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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-18
Presents Condolences.

BERLIN, Oct. Thames w, Gerard.
the American ambassador, called at the
German t9relgn office today to express
government and himself in connection
with the disaster to the Zeppelin bal.
loon. He WAS received by Alfred Zim.
mermanp, upder secretary for foreIpn
affairs. in the absence Of tho secretary
of state ~ y
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-18

The Zeppelin airships have been sin.
gularly unfortunate ever since their in
vention by the aged soldier.count.
Seven OF them have been destroyed by
IRE, explosion or wreck, Zeppelins L.,
IL, and VI, Deutsc hlands I. and II,
and now the LII and LII. the first big
airships attached to the German nav
have met with disaster in this wav +"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-18
Possible Causes.

Other possible causes Of the fire and
explosion were that old gasoline was
carried on board or that spark Of
atmospheric electricity was developed
by the friction of the balloonettes rub
bing together inside the outer frame
work, as occurred in the case of the
two predecessors of the LII. These
theories are regarded as improbable
because of the improvements made in
the designs of the airships to meet
such contingencies. The loss of the
balloon will apparently fall on the
German admiralty, which practically
accepted the airship on September 90,
Count Zeppelin being held responsible
only if the diriglble failed to meet the
requirements of the navy department in
the tests conducted by its own Off
GERS.
Today's flight was intended as a
test Of the ascending properties Of the
dirigible which, therefore, carried an
unusually largo crew to take the place
of the machine guns, the bombs, the
wireless equipment and other fittings
with which tho air vessel was eyentu-
ally to have been provided.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-18
Continue Efforts.

e newspapers reflect the emperor 8
f that there should be no relaxa-
/ in the efforts to supply Germany
y an adequate aerial fleet.
uhny of the bodies were so burned
mangled AS to be uurecognizable.
be admiralty trial board consisted
,,even officers. including Lieutenant
mander Behnisch and Senior Lieu
INT Freyer OF the German naval
pg corps. The airship's pilot was
kein Gluth, veteran steersman in
employ OF Count Zeppelin.
avail Constructors Neumaun and
-;zler and Naval Engineer Busch
among those on board the ship.
uend of Kaiser.
Veutenant Commander Behnisch was
'pse friend of the emperor. He was
yterly navigating officer of the i'm
Hl yacht Hohen zollern and later
fknander of the cruiser Panther.
lieutenant Freyor was also a favor
Qf Emperor William. He was for
,.E personal adjutaDt Of Prince
lplbert, one Of the sons OF the en-
" director Of one of the aviation
hnies at the JohannisthaI aero
f0e was an eye witness of the dis
w. He described 1t as follows:
= was in my office, about 500 yards
p the scene of the accident, when
startled by an explosion Of e1-
1inary violence. My first thought
ctbat an aeroplane had landed on
pot of my building and that the
inc tank had exploded.
en- rushed to window and saw the
Ldirigible in flames and plunging
3Eh the earth The outer covering
been already burned off and the
:. balloonetto containing the gas
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-18
Girls Escape Death.

The catastrophe might have resulted
In longer list Of victims, as fifty
school girls from the Johannisthal
elementary school were playing in a
field when the airship exploded above
them. The headway Of the airship,
however, carried the hull beyond the
children, who fled back into the school
house in hysterical condition.
An aviator who was flying above the
diriglble was thrown from the seat of
his. aeroplane by the explosion, and re-
gained the aerodrome in state of
complete collapse.
The papers today contained little
except reports of aerial disasters. In
addition to the fatal accidents to Cap-
tam Haeseler, Lieutenant Koch and
Sergeant Mante Of the army aviation
corps. severe injuries were sustained
by Lleutenants Baron Won Gayle, Won
Bauer and Schroeder, and slight hurts
by Lieutenant Won Scheele during last
right while making long distance
flights. An aviation pupil named
Hesse was seriously injured late YES,
terday at Cassel.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-18
Bow Foremost.

ihe naked aluminium framework,
Sfts long centerpieces, its inter
Irlbo and its taperiDg ends, and
Pndolas containing Ike motors be-
~ fell bow foremost. When the
! ION Of the immense craft struck
--s3eavy gondolas buried themselves
e ground. -
sb exact cause of the accident is
pwu- The dirigible bad lust left
ned and had traversed barely A
er OF r mile in the direction Of
5fctators suddenly saw mighty
OF fire shoot from the middle Of
S2alloon. and the next instant the
flwas q mass of flame plungiue to
q burying those aboard beneath
{eckuge,
Owing so shortly on the disaster
usPtember 9 last, when u similar
3X |ust launched for the navy as
IT was destroyed in hurricane,
me loss Of fifteen men, the news
n g catastrophe has caused con.
tion in aeronautical circles. if
Fsproughouf the capital-
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1913-02-21
Netherland
ancestors.

Why did the Netherlands beat
back the invading hosts of SPAN
for 80 long, bloody, cruel, des-
perate years? It was because
those people were defending the
homes they owned and the land
they loved, while the Duke of
Alva and his successors were
leading only mercenary murder
ers and pillagers. If William of
Orange and his son and success
or, Prince Maurice of Nassau,
had depended on landless hire
lings for defense, the united pro-
vinses would have been crushed
like an egg shell by the IRON
hand of Phillip.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1913-02-21
England

Thirty five years ago the Eng.
lish government ordered search.
ing investigation into the condi,
tions of land-holdings. landlord
ism and rental values in England
and Wales. The result of that
investigation was the publication
Of the "Blue- boob, Or the New
Domesday Book as it is some |
times called, in which 1T is shown
that only one person in 90 own
ed a foot of land, and of those
holding land 72 per cent owned
less than one acre, and of course.
had no land to- rent. Of the 28
per cent, 874 men out ola popu-
lation of 244 millions owned one
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1913-02-21
Vain People

We are a vain and boastful peo.
pie. We clamor about crossing
the seas and establishing "stable
government among alien peo-
pie when our own govern
ment scarcely covers the brief
span of one mans life. How do
we know we are ''stable?" We
will not be stable, unless we an
Choir the people to the land which
is the seed bed of stability and
patiOtism.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1913-02-21
Russia

Russia. the home of despotism
and landlordlsm; the nursery of
dark and damnable deeds, was
brought to her knees by the land
loving and warlike islanders be-
cause there was no patriotism a
mong the landless legions of the
czar. If, for centuries, every
soldier in the Russian army had
been small land owner, they
would have swept the little brown
wasps of the Mikado into the
sea.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1913-02-21
Bulgaria

Why have h e Bulgarians
smashed the Ottoman Empire
and driven the ferOcious Turks
to the gates of Constantinople in
80 days? Because for nearly
1900 years these plain, frugal,
vigorous people, standing upon
their fertile table lands, sloping
ruggedly to the beautiful Danube
that washes their border, inbibed
the creative energy, active and
inherent IN the soil under their
feet, while their souls vibrated
with the martial spirit of Nc
Gregor. Il stand upon my ma
tive heath" is a challenge to the
world that the man and the pa
trlot is ready to die for the home
he owns and the land he loves.
These sons of the soil have leap.
ed into a national manhood that
cl aims the respect and admira-
tion of the civilized world. It is
homecoming, laEd-loving, vol;
unteer Christian, against the law
less. conscript Mohammedan SOL
dier.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1913-02-21
France

France IS a nation OF small
land owners and they are happi-
EST and most prosperous people
in the Old World today. France
was born into history through
the conquest of Caesar, and
France is 90 centuries old. This
government was conceived IN the
womb of a revolution launched
by Patrick Henry and has lived
only a century and a quarter.
France is honest, industrious,
economical and, contented with
it's limited fortunes. This coun.
try. through the splendOr and
madness of its stupendous for
tune-gatl ing, its graft, its brib-
cry and It's overwhelming monop-
olies, is even now almost as corr
rupt as the Roman Republic
when tottering 10 its fall. The
weakness of France is her de-
cling birth rate. Gabriel Hano-
taux. a member of the French
Academy, says this decrease IN
birth rate is due to the limited
area of aiable land. He says:
agriculture has need of the
child, for in agricultural work
alone may the child be employ ed
without danger to itself, and
wherever land is to be had, there
men will Develop"
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1913-02-21
China

China has the oldest and most
stable government in the world.
Except Egypt, she has the most
ancient civilization in history.
She invented the art of printing
900 years before it was known in
Europe. She discovered iron.
Invented gunpowder, established
imperial libraries, taught mathe-
matics, astronomy, botany. med
icine, music and painting, 800
years before the Christian era.
She has alternated between wise,
just and wicked dynasties. She
has been shaken by internal re-
volt and revolutions, but she has
Nmaintalned her stability and pro-
tected her fnancinl credit be.
: cause she had an agricultural
people who never lost their love
! for their native soil. She Or
ganlzed the first democratic gov
ernment and the Chinese farm
ers were the first to inaugurate
the Farmers Guild" of which
our Farmers Union" is an imi-
tatlon, but without the potency
and controlling influence of the
"Chlnese Guild" in the affairs of
government. The Chinese OBJ
jected to the Introduction of rail-
roads and telegraph lines into
their country, not because they
were really opposed TO these in
dustries, but they feared that
such enterprises might be an en-
tering wedge by which foreign
corporations would get control
of their lands. They feared the
coming of the missionaries for
the same reason. China has nev-
er had law of primogeniture,
but has always distributed es-
tates to each child "share and
share alike Education Is more
universal among her male popu-
lation than in any other country
on the globe, and yet this gov
ernment has barred Chinese from
citizenship and then bestowed 1T
with a lavish and lawless hand
upon tie African who, in his ma.
tive country, one of the richest
on the globe, has never advanc-
ed one step from the deepest and
darkest bal barism, in 10000
years, though the tide Of civili-
zatton has flowed around and ov-
er him for centuries.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1913-02-21
LAND. LIBERTY and PATRIOTISM
By DIR. B. F. WARD

The land! the land! the mother
earth,
The couch of honest plough
mau S birth;
The altar where both wealth
and JOY
Like lovers pledge their mutu-
al vows.
The widows hope, the soldiers
bed
On which his patriot fathers
bled,
No sordid hand may seize the
soil
That shields the humble sons
of toll.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1913-02-21
Ireland

For centuries Ireland b a S
starved and bled and wrlthed in
the agonies of a living death, be-
cause her people were unwilling
to surrender. for all time, the
land of which they have been
robbed.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1913-02-21
Beers

What enabled 10000 Presbyte-
ran Dutch Farmers to face the
guns and gold of the British En-
pire with a valor and endurance
almost unparalleled in modern
warfare? It was the sublime
and lndestructlble love of the
land inherited from their pioneer
ancestors
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1913-02-21
Italy

Ancient Italy was a country of
small farmers. The "rich man
and money ienders's as Plutarch
calls them, made loans to the ag-
ricultural people at ruinous rates
of interest, secured by mortgages
on their little farms. In time,
these mortgages were closed and
the owners elected. The lands
became the property of the great
landlords who cultivated them
with white slave labor, the cap
tives sent home. by the Roman
armies from foreign countries.
These slaves. being the property
of the government were sold to
"the rich men and the money
lenders" who used them to dispo-
sess the farmers whose sons were
fighting the battles of Rome.
This condition Of things natural
lv paralyzed the patriotism of
the young soldiers whose parents
were driven from their homes
and did more than any other one
thing to cut the foundations from
under the Roman republic. In
one Of the great speeches made
by Tiberlus Gracious, to the peo-
pie, he said: "You are made to
believe that you are fighting for
your affairs and your homes,
when, really, you have no altars
and no homes" Tiberius was
murdered for his boldness, by
the hirelings Or the land.
lords. and so was Caius, his bro
ther. who followed in his foot
steps. Julius Caesar was not on
ly the greatest general the world
has produced, but one of the
greatest statesmen in history.
He was a democratic emperor and
when he had established a bene
ticient empire upon the ruins of
a rotten republic, his assassina-
tion was instlgated by ''Jhe mon
ey lenders" the bribe givers and
landed aristocracy, because they
had anticipated his ultimate pur-
pose to restore to the small
farmers the lands and homes of
which they had been plundered
by the land pirates and financial
buccaneers. When Brutus sought
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1913-02-21

We "speak from observation
of a certain truth" when 1t is as
serted that. without land, there
is no liberty; without liberty
there is no patriotism. and with
out patriotism, the mightlest ma
tions decline, decay and dislnte-
CRATE.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1913-02-21

owned two-thirds of all the land
in England and Wales, the whole
acreage being 81 million acres.
According to the "Blue- book"
the average rent Of land in the
kingdom was three pounds and
two pence or about $15 an acre.
According to this same report.
the proceeds OF the entire crop,
IN many cases, was less than the
lent, leaving nothing for the
tenant except debt to the a.
mount he had fallen behind on
the rent. These enormous rents
drove tens Of thousands of rent
ers away from agricultural labor.
so that in SO years eight and a
half million people immigrated
from England. N o wonder.
These upper 10000" are the
same men Who are organizing
huge corporations to buy up the
best lands in Mississippi, aided
and abetted by some of our own
people. Whenever the upper
10, 900 own Two thirds of the land
in this country, there will be no
other cline to which the starry
Ing renters may fee, because
when the population touched the
shores of the Pacific il had reach.
ed the end of the earth in is
march from east to west. Land
lordism not only imposes. want
and pauperism on the laboring
element, but 1t invades the chas-
tity of humble homes and engen.
ders moral degradation. 1t is
we'll known that in prosperous
rural districts, virtue, as a rule
is more secure than IN the urban
districts, where there is more
ldieness. temptation and dissina.
ton. Yet, according to the sta.
tistics of the "Bluebook. > we
find exactly the reverse of this
IN the agricultural districts of
England. 1t says "the rate of
llllgltlmacy was highest in tho
agricultural counties ,wbere t.
mas increased IN recent years" :"
The increase was greatest in tho
County of Essex. where it. roso
10 lo5 per cent; in the County Of
Hertfordshire, where 1T rose to
more than II per cent; in Rut.
iandshlre, a purely agricultural
county, it reached %! per cent
SO that. IN one county, nearly one
fourth of all the births were u.
legitimate. What is the cause
OF this sad and deplorable social
evil? Beyondany question i ,s
the logical and inevitable ros,,lt
OF landlordism. The poor have
no land and no homes and cao
not pay the rents and live. The
young people are too destitute
to marry, and hence follow +ho
illicit impulses of their human
natures. Doubtless the high cad
aried clergy of England. who aro
clothed IN fine ralment and faro
'sumptuously every day." are rea.
dy IN their imperial piety to
stamp the scarlet letter" uncn
the tender bosoms of the frail
girls who have violated the. lat
ter of the moral law, because the
spirit OF the law has been ..crn
cihed upon cross Of gold" by
the heartless landlords and b,eh
church hypocrites. But God is
just, and although these lost and
deserted lambs have fallen INTO
he mire. in His infinite love and
mercy he will lift this sin from
the bowed shoulders of these suf
fering and toil-worn children
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1913-02-21

hO VluulCdG0 Ills CTlLuS duu tuS
ingratitude by his famous de-
claratfon: "Not that | loved Gaze
sar less, but that I loved Rome
more" he was playing the same
old game of political hypocrisy
and treachery that has come
down, through all the ages, to
the present day. Whenever any
man, in all "the tide of tjmes,' y
has stood boldly forth in defense
of the natural and constitutional
rights of the majority against
aggressions and tyranny of the
minority, he has been denounced
as demagogue. an agitator, an
anarchist, or socialist anda men,
ace to the business interests of
the country" I heard speak
er, standing on platform before
a great audience, exclalm, with
mock earnestness and well feign-
ed fervor, II am opposing this
man because | believe his elec-
tion would be the greatest calam
ity that could befall the state"
Every man. on either side of the
question, who heard him.. knew
he was uttering a falsehood.
And yet, he was as truthful as
Brutus. The main reason why
England failed to subdae the
American colonies was because
she was fighting land owners
with her own landless soldiers
and her hired landless Hesslans.
The reason why half a million
Confederate soldiers resisted so
long, the assaults of 5000. 900
men in the Federal army, was
because the southern army was
composed, very largely, of land
owners and the sons of land own
ers, who loved every foot Of the
soil for which they gave their
blood and their lives, while the
Federal army was made up,
of men who owned no
land and received no inspiration
from the soil IN which they had
no rights of property. present or
prospective. The foreign sol
dlers in the Federal army prob
ably outnumbered b entire
strength of the confederate fore
es, and yet, not one of these i'm
ported farmers owned foot of
land before they were brought
here to fight the land owners of
the south. The best soldiers of
the Federal army were the land
owners of the west and north
west.
D.
The Keota news., 1913-12-12

for this, or skim milk win take the
place of meat.
Although they should be fed ~
much ~ possible to hurry their
growth. they must not be fed enough
to cause indigestion. They must be
given the habit Of eating a great deal
Of food. but must also be given a good
digestion with which to handle it
The ability to assimilate large guam
titles Of food IL absolutely necessary
for . heavy layer.
Al An aid In helping them to digest
their food and in growing muscle ex-
ercise IL very important. II they are
running on range with their mothers
they will get exercise enough in keep
ing up with her. but II they are con-
fined in houses or yards then let them
scratch for the most Of their food in
some light, clean litter or some loose
earth.
Keep them supplied with fresh
drinking water and chick size Srit-
Many Chicks die or have their diges-
ton ruined because they are not sup
piled with grit and water.
l0Sy UuBt AlDO NC ASHS @ASS
lice. No chick can grow when 4 swarm
OF these little pests IL drawing the lie
from its little body.
They must not be crowded In
coop. Overcrowded chicks will not
grow we'll or keep healthy. They must
have plenty Of fre4h air and shade and
sunshine, both. 30 they choose which
they please.
Al soon ~ young roosters show RED
In their combs, separate them from
the pullets Allowing them to run
with the pullets will retard the growth
Of both. II kept by themselves the
young roosters will soon be ready to
eat or sell. and the pullets relieved OF
their company will also grow faster
This 10 what IL needed to make win
ter layers, a quick growth and an even
all around development. 20 that they
will begin laying before the cold
weather. II they begin at this time
they will lay all winter. II they are
put into a comfortable house before
they become chilled in the fall and are
given the right kind of care after
ward.
have never failed to raise flock
Of good winter layers when have
cared for my pullets in this way.
The Keota news., 1913-12-12

When fall IL here. and the price Of
eggs begins to climb upward. with the
sure prospect of good prices all win
ter. then those who have given but
little attention to the poultry during
the rest OF the year will begin to ask
How shall / make my hens Ay
through the wiuter?"
1t il uphill work to take flock OF
hens that have been poorly cared for
and are altogether unpreDared, and
by caring for them after cold wealth
er Is already here. get them to lay
ing before spring.
The time to begin preparations for
the winter harvest is In the spring.
and the start must be made by choos-
ing for the parents Of your laying
stock only those fowls that are strong
and healthy and good laying stock
by this care in selecting the eggs
from which to hatch your next win
ter's layers you give them hereditary
The Keota news., 1913-12-12
Money In Orchards.

Young men or men in middle life
can have good money coming in ten
years by having = good orchard com.
ing on. Let them set out orchards,
and those who make 1t . study, and
will do the work from year to year.
will have q flne income in Q few years,
and will ind 1t most interesting bust.
ness.
There 10 no danger Of overproduc.
ton, for not half Of the men who set
out orchards will attend to them. The
markets will soon know who the men
are who have the good apples and the
good keepers, and will want their ap
ploo 1t the best peicoA
The Keota news., 1913-12-12
A Prize Winner.

tendencies to be good layers and good.
strong constitutions to help them de-
velop quickly and enable them to stand
the strain of early and heavy lay.
ing.
II this has all been done. and the
little chicks Matched. then winter eggs
or no winter eggs depend entirely on
your care for and feeding OF these
chicks to prepare them for their win
ter's work.
They must be fed well and q variety
OF food, so that the whole body will
develop properly
Bone and muscle must keep ahead
OF the fat, but II only fattening food
is given them they cannot grow bone
and muscle. SO feed them bran and cut
oats or oatmeal and cut bone. a.
we'll ss coarsely ground corn. They
must also have food in some form.
Good, sweet beef scraps are all right