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The Nevada County picayune., 1914-12-04
The Functions of a Rural
 Church.

II the rural churches today are going to render q service which this age demands. there mu-t be cu-opcratinn between the reh- gjou,. social and economic hte ot the community.
 The church tn attain itS fullest measure of surtc>s must enrich ,hc lives If the people m tbt community it serves; II must build character; develop thought and increase the efficiency ot human lie. It must serve the -,cial business and intellectual, ,s we'll d, the spiritual and moral side If life. Ii religion does not make a man more capable, more useful and more just. what good k it2 We want practical re i2ion, one we can live by and farm bv. as we'll a. die by.
 Fewer and Better Churches.
 Blessed is that rural community which ha, but one place of Wor- ship. While competition k the fife of trade. 1t iS death to the .ural church and moral starvation 10 the community, Petty Secta- .iani~m i, a ocourge that bhghtS lhe life, and church prejudice sap, the vitality of many com munitieS. An over-churched community is a crime against religion, a serious handicap to society and a useless tax upon agriculture.
 While denominations are es- scntial and church pride com mcndable, the high teaching ot universal christianity must pre- vail if the rural church Is to full 6ll its mission to agriculture.
 We frequently have three or i'ur churchc, in a community >hich is not able 10 adequately -upport one. Small congrega- ton> attend Serylces once a Nonth and all fail to perform the religious functions of the
 immunity The division of re- Sious forces and the breaking to fragments of moral effor. x ofttimes little less than ca l mity and defeats the very puI- pose they seek to promote.
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-12-04
More Pharoahs Needed in
 Agriculture.

Farm product, have no credit
 ld perhaps can never have on .rmancnt and satisfactory basis r4le~s we build warehouses. cold forage plants. elevators. etc, for
 ,thout storage and credit iacili- .c,. the south is compelled c. dump it, crop on the market at harvest time The Farmer nious in the cotton producing
 ates haze tor tta past ten years consistently advocated the con
 eruttion of ,tora. facilities. We
 ate built durje2 this period
 OOO warehouse ,,ith capacity
 approximatet4 100000 bales and looking backward the results N5ald seem encouraging, but aoking forward, We are able to louse less than one-third of the #1p and warehouses without a edit system lose % per cent of their usefulness. Ihe problem $ a gigantic one-too great for the la@mer to solve uaaided He must have the assistance of the baut- IT. the merchant and the govern ment.
 In production we have reached the high water mark of perfection in the world : history, but our marketing methods are most primitive h the dawn of his tory we find agriculture blowing with a forkcd stick but with d system oi warehouses under gov ernmental supervision that made he Egyptians the marvel of civ iIization, for who has not ad- hired the vision of Joseph and the wisdom ot Pharoah ior storing the surplu, until de handed by the consumer, but in this age we have too many To- eePhs who dream and not enough Pharoahs who build.
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-12-04

problems in our complex civili- zation that will yield to co-opera- ton which will not lend them selves to arbitrary rulings oi commissions and financing rail roads is one of them. The man with the money is factor tha. cannot be eliminated from any business transaction. and the public is an interested party that
 Nould always be consulted and
 lppily the President has invited
 l to participate in the solution
 ; our railroad problems.
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-12-04
RAILROADS APPEAL
 TO PRESIDENT
The Common Carriers Ask for Relief-President Wilson Di- rects Attention of Public to
 Their Needs.

The committee of railroad cX- ecutives, headed by Mir. Frank I'rumbull, representing thirty live of the leading railroad >y>- tems of the nation. recently pre- >ented to President Wilson memorandum briefly reviewing the difficulties now confronting the railroads of the country and asking for the co-opcra,ion of the governmental authorities and the public in supporting railroad credits and recognizing an emcr- ecncy which require, that the railroads be given additional rcr- ,uues.
 The memorandum rey..c- that ,hc European 49ar has resulted in -cueral depression If business o0 t.e American continent and in inc dislocat]on a' credit. at home and abroad. Hjth revenues de- area~jug aud interc~s ratc~ ju- crcaslng the transportation ~r~- tens of the country face a most serious crisis and the memorlu- dunn l. strong presentation ot the candle huroiug at both ends and the pcrlIs that must ultimate lv attend such d ceona4ration when the Aame~ meet k apparent to all In thclr general discussion the railroad representatives say in part By reason of legi~la- tlon and regulation hy the Fed ctal Government and the iorjN- eight states acting independently oi each other, as we'll a. through the acton oi strong public opin- ion. railroad expenses in recent years have vastly increased No criticism Is here made of the gen eral theory of governmental re9u- lation, but on the other hand. no ingenuity can relieve the carrier, of expenses created thereby
 President Wilson, in transmit ting the memorandum of the rail road presidents to the public, characterizes it as "a lucid state ment of plain truth" The Pres ident recognizing the emergency as extraordinary, continuing, said in part:
 You ask me to call the atten- ton of the country to the imper- ative need that railway credits hc sustained and the railroads Helped in every possible way, whether by private cooperative effort or by the action, wherever
 tasible of governmental agencies md l am glad to do SO because ,aink the need very real
 The conference was certainly a fortunate one for the nation and the President Is to be congratu- .ated for opening the gate to a
 new world of effort in which z yeryone may cooperate.
 There are many importan,
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-12-04
TIE RURAL
 C'1UR RCH
Cooperation of Church, School and Press Essential to
 Community Building
By Peter Radford. Lecturer National Farmer. aion

The church, the pre-, and the school form tripplc alliance of progress that guides the destiny of every community, state and nation. Without them eiYiliza- ton would wither and die and through them life may attain it- greatest blessing, power and knowledge. The farmers of tbis nation are greatly indebted L. this social trium1irate for its uplifting influence, and on be half of the American PloWmea want to thank those engaged in these high callin2- for thetr able and efficient service. and l hall offer to the press series of articles on cooperation between these important influences and the farmers in the hope oi in creasing the efficiency of all by mutual understanding and or- ganized effort. We will take up first, the rural church
 The Farmers Are Great Church
 Builders.
 The American farmer iS the greatest church builder the world has ever known. He k the cus- tpdian of the nations morality, upon his shoulder, rests the ark ri the covenant and he i> more responsive to religious influence. han any other class Of citizen ship,
 The farmers of this nation have built 10000 churches at a cost oi >75O.0oO.OOO. and the an uual contribution of the nation toward all church institutions appruNimatc> $2O0, 100000 per anuum. The farmers oi the | nit ed States build ? churches per dav. There are 2O.OOO.OO rural church communicant> on the farm, and 4 per cent of the total membership of all churches re- ~ide in the country.
 The farm is the power-house uf all progress and the birthplace If all that k noble The Garden ,i Eden was in the country and the man who would get close to God must first get close to na- -urP
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-12-04
W AIMING ORDER
In Nevada Common Pleas Court

In Nevada Common Pleas Court 1 States Grocer Company Plaintiff E. ( Purifoy. W. l., Purifoy and Ben Franklin, partners; trading under fe firm name of Purifoy and Son De- fendants
 The defendant Ben Franklin is warn- n d to appear in this court within thirty days, and answer the complaint of the aiutiff, 4 States Grocer Company. November l9, 1914.
 c. c. Calhoun. -. L. Rouse. Attorney for Plaintiff.
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-12-04

of the financial ans uish and ravail of the cotton farmer will me a volume of discussion and mass of suggestions and finally
 solution of this, the biggest -oblcm in the economic life of uerira. fl, indeed, we have not ready laid the foundation for al a-t temporary relief.
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-12-04
10 GENT COTTON WANTED

We are authorized to say 'ha'' until January l. 1915, cotton 2, 10 cents a pound will be accep'eu by Draughon's College Tn eA change for tuition at colleseo for a Home-Study Course. Jno. F. Draughon. founder or 'a' Draughon Colleges and a po0'. CT" of the buy-a. bale movemea'' a'' has already shown his fsl'n " 7. his works: he has paid cash ", one bale. All who have c0''." to sell under the above pfopo'" ion should write DfaugnOD Practical Business C O. iess Springfield, Mo, or MempniS v Nashville, Tenn.
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-12-04
EUROPEAN WAR S4hI- TIERS K|NG COTIUN' 5
 THRONE
FLEECY STAPLE MUST PAY RANSOM INTO THE COZ
 FERS OF WAR.
Nation Rings With Cries of
 Stricken InCIstry.
By Peter Radford. Lecturer National Farmers Union

King Cotton has suffered more from the European war than any other agricultural product on the American continent. The shells of the belligerentS have burSted over his throne. frightening his subjects and shattering his mark cts, and, panic-stricken, the nA- ton cries out God save the Ising."
 People from every walk of life have contributed their mite to- Hard rescue work. Society has danced before the king; milady has decreed that the family ward robe shall contain only cotton goods; the press has plead with the public to "buy bale bank CTS have been formulating hold ing plans; congress and lcgisla tRe bodies have deliberated over relief measures; statesmen and writers have grown eloquent e>- pounding the inalienable rights o' His Majesty and presenting schemes for preserving the fHau- cial integrity nf the stricken staple. but the sword of Europe has proved mi4htier than the pc uf America in Hing value upon this product oi thc sunny south. Prices have been baNonctcd. Nal- ues riddled and markets decimat- ed by the batting hosts oi the eastern hemisphere until the American farmo~ has suffered a war loss of SiNo.OOOOOO. and a bale of cotton brave enough tp enter an European port must pa' a ransom of half it> value or go 10 prison until the war k over
 Hope of the Future Lies in Co.,
 operation.
 The Farmers Union, through the columns of the press, wants to thank the American people for the friendship. sympathy and as sistance given the cotton farm CTS in the hour of distress and to direct attention to cooperative methods necessary to permanent ly assist the marketing of all farm products
 The present emergency pre- sents as grave situation as ever confronted the American farmer and from the viewpoint of the producer, would seem to justify extraordinary relief measures, even to the point of bending the constitution and straining busi- ness rules in order to lift a DOT tion of the burden of the backs of the farmer, for unless some thing Is done to cheek the inva- sion of the war forces upon the cotton fields, the pathway of the European pestilence on this con tinent will be strewn with mort gagged homes and famine anC poverty will stalk over tke south land. filling the highways of in dustry with refugees and tn, bankruptcy court with prisoners
 All calamities teach us lesson and the present crisis serves {, illuminate the frailties oi ou marketing methods and the weak ness of our credit system, an
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-12-04
COLDS & LaGRlPPt: ::

5 or 6 doses 6G6 will rpold, pJs any caao of Chills & Fevef' .t :. liver liver & LaGrippe; it acts on the ane' mot not better than Calomel ana ao' eripe or sickcn. Price zoe.
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-12-04
slGS FOR COTTON
 N ARKANSAS
aited States Government Advises Farmers to Grow Live Stock as
 Money Crop.

our measures are being recom- ended by the U. s. Department of Agriculture to the farmers of the South in order to remedy the conditions created by the col lapse of the scotton market These are:
 l. The reduction of expenses by the production of more food CT the family and more grain and forage for the live stock.
 , The substitute of other money crops for part of the cot ton acreage.
 3. The raising of more live stock.
 1. The addition of humus to the soil in order to make fertlI- ger less expensive.
 The first thing to be done, say the Government specialists, Is to plant winter crops to be used partly for winter and spring grazing, partly for spring hay a.aa grain, and partly for cover cre9s to be turned back into the soil for fertilizing purposes. T 4pse crops should include oats f 1T grain, and oats, barley or ryn for hay, and,any one of these for winter and spring grazing or fo humus value. Although Oct. and Nov. are the best months fer planting these crops in the Ic ton country. the time may be extended into the winter. The winter crops should be followed by summer legumes such as COW peas, soy beans, etc. Fall and winter vegetables s h ou d be planted for home use and for the market.
 Hogs are recommended as the best live stock to grow. Inn mediate steps should be taken to increase the profits from hogs and hog products by the planting of crops for winter and spring grazing, to be followed by sum- mer and fall crops for the same purpose. Growers are also being warned to take rigid precautions against hog cholera. If strict quarantine measures are adopt ed and if the animals, W h n tn aatened, eare sinocuIated with an hog cholea 2 serum, growers id suffer little loss from this source.
 \ system of diversified farms I, C mended to Arkansas farm CTS is to divide their hogs as fol- 'oVs; one-third corn, one-third cotton, one-third oats. followed by peas on one half of the area md lespedeza on the other half. The reason for the lespedeza is it would be impossible to plant peas on all the oats stubble and cultivate corn and cotton at the mestime. Even if the lespede- ga does not grow large enough for hay it may be cut for seed. The seed valne add the fertilizer value should be worth $1O per acre.
 In this rotation the corn should be shocked so that the land be- tween the shocks may be plowed or disked, thus utilizing a slack time in August or early Septem- When hogs are kept in consider able numbers another promising plan is as follows:
 l, One-fourth. cotton plus a winter legume;
 ?. One sixteenth. peas; one sixteenth soy beans to be hoggt d down and one-eighth, corn to be cl, and shocked in August.
 3. One-fourth, oats followed b> peas on one-half the ground
 nd lespedeza on the other half.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-12-30
DISSATISFACTION.

Dissatisfaction so much depored is really one OF the
finest forces in human life.
Without dissatisfaction there would be no going for
ward We would all stop right where we are and admire
ourselves and our environment all the rest OF our useless
DAYS until an outraged God should turn back into soil
that we might once more bdcome fertile
Dissatisfaction is the handspring of aspiration and ef-
fort Of course there can be dissatisfaction with aspra
ton Envy malice and the other base passions may be
the source of dissasfactons that warp the soul instead OF
stimulating and urging it.
The poor man must be dissatisfied with his conditions
before he can acquire and hold property He must be dis
satisfied not only with his prvatons and dscomforts but
with his lack of knowledge with his lack of usefulness and
value and with his lack Of capacity for intelligent appca
ton and sustained effort
If mans mind and heart be sound, his dissatisfac-
tons will determine his aspirations; and aspiration is the
mother of all sefdevelopng ambition and achievement
If Lincoln had been born in Fifth avenue mansion
and had gone through college he probably never would
have been heard Of 1t his dissatisfaction with his
adverse conditions which urged him in heroic struggle
and developed the giant in him.
1t is worth remembering that in the very hardest OF
environment has built up the finest type of intellect and
manhood our country has known.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-12-30
HERE'S PROOF
A Salem Citizen Tolls or His
BXperience.

A Salem Citizen Tolls or His
Experience
You have right to doubt statements
of people living far away but can you
doubt Salem endorsement
Read it.
n. A, Sutton. tent aud awning dealer,
Salem, says; "I had kidney trouble
for ten years and sometimes | was laid
up. Doctors did not help me. Sharp
pains extended through my back and
were most severe In my kidneys. Often
when working | had to give up. lost
weight and was in very poor health. |
had headaches, rested but little at
night and didn't know what to do. On
n friends advice tried Doan's Kid.
ney Pills and 10 my surprise. they
brought great improvement In few
days. continued to get better stead
ily ] got more sleep, my appetite i'm.
proved and the pains gradually. but
surely, left me. After had used three
boxes Of Doan + Kidney Pills, / was
IN better health than I had been for
ten years and not sign Of kidney com.
plant remained. The cure has been
permanent
Price soc at all dealers Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-pct
Doan 5 Kidney pills--thc same that
Mr.. sutton hal. FosterM Milhurn Co.,
Props, Buffalo n. Y.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-12-30
THE ROUNDUP

X X X X n X X X X * X X X X 4 X
John Grant was burned to death in
his cabin across the river from Astoria
Saturday night. It is supposed he was
smo6lng in bed set fire to the bed
clothcs aud was smothered by the
smoke, lie was IS years old and had
fishcd in the Columbia for 30 years.
The rall fishing both in the Columbia
and the various coast streams was me
Of the hest in years, about 10000 eases
Of canned salmon having been packed
by the Columbia plants, and 100000
eases by the coOst plants
The Oregon Glce club is on It's annual
trip eastern Oregon this time bcing the
field it is plowing.
The management OF the Central Point
Herald has passed from llasslcr 4 Bebb
to Royal y. Behb, who took over the
business December 49,
The lee harvest at Union is one and
the Scout says the lee IL the best for
years, Continued dry weather has help
cd ont the situation and there win be
no lee famine in the city next summer
Y, u, Phillips, secretary, has insti
gated q lively campaign to swell the
membership OF The Dollcs business
Mcu's association lie is sending ont
letters to Farmers Hs well us to citizens
Of The nales.
cone of our citizcus,' says the Sher
idau Sun, "suggests that the new city
hall be located at the west termination
Of FIRST street The suggestion hn,
real merit In the fact that if carricD
out the building would at least cover
up the quogmic of uncertain doptl
/ thai is now the source Of so much pro
/ family"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-12-30
was folt 81 tho neeessity fOr abandOn.

was felt at the necessity for abandon
ing operations for Przemysl's relief.
80 far as northern Galicia was con.
cemed it was asserted the Austrian
front was intact, no general retreat
having occurred anywhere, though there
had been some Withdrawals to straight
en- the lines. The llapsburg forces were
said to be still holding the Sromnik-
Sorlice, Jabliska line of trenches.
That the Russians had resumed oper.
ations against Craeow was denied.
The Montenegrins were reported to
have renewed their activity and TO
have made repeated attacks on Tire.
binie whore, however, It was declared
they were ropulsed
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-12-30
The Austrian Version.

Vienna, via Berlin and London Dee.
30.-- Russian stories Of an Austrian
rout in Galicia were hotly denied to.
day by the war office here,
The Austrian force had been com.
PEELED to withdraw, II was true, said
the official statement but the move.
ment was purely strategic aud Il was
executed In perfect order and without
losses Of artillery or TRANSPORT equip.
ment. Losses In killed, wounded and
captured, It was added, were not out Of
proportion TO the number Of men en-
gagged
The war office confessed that regret
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-12-30
THE WAR-THIRSTY OREGONIAN.

Here are two editorials from the Oregonian of Tues
day. Just why the killing of Americans by Canadians
should not be resented and why the Turks should be bom
barded when no Americans are even danger is beyond
explanation even by the Oregonian editor It might be
added that the Mexcans have done no worse than the Ca
nadans yet the doughty editors of the big daily who tug
at their chains and long to be uneashed the Mexican
frontier would prescribe entirely different treatment
This is the way dsposes of the Canadian incident
ut is unlucky that the Canadian militiamen should
have shot those poachers just now but not important
This is not time for making mountains out Of mole hills
The incident should warn Americans that it is safer to
break the law at home than in Canada Here they would
not have been quite so safe shooting ducks men, but
they could have done either without serious danger to
themselves"
And this is what it has to say about the Turkish stu
alton and President Wilson
1tay orders cruisers to help United States war craft
in Turkish waters if necessary They certainly will need
help if fired on for it would be worth an American com
manders commission to return even hostile fire these
days"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-12-30
NO ROW WITH SENATE.

Washington, Dee. 20.-Prcsident
Wilson told callers this afternoon that
there were no strained relations" be-
tween the senate and himself, A row
over patronage, he said did not come
in that category
The president announced late today
that he would "stand pat" in regard
to the Philippine independence bill.
His faith in the proposal, he said, was
not shaken by reports Of an uprising
in the islands, He also intimated that
subtle influences were manufacturing
discordont Philippine stories to thwurt
legislation.
The president also insisted that in.
dustrial conditions were improving.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-12-30
RUSSIANS TELL IT
and ARE VICT0RS;
GERMANS DENY 1T



GaIicia was much improved, from the
Slav standpoint, and general Rus.
sian advance was prophesied before the
Muscovite new year. January 10,
In the Caucasus the ear stroops were
said to have taken the Turks trenches
at Merdenek at the point Of the bay.
-onet, Cossacks were reported also In
the vicinity of Khorassan. The Otto.
man forces were conceded to be fight.
ing hard and many encounters at close
quarters were described
The Turks were accused Of behaving
with bestial ferocity to non-combatant
residents Of the Russian territory they
have occupied massacreing thousands
Of men aud outraging and tormring
women.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-12-30
AAYs IT NAG Aoo1nnNT.

Nordhoff, CAL, Dee. 30.-Just before
he died from a bullet wound aeeidently
inflicted by Pitcher Floyd Peuitt, Of
the Los Angeles Coast league baseball
club, Herbert Lathrop, mountain guide
and resort proprietor, made u statement
freeing petritt OF all blame, according
to the statement here today Of persous
who we've ut his death bed
"lt was just mn accident, - llatnrop
paspcd before he died,
porritt win 20 to Ventura this after.
noon 10 testify at coroner's inquest.
Neighhors Of Lathrop, In accordance
with his last request, carried his body
ia Ventura late Yesterday