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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-23

fashion plates of the dancing ma,
tiers.
| 'or many organizations, the annua
uahce Is historic function of tn,
winter season, reaching back for a
seheration Or two. The word "ba'l'
which is rather the fayorite term IN,
'hese events, may suggest stately
Daiis and elabo ate decorations. But
II Is quite likely to be applied to the
annual break down OF the Cross
Roads Engine Company, or the HON.
eric shindy in a back street hail OF
the Backsmlth's Benefit Society.
Quadrilles and contra dances are
conspicuous, and few of the more adj
venturous try the old fashioned waltz.
W course the young folks back from
college have their one steps and can.
ters' These are successful and en-
Joyable, p divided the natives are sui.
hciently dazz'ed and shocked by the
variety and extravaganza OF the evo.
lutioDs.
The dancers are sober, hardwork.
ing persons. Ordinarily they 20 to
bed at nine o'clock. But the annual
ball comes but once year, and two.
three, and four a. m. may sound tie
fateful passage of time, before SO
glorious occasion can be terminated. |
There are yawns the next day, but
the memories OF those feeting hours
are worth the price. :.
One sees very jolly sport at these
unconventional functions. There are
AIMED dancers from miles around
Naturally light and graceful On their
eet, they improvise steps better
han the average teacher of daacing
With innate sense OF rhythm and
ceiling for the humor of motion.
'ieeon wings are a moving picture
ong to be remembered.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-23

nay, silage bran, and oil mea, IN.
last winter she was at the tina Of
neshening very far from looking like
near victim OF starvation. A, ,wo
years and two months of age sha
.eS'ed l'2o pounds of fat for one
day' We did not obtain a comnle,a
,e0ord Tor that year, but for the first
iour months her fat amounted 70
1885 pounds. ~
She Became a Fine Cow
her second calf was born eighteen.
months after the first. This gave
nei time to grow and develop, which
we consider essential IL heifer
caves at two years of age. Her high.
est test for the second year was "a
pounds fat per day, and during her
iactation period Of eleven montbs
she produced 1852 pounds fat At a
proht OF $116.1 Is after deductino Tho
reed cost while she was dry.
she freshened again in fourtean
months. The three months rest wos
from choice. as We wished to have
ner In excellent condition. Her high.
est days test with third calf was
|.l9 pounds fat. in the ten mor,hs
she has MIXED SO far, her fat produc.
ton is O54 pounds.
since first coming In, her grain ra.
tion has been balanced from Ajax
nahes' corn meal, linseed oil mea,
oran' and little cotton seen. She
uoes not do well With much OF the
last named grain. About 10 IN u
pounds Of hay during the winter and
oV to 40 pounds OF silage make her
entire ration. or the grain mixture
she Is led at the rate of 1 pound Of
gram to liz pounds OF milk produc.
GU Ihere Is water In the tieup.
winch large, well lighted and ven.
tilsted. ~
Her breeding qualities hid fair tn
equal those OF her fat productiop
fier nrst calf, a heifer, was half HoI.
stein, and sold before maturity
her second. also heifer, from a pure
urea Jersey sire. is due to freshen
'oon' and Is fine reproduction Of
ne dam in all but color. -Josepbjne
rriest In Farm and Preside.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-23
SGT, January 20, 1915
Logan City, Utah

fearing peasants who come here to
find homes and to make the wilder
ness blossom into fertility; but will
your literacy test keep out a single
criminal whose record and anteced.
ents we are ignorant Of? You will.
ind some illiterate criminals who
have been guilty of crime OF sudden
passion, OF violence; men who united
ignorance with illiteracy; but 1t is
everlastingly true that the crimes
most injurious to society, most detri-
mental to business, commerce, f.
/ nance, are never the work of Hitter
/ ates.
The forger, the conspi -ator, the
crooked promoter, the business de-
faulter, the blackmailer, the banb
thief, the political CRATER, and all
that class of criminals, outside Of and
outnumbering the criminals of pas
sion and violence, are lterate. They
read and write, for these vicious tai
ents must be supplemented by litera
cy to make them profitable. Vicious
talent sharpened and developed by
letters is the most serious problem
society has to deal with. Yet Mr..
Speaker, this absurd literacy test will
admit the dangerous European Grim.
insl OF the continental cities and bar
out the honest and Woodworking and
badly needed peasant--farmer and la.
he be English or Irish
or French or German or Hebrew or
Polish or Italian or Lithuanian.
In eve"y crisis OF the country's |
history these alien classes have stood |
loyalty by the Republic that gave
them asylum and home. And | ven
ture to say that the domestic dang
ers, violences, instructions, and re-
bellions that have come to this Re-
public have always been the work of
native Americans and never Of aliens
literate or illiterate.
III SOhCiubiou, WI. opedheT, let me |
say that literacy is not test of
character, manhood, or civic fitness
t is trap to catch the unwary; 1t is
to American principles and
PRACTICES, and is merely sop thrown
o provincial prejudice and parochial
,anis. Its warmest advocates are
hose who have failed to deal with
lliteracy at their own doors and who
re only seeking-perhaps unconsci-
usly and not deliberately-to Grip
lie the Industrial regions which have
nown how to utilize all honest Ia
or and 10 build upon illiteracy the
emple OF literacy.
Mr.. Speaker, the passion for litera
y, like the grace of charity, should
egin at home.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-23
The Letter Home

war correspondent recently toll,
OF bringing an auto load OF letter,
written by French soldiers on tn,
Aisne to their women folk in Paris
The missives mainly contained re-
quests for underwear, socks and 9th
er creature comforts.
| see be the pa-apers
The lads has wrote home
TO their women thot's left
FIR to firget an foam;
riaze sind me me nightshort.
I'm fghtin' fr Frawnce.
fees can slip In tooth brush:
Yer lovin' Alphonse."
Aw. tbs sorra the day
FIR the women thot wait.
A-wapin f'r love;
lis a crack on the pate
fr to get sooch letther:
La veeva la France!
Me safe is all out;
sind q new pair Of pants!"
Can yez picture the face
Av a wive In suspense
Tearin' open the letther.
Wild love that's intense?
To be r'adin: Par Blue?
I'm rec avin' hard knocksi
Me feet Is all blistered;
Phase ship me some socks!"
Twas the wise mon thot wrote
An It's place in his shape.
'shure the min must all worruk
An the women must wape:"
But somehow, dinnaw,
It's the worrud thot 10 tbrpe
The poor women thot wape
How the mosht worruk to do.
Shure the lad in the tr'rinch
Is a wonder to fight,
Wild a lad at his left,
And lad at his right;
But lave him raymimber
To blarney his tone
Win he's writin' his woman
That's fighting alone!
-Olin L. Lyman.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-23
WHERE THE OLD DANCES
HOLD SWAY

When mention is made OF dancing,
one thinks of tangos and fox trots
and one steps, and all the friils and
fandangos OF up to date society Any
newspaper man will tell you, though,
that there still exists a wide world
OF this diversion not affected by the
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-23

One OF the most expensive woods
used regularly in an established in
dustry in the United States Is box
wood. the favorite material for wood
engraving. 1t has been quoted at
four cents cubic inch. and about
$1,000 by the thousand board feet.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-23
WHO is TO BLAME?

Who Is to blame for the war? w,
all of us, according to George Berr
ard Shaw. He says:
When the &c man fire eater
drank to The Day. they were drink
ing to the day of which the Nav,
League fire eaters first said, III
bound to come Therefore let u,
have no more nonsense about the
Prussan wolf and the British lamb
the Prussian Machiavelli and the En-
giish evangelist. We can not shout
for years that we are boys of the
bul dog breed and then suddenly pose
as gazelles.
No; when Europe and America
come to settle treaty that will end
this business-for America is con
cerned in it as much as we are-they
will not deal with us as loyab'e, in
nocent victims OF treacherous ty.
rant and savage soldiery, They will
have to consider how these two in
corrigibly pugnacious and inveterate.
ly snobbish peoples, who have snarl
ed at one another for forty years with
bristling hair and grinnng fangs,
and who are now rolling over with
their teeth In one another's throats,
are to be tanned into trusty watch.
dogs Of the peace of the world.
i am sorry to spoil the sanity i'm.
age with a halo which the British
lingo journalist sees Just now when
lie looks In the glass, but II must be
done II We are to behave reasonably
in the imminent day OF reckoning.
However, the immediate respon-
sibility for the war lies chiefly with
Austria and Germany.
THE ultimatum to Servia was the |
esCapade of dotard and a worse
crime than the assassination that
provoked 1t. Peace was really on
the cards. The sane game was to
play for It.
'hNNNohp wv Now Ut Il uhNS
throat and by incidentally invading
Belgium gave us the excuse that our
mi itarists wanted to attack her with
the full sympathy OF the nation.
What then was Eng and to do?
Now comes the question In what
position did this result of a mad the
DRY and hopelessly incompetent ap.
plication of 1t on the part of Potsdam
place our own government? 1t left
rs quite clearly in the position OF a
responsible policeman of the West.
There was nobody else in Flu ope
strong enough to chain the mad dog.
1T was evidently England or no.
BODY; there was no possible alterna.
i've.
But the present war Is q war on
var I.. ~
1--WE are supporting It, Why? :
"As a war on war, on military coer :
ion, on domineering and bullying, on
-ute force, on military law, on caste,
nsolence, on what Mrs, Fawcett call -
d Insensate deviltry,' only to find
he papers explaining apologetically
nat she as a lady had OF course been -
lluding TO war made by foreigners y
nd not by England. Some Of us, REL "
lembering the things that We our %
lives have said and done, may doubt =,
neither Satan can cast out Satan, v
At as the job is not exactly one for
, unfallen angel We may as we'll let
m have a try" -
" Is
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-23

Al birds except English sparrows
are now protected by law. The time
when birds might be shot for sport
and gun practice is past.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-23

What is supposed to be record
speed in getting men to a forest Are
is reported from Oregon, where on
one of the national forests a rang
err went to town, hired ten men, and
got this force to the fire twelve M as
away within forty-eight minutes at,
er he was notified by telephone.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-23

Apple wood, used almost exclusive
ly for saw handles. also furnishes The
material for many so called brier
wood pipes and particularly for the
large wooden type used in printing
signs and posters.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-23
Fivg CENTS PROVES IT

a fenerous ofer-Cut out this ad
enclose with S cents to Foley g. Co.
chicago, ILL.,. and receive a free trial
package containing Foley's Honey
and Tar Compound for coughs, colds,
Group bronchial and lagrippe coughs,
foiey Kidney Pills and Foley Cath
artic Tablets. For sale in your town
by cache Valley Drug Co. ADV.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-23

a HANDICAP FOR Tia DOG
hnioker-Do they lead a cat and
dog life?
nocker7Yes, only the dog Is muz.
Aed New York Times.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-23
The Logan Republican

fashion plates of the dancing mas
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-01-15
The War Drama Of The Eastern
Theatre

The immensely Of the war
drama unfolded during the sum-
mer and fall in France and Bel
gium has held the imagination OF
the world in an awful fascination.
Here was to be seen the test and
fruitage of the science of mod
ern militarism, constantly devel-
oped for 40 years. Here was the
bursting of the anger of France,
pent for decades, the struggle
for a "revanche' that was in
the national spirit not so much
the desire to return evil for evil
as the yearning to see the scales
of Justice balanced. Here was
the historic battle-ground of
Europe once more ensangulned;
the mingling of Saxon and Teu-
ton and Latin, with the modern
engines of destruction in their
hands. 1t was and is, vast and
awful bey ond all comprehension;
but we are beginning to perceive
comparisons, to make a new ad-
justment of values.
With the imminent recurrence
of the flame of war throughout
the Balkan region, we are invited
to contemplate a battle front of
1,300 miles, stretching its tortu-
Gus course from the chilly surf
of the Baltic to the gentle Adri-
attic. 1t follows, first, the gener-
al course of the valley of the Wis
tula, sweeping eastward into Po-
land, bending back toward the
border stronghold of Cracow,
thence through the Carpathian,
passes; Roumania's frontier
would supply the link to complete
the dreadful chain. Indeed,
Russian claims in recent dispatch
es, of lines thrown out far to the
soutaward across Hungary, in
dicate the closing the majority
portion of this gap.
All the Balkansin, and Italy
finally decided to cast the weight
Of its forces of 5000, 600 men in
to the fray, the circle of warfare
in Europe would be completed. =
Greensboro Daily Times.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-01-15
Cotton Pool A Disaster

Fort Worth, Tex, Jan. IA. =
Peter Radford, National Lectur.
er of the Farmers Uuion, when
asked by a representative of the
press today if the farm ers of the
South would apply for loans un-
der the terms of the $135, 900,
000 cotton pool, said:
! do not know of a banker
in Texas or elsewhere who is
willing to lend money to the
farmers at six per cent under
the provisions of the pool and
do not think many farmers
would care to qualify for d loan.
1t is to be regretted that the Off
GERS of that movement are not
frank enough to admit that the
failure of the pool is due to in
he ent defects Of the plon. 1t has
not only failed completely, but it
has indirectly cost the Southern
cotton producers millions of dol
lars. think it can be truthfully
said that had the plan never been
suggested, several millions of
dollars would have been loaned
against cotton in the South by
many banks who subscribed to
the fund in good faith, and nat
urally, with such a pledge be-
coming a liability they might
be called upon to assume, they
did not give consideration to
making direct loans as the South
ern banker has always done,
and as a result the pool cut off
the local money supply and fore
ed the cotton on the market. |
have no doubt the promoters act
ed in good faith, but the move
ment has been serious disaster
to the South"
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-01-15
ROSEMARY LIBRARY
ASSOCIATION
Meets Tuesday Night. Election
Of Officers. All members
and other tItiznns
interested In the II
work invited u
ADDRESS ON VALUE OF READING

On next Tuesday night, the
Rosemary Reading Room & Lib
rary Association will hold its re-
gular annual meeting for the
election of officers and outlining
of plans of work for the coming
year.
All of the members of the AS
sociation are urgently requested
to come out and attend this
meeting, and everybody who is
interested in this Library work
is cordially invited to be present.
The Rosemary Reading Room
and Library Association is the
only institution of its kind in
Halifax County. 1t is splendid
ly and thoroughly equipped,
we'll housed, has a large and
complete library consisting of
nearly one thousand Volumes and
would be a very creditable in
stitution for a community many
times larger than the one in
which it is situated.
The Board of Governoas of the
Library are planning to have an
able speaker deliver an address
next Tuesday night on the
Value of Reading" No admis-
sion will be charged at this meet
ing. In fact, the membership
fee of the Rosemary Library
Association is merely nominal,
the fee being $l.00 for a years S
membership.
1t is hoped by the Board of
Governors that cooperation
fJbm the citizens of Roser AIRY
will be given even more freely
this year than last, in order that
the Library may be able % be of
greater help to a larger number
of people during the year 1915.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-01-15
Pitt County To Have Whole Time
Health Officer

A telegram from Greenville
announces that Pitt County is
the next to have a whole time
health officer. The commission
ers of Pitt had the right kind of
a New Year spirit when they
voted unanimously, January the
fourth, for a whole time health
officer. This was the termina-
ton of long and continuous efforts
on the part of many of the
county's wide-awake and pro-
gressive citizens in behalf of
their peoples better health and
welfare, and the decision is a
positive one.
The next step in which the
commissioners will again make
no mistake, will be to get the
right man for the office. Health
work is not the peculiar fitness
of every physician. Neither is
it a matter of experience and
training easily to be had. AS in
other similar professions, a spe-
cial fitness and efficiency is re-
quired. 1t will not be Pitt
County's policy to rush unadvis-
edly in filling the office.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-01-15
Prevailing Prices Paid for Cotton
and Country Produce Friday,
January Is, 1915
5000 VACCINATED
Nash County to Have No More
Smallpox In Her Schools

There's to be no more small
poX in Nash County schools.
That matter is settled. Accord
ing to a high authority about
5000 school children from 95& to
98% of all the school children in
the county have been vaccinated
against smallpox since the be-
ginning of school this year.
This wholesale vaccination was
the results of an order of the
progressive county board of
health passed last August.
The county health officer vacci-
mated all applicants free of
charge. As a result of this ac-
ton the present generation of
school children of Nash County
will be protected from smallpox
absolutely for five years or more
and practically all of them for
ten years and many for life.
Next year only the new pupils
will need to be vaccinated. Vac
cinating 5000 children out of a
population of 40, 900 will in all
probability reduce the number of
smallpox cases and deaths in the
county a fourth or a third. There
will be Mo occasion for closing
down the Schools even though an
epidemE Of smallpox shorid re-
suit among the aduit .uavaccina-
ted. Hereafter the task of vac
cinating the new school children
each year will be comparatively
easy and each year we nay con-
fdently expect a redgction in the
number of an ,llpoX cases
throughout the general popula-
ton of the county as the result
of this policy.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-01-15
Donation Day Roanoke Rapids
Hospital

Friday, the 22nd. of January
will be Donation Day for the
hospital.
Every one who has the inter
est of the hospital at heart is
asked to come to Mrs. f. H.
Adkins residence at Rosemary on
the 22nd. between A and 6 10 clock.
Bring your donation and have
a cup of tea with the members
of the Woman's Board.
The articles most needed are
bureau covers, tray covers, tow
els, sheets, pillow cases, preserv-
es, jelly, groceries, and in fact
anything will be gratefully re-
ceived.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-01-15
Educational Statistics

Halifax County School Chill
dren Number 1884. Halifax
County has 1884 children be-
tween the ages of 6 and 20 years
and 1892 or 53.7 per cent of
them attend school, according to
a recent census bulletin. The
data contained in the report re-
lates to the year 1910 and has
only recently been made public.
The distribution, by age groups,
and the number attending
school is as follows:
Age Total Number Number
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-01-15
HEALTH MESSAGE
Governor Craig Urges Increase in
Health Work And Fight
Against tuberculosis

Raleigh, N. c., Jan. IA, 1915. =
Governor Craig rings clear on
health. In his message read be-
fore the General Assembly
he urges increasing effec-
tiveness in health work. He es-
pecially urges a vigorous fight
against the great White Plague.
Following is that portion of his
message relating to public
health.
"The State Board of Health
has efficiently performed a bene-
ficent work. By its agency sani-
tary conditions are improving.
This department should be pro-
vided with means to continue
with increasing effectiveness this
most essential work for the pre-
servation of life and for the health
and happiness of all the people. !"
The problem of dealing with
tuberculosis is most serious. In
North Carolina it has been ascer-
tanned that eighteen thousand
people are victims of this dis
ease. Many may have it of
whom we do not know. 1t is an
ever present plague that stalks
abroad at MONDAY, and one
seventh of all the deaths in the
State are from this dreaded dis
ease. The State Sanatorium
was established in response to
the demand that something must
be done for the afflicted, and to
stop the ravages of the plague.
In my opinion this institution,
with its present scope and eff
cheney, is utterly incapable of
dealing effectively with the stu
alton. As an institution for the
purpose of educating people to
care fo~ themselves, and dissent
mating knowledge of the disease,
it cannot be as effective as could
a bureau established for the pur-
pose of sending literature to
every person in the State known
to be afflicted. Such literature
could present the situation more
intelligently to the people and
with more efficacy than could be
done by few patients who are
fortunate enough to secure ad-
mission to the small establish
ment at Sanatorium. There are
now about ninety patients in
this institution. 1t. is most hu-
namely and most ably managed.
Yet it is altogether inadequate
to deal with this stupendous pro-
position that so vitally effects
the people. 1t has done good in
individual instances, but there are
thousands in the State who can
not gain admittance, and who
will desire admittance when it's
efficiency is recognized. This
institution can never care for
those entitled to admission. On
the present plan, the whole
revenue of the State could not
meet the demand. 1t is one of
the highest obligations of the
State to deal with this disease,
to do all possible to prevent it,
and to cure those who have it.
| hope that this General Assemb-
ly can work out a practical me-
thod that will be effective.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-01-15
Methodist Church


Roanoke Rapids Sunday School
at 9:45. w. V. Woodruff,
Supt.
Services at II o'clock, Subject,
Fidelity" Night services con-
Quoted by j. B. Boyd.
Rosemary, Sunday School at
10 O'Clock. j. B. Boyd, Supt.
Night services at 1880 O'Clock,
Subject, THY Kingdom Come "
Come and worship with us.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-01-15
HALIFAX COUNTY
BOARD OF HEALTH
Re-elects DR.. Green Health Officer

At the regular meeting of the
County Board of Health at Hall
fax, Monday, DR.. |. E. Green was
reelected County Superinten-
dent of Health by a unanimous
vote. The Board of Health is
composed of w. R. Harvey,
chairman of the county board of
commissioners; j. H. Fenner,
Mayor of Halifax; DR.. A. S.
Harrison, county superintendent
of public instruction; DR.. J. A.
Collins, of Enfield, and DR.. H. |.
Clark, of Scotland Neck.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-01-15

How useless girls are today.
| don't believe you know what
needles are for. " How absurd
you are, grandma, protested
the girl. "Of course, l know
what needles are for. They're
to make the graphophone play. "
louisville Courier. Journal.