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War and Farm Labor.
The Government does not intend to paralyze or
cripple agriculture in order to raise an army, be
cause it irf not necessary; but neither is the Govern
ment going to subordinate agriculture to the rais
ing of the army.
In the present war in Europe, and in all great
previous wars, the places of men in the fields have
been supplied by others who were not accustomed
to work in the fields.
Today in Germany, in Italy, in France, in Eng
land. in all the warring countries, women in the
fields are performing a service of equally as great
and vital military importance as the men on the
battle line.
In our own Civil War it was the women of the
Southern Confederacy who fed and clothed the
armies of Lee and Jackson, not only taking over the
supervision of the farms of the South but actually
going into the fields and performing manual labor.
Wars are fought by men, and nobody else but
men. and their places in the line cannot be taken
by substitutes. So when it comes down to a
choice between men on the farm or men on the
battle line, every Government makes the same de
cision, whether it be the Government of the United
States or any other.
Up to the present time it has not been necessary
for our Government, in order to raise the military
forces which the program calls for. to make any
serious interference with the farm labor situation.
The men who have gone from Georgia into all
branches of the service combined, both volunteers
and selected men, are not a circumstance compared
to the ratio of farmers supplied by every single one
of the European belligerents.
* As Lieutenant Paul Perigourd, the gallant
French soldier and wonderful orator, pointed out
last Tuesday night* in his address In the Audito
rium. France has mobilized 7,000,000 men since
the beginning of the war. which on the basis of
population is equivalent to a mobilization of 20,-
000,000 men in the United States.
And yet, as he further pointed out, we already
hear some people in this country complaining of
shortage of men. when our Government has only
mobilised a grand total of 1,500,000 up-to-date in
all branches of the army and navy combined.
The trouble in this country is that most of us
have not yet arrived at a genuine realization of the
fact that war means sacrifice, war means suffering,
war means privation, war means hardship.
Women like Mrs. John B. Gordon, who reviewed
the parade at Camp Gordon yesterday, do not have
to be told the meaning of war. for they went
through it in the Sixties. They know, as we of
the younger generation are destined to find out
later, that we cannot go along in our usual way
and win the war.
Women have taken the places of men in every
buxines ocupation in every industry, on every
farm, tn the warring countries of Europe, and they
* wfll do the same tn the United States if the war
goes on for very long.
As to the latter, every single fact of the war
situation points to a long continuance of the strug
gle before the tremendous military strength and
tremendous organized resistance of Germany is
broken down. •
Farmers and Liberty Bonds
The Valdosta Times aptly remarks that farm
ers who buy Liberty bonds are simply sending their
corn to mill and getting toll from the miller in
stead of having to pay him toil:
“For instance, a farmer sells cotton, corn,
oats, hogs or some other product for one thou
sand dollars. He buys a bond with the money.
Uncle Sam pays it out for supplies for the
army, or to the Allies. They in turn send it
back to the farmer to buy more of his stuff.
Instead of getting five or ten cents a pound for
his cotton, he Is getting three times as much.
And he is getting three times as much for his
other products as they usually bring. .The
farmers of Georgia could afford to invest all
of their surplus money in Liberty bonds or
other Govei*nment securities, not only as a mat
ter of patriotism but as a business invest
ment.”
This sound and loyal philosophy should be ex
rounded and put to practice in every Georgia coun
ty. In the first two Liberty loans this State fell
far short of what its prosperity as a great agri
cultural region made possible. It could have bought
five or ten times the amount of Liberty bonds it
did buy, and still have barely skimmed the surface
of its potentialities. Its food harvests were more
bountiful than ever before and more profitable. Its
cotton output, while unusually small, brought
price so unprecedentedly high that the net gains
from the crop exceeded those of many a year gone
by
The results of that rich autumn are still with
us. and the prosp?ct for another year of even more
remarkable prosperity for farming interests is un
clouded. Tn the forthcoming Liberty loan, there
fore, Georgia should stand out as one of the largest
nurchasers in the entire Union, and agricultural
interests should lead the patriotic procession. There
never was and never will be a sounder investment
than a Liberty bond. There never was and never
will be a cause worthier of devotion and. service
than that for which the bond proceeds wfll be
used. Let every community and countryside in
this loyal Commonwealth prepare now to do its full
part when the Liberty loan drive begins.
• Be of Good Cheer
HISTORIANS frequently have observed that a
general who always sees the enemy’s ad
vantages more clearly than the enemy’s
aisadvantages will not get far toward victory.
There are American war critics who are continual
ly reminding us ot Germany’s strongest points and
our own weakest points, tor the purpose, they say,
of arousing the country's valor. These critics have
their use no doubt in chastening the extreme
optimist, but they sorely misjudge the American
temperament in supposing that our people must
be depressed iu order to be stimulated, or must be
frightened in order to be inspired.
Unfortunate indeed would it be. if w r e should
underestimate the task before us. It is the great
est and grimmest as well as the noblest exploit
on which the nation ever embarked. It demands
stupendous resources, material aud moral alike; it
demands the heart-deep loyalty and labor of our
entire people; and before the end it may demand
sacrifices of which we now scarcely dream. But
iu facing our formidable duties, let us avoid the
error of magnifying the enemy’s power.
The Huns are not invincible. They are not the
nation of supermen they think they are. They
have not been so reinforced by their conquest of
Russia that they can match the full strength of
America. They are not so firmly intrenched in the
West that they cannot be sent reeling back across
the Rhine and eventually beaten into complete
surrender. The offensive they now are launching,
whatever temporary gains it may bring them, is
plainly a desperate stroke and will cost them stag
geringly, if not fatally.
With the Allied lines tn France and Flanders
still holding and with the Allied sea grip still
unshaken, the problem of how thoroughly and how
soon Germany can be vanquished is chiefly a ques
tion of how thoroughly and how soon America's
power is swung fully into the conflict. The more
zealously we support the Government’s plans and
respond to its appeals, the sooner will that day
of glorious decision arrive. To this high labor we
can apply ourselves with the faith and cheer be
longing to a cause for which the stars in their
courses are fighting.
As soon as we settle the German offensive we
will try to figure out this season’s pennant win
ners.
A Test and a Prophecy.
The defeat of the La Follette candidate in the
Wisconsin contest for the Republican nomination
for United States Senator comes as a particularly
forceful repudiation of the idea that Americans
will tolerate a politician, no matter how shrewd or
how popular he once may have been, who is
against the Government in the prosecution of the
war.
In La Follette’s stronghold, if anywhere, the
forces of disloyalty and half-heartedness had hopes
of ascendancy. While fair-minded observers never
doubted Wisconsin’s rock-bottom patriotism, it was
the State’s obvious misfortune to have an excep
tionally large pro-German vote. That, of course,
was arrayed solidly against the candidate who
stood for support of the Government in war meas
ures and war needs. There was also a solid and
bitterly hostile array of pacifists, socialists, oppo
nents of the Selective Draft law and food control,
malcontents who had protested, with as much un
reason as recreance, against sending American
troops to France. La Follette mustered these
together with his personal following, behind his
candidate, James -Thompson. Conditions as favor
able as an anti-Government, anti-Wilson candidate
could ever expect were enjoyed by Thompson. The
contest* being for the Republican nomination, the
State’s Democratic vote, w-hich would go virtually
as a unit against an opponent of the President’s
war policy, was excluded. La Follette and his
puppet had the maximum of their friends behind
them and the minimum of their foes to face.
But they were beaten decisively. And through
their defeat the honor of Wisconsin shone In golden
vindication. 'Who can doubt, in any State, that a
similar test, whether in a Republican or a Demo
cratic primary, would have a similar outcome?
The day Is gone when Americans will countenance
or even faintly tolerate a politician who would
seek to obstruct the vigorous and efficient prosecu
tion of the war.
The Kaiser's advisers should inform him that
sending telegrams doesn’t dismay the Allies.
♦
“Fight!”
“It’s up to us all to fight—fight as if every
lick was landing directly on the cheek of the
Kaiser—fight as if our very life depended on
the winning. Fight with any kind of weapon
most handy; if not a gun, let it be a plow or a
hoe. but fight—fight aa if the very devil was
after you, as indeed he is.”—The Swainsboro
Forest-Blade.
This is the true American spirit, the true Geor
gia spirit Comparatively few of our hundred-odd
million people are privileged to go with the colors
and get a chance to smite Prussianism full in the face.
But everyone of these millions who is fairly beyond
the cradle and not yet ready for the grave can fight,
and fight effectively. Everyone can strike some
blow against the brutal Huns, by raising or saving
food, by buying Thrift stamps or Liberty bonds, by
helping the Red Cross and other war auxiliaries, by
meeting cheerfully day after day the duties which
patriotism lays upon us.
But whatever we do, however we help, we should
do it in a spirit of militant loyalty to our country
and to the right. Whether at the front or at home,
we should fight, as the Foreet-Blade trenchantly
puts it, as If our very lives depended on winning and
as if the very Devil was after us. For in truth the
lives and the honor as well as the fortunes and the
liberty of us all are at stake.
The American people, joined with the democra
cies of Europe, must crush German despotism or
suffer unspeakable disaster and shame. We must
strike so hard, so swiftly and in so earnest a unison
that Hohenzollern Germany shall be sent staggering
to the dust, or we must submit, if not to the frght
fulness which was heaped upon Belgium, at' least to
a bondage which has been fettered upon Russia. We
must fight, not merely through the army and the
fleet, but wfth all the strength of an aroused nation
and with all the earnestness of men and women
whose homes are tn peril and whose souls are under
heroic test.
Austria seems to have no sernptes aborrt being
a silent partner in crime.
They Shall Not Pass
in this hour of the Huns’ supreme effort to win
their war against democracy and civilization, let
no American heart be daunted or grow faint. We
know the stuff our Allies are made of —the indom
itable courage of the British, the unconquerable
valor of France. We know that in the black days
of 1914. with the odds all terribly against them,
they rallied from the shock of the first onslaught,
rallied gloriously <%nd sent the enemy reeling back
from the Marne. We know that for seven fiery
months the defenders of Verdun stood unbroken,
until the enemy’s tides of iron and blood ebbed ini
potently away. The same British courage and the
same French valor are on guard today, while with
them stands an ever growing army of Americans.
The fight has just begun. It will not end until the
Huns are beaten. They are making their last,
desperate lunge, are throwing their last dice with
fate. They may win transient victories, but they
will lose the war as sure as England is England, as
sure as France Is France, as sure as America is
America.
If Hindenburg falls to get to Paris by April 1,
he will find that he has played his sorriest April
fool joke on the German public.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1918.
French Know War Is Against German
People as Well as Ruler.
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By Herbert Corey.
PARIS, Jan. 2. —William H. Taft rang a beil in
the gallery of French public opinion the
other day when he said:
“We are at war with the German people as
well as with the German government.”
France has always known that. Whether the
German government, or Prussianism, or milita
rism, or whatnot put it there, there is a sinister
ego in the Gennau people of today that must be
exorcised before the world can have peace. The
kaiser may be responsible for a good deal, tut lie
is not wholly responsible for the German officer
who was captured the other day at Verdun. Rather
a decent fellow, his French captors reported. They
lack that iron ability to hate that the Garmans and
the Anglo-Saxons have. They rather liked him.
“Do you think that Germany will win?” he
was asked. ,
“Oh, yes." said he. “Os course, we soldiers
know that the Russian and Italian affairs do not
mean the war is won by any means. But we will
win. Not what we wanted, but enough for the
time."
His French questioners were puzzled. They
repeated that last phrase:
“Enough for the time?"
“Yes," said he, quite seriously. “We will not
get all we want in this war. But in the next war
we shall take all."
Every one on the allied side is thinking only
of such an end to this war that there may never
be another war—at least, that there shall not be
a war In this generation. Our side wants a peace
that shall endure. This German officer wants a
peace that shall be a jumping-off place for the
next war.
LIKE ALL GERMAN PRISONERS.
If he were just a military-mad man—merely an
individual gone daffy with the thought of world
loot'—he might be disregarded. But he is rep
resentative of the Germans captured by the allies.
It is positive idiocy to put any faith in the stories
of lowered German morale as showq, by German
prisoners. The morale of all fresh-caught prison
ers is low, -enough. But these Germans are cocky
enough after they have been fed up and warmed
through.
“I want to subscribe to some technical papers,”
said a German prisoner recently taken by the Eng
lish. "I must keep up with the metal trade. I
am going to open an office in London after the
war.”
’ "Not in the metal trade.” said the officer who
talked with him, grimly. “There will be no more
control of the British metal trade by Germans
after the war. Our eyes are open now.”
The German was indignant. Incidentally, he
spoke .excellent English, for he had been schooled
in England.
“But this is outrageous," said he. “If you at
tempt to interfere with our conduct of trade you
will bring about another war. I warn you. Ger
many must be supreme.”
It is safe to say there is not one German pris
one in one hundred —barring those who truckle to
their captors and dare not speak their minds—
who does not talk of the line-up of alliances after
the war.
“We will possess Russia,” they say, “and
France and Italy will be too weakened to dare en
ter an alliance which may trap them into another
conflict with the conquering race. Give us twenty
years to breed a new generation—and then there
shall come the end of England.”
“How about the United States?" an American
officer asked the other day.
AMERICANS AS “FATHEADS.”
“Americans are fatheads," said the prisoner,
contemptuously. “They think too much of peace
—they believe too easily. They permit too much
liberty, too. They are at war with us. yet the
German press prints what it will In the United
States. When this war is over we can whip the
United States overnight."
“And South America?”
“We did not know how strong we were —be-
fore.” said the prisoner. Now we shall take what
we want.”
'Over in Spain German merchants have'bullied
their fellow merchants into taking pro-ally pictures
out of their windows. A weak Spanish govern
ment has been compelled to imprison Spaniards
who were passengers on torpedoed Spanish ships
for alleging that the torpedo was discharged by a
German U-boat.
In Italy and Switzerland German residents
have been open agents for the central powers. Tn
Italy they have conducted intrigues against the
government.' In Switzerland they have taken ad
vantage of the fact that Switzerland is neutral and
wishes to stay neutral by openly and almost con
tuously smuggling food across the border.
“I watched the smuggling going on at the bor
der at Bale,’’ a certain man told me, “until I was
observed by a Swiss guard.
“ ‘For heaven’s sake go away!’ he begged. ‘Do
you want to get me into trouble with the Ger
mans? They have seen you watching them.
“Are you afraid of the Germans?”
"We are all afraid of the Germans," said the
guard. “They know the Swiss are weak, and so
thev bully us.”
’One might go on giving instance after instance
in which individual Germans showed the same un
pleasant streak that the government has shown
the world. If any one fancies that the German of
todav regrets the Belgian loot or the atrocities of
northern France that one is mistaken. Neither
the individual nor the German press denies or
apologizes for these crimes. Germany takes the
attitude that:
“It served ’em right. Next time they’ll get out
of my way.”
France and England know the German inside
out now. That is why the man in the tramcar and
In the restaurant turned to his neighbor and ap
proved Mr. Taft’s statement that:
“We are fighting the German people as well as
the German government.”
"At last,” the Englishman and the Frenchman
say, “America is waking up.”
PRACTICAL HEALTH TALKS
By John B. Huber, A.M., M.D.
DIPHTHERIA
“Let health my nerves, my finer fibres brace.”
—Thompson.
Diphtheria is an acute infectious disease,
caused by a germ which doctors call the Klebs-
Loeffler bacillus. The incubation (the hatching)
period is four days. The sure sign of diphtheria
is a dirty yellow-gray patch, or membrane, which
forms on the tonsils and in the throat, sometimes
in the nose. The membrane does not appear at
first, however, being preceded two or three days
by a dull red color in the throat, painful swallow
ing, swelling of the glands of the neck, chilly and
feverish sensations, and nausea. The breath be
comes offensive, the appetite is lost, the heart
beats rapidly, and there are liable to be compli
cations affecting the kidneys, the lungs and the
nervous system.
The diphtheria germ grows on the mucous
membrane of the mouth and the upper air passages,
and there they form the poison (toxin), which is
absorbed byway of the lymph or blood channels,
thus producing the serious constitutional symp
toms mentioned. The germs pass from person to
person by direct contact of infected hands or lips;
also in coughing, or even speaking vigorously;
small particles of moisture or spit or even frag
ments of the virulent false membrane (all germ
soaked) are discharged, to the great jeopardy of
other people.
If there is an epidemic in the neighborhood,
or a case in the family or in the house, be sure to
have and to use only your own glass, cups, spoons,
towels, handkerchiefs and so on. And exercise un
usual cleanliness, especially aa to the hands and to
all objects placed in the mouth.
THE CASE EOR THE HEN—By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7. i.—Keep chick
ens!
This mandate now goes forth from the
department of agriculture. The bureau of animal
industry, by co-operation with state agricultural
colleges, is putting a corps of forty poultry ex
perts into the field, for the purpose of stimulating
the people to keep chickens and raise chickens.
This effort is not to be confused with the poul
try club work, which has been going on for some
time. This is a new project. And furthermore,
it is not to be taken lightly by the city man, as
something that concerns him little or not at all. It
is addressed to the city and town dweller as much
as to anyone else, if not more so. It is a war meas
ure—one more appeal to the complete patriot. It
you would do your full duty by your country and
civilization, you must keep a hen!
Already a number of American cities have
lifted the ban on chickens by so amending their
laws that poultry may be raised within their limits.
Many more cities are expected to follow suit, as
the federal battery of poultry orators gets into ac
tion. These prophets of the new chicken coop will
address chambers of commerce, church sociables,
business men’s clubs, schools —all sorts of oigan
izations. They will furnish interesting and timely
poultry news to the press in their respective dis
tricts. Convincingly and fulsomely they will set
forth the case for the hen.
They are not talking to the professional poul
try man. The operations of this wiley gentlemen
are sufficiently and unalterably regulated by the
condition of the market. He produces what he
can sell, and he knows what and how much that
is better than anyone else. Furthermore he buys
grain in large quantities for his chickens, and that
grain would otherwise be used for human food or
concerted into some other kind of meat. There is
no real saving of food values that would otherwise
be lost in his operations.
But very different is the case of the small
farmer, who raises chickens incidentally, and still
more so the case of the city or town dweller who
keeps a few hens. Both of these classes, and espe
cially the latter, are annually throwing away great
quantities of food in the form of table waste. It
is all good chicken feed. There is believed to be
enough of it available to feed about two hundred
million chickens. And the department hopes to
actually increase the number of chickens in the
country by perhaps a quarter of that number.
The laws which prevent the keeping of chick
ens within the limits of cities are the most formi
dable barrier to the increase of poultry, and the
conversion of garbage into eggs. The cities and
towns must change their laws. For upon study of
the question, it is found that the hen is not the par
ty who brought this legal disability upon her kind.
It was her noisier half. It was the growing rooster
who was exiled. He must stay in exile. The ideal
municipal law with regard to chickens provides
for inspection of all poultry yards to see that
there are no roosters, and that they are kept rea
sonably clean. The hen is certainly a much
more cleanly animal than the bullpup who eats
the scraps in so many households, and a more use
ful one than the parrot who consumes expensive
feeds in so many others.
Neither of them, you will say, Is as much ex
pense and trouble as a flock of chickens. But
there you are wrong. For you are not asked to
keep a large flock. Two hens for each member
of the family is about right. The table scraps
will keep these with a very little grain and green
feed to supplement it. You will buy the hens in
the market—young hens if possible’. They will
provide about an egg a day for each member of
the family. That is more than the average fam
ily eats. To be exact, the average consumption
IN DAYS TO'COME. —By H.’Addington Bruce
HERE are a few facts worth thinking about:
Probate court records show that over 85
per cent of the people who die in New York
City die penniless or next to penniless.
Os the remainder, 4.3 per cent leave less than
SI,OOO, and 7.1 per cent leave less than SIO,OOO.
Only 3.3 per cent leave estates worth more
than SIO,OOO.
As with New York so with other American cities.
Some time ago a survey was made of the estates
of 43.337 people dying in eight typical cities situated
in widely separated parts of the country.
It was found that of the 43.337 as many as 41,-
329 (or more than nineteen out of every twenty)
left less than $5,000.
Nothing could indicate more plainly the uneven
ness with which wealth is distributed in this county.
But also nothing could suggest more strongly the
thriftlessness of hundreds of thousands of our people.
Most of the persons who die leaving nothing
have not been paupers all their lives.
On the contrary, most, of them, in their prime,
have been wage-earners, often drawing good pay for
many years. Not a few have been high salaried men.
But they spent as they received. They gave no
thought to the days to come, when they would
be too infirm to work.
Hence their dependence on others tn old age,
their death as virtual paupers.
What happened to them will happen to you. un
less, in these days of yowr money-earning activity.
Nothing is ever settled until it is settled right.
Every compromise with wrong means the whole
issue will by and by be up again.
Think of that, nations. When you make a
treaty of peace that contains any injustice, you
have left there the seed of another war.
When you have passed a law that is not just,
you have advertised for revolution.
Think of that, judges. When you hand down a
decision that is not just, you have provoked, not
settled, litigation.
Think of that, churches. When you preach a
doctrine that is not truth, some day you will be
shamed and smitten. When by any custom or au
thority you compound with sin, instead of stopping
it, you are no more shepherds, but wolves.
Think of that, citizens. When you have elected
officials and established conditions that mean graft
and fraud, then no matter how your city flourishes,
no matter what its proud buildings and beautiful
parks, its prosperity and shine, there is trouble
ahead, and open disgrace.
Nothing is settled until it is settled right.
The only way to go, if you would keep on going,
is to go straight.
Find out the facts, and build on them.
Get at the truth, and stick to it.
See what is honest, and go that path.
This isn’t religion, nor preaching, nor old man’s
advice. It’s plain horse sense.
Think over it, lovers, before you marry. Many
At a lecture a well-known authority on econom
ics mentioned the fact that in some parts of America
the number of men was considerably larger than
that of women, and he added, humorously;
“I can. therefore, recommend the ladies to emi
grate to that part.’
A young woman seated in one of the last rows
of the auditorium got up and. full of indignation left
the room rather noisily, whereupon the lecturer re
marked. “1 did not mean that it should be done in
such a hurry."
• « •
Landlord (with a determination all his own)
In one word, when are you going to pay your ar
rears?
Hard Up Author (with unshaken coolness) —I
will satisfy your demands as soon as I receive the
money which the publisher will pay me if he accepts
the novel I am going to send him as soon as the
work is finished, which I’m about to commence when
T have found a suitable subject and the necessary
inspiration.
GET RIGHT—By Dr. Frank Crane
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
per capita is fourteen dozen eggs a year, and
the average consumption of poultry is two and
one-half fowls per capita. Thus, if a family Gs
three keeps six hens, it may in theory get more
than the average number of eggs. When the
hens quit laying, they can be eaten, so that each
member of the family will be only half a hen be
hind allowance of poultry, if the birds have been
fed on the table scraps, the only expense of the
whole operation will be the difference between
the market value of the birds when they were
bought *and when they were killed. Thera may
even be a favorable balance of trade. Such would
be the case now with hens bought in 1915.
Os course, this theoretical operation is subject
to many practical difficulties. The neighbor’s
dog may cause an abnormal mortality among the
flock; they may get the pip or fly over the fence.
But the thing can be done. It may be profitable,
and if it isn’t, you can comfort yourself with the
thought that it is patriotic.
It will be noted that there is no chicken-rais
ing connected with this backyard hen-keeping.
This inspiring phase of the chicken business is
rendered impossible for the city by the un
fortunate vocalizations of the rooster. The egg is
the only increase* possible from a single parent.
Os course, it is possible to buy fertile eggs in the
country and hatch them in an incubator. But in
that case every youthful chanticleer would have
to be disposed of before he reached a crowing
age. Otherwise both the law and your neighbors
will be against you. No, this city chicken farm
ing is a matter of letting the farmer raise the
chickens, and the giving those of the gentler sex
the proverbial good home.
The case of the man who lives in the suburbs
or the country is different. He is urged to raise
birds and to keep a larger flock, raising feed for
them on the premises.
This chicken-raising and hen-keeping on a
small scale is really necesscry to save the situation.
The high price of chicken feed has eiused thou*
sands of farmers to kill all their chickens, thou
sands of poultrymen to cut down the size rs their
flocks. Corn, for example, which is an excellent
fattening feed largely used in the poultry busi
ness, doubled in price between the summers cf
last year and the year before. You can see that
such an increase as that has wiped out the profit
for many a poultryman. But it does not mate
rially affect the case of the man who can feed a
small flock on garbage and perhaps raise a little
green feed for them. It is a case of the amateur
coming to the rescue of the professional.
The department of agriculture’s poultry ex
perts are now making an estimate of the amount
of poultry In the country so that they may more
intelligently direct their campaign for its in
crease. Although no exact or dependable results
have yet been obtained, there are indications
that the poultry supply has been greatly cut*
down. For example, receipts of poultry and eggs
in the New York market are only two-thirds of
normal.
Furthermore, there Is always a heavy mor
tality of chickens about this time of the year,
owing to certain religious holidays which prevent
large classes of people from eating other meats.
Chicken usually goes up from five or six cents a
pound, and with the additional fact against the
fowl that it costs a fortune to feed him, his
chances of escaping the axe this year are slimmer
than usual.
That is why it would be a patriotic and also a
forward-looking act for you to go out and rescue
a few of these hens. Remember, any old hem will
lay pretty well for the next three months. And
after that, if she fails to live up to her duty, tehe
will stUl make a good stew.
you practice thrift.
And today there are some special means by
which you can practice it, to the safeguarding of
your happiness in later years, and also to the safe
guarding of your interests in the immediate pres
ent.
Your country is at war, forced into conflict with
a savage, ruthless enemy.
Only victory over that enemy can leave you
free to" work and earn and enjoy life as you have
been doing. Defeat will mean your ruin as well
as your country’s.
* Tn this war crisis money no less than men is
needed for victory. To obtain money th’e United
States • government calls upon all citizens to contri
bute from their earnings, not gifts, but loans.
It urges the purchase of'Thrift Stamps, War
Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds, all guaranteed
by the government and later to be redeemed In full
and at good rates of interest.
Here is your chance.
By lending to the government you wffl not only ’
be doing a patriotic act, but will be helping to Insure
yourself against poverty and want in the twilight of
your life. „ x ...
You will be helping to keep yourself out of the
ranks of the 85 per cent who die with scarcely a
dollar to their name.
Don’t miss this opportunity. Begin todav
through patriotism to benefit from thrift.
(Copyright, 1918. by The Associated Newspapers.»
a marriage has failed because underlying the con
tract there was deception and not truth, selfishness
and not self-mastery, passion only and not justice.
There is but one rock upon which any human
agreement can stand, when the storm comes and *
the winds blow, and that rock is the right.
What’s wrong’s rotten; and the fairer it seems
the rottener It is.
All the world labors and seethes until the right
is found.
You cannot build the structure of peace for
capital and labor, for employer and employed, for
buyer and seller, for government and governed, un
til you have dug down to ultimate justice and laid
your foundation upon that granite base.
There can be no liberty without truth; for it is
written, “The truth shall set you free."
There can be no peace without justice. For to
those who make peace that carries with it injustice,
comes the eternal cry of the prophet: “They have
healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, peace, peace, when there is no
peace.”
Get right with your neighbor, your wife, your
husband, your child, your workmen, your em
ployer, your fellow citizen, your self; get right
with nature and her even and invariable laws, with
truth and its white clarities, with mercy and its
God and His unchanging will.
Get right, or disaster awaits you in the womb
of tomorrow.
(Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane.),
A canny Scot was travell.ng from London to
Birmingham one day in a smoking compartment.
Turning to the man opposite, he asked if he could
let him have a match.
“Certainly,” replied the man. Bur a search in
his pockets revealed the fact that he had left them
at home. The ocotsmau then turned to the oth«»
two male passengers, but they both expressed thei?
regret that they bad come without any.
“Ah, well.” said the Scotsman with a sigh, as
he put his hand into his pocket. “I’ll hae to use one
o’ my ain."
♦ ♦ ♦
Father had decided that he must administer a
stem lecture to his six-year-old son. The boy had
been naughty, but did not seem to appreciate the
fact, and it was with some reluctance, therefore,
that the parent undertook a scolding. He spoke ju
diciously. but severely; he recounted the lad’s mis
deeds, and explained the whys and wherefores of his
solemn rebuke, his wife the while sitting by duly
impressed. Finally, when the father ceased for
