Liberty Express, Volume 13, Number 33, Liberty, Union County, 17 March 1916 — Page 4

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Friday, March 17, 191 1.

Nailing a lie won't always keep it down.

The best way to gt rich quick is to go slow. Steps are now being taken to render the ocean unfit for use.

Even a rattlesnake warns before it strikes, Herr BernstorlT. Congress can't expect to raise revenue by taxing our patience. Every time a Turkish soldier falls, about 110 women have to put on crepe. Those Russians seem to fight better on the road than on the home grounds. If the night has a thousand eyes, London certainly appears to need every one of them.

I'AKCEL TOST. It was Thomas Jefferson who said that "Kteriul vigilance U the price of librty." It would worn that Congress requires .eternal vigilance also if it is to legislate in the interest of tho people, instead of the corporation. Last week the House of Representatives voted down the proposition to increase the limit of parcel jwst packages from ")rt pound to I(M pounds. This

was a great victory of the Kxpress companies, because all packages weighing

over 30 pounds can be sent only through

the express companies, and they can ac

cordingly charge good fat rates which

the people must pay. Congressman Lewis, of Maryland, who is the father of the parcel ost, fought the express companies with all Iiis power, but it seems that the express companies own more members of Congress and the Senate than do the people. However, this measure may still be amended, for it now goes to the Senate, and if every voter will write a letter to his Congressman, and one to each of his Senators, and insist that the limit of parcel post packages be increased by law from 50 pound3 to 100 pounds, the Senate will amend the post office bill accordingly. Nearly all the European countries carry parcel post packages exceeding 100 pounds in weight. Congressman Lewis, in fighting for this increase, stated that if Congress would turn the proposition down it would send the stock

of the express companies upwards more than $23,000,000.

Our notion of a wise Mexican father is one who brings up his son to be a surgeon or an undertaker. Let's put a stop to this peace talk. Charlie Chaplin saya he intends to play Hamlet when the war ends.

Ferhaps the pork-brigade will take more kindly to a bigger navy when they learn there's a trough of the sea.

Russia is getting back at the Turks for those atrocities. Grand Duke Nicholas has ordered his prisoners to bathe. Senator La Folette is not standing back for any leap year demonstrations from the 1916 nomination.

When New York City gets a new postmaster all the politicians of both parties naturally stop, look and listen. It is unpleasant to lose "old friends," büt after this year's experience the public should never trust another ground hog. A new wreck on the New Haven road adds another incident to a lengthy program of investigation. No matter what form of government China seeks to adopt, the result is altogether informal.

It might encourage a citizenry trained to look on the practical side to be told that the Swiss government insures its citizen soldiers against eventualities of sickness, accident and death. That drop In the price of mules is likely to be temporary. The Standard Oil Company is using horses again to pull its oil wagons because of the high cost of gasoline.

VILLA AND UNCLE SAM. If we have learned anything at all about Villa we have learned he is quick on his feet, shrewd, bold, resourceful and ruthless. It ia possible he will be long in the catching. It is only reasonable to suppose Villa and his men, employing guerilla tactics in w ild country, may lead the troops of the United States such a chase as that of Geronimo, the Apache, in the Indian days. It may well turn out we have another Aguinaldo on our hands. In short, we should prepare now for a prolonged, drawn-out piece of disagreeable and difficult, but necessary and justified work. With all this in mind the United States should immediately mobilize a part of the national guard, say a command or detachment from each of the forty-eight states, and use the guardsmen for patrol duty along the Mexican border while all the regulars are thrown into Mexico to push the pursuit of the Villista bandits. While the chase is being carried on by all the regulars available, assisted by coast artillery acting as infantry, the national guardsmen can perform service in the place of the absent coast artillery and get a valuable training on the Mexican border in semi-active field service. Then, if the force now at hand seems unequal to the task of exterminating the Villa forces as may prove the case the guardsmen on the .line, under a United States volunteer enlistment, may be sent forward and a new lot of guardsmen can be sent to the Rio Grande. In the meantime, all the states ought to be strengthening their national guard organizations, enlarging the companies and giving the young men intensive soldiering to fit them for whatever future call may be sent out from Washington. The Villa quest may be ended in a short time. It

may mean months of Indian warfare. Common sense demands that we get ready for the worst. The worst may mean trouble with other factions than

that of Villa. Indiana Times.

Nobody has ever accused the Swiss of militarism, yet that smallest of the world's recognizable republics has a much larger army than has the largest of republics. Another mildly humorous situation is the N ew York editors sitting around in horror because Hon. Josephus Daniels does not resign, although they explicitly requested him to.

WILSON AND THE SUBMARINES. President Wilson has been overwhelmed with telegrams from all parts of the country, commending his stand that Germany shall not sink merchant vessels without giving them warning, whether they are defensively armed or not. This is plainly the international law of the world, and President Wilson is only doing what a stalwart American President should do in upholding the rights of American citizens. ECONOMIC VALUE. The Indiana Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis have issued a statement showing that the economic value of lives saved from tuberculosis in Indiana in 1915 is $3,8S0,OOO. The tuberculosis death rate in the five years preceding January 1, 1916, dropped from 17.43 to 14.18 per 10,000; resulting, for illustration, not only in the saving of 483 persons in the year 1915, but the saving of approximately 2,423 persons from illness through tuberculosis. Lives saved from tuberculosis have each, according to Irving Fisher, of Yale University, an economic value of $8,000, making this saving alone in the state of Indiana amount in the year 1913 to $3,880,000. The saving in time and in physician's bills by those prevented from having tuberculosis would amount to a very considerable amount.

INDIANA CROP REPORT. A summary of the March crop report for the state of Indiana and for the United States, as compiled by the bureau

of crop estimates, United States Depart

ment of Agriculture, is as follows: Wheat on Farms Estimated Btocks on farms March 1 this year, 10,400 bushels, compared with 6,486,000 a year ago, and 7,955,000 two years ago. Price on March 1 to producers, $1.11 per bushel, compared with $1.42 a year ago, and 91 cents two years ago. Corn on Farms Estimated stock on farms March 1 this year, 76,400,000 bushels, compared with 58,794,000 a year ago and 05,2(58,000 two years ago. Price March 1 to producers, 64 cents per bushel, compared with 70 cents a year ago, and 01 cents two years ago. Corn of Mercantile Quality The percentage of the 1015 crop which was of merchantable quality is estimated at 73, compared with 87 of the 1914 crop, and 84 of the 1913 crop. Oats on Farms Estimated stocks on farms March 1 this year, 21,000,000 bushels, compared with 10,773,000 a year ago and 10,550,000 two years ago. Price March 1 to producers, 39 cents per bushel, compared with 52 cents a year ago and 37 cents two years ago. THE SWISS PLAN. Switzerland seems to have solved wisely the problem of acquiring for its youth all the beneßts of state training and discipline, freed from the evils of military caste and aggressive militarism as they

are exemplified in the German army,

says the Spokane Spokesman-Review. German efficiency and highly disciplined co-operation compel our respect, wonder and admiration. It is not a chance product. It has been in the

making since Napoleon, more than 100 years ago. overreached himself when,

conquered Prussia at his feet, he laid down the seemingly hard condition that

the Prussian army should never exceed 75,(MK men. I5ut Prussian sagacity was more than a match for Napoleonic genius. nu. the condition by training 75.4MH) mtii for a few months, discharging them back into civilian life and calling another 73,OnO recruits to the service for another brief pcriwd of military training. This simple process Prussia repeated again and again until it had practically a trained reserve of several hundred thousand men. Its nominal army never exceed the stipulated 75,(MK), but its real army grew to heroic proportions. J That was the making of German character. It led on to the downfall of Napoleon the Great, bore fruitage half a

century later in the overthrow of Napoleon the Little and the welding of the Germanic states by Bismarck into the present-day empire, and was the taproot of present German power and efliciency. National greatness is but an aggregate of individual vigor and efficiency, and individual success U dependent on health and discipline. Without them nothing. Young men who have them in high degree render high service to the family, to the community and the state. Boys that lack them are the failures, the mollycoddles, the incorrigibles, the criminals. A training system like that of Switzerland gives infinitely more to the individual and the nation than it extracts. Let us follow a Swiss boy through the schools and into the training camp. Early he is taught the elementary laws of health, correct gait and carriage, attention to command and co-operative action with his comrades. Though this preliminary training is not of a military nature, it fits him admirably for the military instruction that awaits him at 20. At that age he is put to physical and mental tests to determine his capacity to serve his country. "The tests are comparatively easy," says Dr. Henry Ferguson, "but of sufficient difficulty to exclude duiicea and weaklings whom the confederation has no use for. The physical examination

consist of a test of strength rcq-iiring

the candidate to lift four times ir suc

cession in each hand a weight of jvbout

37 pounds. He has to run about 80 yards in 14 seconds or under b-'sides passing a fairly rigid physical examination as to the condition of his vjtyl or

gans, f

"The mental examination cona'ula of

reading, writing, arithmetic and the rudi

ments of Swiss history, besides a short

composition on some simple subject, to show the candidate's power of eipres-sion.

"Those who pass are accepted for

military training; those wV.i to meet these easy requirements are dis

missed, but must bear thereafter a

heavier share in the national taxation than their more intelligent and athletic brothers who are able to give theiij personal service."

Then follows, for the recruits, field

training for sixty to ninety days. Drill work perfects their deportment and car- .... i t it

nage, camp sanitation teacnes mem the laws of health. Care of uniform and

rifle teaches neatness and pride of per-

son. Knie shooting teacnes precision anu accuracy. Attention to command teaches alertness and quick co-ordination of

mind and muscle.

Consider the great value of all this

training in after life. Take, for illustration, the requirement that a rvcuit must grasp intelligently a command given but once, and contrast it with he

waste of time, the exhaustion of patience

and the errors and blunders that American industry, all the way from the home

to great industrial establishments, is burdened with through the necessity of dealing with men who have not learned that rudiment of efficiency! Ry adopting the Swiss system of thorough training of the country's youth, the United States can mount to greater heights of industrial and business achievement. More comfort, health and happiness can be put into the homes. More rugged vigor will be imparted to the young manhood of our day and be made the priceless heritage of the coming generation. With these blessings would come national insurance against invasion and elimination of a large part of the peril of war. For once it were known that behind the long shore line stood several million young men, with rifles at hand and knowledge to shoot straight, to march, to maneuver and take care of themselves in the field, where could be found a nation so aggressive, so greedy, so reckless of consequences as to attempt invasion of the United States?

haps too much to expect entire freedom! from fuch crises in view of the titanic j struggle in EiirojH and a heated presi- '

deiitial contest at home. The EuroMan conflict has revolutionized foreign trade, and its effect upon American commerce is becoming - more and more pronounced. Whatever happens, the field for American enterprise abroad is bound to enlarge. Not only American products, but American capital is sure to find a larger foreign outlet. Neither England. France nor Germany will 1h able to finance new ventures in other parts ofihe world with anything like former freedom. South America, China, Russia, Central Asia and other

AKIC3

Absolutely Pure No Alum No Phosphate

undeveloped countries win all require or

large sums when peace re- J no physician or midwife has uerformed

a. :f i !... I.. .. . t l !

lurus, ii um in-iuie. im mm cases meir

the birth upon the attending physician ' A non-sinkable dreadnought is no nov-

m id wife. Under the circumstances '"y. Kiel is crowded with em.

capital in . large sums wnen peace

turns, if not Iiefore. In some cases t

needs are already urgent. This means-a

"The British armv is not attacking

jhis w hole duty to either of his patients. ' yet," Ixjudon explains. We seem to have

the child or the mother, until a properly noticed it.

, , , , o , , . ' I completed birth certificate has been regand the tinted States for obvious rea- . i i r A . , i T A i e i i t n . , , , . iistered. In fact, so great mav be the I Instead of looking for an Apollo some sons, will be the best able to respond.!. . . ., . ., , . ' . i , , . .. , , , . . , , . (importance to the child in after years of of those merchant tailors would better This also means employment for Amen- , - .. ., . . ..a . ', , , . ... . i, , , I having its birth registered that a phvsi- be looking for a Croesus, can industry, and will inevitably lead to . , , . ,. .. ., . . " . ,, J , , iCian who neglects his patients interests; .... a much greater development of New I. . , - ., . , When a woman rets to be 2! vears , . . t ut'h a degree as to fail to register a I , -.., A , ork as an international banking een- hirth miht ... iustit.p Qn , . jold, ,he will be 30 in about four years.

ter. New York is practically sure ofan improper pt.rson to hol(, a 1Uvuse to

reaciiiiig aim uouiiiig st'cunti piace m tne

SIGNS OF. TIMES. -Henry Clews thinks that the recent inactivity on the Stock Exchange must

be attributed almost entirely to the very

disturbing mixture of foreign and do mestic politics. It is a serious misior A Alia

tune mai me presidential campaign should 1 on during the war, but the

latest disturbance over our relations

with Germany seems to have been safely

passed, and it is to be hoped will not be

revived. hat will happen as a result of events in Mexico cannot be estimated at this writing; but aside from that con

tingency the political atmosphere has

been somewhat cleared; the lines of po

litical cleavage are known, and it has been proved that neither the country nor

the administration wants war. It is per

world's financial center, and in some instances will push London hard for premiership. The great nations of Europe for many years to come-must labor under huge debts and impaired resources; disasters which this country, thanks to its isolation and peace policy, has fortunately escaped. Domestic business conditions are satisfactory. Our railroads are still overtaxed with traffic, especially those centering at New York. Various modes for relief for congestion have been suggested, such as a diversion of traffic to other ports, a stronger embargo on certain articles of traffic, etc. Rut insufficient emphasis has been placed upon the fundamental fact that. the roads are now showing the effects of over-regulation and the consequent discouragement to enterprise and capital out of which alone the necessary facilities for handling freight can be provided. Public opinion is more disposed to give the railroads a square deal than at any time in the past decade, and public officials should

Im held to a strict accountability for their share in bringing on present transportation difficulties. As a result of their mistaken zeal, capital often shuns this form of investment, and this fact has not a little to do with present inadequate facilities. The labor situation is less threatening. Differences in the soft coal trade have been satisfactorily adjusted, and there is reason to believe that trouble in the anthracite region will also be. averted. Labor conditions in the coal regions have greatly improved during the last, few years, and there is little ground for serious complaints, such as would enlist public sentiment. As to the railroads the outlook is not so promising. The men appear insistent in their demands, Vhich-if conceded would increase railroad expenses many millions; some estimates being as high as $100,000,000. As the public will eventually have to pay these added charges, the demands of the men have not thus far received the support of public opinion. Here, too, with few exceptions, the conditions under which the employes labor have greatly improved; and a strike or tie-up of railroads, which are

the arterial system of the country, would probably arouse much public indigna-

ion. A movement is being started for

arbitration, which if it succeeds, will

probably settle the difference or postpone final adjustment until late in the spring or the summer months.

TEXAS IMG-CLUB ROY'S PROFITS.

Raymond Williams, of Texas, joined

the pig club last spring. Selecting a

2-month-old Duroc pig weighing 41

pounds, he commenced feeding it early in April. Grazing his pig on oats, Bermuda grass, and alfalfa, he fed a supplementary feed of shorts and maize

chops, some skim milk, and toward the end some cottonseed meal. Seven months

later the pig was killed, and it dressed

305 pounds. The meat, lard, sausage, etc., when sold at retail, brought $51.05, and gave the boy a net profit of $23.31.

Month by month the pig gained as

follows: Weight at beginning, 41 pounds;

at end of first month 89 pounds; second

month, 145 pounds; third month, 204

pounds; fourth month, 276 pounds; fifth

mouth, 34(1 pounds; sixth month, 414

pounds. The pig was then 8 months old,

and had gained 373 pounds in six months, or more than 2 pounds daily. The next

month very little gain was put on, as the

pig was very fat.

The total cost, including feed, original

cost of pig, and cost of killing, cutting

and refrigeration, was $28.34. The net profit of $23.31 was approximately twice as much as if the niir had been sold on

the hoof.

Good stock, a good start before wean

ing, pasture, a balanced ration, a mineral mixture always before the pig, and the work and care of an industrious boy all

contributed to this successful pig feed

ing.

A STRONG STATEMENT.

Assistant Surgeon Feneral Trask, of

the IT. S. Public Health Service, says

"The official registration of its birth

showing parentage, w here and when born

is the right of every child. The newborn babe being helpless in the matter

most communities have placed the duty

and responsibility of the registration of

Nobody seems to have thought of pro-

practice medicine. Very probably, a hiding our missionaries who are urging parents grow to appreciate the impor-lthe African savages to get civilized and tance of the registration of their chil-1 wear clothes w ith a few photographs of dren's births, the failure of the attend- ' the latest Palm Beach model bathing ing physician or widwife to register the ' suits.

required certificates mav become a not

uncommon cause of suits at law for damages."

Georgia doesn't seem to cotton to Hoke like she used to.

Mogul 8-16 Price Announcement The Real Kerosene Tractor fN and after April 1st the price of the Mogul 8-16 will be $725 cash f. o. b. Chicago. All sales made and bona fide orders taken up to April ist will be filled at the present price of $675 cash f. o. b. Chicago. We want to post you ahead of time on the coming change. Mogul 8-1 6f as you know, is the famous tractor that h&j cut f utl costs squarely in half operates on cheap, commcn kerosene or coal oil - doesn't have to be the highest gradeeither. It pays for itself in the saving over gasoline." That is why the rise in price necessary because cost of raw materials has risen so high is of minor importance. iv 1 q ic : 1 1 ca. ii j f

uiugui u-au is saving diiu uiüMiig piuui uii inuubauua ui farms of all sizes. "It will do much more fcr you than your ' I 1. J 1 1.. :

ljuiscs Ldii. vjci 111 juui uiuci iiuw uc icduy tor spilug work. See the dealer who sells the Mogul 8-16. International Harvester Company of America (Incorporated) The Mogul 8-16 kerosene tractor it told by ALBERT BIAS LIBERTY, INDIANA

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IOO IN CAST Friday Evening, March 24-

Auspices of the Liberty Public Schools

An additional 10c for Reserved Seats

Admission, 25c

Reserved seats at Richardson's on and after March 22. Produced and staged by G. W. Hatfield, who furnishes all costumes.

THE DEFINING OF A MUCH ABUSED WORD Watch Repairing When you hring your watch to nie to he repaired, it is thoroughly cleaned, properly lubricated and accurately adjusted. hy watchmakers who know the works of your watch like you know your own front room. That know-how eliminates all the come-back and 25 years of know-how is my reason for requesting your watch repair work. I'm waiting for you. . EDWARD ISRAEL CONNERSVILLE, IND.