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Agricultural DUNNS This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information. Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, pesident State Agri cultural College, Athus. Ga What We Might Do With Increased Agricultural Wealth What can we do with a billion dollars? It this sum were at my disposal for the promotion of the welfare of the ten southern states south of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi river. I would place $1.000.006.fi«0 to the credit of cap ital account for the avowed purpose of providing the neded expenses of the firm. lessening the high interest rates which the farmer now has to pay. and ♦ diminishing tenancy. The next > 000.000 would be used for the building of 40.000 miles of sand clay roads an nually at a cost of $2,500 per mile. In me hrst year interstate thoroughfares could be constructed connecting the rural districts and the centers of ac tivity In every state. The third SIOO,- VOO.OOO would be used forth- purchase of implements and farm equipment. The trying need of the south today is crop diversification. This cannot be accom plished until we secure enlarged equip ment for the farm and the Varied as sortment of implements necessary to properly plant, cultivate, harvest and «are for diversified crops. The fourth $100,000,000 would be devoted to the im provement ot our live stock. This would enable us to bring in one million pure bred animals a year at a cost of SIOO apiece, and it would only be a com paratively short time until the scrub would be an unknown relic of the past. When we think of the progeny of a cow which cost sl7 in the thira genera tion being worth $142.50 for beef, we can appreciate what it means to. the. south to improve the grade and char acter of her live stock. The fifth SIOO.- 000.000 would be devoted to farm build ings and better rural homes. With this sum of money 40.000 modern homes at $2,500 apiece could be constructed. One thousand five hundred dollars should go into the house and its appointments and SI,OOO into barns and other neces sary outbuildings. When this is done the country becomes an ideal place in which to live and the country home a source of pleasure and pride and not a place of drudgery to the housewife as it is too often at the present time. Thirty five milliin dollars a year should be spent for improved seeds <«nd plants so that production may be standardized In other words, we are growing now sev eral hundred varieties of cotton. As a matter of fact, they should probably all be eliminated save a half Cozen of the best. When this is done thousands of bales of cotton of a given standard could be produced tri any one communi ty at an advance in price to the farmer and a substantial gain to the manutac- * turer. Thirty-five million dollars should he used for the development of perma nent fertility problems through the es- ? tablishment of crop rotations. The waste due to the one-crop system is Incalcula ble. It will continue just as long as the present system of practice is fol lowed. There should be $200.000.000 spent for rural schools for the encouragement and advancement of rural people. With this sum of money 20.000 consolidated schools could be erected annually at a cost of SIO,OOO a piece. A handsome and commodious brick structure could soon be built in every rural section, thereby providing the type and char acter of instruction essential to bring about the elimination of the frightful waste and loss which we suffer at the present time. $10,000,000 should be spent annually for training agricultural experts. This is enough to develop 2,000 new leaders a yea** and thus afford an incentive and opportunity to the genius of the youth of the south.to prepare . themselves to become home misisonaries of the most approved and reliable type. These men would find their opportunity for leadership in the direction of con solidated rural schools and in the re search work and extension service of the agricultural colleges and experiment stations. $10,000,000 should be set aside annually for the employment of addi tional county agents. With this sum 4.000 experts could be employed or a number greatly in excess of that pro vided for in the whole United States at the present time. A county agent has been known to save to his community the equivalent of $25,000 a year. This is a conservative estimate. Imagine, therefore, what could .be accomplished could 4.00" experts be set to work in the area under discussion. $100,000,- 000 should be devoted to the building of new churches and establishing mis sions. This would enable the construc tion of 20.000 churches in the rural dis tricts each year, thereby bringing into the life of the community the most wholesome and constructive influence the world had ever known, and afford ► the country people the facilities for worshipping God which they are now frequently denied and which has been one of the primary causes of people moving from the open country into the city. $100,000,000 should then be saved and used to liquidate debts and to aid in the development of a rural credit system where necessary. It is needless to point out that this distribution of wealth is logical, though seme might place the expenditures sug gested in a different order. The fact uppermost in the mind of the writer has been that an infant must be fed. washed, clothed, housed and developed into worthy manhood. In other words, it is necessary for us. first, to provide capital and equipment before we can hope to have the benefits which the ac crued wealth enables us to later enjoy. Now. let us consider a moment in con clusion what the saving of a billion dollars and using it as indicated above would accomplish. First of all. it seems clear to my mind that a race would be developed rooted in the soil because J. D. PRICE IS NOT A FRIEND OF THE FARMER “The present administra tion of the Georgia Agricul tural Department is the only such department in the South ern States that does not co • operate with the Farmers Union or Farmers State Or - ganizations. (Signed) “CHAS. S. BARRETT, “Pres. Nat’l Farmers Union.” FOR CO-OPERATION VOTE FOR J. J. BROWN OF ELBERT. . the country would be the ideal place in which to live. Certainly we would es tablish a permanent system of soil fer tility and thereby insure an annual in crease of our agricultural wealth and the production of a sufficient amount of food for local needs and a surplus for export to less favored sections. Our agriculture would of necessity be organ ized on a professional basis and until this is done it can never become a lucra tive and representative industry. We would soon come to appreciate the es sential character of research and to glory in the opportunity and privileges which education affords any people. Out of all of this would grow a self-sustain ing south characterized by a healthy, virile race of people. With this would also come the elimination of waste and the development of a race of men and women with fixed and high ideals, there by safeguarding forever the permanency of our institutions, the perpetuation of the republic along the lines conceived and so forcefully projected by our fore fathers. • • • THE BEST WAY TO FEED AL FALFA HAY. A. J. G.. Maxeys. Ga., writes: I have twenty tons of alfalfa that I raised, and 1 am thinking of granding it. What do you think of thia idea, and what should a ma chine for this purpose coat J Alfalfa hay may be ground and made into what is known as alfalfa meal. Mills are on the market which will do this work satisfactorily. You can secure one of sufficient size and power for about S4O. We have a mill of this type and find that it does very good work. Our thought tn secur ing such a mill has been to grind corn, cob, shuck and all. We cannot see any particular advantage in grinding alfalfa for use on the farm. If the hay is to l>e fed to horses and mules it would be better to let them masticate it with their teeth. The same would be true of other live stock. If you wish to sub stitute alfalfa for a part of the pro tein you have been feeding or to Bal ance up a ration of corn to better ad vantage. you could grind it. You could not make alfalfa take the place of more than one-quarter to one-third of the grain in ordinary rations fed to work stock or to beef or dairy cattle. • • • CHANGING A RATION FOR A DAIRY COW. J. R. M.. PosteUe, Turn, writes: I •lave a cow that was fresh last Jone, and should be giving quite a lot of milk, but sh» only gives between three and four quarts at a milking. She ia getting fat enough for beef. I am feeling two quarts ..f cotton seed meal with a gallon and a half of hulls, and some alfalfa hay at night. I would like to arrange the feed so .has the milk flow will be increased and not so much fat put on. She is one-quar ter Jersey and three-quarters Beil Durham. The trouble you are experiencing is probably not as much due to the char acter of ration you are feeding as to the inherent qualities of your cow. If she is three-quarters Shorthorn or Dur ham. her disposition is to lay on fat rather than to make milk, and I suspect that this trouble is so strongly inherited that you will have difficulty in keeping her from laying on fat at the expense of milk production. Some cows, as you know, milk very well for a short time and then drop off to where they give so little as to make their use for dairy purposes unprofitable. A good dairy cow should give at least two gallons of milk for 300 to 326 days out of the year. She should, of course, have one month’s rest between calving periods. The ration you are feeding is not a fat tening one by any means. You are sup plying a very good amount of protein, and we can suggest no change that is likely to be beneficial at the present time unless you add one quart of bran to the ration, and are in position to provide some green feed by allowing your cow to range on a cereal pasture. • • • WORKING A HORSE WITH RESPIRA TORY TROUBLE. L. T. C., Decatur, Ga.. writes: I have a e,ule that gets bls breath hard and pants when at work. I have had him two years. He travels well mid has plenty of life. I fe-d him or. corn fodder and hay. is there any remedy for his trouble? Your mule is suffering from either heaves or roaring. Animals which have been attacked by distemper frequently are left with weak throats though roar ing is often hereditary. This also is true of heaves. In severe cases of roaring a mule can travel only a short distance before choking down. Little can be done for this trouble except in its early stages when blistering will be of some benefit. We think it best to treat your mule for heaves as we are inclined to think this is the case of the trouble you describe. This disease is associated with indigestion. The symptoms are labored breathing and in most cases there ;s a deep moist grunting cough. Mules affected with heaves are -unable to per form hard or fast work without stop ping to breathe. Severe cases are, of course, incurable. Treatment for this trouble is purely hygienic. Keep the quarters and the food free from dust. The hay or fodder used should be sprinkled with water. Only easily di gestible food should be fed. Provide as much pasturage as possible. Medical treatment for this trouble is not very satisfactory. About all that can be done in this direction is to give arsenic, in the form' of Fowler’s solu tion. Give two teaspoonfuls in the food three times daily. This treatment should not be continued too long. If symptoms of arsenical poisoning are shown by the twitching of the muscles the medicine should be stopped imme diately. Any medicine which promotes digestion can be used to advantage. Gin ger root pulverized and given in table spoonful doses three times daily is of some value in troubles of this char acter. • • • THE COMPOSITION OF MEAL OF A GIVEN GRADE. ,V. O. M., Carrollton. Ga., writes: 1 would like to know th- fertiliser content of a meal which analyzes as follows: Protein 38.5 per cent, crude fat 5 per -ent, car bohydrates 28 per cent and crude fiber 20 •■ r bent. I would like tc know the value of cob meal as a feed for cattle compared with cotton seed halls. It would be impossible to say off hand just how much plant food a ton of the mixture about which you inquire might contain. According to the figures given it would run a little over 5 per cent of nitrogen, whereas, choice cotton seed meal would run 7 per cent or bet ter of nitrogen. If the material about which you write is made of cotton seed meal, we presume a ton of it would con tain between 115 and 120 pounds of nitrogen, about 50 pounds of phosphoric acid, and about 36 pounds ojt potash. You understand that this is only an estimate, but probably sufficiently ac- THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1916. -iffi, HOME ft. Timefy lopirs SONGS OF ATLANTA AMATEUBS. Eighteenth Dixie. Sung by W. H. Barnes. "We will now in conclusion our song of Dixie sing. It is a song of triumph—let the echo ring. At Fairfax and at Bethel, where’ere we’ve met this band, Our boys have sent them howling from the face of Dixie’s land. "At Richmond and at Memphis. General Scott says he will try To be reigning with his hosts by the fifteenth of July. But ere that time, for Illinois both him and Abe will run; Jeff Davis and our gallant boys will be In Washington. "They may send their hireling soldiers, and sail their vandal fleet; They’ll find a foe to meet them while a southern heart doth beat. We’ll put our trust in Providence, who’s protected us thus long— The race's not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong. “Thrice is he armed for victory who hath his quarrel just. In God and in our righteousness we wholly put our trust. ■Til the last drop of our blood is shed from every vein. O’er the land of Dixie no Republican can reign. "Oh, then rejoice, ye people! The vic tory is ours. Wherever we’ve met we have dispersed the abolition powers, And all of Dixie’s children rejoice in her success. May victory perch on bur flag and peace and happiness!” "Dixie” was paraphrased at least 18 times and sung to delighted audiences In Atlanta, and outside cities. THE ATLANTA AMATEURS IN MA- CON. The following letter was written by a former Macon man, and will doubtless interest those who joined the Confeder ate army in 1861. “Dear Mrs. Felton: I am a subscrib er to The Atlanta Journal Semi-Week ly, because you appear in it. Your last article headed “How Atlanta raised mon ey for relief during the Civil war,” has and Griffin, left for the war. Macon Voi men in the state, of Columbus, Macon carried me away back to the memorable night when the First Georgia battalion, composed of some of the finest young curate for the purpose you have in mind. Corn cobs contain practically no di gestible nutrients and very little fer tilizing value. Cotton seed hulls con tain considerably more of both animal and plant food. We do not think there is any comparison between the feed ing value of hulls and ground corn cobs. We can not Imagine why any one would feed groud corn cobs as there is no poorer food substance which could be found on the farm and used as a roughage than corn cobs. The farmer, of course, should make a practice of growing his own roughage, but in case you are short and require to buy any thing, we would unquestionably give preference to cotton seed hulls. * * • A CASE OF MOON BLINDNESS. B. C. W., Mt. Vernon, Ga., writes: I haie a horse about eleven years old, and about two years ago her eyes became af fected. They would get better and then worse again. Now she is blind in one eye and almost so In the other. I carried her sometime ago to a man who said she had hocks, and cut something out of her left eye. It looks better but she sees very little out of it. I feed her corn and fodder or ha - ,. Do you think her eye sight can be restored; if so, 1 would ap preciate a remedy. Your horse appears to be suffering from what is known as periodic opthal mla or “mon blindness,” the cause of which is not known, though it is thought to be propduced by germs or parasites. For many years It was believed that changes In the moon were responsible for this trouble, but this is now known to be a wholly erroneous conclusion. This disease runs its course and results in nearly all instances in total blindness. During an attack the horse should be kept in a darkened stall. Idodide of po'- ash in one dram dose’s should be given Internally as a drnch once dally for four or five doys; then withhold for an equal length of time and repeat. There is no cure for this trouble. The removal if the law Is generally a painful an un nessary operation and will not cure the trouble. • • • MERITS OF CERTAIN DAIRY BREEDS. A. H. P., Athens, Gm., writes: Which gives the greatest quantity of milk, the Holstein or the Jersey? How long arc they dry before coming in ? How much milk do they average during the time they are not dry? How much does it cost to keep a cow? A good pure-bred Jersey or Holstein cow will probably cost you from $75 to SIOO. Choice speciments, f curse, can not be bought for less than S2OO to S3OO Good grade cows of these breeds will probably bring SSO and upward. The Holstein gives the greatest qnantlty of milk, but it « not so rich in butter fat. On the other hand, because of the great er volume of milk given by the Holstein cow, sne will probably yield as much or more butter tn a day than will be ob tained from a Jersey cow. The Jersey cow does not give so much milk but it Is richer m butter fat. She produces a milk better suited to mature persons than to children. The length of time a cow is dry be tween parturition periods depends alto gether on the manner in which she is handled as well as on her individuality and breeding. A good cow of either breed should give milk for eleven months of the year, and if she does not give milk for at least ten months she should be disposed of and replaced by a better animal. The amount of milk given by a cow will give from two up to ten gallons, and a Jersey from one and a half to four or five. We would not keep a sow which did not give an average of two gallons of milk for at least ten or eleven months of the year. In other words, the mini mum amount of milk you should eiepect from a good cow is 5,000 to 6,000 pounds a year. We have cows which have giv en more than twice the amount of milk Indicated, and they have proven profit able dairy producers. The cost of keeping a cow depends al togther on the management you can ac cord her. If you have pasturage avail able during several months of the year, the dry feed and grain will not cost so much as where the cow is confined. The cow needs pasturage, of course, in order to get proper exercise and maintain a good flow of milk. There Is nothing bet ter than Bermuda grass on which bur clover has sown to utlizerl for win ter grazing. A piece of land can also be devoted to rye and this can ben used for late fall, winter and early spring grazing. If you produce an abundance of peavine and sorghum hay. you will have provided a satisfactory roughage for the winter season. Along with this you should feed cotton seed meal, and occasionally a little bran or corn, gay 2 to 3 pounds of cotton seed meal, 2 pound, of bran and 1 to 2 pounds of corn per day. The gram should be increase? or decreased according to the flow of milk and the appetite of th« cow. “SEND AMERICAN PEOPLE MY LOVE” SAYS CAPT. KOENIG “They Treated Me Finely/’ Deutschland’s Commander Tells Correspondent at Cel ebration in Bremen BREMEN, Aug. 26.—(Via London.)— The celebration of the return yester day of the submarine Deutschland to this port after its voyage to the United States was kept up until long after mld- Ing whenever men from the Deutsch land were visible. Captain Koenig was obliged to make innumerable speeches ana was on the verge of exhaustion when he retired, with the crowd still clamoring for him and singing "Deutschland Über Alles.” To the Associated Press correspond ent the captain reiterated his great sat isfaction at the treatment accorded him at Baltimore. “Send the American people my love,” he said. “They are good sportsmen. They treated me finely." On being asked when he was likely to sail on another voyage, the captain said it would be as soon as possible. The homeward trip was without un usual incidents. No British warships were seen, the captain said, after he left American territorial waters. unteers. Captain R. A. Smith; Floyd Rifles of Macon, Captain T. E. Harde man—who resigned his seat in congress to go with his company—Columbus Light Guards, Captain Peyton Colquitt, and Spalding Grays, (I cannot recall name of captain.) I was a resident of Macon at that time—quite a boy—and membei of Volunteer cadets, an offshoot of the Macon Volunteers, and armed with flint and steel muskets, that Captain Holmes carried to Mexico. We boys with other companies escorted the second battalion to the Macon depot. I will remember a visit of the Atlanta amateurs to Macon, did not hear them in Ralston Hall, but from the balcony of the Brown House. 1 have in my possession an old scrap booK of that time. If I could get some one to publish it with me, I’d be glad to do it.” (If you fail d4ar sir send it to me and I’ll cull out the interesting thingo and publish them for you. Mrs. Fel ton.) “I mention a few of the articles •Atlanta in Ruins,’ ’When Will the South Surrender,’ ’Virginia Battle Song, by G. G. Smith,’ 'Stand Firm,’ etc. lam now 70 years old.” These thing make up the history of the war time and their publication is of value to those who were unborn at the time of the Atlanta amateurs. MRS. F. RUSSIA'S AMAZING BATTLE DBIVES. To those who have kept up with the war in Europe and who were disap pointed at Russia’s poor success In the first year of this war. the story of 1916. and Russia’s tremendous and successful operations against Turkey, Austria and Germany is simply amazing. Their former inability was not caused by lack of soldiers or raw materials, but to thieir lack of preparedness and of guns and munitions of war immediate ly the Russian government set about setting leady and they saw the necessi ty for giving back on the front until they had an equipment they could rely upon. The s.ory of their successes in 1916 reads like fiction. Every day Austria same thing and the drive against Austria and Turkey is no more animated than tgainst the kaiser’s trained legions. There seems to be perfect loyalty to Czar Nicholas and the Russian soldier, especially the hardy Cossacks, are as soldiers as thei are in the world. They are accustomed to hardships, bad weather, everything that pertains to Russian climate, and we know that Rus sia is twice as large as all of Europe besides. The Associated Press tells us in the Jaily dispatches that Russia is taking over tens of thousands of prisoners every week with guns and ammunition in vast quantities. I have a suspicion in my mind that these prisoners have decided that it is healthier to work in Russia at any sort of labor than to stand in front of an overwhelming foe in trenches which are being bombarded day and night from thousands of cannon, accurately trained upon the trenches. Austria is a very rich and well popu lated country, but with Russia on the ■western front and Italy on the south eastern front, and Germany with her hands full nearer at home, the prisoners may conclude that precaution is the better part of valor. WOMEN'S BIGHTS. In the earlier days of the world, especially among Oriental nations, women were not allowed to communi cate with the world. She was jealously screened from intercourse with the world in which she lived. She could make no contract, sign no legal instrument, and enter into no obligation for her own protection as an Idividual. We get a very good idea of woman's condition in the eastern countries, in reading the Jewish writings of the Old Testament. We find that polygamy was authorized and practiced by the wisest men of the nation, on an enormous and general scale. Lecky, in the "History of Morals,” volume eleven, says that in Greece a woman, whether as maid, wife or widow, had no legal existence, was never with out a guardian. She was under per petual tutelage, a son even being guar dian of his mother. She could make no contract or any sort of a bargaip, with out consent of her tutor or guardian. She could not appear in any court, no mat ter when greatly wronged. Under Roman laws women were sub ject to the same restrictions as in Greece. The father could sell his daugh ter. give her a husband of his own se lection and divorce her at his pleasure. Quoting Lecky again, ’’where Christ In His teachings nowhere degraded women, yet even In the early Christian church a married woman had no legal existence or independence apart from her husband. The early societies of the church view ed celebacy as the ohliest state on earth, and Chrysistom is quoted as say ing that woman is “a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calami ty, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination and a painted ill!” The Provincial Ro- , man Catholic council at Auxeure. A. D. 578, forbade a woman on account, as they said, of her inherent impurity, to , receive the eucharest in her naked hands and required her to put on a white linen glove before touching it. Not until the act of 1866 was passed could a woman in Georgia own her own property. The women of Georgia owe a debt of gratitude to Hon. Andrew J. Miller, of Richland county, Ga., for his noble de fense of women before the legislatures of the state. He is said to be the first man in Georgia who raised his arm and voice to battle for women's rights,' and it was largely through hl’s effort that the bill was carried through for ownership and protection of their prop- | erty. ( Out of this injustice has grown the struggle to give to women in the United States the ballot, by which the/ can select rulers and defeat this tyranny of early days. Gloria’s Romance Uy Mr. and Mrs. Bupert Hughes. . (Copyright. 1016. by Adelaide M. Hughes.) , (Continued from Last Issue.) GLORiA was gone and Lois was gone, but an attractive youth like Freneau was not left alone in such multitudes of women as gather at .’alm Beach with no more serious pur pose than escaping the cold drafts of Lhe north and the torments of boredom in the south. Many women had to tell him how brave it was of him to go into lhe depths of the everglades and tear from the savages there the daughter of Stafford house. Many of them told him that they would be glad to be rescued by him from any danger. He spent So much time gathering the applause from fair women that when the season closed at Palm Beach his firm gave him his full liberty. He had done nothing, they wrote, to encourage them to pay him further salary. He had to go next to places where his fame had not reached —,where he had only his winning personality as capital. He found men rather hard to impress, but there was always some woman foolish enough to believe in his beautiful eyes. Some of them were rich, and some of them were as poor as poor Nell Trask, the daughter of Gideon Trask, a canal boat captain. He met her in a cheap boarding house, where he paid his landlady nothing, except his atten tions and some extravagant compli ments. He behaved very shabbily in his af fair with Nell Trask, and deserted her cruelly because, at a critical time for her, he got a tip on the market and sold It to a broker, who gave him a share of the proceeds. He was so tired of poverty that he went to New York and anticipated his promise. But Gloria and her father were abroad on a summer vacation and Freneau was thrown on his own re sources. He flirted himself into an other tip and sold that to a broker nam ed Frank Mulry. Mulry knew the value of such a part ner, and he encouraged Freneau to learn from financiers' wives and daughters what could not be learned otherwise. In the course of time Freneau made himself so important to Mulry that he was taken into the firm as a silent part ner. At length, through a most confiden tial tip, he got in as a sort of stowaway in a piratical raid on the market and cleaned up so much money that Mulry was glad to take him into full partner ship as the senior member of the firm. When he saw the legend, “Freneau & Mulry, stocks and bonds, members of the stock exchange,” on the door and on the letterheads, Freneau felt so im portant that he did not care what Pier pont Stafford, or his daughter thought of him. He was the young Napoleon. One of these days ■he would buy and sell Pierpont Stafford. His success enlarged his acquaintance, his attractiveness, and his temptations. He was on the crest of the wave when he met Lois Freeman again. He was studyirfg the diamond crop in a jeweler’s window and wondering just what peace offering he should buy for a certain person whom he had rendered violently jealous when who should step out of the shop but Lois Freeman! Each stared at the other with eyes ready for flirtation. Each recognized the other as a former Palm Beach comber. “Why, Mr. Freneau!” was Lois’ ex clamation. Her language was not so brilliant as her eyes. “Why, Miss Freeman!” was his equal ly brilliant answer. The same thing was true of him. "But I’m not longer Miss Freeman,” said she- "I’m still Mr. Freneau,” said he. "I’m now Mrs. Stafford.” “Stafford! Stafford? The name sounds familiar,” said Freneau. “Surely, you haven’t forgotten David Stafford, your old rival for my young affections?” “Os course not,” said Freneau. ’Tvs never forgiven him for cutting me out. How long have you been married?” “O, for an eternity—two years.” “Really? You don’t look it at all! But that’s long enough for you to come and take tea with me somewhere, isn’t it?” ”1 suppose so. Anyway, I’m dead tired and in need of a pick-me-up. It’s so stupid shopping all day. And my hus band has already been married long enough to be quite frank about my ex travagance. But what else is there for me? He is at the office all day; and he travels a good deal. He’s ambitious to outdo his father in business." “So am I.” said Freneau. They were buzzing away merrily when they found seats in a tearoom where dancing Was the main business, with tea as an excuse. Freneau did not even take tea. He was not particular about excuses. He urged Lois to dance with him. But she saw several people she knew, and she declined. Also, she slipped away early. She knew enough to be elusive. They met again, however, at a less conspicuous tearoom. Then she danced with him. She told him he fox-trotted divinely well, lie told her she fox-trotted devilishly well. When an unscrupulous bachelor and the frivolous wife of an ambitious and indulgent man once begin a dance there is no telling how far it will lead them. At least there is no telling in circumspect print. And all this while Gloria was cherish ing her ideal of Freneau and working hard to make herself worthy of him! And her brother was cherishing a trust in Lois and working hard to give her the luxuries she exacted with increasing greed. (Continued In Next Issue.) Refuse Reduction in Income Tax Exemption (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. 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So taught Jesus when he said, “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me snail not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” John VIII. 18). These words he spoke at the Feast Os Tabernacle, when the Jewish people celebrated the experiences of their fath ers during their forty years of wan dering in the wilderness. In that long period of wandering Israel was guided day by day and guarded night by night by a pllliar of cloud and fire which was to them the leading of the divine pres ence. In the midst of these impressive ceremonials Jesus declared that he was to be to his followers what the mysteri ous Presence in the wilderness was to the chosen people as they journeyed from Egypt to the Land of Promise. The journeylngs of Israel In the wild erness were not by a map, nor by any plan of military foresight. Worldly wisdom would have selected a different and shorter route; but God in his per sonal guidance led the chosen people by His own way. In like manner our Lord proposes to lead his people. Life cannot be pur sued with a program arranged before hand by human wisdom To one stand ing at its outset God gives no blue print to guide and guard. And this is far better than any other plan of life. There are those who wish that every detail of life should be worked out in advance by human skill and set out with minute directions. But this cannot be, and such a plan has ended always in casuistical confusion and perplexing un certainty. It is the plan of the Phari sees with all its painful regulations and impracticable rules. It leaves God en tirely out of account and undertakes to mane every man the maker and master of his own destiny. Such a plan implies that a man may take his life into his own hands and dispose of it without reference to the divine purpose concern ing him, and without regard to his place in the providential movement which en swathes all human history. Young people frequently discuss the best method of choosing a profession, as if the matter were to be determined on a basis of personal preference or am bition. In this they are entirely mis taken. The work of life ought not to be a thing of mere personal choice; but it should be entered upon as a vocation to which God has called one. With refer ence to the work of the Christian min istry this truth is very generally rec ognized; but with reference to other lines of life most men seem to think they may do as they please without ref erence to God’s purpose concerning them. Doubtless It is true that there is a peculiarly solemn and sacred call to the ministry; but it is equally true that every man's life should be a plan of God. The Scriptures teach us that God has a particular care for every man, a personal interest in him, and a watchful oversight over him. Such be ing the case, it is the privilege of every man to shape his life under the guid ance of God. Discussing this truth Horace Bushnell says: "Every human soul has a complete and perfect plan, cherished for it in the hart of God— a divine biography marked out which it enters into life to live. This life, right fully unfolded, will be a complete and beautiful work, and experiences led on by God and unfolded by His secret nur ture, as the trees and flowers and the secret nurture of the world; a drama cast in the mould of the perfect art with no part wanting; a divine study for the man himself and for others; a study that shall forever unfold, in wondrous beauty, the love and faithfulness of God; great in its conception, great in the Divine skill by which it is shaped; above all, great in the momentous and glorious issue it prepares. What a thought is this for every human soul to cherish! What dignity does it add to life! What support does it bring to the trials of life! What instigation does it add to send us onward in everything that constitutes our excellence! What live in the divine thought! We fill a place in the great everlasting plan of God’s intelligence. We never sink be low his care, never drop out of his counsel.” At the outset of life the important thing for a young man is not to under take to choose a profession, but it is to discover the plan of God for his life and put himself under the divine guidance and direction in fulfilling that plan. The selection of a profession on the mere basis of personal preference, or selfish ambition, and which leaves the will of God out of the account, is an athestic thing and in the end leads to defeat and despair. The European war Is not an ’ J **B*‘ , “' —— unmixed evil; nor jet ia It an I unmixed blessing for this j. . At. country. We shall not at- I SfeAr'ftfVerW 1 tempt to go Into 'ho >”hi nl I i s:de of iho questbr at I | I n>.r shall w, dis. '»>• I bri'lcs", nnii.lt:. n | lar I fl I <.rh-r Knnlur s of tn- . KMg ’ t-ituati. w- bhuii a’ I MHhk I U..- war punJy fr standpoint -f prt-' s for ra .v 1 I prvdui“•‘iih’-r ; r..du h r- I 1 In this ■ r imp-rod |lg|^• from foreign countries. And I ““““ Vlf ~ r ' 1 ' I amongst them those that have Wwfey. I n< ’ l vone up in price in spite H o w I ot lhe war- I a?!* fjA I ’ or h,>re “ li d MytaMs * Kt- I peculiar situation In regard to / *3s*B I 8 •"■'’•rov o wiii. his so uni ■ I liked I. *’9 / alinos a s'np'- Th* i fiffiaEggPlCare I ran." of ;'uat beverage is / / Co< a-Cola. wSy Ist l’c Coca-Cola, as you JZOJ'y ~product—a product of the J'UGXJi aZNTOIOQfVTS'. • soil. Cane sugar—the very of course when we consider raw products we must carry the subject further on into the matter of the prices we get and the prices we must pay for finished products. We shall confine our consideration, too, to those products which have their origin on the farm either in the raw state or finished and manufactured into edible or wearable articles. Let us take wheat, for example. We all know that the war has put the price of wheat way up. Very well—this means that the whole country: city, town and rural population as well are paying more for their flour —there- fore the wheat raiser should theoretically be getting rich on a product which it costs him no more to raise than formerly and for which he gets more money. But wait a minute —there are other things to consider in this matter of growing rich off of the war. Cotton and wool and meats and farm machinery and sugar have gone up too. This means that while the wheat raiser is getting more for his product, he Is also paying some other agriculturist more for his product. This cuts down somewhat on the profits the war is bringing to the farmer. Then it would seem that the best way to keep ahead of the game is for the farmer to pay the farmer who raises his necessities the irsereased prices that the war has brought about and when buying bls luxuries or those things that are not bare neceuittea life to pick sad idwase from Close akin to the godless folly of choosing a profession without reference to God’s will is the morbid and preten tious talk of some young people about “getting ready for their life work. This sort of talk sounds like the chatter of one who has arranged a journey and is undertaking to pack up his baggage and arrange the details of the trip for per sonal comfort and pleasure. The life work of any man who leads a Christian life is that to which God points him. and there is no way to prepare for it ex cept to do the will of God day by day. On one occasion a young man wrote to Thomas Carlyle asking advice as to how to prepare for his life work. In reply that rugged old philosopher said, “Do the duty that lies next to you, and that being done, the next duty will have ap peared.” This Is but another way of saying wait on the direction of God from day to day, and one will certainlyj get into his life work wisely and get out of it well. It is not possible that human wisdom should be sufficient to plan a human life. Men have no foresight adequate for such planning. The contingencies of sickness and health, adversity and prosperity, defeat and triumph, are too numerous and too uncontrollable for' such far-reaching planning of the lim ited faculties of men. For the safe conduct of .life human beings need an omniscient and omnipo tent guide. Hence it was a gracious and blessed thing when Jesus promised to give to his followers “the light of life” in Himself. Life thus personally conducted will walk in plain ways and safe patbs. A supreme difficulty confronts every man on entering life in the fact that he has no experience of his own, and he is entering upon a road over which no other man ever passed before Him; for each life goes along away never trod by any other human being. Speaking to this point, Nathaniel Hawthorne says: “We have no experiences of our own, nor can we use the experience of any other human being until it is too late.” The Hebrew Psalmist felt this truth when he said, “I am a stranger in the earth; hide not thy commandments from me.” Being a stranger and a newcomer on the planet he did not feel that he was equal to his own guidance, but needed the direction of the divine com mandments and the assistance of divine leadership. - Such is the case with every one. We all come through the world but once, and we cannot afford to take risks in the way that we go. Yet we take the most fearful risks when we assume to direct our own lives, or to mimic the life of any other human being. The position of each of us is peculiar, and. hence, we require personal direction that we may not miss the divine pur pose in our lives nor mar God’s plan for us. Serious men in all lands and of all classes feel this need of a personal Guide through life. There Is a hymn which has found its way in all the hymnals of all the churches, although It was written by one toward whom most men in the English speaking world felt during his life a certain antago nism. It is the hymn of Jqhn Henry Newman, written at Palermo, when all the plans of his life seemed to have gone awry, and when insuperable ob stacles withstood him in every direc tion. Because the lines he wrote an swer to the need of the human heart universally, his hymn is sung in all the churches of Christendom. Where is the pious soul who does not respond to these tender lines? "Lead, kindly Light, amid th' encircling gloom. Lead thou me on! The night Is dark, and I am far from home; Lead thou me on! Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me. "I was not ever thus, nor prayed that thou Shoudst lead me on; I loved to choose and see my path; but now Laed thou me on! I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears. Pride ruled by will. Remember not past years! “So long thy power hath blest me. sure it still Will lead me on O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and tor rent, till The night is gone. And with the morn those angel faces smile. Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile!” purest and finest —constitutes II a large part of Coca-Cola syrup. As you know, sugar has gone way up—so every glass of Coca-Cola you drink makes some farmer’s heart gladder. So it is with the pure fruit juices that, combined, produce the inimitable flavor of Coca-Cola. Not so much In quantity seemingly when you consider—a single glass of this delicious beverage, bnt enormous when the en tire Coca-Cola output is considered. Yet this product of nature—of the farm— Increased In cost though it has been to the makers, has not been raised one penny in price to dealer—or to you. The price at the soda fountain and, in the bottle has not risen one iota. Now inasmuch as the rural population alone of America consumes millions of bottles and glasses of Coca-Cola every year, you and the other agriculturists of this country will not only be able to continue to please your palates and get delicious refreshment with this bev erage at no increased cost, but you will be sending back to the farm bigger profits and more money at no greater expense to yourself. 12F, 5
