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The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-09
How to Pack Apple

The longlestablished customs Of sell
ling apples on the "Lumpin'
'em oF'-has done more to upset the
Missouri apple market than any other
practice, The best and most success
ful growers in the State do not sell that
way.
A good substantial pack OF sound
apples should be put up, They should
be sorted into two or three grades &C
cording to size. 1.-THE variety is squite
uniform make two grades, II it runs
large and small, make three. Marx
the barrels to indicate the sizes. A
barrel Of uniform, medium sized apples
will outsel barrel Of equally good
ones Of mixed sizes on any market.
In barrel packing face with the
stems to the head. The lacers should
not misrepresent the contents Of the
barrel either in size, color or quality.
Shake the barrel several times during
the filing. Place the top layer stems
up, the outside row an inch or so
higher than the end OF the slaves, the
middle an inch higher than the out
side row. Better be too high than too
low. Use corrugated paper pads at
both ends Of the barrel, smooth side
OF the pad to the fruit.
With the better sorts, such as Jona-
than, Grimes, etc., there is a place
for box packing. But boxes should
be used in connection with barrels.
Box the best, following the western
standard as closely as possible, barrel
the rest, sorting according to size.
Better methods Of production and
packing will make marketing easier
and more profitable. The Missouri
College Of Agriculture at Columbia is
ready to give detailed information to
any farmer in Missouri who wants to
know more about grading and packing
apples.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-09

The steadily increasing deficit is an
occasion Of serious anxiety to the
White House. Since July lst Uncle
Sans expenses have exceeded his re-
ceipts by $28,6O0,O00. During the
same period Of last year, the excess
was only SIS, 100000. Competent
experts are convinced that without
special taxation the expenses for the
year will exceed the receipts by $780,
100000. Secretary McAdoo says he
is not worrying. There is no coun-
try on the globe more able to pay more
taxes than the United States, il our ex-
penses are to be increased" he said
yesterday, on his return from his vaca-
ton in Maine. But the President and
Others Of his advisers are worrying be-
cause they realize that the imposition
Of further taxes will make the Ad'
mintration unpopular. The experts
believe that the administration
will have to sell bonds to
make good this deficit, even without
any increased expenditures for nation
al defense. While the failure Of the
Underwood bill as a revenue producer
is largely responsible 10. the serious
condition Of the Treasury, another
potent cause is the reckless extravag'
ance with which the democrats have
been spending money for junkets,
special commissions, etc. One oi
these commissions is described as hav'
ing been so reckless inplacing contracts
that one man, an expert accountant
and a worthy democrat, is making
SlO0 day day net profit on his con
tract.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-09
A Summarizes Summer
apples.

We would call this the end oi sum-
mer were It less possible that it is the
beginning thereof, and our reputation
in weather prophecy must not be triaed
with, like that Of the Weather Bureau,
which has to prophecy twice in every
twenty'iour hours. Technically, this
would have 10 be called the end Of
the summer if there had been sum-
mer. But the summer Of 1915 is
like eternity. 1t can have no ending
because it had no beginning. More
summer days came in the spring ol
this year than since then. Only hl'
teen days Of 90'degree temperature in
the nearly 100 days between the lst
Of June and the last Of August The
others huctuated between 40 and 10,
some Of them getting up as high as 80,
only to grow dizzy at that height and
fall so fast and so far as to remind US
Of acrobats who drop from an elevation
swiftly enough to compel wonder a;
their dexterity in catching on to some
thing with their chins before striking
bottom. Even the Fourth Of July,
proverbially hot, was this year so cold
it was hard to raise the heat needed
to discharge frecrackes, whereat ad-
vocates Of the safe and sane Fourth
claimed a great victory they never
won. 1t treally was too cold this Fourth
Of July to get warmed up to patriot.
ism.
But with the understanding that The
end Of August must mark the end Of
summer, We are willing to concede the
end Of summer as the means Of get
ting to an end Of August. We would
end anything 10 end August. Such
an August! Forcing US to sleep tn
der heavy coverings when it has always
been our delight to sleep in Augrst
under nothing at all. 1t is strange
that the last rose OF summer didL't
leave blooming alone before the half
Of this August was sped. We have
been overburdened carrying topeoats
and umbrellas and paying for straw
hats to replace those blown away on
. Arctic August winds. Good bye sum
mer, il you call that gonel--Globe'
Democrat.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-09
A Fight For a Million

Brushing away all the evasions and
quibbles and sophistry, it is apparent
that the state auditor is as bent on US
ing half million dollars OF the public
school fund this year and an equal or
larger amount next year for relief Of
the general fund as he was when he
wrote the attorney general for an opin-
ion on the subject in in November,
1918. II the state auditor were in
terested in politics, one might infer
that he would have followed the opin-
ion last year but for the disastrous
effect on the fall election. The at
torney general, who's memory has been
refreshed about an opinion Of which he
seemed to have such vague reccol'
lection two weeks ago, has sought
shelter from the storm of indignation
by reversing himself. He did not do
it very gracefully or very promptly, al
though his letter Of recantation appears
to have been written August l3. The
state superintendent Of public schools,
who at first announced that he would
accept the depletion Of the sacred
fund without struggle, saw his error
soon. But he was at home where he
could hear the protests, while the at
torney general was away chautauqua'
ing. The state auditor now stands
alone on the burning deck. He still
has a chance before the Supreme Court,
Blu: he must delay matters anyhow,
until he can collect enough taxes to
replace the expended school fund. II
replaced now there would be deficit
OF $481,7S6.25 in the general zeve'
nue. fund.
The state auditor is brave enough
now, but his course has not been con.
spicuously frank. The facts had tc
filter through official reticence. Al
first it was impossible to get the de-
tails as to what revenues we're consid
cred extraordinary" Finally it wa
announced that the rule for distribution
was contained in an opinion by the a,
torney general. What led him to Civ,
it was a mystery for a while. 1t nov
seems clear that the state auditor orig
mated the idea, and he clings to it no
merely from parental pride, but be
cause he knows the plight OF the gen
eral fund. II the story were beinI
dramatized for the movies it would b
called "A Fight for a Million" W
limit the amount advisedly, for tn
next General Assembly will be as lib
eral to the public school fund as it
predecessors have been, even il tn
Supreme Court should hold that tn
legislators have voted the school fun
appropriations year after year in utte
ignorance Of the way the lar
guage was being construed. Th
Supreme Court decision will effect tn
school fund for only two years. B,
these two years mean much to an a;
ministration whose chief claim TO di
t tinction has been its extravagance
! expenditures. Globe Democrat.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-09
Yours, as always,
MRS. S. 7. ATHERToN.
StarVe the HsSSian FLY

Here is a recipe for putting the
Hessian Fly out Of business that is
guaranteed by the College Of Agri'
culture OF the University OF Missouri
to be as effective as il is simple.
/. Bury the flies. Pillow soon after
harvest as deeply as conditions will
permit. Most Of the insects are now
in the fax seed or resting stage, down
at the crown Of the old wheat plants
between the leaf sheath and the stalk.
Flowing will destroy them. A harrow
or disc should follow the plow to com
pact the soil.
Q. Destroy the volunteer wheat.
Cultivate the plowed ground during
the late summer and early fall to de.
stroy the volunteer wheat and weeds.
Volunteer wheat provides a breeding
and feeding grounds for the full crop
OF flies. Keep it down and avoid one
common source Of fly iniestation.
8. Sow on or soon after hy-free
date.-Sow the wheat just as late as
advisable to have it up and established
before winter. Prepare the seed bed
thoroughly and when this is done the
wheat may be sown much later with
out danger from winter killing. The
fyfree date or dates OF late sowing
are approximately as follows: For the
northern third Of Missouri, October
1st; for the central third Of the State,
October 9Th; and for the southern
third, October 10th. 1t will be not
iced that the dates oi safe sowing be-
come later as We 60 southwark. Far
mers should therefore make their wheat
sowing become later as We 60 south
ward. Farmers should therefore make
their wheat sowings conform as near a:
possible TO the dates suited to theil
locations in the different parts OF the
state.
4. Get your neighbors to cooper
ate. Co. o.operstion is essential especi
ally during bad fly years. If one neg
ligent or careless farmer sows his whea
early or fails to destroy the vcluntee
wheat. he may have enough flies il
his wheat next spring to not only de
stroy his own wheat crop, but to ais,
destroy the wheat crops Of all hi
neighbor,s although they may hav
, prac.iced all the remedies above men
. toned.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-09
Washington Letter

Washington, Sept. 6.-The increas'
ing realization Of the people Of the alb
solu,e necessity Of greater prepared
ness for national defense, the increas-
ing Treasury deficit and the openly
avowed hostility Of democratic leaders
in congress to anything ike adequate
apoppriations for military preparedness
combine to present to President Will
son perhaps the greatest problem OF
his administration. Mr.. Wilson's
position is made all the more difficult
BY the fact that he has himself so long
opposed adequate expenditures for de-
Tense and that his last annual message
to Congress was an eloquent brlel tor
unpreparedness. Since then Mr.. Will
son appears to have learned some les
sons from the var in Europe, to have
come to appreciate how futile was
Belgium's strict neutrality to save her
from devastation by stronger force,
how helpless England has been be-
cause Of her lack Of preparedness and
how Germany has been enabled to
fight four great nations by her extra
ordinary preparedness, Two OF the
most prominent Democrats, however
have learned no such lesson. Senator
Kern, leader OF the upper House and
close friend and protege OF William J.
Bryan, has publicly announced his op
position to generous appropriations Tor
defense and so has Representative
Claude Kitchin, democratic leader oil
the House. Furthermore Mr.. Wilson
is seriously hampered by the TACT that
he exerted his great influence with
Congress to prevent the creation ofthe
commission proposed by Representa-
tive Gardner which, by next Decem-
Der, would have been prepared to
show how such funds as can be ex-
pended could be made to do the most
good. And still further to hamper Mr.
Wilson in his efforts to procure appro-
priations for defense will be the almost
unanswerable argument that the treas
ury is empty and can be replenished
only by the sale Of bonds,
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-09
With Close One Hundred Forsys Doing Well

a pilgrimage to that country is now
out ol the question.
want so much TO visit America,
but the travelling is now very difficult
and communication so irregular that I
hate to leave my husband. In fact,
it is my duty TO remain with him-my
duty Of love. think, Laura, that you
think ! am neglecting my little mother,
but | can't feel that way. I love my
mother very much, but husband comes
first.
We have fallen heir to two little
gardens and are reveling in them.
Each boasts a tea house, which is a
real necessity in this land Of much tea
There are pansies, roses and lilacs,
gooseberries and cunants, and we'll
have scads Of vegetables. Neither Of
US know the first principles oi garden
ing, but have learned that potatoes
must be planted every year and that
tapioca isn't garden product, We
have a very good gardener.
Our main cry is for something to
read, but finally we received a book
catalogue from Russia and have sent
Tor 10 volumes. Our magazines and
papers haven't come through since
February, though an occasional letter
drifts through.
Please write, and accept Tor yourself
and mother my love and best wishes.
Remember me to Mrs. McConkey
and family.
Yours, as always,
MRS. S. T. ATHERToN.
Many here at Forsyth and else
where in the county will remember
Mrs. Atherton, as she was formerly
Miss Anna Seide!l Of Chicago, and she
with her mother spent nine weeks in
Forsyth and several weeks in the
Shepherd Of the Hills country during
the summer and early fall OF 1910.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-09

Reports which have reached Wash
ington but which the Administration
has been trying TO suppress describe
German influences in Mexico as secret
" encouraging Caranza to hold out
against the peace proposals Of the
United States. As the Mexican situ-
alton now stands, all the Mexican
generals" who are discouraged and
who believe they might gain more By
an election than by force Of arms have
assented to the proposed peace con
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-09

There is much sympathy in Wash
ington for Secretary Garrison, who, it is
appreciated, would never have laid
himself open to just criticism by his
reprimand Of General Wood had not
the president insisted upon it. OF
course the president was not really
angry with General Wood, but he was
inluriated by Colonel Roosevelt's pitt
less exposure Of the weakness Of the
Wilson administration, and as he was
not in a position to crack Mr.. Roose'
velt's head he instructed Secretary
Garrison to crack General Woods.
Secretary Garrison has been a con-
sistent advocate Of competent and
we'll trained army aud has made able
recommendations in his annual reports,
so that there was nothing in Mr..
Roosevelt's original speech which
could have offended him. But Presi-
dent Wilson has neither supported moi
sympathized with his secretary Of war,
and, because oi that lack OF support,
congress has seen fit to turn dowr
| Mr.. Garrison's every recommendation
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-09

The democratic national committee
is using the moving pictures in an
effort to popularize President Wilson
and to deceive the people regarding
the real facts in Mexico. A set Of
films, which has been widely distrib'
uted. represents Madero as the savior
Of Mexico, Huerta as the murderer Of
Madero, and Woodrow Wilson as the
hero who would not recognize muir
derer. No mention is made, Of course,
OF the hundreds Of innocent Americans,
the American marines and the Amer
ican soldiers who have been killed be-
cause Of Mr.. Wilson'S failure TO recog-
nize Huerta, and it is not explained
that every man competent to judge Of
Mexican conditions, including some Of
Mr.. Wilson'S close friends, regards
that failure as responsible for most Of
the bloodshed in that unhappy republic.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-09

Despite the fact that President Will
son was, before his election, a vice
president OF the Civil Service Reform
League, no administration in years has
been as prohigate IN the distribution Of
spoils as his, and incidentally no ad
ministration has been as hostile to
women. During the last congress
l,349 republican postmasters were re-
moved and replaced by democrats,
while 1872 women postmistresses we're
removed and replaced by men. Wo-
men do not exert sufficient political
influence in their respective commdn-
tiles, according to the politicians now
in power, and is is, therefore, folly to
leave a woman, however competent
and the efficiency records show them
generally 10 be more competent than
men-in a postofice, which faithful
democratic politician covets. Further
more, there have been more suspen-
sions OF civil service rules requiring
examinations for appointment during
this administration than during a like
period Of any recent administration.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-09

Recent disclosures regarding the fate
and condition OF the submarine, the
F-4, which sank with ali on beard in
Honolulu harbor, show that a terrible
responsibility rests on secretary Daniels.
He censured, last winter, the naval
officer who told committee OF con
gress the truth regarding the in
efficiency Of the submarines, and
authorized the continued use Of the
F type Of submarines despite the fac
that they were known 10 officers ant
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-09

men 10 be unfit for service and that
just such a catastrophe as has occurred
in the case Of the F-4 was likely to
happen at any time. The navy de-
partment is doing everything possibly
to suppress the facts but responsibility
for the death Of the twenty-five officers
and men lost on that ship rests squarely
at the door Of Mr.. Daniels. They
died a sacrifice to his stupidity and
pride Of opinion.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-09

ference while Caranza, who has had
considerable military success, is hold
ing out stoulty against the conference
and purposes TO demand that the Unit
ed States recognize him. This govern
ment would cheeriully do this If it be-
lieved he could restore peace, but all
the indications are that no sooner did
this country lend its support to Car
ranza than all the other generals"
would make war on him. Meanwhile,
the influence Of the United States in
Mexico has become an absolute minus
quantity. The Mexicans have only
contempt for the Gringoes, as they
call Americans.
Germany's assurance that she will
not further torpedo passenger ships
without first searching them and afford
ing ihe passengers an opportunity to
escape is generally regarded as indi'
eating that this form Of warfare has
proved a failure, especially as it was
exciting the hostility OF all neutrals, in.
cluding this country. Furthermore,
according 10 trustworthy advices reach
ing the navy department, England has
been playing havoc with the German
submarines, having sunk no less than
thirty one during the past thirty day S
The president is now working on a
protest to England against the orders
in council, but in the meantime Eng
land is seeking TO disarm criticism in
this country by making material con-
cessions from those orders in favor OF
individuals.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-02-26
Allies Artillery Forces
Said Gaining Ascendancu

Paris = An official eyewitness ac-
count of the recent fighting in France
and Belgium was given out by the
French War department. The writer
says:
During the past ten days detest
able weather, continuous rains in some
parts and violent snow squalls il
others and thick fog have hindered the
operations nearly everywhere on the
western battle front. In spite of the
conditions this period has been favor.
able to us.
"Our artillery obtained brilliant! re-
suits and the enemy evidently was un-
able to equal our fire. The French
superiority in ammunition and sup
plies is being more and more con-
firmed.
"Our infantry showed an aggressive
spirit in the Arters, Champagne, Ar
gonne and Alsace regions, and their
operations were crowned with success.
We thus obtained appreciable results.
That the German official communica-
tions after having fatty denied, have
now partially admitted that prisoners
and materials have fallen into our
hands, moreover, are the best proofs
of our success.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-02-26
House Passes Bill Against
Use of Trading Stamps

State Capitol, Salem-An anti-trad-
ing stamp bill, introduced to drive the
popular trade magnet completely out
of the state, was passed by the house.
The measure was introduced by Repre-
sentative Thomas Brown, of Marion.
Senator Lafollette, of Marion, was the
author of a similar bill in the senate.
The measure levies 5 per cent ex-
else tax on the gross receipts not only
of all concerns conducting trading
stamp system in the state, but on all
merchants who use them. 1t was ad-
mitted by those who sponsored the bill
that the measure probably will put an
end to the trading stamp business.
Ostensibly, however, the measure is
intended to raise funds for the state,
as the receipts from the proposed tax
are to go into the state treasury.
Representative Brown painted a
dreary picture of the misfortune Of the
small merchant who is made to COM
pete with the concern that gives away
trading stamps as an inducement to
attract custom. He declared that the
trading stamp is an unnatural trade
condition, that it is an economic waste
and that it really proves an expensive
attachment to the business of the
merchant who uses it.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-02-26
Amendment Asks Change
in Lease of Salt Lakes

State Capitol, Salem - The Forbes
house bill approving the lease of Sum-
mer and Albert Lakes to Jason C.
Moore has finally emerged from the
senate committee on public lands.
Attached to the report of the COM
mittee is recommendation signed by
three of the members that the bill be
80 amended that the lessees will be re-
quired to execute bond guaranteeing
payment for all labor and materials
contracted for. The amendment also
makes the lease conditional upon sub
mission by the lessees or their assigns
to regulation by the State Land board
in the sale of shares of stock.
There is strong opposing sentiment
in the committee, as well as in the
body Of the senate, against imposing
any new conditions on the lease. The
reason for advancing the amendment
are that certain laborers and material
men have not received payment for
work and materials furnished former
lessee of the lakes, whose enterprise
was abandoned, and that the state
should take precaution against turning
its property over to possible stock
jobbing corporation to exploit.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-02-26
IA Appropriation Bills
Provide SITS, 7O6. 40 +

State Capitol, Salem = Appre
tions for sundry and miscellaneoe
partments of the state governmer
gregating SITS, 706. 40 are provide
in series Of IA appropriation bill
troduced in the house by the
house and senate ways and means
mittee.
These bills carry the items for !,
tenance of the executive of the
government, including the salari
the governor, secretary of state,
treasurer and their office assist
The governor is given his usual +
ance of $500 a year for travelil
penses.
The only big state institution
vided for in these bills are the
iers' Home at Roseburg, with
658.75 for the biennium, and tht
berculosis hospital, with $53, ITS.
An aggregate Of $4,000 i
quired for bounties on wild anims
the next two years. Of this sum
900 is to meet a deficiency in the
of the last two years. The pi
legislature voted to increas'
bounty on coyotes and to pl,
bounty on seals, and addition,
penditures will be required for
purposes.