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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12

In its protest to Germany against the deporta-
ton of Belgian civilians for enforced labor in their
enemy's country, the United States truly describes
that policy being n contravention of all prece-
dents and of those humane principles of interna-
tional practice which have long been accepted and
followed by civilized nations"
Prussian militarism, of course, is not moved by
civilized presidents humane principles 1t re-
CARDS noncombatant population either as so
much rubbish to be swept aside or as so much fuel
to feed the war machine 1t draws no line be-
tween bombarding fort and dropping bombs on
a sleeping, defenseless village. 1t sees no differ
between attacking war ship and torpedoing
a passenger liner where the lives of women and
children at stake. Having invaded Belgium in
violation of the plainest treaties and principles of
international right, having applied the torch and
sword and wrung from the conquered people
their last mite, Prussian militarism is
merely repeating itself when it seizes thousands of
Belgian civilians, peacable men of all ages and
conditions, and hustles them into Germany to toll
there in virtual slavery.
But surely the German government, which is
bound to speak and act, not for a military cast but
for great people, ought realize that it owes "a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind" 1t
matters not how urgent Germany's need of labor
ers may be, there be moral or legal justiica-
ton for wrestling the peacabe citizens of Belgium
from their fresdes and forcing them to labor in a
foreign land against the interests and liberties of
their own. That is not warfare; that is cruel cold
blooded persecution
Earnest representations to Berlin by Holland
and Spain well as by the United States have not
served to stop modify the deportation of the
helpless civilians The ruthless work goes on:
families torn asunder; women and little chill
dren and the aged robbed of their last protec-
tion and support; and General Bissing looking
on, dryly remarks that it is all done for Belgium
good. If protests from neutral Governments do not
arouse Germany to proper of this mon
strous wrong-and It appears that diplomatic
means have been exhausted-then the peo-
pie themselves in neutral nations throughout the
world should protest in the name of common HUI
manity.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12

peculiarly interesting item in the annual re-
port of the Department of the Interior is the record
showing the rapidly increasing quantities in which
public lands in the United States are being taken
up by homesteaders. In the twelvemonth ended
June the thirtfeth last twenty million were
claimed by private owners as compared with sew
enteen millions in the corresponding periods of
1915 and 1914
These figures might to indicate that the
country's pioneering days over and that the
time is not distant when it's productive possibilities
as far as agriculture is concerned can be assigned
a rather definite limit. YET if all the arabic land
in the United States not under cultivation
could be Jumped into one vast farm it would cover
the entire country east of the Missouri and Mis-
sissippi rivers. For every hundred acres of
land now cultivated, there approximately three
hundred and seventy-fve in reserve for future
needs.
Authorities say that in the South Atlantic and
Gulf States alone there is land enough and climate
suitable to raise all the vegetables and all the
food animals needed for years to come by many
times the present population of the entire United
States. Georgias is large as that of Eng
land and Wales combined Only thirty-two per
cent of this great territory is under cultivation
The singular fact is that with all these re-
of land, the food production of the United
States should not have kept pace with the growth
of population. This year, for example, the potato
crop far short of domestic needs that prices
reached unprecedented figures and thousands upon
thousands of bushels had TO be imported The
shortage of food animals has been conspicuous for
many years past. To the extent that it adapts it's
agricultural policies to these needs the South will
grow in prosperity and in service to the nation.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12
The Demand for Farm Loans.

The announcement of the federal Farm Loan
Board that upwards of fifty thousand farmers al
ready have applied for loans aggresaIing some
one hundred and fifty million dollars bears strik-
ing witness to the needs which the new system of
rural credits is designed to meet. Applications
most of which are from the South and West. con-
tinue to come in by hundreds day after day. If
the demand for accommodation is great be-
fore the farm loan banks .ouaIed and organ
led what it wiz BE when the system is thoroughly
established: The capital stock of each of the
twelve banks is to be only seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. II will be necessary, there
fore. as the federal board points out, to have
repeated turnovers Of capital and frequent bond
issues covering loans in order that the approved
applications may be cared for. Congress no doubt
will amplify and perfect the new system expe-
rience advises. A fair beginning has been made
and one that promises Unreasonable benefits to
the country's productive interests.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12
Glands Off"

May say, with all possible bluntness time
any other neutral country's good offices is not yet
am even that it will There may be
no opportunity any outside mediation beyond
the offer could be just well per-
formed by telephone exchange. Certainly attempt
to bring about an accommodation between the beiger
ents would things today be resented In Great
Britain as an act combining the maximum of unfriend
illness with the maximum of stupidity, inexcusa
BILE error in dimension witless effort to
solve a problem the very of which had not
mastered.
For we in England-and what holds good for Eng
France-are thinking of peace We thinking of
victory. We are looking out not for ways of ending
the war, of crushing German miarism. And
what is more, confident of For
and half years have borne part in wardng off
the most formidable conspiracy Matched against
the liberties Europe. 1t utterly idle when
nearing but have not yet reached full
height of power to dream Of asking to stay
Fearful the cost must be in lives and treas
ure We intend to go S
And we shall with patience any attempt
the part lOokers-on to divert arrest fixed
resolve.
There no thought minds any of the
allies accepting a German-made peace. There is
every hope and every intention of debating a peace
that will be German made 1t is automatic not
only with Great Britain, but with France Russia
Italy, that early peace all arranged
through external solicitation would be greater
victory Germany than any has won or now
win the field of battle That conviction s
fundamental. And it conveys Americans very
clear warning-the warning of Hands ofr'-Sydney
Brooks in the New York Tribune
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12

((| HE present is the child of the past and the
parent of the future says the scientist
Thomson. "A process of Becoming leads
TO new phase of Being-whether in solar systems
or in social institutions in living creatures
Nothing that lives "stays put Everything is
constantly changing. This, in truth, is the basic law
of life, this is the bedrock law of the universe.
Always, however, there have been people who
try TO ignore this law. There even have been peo-
pie who deliberately set themselves in opposition
to it,
These are the people who write and talk
though the world of their day the best of all
possible worlds, finished world without need for
change whatever.
They frown upon all who dare to suggest that.
in this particular or in that, the world may per-
haps be changed to advantage. Radicals so
cialists anarchists their pet names for the
ones who suggest change
They forget that if the world of their day is a
better world than that of earlier generations-as
it undoubtedly is-it is a better world simply be-
cause the radicals of earlier generations insisted
on changes in the world they knew.
They forget that the real business of every
generation is to make the world, by change, bet
ter place for the generation that follows.
Also they forget that every generation through
it's radicals, will instnctively carry this business
of changing the world to it's betterment. They may
oppose, they may condemn progress through
change but they cannot stop it.
Poor, foolish folk. They like the old woman
who tried to mop back the sea. Step by step she
forced to retreat. They, too, in every genera
tion forced to retreat step by step.
AS with the world and its institutions, so with
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12
THE BASIC LAW OF LIFE
,YH. ARLINGTON BRUCE
on after generation, in

the individuals who, generation after generation in
habit the world.
In their own persons the universal law OF
change affects them every day of their lives only,
unlike the world ITSELF which changes for the bet
ter by reason of its collective wisdom, individuals
do not always change for the better. Many go back
instead of going forward.
Moreover, those who do go back usually go
back without at first being aware of the changes
for the that taking place in them. They
are strangely ignorant in this respect.
Their ignorance results from failure to practice
self-study. They do mott sufficiently ana1yZe their
acts and motives. Still less do they scrutiniZe the
influences exerted upon them by their daily eE-
virOnment-their friends, the places to which they
habitually resort, etc.
The environment changes men as it changes
animals and birds and fishes. If the latter find an
unfavorable environment they try to adapt them
selves to it or they fee from it.
So it is with The wise man. knowing the
degenerative power of bad environment, changes
to other surroundings that will elevate, not de-
grade.
Realizing that in obedience to the basic law of
life, he must always be changing for good for
evil, he surrounds himself with influences that will
make him increasingly better
The fool on the contrary, subjects himself
readily to evil surroundings and other evil in1u-
ences as to good ones. Soon o. late he is changed
accordingly.
When the awakening comes, when the change
for the worse is definitely established he marvels
and his friends marvel, at the unpleasant trans
formation.
Copy the wise man, not the fool.
Copyright 1916, by The Associated Newspapers u
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12
The Conquest of the Tick.

One of the peculiarly interesting parts of the
annual report of the federal Department of Agr-
culture is that dealing with the campaign for cattle
tick eradication in the Southern States
Ten years ago seven hundred and twenty eight
thousand, five hundred and forty-three square
miles of territory under quarantine because of
tick infection At the close of the fiscal year, June
so last, approximately two hundred and eighty-hve
thousand square miles of that territory were tick
free, and by January sixty thousand additional
square miles probably will be free.
Since the beginning of this campaign the cattle
industry of the South has improved anywhere from
fifty to hundred per cent. The Department OBJ
in this CONNECTION:
Native beef cattle, freed from attacks of
the ticks have put more flesh; native
dairy COWS are giving more milk; and, be-
cause danger of disease largely has been elm
mated cattle of better breeds have been
brought into improve the native stock The
South has made greater progress in develop
ing the cattle industry in the last five years
than in the preceding fifty years, and there
has been more progress in the industry in the
South in that period than in any other section.
The States and countess railways and other
corporations, and business men of the South
have been active in emphasizing the great i'm
portance of tick eradication and in spreading
interest and information among farmers and
cattlemen. AS a result of the operation of all
these forces, the work of tick eradication
practically has been half completed"
This record is of great Importance to every
field of the South's material interests. One of the
most serious obstacles to the development of cattle
raising and allied industries is being by
scientific effort, supported by enlightened public
sentiment. With continued cooperation between
farmers and State and federal authorities, the
South will be entirely free of the cattle tick
War plays rather in America this
year, but Europes big drama is still the boards.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12
BY DIR. FRANK CRAM

When boy, for instance, wants to learn the
imposing art CT chewing tobacco, he goes to the
alley, or out behind Boggs Mill, there to consort
with Huckleberry Finn ct al. Whereas the best
companion, mentor, and guide he could have in
the business of mastering tobacco would be his
father.
II the burglar would take the policeman along
with him, he might burgle and get arrested and
have 1t all over within night, instead of being
hunted like fox for weeks
And
The worthy effort, however to induce the way
ward to do their waywardizing at home and in the
presence of the family seems to promise successj
Men simply will not walk up and kiss the house.
maid right in the presence of mother-in-law, and
ladies will not do their best flirting when friend hus.
band is along, and Johnny finds excitement in
plundering the jam pot if it is the tea table
and everybody is looking, and do not extract
real pleasure from using big, big D when ladies
present.
We love to take our sins away and enjoy them.
a dog bures bone.
Naughtiness is inspid without the sauce Of sur
Righteousness
And we fear it will be long time before the
Madison authorities we'll meaning as they are, Will
induce the great army of boozers to establish the
canteen as part of the home.
Copyright, 1916, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12
The Puzzle of Russian Names

Now that may say "airplane' something ought
to be done about Russian names something radical
revolutionary nihilistc. Since the began the
casualties have been largely due fact
than making transteration costly as
outfanking Won Mackensen
The enormous numbers of Russian prisoners re-
ported by Berlin include Russian words which have
been Germanized until of the sympathizers with
the allies absolutely refuse admit ever
lived a named Tschaikowsky who wrote a
pathetic symphony" This composition, they Hnsist
the work of one Tchaikovsky or Tchaikovski who
married benefactress, but her, tried
take his life by standing chin high in the river
Neva in frost.
This that time when the Metropolitan decided
to produce Russian opera. At first the minions of
Billy Guard informed the newspapers that the work
selected Boris Godounon." by Moussorgsky
the surname of Boris was spelled "Godounow,"
although opera be sung Italian. The
final selection in endngs produced "Godounov.' But
the variants named and others still persist
Some transators of Russian novels feel under
obligation to translate proper They the
English speaking reader to Pior naturally as
he would receive Peter into his affections This is
impossible. Perhaps if the reader could hear the
pronounced Russian mother it, speaking of
her son. would think it beautiful In respect such
Enthusiastically Russian products the patronymic
or middle name, nothing, of done, or
ought be done toward Englishing them Ivano-
witch Apraksn never become John johnson Aprak-
sin No would want Ivan" translated into
John" any than he would wish Pierre" made
Peter" There nice discrimination in things
which need not formulated to be observed
The main trouble arises from the fact that most
Russian names reach through the or German
Thus "Ciodounof" CFrench), "Codounow' Germany
and "Godounov" (Englsh). Now "Tchakovsky" or
"Tchaikovsk' is certainly better rendition than the
German "Tschaikowsky," and may displace it even
tually. it might be just well 20 write "PauT
for the Russian 'Pavel Probably the Petrograduate
groans when he picks up English novel and finds
that the heroine is named Gwendolyn.-New York Sun
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12

In the police station at Madison, Wis., the desk
sergeant has posted the following notice, which all
he drunks who pass the nights guests of the city
n it's bastile are required to read
BOOZE FIGHTING.
For the married man who thinks he cannot
get along without drink, the following is
suggested as a means of freedom from the
bondage of the saloon
"Start saloon in your own home. Be
the only customer (you will have no license to
pay). Give your wife two dollars extra to
buy gallon of whisky, and remember there
are sixty-nine drinks in a gallon. Buy your
drinks from one but your wife, and by the
time the first gallon is gone she will have four
dollars and a half to put into the bank, and
two dollars to start business again. (She can
even throw in some drinks on the house,
Should you live for ten years and continue to
buy booze from her, and then die with snakes
in your boots, she will have enough money to
bury you decently educate your children, buy
a houseand lot, marry decent man, and quit
thinking about you entirely"
We desire to indorse this advice. Also to
animadvert a trife upon the psychological bear
ngs thereof.
And the query that arises is this: Why does
1ne when he sets out to do wrong thing, run
away from his friends?
Wherefore the centrifugal force in sin?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12

The yeggman who spends three hours cracking
a safe and finds only So therein, begins to believe
that he ought to join somebody's army and work
where it would be appreciated.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12

The emperor has conferred a grand iron cross
on Won Hindenberg. grand iron cross is prob
ably an iron cross and then some.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12

Many a soldier fight bravely in the Battle of
Love, only to emerge with a broken heart
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12

War. plays rather scarce in America this
year, but Europes big drama is still the boards.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-01-06
WISCONSIN STATE
CRANBERRY
GROWERS ASSN,

The Twenty-Ninth Annual meeting
of the Wisconsin State Cranberry
Association will be held in Grand Rap
ids, Tuesday, January II, 1915, in
Days Opera House, at $50 A M. A
large attendance is looked for as many
vital problems will be discussed. Mr..
Searls will have his always helpful
address. Mr.. A. u. CLANCY will send
paper on the necessity of spraying
for better keeping qualities. Mr. o. G.
Made will give you the results of the
years work at the station. Mr. G. R.
Treat will tell you of results from fer
tilizers. Mr.. Andrew Bissig will tell
of the seasons marketing conditions.
Miss LYDIA NJ. Huyck and Charles L.
Lewis will tell of the progress of the
industry in the northern part of the
state. Mr.. G. NJ. Seeker will tell of the
exhibit at the State Fair and its value
as an advertising medium. The discus
sion following the paper will bring out
much valuable information. In the ev-
ening at $50 Mr.. 0. G. Made will
give many interesting views of the
cranberry industry which he has beer
collecting.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-01-06
THE RETURN OF THE WISCONSIN
VETERANS TO THEIR HOMES
AFTER THE CIVIL WAR.

Europe is to-day reversing the
scenes which half century ago were
enacted in the United States. Now
the youth of that continent are be-
ing called from peaceful pursuits to
the stern duties of war Fifty years
ago the youth of the United States
were returning from bloody battle
fields and ruined towns to smiling
grain fields and busy workshops. To
Wisconsin during the summer of 1866
some $4,000 war worn veterans re-
turned, ready to resume the voca-
tions from which they had been
called four years before. The ease
and rapidity with which these SOL
diers and the soldiers of other states,
numbering altogether a million men,
were absorbed into civil life, is one
of the marvels of American History
Governor Fairchild of Wisconsin well
said at the time, "The transition
from the citizen to the soldier was
not half 80 rapid, nor half so wonder
full, as has been the transition from
the soldier to the citizen. The citizen
soldier has become the plain citizen,
and as the former has never been
wanting in the discharge of his mill
tary duties, so we know that the latter
will ever be equal to the responsible
ties and cares of civil life"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-01-06
SHERRY.

w. J. Agnew arrived home Satur-
day morning.
Christian Endeavor was led Sun
day evening by Miss Mary Davis.
Miss Isla Davis is spending her
vacation at the home of Harry Tho
mas
The Embroidery Club will meet
with Mrs. Hugh Williams Thursday
afternoon.
There is quite an epidemic of grippe
in this vicinity. Several families are
suffering with it.
Miss NJ E. Mclaughlin and Miss
Emma Sargis spent last week Tues
day in Stevens Point.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Parks enter
tanned Romance Parks and family and
John Parks and family Christmas day
Mr.. and Mrs. John Parks will en-
terrain Frank Parks and Romano
Parks and their families on New
Years day.
Miss Ethel MAR spent Thursday
in Stevens Point. From there she
went to North Fond du Lac to spend
the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs Jos. Feldman of St
Paul arrived Friday noon to spend
Christmas with the latter's parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Whitney.
Frank Zarneke and family and the
Misses Juanita Bond, Martha Bond
and Emma Sargis, spent Christmas
day at the home of Paul Zarneke
Misses Juanita Bond, Martha Bono
and Esther Zarneke were guests Sun
day at the home of Frank Parks. w
J. Agnew and Miss Emma Sargis also
took supper there.
Mrs. Hugh Jones is entertaining
during the holidays her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Horace Knapp of Oshkosh
her uncle, David Knapp, and other
relatives from Marshfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Smith, Mrs
Noisington, Mr.. and Mrs. Swales, Mr.
and Mrs. John Lounsberry and daugh
ter, Miss Bessie, took dinner Sunday
at the home of Hugh Williams.
n. G. |. students and teachers in {
body enjoyed a sleigh ride to the sta
ton Thursday morning to give ''senC
off" TO the departing members of tn,
party. We all hope to meet again
January 9Th.
The following officers were elected
for the Presbyterian Sunday school
superintendent, Hugh Williams; AS
sistant supt., Romance Parks; Secre
tary, Esther Zarneke; Miss Jeal
Whitney being retained as treasurer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-01-06
GEMUTHLICHkEIT

Yep! that's the name of one of the
bowling teams that will go from here
to WaUsau on January 20, to wrest
the laurels or prize money from the
other bowlers of Northern Wisconsin.
Gemuthlichkeit, is made up of A. P.
Hirzy, John Werle, J. A Hoffman,
George Warren and A. B. Bever and
if they can't win with that name, they
ought to change it 1t is not as bad
as it looks or sounds-try to pronounce
it and see what musical sound it has.
Listens just like Werle saving off
beefsteak, Hoffman filing deed, Bever
filing case, Warren selling some sau-
erNaut or Hirzy winding an eight-day
clock every day. All at one and the
same time. But it only means Pleas
ure Club.