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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1912-10-29
OF COURSE

OF course a state official who de-
posts great sums of money in bank
in which he is heavy stakeholder,
which bank is in an unstable condi-
ton, and which later fails disastrous
ly, is entitled to reelection.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-17

Editor OF The Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta, ga.
Dear Sir 1t is not my custom to crtcse otherwise
editorials in the but in The Georgian the
subject Martial Law in Georgia. has my approval
and has struck being timely in its fitness that
frain from writing to official and
high appreciation and commentator of it.
You indeed quite the effect
that martial law and the the military be made the
the authority of the State of Georgia In truth
eve that there will be scarcely calling the
of the military much the Judges her and
in their respective localities will courageousy and firmly
the authority which the laws place their hands
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-17
GOVERNOR BROWN EXPRESSES APPRECIATION OF GEORGIAN Editorial

am reluctant the military power than any other
which the constitution and laws hands but under
dtons which have prevailed the office has had practically
than respond the calls which the laws
local authorities make it. When such calls made the
duty of the Executive is made imperative by law
sincerely trust that the happenings of the few weeks
the local authorities throughout the State the realization
the fact that they have duty which they should earesy perform
and which performed will hold the control of each communy
affairs within bounds This desderaum free
people. With high regard, | am Very truly yours
.FSssu S JOSEPH NJ BROWN Governor
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-17
Caring for Things That
Nobody Owns

The novelty of Mrs Russell Sages act in buying Island
the Gulf of Mexico in order provide feeding breeding
ground for birds and protect them from Strengthening pot
hunters is the remarkable thing civil
zaton that is to shall doubt grow familiar the
idea that the earth the and the air things
that nobody particular but that ought taken care
of by society at large by enlightened individuals acting that
interest.
The bird life Of the United wasted that TO-
day the birds fewer by half than twenty years because the
birds OF the AR are precious natural asset that nobody
In the spirit of Mrs Sage wise and philosophical deed it
to be hoped that the rising generation will achieve sense Of
pubic property natural things and will sighted and
scientific means of conserving such property
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-17

HEALTH is an asset of youth,
/ but it is not guaranteed to
remain an asset.
Health is also a trust fund which
YOU have no right to neglect. 1t
entails responsibility: TO care for
it, to keep it up, and to make it last
unto the end of your days.
Health, or its absence, is con-
dition You can not shake it off
You get up with it in the morning,
carry it around with you all day.
and take it to bed with you at
night
As you work at your job you viii
find that unless health is your init
mate partner the days will he hard
and the nights restless.
Hence. you are duty bound. to
Yourself and to the Boss, to guard
health as carefully as savings
bank guards money Oh deposit.
You must watch over it, guard it.
and if necessary. fight for it. The
only lighting, however, that you
will have to do will be with your
own footishness.
Get the fact into your head as
soon as YOU can that. while there is
much pleasure in eating, the prime
object of the operation is nourish
ment Eat simple, life giving
foods, and DO not over-eat.
No fireman will fill the coal box
to the top, and then keep on push
ing in more coal. The machine will
not work that way But man.
made after the image of God, as we
are told, will not hesitate to fill
the stomach with pancakes, and
keep on pounding in more
He goes back to the store and
feels heavy and sleepy and mac
tive: and it crosses his foolish
mind that the work is getting hard
cr every day It viii break me
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-17
This Bird Hoaxed English Scientists
State of Georgia.
Executive Department.
Atlanta, October Is, 1912.

TINE strange figure of a bird
4 wrought in steel which was
recently presented to the Brit
ish museum, has been briefly de-
scrbed as the sacred peacock of the
Yezidis. Its claim to the title is
disputed by Mr.. Athelstan Riley. He
writes that as he visited the cele-
brated Temple of the Devil in 1886,
before its destruction in 1892, and,
indeed, is probably the only living
European who has been in the
building In its original condition, he
took the opportunity of visiting the
British museum to see the peacock:
one glance confirmed my suspi-
ciOns-the bird had nothing what
ever to do with the Yezidis or their
temple. 1t is a Persian peacock of
the usual type, very familiar or
nament to all who know Persia, and
the figures which decorate the tail
are not representations of Sheikh
Adj or Malik Tawus, but the ordi-
nary illustrations of Firdusis Shah
mama the great epic of the Persian
kings, as a cursory examination of
any of the manuscripts-an there
must be hundreds in the possession
of the museum would
show.
IF anybody paid some thou
sands of pounds for this impudent
bird, he was grievously swindled.
1t is a good specimen of Persian
work. going back perhaps 200 years;
an expert could date it with fair
accuracy. | doubt whether a deal
er would give ten pounds $500 for
it; he would not if he were famil-
lar with the bazars of the East. |
gather that no national funds have
been applied to this acquisition.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-17
Working For the Boss
HEALTH---By THOMAS TAPER

= The cost of one headache a week
can be estimated in dollars and
cents as accurately as you can es-
innate the cost of food, This is a
charge against the Boss.
Half nights sleep instead of
the full amount. means an mac
tive mind next day in the store.
SO much more expense for the Boss,
to carry on your account and not
agreed upon, either.
And so on. Every time you al
low Irregularities and neglect to
lower the physical efficiency, down
goes your value to the man you
work for.
1t will pay YOU to say to your
self every little while
Il must learn how to keep SO
Well all the time that | am worth
one hundred per cent to the Boss
every minute I am in the store:
otherwise, I am cheating him.
IF I cheat the Boss by not keep
ing my health, I am acting dis
honorably."
There is absolutely no use study
ing the job unless you study health
at the same time, just as hard and
just as persistently. Health holds
the job, gives it basis to rest
on; in fact, it makes the job pos
sible.
Hence, going into business even
one so simple as selling lace goods.
which are not heavy to lift, is bas-
ing the whole enterprise on the
condition If health and cleanliness
of the body.
Health not only allows YOU TO
keep at your job today, but it
quickly puts little more of itself
in the Bank of the Future. where
you viii find it at some later day.
ready to carry YOU over hard
placel
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-17

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Any one VINO works hard and
thinks much about his job will get
tired, The human engine will run
about 50 long and then crv for
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because
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Some authorities recommend the
free drinking Of water, plenty of it,
between meals especially. 1t
cieanSes the system, and 1t Is the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-17

The book agents. and wonen.-are worthy
Of sympathy hard working and honest Unfortunately they are
employed and sent out too often by dishonest concerns
send them daily instructions swindng dceving
public They compelled by the of
annoy the public
They bound to make the book pay for cost the
publishers profit for the the are not paid
by the Others and also for their own time
If you buy book book you get what You want
fair price
When you buy book agent you pay his time
which does YOU goodyou pay for the bad others
that do their instruments.
When you buy books, make up your mind WHAT
you want write first class store, and
fair price.
The day Of the book agent has gone by
And that particular nuisance and interference with the
rights of citizens should be suppressed
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-17
The Book Agents Deserve
Sympathy---TheirsIsa an
Ungrateful Business
They Are Rule More Honest Than Their EmpoyersThey
Should Find Other and Better Occupations.
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Do not buy books Of book agents
Buy books for what they worth with the salary
book agent added
When man tells you that special edition sold for $40
because page accidentally printed upside down. HE
FOLLOWING HIS EMPLOYER s INSTRUCTIONS TO CHEAT
THE PUBLIC.
The book supposed to be cheap $40 did So to
make You $40 for what YOU buy So
81 $5because you paying for the TINE of the
agent who thinks he makes you the book you
paying for the EXPENSIVE NSTALMENT plan system of book
buying.
There time when the people ignorant than
they when many could hardly read, when big
books with fancy bought ito lock respectable
the table, In those days the book point out the
pictures tell preposerous yarns about the value Of books
and by incorporating the of the urging
payment system, books sold tremendous profit
often books of inferior kinds and the buying
discouraged.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-17
Dorothy Dix
Writes on
Wearing Mourning

at rest, and better off than they
were in this hard and cruel world
Theirs is the gain, ours the loss, but
instead of trying to mitigate our
natural sorrow we seem to think
that there is merit in making it az
hard as possible. We are like the
Eastern fanatics that keep their
wounds green by turning the knife
in them.
We need cheer and whatever
brightness possible brought into our
lives then more than at any other
time, and yet we pull down the
blinds of our windows and shut out
the sunshine; we silence music, and
we garb ourselves in black that
makes every casual glance at our
dress stab us anew with our sor-
row.
All physicians bear testimony 10
the unhealthfulness of wearing
mourning. Every neroogist will
tell you that for delicate and
nervous woman, in the throes of a
great grief to smother herself in
crepe is to endanger not only her
life but her reason. and that MANY
woman owes her being mental
and physical wreck to her mourn
ing. Yet SO great is the power OF
fashion and convention that only
women Of the greatest indepcnd-
ence of character dare to defy the
edict that dyes them in black for a
prescribed number of months after
death in their families.
Idiotic Convention.
The heaviest burden Of thi,
senseless custonr~falls, however, on
the poor. The rich can at least
afford TO throw away all of their
old clothes and buy new black ones
when they suffer a bereavement.
The poor can not
To many a poor family death
means not only the grief of losing
one they love, but being plunged
into financial ruin by the necessity
they feel to have display funeral,
and to purchase mourning ward
robes. Dresses and hats and warm
coats, not new, but with months Of
good wear in them, must be cast
aside. and new black ones pur-
chased in order 10 comply with an
idiotic convention
To pay for these black clothes
means that every legitimate en-
pense must be cut down. There
must be less food, less fire, less
light; old people must be denied
comforts, little children deprived OF
the things they need. A hard
worked man or woman must work
still harder Young boys and girls
must be taken from school and sent
out to earn a few more cents day
to help the family pay off the debts
for their mourning.
Is it not pitiful? Is it not gro
tesque? Is 1t not time that people
began to use a little sense in the
matter. and refused TO be bound by
a heathenish superstition that com
pels them to wear certain kind
of garment, whether they can az
ford it or not, in order to pro-
claim TO the passerby the most sa-
cred secret of their hearts?
Away with the mourning garb'
Each heart knoweth its own bitter
ness and its loss. and clothes have
nothing to do with the measure oi
its grief
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-17
Fanatics of Grief.

The heart that mourns has no
need of a black uniform to advcr-
tise its bereavement, and when the
livery of grief is worn by those who
rejoice, rather than sorrow, it be-
comes a sacrilege, a mockery of
death itself, Yet, we see women
dressed in the deepest black whose
actions belle their clothes, whose
faces belong to the comic opera
chorus rather than the funeral pro-
cession, and who justify the theory
that the grief is the safest that
breaks out the most prorusely I'm
pillows of crepe, and that many a
widow wears a weeping veil to hide
her joy at being free again.
It. is one of the tragedies of death
that we meet it neither with the
faith of Christians nor the common
sense of philosophy, Whether we
believe that the beloved ones that
have passed on have gone to Ely
SUM or into Nirvana, we know
that they are, at least, at peace ana
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-17

\ LITTLE eignteen-year-old
"A working girl writes me
pathetic letter in regard to
the etiquette of mourning attire.
She says that her father died a
month ago, and she scraped to-
gether every penny she could spare
and bought black frock for the
funeral Now the weather is be-
ginning to grow cool, and she
wants to know if she can wear her
good last winters suit and Jacket
and hat if she will sew band of
black around the arm of the coat.
She says her friends tell her it
would be highly improper, and that
she must have an entire outfit of
black clothes.
The Fathers Wish.
The poor little girl is greatly
troubled because she doesn't want
to do anything that would seem to
be wanting in respect to her ia
theirs memory, nor does she want
to lay herself open to the criticism
of her friends, and yet she doesn't
see where she's got the money to
buy all this regalia Of woe.
If this little girl will take my ad-
vice, she won't put on one stitch OF
mourning, but go right along wear
ing her everyday clothes. Mourn
ing is in the heart, not in the black
garments that we hang upon our
backs, and if the dear dead can look
back upon US and take account of
what we do, be sure that it can add
no joy to their heaven to see us
swathed in crepe that makes us
sick, or burdened with debt for new
black clothes that we can not sf-
ford.
This girl had loving, unselfsh
father, who tried his best to take
care of her. Does she not know
that he would far rather that she
put the money that a mourning
outfit cost in good food to nourlsh
her, and keep her we'll and strong.
than for her to go half starved in
order to pay for garments publicly
to proclaim her loss?
And inasmuch as it can do the
dead no good for us to clothe our
selves in sombre garments, and as
it intensifies the sorrows Of the Iiv-
ing, why should we be bound by the
opinion of fools in such matters?
Why should We even listen to their
chatter, or be affected by it?
Fanatics of Grief.
The heart that mourns has no
need of a black uniform to advcr-
tise its bereavement, and when the
livery of grief is worn by those who
rejoice, rather than sorrow, it be-
The Lamar register., 1912-11-27

fake and the good eight hour bills.
The fake bill specifically repeals
the good law in so many words. The
question naturally arises which
will prevail and what becomes of
the good eight hour bill.
Governor Shafroth has definitely
announced that there will be no
extra session to elect Charles S.
Thomas to the senate. Gov. Shaf-
roth wanted to convene the new
legislature while Thomas wanted
him to convene the old legislature.
After disputing over the matter for
was abandoned.
The Lamar register., 1912-11-27


If in the next ten years there Is
not a general turning ''back to the
soil' it will be very doubtful II
such a movement will ever come to
pass until men are driven to the
countryside by actual hunger.
Everything Is being done today
to educate the people to the attrae-
| tiveness of agriculture. There are
sixty eight state agricultural schools
which have received land grants
from the government. and which are
supported partially by that means
and by state appropriations. The
total yearly income of these col
leges is about $25 100000. The gov
ernment, under the Hatch and
Adams acts. allows a miximum OF
$50, 900 a year to each land grant
college for scientific experimental
work. There are above seven hund-
red professors and nine hundred
women teachers employed in these
colleg sand they are all making
nOJe III
their teaching.
Nor Is the student body, amount
ing to over 100000 young men ant
women, all that is receiving in
struction in scientific agriculture.
There are short courses at most of
the colleges which the farmers and
the farmers wives may attend for
week or two in January or Feb
ruary, when most of the hard work
on the farm is out of the way. And
there are college extension courses,
and lecturers are pushing their way
into every rural community, preach
ing the doctrine of the new agri-
culture. In the public schools, az
ricuIture has been given a place as
study by Legislative action In som
states The rural schools now have
gardens, and there are boys corn
clubs" and girls domestic science
class s. County superintendents are
cooperating with the agricultural
college heads in tha work of in
teresting the very young children
in gardens annd all that pertains
thereto.
II all this educational work fails
in tha next decade. and If the dties
The Lamar register., 1912-11-27

ference there is between most peo-
pie before and after Christmas. The
Sagittarians are disposed to caution
and instructive suspicion of ulterior
design, whereas the Capricornians
are very trustful and unsuspecting
They are, however. usually brilliant.
and though they buy an occasional
gold brick, they generally manage to
hit somebody with it before they
get done. Gov. Wilson is a Cap
ricornian and an excellent example
of what they are like.
Congress will convene on the
first Monday in the month and the
moon will be full on the 23d
Then January will return.
With wintry days and solemn.
And what we therein may discern
Will fill another column.
The Lamar register., 1912-11-27
Why Sugar Beet Culture Helps the
Land

In plowing for grain We usually
turn the soil over to a depth of
six inches, some times seven. but
more often five. Beneath the soil
the ground Is so hard that the main
roots will not penetrate 1t and con-
sequently all the nurtiment our
crops receive Is drawn from the five
to seven inches of top soil. To pre-
pare the soil properly for sugar
beets a sub-soil plow is used, fol-
lowing the regular pillow. which stirs
the soil to depth from twelve to
fourteen inches.
The general conception of a sug-
ar beet is that 1t is one large
root, but this Is erroneous In ad-
dition to the main root there are
a multitude of small fibrous roots
which nourish the main one and go
down as deep as the earth is stir
red.
When the main beet roots are
rous roots are broken off and re-
main in the ground. and, in rotting
add humus to the lower strata of
soil. also leaving numerous small
croyices to the full depth that the
main root had penetrated.
When other crops follow beets
the roots. instead of going down on
ly to the depth OF the plowing,
find the little enriched crevices left
by the decayed small beet roots
and following them on down they
draw nutriment from twelve inches
of soil instead of from six inches.
In other words the culture of
cts doubles the soil without add
ing to the acreage.
Sugar beets are drilled in rows
Is to 90 inches apart, and tn y
are thinned out in rows from eight
to ten inches apart With a good
stand this will average from thirty
to forty thousand beets per acre.
The fibrous roots attached to each
beet, many of which are over one
foot long, when dried weigh only
fow ounces. but If they only aver
age one ounce to each beet they
carry down into the under strata of
soil over one ton of humus per
acre. Just imagine how much mon
ey 1t would cost to purchase ton
of decayed vegetable matter and
distribmte it evenly over an acre of
ground. then bury it to a depth of
from six to fourteen inches. where
1t is most needed. Such an opera
| ton on a field of any size would
bankrupt an ordinary farmer.
Besides this. sugar is carbon. hy-
drogen and oxygen. drawn wholly
from the atmosphere. being merely
the sunlight, the rain and the wind
which sweeps over the fields The
farmer who turns back all the by
products, as the beet tops and the
beet pulp, loses nothing from his
soil, while a good crop of wheat car
ries away plant food having today
commercial value of 50 per acre,
and good crop of tobacco carries
away plant food worth 500 an acre.
Evidence that sugar beet culture
benefits the land can be found by
compa ring ths government statistics
of the average yield per acre in
the United States with thosJ OF
European countries where suga
beets have ben among the leading
crops for many years. Germany
which produces more sugar than
any other country, or about one
fifth of all the worlds production.
and all made from sugar beets, has
The Lamar register., 1912-11-27
State Capital Notes

Chairman Mcdonald has decided
to keep the republican state head
quarters open until after the leg
islature has adjourned. and he will
probably continue them during the
entire two years. This decision
was reached after conferences with
number of prominent republicans.
all of whom felt that the head
quarters should be maintained In
cidentally. the press bureau will be
run during the coming two years.
has his own ideas regarding how a
governorship should be conducted.
II he carries them out his admins
tartion will probably be successful.
However. all governors-elect have
new IDEAS. but the old line polite
ians usually prevent them from
putting many of their notions in
to practice.
Among other things that Cover
nor Ammons believes is that the
state land board should be consid-
cred a real estate office for Colo
rado. That it should be required
to make the most money possible
for the state. at the same time pro
tecting the states interests to the
fullest extent That 1t should be
held responsible for the settlement
of our state lands and for the Sc
curing of home-seekers.
Another thing Governor Ammons
believes is that the state oil in
spector should be paid $170O per
year as provided by statute and
should not be allowed to keep the
$4,000 which he collects. Governor
Ammons intimates that IL the OIL
inspector does not care to work
for $17OO. Colorado will get a new
Oil Inspector.
Governor Ammons feels that the
laws should be obeyed and he is in
clined to think that the civil SER
vice law as adopted by the people
is.a part of our present statutes.
A resume of the vote on presi-
dent in Colorado shows that Wilson
carried fifty-eight counties, Taft
five and Roosevelt none. Taft car
ried Conejos. Costilla. Las Animas.
Huerfano and lincoln. Taft leads
Roosevelt in thirty-nine counties,
while Roosevelt leads Taft in twen-
ty-three counties. The total vote
is 264,473. of which Wilson secured
l112,345; Roosevelt 69.939; Taft
go .OO7, Chaffin ATS. Debs 15,942;
Reimer ,667. Wilson leads Roose-
welt by 42.66Os and Taft by 52.33s.
A resume of the vote on the con-
stitutional amendments and initial
ed and referred laws show a pecul-
lar result in certain ways. Two and
four years ago democracy in her
platforms advocated a public ser
| vice commission. a state fair, i'm
migration fund. public utilities
court, a daily report to the state
treasurer by all who handle public
funds, the establishment OF sum-
mer normals. a state tax commission
and the enlargement of county
bonds for road purposes. AT that
time democracy went before the peo
pie and won. yet when these very
same questions came before the
people at the last election they turn
ed them down Another feature
of the vote on the amendments is
that the people adopted both the