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Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1910-12-08

and many stores, owned and
managed by her farmers. She
also has large timber interests
and anumber of banks owned in
the same way.
California has a Farmers I'm
ion with a capital of $3.50, 600,
held exclusively by it's members,
which acts as buying and selling
head for Ia local associations in
Santa Clara and San Joaquin
valleys. The local associations
own warehouses and fruit pack
ing plants. The movement in
this state is not yet two years
old, but is spreading rapidly.
Colorado has twelve associa-
tons with a total authorized cap
ital of 81, 48S, 900. They operate
three coal mines, two creameries
a pickle factory and a broom
factory. The farmers have re-
Gently opened their first cooper
ative bank at Rifle, with deposits
of $4,000.
Georgia has taught her farm
ers to buy their flour in train
loads, and to save hundreds of
thousands of dollars in purchas
ing fertilizers at wholesale. Her
farmers own six hundred acres
of phosphate land, an imple-
ment factory and 134 warehouses
1t is cheering to note that all the
Georgia enterprises are out of
debt and in possession of a COM
Portable surplus.
Illinois is saving her people an
average of 25 per cent on all
they purchase. One local union
with only $40 capital, handled
81, 600 worth of poultry and eggs
last year, giving its members a
profit of 40 per cent over prevail
ing prices.
Indiana is supplying its men,
bers with implements and staple
articles and selling their crops
and live stock to great advantage
Kansas by the same method,
has increased the price of
wheat 7 cents per bushel for the
producer, while reducing the
cost of flour 80 cents per barrel.
They are handling everything
the farmer has for sale and sup
plying all staple articles he uses.
They are buying Irvine direct
from the state and have reduced
the cost from Is to 81 cents.
| Missouri has increased the
price of wheat and reduced the
cost of Irvine and wheat sacks,
as well as secured numerous 9th.
er advantages.
4 North Carolina has effected q
saving of So to S. a ton on fer.
tilizer; Oklahoma has severa
flour mills owned by the farmers
Tennessee, numerous factories
and warehouses; Texas, 1876 cot
ton gins and various other CO
operative industries.
1t is the same story in Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Missippi
Washington and Idaho. Every
where the movement is growing
by leaps and bounds.
Its influence is not who'll!
! economic. Indeed. it is almos
equally pronounced on its socia
side. It brings the farmers ant
} their families together in fire
quent meetings and all sorts O
. good times result.
The national headquarters ar
: quite appropriately at Union City
Ga. Charles S. Barret is presi
t dent. Many news papers ar
e maintained in various parts O
8 the United States and every
r where the leadership seems t
have fallen into the hands Q
: such devoted men as have mad
r the cooperative movement SUE
, cessful in Europe.
0 100 900 5000 5000
'IONAL FARMERS UNION.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1910-12-08
NATIONAL union
PLANNED BY
FARMERS.
Organizing in Effort To Secure
Justice To All--Apply
Golden Rule.

A silent revolution is under
way on millions of farms in the
South, the Middle, West and the
Pacific coast.
Literally, millions of farmers
somewhere between two and
three millions are enrolled in
the various state and county
branches of the Farmers Educa-
tional and cooperative Union of
Amarica.
1t has not been easy to obtain
exact information concerning the
movement because its leaders
have not sought publicity and its
workings have been confined to
single class of citizenship,
widely scattered and mostly re-
mote from ordinary news sources
But it is a big movement-big in
numbers. big in the scope of its
commercial operations, and very
big, indeed, in it's social and
economic significance.
Does it mean anything in poll
tics? Not if its leaders and best
friends can help it. Politicians
have made desperate efforts to
capture it, but thus far without
slightest encouragement
Better farms, better living,
better homes. better education
| for the children this is what
the farmers are driving at.
| First Of all. and with the aid
DR.. S. A. Knapp, chief of ex-
pertinent stations in the depart.
ment of agriculture, they aimed
to abolish the evil of the single
crop and to teach every farmer
to be independent on his own
land.
Live at home and eat at the
same place." is one their slogans,
The North Carolina union went
so far at its last meeting as t.
adopt a rule to this effect: Raise
your food supplies or be expelled
from the union.
This is pretty drastic. but the
! farmers are determined to ge
: rid of the policy that has KEEP
them poor-the policy of selling
: all thew produced at heavy cos
of transportation and commits
sions, and buying all they con
sumed at similar cost.
The essence of the movement
is co-operative--co-operative witt
, the agricultural department il
E learning new methods of scienti
fic and intensive cultivation; CO
operative with each other in sell
: ing products and purchasing sup
plies; cooperation of county I'm
: ions in state organizations, an
e of state organizations in grea
general body.
The success achieved up to thi
time is remarkable.
3 Alabama has reduced the cost
s while raising the standard. o
living for her farmers by pun
I chasing fertilizers, flour, dr.
e goods and implements direc
y from the manufacturers. Sh
n has more than 100 warehouse
: that cost in the aggregate owe
n $500. 900.
q Arkansas has SO cotton ware
: houses, about the same numbe
l. of gins and cottonseed house.
Il 100000 5000
, 0 PURPOSES OF THE MA
A 0 To secure equity, establish j
n 0 Rule.
0 To discourage the credit and
0 To assist our members in buy
0 To educate the agricultural cl
0 To teach farmers the classific
10 and the process of market
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10 0 0 90 O 90 % o o 100 0 90 90
10 PURPOSES OF THE NATIONAL FARMERS UNION.
To equity establish justice and apply the Golden
10 Rule
10 To discourage the credit and mortgage system.
0 To assist members in buying and selling.
10 To educate agricultural in scientific farmng
To teach farmers the classification of domestic ecomy
10 and the process of marketing.
To systematic methods of production and distribution
To eliminate gambling in farm products by boards of trade
10 cotton exchanges and other spectators.
10 bring farming standard of other industrial and
10 business enterprises.
10 To and maintain profitable and uniform for cot
10 grain live stock and other products of the farm
To strive for harmony and good will among all mankind broth
10 erly love among ourselves
To garner the of the distressed the blood of martyrs
10 the laugh of innocent children the of honest labor
10 and the virtue of happy home the brightest jewels
10 known
10 OOO % 90 100000 100000 0
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
RETAIN

The Baltimore Sun directs attention
Francis Marion Cockrell as member of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
is about to end. There are rumors
that he Will not be reappointed. lie is
no longer a young man, but is as fit
for the position as any mar that can
be obtained.
He has already served five years on
the Commission. There is no doubt
that he has shown rare qualifications
for the Office. He has heard the evil
dence in the important Investigations
and cases now awaiting decision. a
rare comprehension and understanding
of great and vital questions has been
displayed by Commissioners Cockrell in
the work of the Commission for the
last five years. in which work he has
done his full share.
a brigadier-general in the Confeder-
ate army, Commissioner Cockrell be-
gan his service in the United States
Senate in 1876. For thirty years he
was a member of the higher branch of
the National Legislature. OF the high
est ability and character, he has made
his work faultless. He is fair, judi
cial and honest. The only thing
brought against him is his age. 1t is
certain that that has not incapacitated
him, and his long experience and adj
mitted ability entitle him to be con-
tinued in office. He has had long train
ing, he has rendered efficient service,
and he is still able to render it. The
reappointment of Commissioner Cock
rcll is to be desired.
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CHRISTMAS TREE
is OF IRISH ORIGIN

devotes without stint to these three
self-imposed missions, he combines
them one with another In so clever a
fashion that he always cover his
scientific work: and this excuse has
frequently been put forward by the
German government. whenever The
French or English authorities have had
to complain OF Baron Oppenheim's con
duct in fomenting and encouraging
Moslem trouble against them.
There is no doubt. however. that The
baron's beautiful house at Cairo. which
at the disposal of members OF the
various reigninG houses OF Germany
visiting Egypt. IL the headquarters of
a good deal of MoSlem anti-frcncli and
anti-English native intrigue, and that
the baron exercises from thence a very
far reaching influence among the fol-
lowers of Islam, especially among the
Arab tribes: while 1t Is to him more
than to n one else that the Kaiser
Is indebted for the impression which
Northern Africa, OF Egypt. of Arabia,
Asia Minor. and even Persia, that En-
peror William is the champion. par
excellence, of Islam. among the Chris
and most powerful friend OF the fol-
lowers Of the Prophet
Baron Max O%ppenfle'm has published
quite a number of scientific works deal.
tS Will va tSP5ch NUNS IN
has made all arrangements TO start
at the end of this month the exca-
vation of the great mound covering
the ruins of the ancient Hittite city
of Tell Halaf. in central Mesopotamie.
Baron ~Oppenheim Is one of the only
two Hebrews in the diplomatic service
of the Kaiser. the other being young
Goldschmidt Rothschild, who is at
tached TO the German embassy in
London, and whose engagement has
just been announced TO Miriam Roths-
child. of Paris, only sister of Baron
James Rothschild, who spent Novcm-
Der in touring through the United
States, and who has Just gone back
to Europe.
Apropos of Count Hermann HAITI
the story cabled to this country to
the effect that he has succeeded to
the title OF prince, borne by his cousin;
the late Prince Francis Hatzfeldt, and
also to the latter's vast estates. In
the first place, Prince Francis had no
estates of any kind. and was entirely
dependent upon his American wife. one
Huntington Secondly, the parents, OF
Prince Francis are still alive, and
whatever they can dispose OF they will
leave. not to Count Hermann, but to
their only daughter, AntonieHs married
to the Austrian Count Althann. 1t is
true that the latter may possibly IN
herit some of the entailed property,
remains to be seen whether the En-
peror will be willing to revive Prince
Alfred's princely title, after his death,
In favor of Count Hermann.
Copyright, 1910. by the Brentwood
Companyo
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
THE PRESIDENT AND THE INsUR-
GENTS.

Now and then George Bailey. of the,
Houston Post, has lucid moments. We
wish he had more of them; for, in
spite of irreverence, he really can do
good work. Hear him:
1T is said that President Taft has
extended the olive branch to some of
the refractory Senators of his party.
If he would take our view he would
use a ~bludgeon with spikes in 1T on
these fellows"
President Taft was probably brought
up on webster's old Blue Back SPELL
Ing Book, and he will remember the
story told in it about the old man who
tried persuasion upon the boys who
were robbing his apple orchard, and
finding that soft words would not
affect them in their course, he knock
ed them out of the tree with stones
which lay conveniently at hand. There
have been a good many reports from
Washington about how the President
has been Smuggling UP" to the In
surgents. how he has called them INTO
counsel and begged their pardon n
hoped that they would forgive him,
and all that; but if he has lone n OF
these things, and we doubt 1T very
much. he mas made a mistake, The
club is not a very attractive weapon
to carry around with one. 1t is awk-
ward and heavy, and cannot be con-
cealed, there is no place to putt When
one wants to sit down and no place
/, O carry it co~nven.ently when n
wishes to ian UP, and we should pre-
fer the s~tiletto to the stick. 1t means
a great deal closer fighting, but at
the same time it means more effective
fighting. and that is better than bat
tering up ones adversary or being
battered up in turn.
Mr.. Taft will not be able to make
anything out of the crowd who have
been a~utagonizing him, we mean the
crowd within his own party; people
who are fortunately on the outside
have the right to antagonize him, and
1t is their duty to antagonize him: not
personally, of course, for he is a very
1ovable man, but because of his poll
tics and the party of which he Is the
head and front. If he should make a
treaty of peace with the traitors in
the ranks of his own party, he could
have no assurance that they o not
break the terms of the agreement The
thing, therefore, for him to do is to
keep his head, to follow his own judg-
mant, TO do what he thinks is right,
and, God helping him, to stand.
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THE books THAT HEI,pnn

The current Christian Endeavor
World OF Boston contains a SYM
postum In which the books eminent
people declare have been most helpfu1
to them are set forth. 1t is a rather
remarkable list.
Julia Ward Howe declared that she
was most deeply indebted to
"Pilgrim's Progress" She quantity
said that in the first parties which
she attended in her early social life
she seemed to find call Of Bunvan,s
sinners n but few OF his saints.n
Gibbons decline and Fall of the Ro-
man Empire and Splnoza were also
especially helpful to her.
joaquin Miller, the poet Of the sier.
ras, has found most pleasure n
profit" In the Bible, placing plutarch's
Gives, next.
John Burroughs values Emerson,s
essays first and then the poems OF
Walt Whitman and Wordsworth.
President Eliot places the Bible first
and then acknowledges his great debt
to the essays Of Emerson and Bacon.
which he has most frequently con-
suited for wisdom and advice.
Henry Cabot Lodge really doesn't
know what book has influenced him
most, but we should imagine that the
writings of Alexander Hamilton have
afforded him much comfort In his
political actions.
"on h Wabash sixty or seventy
Years ago books were not plentiful"
asserts Speaker Cannon, but he found
his greatest profitin Plutarch's Lives,
and Rollins's Ancient History" The
Speaker confcsses to a fondness for
Shakespeare, having read with profit,
we imagine, that mastery speech Of
the great Cardinal, Farewell. a long
farewell, to all my greatnessw Burns
is also to his liking. So are Scott and
Dickens, while he says that he learned
much from McAiaster's History of the
People of the United states" and Mots
ley's Rise of the Dutch Republic"
Strange taste Is exhibited by Will
Carleton, the poet, who has received
the greatest benefit from THE Philoso-
ply of Health" by J. b. Coles. NJ. d.
Shakespeare ONES next in his heart.
Congressman-Elect Henry George,
Jr, places first importF ce on the
Bible, and thcf on his fathers cele-
brated book. Progress and Poverty
Edward w. Box, the editor OF a la
dies journal, prefers Emerson's Essays.
1t would seem that the old favorites
still hold their own Few books are
now written that will be anybody's
first choice.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
was made from the shells of white and
dark-colored mollusks. One kind had
the form of perforated disks compared

was made from the shells of white and
dark colored mollusks. One kind had
the form of perforated disks compared
to u peppermint lozenge in size and
thickness, and the other consisted of
short cylinders an eighth of an inch
thick and two or three times az long.
Both kinds were commonly strung on
cords Of some kind. Short strings OF
six TO t~wenty-fotir beads wore laid
side by side M knotted closely to-
gether, forming belts OF varied de-
sign from tvs to ten inches wide and
two to eight feet long. Several Of
these valuable belts were usually OK
changed in ratifying Il treaty. Other
money was so scarce that the white
colonists were glad to "dopt his for
a time, and a Massachusetts law OF
1887 made IL LEGAL tender for any
amoun UP to twelve pence. at the rate
of six beads for a penny, while Con-
necticut made 1T legal tender for any
amount, receiving 1t for taxes at the
late of four beads for a penny. In
New York II was almost the only cur
rency for half Il century. It's use in
trade with the Indians continuing
nearly to the middle of the nineteenth
~ ~ hr
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temperance. I say 1t is an outrage 10
put into the minds of little children
That which Will tend to cngender strlie
and bltterness," said Mr.. Lee on Weu-
nesday night, and he was right. IL the
school children, as such, did these
things under the direction of schooi
officers, using their authority to carry
out this plan, then these officers de-
serve the severest censrrc.
The duty OF a school teacher Is 10
teach. 1t Is none Of his business, in his
oficinl capacity, what the political Is
sues are In his town. He has a right
to take one side or the other person
ally, but he has no right to itnplant
~prejudicial ideas into the minds and
hearts OF the young. That is for the
preacher, not for the teacher.
II the parents OF children wish to
send them out to sing. and parade, 1t
is another matter; but it is n matter
with which the teachers have nothing
to do. The best thing the teacher can
do, be he ever so Jealous for prohibi-
ton or local option, is to let these
things alone, so far as the pupils are
concerned. 1t is a well settled prin-
ciple III the United States that
the public schools shall not be
abused for the purpose of extending the
doctrines Of any sect, denomination or
political belief.
1t is wrong to put into the mind of
the child, who is not old enough to
think for himself or herself, ideas that
are prejudiced. ideas that win later in
cite to enmity and bad feeling. Such
action is discrimination, is wrong, and
is reougnant to the spirit and the let
ter Of American Institutions.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
WHY IOWA HAS LOST.

.Lafe, Young is one of the new
Senators at washington. He was APP
pointed by the ,@cvefnor of Iowa to
succeed the widely lamented Jonathan
p. Dolliver, and if he is as successful
in saying things in the Senate as he
has been in speaking his thoughts
through his newspaper-rhe Des.
soines Capitalize win make an im-
preston on the country as he has made
upon his newspaper constituency. The
population of Iowa has not kept pro-
gress with the rest of the country, and
the loss of population in that state
is charged by Mr.. Young's paper 10 the
progressive legislation of the last ten
years. Speaking in the Capital paper
Wednesday evening, he, or he man
he has left in charge at Des Moines,
made this very frank and truthful ex-
PLANTATION of the cause Of the deca-
dence of Iowa:
Something like ten years ago a
wave of Populism began TO sweep
over The State. The doctrine began TO
he exploited that the functions of gov
erhlnent were BENG pefYertea 70
mighty sight better began to stimulate
the ancient prejudice which teaches
that they who have much should be
iookea upoh Win suspicion, VINE
piven tbs heneft of The doubt
This state of mind began TO find
expression in new legislative enact-
mems, the, ctllei am 81 Whlch was 70
Than 70 safeguard those gbo tbronab
economy and Industry had managed 10
acquire IT
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
THE GROWTH OF CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE

1t is idle talk to say that with the
death of Mrs. Eddy, the Christian
Science Church will be disintegrated
and will disappear. This Church is a
much more powerful one in a phyaical
sense than most people think. There
are 9e7 churches and societies of this
faith here and in foreign countries.
The approximate number OF those who
follow Christian Science is about $780,
900.
There are four churches in Africa,
one in Asia, one in the Philippine Is
lands, four in Australia, six in Ger
many, one in the Channel Islands,
three in ireland, three in Scotland, one
in Wales. W. in Holland, one In Italy,
two in Switzerland, one in the Bahama
Islands, three in Canada, II in Pana-
ma, one in Porto Rico, two in the Ar
gentine Republic. There are fifty
churches in England proper.
In the United States and Canada
there are a.765 practising healers.
There are 296 in foreign countries.
Healers are registered in practically
every country in the Northern Hemis-
phee. Every State in the Union has at
least one Christian Science Church.
The approximate value Of edificcs
belonging to the Christian Scientists in
America alone is s2s, 100000.
This growth and strength is remark
able when it is remembered that
Christian Science is a comparatively
new faith, and has achieved its prin-
cipal growth in the last two decades.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
/. GREAT WORLD POWER NOW.

In noting the death of II. II. Brock
way. the last of the old-time New York
landlords, the Waterbury American
says very truly: THE identity of the
proprietor is nc longer important in
the New York hotel. Onyx columns
and skill in sweetbreads sous cloche
contribute much more effectively to
the satisfaction of patrons, The only
personalities which count are those of
the headwaiter and the bartender"
But our Waterbury friend forgets
that we are a nation now, q great
World Power. iilled with aspirations
which, In the circumstances, we can
not achieve, but a World Power Just
the same. with the primitive virtues
there has departed the simple ways of
the old-timers which made life very
sweet and health very good, because
In the days of better cooking the food
was suited to the human stomach, and
not to the demands of Frcnchy names
on illuminated cardboard. There are
few places left in New England, we
believe, where men can be fed on good
food, but even New England is yield
ing 10 the demands of our National
life