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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
What Newspapers Print.


 It Is not uncommon to hear the as- sertion that the average newspaper Is chiefly devoted to crime and scandal. Whether the people who make this claim think 1t Is true because of their habit of skipping (and therefore for gettIng) everything but the crime and scandal does not at present concern us, being another story. What we wish to call attention to Is the interesting fact, established by cearefully collected statistics, that the crime and scandal record covers but very small per ~centage of the space in the average newspaper in the course of the year.
 Mir Arthur l. Street, whose business is the indexing of newspapers publish ed all over the United States. after a careful examination. gives in the Chi cago Tribune statistical proof that in 1908 the leading newspapers in all parts of the country gave much more space to religion, education, science politics and similar topics than to crimes and scandals, loose assertion to the contrary notwithstanding.
 He shows. for example. that such matters as the Thaw case, the Sagan- Castellahe divorce scandal, the Black Hand, the Haines murder and half a dozen other criminal and scandalous stories that aroused much public inter est, were mentioned in the newspapers but 443 times during the entire year, while in the same papers during the same time 2,280 items of foreign news appeared. 1.l40 relating to Congress, 679 on subjects connected with the railroads, $50 about President Roose- welt 450~ on William H. Taft, S97 on educational and scientific topics, 300 on religious matters and 26S on new prob lems in medicine and surgery.
 Taking all the crime that were com sidered worth telegraphing by any of the big press associations to the papers they serve, Mir. Street finds only 1,S43 | items relating to crime and scandal all over the United States Contrasted with this he finds that railroads and business matters. entirely aside from Wall street reports, account for 1882 Items. Congressional and political news furnished in 1908, 2.7S1 items of news more than twice as many as all the crimes and scandals together.
 Personal references to prominent men not connected with crime in any way-such men as Taft, Roosevelt Rockefeller. Morgan. Hartman. Cortel- you, Governor Hughes, Cleveland and | others, account for 1927 times. Labor | items alone numbered 659. or more than the total of all references to the important crimes and scandals of tho year. There were BOT items concern ing murders of various kinds. Agains this education, science and religion show 1.055 items. While 317 suicides were mentioned, there Were 695 itemi relating to the governmental affairs O | States and cities.
 Taking into consideration every iten that related in any way to crime ant
 scandal, and setting against it thu items relating to education, religion states and cities, labor business, ratl
 roads foreign news, the President O
 the United States and prominent meT
 Mir Street finds l.S4S of the latte
 against 1,343 of the former. Yet tn
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15

air we breathe is not freer than spunk. which ia not what the casual reader probably thinks 1t is, an unpurchasabls and desirable attribute of human char acter, singuiarly lacking among the as- sociatea of Mir Aldrich and Mir. Can. non, but merely what most folks now adays call punk, or touchwood. Cud. bear, myrobaians, kiserite and pulu can be brought in without duty, as com. pensation for the heavily increased charges on things common humanity knows by name. Cudbear is a dye- stuae@nlade from aslichensx by digestion withAammotita People Wbo wautS cud- bea probably want lt very muchi Dras gons blood is not a theatrical property, but a brown resin, and myrobafaps is a dried, prMne like fruit from the East Indies. useless for ordinary boarding houses purposes, but excellent for mak- ing ink. Kierserite, named for a dis tinguished scientist of Jena, Is a mag nesium sulphat. while with Pulu the Hawaiians stun their sofa pillows. or course everybody knows now that tur- ties are "hinesecks."
 There remains. among the more cryp- tic contents of the free list. divadiva. The appearance of divadiva, on the free list, however, has nothing to do with the greatly increased interest in opera. Divadiva does not signify two xdivas, or twin prime dome for such works as tGirofe-Girofia. It Is merely a tropical American tree, the reddish brown pods of which are used for making O dye. There is much con- solation. by and large, for dyers in the free list. 1t is pity so few of us are dyerH, -, f.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
MI. Sistrunk Writes Logically
 of The Nsw Corn Method

tance at this time than anything else
 that can be said. is to try to impress
 upon every farmer who has not tried
 this new way that he should get out and see for himself these wonderful results alluded to.
 The old saying:---"seeing Is believ-
 ing." Is true one, and there is no doubt but what visit to crop planted and worked the new way"
 would open the eyes of many a doubt ing Thomas.
 1t is a sad fact. however, that there are hundreds of farmers In every state and county who have been 50 thought less as to their own good that they have never taken the trouble to in- vestigate. or to 'catch on" as the ex- precision goes. It Is this class we
 should an make an effort to reach. and as most crops are now iayed by and there remains few days of leisure before cotton picking comes on, 1t
 would be such good time for them
 to look around and see how some have made fine crops this wet year. 1, when, possibly. they have failed.
 If this would be done, If our far
 mers would only see what is going on in this new way of growing corn thousands of converts another year. Yes. 1t would mean more than that It would mean that the South would soon be growing every bushel of corn she needed: 1t would mean that the unnatural drain upon the pockets of
 our planters by buying corn for so
 many years past would soon be a
 thing unknown, and. we would even forget, in the course of few years,
 that. as class, we ever had to Ego into Egypt to buy corn" ss they did in the days of Joseph of old. for years of plenty would be our heritage and lean years would come no more. The question naturally suggests it.
 self: what earthly excuse can any
 farmer give for clingfng to old
 methods, when he can double his dry"--by adopting the new wayT' If the plan is unknown and seems
 nut of the usual order. then try a few acres until you are convinced The
 thing is to make a change and get on higher vantage ground another year. There is nothing difficult or obscure in the new way" and 1t seems such
 . simple task to experiment a little along lines suggested.
 Subsoil few acres only in the fall Or early part of next year, that Is, If
 you lack faith; plant corn as early as
 you can in March--the earlier the bet
 ter--then stunt the corn as William
 son advises if it Is on land rich
 enough to grow one thousand pounds seed cotton per acre or more, other
 wise, it Is not necessary to stunt but little, if any; then fertilize liberailY if land is good and less if poor. and it never pays to put very poor land in
 corn; work it with sweep and turn
 blow. lay by early, or when it begins to bunch for tassel by putting around 1t your nitrate of soda and broadcast ing bushe1 peas in middles of each
 acres blow out middles with turn blow
 and the work Is done.
 The corn rows must on all lands be six feet wide. so as to allow best work
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15


 with the turn pfow and with the crop of peas. By the wide rows you can grow a pea crop that can be easily cut with . mower for hay--after picking as many as you wish to, and after having gathered the corn. For hay purposes find the Iron pea the best variety to plant for the vines grow straight up and retain their leaves until late in the fail--thus giving ample time for cutting hay after the stress of cotton picking Is over. After moving the peas 1t is an easy matter to rake them by reducing 0width of rake so as to fit the width of mid dles, this being done by taking out teeth on each end. etc.
 Now just think of itl By this new way" you make three of the most im- portant crops that the South can pos- sibly grow and without which she can never reach that high tide of pros perity she so richly deserves, viz: Corn. hay in plenty, and peas. With cribs full of corn and barns full of hay and peas as first consideration Afterwards. we can well turn our at- tentfoh to cotton as> our money crop. but not before as we all know from sad experience.
 To illustrate what can be done in the new way on uplands. which will make ordinarily a bale of cotton per acre, trust 1 will be pardonej for making few statements of per. sonal nature. Like many others. never took the trouble to visit . Wn- liamson crop until last year. But after thorough investigation and compar- ing crops adjacent. could form but one conclusion. and my faith was so great that I planted my entire crop of corn for the first time. this year, on that plan Besides this, I reduced my corn acreage to one half of what I usually plant. On ten mule wages farm worked under my supervision. l only planted thirty acres, and 1t will yield me considerably more than l made on sixty acres last year on the old plan. but last year was extremely dry as we all remember. I shall not only make more than enough corn to do the place, but a world of pea-vine hay for I never saw peas look better. Again. by reducing the acreage saved thirty acres of land to plant in other crops and work with same blow force. As already stated, thought the plan perfect, so took pains to follow same exactly. shall not attempt to explain manner of preparation. planting and cultivating, as doubtless all are familiar with 1t, but will say briefly. that I fertilized as follows and at a cost of little over " per acre: Ohe sack acid phosphate; one sack kainit and 200 pounds cotton seed meal. This was put down as first application. Then I put down one hundred and twenty-five pounds nitrate soda at Plast blowing.
 My crop, in spite of the extreme wet season, which interfered very much with its proper cultivation. will make an average of fifty bushels per acre. planted in six foot rows and twelve to eighteen inches in drill.
 Another year, and to show my faith in the plan, intend to still further reduce my crop and only plant twenty five acres to provide for thirteen head of stock and what I shall use in fat- Itening my hogs. have every reason to hope that I shall make eighty bushels of corn. If not more. if a good year. This twenty-five acres will be after cotton on red uplands which will
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
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Farmers should not fail to investi. gate the new way" to grow corn on the uplands of the South.
 So much interest has been shown in corn grown this year. that I am writ ing to urge those who have not done 50. to look around and see for them selves what has been done in the way of Improvement over the old methods of growing same, as compared with the new way"
 The prizes offered by the Agricui- tural Department of our state. and through many other sources. for the largest yield of corn per acre have caused lively competition. and have no doubt done much good. Indeed 1t could not be otherwise. since so many object lessons have sprung up and can be seen in most every progressive locality in the state.
 N The williamson plan. or, as term 1t. the new way" has been thorough ly tested by many. and is beyond ques- tion the best method that has thus far been brought to the attention of our farmers
 1t has gained SO much prominence In the whole south, and is such a great Innovation as to corn growing in q successful way. that 1t might easily be termed the only plan now before our farmers
 And have yet to see or hear of single instance where 1t has failed to come ID to the full measure of suc- cess claimed for it.
 It may have been condemned in 6 few cases, where the plan was not followed to the letter, but for all that 1t remains to be said, in the light of further tests which have been made the present year. that 1t is Q great success. and far outstrips the old ways of growing corn, which hit when seasons were entirely favorable. but quite as often proved signal failures.
 So many farmers are making fail- ure this year that it seems a fitting time for them to forsake the old ruts they have been following so long and . get into. line as to the new way" which. if followed exactly to the iet- ter, Is an absolute certainty. and there can be no such word as fail.
 About a year ago, wrote The Advertiser an article along this line, and took the position then that the new way" was a great success even with as dry year as we had and when so many had made scarcely any corn at all. This year T am in posi- fion to add new testimony and am even more enthusiastic than ever when claim that it is sure crop, wet or dry" And that the results gotten thts unusually wet year are nothing short of wonderful, In view of the fact that ga many yaAhousands of our farmers are making complete failures.
 The Williamson plan has been kept 50. conspfcuously before the farmers by the leading papers and journals. and Is written so plainly as to its de- tails, that 1t is unnecessary to attempt any explanations or add single sug- gestion. The plan is perfect. so far as can see, Oh our uplands on which 1t has always been so difficult and un- certain to grow good crops each year. What l feel sure is of more impor-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
Current Comment.

The St. Paul Pioneer-Press says Mir. Bryan is said to be annoyed over the newSpaper publicity about his has fattened on publicity and has al- ways resented any attempt to give him the absent treatment"
 The Brooklyn Eagle says: "Mr. Taft has an unequaled opportunity to push revision further than the monopolists or their hired men in Congtess want 1t pushed. He can avail himself of that opportunity when Congress as sufance that inc volume of public sen.
 The Philadelphia Record says. Nearly every day property to the red by John D. Rockefeller to the per son of the same name who adds 'Jr. to 1t to distinguish himself from his father. When the elder Rockefeller public will get only a very small in'
 The Cleveland Plain Dealer says Before the next national election the tariff may be superseded as an issue But the complaisant and servile con gressman who bowed in speeches. awe before the partisan dictators will hear a word or two when they run for at least that long. and the Democrats are certain to make the most of it."
 The Kansas City Star says: "The young man from Oklahoma who took a roommate at Union avenue board ing house last night in order to prae- tice economy awoke this morning tG find that his clothing had been stolen and that his money, watch and ali oi his valuable papers were missing Here Is a person who ought to bt ] able to appreciate the feeling of tht American people who voted last fal for the tariff to be revised by 1t: | friends"
 The Savannah News says: "kine
 Edward VII is alleged to have cleaned l up s1,000, coo recently by speculatint ] in United States Steel securities, on | tip given him by his good friend Mir
 J. P Morgan. What d fine thins | 1t is to be @ King and have a frient
 like Pierpont Morgan"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
Names and Record 0f Faculty Of the
 Alabama WOn1an!S College Selected
 Last Week by School Administration

winning this honor he went abroad and spent. full year in study at Gottenger. Germany. Added to this excellent record for scholar ship pr Gumm brings to his work a varied experience as teacher in the high schools of Maryland, as instructor in English in Wander bilt and Pennsylvania Universi- ties and as professor of English in Morrisville College and Law renee University.
 Preach and German.
 Modern culture is more and more demanding a ready know ledge of the worlds living lan- guages. Among these French holds a unique position as the travellers comfort and the language of the Court. while German opens to the student a rich vein of the worlds best literature. It is with pleasure the college has secured Miss Elizabeth Littleton. She is an A. B. graduate of the Southern University and holds her M. A. degree from the University of Illinois. In addition to these quail fications she has done extensive graduate work and is within one year of her Doctors degree at the University of Illinois. Miss Little ton Is the daughter of Dr. J. T. Littleton who enjoys an enviable reputation as author, scholar and teacher. Added to her natural en- dowments and her university training she has been eminently successful as professor of Modern Languages in one of the best Southern colleges for girls.
 Latin and Greek.
 The Department of Ancient Languages Is happy in It's choice of Miss Isabel Stone of Massachu- setts. Miss Stone has her M. A. degree from Wellesley and her Ph. D. degree from Cornell Uni versity From the latter Institu- ton she was awarded the Alice Freeman Palmer Fellowship as an evidence of her excellence as a student of the Classics. This fel- lowship defrays all expenses for twelve month study abroad. Avail ing herself of this opportunity Miss Stone has for the past year been studying in Greece and Rome. From these places she has re- gently returned to her Massachu- setts home and there the con- tract with the Womans College has just been consummated for the ensuing session. Her study and residence in Greece and Itlay have supplied a useful store of illustra- tlons and traditions from the life and civilization of these people of other days which will be usel by Miss Stone in quickening the interest and enthusiasm of the pupils of her Department.
 History, Economies and Sociology
 In terms of interest and practi- cal ability this department cer- tainly stands coordinate with modern languages to girls and young women. The work Is pe- culiarly attractive Dr. w. E Mar tin will be In charge of the His tory Economies and Sociology. For this work he Is fitted by the M. A degree from the Southern Univer- sity and the Ph D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University, Dr Martins college anl university work was marked by special study in this field and from the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
rAFr's EMPTY VICTORY.
Ills Efforts for Downward Revision Result
 In Small Achievement.


 In Small Achievement. Louisville Courier Journal.
 That President Taft honestly desired real reduction of the Dingiey tariff has been made by him clearly evident, but that the measure of reduction which he did secure from the eonferees satisfied him, or any other honest advocate of a real reduction. is proposition beyond the support of req son.
 And that the result is not now in accord ance with what he would have preferred 1t to be, is largely the Presidents own fault. It Is clear that he made the mistake of holding alCof too long; that he waited until after the horse was stolen before locking the stable door.
 He may have saved the halter. but q saved halter and a stolen horse can afford only celd comfort to those who hold up the halter and exult over it as 'fhe Presi-
 It Is notN worth while now to consider whether President Taft, after waiting until the Etandpatters had formulated their schedules could have intervened and secur- ed any greater degree of reduction than he did secure at the eleventh hour but that he did secure this appears as ample reason why he should have exerted himself earlier and sought a greater measure of reform. Ills procrastination and the course of events that followed his awakening have given cause for the cry that the whole proceeding after the bill went to conference, was a pre- arranged bit of thimblerigging-a cry which, so far as it affects the President Is. The Courier Journal is satisfied. unjustifia- bie.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
The Weman's College of Alabama
Montgomery. Aiabann Calendar E9O9-I9IO

Session begins Thursday. Sept tember so, 1909 Thanksgiving re- cess. Thursday. November 25. 1909 Christmas holidays, December p. 1909. to January 4. 1910.
 Second term begins January 1. 1910.
 Commencement exercises: Art Levee. Thursday afternoon, May 2s 1910; Glass Night and Senior Prom enade, Thursday evening, May 2s, 1910.
 Meeting of Alumnae. Friday, 10 a. m., May 27, 1910.
 Evening with School of Expres- sion. Friday. May 27, 1910.
 Conservatory Evening, Saturday, May 2s. 1910.
 Baccalaureate Sermon. Sunday morning. May 20, 1910.
 Sermon before Y. w. c. A., Sun. day evening, May 2s, 1910.
 Literary Address and Graduating Exercises. Monday afternoon. May 90, 1910.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15

the Declaration of Independence was drafted and signed, and Independence Hall. i'm which the Continental Con- gress adopted the inm ortai document. stands practically unchanged to this day. Philadelphia was also the home of Benjamin Franklin. and among oth- CT claims of primacy are the first brick house built in America. 16S3" Rush's- first American work on medi- cine. the first law school in, America, the first water works, the first art in- stitution and the first monument to Washington. Later events include the first worlds fair held in this country. the Centennial" of 1876.
 The old city has been first in many important things, and she Is certainly entitled to point with pride to these facts to all future time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15

make little over a bale of cotton per acre this year. Expect to fertilize as follows: 800 pounds acid phospate' 800 pounds Kainit; 200 pounds Guano; S-4-4 and 800 pounjs- cotton seed meal as first application And 200 nitrate soda at last blowing. This will fur nish as plant food sixty pounds acid, phosphate; forty-nine pounds potash and sixty-six pounds ammonia. and at q cost of sixteen dollars per acre, and can pay by selling twenty bushels of corn per acre. or the sale of peas either. This would leave sixty bushels of corn per acre after paying the ex- pense of fertflixing. to say nothing of the peas, pea-vfrie hay and permanent improvement to the soil
 MT. Williamson tells us of having made eiehty bushels of corn per acre on eighty acres. and on land not as rich as mine So this goes to show that I am not over-hopeful. Ii also goes to show that our corn growers throughout the entire south should have ( world of encouragement to 60 and do hkewise. In my humble opinion. prosperity never did extend q mora inviting hand 10 our southland than 1t now offers In this new way" height of folly for our farmers not to fan into line on proposition 90 sim pie, yet 70 needfui to our whole coun- try at this time.
 In conclusion, I wish to say that If no crops or object lessons can be seen in the vicinity of any who may read this article and may wish to see and investigate for themselves. would te glad to have them visit me at my farm near Taiiassee, Ala. and look over my corn and pea crop. feel quite Sure that any visitor would be convinced that have not written these lines ct random or to further any pet idea, but that have the goods to show. Again. say. I hope our farmers VIII take encouragement and look around. It is not theory they wish to learn now. for we have enough of that. but it is practice which should be the teacher at this stage of the game. when so many have failed two years in succession to grow enough corn to. do them.
 Tallassee, Ala.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15

items named in the list are only small proportion of the total amount of news published daily.
 Comparing the space occupied by articles on crime and scandal and on all other subjects, Mir. Street finds that there Is one column of criminal and scandalous news to twenty-five columns of news of all other kinds. Tn other words" concludes the account from which we take these facts, "ln spite of the outcry against the daily press by the pulpit and the muckraker, the care fully complied statistics show that only per cent of all the news of a year rich in crime and scandal dealt with that crime and scandal, while to subjects in themselves uplifting and important to the continuity, many time as many items were devoted"