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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-12-16

dustry when called on our boys
for help. All the rest of the
world was complaining about the
price of beef, and we were COM
planning because the beef itself
was disappearing.
AS scientific cattlemen we all
knew what the matter was, but
we could not make the adult
Texas ranchmen see. We knew
thatproperty that would be worth
millions by waiting few months,
a year or more, was being de-
stroyed; we were killing calves
when we should be raising
Baby Beeves.
But the boys caught on. Such
boys as Sam Matthews, and the
many like him, are worth more
to the state at sixteen than
dozen of a certain kind of i'm
penetrable men at forty.
These boys of our beef and pig
clubs are going to help bless
Texas, and all our states, by
getting our agriculturists to
understand the meaning of
"diversification.
What | think of the American
boy I have gained by watching
him show us where there is at
least $35, 100000 more money in
the state.
We have never understood him.
He should be allowed to vote
earlier. Next to the possibilities
of the earth, the American boy
is our greatest national asset, and
without him, in Texas at least,
we should never have had these
possibilities.
American boys and girls, organ
lied in an army of thousands in
Pig and Baby Beef Clubs have Civ
en- as great a stimulus to agricul-
tural regeneration as has beenl
shown in corn, tomato, potato>i
and other crops. They have
entered the lists with their elders,
even in competition with the
scientific breeders themselves,
and have won grand champion
ships, championships, sweep
stakes, prizes, silver cups, blue
ribbons, and gold. Briefly, this
final story proves that in every
line of agricultural activity,
whenever the guiding hand of an
"overalled" Uncle Sam has
touched them, these young peo-
pie have never failed.
The Department of Agriculture
at Washington gives out some
surprising figures: Mr.. Nat c.
Murray, one of the Departments
statisticians, is raising the slogan,
Feed America First" He has
prepared a tabulation regarding
our power to feed other nations,
and he concludes when we look
at the large amount of agricul-
tural products shipped into this
country, we're obliged to speak
with caution of what part the
United States could play. We
have our own millions to feed
first!
But the farmer is not even
feeding himself-when he could.
An equally credible authority
states that in the Southern states
alone from $500, 600, 900 to $780,
900, 900 are annually expended in
bringing in from the outside
agricultural commodities which
should be grown within the
borders of those states. In Ala
bama alone $15O,0O0,0O that
should remain locked in the vaults
IF the savings banks go flying
over the border every year.
Again, the American farmer
Jells his annual production for
6, 900, 100000, while someone
,lse-the commission merchant
ellis it all again for $13, O0O,0 00,-
100!
My point in bringing out these
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-12-16
Youth Leads the Way

of the agricultural extension de-
partment of the state university
at Baton Rouge.
The two pigs were eight weeks
old when the co test began.
When they were. shown at the
state fair at Shreveport, Oranges
weighed 485pounds and his neigh
boris Is pounds. The Cotton
Belt Railroad bought both-the
little one for So and Orange Nc
Gees for $58. 1t was worth the
railroads time and money to
send those two pigs all through
Southern states as an object les
son! McGhee had spent 1854
to ra Sc his pigs, and he won the
first premium at the state fair.
His rival spent S.. And Orange
MCGEE is now attending the Col
donna Agricultural High School.
A TEN-YEAR OLD PIG
CHAMPION
CORSON SULLIVAN of the
Natchitoches Parish Pig Club,
winner of the-state sweepstakes
and four other prizes at the age
of ten years, published an adj
dress to the pig club boys of his
state.
Now, since l was two year old
(he WrOte), | have been taught
to save what dimes | got hold of;
and then my papa is agent for
the Cumberland Telephone Com
pany, and | have made several
dimes as messenger boy. | then
sold my little yearlings, and it
made enough money to buy me a
pig. | was an inexperienced boy
in pig business, but | determined
to learn all | could, and proceeded
to do my best. The pig cost me
from the time | bought it, until
the fair, four and one half cents
a pound. | won four prizes, and
made sweepstakes also. So rise
up, boys, and US get busy in
the pig club. Everyone try to
have the best pig, and by doing
SO we Wlll have the best hogs
aGnd .ots of them. Let's make
SDesHs the grandest thing, next year
at the Louisiana state fair.
And SO it was the "grandest
thing. The girls and boys had
1876 exhibits, along with breeders
and experts from environing
states, and represented thirty
three parishes of the state.
There was an enrolment in all
the pig clubs of over $4,000
boys and girls. The railroad car
ried them fire., and the State
Fair Association paid all ex-
penses of feeding and care
taking. The pig club exhibitors
competing with breeders from
Texas, Oklahoma Missouri. Ken
lucky, Kansas, and other states,
took ten prizes, including cham
pionship and reserve grand
championship. Clarerce Martin
Of Crowley, won the last, COM
peting with some of the most
noted herds in the United States.
The most instructive exhibit
was pen of four pigs Gall of the
same age), two of them raised
by Louisiana farmer in the old
way of letting the hogs care for
tn emselves, and root
t h e ir. living in the
woods and fields. The
two belonging to the pig club boy
one half bred and the other a
pure-bred Berkshire were fed
according to the government in
struction. These weighed 205
and 305 pounds respectively,
while the farmers pair weighed
about so pounds each. From a
market standpoint the two small
hogs were not worth more than
So. so each. The boys half-bred
was worth SIS, from the market
standpoint, and the pure bred;
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-12-16
BY C. C. FRENCH

of Fort Worth, Texas, founder of the
Texas Baby Beef" clubs
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-12-16
Union.

Union.
Louisiana selects forty of her
most prominent boys every year
as free scholarship students for
a winter course in the state
agricultural college. This year
thirteen of the forty were from
the rank of the pig club.
There are very many of these
instances of success, but the best
of all is the winning of the
Grand Championship of her state
by thirteen-years old Alice Nc
coy, of Blanchard, Caddo Parish,
over all the other one hundred
and eighty-four boys and girls
competitors. Her zeal to enter a
pig club was encouraged by a
loan Of ten dollars from the sup
erintendent of schools to buy
finished Berkshire gilt"
Eleven months old, it weight
five hundred pounds. A breed
go offered Miss Mccoy $50 for it.
The significant part of her
achievement is the conversion of
her father from being a poor cot
ton farmer to a pig raiser. Alice
made more money from fer pig
than he did from his whole farm,
from which he gained one bale
of cotton, worth about $45. 1t
cost her only SO to raise her pig,
little more than two cents a
pound. Her ten dollars brought
more than his investment in two
mules, farming implements, and
a years wor The daughter
made the father a wiser farmer.
Other girls were su cessful.
Mary Douglas, little girl from
Gillian, Louisiana, is saving
money to go to college, through
her pig club operations. And
Lillian Turner, ofMinden, special
ling in Poland-China gifts, won
first class among the boys ex-
hibits, and first honors in the
open classes against the pigs of
the breeders!
AWAY WITH THE RAZOR
BACK.
An insistent personality, a cir
cuitriding apostle of improved
a agriculture, Iovab1y known
throughout Georgia as Pig Club"
Downing, has been persuading
breeders to sell pure-bred pigs,
worth $25 to his pig club boys
and girls, for $40. He has been
also endowed with the sobriQuet
of j. Hopeful Downing" but
his real name is James L. Down
ing, and his mission in life is to &,
Danish the "razorback," from
the Southern landscape, forever.
Everyone who has travelled
through the South will realize
what a loss this would be, in all
picturesque portrayals of this
region by travelling pen and pencil
men. But Pig Club Downing,
like his Mississippi associate,
Corn Club Smith, is prepared to
smash anything that represents
the old regime" in the South
agriculturalIy speaking.
Mr.. Downing's plan is to have
only pure-bred stock in his pig
cubs. He had $50 boys and 50
girls enrolled in his club last year,
the second year Of the opening of
these activities in the Cracker
State. By banishing the razor
back Mr.. Downing expects to
keep money in the state.
Georgia, he says, is spending
over forty million dollars a year
for meat beyond what is produced.
1t is my aim to cut this butchers
bill in two during the next three
or four years In the first year
of this specific crusade his boys
and girls produced 100000
pounds Of pork, and, reckoned at
twenty cents a pound, off go
several hundred thousand dollars
from tho hill
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
(By Associatod Prrs,.l

WASHINGTON. Feb. 15.-The Pal
mer bill to lar products of child labor
irom Interstate commerce was passed
by the house tonight, 232 to A, after a
lively debate and the issuance of a
writ of arrest for absentees to sun
press filibnster.
Opposition to the bill. led by Rep
resentative Byrnes of South Carolina,
was based on the contention that II
interfered with States rights.
The measure declares IL unlawful
Tor producers, manufacturers or deai-
ers to ship or deliver for transporta-
uon IN Interstate commerce the pro-
ducts OF mine or Quarry made whoiiy
or In part by children under 1e years
oid, or products OF mills. canneries.
workshops. factories or manufactnr.
ing establishments made by children
under IA or those between IL and 16
who work more tbnn eight houra 4
day. or more than Fix days d week or
akter seven o'clock ct night. snspec-
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
QUARANTINE
ISEXTENDED
No Livessock Can be Shipped East
of Mississippi and North of
Tennessee TO South or West ,
.Rn. Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-Foot and
mouth disease quarantine regulations
were extended by the department OF
agriculture today so rs to- include all
the territory east OF the Mississippi
and north of Tennessee in a restrict
ed area out of Which no shipments OF
livestock, except For slaughter with
in 4S hours, viii he permitted to the
south or west
ALI OF the great slaughtering Gen.
ters are located In the restricted ter
ritory ard there Is little shipping Of
live cattle out of II, but the new order
was deemed necessary to protect stock
producing regions from infection.
Owing to the fAtt that few or no
cases OF foot and ll0ufh liaease llslya
been round In SIirs sinia. 81 5fEsiIs.f.
Rsrsnul1ss & q. q ne si5ist d K f,f
Columbia, stock owners In those iuris-
dictions will be permitted under the
revised regulations to ship out stock
upon affidavit that st mas been on
their farms for certain length of
time and has not been exposed to any
risk OF contagion.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
COTTON EXPORTS
BEYOND NORMAL
INCREASE OF MORE THAN
100000 BALES OVER LAST
JANUARY
AMOUNT USED
LESS THAN USUAL:
Manufacturing Establishments
Held Less Than They Did
a Year Ago
(By Associated Press. 4,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-Cotton
exports were beyond normal propor.
ton during January, being more than
3oo,O0O bales greater than last year
according to the monthly report of the
census bureau issued today.
Cotton used was less than the usual
January total, as 10000 fewer spindles
were operated during the month.
manufacturing establishments held less
cotton anuary 81 than they did q year
ago, but In independent warehouses
the quantity on hand was greater by
100000 bales.
Exports included 595,534 bales to
the United Kingdom; 217. .S82 bales ia
Italy: 99.913 bales to Germany: TO-
90l bales to France. and 397,845 bales
TO all other countries. Total EXPORTS
tor the six months ending January 81
were 100000 bales less than during
that period last year.
Cotton used during January was
A0S,S77 bales, exclusive OF linters.
compared with 617,299 In January 1asf
year. Cotton used during the six
months ending January 81 was 2.591.
eS9 bales, against 2,816,625 last year.
. va hohu JuuuhTy 0l In man
uiacturins establishments was 1,5i5.
$50 bales, against 1,7s4. 56f. d year ayto.
and In independent warehouses .esp..
99es hsties agatnst z, ,sae pA2. 2 q year arc.
Sxports were az. .17S bales
against J, ,Ub2, "a q last ear, and FOR tile
SIX months 3.97S,329. against 6,4s9.-
752 year ago.
Imports were ss,229 bales, agai1st
is;esa last year and for the six months
lSs, ,b29, against 6S,523 a year ago.
Cotton spindles active numbered
So,S6t,4TG. against sf,0sS,17s a year
ago.
Linters used 1876 bales. against
2S,611 a year ago. and for the six
months 156.12S bales, against. I57.565
last year; on hand in manufacturing
establishments 120.440 bales, against
S7,2l7 year ago and in independent
warehouses; e3,573 bales. against 49,
923 year ago.
L1nters exported 23,4s6 bales. and
Tor the six months 67.9S1 bales.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
IN El2 EST CEl ',EsIRS ON
EEelylAN N BL OCEX DE

British waters. due TO begin Thursday.
With speciai reference to It's effect on
neutral shipping. 3 s'sl y
The speeches fr the house OF COM
mons OF David Lloyd George. chan
celior OF the excheauer. and winston
spencer Churchill, first lord of the ad-
milarty. the former epiaining con-
certed flnanciai plans of the Allies.
and the latter reviewing tiles nasni
situation and proinIsing the utmost
endeavora tc cut OF ali German food
supplies. taliporafily have overshad-
owed war news. & 'ss'.,s, . /
The loyal Dutch staamshiD Com.
pnny today suspended service 10
Hayre on account of ths Gern,a,,
Unrest, and according to Beriia dis
patches, all Dntch ahippine companies
have decided TO suspend saeVire IA
hngIand after February. is.
This British ateanser sVass1ek. frnin
pensoccIa, struck a taiiie IN she Eng
lfah cllhnnpl The i0ss oa life nuns
beEed s2, and the steasaer waa beach
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
GREAT BRITAIN DECIDES TO
CLAMP ON EVERY OUNCE
OF SEA PRESSURE
APPLY FULL FORCE
OF NAVAL POWER
Winston Spencer Churchill Say,
Germany Cannot be Allowed
to Adopt System of Open
Piracy and Murder
tBy Assoeiased press.l

LONDON, Feb. 15.-The countries
fighting against Germany, Austria and
Turkey, thus far have thrown only a
third OF their strength into the field.
10 maintain this force and to bring
the remaining wo-thirds into action
will cost $4,000, 100000 during the
current year.;
inns announcement was made In
the house of conImons today by David
I Llyod George, chancellor of the ex-
chequer, who, with Winston Spencer
Churchill, first lord to the admiralty
gave the Rritisll public perhaps a
closer view OF the, machinery behind
the great struggle than had been af-
forded since the outbreak of war.
Mr.. Churchill declared amid cheer
ing that Great Britain finally had de-
cided to clamp on every ounce of sea
pressure to choke off Germany's food
supply In retaliation for the German
snbr tarine policy, while Mr.. Lloyd
George drew additional cheering when
he spoke OF loans.tb countries expect
ed to throw in their lot with the al
lies.E These countries, the chancellor
did not name.
The announcement of the govern
sltent's decision It'll relation to- Ger
stA.s1 - < - "a ttf1ott
E acoinciaentaily with the sreeeipt OF two
dispatches from the United States, one
saying that Count on Bernstorff, the
German anbarlador, had informed the
Washington government that Ger
many was willing to abandon her sub
marine policy, provided Great Britain
ceased interfering with cargoes Of
Ioodstuffs. ana the other, saying that
he again had advised neutral ship
ping to avoid those waters which Ger
many had dec:ared would become a
dangerous military area three days
hence.
Mr.. Lloyd George detailed financial
arrangement the allies decided on at
the Paris conference and put into
round figures what heretofore had
been guessedthe remarkable in
crease in the Productivity and effic-
iiency of the Russian people by prohi-
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
{By Assoeiatel7 ! pross.) 3 !

LONDON, Feb Is The sustained
Aussro-G German attack In the east with
Pertograd'ss adinission that the Rus
CLANS plans to assunie the defensive
on.thair own territory IS an frnportisnt
feature today Of the military situa-
tien. 4; "a
The Germans claim nrogress IN
BulLowinA and tinosIiclal advices from
: BneApast even say that the sfustri5ny
have swept as faf eEst as szeriiowits,
although the late IS cfIicial nofrm,ini-
cation from Vienna, gl0ss not SO state,
However,. the Atistftans claim ia haVa
aoesnpied Nadw0thas ia funthoastern
Gnicicia. h ~ q.
There ID no notewortly change IA
Z the west. The 7eil.ians TOOK about 4
thousand yards Df trenches sonth
: OF Ypras. but the 4 ilfss partially haY.
aIiced this BY capfhrfng about s00
yazda be.wean Bel inc ard Ia Bassos,
lle British public IS eekseriDe 81
I tnleSeat just now In the outcome &,
tho German sprellpd bloekade' ~
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
HAVE CONFIDENCE
I'm AMERICANS
Great Britain Does Not Com.
plain al Calling Attention 10
Qaestions of Law
lBy As.oclated pnoaa.1 !.

LONDON. Feb. i5!--t10ia5 p. ND
II hope you will let your friends in
America understand that we In Eng
landland comprehend the difficulty
and delicacy In which a neutral pow
er finds itself. and we do not complain
at IL far calling our aftentfnnssn nnas-
tions of international law, such as
always have been raised during a
maritime war;" said viscount Bryce,
former British ambassador to the
United States. In a letter read tonight
at dinner given by~ American women
at the Lycerm Club.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
PREVENT PASSAGE
OF THE AIKEN BILL
Would Provide Additional Judge
and Court Officials For Wes-
tern District Of s. C.
Special to The Intellissncrr.

Special TO The Tnteiliasneer.
WASHINGTON.4 Feb. 15.-In the
house late this afternoon the bill to
provide an additional Judge and court
officers for the Western district of
South Carolina came up for passage
by unanimous consent. but was pre-
vented from being passed by objeo-
tion or Mr.. Mann the official Republi-
can objector.
Mr.. Cullop of Indiana also objected.
This means that in view of the con-
gested condition os affairs, it will be
impossible for the bill to pass at the
present sessions representatives
Aiken. Johnson and Finley made every
effort to prevent affection to the bill,
but the objection. or one member pre-
vents the passageof a bill under the
unanimous consent rule, and Mr..
Mann declined TO give his consent.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
DETAILS OF
4 PANAMA RIOT
One Person Killed and % Alneri-
can Soldiers and Civilians
Were Wounded

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-DetaiIs of
the Panama carnival riot, In which
q Panama policeman was killed land
20 persons, 23 American soldiers and
civilians, were wounded Saturday,
came to the department today in q
report from Brigadier General
Clarence Edwards. commanding the
canal zone garrison.
All the wounded are expected to
recover, the general said, and no fur
tlier trouble Is expected. He explain
ed that the Americans all unarmed,
were fired on by police and a mob az
ter individuals alterations had pre-
cipitated general row.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
NETHERLANDS
MAKE PROTEST
Against England and Germany IN,
Declaring New War
Zones
cBy Associated Pesa.,

THE HAGUE, via London, Feb. Is
ul;56 p. m).-The Netherlands has
presented notes OF protest at the
same moment to Germany and Great
Britain regarding the acts of these
governments i'm respectively declar-
ing a war zone of the waters around
the British Isles and in using neutral
flags
diplomats here have been awaiting
action of this kind. and their xpecta-
tions were fulfilled tonight when
II was announced that the Dutch min
ister at Berlin had been instructed to
hand the note to the German foreign
oiiice, the other note being communi-
Gated to Great Britain at the same
time.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
Custems InsIee eetars lIsisa 0pIusIa. !

NEW YORK. Reb. 49, cuatoSoa ~.
spectors today boarded the British
steamship FrankmGunt and n6isesl
1850 worth OF sfnoktng opium. ana
alleged evidence In the form Of iet-
ters which is said 20 lead government
agents to believe that o1Inhi arnpt.-l
Cling gangs aresoperating here ana AZ
Tacoma, Washington. and TINT an ex-,
teusiEe trafiip Is carried on at Van
eouYer, b. G. and at s. seFeral lnrTe
South American n6fts. 3 8 8 g,
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
Germanr IFIIl SON, lrines.

- WASH fNuTON,s Feb. l5.--C,er-.
mahys Intention OF sowing minea In
the waters around the British Isles as
o part OF her submarine swarfare
asainst belligerent marchant ships
was announced in Che note delivered
70 the State department To-Day by
Count Won Rernstofif. D. =
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
weltipr For (Iernlaln yIctary

LONDON, Feb. a6.- (i2:1s q. m. -
An exchange telegraph from Amster-
dam SAYS that ut q priuafe meeting
or German Socialists X was decided
M view of the sacrifices already made
by the iaboring claBses, not to sup
port any peace movement until tho
Germans are victorious ON one front
or the. other.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
HOUSE PASSES THE
CHILD LABOR Ell f5T IL,

tion by the department os labor would
be authorized and iines pt from 9i00
to u 900 or imprisnnnnent from one
month to year. or both, impossd
for violation. & 20
When Representative Palmer pro-
posed suspension OF the rules to pass
the bill, several southern Siiiambera
protested and started q iilihustar
marked by repeated points Of no
Quorum, roll calls and rpilass. s
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-05-20
LOWER LIGHT RATES.

Experts have told us that the city
light rates could be reduced. Last
years experience with the plant,
when there was apparently a net
profit of some $4,000 out of a busi-
ness of $4,000, seems to show that
they were right The increase in in =
come of S1.133 a month for the first
four months of this year over that
for the same months of last year
adds other weight to the belief that
the rates may be lowered.
The light plant is owned by the
people of Columbia and supported by
the consumers of electricity. If he
profits are such that the rates may
safely be reduced, the people of Co
lumbia should concede that benefit to
the users of electricity now rather
than let it accumulate for future con-
sumers. All agree on that.
The City Council seems agreed tha.
these profits justify reduction. The
men in charge of the water and light
department, after several months of
study, have reported a schedule of
general reduction of about 20 per cent.
The Council did not act on the report
at the time but has called a meeting
for Friday night to consider this and
other plans of reduction, one being Il
proposal for an especially low day
rate so as to encourage the use of
day power. The deliberation with
which the problem is being ap-
preached is commendable Columbia
wants lower light rates. 1t doesn't
however, want to make a mistake and
be compelled to raise the rates later
or vote bonds for the usual extensions,
which must be a part of every sue
cessful system. A good portion of
the profits of last year went into eX
tensions of the service. Let's reduce
the rates, but let's do it after being
assured the lower rates are justified
by a careful and scientific valuation
and analysis of conditions at the
plant.