Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1917 — Page 3

WHERE TOWN AND COUNTRY PEOPLE WORK TIGETHER

Ar an article about the Farm and Gity GetTogether Festival at Jamestofam 9 jy. &•* be here some enterprising dreamers turned their talents to practical purposes : :

1 . *_■ , -J . I Too many cases country peopeople and town and city people misunderstand one iinitther, ami both lose. As a conseq uenee urban dwellers buy Oregon apples and California grapes, and > rural- folk buy their furniture, farm machinery ami supplies laity vM from Chicago mail-order houses. > Here and there, however, some <,f tl,e ,l,ore fi,r ' si K hte ' ! ™ en antl women of both groups are mak1 ing determined efforts to supplant distrust and contempt with fellowship ami co-operation. Auditworks—Ladies trad gentlemen, it works beautifully I The enterprising citizens of Jamestown, N. Y., and the farm people who live in the counties sur- : rounding the city (which have a population of about 40,000) joined heads, hearts and hands this last autumn in a great “Farm and City Get-To-gether Festival,” and the affair was such a huge success that a permanent organization was formed and the festival will be held annually hereafter. Here is an illustration of how misunderstanding is bred and why It persists sometimes: James Mason, a city dry-goods merchant, drove out In the country one pleasant Sunday afternoon in October, and was astonished at the number of apples he saw on the ground In orchards along the roadside. “I cannot buy good apples at the grocery next my store." he complained, “unless I pay Alaska prices for them, 5 cents each. Yet here they are rotting on the ground.” Mason jumped to the conclusion that the .farmers did not try to save the apples, or to help the c ity man and his family get food. “They are both selfish and lazy," he asserted when he told of the experience. Simon Newcomb lived on a farm near where Mason drove that Sunday. He had been iu town Saturday afternoon with a load of apples. The groceryinan looked them over, and offered Newcomb 50 cents a bushel. Newcomb had read in his farm paper that apples were scarce, and he thought he ought to have a dollar a bushel. “But your apples are not sorted. There are several kinds in the one crate, and many 'of them are inferior In size, and some badly worm eaten,” objected the grocer. “You leave them with me for 50 cents a bushel or else take them somewhere else.” ’ ' Newcomb looked at his watch and saw ft was nearly chore time, and he sold them. But when he got home he told his wife the grocer took advantage of him and was little better than a robber. But both men were wrong. The orchard owner was not lazy nOr selfish. He had other problems worse to handle and more necessary to him than picking up and saving a few bushels of apples.

SPIDERS ARE NOT VERY DANGEROUS

The famous tarantula, reported to be one of the terrors of the nrid quirts of the Southwestern states and northern Mexico, and which bulks so large In the imagination and the fears of those persons who have friends on the border, is really not the tarantula of history and of fable. One of the numerous students of spiders—and . the tarantula is a spider—says of that terrifying insect that it is the Lycpsa tarantula, a kind of spider found in some of the warmer parts of Italy and Spain. When mil grown It is about the size of a chestnut and of a brown color. “Its bite was at one time supposed to be dangerous.” says this nutborlty. “and to cause-rkind-TtJir ‘dancing case,’ but it is now known not to be worse than the sting of a common wasp.” It is very likely that when the early Spanish explorers came upon the great spider of the Soutb< ” wWtr^n3^^Tnf _ aTgo6a^dearnbf - Tes^tJtann6 r ~Rr~ the tarantula of the old world— those explorers not having been scientific entomologists—they called the new spider a tarantula, and the naipe lias stuck. There is no doubt that the big spider of Arizona, New Mexico, California, old Mexico and many other places is a relative of the tarantula of Spain and Italy, and in eolor, disposition and in the matter'of His hairy legs a layman might easily mistake him for the tarantula. But perhaps there fa not much in a name so far as spiders go. ajml it is just as well to avoid if possible that particular spider which so. many Americans call the taran- , tula7 though.it is quite pertain that the meanness of his disposition has' been exaggerated.. . J. H. Emertpn. one of the spider experts of the world, writes, after years of intimate study of

Nor was the grocer a robber. He had a trade which required certain standards, ami the stuff offered him did twt conform to those standards. All wrong, almost from the start. Just us the foregoing illustration makes plain the problem more than pages of generalities, so the experience of Jamestown in Its first Farm and City festival will show how the effort to get together succeeds better than more pages of platitudes. First of all Jamestown had a live board of commerce, and a secretary with a vision not bounded by the factory chimneys of the city nor Its city limits. Secretary Fred Clayton Butler had been studying some United States census reports on Chautauqua county. N. Y.. and he discovered that most of the rural towns of the county and all it? rural villages, hut two or three that had a lot of factories, had decreased in population in the last »tlinee decades. He did not need to be told about the Increase in cost of living. That was self-evident. In surveying the field he found that there was ■ an active apple growers’ association in Chautauqua county, pl so a milk producers’ association, a farm bureau, a lot of big granges, and a number of farmers’ clubs. The manager of the farm bureau was Hawley B. Rogers, and Mr. Rogers was called Into conference with Mr. Butler. “You do not need to tell me anything about decreasing rural populations.” interrupted Rogers, when Butler started in on his pet paragraph. "I knew all about that /Jefore you city people awakened. But what can we do about It?” Right here the city man had the farm bureau man beaten. “We can get together and find out,” was his reply. “I know that the city people have n double stake at issue; the cost of what they must have to eat. and the market for a large part of their goods. I think your people have something at stake also. You want good roads, and good schools, and good markets. Perhaps we can get together.” Out of this conference grew a bigger conference, present at which were representatives of most of

spiders: “When undisturbed, spiders never bite anything except insects useful as their food, but when attacked or cornered all species open their jaws and bite if they can. depending on the size and strength of their jaws. The stories of. death, insanity and lameness from the bites of spiders are probably untrue.” The species of spider are hard to number. The spiders of North America have been studied by Hentz, Einerton, Keyserling and Thorell. and no doubt by a number of other men who have specialized in insects, and it is estimated that there are' 800 species in North America. The spider has heart. 11 ver. stomach, in testifies, thorax, lungs and several other interesting organs, as. for example, the spinning glands and spinnerets. It is recorded that a good many experiments have been made to throw light on the effect, of spider bites onA distinguished entomole—gist, named Bertkau. allowed various, kinds of spiders to bite his hand. Some of them drew blood, giving a sensation like that of a sharp needle prick. The wounds^smarted and swelled somewhat and itched when rubbed, product ngvery -much the sensation of mosquito bites, butJiO-per-tnanent ill effects followed. Another entomologist. named Blackwell, also allowed specimens of the big spiders to bite his hand. He reported that he felt no particular pain and little inflammation followed, and the wounds soon healed, another entomologist, named Doleschall. reported that he had shut up small birds with the Mygale, one of the biggest and fiercest of the spider tribe. The birds soon died after being bitten. He allowed one of his fingers to be bitten by a large jumping spider. The pain wps severe and his finger and then his 'hand and

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these rural organizations and some active business men from the city of Jamestown. The pm- - portion at Tli is Nine, and so far as possible <n every succeeding step up to the big banquet which Hosed the festival finally and successfully held, was just “fifty-fifty”; half city people, half farm people on every committee and In every conf'-'" ence. This conference, held in August, decided to hold a Farm and City festival, a real get-together. In November. “Not a county fair, but better than a county fair, with the vaudeville features omitted," was the way it was expressed. At the initial meeting It was decided to carry out this get-together Idea by making the exhibits of an character as far as possible in every instance. To do this and to finance it several committees were named. A street was closed and covered with tents. Other tents were put up on vacant lots, and the state armory was used. All sorts of exhibits—prize livestock, poultry, dairy products, grains, fruit, vegetables, etc. —were shown and prizes awarded. State experts in all phases of farming, in domestic science. In child welfare. In dietetics, etc., delivered lectures to the city and country people A railroad traffic expert discussed plans for helping producer on the farm'to get his products directly and expeditiously to consumer In the city. The government sent a goodroads exhibit, and motion pictures were used to make many of the lectures more graphically interesting. And then there was a great closing dinner. Five hundred persons representing every part of the county and city attended this affair. There was fine music, for one tiling—orchestral and choral work, led by Cornell university music instructors, and solos—and Gov. Charles S. Whitman, who was in theeity on a campaign trip, left politics behind and he and Mrs. Whitman attended the banquet. “Co-operation” and "get acquainted” were the watchwords of the occasion. Two weeks afterward the committees met and decided unanimously to hold another “Farm and City Get-Together Festival” next year.

arm became lame, but the soreness soon passed away. The Mygale is one the best-known of the large and heavy spiders. It is a native of tropical and subtropical America. It is said that ft catches and kills small birds with its poisonous bite and then sucks the blood of its victims. The body of this spider is pitch black and is covered with long reddish-brown halt. It has eight eyes placed close together In the front of its head. It is a close klnsinan td' the so-called bird spider of Surinam. The official name of that American spider called the tarantuln is Cferdza Callforniea. and It is one. of the trapdoor spiders. It is common in New Mexico. Arizona, and California. According to John Sterling Kingsley, this spider digs its hole in a fine soil which when dry is nearly as hard as brick. —These—spider “hotes-rrre sometimes nearly an inch in diameter and vary In depth from two and three inches to nearly a foot. The mouth of the hole is enlarged and then closed by a thick cover which fits it tightly. That cover fits into the mouth of the hole ’very much as a cork does in the neck of a bottle. The cover is made of dirt fastened together with threads and; like the hole, is lined with silk and is fastened by a thick hinge made- of spider’s silk. When the cover Is closed It looks exactly like the ground around it. ? This, like many other species of spider. Is nocturnal in its habits, raising its trapdoor nt night and sallying forth |n search of food, its chief food being insects. There is so much diversity of opinion as to the effect of the bite oA,these spiders that in living where they are a man should practice safety first and take, no chances with them.

TRAINING TODAY'S BOYS AND GIRLS

Concerning Your Child’s Promises and Their Value. USED TO AVOID PUNISHMENT ~ ,When He Discovers That They Mean Quick Release From Unpleasant / Interviews, Then They WiO Become Worthless. By SIOONIE M. GRUENBERG. 44 ui ELL, I won : t do it again.” _ W Whut is there to say after that? You kiss andmake up, and in a few minutes the disagreeable interview is forgotten. You do your best to impress your child with the unwisdom or the wickedness of what lie has done. You try to be impress! vfe, but. you do not fee! sure that you have altogether purged the, little soul of temptation. , You wish, however, to make sure that the offense is not repeated, and you exact a promise. Another time it is something else —assuming authority to punisli the younger brother or taking something from the pantry without permission. And again there is an unpleasant conference and again it ends with the promise that the evil de.ed would not be repeated. In the course of time your child — who is quite -as intelligent as others of his years—learns that the last word tn a disagreeable interview has to do with, “prom isi ng’’—not to repeatthe offense. And as he is anxious to terminate these conversations he applies - hjs knowledge by offering his promise even before you get around to asking it. Not that the child reasons out the connection between the promise and the return of sunshine —there is no more reasoning involved here than in the case of the kitten that learns to come to the saucer of milk, A dozen times —yes, twenty —your child has promised “not to do it again.” And has he kept his promise? Alas, no; for he is just like other children. Up to the present “promise” has meant to him only the ritual that people perfbnh'‘whehapHsdnerißabouttoW restored to freedom or when parental displeasure is about to yield to forgiveness and reconciliation. The child has been too young, too inexperienced, to divine your more remote, your more subtle, thought. But you have been patient. And every broken promise has been forgiven. Until one day it comes upon you suddenly that your child has acquired the habit of making perfunctory promises which neither he nor you expect to be kept. And the fault has been entirely yours. The futility of asking a child to promise “not to be naughty again,” or “to go to sleep atjonce," or “to come straight home from school” must be apparent to any 'one who has given the matter a little thought. Is it not sufficient to request the child’s immediate return from school? Is it not enough to urge the child to go to sleep at once? Is It n<Jt enough to arouse the child’s desire to avoid naughtiness? It would seem that we resort to promises In our desire to impress the child with the seriousness bt what Is expected of him. but in most cases we succeed only in impressing him with our own discomfiture. If the child is too young to attach any meaning to “promising,” there is, of course, nothing wrong in his failure

A Dozen Times Your Child Has Promised “Not to Do It Again."

to keep his promises. But In the course of his mental development you expect him to know what a promise is. When this stage is reached the word and the associations should not have cheapened the performance for him. For this reason neither the word nor the act should be forced upon the young child. We should neither exact promises from him as a condition for restoring him to grace or as the cost of favors, nor should we label our promises to him. It goes without saying that the parent’s promises to the child should always be kept. But the temptation to yield "to importunities or to distract the child’s attention from immediate desires often makes us prophesy favors and Indulgences that we do not fully intend to have realized. And It Is so easy to concoct a plausible evasion! But it is a dangerous advantage that the parent takes when he thus Imposes upon the ignorance and the Ingenuousness of the child. For, however plausible your excuses may be. each experience with a parental promise that ends in disappointment drives home the thought that are intended oply for immediate advantage and ndt for future obligations. As the child grows older and comes to understand that “promise" does carry with it an obligation, we should be careful not to burden him with prom-

Isps that are too difficult to kee» Have him promise less and keep bl* Word up to 100 per cent, rather than get a larger total performance at the cost of a few broken promises. The ability to look forward, to gauge his strength and resources, to plan his time, must not be too heavily strained. It is only gradually, that the > child learns what he may undertake with a reasonable probability of accomplishment. | And in the meanwhile it is unfair to urge the making of promises that must be broken, tn whole, or in part. The danger, of course. is not that tin- chilil ivlll fail in bis undyftakings, but that he will become in-_. different to the sacredness of ’ bis promises. Not only in,the gradation of bls ability and foresight but also In the evolution of the child’s temptations should limits be found for the promises nacted. Don’t ask Mabel to promise “never to chew gum it Is enough to get a promise for a .day at a time — never is too long a period, and «»r----rles more temptations than the child can anticipate. So with promising to "behave mannerly at table” or to hang up the outer wraps on coming Into tinhoyse —fix the attention on a single unit of performance, anfi slowly in-

Promising to Hang Up the Outer Wraps When Coming Into the House.

crease the length of time to be covered by a promise until promises are made unnecessary by Suitable habits. Promises may be helpful instruments in the training of children, but they should not be mere convenient coins with which to bargain for advantages.

MERELY HAD TO RESPOND

Manufacturer's Wife on the Telephone Could Be ♦Trusted'to Do AB , Tctfcfng. “Take this letter, please. Miss Mushy,” said Adam Adamsonny, head of the famous Adamsonny vinegar .foundry. “ ‘Seattle Wicks, Wicksburg, Wick County, Va.—Dear Sir: Yours of the 23d instant received and contents noted, and would say—” ’ ’ “Wanted on the telephone, Mr. Adanisonny,” said Ariovlstus, the office boy. “It’s Mrs. Adamsonny, Mr.” “Tut, tut,” tutted Mr. Adamsonny. “This is my busy day. Ariovlstus. follow me with the talkapbone. Put In Record No. 33436.” And he went to the telephone and said into It: “Hello, Rhnbarba. Yes, my dear. Yes. my dear. Yes, my dear.” Rather quickly for an office boy, Ariovlstus appeared with the talkaphone. Mr. Adamsonny adjusted it to the telephone, and, returning to bis desk, resumed his dictation. Three times a minute the talkapbone said “Yes, my dear,” in Mr. Adamsonny’s voice, and Ariovlstus stood by to start the record over each time it ran down. • At the end of twenty minutes Mr. Adamsonny rose again, went to the telephone, and said: “Really, my dear, I’m afraid I’ll have to return to work now. Yes, my dear, good-by.” And he hung up and winked at the talkaphone' and Miss Mushy, who giggled two or three giggles.—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.

The Fourth Dimension.

The fourth dimension of space is a supposed or assumed dimension whose relation to the recognized dimensions of length, breadth, and thickness is ahalogous to that borne by any one of these to the other two. Four-dimen-sional space may be regarded as a hypothetical conception to explain equations of the fourth degree in analytical geometry or as an entity beyond the limitations of ordinary existence. .The treatment , of the,fourth and higher dimensions belongs to the geometry of hyphenface. The concei>tion has been used by some investigators to explain certain superphysical phenomena, which seem otherwise Inexplicable. i

Filter Used Gasoline.

Because gqsoline Is so high one wants to save it in every way possiTo prevent waste of gasoline when cleaning garments or other household articles, do not throw the,, gasoline away—Before you start dean irig get several sheets of filter paper from your druggist. Ask him to show you how to make a funnel; then, when you have finished cleaning'; I pour the used gasolinqybrougWhis paper and it will be as free from foreign particles as before used. You will have less in quantity but the same in quality.— Modern Priscilla. ,

They Didn’t Part.

A man out bf all patience with one of his servants called him in, and after giving him a sound scolding wound up with the stereotyped phrase: *'We must part.” The servant stood scratching his head for a moment and then said, with a look of much concern: “Sorry am I that we must part, yer honor, but if.we must, may 1-make so bold as to ask where yer honor is going?” , - The rascal got another trial.—Pitfaburgh Chronicle.