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AN AGRICULTURAL COUNCIL
BY T. N. Carver,

Professor ot Economics. Harvard University
Every city has it's chamber of COM
merce or its Board of Trade. The
purpose OF such an organization 1s
to study economic and business op'
portunitiCs of the city and promote
enterprises which will help to build
the city. Does any one know of
good and sufficient reason why ev-
cry rural neighborhood ought not
have a similar organization?
In Germany they already have such
organizations They are generally
called the Observation-Disclosures or
agricultural council. Some students
of the problem of rural organization
are stron}ly of the opinion that SUCH
an agricl lltural council is necessary
before much can be done for the bet
tering of rural credit or the market
ing of farm produce. There Is no
object, for example, in having more
capital in a farming neighborhood
unless the farmers know without any
guess-work Just how to use that capi-
tai so as to increase the production
and the profit of their farms. If all
the leading farmers Of a neighbor-
hood would lay their heads together
and talk ever the situation and study
the opportunities for new investment,
they would be less likely to make
mistakes than if they work secretly,
as separate individuals.
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Victoria's v. C.'s.

In presenting the Victoria Cross to
soldiers actually "in the field" King
George may to some extent have been
influenced by the original order, which
provides that under conditions stipu'
lated, the coveted decoration shall be
conferred ION the spot where the act
to be rewarded by the grant of such
decoration has been performed" The
first presentation of the Victoria Cross,
however, took place in Hyde Park In
June, 1857, when Queen Victoria with
her own hands pinned 1t on the coats
of sixty-two Crimean heroes. 1t Is re-
corded that the queen wore red and
white feather at the side of her round
hat, "a scarlet body made nearly like
a military tunic," and a dark blue
skirt. She was on horseback, with
Prince Albert on her left, who made
profound obeisance to each wearer OF
the v. G.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-06-10
pjoeons That Swim,

The swimming of blue pigeons-the
familiar domestic birds the re-
markable sight reported to Dutch
natural history journal. Some months
ago one of the doves was thrown into
the water in fight and rescued by hui
man aid, and since then they have be-
come more familiar with the water.
Pieces of bread noticed in shallow
places evidently tempted them at first.
Gaining courage, they soon learned to
swim, and just before making his re-
port the observer saw two of them
sailing around like gulls a few yards
from his house. When they tired of
the bath they quietly few out of
the water. 4,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-06-10

In discussing the commercial
achievements of this great age, we
shall approach the subject as the
historian chronicling events. This Sc
ries will endeavor to record in writ
ing the supremacy of American men
and industries in the worlds affairs
and perptuate an appreciation of our
marvellous Industrial achievements by
presenting simple facts, figures and
comparisons that are overpowering in
their convictions.
America holds her proud place
among the nations of the earth today
on account of her supremacy in trans
portation facilities. The mighty minds
. of the age are engaged in the prob
lens of transportation, and the great.
est men in the history of the world S
commerce are at the head of the
transportation systems of the United
States.
In the discussion of transportation,
let us consider separately our Rail-
ways, Telegraph and Telephones, EX-
press. Public Highways, Steamships,
Street Railways, lnterurban and other
forms of transportation, and this ar
ticle will deal with railways.
The United States has the largest
mileage, the best service, the cheap
est rates, pays labor the highest
wages. and we have the most efficient
ly managed of the railways of the
world They stand as monument to
the native genius of our marvellous
builders, and most of the railroads in
foreign countries have been built
under American orders.
The railroads represent a larger in
vestment of capital than any other
branch of human activity. The mile
age in the United States exceeds
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-06-10
RURAL SCHOOL TERM
SHOULD Be EXTENDED
BY p. P. CIaxton,
U. S. Commissioner of Education.

In most States school days for
country children are fewer than for
city children. The average length OF
school term in cities of the United
States is one hundred and eighty.
five days; in rural communities one
hundred and thirty-eight days, diff
ference of forty-seVen days. In some
States the difference is much greater
than this average. In many counties
the average length of the rural
school term is less than one hun
dred days, and in some districts it is
less. On the other hand, in the
States of California, New York and
Connecticut the country schools are
in session one hundred and eighty
days in year, and in several other
States almost as long The country
schools of Rhode Island are in ses-
sion one hundred and ninety days IN
a year.
If all children are to have an equat
opportunity for education we must
even up the school terms of the
country and give to all country chill.
dren at least as many days as are
now given to city children. One
hundred and eighty-tive days or
schooling a year for all children will
not be too much. There are coun-
tries in which the schools, both for
city and country, are in session from
two hundred and twenty to two hun
dred and fifty days or more in the
year. American children need as
much education as those Of any 9TH
er country, and this applies to the
rural as we'll as urban districts.
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spring company than the fellowship
of the giant intellects that constructed
this marvellous industry and journey
along the pathway of its development,
Illuminated at every mile post of it's
progress by the lightning flashes of
brilliant minds, will be taken at very
early date.
A brief statistical review of the in.
dustry brings out its growth and mag.
nitude in most convincing and un.
forgetable manner
The telephone service of the United
States is the most popular and efficient
and its rates are the cheapest of the
telephone systems of the world.
We are the greatest takers on earth.
We send 60 per cent of our communi.
cations over the telephone. The world
has about 100000 telephones and of
this number the United States has ap-
proximately 9,540,000 Europe 4,02O, 900
and other countries 100000. Accord
ing to the latest world telephone CEN
sus, the total telephone investment is
$I,9O6,O00,00O and of this amount ST.
095,000,000 was credited to the United
States, $636000,000 in Europe and
$175,0O0,000 in other countries. The
annual telephone conversations total
24,600, 100000 divided as follows: Unit
ed States 15,600,000,000 Europe $500.
100000, and other countries 2,2O0, ,000,-
900. The total world wire telephone
mileage is 33,262,00O miles divided MS
follows: United States 20,248,0 Eu-
rope 10,335,00 and other countries
2,679,000. About six per cent of
the worlds population and sixty-one
per cent of the. telephone wire mile
age Is in the United States.
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CIVILIZATIONS
GREATEST TRAGEDY.

Extract from article by W. d. Lewis,
president Texas Farmers Union, op-
posing woman's suffrage:
1--WE are willing to join in every eff
fort to elevate woman but will assist
in none to drag her down. The de-
scent of womanhood is the most awful
tragedy in civilization. AS she sinks
she may, like the setting sun, tint the
horizon with the rays Of her depart
ing glory. She may tenderly kiss the
mountain tops of her achievement
farewell; she may, like the sinking
sun, allure the populace with her
beauty as she disappears for the night
but when she steps downward, the
earth is as certain to tremble and
plunge into darkness as death is to
follow life,'
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KNOW THY COUNTRY
Ill---Telegrdph and Telephone

Our transportation facilities are the
most perfect product of this great com
mercal age and the telegraph and tel.
ephone systems of this nation crown
the industrial achievements of the
whole world. These twin messengers
of modern civilization, born in the
skies, stand today the most faithful and
efficient public servants that ever
toiled for the human race.
They are of American nativity and
while warm from the mind Of the in
ventive genius have, under American
supervision, spun a network Of wires
across the earth and under the seas.
Telegraphy, in its early youth mas
tered the known world and the tele-
nhone has already conquered the
earth's surface, and now stands at the
seashore ready to leap across the
ocean.
No industry in the history Of the
world has ever made such rapid strides
in development and usefulness, and
none has ever eXerted more powerful
influence upon the civilization of it's
day than the Telegraph and Telephone
Their achievement demonstrates the
supremacy of two distinct types of
American genius-invention and organ
ization.
The industry was peculiarly fortun.
ate in having powerful inventive intel
lect at its source and tremendous
minds to direct its organization and
growth 1t is the most perfect fruit
of the tree Of American industry and
when compared with its European con-
temporaries, it thrills every patriotic
American with pride.
Ambitious youth can find no more in
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Woman Is Ruler Over All.

Why does woman chafe under re-
straint of sex? Why revile the hand
of nature? Why discard the skirts
that civilization has clung to since
the beginning of time? Why lay aside
this hallowed garment that has wiped
the tears of sorrow from the face Of
childhood? In its sacred embrace
every generation has hidden its face
in shame; clnging to its motherly
folds tottering children have learned
to play hide and seek and from It
youth learned to reverence and re.
spect womanhood. Can man think OF
his mother without this consecrated
garment?
Why this inordinate thirst for pow.
er? Is not woman all powerful? Man
cannot enter this world without her
consent, he cannot remain in peace
without her blessing and unless she
sheds tears Of regret over his depar.
ture, he has lived in vain. Why this
longing for civic power when God has
made her ruler over all? Why crave
authority when man bows down and
worships her? Man has given woman
his heart, his name and his money.
What more does she want?
Can man find 1t in his heart to look
with pride upon the statement that his
honorable mother.in-law was one OF
the most powerful political bosses in
the country, that his distinguished
grandmother was one of the ablest
tilibusters in the Genate or that his
mother was a noted warrior and her
name a terror to the enemy? Whittier
are we drifting and where will we
land?
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KNOW THY COUNTRY
introductory

"Know America" is slogan that
should ring out from every school
room, Office, farm and shop in this ma
ton. No man can aspire to a higher
honor than to become a capable citi-
zen, and no one can merit so dis
tinguished a title until he is we'll In
formed of the resources, possibilities
and achievements Of our country.
This is a commercial age and CIV
ilization is bearing its most golden
fruit in America. We are noted for
our Industrial achievements as Egypt
was noted for her pyramids; Jerusa-
lem for her religion; Greece for her
art; Phoenicia for her fleets; Chaldea
for her astronomy and Rome for her
laws. Likewise we have men who will
60 down in the worlds history as pow
erful products of their age. For, stand
ing at the source of every gigantic
movement that sways civilization is a
great man. The greatest minds travel
mercial genuses of this age would
have been the sculptors, poets, phil
osophers, architects, and artists Of
earlier civilizations.
AS Michael Angelo took rock and
with chisel hewed it into the image
of an angel that ever bcckons man
kind upward and onward, Hill took
the desert Of the Northwest and with
bands of steel made 1t blossom like
rose, dotted the valleys with happy
homes and built cities in waste places.
AS Gutenberg took blocks of wood
and whitfield them into an alphabet
and made printing press that
flashed education across the con.
tinent like a ray Of light upon
a new born world, Mccormick took
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WHY IS WOMAN
RESTLESS?
DESTINY OF NATIONS DEPENDS
UPON cONTENTED HOMES.
BY w. D. Lewis.
President Texas Farmers Union.

President Texas Farmers Union.
Why is woman dissatisfied? Why
does she grow restless under the
crown Of womanhood? Why is she
weary of the God-given jewel of moth.
erhood? Is it not sufficient political
achievement for woman that future
rulers nurse at her breast, laugh in
her arms and kneel at her feet? Can
ambition leap to more glorious heights
than to sing lullabies to the worlds
greatest genuises, chant melodies to
master minds and rock the cradle of
human destiny?
God pity our country when the hand.
shake of the politician is more graft.
flying to woman's heart than the pat.
ter Of children's feet.
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God Save Us From a Hen-Pecked
Nation.

follow the plow for living and
my views may have in them the smell
of the soil; my hair is turning white
under the frost of many winters and
perhaps | am a little old-fashioned,
but | believe there Is more moral in
fluence in the dress of woman than in
all the statute books of the land. AS
an agency for morality, | wouldn't
give my good old mothers home
made gowns for all the suffragette's
constitutions and bylaws in the world.
AS a power for purifying society,
wouldn't give one prayer of my sanity
mother for all the women's votes in
Chrstendom. AS an agency for good
government, | wouldn't give the plea
of a mothers heart for righteousness
for all the oaths of office in the land.
There is more power in the smile
of woman than in an act of congress.
There are greater possibilities for
good government in her family of
laughing children than in the cab.
met of the president Of the United
States.
The destiny of this nation lies in
the home and not in the legislative
halls. The hearthstone and the fam.
lily Bible will ever remain the source
of our inspiration and the Acts of the
Apostles will ever shine brighter than
the acts of Congress.
This country is law-mad Why add
to statute book, already groaning
under its own weight. the hysterical
cry of woman? If We never had q
chance to vote again in lifetime and
did not pass another law In twenty
five years, we could survive the or
deal, but without home, civilization
would wither and die.
God save these United States
from becoming hen-pecked nation;
help us keep sissies out of Congress
and forbid that women become STEP
fathers to government, is the prayer
of the farmers of this country.
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Farmers And City People

TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE
THE RAYMOND-OLIVER CO..
General Contractors and Constructors,
5l5-617 W. Pratt ST., Baltimore,
having decided to discontinue using horses
and mules in their u mess transactions,
and having no furtl er lse for their stock,
Must Positively Sell
AT oNE-HALF THEIR ACTUAL VALUE,
22O HOrscS-Mules 22O.
Been used in wagons, trucks, carts,
plowa, scoops, grading, and heavy haul
ing, etc.
HORSES, SO, $50 and Sl5 Up.
MULES, $50 to S15 4 Palr Up.
Also Mares in foal, cheap; ages t.
years old; weighing i,0,O pounds each.
P.S. Considered the best lot of accli-
mated WORK. Horses, Mares and Mule.
to suit all purposes Ior sale at the prices
in Maryland.
NOTICE-A guarantee and trial allowed
with every Horse and Mule sold. N b. -
To be sold at the rate of 20 head weekly.
See Superintendent, at the company
main office and stables.
515-5l7 W. Pratt Street,
above Paca. st. {. & p Phone st. Paul 1895
jan Z 5mo
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Western NJ land r. r.
Scned lie In Ef[ Sept. II, 1914
GOING EAST.

". OOam 2Oam 10 3Sani
u 55pm g. l3pm sap m
TOOpm l.4Opm 400 800 100
AIS 5.34 SIS
Daily. daily except Sunday. tSunday
Only. .
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An ordinary bathtub can be made to
serve for vapor bath by the use of a
cover recently invented for the pur
pose.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-04-02

less valuable in every way than a
number of men and rifles of equivalent
killing power.
The one principle guiding Us en-
ployment, therefore, is that, provided
the gun has earned it's keep or paid for
it's cost by the number of the enemy
slaughtered, it's loss or destruction
does not count. For them 1t has been
matter of the exchange of mechan-
ism costing a few pounds. which can
be replaced at once. for number of
lives which cannot be replaced within
a generation. This, of course, applies
to the gun alone and not to the high
ly trained specialists who handle 1t.
'Tt may be of some interest to point
out to those who are not acquainted
with the weapon that a machine gun
at the ordinary rate fires 500 rounds
minute. From the sector of the de-
fenses at Neuve Chapelle. where the
Germans had fifteen machine guns
within the length of a front of ESQ
yards, 1900 bullets could have been
discharged in one minute. in addition
to those from the rifles Of the in
fantry naming the parapets.
What effect this stream of lead
would have against assaulting infan
try, either held up by obstacles or ad-
vancing over clear ground at a slow
pace, which is alone possible to heavi-
ly weighted soldiers, is obvious"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-04-02
us. TUGS
ANCHOR
BY EITEL
Raider Has Finished Coal
ing and Is Taking On
Provisions Today:
-FOUR ALLIED SHIPS WATCH
Collector of Port and Off,
cials Boarded the Eitel
Today.

Newport News. April 1.-Two United
States tugs, one Of the navy and the
other of the army arrived shortly aft
er nocn and moored at Prinz Eitel
Fredericfl's pier. The navy tug. Patuz-
ent, moored at the Eiters stern and
the other, the Reno, tied up on the
opposite side of the pier. Shortly be-
fore the arrival Collector Hamilton
with a party of officials boarded the
Eitel, which yesterday completed load
ing with coal
Provisions for fifteen days voyage
began going aboard the German auxili-
airy cruiser Prinz Eitel today under the
supervision of local port authorities.
The loading of stores, including sew
eral thousand bottles of beer. will not
be finished, however, before Sunday.
Soon thereafter some definite develop
nent Is expected to show whether the
German raider will dash to sea
through the fan of hostile cruisers. off
the Virginia capes, or be interned for
the remainder of the war.
The report is current that the Eiters
time does not expire for several days
The allied warships reported off
Virginia capes today were the Suffolk,
the Berwick, the Caronia, and a
French vessel whose name is unknown.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-04-02

Washington, April .2.-Ambassador
Sharp at Paris has been called upon py
the state department for report on
the circumstances surrounding the ar
rest of Raymond Swoboda, an Ameri-
can citizen, charged with having set
fire to La Touraine, a French liner. on
her recent trip from New York to
Havre. Friends of Swoboda in New
York City had brought press reports
of his arrest to the departments at
tention and vouched for his American
citizenship.
Swoboda's right to the passport he
exhibited in New York and Paris al
ready was under investigation by the
Justice department. the duplicate from
the files of the state department hav-
ing been referred for that purpose.
This. however. was regarded merely
as a routine procedure, and there
seemed TO be no ground for doubling
that the man was entitled to what
ever protection the United States gov
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-04-02
CARMAN 4.
CASE ON
May 10

Mineola, N. Y. April Mrs.
Florence Conklin Carman. the wife OF
DR.. Edwin Carman of Freeport, will go
on trial again charged with the murder
Of Mrs. Louise Bailey. District Attor-
ney Smith, of Nassau county announce
ed the case will be called May 10. The
appellate division Of the supreme court
assigned Justice Blackmar to preside
at the trial.
The district attorney indicated he
had discovered new evidence of an
important nature. He, declined to dis
cuss this evidence, but said he and
Mrs. Carman's counsel had arranged
not TO discuss the ease in any man
ner prior to the trial.
The jury in the first trial disagreed.
Mrs Carman's counsel said: r..
Mrs: Carman always insisted she
would be, given a new trial The de-
fense will be virtually the same as at
the first trial We know Mrs. Car
man is innocent and we believe the
jury this time will say so.'
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-04-02
Germans Can be Wasteful
of Their Machine Guns

London, April 1.-The following "eye
witness" in summary of minor events
occurring on the British front last
week, sends note Of warning against
placing Importance on the capture of
machine guns from the Germans, re-
ports of which so often appear in the
official statments
ut must be remembered" he says,
shat to the Germans the loss of one
or several machine guns does not rep
resent what at the beginning of the
operations it would have meant to us
with our then vastly inferior total and
proportionate number of these weap.
ons.
1T is believed that before the war
commenced they had available alto
gether a stock of $4,000 such guns,
apart from any that may since have
been turned out by their arsenals.
Their employment of them, therefore,
has in a certain sense. been prodigal
and carried out with a disregard to
loss, which is only comprehensive
when the large reserve of these weap-
ons in their possession is borne in
mind.
ITO the Germans a machine gun rep
resents merely g. piece of machinery of
immense killing and stopping power,
which has cost certain sum of
money, but it is less vulnerable and
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-04-02
CONVLCTS
ARE STILL
AT LARGE

Bismarck, N. D., April 2.--Although
posses worked all day yesterday and
are still out this morning, nothing de-
finite has been heard as to the where
abouts of the six prisoners who made
their, escape from the penitentiary
Wednesday night.
Early last night reports came that
guards both on the north and south
sides of the city had located their men,
two in one instance and three in an
other but nothing more was heard
from these posses so ii is thought 1t
proved to be a false trail.
Prison authorities have more hopes
of results today as they state the men
will have to come into the open soon
in order to secure something to eat