Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 54, 14 January 1918 — Page 8
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, JAN. 14, 1918.
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM
AND SUN-TELEGRAM
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Take Thought of the Spring Garden Now Take thought of the spring garden now. Notwithstanding the large production of vegetables this year and the great volume put into cans and jars for winter use, there is nothing to indicate that there will not be equal need for production and conservation in 1918, says the United States 'Department of Agriculture. Many, gardens failed this year because of poor soil or poor preparation or both. This is the time-in many sections to break and to fertilize. Then in the spring it will be easier to make the seed bed and the soil will contain plant food. For the average householder it will be sufficient to prepare ground enough to produce the home supply for eating in the fresh state and for canning, drying or brining for use during the following winter. Producing vegetables for market should not be undertaken without full knowledge of horticulture and sufficient capital and equipment. Marshalltown, Iowa, a city of 20,000, has located through its county agent and a special agent of the extension department 75 acres of lots within the city limits which were not cultivated the past season. They also found that much ground was not properly plowed and prepared during the past season and that many of these lots failed to produce because of the poor character of the soil. Crops not well adapted to certain soils had been planted. It is the plan of the county agent and the local organization in Marshalltown to extend the cultivated area and to see that the crops are adapted to soil conditions. Investigations in this city
showed that $2,000 was paid in cash last year for food for the poor. Ninety per cent of the potatoes consumed were imported from a long distance. The committees conducting this survey work were appointed by the mayor and they are now systematically arranging to manure, plow, and assign these lots to persons desiring ground for gardens next year. Here is what one Iowa city is doing to get ready for next year's garden campaign. First : ' A curvey of the city was made and 75 acres of space suitable for gardens was located inside the city limits in addition to what was put in gardens last spring. Second: Three hundred tons of manure which could be used for fertilizer were located within the city limits. Third: An inspection of the treasurer's books showed that 82,000 in cash were paid out last year to needy people. Fourth : Ninety per cent of the potatoes consumed last year were shipped in from outside points. - What did the city do about it? Well, the city council and commercial club met and appointed committees in every voting precinct. These committees will arrange for teams, wagons, and plows, and will organize the work so that it can be done'most efficiently and economic-! ally. The mayor says the city will use some of the city money to employ teams and wagons and
plows, if necessary. It is, further planned that those who receive support from the city must take care of a garden according to instructions that is, provided they are able to work. Those who wish to prepare themselves to
make a success of home vegetable gardens next spring should obtain Farmers' Bulletin No. 818, "The Small Vegetable Garden," which the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, will send free on request. Of fice of Information, United States Department of Agriculture.
Don't Believe German Crisis Rumors Mid-winter is here. Coincident with its ar
rival is the story emanating from neutral coun-
tries-saying that the Kaiser's people are starving,
that serious internal troubles are imminent, that
German soldiers are losing their fighting edge,
and that the Socialists and liberals are gaining
ascendancy over the war lords. . Readers with retentive memories will recall that these stories have appeared with monoton
ous regularity in the last three years. They
ought to be commonplace and trite to the discriminating reader. Germany has been defeated on paper so often that one wonders why people give credence to the reports which the German government disseminates for their psychological effect on the Allies. Reports of German dissolution are camouflage
in the superlative degree, studiously manufac
tured and effectively disseminated to deceive the people of England, France, Italy and the United States. These stories are blinds and subterfuges. Push aside the cloak and you find the German munition plants turning out airplanes, shells, cannon and war goods in increasingly large numbers. The Germans want us to believe that they are war-weary so that we will slacken our preparations and go to sleep on the job. America wants to keep one thing in mind always, and that is, that she has a stupendous job ahead of her. If Germany is war-weary so much the better for us, but until the Allies have driven her out of France and Belgium, and our troops have fought on German soil, it behooves us not to believe that she is defeated. Germany will be really war-weary only when she has been defeated by arms. Industrially and socially she has weathered the storm so far, and indications are that she will do so this winter. The only way to be sure that she is tired of war and ready for peace is to defeat her armies. That job cannot be accomplished by speculating about how war-weary her people may be, or by trying to "starve" her out, or by believing that the common people will arise in arms against the Kaiser. That's just what Germany wants us to do. If she can induce us to believe that she is worn out and weary, she is accomplishing her purpose. A prize fighter by feigning weakness and distress often dupes his opponent into leaving an unguarded opening. Then the pugilistic strategist sends home a blow that knocks-out ,his opponent. Teutonic shrewdness is resorting to the same tactics.
Debts
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From Milwaukee Journal.
HE honest man who owes a debt feels it a burden
on bis shoulders. What he has is not wholly his own while he owes another. He is not quite free
till his debt is paid. The honest man will not contract a debt without having plans for repayment. In conducting a large business debt is often necessary. But payment of debts should be part of the plan of business, and an important one. Sometimes these plans fail to be carried out. Unexpected circumstances arise, making it impossible to meet obligations. The careful man, however, always leaves a margin for the unexpected. The man who pays his debts can feel a certain satisfaction, self-respect, independence, that one owing debts which he does not intend to pay, cannot feel. The latter may think himself clever or of superior ability and may congratulate himself on how he has "done" them. But he knows he has not the respect of honest people. His friends are such as would fall away were his money gone. Should misfortune befall him, as sometimes happens, he will be given little sympathy. It is wise to avoid debts, especially small ones. The Spanish have a saying, "He who has four and spends five has no need of a purse." Spurgeon says: "From one of three sources our troubles arise dirt, debt or the devil." There is something of the last cause in the other two.
THE MEN WHO CAME BACK (Copyrighted By British-Canadian Recruiting Mission.)
By Lieut. Andrew M. Naismith, M. C. Canadian Field Artillery. i When the King conferred the Military Cross upon this Canadian it was for "Conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when acting as liaison officer." He rendered invaluable assistance throughout the operations at
Vimy Ridge and set a fine example to all ranks.) If you want to know what German domination of the world would be for you and me, what I saw a German officer do when a prisoner in our cage back of the battle line at Vimy Ridge will serve well to express. There were 250 or so of them, typical German infantrymen, with thorough training under Prussian rule, and a handful of oficers. I had had a hand ia capturing a squad of them and so when I had a chance I stopped to look them over. It was Just mess time and along came the grub, biscuits and bully beef, good enough for a King. They started to Issue the rations and came to one officer. He looked like imperial Prussia incarnate. He took his bully beef and biscuit, but when he saw that it was the same grub that his men were getting he threw it into the mud. "Give me something better," he said, insolently. As a result he had nothing. After a few hours I saw him again: his hunger was' beginning to bore him. - ' What did he do? Another ration was being given to hia men; he was getting nothing. He went to a private and held out his hand. "Give me that," he demanded. The soldier obediently passed over the food. The oficer turn
ed to another man. "Give me that," he said. He got what he demanded and put it into a pocket, for future emergency. Turning to a third, he demanded and received the ration of beef and biscuit.- Turning on his heel, he went away to fill up on other men's grub. Autocracy and military caste? Why, when we brought in a bunch of Boches once, a sergeant stepped out to receive their weapons. An ofiqer pulled out his revolver. "I don't surrender to a private," he said and shot our ser
geant down. Turning to an officer he
passed over the revolver, but out. "I surrender," he said. What would you do if you were tendered that gun? Just what he did.
the Tageblatt claims that U-boats have sank on an average of 821,00 tons of shipping monthly from February to December, and for the whole year the toll mad be expected to show nearly 10,000,000 tons, and that the building of new ships by the entente and neutrals during the year, will replace only between 2,500,000 and 4,000,000 tons of these losses. The newspaper says the monetary loss to Germany's enemies as the result of the year's work by the U-boats will reach, $5,000,000,000, figuring the value of the ships at $250 per ton and their cargoes at the same rate.
GERMANYEXPANDS SUB CAMPAIGN
LONDON, Jan. 14. Reviewing the first year of Germany's ruthless submarine campaign, which ends, February 1, the Tageblatt asserts that the central powers have succeeded In completely upsetting the economic life of the entente and adds that the submarine campaign, which has now become the principal factor in naval warfare, is being expanded and developed still further. Summarizing the results of the underwater campaign since February 1,
The mayor of a suburb of Antwerp has been ordered to deliver to the Germans forty fat cats.
COUGHS WASTE ENERGY
Do Not Import Seed Corn Seed Corn Situation Most Critical Experienced in Tear By P. C. HOUDEN
DO MOT IMPORT SEED CORK PLANT HOME GROWN SEED 6000 TESTS, aYRS.,33 COUNTIES IOWA
THE farmers of tb United States are facing one of the most serious I problems with which they have had to deal In many years. A killing! frost early in October got In Its deadly work and threatened deetrucg tion to ths greatest corn crop ever produced in this country. As a! result there is nation-wide alarm as to the source of seed from which to plant, the 1918 crop. The condition Is the most critical we have experienced in! twenty years. The northern half of the corn belt has suffered tremendous ! losses. . - j i As a result the first Impulse wfll b to Import seed corn. The varieties brought in from other localities will not be adapted to the conditions under i which they are to be grown and
reduction In both yield and quality and In many cases total failure will follow. There will be speculation in worthless seed at exorbitant prices. Many will say that seed that seed brought in from a distance Is Just as good, but I wish to warn the farmers of the United States do not be fooled. Regardless of all argument to the contrary, thousands of tests made by Experiment Stations, by the government, and the results borne out in actual experience, prove beyond dispute that seed corn imported from one state to another, even If it be but fifty miles away, will produce corn Inferior in both yield and quality. These facts are not the results of one test, in one year, in one locality, but for a period of
eight years in thirty-three counties in Iowa with over six thousand tests, and In not a single case do we find the imported samples equal to the homegrown seed. The homegrown corn, in every test, outyielded the imported corn on an average 20 bushels to the acre, or 41 per cent, and besides was of better quality. Study the chart. Out of all these tests, together with investigations carried on by the government in twenty-eight states the results were the same. Will we ever learn to save seed? We can Import potatoes, oats and wheat, but we cannot import seed corn without paying the penalty. It will be impossible to measure the loss of land, labor, food, and money which will come to the people of this country if we do not get into our minds !and into our hearts the importance of these facts. Do not think you can try ;it and .vin out for you will surely fail. Let no argument turn you from truth, j Seed corn grown upon your own farm is best. j If you have old corn left over from your 1916 crop, dont sell it or feed It, jkeep it for seed. Do not conclude too soon that there Is no seed corn in your locality. Ask your neighbors, your County Agent, banker, experiment station, Chamber of Commerce, local paper write to your agricultural college. Do not import from the south under any circumstances. j If you must obtain corn from some other source than at home, get it from your nearest neighbor, keep within your own community, do not go outside your county. Get busy, dc something, but dont get crazy and go to Importing seed corn from a distance, and do not plant a kernel until you have tested It. Test, test, test every ear and don't guess. DO not "Import." These things wui determine your success.
I I jEOBUS
HOME CROWN
IMPORTED
Revelations of a Wife BY AOELE GARRISON
AN ACCIDENT AVOIDED HOW MADGE EXPLAINED THE PSYCHOLOGY OF "BEING GUIDED" ACROSS THESTREET (Concluded) "I hope I am hurting you." Dicky growled savagely. "Perhaps if I hurt you sufficienely you will nave sense enough next time to keep from killing both of us." I looked at him in amazement. He was white to the Hps and his eyes were blazing. "What do you mean?" I faltered. "What do you mean?" ' He almost shouted the words. "Haven't you grasped the fact yet that you've been
about as near death as you could be and get away with it? You hung back there just as we were starting, and that machine just missed us as I jumped. You are always doing it. Some day you'll kill both of us." He still held my arm. I wrenched it free. "At least you can let go my arm," I said icily. "Come along; let's get somewhere where we can sit down," he returned. "I'm as weak as a cat. When I think how near that machine came to Wiling you right before my eyes!" j He stopped short, evidently unable to continue the sentence. My resentment at his manner vanished. After' all it was his concern for me that had worked him up to such a pitch. "Im awfully sorry, Dicky," I said, as we walked rapidly down the incline leading to the Long Island station. "I will try not to hang back another time. But you cannot know the mor- i tal terror that seizes me when anyone takes my arm to pilot me across the street. When I am alone I can get across all right, measuring my distances and everything. But the minute I find myself being guided, all my wits leave me. Didn't you ever feel that way when somebody was guiding you?" Dicky stopped and looked at me as
if some new idea was percolating through his brain. "I never thought of that," he said. "That's probably what ails you. You see, being a man, I never had anybody guide me across the street." "Being a man, you have missed many experiences which would make you understand what a woman feels," I retorted. What Madge Saw in the Girl Dicky Raved Over So Enthusiastically "Well, we are in plenty of time." We were seated, Dicky and I," in the waiting room of the Long Island railroad. Dicky had bought our tickets to Marvin, the little village which was
to be the starting point of our country ramble, and we were putting in the time before our train was ready in gazing at the usual morning scene in a railroad station. There were not many passengers going out to the stations on the island but scores of commuters were hurrying through the station on their way to their offices and other places of employment. "You don't see many of the commuters up here," Dicky remarked. "There's a passage direct from the trains to the subway on the lower level, and most of them take that. Some of the women come up to prink a bit in the waiting room, and some of the men come through here to get cigars or papers, but the big crowd is down on the train level." "Do you notice how contented and healthy most of them look?" I asked. "It's a different looking set from the ordinary city crowd," Dicky acquiesced idly. "Of course they are healthier. They live more regular lives, and have plenty of fresh air. But not for me In the winter time. Too deadly dull, and if you want to come into town it takes a year or two to get in and back. But in the summer time, when you only have to get In once or twice a week, it's the only life." To be continued
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Cut Ice in River To Baptize Woman COLUMBUS, Ind., Jan. 14. Trudging ten squares through snow drifts knee-deep in weather below zero, Mrs. Amelia Gresh, 40, was baptized at 10 o'clock last night in the White river, in which the ice had been cut away. After being immersed in the river the woman walked back to the church in her wet clothing. Her clothes were frozen to her when she reached the church. She is a member of the Pentecostal or Holy Roller sect.
A slab of sandstone, the dimensions of a good-sized whetstone, that will bend and can be twisted with slight pressure from the hands, is the property of J. I. Miller, of Portland, Ore. Geologists are unable to explain the flexibility of the stone.
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Don't Use Snow to Thaw Frozen Ears Says Arctic Explorer
Don't apply snow to freezing ears, nose, or any other freezing or frozen
part of the body, if you believe in the ' . TTI1L 1 . -t r.. , . ITa
auvice ui viiujuimur dusmuibbuu. nc ought to know, for few men have had more experience than be In successfully battling wlttt the extreme cold of the arctic regions. The idea that snow is helpful in such an emergency is very prevalent, but according to Stefansson, it is absurd, and snow tends to complete, rather than prevent freezing. This is hnt he says about It in his book "My Life with the Eskimo:" "It Is curious how many an artic explorer has carried with him through lengthy experience In the north superstitions about cold which have grown up among his ancestry in warm climates. One of these superstitions is that when your face or any other part of your body begins to freeze, you must thraw it out with cn application of snow. Few things coold be more absurd. Any high school pupil could tell us offhand what would happen if liquid air were applied to a man's cheek cr nose; of course that part would freeze instantly. The same would be true of the snow of carbon dioxide, and the same is true of the snow of water, except, of course, that the freezing will not be so nearly instantaneous. Whole Face Frozen. "Nothing I have read in the literature of the arctic ever impressed me more than the account of one of the famous explorers of half a century ago who tells how he dalt with a frost bitt. The story runs substantially as follows: A sledge party was traveling along one day when the commander of a sudden noticed a small spot of white the size of a 10-cent piece upon poor Mr. So-and-So's cheek. With promptness upon which he prides himself in the narrative, he Immediately
ordered a halt and camp to be pitched, and while the other men of the party were thus occupied, the commander rubbed poor Mr. So-and-So's cheek with snow, but 'so intense was the cold,' he tells us, that before camp was finally pitched the wretched man's entire face was frozen. "Such ignorance of elementary things as this story shows can be justified only by pointing out that a great many other arctic explorers
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have known no better. Even In a warm room It would be possible to freeze a man's whole face by rubbing it in snow which was brought in from out-of-doors . when the temperature was below minus 40 degrees F. The whole, secret of dealing with frost bite is to keep your hands warm and (when the weather is severe) to run your hand over your face every few minutes to see if any part of it be frozen. Usually you can also keep yourself fairly well informed of the condition of your face by continually wrinkling it and 'making faces.' If a spot of skin on your cheek or chin the size of a 25-cent piece becomes stiff you can always detect It by making a grimace. Then all you have to do is to take your warm hand out of your mitten and press it on the frozen part for a moment until the whiteness and stiftness are gone. In the very coldest weather our method of taking care of the face is a little different, however. When a man Is properly dressed for winter his coat is a loose-fitting one with the sleeves cut so that at any time he likese he can pull his arm out of the sleeve and carry his hand on his naked breast inside his coat. The neck of the coat Is made loose and whenever any part of his face refuses to wrinkle up he pushes his hand through the loose-fitting neck of the coat and presses It a moment on the stiffened portion of the face. So soon as the frozen spot is thawed out he pulls his had in upon his breast again. In this way one can walk all day facing a steady breeze at 35 or 40 degrees below zero." Stefansson goes on to tell how for safety in the arctic regions one must go smooth-shaven, for when Ice foron on the beadr one's hand can not thav.' i tout in time to avoid freezing of th hand, which is as bad as or worse than freezing the face.
RECORD OF THE PAST No Stronger Evidence Can Be Had In Richmond.
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