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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-04-17
Special inducements Offered By
The Merchants of The
City.
THE AWARDS AT The FAIR.
Details in Charge of S. c.
Pickett, The County
AgriculturiSt.

are:
Ito place before the boy, the
family and the community in general
an example of crop production I'M
der modern scientific methods.
ITO prove to the boy, his father,
and the community generally that
there is more in the soil than the
farmer has ever gotten out of it; to
inspire the boy with the love of the
land, by showing him how he can get
wealth out of it by tilling it in bet
ter way and keeping an expense &C.
count of the undertaking.
3.-To give the boys definite
worthy purposes at an important
period in their lives and to stimulate
a friendly rivalry among them.
4.-To furnish an actual field ex-
ample in crop production that will
be useful to rural school teachers in
utilizing the work of the school and
correlating the teaching of agricul-
ture with actual practice.
People are beginning to realize
the great importance of club work
and the public spirited business firms
of Hopkinsville have been very liber-
al indeed with the prizes for the win
ners in the Boys Corn Club.
Only boys living in Christian coun-
ty, between the ages of 10 and Is. are
eligible to compete for prizes.
The prizes are as follows:
LIST Prize-Greatest yield per acre
$25 outfit by j. H. Anderson & Co..
consisting of suit of clothes, pair OF
shoes and hat.
End Prize-l library table by W. A.
| P'Pool & Son, $500.
3rd Prize-I boys hat by Wall &
| MCGOWAN, $3.50.
Best showing of profit on invest
ment, based on the commercial price
of corn:
1st Prize shotgun by F. A.
J Yost Co., $500.
End Prize-Cravenett rain coat by
Frankel's Busy Store, $1,000.
3rd Prize fourteen tooth corn
cultivator. by Forbes Mfg. Co. $500.
Best exhibit of 10 ears:
Yellow corn-l overcoat, by Irving
Roseborough Co., $1,000.
White corn-l Morris chair by H.
A. Reach Co., $500.
Best single ear of corn;
White-l boys rain coat by Wall &
MCGOWAN. $500.
Yellow-1 baseball outfit, consist.
ing of l bat, l ball and l glove
by D. w. Kitchen & Co., $500.
Best written account, showing his.
tory of crop:
farmers roll top desk by Waller
& Trice, $1,000.
Consolation prize for boy that
has not won a prize, best general av-
erage in all classes in which he has
shown:
pair of shoes by Wall & Meow.
an, $3.50.
No boy is eligible to win more
than two prizes in the Christian Co,
Boys Corn Club; however, he may
win in other classes of the Pennyroy.
al Fair and may win at the Corn
Show at Lexington. So it is posi-
BILE to win in all more than 500.
In addition to the above prizes the
state Is giving one free trip to boy
from each county to the Boys En-
campment at the State Fair. TIE
method of selecting the boy will be
determined later; however, he must
be a member of the Boys Corn
Club.
If you are not already a member
of the Boys Corn Club, send in your
name and age and post offic,
address to s. C. Pickett, County
Agent, Hopkinsville, KY, and yor
will be mailed printed instruction
regarding all phases of corn grow
log.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-04-17
EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

The date of the Kentucky Press
meeting has been moved up week.
to June Z.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-04-17

Former Senator Nelson W. AID
rich, of Rhode Island, died yester-
day of apoplexy, aged "a years.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-04-17

H. H. ALTERNATELY,
Inspector.
The schedule of the prices for the
week was as follows:
Trash $3.50 to $3.50
Lugs $4 90" $3.50.
Com Leaf $500 to $3.50.
Med Leaf S7.O0 to $3.50.
Good Leaf 5000 to S11.5O
Week ending Apr. 8, 1915 Unsold
stock Jan. l. 1915. 1,453 hogshesds.
Sales for week. 1874 Hhds
Sales for year. l66 Hhds.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-04-17
Tobacco Receipts Larger Than
Last Week and Prices
Better.
RAIN IS BADLY. NEEDED
It Is Estimated That 0ne-Third
Of The Crop Is Still
UnSOld.

The tobacco receipts on the loose
floors now exceed 100000 and pri-
ces for the week averaged $1.29
above the seasons average. A round
price of S7.5S looks good when the
dull state of the market is consider
ed. The time has evidently come
for those who are holding back to
let their crops go, if there is ever
another season.
Two crops are now suffering for a
rain, one to bring the plants up and
the other to bring the old crop in
order. About one.third of the crop
is still unsold.
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Crick's Mill Damaged.

was a little Insurance.
Evening journal., 1915-12-28
TUESDAY DEC. %. 1915
WAR PROSPERITY.

BADING Wilmington merchants report that the
~ Christmas trade in 1915 from 80 to so per
cent ahead of that in any previous year We colgrau-
late them upon their good fortune They deserved t.
incidentally it may be added, the volume Of buying
much larger the dispensaon of Christmas cheer
was correspondngly greater.
1t is conceded all sides, believe that the pros
pery which produced such gratifying result is due
directly indirectly to the European and the mil
lions of dollars spent here by warning nations for mu-
nitions of and other things needed.
At the outbreak OF that war; and for some time after
ward, economic conditions in Wilmington were bad
Our industries were languishing. thousands of men
and women we're out OF work. and our merchants were
feeling the pinch produced by the destruction OF the
wage-earning and the wage-spendng power Of those
thousands.
Some time after the war began and orders for mu-
nitions and other supplies began to pour in a mighty
change came over the face of things Big plants be-
come busy; idle men and women returned to work;
large amounts Of money were paid and put in cir
culation and business picked up all along the line
Today it is in splendid shape.
II it had not been for the European war, local con-
ditons would have been deplorabe this winter They
would have been than they we're in the winter
Of 191415, when, because OF tariff and other legsla-
tion and widespread dstrust OF the Wilson admnstra-
ton everything in the local field was at low obb and
much misery resulted The people here had a taste OF
Wilson adversity in the winter Of 191415 They have
had taste of prosperity in the winter OF 95-16
They realize that If the ends between now and
next winter and if Wilson tariff and other policies be
permitted to continue, there will return 20 the de-
porabe conditions that prevailed before the war be-
gan It is to protect themselves the future that the
people will retire the national Democracy next year
and prepare to have Republicai prosperity
prosperity.
Evening journal., 1915-12-28
FOR AN MISUNDERSTANDING CITY.

WA MERICA FIRST is the title of a striking ltho-
graphic poster which has been widely distributed
throughout our city ONE PERSON IN EVERY EIGHT
IN WILMINGTON BORN ABROAD suggests a reason
for the appearance of this poster.
Ability handle the English language is absolutely
essential to understanding of, and an appreciation
for. American civic ideals. Yet, with nearly 100000
persons in this country in 1910 who ignorant Of
the English language the danger for the future Of our
civilization must be apparent
A democratic country like own, possesses inn
mense solvent power Even this however has it's
limits When the point of saturaton is reached the
inevitable precipitation appears. This marks the real
danger point. In other words just long as the
process Of assimilation OF foreign people who have
come to us to the uncomfortable conditions pre-
vailng in continental Europe under ante-bellum
conditions continues, just long will civilization
continue to thrive When. however America ceases to
absorb this foreign element it behooves us to take
warning.
If these 100000 foreign born unable to sneak Eng
lish, distributed evenly over the country condi
tions would not be disturbing, but nearly nine
tenths Of them all are gathered in thirteen of our
States New York is to be expected. tops the list
with nearly 100000; followed by Pennsylvania with
close to 100000 Delaware, while very high up on
the list as FAR as mere numbers concerned, is
eighth in order the States on the basis Of per cent
Of ignorance Of English There are thus only seven
States OF the Union with larger proportion of their
foreign-born population who ignorant of the Eng
lish language. Most Of these nom Engsh-speaking
foreigners in Delaware found in Wilmington and
the immediate vicinity.
The Wilmington Amoricanzaton Committee has
launched movement to provide evening schools for
the foreign-speaking population. Our responsibility
for lending every encouragement possible TO the de-
veopment of this evening school idea is self-evdent
Whatever question may arise as to the wisdom of the
Board OF Education in refusing to grant financial sup
port for providing evening school opportunities the
foreign-born adult that private benefaction has
made these schools possible. there is reason Why
everybody should not support the present movement
"wILMINGToN-AN ENGLIsH-sPEAKING CITY,"
should be our slogan
Evening journal., 1915-12-28
GREECE As A BATTLE FIELD.

WHlbE King Constantine and his Hohenzollern con-
w sort are on the Greek throne and Premier Skou-
oudis is at the helm Of the Greek ship state the
Quadruple Entente has little to hope for from the
Greek nation AS the situation is sized up the
recent advces from Athens. Rome, London and else
where the Greek Government permits the British.
French, Italian and Servian troops occupy and
tfy Greek territory and also consents that Teu-
tonic Allies may do what they to oust them. In
other words. make battle field Of portion of Greece.
under guarantees bearing upon the future. Il is an
exceedingly interesting arrangement fraugh with all
sorts Of sinister possibilities for all the nations af-
fected
IT, as is asserted the Quadruple Entente has 100000
troops in and Salonka and in addition to that,
the support Of powerful feet, offensive by the
Teuonic allies should result in terrible slaughter es-
pecally the Entente officers have able select
their own ground for setting up the several lines of
defense The near future should disclose how well
founded is the assertion OF the Quadruple Entente
Powers that their position at salonika is mpregna-
bic.
Evening journal., 1915-12-28
With The Paragraphers

connecticut plumber is winning fame as a poet
and there is hope of starving them out when they
combine plumbing and poetry.-Indianapos Star
There has been much talk about preparedness for
war but what about preparedness for peace? That is
subject which must be a growing one as the Presi-
uehual campaign approaches. There is increasing in
dustral activity The textile mills are hard hit to be
sure because of the lack OF dyestu but in some other
lines there are instances where labor is not meeting
the demands for increased forces Money is pouring
into the country The balance OF trade in our favor
Is mounting upward But men who stop TO think are
not deceiNng themselves. They recognize that very
great portion OF this activity the result of interna-
uonal emergency aud that II is anything but perma-
nent The war may end suddenly or II may be pro-
longed. But II Il should end tomorrow where would il
leave us in business way? Less manufacturing on
the other side OF the Atlantic acted like protective
tarn. Demands for supplies for the armies set our
manufacturing wheels a-turnins. But let those de-
mands cease and the food Of cheap goods start in
again. where. then. would be present activity
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Evening journal., 1915-12-28
SWING For HOLIDAY SHOPPINC.

u EGINNING with the New Year to save shopping
~ money for the next Christmas is fine practice. It
makes the burden of Christmas buying much lighter
upon those who have it to do, enables them to shop
early and makes of Christmas day Of pleasure and
not OF dread
Many American banks and trust companies have es-
tablished in recent years Christmas Savings Fund
clubs The Delaware Trust Company Of this city is
one of them Announcement is made that during the
week before Christmas that trust company paid out
$4,000 to members Of It's club with the result that
thousands of gifts purchased that the holiday
obligations fell lightly upon the club members; that
the money put in immediate circulation and that
much happiness dispensed
That is only Of many instances in which fine
results obtained through the operation of sangs
clubs and kindred methods II is a system for the
easy financing of holiday shopping that is growing
in popularity all the time and in all sections Of the
United States. More Wmingonians should sup
port IT,
Evening journal., 1915-12-28
The Shipping Bill Folly
lFrom the NeW York IrIbnne.

Nobody seems to know in what
form the administration project for
a government-owned merchant marine
is going to be presented in this Con-
gress. In what he said about il in his
recent message President Wilson left
much to the Imagination. Secretary
McAdoo in some of his speeches in
the West had whitfield down the grand
lose scheme which failed in the last
Congress to the mere construction or
purchase of merchant ships to serve
primarily as naval auxiliaries. The
President, however, ignored this hap
py afterthought, and went back, ap-
parently, to the main lines of last
years plan. Proposals will be made" q"
he said Ito the present Congress for
the purchase or construction of ships
to be owned and directed by the gov
ernment similar to those made to the
last Congress, but modified in some
essential particulars"
Though admitting the necessity of
masking to some extent its purpose
to force the government into the ship
ping business in competition with
private owners, the administration
still clings to the delusion that the
present shortage in tonnage must be
remedied by putting S50,0O0,000 of
Treasury funds at the disposal Of our
idle shipyards. II is carelessly as
sumed that private capital is not keep.
ing our shipbuilding establishments
occupied to the limit of capacity VI it
was not doing so and was not equal
to doing so there would be some
ground for arguing that the govern
ment ought to supplement private or
ders with its own orders.
That such is not the case all cur
rent evidence shows. According to the
report of the Commissioner/of Naviga-
tion, Just published. our merchant ma
rine is larger now than it has ever
been-larger than it was in the palmy
days when we were one of the lead
ing maritime nations of the world.
There was a net gain of $4,000 tons
between July 1 and December ] OF
this year. There are now ninety-eight
Evening journal., 1915-12-28
Less, Not More Shipping
legislation The Need
(From the Norfolk-virginian Pilot.)

Speaking at Pittsburgh recently,
Mr. Charles NJ. Schwab made strenuous
plea for the construction Of American
ships 10 handle American commerce,
pointing to the freight congestion on
the Eastern railroads because Of the
lack Of facilities to forward our pros
ducts across the water, as demon
strating the pressing and imperative
need in that direction.
As to the desirability Of building up
an American overseas mercantile ma
rine of ample tonnage to render the
United States Independent Of the
world in the matter of handling its
foreign commerce, there is and can be
no room for rational difference Of
opinion. But how could anything
which could be done just now avail
to relieve the situation which calls
forth Mr. Schwab's plea and which
must be relieved promptly if the relief
is to be effective? Every shipyard
in the country is working overtime
turning out merchant tonnage, and
there is not single one of them
which has not already booked orders
that will keep it busy for several
years to come. This activity is cer-
tain to continue as long as the war
in Europe shall last and for some
considerable time after the restoration
Of peace. The one way to add to the
output would be to increase the num-
ber and capacity of our shipbuilding
plants, but such increases are not to
be effected in a day or a month, and
by the time anything really worth
while in that direction could be done,
the probabilities are that the neces-
sity now calling for action. would have
ceased to exist.
Evening journal., 1915-12-28

But while the door is closed to any
effective relief OF conditions at pres
ent obtaining, provision can and
should be made against their repeti-
tiOn in the future. The way lies
not in additional legislation looking
10 government ownership and oper-
alton of merchant bottoms in the
cross-seas trade or to the payment Of
bounties or subventions, but in the
repeal of a great deal of the legisla-
ton now on the statute books. II
the present activity Of American ship
yards emphasizes any one thing, it
is that American capital and Ameri-
can enterprise need only to be as
sured OF profit to invest in merchant
bottoms for service in the overseas
trade under the Stars and Stripes.
That profit is assured so long as the
war shall last by conditions which
create a demand for shipping far in
excess Of the available supply. The
one and only way to insure it after
the return of peace shall have re-
stored shipping conditions to normal
lies in so amending and undermining
our navigation laws as to place the
American shipowner on something at
least approximating terms Of equality
with his foreign rivals in the matter
Of operating and equipment costs.
That is the one thing needed to guar
antee continuance and acceleration Of
the construction of American ships
to handle American commerce" until
the country has an overseas mercan-
tile marine of ample tonnage to
handle all its commerce with the out
side world. Nothing less than that
will suffice; nothing more is re-
Quired.
Evening journal., 1915-12-28
New News Of Yesterday
The Man Who Went on
Jefferson Davis Bail Bond
By Holland

General Thomas l.. James, formerly
postmaster general, having served in
that capacity under President Garfield
and. later, for some months under Presl-
dent Arthur. made summer vacation
excursion in the early nincties through
the great lakes to Duluth. Upon his
return he spoke to me of landowner
of whom he had learned something while
in Duluth who was said TO be the owner
of a larger number OF acres OF land tnan
anv other citizen Of the United States.
~of course" said General james, "in
the development of the far West, ii was
possible for individuals to secure enor-
nous areas OF land. but l think that
relatively speaking, the owner OF the
largest amount of land in the East IN
his day at least, was GeTit Smith.
81 ann sorry that Gcrrit Smiths nams
seems likely 20 be forgotten since he
was one of the most powerful, intellect
nal forces Of his time. One thing he did
will serve to save his name from abso-
Lutte forpetfulness lie was one OF the
Northern men who gladly went upon the
bail bond which when perfected released
jefferson Davis from Imprisonment in
Fortress Monroe. think Mr.. Smith
when in Congress had made the ac'
aunintance of Jefferson Davis, and 7
have heard that they became friends.
This. of course. was some years before
the beginning of the Civil War.
II once had occasion 10 make some
inquiry about the extent of the land On
which Gerit Smith was the owner l
was told that at one time, and before ne
had parted with a considerable portion
of his real estate, he held the title to
nearly a million acres OF land, all OF
which was in New York State. lie was
actually the owner of real estate in all
but four of the counties of New York
State He possessed vast tracts OF land
in the Adirondacks.
almost all of this real estate came
to him by inheritance. / think while
still lad and not long after New York
became State there were great tracts
Of public land owned by the state in
New York which the government Of the
State decided to put on the market This
land could he bought at a very small
amount per acre. Gerrit Smiths father
was one of the very few men who had
the foresight TO see what the growth OF
New York State was to be. He there
fore bought enormous tracts and after
that increased his holdings. Some OF
these lands yielded large incomes after
ward. and that explains why GeTil
Smith was able TO lavish gifts, as he die
right and left and still be regarded
while he was in Congress among the
richest Of the members of that body
Cerrit Smiths father laid the foundation
for his fortune by engaging in the fun
trade when that was a very profitable
business"
Copyright, 1918. by z. J. Edwards Al
rights reserved.)
Evening journal., 1915-12-28
p0LIcEMEN As Samoa CLAns.

M EMBEs Of the Wilmington police force did splen-
Iva did work in dispensing Christmas cheer to poor
children in this community.
Fully 1900 boys and girls the recipients of po-
lice bounty in the Municipal Court on Christmas morn
ing The fact that the Office performed by the police
men was a yicarous one and that the money needed
to provide the 1900 packages of candy nuts and fruit
and the 1900 pairs Of stockings was supplied by
philanthropst whose name is kept secret made the
function none the less praiseworthy. The policemen
had entire charge of the setting up and decor
atng the tree, arranging the gifts and selecting the
juvenile benehciaries They did it we'll
Christmas after Christmas they have done this fine
work seemingly getting out Of it almost as much
pleasure have the boys and girls who received the
gifts and with them Frightening of their lives at
times when all children should have some measure Of
holiday happiness.
Evening journal., 1915-12-28

street; Mrs. Eugene Mitchell. 429
Claymont street; Mrs Authers, sos
Claymont street.
District No. a.
The Rev. Joseph Y. Irwin. chairman
"A. Starr. 1401 West street; J. Il.
Westcott, 1901 Tatnall street.
The Rev. w. l.. S. Murray, chair.
man-Mrs. Baker, 214 E. Fourteenth
street; Miss f. Clark, 71O E. Eley.
enth street; John w. Cochran, 1912
kirkwood street; Mrs. Carrie Death,
91S Pine street; George Foster. sos
e Tenth street; Charles H. Slatterly.
1915 French street; Mrs. Ellen Wolf,
9O5 Bennett street: Mrs. Welch. 1914
Lombard street; Mrs. Cohee. All Sher-
man street; B. L. Keen, 1923 Kirk
wood street.
Evening journal., 1915-12-28

The Ford peace mission has been wrecked because Il
was nopportune, devoid OF official standing lacking in
coherent plan and composed OF human elements which
while they preached peace to Others were warning
among themselves. In view of what has occurred IL is
not surprising that Henry Ford dsgusted has deserted
the party ad started homeward, and that Mrs Inez
Mlhoand Bosseyain and others have followed his ex-
ample. For many Of those who IT, was not peace
mission but merely jolly iunket taken at Ford's ex-
pense The millionaire meant well, but doubtless he
realizes by this time the truth Of the observation that
"the road to hell is paved with good intentions"