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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-04-23
Quite Pat.

why do you want st. Patrick's 8
day to be made legal holiday"
ITO keep his memory green"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-04-23
CAREFUL FEEDING PAYS BEST
Cows at Minnesota University Farm
Give Much Larger Yield Than
Those Throughout State.

By T. L. HACKER. University Farm.
st. Paul, Minn)
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-04-23

Well, wot Tell wot T'ell?"
Evening journal., 1914-01-23
Study the Inhabitants of an Aquarium. They
SlUim at the Same LeUeEAlIUays Around and
Around. HOw Much Their Lives Resemble Those
OF Men and Women.
coPYRfoHr. 1913. pr F. p. wARREN


1t is said that every man is only bundle
of habits anyhow, and it was because Meyer
beer was built up by Rabbi Hirsch into bundle
of this particular brand of habits that we can
listen today to his superb later operas, such as
Robert lie Diable, - "The Prophet" and 1.-THE
Huguenots" For Meyerbeers first opera,
"Jephthah," which was brought out in 1872,
was dismal failure.
If Meyerbeer had not been trained by Rabbi
Hirsch to the habit of persevering toll, no mat
ter what the obstacle and to rise superior to
difficulties and meet failure with a smile, he
would have been disheartened by the way his
"Jephthah' was received. His failure made
him the more determined to succeed. He studied
the subject again. He went to Italy and France
to learn secrets which it was believed only those
countries could teach him. And at last he
reached his goal and was able to create operas
which have charmed and inspired the civilized
world and elevated their creator to an enduring
place in musical history.
Meyerbeer's success was the natural result
of the habits he had formed.
Do you remember the words of old Jeremy
Bentham?
"As the snow gathers, so are our habits
formed No single flake which is added to the
pile produces sensible change"
Evening journal., 1914-01-23

occasional insect, and when they have captured
their one insect they resume their monotonous
swim through life, accepting life's obstacles,
limitations and boundaries virtually without
protest
That is the lesson all CT us can absorb into
our consciousness by watching the fish in the
aquarium.
We can learn, if we are standing still, or
maintaining the same level that we have held
for years, that we are not using our brains; that
we are not capitalizing our energies; that we
are underdeVelOped because we have not learned
to be SELF HELPFUL.
Mans greatest helper is HIMSELF.
All the teachers, all the friends, all the fell
low workers in the world cannot teach man
AS MUCH AS HE CAN TEACH HIMSELF.
What must man learn to avoid being a
monotonous human fish drifting at one level in
the tank of the world?
First, he must learn GOOD HABITS. These
are as important, and even MORE IMPORT
ANT, than the things he stores inside his head.
Coed habits alone do not make great men,
Man must pay more than that for life's rewards.
But the two best habits are PERSEVER-
ANCE and HARD WORK.
Giacomo Meyerbeer, the famous German
writer of operas, lived in the beginning of the
nineteenth century. Very often his boyhood
instructor, Rabbi Hirsch, who was also musical
and a composer would sit for hours with his
pupil discussing the mathematics of counter
point and the intricacies of musical composition.
But Rabbi Hirsch was like adamant in in
sisting that his young scholar should build up
in himself the two habits which he considered
Of paramount importance.
The first was the habit of hard work. and the
second was perseverance, or keeping at it until
the work was done.
Evening journal., 1914-01-23
Another habit is FAITH.

'Our faith comes in moments says Emer-
son, the seer. Hugos titanic mind sees prog
ress as being carried forward by a series of
visions"
To ideals born Of a word spoken at the psy
Geological moment; passing scene caught and
held by the camera Of the brain, OF an hour Of
perfect change from dead routine, science at
tributes much of mans greatest and most use
full work
Evening journal., 1914-01-23

History assents to this. From the long
string of lives which testify to the power Of the
quickening moment, the vital and lasting in
fuence of the swift-spent vision, we choose as
examples three of the master -moulders.
There is Saul Of Tarsus, the tent maker.
Swept by wave of light on the road to Damas-
Gus, he is transformed The would-be execu-
toner becomes the preacher of love, the apostle
of liberty His invaluable service to the ages
is based on a vision in the open road
There is Constantine, the Roman Emperor
praying to the sun god on the eve of the battle
of Milvian Bridge. Above the setting sun he
sees, OF thinks he sees cross, and the words,
'In this sign conquer. Out of this brief com
munication with nature bursts the martial
spirit of Christianity, which has won so much
for right and justice, the death warrant of pa
ganism, and the first recognition among Aryan
peoples of weekly day of rest.
A thousand years later a French peasant
girl turns from her drudgery to the trees and
bushes, among which she sees herself clad in
armor and supported by angels. Made fear
less by this nature borne message, Joan of Arc
changed the outcome of one of the longest and
most disastrous of wars and the fate of a ma
tion.
Thus are ideals implanted. And the best of
what we have and what we are is the fruitage
of applied idealism.
Evening journal., 1914-01-23

4
p w very often to observe the fish
w. in aquariums. In some big
restaurant, in a hotel lobby,
a. you will find that the pro
prietor has filled big glass
--- receptacle with water and then
-l filled the water with fish How
many of you, as you look at these confined fish,
ever pause long enough to apply the lesson of
their existence to YOUR OWN LIFE? You
possess clothing instead of scales; you take the
form of men and women and have your own
distinctive pattern in life You have what you
consider superior grade of brains. Certainly
you make better use of your brains, or you
THINK you do.
If you will spend an hour watching the fish
in any transparent receptacle you will see them
swim around and around, usually in the same
direction, poking their noses up at an angle, or
poking their noses down. But you will soon
notice that they maintain about the same av
erage level all the time. If the sun shines on the
surface of the water they will dive down to the
sand in the bottom, where it is cooler once in
while one will dart to the surface and capture
an insect. But ALL OF THE TIME, they show
in their every movement that they are PRIS-
ONERS in the tank, that they recognize the
futility Of struggling or rushing against the
glass sides of their enclosure, or of rushing to
the surface where no larger degree of freedom
awaits them.
Wherein do thousands of people of your ac-
quaintance differ from these helpless fish, who
have no such brains as human beings? Every
day, on every hand, before your eyes and at
your elbow, you may observe HUMAN FISH
swimming helplessly and hopelessly in the tank
of their CITY or in that greater swimming
tank which we call THE WORLD.
You see young men and women start out in
life after having been given good educational
advantages and remain in the same jobs for
years, perhaps for the remainder of their lives
You see others attain a higher elevation and
linger in that elevation until dismissed for old
age or because they are not progressive enough
to meet the demands of modern professions or
businesses.
The superior brains they THINK they have
are superior to the brains of the helpless little
ish TO WHAT EXTENT? They swim always
1t one level; they push their noses against the
glass of the tank make an occasional squirt in
the same manner that the fish rushes after the
Evening journal., 1914-01-23

Do you have faith and perseverance and ca
pacity of self elevation? How many do yeu
know whose failure in life is due to the absence
of these qualities? How many men-fshes ant
women-hshes are there among your acquaint
ances proceeding through life simply with the
ability to keep afioat, to maintain one level?
There's the lesson to learn from fsh-tank
md its humble occupants.
Evening journal., 1914-01-23

OU will have the opportunity
very often to observe the fish
in aquariums. In some big
restaurant, in a hotel lobby,
you will find that the pro
prietor has filled a big glass
receptacle with water and then
filled the water with fish. How
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-16
Federal Reserve System Goes
Into Operation Today.
Formal Order Is Formulated
by Secretary McAdoo.
m HAS 7,571 MEMBER RANKS
The Authorized Capital Ii
Placed at s106,7ss, ,e00.
Cash Reserve Win BE Approx
mately $3.50, ,OOO, 900.

Washington, Nov. 16.-Secretary
McAdoo early today signed the formal
order announcing that the twelve
federal reserve banks were estab-
lished and ready for business. It was
the final step required to set in mo-
ton the nations new currency sys-
tenn and found the regional banks
ready for operations.
The secretary sent the following
telegram of congratulation to the
federal reserve agent and governor
of each Of the federal reserve banks:
please accept my cordial congrat-
reserve bank of your district and my
sincere commendation Of the effective
work you have done in preparing the
bank for business In the short time
allowed for the opening.
II am sure the federal reserve
banks will serve q great and bene-
ficent purpose in the future of our
country and 1 am sure. that this de-
partment and the federal reserve
board may count on your loyal CO.
operation in the important work and
duties which have been conffded to
you. My hearty good wishes for your
success
Includes 7,5s1 Banks.
The reserve bank system starts on
its mission with 1871 member banks
Their authorized capital il put at
s1O6.795.6OO. of which one-sixth has
been called and Is in their vaults. The
exact figures for the cash reserves
in all twelve banks have not been &c
curately computed. hut the estimate
nuts the amount at close to- ESQ mill
lion dollars, drawn under the law
from the present reserve agents OF
iner,loe H,,. a..-.1e h. rlrs nexan separations
at a time when members OF the board
feel that there is an excellent oppor-
tunttv to test the value OF the sys-
tenn. Their ability to redtscount COM
mercial paper has been counted upon
as one of the mems 20 loo.n .o ~
purse strings OF bsfks. c. ana
chtneuy for taking dSrA OF SIOps se.'A
eenerally ..eet busiigese needs
paul N. Warburg. POSSIBLY the mos'
axnerienced banker on the feoefAl re
serve board. today declared lns ~.
vember is might be consloereo,. III nS
+ho I1nited states, marking the, founoa-
ton of the nations financial emanci-
patton. -.,, ~v,se,v
administered said Mr. WarDure Il
twill prove to DC the means not OF
imitation, but Of safety. indepenoence
and gradual, healthy expansion. how
soon we may become a Worio power, !,
equal in strength and 1ndepenoenCe ~
those on whom we have had to lean
until now, will derend upon our aointy
to avail ourselves OF the opportunity
now open to US.
1--WE are starting out today, ampi-
tious Of attaining this end. but we are
still far removed from our goal. with
a spirit prevailing OF unselfish modera.
tion and mutual helpfulness. WITH
careful planning and singleness OF
purpose. we are certain to overcome
the obstacles that still block our way
both within and without"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-16
DEP0SIT0R NO. |
Colorado National Sends $780,.
900 to X. C..
At the Opening of the Federal
Reserve Bank.

Kansas City, Nov. 16.-The first de-
positor in the Kansas City federal re-
serve bank which opened today was
the Colorado National Bank of Denver.
The amount of the deposit was $3.50, 1000.
Charles NJ. Sawyer. governor of the
bank, the board of directors and the
thirty employees were on hand when
a telegram from Secretary McAdoo was
received formally declaring the bank
open for business. A meeting of the
directors, the governor and the active
officers of the bank followed. 1t was
announced the vaults today contain
1924 900 in gold. More gold to follow
this week from Washington will swell
the banks lending power ten and one
half million dollars.
Many of the banks in the district and
all the Kansas City banks sent bou-
Quets and good wishes to the new bank
and scores of business men and bank
ers from the southwest thronged the
lobby exchanging greetings with the
banks officials.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-16
Will YOU Give?
5000 Barrels To Be ShaWnee's
Share
OF Flour Shipment to Hungry
Belgium.

]. Will Kelley, secretary of the Com
mercial club, taking an active part in
organizing Shawnee cour = for Belgian
relief, stated today that this county is
expected to furnish 5000 of the 100 900
to Belgium. In fact Five thousand
is a slogan adopted, and the men and
women interested have begun to work
towards that end.
The committee appointed to arrange
the program for the meeting of Shaw
nee county people at the club quarters
next Saturday afternoon at l o'clock is
composed of Scott Hopkins, Harold T.
Chase and J. Will Kelley. At the meet
ing plans will be made for reaching
every person in the county in order
that the Belgian relief fund may be
swelled by thousands of donations,
large and small
Leading citizens have been appointed
to invite members of various occupa-
tions and professions to be present at
the meeting Saturday. The men and
the interests to be represented at the
meeting follow: H. B. Wilson. schools:
the Rev o. L. Cook minister's; Henry
w. McAfee and H. H. Wallace, farm
ers and oranges; Mrs. S. S. Estey
women's clubs; L. NJ. Penwell, fra
ternal orders: r. l.. Bone, officers in
neighboring towns; w. H. Davis, Job
bers and wholesalers; c. o. Tresner
labor organizations: J. Will Kelley,
merchants and Women's Commercial
club; David D. Page and Armin F'a ss-
Ter, millers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-16
All Over State Answer Is the
Same.
~Glad to Do Something for
Belgium"
l0ND0n CABLES HER THANKS
Seven Million To Be Fed and
Need Is Dire.
Corn and Pigs Will Be Accept
able as Flour.
BIG MEETING HERE SATURDAY
Local Committee Busy Early
This Morning.
Every Circle of Society Is
Asked to Help.
local Committee Busy Early
This Morning.
Every Circle of Society Is
Asked to Help.

The Belgian relief movement IS
spreading like wildfire in Kansas!
Leading citizens in all sections OF
the state today are organizing their
respective communities with a view to
getting results in sohrt order. 1t is
probable that no movement ever
started in Kansas progressed with such
rapidity or was more enthusiastically
entered into than the present cam
paign which has as it's object the re-
lief Of war devastated Belgium.
The telephone a. the headquarters
of the Kansas Belgian Relief fund was
kept warm today. Calls came in from
all parts of the state asking for in
formation concerning the plan. and
news Of numerous contributions was
phoned in
Ex-Governor w. r. Stubbs chair
ceived word from Lawrence that Ply
mouth Congregational church has
raised it's contribution Of 145 barrels
of flour to two hundred. Working
people have becom. interested and are
making sacrifices that really count for
something. DR.. 5. s. Estey, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church, stated
today that two working girls in his
church had expressed their intention
of donating a barre. of flour each.
Chairman w. r. Stubs. Charles
Dillon, secretary, and two stenog-
raphers, were busy all day answering
IContinued on Page Two.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-16
NAMES ]. F. 0VERF|ELD


Because Senator F. c. Price Of
Clark county is in California, Gov
ernor Hodges today appointed Sena-
tor John f. Overfield OF Montgomery
county as q member of the commits
sion to hear testimony in the board OF
control case next Thursday. Senator
Overfield will serve with Senator'S
Jouett Shouse and Loring Trott in the
taking of testimony.
The commission will meet in the
governors office Thursday morning to
take up the charges OF Harry c. Bow
man against w. E. Brooks and Stance
Myers, Democratic members, charged
by the minority member with VIOLA
tious OF their oath OF office. Bow
man charges juggling OF contracts at
semi-annual lettings. Of the board. the
placing Of q relative on the state pay
roll by Brooks in violation OF Law. ana
the sale Of merchandise to a state in
titution by q store In which Brooks 4
financially interested. Senator Price
OF Clark county Was appointed - .
member Of the commission. but = IN
California
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-16
BANKS FILLING UP
Sale of Wheat Brings Dollars
Rolling In.
Nearly 200 Millions ON Deposit
in September.
HIGH WATER MARK IS IN SIGHT
Kansas Bankers Expect New
Record for Deposits.
Eighteen Million Added i'm Ten
Weeks.

From June 80 to September ia
little more than ten weeks-Kansas
bank deposits increased 81 1923. .615.45.
according to comparative statement
showing the conditions Of all state
and national banks on the two dates.
The June report showed deposits ag-
gregating $1so.ss4. .4s5.0s. as against
deposits Of $1SS, 414. 10000 on Septem-
ber IL.
It was the money from . partial
sale Of the tremendous Kansas wheat
crop that boosted the bank deposits,
according to officials in the state
bank commissioners office. With the
showing Of nearly 200 million dollars
on deposit in September. it is prob
able that the next statement will hit
high water mark in the affairs OF the
banking institutions of this state and
that the deposits this fall and winter
will establish new records.
Millions Of bushels of wheat which
had not been disposed of when the
September call was issued have since
gone to market and the bulk of the
1914 yield will be sold before the
close Of the year. Added to the i'm
mense revenue from the sale OF
wheat, is the money from the sale OF
a big corn crop and all other farm
products as well as TcCelptS AEOAA eAC
late fall sales OF live stock.
Some bankers believe that the show
ing this fall may reach the ESQ mil
lion dollar mark-a record never
euualed in the history of Kansas. That
will mean a prosperity never before
known In tho history of Kansas. the
former greatest showing of bank de-
posits was less than 215 million dol
lars
Loans and discounts of the Kansas
banks. both state and national, totaled
$168, ,522, ,474.24 in September. with nearly
65 million in cash and sight exchange
and nearly 20 millions in the surplus
and undivided profit funds. Over
drafts in all banks were slightly more
than one and a half million dollars.
Deposits in state banks In September
|.agxregated. 31l3, ,20e, ,201 30, ~ aEatns5
3l61, ,z55, 463.S5 IN June the deposits n
national hanks September u were 49,.
2O5, ,S93 49, while June 80 found $79.12o,-
60S13 on deposit in the national banks
The showing for all state and national
banks for September II. was as fol-
lows: assr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-16
KANSAS HAS QUICK RESPONSE
TO BELC|UM'S CRY FOR BREAD

London. Nov 1--we are COM
ing, father Abraham" the we'll
known poetic response to President
Lincoln's .all for more men in the
Civil war. is being used to stimu-
late recruiting heroes. The new
version reads:
I'VE are coming, Uncle Kitchener,
Three hundred thousand more,
From Scotland. Wales and Ireland,
And from old England's shore.
1--WE leave our homes and work
shops,
Our wives and children dear,
With hearts too full for utterance,
With but silent tear.
I'VE dare not look behind us
But steadfastly before
We are coming. Uncle Kitchener,
Three hundred thousand more.
(Chorus.)
1--WE are coming. we are coming:
Our cOuntry's need is sore.
We are coming, Uncle Kitchener
Three hundred thousand more"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-16
GO BACK TO WORK
Six Thousand Men Return to
Jobs 1t Gary.
Business Depression i'm United
States Has Ended.

Gary, Ind, Nov. 1&-Six thousand
men went back to work at the Gary
steel mills today after an enforced
idleness OF several weeks. A general
Improvement OF business in the steel
industry, officials of the big corpora
ton said. was responsible for the re-
sumption.
The bottom has dropped out of the
business depression in the United
States,' said an Official OF the steel
company. From now on we expect
an upward trend in the business ther-
mometer all over the nation
The men who went back to work
today were set at work in the steel
mills. the tin plate mills and the plant
of the American Bridge company. in
dicating general Improvement. Small
steel products for agricultural imple-
ment factories, steel and from plate
for ore steamers and many small jobe
from Pittsburg mills are expected to
come here while the eastern mills are
turning out armor plate for the allies,
Parts of automobiles win be turned
ming from 50 to 20 per cent of norfna]
capacity.
'"The railroads have not yet begun
placing orders because of their IL
nancial difficulties but they must soon
begin buying rail," said the steel com.
pany official Buying viii be ID
large quantities. because many OF the
roads have neglected to purchase a
all during the period Of business de-
preasion- When the railroad orderl
begin t. come in prosperity can b
said to have rotuFned to the steel
bualneoB
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-16

ports that the Austrians took Obre-
novac by storm.
An official Turkish bulletin made
public in Berlin today, claims further
the Russians who, it is asserted, suf-
fered severe losses in men, ammunt-
ton and provisions.
Austrian official bulletins say that
the Austrian garrison at Przemysl is
showing great energy. The Austrians,
it is asserted, have made a successful
sortie to the north of the fortress.
According to Information given Of
ficially to the press today reports
reaching Berlin from Geneva set forth
that the British to. pedo boat destroy
er Falcon, the cruiser Brilliant and the
sloop of war Rinaldo have been dis
abled by German guns on the Belgian
coast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-16

ton is increasing In era as result OF
the continuance of the heavy rain and
the country near Dixmude is a vast
swamp in which guns and ammuni-
ton wagons abandoned by the Ger
mans, lie embedded and in which float
countless corpses. The Germans have
been washed out of their trenches IN
several places says an eye witness, VINO
has just returned from the front. but
they continue 20 land an occasional
shell in the French trenches.
1t is not probable that the Germans
will make any further attempt in this
section, but a fierce effort is to be ex-
pected from Dixmude to ArraS as soon
from their tremendous exertions of the
last week and new men can be brought
up to fill the gaps in the ranks.
The fate of the war depends now,
says Colonel Feytsr. an eminent Swiss
military writer, essentially on the re-
serves of men that the armies are able
to bring up. and in this respect ac-
cording to military opinion here Ger
many appears to he in state of in
feriority. Not only does the Russian
offensive prevent Germany from trans
ferring men from the east to the west
ern front they point out, but troops
that are now being instructed in the
arts of war will be sent against the
Russians.
1t is also pointed out that Germany
has to operate or fronts of nearly
1000 miles with 2s5 active army corps.
while the allies nave at their disposal
| 20 army corps for line less than half
as long. Thus, from the point of view
| of available troops, it is argued, the
com mparison is unfevorable to the Ger
mans. So far as equipment is con-
| cerned, the infantry on both sides are
equally well supplied. At the begin
ming the Germans were much better
off with quick firers, but the allies
have now caught up by intensive pro-
| duction in the arms factories.
In artillery he allies are said to
have the advantage, as far as light
| pieces is concerned, but the German
heavy artillery is incontestibly super
ior. The Germans are not likely to
retain that superiority long, since both
the French and british arsenals are
beginning to delive- big guns and the
| allies have plenty Of trained men to
serve them, irrespective of the jap
/ anese gunners whose early arrival al
Marseilles is announced by rumor