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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15
SOCIETY LENDS $1,000, 900
TO3,151 JEWISH FARMERS
borrowers Live in Thirty-Five States
and in Very Little Time
100000 Is Repaid.

NEW YORK, February 15.-More
than $4,000 has been loaned to 3.15l
farmers by the Jewish Agricultural
and Industrial Aid Society in Its work
of promoting agricultural colonization
in the United States. according to the
report Of Leonard G. Robinson, the
general manager of the society, to the
annual meeting of the society today.
Mr. Robinson reported that thirty-nve
states are now included in the So
ciety's loan department, and that loans
were made last year to 396 persons.
bringing the total number Of loans
made up to 3.714.
Repayments of the loans exceeded all
expectations last year, owing. the re-
port states. to the sudden improvement
in the Industrial and financial situa-
ton. The society has outstanding now
l,62S loans, amounting to nearly ST.
0O0. 900.
The society's farm labor bureau
found employment for 1.20l applicants
during the year. Mr.. Robinson re-
ported that the difficulty in placing
farm laborers. which followed the shut
ting of New England textile mills in
1914 and the consequent movement
back to the farms, has been materially
lessened.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15
SCIENTISTS TO LECTURE
AT TUBERCULOSIS SCHOOL
Physicians and Research Workers
to Get Information for war
on White Plague.

NEW YORK, February 15.-Scientists
of national prominence in the study
and treatment Of tuberculosis, II Is an
nounced, will lecture at schooi 10 oe
established at Saranac Lake. n. T. III
Nav for the education OF PHYSICIANS
and research workers who wish TO en-
list in the campaign to controi 'uDe'
culosis. The course of study IN me
with the plans worked out by the late
DR.. Edward L. Trudeau. will De III Inc
nature of postgraduate work for spe-
cia,ists such as those who now treat
heart. eve, ear, nose and throat COM
nlaints. and for social workers inter-
ested in relieving sufferers from the
disease of tuberculosis.
The founding of the new school 10
regarded as the logical groWth OF sne
MAN originated by Dr. Irudeau eta
fresh air, was an aid to the tfeatnle.e
of the disease rather than menace u
the life of the patient.
DR.. Trudeau established
at Saranac Lake 1of x me
treatment of tubercular patients. AFTER
This work had been thoroughiy organ
fze6 he took up in a thorough ana SCI
entific manner the study OF tuoercu-
losis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15
BAD EYES MAKE BAD MEN,
new YORK JUDGE ASSERTS
Defective Vision Often the Cause of
Criminal Tendencies, in
His Opinion.

NEW YORK, February 15.-Defective
eyesight frequently is the cause of
criminal tendencies or, moral delin-
quencies. in the opinion of Judge Will
liam H Wadhams. who bases his belief
upon long period of observation as
Judge of the court of general sessions.
Bad eyes make bad men," said Judge
Wadhams in an address to the Society
of Medical Jurisprudence last night.
The man who cannot see straight can
not think straight and cannot act cor
rectly. When the nervous functions
become disarranged. the morals also
are affected. One of the first steps the
state should take in the correction of
criminals is careful examination and
treatment of their eyes. A very large
percentage Of the men who appear be-
fore me for sentence are suffering from
defective eyesight, and attribute their
moral delinquencies largely to this
cause"
Judge Wadhams said that a national
bureau for keeping the records of
criminals would greatly facilitate the
work of the courts. as it would enable
the authorities to learn whether a
prisoner had been convicted of a crime
in any city in the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15

sistant examiner in the patent Office
notwithstanding the fact that the year
limit Of his eligibility for reinstate-
ment has expired.
The temporary appointment Of Miss
Helen Wrenn as clerk in the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce, De-
partment of Commerce, is made per-
manent.
Authority is given for the appoint
ment of Edward H. Dyer of this
city to a position in the division
of efficiency. United States civil serv-
ice commission; of Mrs. Annie +. Hud-
son, now holding a temporary position
in the municipal service of the District
OF Columbia: of Monroe Ryles. as
messenger at s720 a year in the fed
cral trade commission, and of Mrs.
Ethel Ro5ards to a clerical position
in the Navy Department.
The civil service commission did not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15
NO FEAR Of SHORTAGE
IN BUTTER AND milk
National Geographic Society Shows
United States Production to Be
Ample for Emergencies.

That milk and butter shortage need
never take place in this country. no
matter how completely isolated from
the rest of the world it might become
in some future condition of it's develop
ment. is a bit of interesting 1nforma-
ton contained in a study just prepared
for the National Geographic Society at
Washington on the worlds dairy indus
try. Dispatches from several OF the
warning countries In Europe carry no.
tees of serious shortages OF butter
fats and of milk: and, regarding the
insufficiency of milk supplies In GER
tain belligerent lands. much has been
said about the hardship worked upon
the babies. The society's review Of
butter and milk production in the vari-
Gus countries reduces questions Just
now of greatest interest concerning the
nature of the wars reaction upon hu-
manity's milk pail and butter frkin to
concrete figures. The following bulle-
tin embodies the results:
Importance of Milk.
"In any discussion of the worlds
market basket the Importance OF milk
cannot be overlooked. In the United
States alone we produce more than six
billion gallons a year. This is an aver
age of nearly one gallon per cow day.
Exclusive of the milk and cream con-
sumed on the farms of the country
(Which. by the way, represents the
bulk of our production), our dairy
products are worth $500 600. 900 a year.
"In other words, they are worth
enough to build a Panama canal and
pay for the maintenance of the Amer
lean army and navy every year.
only one-third of all of the milk
produced in the United States is sold
from the farm. Much of that which
remains is used for domestic purposes
there. although billion pounds of
butter is proudly exhibited by the
American farm as one Of it's y-prod-
ucts. The total production of butter in
the United States Is around 1.700.000.-
600 pounds. While ten out of every
seventeen pounds of our butter is pro-
duced on the farm. nearly all of our
cheese is made in factories.
Milk is used everywhere that man
lives, and IT Is secured from many diff
ferent kinds of animals. Around the
Arctic ocean the Laplander milks his
reindeer and freezes the milk into
blocks to keep until needed. In the
desert regions of Asia and Africa the
donkeys. In western Asia there are
largely on mares milk. In many coun-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15
Dairy Industry in Russia.

manufacture of cheese in Europe.
Dairy Industry in Russia.
I'm recent years Russia has built up
a large dairy industry in Siberia, and
before the war great express trains,
sweeping across two continents. carry
ing nothing but dairy products. were
a striking object lesson of the worlds
craving for butter and cheese. The
comparatively little milk. their coun-
tries being too populous to admit Of
the keeping of many cows.
Little Denmark leads all the coun-
tries of the world in the expectation Of
dairy products, and Danish butter Is
known wherever good living is enjoy
ed. Danish dairymen have been i'm
ported to all parts of the temperate
world to teach the secrets of high-class
dairying.
There are no world statistics of the
production of cheese, except of that
part moving in international trade.
The United States annually produces
about four pounds per capita. The
total amount imported by all the coun-
tries Of the world is 100000 pounds.
OF which the United Kingdom takes
s5O.000,000, Germany 100000 and
Austria Hungary 100000. Bulgaria
exports 100000 pounds, and Holland
and Switzerland have 10000, 900 pounds
to give cheese-hungry world"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15
HYDROAEROPLANEs VESSELS.
30 Rules Treasury Officials in Tariff
Case,

Hydroaeroplanes are vessels. So de-
fines the Treasury Department. 1t does
not extend the same meaning to mere
planes that fly In the air. but can only
take to the yea as derelicts. and are
in their amphibious element, as is the
hydroaeroplane.
Hydroasroplancs are vessels within
the meaning OF that term as used in
the tariff act. And therefore COM
passes for 'hydroaeroplanes constitute
articles of outfit and equipment OF
vessels exempted from duty.
Acceptance that are not amphibious
are expressly excluded from this rul-
ing Of Assistant Secretary Andrew j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15
TO DEMAND SUFFRAGE
PLANK FOR PLATFORM
10000 Wemen to Parade to G. o. 2.
Convention Hall in Chicago
Next June.

NEW YORK, February 15.-Mrs carrie
Chapman Gait expects that more imam
so, 900 women will join in parade TO the
convention hall of the republican national
convention in Chicago next June to en-
phasize the demand of the women FOR a
suffrage plank in the republican national
platform Mrs. Gait today announced
plans also for suffrage demonstration
during the democratic national conven-
ton at St. Louis next spring.
Largest Parade of Its Kind.
"The parade at Chicago will be the
largest demonstration of the kind ever
seen in this country" said Mrs. Gait.
I'VE expect to have more than oo'ooo
women in line. We shall march on the
convention hall and we expect the ma
tional republican party to give US hear
ing there.
Women from every state in the Union.
enfranchised women, women who want
the vote, and women who are voting IN
the national elections for the first time
this year in Illinois, will be represented
in the Chicago demonstration
Mrs Gait said the nature of the suf-
frage demonstration in st. Louis woulo
differ somewhat from that at Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15
Confederate Memorial Services.

Memorial services for comrades who
have died recently will be held at
o'clock tonight by the Confederate Vet.
erans' Association at the memorial
home, 1892 Vermont avenue northwest.
The service Is to be open to the public,
it is announced. Capt. Fred Beall. COM
mander Of Camp II. United Confederate
Veterans, Is to preside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15
SIX RECEIVED APPOINTMENTS.
President Wilson Valves Civil Serv.
ice Reauirements, Awarding Places.

President Wilson has waived civil
service requirements in order to per-
nit the appointment Of six persons
to the classified service Of the govern
ment without reference to the civil
service rules. He held that Joseph w.
Harris may be reinstated as fourth as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15

concur in any of the above appoint
ments except that Of Assistant Ex-
aminer Harris and that Of Mrs. Ethel
Richards. Mrs. Richards is a widow of
Capt. FrcSk F. Richards, U. 8. NJ. C,
who was killed December 16. 1915. at
Port au Prince, Haiti, by his horse
stumbling and throwing him to the
ground
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15
Leaves $4,000 Estate to Mother.

The will of D. Emmett Riordan. dated
June 80. 1902. has been filed for pro-
bate. He leaves his entire estate, val
ued at $4,000. to his mother, Mrs. Ell
len o. Riordan. who is also named as
executrix.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15

Mrs. Annie ]. Rice. sixty-fve, widow
of John w. Rice, near Trappe. Nd, died
at her home there fifteen minutes after
she was taken ill. She is survived nv
one daughter and five sons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15

toll, Va, for thirty-five years. has put
in his appearance there. long years
after he was believed to be dead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15
FINDINGS ON DISASTER
KEPT SECRET BY NAVY
Secretary Daniels Declines to Dis
cpss Report on Subma-
rine En-.

The naval court of inquiry which in
vestigated the recent explosion on the
submarine E-2 in the New York navy
yard. in which five men were killed
and nine others seriously injured. has
submitted its report to Secretary Dan
iels.
Beyond the announcement that the
court had been unable to determine
who was responsible for the explosion.
the Secretary declined to discuss the
document His decision not to make
the report public is said to have been
reached after a conference with high
officers of the navy, who advised
against it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15
Electric Battery Blamed.

It is understood that the court
reached substantially the same conclu-
sion as the board of Investigation ap-
pointed by the navy yard commandant
Immediately after the accident, though
1t placed the blame more directly on
the new electric storage batteries,
which the board found generated gas
that was exploded by a spark Of unde-
termined origin.
The court recommended that experi-
ments with the batteries be continued,
the submarine being used as a labora-
tory for that work. Batteries similar
to those on the E-2 were to be installed
on the submarine LIS, now building at
the navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H.,
but that will not be done pending fur
Their experiments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15

tries tho goat Is the poor mans COW,
while sheep milk is widely used In the
manufacture Of cheese in Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-15
To Those Who Can Wait:

To Those Who Can Wait:
Please put your order when you desire de-
livery, and will try to ship your order to
that date possible 1t will be favor to if you
do not ask too early delivery. Packing thousand sets
of z9-volume encyclopaedia a day in such fashion
to have them come to you in absolutely perfect
condition is not easy job But your order should
be placed at the earliest possible moment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-17

III bet you hat that I can take a
tourteen-year-oldb boy and on four acres
of land farmed like sense and industry
and the books say, we will make more
profit off these four acres than you will
make off the twenty you pretend to
cultivate.
Come on. Joe, the farming firm Of
Weston & Somerville is now going out
to learn something about book farm
ing!"
Mr.. Somerville would have won his
bet about the farmers at the agricul-
tural lecture. There were less than
twenty-five who had come to hear the
experts, but the county superintendent
of education had managed to corral
about twelve boys Of various ages in
the room.
Joe and Mr.. Somerville were inter
ested from the start, for everything the
lecturers said was perfectly plain and
seemed the essence Of practical com
mon sense. At noon the two gentle
men were glad to accept the invitation
of Brierfield's largest merchant to go
to his home for dinner. Joe was intro
duced to both of the visitors They
were young men and graduates of ag-
ricultural schools. He and the state
superintendent of agriculture got to be
great friends.
Il was chap just about like you,"
said the official, land | didn't have
much chance, but l Just made up my
mind l would learn, and the rest was
easy"
In the afternoon the president of the
board of supervisors announced that
the board understood that a Boys
Corn club" was to be organized, and
he was authorized to say that the
board had appropriated hundred dol
lars in gold, fifty of which was to be
paid to the boy under eighteen years
OF age who on measured acre pro-
duced the greatest yield of corn at the
least expense, twenty-five to the next,
fifteen to the next and ten to the next
you can just add as prizes from
my company a complete outfit of
clothes for the first prize-entire suit,
hat, shoes, underwear, shirts, collars
and ties: a pair of shoes and a hat to
all of the next prize winners" Mr..
Somerville's announcement was greet
ed with applause.
"Mr. Chairman, the Planters bank
Will add fifty in gold, twenty-five to
be added to the first prize, So each to |
the next prizes, and a fifth prize of |
$40 to be created" chimed in the pres |
ident of the bank, who had followed !
Mr.. Somerville in to see what his best |
customer was doing at the farmers |
meeting.
Now, there's something else" said
the state commissioner of agriculture. /
THE state will give to the winner of |
every prize a handsomely engraved
certificate of merit, bearing the sigma
ture of the governor, myself and the
secretary of state, with the great seal
of the state on It. This is a testimo
NAL you can frame and keep always.
And In addition the winner of every
first prize in each county win have the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-17
PROLOGUE.

All over the country there has
been the Hveliest interest among
boys and girls in scientific farming.
In "Joe, the Book Farmer" there
is simply and delightfully."- told what
one boy, who made a scientific
study Of farming, accomplished.
Intensive cultivation as practiced by
this young student worked wonders
with the soil.
Besides Joe, who is the central
figure, there are introduced by the
author several other familiar and
quaint characters in country life.
The story is of absorbing interest
to city and country folk alike.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-17

ut washfngton to send you their buIfs
tins ON the subjects Of corn and cOttor
growing and truck farming, and what
ever the government issues is an au.
thority you can count on"
Here, just duplicate that order for
me, will you? I'm bit too old to join
the boys club, but I'm joining by
proxy. Joe is representing himself and
me, too" laughed Mr.. Somerville. I'm
really very much interested"
As Joe and Mr.. Somerville went
down the street the merchant stepped
into bookstore
Let's go In here and get started.
see the first thing on the list is a
book for a beginner. That sounds
sensible, like it was a start from the
bottom. Well get two copies. You
take yours home, and I'll study mine
here"
Cant start any too soon for me-"
answered Joe.
"Well, here's the books. Now you
come to town next Saturday and spend
the day with me, and Wen compare
notes on what we've read. When you
go home have your father point out the
four acres we are going to cultivate
Don't matter whether 1t is poor or not"
"Td rather he'd give us the poorest,
meanest land there is on the place. l
don't want him coming around after
ward saying we had any advantage on
the land" said Joe.
That's right; the poorer the land the
bigger our demonstration will be. Get
it laid off, and anything that suggests
itself to you, why, just go ahead and
do it. I'm going to give you check
book, and w4len you need to spend
sign it Weston & Somerville.' 1 will
instruct the bank to pay it."
"All right, sir, but l am not going to
spend anything l can possibly help"
Nov, let me tell you something right
here; don't ever be afraid to spend
money if it is going to pay you to do
so. If you can see where a dollar
brings a return spend it quick. The
thing to do is to spend wisely-that is |
investment"
We'll, think the first thing want, |
then, is enough hog wire fencing for |
those four acres. Seems to me I've
never done anything much except chase |
hogs out of our fields"
you are starting right, Joe. That's |
good sense. I'll send the wire out
Thursday and a man to stretch it and
put it up. You get the posts ready"
"All right, sir"
and after you get the fence up go
ahead now and use your judgment as
to what next TO do. from what you get
out of the book. Well, here's my bug
gy. The driver will take you home.
Good night, partner
He shook hands cordially and vanish
ed into the store. Joe, his precious
book held tightly in his lap, was soon
whiried home behind the Somerville
trotter and made up his mind that some
day he was going to have a horse and
buggy exactly like that when he got
to making money farming.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-17
CHAPTER III.
Joe Begins Experimenting,

Joe Begins Experimenting.
C"lHE next day was Sunday.
Tom Weston was red eyed
and surly from the effects of
~ the liquor he had drunk the
night before with Jim Sullivan and
moped about the house, snarling and
swapping at his wife and little Annie
and Joe.
AS soon as breakfast was finished
Joe took his precious volume about
agriculture and slipped Off to a shell
tered nook behind the barn. He pored
over 1t until dinner time; then he closed
his eyes and reviewed in his mind the
essential points Of what he had read.
First of all, that plants must have
food, just as human being do; that lack
Of enough food or proper food made
puny plants, just as it does with peo-
pie; that the principal source Of food
for plants is the humus or decaying
vegetable matter in the soil From
this largely comes the nitrogen, the
phosphoric acid, the potash and 9TH
er essentials to plant life, absorbed
through the thousands Of tiny roots Of
the growing plant above.
Also, he learned that the soil becomes
barren and exhausted and devoid of
these essentials with continued cult
walton; that the crop takes these nee
essary things from the soil year by
year, and something must be put back
into the land or it will become sterile.
''The wise provisions of nature are
seem" said the book, ''in the annual re-
newal of the soil. The grass, weeds,
trees, shrubs, all take from the soil in
the summer, but they pay back the
debt with interest in autumn, when the
grass dies and the leaves fall to the
ground. They are beaten into the soil
by the winter rains and by the next
summer have decayed and have given
more to the land than the plants that
bore them have taken away"
"And never knew before" said Joe
to himself, what makes newly clear
ed ground so rich and give such large
crops. OF course it Is the humus from
the leaves that have been dropping all
the years"
(Io be Continued.)
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-17

be shown every attention, the presi-
dent will receive them especially, they
will stay a week at the best hotel in
the city of Washington, see every in
teresting sight there and be brought
back home at no expense whatever
This trip would cost anybody else at
least $500. That is the grand prize for
all the boys to strive for"
''The rolls of the Boys Corn club of
this county are now open to receive
members" said the secretary. Joe
marched down to the desk and signed.
"I'm going to have one of those
prizes, too" he said, his eyes swapping
with determination.
1--WE must have at least fifty boys In
this county" said the superintendent
of education, 'but the sooner they join
the better it will be for Them, for they
can prepare their ground this fall, and
that is one of the main things. The
lists will remain open until March l."
"rd be mighty glad if you would give
me list of the books l ought to have"
said Joe to the state commissioner
when the meeting adjourned.
"Ap right, son; here's a list l had
nranared III renpest the department
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-17

records gone over in my office. and the
winner of the highest record in the
state will receive free trip to Wash
ington.
can agent of the national depart
ment of agriculture will collect the
boys at various points. They will be
taken to the capital as the honored
guests OF the nation-the champion
corn grower of each state They will
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-17
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 3OYears
s,sa Signal. 4: Of Gz9lSzSx

Automobile fees in Vermont for the
last three months amounted to 500, sT2. "a.
During the year 1915 tn
ears licensed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-17

A lazy liver leads to chronic dyspepsia
and constipation,-weakens the whole
system. Doan's Regulets Use per boxl
let mildly on the liver and bowels. At
al drug stores.-adv.