Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — Page 2

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WILL WE HUNGER?

The person who can see nothing but government red tape and fussiness in the food control measures can see very little below the surface in the present day situation. The food control measures, were not put in operation because this government had any relish for interfering with the private lives of its citizens. The fewer measures of this sort were needed the better pleased would be those in authority. That the President insisted on, and the congress granted food control legislation, is the most conclusive of evidence that the situation called' urgently for such, measures. Probably never before in history has the world faced the situation it now faces. We speak glibly of our crops in billions of bushels, forgetting that the demand also is couched in billions. We look at our bursting graineries and overflowing barns, forgetting that across the water are millions of the world’s jnanhodd engaged entirety in consuming and To be specific, there would have been no price set on wheat had not the government foreseen that long before a new crop could be harvested the scarcity of that cereal would send the price out of reach of all but the affluent. But enacting food control laws and appointing executors is not, of itself, going to safeguard the country. There is Another factor to the situation, and the principal one—-the people. In a general way the food controllers can control the prices, but they can in no sense control consumption- This is entirely up to the people themselves, I

If a spirit of strict economy and conservation does not prevail throughout the land, the efforts of government will be neutralized. It may seem like thrashing over old straw to continually refer to the urgent necessity of economy in consumption of food. But the situation calls for iteration and reiteration. Reforms come slowly. Not by once telling, or twice, or three times, do we learn the lessons of life, but by continued hammering of the same truth into our consciousness are we at last brought to see it clearly. This is our condition in the present emergency. Our past indulgence, coupled with the fact that our supply always has been sufficient, has lulled us into a false repose. But the people of this country always learn the lesson when it is put squarely up to them. Last spring they were assured that to ■preserve the prosperity of the country a record crop of everything must be produced. To this appeal they answered loyally and enthusiastically. They are now assured that, if we would avoid hunger and want, this same seemingly bountiful supply must be carefully conserved and meted out. That they will loyally meet this’demand also, we have no fear. But it will require self denial, frugality, thrift and economy to tide us over in comfort to another harvest. But it can be done, and will be done.

DRAFT RESISTERS

It is unfortunate that just when we should have a perfect unanimity of sentiment in this country on the question of prosecuting the war, certain misguided persons should persist in treasonable resistance to the selective draft. Even some preachers, who of all others should both practice and teach unswerving loyalty to the country, have advised their hearers to resist the law. It is hard to believe these people are deliberately disloyal. We would much, prefer to believe that they sin through ignorance. One must be low indeed in the scale of creation "when he can deliberately betray his country and his people. Even that beatific designation of our country as “the land of the free” has grown to mean, in many ignorant minds, something entirely different from its meaning to the person/who sees life as it'is. The man of normal intelligence sees freedom as purely relative. He knows there can be no absolute freedom. As long as there remain two human beings on this earth, neither can possibly be entirely free. The welfare of eithet_must of necessity circumscribe the freedom of the other. It is just this fundamental fact however, that many ignorant minds fail to grasp. To them freedom has no other meaning save license. Once assured that they are free men, any force that interferes with their conception of freedom is to them tyranny and not to be tolerated. It is high time we revised the popular conception of freedom. It is - time the basic truth were stressed that there can be no free-

dom without absolute obedience to law. Disregard of law tends toward anarchy, and anarchy is the very antithesis of freedom. AgMin, many minds fail to appreciate the fact that without the law and its fostering care there could be no such thing as freedom, even safety. And without stable government there can be no effective law. Law, reduced, to Its essence, is but the crystalized will of those affected. Laws for the protection of life and property depend entirely on the will of the various individuals. It is simply the public will reduced to a code. These same malcontents are standing monuments of the efficacy of laws and governments. Without the fostering care of civilized government, it would have been impossible for their forebears to haye evolved anything like as creditably specimens of humanity as even their unworthy selves. Their lives have been guarded and shielded by the protecting power of this same force called law, which force they now in their ignorance and stupidity imagine they can set aside at their pleasure. We as a people have gone too far afield after freedom. We have made of it a fetich. We have distorted and stretched its meaning until the national conception of freedom bears very little resemblance to ’the genuine article. We must get back to the old paths. We must stamp indelibly on the public mind the eternal fact that perfect freedom can come in no other way than through perfect obedience to law. It may take a few firing squads to make this impress, and if so, the sooner they are called out the better.

EXEMPTIONS

The enormous number of claims for exemption from army service constitute a shame to American manhood and a disgrace to our country. It is proof positive as holy writ of one of two propositions: Either our young men are entirely lacking in patriotism or they are pitiful cowards. We refer with contempt to the slacker who eluded the registration. But what of the infinitely more contemptible slacker who, while seemingly acquiescing in the draft, put up a pitiful plea for exemption —plea that shows false and hypocritical on its face? All honor to that numerous contingent who, when war was assured, promptly tendered their services. All honor to another group who, while not so quick to volunteer, yet when the call came, stepped forward like men and took their medicine with smiling faces. Such as they both have made this the proud country it is today. ' Of course'there are some perfectly legitimate claims for exemption. They will and should be granted. But the ‘ exemption’’ slacker —ugh! Words are powerless to describe him. During the second week in October the country will be able to correctly guage the patriotism of its women. E very woman in the country is asked to register, during that week- for whatever service she feels she can render her country in this greatest crisis of its history. We have been used to boasting of the splendid loyalty of our women, and we have always had whereof to boast. Thus far in the present conflict their response to the calls made on them has been spontaneous and most gratifying. But greater demands yet will be made. Their work is in no sense inferior to that of the men. although it may differ very materially from it in the element of “thrill.”"" They will 7>e called on to take up and bear woman's age-old burden — patient endurance and helpful ministration. That their response will be even more, enthusiastic than it has ever been, there are none who doubt. It would be interesting to know just how much of that large Russian loan will find its way into the pockets of the men in the trenches. We look with pride on the magnificent personnel of our army, but we are too apt to forget or overlook the fact that an adequate wage goes a long way towards securing that personnel. The difference between 1 cent a day and $1 a day may account for considerably enthusiasm or its absence. We venture the assertion that an American guarantee of sls or S2O a month to every Russian soldier who to stand and fight would materially change the moral, of the Russian armies. It is worth a trial. The only way to secure a lasting peace after this war is to lick the enemy so everlastingly hard he’ll be glad to crawl into his hole and stay there until the hole caves in on him.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

I hired a man to work around, to groom the cow and feqjjMaSre snakes, and after seven weeks I found he wasn’t worth a brace of shakes. I’d say, "Oh, James, 1 wish you’d start and paint the fence dark blue and pink.” He’d say, '"iHave some respect for art! That combination’s rank, I think. If I should paint it red and green, the colors nicely would combine, and every passer-by, I ween, would cry, ‘Oh, chee! That fence is fine!’ ” Then I’d .reply, “I pay the mon—to have that fence the way I wish; my way I’ll surely have it done, or you will lose your job, odsfish!” Then he would quote a lot of jays, old Rembrandt, Titian and that mob, to show that artist folk would raise a clamor o’er the measly job. So we would stand in joint debate, until the sinking of the sun, and when the daylight pulled its freight, there was no job of painting done. Now, James is" poor, and always was, and always will be till he dies; he labors too much with his jaw’s to satisfy employing guys. Myj way of doing things is punk, I’m always in the wrong, I know; but when for toil I pay the plunk, I guess my way will have to go.

SHOULD USE CHEAPER RATIONS

Fodder, Straw and Other Roughages Make Good Rations. . “It is time to quit shoveling grain indiscriminately into live stock. Good live-stock farming demands it and the need of more food requires it. Feeding grain to meat animals with a lavish hand is responsible for one of the greatest feed losses on the farms of this country. Hay,“ fodder, silage, and pasture are the cheapest feeds and will carry animals along with a minimum of grain. Keep the frames of the young animals developing on these cheap feeds. Withhold the full grain ration until the finishing ■ period arrives. Breeding cattle may be wintered on the cheaper feeds.” This advice of animal-husbandry specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture to stocn feeders is not emergency adivce only; it is the sound logic of meat production, which American farmers must learn if they are to com' pete successfully with European meat producers in the coming generations. These are good days to learn the lesson of feed conservation. In Farmers’ Bulletin 873, “The Utilization of Farm Wastes in Feeding Live Stock,” specialists tell how to use these cheaper feeds in rations for cattle, sheep and horses. „ A tremendous w’aste of feeding stuffs occurs annually on American farms, according to figures presented in this publication. In 1914 about 120,000,000 tons of straw were produced in the United States. Of this amount 55 per cent was fed to live stock, 15 per cent was burned, 8 per cent sold, and 22 per cent plowed under or otherwise disposed of. Cffrn stover produced in the United States estimated at 245,253,000 tons, of which 81% per cent is fed to cattle and other stock. No figures were obtained to show the percentage that is w’asted in the feeding, but at least 35 per cent of the total amount produced represents actual wraste. This waste of corn stover can be checked,.fit is said, through use of better methods of feeding fodder and stover and it can be almost entirely stopped through the use of silos. Straw’ and stover are best utilized for feed w’hen accompanied by concentrates, such as cottonseed meal. If the large amounts of cottonseed meal ordinarily used for fertilizer in* the South were, instead, fed to live stock and the manure used for fertilizer, the value of the meal would be increased from 50 to 85 per cent. Practical experience as well as experimental work has taught that straw and stover can be used very economically in the rations of almost all kinds of live stock. They can .be used in the fattening rations of all farm animals except hogs and should compose the larger part of all wintering or keeping rations of cattle, sheep and horses. Breeding herds of beef cattle or dry dairy cows can be successfully kept on rations composed largely of these roughages. Flocks of breedin'g ewes do well on such feeds when some grain is added. Horses doing very light work or no work at all need little grain if given a plentiful allowance of clean, light straw\ or stover. " Under certain conditions, of course, grain should be added to the ration, but now it should be conserved as largely as possible for huinan consumption. The bulletin mentioned suggests various rations which are made up principally of these waste feeds.

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EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

Cheer up or stay down. Most , any man knows how to tell a womans age. but few have the nerve to do it. Extra precautions should be taken while fishing. You might hook a submarine. Some women have very sweet dispositions, but their next door neighbors seldom know it. A silent man makes an excellent mate for a talkative woman. There is less chance for a family jar. Austria insists that America is “cutting no ice” in this war. Of course not; we’re not there yet. Some men are so simple they believe everything anyone tells them and no one believes what they say. Some people are so crooked they would put off dying just for a chance to cheat the undertaker out of a job. When a man of nerve marries a woman with a 16t of nerves their offspring ought to be a bundle of nerves. The great British navy is somewhere, doing something, but the Lord only knows where it is or what it is doing. Any one can wave a flag and whoop-hooray, but it takes nerve and grit to go out and get shot into mincemeat for it. Up to date this country is about the only one upon which Germany has not laid the responsibility for the war. Our turn will come next. About the meanest fellow w r e know of is the one who sleeps all through the sermon and then refuses to see the collection plate as it passes by.

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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor,..Charles G. Spitler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sands Attorney Moses Leopold Marshal Vern Robinson Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborne Fire Chief.J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden....J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Ward Ray Wood 2nd Ward,Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Frank King At Large. .Rex Warner, F. Kresler JUDICIAL Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney-Reuben Hess Terms of Court —Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk Jesse Nichols Sheriff...B. D. McColly AuditorJ. P. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Scott SurveyorE. D. Nesbitt Coroner Dr. C. E. Johnson County Assessor.. .G. L. Thornton County Agent. .Stewart Learning Health Officer.. Dr. F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist District.H. W. Marble 2nd DistristD. S. Makeever 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson Barkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James StevensGillam Warren E Poole. .Hanging GroVe John KolhoffJordan R E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, jr.....Marion George FoulksMilroy John Rush Newton George HammertonUnion Joseph SalrinWalker Albert S KeeneWheatfield M. L. Sterrett, Co. Supt. Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

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