Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — Page 7

SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1918

RALSTON IN GREAT ADDRESS

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quireg the admission co nave seen made in the platform. This indefi-* niteness on this all important question should defeat the Republican party. Clerk of Supreme Court. In committing their party to the proposition that the selection of both constitutional and statutory State officers shall be withdrawn from the people, the bosses, in charge of the Republican convention, forgot the insistent and persistent demand, which broadened the Democratic character of our government and gave the people the power to elect their United States senators. In proposing to make of the State officers a personal and political despotism, under the control of the Governor, not necessarily the present Chief Executive, but any Governor, these bosses have failed to remember the exclusive dictation &nd domihation which brought their party .to such ignominious disaster in 1912. When, the people are making such tremendous sacrifices that democracy, that is, government of the people, for the people and by the people, shall be made safe throughout the world, the proposal to make of the government of our beloved State a personal or political machine, is ill-timed and illadvised. The security of free government rests in the people, not in political bosses. i The office of Clerk of the Supreme Court is of constitutional creation and the efficiency with which it has been filled justifies a continuation of the constitutional method of filling it. The proposal to make this officer appointive by the judges of the Supreme Court, wholly ignores the heretofore universally accepted principle that such judges should be separated as widely as possible from participation in practical or partisan politics and will x make of the Supreme Court a political caucus. » A tribunal, organized to administer justice, must hear the whispers of the humblest petitioner, but remain deaf to the thunders of partisanism.

The Attorney General. The office of Attorney General was created by an Act of the General As-' sembly in 1855 and made elective by the voters of the State. The Republican party is now proposing to deny the people the right 'to choose this official and to give the Governor the power to appoint him. The Attorney General is one of the most important officials of the State. He is the law interpreter for the public. When he comes to construe the laws of the State a ten-year-old child fighting potato bugs is as big in his eye as is the Governor of the State. But if you give the Governor the power to appoint him, you are likely to place the private citizen at a disadvantage in a legal controversy with the Chief Executive. The Attorney General is expected to be a check upon the executive the same as he is upon the private citizen. It is true the Attorney General’s office is created by statute, but this statute has been acquiesced in and approved by all the people of all political parties for more than sixty years and it has thereby come to have, in effect, the sanctity and practical force of a constitutional maildate. It has been endorsed by such eminent governors and lawyers as Marton, Baker and Hendricks, and the political that would seek to make a personal asset or a political football of this great office ought to be repudiated by the people. Humof. We cannot of course consider all the planks of the platform, to which we have been referring, but it should be noted our Republican friends did not overlook the subject of humor. They declare that, “The province of a political committee is to elect candidates and not select them.” As the chautauqua season is here, I want to suggest that the people of Indiana be afforded the pleasure of hearing a lecture on that subject by my friend, Dr. Ellis, Superintendent of Public Instruction. I do not know how badly his trousers were damaged, but I do know he was taken by the nape of the neck and the seat of the breeches and tossed out of his own headquarters and denied the right to be a candidate.

National Issues. But this remarkable platform, put forth for the Republicans of Indiana to climb upon, assures us of the patriotism of the Republican party, and of its intention to support the National Administration while the great war is on. It will not be my intention by anything I here say, to call in question the patriotisTh of the Republican party, but I shall remain free to ask the fathers and mothers of our boys “over there”,, to say from the facts, just how sincerely, and to what purpose, certain Republican leaders are supporting our President in this war. ~ < The platform to which we have been making reference tells us that the refusal of the Democrats to prepare for war in 1914 and 1915, has not lessened the support of the National administration by Republicans. In all the Republican leaders have to say of the war, however, they seek to leave the impression that the Wilson administration is open to condemnation for not getting into the war sooner. In this ha.ll the Republican party adopted a platform in 1916, two years after they claim the Wilson administration should have prepared for war. In that platform this party declared: ’“We demand that the United States observe an attitude of strict neutrality toward the nations engaged in the European war. * *. * We wish to continue our friendship with the whole world.” There is nothing very warlike in that. And the Republican National Convention of the same year, made in effect the same declaration. Even the Progressive National glatform of 1916, in dealing with the luropean war said: .... “Whatever our country can legitimately do to attain peace for warstricken Europe, and to aid in the procurement of equal rights, without discrimination because of race or creed, to all men in all landa. should be

done.” There is nothing very warlike in that either. The truth is, all parties honestly believed, when their respective conventions were held in 1916, thkt we would be able to avoid war with Germany. And all patriots were laboring to this end. This was the thought and hope of the late lamented Charles W. Fairbanks. I heard a leading Republican say at a bar meeting, held in his honor a few days ago, that, “No man sensed the publican conscience more accurately that he”; and you will recall that Mr. Fairbanks, in addressing a meeting of Republican editors at home in 1916, commended the course of President Wilson in keeping our country out of war. And at no time in the campaign of 1916 did the Republican candidate for president, indicate he was in favor of war. He wanted the country to believe he could avoid war. ' ■ /. , The German Pledge. President Wilson beliftved in 1916 he could avoid war. May 4, 1916, Germany pledged the President that “Merchant vessels both within and without the area declared a naval war zone, shall not be sunk without warning and without saving human lives, unless the ship attempts to escape, dr offers resistance.” This pledge, you will recall, was made after the President- had threatened to break off diplomatic relations with Germany on account of the attack on the Sussex. And afterwards, when Germany gave notice it would resume submarine warfare February 1, 1917, the President broke off diplomatic relations with that country as soon as he got the official text of the note, and so notified Congress, February 3, 1917.

Republican Filibuster. February 26, 1917, he asked Congress to pass an armed neutrality bill. The Democratic House passed it, but it was defeated in the Senate by a Republican filibuster, led by LaFollette. bfever at any time has our President been neglectful of his duty regarding the war, or the probabilities of war. Before hostilities occurred, he organized the Council of National Defense, and set about to mobilize the industries of the nation. More than that. In 1914 he asked Congress to authorize the creation of a shipping board and he sought to have the building of ships inaugurated on a large scale. He knew this country could not fight a war without ships. The House acted favorably on his recommendation, but because of a Republican filibuster in the Senate, led by Senator John W. Weeks, the bill had to be withdrawn. The President was defeated, but the blood of thousands of innocent allied soldiers will mark the men who defeated his plan, till they go to their graves. Speeches at Republican State Conventions. The spirit of hostility, shown toward the President in the filibustering to which I have referred, was shown toward him by the leading speakers in the late Republican convention in this hall. Malice toward the President malice aforethought - sizzed from between their teeth at every breach. So anxious were they to arouse public prejudice against him, they made themselves ridiculous by some things they said. With great solemnity they all declared in effect that we are not in this war to determine the form of government any other nation shall have, seeking by implication, to leave the impression that when the President said we wanted to see the world made safe for democracy, he was proposing to have a voice in determining the form of government other nations should have. But they forgot that •the people remember the President said in his great war message of April 2, 1917, in most elegant style, what he has restated more than once, that we were going to war “for the rights of nations great and small, and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience.” Before these gentlemen assault the President again in public speech, they ought to commit to memory what he has said on this and kindred subjects.

My friend, the Governor, took occasion to say in his convention speech, by way of criticism of the President for wanting to see the world made free for democracy, that: “We are not a democracy. No democracy has been engaged on either side of this war, except for the brief period when Russia gave us the object lesson of a pure democracy at war. Not being a democracy ourselves the average American may wonder why we should sacrifice our lives , and our property to impose upon other people a form of government that we have not yet adopted, or even expressed a willingness to adopt.” When I read this statement from our Chief Executive, I confess I was surprised. I remembered something he had said on a former occasion so unlike this; but it did not at first occur to me that a change had come over him, out of a desire to be against the President. I found on investigation, that on March 28, 1918, he made a Speech before the Hoosier troops at Camp Zachary Taylor, and that he then talked like a true American. .To those boys he said: “We are indeed fighting for democracy, and it is for that great democracy which was born in the days of the revolution, a democracy that when but an infant, endured untold hardship, and arose to full manhood in that great struggle, and was re-baptised with fire in the days of the Civil War. * ♦ * When you have won this war, as you will, there can be no fear about the future of democracy, wherever and / whenever its seeds find fertile soil in which to grow.” When the Governor talks as .an American, and not as a politician

seeking to break down a political opKnent, on the subject of democracy, out-Wilsons Wilson. As he stood before those soldier boys he had a vision in which he saw the seeds.of democracy—of our democracy here grown to full manhood —planted in the back door yards of Berlin, and the Kaiser fairly smothered by the rankness of the growth of the plant. What of Watson. What of my friend Jim Watson? In his convention speech he was willing to go to any length to arouse the people against the Wilson administration. One reference will characterize the whole speech. He says he doesn’t like the sectionalism of this administration. “In the namejof patriotism,” he says, “the wealth of the country is being redistributed.” He points out how it is being taken from the North and given to the South, and with a most scathing tongue, he wallops the administration for putting so many cantonments in the South. The Junior Senator really grows bitter on this subject, but fortunately we have some sane, big and patriotic Republicans in this country, who do not endorse the views of our Junjor Senator. ExPresident William Howard Tart is such a man. He visited, last winter, every cantonment in the South, and on March 15, 1918, he delivered a lecture on his observations, which is published in the March number of The National Geographic Magazine, and I want to place an excerpt from that lecture against our Junior Senator’s position. Mr. Taft says: “I think it would have been wiser if all the camps in the Northern States had been placed in Southern States. Even to a layman visiting, camps, the greater opportunity for drill was apparent in the marching, of the men. > A review of 25,000 men, which I was permitted to see at Camp Travis, in San Antonio, showed a degree of drill that could not have been equalled, I think, in any other camp. There I witnessed, too, bayonet drill, bayonet charges over trenches, a sham battle over trenches, with hand grenades, and everything & but a barrage of The difference in progress between that command and those in the far North, could not escape the observer.”

Where do you think the good people will stand on this question, when they go to the ballot box ? Don’t you know they will add to the deathless glory of our Starry Banner by lining up with Mr. Taft on the side of Woodrow Wilson? These Republican politicians taught us with the statement that the war is ot 3,000 miles away. We say it is, and if we can suppress pro-German sympathizers and snipers at home, with the help of God, we will keep it 3,000 miles away. Wilson Greatest Power for Liberty. Fortunately for this Nation—yes, for humanity and civilization —we have Woodrow Wilson for President. In sweep of vision and constructive statesmanship, he is absolutely without a peer. It is not surprising that the leading newspapers across the sea, supporting the allied potvers, enthusiastically hail our President as the greatest influence back of the movement for world-wide liberty. The leading statesman, the great literary, scientific and religious organizations of England and France do not hesitate to endorse the policies advocated by him, and to follow where he leads. This is the man, under whose leadership our country has made as great preparation for war in three years as Germany did in 45 years; under whose our country made as great preparation for war in three months as England and France did in three years. The efficiency he displayed and had displayed in marshalling our forces, in feeding and clothing our boys, and in mobilizing the industries of the Nation, surpasses anything of the kind in the history of the world. In three months after the declaration of war, an American army, 80,000 strong, swept across the seas and marched through the streets of Paris, under the folds of Old Glory, shouting for their country and for human liberty evervwhere. This is the man, leading his Nation with wisdom and a fine spirituality, against the Kaiser and his associates in crime, who have broken the peace of the world; who seek to crush out .free institutions with the heel of militarism; who have torn the breasts from the bodies of praying women and girls, trampled them in the dust and thrown them to the who have outraged the virtues of womanhood with a fiendishness unknown to the jungles. t These are some of the things our President has done. But, my friends, you will read in vain the Republican platform put forth in this hall a few days ago; you will' read in vain the 13,000 worded speech of Governor Goodrich; you will read in vain the speech of Senator New smelling of brimstone, and you read in vain the speech of Senator Watson surcharged with the vitriol of partisanism —all this you will do in vain in a search for a single sentence, a single phrase or a single woi;d of approval of a single act of our President in this war. And in these deliverances, you will find iriore criticism of the President than you will find of the Kaiser. May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth and my right hand forget her cunning when I shall fail in this trembling crisis to approve whatever Governor Goodrich and his administration do toward helping to win the war. Constructive Criticism. We are told by the Republican press and by Republican orators, it is essential to the public welfare that the right be maintained to indulge in constructive criticism of the administration during the war. Who is to determine what is constructive criticism? The Kaiser? This sort of talk always reminds me of what I heard a preacher say to his congregation several years ago in a little church out in the country. The minister was not an educated man, but die had ah abundance of common sense. In the course of his sermon

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he said: “My brethren, do you know what I think of this higher criticism we are reading so much about nowadays?’’ Then pausing for a moment he shouted: “Higher criticism is the Devil’s interpretation of God’s word.” And when I read some of the so-called constructive criticism going the rounds on our National administration, I am constrained to say, it is the Kaiser’s criticism of Americanism. My friends, is no time to hunt for excuses to criticise. ,Our country is in distress. Civilization is in the balance. Humanity is bleeding ‘at every pore. Portions of the earth have been filled with hunger by Kaiserism and Heaven itself apparently, deafened by the groans and lamentations of the innocent, crushed by oppression. But in the midst of this awful condition, Woodrow'Wilson, unswayed from his course by “Constructive Critics,” is looked to as the hope of the world and the movei ment now under way to encompass his rebuke at tne polls, will in tne end encompass the rebuke of those back of it. The people understand what is* going on and no amount of camouflage will mislead them. I seek to bind no man, except myself, by what I say here. In these troublesome days, I care not the snap of my finger for a certain precedent we have highly regarded in times of peace. I shall not stand for a precedent that would interfere—with efficiency in carrying on the war or that would deny the country the services of t+ffe best ability in the reconstructive period to follow the war. I maintain therefore the exigencies of the times call for the renomination and election, in 1920, of Woodrow Wilson. The duty of the hour is to stand by men seeking office, who approve the course of the National administration in the war. To demand this is not unreasonable. Germany must not get the impression that tne people of this country are not back of our government in this war, and that impression is likely to be made in other nations if the people do not stand by the President’s party in the approaching election.

In 1898 this country was in war with old decrepit Spain. In the fall of that year Colonel Roosevelt was a candidate for Governor of New York. In one of his speeches he said: “Remember that whether you will or not, your votes this year will be viewed by the nations, of Europe from one standpoint only. They will draw no fine distinctions. A refusal to sustain the President this year will, in their eyes, be read as a refusal to sustain the war and to sustain the efforts of our peace commission to secure the fruits of the war. Such a refusal may not inconceivably bring about a rupture of the peace negotiations. It will give heart, to our defeated antagonists; it will make possible the interference of those doubtful neutral nations, who in this struggle have wished us ill.” I would not seek to minimize the importance of the consequences of our war with Spain, but it is a fact it was but an afternoon tea party compared with the trouble we are now having. So if the failure of voters to support the Republican party in 1898 would have been in the eyes of foreign nations a failure to support the President and what he did in the SpanishAmerican war, how would other countries interpret the defeat of the Democratic party this fall? We fathers and mothers of the boys over there cannot afford to see Wood row Wilson’s party defeated at the -next election. Such a defeat might prolong the struggle and make additional sacrifices in life and property necessary. War Mothers. And just here, gentlemen, let me remind you, that you are honored today in your deliberations by a body of women, who with those they represent, are more interested than any other persons in this country in having the war won with as few losses as possible. They are the War Mothers of Indiana. They understand in a way you and I do not that upon the destruction of Americanism, Prussianism has resolved and that the only thing that will save the former to us and to the world is a wall bf human hearts —hearts of love, hearts of faith, and hearts of dauntless courage, given to humanity and to God by the sweet and noble motherhood of a Christian civilization. In your name I welcome these mothers to this convention. After the War.

But it is urged the Republican party must come back to power, so the country will have the its skill in the reconstruction period, following the war. Lay its achievements of forty years side by side with those of the present administration and a comparison will put it in the primer class of statesmanship: After forty years of power that party left to its credit a financial law, that placed the country at the absolute mercy of Wall Street. Under the financial legislation of that party this country could not have got started in this war, unless it had, submitted to beirig bled at every pore by the great money powers. On this one question, God should be thanked for Woodrow Wilson. > After forty years of power, Repub;licans left as a legacy to the country the railroads in a dilapidated condition and so full of water and graft they could not meet the war demands made upon them, and the government had to take them over. The war cannot be fought without money ahd railroads over here. No party in the history of our Nation has triumphed over as many difficult conditions as our party has in the last five years. ’ No party has done the one-hun-dredth part as much as our party has done in the last five years, toward determining the destiny of other Nations/ No party has done the one-thou-sandth part as much as our party has done in the last five years in carrying the blessings of our institutions, the inspiration of our civilization and the ideals of our Americanism, to other peoples, living under the flag* of other nations.

The Neighborhood Corner

Department of Farm Welfare Conductsd by County Agent Stewart Learning.

Breeders Assign Pig* to Boys. Twenty-six young men will embark in the pure-bred hog business in the near future, according to plans ‘made by the Jasper county breeders last week. Wednesday evening and Thursday committee of breeders met and assigned that number of pune-bred gilts to as many young men selected from among the numerous applications received from all parts of 'he county. Most of these will be distributed at 1 ensselaer on the afternoon of July 6. The committee has assigned the pigs as follows.: Sage Brothers, two Poland Chinas to ‘Earl R. Parks and Russel Culp; J. N. Leatherman, two Hampshires to Kenneth Spencer and Harold Kellner; Fred Fritz, two O. I. C. Whites to Clarence Kelly and Paul Brusnahan; W. C. Dooley & Son, two Spotted Poland Chinas to Frank Morton and John Salrin; Robert Yeoman, two Hampshires to Verne Smith and Russell Bible; Arthur Watson, Spotted Poland China to Russell Rayburn; John R. Lewis, two Hampshires to Arnold Sayers and Chester Kimmel; Firman Thompson, Hampshire to Ray Pettet; George W. Reed, Hampshire to Orval Reed; George Potts, Hampshire to Orval Hague; W. H. ‘Pullins, two Hampshires to H. Ivan George and Raymond Tudor; Glenn Baker, two Hampshires to Ixmn M. Bailey and Alva Casto; Simon Thompson, Hampshire to Albert Lewis; Mannan Tudor, Hampshire to Wayne Davisson; Amos Alter, Du roc Jersey to Edward Cain. In addition the following breeders assigned pigs which are too young to be distributed on that day but which will be distributed later; Gus Yeoman, a Du roc Jersey to Paul D. Yeoman; Ed. Lane, a Hampshire to Wade Holmes, and Fred Phillips, a Hampshire to Ralph Schafer. Each boy will keep his gilt for one year and return the best sow pig from her litter and 6 per cent, interest on the value of the foundation animal asrbis payment for the pig he received. Herefords Give Good Returns. Fred Phillips, Jasper county’s progressive Hereford breeder, recentlysold four yearlings, three IHelfers and a bull, to Warren T. McCray of Kentland for $1,600. The bull was resold to Malcolm Clark of Wheatfield to head his growing herd. These animals were all of the popular Fairfax family and were representative of the type of cattle that the county is producing. Seed Wheat Located.

J. C. Beavers of the State Wheat Production committee spent a day in -the county last week in an attempt to locate several fields of wheat which could be recommended as desirable for seed purposes. Mr. Beavers paid special attention to freedom from rye, cockle and cheat, laid emphasis upon freedom from loose smut, hunt, bacterial blight and scab, and also considered purity of variety. Of twenty Holds examined, the field of Rudolph Ritter of Barkley township most nearly came up to the requirements. This is a field of Turkey Red, practically free from weeds and dieeases. Mr. Ritter has been asked to hold this wheat for seed for a reasonable length of time for the - benefit of farmers of the county. Mr. Beavers expressed disappointment at not being able to locate more good fields, but reports that it is very difficult to find pure varieties of wheat at the present time. A pure seed association is being established in this state to maintain types of pure seed. Meetings in Hanging Grove. The Banta Food club met at the Banta school house Wednesday, June 19, Mrs. John Osborne in charge. Mrs. J. T. Gwin gave a talk on "Child Welfare,” and Miss Geyer one on "Woman’s Part in War.” Wonten present agreed to conserve on threshing dinners. Chairmen were appointed to agitate tne subject. On Friday, June 21, the McCoykburg Food club met at the school. Mrs. Gwin ggve a talk on "Child Welfare.” ard.J'Jiss Geyer o-i|"Fot l Preservation.'\ Demonstration- at South "Morion. A demonstration on gold pack canning was given before the ladies of the South Mar-ion Farmers’, club Thursday, June 20. Drying of fruits and vegetables were discuss* ed. The subject of threshing dinners was discussed and chairmen appointed in each "ring” in order to get the matter before all the women. (fanning Problems in Cold Pack Process. Mold in goods-—may develop if seal is defective, or if after prc< cessing the tops are removed from jars to replace» the rubber or if jars are kept in a damp place. Shrinking—May occur because of improper or insufficient blanching, cold dipping, careless packing, poor grading, processing too long a period.

“Plat Sour”—-Caused from using vegetables which were not canned soon enough after gathering. Apace at Top of Jar—Caused from not packing the jar tight, enough. Pack closely. .By observing these precautions, everyone should have perfect cans of fruits and vegetables. Can all the food that can be canned. It means the elimination of waste. Better Babies. It is estimated that 300,000 children under five die annually in the United States. Experts tell us that we should be able to save at least 100,000 of this number. Indiana’s ouota is 2,592. How can we do this? By applying the regular babies test—measuring and weighing. . This is a wonderful opportunity for the mothers to have their chlL

dren given a free test. How thank* ful they will be if they are shown how to cqrrect some defect and to promote the health of their children. The cry has been "better crops, better hogs.” What about better babies—the nation’s last reserves? Indiana is leading in all war work. Let us lead in this also.

FEDERAL OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS

Mora than forty Indianapolis bakers, confectioners and restaurant keepers have bean cited to appear ba* fore the federal food administrator during the past week for failure to make correct reports and for not con* forming to the regulations as to the use of substitutes. Various excuses were offered and all were released on parole, on their promises to reform. Warnings were issued that further violations meant suspension of federal licenses in all cases. Licenses of Nickolas Prescan and N. K. Manolea, Indianapolis bakers, were revoked for their failure to make proper reports and not using the required substitutes on bread and rolls. Wm. Greisinger, a South Bend confectioner, was found to have made a false affidavit as to having purchased sugar on contract and as a result A. E. Eby, St. Joseph county food administrator, was directed by Dr. Harry E. Barnard, federal food administrator for Indiana, to take charge of his business and not permit him to handle it until July 15. The sugar . secured through misrepresentation was seized. Yloast beef at noon Monday; stewed or boiled beef or beef hash at noon Wednesday; beef steak or hamburger steak at noon Thursday; stewed beef, boiled beef or beef hash at noon Saturday; with by-products such a* ox-tails, livers, tongues, sweetbreads, hearts, kidneys, brains and tripe at any time, is Hoover’s suggestion of a meat menu in order that beef consumption be limited to pounds per person per week. Hotels and public eating houses have been directed by the food administration in Indiana to fix some such arrangement and then refrain from advertising the service-' in order not to induce an excess consumption on the days when beef is served. 1

To be wholly patriotic a Fourth o| July celebration must not include iced tea or lemonade, noy candy in which sugar is used in excess of the three pounds per person per month ration. The sugar syruped Sundae at soda fountains is prohibited in Indiana and county food administrators have been so notified. All special and fancy concoctions In which sugar syrups are used also are under the ban. Sales of sugar have been limited to two pounds for city customers and five pounds for rural customers, with a maximum limit of 25 pounds for canning and preserving purpose*. Purchase of sugar for the latter purposes must be on a sworn affidavit Manufacturers of non-essential* such as candy, chewing gum, etc., arc no longer permitted to buy sugar in anticipation of their allotment for the three months following July 1. No sugar sales are legal in Indiana except upon certificates and then proportioned as per the recently promulgated regulations. No relaxation in the conservatlQß rules that hatfe enabled the United States to feed Europe out of a short harvest, will be possible if a surplus is to be built up against the chance of crop shortage next year or in 1920,. says Herbert Hoover. The American people who have shown that they can save, must conserve still further if the benefits already secured are to be permanent.

FOOD RESERVES AND FIRE HAZARDS.

The food administration issues the following statement of fire hazards in 'rural districts and .the importance of safeguarding the nation’s food supplies against this (Unger: The season is at hand when farmers are to fill their barns with hay and grain- This period when barns, granaries and storehouses contain the greatest amount of food supplies is also the time when they are most liable to fire destruction. . Farrqpr's are the only large handlers of food supplies upon whom the government depends, entirely without supervision by inspectors, to guard Ujeir holdings against losses by fire; 'amKin view of the supreme importance of guarding this season’s stored crops, farmers are asked to consider destruction or spoilage of food through fire as a misfortune to the Nation and the allied as well as a personal loss to the hglder. Prominent among the many sources of fire in rural districts are lighting, defective flues and stoves, spontaneous combustion, carelessness with matches, -incendiarism and sparks from chimneys and locomotives. Effective means of fire prevention and control are understood by the majority of property owners, but particular attention is called to the. importance of removing inflammable trash from the vicinity of buildings and to adequate equipment in ladders and buckets when more modern

equipment for extinguishing fires is lacking. Properly installed systems of lightning rods and conductors are suggested as protections against lightning. The paramount thought is to save from loss not only farm buildings, but the food and feed they, contain.

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