the
only boat they could secure for pas
sage home. They were twelve days
on board,herded in cabins and sleeping
quarters which smelled like a stock-
yards, given food not fit for a dog to
eat and jammed by the dozens in
quarters intended for two.
“No more Europe for me,” the
tourists are declaring. “If I ever have
.the price of a trip again I’ll spend it
Sn seeing America first. As long as
the trains are running there’ll be no
more crossing the ocean for me.”
European War at
Federal Prison
Atlanta, Sept. 10.—Out in the At
lanta federal prison the European war
news is being devoured perhaps as
eagerly as on the streets of the city,
for there are natives of every war
ring country there, and all aro in
tensely patriotic.
Though all news from the prison is
bottled up almost as effectively as the
war news itself, reports reached the
city this week of a three cornered
fight in the prison yard in which an
Austrian counterfeiter, an English
green-goods man and a German bomb
throwing anarchist took part. They
were throwing things right and left
before the guards succeeded in se
parating them, and it then developed
that the scrap began because the
Englishman said Johnny Bull could
lick Germany and Austria combined
and the other two started in to make
him prove it.
“I Am War" by
Logan Mosby
By James Logan Mosby.
(This article won the $300 prize offer
ed by Life.)
1 was conceived in passion, hatred,
envy, and greed, born in the morning
of antiquity, and have a genealogy
whose every page drips with the red
blood of murdered innocence. I re
spect neither the feebleness of gray
hairs, the helplessness of infancy, nor
the sacredness of virtue, and waiK,
iron-shod, ruthlessly and impartially
over the form of the weakling or the
form of the giant.
1 paint the midnight skies a lurid
glow from the burning homeB I have
ravaged, and I turn peaceful scenes
of rural beauty, where God’s own
creatures dwell together in amity, into
a raging hell. I set neighbor against
neighbor in deadly combat, and 1 in
cite the brother to slay his brother.
I make puppets of kings, princes of
paupers, courtiers of courtesans, and
thieves of respected subjects, and
empires melt before my breath as does
mist before the morning Bunlight
I make of religion fanaticism; the
heathen a fiend incarnate! and of all
men I make playthings devoid of rea
son and justice. Through intrigue I
make the intelligent powerful, the
unscrupulous wax fat on the spoils
of blood-won victories gained by oth
ers, and the less learned suffer for
their own ignorance.
Famine, want and misery follow in
my path; I lay waste gredn fields and
still the hand of industry. I pillage
the land of its resources but con
tribute nothing to the benefit of man
kind, leaving pestilence to stalk ghost
like in my wake and complete the
work of destruction. I lay a heavy
tribute upon my most loyal subjects
for the maintenance of my establish
ment; I squander the vitality and
lives of those who serve me faithfully,
yet return to the world nothing but
ruin and ashes. The baubles of fame
I confer on some are the empty Bhells
of false standards wherein the license
to commit murder and rapine is held
to be the insignia of glory by a mis
taken civilization.
I can offer no excuse for my having
come into existence, nor can I give
one plausible reason why I should not
cease to be, other than that so long
as men who wield influence are per
mitted to gratify their selfish desires
and ambitions at the expense of tne
many who must carry the burdens
and endure thp sufferings; that long
will I continue to exact my toll of
sorrow, devastation and death. For
I am pitiless—devoid of all feeling;
I fear neither man nor God; I am
amenable to no law, and I am in my
self the law and the last resort.
I AM WAR!
Ban kin—I thought yon sail* Rose-
wary waa a strawberry blond.
Phyle—She used to be, but since pur
ple hair came Into fashion she is s
huckleberry brunette.—Judge.
War Echoes from
the Big Daily
New York World: One month ago
the Kaiser declared war against Rus
sia and began the movement for' the
invasion of France.
It was believed by the German war
office that Russia would require at
least 30 days to mobilize and make
ready for war. The plan of the Ger
man general staff was to crush France
at once by force of numbers and su
perior preparedness. Austria in the
meantime would he able to hold back
Russia, and with France prostrated
the Kaiser’s victorious legions would
■swing swiftly eastward to deal with
the slow-going Russians as they had
dealt with the French.
To this end only five army corps
were left to defend Gorman’s eastern
provinces. The main army was con
centrated in the west, ready to leap
across the French frontier.
It was un admirable plan on paper,
but Germany has not been able to
carry it out in spite of the wonderful
work of the German troops. The
marvelous precision of the German
fighting machine has been largely
neutrafized by the amazing-bungling
of the German diplomatic machine.
When the Kaiser went lightly into
war, Berlin expected that hostilities
would be confined to France, Russia
and Sarvia on the one side and Ger
many, Austria and Ituly on the oth
er. The German foreign office seems
to have been sd certain of Italy that
neither Berlin nor Vienna took the
trouble to consult Rome or even to
notify Rome of the prospective de-
cralation of war. Italy’s response
was a formal notification that the
triple alliance was for defensive pur
poses; that this was an offensive war,
and that she would remain neutral.
This was a hard blow in more ways
than one, for Italy had been counted
on to keep at least five French army
corps in check along France’s south-
ea.,tern frontier.
Berlin likewise assumed that Bel
gium would make only a formal pro
test against the invasion of her neu
trality and that Belgian territory
would furnish an uninterrupted route
into northeastern France. More as
tonishing still, the German foreign
office, despite Sir Edward Grey’s
warning, believed that Great Britain
would remain neutral if Belgium was
invaded. Possibly the Kaiser deceiv
ed himself into thinking that condi
tions in Ireland would restrain the
British government and that Ger
many’s cynical proposals in regard to
French territory offered sufficient
inducement to Great Britain to per
mit Belgium to be overrun. What-
Berlin thought, the German
diplomacy of this war has been
series of almost unbelievable blunders.
Instead of dealing with France and
My first purchases of cottonseed
were carefully culled before I planted.
They were badly mixed; however,
were guaranteed to make 38 per cent
lint. Out of this plot of cotton I went
before the pickers and selected live
lock bolls from plants that showed to
be low limbed, short jointed and not
so tall in growth. From this gather
ing I got 40 per ceiit lint.
The next year I planted my 40 per
cent seed, going over the field as I
did the year before, hunting out the
short jointed stalks with the largest
per cent of five lock bolls, and those
bolls nearest the stalk. I noticed
that all bolls didn’t hang alike, some
were growing straight up while oth
ers had a tendency to point toward
the ground. So for this picking I se
lected my ideal boll, one that pointed
down, thereby having a tendency to
form a watershed in protecting the
lint. This gathering made me 42 per
cent lint.
I planted my 42 per cent selection
of seed the following year, beginning
and continuing throughout the sea
son, culling out all undesirable stalks.
In the fall, same as previons years,
I had my planting seed culled out
ahead <xf the pickers, using the same
care in selecting. This gathering
made me 46 per cent lint. While
getting out this lot of cotton I notic
ed quite a difference in the burs. 1
could see in the course of mv work
the number of undesirable stalks had
decreased, tHe number of five-lock
bolls had increased, and a marked
change in the way the noils would
tend to point down. This year’s work
taught me that to carry on my Relec
tion I must see to the bur as well as
the other points.
The following season I planted my
seed which I had culled out the prevl
ous year, going into this year’s work
with very few undesirhble stalks to
take out. When gathering time came
T Cast nside the idea of per cent of
lint, giving my attention to the in
dividual points and selecting careful
ly bolls which had five locks, with that
downward tendency and whose burs,
the opening of which, were as near
equally divided as possible. The re
sults were very gratifying. My entire
cron turned out one bale to the acre,
with a field average of 43 per cent
lint.
In 1913 I started my crop with the.
same idea in vnw. My results, as I
can see them, are these: I have a
cotton that is early bearing, a large
five-lock boll, a heavy yielder and
an exceptionally good lint producer,
both in quality and per cent of lint of
staple.—Southern Farming.
of the Belgians in defense of their
soil. Austria has been forced to
abandon the war ugainst Servia which
served as the original pretext for this
crime ugainst civilization. Gii-eat
Britain has again proved hei* com
mand of the Hea, and all the resources
,of the British empire, together with
fall the resources of the French repub
lic and the Russian empire, have been
thrown into the balance against Ger
many and Austria.
Before Bismarck went to war with
Austria in 1866 she was careful to
isolate Austria diplomatically in order
that Prussia might be sure of a free
hand. In 1870 he did the same with
France. But in 1914 Berlin diplomacy
has succeeded in isolating Germany
and Austria and leaving them friend
less.
A month ago today the Kaiser con
fidently expected a short, quick, de
cisive war. Today it is apparent that
the conflict hus only begun.
New York Herald: In addressing
a new battalion, recruited from the
business and professional men of the
city of London, Field Marshal Lord
Roberts compared their patriotic ac
tion with that of those who can go on
with cricket and football when the
Russia, Germany is now at war with very existence of their country ib at
Great Britain, France, Russia, Bel- ■ ’ ! 1 ■’ 1
gium, Japan, Servia and Montenegro,
with strong possibilities that Italy
•will cast her lot with the British and
French. France is not crushed. On
the contrary, no decisive battle has
yet been fought, notwithstanding the
plunging German ndvance and the
terrible loss in life on both sides.
Russian troops swarm oVer East
Prussia, they have reached the Vis
tula, and the Kaiser has been com
pelled to weaken his armies in the
west to defend his own capital. In
fact, the two spectacular features of
the war have been the rapidity of the
Russian advance and splendid heroism
stake. “This is not the time to play
gpmes!” he exclaimed; ’’wholesome
ns they are in times of piping peace.
We are engaged in a life and death
struggle.”
These are significant words, and
they have run through all England
like a trumpet blast, awakening even
the slowest Britons to a realizing
jsense of their danger. And yet Kip
ling sounded a similar warning a doz
en years ago and it fell upon inatten
tive ears. Now that her arch enemy
is drawing near, England will perhaps
recall what he said about “the flan
nelled fools at the wickets and the
muddied oafs at the goals.”
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