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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-12-08
REGULATIONS TO MEET
RAILROAD PROBLEM.
Needed to Make Lines More Useful
Servants Of Country.

Needed to Make Lines More Useful
Servants Of Country.
In the meantime may make this
suggestion? The transportation prob
lem is an exceedingly serious and
pressing one in this country. There
has from time to time of late been rea-
son to fear that our railroads would
not much longer be able to cope with
it successfully. as at present equipped
and co-ordinated. suggest that It
would be wise to provide for COM
mission of inquiry to ascertain by
thorough canvass of the whole ques-
ton whether our laws as at present
framed and administered are as serv-
iceable as they might be in the solu-
ton Of the problem. 1t is obviously
a problem that lies at the very foun-
dalton Of our efficiency as a people.
Such an inquiry ought to draw out
every circumstance and opinion worth
considering, and we need to know
all sides of the matter If we mean to
do anything in the field Of federal leg
fslation.
No one, am sure. would wish to
take any backward step. The regula-
ton of the railways of the country BY
federal commission has had admirable
results and has fully justified the
hopes and expectations of those BY
whom the policy of regulation was
originally proposed. The question 10
not, What should we undo? It =
whether there Is anything else we can
do that would supply US with effective
means, in the very process of regu-
lati0n, for lettering the conditions un-
der which the railroads are operated
and for making them more useful sew
ants Of the country as whole. Il
seems to me that It might be the part
Of wisdom, therefore, before further
legislation In this field Is attempted,
to look at the whole problem OF cooF-
dination and efficiency in the full light
Of q fresh assessment of circumstances
and opinion. as guide to dealing with
the several parts Of 1t.
For what we are seeking now, what
in my mind is the single thought OF
this message, Is national efficiency and
security. We serve a great nation.
We should serve it in the spirit OF it's
peculiar genius. It is the genius OF
common men for self government, I'm
dustry. justice. liberty and peace. We
should see to It that, It lacks no. In
strument. no facility or vigor or law.
to make It sufficient to play It's part
with energy. safety and assured suc-
cess. In this we are no partisans but
heralds and prophets OF 4 new age.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-12-08

are the additions necessary to- render
the army adequate for its present du-
ties, duties which it has to perform
not only upon our own continental
coasts and borders and at our interior
army posts, but also in the Philippines.
in the Hawaiian Islands. at the 18TH
mus and in Porto Rico.
BY way Of making the country ready
to assert some part of it's real power
promptly and upon larger scale
should occasion arise the plan also
contemplates supplementing the army
by force of 100000 disciplined citi-
zens, raised in increments of $4,000
year throughout a period of three
years. This it is proposed to do by a
process of enlistment under which the
serviceable men of the country would
be asked to bind themselves to serve
with the colors for purposes Of train
ing for short periods throughout three
years and to come to the colors at call
at any time throughout an additional
"furlough" period Of three years. This
force of 100000 men would be pre-
vided with personal accouterments as
fast as enlisted and their equipment
for the field made ready to be supplied
at any time. They would be assem-
bled for training ut stated intervals at
convenient places in association with
suitable units of the regular army.
Their period of annual training would
not necessarily exceed two months in
the year.
The president says it is up to the
patriotic young men Of the country to
respond to this call.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-12-08
SHOULD AGREE ON POLICY
IN THE PHILIPPINES,
Recommends Early Adoption Of Meas
q uros Giving Them Fuller Justice,

Recommends Early Adoption Of Meas
81 ures Giving Them Fuller Justice.
The president recommends the early
adoption Of bills for the alteration and
reform of the government of the Phil
ippines and for rendering fuller polit-
ical justice to the people Of Porto Rico.
which were submitted to the Sixty
third congress. The president refers
to the increased cost of carrying out
the plans for the armed forces Of the
nation and tells of the fiscal problems
confronting the government.
an available balance in the general
fund of the treasury of $1O4, 10, 1O5.7S.
The total estimated receipts for the
year 1916, on the assumption that the
emergency revenue measure passed by
the last congress will not be extended
beyond its present limit: the 31st of
December, 1915, and that the present
duty Of cent per pound on sugar will
be discontinued after the LIST of May.
1916, will be 500, 1865, 500. The balance
Of June last and these estimated rev.
enues come therefore to grand total
Of STA, 535, COSTS. The total estimated
disbursements for the present fiscal
year, including twenty-five millions for
the Panama canal, twelve millions for
probable deficiency appropriations and
10000 for miscellaneous debt redemp
lions, will be $753. 891. 900. and the bal
ance in the general fund Of the treas
ury will be reduced to $2O,644, COSTS.
The emergency revenue act If contin-
ued beyond its present time limitation
would produce during the half year
then remaining about forty-one mil
lions. The duty of l cent per pound
on sugar If continued would produce
during the two months Of the fiscal
year remaining after the LIST Of May
about fifteen millions. These two sums,
amounting together to fifty-six mil
lions, If added to the revenues Of the
second half Of the fiscal year would
yield the treasury at the end of the
year an available balance of $78.644,-
COSTS.
The additional revenues required to
carry out the program of military and
naval preparation of which I have
spoken would. as at present estimated.
be for the fiscal year 1917 93,800,O00.
Those figures. taken with the figures
for the present fiscal year which I
have already given, disclose our 6nan-
cial problem for the year 1917. As
Stunning that the taxes imposed by the
emergency revenue act and the pres
ent duty on sugar are to be .discontin.
ued and that the balance at the close
of the present fiscal year will be only
500, 644.6O5.7S that the disbursements
for the Panama canal will again be
about $25.O0O.OOO and that the addi-
tional expenditures for the army and
navy are authorized by the congress.
the deficit IN the general fund Of the
1 treasury on the Both of June 1917.
will be nearly $685.. 600 900. To this
sum at least $50 900; 900 should be add
/ ed to represent a safe working balance
for the treasury and $12. 100000 to In
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-12-08

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department.; an effective navy consist
ing Of ~ 'battleships Of the first line, 6
battle cruisers. '.25 battleships Of the.
second line, 10 armored cruisers. 10
scout cruisers. 5 first class cruisers, 8
second class cruisers, 10 third class
cruisers, 10S destrOyers. 10 fleet sub
marines, 157 coast submarines, mon
itors, 20 gunboats, supply ships, Is
fuel ships, 4 transports, tenders to
torpedo vessels, 8 vessels of special
types and two ammunition ships. This
would be navy fitted to our needs
and worthy of our traditions.
But armies and instruments Of war
are only part Of what has to be con-
sidered if we are to consider the SUI
preme matter Of national self sufhcien-
cy and security in all it's aspects.
There are other great matters which
will be thrust upon our attention
whether we will or not. There Is, for
example, very pressing question Of
trade and shipping involved in this
great problem Of national adequacy.
1t Is necessary for many weighty rea-
sons of national efficiency and devel-
Opment that we should have a great
merchant marine. The great merchant
fleet we once used to make us rich,
that great body of sturdy sailors who
used to carry our flag into every sea,
and who were the pride and often the
bulwark Of the nation, we have almost
driven out of existence by inexcusable
neglect and Indifference and by hope
lessly blind and provincial policy of
so called economic protection. It is
high time we repaired our mistake and
resumed our commercial INDEPENDENCE
on the seas.
With a view to meeting these press
ing necessities Of our commerce and
availing ourselves at the earliest posi-
BILE moment Of the present unparalleled
opportunity Of linking the two Ameri-
cas- together In bonds of mutual inter-
est and service. an opportunity which
may never return again II we miss it
now, proposals will be made to the
present congress for the purchase or
construction of ships to be owned and
directed by the government similar to
those made to the last congress, but
modified In some essential particulars.
l recommend these proposals to you
for your prompt acceptance with the
more confidence because every month
that has elapsed since the former pro.
posals were made has made the ne
cessity for such action more and more
manifestly imperative. That need was
then foreseen. It is now acutely felt
and everywhere realized by those for
whom trade is waiting, but who can
find no conveyance for their goods. l
am not so much interested I'm the par
hculars Of the program as l am in
taking immediate advantage of the
great opportunity which awaits US If
we will but act in this emergency. In
this matter, as in all others, q spirit of
common counsel should prevail. and
out of it should come an early solu-
tic1 of this pressing problem.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-12-08

clude the usual deficiency estimates in
1917, and these. additions would make
total deficit Of some $297, GOO 600. Il
the present taxes should be continued
throughout this year and the next.
however, there would be a balance in
the treasury Of some $76,5OO,O00 at
the end Of the present fiscal year and
a deficit at the end of the next year of
only some $5O,OO0O0O. or. reckoning in
$62,OOO.OOO for deficiency appropria-
tons and safe treasury balance at
the end Of the year, total deficit of
some $112.OO0OO0. The obvious moral
Of the figures is that it is a plain coun-
sci of prudence to continue all of the
present taxes or their equivalents and
confine ourselves to the problem Of
providing $112,OOOOOO Of new revenue
rather than 1927, 100000
How shall we obtain the new rev.
enue? We are frequently reminded
that there are many millions of bonds
which the treasury is authorized under
existing law to sell to reimburse the
sums paid out of current revenues for
the construction of the Panama canal,
and it is true that bonds for the
amount of 1922, $4,000 are now avail
able for that purpose. Prior to 1913
$13S,OOO,OOO of these bonds had ac-
tually been sold to recoup the e1pendi-
lures at the isthmus, and now con-
stitute a considerable item of the pub
lie debt. But for one do not believe
that the people of this country approve
of postponing the payment Of their
bills. Borrowing money is shortsight-
ed finance. It can be justified only
when permanent things are to be ac-
complished which many generations
will certainly benefit by and which 1t
seems hardly fair that single genera
ton should pay for. The objects we
ARE now proposing to spend money for
cannot be 50 classified, except in the
sense that everything wisely done may
be said to be done TN the interest of
posterity as well as In our own. II
seems to me a clear dictate Of pru-
dent craftsmanship and frank finance
that In what we are now, hope. about
to undertake we should pay as we CO.
The people of the country are entitled
to know just what burdens of taxation
they are to carry and to know from the
outset now. The new bills should be
paid by internal taxation.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-12-08
PRESIDENT WILSON'S MESSAGE

Declares That if Full Navy Pro-
gram Is Carried Out We Will
Have a Fleet For Defense That
Will Be gifted to Our Needs
and Worthy Of Our Traditions"
Greatest Danger to Country
Comes From Within Our Bor-
ders.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20
! FEEDING HENS AND PULLETS
Profits Decrease Where Young and
Old Stock Are Kept Together
Provide Separate Yards.

A good many people who might 9th.
erwise be successful with their poul-
try have their profit decreased because
they allow the young and old stock
to remain undivided in the same house
or pen or both during the growing
period
At this particular time the young
stock needs great deal of food and
needs to be protected from the old
ones, which, IL allowed to do so, will
abuse them more or less. If free range
is impossible, provide separate yards
and always keep the young in sepa-
rate buildings, If possible, or in sep
arate room at least. If you haven't
separate building you can very cas-
lily provide an extra room of some
sort for them to roost in.
Pullets getting ready to lay need
more feed as a rule than hens which
have molted out well, because the
pullets need to finish their growth
and maturity, as well as make eggs.
This is another reason why the young
stock and the old should be kept sep
arate. The feed question should also
be considered as the young hen often
needs different rations than the old
In order to produce certain qualities
which the one has and the other has
not.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20
HINTS FOR POULTRY RAIsERS
Insure Uniformity Of Product by Keep
Ing Standardized stook-Gather
Eggs Twice Daily.

To Producers-Keep standardized
stock, tkas insuring uniformity Of
products. Sell only full-sized 1.-TWO
ounce) fresh, clean. uniform eggs.
Keep nests clean; confine broody
hens; gather eggs twice daily. Keep
in cool place, free from odors Of all
kinds.
Do not offer for sale small, dirty,
checked. stained or doubtful eggs
Most of these may be consumed at
home at full market value.
Fatten all surplus poultry, bringing
stock up to standard weight.
To Shippers-Pack eggs only in
standard cases, with medium filters,
using excelsior, cork shavings, cut
straw or corrugated board.
Store case Ia cool, dry place, only
free from odors, avoiding heat,
droughts and dampness.
Ship eggs often, at least twice a
week in warm weather, by express or
In refrigerator cars.
Ship live, healthy poultry in large
standard coops: dressed poultry neat
ly wrapped and packed in boxes or
barrels, to reliable dealers.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20
HOW TO OPERATE INCUBATOR I
Temperature Of Place Where Machine
Is Kept Should Not vary-Use
Only Fresh Eggs.

Care should be taken that the tenn
perature of the place where the ma
chine is kept does not vary. To secure
an even temperature it is a good plan
to place the incubator in an clubhouse,
which should be locked up, thus pre-
venting the opening and closing of the
door as much as possible The build
ing should be we'll ventilated at the
top and be free from drafts. In the
middle of the house Is the best place
for the machine, as this allows the air
to circulate around it. 1t should never
he put in a corner or against wall,
as fresh air is essential during the
process of incubation.
The machine should stand either on
low form or on the floor, as this al
lows the heat inside to be regular. II
the egg drawer is but half an inch
lower at the front than the back, the
front will not be as warm as the back.
Fresh eggs, of course, must be used
Where it can be managed, they should
be put into the incubator the same
day they have been laid. They may
be two or three days old, but the most
successful results are obtained from
new-laid ones. All the eggs should be
of as near the same size as possible.
And very small or very large ones
should not be chosen. as they often
prove unfertile.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20
PROVIDE SHADE AND WATER
Two Important Factors With Poultry
During Hot Days Of Summer
Not a Difficult Task.

These two factors are all important
with the poultry these days and should
be always at hand.
Watering but once a day will not
suffice. Even If supplied in sufficient
quantity, it soon becomes warm and
unpalatable, for the poultry appreciate
cool drink on hot days as we'll as
we do ourselves. If you don't think
so, try it.
Keep the water dishes in shady
places and so arranged that the water
will not become readily fouled with
dirt.
No shade is so acceptable to poultry
as the shade of trees, bushes, growing
corn or other plants. Every farmer
almost can provide this easily and 1t
is nearly sin to fence the flocks from
it. But any shade is better than no
shade and II no other can be given
shelter from the sun of old boards or
any material at hand will answer
Water, shade and plenty of feed are
the three absolute essentials for the
growing chicks these hot days as
well as for the balance of the flocks.
See to 1t that your flocks lack none
OIL them.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20

take them outside and away from the
others and often in the open, covering
them over with something to keep
the rain Off them. This method pro-
vides the seclusion and darkened
place just to suit hen, and then II
the coop rests on the ground the con-
ditions are ideal to her mind, an6 she
cannot be blamed for preparing for
three weeks stay. Hens will break
up sooner If they are kept in the lot
where the others are scratching and
feeding and are shut in coop that
will not permit their sitting down and
warming up a nest. A Slated bottom
located in the scratching shed. with
nests under it, has been used. and
three days was the average time re-
CURED to stop them, and they some
times began laying in week.
Do not let hens sit on the nests O
week or two and then try to break
them up. 1t is much easier to break
them at once the first time they re-
main on the nests at night, for they
are not very determined, and often
will not persist If kept up one day.
Then hens that are broken up at
once will go to laying sooner after
being broken up than those that are
left to sit week first, and you get
the week Of extra work also.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20

Broody hens seem to be a serious
problem for many, and some people
have objected to the Orpingtons be-
cause of this. One man says he has
kept both Buff Orpingtons and White
Orpingtons and has never had much
trouble with either of them. OF
course they will become broody, but
1t is not hard matter to break up
a broody hen II the right methods
are pursued.
The principle on which all methods
for stopping broodiness must be
based to succeed without real cruelty
to the hens, is to have something
Under them that it will be impossible
for them to warm up. The easiest
way to provide this is by having the
coop so open beneath that the air
will circulate up around them. A
hen will sit on a board and persist,
but she will not sit on a nest with, a
cavity under 1t and screen wire bot
tom. She will sit anywhere without
eggs under her so long as the condi-
tons are right 80 eggs would hatch
If they were under her, but instinct
seems to warn her when conditions
are not right. and she will soon quit
Another thing noticed is that
where hens have been shut up for
broodiness there is tendency to
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20

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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20


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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20
National Capital Proves an Ideal Summer Resort


~ the
the official records proving the national
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20

and has New York and other big
towns backed up into a corner and
yelling for ice water.
Washington has more hours of
sunshine, more cooling breezes, and
less cloudiness that any city here
abouts.
The records demonstrate that its
weather is more nearly ideal than that
of any large city in the New England,
southern or Atlantic coast states.
The temperature here is moder-
ate, New York press agents to the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20

LUI IHtIII' "A HtW UUIItlIH IS 10 DC IS
sued within few months stating the
results of extensive tests, extending
over three years, and including forty
different kinds of wood, looking to the
manufacture from a new source of
paper that will do on which to print
newspapers.
Uncle Sans chief ambition is to
issue-not red paper" a blue pa
per-" or any other colored ''scrap of
paper"-but bona fide white paper
The rub with all the paper made so
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20
National Museum Gets Copy Of Old Mosaic Map

been presented to the museum by s.
w. Woodward of Washington.
The original mosaic formed the
floor of an old church in Medeba, a
town in the former territory of Moab.
situated almost directly east of Beth
lehem. The mosaic itself, dating from
the sixth century A. d., was discovered
in 1882, when the site of the old church
was being cleared for the erection of a
new church building.
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20

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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20
Many Secret Service Men Needed in Washington

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at the disposal of the This
secret the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-20
Uncle Sam Is Trying to Make News Print Paper

JINGLE SAM is trying
true for he really
them To be explicit he is trying
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-10-28
American Children Should Be Taught
Music In the Schools


THE way music its production when
young-young individually and nation 1t is
much difficult prepare people to enjoy after they
and their minds have become crowded with
life The nation should not let its youth slip by wou.
filling the of the children with music THERE is NO REASON
WHY YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE MANY GREAT COMPOSERS
HERE, MANY CREATORS OF WONDERFUL SOUND NEW
KIND OF CIVILIZATION.
But this will about until children taught
the schools and taught music the homes they
tnena families Children, all children love if presented
them with enthusiasm and simplicity They for if the oppor
tuny given to them Your schools should be full Of the opportunity
for children to have and to themselves musical notes
MOVEMENT
INTO THE FAMILIES BECAUSE CHILDREN
THERE; CHILDREN WOULD
vRoNMENT
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-10-28
Automobiles and Moving Pictures Tend
to Broaden Life
By Dr. CHARLES TTIWINC President Western Reserve University

automobile and the picture two of the newest matera
American life, unlike in themselves yet having
similarly tremendous effect American character.
THEY LESSEN PROVINCIALISM AND LOCAIISM IN KNOWL
EDGE, FEELING AND APPRECIATION THEY HELP TO MAKE
LARGE CITIZENSHIP
These good results but there also possible dangers We must
that sentiment do not kill thought In other
words, that insight not partially sacrificed to sight
fathers little; they thought much They did not out
all the world neither did all the world unto them They
the of sensations but their feelings deep
The pendulum swings between the material and the spiritual
the feeling But the
there peril that these universal forces making the
people dependent the visible and the tangible
MANY, AND HRoADENED
NOT FUNDAMENTAL THINGS