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The Tupelo journal., 1915-06-04

These crops can be preserved in the
silo, and thus good s~ucculent feeds are
provided the COWS for winter feeding
and when pasturage is short. With
roots, l%eguminous hay, silage, stover,
straw, and the c~ottonseed meal OBJ
tanned by exchanging for cottonseed.
the feed for the COW is all raised on
the farm.
Climatic conditions are such in the
South that less expensive buildings
for the protection of cattle are re-
| quired than in colder climates. This
ing. The long grazing season and the
many excellent grasses which grow
luxuriantly make it possible to pro-
duce milk, butter, and cream at a low
cost for a large part of the year.
The scarcity and high price of good
dairy cattle are attractive considera-
tons, for after a farmer has become
established in the business the sale
of the surplus cattle can be made a
source of considerable income and
! profit.
The skim milk obtained from a herd
of cows is one of the best supplement
tary feeds for hogs and poultry, and
these two lines of live stock furnish
profitable cash side lines and naturally
| go hand in hand with dairy farming.
Large quantities of milk, butter.
cream, and cheese must now be pur-
chased in other sections. The South
can produce these at home. If the
supply is constant and the quantity
good, southern products will find a
ready market at profitable prices.
Dairying. properly conducted. will re-
store fertility to the southern farm and
equalize the distribution of labor
throughout the year. 1t will put the
southern farm on a cash basis, SO that
the cotton crop, free from all liens, can
then be sold for cash whenever it will
bring the highest market price,
The following publications giving
further information may be obtained
The Tupelo journal., 1915-06-04
Bridge Notice

Notice is hereby given that the Boar
of Supervisors will on Monday, h 7Sh
day of June, 1915, within legal hours
at the Court Housei in the City of Iu-
pelo, Miss, award the contract for
building steel bridge across ChiWappah
creek at Carmen Mill. Sealed bids ac-
companied by certified check for 500.
The Board will award same on sealed
bids, public cutlery, both or either as
thew deem best, and reserve the right
to reject any and all bids and readver-
tise.
Ordered IN oDen court this May 4th,
JOHN M. WITT, Clerk.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-06-04
Time to Call a Halt

The farmers of Mississippi have
made such splendid progress dur
ing the past few years in handling
their diversified crops that an
other campaign is suggested and
one that should be fought to a
successful termination. That is,
we must feed our cotton seed
meal, market it through a good
dairy or beef animal and return
it's fertilizing value to our tired
and depleted soils.
Wher. a ton of cotton seed
meal is allowed to leave the state,
we have robbed the soil of fer
tilizing value ranging from $14
to 500. Our lands demand this
fertilizer if we would even make
a pretense of preserving its fer
tiIity and continuing its product
iveneSs.
Even the farmers of Europe.
thousands of miles away, can at
ford to buy our cotton seed meal,
convert it into dairy products and
place it's fertilizing value on their
soils and make of the transaction
a most profitable one. 1t is need
less to state that their lands hold
their original fertility, although
cultivated for hundreds of years.
A ton of cotton seed meal fed
to a beef or dairy animal and the
droppings taken care of and re-
placed on the land, is increased
in value 80 per cent. Then, If
prime cotton seed meal is selling
for S25 per ton for export, and is
really worth that much, if fed
and handled as indicated, Its
value has increased to S45 per
ton.
We must increase our live stock
business to the point where every
pound of cotton seed meal pro-
duced in the state is utilized at
home and its real value secured.
1t is not only the height of folly
to even dream of doing other
wise, but it is bordering on the
criminal.
Our tired cotton lands need
everything in the way of humus
and fertilizer that they can get,
and in allowing cotton seed meal
o leave the state, we are allow
ng ourselves to be robbed of fer
! tilizing value that our lands are
The Tupelo journal., 1915-06-04
Its Never Too Late to
AP -
~ OLD THINGS NEW Nv
OLD THINGS NEW

Perhaps you have often
looked at an old piece of
furniture and decide that it
was so badly scratched and
married that it was fit for
nothing but the rubbish
heap Or the secondhand
dealer, but
Look before you leap"
It's never too late to JAP
ALAG.
Take the shabbiest old
article of furniture you ever
saw in you life and call in
DR.. JAP-A-LAC, the old
furniture doctor. You will
be astonished at how easy
it is to make old and ugly
things new and beautiful.
comes in Il
beautiful colors and Natural
clear, and there is no.
thing in the world like it.
1t is so easy to use that JAP
A.LACING is a Joy Job.
Any clever woman can get
beautiful results with it.
One of the big advantages
of JAP-A-LAC is that. if
you wish to show the origin
al grain of the wood. you
can use a transparent color
or Natural Clear JAP-A-
LAC and if you prefer not
to show the grain of the wood
you can use Jap-a lac in any
solid, enamal color you may
select. The Jap-a-lac story
is too long to tell it all here.
Ask for it in Our Paint
Department
St. Clair Drug Co.
TupeIo, Mississippi
The Tupelo journal., 1915-06-04

free on application to the department
of agriculture, Washington, D. c.:
Farmers Bulletin So. The Dairy
Herd: Its Formation and Manage
ment."
Farmers Bulletin $40. "The Dairy
Industry in the South"
Farmers Bulletin 500. Forage
Crops for the Cotton Region.
Farmers Bulletin 541. Farm But
termaking."
Farmers Bulletin SIS. The Making
and Feeding of Silage.'
Farmers Bulletin 59S. Homemade
Silos.'
Farmers Bulletin COZ. Production
of Clean Milk"
The Tupelo journal., 1915-06-04

soreIy in need of, Mr.. Reader,
won't you do your part to assist
in stopping this enormous leak?
H. E. BLAKESLEE, Com.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-06-04
Din tbe Sheen REGULARLY.

Many farmers have the idea that
after the sheep are shorn the ticks
will abandon them. Certainly they
do to some extent but they imme'
diately go to the lambs where they
find a comfortable nest and make life
a burden to the youngsters. Buy a
dipping tank and dip regularly twice
a year.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-06-04
CHAUTAU0UA WEEK HERE JUNE 5th TO 9th, 1915

Remember, Miss Elizabeth Gean, of
Okolona, is in the contest for a trip to
San Francisco and she is working to
win.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-06-04
Exercise for Sows.

The brood sows must have exc
else every day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
AN sUNsiNkABLE" SHIP.

Man is prone to be little extrava-
CANT In his claims. Twice now, the
world has seen unsuitable" ships go
to the bottom Of the ocean. Several
years back the great Titanic went
down to the amazement and horror Of
the civilized world. The Titanic at
the time was the last word in mari
time builders art and was believed un-
sinkable. But it went down when 1t
hit an ice berg and hundreds Of pas
sengers went down with it.
Friday another unsuitable boat went
down after being struck from under
meath by a torpedo from German
submarine The great liner Lusitania,
fourth largest ocean greyhound in the
world, sank two hours after being
struck according to the best informa-
ton available. The Lusitania was
pronounced by her builders to be as
nearly unsuitable as any ship could
be. The lower deck was watertight.
The double bottom was SO constructed
that should the bilge keel be torn
away and the hull pierced, the enter
ing water would be confined within the
inner and outer bottoms. The lower
portion of the hull was divided into
175 watertight compartments, with
communicating doors so constructed
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
MILITARY MEMS SPHERE.

The. president of the United States
is commander in chief of the armies
and navy of the United States. He
selects men for his cabinet and one of
these becomes secretary Of the war
department and another secretary OF
the navy department and both have
great powers and responsibilities. Con
eress in it's turn exercises general con-
troll over all.
Thus it will be seen that the army
and navy of the United States Is prac-
tically dominated by civilians. The
men who have been trained along mill.
tary lines hold minor positions and
with lesser responsibility. In an age
of specialists, when practically every
field of human endeavor Is dominated
bv men who have specialized, the ma
tons means of defense are IN the
hands of men who have received little
or no training whatever along military
lines.
Albert Bushnell Hart, professor OF
government at Harvard university ana
one of the learned men and capable
thinkers Of the day, believes that this
system is wrong. In an article en-
titled "Our Military Needs" and print
ed as an editorial feature on this page
TODAY, Professor Hart dwells on the
uselessness of putting non-technicai
men in charge of technical work. Read
the article for 1t will give you better
insight in to a much mooted mater.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
PRISONER IN JAIL
IS SMALLPOX CASE

Upton, May S.-Denis Daley, q
young painter and paperhanger 81
western Iowa. was arrested in Lowden,
several weeks ago for disorderly con.
duct and was brought to Upton to
serve his short sentence Of hftsen
days.
Several days before his release. he
became quite i'll, q slight rash break
ing out. He joked about 1t. and said
it was chickenpox, to which he had
been exposed in Lowden. However.
the day his term expired, physician
was called, and the case was diagnosed
as smallpox. The Jail and the afflicted
one were Immediately quarantined,
and the one inmate Of jail was re-
moved elsewhere, under safeguard
quarantine.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11

In one days reports from the Turks
the claim is made that the allies are
practically wiped out and that the
landing force has only a bit Of ground
at the shore under the guns of the
fleet. The next days report tells OF
a great victory on the left flank just
as though the battle line was an ex-
tended one. Something wrong with
one of the reports.
Shortest siege in history will be
the title given the effort Of two Phila-
delphia suffragettes to stay on the job
at the white house until President
Wilson would see them. They were
there three days and then retreated
There are two votes that will never
be cast for Wilson.
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HUNT WILDFLO DIVERS;
FIND LIFELESS BODY

Mnscatine, May Hunting for Wild
flowers two women stumbled over the
lifeless body of John Martin Hill, .
veteran Of the civil war. The body was
still warm, blood was flowing from the
mouth and wound in the back Of the
head.
"A revolver with one chamber empty
lay nearby.
No cause could be given, either BY
his wife or son for the act. Mr.. Hill
came to Muscatine from Portland. Ore,
about q year ago and Immediately
made his residence on East Hill.
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GRANDSONS OF OLD
SOLDIERS ENLISTTNG

Washington, May 8-Grandsons of
Iowa old soldiers, who contemplate at
tending the national encampment here
in September with their grandfathers
and who are unsteady inclined, will be
drafted into the service by the local
committee, which now Is enlisting
grandsons of union soldiers into a
mammoth fife and drum corps for
service during the encampment In
September Already eighty Washing.
ton descendants of civil war veterans
have enlisted, forming the nucleus OF
what is expected to be the largest fife
and drum corps ever formed.
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POOR CHINA.

China, in military strength, COM
pares with Japan about as Japan, In
area compares with China. In other
words the little Jap is q regular giant
beside helpless China. japan has
about 14O war ships and China has
four. Japan has fully a million soldiers
ready for immediate service and China
has 100000. The Japanese are real
fighters and loyal to a man. The Chi
nese are poor fighters and there is no
telling whether they will fight or run
away. In the event of war, China IS
to be pitied for 1t seems through no
fault Of that much harassed nation that
a conflict is in view.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11

products have been reduced. The pro-
Ats OF the competing companies have
been reduced to an appreciable ex-
tent however, due to duplicated effort
and lessened efficiency.
The public has gained nothing and
has actually lost to some extent Pc
cause the competing companies with
their reduced profits, have not been
able to make the extensions to the
business that the more efficient trust
was and would be making. Instead OF
expanding, the tobacco business Is con-
tracing; instead of reducing prices for
consumers, profits for the manufacture
ers have been cut. What has been
gained by busting the trust?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
CITY WILL HAVE
FLOWERS PLANTED

Des Moines, May 8. -Merchants,
business men and public oflcials are
boosting the flower box identification
movement from all sides today.
The city council has adopted q reso-
luton instructing Park Superintendent
Or boxes on all the electroliers around
the municipal building. AZ soon az
the flower box movement is we'll under
way, the council will order electrolier
boxes in front of the police and fire
stations and one the ends Of the big
concrete bridges spanning the Des
Moines.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
Our Military Needs.

By ALBERT Blu SMELL HART,
Professor of Government, Harvard University.

Are we wise in the United States
in putting the immediate control OF
our armies and navies into the hands
of civilians? In our four external
wars since 1889 and in our civil war,
the commander-in-chief of the armies
and navies was in every case civil
ian. We have had several presidents
who were chosen because of their mill
tary reputation but not one OF them
took the conduct of war upon his
hands Perhaps the American sus-
picion OF military men as more likely
to make themselves despots has no
foundation; but civilian presidents
ought to have military and naval ex-
perts upon whom they can throw d.
rect responsibility.
Military experts have their failings.
but it is the business OF their lives to
study the military needs of their
country and to keep abreast of the ad-
vance in military science and machln-
cry. The United States might we'll
follow the example of military coun-
tries like France and England in fire.
quently putting at the head OF the de-
partments of war and navy men who
are trained in that specially. In the
long list OF secretaries Of the navy
since 1898, the only name of well
known naval commander is John Rog-
ers. who was ad interim for few days
In 1928. The hrst secretary of war.
General Knox, was appointed because
he was trained military administer;
and Pickering, McHenry, and Arm
strong were military men. Winfield
Scott served about three weeks, ad
interim; but Jefferson Davis is the on
ly experienced soldier to be appointed
to the Office except during the troubled
period of reconstruction when Grant,
Scofield and Sherman served for few
weeks.
II the country cannot trust it's army
to soldier and its navy to a sailor.
1t absolutely must put military men
in places of recognized responsibility.
With great difficulty the army has Sc
cured general staff, the chief Of
which, however, is supposed not to be
in the confidence of the administra-
ton. Congress has absolutely refus-
ed the similar naval staff which is
essential. We may as we'll do in ad-
vance what Great Britain has been
compelled to do by the danger of ma
tional ruin-select man of brains
and entrust him with the much needed
task of reorganizing the army.
The United States is protected by
1900 miles of water and then by the
naval first line of defense; and after
that by the sinking of mines which has
protected the coasts of England,
(Copyright 1915 by Ma
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
RECEIVED FOR GIFTS

Ksokuk. Msy s.-An acknowledge
mont OF the receipt OF Keokuk's contri'
button to the Belgian relief fund has
been received In this city from the
commission for relief in Belgium with
head offices IN New York. Accompany
Ing the letter Of acknowledgements 10 q
handsome engraved certificate an
nouncing the appreciation Of the com.
mission for the mayors committee re.
lief fund Of Keokuk, signed by the Of.
ficers to the commission.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
BOY SCOUT LEADER
OFF ON BICYCLE TRIP

Keokuk, May s.-Clarence Alling,
organizer of the Keokuk boy scouts
and promoter of the big field meet and
conference Of boy scouts to be held In
this city on June IA and Is, started
Saturday morning on q 400mile bi.
cycle tour of all cities that are going
to send representatives to the meet.
Mr.. Alling will first 60 to Quincy,
then cross into Missouri, visiting Pal
myra, Memphis and other cities. Ths
trip will take shout two weeks and
the complete journey will be made b
bicycle.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
TEST CASE WILL
COME FROM ACTION

Davenport, May 8.-The question of
whether parents who succeed In hav.
ing their children accepted at the Sol
diers Orphans home here and then re-
fuse to pay for their keep can be pros
ecuted under the child abandonment
law will be tested in suit brought
by County Attorney Henry Jebens, at
the instigation of Frank ]. Eessions,
superintendent Of the home.
There have been great many cases
during the past year where the par
ents have refused to pay S. q month
board once their children were taken
into the home.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
WEST LIBERTY IS
LOSER IN DECISION

Muscatine, May S.-The city Of west
Liberty lost out In the initial clash
In the Injunction proceedings hgought
to tie up tho street paving whom Judge
A. p. Barker In the district court Fri
day morning ove1rulsd the dsmuzrer
to the petition for injunction hled ~
A. p. LAmb0rn on the grounds that the
statements contained In the petition
were not sufncient to invalidat0 the
contract under which the street I'm
provements are to be made but the
court held adversely hence the over.
ruling of the demurrer.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11

France and Germany from landing
of enemies. Still those three countries
have more than twenty thousand men
available to resist an attack If the first
and second lines are broken. France
and Great Britain have far excelled
the United States in preparations, and
yet both were caught without suf-
f1cient amount of defense, and clear
knowledge of where the human units
were to come from. 1t was not credit
able to the kingdom of Great Britain
and the empire of India that 1924, 000,-
900 human beings should have had at
their disposal in moment of supreme
danger-leaving out of account the
garrisons in Africa and Asia-less than
100, 900 troops available for immediate
service. 1t is still less creditable to
the United States that 10O,00O,000 hui
man beings should rely upon . net
effective capable Of being thrown at
any point on our eastern coast of less
than $4,000. We have the keenest
desire to maintain democracy in the
western world, but there can be no
democracy of the United States unless
there is United States capable Of
keeping out hostile armies.
Above all, American democracy must
recognize that armies are made up OF
soldiers. The English territorials and
colonial levies have been nodded in
from four to six months into good
troops: but If the Germans had been
able. as seemed not impossible, to
land an army in England, the United
Kingdom would have collapsed. There
upon Paris would probably have been
captured. It is a crime which ought to
be punishable by confinement In a
states prison, for the American people
to rely upon unframed volunteers for
future wars. Their quality is high and
once properly drilled and oft1ciered
thew could march, fight, and hold
CroQCnoS against oily SOAuACA0 - SAAS
world. But the experience of the
United States in every war from the
revolution to the Spanish war has been
that the refusal to give military train
ing till the war Is actually breaking
out means fearful waste of treasure
and of lives. The wars Of the future
are going to be fought by great masses
of trained men. What American demo-
cracy needs is simply to apply to It's
own defense the principles of organiza-
ton, expert service and efficiency
which have made its railroads and
mines and factories SO productive.
This favored country cannot go on In
definitely enjoying the privileges OF
modern life without taking account OF
the present changes in warfare and
international relations.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
DEERFOOT MURDER
TRIAL POSTPONED

Iowa City, May s.-The fact that the
Deerfoot murder retrial has been set
over for another term Of the district
court gives rise again to rlmor
which prevailed at the time Of Its
other continuance that the case will
never be tried and that Deerfoot will
be permitted to 60 free. The county
attorney, however, has repeatedly stat.
ed that he Indian doctor will be plac.
ed on trial once more for the alleged
murder Of his wife here several weeks
ago.
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WHAT HAS BEEN GAINED?

In report from the Oh bureau OF
corporations now merged with the
federal trade commission figures
are given showing the results that
have come out of the dissolution of the
tobacco trust" under the federal laws.
1t develops that despite the breaking
.up of the trust" into seven companies
which have entered into bona fide com
petition with each other, the public has
gained nothing because neither the
wholesale nor retail price Of tobacco
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
JOY RIDERS GIVEN
THIRTY DAYS IN JAIL

Waterloo, May s.-Two Joy riders
will serve thirty days In the city Jail
for attempting to steal an automobile
near the baseball park. Frank Thomp-
son and g. L. Hickman entered pleas
Of guilty to charges of being drunk
and disorderly and each was sentenced
to thirty days at hard labor. The police
Judge also issued instructions to tho
officers to compel both young men to
work in the street gang and to be con-
fined in the main jail
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WILL PAVE DESPITE
INJUNCTION ACTION

Iowa City. May s.-The writ Of in.
junction asked in the district court In
the $1,000 paving case cannot be
granted before September. The case
has been continued until then, and no
hearing on the writ will be had during
the summer. In the meantime Con
tractor William Horrabin will proceed
with the paving, and the work will be
done before the war il waged in court
az to whether it shall be stopped - q
peculiar situation.
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#. MADISON men !.
ARE MUSTERED OUT
WITH REORGANIZATION or MIL
TARY FORCES or TIM o1kTK
THEY pto8Aa>O.

n. Madison. My 3-fhEoug4 com
muncation. received by Captsn hoy
n. Kountx Of Company A. 1t this city.
from Ad31tant General Guy b Logan
At Des Moines Company A Ut thh city
was ofncially mustered out Of service.
The action marked the passing Of the
military body which has hold . high
point in the organisation Of msn In the
city for decade. Tho mastering out
OF the local company followed the &C.
ton taken BY the advisory board Of the
militia in meeting held ct Cedar Rap
ids, when it was decided to drop three
Of the companies In the state, located
at Fort Madison. Charlton and Chero.
keo. The action followed the abolish.
ment Of one entire regiment.