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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1915-03-05

Vaughn, Cooper County So
Connect, Jr., Buchanan Count
E. x. Beckett, Shelby Count.
Harry S. Cunningham, ST. Fro,
co.'s County.
B. j.. Vaughan Of Woodr5r,
won the Crosby Clydesdale MAJ
al offered by r. L. Crosby ~
.Highview Farm, Mexico. for n.
best Judge Of horses. Abel Han
sci Of Deepwater won the Wal
lace Poland-C China Medal oHera5
by w. 3. Wallace of Buncet,r
for the best judge Of hogs.
l. B. Hoberect Of SedaHa w,,
the r. w. Brown GALLOWAY ma
dial offered 10y R. w. Brown of
Carrollton for the best iudpp NJ
cattle.
Harry S. Cunningham of Farm.
ington won the Walker Shron-
shire Medal offered by W. ?
Walker for the best Judge Of
sheep.
All Of the medals We're gold A
style has been adopted
for the medals given in tins con.
test from year to year. The con.
test was open to all students in
the short course In agriculture gt
the University Of Missouri.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1915-03-05
M. U. BOARDS STUDENTS
AT 1917 CENTS A NEAL
State University Cafeteria Feeds
500 Daily and Does q Yearly
Business of $4,000.

Every visitor to the University
LOT Missouri at Columbia sooner
or later finds his way to the Uni
versity of Cafeteria. If he hap
pens to find himself seated oppo-
site q student, which he is quite.
likely to do. This conversation
probably will take place.
The cashier must have made a
mistake on my check" the visj-
tor viii say, An this food surely
isn't sold for is cents
1t is . fact that 500 students of
the University eat their meals at.
the cafeteria for an average cost
Of only 1912 cents 2 meal. How
this is possible not only puzzles
visitors, but also students, and al
times it has puzzled the cafeter-
las manager. One reason why If
can be done is that the cafeteria
Is owned by the University. and
not a cent Of profit is made. The
cafeteria, however, is entirely
self-supporting-the rent for the
building, the salaries of the STU
dent helpers, the upkeep of the
dining room-an of this comes
out Of the money paid in by STU
dents. Last year the cafeteria
did a $4,000 business, and the
profit was held down to pract-
cally nothing.
The enormous amount of food
stufis consumed by the students
As bought in large quantities.
there sometimes being as much
as $4,000 and $1,000 worth of
goods on hand. The manager of
the cafeteria saved the students
hundreds Of dollars last fall
when he contracted for immense
supply Of -four. The wholesale
price Of the -four is more than a
dollar a hundred pounds more
than it was then
There are more than forty stu
dents who earn their board OF all
their living expenses at the Uni
versity by working at the cafe
terra. They wash dishes. c AIRY
trays, and dish out food. There
are a few student cooks. In the
course Of a day there are Otter as
many as 20 items on the menu.
Soup with crackers cost 3 cents:
roast beef 8 cents ; potatoes, corn
and beans 2 cents a dish stewed
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1915-03-05
STUDENTS GET GOLD
MEDALS FOR JUDGING
Eighth Annual Live Stock Judg-
isg Contest for Short Course
Students Held at Univer-
sitv of Mieaouri
SHY Of Missouri.

Forty-six students Judged ten
classes of live stock in the eighth
annual live stock Judging contest
held February l3 at the close Of
the short course in agriculture ut
the University of Missouri at
Columbia. The contest was held
in the new Live Stock Judging
Pavilion. Three men lied for
first place, totaling 782 points
out Of q possible 1000. These
men are Fl. d. Lawler Nodawgy
County Milton L. Remer, Cedar
County and G.. A. Tabor, John
son County.
Abel Hensel of ST. Clair Coun-
was a close second with 781.
points. Others who stood
among the first twelve in the.
are j. D. Ray, Clay County T. B.
st. Louis County G.. H.
Ray, Platte County S. A Var
casper County G. z.
Boone County Roy Ba-
ker, Bates County B. T.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1915-03-05
False BiOckades and False Logic.
From Golfers Weekly.

False BIOckades and False Logic
From Golfers Weekly.
Too much heed has been paid e
the Lusitauia incident and Il
charges that our flag mas been
used by alien merchantmen.
There is nothing novel in such a
use Of flags by vessels Of q belE-
gerent. From the standpoint of
international law there is moth
ing wrong about all this-al-
though q man-0f-war must. of
course, show its own flag before
1t hres upon an enemy. Ameri-
can warships and privateers
made effective use of the British
flag as long ago as 1912, and we
flew the Spanish flag during our
war with Spain. More recently,
German raiders have used Rus
sian and Japanese fagS-and
have been awarded the Iron
Cross by the Kaiser for exploits
to which this ruse contributed.
War is not 3 parlor game. On
the other hand, war mas It's rules
and even though the rules admit
OF sayagery and sharp practice.
IT is our essential interest to In
sist upon their observance. Now
Germany has proclaimed 2 sort
OF paper blockade of British wat
ers, warning off neutral com
merce. Obviously, the United
States viii not tolerate the no
ton that German submarines
perfectly true only the blockade
ade, only occasionally raiding
submarines - may send mer-
chant ships TO the bottom with
their cargoes and their passen-
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1915-03-05

apples, peaches, apricots, pears
or prunes 3 cents a dish; coffee 3
cents a cup; pie 3 cents a slice
two slices Of bread, and butter 2
cents. A stack Of hots"-the
name by which the students or
der hot cakes-costs but 6 cents.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1915-03-05
THE

Among the many amendments
proposed to the state -constitu-
ton there should be included one
requiring d 5iJerUcg test for all
candidates for membership in
either house Of the state legisla-
ture.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1915-03-05
MAKING or A MICROSCOPE
Grinding, Polishing and Testing
the Lenses.

into 3 complex of lenses an
means Of adjustment that ha
enabled trained eyes to discove
: q world of infnitesimal thing
mdreamed Of before the instru
ment WIS perfected. So exten
sively is the compound micros
cope now used that one of tn.
manufacturers in Germany re
Gently made ms one hundred IN,
fifty thousandth instrument.
There is nothing remarkabI.
about the stand on which tn,
lenses are mounted, except TIN
extreme accuracy that the sixt7
or seventy parts demand, say
the Youths Companion, hence
the finishing Of it must be done
by hand. Nearly one hundred
screws are used in the stanC
alone, and some of them must be
turned so exactly that an error
OF more than one hve-thousandth
OF an inch spoils the screw. One
interesting process is the 'tru-
ing" Of the brass tubes. They
are first formed as nearly as may
be OF the right size and thick
ness; then they are pulled by q
powerful machine over a steel
rod set in q hole in q steel plate.
The space between the rim of
the hole and the rod determines
the thickness Of the tube. which
is heightened and hardened by
the operation and made straight
and uniform in thickness.
The making of the lenses is
still more important. The glass
which is the very best of lead
flint, is received from the glass
works in small slabs and bricks.
The workmen split the slabs into.
pieces Of any required size by q
small circular saw that has dia-
mond dust hammered into its
edge for teeth. Next the men
clip the detached piece into a cir
form with shears. and
hold the rough block on q hori-
zontal grindstone until it is worn
to q smooth disk of the
proper size and thickness.
After that it must be ground to.
q certain degree of either con-
rexity or concavity, according to.
lhe service il is to perform. That
she men do by pressing it on a
grinder if il is to be con-
ave, Or within q cup shaped one
I II is to be q convex lens. The.
revolve horizontally at
nigh speed Large lenses are
held In the fingers, but small
1nes are held in convenient hold
FRS, sometimes in clusters. The.
ascertains that the
proper curvature has been reach
ID by measurements, and does
ms work SO exactly that very
few lenses fail to pass the first
test
The right form having been
obtained, the lens must next be
polished on buff wheels until if is
transparent and here the strict
est attention and skill are g.
CURED A high power lens lis USE
less unless it brings the rays of
that pass through If to an
absolute focus. ANY irregularity
IN the curvature Of the lens will
interfere with that, because the
rays Of light viii bend al a diff
7rent angle there than else
where, and blur the image of the
before the lens. How deli
cate this part Of the process is
you can judge from the fact that
q big lens, such as is used in an
observatory telescope. can be
spoiled if q man drags his thumb
roughly across its surface.
Finally the lenses are tested
then mounted in the miscros-
'ope. For the complete instru-
nent You must in some cases
pay $L,000-almost altogether
for labor and skill for g.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-04

The sum and substance OF prohibi-
ton Is that prohibitory law will be
effective only in proportion to the
strength OF public sentiment support
ing the law. III the people whose
opinions and wishes count I'm q COM
munity are determined to stamp out
the sale OF liquor IL will be stamped
out; while on the other hand there
may be n lukewarm or Indifferent ma
jority voting for prohibition without
any deterrent influence upon the
Illicit sale of liquor. The experience
of the past few years has demonstrate
cd that majority OF the people of
Sumter county really desire prohibi-
ton, with the result that the sale of
liquor has been reduced TO a mini
mum. Liquor is still sold in this city
and at other places I'm the county. but
IL Is growing increasingly difficult all
the time for the blind tiger TO carry
on his business successfully, and pub
lie drunkenness has become n com
parativcly rare occurrence. Coudi-
tions have improved in Sumter county
and few men arc now Co he found
who would consent To tho resumption
of tho legal solc ot liquor either
though the dispensary or otherwise.
What will be the result OF Statewide
prohibition in the counties that have
heretofore voted for the return of the
county dispensary is uncertain.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-04
MORE TROOPS TO BORDER.
Three Regiments Dispatched to From
tier to Reinforce EunstOn's Positions
According to Plan.

washington, Aug. 31-Two regi-
ments Of infantry and one Of cavalry
were ordered from Galveston tonight
to reinforce American troops patrol
ing the Mexican border. Secretary
Garrison announced that the war de-
partment was sending the additional
forces at the request of Maj. Funston.
commanding the border patrol.
The secretary explained there was
no emergency at this time so far as he
knew, and indicated that the troop
movements comprised merely a part
OF general plan for STRENGTHENING
Gen. Funston's positions
The Fourth infantry and Sixth cav
airy will go to Harlingcn, Texas two
battalions of the Nineteenth infantry
to Fort Sam Houston, and the third
battalion Of the Nineteenth to Del Rio.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-04
Pisgah News and Views.

Pisgah. Aug. S1.-The seasons con-
tinue fine which Is the making of
young corn. potatoes. peas, etc. A
great deal of cotton is opening. Pick
Ing will commence as soon as the
rains hold up. so the cotton can dry
of.
Lee County Union held its session
Saturday and Sunday at NIizpah
church. Saturday was spent in dis
cussion OF the various subjects before
IL. ON Sunday Mrs. s. Il. Goodale of
Camden made an interesting talk to
the union on church work. after which
Rev. j. w. Kenney preached the mis-
sionary sermon TO "a large audience.
Tho collection was for the Baptist
hospital In Columbia. The next union
will 90 to- Swift Creek church.
The writer attended Sunday and
spent most pleasant day. seeing
many OF his esteemed friends. The
people OF Mizpah are surely hos
pitable and take pleasure in making
you feel at home. Crops through
that section are very good.
Thore Is not much interest in the
coming election on prohibition an is
sue that Is far reaching on the wei
fare OF our state. The result of the
election will settle for a time an issue
that. like Banquo's ghost. will moi
down. Whlskey drinking is an injury
To the moral and physical condition.
OF any one. IL certainly lowers the
vitality and subjects one more readily
TO take diseases and less power to- re.
sist them. May the state vote tn,
iniquitous traffic out by big vote. /,
the writer's wish.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-04
TO FIX PRICE FOR COTTON.
Growers, Bankers ana WarchOuscmcn
Invited to Meet in Atlanta Scptcm-
bcr 21.

| Cotton growers, bankers and ware
houscmen of the Southern States are
invited to confer with officials of the
National Farmers union in Atlanta
september 21, by call issued by the
president of the union, Charles S.
Barrett, and the president Of the union
for Georgia, j. j. Brown. Copies of
the call were received in Columbia
yesterday.
Following is the letter.
ITO the Officers and Members of the
Farmers Union and All Farmers
and Business Men Who Are in
Favor of the South Receiving a Fair
Price for Her Staple Crop, Cotton:
we hereby call meeting to be
held in the city of Atlanta Tuesday
september 21, at 10 a. m, at the
State capitol, for the purpose Of dis
cussing the warehousing and financ-
ing of the 1915 cotton crop. A sys
tenn of warehouses will be advocated.
while this is a meeting of the
real farmers and producers of the
cotton crop, we cordially invite and
earnestly request every business in
terest in the State of Georgia who is
interested in Georgia's welfare to at
tend this meeting. We realize that
the cotton belt is now facing a situa-
ton that is more serious than DOS
sibly any other time for the past half
century. and our only hope of avert
ing crisis is by close cooperation on
the part Of all concerned.
This meeting will take place lust
after the convention of the National
Farmers union at Lincoln, Neb. A
minimum price will be fixed at which
we propose to sell the 1915 cotton
crop. Respectfully,
Charles s. Barrett
president National Farmers Union:
u. j. Brown,
President Georgia Division"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-04

ABRUZZI RYE SEED--Now is the
time to plant rye for early winter
grazing and cutting. Abruzzi rye
is better than the ordinary variety,
making a quicker and more lux
uriant growth. Raised from peGi-
greed seed. a limited quantity FOR
sale. G. Il. Ostecn
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-04

WE ARE permanently located at
Bakers Old Infirmary, prepared to
examine eyes. fit and furnish glass
es. Lenses duplicated and frames
repaired. Highsmith Optical Co.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-04
Weekly Weather Forecast.

Issued by the u. s. Weather Bureau,
Washington. ID. c.. for the week be-
ginning Wednesday, September l,
1915.
For South Atlantic and East Gulf
States; Generally fair weather is in
dicated during the week, except that
showers are probable Wednesday
along the south Atlantic coast, with
somewhat lower temperatures. Rising
temperature Wednesday over the in
terror districts. and on Thursday and
Friday generally; moderate tempera-
lures thereafter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-04
KERN AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
senator ana President Discuss Army
and Navy Affairs.

Washington, Aug. 3l.-Scnator
Kern. Democratic floor leader. had a
short conference with President Will
son today over legislation for the
coming session OF congress.
Senator Kern told the president that
sentiment In Indiana was against
spending 100000. 900 as has been adj
vocated on the army and navy. The
senator said he found favor In the
middle west for a general plan for in
crcaslng the national dcfcnscs. but
that expenditure of half billion dol
lars was regarded as too much.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-04
GREAT PLOT SUSPECTED.
Government Begins Investigation of
Explosions I'm MunitiOn Factories.

Washington, Aug. 31.-Government
agents today began an investigation
ot the series of accidents in the plants
furnishing supplies to the Allies
Taken in connection with the cXplo-
sions I'm powder mills the officials be-
lieve the accidents i'm automobile and
clothing factories, which are tied w
with war contracts. are the result of
u Widespread plot.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-04
GERMAN SPY ARRESTED.
student at University of Pennsylvania
Had Plans of Forts.

Morristown. Pa. Aug. 31.-Chargcd
with having drawings resembling the
rortiiications alonE the Delaware river
In MS possession, Dr. Carl Jicnckc, Il
German student at the University of
pennsylvania, was arrested and taken
To Philadelphia hy government AGENTS
today. lie came here two years ago
from Germany. He is twenty years
old.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-04
TWELVE CENT COTTON.
Farmers Can Have ii If They VIII
Stand Steady.

The farmers of the south have the
cotton situation in their own hands, if
they will only manage wisely. With
a crop of 100000 bales short of last
years and 5000, 900 bales short of the
worl''s expected demands for the COM
ing year (using up all this years crop
and 100000 bales of the worlds
present surplus), we only need wise
marketing in order 70 rrnl,c this years
short crop worth as much as last
years bis one. Here, as N, see it, is
thc situation Ia Il nutshell; ,s
D. Conditions Justify twelve cents
'or cotton. 4 prominent lawyer ana
student of conditions says twenty
cents. The Mecklenburg county, N.
c., Union says fifteen cents. We also
believe that if farmers were properly
organized, fifteen cents might be OBJ
tained. But twelve cents seems to us
reasonable under present conditions,
and a price farmers should fight for
.. Don't get scared by the contra
band talk. Out of S,543,OOO bales
exported in the year ending july 81,
1915, only 242,0OO bales went to Ger
many, anyhow. The contraband plan
Will hurt us somewhat and we must
fight it to a finish, but the announce
ment about it affected the cotton mar
ket but little. COntraband or no con-
traband, twelve cent prices are amply
justified.
). Southern banks can finance the
crop. AS President Hirsch of the Tex
as Bankers association told the big
Cotton States Conference of Southern
bankers in Galveston: For the first
time in the history of the south, gem
tlemen, the southern bankers have the
financial ability to market gradually
this crop. 1t would almost appear as
II the Federal reserve act had been
drafted for the benefit Of southern
producers" Because the reserve act
doesn't give the farmers all the help
they need, is no reason for denying the
great advantage it does offer.
4. But it is not enough to have the
machinery for help; it must be used.
Proper warehousing is necessary to
make cotton prime collateral, and the
| banks must use the warehouse receiptx
ana advertise the fact that they will
use them. They should not passively,
but actively join the farmers i'm the
crusade to get us the worth OF our
crops. And to this end farmers i'm
every county should meet at once and
form marketing association-or use
their county Union as Il marketing as
sociation-and both see that ware
housing conditions are all right and
that banks will help the farmers hold.
b. Don't ovcrfeed the market. The
great need is to hold. The CROP is
snort. and the world wants cotton.
ii"ld your own crop, help your neigh
bor to hold. and get your county or
ganiZcd Cor holding.
Let every grower get busy i'm the
fight Cor twelve cents as the minimum,
for midding cotton--Progrcssi
Farmer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-04
FOltDS NOT USED IN WARFARE
Henry Ford Refuses to Ship to ANY
of the Warning Nations.

of the Warning Nations.
Henry Ford is opposed to shipping
automobiles to Europe for war pur-
poses. The following intensely inter-
estlng article over his signature was
published recently by The Chicago
Examiner:
I would never let a single automo-
bile get out of Ford plant any,
where in the world, if l thought it
was going to be used in warfare. l
look upon war as nothing more than
murder-a wasteful sacrifice of human
life and a useless disruption of the
worlds social and economic conditions
by parasites who control the govern
ments of the countries now at war.
L mean the militarists
l consider the man who aids the
war, whose goods will tend to pro-
long the war even though they may
be sold under the guise of aiding the
injured of that warfare, is an acces-
sorry to the murders of war.
1 can think of nothing lower In
the moral scale than a man who will
grow rich on the blood of soldiers
driven to battle, one against another,
for no reason whatever.
Aside from the moral aspect of this
slaughter which lowers the status of
humanity to level Of primordial brut-
ishness, l detest the sinful waste of
material resources that attends the
killing and the disruption of the busi-
ness of the world, that prevents those
men who are spared from the battle
line from enjoying the benefits that
come 1ra. the labor Of peace.
Every mans very nature rccoile
from the sin of this si.uelfor. Nu
7 loss rcrueraAt js tho Goe'irG tn.t the
/ - tl-J rroerCSS .,.O.s every line ~
halted; that business, science, COM
merce and everything stimulating to
human endeavOr are thrown into a
jumbled, confused heap. There can be
no stability while war lasts. and cv-
erything the world does is a vast gam
BILE.
There is nothing to be gained by
the nations that are fighting. There
is everything to be lost and every
thing is being lost. The rest of the
world, which has no quarrel with eth
er side, is made nearly as great a loser
as either of the belligerents by reason
of the legitimate commerce and the
uncertainty attending all business and
commercial relations.
| have refused from the beginning
to sell automobiles anywhere in the
world if it was known that the ma
chimes were to be used in this war.
| will maintain that attitude to the
end of what l believe will be the last
OF all wars
| Thousands of cars were sought by
each Of the warning nations, but all
were denied, and similar requests will
continue to be denied. If other Ameri-
cans aid the war with the products
Of their industry, l am sorry for them
as Americans and as men. | am sorry
for America because Of them.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1915-10-28
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