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Railroad Commission of Georgia for Third Congressional District, U. S. Court,
Southern District of Georgia.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 24. 1914
In time of war prepare for taxes.
Jack Frost is also figuring on adding to the horrors of war.
Wilson pauses long enough to intimate that conditions in Europe will
net make him jingoistic.
From all accounts the Kaiser’s staff is a sizeable army, though it
fights no battles.
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Gertrude Atherton’s Carman murder trial stuff can hardly be classed
as “uplift” literature.
Rich radium deposits have been found in India, but it’s a little too
far for us to hike.
Hat’s off to the Brooklyn judge who handed a convicted white-slaver
a 40-year sentence.
Most of us don’t care who dictates the terms of peace, provided it be
done soon and that they are effective.
Every time Taft tells how glad he is to be in private life, a lot of poli
ticians just can't help snickering.
Cotton breastworks wouldn’t be new, and if the belligerents could be
persuaded to adopt them it might help some.
As neither is a “sport," Champ Clark and Jim Mann are not backing
their pre-election predictions with cash.
Villa says the war in Mexico is over, “unless something unforeseen”
occurs. However, that’s usually what occurs down there.
A jinx may account for some of the defeats, but there’s a general
agreement in crediting most of the victories to big guns.
Wilson and Taft lunched together and swapped a few yarns, but both
were too busy to play a golf match.
Peace hath its horrors —sensational murder trials, for instance,
irf - .. ,
Being the under dog, Albert of Belgium is getting oodles of sympathy.
“Wilson and Taft on the same platform," savs a headline. It wasn’t
political, however, but to address the American Bar Association.
Turkey continues to make a noise like preparing to “butt into” the
scrap, though it may be only to work both sides for cash.
Possibly Europeans are the originators of those stories alleging South
America to be so hard up that its business isn’t worth going after.
There’s no news censor stationed at Oyster Bay. But the Colonel
hasn’t been there much later, owing to his speaking engagements.
Bapt. Besley, the latest explorer to return from South America, was
foxy enough to bring back moving picture films of his important discoveries.
President Holt, of the American Maritime Law Association, says the
seizing of merchant ships by w’arring nationfc is a relic of barbarism. Os
course it is—but so is war.
Perhaps those Tennessee “Holly Rollers,” who pass rattlers and cop
perheads from hand to hand as a test of faith, are out to boost the busi
l
tiess of the moonshiners.
A little more than a century ago John Bull started a ruction by mon
keying with American merchant ships. If he doesn’t want that chapter
of history repeated he would better be careful.
This New Orleans man suing a ti.cus for $25,000 for being bitten by
ont of its camels is another believer in the right of owners to put a high
price on meat.
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER
LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY FOR THE SOUTH
(By Milton P. Jarnigan, State College of Agriculture.)
All great achievements have been accomplished bv seizing opportunity
on the crest of the wave at high tide. Our recognized heroes and statesmen
have attained distinction because of their ability to grasp a situation and
act wisely at the psychological moment. Successful warfare and good gen
eralship consist of striking the enemy in a weak place, and not in dissipat
ing energy against an invulnerable point. “Hit while the iron is hot.” This
is a thread-bare saying which has lost a part of its force because of its ift
oft repeated use.
There are valid and pungent reasons w'by Georgia should not at some
time in the distant future, ot next year, not a week hence, but today, make
a beginning of solving the vital problems of how her people shall be fed.
The cost of living is high, which is another way of saying there is not as
much for each individual to eat as there was formerly. Our lands are not
yielding anything like as much as they should, and this is largely charge
able to the one-crop system with the abuses it carries with it. With the
low purchasing power of money, it is essential that our lands should be
stimulated to their full capacity. In advocating the keeping of live stock
as an important part of our general agricultural policy, and the diversifica
tion of crops, in order that both man and beast may be more liberally nour
ished, it is not our desire to dethrone King Cotton, but only to point out
some of the yeak places in is tyrannical reign. Nature has been a kind
mother to us, but in too many instances our irrational, abusive, and waste
ful use of the land has proven us unappreciative, undeserving, and unworthy
of the distinction of being called the “sons of the soil.”
History’ reveals the fact that the continuous cropping of land does not
of a necessity impoverish or reduce its crop-producing capacity. This is
amply exemplified in the older and more densely populated foreign coun
tries. On the other hand, it should be clearly kept in mind that in none of
these countries is any one crop depended upon, but rather a combination
of crops, coupled with the feeding of ’ live stock. Tovacco devasteted and
imporevished large areas of Virginia and the Caralinas, continuous corn
culture reduced the crop-yield capacity of the most fertile corn belt and
wheat alone is annually cutting down the average yield in the Northwest.
That this is amply true in the case of cotton is clearly shown by the r~-jt
census report.
“Feed the cow and the cow will feed the man and the land.” Any sys
tem of agriculture that does not automatically provide for the annual return
of plant food to the soil has the same disastrous results as one constantly
checking on a bank account without ever making and sooner or
later nature revolts in order to protect herself. The first evidence of abus
ive agriculture is seen in reduced crop yields. However this gentle warn
ing was not sufficient to persuade our farmers that a change in agrcultural
practice was indicated, but the certain approach of the boll weevil is caus
ing all thinking people to plan for meeting the ravages of this pest.
Isolated examples indicate that Georgia is one of the most favored
states in the Union for producing all classes of live stock. The herd of
dairy cows owned by the Agricultural College is Georgia bred and Georgia
fed. During the past fiscal year they paid a gross revenue of $188.33 per
head. Approximately 50 per cent of this was net gain. During the past
summer we produced beef at a cost of $3.15 per hundred pounds of live
weight. On the present market cattle of the class they represent would
sell at more than $6.00 per hundredweight. Pork has been produced at a
cost of $3.00 per hundredweight. Horses and mules that will command a
price of $250.00 in the open market can be produced at $75.00 each. These
great opportunties are the result of good and, fair prices, a long growing
season, bountiful and well distributed rainfall, which makes it possible to
produce both concentrated and rough feeds at a minimum cost.
ELIOT AND PRESIDENT WILSON
President Emeritus Eliot, of Harvard, is not a profound student, nor a
spiritual philosopher, nor a great interpreter of religion.
Rather, Mr. Eliot is a pompous sophist, an intellectual pendant, and a
superficial theologian.
Hence it was wdse in President Wilson to put consistency and human
ity into the mottoes which Mr. Eliot had supplied for the new postoffice
building at Washington.
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The news dispatches say:
President Eliot’s inscription for East pavilion:
“Carrier of news and knowledge. Instrument of trade and commerce.
Promoter of mutual acquaintance among men and nations, and hence of
peace and good will.”
How They Read Now.
As revised by President Wilson:
“Carrier of news and knowledge. Instrument of trade and industry.
Promoter of mutual acquaintance. Os peace and good will among men and
nations.”
President Eliot’s inscription for West pavillion:
“Carrier of love and sympathy. Messenger of friendship. Consoler of
the lonely. Bond of the scattered family. Enlarger of the public life.”
As revised by President Wilson:
“Messenger of sympathy and love. Servant of parted friends. Con
soler of the lonely. Bond of the scattered family. Enlarger of the common
life.”
In the first change It is clear that the scholar of Harvard has used
terms for their sound, unconscious that he was violating the great rule of
rhetoric he has so long propounded, and committed the crime of “tautol
ogy.” “Trade and commerce” touch one and the same side of human activ
ity and interest. President Wilson corrects this and puts humanity into the
motto, “Trade and Industry." President Wison likewise humanizes the
balance of this motto. On the second motto it is at once seen that Mr.
Eliot puts the broader, deeper and more controlling emotion first, and the
element of limitation or anticlimax is taken out of the motto by transpos
ing the terms. Mr. Eliot had it. “Love and sympathy,” President Wilson
puts it, “sympathy and love.”
A careful study will show- a like improvement in phrase in each
change provded by President Wilson.
—The Call of The South.
Must be something in a name. Nicholas Roosevelt, nephew of the
Colonel, has resigned an assistant ptofessorship at Harvard to go to Eu
j opc “to be near the war.”
If this country were at war with Mexico the cost would probably ex
ceed $400,000,000. If we were drawn into war with another first-class
power. Congress would be compelled to give at least a billion as a starter.
As it is, a light tax on beer and whiskey foots the bill for the United States
and while Europe furnishes food for cannons this nations furnishes the
food for the world. The enormous casualty list there doesn’t cause many
widows and orphans in American homes, either.
ROGUE LIVES AS OFFICER
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Oct. 24.—A rogue with a
sense of humor has played a double
trick on a military officer and on the
landlord of a workingman’s hotel at
Sheffield, which has made both men
the laughing stock of Yorkshire.
The officer in command at the Shef
field barracks, received one day re
cently an invitation by telephone to
billet 300 recruits at a new •working
man’s hotel owned by ap rominent
citizen. The officer was, of course,
accepted. The manager of the hotel
was then called up by the same voice
and ordered to prepare quarters as
well as supper for 300 recruits under
his majesty’s transport officer Ridley.
The men arrived and so did the mys
terious “Transport Officer Ridley,” who
thereupon chose one recruit to shave
him, another to clean his boots, while
a third was placed as sentry at the
door with orders to keep absolute
quiet in the hall while the commander
slept. Ridley’s next order was to post
this notice:
“This is a military institution, and
the men are under the authority of Mr.
Ridley, transport officer. If he calls
upon any man to perform any action
he is bound to do so, else he wall be
guilty of a crime against military law,
for which he will be punished by the
military authorities.”
Transport Officer Ridley remained
several days in unquestioned command,
when he became ill. As he lefused to
have a doctor, the manager of the hos
tel telephoned to the barracks. A real
officer appeared, and to enlighten him,
Ridley produced a note purporting to
bear a captain’s signature. The officer
left for further investigation, -where
upon Ridley left the hotel and ldisap
peared.
LESS COTTON--MORE GRAIN
MORE MONEY!
Tools Necessary to Raise More Gram:
Stalls fllttpp Tlle sta] ks from a bale of cotton
main viiuci. broken up with a stalk cutter and
plowed under are worth to your soil as much as 750
pounds commercial fertilizer. The stalks from fifty
bushels of corn cut up with a stalk cutter and plow
ed under the ground is equal to 450 pounds com
mercial fertilizer to your soil.
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D jcp * ie 1)681 tQoI that ? oes on y° ur farm. It puI
»UUUU| venzes your soil, prepares your seed bed in
first class condition, leaving a dust mulch which conseive the moisture and
helps to carry the plant through droughts.
frl*2feivi Drill* Pla . nts y° ur seed in a uniform depth which means
' ,IUIU ******* uniform growth and ripening; saves every seed.
VVe offer to the farmers the above tools, payment Sept.
Ist, 1915, with cotton warehouse receipts as collateral.
„ L salvation , this country, we believe is MORE
GRAIN, because of the fact that this country has got to
supply the countries that are at war, with food stuff, and
the prices will be high for the next twelve months.
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