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TWO
MANY DUTIES OF AN AMERICAN AMBASSADOR
AS REOUIREO IN TIMES OE PEACE AND WAR
When Country of Which He is Accredited Is at War He is
Called Upon to Perform Duties That Range From Telling a
Distracted Tourist Where She Can Find a Doctor For a
Crying Baby to Serving As a Means of Communication Be
tween Two Warring Powers - Keeps Mouth Shut in Times
of Peace.
London.—To entertain and to keep
his mouth shut —these are the duties
of an American ambassador In time
of peace. But when tho country to
which he la accredited la at war he la
called upon to do ao many things that
only a man of the coolest deposition
anil finest ability could make head
way against the flood of requests. Hla
dutlea range all the way from telling
a distracted tourlat where she can
find a doctor for a crying baby to
•erring aa a meana of communication
between two of the great warring
powers.
From every capital In Kurope come
grateful appreciation* of the aplendld
work done by thn American represen
tatives in thla chaotic lummtr of
1914.
Herrick’s Case.
Take, for Inatance the case of My
ron T. Herrick, ambassador to France.
On August 4th, when tho German am
bassador to France received hla pass
porta, Mr. and Mrs. Herrick were sit
ting In their dismantled mansion In
the Rue Francois Premier. Their
trunks were packed and Mr. Herrick
was ready to hand over hla papers to
hla successor, Mr. Kharp.
They had had a pleasant stay In
Faria. It had cost Mr. Herrick some
thing Ilk© $160,000 the first year at his
peat, when he had to purchase hla
furniture and al>out SB,OOO a month
the second year. Htlll they had met
many Interesting parsons and no rude
story about the crudity of American
diplomacy had filtered hack to
America.
L Suddenly an avalanche fell upon
them. Thousands of letters, tele
grams and cables swept Int Mr. Her
rick's office every day. There were
panic. -stricken touristh wishing to get
home by express train, where there
were no express trains, and there
were anxious friends In the United
States Insistent for Immediate news
©f their friends or relatives
Those Private Interviews.
Reside* the pleasure-seekers be
sieging him night and day there was
the resident colony to be thought of,
thousands of them craving a private
Interview and advice about the heat
way to manage their affaire with the
sudden threat of a siege.
From Switzerland nnd from North
ern Italy the cohorts poured Into
Paris. They must be given care until
they aould be got down to the sea
porte and shipped serosa the Atlantic.
Hhlpa were lacking nnd there was a
general clamoring for the ambassador
10 cable Washington to supply the
deficiency.
Added to the genuine rases of dis
tress were the clever crook* nnd con
fidence men and women who look the
opportunity to reap a golden harvest.
Then, too. there were many Instances
of base Ingratitude Women accus
tomed to luxury cried curses on the
Ambassador's head for falling to keep
hem from slight hardships.
Graver Duities.
Boon there came even graver duties
for our hard-pressed ambassador.
The United Slates took over the in
ternets In Parts of Austria and Ger
many. This was delicate business,
enough In Itself to keep an envoy at
hla wits' ends. Frightened women and
children of nations hostile to France
must he protected or at least were
convinced that they must he. Then
there wore questions of state to be
handled
Mr. Herrick Immediately toek ad
vantage of offers of aeslstsncs from
American friends In Parle and organ
Ised a large force ae best he could.
There we e several compilttoea form
ed for rattaf work. He and Mrs. Her
rick worked day and night. They
placed their motor cars In service.
They opened their house and refur
nished It and here they gave the
homeless lodging and supplied food
to many. They used large amounts
of thatr own money tn their work.
Roth fell 111. but kept on working.
Finally Mr. Herrick remained the only
ambassador In Paris
Mr. Sharp and Robert Bacon, a for
mer United States ambassador, luck
ily arrived In lima to be of assistance.
But Mr. Herrick did the principal
work and his name will figure In his
tory with thst of Washburn*. Ameri
can envoy of 1671-18 TI. ths only dl
Winter Grain Crops For The South
Plant Oats Now and Save the Cotton Crop
By K. J. H. DcLOACH, Director Georgia Experiment Station
“Via* winter grain •hmiM he sown In
tli* Pouih I* now beyond the experi
mental elage. Th* only question with
th» f>irni«*s la a wise choirs of crop*
amt tlia proper preparation of th* lend
and th# planting of lha orop Tha crops
that can be grown with profit ara wheat
oat a, rye. baric. Tha moat common of
iheee now grown tn tha South la oata.
Oata comoa In almoat every eyetem of
rrop roatlon of the South, whether It t>e
corn oata and cotton, or corn and oata
A few farmers at 111 uae the old rotation
of corn and Colton, hut moat of them
are getting to the three-crop rotation.
Oata
When we consider that oata la good
for man and braat. we thould make
greater efforta to grow It on every farm
fn the South. There te no bettor food
for man titan oatmeal, and certainly
nothing can be better for horace than
good freah-grown oata If our horaea
had to depend on Southern-grown oata
at the present time, they would not get
ni>we than two bushels >«ch year ye*.
.Inal think what thla meana, Not enough
IP feed the horae population of the
Honth two weeka ts they had to depend
•n Southern-grown •*«»
Preparation.
!>and that la to ha planted In full .an
ahould tie thoroughly broken and har
rowed not later than September let and
planted the flret good eeaeon after Sep
(ember 16th. A twc.-liorse turn or diet
plow ahould be used In the breaking,
and a dlac harrow for tuirrowlng The
land should form a good aeed hetl before
planting Farmers must renirmher that
•ends will do well when they have a
good tied In which to grow, and thev
will do vary poorly when they do not
have a aeed bet'
Planting.
Oats ahould !»e a-twn with a regular
grain drill, either the eulky etyle or the
awjtMm f —■- Sty .a. Tie* larger style |
plomatfst of Importance. to brave the
terrors of the Paris siege.
45,000 Americans Sailed.
The story of Mr. Herrick's work In
Purls Is largely that of Walter H.
Page hero and of James W. Gerard In
Berlin. London probably handled the
largest number of tourists. Forty
five thousands of Americans sailed
for homo from British ports between
August Kill and 29th alone. Probably
a hundred thousand have left Kurope
for America by now.
Mr. Gerard has especial difficulties
to contend with. When he took up
his duties in Jierliit and rented the
Bchwahaeh palace at $15,000 a year,
besides spending several thousands
more In refitting, undoubtedly he had
Utile thought for other than magnifi
cent receptions and dinners, the usual
things Uncle Bam always expects his
diplomatists to do and to pay out of
their own pockets.
But the month of August found this
same magnificent home filled with a
mob of angry, complaining, frightened
tourists, unreasonably demanding the
impossible. Mr. Gerard met them
with calm patience. He stood in his
office day and night constantly It
seemed, giving words of advice and
cheer. Fever 1 times he, even accom
pnnled trainloads of Americans to
Rotterdam Just to see that they got
through all right. In addition to these
duties he had charge of the Interest
of England, Russia, Japan, France,
Belgium, Servla and Montenegro.
Efforts Misunderstood.
Tils efforts were misunderstood by
a section of the German press, which
saw In his assiduity In getting Ameri
cans home the threat of war by the
United States against Germany.
Yet the hulk of Germans watched
American efficiency with admiration
and Mr. Gerard was acclaimed as a
worthy representative of a great neu
tral country.
In lielghin, Brand Whitlock, our
minister, found himself In the actual
theater of war operations. First hs
had to meet swarm of frightened per
sons caught In the rapid advance of
the German army and escort them to
Antwerp. Then came the occupation
of the Helglnn capital. Undoubtedly
Mr. Whitlock ahouhl have moat of the
credit for preventing scenes of vio
lence hi Brussels. He accompanied
the Burgomaster, M. Max. to meet
the German conquereor, Gen. Saxe von
Armln. If he did not actually, ns told
In some cabled stories, take Brussels
"under American protection" yet he
undoubtedly lmd much to do with ar
ranging the terms of surrender and
In calming the populace. The Brux
ellois swear by Mr. Whitlock now.
Look Out for Citizens.
In Vienna Frederick C. Penfleld,
like Mr. Gerard, had to look out for
the citizens of Russia, England, Japan,
Belgium, France, Servla and Monte
negro, as well as his own country
men. His beautlful home was con
verted to the needs of charity.
Henry Van T>yke, minister to Hol
land. and Thomns Nelson Page, am
bassador to Italy, also felt the heavy
strain and acquitted themselves cre
ltably.
It Is undoubted that one effect of
the wnr will be to ralsethe estimation
of American diplomats and diplomacy
abroad. The peoples of Europe reallxe
the heavy debt they all owe to Amer
ican representatives. Their debt Is
growing, 100. American ambassadors
are arranging for the exchange of
prisoners of war and already have
succeeded In effecting much In the
line of sending home non-combatants
caught In England and English caught
In Germany. And when the lime
comes to settle this hug© and dread
ful war the nmhnssadors of Washing,
ton will have much to do with the
difficult tnaks of arranging the terms
of peace,
"Shirt sleeve diplomacy” Is the
nnm# somtlines applied to our brand.
This name was Invented by disgusted
Americans themselves. It may have
been merited long ngo. but today,
when diplomatists of Europe saw a
war break In a few weeks despite
them. American diplomacy Is hound to
be the standard for all that Is best In
that vocation.
»'*•** "“vantage es being contracted
an that It will aow about six eight or
ten rows m a time. If need l-e It will
nlao put out the fertilisers at the time
of sowing However, when the .rop
te sown It ahould be put In the open
[ n .i keep from being
killed hv the cild weather In winter It
waa almost Impoeathle at one time to
keep oata through the winter and tt la
rani by fnrniera that ihev did not use
to count on getting more than one crop
in Ihtpo of fall outi |<y th© op©n fnt**
method you nr© vertntn to »**t *
«*WH> #v®ry >ei«r. If you hav© food Uad
•no rrfwri It pror«*rly for th© crop
A ©um l on ©-row <lrt:i will coot attout
ft Ort <©• 15.00, and the laris© milky drill
• (tout IGT* 00 Th© tatter wit! pay for
lfp©if Ih® first yttur on n hundred >*cr©
ft©ld of oat*.
Vltld.#
A «r crop of oAt■ ought to yield at
l©a»t ■ Jiuahda p©r acr®. ami mora if
th® l*j<« la property prepared ami th©
crop f«* tidied Many fanner© in th©
South ralss mora than a hundred buthala
per acre. On® fanner In a Southern
state talaea an average N os a hundred
bushels to th© acr® on almoat a hundred
A©rer ll© ha® studied th© pon*l bill tie®
of valainit outs and van get th© moat
from the investment If ©vary fanner
could rale© a hundred hueheta |*©r wore,
w ©
H I alt ggling to aupptx
the Increasing demamla I- ad© upon t| for
grain within ita own bant**'* fir th|»
proper at udy and preparation of the
©oil and fertilise!ion. there would be no
trouble about getting a hundred bushels
to the acre. On and that will make a
bale of cotton per mtc a hundred bueh
el® of o.ita can he raised pe* nor© TV©
h<-\e thouaarda of »ir’‘wUt»j on©
bale per ®cr© throughout Ih*- Smith.
Whir. Part of the Farm to Put in Oata.
imam jj» ©*.® wiU £iuv« alia U to*
best crops on the farm we should be
willing to put It on good land. It should
rank with cotton and corn and there
fore be treated the same. Usually farm
ers are not willing to spare the best
lands for oats They wish to put It In
some Irregular hack field where cotton
and corn do not grow successfully. It
Is of course better to put it there than
not to plant It at all. Our first thought
should he to plant oats, and then decide
where to plant It. In a good crop rota
tion system, It would naturally follow
the corn, and the corn follow the cot
ton. tn this way the oats would take
up about one-third the area of the en
tire farm and hy moving from one-third
tn another would cover the entire farm
with stubble every three years. The
farmer who once irles this will profit
by (lie experience and could not he In
duced to go hack lo the old method of
putting three-fourths of the Lu*m in cot
ton and one-fourth In corn.
Ths Problem Is to Make Up Our Minds.
The greatMt problem Is to get
started In inis method of farming.
What we need as farmers Is, Initia
tive—-tho willingness to start some
kind of a change for the better. We
do manage to get a living by
planting cotton nnd are Inclined to
think if we make any change at alt
wo might accidentally mike a fatal
mistake and thereby suffer. Over
fifty thousand farmers In the
Koutern states have tried what has
been suggested In this paper and
have succeeded. They would not
change track to the old method of
letting the whole farm he barren
looking all winter. They hunger PA*
•the green of thn grain field and are
not happy without It. They love to
hear the singing of the mowing ma
chine In spring like some giant Cl
- Tho large pile of straw made
hy the grain crop nnd heaped up on
the edge of the farm is like a mound
of goal to them, so useful do theq
find It for cattle In winter.
An Ost Hay Crop.
If for some reason a f irmer wishes to
use his land In winter for grain and In
summer for cotton, he will find it profit
able to plant oats for hay. This will
enable him to alive his land from wash
ing In winter and he can cut the oats
In the rough stage for hay In spring,
and then have the land cleared in time
for cotton. From the nature of let
ters of inquiry from all over the Mouth
with reference to diseases of animals,
one would Judge that tho animals are
not fed right and should have more for
age. They would do far better on good
forage mixed with grains than on the
grain, ns they now get It and a very
small amount of forage or roughage.
Most farmers feed only a bundle and a
half or two bundles of common fodder
Per day to horses, which Is not a third
enough. Horses ought to have as much
of this kind of food ns they win eat.
R y«—Bye Is a Winter Cover Crop.
It line been otintomarv In the South to'
envc the cotton and tobacco lands clear
in winter, and consequently the wlntei*"
rains wash them, and fill our creeks
and rivers with the rich soil so needed
in *mrh to rtow our crons Th« ri«ar
streams of water are always In those
cnnnttlrs where the farmers take care
or tn* land It ran not *et away and
wash down Into the see. Some have
s.ild that an Index lo the prosperity of
any country's agriculture Is the looks of
the streams of water that flow through
that country. Put our Southland to test
snd It makes ns blush with shame to
see all our brooks, creeks and rivers
esrrvlng away tn the mighty orean the
very life blood of our fertile lands. Shall
we continue this suicidal policy’
Rye s * good rover erop In that |t
will hold the land together and enn at
the same time he grazed most of the
winter, especially where end when the
soli Is not too soft No grain erop does
very well If the soil Is too packed. If we
use rye only fee*.a winter cover crop and
for winter grazing. It will pay for the
eost Of the grnln nnd the planting many
times over. It will save the South
millions of tons of good soli now flow
nr clown onr strsnms of watsr and will
lieln to keep livestock In *oo<l health,
and atvs us n bountiful supply of nilTk
ths snms thus Prosperity on the
fiirm In nlwnys the result of a'diversity
~f inMr.tq nnd the fnrnier who is will'-
In* to study his land and keep before
him the Possibilities of his farm, will
see that his soil remains Intact, that his
crops thrive nnd his livestock always
show’ *rood keep. One wav to accomp
lish ell this is to rover all the land pos
sible with winter rye and other like
crops.
Tim© snd Place of Planting Rye.
Rve may be planted between the cot
ton rows in enrlv October. If the plnnt
liir follows closely the pickers. There
will he no cotton to knock out, snd the
KValn needs only to iret anchored 1n or
der for It to make a Rood crop. A firm
soil will make winter Krasin* less In
jurious. A pood quick way to plant
rye In the fsl! is to disc the corn lnnd
or cotton land If the cotton land Is
cleared in time or the tobacco land a
little further north with a disc hnfrow,
and seed It with rye by means of a
patent drill.
Pertllliers.
Farmers do not generally put ferti
lizers with rye hut where It has been
tried, it h is proven a profitable venture.
It should ho fed with proper fertilisers
like all other crops. The rye makes a
more rapid and vigorous growth nnd
forms a better pasture and will fult
heavlf.
For rye especially If grown for grain.
us»» barnyard niamtre when poaaible. but
use also as for oats nnd wheat, com
plete formulas of acid phosphate, potash
and a slowly available nitrogenous fer
tiliser. In fact, the great value of fer
tilise! s on winter grain crops is now for
the first time being tully Realised.
EXPORTING COTTON GOODS
New York.—More business Is begln
| ntng to come along for export In cot*
; ton good*. Th* prospects of selling
jin larger quantities than normal are
excellent. Up to tha preaent time
there have been tunny semi-official
and partly speculative Inquiries for
duck, but there have also been gome
sales made this week again for goods
jto take the place of goods hitherto
made In England and elsewhere for
nrmy purpose* For thla reason, th*
! army duck division of th* market is.
better than any other line of cotton
i duck.
In the past few days substantial
sales of cotton towels were mad* to
[agent* of foreign buying syndicates.
! possibly working for armies In the
field, and the demand could not tie
i met from *l>ot slock*. During th* day
there was an added demand for 36-
! Inch tobacco cloths that nre used by
j converter* of hospital supply mate
rial* of cotton and some fairly larg*
sales of spots were mad* to supple*
ment contract* placed a short time
ago. Much of this material will tm
| doubtedly be used for foreign hospital
; purposes. There have been some
j substantial aales of sheet*, pillow
j cases, and other materials of a do
mestic character, and the spot sup
| plies bought were Insufficient to meet
1 the needs of the purchasers. Some
.of,the large manufacturers of cotton
blankets and blankets made largely of
cotton, are figuring on contract* of
; fared to them In a firm way hy ac
credited purchasing agents for foreign
government*.'
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
Envoys of Whom America Has Reason To Be Proud
WONDERFUL WORKERS.
Hero are some of the men who have been raising American prestige abroad and giving the people of the
nations at war cause for gratitude by their extraordinary efforts in the critical and difficult positions where
the great conflict has placed them.
Above Is Ambassador James Gerard seeing a train load of American toruists off at the railway station in
Berlin. Mr. Gerard even accompanied some parties to Rotterdam. Besides looking out for hordes of excited
Americans, Mr. Gerard has the Job of representing in Germany the interests of France, England, Russia, Ser
vla, Japan and Montenegro.
To the right above is Thomas Nelson Page, our ambassador to Italy: and below (from the left) are Myron
T. Herrick, United States ambassador to France; Walter H. Page, ambassador at the Court of St. James; and
Brand Whitlock, ambassador to Belgium.
These men have performed wonders of organization and hard work in the strain of war. Mr. Whitlock
helped to arrange tho terms of uurrender of Brussels and it is to him that much of the credit for the orderly
occupation of the Belgian capltoi is due.
A Ringing Address Issued By Wright
Willingham, President of the Rome
Chamber of Commerce
Straight Talk From the Shoulder on European
War Conditions
For more than one hundred years the
United States have made trio proud
boost that this country could live re
gardless of any exigencies that might
exist In other parts of the world; that
this country, bounded ns It is on the one
hand by the Pacific Ocean and on the
other by the Atlantic, separated thou
sands of miles from the "yellow Peril:”
on the other hand separated thousands
of miles from the heterogeneous elements
of Continental Europe—the rest of the
world might go to Hell, if they chose to
do so, and still we would be basking un
der the sunny skies of America—the
land bubbling over with milk and honey
and hog and hominy.
And now, my fellow citizens. wo have
an opportunity to illustrate tlie declara
tion made by every hill-billie orator of
the last century or more, from tlie
mountains of Now Hampshire to the
plains of Florida, and yet here we are.
the average one of us, going around
like s mangy dog, whining about the
"The War You can hardly get an
audience with a man on any other sub
ject and nine-tenths of the people seem
u> be under the Impression that some
node has flone them or their folks a se
rious injury.
The question at this hour is not "Who
hit Hlllie Patterson?" but arc the Am
erican people--the Southern people, a
lot of pale fHce molly-coddles, with
skimmed goat's milk flowing through
their veins, or have they inherited the
rich red blood of our American airea
who left their bloody foot prints on the
frozen valleys of Virginia, when George
Washington led them on to a victorious
deliverance from the yoke of English
royalty?
These men v.on because they had sand
in their gizzards Instead of grape nuts,
and guts in their bellies Instead of tape
worms.
True, we may have to abandon some
of our twentieth century luxuries. it
may be necessary for us to adjust our
selves to a new basis of living but
should we surrender? True It Is some
of our folks may have to divert to some
extent the stream of gold that has for
the last ten years flowed from our
vaults and Into the coffers of Mr. Ford,
Mr Packard. Mr. ltulck and Mr Saxon,
and other esteemed fellow countrymen
to the North of ua. but we can still
raise mule colts and Jersey bulls and get
there somehow, even though It be at a
lower rate of speed.
True it may be, that our women, folks
may have to suspend their suffragette
convocations for a brief spell and re
sume the monotonous business of look
ing after the babies and knitting sox
for the men-but this Is the way they
used to do and they managed to live
through it.
True It may be. that our rich Pads
won't have quite as much money to
spend on their boys in tlie way of Pied
mont cigarettes, patent leather shoes,
and ice cream clothes, and it may even
be possible that the boy will luve to
1 lesrn something about self-denial and
physical labor Mil this Is the way they
| used to do and several of them man
aged to live through it. Take for In-
I st., uce Abraham Uncoln and a few fither
i cheap skates.
True It may be. that eme of our
farmers will he driven, against their
will, to the production of Hog and Hom
iny, Peas and Potatoes anil ilorghum
and Cider—but that is the way they
used to do in the old days ami some of
them managed to live through it.
True It may be, that the ineincere
polUlciaei Who has been feeding the
"Dear 1 People” on glittering generalities
and pleasant platitudes may be called
upon to deliver the goods instead of hon
eyed phrases—but this is tlie way they
used to do in the old days and the
country managed to survive it.
True it may he, that these kind of
times serve to show up in the commu
nity who is the real man and who is
the humbug, but we will have to sub
mit if we can't do any better.
True it may be. that preachers will
be driven to revisiting the sick, the
widows and orphans and preaching the
gospel instead of politicking around —
but that is the way they used to do in
the old days and it may even be possi
ble for us to survive the conditions of
that extreme character at the present
time.
England's unpreparednoss for this war
Is literally astounding; they have been
raising milk sope over there Instead of
men and suffragettes instead of moth
ers.
in France they have been intoxicated
for a generation or more with an In
ordinate love for dress, dissipation in ail
forms and a repudiation of Goa.
On tlie other hand. Germany has given
the world nn object lesson in home
making, statesmanship, manufacturing,
banking, farming and religion (although
they do drink a little beer in the after
noon after ependlng « good part of the
morning at church.) (It is probably- not
necessary. howev<*. for one to drink a
little beer in order to be truly religious.)
I have not subscribed to Teutonic sup
premacy. bccjMise I have believed that
there is too much trace of Blsnulrk and
Von Moltke'e "Blood and Iron" polity
In the German people. On the other
hand I say let the best man win, and
lets quit whining and go to work.
Suppose Germany had our opportuni
ties. Suppose German farmers had the
same opportunity today that the South
ern farmer has within his grasp; he
would not only feed his own family but
supply produce for families across the
seas.
Some people say that if the Germane
should win over the allied armies that
they would then ply their aggressions
to the South of tie; and seize the Pan
ama Canal and destroy the Monroe Doc
trine and dominate the commerce of
South America. Suppose all this should
happen, which' might merely after all
in- the vagary of some mild mannered
statesmans imagination, is that any
reason why we should go around with
% face as long as a lamp poet talking
war Instead or work?
The American people stultified the
Monroe Doctrine when they planted
themselves on the Philippine Islands on
which the "Yellow Peril" already had
one foot.
The German people have already taken
advantage of our euplneness add practi
cally control the commerce of South Am
erica.
one word In conclusion, and this is
with reference to our merchants and
bankers. The only criticism I have for
either Is that they hive been too good
to the people. All this talk to the con
trary is nonsense and Ingratitude and
the man wlu> indulges in It will wake
up before this thing Is over to the fact
that he has been making a fool of him
self.
I.ets ge>, down to Iran* tacks—adjust
ourselves to the new conditions—turn
our faces to the rising tun—get busy!
Yours truly,
WRIGHT WII,I,INGHAM,
. President, Rome Chamber of CouuMerco,
PLAYS TRICK ON
MILITARY OFFICER AND
HOTEL LANDLORD;
LAUGHED OUT
London.—A rogue with a sense of
humor has played a double trick on
a military officer and on the landlord
of a workingmen’s hotel at Sheffield,
which has made both men the laugh
ing stock of Yorkshire.'
The officer in command of the Shef
field barracks received one day re
cently an invitation by telephone to
billet 300 recruits at a new working
men’s hotel owned by a prominent
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, Rid
ley. The men arrived and so did the
mysterious "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 comman
der 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
will be guilty of a crime against mil
itary law, for which he will be punish
ed by the military authorities.”
Transport Officer Ridley remained
several days In unquestioned ’com
mand. then he became 111. As he re
fused to have a doctor, the manager
of the hotel telephoned to the bar
racks. 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, whereupon Ridley left
th* hotel and disappeared.
DEPEND ON THE FARMERS
Agriculture to Aid Unraveling of Tangle Brought
About By the War
The Continental and Commercial
National Bank of Chicago, In Its an
nual review of business conditions,
says that never before has the true
worth of the agricultural production
of the country been so Impressed upon
the mind as a fundamental factor In
,our industrial and financial situation
as at the present.
Prior to the Inauguration of hostll
- ltles In Europe, says the report, busi
, nese conditions were slowly righting
! themselves, and the financial situation
i was giving unmistakable evidences of
strength and Improvement. The
bountiful crops with which the coun
try has been favored pointed to the
1 building up of a credit balance abroad
through the exportation of our aurplus
wheat, that would strengthen the
; financial position of this country Im
measurably and afford It an opportun
ity of recovering from the depression
which followed the monetary string
ency of a year ago. This stringency
is traceable to the hoarding of gold
by th* European nations in their ar
SUNDAY. OCTOBER 18.
HR WILL BRING
NEW STYLE IN
WHISKERS i
\
Men on Firing Line Have Not
Time to Shave---The Result
Will Be That They Will Leave
’Em on, Come Home and Bo
Heroes.
New York.—Mlladi should worry!
What if this dreadful senseless san
guinary war in Europe does shorten
crop of Parisian gown. French lin
gerie, Austrian kid gloves, Russian
blouses, Bulgarian stripes, Cologne
perfume and waht not? The women
can learn to get along without those
things, for the enterprising American
business man will soon be able to put
out substitutes—"something just as
good"—or better.
But think of the men!
Think of the barbers!
This war will produce whiskers. Tt
will bring hirsute adornement for
male chins, lips and cheeks back lnt®
vogue.
Whiskers Everywhere.
Pretty soon Broadway and Fifth
Avenue will be all cluttered up with
whiskers. And all because of the war.
How is that? Very simple.
The soldiers fighting on the other
side, Englishmen, Frenchmen and
Germans are too busy to shave. It
may be that few of the London John
nies who enlisted went to the front
with a safety razor and a cake of soap,
but the majority of the men on the
fighting line are entirely too busy to
shave.
Pretty soon they will have develop- 1
ed considerable beards—enough to
make a showing, and they will decide
to leave ’em on. Where is the man
with not enough vanity that he does
not want to wear whiskers? They all
do. The only thing between the av
erge man and mutton-chops, Gal
ways or a Vandyke, is the uncomfort
able intermediate period whien his
face looks like a stubble field after
spring wheat has been cut.
There never was a man in the world
who was sick long enough, or In the
wilds long enough to get a respectabe
growth of hair on his face, who did
not have a sneaking desire to leave it
there. Most of them do.
All By Accident.
It’s a fact that nine hundred and
ninety-nine sets of whiskers to ba
seen are the result of accident. But,
once the accident has happened, the
possessor of the spinach is as proud
as Lucifer and wears the beard until
his friends or his wife tease him into
parting with it.
The truth is that all men like whis
kers and are always glad of an excuse
to wear them. In this war, the gallant
lads at the front will be so busy fight
ing each other, that they will pretty
soon find themselves with full beards.
Most of them will be flattered and
will leave the whiskers on.
When the war is over—that’s an in
definite way of putting it, but it is
the best we can do—when the war,
then, is "over, the soldier boys who did
not get shot up will go home and be
the heroes of the day, and they will
have whiskers.
Wants to Be a Hero.
Every man wants to be a hero. If
he is not a hero he wants to make
people think he is? Therefore, when'
the real heroes go home with whiskers
and corral all the maids, matrons arid
spinsters in the neighborhood, those
men who did not fight will immed
iately grow whiskers.
And of course the thing will spread
to this side. Such things always do.
If the war herods of London are wear
ing beards, the Beau Brummels of
Broadway and Fifth Avenue will wear
whiskers, too.
That’ what the war will do for the
men. They will have to wear hair on
their faces. Soon we will have “burn
sides,” Chesterfields, Galways van
dykes, “imperials,’’ “fire-escapes" and
all the old brands of whiskers and
doubtless a lot of new ones Into the
bargain.
The men of New York soon may be
wearing the "Sir John French," the
"Joffree” and the “Von Kluck” beards.
And what then will become of the
barbers? Think of that. With all the
men wearing whiskers, thre’ll be no
body to shave.
The women may have to forswear
European clothes and wear New York
gowns, New England lingerie and Ar
kansas kid gloves, but they will have
nothing on the men who have to wear
whiskers.
HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE
PABTE.
An inexpensive paste la made of one
small potato grated fine. Add boiling
water enough to make It clear, and
boll five minutes; this Is much better
than flour or cornstarch paste for all
kinds of pasting.—Woraan’a Home
Companion.
mament preparation*, and doubtless
the curtailment of credit resulting
from this concerted action haa had
much to do with the slowing down of
enterprise the world over.
Resourcefulness es Amerioan People.
“The best evidence of th* resource
fulnees and courage of the American
people and the best Indication of the
strength of our financial Institutions
seem to lie in the fast that, suddenly
plunged Into chaos, they were able
quickly to bring about some meaaur*
of order to evolve methods of carry
ing on our domestic business and to
provide a means for lntemntirmai
credit without seriously imp.Sng “ u n
gold reserves. •
“The efficiency of the Aldrich -Vree
land afct as a measure to tide over and
afford some elasticity, pending the
putting into operation of the federal
reaerve system, ha* been pretty wen
demonstrated in the last few weeks
there" wfl? rol'* *° ?** ur *' that
there will be ample circulating med
iuuL for their legltimat©