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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL I ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST.-" Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matte’ of the Second Class. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months j' Six months c Three months n The Semi-Weekly Journal is published Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shor eat routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the wot . brought by special leased wires into our o . It has a staff of distinguished contributors, wun strdng-departments of special value to the ho and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. L V' er .' l commission allowed. Outfit free. Write BRADLEY, Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives na , are R F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle, Charles H.Wood liff. J. M. Patten. W. H. Reinhardt. M. H. Beni and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named travel ing representatives <_ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. •j-b, label u***’ for «<Mre*?ing your paper »b«w» the time TMr •Bt-cripti’r expire.. By renewinj at lent two week, be ta. the daw ea tbi. label, yon inovre refiUr J"™** In ard wins paper changed, be .tn* to n>entt"o wan aa ywr new address It oa a route, please give the route We cannot enter .übwrtptiona tn been with back numbers. Remittance, abonld be aetit by order cr registered mail. Addtee. all orders and noti-e» for tbta Department to TUB SSWIWEEKLY JOURSAU Atlanta. Ga. 9 i i " The Journal's Service Flat; In honor of the sixty-one Atlanta Journal men who have entered tne service of their country. The one white star is in memory of Captain Meredith Gray who gave his life on the French Battlefield. 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. * * 4 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