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The Home news. (McCrory, Ark.) 1915-1922, 1916-08-25
Farm And Canning Demon.
stration.


ter methods of farming.
Meetings were held during the
week at Union Church, Tip Hun
ter and Ebeneezer with a total
attendance of 700. The most
pleasant feature of these meet
ings was the splendid dinners
prepared by the ladies of each
community. These meetings
were held under the direction of
R. H. Abbey, county demonstra-
ton agent and Miss Ruth Ander-
son, canning club agent, with
the assistance of Mr.. r. H. Ma
son, dairy specialist of the De-
partment of Agriculture and Mr..
Earl Fitzpatrick, of the Extension
Division Of the University of
Arkansas.
At each of the meetings Miss
Anderson gave a demonstration
on the canning of the tomatoes
in which the women and girls
took a great interest. Our farm
women are beginning to realize
that more fruit and vegetables
during the winter means better
health.
Miss Anderson's work has just
been started in the county but
even this year large number of
girls are growing a tenth Of an
acre of tomatoes and canning
them under her directions. AL
though the canning season is only
started Susie Barber, little
twelve year old girl of McCrory,
has put up 538 quarts. These to-
matoes are put up in neat tin cans
bearing the All brand which sig
nifes head, hand, heart and
health. In other words these
girls are taught to use both the
head and hand with a will which
means health and efficiency.
Next year the poultry clubs,
bread making clubs for the girls
and butter making for the home
demonstration clubs will be taken
up.
Mr.. Abbey has been pushing
the hog cholera vaccination, Gull
tivation of corn and cotton, per-
manent- pastures and better
seeds. During the season he has
vaccinated 1859 hogs for the
farmers of the county. Of this
total number only eight or ten
have been lost that were treated
before they became sick. So
many of the farmers, Mr.. Abbey
says, wait until the herd is in
fected before sending for the
county agent. The government
claims that the vaccination is a
preventative and not cure, so
that a treated sick hog is liable
to die. A number of the farmers
have dubbed together, buying
instruments for themselves and
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TAKING THE TROOPS OUT OF
MEXICO

Reports that the Carranza gov
eminent will withdraw its represen-
tatives in the joint conference on
Mexican affairs, and thus bring to
an end the effort at adjustment of
differences between the two govern
ments, need not astonish anybody.
1t is said that the constitutionalist
authorities are preparing to insist
on the withdrawal of the Persbing
army from Mexico as sine qua non
preliminary to further discussion of
an arrangement between the govern
ments. There was a period, few
weeks ago, when it seemed quite
probable that the Washington Ad-
ministration would assent to such a
proposal.
Today, it is not apparent how the
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Longfellow's Grandson
Working as Hold Carrier

BOSTON. Sept 25,-It became known
here today that Edmund Trowbridge
Dana. grandson of the poet Longfel-
low. Harvard graduate and one time
college professor. is now a hod car
ried In an obscure Canadian town.
Dana has been a street car conduc-
tor and n newspaper reporter. He
was not a success at either and he
became a teacher Of philosophy.
Every time I've had position as
teacher in a college I've been fred"
he told his sister. Probably I'm not
built for college teaching: In fact.
was told that the last time / was
canned"
Dana's wife. Jessie Holiday. an Eng
lish portrait painter. was drowned a
year ago while bathing at Nantucket
and was buried in a grave he dug
near where her body was found.
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war, the world has been seeking new
source, and has discovered various
possibilities which one day win un-
questionably be developed to, the
point Of serious interference with
the German monopoly, The most re-
cent discoveries, and seemingly by
far the most important, are those
in Cuba. It is stated that they are
Of vast extent; located about 100
miles east Of Havana; Of high quail
ity, and easy of access and opera
ton. Already, according 10 advices
from people who have made exam
nation Of the find, capital ia assured
to develop it. 80. w., 49,.
Germany has enjoyed two notable
near-monopolies; those in dyestuffs
and in potash. They are utterly un-
like; but each has given opportunity
for German business genius to dem
onstrate it's capacity. Potash is q nat
ural monopoly; dtestufts. an indus.
trial one. Both have been managed
with skill and efficiency that might
we'll be studied and initiated by other
countries, and, indeed, that are GER
tain to be initiated when the era Of
industrial reorganization comes az
ter the war. tf' q, VI ~ ~
It would be a great boon to the
United States If the Cuban potash
deposits should prove all that they
are now suspected Of being. In the
first place, there could not possibly
be location more accessible to that
great American territory that uses
potash, than Cuba. Potash. fertiliz-
ers are in the, main used i'm the At
lantic and Gulf coast States. Trans
portation from Cuba would be cheap
and, while Cuba is q foreign country,
our relations with it are such that
there is no danger Of determinations
and excuses such as the Kali syn
dictate Of Germany has imposed. It
would in any case: Introduce compe-
tition, which would do much to curb
the disposition Of the European syn
dictate to take the highest prices the
traffic will bear.
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CITY SEWERS IN THE SUBURBS

A highly sensible and beneficial
form of cooperation between the
District and Maryland is that al
ready, contaminated in the work OF
extending the city's sewage system
to include adjoining suburban areas,
and that being considered. in the
proposed extension of water mains
Of the District into this same ter
ritory.
Both Maryland and the District
will be the gamers by the plans for
the sewage system, plans for which
were described in The Times yester-
day. By this arrangement the
waters of the Potomac will be saved
from the pollution inevitable If every
town and village is permitted to
dump its sewage along the river.
The Commissioners are understood
to favor the extension of the water
mains, the natural concomitant Of
the sewage system extension though
there are certain details 6f the meas
ure now before them, already con-
sidered by Congress, which have to
be worked out. For one thing the
District cannot be expected to per-
NIT the Maryland towns to utilize
the Districts mains until such time
as they install systems Of their own,
then to abandon the connections
which it has cost Washington money
to install for their benefit.
In a commercial and municipal
sense Washington, or "Greater
Washington" already extends be-
yond the boundaries Of the District
To all intents and purposes the well
fare of many of the suburbs just
across the District line already are
closely linked with that of the Dis
trict. Many Of these have more in
terests in common with Washington
than they have with their own
States. The cooperation manifested
in respect to sewage disposal and
water supply should be the forerun-
ner of other cooperation just as
beneficial.
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WHAT'S GOING ON IN
WASHINGTON TODAY
Today.

Meeting. Central Citizens Association, North
Capitol savings Bank building, T;45 p. m.
Meeting, athlstic committee of the Grand
Council OF the Phi Mu Sigma Fraternity OF
the District. ss1 q street northwest. 8 .. m.
Playiet. Too Much Married" Langdon n.
Meeting, executive committee OF Board Of
Meeting. College Equal Suffrage League.
Munsey Building. SIP. M
Meeting Legion. OF Loyal Women. Raleigh
M aSiS, \ id.cl,y c,t..n.. Association
and streets northwest, s D. m.
Lecture. Truth About Mexico by the Rev
A. II, Zimmerman. Scenic Theater, wis
consin avenue and y street, $3.50 and $50
D.. m. for women and 1850 and $50 for men
Meeting. West End Citizens Association,
Hotel Powhatan, s. p. m. .-.
Concert soidisrs', Home Band, Soldiers
House warming. New Republican Club head
quarters. Fifteenth and F streets north
Meeting Choral Club of the Young Women.
Christian Association. Y. W, c. A. build
Fall opening of gymnasium glasses. Y. N.
Concert, United States Engineers Band. Mon
trose Park. 1880 y. m.
Concert, United States Marine Band. Marine
Masonic~DsSsot. No. Is; stsnsbury, No. u:
Mount Vernon. No. s. Of the Royal Arch.
ODD Fellows-LAngdon. No. Is; Union, No. IL:
Beacon. No u. Esther. NO, s, OF the Re-
Knights Of Pythias-pecatur. No. .; csianths.
National Union-Scott Council. Federal coun-
ell. Northeast Washington Council.
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AN ASTONISHING BASEBALL
: SEASON

This has been an astonishing base
ball season. Before the flood Of
worlds series speculation it may be
we'll to glance over the last months
at the national pastime. Baseball is
a game Of hazard, and predictions
are almost certain to bring the
prophets reputation to destruction.
There have been several remarkable
performances this year. Here are
few Of them:
The New York Giants won a string
of seventeen successive games in the
spring. Recently they have won
nineteen times in succession. The
record for straight winnings is
twenty games.
Ty Cobb has been dethroned from
the batting leadership of the Ameri-
can League for the first time in ten
years.
Iris Speaker, who downed Cobb,
practically lifted Cleveland from a
tail-end team to a serious pennant
contender for four months. ~
Cleveland, which will finish up in
the second division. had made up all
it's annual expenses by July 4.
One million more spectators saw
American League games this year
than last, according to Ban Johnson,
despite a rather poor start.
The champion Red Sox, despite the
loss of Speaker, are about to repeat
their 1915 win.
With but two weeks to run, six
clubs are still in the American pen
nant hunt.
Six teams Of the American League
are over the. 500 nzark.'o,
Joe Bush, the Athletics pitcher
who has lost twenty-five games this
season, is rated as the best pitcher
in the American League.
The st. Louis Browns, a fifth place
team, are considered as having the
best 1917 prospects.
Walter Johnson, for the first time
in his career. has failed to. win, q
game in Detroit this. season. go. =, Z,
McGraw has practically built two
teams for the New York Nationals
and with both has made record
strings of victories. ... .
In the next week the war, Presi'
Dental elections, fall overcoats, and
the rising price of eggs will be" for,
gotten in the mad scramble for, the
pennant in both big leagues. II
New York and Brooklyn today the
fans are undecided as to whether
they shall go to see Joe Tinker'E
Cubs try to Gust. the Dodgers in 6
double bill or watch the Giants try
for a worlds record. Baseball ono,
more has a. real hold. The man!
unique records that are set, season
in and season out, explains it's mar
velous persistence in popularity.
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American Government could do this
without admitting that It had perpe-
trated another Vera Cruz fiasco, on
an infinitely larger scale. The army
in Mexico not only has failed to get"
Villa, or to dispense his bands and
end his activities. 1t has, instead,
been flouted and defed, as in the
recent raid on Chihuahua, in a fash
ion surely not gratifying to Amei1-
can pride. The Carranza govern
ment insisted that the troops in
Mexico must not move away from
the general area they now occupy;
must not further penetrate the coun-
try, must be gradually withdrawn
and declared that it could take care
of Villa. It has failed to take care
Of him, and yet our expedition has
been rendered futile by compliance
with the conditions imposed by the
constitutionalist chief. Withdrawal
of the troops now would be the con-
fession Of q diplomatic defeat and
also Of military failupe. ~ 81
There Is, however, another reason
why the troops ought not to be taken
away from Mexico now. An election
will take place in this country in six
weeks. There may be a change Of
Administration.No new phase Of
the Mexican problem ought to be de-
veloped unnecessarily, with new en-
barrassments and complexities, re-
pardless Of that fact. The Wilson
Administration has complained that
in its closing weeks the Taft regime
neglected it's responsibilities toward
Mexico and made the situation there
more difficult for Mr.. Wilson to
handle. The accusation is without
grounds, but the very fact that Mr..
Wilson's supporters have made such
charge, should be the reason for
their careful abstinence from any
procedure or policy that might now
increase the difficulties Of new Ad-
ministration. r,
1t is very necessary that, REGARD
less Of internal politics, this country
begin to develop a continuity and
unity of foreign policy. Foreign
countries deal with our Government;
not with the political party that
chances to be in power at a given
moment. The party cannot right
about-face on its policy without
great embarrassment, or without
costing this country heavily in the re-
spect and confidence of other coun-
tries. The Mexican situation is in
status just now that makes perma-
hence and persistence in some direc-
ton highly necessary.
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THIRTY-FIvE PER CENT HIGHER
LIVING COST

II this country were in the war,
or If the war had compelled the
abandonment by this country of the
gold basis, the announcement that
the past year has brought an in
crease of 80 per cent in the cost Of
living would be explainable on the
theory that it was in large part more
apparent than real; that prices had
been marked up, rather than costs.
But this country was never more
firmly on the gold basis than now.
Abroad, the advance has been
greater in countries where currency
initiation has been resorted to, than
in those which have been able firmly
to maintain a sound currency; but
everywhere there has been an ad-
vance. The war is given as the first
and chief cause, but it is not re-
garded by our Department of Com
merce as the sole one. There is some
reason for accepting this view. For
a number of years economists have
been insisting that the enlarged pro-
duction of gold, together" with other
conditions developing in the normal
course of events, must bring such a
change. The war has really served
greatly to increase the store of gold
used as money, and to increase also
the proportion Of circulation based
on the gold. It has been responsible
for tremendous waste also. 1t may
be said that the gold basis of two
years ago has been discarded even
in countries that are still redeem
ing and able to redeem all their cir
culation on demand in gold. The
gold basis of 1916 means something
very different from the gold basis
Of the first half Of 1914.
Secretary Redfield does not be.
lieve that combinations have had q
large part in hosting price. Not
much dissent will be entertained al
this point. The most gigantic eco
nomic combinations ever undertaken
in the world have been formed, un
der. the leadership of governments
perfectly willing to employ their ut
most powers, not to increase, but t
prevent the increase, of prices. Blu
for the restrictions imposed by tn,
warning nations, and by others which
were indirectly affected by the war
prices would today be much highe
than they are. Add to thes,
war conditions the fact that tn,
present year is one of world-wid,
crop shortage in many staples, an,
the explanation is pretty complete
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Ozark Love Song.

Ozark Love Song.
Oh birds is- Ray--th' sky is blue,
IN dogs IL happy with thar fieas;
: Tn. flowers love tn summer breeze.
But I love your
1t amt tn shack. all fallin' thru,
Ner tn bony cattle Rrazin' round !;
Ner tn worthless land. sun-cook ed
an brown
It's you. Just you!
Such homely folks, God never made!
can't abide yer cross-eyed ma.
An I'm deathly sick when I see yer
I want to fade. e.,
I can't abide yer Uncle Hote,
Yer gran'pa7 Gosh. 1 can't stand
Yer brothers. Nick an Seth an Sim.
They git my goat.
I'm always wonderin' wher' YOU are I:
It's hard to talk my words n weak |:
But I'd GLADLY scale tn highest peak
For you my star!
w. In st. Louis Poet-Dispatch.
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Tomorrow.

Meeting. executive COMMITTEES Of the milh
producers OF Virginia. Maryland. and the
District Munsey building. 1880 p. m.
Meeting, Peace, Prosperity, and Preparedness
League. Raleigh. p. m.
Concert. Engineer Band, Smithsonian
Grounds. 7:S0'p m.
Flower show. under auspices OF the Petworth
Citixens' Association. Wallace Memorial
Church. New Hampshire avenue and RAN
dolph street northwest, 7:30 p. m.
Meeting executive committee OF the Retail
Merchants Association TO discuss question
of returned goods. In association headquar-
Meeting. washington Readers Club. New Eb-
Meeting. male member. Of the Paramount
Dramatic Club. In clubrooms. 20 Legal
Nesting. North Capitol ana lexington c,u-
zens Association. Emery School, LncoIn
road and Randolph place, SD. m.
King David, No. q; Takoma, No. %. Mount
Horeb, No. I. Of the Royal Arch. Robert
de Bruce Council. knights Kadosh OF the
Scottish Rite.
odd Fellows-Amity. No. nj washinEton.
No. 9; Golden Ruls, No. a. Fred d. Stuart
Knights Of PythiSs.E1ceisior. No. "a; Web
ster. No. Il Capital. No. "a; Myrtle. No. d
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ANALYzES
MAINE
Declares Democratic Tariff and
Moose Return Were Re-
sponslble for 9. 0. p. Victory

Destructive results Of the Demo-
cratic tariff law and the return OF
the Progressives en- masse to the Re-
publican fold were the principal fac
tors which contributed to Republican
success In the Maine election, accord
ing to a statement Issued here today
IL. ' RsSaSaa BoY YuScy prs:5Sn Sf
Since sSnicient time has elapsed to
esm spsffSi tal e rssY sn o.
several concnisions are Irresistible:
First. that national rather than
local issues were deemed most I'm.
poTss ssosn5Sy , The y yo,sr n Main. con-
sidered the tariff the paramount
issue. Republican speakers and news
papers took pains 70 present the facts
Canadian products that come into
cofnpe tition with Maine products, un-
der the Democratic tariff law, and
tion Ssgywhe ss,n,e mi sE
Which placed the Canadian producer
..s Progressives All Back.
Third. that members OF the former
Progressive party are practically all
back in the Republican fold. II was
largely upon the tariff issue that the
Progfessives came back. There has
never been. any difference between
members of the Republican party on
Fourth, that the, voters of Maine
were not Influenced by the false plea
that he kept us out of war, This
mainstay OF the Democratic campaign
has been shattered. II has been per-
fectly plain to all students Of inter-
national affairs that when such con-
tiguous countries as Norway, Sweden,
Denmark: Holland. and Spain remained
out Of the contest. It would be pre-
posterous to. assume that the United
States would have any difficulty In
staying out Only the grossest kind OF
laundering could have involved this
country. The Democratic leaders
thought. however. that they could
make the voters believe that by the ex-
dent had kept US out OF war.
Didn't Listen To Claims.
Fifth. that the voters OF Maine were
not misled by the 'claim-everythIng
| tactics of the Democratic campaigners
From President Wilson down the Demo-
cratic leaders have been parading a
long line of pretended Accomplishments
and have been ignoring the still longer
line OF broken promises. II was their
expectation that by thus making asser-
lions they could gain credit for sup
| posed accomplishments. and divert at
tention from their disregard Of platform
| pledges In the past. II did not work. Il
| is evident that the voters know that II
was the Aldrich- vreeland act that save
us from panic at the time Of the
| eral reserve act, admittedly unsound in
the form in which the Administrator
| offered IL. was given its meritorious fel-
lures by Republicans
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THE POTASH FIND IN CUBA

The world has long obtained it's
potash almost entirely from Ger
many, where are located the only
great workable deposits that were
known before the war. There are
various minor stores of potash in
other countries, including this. But
Germany has enjoyed a substantial
monopoly, and has taken advantage
of the fact to exact high prices and
onerous conditions.
I Cut off from these supplies by the
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THE WAR IN THE AIR

There is all the difference in the
world between the two phases Of
aircraft employment in the war.
Saturday night and Sunday saw both
phases demonstrated. In the one
phase, Zeppelins and huge aero
planes are used for the business Of
direct destruction by dropping ex-
plosives either on the enemy or on
towns, presumed to be of military
significance, back of his fighting
lines. In the other, aeroplanes and
captive balloons are used to study
the operations of the enemy, to note
his movements of troops, locate bat
teries, signal directions for artillery
fire, and observe and report on the
progress of movements, lombard
ments. assaults, and the like.
When the aeroplanes Of one side
rise and fly toward the enemy's
lines, the planes of the other side
go up to fight them off. The air
battles, Of which the greatest series
ever occurring in single day seems
to have taken place on Sunday, rep
resent the effort Of one side to- get,
information about the other, and, of
the other to prevent. .r-..... ?,
Thus the announcement of the
number Of aeroplanes lost by either
side is no particular indication as to
which side is really getting what it
wants from it's aeroplanes. A flock
of German planes, flying over the
allied lines, might be defeated and
driven away; most of them might
be destroyed; yet the ones that es-
capped might have secured the pre-
else information they were sent to
get; and in doing that might have
gained results far more valuable
than the planes and aviators sacri-
feed. The report Of German planes
coming down behind the. enemy's
lines merely suggests that German
planes are still able to get back of
the enemy's lines, and that the al
lies do not possess that overwhelm-
ing superiority in the air of which
they have boosted lately. II all the
German aircraft that crossed over
the allied lines could be destroyed,
or even most Of them; and if the all
lies machines could pretty freely
take observations over the German
lines and good share of them could
return to report what they saw
then distinct supremacy would be
demonstrated for the allies. Yet in
that operation it is quite conceivable
that the allies might lose two planes
to the Germans one.
The result of the air battles of
Saturday and Sunday indicates that
neither side has established a de-
cided and conclusive preponderance
| in the air. Each side lost machines
back Of the others lines; each proved
| its ability to get where it wanted To
| go in order to make observations.
The losses of the two sides were
about equal. 1t would seem that a
gigantic struggle is now on, for
domination of the air and the privi-
lege of spying from it, and that
neither side has established distinct
superiority, u
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Oh. for n Feather Bed.

IT was a dull day on the wharvesl
and a bunch OF negro stevedores had
gathered and were discussing n pail
OF beer. After a while the talk turned
on. one of their feI1ow-workers. who
had been shot at the night before. A
strange negro who had drifted in
asked:
did dat Niger rum"
RUM replied a witness. run?
Why. ef dat Niger had "a had lest
one feather in his han he'd "a few o.
Saturday Evening Post.