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Newspaper Page Text6 NoCtLOO, not even 50r. net one cent cestjo yo» under our easy condition*. No extra chary* for f*rv-y. ewell *tyle*. no exw*£j? eharye for extra bit. extreme pey pearl button*, tunnel or fancy jLA loops, no extra eharre for anythin*. 7 J aQ HUE. Before you take another /"JR order, before you buy a suit or part?. W yet our eamplca and new j*.UFA el eß»*r tMJenne »•«*»’ pJrss* write, we /Wj ffil h*ve*newd-*l that wi.l open yoar eyes. W* ask every ni*n to iciov this. IrMIW every boy in >on« pants, every tn*n. EtlO everywhere. N■> matter wrere you live IWWJJ ce wtoatyoudo.wri* u»*l-tter or posts! tog tv end ear “Scad As« hoar New /rve M Qfer“ the big. new different tailoring D W Qrif DC chine and ncxxtxfl chflrflflfla Iy Writ* today, thio minute. > KNICKERBOCKER TAILORING CO. Da»t- 907 Chleara. HI. Order Armours Utilizers Now! For immediate shipment in cars loaded to capacity. Railroads are overcrowded. Every day’s delay lessens your chances of increas ing or even growing normal crops. •Don’t Delay Order Today Armour Fertilizer Works General Offices: CHICAGO AtJsnta, Ga. Greensboro, N. C. Wilmington, N. C Nashville, Tenn. Jacksonville, Fla. Augusta, Ga. Baltimore. Md. New Orleans, La. Houston, Texas. WRITE NEAREST OFFICE . Ih ASTINGS’ 1 ! *VKTE HAVE just issued the most at- IE » V tractive seed Catalog for the spring ot 1918 that was ever published by a South- I era seed house. Contains 100 papes, pro- co |j fusely illustrated, with a magnificently- jfl designed colored cover in bright natural a- - - Yoa should have this splendid Catalog before you begin your gardening next spring. It will help you raise better farm crops, finer v- getables and more perfect H-VXX. ? flowers. It will help you make more money. - Hastings' Seeds Are Always Fresh 1 Clean and Full of Vitality V A h*lf million Southern farmer* *nd gardeners nee LxSvS / H&stmiri' Seeds year after year. Hastings' Seed* fikxSXNW k I are grown particularly for Southern *oCs and climate LvW' / - and that is why they always produce better result* aMbilroSjP' AB l than ether kinds. ' Write • postal for your copyof Hastings’ W/f ‘ // : Spring IHB Cataloe«ooce, FREE, oiscouroe. Kuy t ■■ H. G. HASTINGS COMPANY "TRe Sauth’a Foremoot ATL.\>~TA. GEORGIA 1 Hasting' Seeds \ A HG CO \ At > ' ..." illllllllllMIIIL!llimilllll ~ —"S— ~ ~~ W i (I J -- I _ j.JjjjMnajS, I International Tractor Service WISE tractor buyers insist upon these three features in their machines: The tractors 1 must operate on the cheapest fuel a farmer can buy. They must be so simple that the farmer or his help can learn to operate them. They must do enough good work in the field and at the belt to more than pay for themselves. International, Mogul and Titan kerosene tractors meet all three of these demands. < fl International Harvester tractor owners get, through our 89 U. S. branch houses, a service that enables them to keep their I ■ tractors going whenever there is work for them to do. It i includes necessary instruction in the care and handling of the machines, both before and after purchase; the supplying of repair parts as promptly as circumstances will allow; and the * furnishing of expert nelp for the more difficult repairs, w Keep this service feature in mind when you come to buy your tractor. It applies equally to our Mogul 10-20-h. p., Titan 10-20-h. p. and International 15-30-h. p. tractors. It will ba ’ ( difficult for us to furnish your tractor as soon as you want it. The demand is hard to keep up with and shipping facilities are verv much handicapped. Send for catalogues now. Be ready lor the heavy rush work of early spring. International Harvester Company of America S| (fP CHICAGO . U S A tfD l I Champion Deeriag McCoraoick Milwaukee Osborne K Colloidal Christianity BY BISHOP WARREN A. CANDLER. The war tn Europe has shocked the world, and Its unprecedented character has forced men to think on lines never oonslderred heretofore. it has unset tled multitudes of men. who seem to feel that they Wave been cast suddenly into a strange, terrible world, to which nothing they have believed heretofore IE PAGES 1— I glue :::r, /A HOUSEHOLD NECESSITY THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1918. applies, and in which they must move as uncertainly as the inexperienced Adam when he first appeared in the world. Some are throwing overboard-the most fundamental things and accepting the most visionary notions. These are they who have fallen to prophesying about what is to be after the war, being un able to face with composure what now is during the war. They find relief from the consideration of the painful pres ent in predicting programs for what they hope is the more promising future. Among this class in our country are those whose rriinds run to the contem plation of the internationalism of the future. In matters international the United States have pursued until now a policy of aloofness which manifestly is no longer possible. This fact is clear to the dullest mind, and the considera tion of it by men of a certain tempera ment almost unbalances them. They are ready, have all national lines effaced, to have all governments reconstructed to fit the dimensions of the whole world instead of serving the needs of any par ticular people, and to have all patriot ism renounced as being so narrow that it is close akin to a vicious selfishness. T>r. Nicholas Murray Butler has coined an apt phrase for the character ization of this spurious internationalism. He calls it "colloidal internationalism,” and says It "would proceed by denounc ing all national and patriotic feeling whatsoever in order to exalt the super national brotherhood of man, and to lay stress upon a world-wide community without national ffles or national ambi tion. To nse a figure drawn from chem istry, this might be called copoldal In ternationalism. It Is hopelessly imprac tical as an Meal, and hopelessly unsound and unstable as a public "policy, whether for individuate or nations." In opposi tion to this “colloidal international ism.” he contends for a saner type which "would strengthen and develop na tionalistic and patriotic sentiments and aims, tn order that when so strength ened, they may be used without impair ment or weakening as elements in a larger human undertaking of which each nation should be an independent and in tegral part. Pursuing the same figure, this might be called crystalline interna tionalism. The strength and beauty of the whole international structure when complete would then depend upon and reflect the strength and beauty of each of sts national elements. The colloidal internationalism of the type of person who insists that he knows no country but humanity, and that the is a citizen of no state but only of the world, is hopeless nonsense. It prevents the de velopment of true Internationalism by affronting common sense." The "colloidal internationalism” which Dr. Butler condemns so justly has its counterpart in a colloidal Christianity which some are beginning to profess and proclaim. They talk in great swelling words about “a world church,” in whichH there should be no creed and no forms of worship. They declare that one Church is as good as another; and that all denominations should be swallowed up by some vast organization which should include men of all beliefs and no beliefs. This pretentious program 'appeals to the imagination of men who worship mere bulk, but it is the veriest non sense. When men have ceased to have creeds they will have ceased to think on re ligious subjects, and when they have ceased to think on religious subjects they will to feel any interest whatsoever in religious efforts and en terprises. Men of definite and fixed beliefs do the work of the world. A vicious senti mentality, or a paste of religious emo tion, may spread over much surface, but it has not enough body to be very poten tial. A colloidal Christianity will never be effective for the cleansing of man kind from sin and corruption. A man who loves not his own country never loves very Intensely the whole world. The purest patriots are the men who most ardently love all mankind. In like manner the man who loves his own church most truly cares for all chuj-ches most sincerely and earnestly. True catholicity is not a colloidal com pound. The syndicate methods of modern com merce are so attractive to certain types of men that they are ready to import these methods into the sphere of Chris tian enterprises. They can not see why if several commercial corporations can be merged any number of churches also may not be merged into one. They fall to see that no conscientious convictions are involved in making a commercial merger; their only thought is to reduce expenses, increase income, and multiply profits. The persons interested might be Christians, Buddhists and Mohamme dans, and the merger would not be hin dered by their diverse 'religions. But surely religious principles are not so easily accommodated as are matters ot profit and loss. The German kaiser, who is a Loith eran; the Austrian emperor, who is a Roman Catholic; the Bulgarian king, who is of the Greek church, and the sultan of Turkey, who is a Mussulman, have formed an alliance in the present war to secure political objects. How absurd would it be to expect them to come into the same religious organiza tion so easily. This merger idea of a colloidal Chris tianity has been promptly accepted by young Mr. Rockefeller, who has publish ed recently an article advocating it. His piece reveals his utter incapacity for so much as understanding, to say nothing of expounding, the subject. He would have a huge obese church without creed, or ritual, or ceremony; but in what he says of the significance of bap tism he assumes credal principals from which most Christian people dissent. In arguing for a creedless church he thus sets up a creed. Mr. Rockefeller intimates that such a church might be conducted by laymen, and a ministry be omitted from its plan of operation. This view also reveals his folly, and his unscripturalness. Evidently he thinks the merger prin ciple employed in the organization of the Standard Oil company is perfectly l applicable to the organization of God's church in the world. But Standard Oil is one thing, and Christian life is quite another thing. Christ has founded and is building His church, and that, too, not according to the pattern shown in the office of the Standard Oil company . Young Mr. Rockefeller may be a very clever sort of young man in the com mercial world, but he manifests no spe cial qualifications for the reorganiza tion of the Christian church. "The church of the future,” which he de scritßfh will have no more existence in the years to come than it has had in Oie centuries past The religious re sults which have been achieved in the ages gone have been accomplished by men who had deep and definite convic tions, and such will ever be the case. A colloidal coalescence of conviction less men w.:il never issue in any sub stantial good. Virtue is not a product ’ of vagueness. Virility of life and labor ; is in exact proportion to vigor of faith. • It is nothing to the purpose to say | that Christianity consists in right liv ing. Os course, a good life is the fruit , of faith; hut it is equally true that faith is the root from which a good life springs, and we can not have the fruit without the root. When men cease to believe strongly they Will cease to live nobly. AGRICUm/RALOI Education ( ragfe # ANDREW ft SOVLt This department will cheu.-fully endeavor to furnish any Information Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State Agri cultural College. Athens. Ga. WHY WE MUST SAWE WHEAT AND FXrOUS Many people do not understand why wheat aTvd flour sawing has become necessary. .Such a thing has never been required of us before In the last half century. Why now? This .brings up the ever recurrent fact that a great many people do not seem, to realize that we have been at war for several months, and that the situation relative to the wiieat supply since we entered the great worid conflict has "become daily more acute until it has now reached a crisis. In our country a number of foods may be used as substitutes for bread. Across the water where the conflict is at its height bread in truth and reality con stitutes the staff of life. European na tions have always emphasized the cul tivation of wheat, but in spite of their best energies they were never able to adequately supply themselves. Con- j Ginners: Buy Early! Owing to pressure of war* condition* the necessity for ordering immediately, to in sure deliveries, is more in sistent than ever.' Ginners, buy the Best. Our MUNGER SYSTEM of gin ning cotton offers you this year the choice of six separ ate and distinct outfits, any one of which can be adjust ed meet your individual I needs and preference*. It will give your customers the big turnout they will de- I mand on account of the high price of cotton; and give you the productive capacity 9 which will offset your in fl creased operating cost. Write your needs today to I nearest Continental sales of- ■ fice. 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California sidering that quite an extensive area of 4£<uropo has been devastated by war and probably one-thin/ at the man pow er has been assembled for military pur poses, it is not surprising that their output of wheat should have material ly decreased as the war progressed. They have 'naturally had to look to other parts of the world for a supply of this cereal. Some may wonder why as we were exporting, comparatively little wheat previous to the war this country should be selected as the source from which to obtain the major part of the supply needed. Those who have this idea In mind overlook the fact that the very considerable store of wheat now in Australia, India and Argentina are. relatively speaking, unavailable because of the submarines. This instrument of the assassin has been used to sink car go ships to Such an extent that the husbanding of our shipping tonnage has become an Imperative necessity. The nearest available base of wheat supply to the bedligerent countries is now the United States and Canada. For in stance, a Ship load of grain can be sent from New York and Halifax and deliv ered in Liverpool in one-third the time required to carry the same tonnage from Argentina. Therefore every ship load of wheat we can send from this coun try saves, as it were, two ships, or, in other words, enables us to deliver three times as much food of paramount im portance to our fighting associates as they could obtain from Argentina*. The war situation across the water has reached that stage where the food supply is the most acute of our na tional problems, and it is infinitely cheaper and better for us to grow and ship abroad the wheat they need, even if it may entail some change in our national use of bread than to help them fight the war in any other way. We are paid a good price for our wheat and we are not asked to starve ourselves, but rather to eat substitutes of equal value and virtue to wheat, and whidh we fortunately through a kind dispensa tion of Providence have in greater abundary;e than ever before in our his tory. Under existing conditions it may prop erly be concluded that the supply of wheat in Argentina. Australia and In dia are of comparatively little value to the allied cause. Some wheat may un der great stress be obtained from Ar gentina, but the supplies in India and Australia may be regarded as un available until after the cessation of hostilities. .We made some effort last fall to increase our wheat acreage. The season was very unfavorable, however, and the wheat was put in the ground late and made a poor start before cold weather set in. The most severe winter in many years followed on top of this, apd it would appear that in spite of the effort to encourage wheat production in the south our harvest would be smaller than for many years past. We do not know just what the outcome of the wheat crop in the northern states will be. Spring wheat can be sown to a 1 considerable extent, though the greater part of our flour has been mill ed in years past from that seeded in the fall. We can not count too. much, therefore, on a great spring wheat crop, and at best it does not appear now as though we have reason to anticipate a larger wheat crop than was produced last year. Under unfavorable seasonal conditions it may even be smaller. This of itself should be a sufficient warn- I ing to every thinking man to induce 1 him to grow as large crops as possible of wheat substitutes during the spring and summer of 1918. This is a funda mental matter because if our wheat crop should be unusually small In 1918, we will of necessity be forced to live primarily on wheat substitutes until an other harvest. The wise man will be governed accordingly and will take such steps as are necessary to protect the best interests of his family, his state and his nation under the existing cir cumstances. A word now as to the wheat flour situation as it exists today: In 191" we raised in the United States approxi mately 666,000,000 bushels of wheat. Our normal consumption per capita' in the pre-war period was around six and ■ a third bushels. By dint of economy, i however, it was believed that we could ! ship abroad 80,000,000 bushels and ar rangements were made to this end and the wheat shipped. It was thought that ; with the supply available in Canada and the possibility of obtaining wheat from Argentine that the primary requirements of our associates across the water could be met. It was found later that it would be impracticable to secure large ' supplies of wheat from Argentina, that the wheat harvest in Europe had not ' turned out as anticipated, and that it was necessary for us to send much larger supplies from this country to meet the acute food situation existing over there. We therefore exported an additional 40,000,000 bushels, but this, while helping materially, did not satis fy the situation, and recently we were railed on by Lord Rhonda for 75,000,- I 000 bushels more to meet the require- I ments of France and England during | the three ensuing months. There was nothing left for us to do except to fur nish this wheat or see our enemies tri umph ard our associates fail. We have, therefore, been asked to; Ship abroad approximately 200,000,000 | bushels of A-heat out of the 1917 crop. ' This is practically one-third of our nor mal wheat crop, and means that we can I of necessity only consume two-thlrds as j much wheat bread as in pre-war times, i If we go ahead on the basis of con sumption which prevailed in the early i part of 1917, we would in a short time be out of wheat flour altogether and forced to live entirely on bread made i from wheat substitutes. This would be | undesirable and quite unnecessary. The , government, therefore, decided that the ; wise and Judicious thing to do under '• existing conditions was to cut the con sumption of wheat flour down to 70 per cent of what it was during the same; period in 1917, and to have the retailer handle flour to. the consumer strictly on a fifty-fifty basis. Tn other words, the ■ consumer will be expected to buy an equal amount of substitutes for wheat when purchasing flour, unless he is a producer of cereal, in which event he gets a card from his local administrator exempting him from this rule. The in stitution and observance of this method of handling the situation will supply our people with a reasonable amount of flour until next harvest and will not work a hardship. It simply will re quire a little change in our plan of housekeeping and the utilization of a , great variety of important cereals which we have been overlooking and •neglecting in the past. In this connection it may be proper I o enumerate the wheat substitutes I available for use in this country, and which are all home grown, wholesome i (Continued on Page 7.) t ' YOU COOK YOUR f’ood-why not YOUR TOBACCO? You know what broiling does to steak, baking to a potato—and toasting to bread. In each case flavor is brought out by cooking —by “toasting.” • K So you can imagine how toasting im proves the flavor of the Burley tqbacco used in the Lucky Strike Cigarette. 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I agree to try RaaorlO days and if satisfactory and as represented to send you your special price of $1.96 and if not sat isfactory to return it at the end of ten days postpaid. If 1 pay for razor promptly lam to receive a Fine f 1.00 Razor Hone Frer. (B) ' •.. «...m .....••*«■ ....... ....... i. i.... Post Office Shate R. F. D , Fertilizer Facts No. 47 fife ?WS IIW -1 II £ • . *'• •’ a WkEk~ ' il.- jf ■qQ •ttICL ® r 4 -: 1I The Tub That Tells the Tale The shortest stave determines how much "water the tub "will hold. Increase the length of the short staves and you increase the water-holding capacity. r The shortest element of Plant Food in a soil determines the crop yield. Bear this in mind. Southern soils are short in Phosphoric Add, Nitrogen and Potash. There is no use increasing one or two of these if one or two are left short. The short stave is going to decide the increase* ’ • Consider carefully. It is not the first cost of your fertilizer but the profits from the use of your fertilizers that ia vital. Profits come from maximum crops and maximum crops can OPiLY come from lengthening all the staves. Feed the plants a complete ration —a complete fertilizer of available plant food that can be used to produce a big crop this year. ‘ Frederick Brown, of the U. S Department of Agriculture, says in the Year Booh of 1916: “An analysis of the fertilizer in vestigations carried on by the experiment stations of this country and abroad brings out the significant fact that, generally speaking, the use of complete fertilizer—that is one containing all three elements—gives larger returns than the use of one or two of the fertilizer ingredients. Pat yoar Fertilizer Prohlems op to the Agrical- r tural Experts of the Farm Service Bureav —This Office Does Not Have Fertilizer for Sale. SOIL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE Southern Fertilizer Association Rhodes Building Atlanta, Ga.