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The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1915-10-09
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-08
A Policy Wrong and Tactless.

Foreign countries have for years been
saving something just about like this:
''Do you want to know why we don't buy
more goods from you? Well there are two
reasons The first is the manner in when
YOU pack your shipments, or, rather, your
failure to pack them. You are the most
careless people in the world in this respect.
This is a good reason within itself, but not
the principal one. Our main objection to
you is that you do not live up to your con-
tracts You promise us a certain SPECIFIC
class of merchandise, but when it arrives it
is something else"
The latest complainant along these lines
is the French government. France contract
ed with various American manufacturing
concerns for millions of socks to be worn by
her soldiers in the field. France now says
that of all the concerns with which she con-
tracted only one has lived up to it's agree
ment. The socks were to be thirty per cent
cotton and 20 per cent wool. Upon deliv-
cry they were found to be, almost uniformly,
of a cotton and wool ratio almost the re-
verse.
Naturally enough France is growing;
and, naturally enough, France and French
importers are going to be wary of American
socks in days to come
1t is inconceivable that a state of affairs
like this can exist, but there is an abundance
of indisputable evidence that it does, and
that it has for years. The policy is sui
cidal. of course, and is so foolish that one is
surprised.
Then there is another unmistakable feat
ura +o if If is neither right fair nor hon
est; and the last named feature is being
much emphasized of late by the foreign i'm
pOrters.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-08
The Widening Corn Belt.

Soma statistics in regard to corn produc-
+ion provide interesting figures. They snow
IN begin with, that the so-called corn Delt
WAS once a limited area comprising Ohlo'
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Soutnerp
Iowa.
The change has come within the past de-
cade and the belt now stretches furtner eas''
west. north and south. Michigan, Wlscon-
sin. Minnesota, the two Dakotas and MOI
4ana are now included; and the Southern
states. particularly Georgia, Alabama ana
the Carolinas, have taken their place there'
Georgia has made an especially hne rec
ord. due very largely to intelligent ana per-
sistent work on the part of boys corn CLUBS
throughout the state. Sixty to one hundred
bushels to the acre have become not un-
common yields. Terrell county farmer
produced 1862 bushels to the acre. just 10
show what could really be done.
Some of the aggregate figures are inter-
asting in the extreme. Georgia's corn crop
went from 39,374,569 bushels in 1911 TO
63.O23 900 bushels in 1914, and during the
same period the average yield per acre was
practically doubled.
Seven Southern states-Georgia, the Car
olinas Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Texas-have within a few years showed their
corn production per annum upward from
228,O0O,O0O bushels to 353,OOO,OOO bushels
This increase is estimated to be equivalent
to something over $10O,000,000.
All homage to King Corn, co-ruler in the
South with King Cotton! They constitute
a lordly pair
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-08
Preparedness---Its Meaning.

AS The News goes to press with this issue
there is every reason to believe that the
United States will emerge from its voyage
on the troubled sea of international diplO-
macy, turbulent particularly because of the
Lusitania incident and a threatened war
with Germany, without having to fight.
There was an impression for few days
that war was inevitable; and that it did not
come is due to cool heads and diplomatic
ability.
During the crisis there was much inane
talk-we came near saying insane talk-of
preparedness. To a dispassionate observ-
er of men and events it is becoming firm
conviction that preparedness" is a synonym
for ''chip on the shoulder" in world affairs.
So-called preparedness is beyond any perad-
venture of doubt directly responsible for
Germany having precipitated the most APP
pallingly extensive and destructive conflict
in human history. Preparedness, as the
word is understood and used in military
and naval circles, has been the cause of
more fights among individuals and more
wars between nations than all other causes
combined.
Tt is high time for us to cease use of the
word and turn our thoughts and whatever
argumentative abilities we may have to 9TH
er channels. The United States is sufficient
" prepared, and that ought to be comfort
ing enough. So long as we stay at home
and mind our own business no one is going
to bite us. There may be more or less indis-
criminate and fatuous barking; but we pass
ed the one hundred million mark in pOpu-
Iation a few weeks ago, and no nation or
the globe is laundering for a wrestling match
with US
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-08
The Dollar
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

President Wilson wishes to International
ize the United States dollar. Admirable!
The dollar ought to be the coin in which
all the Americas think from Patagonia to the
North sea. There are many different dol
lars and have been since the first one was
made five centuries ago in Germany, but
ours is the best dollar that is or was.
Washington Irving labeled it ''the al
mighty dollar, that great object Of universal
devotion throughout our land. In the
Spanish-American countries they invariably
refer to the dollar of our republic as dol
lar gold while there is a dollar Mex
the Mex being short for Mexican.
Roughly speaking our dollar is worth two
Mexican dollars. They use dollars in CHINA
and down in the Malay peninsula. There is
a Dutch dollar in the various islands belong
ing to Holland.
Germany's standard of value was also a
dollar until after the Franco-Prussian war,
when mark was put upon the throne.
The first dollar was made from silver min
ed in Bohemia and it was called "Joa-
chim's thaler." 1t bore an effigy of st. Joa-
chin.
That thaler has had many different dress
es, such as daler, dalar, daolder, tallero, be-
fore budding forth into the English Ian
guage as dollar
Our American dollar was born the year
the constitution of the United States was
made in Independence Square Governeur
Morris was the daddy of our dollars and
cents.
Upon until that time the American colo
MES and states had used the English pounds,
shillings, pence and farthings. Down in the
Spanish lands they had what all our best
story writer's never fail to mention as pieces
of eight They were very often called dol
lars by those who used them.
But the United States dollar has stability
as we'll as history behind it. 1t is what
Frederick T. Chandler would call very
pretty money"
It would be a great advance coward that
dreamed-of Pan-America were this gold dol
lar to become the monetary lnit for the
whole western hemisphere.
My broker friend, William Sherrard, who
is just home from California, had an illus
tration of what cheap money means. He
bought a five-dollar note issued by Carranza
for quarter
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-08
The Undesirable Citizen
By Walt Mason.

Nine men get up at break of dawn and toll
with splendid zest to trim the whiskers from
the lawn and keep the weeds suppressed.
They pull up thistles by the roots, and swat
all noxious weeds, and softly say: We'll
bet our boots these things won't scatter
Seeds" They to their homes devote their
lives; they strive to keep things neat; they
know the lawn, where bluegrass thrives, for
beauty can't be beat. The tenth man doesn't
care a whoop how shabby things appear; the
weeds are growing round his coop in regi-
ments each year. The grass is smothered by
the weeds, which swipe each inch of soil, and
every zephyr blows their seeds to queer the
good mems toll. There is no law to make
him eat his weeds, or NOW them down, al
though his place will queer the street and
handicap the town. Why doesn't congress
up and knock this Jonah on the pate? For
nearly every village block has got this sort
of skate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-08
''DRY" BANQUETs FOR BANKERS

From the Savannah Morning News.
The attitude of the bankers of Georgia to-
wards intoxicants, as shown by the decision
of the Georgia Bankers Association to serve
no more wine at it's annual banquets, is be-
coming the attitude of business men in Ren-
eral They realize the need Of clear heads
in business of all kinds, and they have often
seen the muddle that has been made of i'm
portant business matters by men who had
INDUCED too freely in drink.
While the serving of wine at the ban
quetS might not injure the bankers in the
slightest degree, yet to dispense with it sets
a good example. They had been thinking
for several years of making their banquets
dry" and are said to have expected to take
the step formally before the twenty-fOurth
annual banquet in Savannah last week, but
as the officers of the association had already
made all arrangements for the function it
was not taken until the following day.
Savannah bankers, however, already had
taken it informally as no wines or other
drinks were served al any of the entertain
ments at which they were hosts. Reports
of those entertainments indicate that wit
flowed as freely and everybody had as good
a time as if there had been a large assort-
ment of glasses at each cover.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-08
Italv's Part in the War.

For two weeks now Italy has been in the
war on the side of the triple entente. orlgl-
ra1lv an important member of the triple
alliance, since 1882, to be exact, she repuol-
ated her diplomatic contract with Germany
and Austria Hungary in the first days OF the
conflict and was lowering on the topmost
rail of the fence until a few days ago.
Her entrance means much to England,
France and Russia, for she will serve to
largely and perhaps completely distract the
attention of Austria-Hungary. Victor En-
manuel's forces, on land and sea, will be
directed against the dual monarchy, which
she adjoins, and as result Francis Joseph
is going to have the busiest time of his long
and arduous career henceforth till the close
of hostilities.
Italy will also be particularly valuable in
the operations against the Dardanelles,
which are only a few hundred miles distant
from her southern shores. Italy has recent
" improved her navy and now ranks high
in that respect. She has enough men of war
TO aid in the attempt against Turkeys me-
tropolis and, at the same, make it quite
uncomfortable for the Austrian fleet of sea
fighters.
Those best informed profess to believe
that, as a result of Italys action, Greece and
Roumania will soon follow her lead, with
the probability that Bulgaria may do like
wise. Those crafty little Balkan states are
Just at present putting up an interesting
spectacle of watchful waiting.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-08
Germany probably sees a fine Italian nand
Dog-gone a fly, anyhow!
A SPLENDID EXAMPLE.

From the Macon News.
Hon. G. Ogden Persons. of Forsyth, has
declined the appointment to the office OF
Judge of the superior court for the Flint cir
cult And he thereby follows course when
commands the admiration of the News
Mr. Persons is the senator-elect from MS
district. Furthermore, he is assured OF cleo
ton to the presidency of the senate, posi-
ton that he will unquestiOnably I'LL with
dignity and ability.
It would not be fairly treating those VINO
supported him for the senate and who are
promoting his candidacy for the senate pres
idency for him to relinquish those honOrs
and accept another and more lucrative post.
Too often is it the case that man elected
to one office will resign it or even give 1t up
before being sworn in, to accept another
which pays more money
There has been too much of that sort OF
thing in Georgia in recent years, and more
and more it is bringing officeseekers into
public contempt. The public does not know
when to believe that a candidate is sincere.
If they elect him they have no assurance that
he will hold the place in the face of other
Offices
Mr. Persons undoubtedly felt the moral
obligation upon him to retain his place in
the senate. It was a temptation, that tender
of the judgesship, and it was signal
compliment that Governor Slaton paid him
by Offering him the place, and it is greatly
to Mr. Persons credit that, under the cir
cumstances in his case, he has declined it,
Would that more office-seekers and Office
holders had the same fine sense OF duty ana
utilization.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-08
Human Lives Mean
More Than Dollars
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

1t was pointed out when certain interests
were urging the administration to send a
sharp" note to Great Britain demanding
payment for detained American cargoeS that
the grievance of the owners could not be
very serious, since they had not so far pre-
now announces that it is ready and anxious
to make this payment at once, but that the
representative of the owners in London has
not yet received the information on which 10
base his claim. In the face of this admission
what becomes of the argument that Great
Britain has offended against American rights
only in less degree than Germany, and
that the administration, in order to preserve
our neutrality, should treat both belliger-
ents alike? All legal consideration aside,
the moral sense rebels at putting lost dol
lars in the scale with lost lives.
Nor, from any point of view, is there any
comparison between British and German Of
Tending. We may argue as we like about
the effective blockade and the continuous
voyage, but the fact remains that
consideration for our commerce has been
shown by Great Britain at every stage of the
proceedings, while Germany has ignored ev-
cry protest against her unprecedented
breaches of international law, and has COM
mitted injuries for which, as the president
himself has suggested, no real reparation is
possible. What kind of diplomacy, what
kind of morality, would it be- at time when
the grave questions that have been raised
by the sinking of the Lusitania are pending
to begin an acrid discussion over the inter-
ference with trade in which by all prece-
dent the trader takes his own risk?
The president has fortunately seen the
trap and avoided it. And he
spoke out so strongly and we'll in the note
which he sent Germany that it would have
been a tragic blunder to let any minor con-
sideration divert him from the main issue
1t will not hurt the claimants against Great
Britain to wait until they have made out
their bills.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-08
Figures That Mean Nothing
From the Saturday Evening Post.

If you lay off from your work for week
you say you lost that weeks pay. 1t would
be more accurate to say you missed gaining
it. You might go a step further and say
you lost hundred thousand dollars on the
recent rise in stocks-that is, if you had
bought the right stocks in the right quantity
at the right time and sold them at the right
time you would have gained hundred thou
sand dollars. A healthy man under thirty
may be expected to produce in his lifetime
a certain value over and above his subsist-
ence. If he dies at thirty the community has
missed gaining that value.
So you may take the number of young
men who die yearly from tuberculosis and
other preventable diseases multiply that by
the suppOsitious value they would have
created and say the country loses so many
million or hundred million dollars. You
may apply that sort of mathematics to the
European war and pile UP a mass of losses
which would fairly bankrupt Christendom.
This war, in fact, offers field of unparal-
leled attractions for playing with figures.
You can get practically any result you like
according to the assumptions with which you
start. For example, the withdrawal of many
millions of men from productive occupations
implies an immense loss; but reports from
Germany say the fields have been prepared
and sown on something like the normal
acreage. No doubt labor that would nor
mally be unprOductive, or but slightly pro-
ductive-that Of the old, the young and of
women-has been utilized. The employ
ment of this normally unproductive labor
offsets to a degree the non-productive en-
ployment of the soldiers.
Even the direct borrowing by belligerent
nations does not necessarily represent COM
plete destruction. Some of it goes for food
stuffs that would be imported under any
conditions. If the government feeds SOL
der while the soldiers wife and children
till the fields the national loss is slight and
indirect.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-08
our PrOneneSS tn Condemn
From an Exchange.

Are not most of US too hasty in our crit
icism OF our fellow men, and too ready to
impugn wrong motives to public officials be-
fore we have done the objects of our criti-
cism the justice to make careful, deliber-
ate investigation of those things upon VIII On
our insinuations or accusations are based?
These questions have been asked by thOus-
andS OF preachers and in thousands OF vol
umes and they belong to that class Of ques-
tions which answer themselves.
The inquiry is not suggested any more by
local than by general incidents, as it is not
at all uncommon to pick UP a newspaper and
read of such and such an Official being &C
cused of wrongdOing, and later in an insig-
niicant corner of the same paper noticing
that the official, after full investigation, was
eXonerated of every charge made against
him.
The character of man, if it be a good
one and has been earned by years of faith
full, honest attention to those little things
that go to make up honor and integrity,
is as priceless gift as virtue is to woman.
1t is hard to build up, but it is extremely
easy to tear down. A whisper, a rumOr, OF
significant word or look will sometimes blast
mans whole life just as it will degrade
woman from her pedestal of purity ana
chastity.
We cannot be too careful in what we say
or what we do when the character of one OF
our fellow citizens is at stake. HUE
time and full investigation will not leopard
ize the interests of society, and it may be
that what has appeared to be wrong or even
criminal will develop into merely a mistake
not involving loss to any one and innocent
of any evil intent.
Surely those who profess to follow Him
who made no compromises with sin, but
who was patient and long suffering WIN
those who exhibited only the frailties Oh
human nature, should be more charitable
to their fellow men until they are sure Oh
their ground