Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 41, Jasper, Dubois County, 21 June 1918 — Page 2
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WEEKLY COURIER BEN CD. DOANE, Publisher
JASPER - - INDIANA Don't let the soldiers miss the books you'll never miss. Being decent to a German spy is simply wasting decency. American soldiers nre making good wherever they are placed. There are many aliens and some en emies that are not aliens. Kow is the time for all good women 'to come to the aid of Hoover. Wooden ships will be of more service than wooden heads, anyhow. Be accommodating, but don't spend .your life grinding the other fellow's ax. The fellow who coined the phrase of Stop, Look and Loosen, also did a good : day's work. It will be a wise policy for habitual iiars to talk about something else bosides the war. Whether every man has a book in him or not, every man has his own pet war epigram.
Everybody else in Hunland may be , 'kept busy, but the minister of foreign 'trade has a snap.
Besides providing food, the war garden gives the home defender practice in trench digging. Some of those who are crying speed tip the war are pretty slow-going in Jtheir own movements. Lloyd George says newspaper men make good public servants. It Is a habit with them to make good. A loafer is a human tapeworm. He consumes the food that is intended to sustain the life of somebody else. Our men on the firing line are not downhearted. But thoy require all the support we can possibly give them. An American whose patriotism Isn't equal to good corn bread ought to join the Germans and be done with it. There is nothing that will cause a fellow to forget his other troubles like ibeing out. in a OG-milo-an-hour breeze. A cautious tongue and a wise head are boon companions. Proper use of either Indicates the possession of both. Only a fat scrapbook can hold all the German propaganda lies that are in Iprocess of collection and classification. The fashion note which Informs that bathing suits will be shorter this summer does not mean scarce just shorter. No wonder the weather man Is nervous and uneasy. The tensity of the situation has got into the atmosphere. The race is not always to the swift, but In the present need for government production speed Is absolutely necessary. The management of the Fourth of July was easy, but It is requiring a big struggle to render the whole world safe nd sane. 1 Thewar weddings show that In the narch of events Cupid always keeps a step or two ahead of the procession led by Mars. While the Romanoffs may be In want now. they should be able eventually to do well In vaudeville if only they could reach this country. And now we are being urged to ent caweed. Whatever perfection we may have attained in wrestling with spaghetti Is going to come in handy. The United States is to draft 2,000,000 Class 1 men. Certainly they are 'first-class meu, as that Is the only "brand of fighters this nation has. When the war is over and the desolation It has caused Is viewed In its full extent, history will stamp it with the baleful sign", "Made in Germany." Germany thinks there ar onl 70,000 or 80.000 American soldiers in France. Say, there are that many American newspaper men ovei there. The name of General Foch, we are informed from France, Is pronounced to rhyme with "Boche." But we've always wanted to know what "Boche" rhymed with. No woman In khaki can bo served a drink. Hence the female of the military species, though as thirsty as the mak, must choose between patriotism and potations. Only a small percentage of war gongs are scoring a success, which makes their record about the same as Jhnt of songs In peace times. The number of Germans who have recently discovered thoy were born in Switzerland or Holland Is extraordinary, but you can't blamo them. Five million American soldiers abroad will make a pretty big dent In :the male population of our country, but i It will make a hole clean through kai Irl8in and the laud of the Hun.
Washington Residents Fleecing the Patriotic WASHINGTON. 'Most persons are greedy." The words were spoken by a Washington woman who had been observing with some disgust the way many of her fellow Washingtonians were exploiting the war situation. "Some
I know," she said, "have an apartment that they used to rent unfurnished for $45 a month. They have furnished it simply and tastefully and they are nowgetting $150 a month. I call that performance simple extortion." It is, obviously, extortion. And It is a typical case. Many of the sufferers from the extortion have come here out of patriotic motives and are working for the government either without pay or for very much less than they
are used to getting. A capable man came here and offered his services to one of the most important of all the war boards. He was told that he would be given a position if he would agree to take 40 per cent of his average salary for the last three years. He did agree and he wTent to work with a will and he wrote to his wife and children that he would send for them just as soon as he could find the right kind of house. He finally was driven to thinking that it would be best for him to take an apartment that was furnished. But he couldn't find one. At this point he decided to go home. The government lost an able worker through not taking care of him properly. Now it realizes and it has provided an agency to see that the war workers are properly housed.
With Blood in His Eye Dog Cop Seeketh the Sly THIS is the tale of some cops and a hound ; a taxi adventure, and the district dog pound. The cops are now mad; the hound is quite dead, while one taxi chauffeur is some bucks ahead. Murphy, dog cop at the capitoi grounds, espied a big bulldog while making his
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policemen, "in on" the joke. He asked for reward; the answer was "yes," and Murphy was given a "phony" address. Exultant, the victim the bulldog did grab, and made a wild dash for a near taxicab. The address he shouted and off they did go, whereat quiet reigned for an hour or so. Later Murphy, the dog and the taxi came back, with Murphy bewailing alas and alack! that the address he'd sought he never had found and the confounded mutt he would send to the pound. Murphy was busted ; he hadn't a cent, so the chauffeur to Officer Calkins ho sent. Calkins, amazed, heard the taximan blare that he was expected to pay Murphy's farq. At that there were signs of a violent fight, till the capltol cop captain hove into sight. So Calkins, bewildered, dug deep in his jeans and greased the chauffeur's palm with sundry odd beans. There endeth the yarn of the cops and the mutt, the taxi, the joke, in fact everything BUT The fact that Cop Calkins is waiting to know by whose low-down scheme he was ordered to blow the most of his pay for a darned taxi-toot and then get a call from the captain to boot
Girl War Workers Are
THAT prewar girl who was "Trald to go home in the dark" is very much among the missing. Girls, especially war workers in Washington, think nothing about going about alone late at night. There's so much to do that girls cannot be bothered with escorts. They
found that the bugbear around the dark corner hasn't materialized. Especially is this true of the group that is working under the direction of Miss Stella Osbourne at the District campaign headquarters of the Red Cross. There are girls from several government departments that have been doing clerical work for the Red Cross every night since early in April except the night after the parade whea
they all were pegged out with marching. They are preparing for the big drive that is to take place soon for the purpose of obtaining funds for the Red Cross. Their services have been devoted gratis to the cause and should the hours they have put in be counted in the final reckoning up of the fund it would be found to be quite an item. They have a complete organization. A girl was chosen by the chief clerk in each government department to be a member of the clerical committee. Under each of these girls is a corps-of six assistants. Those in turn have reserves. As the headquarters would not hold all the workers some of them work at night at the library of congress under the direction of Mrs. Woods. Others are at the interstate commerce commission at night, and still others are burning the midnight oil for Uncle Sam In the post office.
"Central" No Longer Is Bureau of Information WASHINGTON, the most talkative place in the United States, if press bureaus of the various departments are to bo classed as "word producers," is oi of the first large cities of the nation to eliminate talk among its telephone
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pummellng each other at the ball park and you pine for the "score," central will be a blank If you ask her. Tho White House and capltol could be raging torrents of flames, and you In your suburban home might seek knowledge of the location of tho fire by taking down the receiver, but central is prohibited from advising you. War has trebled the telephone service In Washington for purely legitimate business, and no longer is there time to be wasted by answering unnecessary questions, say officials of the company, who declared that more than an hour's time each day Is saved by the company's decision to prohibit operators from answering unnecessary questions. Another war move that saves time in Washington Is the decision to close all departments to the public. Admission to the White House, except to the executive offices, Is now refused to everybody. The time-saving process has even been extended -to the street-car systems, which now have Installed tho skip-slop plan, by which the service la expedited.
AMOflTtt FFRTHIS r5P APARTMENT rounds. He picked up the canine with great expectation of fetching to owner with hopes of remuneration. The other policeman with hopes of some fun, with much speed and action to phone booths did run, while Officer Boyd said to Murphy, you seo, "you call up and find who the owner might be." When Murphy called up, the wires were "nulled. " nnrl jMnrnhv. iinknowincr. wns tllol'ousMy "bulled," for instead of the Not Afraid of the Dark operators. By an order issued by tho company operating the capital telephono system unnecessary and frivolous questions will not bo answered by "central." If you forgot to wind your watch at night and wake up early in the morning oblivious of the time of day the ever-convenient "hello girl" will not be your savior. If you are held In your office while the Yankees and the Senators are
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RAISE LEGHORNS FOR FAMILY USE Meat Possibilities of Fowl Have Been Neglected by Most Poultry Breeders.
AVERAGE BIRD IS TOO SMALL It Would Be. Profitable for Poultry Raisers to Give More Attention to These Egg Producers Make Splendid Broilers. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The Leghorn fowl owes its popularity so largely to its egg-producing capacity that the meat possibilities of the breed have been neglected by most Leghorn breeders. Such failure to recognize the potential food value of birds kept to produce a special food product may have been excusable under prewar conditions, but in the present need of utilizing to the full every capacity of every food-producing animal, breeders of Leghorns should give due attention to the development of their table qualities. Discussion of the meat value of a breed must note and take due account of the fact that the markets that is, the dealers and consumers do not recognize breed differences in poultry, except as in a few localities particular breeds may be generally kept and may become known locally, or in special trade lines for excellent table quality. The poultry breeder, therefore, in planning how to make the most of the meat values of his stock considers what market demands can be filled with poultry of the breed which he keeps. Average Leghorns Too Small. Average Leghorn hens weigh only about 3 pounds alive. Many of them will dress only 2 to 2y2 pounds. This Is not a desirable size for a table fowl, being too much under the weights (4 to 5 pounds) which most people prefer when buying a fowl. Besides being small herself, the average Leghorn produces chicks so small that they do not remain very soft-meatcd until they have reached the size the market demands in broilers, and so the cockerels cannot be Ideal Type of Leghorn. sold for poultry at that stage with the same profit as cockerels from larger stock. Standard Leghorns Better for Poultry. The standard weights for mature Leghorns are: Males S1 pounds, females 4 pounds. By making these the minimum weights for birds used in breeding, and by giving the preference to the largest specimens that show Leghorn type without coarseness, strains of Leghorns may be developed that with no loss of laying capacity have considerable merit as table fowls in a limited range of uses. Leghorn hens which alive weigh 4 pounds or more are heavy enough to meet the demand for dressed fowls a little under the weights generally preferred, and there is enough demand for fowls at this weight to take all the supply. The cockerels bred from hens of 4 pounds weight and over, if properly grown, will make broiler size as quickly as the chicks of most of the larger breeds. They will also be soft-meated up to about 2 to 21 pounds' weight. After that they are apt to harden quickly and their flesh is not so tender. Leghorn cockerels produced from very large males and females that is, from males that weigh upward of G1 pounds and females upward of f3 pounds frequently keep quite softmeated until they reach 4 to 5 pounds weight. Such birds make very satisfactory small roasters for home use, though they will not sell as well on the market as birds of the same weight of a slower growing breed. Growing Leghorns for Meat. Even when good-sized Leghorns are used for breeding, the chickens will not make good poultry unless they are well grown. In a measure this Is true of any chickens ; those that are poorly grown never make the development or have the table quality of those that are well grown. To secure good growth, Leghorn chicks must npt be overcrowded In brooders or coops, and as soon as they are large enough to range over an extended piece of ground should bo given as wide range as possible and at the Kamo time fed liberally. Chicks so treated will grow twice as fast as those that are reared under the Intensive conditions to which tho greater number of Leghorn chicks are subjected.
INCREASING OUTPUT OF SHEEP AND WOOL
Department of Agriculture Makes Recommendations for 1918. More Farm Flocks Recommended Wherever Conditions Are Favor- . able and First Cost of Stocking is Not Too High. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The department of agriculture includes the following recommendations regarding sheep and wool in its supplementary production program for 1918. Effort should' be made to increase the production of sheep and wool. Increase in farm flocks is recommended wherever conditions are favorable and the firs- cost of stocking is not too high. The wool produced in this coun-1 try furnishes only about 50 per cent of the amount used in peace times; the war demands have emphasized the seriousness of this domestic shortage. Sheep Pastured in an Orchard. To equip 2,000,000 soldiers and clothe them for one year would require the entire quantity of wool grown annually in this country. During recent years we have shorn about thirty-five million fleeces annually, and the pulled wool taken from sheep and lambs slaughtered for meat brings the total clip up to the equivalent of about forty million fleeces. If all this wool were suitable for mill tary use, it would supply only 2,000, 000 men. The production of wool in the United States has remained practically stationary from 1914 to 1917. while imports increased 43 per cent and the estimated net supply increased only about 21 per cent. That mutton and wool production in this country can be increased greatly admits of no doubt. This can be accomplished by developing sheep husbandry on farms, especially in the Eastern and Southern states. Steps should be taken in the East and South to do away with the sheep-killing dog menace by state or local action. Large results can be secured by improving methods of breeding and management on the range ; by securing the restocking of improved farm lands with sheep; by the larger use of forage crops and pastures; by encouraging sheep and lamb clubs; by the elimination of parasites ; by protection against losses from predatory animals; and by having lambs ready for market at from 70 to SO pounds weight thereby requiring a minimum of grain to finish them and making possibj the maintenance of larger breeding flocks. HIGH-PRODUCING GARDEN (Prepared by the United States J Department of Agriculture.) Are you sure that your garden is producing as much as it is capable of doing? A half -acre garden, if properly cared for, will produce sufficient vegetables J for the average family's use. It will produce far greater returns 2 per acre than can be realized from an equal area devoted to general farm crops. But it is necessary to give the garden proper care and attention if you expect maximum crops. Farmers' Bulletin 937, recently pub- J Ushed by the United States department of agriculture, which J will be sent free to any who apply for It, so long as tho supply J lasts, gives specific directions for the planting, care and cultlvatlon of the various vegetables. Make sure that you are not wastIng time and energy by failing to give your garden the care that Insures highest yields. CARING FOR CONFINED HENS Provide Good Straw Litter In Which to Scatter Grain Alio Supply Green Feed. (Prepared by tho United States Department of Agriculture.) If the chickens must bo confined on account of bad weather, provide a good straw litter in which their grain feed may be scattered. This will give them exercise and keep them Interested and healthy. When chickens that have been accustomed to free range are closely confined this frequently checks their development for the time being unless they are made contented in the new quarters. Provide green feed for them also.
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GROUND FROZEN AGES AGO Scientific Explanations of Fact Which Has Puzzled Miners Who Have Worked In Alaska. Miners and geologists familiar with conditions In Alaska are aware that In many places the ground In that country is permanently frozen, except on the surface, to a depth of 200 and even 300 feet While this has been popularly attributed to longcontinued low temperature in winter, the Interesting theory has recently been advanced by a scientist that the condition Is due to far colder weather that obtained In some previous age, and that protective vegetation on the surface has kept the frost In the ground permanently since then. It has been found that when moss has been cleared away for open-cut mining or farming the upper level of the grounds frost seemed gradually to descend. If such Is the case, It may show that present temperatures are not low enough to freeze the ground to the great depths cited above. Popular Mechanics Magazine. Part of Her Costume. Bessie came running to her grandmother holdlug n dry, pressed leaf, obviously tho relic of a day long gon by. "I found It In tho big Bible, grandma," she said. "Do you spos It belonged to Eve" Boston Transcript. An Alleviation. Proud Parent- "My daughter plays entirely by ear." Unwilling Guest "That's all right. I'm denf." Many a man who poses as a public benefactor never thinks of giving his wife a dollar for her own use. C HILDREN Should not b "dodF for colds apply Mx-ttfnally"