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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-07-27
Prominent
Planter of
COrinth Talks
Pm Buying 5 More Bottles To-
day; That Shows What | Think
of Tanlac," Says J. II. Weed
don. Meridian Alone Sells
1856 Bottles.

A statement that will undoubt.
ly be of unusual interest to every.
body in Mississippi was made a
few days ago at the McAmis
drug store in Corinth by j. H.
Weldon, who lives On the r. F.
d. from this city and is one of
the most successful and pro.
gressive planters in this part of
the country. Mr.. Weldon is a
man of wide influence and ac-
quaintance, and his evidence on
any subject is considered of such
high order as to be beyond
question.
In telling of his remarkable
restoration to health through the
use Of Tanlac, Mr.. Weldon says:
l have taken three bottles of
this medicine and it has done me
so much good | am buying five
more today. That shows Just
what | think of it as a medicine.
i suffered from bad from
of indigestion for a number of
years, - he continued. and had
tried various other remidies
without any lasting good coming
from any of them. | would have
sour stomach continually and
everything | ate would ferment
and swell and give me a great
deal of misery and injurious dis
comfort.
i had seen this Tanlac highly
recommended, and made up my
mind that it was worth trial.
After having taken the very first
bottle the swelling left me and
the fermentation stopped. |
soon got so | could eat anything
| wanted without its bothering
me in the least. | feel a great
deal better every way, and am
sure | have gotten wonderful
benefit from the use of this re-
medicine.
When this case was reported |
to Mr.. G. F. Willis, Southern
Distributor of Tanlac, at his At
lanta office, he said:
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-07-27
passage and benefits, that there

passage and benefits, that there
is large chance of indulgence
of the "extravagant anticipa.
ton" against which the presi-
don't has raised his voice. One
such writer is quoted: The
federal farm loan act will bene-
fit ten people where the reserve
act benefited one, and the bene-
fit in each case will be some
thing like ten-fold as compared
to that of the reserve act. This
is particularly true in the South
where the farmers are paying a
higher rate Of interest than in
almost any other part of the
country" We may be over
pessimistic, but we feel it is in
order to say that the terms Of
the bill do not justify slch eX-
trayagant claims.
Another anticipation is quoted
The enactment of this law
presents an achievement in -four
years that is aim >st unparaliel-
ed. A deiinita need existed, but
the term rural credits and the
systems in successful operation
in Europe were little understood
by the masses of the people of
this country" While admitting
the existence of a definite
need" it may be questioned if
the need as understood by the
necessitous will be fulfilled.
Not only is there a want of the
European understanding f
the rurnl credits terms and
system. but little is known, by
farmers of the South particu-
larly," of the European condi-
ton, the thrift and habits of
economic thought and practice,
that accompany and precede the
rural credits system; that fitted
the European peasantry, and
are essential in fitting American
farmers, for its benefits. Vicks-
burg Herald.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-07-27

Statements from men like
Mr.. Weldon leave nothing else
to be done in that section to
establish the merit of this great
medicine; because the best evil
dence of a medicines power is
what those who have actually
taken it have to say about it.
This is especially true and be-
yond all question when these
statements are made by people
Of prominence and high charac-
ter and published right in the
communities where each and
every fact can be investigated
and verified.
Such Endorsements and such
satisfactory results explain why
the people of Corinth and that
entire section are purchasing
Tanlac until the sales are now
breaking all records. In Meri-
dian, Mississippi, alone one firm
has actually sold nearly 5000
bottles a, $50, to be absolutely
correct since January 22nd of
this year, and we are now ad-
vised by the leading druggists
of that city that the demand is
growing to enormous proportions
and that it is hard matter to
keep supplied.
Tanlac is sold in Okolona ex
clusively by W. E. BEARDEN,
and in Houlka exclusively by J.
W. HOWARD & SON. adv.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-07-27
Have a Good Garden Through
the Summer and Fall

Sow early in August a 10-cent
package each red valentine
beans, Georgia collards, drum
head savoy cabbage, it will
grow out doors all winter;
Bloomdale spinach, dwarf Ger
man kale; China rose winter
radish, strap leaf turnip, seven
top turnip for green's, country
gentlemen sweet corn, big Bos-
ton lettcue and Southern curled
This will give your
family fresh good things to eat
every meal until Christmas, and
enough may be canned to furnish
vegetables until spring. Plant
half an acre of Irish Cobbler po-
tatoes, using six bushels of seed.
H. M. Cottrell,
Agriculturist, Bureau of
Far IN Development.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-07-27
Army Units Explained

One of its readers has address.
ed the Times-Picayune, asking
that information be published
concerning the various military
units in the United States army.
He wants information regarding
infantry, cavalry, artillery, bri-
gade and a division.
A company of infantry is a
body of foot soldiers composed
of 90 men, peace strength, and
about l40 men war strength.
Four companies form a battalion
and 3 battallions form a regi-
ment. The war strength of the
regiment is about 1912 officers
and men. A company is COM
manded by a captain, a regiment
by a colonel.
A troop of cavalry is a body of
mounted soldiers, used princi-
pally for scout duty and to pro-
tect the infantry while engaged.
Like the company of infantry,
it is composed of 65 to 100 men.
Four troops form a squadron and
three squadrons a regiment a
cavalry. The war strength of
such a regiment is about 1886
officers and men.
A battery of artillery is COM
posed of 4 to 6 guns, manned by
6 or z men each. Three batteries
form a battalion and two battal-
lions form a regiment of field
artillery. The war strength of
such a regiment is about 1927
officers and men.
Three regiments form a bri-
gade. Three brigades, compile
mented by such artillery and
other troops as may be assigned
to them form a division, which is
commanded by major general.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-07-27
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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-07-27
Farmers Should Not Be
Discouraged
July 26, 1916.

NAJ ~ tO1V'
Dear Editor:
On my return to the state a
few days ago, | find a spirit OF
relessness almost to the point OF
despair among the negro farmers
of this section and throughout
the state, wherever floods and
winds have damaged or ruined
the crops; so much so, that there
are I h ose W h 0 are
planning to go to other agricul-
tural states or to states where
they can secure public work.
/ One old farmer near Yazoo CITY,
! VINO has twenty acres of fine
delta cotton under water, ex-
pressed his troubles to me as
IoflloWs: You see, 'fesser. yer
fore las cotton at six cents, dry
weather, and dun bole weevus
struck me on one cheek; den las
yer comes long more dry wealth
ec and dunn bole weevus to smite
me on de utter cheek. Now
comes de flood and de storm to
smite me on the cheek where !
amt got. "
Here about Okolona the dis
couragement is just as pro-
nounced. Poor farmers are say
ing tnat they cannot pay their
debts, or even feed their fami-
lies, and that they cannot stand
the strain any longer.
In the history of Spain is
clearly demonstrated the folly of
a working class of people leaving
a good territory to try another
which was better in promise
only until they got there. 1t
ruined the working people who
left, and Set back the progress
the state many centuries. The
fact is, Spain has never fully re-
covered from this blunder. /.
am writing therefore to appeal
on the one hand to our white
citizens to bear with the troubles
in which the poor farmer at this
time finds himself; and on the
other hand, | am trying to ap-
peal to the discouraged farmers
to anchor their m-ships until
the winds blow over. The
winds will blow over; the rains
will come right some day. We
should get busy now and work
Out our crops, NOW grass and
save hay everywhere, plant big
fall and winter crops, and with
al keep courage. We have
to gain if we jump out of
The careening boat into the sea.
Yours faithfully,
WALLACE A. BATTLE
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-07-27
Woman's Growing Glory

is her hair. If yours is streaked
with ugly, grizzly, grey hairs, use
La Creole" Hair Dressing and
change it in the natural way.
Price $1.00. adv.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-07-27
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CA 8 STORIA

There Is No Art in Taking Med
icine.
Just follow directions on every
bottle Of Plantation" Chill
Tonic and see how quickly those
dredful chill will leave you. 1t
leaves the liver in healthy con-
dition and yet contains no Gallo
mel. Price Soc. adv.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-07-27
Stop Those Sharp Shooting
Pains.

''Femenina" is the wonder
worker for all female disorders.
Price S1.OO and SOC. adv.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-07-27
The Rural { redits Law.

In signing the above act Pres
ident Wilson coupled with eX
preston of qualification a timely
caution against "eXtravagant
expectations, w h hic h T h {
Herald echoes with emphasis
The President, according t {
reports Of remarks we refer to,
said: Il look forward to the be.
nefits of this bill not with ex-
travagant expectation, but with
confident eXpection that it will
be of advantage to the investing
community, for | can imagine nc
more satisfactory and solid in
vestments than this system will
afford those who have money 10
use. "
While it may be confide ntly
accepted that the system is all
it should be, we are so sure of
the immediate general attain
ment of the necessary familiarity
of farmers with its terms and
provisions. And until there +.
Thorough understanding here
operations and advanta gas of
the law must needs he delayed.
For tn convenience and under
standing of the general public
the following epitome of the law
will be found convenient:
Washington, July l7.-Here
is what a farmer who needs
money can do under the rural
credits bill, which was signed
today by the President:
First, he must join what is to
be known as a National Farm
Loan Association, paying in S.
for one of its shares for each
$l00 he wishes to borrow. He
has one vote a share, but not to
exceed ten votes in all.
Next, he applies to h e
association for the loan, giving
his personal note e therefor,
secured by first mortgage on
his farm. If the association
approves the loan, it turns the
note mortgage to a land bank.
The land bank sends the amount
of the loan to the association,
which hands the money to the
farmer. No commission, brok-
erage or rake-off is charged the
borrower.
No single loan is to be for less
than $100 or more than SO, ,000;
nor for less than five years or
more than forty years. The
loan must not exceed 60 per cent
and preferable should not go be
yond so per cent of the market
value of the land covered by the
mortgage.
The borrower pays, semi-an-
nually, the interest plus an
instalment of the principal. He
must not be charged over 6 per
cent interest.
Each National Farm Loan
Association must have at least
ten members, and it cannot be-
gin business with less than $20,-
900 in loans applied for.
1t is illegal under severe pen
alties, for an officer, committee
man or member to accept any
commi ssion, fee or perquisite of
any kind for granting any loan.
The only paid officer is a secre-
tary treasurer.
Money can be borrowed by
this system in order to pay for
agricultural la n d, equipment,
fertilizer, live stock, buildings
and improvement, or to dis S
charge a prior mortgage. (
The land bank may charge the
borrowing farmer only l per cent
more than the rate it gets On its |
bonds. This margin of one point {
S to cover expenses and profits. I
1t will be noted that the first {
step toward realizing the bene-
its of the rural credits act is the
formation of Farm Loan Associa-
lion. 1t may be safely said that
The enactment is a praiseworthy .
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-26
DON'T AVOID YOUR Eyprv
British Newspaper Advises i...
Stunning German Subjects

British Newspaper Advises A,,,..
Stunning German Subjects
By United Press
BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 2S. INV ,,.,,
The Englishman who boycott. -.
mans too vigorously in cour...
where both are aliens, is simnlv -,
ting off his nose to spite his face -
cording to the Buenos Aires He,.,s ~
one of the two or three imno,..S.
British newspapers in South Am..:'
The Herald argues in a recent 49,.
that the Britons who stay out OF Ma.
which Germans frequent, becauss ~ 10
do not wish to associate with tbe =.
ter, are not only not Worrying ,...
rivals but are doing exactly what -.
Germans want them to do. The O.
man, it points out, ''is to be founs :,
the clubs, the restaurants and :, ..
private houses, and if Britisbers -
these places the go-by owing to y.
presence of a German element
much the better for the German ,,.s
of active preparation for the clos. :,
the war"
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-26
WOULD PROTECT CHILDREN BY LAW
Code Commission Appointed by Governor in
1915 Tells of Conditions and
Remedy for Minors.

dren's Court to which all children
who break the law or are neglected
by their parents, will be brought. Nc
child will be left in a common jail
with adults.
2. In order to reach adults who
are responsible for the neglect or i'm
morality of children, they will be dealt
with by the same judge who hears
children's cases.
8. Boys under IS years of age will
no longer be committed to the peni-
tentiary.
4. Adults who are convicted OF
breaking the law and who are paroled
will be supervised by probation Off
GERS appointed by the court.
For Child Workers.
1. All children will have to attend
school until they are 16 years old
unless they complete the 9Th 'grade
before that. Those who complete the
9th grade may go to work at IA years
of age.
2. All children leaving school to &c
to work will be examined physically
to see that they go into occupations
that are not going to be hurtful to
their health and development.
8. Children will be forbidden to be
employed for gain in agriculture and
domestic service under the age of IA
just as they are now forbidden to work
in all other gainful occupations.
4. All children under 16 years will
be forbidden to operate any kind OF
power machines.
5. No boy under the age of IL and
no girl under the age of Is will be al
lowed to engage in street trades. All
children who sell on the streets must
be licensed.
6. Boys under 81 years of age will
be forbidden to engage in night mes
senger service, because of the moral
dangers of that occupation.
For Defective Children.
1. A state bureau will be estab-
lished for finding out how many de-
fective and feeble-minded children
there are in the state and for exam
lining and recommending treatment for
them.
g Additional provisions will be
made for caring for feeble-minded
persons and all such persons will be
sent to institutions only through a
court
8. The education of the blind, the
deaf, feeble-minded and epileptic will
be placed under the State Department
of Education.
4. Every board of education in the
state will have the right to make spe-
cial provision in their schools for
training of defective children.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-26
THE NEW BOOKS
"The Vampire of the Continent.

THE Vampire of the Continent" by
Count Ernst zu ReventlOw, is trans
lated by George Chatterton Hill. 1t
is a systematic attempt to give in
sight into the hidden recesses of Eu-
ropean political history. The vampire
is England. "England's maritime su-
premacy cannot be destroyed until
Ireland is a free country" according
to the author. Founded on piracy
he continues, ''the British empire has
been built up at the expense of hu-
manity. The English commenced by
robbing the Spanish treasureships,
acts of murderous and dastardly brig
andiers which are held up by the Eng
lish today as deeds of prowess. They
continued by robbing Canada and the
States from the French, Gibraltar
from the Spaniards, India from the
French and the Portuguese, South
America from the Dutch, Egypt and
Cypress from the Turks, Malta from
the Italians, and, last but not least,
Ireland from the Irish Over the whole
world we can follow the trend of the
vonomous serpent which has fastened
its deadly fangs into so many victims.
Germany has today assumed the glor-
ious task of liberating the world from
the clutches of the British parasite,
Germany the champion of the light
and the truth against the power of
darkness and mendacity."
(The Jackson Press, New York
225 pages; $125)
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-26

ent times ask only that the request be
made after the proposal. In some
countries it is deemed immodest for
the engaged couple to even converse
together without chaperons. In this
country a chaperon is a necessary
evil at a dance or dinner but not on a
motor ride. Engagements are first an
nounced to all ones friends and then,
when every interested person knows
it. a formal announcement luncheon is
given.
The evil features of misplaced con-
ventionalism are that it occupies the
mind to the exclusion of really i'm
portant things; that it occupies the
time, money and energy that could be
better utilized; that it magnifies un-
important details and minimizes the
important ones; that, as a result OF
these things, it actually prevents prop
er education which alone can show the
pettiness and the evils of such GUS
toms.
Conventional customs are not mere
ly to be ridiculed. They are frequent
ly so unreasonable and so opposed to
social progress that they should be
objects of definite attack from all in
telligent persons.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-26
MISPLACED CONyENTIONALISM

The greatest foe of race regenera-
ton and sane living is misplaced con-
ventionalism. To do the thing that
is done is the law and the prophets
of all true believers in conventional
ism.
Misplaced conventionalism demands
the latest fashions in short skirts and
coats belted at the back rather than
the latest notable theory of social well
fare. 1t is responsible for young men
going into debt for a solitaire and
marriages being unhappy because one
couple cannot give a dinner of quite
so many courses quite so often as an
other couple. 1t says that the young
man may spend s5 in indigestible
candy rather than on a waist that the
girl may really need. Young persons
of opposite sexes may attend the most
iagrantly immoral play together but
to eat dinner downtown in order to
save busy mans time is entirely i'm
proper.
Other days have demanded that the
young man ask the consent of the
girls parents before proposing. Pres
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-26

nbens "The second floor will be I'm
ished by February 1, the legislative
floor by March 1 and the state stair
way, legislative library and the dome
by April l."
If tentative arrangements are car
ried out, Frederick D. Gardner will be
inaugurated Governor in the Wes,
Museum Hall. There will be space
for several thousand more people
there than in the hall of the House
of Representatives in the temporary
StatehOuse.
The first official act in the new
statehouse will be the signing oi
Governor Majors last message to the
General Assembly.
Governor Gardner will have the
choice of using the temporarily fitted
up site in the new building or he can
use the present quarters of the ex-
ecutive office in the temporary State
house.
In round numbers the contracts OF
the Gill Company up to date ag-
gregate s2,9OO,OOO, and on this the
commission has paid a total of ST.
27S,211.41.
The Gill contracts do not include
100000 paid by the commission for
additional ground to enlarge the cam
pus, 100000 for the construction OF
the foundation, 100000 for erection
and equipment of the power-house and
$2S,OOO for concrete work on approach
to the south entrance.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-26
PEACE AND AMERICAN INDUSTRY

The looming of peace on the hori-
zon within the last week sent wheat
down forty-three points. and indus
trial stocks down thirty-four points.
The markets were shaky and waver-
ing. Speculation, which had been at
its height, withdrew to give place to a
more conservative playing of the mar
kets.
1t was the United States first in
dication of what peace will bring. We
are all too oblivious to the fact that
the great European struggle cannot
last forever and that in the midst of
wartime prosperity preparation must
be made for the peace which will in
evitably follow.
Millions have been made over night
because of the war. Millions may be
lost over night because of peace.
With the coming of peace, the mu-
nitions and other industries which
have arisen from the demands of war
will be automatically closed 1t is the
only natural conclusion.
With their closing, hundreds of men
are going to be thrown out of en-
ployment. They are well paid now
but what will the future bring?
With the close of the war, prices
should drop because of a falling off
in the demand for foreign consump-
ton. There should be a more equit-
able adjustment of food and other
prices.
Industries which have given way be-
fore wartime demands will again be
revived. Because of the increase of
food and other products, the state of
being of the middle and lower classes
will be made better.
Peace to American industries and
its effect upon them has both these
positive and negative phases.
But there is one phase which We are
overlooking and ignoring competition
after the war.
England and Germany are not so
crippled that they will not be as in
tense commercial rivals after the war
as before. Their ambitions to restore
their countries will drive them to even
greater activity.
To meet this the United States is
unprepared. We have been sitting
smugly by, satisfied with the war
brides" of the present without regard
to the future
Our time is limited. We must bend
every energy, every effort toward COM
mercial preparedness in anticipation
of peace.
The dawn of peace should find the
American industries and people pre-
pared to meet any and all commercial
competition of the world.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-26
"The Short Story

"The Short Story" with introduc.
ton and notes by W. Patterson At
kinson, is a textbook for first yea
high school pupils. Irving, Poe
Hawthorne, Bret Harte, STEVENSON
and Kipling are the authors who's,
stories are considered and commented
upon.
(Allyn & Bacon, Chicago; cloth, 23t
pages; 50c.)
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-26
W. r. Karstetrer to St Louis.

William R. Karstetter, who has been
picture manager at the Columbia The
ater for the last year, left last week
for st. Louis, where he will live.
Mr.. Karstetter will be associated with
motion picture concerns in that city.
He will continue to book the pictures
for the Columbia Theater.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-26
Students to Equip Ambulance,

A committee of students of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin has been named
to try to raise s1,6OO before January
10 to equip Wisconsin ambulance to
be named by university men for use
in the European battlefields.