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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-11
Quips and Quiddities

Two witnesses the Waterford assizes in a
which concerned long continued poultry stealing
AS usual nothing could be got from them in the way
of evidence until the nearly baed prosecuting
asked:
VIII you swear Pat Murphie. that Phady Houligan
has never to your knowledge stolen chickens?"
"Bedad would hardly swear, but 1 do know that if
l was chicken and Phady about I'd roost high"
Doctor-You nave nervous dyspepsia same as Brown
had. His caused by worrying his butchers
bill. ] directed him to stop worrying
stranger-Yes. and now he's cured and I've got it,
I'm mis- butcher.
"Fore!" shouted the golfer ready to play
But the woman the paid no attention
"Fore!" he repeated, with not bit effect than
the time.
"Try her with Three nnety-eight'" suggested his
partner. "she may be of those bargain counter
hends'
Thomas Mott Osborne apropos of the charges
brought against him OF Sing Sing said at a
dinner in New York:
THE major charges themselves. As for the
minor charges-well they ungenerous and small
to be ludicrous.
They remind in their Iudicrous smallness of
my husband has been deceiving me again. this
good lady snapped out at the sewing circle.
"'oh. how So? the other ladies asked with eager
interest.
"'Why, said Mrs Peck, here I've been giving Henry
10 cents day to ride to and from the Office
knows how long, and I've just out that the de-
cetfu wretch walks one and spends the nickel"
Papa" said the hopeful youth, can you tell me
what is natural philosophy"
"of course l can" said papa proud and relieved TO
find that there at last something he could
offspring Natural philosophy is the science
and Now for instance, you steam COM
ing out of the kettle, you don't know
why or for what reason it does so, and"
"Oh. but do papa" chirped the hope of the house
so that mamma may open your letters without you
knowing it."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-11

one interest to whom the sale of the State Road
would be profitable, ana that is the Louisville and
Nashville Railway Company. This alien corpora
ton evidently is bent upon ruling or running the
State Road. If ii crush the State Roads traf1c
by of parallel line. it will be satisfied II 1t
can depress the rental price of the State Road in
the next lease, it will be satisfied. If it can buy in
the State Road at bankrupt figure, 1t will be ex-
ultantly joyful.
There is no use in beratinG the Louisville and
Nashville Railway Company for these designs. That
corporation is concerned with the schools or the
credit the taxpayers of Georgia. 1t is concerned
solely and quite naturally with its aggrandize
ment. 1t is controlled by remote financial interests
that care more for the rank and file of Georgia
people than for the seals of the Arctic circle 1t is
playing its own game as shrewdly it can. The
important question is. will the people of Georgia
keep their wits about them and insist upon the
lection and development of their States most vaua-
BILE possession, will they guilelessly part with
this birthright for a mess of pottage?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-11
By Oh. FRANK CRANR..

Americans want to do something. When there
is fire they rush the engines to put 1t out; they
do not stand helplessly by and wiring their hands.
When there is a plague of typhoid they do not
commend their souls to heaven and hope for the
BEST they clean up.
find out what is the matter. When there is small
pox they vaccinate.
Americans are deeply stirred over the Euro
pean war. 1t has created a mighty impulse to
do something
What if war should come to US? What
we do to avert so terrible a calamity? These are
the questions of a practical people.
There is no use doing however, until we I'M
dersIand. When a man is taken deathly sick,
savages sound the drums and howl and feed him
outlandish herbs other kinds Of savages beat him
with clubs to drive the devil out; Aunt Samantha
haps Cousin Almira would read the patient chap
ter sixteen in her favorite thought-cure book;
hut an intelligent physician would first try to find
out what made him i'll, and then to remove the
disturbing element.
To protect ourselves from attack OF war, In
dinltely more destructive than leprosy, cholera.
or the black death, arise and shout, Let US get
busy at once! We must do something.
And Immediately we act like savages, or the
aunt or cousin aforesaid. We mean we'll, but we
are absurd because we do not intelligently I'D
ask what causes war, and (2) set about to elimt-
nate that cause.
The country is in a fever of preparedness,
simply because that is the oid-time remedy. II
blood letting always has been used, let us let
blood, no matter whether 1t has invariably killed
more than it cured or not.
The Gibraltar fact is that thorough military
equipment has never saved any nation, has de-
stroyed every one of the ancient nations Except
China, which never had it,, and Is now decimat-
ing and bankrupting the nations who were ready.
or are getting ready. for this that the German
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-11

crown prince himself calls criminal and 'idiotic"
Over against the "corn-sweats and ealamus''
advocates of huge battle fleets and armies stands
a movement headed by number OF citizens OF
high standing, to organize League to Enforce
Peace" The league includes such names a. Mr..
Taft, Mr.. Lowell of Harvard, Darwin P. Kingsley,
Alton B. Parker, and the like 1t certainly Is not
a scheme OF wild-eyed dreamers. Such nsuaas are
respectable to a degree.
The object of the league is to create combi-
nation of nations pledged to arbitration. and
against any country that shall begin war without
patient discussion beforehand.
The league is going at ii in business-like
way, organizing In every state, seeking to include
its plank in political platforms, disseminating its
literature, and otherwise propagandizing practi-
caily.
lars by Samuel ]. Elder, that the world strug-
gled passionately TO find safeguards against the
recurrence of such a war as the present The
league does not profess to work out all the details
of concert of nations; that will be the work Of
time and of many minds. Only one central idea
Is presented.
'It it were pestilence In stead OF O var which
in year had killed OF several millions OF the
strongest young men OF q generation and dis
abled many Mullins more. the wisdom and science
of the age would assuredly devote themselves 70
finding a remedy, or at least some safeguards.
of being killed by disease should stimulate In
stead of paralyzing endeavor. Only towards viii
say that nothing can be done about 1t and that
men have always killed each other In wars and
always will. Men have learned TO suppress vic-
ience within nations. and must find some way TO
All OF which sounds as II at last we had called
In an intelligent doctor and had relegated Aunt
Samantha to the kitchen, where she belongs.
Copyright. 1916, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-11
The Campaign of Defense
For GeOrgia Industries.

The railroads having combined to raise intra-
state freight rates in Georgia to an extortionate
degree, all the interests thus threatened should
combine in defense of their common welfare. This
applies to every class of shippers and merchants
and manufacturers and to every town and county
in the State for the prosperity of them all is i'm
periled.
No group of producers or consumers is spared
in the crushing rate increases which the roads
propose. They propose, for example, to charge
thrty-eight percent more than now for hauling
swine and other food animals from farms to pack
ing plants and also to charge upwards of one hun
dred percent more than for hauling the pack
ing-plant products to markets throughout the
State. This means that the producer will get less
and that the consumer will pay more. Indeed, it
means that home industries of this character will
be taxed out of existence and that Georgia in
stead of producing its own meat supplies will pay
heavier tribute than ever to distant regions.
This is but instance among scores and
hundreds. Canned fruits and vegetables knitting
factory products, farming implements, building
materials, livestock apples fertilizers, cotton piece
goods and sundry other commodities included
in the interstate rate increases which the roads are
seeking to inaugurate-increases ranging from
twenty to one hundred and forty-seven percent.
If these exorbtant rates are allowed Georgias in
dustrial and agricultural development will be set
intellectually and every field of the States mater
ial interests will suffer.
1t is imperative, therefore, that defensive
campaign be organized among the merchants and
manufacturers and communities in Georgia. A
movement to that end is we'll under way. The
ecutive committee of twelve shippers, who
appointed in pursuance of resolutions adopted by
the shippers conference recently held at Macon
and who represent each Congressional district in
Georgia, will meet next Tuesday in Atlanta to per-
feet the plans for Statewide fight against the
proposed rate advances This committee is en-
titled to the largest possible measure of co-opera
ton, for it is working to save the common inter
ests of Georgia from irreparable injury
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-11
0 Pioneers
For The Atlanta Journal.

Like idle dreamers in the sun
We sit and tell the deeds we've done
OF peaceful victories have won
Through the tread of silent years
Yet never think of thu brave who fought
On the outskirt land, where the Indian sought
The lives of those who grimly wrought
For us, o Pioneers!
We sit in the halls of state and tell
OF laws we've made so strong and we'll
But we nothing know of the awful hell
That followed the early years
When you went out, through the valleys dim
Singing a nations birth-morn hymn,
Trusting your fate and our strength in Him
Who rules o Pioneers!
You sleep in many an unmarked grave,
AS sleep the loyal and the brave:
No marble lifts, your fame to save,
o Pioneers! o Pioneersi
Yet Time shall hold your deeds of steel
Safe from oblivion's claim-and WELD
For you a nations deathless seal
Through nations grief and tearsi
H. E. HARTMAN.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-11
Raising What They Eat.

when Mississippi raises what she eats
and eats what she raises and makes cotton
her surplus crop, and quits eating up cotton
before produced and exchanging cotton for
mortgages and sells her cotton to whom and
when she pleases for cash, then, and only then,
will Mississippi be the land of milk and honey,
and plenty, too, and then the boys and girls
will stay on the farm, and Mississippi will -four
ish like unto the green bay tree. Why not
now?"
For this bit of homespun philosophy, we are
indebted to Mr.. Clifford Williams, of Meridian
Miss. whose words should appeal not only to his
own Commonwealth but to every nook and corner
of the Southland where food crops are sighted and
cotton is overdone.
His advice is peculiarly apt in a season when the
temptation to plant an excess of cotton has
turned. Some farmers there are who forgot the
stern lesson of 1914 and fancy that because cotton
prices have improved appreciably they can afford
to risk large acreage this year Others imagine
that because the campaign for cotton reduction has
been waged so earnestly. they can depend upon
their neighbors planting a short crop, so that the
big-crop man will gain special advantage. The
Manufacturers Record truly describes such delu-
sions when Ii says:
ITO anyone with vision longer than a
Hibernian nose, such a course is obviously one
of cutting his own throat; and maybe that
would not be so bad, If his were the only
funeral, but others. too, suffer the eonse-
quences in a more or less edgree."
Certainly, the farmers of Georgia have every
to repeat the prudent policy which they fol-
lowed last year by raising abundant supplies of
meat, leaving cotton as surplus product.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-11

Insurance authorities estimate that fire losses
cotton this season amount to three million dol
lars, sustained for the most part in Oklahoma
Texas and Georgia. This is striking evidence of
the need for more and better warehouses. Aside
from destruction by fire, thousands of bales of cot
ton damaged to the extent of hundreds of
thousands of dollars by exposure to the weather
Furthermore, the lack of adequate warehouse
facilities compels many farmers to sell their cotton
when the market is unfavorabe, and thus another
large item of loss arises.
The warehouse problem, indeed is among the
most far-reaching that confronts the agricultural
and business interests of the South. There ought
to be more warehouses of hreproof construction
and up-to-date equipment for foodstuffs as well
as cotton, though the latter now presents the
broader need. Cotton stored in a thoroughly safe
warehouse is a source of ready credit Cotton ly-
ing in the open or in poorly constructed building
that may catch fire any day is a liability to its
owner and to everyone concerned
There are cheering evidences, however that
this need is being recognized more and more clear
ly by growers and merchants alike and is being
met more and more adequately in enterprisng
communities. Such warehouses as the one recently
established in Atlanta and those projected in other
cities and States invaluable asset to the
South
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-11
RIGHT WAY TO BREATHE

and the lungs themselves.
As a corrective shallow breathing and for by
genc purposes generally, deep breathing sxeF-
else may advantageously taken once or twice day
Fisher and Fisk, In their health manual. "How TO
Live recommend the following:
"A certain oriental deep breathing exercise Is paFe
uarly valuable insure slowness and evenness OF
the breath.
II consists OF pressing a finger the side OF the
nose so as to nosril breathing in through
nostril breathing out Of the hrst neStFu IN
the same manner, then reversing the process
Attention slight sound OF the air passes
through the enables to know WHISTLER the
breathing is regular slightly irregular.
such breathing exercise be taken at the rate
of three breaths minute and the rate gradually
reduced until 1t is only even less per minute
Singing requires deep breathing and therefore be to
reason, they advised to take some mod
crate muscular exercise every day.
Whatever the corrective means employed. remember
that the great efficient breathing,
and that this has it's basic principles breathing
through the nose, breathing slowly, and breathing
deeply.
Learning breathe through the nose learn also TO
breathe slowly and deeply.
Most people, there say, breathe too rap
idly and deeply enough
Deep breathing exercises the waoIe lung slim
uates the liver promotes the abdominal circulation,
and favorabIy influences both bIood-pressure
the oxygenation of the blood.
Copyright 1916, by H. A BFucet
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-11

- light breathing makes for long living. Every
- year thousands of people die an untimely death
chiefly because they have always been breathing
wrong
Right breathing also makes for right thinking. Tne
man or woman who not breathe right Is to some
extent Gripping his thinking power.
This is because thinking organ, the brain func-
tions we'll or badly according to the quality of the
blood that nourshes And quality of the blood
is directly affected by the way one breathes
To be properly enriched the blood needs good sup
ply of oxygen, which absorbs from the lungs IN
breathing done right the oxygen supply Is
insufficient.
Besides which, the nourshment taken up by the
blood the lungs may be impure This is most
likely the air is taken into the lungs
through the mouth instead of through the nose
ing. Mouth breathing is absolutely inadequate to the
needs of the human organism.
Let a breathe habitually through his mouth
and is lower his vitality. Hence he will
become liable contract disease and less re-
sstant to it when contracted.
Also by the poverty OF hts bloods nourishment, his
mental well his physical vigor will be lessened
Therefore if you mouth breather correct this
bad habit without delay.
1t may be-indeed, it probably will be-that your
habit of mouth breathing nasal obstruc
ton. In that you ought at once to go to nose
specialist for appropriate treatment
That is to deep breathing increases the bloods
nutritional value, besides Strengthening the abdomen
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asylum in New York contains built entirely
of glass 1t is divided into twelve compartments each
having glass sides through which the nurse can see
the baby at all times without coming in Each COM
partment is ventilated separately A child having
communicable disease in one of these
little compartments without any possibility of giving
it to the baby in the next although he may be only
three feet away and children can smile at each
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The Searchlight
A BIRD ORGAN.

BIRD ORGAN.
The German peasants in the Hartz mountains teach
their birds to sing by unique instrument known a
bird organ 1t consists of round sheet cyln-
ders inside of the other. The lower contains
water The upper is manipulated by a series of
small weights and pulleys which it to settle
slowly downwards. the air being expelled through
whistle which has several modifers give variety to
it's tones When the upper cylinder has down
the required distance spring operates the weights
that raise it again to repeat the sound
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-20
Light Machine Has
as Much Pulling
Power as Larger

A new principle Is employed In the
construction OF the Nilsson Farm trac-
tor. on exhibit this week at the Audi
torium This principle is in the con-
struction and automatically controls the
gravity. With this construction 1t does
not depend on the weight of the machine
for the pull" but on the load. This
gives the light machine as much pulling
power as some of the heavier machines
This is controlled by a simple principlS'
which gives traction instead of weight.
The construction was worked out by
Nils Nilsson. a farmer, together with his
three sons. who merely applied the old
principle Of the fulrum and lever to
| tractor.
! Harold Nilsson, one OF the sons who Is
now superintendent Of construction at
the factory. is attending the convention
in company with c. Julsrud. vice presi-
dent Of the concern.
! The Nilsson" uses the largest size
Waukesha motor and is designed to pull
! four, five or six plows. 1t has speed
up to six or seven miles an hour pull
| ing eight to ten tons along fair road.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-20
Farmers Must Have
Tractors to Save
Expenses on Farm

G. f. Loomis Of the ePoria Tractor
company has the distinction of being one
of the pioneers i'm the tractor business.
Mr.. Loomis, with Fred Glover Of the
Avery company and d. NJ. Hartsough,
made and placed on the market the first
four-cylinder tractor. This was over six
teen years ago.
AT that date the people were pretty
skeptical Of the tractor for farm power"
says Mr.. LOOMS My associates and 1
didn't have an opportunity to bring our
machines to a fine big exhibit and con-
vention like this then and have the deal
ers and farmers come In and take an in
terest. There has been a big change in
the business and right now we are facing
the greatest business that tractor people
have ever known. The farmers ahve had
it demonstrated TO them that the tractor
will do their work cheaper and Oetter
than horses and they are using them
they must have them"
The tractor the ePoria people are put
ting out now is a 2sO0-pound machine.
They have only one size. 1t has an eight
horse power pull at the drawbar and
twenty horsepower at the belt. Agency
contractors are coming in nicely, accord
ing to Mr.. Loomis.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-20
PROF. HOLDEN, CORN
KING, TALKS HERE
Lectures on Farming and on the
Need of Selection of Best
Seed Corn.
GOLDEN AGE OF SERVICE

|. During the implement dealers conven-
ton Prof P. G. Holden, employed by
the International Harvester company. Is
delivering agricultural lectures In
Omaha. Prof. Holden is credited with
being the corn king Of the world and
IL known all over America for his re-
search work in the production Of corn.
Prof. Holden has just completed
diversified farming campaign, covering
seventy counties in the states Of Ten
nessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. This
comprises extension campaigns that have
been held In twenty states. Diversified
farming. live stock, alfalfa and corn
have been the subjects taught in these
campaigns
| Prof Holden is an Iowa man, and
his work has done more than anything
else to put Iowa on the map as a great
corn growing state.
The International Harvester company
believes this Is the golden age Of serv-
ice and does not confine its power TO
the manufacture and sale OF Implements
along Holden's work here in Omaha
has been assisted by w. r. Baughman,
campaign manager of extension work
for Prof. Holden. and II. S. Dewing
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-20
Case Displays at
Both Auditorium
and Local Branch

The j. I. Case Pillow works are making
a strong bid for business at the Imple-
ment Dealers convention being held at
the Auditorium. Mr.. Hindelang. the man
ager, is determined that the big silver
cup awarded to the Omaha branch for
the largest increase in business during
1915 Of any Case branch will remain here
again in 1916.
In addition TO having an exhibit at the
Auditorium the Case company has also
been busy entertaining visitors at the
display rooms at Eighth and jackson
streets. Here the company has on display
complete line Of all the gooN it han
dies
The lines carried by the Omaha branch
are the J. 1. Case plows. harrows, plant
ers' listers, cultivators, stalk cutters, etc
As side line the Wallace tractor IS
handled. Other lines are the Rude Wide
Spread" Manure spreader. Parry vehicles
and auto trailers and X. c. hay presses
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-20
Omaha Welcomes the Implement Dealers Great Display

pie who had use for tractors didn't know
it and the tractors were not the finished
product they are today. Now the Hart
Parr corporation is capitalized at $500
900. The factory covers eighteen miles
of ground and is devoted exclusively to
the building of tractors.
The Hsrt-Parr company makes seven
sizes of machines ranging in horsepower
from 2 TO 40 and in weight from 5000
to 5000 pounds to the machine.
One Of the machines this company Is
pushing hardest is The Little Devil
which has earned the reputation OF be-
ing "a good little devil"
Mr.. Frederickson. who Is here with the
company's exhibit. is highly pleased with
the convention.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-20
Boys Build First
Tractor at College

When c. w. Hart and c. II. Parr were
boys in college they were earning their
own way During this time they built
their first tractor. Before they could
build another they had to sell the first
one. which was no easy task. Besides
that was fourteen years ago when peo-