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4 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1913. r i THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mall Matter of the Second Class. JAMES R. GRAY, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE 4 ' Twelve months - •*. •... 75# Six months — • ••-•«••*••••• 40d .Three months --V • * ‘ £5 ° The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for ,. early delivery. fe; it contains news from all ^ver the world, brought L' by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff iirof distinguished contributors, with strong departments *of special value to the home and the farm. > Agents warted ut every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write K. R- BRAD-. LET. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have ars Bryan. R. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. L. H. Kirn s'trough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only ■ for money paid to the above named traveling repre- jsentatives. The Greatest Corn Show. jB,. 1 fef “Livestock is at the foundation of the pros it}- perity of the West. Cattle and hogs are its fac- I ‘ tories. Com and bluegrass and red clover and 1*. alfalfa and the forage crops are the raw mate- rials used to keep the factories running. They $ turn out an enormously valuable finished product of steaks and roasts and bacon. The West is getting rich from the product of its live stock factories, just os the East has already acquired wealth from its woolen and cotton and steel mills.'’ So rejoices the Kansas City Times,* and the com mon country may w®ll feel cheered that this is true, for the storehouses of the West are a pledge of national prosperity. But what of the South, where the natural oportunities for industrial interests are as great as those of the East and for the raising of grai.n and live stock a. great as those of the golden empires beyond the Mississippi? If .the East has grown rich from its mills and the West is growing rich from its cattle and corn, what an immeasurable fortune awaits the South whose resources are adapted equally well to both these lines of production! The fact is the South combines ail advantages to be found on this continent. It has that infiite va riety which age cannot wither nor custom stale. Most of its wealth, to be sure, has been latent, but the spirit of development is now astir. Its farmers are awakening to the manifold possibilities of the soil and are diversifying their crops; cotton is fast losing its monopoly. More corn was raised in Georgia this year than ever before and the educational cam paign to encourage the. raising of live stock is yield-; ing distinct"reshlts. The" Sooth’s watdi- sites" are he-" ing utilized for manufactures. Southward the in vestor and the home-seeker are turning. In this sun- showered comer of the Union, both the East and West will see the perfection of their own specialties. The forthcoming announcement of premiums for the Georgia Corn Show, Which is to be held in the capitol next December, will interest hundreds of young farmers throughout the State. Never before have the members of the Boys’ Clubs worked with I such, skill and enthusiasm as during the past spring | and summer. Their labor over, they are now looking j forward • to its recognition and reward. The State j Corn Show is the great court in which their trophies ! of the soil are displayed and where their achieve ments are pubiicly honored. The boy. who wins a prize at this exposition deserves and is sure to re ceive the entire commonwealth’s applause. The list of premiums for the next show is said to be unsually liberal and inviting. It will doubtless attract many more exhibitors than took part in the 1912 show, which was itself a record-maker in pop- j ularity. Atlanta may expect the pleasure of enter- j ; aining a friendly army of Corn Club boys gathered from every cofper of the State. The committee on arrangements is devising for the next exposition a number of new features that will appeal to the gen eral public as well as to people more or less directly concerned in agricultural affairs. First of all, how ever, is being considered the interests of the corn growers themselves. This is an enterprise that means much to the common life and progress of Georgia. Merchants, ■’ ■** ■ y, •*£*■’. • . . . bankers, manufacturers and, indeed, every household in this State will enjoy a far richer measure of pros perity when tlie production of corn and other food stuffs is sufficient to supply the home demand. The Boys’ Corn Club movement is the most effective force now at work to attain this end. Through its organ ized educational efforts, the yield of grain has al ready been increased and widespread interest in the raising of other food supplies has been bestirred. The Corn; Show, which marks the yearly climax of Corn Club endeavors will thus be a peculiarly im portant event. The Federal Game Law. „ ,,. In his letter addressed to the game wardens in each county, State Game Commissioner Mercer calls timely attention to the fact that the new federal law protecting migratory and insectivorous birds became effective October the. first and henceforth must be faithfully upheld in Georgia. He rightly insists that the game department of this State should co-operate with the national authorities to the end that all possi ble good may result from the mbvement to conserve this very important field of the country’s natural re sources. Or f ■ -r The spirit and purpose of the federal statute are directly in line, with the regulator s already estab lished in Georgia lut it invi'ves certain noteworthy - differences of detail. Under the State law, for in stance, the open season for wild geese and brant - has been from September the first to April the twentieth; the federal law limits the season to less than three months, November the twentieth to Feb ruary the sixteenth. Another far-reaching provision of the interstate lav- is that which prohibits the kill ing of any migratory game and insectivorous birds after sunset, or before sunrise. This clause, as Com missioner Mercer says, is peculiarly forceful. Its effect will be more marked, perhaps, than that of any other one requirement in the new law and will call for particular caution and restraint on the sports man’s part. The enactment of a measure which establishes uni form protection for valuable species of migratory birds throughout the United States has marked the beginning of a new era in wild-life conservation. It is based upon ideas as practical as they are scientific, it is designed to serve urgent needs of the nation’s agricultural and economic interests, to put an end to the heedless slaughter of birds and thereby safeguard farms and orchards against the terrible danger- that would follow the extinction of bird life. Every State should do its utmost to make the federal law efficient and useful. No Recess For Congress. It is not only the unswerving purpose of President * Wilson but also the earnest desire of the majority of Senate Democrats to make the currency bill a 'aw before Congress adjourns. The extra session may merge with the regular session but the legislative machinery will not pause until this all-important task has l>een accomplished. • Conferences held yesterday between the President and Senate leaders disclosed a firm sentiment against any reeess while the measure is pending. ■ Senator Stone expressed himself as thinking it would be ‘*a political blunder equal to a crime to r. adjourn Congress before the currency bill is put through.” Other Senators were equally emphatic in * -the same view. Despite all attempts at dtelay, the bill will become y a law sooner perhaps than its opponents expect. v L "Hawthorne will get $10,000 job.” Awhile back Is there was news of old Charlie Morse forming a new * trust. This prison training seems to be a good thing. The Conquest of Forest Fires. The value of organized effort for the prevention, of forest fires is strikingly attested by the fact that this year only some sixty thousand acres of the. national woodland were burned as against two hun dred and thirty thousand in 1912 and seventy hun dred and eighty thousand in 1911. The methods of the forestry service in dealing with this problem, which at one time was so dangerous and baffling, nave steadily improved and What is equally impor tant the co-operation of settlers and timberland own ers with government officers has become continually more cordial. The country is thus being saved thou sands of acres of natural treasure and a fund of potential wealth that is beyond reckoning. The causes of forest fires this year are said to have been, first, railroads and then lightning, while a considerable nurqfoer have started from the burn- ing of brush. Those due to lightning, though beyond, the. power pf human prevention, have been rendered"' far less disastrous' by- the system of lookouts who de tect such fires and take prompt measures to check them. Such service is of inestimable benefit. The destruction or damage of nearly a million acres of the nation’s forest within a single twelvemonth, as* was the case three years ago, was due cause for alarm. The significant fact is that this loss has been reduced comparatively to a minimum by means of organized effort. The same methods, if adapted to the prevention of fire waste in general,-will yield equally gratifying ■results, In the United States last year the property loss from fires amounted to two dollars and fifty-five cents per capita while in Germany It was only twenty cents per capita. The. difference is mainly one of superior regulation on the part of the Old World country. Our Government’s successful fight against forest fires should inspire an earnest and hopeful campaign for the prevention of all other fires. Mexico’s Desperado. If there was ever a vestige of reason for sup posing that Huerta represented constitutional gov ernment and was. entitled to recognition, it has been swept away by the desperate course he is now pur suing. Even had the United States overlooked the crimes through which he usurped the Presidency of Mexico and had lent his treacherous regime a measure of diplomatic support, it could not counte nance his latest tyranny. In dispersing the Congress and jailing more than a hundred of its members be cause they exercised the simple right of free speech, he virtually notifies his" countrymen that he is their government arid that all who dare dispute his dicta torship will suffer the consequence if they fall within his clutch. How fortunate for the United States that its approval was never given to this unscrupu lous adventurer! The autocracy which Huerta thus seeks to estab lish will of course, rob the elections, announced to be held on October the twenty-sixth, of all fairness and legality. A free ballot in the territory under his con trol would he impossible. More than half the country is said to be in open revolution and certainly the people in those districts wbuld not accept a President or other officials chosen at Huerta’s behest. In truth', there is no hope for a peaceful settlement of Mexico’s domestic troubles so long as this desperado remains in power at the capital. He himself is too weak to restore orderly government and he is too vicious to give others a chance t<p do so. The first step in the welfare of the Mexican re public must be the complete elimination of Huerta. That end may be accomplished by a concert of dip lomatic action between the United States and other interested Powers. Sufficient pressure of this kind might force the dictator to step down. It may he that the revolutionary forces themselves will soon fight their way to the capital and, once they are within its borders, the taking-off of Huerta will shortly follow. His present course betrays his weak ness. His specious government ia without funds; his remnant of the army is sullen almost to the point of mutiny; his character is now seen in its un masked falsity by the European Powers that once were disposed to encourage or, at least, to tolerate him. Time is the old Justice that tries all such offend ers as Huerta, and its heavy sentence is hanging just above his head. HUDSON BAY BY DR. FRANK CRANE. (Copyright. 1913, by Frank Crane.) Thee may be some doubts as to the immortality of the soul, but there are none about the immortality of the corporation. The Hudson Bay company, which did business in the north wilderness of America in the seventeenth cen^ tury, is establishing huge department stores in the same region, now rapidly settling, in the twentieth century. Few tales appeal more strongly to the imagination than the sober history of this company. It is a story of strong men, of their wild adventures in savage lands, where law’s abode was in the hip pocket, of their grim purpose holding on for a quarter of a thou sand years, of the grip of the Anglo-Saxon, set and unloosed from generation to generation. It was Charles II of England who, in 1670, gave to “the governor and company of merchants-adventurers trading into Hudson’s Bay’’ their rights to trade in and to govern an empire of field, forest and water of whose extent they had no conception. It was in a tfUy when unexplored lands were given away with a free hand and a royal largess; in a day when the pope drew a line on the globe and gave all on one side to Spain and all on the 9ther to Portugal. The hardy English pioneers threaded their way into the vast, still North, built their lonely stockades, trapped and hunted in the unhampered freedom of the new world, fought and traded with the Indians. For a while this advance guard of English civiliza tion had a hard contest with their traditional enemies, the French, who disputed their territory, until the treaty of Utrecht in 1713, by which France resigned her claims. Then followed what was perhaps a fiercer war, a war with their competitors, fierce and bloody tis a Kentucky feud. This closed in 1821 with a merger with the Northwest company. Thus through years, centuries, ehe Hudson Bay company has hung on; and now comes a curious adap tation of its old-time enterprise tp modern conditions. It is establishing a chain of department stores throughout the new*y developed Canadian territory. Few of us realize with what tremendous rapidity northwest Canada is being brought under cultivation. Trainloads'of settlers during the summer come from Minneapolis. Shiploads come from England. Vast farms are being improved. Cities are upspringing like muchrooms. The Hudson Bay company has already opened in Calgary a department store that represents a capital of $3,000,000. Another is building in Vancouver, say the newspapers, at a cost of $4,000,000. Still another, at Victoria, will cost $1,250,000. Winnipeg will have a $7,000,000 store. There will be one at Edmonton. The value of this private enterprise in the perilous days of frontier life is unquestioned. It remains to be seen how it will adjust itself, and what will be the Duple’s attitude toward it in these days of growing distrust toward privately owned wealth units. In Plain Figures Why do architects insist on putting in Roman nu merals dates on public buildings? Is it a survival of ancient custom or a mere professional affectation? The average man would take .some time to puzzle out the meaning of “MCMXIII” and some never would discover it is “1913.” The secretary of the treasury is eminently practical. When he found the plans for several government buildings marked MCMXIII he said: “That’s too hard to.rea4» Why not plain T913?* We’ll make it plain dates hereafter;” So a Democratic official takes away another* ^.mystic symbol that has awed the plain people.—Baltimore Sun. Turkey’s Diplomatic Triumph. An official announcement from Constantinople confirms - the earlier report that Bulgaria would give p|> the" greater part of Ottoman ‘ territory she had won in. Thrace and wOufcf rex^!-jhiii with Turkey in a defensive- alliance. A .year- ago nothing seemed more impossible that that thdse two nations should stand together on, the turbulent, ever-shifting Balkan stagn. Bulgaria was then leading her Christian neighbors in a ycitorlous war against Turkish rule and before the winter fairly ended she was mistress of the peinsular’s affairs. Turkey was a suppliant for protection from the larger Powers; her realm in Europe was reduced to a spare remnant of its former area; she was forced" to accept any terms that her conquerors, chief of whom was Bulgaria, might impose. But no sooner had the Balkan allies achieved their commoh purpose than they fell to quarreling themselves. The war that followed between Servia and Greece on the one hand and Bulgaria on the other was more bitter and wasteful than that they had waged in union against the Turk. Bulgaria, ex hausted by hard campaigns at Adrianople, Kirk-Kil- lisse and Tchataldja, could offer but feeble resistance to the attack of hi- former friends. She came out of the conflict with a broken-spirited army and a bankrupt treasury. While this domestic war was at its height, Turkey reoccupied Adrianople and declared a purpose to re main in possession, in spite of the Treaty of London in which the city had been ceded to Bulgaria. The Powers protested and gave Turkey to understand that she could not hope for their good will or their financial aid if she persisted in this flagrant viola tion of her agreement. But the Turk stood unmoved. Bulgaria was so beset with trouble at home that shfe had no time or means for enforcing her rights. Her chief desire seems to have been quietude in which to regain a measure of her strength and to forestall further aggressions on the part of Servia and Greece. She has thus agreed that Turkey shall retain not only Adrianople but also the greater part of Thrace, the lands that constituted Bulgaria’s richest prizes of the war. Whether she has been prompted to this step by deeper motives than now appear remains to be seen. The fate of immediate interest is that Turkey, whose case was recently considered hope less, has emerged from the Balkan storm with prac tically as much territory as she had in the outset. Defeated in war, she is triumphant in diplomacy. It seems doubtful that the Powers, who were at no great pains to enforce compliance with the Lon don treaty when Bulgaria still claimed Adrianople and adjacent lands, will now take action against Turkey when Bulgaria has renounced her claims. There are, to be sure, other parties that Turkey and Bulgaria has at interest and the London treaty in volves other matters than the boundaries in Thrace. If this agreement is set at naught in one important particular, it can scarcely command obedience in others; and in the latter event all the problems inci dent to the Balkan war would have to be threshed out on a new basis. ThPse considerations may lead the larger Powers, England, France, Russia, Germany and Austria-Hun gary, to frown upon the new pact into which Bulga ria and Turkey have entered and to insist that Tur key measure squarely up to her original agreement. Ah omen to that effect is seen in the recent refusal of France to countenance a loan sought in Paris by the Ottoman government. As conditions now are, however, Turkey uolds the winning hand in the Balkan game. She has recovered virtually all she lost and has even succeeded in establishing a tenta tive alliance with her leading foe among the Balkan Status. ’ C (oUA)TRY r , '"nwE.Df topics Comocra w.m&UHJrexTO* THE HIGH PRICE OF DIVING AND MEAT COST. Those of you who felt assured that the new tariff law would reduce the price of food stuff will be obliged to wait a while for the reduction of some food articles or else th e people who are now prophesying are woe fully mistaken. The meat problem is getting to be unmanageable, when an order for a regular first-class beef steak in New York City is scheduled at $1 per pound! How is that for high? Can it be that we are wasting money on meats and that the common run of folks must prepare themselves to do without a meat diet as is common on the conti nent of Europe? It has been recorded by traveled writers that many youths grow to manhood in the densely populated countries of Europe who are not acquainted with the taste of meat and who have been nurtured on an entirely vegetarian diet. In this connection I am reminded that the Japs know little or nothing about meats such as Americans are accustomed to. During the Jap-Russo war the virility of the Jap soldier was discussed on both hem ispheres. The perfect physical condition of these wiry little brown men was a constant topic with doctors and sci entists. Their wounds were rarely fatal, unless they were killed outright. There were none of the scourge diseases such as prevailed in the Boer war with Eng land. The strong beef eating British soldier died very frequently where the Jap seemed to be immune. The Japs had cold weather and hot weather, dust and drouths, mud and mire, rainy seasons, wintry sea sons, every variety of seasons. There was obliged to be some good reasons for their healthful conditions aside from their regular habits of life. We were told that they subsisted principally on rice, and if there was any stronger diet it was com posed o£ fish and not th e flesh of animals. The Rus sians are a meat eating people. And it is a fact that these Russian soldiers had the various scourge dis eases that armies are generally afflicted with. When Port Arthur collapsed the garrison was stocked with army stores such as were common with meat eaters. This question of meat eating is going to be discussed and tested as has never been done before in our time. We are not financially able to indulge in meat eating now at present prices. • • • ACCEPTING PRESENTS PROM ADMIRERS. There are doubtless many excellent young women who do not hesitate to accept handsome presents from young men who make calls on them and show various attentions. Nevertheless I am going to say that I believe it is a very unwise thing to do, and more 4 or less embar rassment Is bound to come out of it, and in a multi tude of cases there is a lowering of self-respect where the obligation grows into manifest humiliation, etc., to the girl who makes herself so common (slack a better word in this connection). It is rather a risky business with even engaged couples, because marriages are occa sionally broken off or interrupted. Such catastrophes are not infrequent, and, despite the wishes of relativqp and friends there will be unfriendly gossip, and some times unfriendly criticism* I have nothing to say about the propriety of bri dal gifts, but I mean the courting days and the days before even the spooning begins, where yotmg men are encouraged to waste money on girls who invite and propitiate them for such gifts, and who expect to be treated with candies and expensive flowers on every available occasion, and especially when, the young man’s resources are not capable of bearing such bur dens; and when young men reach a place, after awhile, where they must pull out to save their pocketbooks as well as their' own self-respect, as toYhis continuous extravagance and the risk of loss. How many 1 young men, wno nave been thus decoyed along into spehd- thrift extravagance, of course, we cannot say, but the practice of receiving presents that cost money should be .depreciated for the safety of young men, who must sometimes shy away from a girl who would make him a good wife if her greed had not thus betrayed itself, etc., etc. Better a hundred times to decline jewelry^ and mostly treats than tb appear in such an uncompro- ing light to her admirer. If he is sensible, he will ad mire her excuse for obvious reasons, and in the long time to come, after they become man and wife, he will respect her good sense and be apt to tell her so in a positive way. 9 m * CIVIL SERVICE HYPOCRISY. A good many years ago some one called it “snivel service reform.” It means about the same thing in its last analysis. -^Political service and public service are two very confusing things. They are different on pa per, but exactly alike in practice. We ail Understand that the struggle, the war between the two great pbllt- ical parties, centers about the effort to secure the of fices and enjoy the salaries. Therefore, great syndicates contribute much money to political parties according to the chances of success. Once upon a time Mr. Jay Gould was placed on the witness stand during a congressional investigation. He was asked as to his politics. He blandly replied “he was a Democrat in the Demo cratic states, and a Republican in Republican states.” That is about the size of the whole business of so- called civil service ethics. When a new administration gets in it has been said that you can find scores and scores of government em ployes who are willing to turn their coats as often as their salaries are involved, and suddenly you hear a great deal reported as to the binding quality of civil service rules when pronounced politicians are in hourly danger of removal. The idea or plan, as it is written, is that well qualified, experienced employes are a ne cessity, and public business is endangered by placing raw ones in these already well-equipped places, etc. But the prevailing rule in modern politics is “to the victor belong the spoils.” That is the real thing, the rest of it is simply pretense. Of course you and I know exceptional cases. We are convinced that there is danger in radical removals of well-qualified public servants in very difficult busi- * ness, but the country has been getting along and we alsio see that snivel service is very often a clamor of the ins against the outs. A Man’s Best Years What are* a man’s "best years” depends largely on what his youth was—the time for laying the founda tion. It also depends upon me nature of his work and something of his stamina or staying powers; also, as to whether he has mastered his environments or allowed them to* master him. Hugo* Munsterberg places the high-water mark at fifty years; Dr. Wiley thinks a man’s best work should be done after he is sixty; while Dr. Osier claims that little original and valuable work is done after tLe age Oi. forty. As for my own humble opinion, I am quite thoroughly con vinced that a man does not reach his prime of intel lectual strength and lucidity until he arrives at the halfway house—threescore and ten. The life problem is very much like a marathon, and should be decided accordingly. On the on e hand, it is not a question of years, but of condition—men tally and physically. How did he pass the seventieth milestone, old and decrepit or vigorously? On the oth er hand, it is not a question as to the time he made, but what was his condition? Diu he collapse or did he finish strong?—^os Angeles Times. CATTLE SUPPLY BV FREDERIC J. HASKIN. With Huerta troops in the chamber of deputies in Mexico, and wild west doings in the Tennessee legislature, one can’t say that politics is dull these days. While the possibility of the price of beef reaching 50 cents a pound during the coming winter is being discussed throughout the country, many Solutions of the problem of the American catttle shortage are be ing advanced. Some propose a law placing an em bargo upon veal production, and at least two bills have been introduced in congress to that end. Others propose a campaign of education among the farmers to encourage them to grow more beef cattle, and It" is said that the packers have raised a fund pf $300,POO for such a propaganda. Still others say that the thing to do is to educate the people to the fact that steaks and rib roasts, are not the only parts of beef that may be eaten with pleasure to the palate, satisfaction to the body, and profit to the pocketbook, and in fur therance of that idea the department of agriculture is calling into requisition its forces of publicity, Yet others say that tariff-free bepf from Argentina is the solution of the problem, and so beef has gone on the free list and Argentine beef has begun to move toward the United States. But it would seem as difficult a problem to keep the farmer from selling his calves for veal as it would be to compel him to raise his Catttle for beef, so the first proposition may not work as well In practice as in theory. When the farmer is brought face to face with 76-cent of $1 corn, it will be difficult to Induce him to feed catttle when he can get more out of his corn unfed than he can In beef, so there arises another difficulty. The people have been proverbially slow to change their methods of buying meat, and all the bulletins the government could issue would still leave both writer and reader sticking to their steaks and rib roasts, and the third proposition falls. Tariff- free beef, according to the Democrats, may help toe situation some, but there is already discussion of the merits of Argentine beef brought into the United States,, and some say that what has come has been found available only for the cheaper hotels and restaurants. * • • There has been a proposition that the government go to the aid of the cattle raiser just as it has gone to the aid of the crop growers, by placing long time deposits in national banks where the cattlemen can borrow It with their cows and calves as security. It ( Is contended by those who lavor this Idea that It takes so long to convert a calf into a finished steer that the farmer needs some financial assistance while waiting for his beef to grow. • • a Accordingly to many of those whose opinions are usually considered worth while In such matters, the United States must look to the Argentine for its day of hope in beef prices. A little of this beef has been coming into the United States by way of London, but this has been a negligible quantity Now a’ line of steamers brings beef to New York direct from Argen tine packing houses. It Is sewed In cheeseclot.. and wrapped in burlap. The Importers declare it Is chilled beef and measures up to the standard ot beef from * good American native steers. They point out that it is from cattle driven to market and, therefore, freer from bruises than the beef of American cattle hauled to market. They assert that the cattle are gentle and sleepy-eyed as pets, and that the beef has been han ded under the most approved conditions. • • • The opponents of the Argentine beef assert that it was frozen before shipment rather than chilled, that it does not hold its color long, and that It is available only for the cheap hotel and restaurant trade. They , say that the Importation of 8,000,000 pounds, which was hailed with delight in some quarters, as the death knell of high prices, Is but a drop in the bucket, and point to the fact that New York City alone consumes about 25,000,000 pounds of beef a week. A big ranch man from Peru says that with the opening of the Panama canal he oan send 10-cent beef tJ the United States., In Uruguay one of the big Chicago packing houses has opened tip a big plant, and here alfalfa-fed steers that could be bought in the United States for not less than $125 a head are bought at $70 a head. • • • If the United States does Import enough Soutn American beef to control prices in its markets, the law gives the president ample authority to guarantee to the people that the imported beef will be up to the American standard of wholesomeness. It must be cer tified by the government from whose territory it comes that it is from healthy cattle, and that It con tains no poisonous or deleterious preservatives or dyes. If the president finds that the stanuards of inspection in any country are not up to our own standards he may put a ban upon the importation of its jneats, • • s Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Galloway say* that the way to get beef to thg people at reasonable prices is to provide municipal meat markets. His suggestion is borne out by the experience at Panama, where beef, which coBts the government Just as much wholesale as it costs in the states, and which is of as good a grade as is sold In the best butcher shops in the United States, has been selling for several years at 20 cents a pound for porterhouse, 19 cents for sir loin and IS cents for round steak. * • • To offset this experience the butchers point to an offer made by a prominent butcher of Topeka, Kan., to turn his butcher shop over to the ladies of that town ' who were leading a crusade for lower prices. He told them he would give them a full and fair opportunity to see If they could make any money out of the re tail butcher business. To date they have not ac cepted his offer. • • • The obliteration of the cattle tick in fhe southern states, after a fight that has been waged for years, promises to be a boon to the beef growing industry, because it will facilitate the raising of young cattle in the south and their transportation to the farms of the corn belt for feeding, but even this is not expected to do much toward overcoming the national shortage of beef cattle. * * * In 1910, Just three years ago, there were 30,000,000 cattle in the seventeen range states of the west, as against only 23,000,000 in 1913. This drop of 7,000,1/v.i cattle in seventeen states, and this remarkable falling off in range-growing during a three-year period is unprecedented in cattle history. Nor does the drop affect only the cattle industry; it hits the sheep busi ness as well. In 1910 there were 67,000,000 sheep in the United r States; in 1913 there are only 51,000,000. • • • Add to this shortage in beef supply the shortage in the corn ctop, and .the result is a combination which is likely to produce prices that will not be, a source of much comfort to the economical housewife. • * • The old times of wars between the cattlemen and sheepmen of the western states are past. They were times when cattlemen would drive great herds of wild horses through a sleeping band of sheep, killing and maiming thousands of them, and shooting up the shep herds; when the sheepmen would counter by shooting thousands of cattle and “working over” the brands of others, thus getting other thousands of cattle away from the cattlemen; and when the cattlemen; would counter by spreading saltpetre on their salting grounds, where it could be eaten with impunity by the cattle, but with fatal results by sheep. But those days of bloody wars and cruel practices have been suc ceeded by days of fenced lands and the encroachments of the small farmer, with the result that the range grown feeders are decreasing in numbr and growing higher and higher in price. The green hat is the one touch of spring in an expanse of Indian summer. The war correspondent -lave had their inning; now for the baseball writers. He who is afraid to toe the mark is apt to remain at the foot We doubt very ser ously whether the administra tion will be seriously discouraged about putting that currency measure through. J:J