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The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30
Tomato Club AT McDavids Grove

A Tomato Club has been or
ganized at McDavids Grove with
the following members, Agnes
Craig, Grace French, Floy
McDavid, Annie Goforth, Elsie
and Mabel Hancock, Muriel
French Sec. Mary Farmer Pres.
These are all bright energetic
girls, anxious to do things and
how by their own efforts they
can make home more attractive.
First meeting was held Thurs
day April, s. Miss Clark was
present and we enjoyed the time
spent there very much, and we
expect the meetings to be more
interesting each time as we will
learn more about the work, next
will be held Tuesday
April 20, at the home of Mary
Farmer, all members are ex-
pected to be there and will have
some special subject to talk on.
Visitors invited to come.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30
Women In Arms!

Think of it!
Women in arms fighting the
battles of their country!
The bittergess and horrors of
this war should be brought forci-
bly, home to all civilized people
by the action of the women of
France.
When fighting becomes nee
essary it is assumed to be the
exclusive province of mad to en-
gage in the active fray.
And yet this frightful war has
reached the stage where the
women of Paris are recruiting a
regiment of soldiers among their
own sex for duty in the field.
Men are needed on the battle
line, and this regiment Of women
soldiers will shoulder their rifles
and convey ammunition and pro-
vision trains, garrison conquered
territory, and perform other field
duty necessary in order to relieve
men who are needed at the front.
Women in arnsi
Has the civilization of this
world fallen so low that the
mother of man must sink her
sex and expose her fair breast
to the mutilation of shot and
sh all?
Must she face the horrors of
the battlefield. the rigors of a
campaign and the pestilence of
armed camps in order that kings,
emperors and fools may satiate
their cravings for official MUIR
der?
Women in arms!
Is the lust of man for power
so great that the sacredness of
womanhood must be brushed a.
side, her frailty trampled in the
dust, her privacy outraged by
the glare of camp life?
God forbid!
The patriotism of these women
is sublime!
1t has few parellels in history.
But what a disfrace to man.
kind-what a blow to our blood
despatched civilization!
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30

Highest Record winter laying
White Wyandottes, bred for util-
ity and beauty. 70 hens layed
1144 eggs in December, 1850 in
January, 1924 in February, an
average of So eggs per hen or
265 per each five, SO better than
the five best in the Missouri state
contest. Eggs Is for $1.00, 80
for $3.50, prepaid. Ernest E.
Smith, Hardin, KY, route l.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30
REAL ESTATE
A Big Snap

280-acre farm, mile railroad
station, all under hog-tight wire
fence, 140 acres cultivation, 100
acres stumped, rich, mostly level;
five-room dwelling, three tenant
houses, eight stall mule barn, 81
stall COW barn, bedrooms, mod
ern, fine water, gasoline engine,
1000 gallon tank. Farm divided
25-acre plats. pipe from tank to
each plat. $4,000. Act quick; i'm
provements worth the money.
300 acres adjoining, fenced, Sc
per acre. Central Realty & ms
Agcy., McComb, Miss. 528
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30

Pure Silver spangled Ham,
burgs, "the hens that lay" My
strain guaranteed to be equal to
any; can fill a few more orders;
$3.50 per setting from these
laying, speckled hens" S. M.
Jordan, Louisville, Miss. Ga
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30
IMPROVING OUR POTATO VARIETIES
BY BREEDING AND SELECTION.
Greater Care Needed in Selection of Seed and
Development Of New Vigorous
Seeding Varieties.

version into starch, alcohol, or
other industrial by ruduc,s.
The American potato Gro
the other hand, has no such out
let for its surplus tubers, since
less than l per cent of the crop
is used for industrial purpos :.
Moreover, the per capita, con-
sumption of potatoes in Germany
is about two and one-half times
as great as it is in this country.
The modern tendency toward
the development of potato-grow-
ing centers in widely separated
sections of the United States, as,
for example, Aroosto ok County,
Me-, the Norfolk and Eastern
Shore trucking regions of Vir-
ginia and Maryland, the Red
River Valley of Minnesota and
North Dakota, the Kaw Valley
OF Kansas, the Greedy and Car
oondale districts of Colorado,
and the San Joaquin and Sacra-
mento Valleys of California, has
created a demand for varieties
OF potatoes especially adapted to
cultivation in those sections.
This condition, coupled with the
presence of numerous diseases f
the vines and tubers. from which
frequent and oftentimes severe
losses have resulted, has caused
many inquiries to be made regard
ing the possibility of developing
new varieties or strains possess
ing certain specific qualities not
embodied, at least to the same
degree, in those varieties now
NATURALIZATION.
This demand upon the plant
breeder has served to emphasize
the desirability to develop, either
through breeding or selection.
new varieties or strains of pota-
toes which shall possess a great
er degree of resistance to the
parasitic fungi which now prey
upon the plants and tubers.
Another fruitful field of in
vestigation we'll worth the atten.
ton of the plant breeder is the
development of potato varieties
tn 1t are be tier adapted to Ger.
tain sections of our country.
Their characters tics may be
either earliness or lateness,
dro lphr resistance or heat resist.
ance, or an ability to success in
heavy or light soil; they may be
productiveness, shape of tuber,
quality of tuber, starch content,
or, in fact, any distinct quality
which would make a variety es.
pecially desirable for cultivation
in a given locality.
Methods for securing superior
strains in the business of potato
breeding and selection are re-
commended in Circular 113 OF
the Bureau of Plant Industry
and in Farmers Bulletin 533,
both of which may be obtained
by addressing the Editor and
Chief, Division of Publications,
U. S. Departmental Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30

For Sale Silver Campine eggs
of quality. Kennedy's Canadian
Jacobus improved strain. Prices
reduced. Best grade from SIS to
So; grand quality So to 81 per Is.
Embden geese stock or eggs.
Cedar Hill Poultry Farm, H. A.
Scott, Cumberland City, Tenn.
zoo
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30

Pure Bred-White Orpingtons
and Anconas Eggs for sale at 81
per Is for remainder of season.
Two hundred egg strain. C. S.
Austin, Henry, Tenn.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30
PLANTS AND SEED.

Lespedeza or Japan clover, 81
per bushel; write for special
prices in 100-bu. lots. Sample
free, guaranteed recleaned and
high termination; fine TO sow in
oats. Wolf, Amrbein & Co.,
Zachary, La. AZ
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30
S. G. Rhode Island Reds

The best all purpose fowl; win
ners at the leading shows, and
heavy layers. Write for mating
list. Eggs $1,0O, $3.50 and $500
per Is. Satisfaction guaranteed.
H. c. Leach, Atwood, Tenn.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30
Homestead Land

In Arkansas, thousands o f
acres of good farming land yet
to be taken. For 25c will send
map showing same and full in
structions how to get it. Jerry
Witt, Atty, Mt. Ida, Arkansas.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30
POULTRY AND EGGS.

For Sale Pure bred Black Or
pington eggs, 81. 90 for Is, with
IL fertile eggs to each setting
guaranteed. R. B. Chrisman,
Henry, Tenn. AZ
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30
Redeemed Lespedeza Seed:

grows, reseeds anywhere in Dix
lie. The southland's alfalfa. All
live stock love this ''soil builder. +"
Sample pound, postpaid, Soc.
Sample bushel for acre, $500.
No Johnston grass. Write for
free sample, circular and deliver
ed price. w. E. Hopper, Zach
airy, La. AZ
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30
BUY 1T OR SELL 1T
To Introduce NV Plants, will

sell one Giant Hymalaya black
berry, one Austin dewberry, one
red raspberry plant for 25c, post
paid. Write for prices on larger
lots. Strawberry plants So per
1000. Jackson & Whitehead,
Raleigh, Tenn. Route 2. 528
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30
Bats Prolific Seed Corn. Field

selected. Soundest and most pro-
life. Have grown 104 bushels
to acre. l bu., $500; IL bu.,
81. rs; peck, S1.00. Trices cotton
seed, dollar. ]. w. Robinson &
Son, Ramer, Tenn. AZ
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30

Summer Prices: Single Comb
Black Minorca eggs, 75c per Is;
81 per as. Miss Minerva Hunter,
sos Tenth ST., Nashville, Tenn.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30
We Want Men--To learn tn

We Want Men--TO learn the
best trade of the day. We can
teach you the barber trade in half
the time of other colleges, fur
nish you tools and pay wages
while learning. Now is the time
to learn. Call or write Moler
Barber College, 18 Jefferson Ave.
Memphis, Tenn. 10t-4-2.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30

Every progressive potdto grow
err should have a selection plat"
in which to grow his yearly Sc
lections; and also an increase
plat" where the promising selec-
tons may be increased for the
field-crop planting, according to
a new professional paper on
Potato Breeding and Selection"
Just published as Bulletin 1915,
of the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture. The deterioration of
our cultivated varieties of pota-
toes through lack of proper care
and through disease makes it
necessary les be i'm
proved by greater care in the
selection of the seed and through
the Development of new seed
ling varieties pos sessing greater
resistance to disease or better
commercial qualities. The ne
cessity of improving onr cultivat-
ed varieties of potatoes has been
emphasized in previous publica-
tons of the Department, bat the
present pamphlet goes further
in presenting many important
details regarding potato breeding
and selection which should help
the growers throughout the
country.
A clear-cut distinction is made
between breeding" and "selec-
tom in the new bulletin, where
breeding" is employed to mean
sexual reproduction, and ''selec-
tom to mean the isolation and
So called "asexual propagation
of desirable strains and types.
Breeding can be successful only
when it goes hand in hand with
selection, but selection is not de-
pendent upon breeding for re-
suits.
Intelligent potato breeding
deals with seedlings produced
from hand cross-pollinated flow
ers protected from insects and
borne on plants possessing char
acteristics which it seems desir'
bale to combine in a newly breC
| potato. The to-date ANNA
breeder displays the same careful
consideration in the selection OF
male and female as does the pc.
tato breeder in picking the par
ent plants. Selection plays q
very important role in this kline
Of breeding.
| One of the first serious at,
tempts at potato breeding in the
| United States was made by 6
clergyman of Utica, N. Y, who
introduced the progenitor of the
World-famous potato, Early Rose.
This gentleman, the Rev. G.
E. Goodrich, was furnished in
centive for his effort by a wide
spread potato blight both in this
country and abroad in the early
forties. Mr.. Goodrich secured a
number of promising South
American varieties by which he
hoped to restore the vigor to the
North American potato whose
vines and tubers had become
very susceptible to the disease.
The Importance of this clergy.
mans work lies not so much in
the new varieties introduced as
in the impetus imrarted to plant
breeding, and the efforts of those
who followed him one of whom
eventually produced the Early
Rose. Other interesting facts
about the development of potato
breeding are outlined in the new
bulletin.
Our present average annual
production of potatoes is only
about one-fifth that of Germany.
Although the potato crop ranks
sixth in agricultural Importance
in the United States, it has by
no means reached the position
that it's wide use as a table food
would seem to justify. The wide
variation in production between
Germany and the United States
may be partially accounted for
by the fact that 20 per cent or
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30
HELP WANTED.

Wanted:-Am man or a lady who
is in position to attend to our
monthly collections for subscrip-
ton accounts also promote our
club work: Permanent work; lib
eral allowance made; write David
c Cook, Pub. c., 322 Boston
Building, Louisville, Kentucky.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30

Seed Corn a Specially. Red
Oak Farm, w. P. bearing, pro-
prietor, Covington, Tenn, Route
No. 2 528l
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30

TIME Goodrich Safety Tread
is the fairest-priced Tire, of
similar Quality, in the field
Ten to 800 loUer than other Tires that
give less Mileage on average perform
ance less effective Traction, with more
Vibration, and greater tendency to sep
arate the layers of Fabric and of Tread.
Compare the Goodrich Safety"
Mileage Costs with that of any other
Tire in the field, and ACT on what
the Comparison shows you.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-30
TNHAT'S the Tire Question in
a Nutshell

TIME mileage Guarantee" is
therefore deceptive Misno-
mer.
1t does not guarantee given Mile
20 but Is only figure arbitrarily
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-03
JITNEY BUS AND GOOD
ROADS

whatever else nay he said % th'
fitaey bgs q o. probably the best ar
. rtmeat for hard roads IN Rock Island
and other mud bound counties which
has yes been presented The OalJ
reason that the Iituoy Gus can com
pete with street railways in the cit
I les is because they have smooth
streets 70 operate over. Nobody be
ileves Tor a moment that autos could
run IN the mud or over ordinary dirt
roads and carry passenger probably
AZ 3 cents q head Given paved high.
ways. however. they can operate and
handle passengers AZ between two and
three ceuts Per mile. which makes Il
possible for them 90 compete not on
D. with street cars. but also with IN
terurbaus and steam roads. Il is all
q question Of highway Improvement.
In both ends % this county the
people have long desired an lnterur-
ban. They unquesti0nabiy stand
ready 90 furnish free right % way and
20 subscribe literally toward the cost
OF lines which will offer them service
% and from the tTf-Ciues. The ex-
IRENE west end Of the county. with
ont any railroad at all. 10 seriously
handicapped
The iitney bus has proved that a
good hard road. one over which autos
and motor trucks can operate every
day la the year. would actually give
the distant parts % the county a.
quick and economical transportation
a. an luterurban would ard further
more. 90 would Be- more convenient
cor the reason that those desiring 20
visit the tri-citiss would not be forced
20 inconvenience them selves 20 con
form 90 interurban schedules. They
could travel IN 'heir own conveyauces.
which a Erea. many nov have and
more viii have
A hard road through the lower end
% the county. built over the most d.
rect route. would not only make g.
possible Tor people living there 90 visit
tho city quickly and conveniently a.
any time. but 10 would furnish saciE-
ties for them % send In daily their
milk butter. poultry products and 9th
or things produced on the farm Il
would greatly widen the area In when
Intensive farming 90 supply the
cities could b. done probably and the
value Of the land would be Increased
% anything % a greater degree than
would the construction o. an inter
urban over the same route.
~ the fitucy has does no more than
convince the people OF the country
districts that fcu direct. well con
structcd hard roads are a. important
'1 them as paving e. 20 the people OF
thc cities &C. viii have proven a factor
In economic progress.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-03
The Daily Story
The Colonel's DuelLBy M. Quad.

After supper . dozen or more of us
congregated in the hotel office for a
smoke. and presently the landlord came
among us to say;
Gentlemen. we have a fire eater in
this town named Colonel Sebastian.
He has several peculiar theories of his
own. and l wish to post you in adj
vance. He is very strong In his talk
and should you differ with him he Will
challenge you to a duel The colonel
is dead shot, and 1 hope you'll take
friendly Tip and not engage In
discussion. Let him have his own
way and never mind what he says
The colonel had never killed any one
yet. but that he stood ready TO do so
If his opinions were disputed the land
lord felt dead certain, and so we agreed
to agree with the colonel IL he came
mall but one. The exception was the
smallest and the most humble looking
man among the guests. No one knew
that he had made up his mind to OPP
pose the colonel, and when the latter
entered, half an hour later, he picked
him out OF the crowd as a good man to
20 for. He got alongside Of him and
4
Perhaps you have not been inform
ed that am the originator of the idea
that all men were once animals of
some sort and that perfection has been
reached only after many centuries of
timer"
NO sir, 1 haven't" was the prompt
reply.
But I am, sub. and what do you
think OF the ideaT''
What ideaI'
why, the one just stated. I think
you heard me. subj think you did"
'Oh. remember! Well. I don't train
with that crowd, thank heavenr'
sub. do you know what you are
saying?" cried the colonel.
1T do
"And that your language, sub. is
personally offensive-personaily often
sivel'
I'm sorry you belong to the crowd
who furnishes great IDEAS
Crowd. sub, Why, You have gross
ly insulted me and must at once apol-
ogize or accept a challenger
Bring on your challenge, colonel!'
"Then you. viii fight me, subj"
Certainly. Just name time, place
and weapons BY the way, want TO
leave in the morning. Can't we fight
IN the billiard room, out in the yard,
w in my room? No use waiting until
tomorrow"
And you'll fight me, subj" gasped
the colonel
With the greatest OF pleasure, and
I'll bet a thousand dollars TO a shilling
I kill you. Where can We get swords, |
rifles, pistols or bowie knives? am |
just aching 10 fight your
Were you told about me, sub, befo' |
I appeared here this EVENING"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-03

arect his vote might have On the
sieetion.~ sad Representative Bailey
20 the committee The only real
purpose a democrat serves IN Yer
m0zt.- be said. Is 20 enttte the re-
politicians IN that state 20 q larger
representation IN the house than they
~ro1id Otherwise get. By reason Of a
larger population The same -
equally true % republican IN Texas.
q. a.. HOax. x-rsrai secretary OF
the American Proportional RepTssen-
tati0a Ie4xus 90 Havsr1ord. Pa. de-
Ecrfbsd % the committee the working
az the Bailey btu 10 prsaece- Under
this bui~ he said. any state elect
inE three Or more representatives
M KIT select the list system. which
consists simply IN allowing each party
or Er0rp % nominate candidates 10 a
single Tat on the ballot. The voter
marks q single cross on any one list
This vote counts a. a vote for the list
and a. n vote Cor the man on the list
selected The total vote IN the state
"a divided by the number % rep-essn-
tativss % vhich the state e. entitled.
and representative are apportioned
% the various parties r. accordance
WITH their voting strength 10 the state
TIE particular candidates o. any par
- selected are those Who receive the
greatest number % votes on their par
t'cu'ar Vet our present system
is-vss the result 60 chance or % cor
Fuptioa- The proportional system as
surrs that ever party shall b. repre-
seated IN accordance With ia actual
strength that no party shall have
more and therefore that no party can
have less than the representation 20
Whi~h ~ e. entitled
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-03

der and an average % C5 cents a pound
for -. 5s5.5i2 pounds OF army and navy
smOkeiess powder. or a total OF S2I.-
sss.z5G.
The government g. now manufactur-
Ing powder FOR 80 cents a pound. all
overhead charges included. and the
larger Quantities Il manufactures the
lower the cost II the government had
manufactured all Of The powder b pur-
chased between 1906 and 1913. "a would
have cost 81. SS0.7s instead % S2i.-
sss zee. or have resulted iu saving
~ StO.t67. 800. enough 20 build first
class bartieship.
Tho Du Points boast they have been
selling che government its powder
since the civil war. II a saving OF S10.-
1ST.fss could have been effected by
complete government manufacture in
elEht years. how much do you imagine
could have been saved by government
manufacture In the half century be-
tween the civil war and the present
day
The Tn Pont trust has no compeu-
ton in the sale % smokeless powder
10 the government. Strange 90 say.
this IS as much due 20 the army and
navy officers as 20 the trust itself
When Admiral Twinins, for the navy.
and General Crozier. for the army. APP
peared before the appropriations com
mittee. in 1912. they practically stated
that 10 was the policy OF the govern
ment TO buy all OF It's powder from
one company:
Admiral Twining-'I think q Is dis
tinctly 10 the advantage OF the govern
meut 20 have all the powder that is
made by commercial concerns made
by one company or under one manage
msnt. / do not mean by that ! think
that company should be the Du Point
but since that Is the COM
pany In the business. believe Il Is
better for the government TO continue
20 get the powder from them rather
than 10 encourage others 10 come in 4
the business"
To fully appreciate this attitude on
tine part OF Admiral Twining the fact T.
should be considered that Admiral +.
Twining and other army and navy Of .
dcers oppose complete government I
OF munitions OF war on /
the ground that n there IS competi- .
ton between manufacturers each con /
Germ viii try % develop a product SUI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-03
EMANCIPATION OF CON
CRESS

"a oul for the emancipation Of
ruer,bers 90 congress. Il the way Con
gresham warren Worth Bailey OF
Perrsyivania described his proportion
~ representation bill OH. r. z077TJ
before the house committee on cleo
sicn % president. vice president and
representative In congress AZ the
hearing beSore the committee FEB. Is
The Bailey esiI would enable any state
which elects three o. more members
60 ciect them By the nsc system OF pro
portsorAl representation. instead OF
shs present system % sirxiemember
disersess- u seeks 20 correct the
abuses % the present system BY watch
the voters N . corxrcssuanis district
Who vote AGAINST him so unreprcsen;-
ID In the congress.
"A democrat IN Vermont or a re-
ouoi3car In Texas might ~ well be
ss the bottom OF the SEA so far as any
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-03
STUDY THE LIST

The Rock Islander Who has the IN.
tcrssts % hts city a. heart and truly
desircs 20 DO his daty a. a citizen Will
study sell the list OF names from
which the choice o. nominees for com.
r1issfoncrs must Be- made next Tues
day.
VITA 20 feE candidates for mayor g
g. not likely that &c viii b. dinicuii
for the average voter 10 make up bis
mind and many doubtless already have
pronounced views on this subject.
With 80 many running for the nonina-
ton for commissioners. hc~ever. the
task IL far more complicated. particu-
Larry In view % the fact that 80 many
have no personal knoWledSs OF many
% the aspirants.
No better way oct OF the difaculty
can be offered than 20 take the list
az published IN The Argus from time
20 time and study 70 from beginning 20
end. consiterinx each aspirant IN the
light cf hts fitness 20 al some par
ticuiar ore OF the four Offices. the aim.
Of course. being 20 hit upon a comb
nation which viii take care OF all
places
The character Of the government IN
Rock Island for the next four years
nov rests With me voters They are
TO be the judges IN two elimination
one being the primary and
the other the regular election
There are plenty OF good men in the
list Il o1ly remains 10 make a wise
selection